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‘Mac’

2005
Andrew Lodder (1999) became our most
recent Rhodes Scholar.
2001
A long serving, pivotal character in the life of the School, Deputy 2007
Headmaster Alistair Macmillan, announced his retirement. ‘Mac’ Demolition began on the old Faulkner,
was a student from 1948 to 1955 and after graduating from UWA Wilson and Loton House buildings in
he returned to the School as a Master in 1961. Over the next 41 preparation for the construction of the
years ‘Mac’ played many parts – history and mathematics teacher; new Library and Resources complex.
inimitable football and athletics coach; Buntine Housemaster
for 15 years; Deputy Headmaster for 10 years and, finally, as
Director of Day to Day Operations until retirement. Whilst those 2008
are the bald facts; they hardly begin to describe the man and his A statue of Bishop Hale was erected by
enormous influence over the Hale campus at Wembley Downs. the Old Haleian’s Association outside the
Cloisters in central Perth in March 2008.

2002 2003
John Inverarity completes his 14 year Stuart Meade is formally commissioned as the 19th Headmaster
tenure as Headmaster of the School. of Hale School. In accepting the commission he said:

After Inverarity announced his retirement, ‘… I want the students of Hale to be proud of their
then Acting Deputy-Headmaster, David School. Not just as Old Haleians reminiscing at Old
Bean wrote: Boys’ functions, but while current students. Proud of the
community of which you are part…
‘Under John’s Headmastership,
Hale School has both maintained To the Board of Governors: … your work, so often
and enhanced its long-standing unacknowledged, is crucial. The ancient Chinese made
reputation for high standards of it plain when they said:
learning, for sporting excellence
and, above all, for a century “If you think in years, plant rice,
and a half, the preparation of If you think in decades, plant trees,
young men for leadership in the If you think in centuries, educate your children”.
communities they enter, imbued
with the notation of duty, the … There are many theories I could espouse and 2004
School’s motto. But as only a promises I could make, but I prefer to let actions speak The re-naming of ‘B’ Block – the J.B.
great Headmaster can do, John louder than words. However, to close, I would like Morrison Teaching Block, after Jock
has transformed the culture of the to leave you with the words of Stephen Gellet. They Morrisson. It was immediately re-named
School while, at the same time, express clearly my commitment to Hale. ‘The Jock Block’ by the man himself.
retaining the traditions of the
past.’ ‘I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good A new combined boarding house building opened containing
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things, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I both Wilson and Faulkner houses. Loton House became a day
can show a fellow being, let me do it now. Let me not house.
defer or neglect it. For I shall not pass this way again.’
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27 David Bean quoted in Edgar, From Slate to 28 Stuart Meade quoted in Edgar, From Slate to Cyberspace, p. 348
Cyberspace, pp 346-347