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Roy Stephens and Frank Stephens( SC 1946-57) were also at Scotch.
Norm boarded at Scotch from 1941 to 1945 in School House as a member of Littlejohn House. He was a very determined and fair player in the 1944 and premiership 1945 1st XVIIIs, in which he usually played at full-back and kicked long and consistently good torpedo punts.
Norm competed in the 1942 and 1945 Athletics teams as a high jumper and relay runner. Narrowly beaten in the 1945 APS high jump, he later won the Victorian schoolboys’ high jump championship. Norm was a member of the 2nd XI, a good tennis player, and represented Littlejohn in diving.
Academic studies were trying, but through sheer determination Norm passed the Leaving Certificate examination. He was a 1945 School Probationer and 1945 School House Prefect.
Norm returned home to the family farm at Swanpool, near Benalla. Always a hard worker, he became an excellent farmer and grazier. His limited spare time was devoted to football with Benalla, cricket with Swanpool, tennis, and golf, which became his passion.
A president, captain and life member of the Benalla Golf Club, he was seven times club champion.
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Norm represented North-Eastern Victoria at Country Week for 21 consecutive years. In his 80s he played off a single figure handicap.
On 17 March 1951 Norm married Isabel Margaret Say at Scotch. Their children included a son, Peter Alexander Stephens, who was killed in a motorbike accident on 7 January 1974 aged 18.
Norm retired from farming in 1980 and lived in Benalla. He died on 8 April 2016.
VINES, Dr Robert Godfrey(’ 38) Bob’ s children, David( SC 1958- 67), Richard( SC 1967-75), Robyn and Elizabeth wrote: Dr Robert Godfrey Vines was born on 25 February 1921, the son of Robert Ashley Vines( born 16 January 1891, SC 1905-10, died 10 August 1977). Other Scotch relatives included his uncle Ernest Harold Vines( born 17 June 1888, SC 1902-05, died 21 January 1979), his two sons, David and Richard, and his grandson Ashley( SC 2006-11).
Bob attended Scotch from 1937 to 1938. He was a member of the 1937 Athletics and the 1938 relay teams, and the 1938 1st XVIII.
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He was Gardiner House Captain in Term 3 of 1938 and a 1938 Probationer.
Bob won a scholarship to the University of Melbourne and to Ormond College. In 1942 he was recruited by Philip Bowden of CSIR( later CSIRO) to work on explosives, after he had been involved in a serious laboratory explosion at the university. After the war he went to Oxford, supported by CSIR, to further his research in physical chemistry. There he married Vera Frances Hanly on 12 July 1948, a biochemist whom he had met in Melbourne, and who had followed him to the UK.
Bob returned to Australia in 1950 to work for CSIRO on tribophysics. In 1954 he won a Fulbright Scholarship to MIT in Boston, to work with Professor Frederick Keyes on the behaviour of inert gases at high temperatures. Back in Australia, he turned his attention to water conservation, taking a year out again in 1960 to return to Boston to work with Professor Keyes on the thermal conductivity of steam.
In May 1962 Melbourne University awarded Bob a DSc. From 1964 he led a CSIRO bushfire research team that pioneered controlled burning techniques, and during 1972-73 he acted as a scientific adviser to the Canadian
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government, providing advice on forest fire research. From the mid-1960s to the mid-2000s, Bob carried out detailed analysis of rainfall data, looking for cyclical patterns to investigate if weather is predictable. Throughout his career, Bob published over 100 scientific papers, and published his last paper at the age of 89.
Bob, a devoted family man, had wide interests in music and the arts, and was a prodigious reader. After Vera’ s death on 31 October 2002, Bob enjoyed a rewarding friendship with Shirley Walpole. He died peacefully at Anglesea Aged Care on 23 March 2017 and is greatly missed by family and friends.
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