Cellar & Garden Development 2008
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A more inclusive Cellar Bar
Current Newsletter
August 2008
Master's Message
August 2008
Dear Members,
I am very pleased to advise that we have appointed a new General
Manager. Mr Walter Sauer commenced with us on Monday 16th June having
previously been General Manager at the Bega Country Club and RSL.
Originally from Austria, Walter has had extensive experience in the
hotel and club sectors in Australia and overseas. More details on his
background will be found in a special segment inside these News and
Notes.
The Cellar Bar project is progressing well with much of the heavy work
due to be finished in the next few weeks. Those of you who have visited
recently will have seen the start of the landscaping for the transition
from the new Cellar Bar to the Fellows Garden. The project is currently
running a few weeks behind; we are currently expecting completion
towards the end of October, although there is the possibility that some
of the lost time might be made up. Former Manager Peter Forrest dropped
in recently and we were able to put him in touch with the Project
Manager, who was enormously grateful for the inside knowledge Peter was
able to provide on the nature of the earlier construction, the location
of (unmapped) buried pipes and other aspects not known to any of us who
are relative new-comers to University House.
Since the last News and Notes we have signed up two new casual members
of staff!. Tamara Orsi and Gretel Schweiger have signed on to help at
special functions. We gave them a much-deserved formal farewell after
their almost 50 years service between them on Friday 20th June, and then
welcomed them back as casuals! Those of you who contacted us to say how
much they would be missed will now, hopefully, still see them in and
about functions.
About six years ago you may recall that Graduate House was added to the
community of University House; since then many students from Graduate
House join us for Wednesday evening dinner. This year we have been
looking at means by which the operations can be more consolidated. From
later this year the Graduate House Advisory Committee – which is a
student-management liaison committee – will assume responsibility for
the interests of University House students as well, and the Board of
Fellows will add to its role advising me on matters to do with Graduate
House in the same way it does for University House.
Finally, Glenda and I will be away for July and August. After a
conference in Boston we will be spending seven weeks at the University
of Cambridge. I will be working in the Department of Engineering as part
of my current sabbatical leave, and have a Visiting Fellowship at
Wolfson College. During this period, Professor Kiaran Kirk, Head of the
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BaMBi), and Member of
the Board of Fellows, will be acting Master. En route we will spend a
couple of nights at the Yale Club of New York City with which, as I
advised earlier, we have established reciprocal relations on behalf of
Members of University House.
Prof John Richards
Master
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