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LEFT TO RIGHT: PAUL SMITH (’75), ADAM BROADHURST (’79), CRAIG MCGILL (’79), CAMERON MACKENZIE (’87), DAVID ROLLESTON (’88)
1970s
PAUL SMITH (’75) has worked as a
self-employed artist for 43 years. As a
young painter, Paul worked closely with
Scotch’s Head of Art in the 1970s, DONALD
CAMERON (‘44), and studied fine art and
received a travel scholarship in 1986. Paul
has taught painting and judged art awards
throughout five Australian states, and he
was scheduled to teach a series of workshops
in Italy later this year.
Paul is Past President of the Twenty
Melbourne Painters’ Society Inc., Fellow of
the Royal Society of Arts London, and Past
President, Fellow and Honorary Life Member
of the Victorian Artists’ Society.
As an author and curator, Paul is well
known for his representational oil paintings,
which have received more than 100 major
awards, and he is represented in many
collections. In 2005, Paul was awarded the
Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for
service to the visual arts as a painter and
lecturer, and to the Victorian Artists’ Society.
While at Scotch, ADAM BROADHURST
(’79) was an active member of the Radio Club,
where he obtained his ham radio licence and
developed a passion for electronics which
ultimately was to lead him into a career in
international management. After school
he studied electronics, majoring in data
communications, after which he took on a
variety of design/project management roles
deploying large data networks nationally and
overseas, including nearly a decade with the
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
As his career developed in international
management, Adam worked in industries
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including telecom/IT, renewable fuels and
mining.
It’s a career with a global perspective:
Adam has worked in more than 60 countries,
living in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific,
and he is currently living in Argentina,
developing a mining exploration company.
Adam, his wife and their three children
maintain a healthy interest in travel and greatly
enjoy encountering a variety of cultures.
Although CRAIG MCGILL (‘79) moved to
Canberra after school to study at the ANU, he
always expected to return to Melbourne – but
he ultimately made Canberra his home, and
he’s still there. Craig entered the IT industry,
first as a systems engineer, later as a back-up
and recovery administrator, then as an IT
instructor. He travelled around Australia and
overseas teaching IT courses, and spent two
periods in the UK, readily obtaining a work
visa through his UK ancestry. Returning to
Canberra in September 2018 Craig decided
on an early retirement, and he says he is
now ‘just enjoying life, doing whatever takes
my fancy’. He recently joined the Canberra
Society of Model Engineers who build and
maintain miniature trains and run rides for
the public. Craig has two adult sons from an
earlier relationship, and he and his partner
Odette have a five-year-old daughter.
1980s
After leaving school, CAMERON
MACKENZIE (‘87) studied Hospitality
Management at RMIT, and competed for
Old Scotch Athletics Club, progressing
through the national ranks and winning
several Victorian titles over 200m and 400m.
In 1996 he represented Australia in the 4 x
400m at the Atlanta Olympic Games. Cam
has always been interested in wine, and
he began working at Yarra Ridge winery in
the Yarra Valley while training towards the
Sydney Olympics – for which he narrowly
missed selection – but his pathway in the wine
industry was set.
Moving into winery management, Cam
had senior roles at Punt Road, Giant Steps
and Innocent Bystander wineries; then in 2013
he co-founded a specialist gin distillery in
the Yarra Valley, Four Pillars, where he is the
Master Distiller. In 2019 Four Pillars received
the Best International Gin Producer trophy at
the 50th annual International Wine and Spirits
Competition in London. Cam married Leah
in 2001 and the couple has three beautiful
girls – Vivienne, Eliza and Alice.
During the coronavirus pandemic, Four
Pillars has turned its hand to producing small
quantities of hand sanitisers, in an effort to
help overcome a shortage of this commodity
during the crisis.
Two years ago DAVID ROLLESTON (‘88)
started his own business, DASH Group,
together with five other partners including two
Old Boys ANDREW SUTTLE and ANDREW
FORTEY from the Class of ’89. The firm
offers recruitment services in both Melbourne
and Sydney across blue collar labour hire
within the construction sector, mid to senior
construction and engineering roles, as well as
business support.
Life is very busy for David and his wife
of 21 years, Victoria, and their two children,
Angus (16) and Milly (13). There’s little
downtime between the children’s school
activities, sports and social life. In normal
times, David plays tennis regularly at Royal
South Yarra Tennis Club, and he has enjoyed
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