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The following obituaries have been written by family or friends. RITCHIE, Graham Oughton (‘50). Born 4.5.1933, SC 1947-50, died 31.5.2018. RUSSELL, Barry Kenneth (‘57). Born 21.5.1939, SC 1951-57, died 12.1.2017. RUSSELL, Ian Charles (‘42). Born 26.9.1924, SC 1939-40, died 18.1.2018. SCOTT, Eric John (‘48). Born 17.3.1931, SC 1945-48, died 4.1.2018. SHELTON DSO MC, Jeffrey James (‘44). Born 29.6.1926, SC 1934-37, died 13.5.2018 at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. SHELTON, John Patten (‘42). Born 15.8.1924, SC 1934-37, died 7.2.2018 at Narrabundah, Australian Capital Territory. SIMPSON, Gordon Leslie (‘47). Born 3.6.1929, SC 1943-47, died 10.5.2017 at Nambour, Queensland. SIMPSON, Richard John (‘75). Born 13.4.1958, SC 1964-73, died 22.1.2018. SMITH, Lionel Liddell (’36). Born 13.5.1919, SC 1933-34, died 26.8.2018. SPARK, John Mason (‘48). Born 12.1.1931, SC 1936-48, died 9.6.2018. SPICER (nee PHILLIPS), Marjorie Constance Mary. Born 30.3.1921, staff 1939-46, died 25 January 2018. SPILLER, Maxwell Frank (‘49). Born 6.6.1932, SC 1938-48, died 27.6.2018. STEWART, Derwent Graeme (‘42). Born 21.1.1925, SC 1931-42, died 17.6.2018. TALLENT, David James (‘55). Born 6.12.1937, SC 1943-54, died 15.4.2018 at Adelaide, South Australia. THOMAS, Dr Bruce MacAulay (‘55). Born 24.10.1937, SC 1950-55, died 24.2.2018 at Manly, New South Wales. THOMAS, Kenneth Hugh (‘45). Born 23.3.1928, SC 1942-44, died 30.5.2018. TURNBULL, Thomas William Skene (‘44). Born 25.9.1927, SC 1941-44, died 1.6.2018 at Merimbula, New South Wales. WARD, David McLeod (‘57). Born 24.2.1940, SC 1952-57, died 7.4.2018. WARK, Graham John (‘61). Born 22.3.1943, SC 1955-61, died 8.5.2018. WILLIAMS, Bruce Russell (‘65). Born 4.12.1945, SC 1956-59, died 17.1.2018. WOODROFFE, Peter James (‘51). Born 23.8.1934, SC 1948-50, died 29.4.2018. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! The Archives needs more volunteers to join its busy volunteer team, which includes Old Boys of various eras, wives, and grandmothers. Volunteers with some computer literacy are urgently required. All volunteers must accept Scotch policies and complete a Working with Children Check. The Archives are open from Monday to Friday and volunteers’ hours are flexible. Please contact Paul Mishura on 9810 4470 or email: paul. [email protected] for more information. DIETZ, Thomas Antony (‘41) Thomas’ friend Don Hook (SC 1947-51) wrote: Thomas Antony Dietz was born at the Women’s Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, on 13 December 1923. He attended Melbourne High School before attending Scotch from 1939 to 1941 as a boarder in School House and as a member of Littlejohn House (which was then the House for all boarders). Also at Scotch was his nephew David Buchanan (‘76). In 1943 Tom enlisted in the army, and, subsequently, in the AIF. Tom spent most of his military career in the Signal Corps. In September 1943 he was posted to Papua New Guinea, where he served in the Kokoda campaign, fighting in and around Lae and Finschhafen. Tom was in the 19th Australian Line Section, which provided telephone lines for advancing infantry. It was a hazardous task, maintaining telephone lines linking the forward troops with their headquarters. The Japanese often cut the lines and ambushed Australian troops sent to repair them. After the war, Tom took up the scholarship offered by the Victorian Forestry Commission before he had enlisted. However, like many ex-servicemen, he found it hard to settle down, and he tried several jobs before deciding in 1952 on a career as a teacher and later headmaster in Papua New Guinea. When Tom arrived in Port Moresby, the schools catered only for Australian and other expatriate children. There were few educational opportunities for local children. However, Tom began teaching a small group of Papuan youngsters after his day’s work teaching the Australian and other expatriate children. They, in turn, helped Tom to learn the local Motu language and, over the years, he became an authority on the language and its culture. He eventually became the Chief Interpreter of the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly. Tom educated many of the country’s decision-makers, and shaped the PNG curriculum. He married Hane Igua Hila in the Poreporena Uniting Church, Metoreia, Hanuabada Village, Port Moresby, in what is now Papua New Guinea, on 14 February 1959. It was said that Tom loved to teach – and he loved to learn. He was passionate about the importance of education and literacy. Tom died at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, on 6 March 2018. He is survived by his wife, his daughter Susan Dietz-Henderson, and by his son Tommy. HARVEY, Willson Wyatt Brett (Brett) (‘50) Brett’s wife, Margaret, wrote: Brett was born on 26 December 1931 at Kulki private hospital, Moreland, and grew up on a farm at Craigieburn. He attended Scotch as a boarder in McMeckan and Arthur Robinson Houses from 1944 to 1950 as a member of Littlejohn House. Brett was a 1950 Arthur Robinson House Prefect. After matriculating, Brett worked on various cattle properties in the Gulf Country, North Queensland, near Barrow Creek in the Northern www.scotch.vic.edu.au Great Scot 97