Gallery

Senate and its people: 1931 - 1970

1930s - 1940s

• Above: Sir Robert Wallace, Vice-Chancellor 1928-47, photo G3_224_1268, courtesy University of Sydney Archives.

• Above: Sir Mungo MacCallum (on left), Vice-Chancellor 1924-28, Deputy Chancellor 1928-34 and Chancellor 1934-36, the photo taken in the 1930s, photo, Hood Collection, Mitchell Pictures, State Library of NSW.

• Above: Vice-Chancellor Sir Robert Wallace (centre) and Sir Mungo MacCallum (probably while Chancellor in the 1930s) (right), photo, courtesy University of Sydney Archives.

• Above: John Bradfield (Fellow of Senate 1913-43 and Deputy Chancellor in 1942) (centre) with Professor Edgeworth David (Fellow of Senate 1904-07, 1913-16, 1919-24) (right) on the Sydney Harbour Bridge during its construction in 1931, photo P11_49_2, courtesy University of Sydney Archives.

• Above: After a ceremony held on 23 November 1934, the Mace-bearer (left) leads the academic procession, followed by an unknown officer with His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester on whom the degree of Doctor of Laws ad eundem gradum had been conferred, followed by the Chancellor the Hon Sir William Portus Cullen KCMG, followed by the Vice-Chancellor Sir Robert Wallace, photo, Hood collection, State Library of New South Wales, HA 3547 ... more

• Above: Yeoman Bedell William Barber leading the academic procession, followed by Sir Percival Halse Rogers, Chancellor 1936-41 (left) and Sir Mungo MacCallum (right), c. 1938, photo G3_224_767, courtesy University of Sydney Archives.

• Above: Chancellor Sir Percival Halse Rogers with Lord Nuffield (LLD ad eundem gradum), 21 February 1938, photo, Hood Collection, Mitchell Pictures, State Library of NSW.

• Above: Chancellor Sir Percival Halse Rogers with Lord Nuffield (LLD ad eundem gradum), 21 February 1938, photo, Hood Collection, Mitchell Pictures, State Library of NSW.

• Above: Dame Constance D’Arcy, Fellow of Senate 1919-49 and Deputy Chancellor 1943-46, photo, courtesy University of Sydney Archives.

• Above: Geoffrey Dale, Registrar 1947-50, photo G3_224_375, courtesy University of Sydney Archives.

1950s - 1960s

The University of Sydney began its Centenary celebrations (1950-52) with a Ceremony to commemorate the passage of the Act Incorporating the University which received the Assent of the Governor on 1 October 1850 ... more

Above: Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn, Chancellor 1941-64 (centre) and the Hon Mr Justice E D Roper, Deputy Chancellor 1946-52 (left), greeting the Premier of New South Wales, James McGirr prior to the ceremony on 1 October 1850, Sydney Morning Herald photo, copies held by the University of Sydney Archives.

A Special Senate meeting was held at 3.45pm on Monday 5 February 1951 in the Senate Room at the University of Sydney in celebration of the first Senate meeting held on 3 February 1851 ... more

Above: Seated from left to right are Deputy Chancellor the Hon Mr Justice Roper; His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales Lieutenant-General Sir John Northcott; Chancellor Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn (standing); Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of New South Wales the Hon K W Street; and Sir Stephen Roberts CMG, Vice-Chancellor 1947-67, at the Senate meeting on 5 February 1951, Sydney Morning Herald photo, copies held by the University of Sydney Archives.

The Centenary Oration was delivered at 2.30pm on 28 August 1952 in the Great Hall 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 ... more

Above: His Excellency the Governor-General Sir William McKell and the Chancellor Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn (front), followed by the Hon K W Street and the Deputy Chancellor the Hon Mr Justice Roper, followed by the Vice-Chancellor Sir Steven Roberts CMG, Sydney Morning Herald photo, copies held by the University of Sydney Archives.

Above: A Senate dinner was held for Delegates and Professores Emeriti, in academic dress, at 8.00pm on 28 August 1952 in the Refectory of the University Union as part of the University of Sydney's Centenary celebrations, Sydney Morning Herald photo, copies held by the University of Sydney Archives ... more

A number of honorary degrees were conferred on 29 August 1952 as part of the University's Centenary celebrations ... more

Above: The Deputy Chancellor the Hon Mr Justice E D Roper (left) presenting His Excellency the Right Hon Sir William McKell to the Chancellor Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn for the award of an Hon LLD, Sydney Morning Herald photo, copies held by the University of Sydney Archives.

• Above: On the occasion of the visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to the University of Sydney on 4 February 1954, he is greeted by the Vice-Chancellor Sir Stephen Roberts, photo, courtesy University of Sydney Archives. From left: President of the New South Wales University of Technology Wallace Wurth, His Royal Highness, Deputy Chancellor of the University of Sydney Sir Charles McDonald, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney Sir Stephen Roberts CMG and Vice-President of the New South Wales University of Technology Sir John Clancy KBE CMG ... more.

• Above: Wilson Harold Maze, Registrar 1950-55 and Deputy Principal 1955-73, in 1950, photo, courtesy University of Sydney Archives.

• Above: Margaret Alison Telfer, Registrar 1955-67, photo G3_224_1427, courtesy University of Sydney Archives.

• Above: Greeting Queen Salote of Tonga on the occasion of her visit to the University of Sydney on 24 January 1956: on left, Deputy Chancellor the Hon Sir Victor Windeyer CBE CB DSO ED and Vice-Chancellor Sir Stephen Roberts CMG, and on right Chancellor Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn KCMG OBE, photo, courtesy University of Sydney Archives.

• Above: Academic procession to the Great Hall: The Hon Sir Victor Windeyer, Deputy Chancellor 1954-58, first on left and with him Vice-Chancellor Sir Stephen Roberts CMG at the rear of the procession, followed by the mace-bearer (not in photo), c. 1956, photo G3_224_1219, courtesy University of Sydney Archives.

• Above: Possibly the same academic procession leaving the Great Hall: the mace-bearer leads Chancellor Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn who is followed by Vice-Chancellor Sir Stephen Roberts CMG on the left and Deputy Chancellor the Hon Sir Victor Windeyer on the right, c. 1956, photo G3_224_0877, courtesy University of Sydney Archives.

• Above: Chancellor Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn and the Queen Mother at the opening of the Queen Elizabeth II Research Institute for Mothers and Babies in 1958, photo, courtesy University of Sydney Archives.

• Above: Chancellor Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn, Deputy Chancellor Major-General Ivan Dougherty and Vice-Chancellor Sir Stephen Roberts CMG on the occasion of the visit of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent to the University of Sydney on 14 September 1959, photo, courtesy University of Sydney Archives ... more.

• Above: From left, Deputy Chancellor Major-General Ivan Dougherty, Vice-Chancellor Sir Stephen Roberts CMG, Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent and Chancellor Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn, 14 September 1959, photo, courtesy University of Sydney Archives ... more.

• Above: From left, His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Rev and Rt Hon Arthur Michael Ramsay on the occasion of his visit to the University of Sydney on 12 March 1965, with Chancellor Sir Charles McDonald and Vice-Chancellor Sir Stephen Roberts CMG, photo, courtesy University of Sydney Archives. His Grace gave an address on "Christianity and Humanism" in the Great Hall ... more.

• Above: Vice-Chancellor Sir Stephen Roberts CMG (left), Deputy Principal Harold Maze, the Hon John G Gorton (Minister for Works and Minister-in-Charge of Commonwealth Activities in Education and Research), Chancellor Sir Charles McDonald, unknown officer and Deputy Chancellor the Reverend Bertram Russell Wyllie at the opening of the Merewether Building, 14 June 1966, photo G_224_463, courtesy University of Sydney Archives.

Above: Former Vice-Chancellor Emeritus Professor Sir Stephen Roberts CMG (left) and Chancellor Sir Charles McDonald KCMG KSG (right). The degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) was conferred upon Emeritus Professor Sir Stephen Roberts at a special meeting of the Senate held in the Great Hall on 25 January 1968, photo, courtesy University of Sydney Archives).

• Above: The Senate meeting on 21 August 1967, the final meeting for retiring Vice-Chancellor Sir Stephen Roberts CMG, photo, courtesy University of Sydney Archives. The Chancellor, Sir Charles McDonald, is seated in the centre, and Sir Stephen Roberts is on (our) right.

• Above: Hugh George McCredie, Registrar 1967-72, photo G3_224_1921, courtesy University of Sydney Archives.