For two decades Ormondians built tricycles and competed in a 100km intercollegiate trike race.
1960s Stories
I shot a golf ball in the air
When in 1961 a group of friends instigated golf tournament, they had little idea it would continue annually for half a century.
Woodside Standard Time
John Woodside was recently awarded the Medal of the Order Australia for services to Engineering. Here he recalls his role in the construction of the Ormond Ski Club.
All the crackpots do philosophy
I commenced residence in Ormond in 1966, just as the waves of baby boomers began to hit the tertiary education system, to alter it irrevocably. These are extracts from diaries and letters from my early weeks at College.
Bart Kruytbosch
The story of the Bart Kruytbosch Memorial, the sculpture and stone seat on Picken Lawn.
Becoming a ‘theolog’
I found myself walking through the College gates of for the first time. Somewhat awed by the building and its surrounds, I walked past Allen House and up the sweeping drive to enter the majestic building.
The Triggle
Between 1937 and 1973, the ‘triggle’ was an after-dinner walk taken by students of Ormond and University Women’s College.