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Thursday, 29 November 2012

The Alumni Weekend marks the beginning of the Centenary of students at UWA.

But the staff – as always – started work before the students arrived. They were hard at it in 1912, preparing the courses for the first university entrants in WA.

So we, the staff, have a special event to celebrate our own Centenary – the Celebration of a Century – where we will toast our achievements over 100 years and celebrate the festive season.

Make sure to look your best when you come to Prescott Court from 3pm on Friday 14 December for the party because a photographer will be there to capture as many images of staff as possible, which will go into a mosaic collage next year. (If you can’t make it to the party, you will be able to send a photo – details of this next year.)

Everybody is also asked to bring a Christmas gift for The Smith Family charity to distribute on our behalf.

Good music, company, snacks and drinks will end the year on a sparkling note and put us all in the mood for the big Centenary year.

While the big weekend in February is the main event, the Centenary will be marked in several ways throughout the year.

On the eve of the Alumni Weekend, the Manning Clark House Day of Ideas will run all day on Friday 8 February at the University Club. It will bring together architects, historians, computer scientist, musicians, writers and other artists to look at the luminous ideas that have shaped the contemporary world and the possibilities for tomorrow. The new ideas that will shape the next 100 years will be the focus.

UWA Gives Back is a program of taking our people, ideas and projects out to rural WA. Schools, communities and industry will be engaged with every faculty targeting a different project in a different region.

The University will fund 100 opportunities for disadvantaged school students under the Fairway scheme, to help them complete their schooling, and support them as they start their tertiary studies.

Cultural projects, funded by Centenary grants, will continue throughout the year, under the watchful eyes of the man who started it all, Sir John Winthrop Hackett.

A marble bust of our benefactor will be on loan to the University for 2013, from the WA Museum.

Published in UWA News , 26 November 2012

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