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When Charmaine Yee (TCFS 2004) was just 15-years-old her drama teacher pulled her aside and said, “one day your voice will be your asset.” Now, a successful radio host of Kiss 92FM and television presenter, Charmaine could not have known how prophetic these words would be. Vivian Chan and Ruby Crysell from the Careers and Alumni team recently caught up with Charmaine in Singapore.
 

While every one of Trinity's lecturers is stellar in his/her own right, there are certain lecturers who are just so impressive: any student who has had the pleasure of crossing paths with her would remember Dr Maureen Vincent, lecturer in the Foundation Studies Program.

Ãâ·Ñ»ÆÉ«appis delighted to announce that Mr Charles Sitch commenced his term in office as Chairman of the Board of Ãâ·Ñ»ÆÉ«appon (18 May 2017), after his appointment by the Council at its May meeting.

Like many journalism students, Louis Dai (TC 2007) started out with a passion for telling stories that needed to be told. However, Louis and his friends David Elliot-Jones (TC 2007) and Lachlan McLeod (TC 2007) would never have guessed that one day they would become documentary filmmakers.

At the end of 2016, Trinity College’s Joan F W Munro Professor of Historical Theology, and Deputy Dean of the Theological School, The Revd Professor Mark Lindsay, journeyed to Princeton Theological Seminary to conduct research on Markus Barth (son of Swiss theologian Karl Barth). He reflects on a theologian deeply engaged with politics and faith.

The recent Oscar-nominated Australian drama, Lion, starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Sunny Pawar, alerted the general public in Australia and throughout the world to the scale of poverty that exists within the slums of India. It’s a story however, that won’t surprise twelve Trinity students who headed to Delhi in January 2017, to volunteer with The Asha Foundation, the goal, to empower local children through education.

Off the back of an incredible tour of the UK and Ireland, The Trinity Tiger Tones, Trinity College’s premier all male acapella group is proud to announce that in December 2017 they will be going on a world tour.

Trinity alumni David Clark (TC 2003) and Campbell Cooke (TC 2012) both worked for large international companies, but have chosen now to work at Cameron Harrison, a blue-chip wealth and investment management firm.

Rohan Ramakrishnan (TCFS 2005), has announced the official launch of The ASEAN Post (TAP) for the third quarter of 2017, a digital newspaper devoted to covering news from across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region.

In February 2017, Jessica Tan (February Main Intake 2017), daughter of Madam Choong Wai Lan (TCFS 1994), created history by becoming the first offspring of any Foundation Studies alumni to study at Trinity College.

On Wednesday 29 March, 215 North Melbourne Primary School students from years 5 and 6 joined Trinity College’s student-led Global Pathways event on the Bulpadock.

Alex Horton (TC 2012) describes winning two premierships in a row and captaining the Trinity footy team alongside his close mates as the ‘peak of his footy career’. However, it is his leadership in introducing Aussie Rules to a small village in South Sulawesi and growing the sport in the region, which is quickly seeing him emerge as a sporting ambassador across the Asia-Pacific.

The Buddy Program assists new Foundation Studies students with an easy transition to living and studying in Melbourne.

In February, Ãâ·Ñ»ÆÉ«appwelcomed 115 new residential students and their parents to campus. The students come from a wide range of backgrounds and locations: overseas (countries such as China, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa), interstate, regional Victoria and from suburbs throughout Melbourne.

The Trinity Tiger Tones, Trinity College’s premier all-male acapella group, has been entertaining audiences for over a decade and returned from Europe at the beginning of this year. We caught up with outgoing secretary Jack Wright to get his thoughts on their winter European tour.