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BEATTIE, Ivo Hopetoun( Staff 1973-98)
Ivo Beattie( born 10 April 1937, staff 1973-98, died 16 July 2017) taught English, Commerce and Legal Studies at Scotch until his retirement in 1998.
Playing a full part in Scotch life, Ivo was Common Room Association President from 1987 to 1990 and held the positions of TIC Sea Scouts, TIC Debating and Coach of the open tennis team. Ivo’ s son, Nick( SC 1991-92), was a member of the Class of’ 96.
BETHELL, Kenneth Charles Beswicke(’ 38) Ken’ s children Diana, Sandra, Jay and John wrote: Kenneth Charles Beswicke Bethell was born at Hawthorn on 3 May 1920 and left Scots College, Sydney, to attend Scotch from 1929 to 1937. He followed his uncle Rupert Montague Beswicke( born 3 November 1892, SC 1904-09, died 12 August 1980), and cousin Bernard John Albert Beswicke( born 28 August 1912, SC 1923-28, died 14 August 1966). Ken’ s son John( SC 1973-79), and grandsons Shaun Gerstman( SC 1993-98) and James McCubbin( SC 2000-05) also attended Scotch.
Ken swam, rowed, and played football for Monash House, but his main interest was Scouts, receiving the King’ s Scout badge. Outside the MCG in his Scotch uniform during the Bodyline Test cricket series in 1932 / 33, Old Boys noticing Ken’ s uniform allowed him to use their ladies’ tickets to gain entry to the ground.
He joined the Old Scotch Rover Crew, and the Old Scotch Collegians’ Lodge. He met Olive Victoria Just during a performance of the Old Scotch Collegians’ Dramatic Society. Their marriage at St Luke’ s, Kensington, London,
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England on 31 March 1951 lasted until her death parted them on 18 March 2007.
Ken learned of the outbreak of World War II while skiing with Scotch friends at Mount Buller. He served in the army( 1940-42), becoming a lance corporal, and the navy( 1942-46), becoming a sub-lieutenant.
His grandfather, a prominent Victorian architect, inspired Ken’ s career as an architect and town planner. From 1948 until retiring aged 70, Ken designed over 500 domestic and commercial buildings. He was a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and an Associate member of the Royal Australian Planning Institute.
Ken was a member of OSCA Council from 1964 to 1979. He became the 38th OSCA President in 1978, and in 2016 became an OSCA Honorary Life Member. He regularly attended Scotch Prayer Breakfasts from their inauguration in 1996, and until his death enjoyed Scotch Remembrance Day Assemblies, OSCA Annual and Presidents’ dinners, Foundation Day Concerts, and lunches with Scotch mates( including Bill Mather, Keith Weymouth, Ian McDonald and Jim Allard).
Ken died at the Epworth Hospital, Richmond on 4 June 2017, survived by three generations of descendants. He had been Scotch’ s 24th oldest-known living Old Boy.
CAMPBELL, Colin Ferguson(’ 49) Colin’ s son, Andrew( SC 1973-78), wrote:
Colin Ferguson Campbell( nicknamed Monty) was born on 20 September 1931 at Edinburgh, Scotland, the eldest of four children
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of Donald and Jean Melvin( nee Prowse) Campbell.
He migrated to Australia with his family in 1946 when his father was offered a job with International Harvester. Colin attended Scotch from 1946 to 1949, where he rowed and was a cadet. He played rugby from 1947 to 1949 in the 1st XV, being 1948 Vice Captain and 1949 Captain. He was 1949 Form Captain of IXa and a 1949 Scotch Collegian editorial committee member.
Also at Scotch were his brothers Donald Walter Henry Campbell( born 28 March 1939, SC 1946-56, died 6 October 2005) and Paul( SC 1946-58), and sons Andrew and Peter( SC 1976-81). In 1955 Colin joined the International Harvester dealership in Dandenong as a truck salesman, beginning a long career with the company. He moved from Melbourne to Newcastle, to Perth, to Adelaide, and to Sydney, before moving back to Melbourne, and he was in various roles until 1979.
After a brief stint as the owner of a licenced grocery store in Auburn he returned to the truck manufacturing business with Kenworth, until retiring aged 65 in 1996. He was not keen on retirement, so he worked as a consultant to various companies in the truck business for the next 16 years until finally retiring in 2012.
Colin was a member of Rotary Clubs in Dandenong and Balwyn, including being 1998 president of Balwyn Rotary. He was also a member of Probus for 17 years. His favourite hobby was golf, and he was a keen member of Metropolitan Golf Club from 1956 until his death. On 11 February 1956 Colin married Beverley Mavis Murray at Scotch. He was a proud Scot, a proud father, a proud grandfather and a proud great-grandfather.
He died at home in Kew on 29 June 2017 and will be greatly missed by his family and friends.
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CLAYTON, Kenneth Reginald(’ 54)( Staff 1973-94)
Former Scotch Science teacher Ken Clayton( born 22 February 1935, SC 1942-54, died 11 June 2017) began his Scotch teaching career in 1973.
Ken’ s 22 years at the school were dominated by his commitment to boarding and life on the Hill, where he served for 14 years as Head of McMeckan House and three years as Senior Boarding Housemaster. Ken’ s final three Scotch years were spent in the role of Registrar. His funeral was held on 29 June. COCKRAM, John Crothers(’ 41)
John Crothers Cockram was born at Northcote on New Year’ s Day 1924 and attended Scotch from 1938 to 1940 on a half Junior Entrance Scholarship. Through Scotch connections he began work with an accountant, then became a teller at the Commonwealth Bank in Collins Street, but he gladly gave up that work to serve in the RAAF from 1942 to 1946.
After training in Canada he was sent to England as a navigator in 466 Squadron. John was part of a crew that flew a full tour of 34 operations over France and Germany without a single casualty. He did not speak about his experiences.
John re-sat Matriculation, graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Melbourne University( 1952) and, later, a Master of Science with honours in electrical engineering. He worked for EMI, which sent him to Hayes in England to study programming for the EMIDEC 1100, an early digital computer. John developed a love of computing, and joined ICT in Sydney, selling its 1900 computer series.
As a manager at John Fairfax & Sons( 1966-71) he set
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