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years ago, and Jonathan joined the company
as a teenager, working his way up to take over
the business on Frank’s retirement. Now he
says he’s approaching the age when it’s his
own turn to take a back seat. He’s grateful that
he can hand over the reins of the company to
his nephew, Tim, and he plans to take on a
mentoring role. Jonathan and his wife Judith are
currently building a house with a lake view at
Paynesville. They have three adult children — a
pilot, a plumber and a carpenter. Jonathan enjoys
sailing, skiing, and riding dirt bikes, sometimes
competing in club bike events with his children.
1980s
DR JOHN GOODWIN (‘81) is a professor of
accounting at Sabanci University in Istanbul. After
leaving Scotch, John spent 15 years working
in various corporations in Melbourne while
studying for Bachelor of Business and Master of
Accounting degrees part time. After completing
CPA qualification he entered academia in 1997,
working at three universities in Melbourne,
including teaching in Singapore and around
Malaysia, while completing his PhD.
John and his wife of 36 years, Cornelia,
moved to Hong Kong in 2007, and he worked
at a university there for five years; then they
moved to Sabanci University in 2012, with the
brief to build up accounting research at the
university. John told Great Scot that while they
lived and worked in Australia and Hong Kong,
he and Cornelia travelled extensively in Asia and
Oceania, and they now enjoy travelling around
Europe and the Middle East. ‘Together with our
three British short-hair “terrors” we spend time in
our homes in Budapest and Istanbul,’ John said.
‘We enjoy travelling, going to the opera, swimming
and following the Aussie cricket team.’
Throughout the nineties DAVID
ARMSTRONG (‘87) worked on and managed
cattle and sheep stations in Queensland, NSW,
and in the USA. He moved to the Northern
Territory around 2002 to run his own cattle and
rural contracting business in the Katherine region.
David’s next move was to Darwin in 2006, where
he worked for the Aboriginal representative body,
Northern Land Council. He told Great Scot:
‘My role was to work with Aboriginal people
across the northern half of the NT, helping
them to develop cattle stations on their own
land, concentrating on business and station
infrastructure development.’
In 2011 David established Terrabos
Consulting, a Darwin-based consultancy
focusing on oil and gas exploration, the mining
and pastoral industries, and Aboriginal economic
development. David lives on a small farm outside
Darwin and leases a 10,000 square km area
of Arnhem Land from the Aboriginal traditional
owners, where he musters wild buffalo for
live export. He is married, and he and his wife
Lucy have two daughters. He loves fishing, but
confesses: ‘Unfortunately, I talk more about
fishing than actually doing it!’
1990s
STUART SHEAHAN (‘91) and his wife,
Jennifer, have welcomed a daughter, Isla Mary
Sheahan, born on 15 July in Los Angeles.
Now living in Surrey Hills with his wife
Megan, daughter Hannah (10) and son Tom (8),
ANDREW CROW (‘95) formerly worked as a
physiotherapist for a number of years and is still
in healthcare. His current role is Director of Rural
and Regional Health for the Victorian Department
of Health and Human Services.
In 1997, Andrew was recruited from Scotch
basketball and played 144 games for the Old
Scotch Football Club from 1997-2005. He was
the club’s best and fairest in 1999 and 2001, and
was the VAFA A Section best and fairest in 2003.
Andrew was also a Victorian state representative
in 2005. He still loves his sport, and tries to keeps
fit with basketball, surfing and scuba diving.
Andrew and his family recently returned from an
amazing round-Australia trip, travelling for six
months in a caravan.
NICK BROWN (’97) and his wife Lucy have
welcomed a son, William, born on 27 July.
SIMON ZAVISKA (‘98) has spent the last 15
years working in strategic project and portfolio
management across the training, education and
insurance sectors, and is currently Manager,
Enterprise Project Management Office, at MLC
Life Insurance. Simon’s other passion, coffee,
led him to establish a small batch coffee roasting
business (Four Rascals Coffee) in 2011 with three
mates, including Richard Askin (‘00), supplying
cafes and offices with coffee solutions across
the state. (See the Four Rascals Coffee website:
http://fourrascals.com.au/)
Simon and his wife, Danielle, have three boys:
Gabriel, Ethan and Liam. Simon is currently on a
career break to spend more time with his family
and to roast and drink more amazing coffee.
2000s
JONATHAN WILCOX (‘07), a solicitor,
is commencing employment with Legal Aid
NSW in Gosford, NSW, working in criminal
defence law. Jonathan has spent the last two
years supervising and managing Aboriginal
Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited offices in
Tamworth, Griffith and Broken Hill, appearing in
local, children’s and district courts representing
Aboriginal defendants. After leaving school,
Jonathan completed an Arts degree at the
University of Melbourne and a Law degree at
the University of Sydney, and also worked in
private practice in Sydney. He also completed an
internship with the UN Assistance to the Khmer
Rouge trials in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2014.
He plans to practise at the criminal bar in Sydney.
Now in his fourth year of study for his
Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) degree
at Monash University, CALEB LAU (‘14) is
dedicated to enhancing the student experience
for his peers on the Monash Parkville campus.
He told Great Scot: ‘Being elected as President
of the student union has allowed me to do this;
and it ultimately would not be possible had I not
received the nurturing and support of my high
school years at Scotch’.
Caleb says he still occasionally catches up
with the boys he sang with in the Cardinals,
‘to reminisce of our glory days’; but he says
nothing quite measures up to singing under the
tutelage of Andrew Hunter at Scotch. ‘Perhaps
the greatest things you miss most after leaving
Scotch are sport and music.’
After graduation, Caleb plans to complete an
internship with a major hospital, after which he’ll
use the knowledge he gains to join his father in
the forefront of the compounding pharmaceutical
business.
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