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This began a life-long interest in the navy, and following matriculation, he served on HMAS Melbourne during the Malayan Emergency.
On his return, Malcolm resumed his career in customs before moving to the Postmaster General’ s Department and then Telecom. While at Telecom he became its national freedom of information officer. During this period, Malcolm completed his Bachelor of Economics at Monash University. He continued to serve in the Naval Reserves throughout this period, from his appointment as a lieutenant in 1977 to become a senior naval officer, Reserves( Victoria), serving on numerous committees and representational roles. After Malcolm’ s retirement from Telstra in 1994, he served in a range of navy roles, including staff officer training at HMAS Cerberus. He retired from the Reserves as a commander and was awarded a flag officer’ s commendation for his professionalism during this period.
On 5 September 1970 Malcolm married Janet Barrie McHaffie at the Totara Valley Presbyterian Church, Timaru, New Zealand. In retirement Malcolm and Janet moved to Rye and commenced a very active retirement, enjoying lawn bowls, caravanning and the local Probus club. As an active member of the Rye RSL, he served for many years on the committee as treasurer and vice president. Malcolm was an active committee member until his death, supporting veterans as the welfare and pensions officer for the club.
He died peacefully at Rosebud Hospital, Rosebud on 13 January 2017. Malcolm is survived by his wife and children, including his son Ewen, who attended Scotch from 1984 to 1989.
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LATIMER, Ian Graham(’ 42) Ian’ s son, Hugh( SC 1972-77) wrote:
Ian Graham
Latimer was born at Lismore on 25 June 1924, the son of a manager at the Colonial Bank The family moved to Lilydale, from which he and his brothers Graham Stanley Latimer( born 1 December 1925, SC 1938-41, died 22 January 2010) and Bruce Graham Latimer( SC 1939-44) commuted to Scotch College. Apart from Hugh, Ian’ s Latimer relatives at Scotch were his nephews Stephen( SC 1966-71) and Mark( SC 1968- 74) and great-nephews James( SC 1997-2002), Tom( SC 1999-2004) and David( SC 2000-05).
Ian enlisted in the RAAF on 15 July 1942 with the service number 59338. He became a radar direction finding operator, serving in Merauke and Tanah Merah in Dutch New Guinea, where he attained the ranks of corporal in 1943 and acting sergeant in 1944. He was discharged on demobilisation on 4 October 1945. On returning to Australia, Ian studied as a time and motion engineer, spending all of his working life in the clothing industry, and retiring as production director of Glo Weave in 1988.
Ian was active in the Masonic Lodge, joining in 1951 and then becoming a member of the Old Scotch Collegians’ Lodge in 1954. He was its Master in 1965. On 24 October 1951 at Scotch, Ian married Rachel Theodora Black, the eldest daughter of William Moore Black( born 23 March 1874, SC 1890-91, died 27 November 1941). She died on 7 November 2016, after 65 years of marriage. Ian moved from the family home in Mont Albert at the end of 2016, to Broughton Hall, Camberwell, where, after a short illness, he died peacefully on 4 October 2017.
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MANDERS, Marcus Edwin(’ 39) Marcus’ son, Stephen( SC 1968-73), wrote:
Marcus Edwin Manders was born at Allendale private hospital, Hawthorn, on 1 September 1921, and attended Scotch in 1937, following many moves around Victoria. Also at Scotch were his uncle Jack Norton Manders( born 11 September 1901, SC 1915-21, died 11 December 1969) and son Stephen.
He served in the army( 1941-46), preparing and illustrating service manuals for a wide range of army equipment. Marcus gained great proficiency in photography, including studio setup, lighting, camera handling, film processing and image production, which complemented his technical writing skills. He was discharged as a staff sergeant.
Marcus had commenced his banking career shortly after leaving Scotch, and completed an accountancy degree part-time at Melbourne University. He worked in banking until retirement from the ANZ Bank’ s ESANDA subsidiary in 1983. His name was widely known in the 1970s and 1980s, as his legible signature was on millions of ESANDA dividend cheques.
Marcus had a fine baritone voice, and sang with the National Theatre chorus and in amateur theatre. He met his future wife, June Edwards, from Launceston, Tasmania at the National Theatre chorus in 1948. They married at the Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Balaclava, on 22 March 1949 and were parted by June’ s death on 1 May 2009.
Marcus established a small investment advisory and service business after retiring from the ANZ Bank, with the motto,‘ I’ ll never invest your money where I’ m not
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prepared to invest my own.’ He closed the business in 2016 after his last client died.
Marcus regularly participated in and attended many Old Scotch Collegians’ Association activities and groups in his last 30 years, including Annual Dinners, the Old Scotch Bowls Club, the Old Scotch Film Society, Old Scotch Music and Drama Club performances and East Melbourne Glen Chapter Easter Chapel services.
He continued to sing with various church choirs, and sang monthly at St Mary’ s, West Melbourne, until a few weeks before his death.
Marcus had full command of his intellect until the very end. He was engaging company, always considering how he could make others’ lives better. Marcus died at Cabrini Palliative Care, Prahran, on 3 July 2017.
McKENZIE OAM, Stanley Bruce(’ 50) Bruce’ s son, David,( SC 1968-73) wrote:
Bruce(‘ S. B.’ as he was called at school) was born at Armadale on 8 December 1932, the son of insurance inspector and Old Boy Kenneth James David McKenzie( born 25 June 1890, SC 1905-06, died 1 May 1955). The family moved to Melbourne around 1937 after selling its farm at Springfield. Bruce attended Mont Albert Central School and then Scotch from 1944 to 1950.
He loved his years at Scotch. Bruce was a 1950 School Prefect, 1950 Captain of Morrison House, 1950 Vice-Captain of Athletics( as a hurdler), a member of the 1947 and 1948 Athletics teams, the 1949 and 1950 2nd XI, the 1949 2nd XVIII and 1950 1st XVIII, and commanding officer of the Cadet Corps. Scotch
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