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The Geelong College
Latin: Sic Itur Ad Astra ("Thus is the way to the stars")
Established	18611
School Type	Independent, Co-educational, Day and Boarding
Denomination	Uniting Church
Key People	Dr. Pauline Turner (Principal) Rev. Alexander James Campbell (Founder)
School Fees	AU$9,936–17,188 p.a (Day) AU$24,488–33,564 p.a (Boarding)2
Location	Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates	38°9′5″S 144°20′18″E / -38.15139, 144.33833Coordinates: 38°9′5″S 144°20′18″E / -38.15139, 144.33833
Enrolment	~1,185 (K–12)3
Colours	Navy Blue, White and Green
Homepage	www.geelongcollege.vic.edu.au

The Geelong College is an independent, co-educational, day and boarding school, located in Newtown, an inner-western suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

Established in 1861 by Reverend Alexander James Campbell, a Presbyterian minister, The Geelong College was formerly a school of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, and is today affiliated with the Uniting Church. The school has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1,185 students from Kindergarten to Year 12,³ including 95 boarders from Years 9 to 12.⁴

The college is affiliated with the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference,⁵ the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA),⁶ the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA),⁷ the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV),¹ the Australian Boarding Schools Association (ABSA),⁴ and has been a member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS) since 1908.

History

Following the closure of the Geelong Grammar, Reverend Alexander James Campbell, a Presbyterian minister, established a committee to found a new Presbyterian school. On Monday 8 July 1861, the school was officially established by Campbell in Newtown. George Morrison was appointed the first Principal, and three years later, he became the owner of the School. The school moved to its present-day location in 1871.

In 1908, the College returned to the ownership of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, and became a member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS). Land was acquired for a new campus in 1946. A new Preparatory campus opened in 1960. In 1974, the College accepted girls for the first time.

The Geelong College, 1906

Principals

Campuses

• Senior School - Years 9 to 12

Talbot Street, Newtown

• Preparatory School - Years 4 to 8

Aberdeen Street, Newtown)⁸

• Campbell House - Years Kindergarten to 3

Minerva Road, Newtown

• Mokborree (Otway Campus) - All Years

Wensleydale, Anglesea⁹

Geelong College Challenge

The Geelong College Challenge is a competition run hosted at The Geelong College Preparatory School, where government schools in the region can enter. Schools send in an entry based on the set theme, and the teams with the sixteen best entries are accepted. These schools then form a team of four Year 6 students (two boys and two girls). On the weekend of the Challenge, the teams participate in various challenges, which include Art, Music, Drama, Technology, Information Technology, Physical Education and Mathematics challenges. The winner in 2008 was Wallington Primary School.

Notable alumni

Alumnus of The Geelong College are known as Old Geelong Collegians, and may elect to join the schools alumni association, the Old Geelong Collegians Association (OGCA).¹⁰ Some notable Old Geelong Collegians include:

Academic

• Sir Robert Honeycombe – Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy, Cambridge University, UK
• Dr. John Marden – First Headmaster of The Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney (1888–1919), and Pymble Ladies' College (1916–1919); Pioneer of women's education; Presbyterian elder¹¹

Business

• Bill Dix – Former Managing Director Ford Australia and Chairman of Qantas
• Don Kendell – Founder of Kendell Airlines¹²

Entertainment, media and the arts

• Russell Boyd – Cinematographer: Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, Crocodile Dundee
• John Duigan – Film Director/Writer
• Gideon Haigh – Journalist and author
• Robert Ingpen – Artist, writer, and illustrator
• George Ernest Morrison – Australian adventurer; Correspondent for The Times Peking¹³
• Guy Pearce – Actor

Medicine and science

• Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet – Winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine

Politics, public service and the law

• The Hon Mr Justice Barry Beach – Supreme Court Judge
• John Button – Federal Politician in the Hawke Government
• Sir Arthur Coles – Retail Founder, MP, Former Lord Mayor of Melbourne; First Chairman of Australian National Airlines (TAA)
• Robert Doyle – Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Liberal Party politician; Member for Malvern in the Legislative Assembly (1992–2006); Leader of the Victorian Opposition (2002–2006)¹⁴
• David Epstein – Former Chief of Staff of Kevin Rudd (Current Australian Prime Minister)¹⁵
• Major General Sir James Harrison – Former Governor of South Australia
• Fergus Stewart McArthur MP – Federal Member for Corangamite (Liberal Party)
• Sir Gordon Stewart McArthur – Liberal Party politician, President of the Victorian Legislative Council (1958–1965), grazier and barrister¹⁶
• Sir William Gilbert Stewart McArthur – Supreme Court Judge¹⁷
• Justice Alan McDonald – Supreme Court Judge
• Justice Bernard Teague – Supreme Court Judge^{citation needed}

Religion

• Thomas Henry Armstrong – First Bishop of Wangaratta¹⁸

Sport

• Tim Callan – Current AFL footballer for the Western Bulldogs
• Tim Clarke – Current AFL footballer for the Hawthorn Hawks
• Ayce Cordy – Current AFL footballer for the Western Bulldogs
• Edward Curnow – Former AFL Rookie for the Adelaide Crows¹⁹
• Edward Greeves – Winner of the inaugural Brownlow Medal for the best and fairest player in the Victorian Football League (1924)
• Lindsay Hassett – Captain of the Australian Test cricket team from 1949 to 1953
• Lachlan Henderson – Current AFL footballer for the Brisbane Lions
• John Neil McArthur – Horse racing identity²⁰
• Edward Russell Mockridge – Olympic Cyclist²¹
• Ian Redpath – Australian Test Cricketer
• Will Schofield – Current AFL footballer for the West Coast Eagles
• Paul Sheahan – Australian Test Cricketer; Former Headmaster of The Geelong College, and Melbourne Grammar School

References

Further reading

• Notman, G.C. & Keith, B.R. 1961. The Geelong College 1861-1961. Geelong College Council, Geelong.
• Deakin University. 1979. Portrait of the Geelong College: Continuity and Change in an Independent School. Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Vic. ISBN 0868280097.

See also

• List of schools in Victoria
• List of schools in Victoria, Australia according to 2006 VCE results
• List of boarding schools

External links

• Geelong College website