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   From: peter@pmoylan.org   
      
   On 31/12/25 21:42, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > On 30/12/2025 9:46 pm, Peter Moylan wrote:   
   >> On 30/12/25 19:39, Daniel70 wrote:   
      
   >> One of my best friends in high school (Peter Henry) died in   
   >> Broadford just recently.   
   >   
   > Can't say I've ever heard of 'Peter Henry'. Condolenses.   
      
   He had a regular program on community radio, but that probably wasn't   
   visible to many people. And I think the radio station was in Wallan, not   
   Broadford.   
      
   Another of my school friends was from Darraweit Guim, which in those days   
   was a one-horse town, possibly with two dogs. The horse and one of the   
   dogs belonged to my friend.   
      
   >>>> That's a coincidence. I grew up in Seymour. But I moved to   
   >>>> Newcastle 57 years ago,   
   >>   
   >>> Why??   
   >>   
   >> To do a Master's degree; but Newcastle is a nice place, so I never   
   >>  left.   
   >   
   > What?? Melbourne, La Trobe, RMIT not good enough for you?? ;-P   
      
   In those days (1968) La Trobe university had just opened, and it was not   
   yet clear that it would amount to anything. RMIT was still a technical   
   college. (And in fact I taught fourth year mathematics at RMIT, as a casual   
   lecturer, in the same year as I was doing fourth year engineering at   
   Melbourne University.)   
      
   As for Melbourne ... I didn't as yet know the full story, but as an   
   undergraduate I could still see that there was no research going on at   
   all in engineering at Melbourne University. The university was going   
   into a decline. The medical faculty had expanded to the extent that it   
   dominated the governance of the university, and all the other faculties   
   were starved of funding. In engineering, all of the top people had moved   
   to the "new" university at Monash. Electrical engineering was still able   
   to put on an undergraduate degree, but only just. Doing a master's there   
   was out of the question.   
      
   As it turned out, I landed on my feet. Newcastle had a new university,   
   and in some departments (by no means all) had attracted some good   
   people. As a result, it became one of the top universities in the world   
   in control and systems theory. It went downhill after I retired, but for   
   a good long time it was a good place to be.   
      
   --   
   Peter Moylan       peter@pmoylan.org    http://www.pmoylan.org   
   Newcastle, NSW   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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