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be received by 8pm on Thursday 8 August to be matched. All gifts received will be directed towards this scholarship. The equation is simple: we have only 24 hours, from 8pm on 7 August to 8pm on 8 August, to raise the full $750,000 – or the campaign comes to nothing. To achieve the targeted amount will require a full Scotch team effort! Kicking off this exciting campaign will be a dinner in the Boykett Room, Cardinal Pavilion, on Wednesday 7 August at 7pm. For tickets to this special event, please contact Rebecca Mortimer in the Scotch College Development Office, on [phone]. To encourage all boys to be involved and to support the appeal, there will be a full school casual clothes day on Thursday 8 August. A screen will be set up in the Senior School Quadrangle so boys and staff can watch the campaign live, and monitor progress towards the $750,000 goal. The Class of 2019 committee will host a barbecue lunch. In a letter addressed ‘To the boys of Scotch College’ from his Corps Headquarters in France in June 1918, General Sir John Monash said: ‘As the years roll on, my regard for the Old School and my pride in it have steadily grown, and the realisation of the high renown which has been achieved by so many men who were launched upon their careers from Scotch College has been for me always a stimulus and an inspiration. I have never ceased to think of the Old School with affection.’ Please join us in acknowledging the achievements and contribution of the finest Scotch Collegian, by supporting a scholarship that bears his name and pays tribute to his outstanding life. Information about the General Sir John Monash Scholarship is included with this edition of Great Scot. For more information, you are also most welcome to contact the Scotch College Development Office on + 61 3 98104300 or email [email protected]. OPPOSITE PAGE: KING GEORGE V KNIGHTING LIEUTENANT- GENERAL SIR JOHN MONASH AT THE AUSTRALIAN CORPS HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, 12 AUGUST 1918. ABOVE, LEFT: PORTRAIT PHOTO OF MONASH AS A STUDENT. ABOVE: PORTRAIT TAKEN DURING WORLD WAR I. RIGHT: MONASH, CIRCA 1918.