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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 31/12/2025 10:37 pm, Peter Moylan wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Yeah, back in the day, Wallan would have been 'Country', now it's 'Outer   
   Suburban'.   
      
   > 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.)   
      
   RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), was where I got my   
   Associate Diploma of Engineering (Electronics) in 1990.   
      
   Back then, The Army (or RASigs) had a deal with RMIT where, given   
   recognition of prior learning, we could achieve our ADE(E) in just   
   twelve (very solid) months study, 9a.m. to 4p.m., five days a week!!   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I think two of my elder sisters got degrees from Melbourne.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   (Why does your surname, 'Moylan', ring a bell with me each time I see it??)   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
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