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Below are messages from Andrew Byrne, Judy Stokes, Tessa Ho, Rosemary Sheehy, Anne Gilroy, Katherine Brown, Justin Smith, Julian Scullin, David Baines, Jim Markos, Ian Rewell, Tim Ingall, Chris Fenton, Eva B'man, Ian Freed, Tony Sangster

Andrew Byrne .. (OLD POST)

I have had some lovely visits with Miriam (Jucovic) and Arnold Van Rooijen lately ... also spent a few fun days with Annabelle's (Farnsworth) eldest son Rob Hanson in New York (his younger brother Jim just turned 21!).  Bill Brooks remains a wonderful colleague, neighbour and dinner partner when I am ‘batching’ in Sydney from Bowral.  Bill Sewell is a fellow opera fan and also has looked after my personal pathology needs for over a decade.  Andy Csillag, likewise, is a St Vincent’s doctor (radiology) who has gone out of his way to be helpful when I really needed it most.  I also see Fiona Stewart at the opera openings where we mingle with the likes of Bronwyn Bishop.  

Mary K Dwyer, Colleen M Kane and Clive T Lovell are also Potts Point area neighbours who I regret I have not seen of late.  Clive has moved from Bondi Junction to Macquarie Street where he does general practice as well as Aviation Medicine.  

Margaret (McCluskie) and Peter Malcolm are Mittagong people.  Cheryl Headford is married to another well respected local GP Richard Hanbury and they have a Sydney place near Rushcutters Bay.  Marise (Hely) and Simon Grant are also Highlands neighbours.  Again, I see them far too seldom, especially considering we are so close. 

Zelko Mustac did a Redfern practice visit last month from Perth and we were delighted to catch up after so long.  He is a successful general psychiatrist in WA but verging on the addiction side of things with a few dependency cases.  He may be moving to Sydney soon. 

Thanks for the information about Sydney University.  I will also take a walk down memory lane some time soon in my lunch 'hour'.  Best regards, Andrew Byrne ..

Judy Stokes (OLD POST)

Reply from Judy:

Thanks, Andrew.  Oh lovely to hear news of our peers. Please send on our regards.

I keep in contact with Di Philpott and recently had dinner with her and Anne Pike, Annabelle [Farnsworth/Hanson] and Ann Glanville at The Cottage in Balmain.

We are close to the Glanvilles and spent a week in August with them on their property at Bathurst assisting with the shearing. They both work hard in Sydney as well as running a sheep farm! (it belonged to Ann's parents and we spent several uni holidays there too)...

In our girlie dinner group are also Susie Rosenthal and Lesley Yee. Ingrid Rieger also comes along to our get-togethers.

We are going with the Yees to Lyn Hammond's daughter's wedding in November. Their younger daughter was married at Silvan Glen earlier this year.

We enjoyed lunch at the Kirribilli Club with the Haylens and Penny and Geoff Dillworth last month .. that's an easy venue if a casual lunch or dinner is required .. I wonder if they have a separate function room for a larger group?

We see Glynne and Jon Wood intermittently too .. yummy dinners etc.  Jon is working part time in his Neurology practice. I believe Jim Wall is now retired.

Mick Donoghue is not so well. Just as he was planning his retirement in April from his ED physician job at Gosford Hospital he became ill and needed surgery.  He is now in reasonable shape .. We called to see him last week and he was a lot better than the previous visit. He is a beautiful woodwork craftsman and also a collector and (prior) rider of antique motor bikes. Mick's wife Judy was Ian's [Stokes] physio with him in his practice for 25 years. 

I recently found more medical memorabilia including clinical bulletins etc ... now deposited with the lovely Cate Storey who is running a lovely history club at the Uni ... along with my whole medical course! Good to see it all go to a good "home".

We are off to Dubai, Istanbul then London for a wedding then the Rugby World Cup ... one comes to the realisation that we are, after all, mortal and carpe diem etc.

Yes let's touch base again after our return mid November ..

All good wishes

Judy

Andrew Cole

Hi Andrew

A quick note to advise that Marilyn and I have recently moved house to 126 Rosa St Oatley NSW 2223.

Landline contact, and email address remains the same, though I have recently reduced my working week to 4 days (Tuesdays off), retirement is not yet in view, as I take up presidency of the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine in May, for a two-year stint.

Otherwise things run along steadily in life – Marilyn is still head of High School at Sutherland shire Christian School, three grandchildren (Ashlyn, Rhianna, Hamish) with our older son Daniel and Emily in Chicago, one grandson (Joshua) in Adelaide with our would-be pathologist daughter Rebecca and her husband Scott, Rachel dances on (now with Matilda in Melbourne), and our younger son David and Laura have our latest grandson (Timothy) in Greystanes.

All the best for the rest of 2016

Andrew Cole

A/Prof Andrew Cole MBBS FAFRM

Chief Medical Officer, HammondCare

Conjoint Associate Professor, UNSW

P: (02) 8788-3900

F: (02) 9731-1235

E: acole@hammond.com.au

Tessa Ho

From: Tessa Ho
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2015 10:27 AM
To: Byrne Andrew
Subject: Re: Syd Uni Med reunion notes ... and photos of some old haunts. Dinner, anyone?

Thank you for this newsy update, Andrew. Ken and I had dinner at Bennelong with Mary Dwyer and Dennis Ronzani last week. Bumped into Annabelle Farnsworth, Di Philpott from our year at a Crows Nest restaurant some time ago. Also had dinner and attended another St Vincent’s Hospital function where I met up with Bernie Haylen as well as Dave Harris, Libby Bassett, Steve Jurd in my work heading the Med Program at Sydney Uni.

Am now Trustee of St Vincent’s Health Australia so have the great opportunity to meet up with year members along the traps.

Keep up the good work on keeping us all in the loop - many thanks!

Tessa

 

Associate Professor Tessa Ho
MBBS (Syd) MHP (UNSW) MD (UNSW) GAICD

Rosemary Sheehy

From: Rosemary Sheehy
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2015 1:19 PM
To: Andrew Byrne
Subject: RE: Syd Uni Med reunion notes ... and photos of some old haunts. Dinner, anyone?

Dear Andrew,

Thanks for the fun emails.  I had no idea of the changes planned for Med School despite working at RPA.  Please continue cc'ing me in emails.

Delighted all going well for you.

Best wishes

Rosemary

Dr Rosemary Sheehy

Staff Specialist Geriatrician and Endocrinologist

Balmain Hospital, SLHD

Booth St, Balmain 2041

Anne Gilroy

From: Anne Gilroy
Sent: Friday, 18 September 2015 7:53 AM
To: 'Andrew Byrne'
Subject: RE: Syd Uni Med reunion notes ... and photos of some old haunts. Dinner anyone?

Dear Andrew

Good to hear from you. I was interested to hear that the Glanvilles have a property here in Bathurst. Would love to contact them if you could pass on the contacts.  Also I have built a 3 bedroom retreat house on our property if you ever want accommodation when you visit.  Would be great to catch up and also to get Lucia here too.

Love, Anne

Katherine Brown

From: Katherine Brown
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2015 2:42 PM
To: 'Andrew Byrne'
Subject: RE: Syd Uni Med reunion notes ... and photos of some old haunts. Dinner anyone?

Thanks Andrew

Always lovely to hear the news. I had Lynne Hammond’s daughter as a GP specials skills registrar last semester which I only discovered when they attended a seminar together in Kiama where I was speaking. Small world isn’t it?

regards

Katherine
 

Clinical Associate Professor Katherine Brown

University of Sydney & University of Wollongong

Justin Smith

From: Justin Smith
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2015 3:39 PM
To: Andrew Byrne
Subject: RE: Syd Uni Med reunion notes ... and photos of some old haunts. Dinner anyone?

Thanks Andrew  it all seems  surreal that you guys keep up in the big smoke whereas out here in the country it is all ancient history. I did catch up with Mick Donohue before his surgery in April, and have spoken since as he suffered [some side effects].

On the good news front my eldest daughter Emily has just been accepted into Syd Uni Med next year she is  35 yrs old with three  kids under 6  has done 10 yrs Liberal studies plus public health degrees at Sydney and been a journalist for Fairfax  Just wanted to do some good she said  so after a few tries at Gamsat she has managed to get in to the Alma Mater. Justin

 

Julian Scullin

From: Dr Julian Scullin
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2015 5:35 PM
To: 'Andrew Byrne'
Subject: RE: Syd Uni Med reunion notes ... and photos of some old haunts. Dinner, anyone?

Thanks, Andrew,

Much appreciated

Best wishes,

Julian

David Baines

From: David Baines
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2015 5:42 PM
To: Andrew Byrne
Subject: Re: Syd Uni Med reunion notes ... and photos of some old haunts. Dinner anyone?

Dear Andrew

Good to hear from you and to get news about our “old” colleagues. I am five months in to well over a year of long service leave and really (really!) enjoying it. I do miss some (but not all..) of my colleagues. I am spending time building a shed for a workshop at home and doing more with my grandchildren. I have seen too many friends and colleagues work and work and then get a serious illness and die – and I have plans to use the next however many years I have doing non-medical stuff. I am still doing a list one afternoon a week in private and I have just got back from an open heart trip to Tonga ( www.ohi.org.au ) – I will miss these trips having made over 40 of them over the last 25 years. I think my last trip will be in May 2016 when I will do my 20th trip to Fiji.

I met up with Chris Needs and Mike Freelander a couple of months ago – both well and active. 

Take care

David

A/Prof David Baines AM FANZCA

 

Jim Markos

From: Jimbo Markos
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2015 11:32 PM
To: 'Andrew Byrne'
Subject: RE: Syd Uni Med reunion notes ... and photos of some old haunts. Dinner anyone?

 

Andy & Judy/Ian

Thank you very much for the info re Syd Uni and many of our colleagues.

Always a pleasure to hear good news and to reminisce about the old days.

Until we meet again,

Regards

Jim

Ian Rewell

From: Ian Rewell
Sent: Thursday, 17 September 2015 2:04 AM
To: Andrew Byrne
Subject: Re: Syd Uni Med reunion notes ... and photos of some old haunts. Dinner anyone?

Dear Andrew

Thanks as usual for your email and the latest news.

I am sending this email to you from Porthmadog in N. Wales, having spent the last couple of days on steam train trips. Sue and I have been travelling in Europe and the UK since mid April, having started with the centenary dawn service at Gallipoli, travelled thru a fair bit of Europe, been to a couple of Ashes Tests, with a couple of Rugby World Cup matches yet to come. In London I caught up with Ian Freed- he lives in St Alban's and practises part time in Chelmsford. He would like to stay up to date with our year and hopefully join us for one of our reunions. I told him you are the "social secretary" and I would pass his email address on to you- hence this message.

All the best- we will be back in a couple of weeks having been away 5.5 months

Ian

Hi again Andrew 

Sorry, in terms of relevant news to our colleagues- also need to record that we caught up with Ian and Cathy Cook in Mykonos. For those who have not been to the Greek islands, the travel brochure pictures of blue sky, blue water, golden sand, blue and white buildings etc are absolutely accurate- what they don't show you is the wind. Mykonos is known as the "windy island" which is saying something given the wind on all of them. The "soil" on the islands is fine grey volcanic dust and any cars parked outdoors have had their duco sandblasted. Anyone with asthma or dust allergy-take your medication with you. (We caught the ferry from Mykonos to Crete in these seas- before we cleared the harbour the hostess was handing out vomit bags. The second we cleared the harbour the whole boat fell silent- even the French and Americans. For the next two hours the only sound was vomit bags being used.)

In the midst of a gale and "washing machine" seas, Ian and Cathy moored their yacht "Sea Cloud" at the marina in Mykonos and we had a couple of great days together - we spent some time together a couple of years ago in Venice so catching up with the Cooks in Europe is something we look forward to. IR

Tim Ingall

From: Ingall, Timothy, M.D., Ph.D. [mailto:tingall@mayo.edu]
Sent: Thursday, 17 September 2015 2:43 AM
To: 'Andrew Byrne'
Subject: RE: Syd Uni Med reunion notes ... and photos of some old haunts. Dinner, anyone?

Andrew,

Thanks for the sending the update email on the activities of some of our med school colleagues.   A few years back, when I was in Sydney with my second wife, who is from Chicago, we had a morning to spare so we took a walk around the University and I showed her some of my old haunts including the Blackburn and Bosch buildings.  The Bosch building was the site of the famous streaking incident in our third year when, with a support team including Bob Sebesfi and Chris Fenton, Peter Brady, Jules Eagan, and I streaked through three of the lecture rooms (with Philomena McGrath in one room) before retiring to the White Horse Hotel in Newtown where fellow students bought us beers for the rest of the day.  With the two buildings being torn down in the near future, I am glad that I took the opportunity to see them a few years ago.

I found it interesting that Clive Lovell is now involved in Aviation Medicine.  One of the nice ‘sidelines’ of my practice is that I am a consultant physician with the Federal Aviation Authority in the USA.  Along with a few other neurologists, I help the FAA determine whether pilots who have neurological problems should be flying planes.  In addition, I sit on an FAA panel which works with the FAA to help create guidelines for how to assess pilots with neurological problems, and determine their risk for having recurrent events which is a major determinant of whether they will be allowed to pilot a plane again.  It is very interesting work.

Hopefully, on one of your future trips to the US, you can make your way to AZ and I can show you around the Mayo Clinic campus here.  My next trip to Australia will likely be sometime next year, probably coinciding with the Australian Stroke Meeting, but I don’t know the dates yet.  I will hopefully be able to catch up with you and others in our year when I am next in town.  Last year, Bob Sebesfi and I traveled to Port Macquarie and visited with Paul Jones for a few days – Paul is working as a GP in Port Macquarie and it was great to catch up while we drank a few (or more) glasses of Paul’s best red wines.

Best wishes,

Tim

Chris Fenton

From: Chris Fenton
Sent: Thursday, 17 September 2015 11:18 PM
To: 'Andrew Byrne'
Subject: RE: Syd Uni Med reunion notes ... and photos of some old haunts. Dinner anyone?

Thanks for the updates guys - nice to get.

I am on holidays with my partner and her son in Italy at present. Lucky me,

although it is very hot in Rome where we are now and in Paris where we were

but still we are in Rome and Paris!

Chris

 

Eva B'man

From: Eva B'man
Sent: Thursday, 17 September 2015 4:28 AM
To: Andrew Byrne
Subject: Hi

Dear Andrew

Thank you so much for the lovely e mail.  It is great to get news.

It is always interesting catching up. Regards to all.

Thank Judy for the photos  - they are great. Sad about the buildings.

 
We are having a wonderful holiday at present with some friends. Have been to Italy and now are in Spain.

I am enclosing photos from the Alcazar in Córdoba. 

All the best

Love Eva

Ian Freed

From: Ian Freed [mailto:drifreed@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, 18 September 2015 3:46 AM
To: Andrew Byrne
Subject: Auld Acquaintance

Hello Andrew,

It was good of Ian Rewell (known at school as Sticks for obvious reasons) to put us in touch. I read the blog with great pleasure remembering the names and faces of those mentioned.

About a year ago, one of my daughters found pictures of a reunion on the net- I still don't know how. I recognised so many and no-one has changed one little tiny bit from when I last saw any of them in 1977. I know it's a cliche…but where has the time gone?

I believe I caught a glimpse of you a number of years ago as I was arriving and you were leaving a coffee bar in Darlinghurst Road. I didn't run after you just in case I was wrong!  I get back to Sydney from England every couple of years to see my old Mum and the rest of my family.

I have lived in England since late 1978 and am winding down after 33 years in General Practice in Essex. Lynn and I will be celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary next April… 40 years and never a cross word! Plenty of furious ones though!

We have 3 children, a son of 31 and twin daughters of 25. They are all involved in their own lives, relationships and jobs- none of them medical (music composer,lawyer and marketing).

People still ask me, usually in bemusement, how I could have left Australia. It took me about 25 years to realise that the answer is England is England and Australia is Australia with positives and negatives on both sides. I have a pretty good life over here and a few years ago bought an old farmhouse in France, near Poitiers. We spend a reasonable amount of time there but,with more time available in the future, should make greater use of it. And I am a season ticket holder at my beloved Arsenal Football Club (soccer to you guys).

When I come back to Oz, I always catch up with Mike Freelander (who copied my answers in a pathology exam and did better than I did) and I ring Chris Needs to relive Monty Python's greatest sketches.

I would love to make it to one of your reunions some year and I trust you will now be able to give me plenty of advance warning.

I hope you are well and I congratulate you on keeping the old gang together.

I would be pleased for you to share my e-mail on the blog and I will say hello, in anticipation, to everyone.

Best wishes,

Ian Freed

Tony Sangster

Hi Andrew and Hi to everyone,

Thank you for all your stories, photographs and news. And best of health wishes to those who ail.

I retired last year from GP land and am enjoying this after work life.

Adelaide is a relatively quiet, friendly place with all important day to day facilities within 20 to 30 minutes walking distance of home.

It is now 49 years on insulin with no major complications and thankfully an insulin pump to keep life manageable. My endocrinologist counsels young diabetics on obtaining a good superannuation scheme as much as on other aspects of their condition.

At home the man cave is a major improvement in progress with better set up for kite making in mind. Yes hobbies are sanity preservers !! And ways to encourage the young to detach themselves from electronic paraphernalia !! And prepare for grandchildren some time in the future !!

I aim to be at the reunion in ( is it 2018 ?) and, if allowed,  talk more about the big R ?

Best Wishes to all,

Tony Sangster

PS  the legs are made by Martin Lester of Bristol and Ian, I am sure could be made in Arsenal colours with permission. Second photo yours truly at a Japanese kite making session (who says you have to act your age ??)  Third photo is a kite I made, still learning after 20 years!!!

 

 

Mark Henschke

Dear Andrew, 

I was pleased to see The  http://1971syduni.blogspot.com.au/ blog arrive in my email inbox. Thank you for all your work in being the 'alumni glue'

I have retired from GP obstetrics in Armidale (1982-2009) and have entered the less demanding and very satisfying world of academia with the Rural Clinical School (UNSW) at Coffs Harbour.

Today I had the pleasure of catching up with John (Vaughan) and his wife Margaret in Coffs Harbour. John is the GP Supervisor Liaison Officer with our regional GP training provider. As you may be aware, the Commonwealth Government put all GP training in NSW out to tender and has awarded the whole of the state to Synergy. Understandably this has caused much angst in our region because North Coast GP training (NCGPT) will no longer be involved in training GP registrars after many years of doing an excellent job. Enough of politics.

John is very happy and well and committed to GP training out of his Laurieton practice....and it was a delight to catch up with him. Last year,John was awarded National Supervisor of the Year last year, a great honour and well deserved. 

I'm enjoying my teaching very much too! Three days per week, working with very bright and keen students.

To stay in touch with patients and learn new skills, I am doing shifts in the emergency department of the Base Hospital. Exciting, enjoyable (most of the time) and certainly challenging. 

Best wishes

Mark