Gallery - the Mace
The Mace is the symbol of the authority of Senate. Click here for description and details.
At the Farewell for retiring Vice-Chancellor Professor Gavin Brown, 20 June 2008
Click here for details of the Farewell Ceremony and Address at 6.00pm in the Great Hall, and Cocktail Reception in MacLaurin Hall.
Above: The Mace is carried in front of the Chancellor who is at the rear of the academic procession entering the Great Hall, photo, courtesy Nuran Zorlu.
Above: Views of the Mace on the dais during the ceremony, photos, courtesy Nuran Zorlu.
Above: The staff-bearer, the Mace-bearer and then the Chancellor lead the academic procession from the Great Hall, photos, courtesy Nuran Zorlu.
Other recent images
Above: The academic procession leaving the Great Hall following the official welcome of Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO as the University's 17th Chancellor at a ceremony in the Great Hall on Monday 2 July 2007. The Chancellor is preceded by former Fellow of Senate Mr Bohdan Bilinsky as Mace-bearer, photo, courtesy Ted Sealey.
Some earlier images of the Mace
Above: William Portus Cullen, Chancellor 1914-34, on the far left, the Mace-bearer, and Sir Mungo MacCallum, Vice-Chancellor 1924-28, on the far right, 1920s (Hood Collection, Mitchell Pictures, State Library of NSW).
Above: The Chancellor Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn and the Governor of New South Wales Lieutenant-General Sir John Northcott at the rear of the academic procession, preceded by the Mace-bearer, 6 October 1950. The University of Sydney began its Centenary celebrations with a Ceremony to commemorate the passage of the Act Incorporating the University which received the Assent of the Governor on 1 October 1850. Sydney Morning Herald photo, copies held by the University of Sydney Archives
Above: The Commemoration Oration delivered by the Rt Hon R G Menzies, KC LLM MHR, Prime Minister of Australia, 6 October 1950. Sydney Morning Herald photo, copies held by the University of Sydney Archives
Above: The Chancellor Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn and His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir William McKell at the rear of the academic procession to the Great Hall, 28 August 1952. The Centenary Oration was delivered by The Honourable K W Street, Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of New South Wales. It was followed at 4.00pm by a Garden Party in the Quadrangle for staff, graduates and friends of the University. Sydney Morning Herald photo, copies held by the University of Sydney Archives
Above: The Chancellor and the Governor-General at the head of the academic procession from the Great Hall, preceded by officers carrying the Mace and the Yeoman Bedell's staff, 28 August 1952. Sydney Morning Herald photos, copies held by the University of Sydney Archives
Above: Academic procession leaving the Great Hall c. 1956: the Mace-bearer leads Chancellor Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn who is followed by Vice-Chancellor Sir Stephen Henry Roberts on the left and Deputy Chancellor The Hon Sir Victor Windeyer on the right, c. 1956 (University of Sydney Archives, G3_224_0877).
Above: Dr Patricia Miller carrying the Mace, the first woman to do so, followed by Deputy Chancellor The Hon Mr Justice David Mayer Selby and Vice-Chancellor Professor John Ward, 1982, photo, University Archives.
Above: Associate Professor Margaret Sabine carrying the Mace; Sir Hermann Black, Chancellor; Professor John Ward, Vice-Chancellor, et al, Open Day 1988, photo, University Archives, G77_1_2184.
