Great Scot - The Scotch Family Magazine - Issue 151 September 2017 GreatScot_Internal_Sept_2017_FA | Page 95

group purchasing manager. He
became corporate affairs manager,
and retired in 1993.
Jim was the Sydney OSCA
branch’s Vice-President. He
became an Associate Fellow of the
Scotch College Foundation.
Jim owned four vintage Rolls
Royce motor cars and did most of
his own restoration work. He was
federal president of the Rolls Royce
Owners’ Club of Australia, and
president of its Victorian branch, as
well as president and a founder of
the Vintage Drivers’ Club in Victoria.
Jim received a Medal of the Order
of Australia award (OAM) in 2004
for these and other activities.
He loved music, and sang in
the Scots’ Church choir. At Pymble
Ladies’ College, Jim and his wife
Dorothy gave a prize to financially
assist a girl’s music studies. He
was a Pymble Ladies’ College
councillor from 1975-92, and a
college precinct is named ‘The
James Kelso Pavilion and Field’ in
his honour.
On 21 May 1955 Jim married
Dorothy Julia Dean at Hartwell
Presbyterian Church. They raised
a family of daughters, and lived
to enjoy their grandsons and
granddaughters. Dorothy died on
11 February 2013. Jim’s love of all
things Scotch never wavered. He
died on 7 April 2017.
MANLEY, Daryl John David (’51)
Daryl’s friend, Ian Bright, wrote:
Daryl John David Manley was
born at Oaklands, Murray Road,
Preston, on 21 November 1933
and attended Scotch from 1946 to
1951. He was 1946 Form Captain
of IVb and a 1951 Scotch Collegian
editorial committee member and
library committee member.
At Melbourne University he
studied accountancy and law. He
worked in the oil industry as an
accountant, in places including
Zurich, Africa, Libya, Paris, London
and the USA. Each place held
stories of a fascinating life with
amazing people. On settling back in
Australia, Daryl started developing
property at Dromana and was very
successful.
One of his greatest
achievements was buying and
restoring a derelict Victorian farm.
It was a working cattle farm and
he did not mind getting out in his
gumboots. He restored the farm
to its original grandeur, filling it with
antiques, and held many parties
there, entertaining friends.
Daryl was outgoing, active,
talkative and friendly. He loved
people and could not get enough
of them. He was bubbly, was
very much a social mixer, and
loved to laugh. He was kind and
compassionate, generous, loyal and
trustworthy. You could always count
on him, and he was there for those
in trouble. Strong in his opinions,
once he made up his mind there
was little you could do to change it.
Daryl was not brought up a
rich boy, but he did very well for
himself. He was a snappy dresser,
particularly in designer labels in
his younger days. He had what he
called his ‘second family’ in France
and loved living there. He knew a lot
of high profile people, and travelled
the world with his friend, Ian.
Daryl loved six-star cruise ships
and being invited to the captain’s
table. He stayed in five and six-star
hotels in a wonderful life of travel.
He enjoyed playing the
stockmarket as a hobby and
for some fun. When he did slow
down, he enjoyed walks near his
beachside apartment. Daryl loved
life, and his was an amazing one.
He died at Sorrento, Queensland,
on 23 May 2017.
McCAUSLAND, Peter John (’69)
Peter John McCausland was
born at Carlton on 26 July 1951
and left Malvern Grammar School
to attend Scotch from 1964 to
1967 as a member of Morrison
House. He rowed at Scotch and
played hockey, and was involved
in Scouts and the Railways Club.
After leaving school, he worked
in the photographic, plastics and
transport industries.
Peter died suddenly of a heart
attack at home at Bayswater on
30 May 2017. He is survived by his
children.
McCOY, James
Ian OAM JP
(’43)
Jim’s wife, Mary,
wrote:
Jim was born
at Kew on 8
August 1925. He left Camberwell
Grammar School to attend Scotch
from 1937 to 1943 as a member
of Morrison House. Also at Scotch
was his cousin, John Frederick
James Taylor (born 31 October
1919, SC 1935-36, died 11 March
1994). He rowed, played football,
was a senior cadet, and became
a 1943 Probationer. He was also
a King’s Scout. He considered his
years at Scotch as some of the
best years of his life.
Jim went to the Royal Military
College, Duntroon, in 1944, and
became an army infantry officer
in the (now) Army Reserves as a
captain in the 5th Battalion (1947-
57). He worked at Kodak, and
several years later was headhunted
to work for Petersville Limited
where he became the national chief
executive of Peters Ice Cream.
On 7 February 1948 Jim
married Joyce Marion Gamble in
the Littlejohn Memorial Chapel
at Scotch. She died on 7 March
1983, and on 23 June 1984 he
married Mrs Mary Carolyn (nee
Mollard) McCahon at the Peninsula
Grammar School Chapel at Mount
Eliza.
In retirement, Jim became a
local government commissioner for
Frankston City (1994-97). He was
chairman of the advisory board
of the Syme School of Business
at Monash University’s Peninsula
campus. He was chairman of the
George Vowell Centre for the Blind,
Mt Eliza (1975-2001) as well as
vice-chairman of the Mornington
Peninsula Hospital Frankston
(1994-95).
For several years Jim was
chairman of Coal Creek Historical
Village in Korumburra. He was also
president of the OSCA Mornington
Peninsula branch (1988-91). Jim
was an ardent Aberdeen Angus
cattle breeder in South Gippsland
for many years and was always
happiest down on the farm.
Jim received a Medal of the
Order of Australia (OAM) award
in 1996 for making a significant
contribution to the success of the
companies he served, and for 40
years’ association with deserving
causes.
Following a protracted battle
with heart disease, he died at the
George Vowell Centre on 3 April
2017, survived by Mary, children
and stepchildren.
NEIL, Murray
Alan (’52)
Murray’s wife,
Anne, wrote:
Murray Alan
Neil was born
at Tulagi in the
Solomon Islands, the son of Alan
Lee Neil (born 30 July 1904, SC
1919-22, died 16 March 1968),
where his parents were missionaries.
His relations at Scotch included his
brothers Alister Rutherfurd Lee Neil
(born 12 April 1932, SC 1946-50,
died 18 July 2015), Brian (SC
1950-58) and John (SC 1950-60).
Murray attended Camberwell
Grammar School and then Scotch
(SC 1945-52). He led the Crusaders,
pl