Janet Clarke Hall (University of Melbourne)

Janet Clarke Hall (JCH) is a

residential college A residential college is a division of a university that places academic activity in a community setting of students and faculty, usually at a residence and with shared meals, the college having a degree of autonomy and a federated relationship wi ...

of the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

in Australia. The college is associated with the Anglican Province of Victoria. JCH is one of the smallest of the colleges of the university and was the first university college in Australia to admit women. JCH has a strong academic focus, with a plurality of students in residence achieving a first class average in their studies.

History

Established in 1886 as a residential hostel for women students of

Trinity College Trinity College may refer to: Australia * Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational primary and secondary school in , New South Wales * Trinity Catholic College, Auburn, a coeducational school in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, New ...

, JCH was originally called the 'Trinity College Hostel'. It was re-named after a significant benefactor,

Janet Clarke Janet Marion Clarke (; 4 June 1851 – 28 April 1909) was an Australian socialite and philanthropist. She was known to the general public as Lady Clarke, a title which she assumed after her husband's elevation to the baronetage in 1882. Early ...

, wife of Sir William Clarke in 1921. Enid Joske was principal of JCH from 1928 until 1952, and Dr Eva Eden was principal from 1964 until 1983. JCH became an independent college in 1961 and co-educational in 1973.

Principals of Janet Clarke Hall:

* The Rev’d Thomas Jollie Smith (1886–87) * Miss Lucy Waltham (1888) * Miss Emily Eddes (1889) * Miss Emily Hensley (1890) * Mr J.T. Collins (1892-1900) * Miss Lucy Bateman (1901–05) * Miss Lucy Archer (1906–18) * Miss Margery Herring (1919–27) * Miss Enid Joske (1928–51) * Miss Mary Bagnall (1952–57) * Miss Margaret Dewey (1959–62) * Dr Eva Eden (1964–83) * Mrs Phyllis Fry (1984–95) * Dr Gail Tulloch (1996-2000) * Dr Damian Powell (2001-2021) * Dr Eleanor Spencer-Regan (2022-current)

Scholarships

Janet Clarke Hall offers a range of scholarships and bursaries to students upon the basis of academic merit and financial need. Academic and community service scholarships were awarded to more than a third of students each year. The scholarships are awarded upon the recommendation to the college council of a committee comprising the principal, chairman of council, and a representative of the University of Melbourne. All details regarding requests for financial assistance are kept strictly confidential to the college.

Arts

JCH has an artist-in-residence program, whereby a prominent

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...

is resident in the college offering tutoring and mentoring to JCH students. The current artist-in-residence is the novelist

Alice Pung Alice Pung (born 1981) is an Australian writer, editor and lawyer. Her books include the memoirs ''Unpolished Gem'' (2006), ''Her Father's Daughter'' (2011) and the novel ''Laurinda'' (2014). Pung is a practising solicitor. She has also worke ...

. JCH's Kenneth Moore Memorial Music Scholar is Anna Goldsworthy, an author and classical pianist. Throughout the year Goldsworthy performs recitals for the JCH community and runs masterclasses for JCH's music students. JCH has an annual literature dinner where an established author speaks about their writing and any topical issues. Past speakers have included

Helen Garner Helen Garner (née Ford, born 7 November 1942) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garner's first novel, ''Monkey Grip (novel), Monkey Grip'', published in 1977, immediately established her as an origina ...

Peter Goldsworthy Peter David Goldsworthy AM (born 12 October 1951) is an Australian writer and medical practitioner. He has won major awards for his short stories, poetry, novels, and opera libretti. Goldsworthy began his writing life as a poet, as described i ...

Chloe Hooper Chloe Melisande Hooper (born 1973) is an Australian author. Her first novel, ''A Child’s Book of True Crime'' (2002), was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a ''New York Times'' Notable Book. In 2005, she turned to rep ...

and

Peter Singer Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher, currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, ...

Student club

The Student Club of Janet Clarke Hall Inc provides students with support and organises social, sporting and cultural activities. Particularly significant is the college's "Welcome Week", inducting new students into the culture of JCH. The club is administered by an eight-member executive, comprising the president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, arts and culture representative, female and male sports representatives and a general representative.

People associated with the college

College visitor

The current college visitor is

Peter C. Doherty Peter Charles Doherty (born 15 October 1940) is an Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1995, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Rolf M. Zinkerna ...

, winner of a Nobel Prize and Australian of the Year in 1997.

Notable alumni

Elizabeth Blackburn Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Previously she was a biological researcher at the University of California, S ...

, Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology at the

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, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009 *

Adrienne Clarke Adrienne Elizabeth Clarke (née Petty; born 6 January 1938) is Professor Emeritus of Botany at the University of Melbourne, where she ran the Plant Cell Biology Research Centre from 1982–1999. She is a former chairman of the Commonwealth Scie ...

, former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria and Chancellor of

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, writer *

Peter Yates Peter James Yates (24 July 1929 – 9 January 2011) was an English film director and producer. Biography Early life Yates was born in Aldershot, Hampshire. The son of an army officer, he attended Charterhouse School as a boy, graduated from ...

, former CEO of PBL * Sally Walker, former Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University *

Gillian Triggs Gillian Doreen Triggs (born 30 October 1945) is an Australian academic specialising in public international law. In 2019, she was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Natio ...

, former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission * Dame Leonie Kramer, former Chancellor of the

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Marita Cheng Marita Cheng (born 5 March 1989) is the founder of Robogals. She was named the 2012 Young Australian of the Year. She is the founder and current CEO of Aubot, a start-up robotics company. She co-founded Aipoly, an app to assist blind people to ...

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Tutors

Former tutors include: *

Manning Clark Charles Manning Hope Clark, (3 March 1915 – 23 May 1991) was an Australian historian and the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume ''A History of Australia'', published between 1962 and 1987. He has been descri ...

, historian *

Marilyn Warren Marilyn Louise Warren (born 1951) is a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria, Australia. Early life Warren grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Sandringham, and was educated at the Kilbr ...

, Chief Justice of the

Supreme Court of Victoria The Supreme Court of Victoria is the highest court in the Australian state of Victoria. Founded in 1852, it is a superior court of common law and equity, with unlimited and inherent jurisdiction within the state. The Supreme Court comprises ...

Rhodes Scholars

Alumni who were awarded Rhodes Scholarships include: *James Watson *Leng Lee *Lauren Rickards *Catherine Button *Jenny Tran *Rebecca Duke

References

External links

Official website
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