Tuesday, 12 December 2017

Scotch 82/Scotch College Class of 1982 Wraps 2017

Scotch 82/SCC of 1982 Equal Chief Editors Report


OSCA Continue to Further Utilize Social Media in 2017


Good stuff "Big Doug" and Team!

This years Old Scotch Collegians' Association​ activities, especially in the area of Young Old Boys/Young Alumni's having an affect on Social Networking, is worth highlighting.

"Big" Doug Lording's approach, of bringing some Analytics to the fore, during his time as OSCA President in OSCA's Annual Reports (http://oscanet.com.au/#annualreports), helps us all when thinking about how our Scotch Family can best offer Friendship, Care and Support, looking to the future.

OSCA's Social Media Strategic Planning has thus been incorporated successfully into their Overall Strategic Planning Thinking! Praise God!

Our Year has spent considerable time thinking about and using OSCA "Alumni Relations" Life Transition's Virtual Campfire idea, as well as face to face opportunities with a once a year BBQ/Campfire event, to add our own flavour of further utilizing Social Media !

 

Scotch 82 Analytics: "Coming in 2018!"



Our decision to produce our Scotch 82 Guidelines follows OSCA's gradual release of their Social Media Strategic Plan (see OSCA Annual Reports), which includes their 2016 "TRUST" Principle (see our Scotch 82/SCC of 1982 Wraps 2016 blog, link below) for Year Groups to develop their own winning Social Media website/page, like our 2 Milestone Strong Scotch 82 facebook page.

Our Scotch 82 Reformat has been taking shape in 2017, and we will be moving into a phase of "Scotch 82 Analytics" in 2018, which will help further develop and refine our Posts that reflect what is suited to our website/page, contrasted/compared with the Old Scotch Collegians' Association facebook page and OSCA related Clubs and Activities Social Media, and websites, facebook pages, etc, too! 

Scotch 82/SCC of 1982 Wraps 2016

Scotch 82 Wraps 2015

Scotch 82 Wraps 2014

Scotch 82 Wraps 2013

Scotch 82 Wraps 2012

2017 "Fun Raiser" Analytic!

Out of 61 classmates MIA, we've reconnected 30 of us using Social Media based Support, Friendship and Care (click on the Scotch 82 Post link in the Caption below)!

Scotch 82's fun raising is about every classmate being enabled to get along to our 40 Year Reunion, 
in 2022, and "more the merrier" makes for greater Reunion fun right!?

https://www.facebook.com/Scotch1982/photos/a.229404723857570.55879.143768379087872/973530639444971/?type=3&theater

Scotch 82/Scotch College Class of 1982 Remains Debt Free!

Post on our Scotch 82 facebook page at the End of the Financial Year 2016-17...


 

Scotch 82 Reformat!


The "Scotch 82 Reformat" of our facebook page has continued this year with implementing Scotch 82 Guidelines, and they provide an excellent guide to how to think about what we are capable of achieving with an effective use of Social Media to Honour each of our Classmates, OSCA, and our Scotch Family, as a whole.

The KISS Principle, or Keeping It Simple Stupid, has been discussed and this was an invaluable lesson us Scotchies learned in Cadets, and a principle also used in Scotch Scouts and Venturers, I'm lead to believe!

Scotch 82 Guideline "Leave No Man Behind!!"...

On our Transitional Scotch College Class of 1982 facebook page, "Inclusiveness", "Equality" & "Honour One, Honour All" came together in our thinking and reflections on what it means to be on a Social Media Adventure Together, as we head towards our next 10 Reunion, in 2022.
Furthermore, it could be argued, this is also what Scotch Collegians learn about the Australian Bush Ethos which was courageously displayed on the fields of Gallipoli, during WWI, and characterizes what Great Australians have always felt in their hearts.
We Australians like to think of ourselves as Equals, therefore may we, as a year, always remember to leave no man behind!


Scotch 82 Guidelines -> https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.760134317451272.1073741838.143768379087872&type=1&l=5f1101354d


* YOUR CHANCE TO REVIEW/CHANGE WHAT WE ARE ABOUT *

So here is another CHANCE TO CHANGE/REVIEW WHAT WE ARE ABOUT as part of our "Scotch 82 Reformat"!
You will need a Proposer and Seconder to change what our Scotch 82 facebook website/page format is about, which will be reflected on our Scotch 82 Wall, and in particular starting with the About Section!
If there are no Objections or Amendments to your Proposal, then you will have helped Reformat our Scotch 82 facebook page, and have made a significant difference between now and 2022!

No such thing as a stupid question

In many cases multiple people may not know but are too afraid to ask the "stupid question"; the one who asks the question may in fact be doing a service to those around them.  more from wikipedia ->   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_such_thing_as_a_stupid_question


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Scotch 82 Q&A (blog) Link in our facebook album: "Scotch 82 Support"!

Every now and then I get asked by one of our Classmates something along the lines: "What are we trying to do? What is it we want to achieve? How are we helping our Classmates?"



Check it out to see what you think -> scotch82qandabloglink.blogspot.com

Will we continue to help those struggling to make contact with Scotch and/or OSCA with a Scotch82blogs reference Link appearing in our Scotch 82 facebook album "Scotch 82 Support", which will be specifically about: "Full Disclosure Questions & Answers".   

You can let me (Mick Arnott) know what you think, and if you have any objections, then please   contact me using facebook messages, or via email if you like: Scotch82blogs@gmail.com  

Please also consider talking with Mike Poynter, our OSCA Rep, about your OSCA related Questions!

Scotch College Class of 1982 (Unsuccessfully Proposed) facebook page
vs Scotch 82 facebook page "Likes Cup"!


Currently, Scotch 82 is ahead in our facebook page name "Likes Cup"!

If you have a better way to settle which facebook page name our Classmates like the most, then please let me know, otherwise  unless at the end of 2018 our Unsuccessfully Proposed facebook page "Scotch College Class of 1982" has advanced ahead with the most Likes from our Classmates, and if their are no objections from all of us Equal Chief Editors, then the competition will be settled with us continuing through until our next 10 Year Reunion, in 2022, with the facebook page/site name "Scotch 82".

During 2016 and 2017 all Equal Chief Editors/Classmates have been called to Propose and/or Second a Merge between our Two facebook pages.  At this stage there has been no Merger Proposals, and therefore we have continued with our 2017 Scotch 82 Re-Format (see our Scotch 82/SCC of 1982 Wraps 2016 -> http://scotch82scco1982wraps2016.blogspot.com.au/).

Who Do We Like On Our Scotch 82 facebook Page?

 Our Year is very fortunate to be able to Partner with the following facebook pages, and receive their Support too!


 


You Can Do It!

Classmates who have a Business facebook page are able to become (temporary) members of our Scotch 82 Active Admins for the purpose of posting about their Business on our Scotch 82 Wall (which is currently our Scotch 82 Businesses Temporary Landing page).

Your Post to "Scotch 82" may include a link to your Business website, a Review of what Services your Business offers, deals or discounts for our Scotch Family, etc.

As a Valued Member of our Scotch 82 Businesses Group (see Cameron Cantley-Smith for Membership details), please go ahead and Like your facebook page as "Scotch 82", whilst you are there Posting!

Name, Cover Photo, Album/Theme Format, Guidelines, Inclusive, Care & Honouring of Equal Classmates!

Sounds like Our Milestone Three is almost here, as we look ahead to 2018!


facebook Owns Instagram!

Did you know facebook owns instagram?
Finding the right Social Media fit for your Business may depend on who you are Marketing too, and what message you'd like to send...
This brief article highlights some of the differences (and similarities) between facebook and instagram (click the image's link below to see article).
OSCAnet.com.au has features for Alumni and Community (which of course comes at a fee), and I'd be interested to hear our Classmate's experiences with this platform!
Primarily, our years Social Media fit is aimed at helping every Classmate to Reconnect, Reconcile, and Reunite, allowing for Proposals and Equal Admin opportunities, via networking!
My primary aim has been to help develop a Social Media framework for those in our who are struggling to get along to 10 Reunions, and make it to the "The Big One" in 2022!
In 2018 I will endeavor to look a bit deeper into the opportunities instagram offers our year.

yours sincerely,
Michael Arnott
Equal Chief Editor
Equal Admin
Equal Classmate
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WELCOME!



That was 2017, can you believe it!

It's also 35 years since HSC, can you believe that??

Welcome to our Yearly Wrap Up, and we've had heaps of discussions, as well as a "Selfie With A Difference Challenge" during 2017 too.

We also had our Inclusive Invitation-Only Get-together again this year, and so there is lots to look at  within our "Scotch College Class of 1982/Scotch 82 Wraps 2017" blog!

With an eye on Social Media, we're endeavoring to reach as many of our Classmates in combination with the OSCAnet webiste, and OSCA's Social Media Feeds.

The Social Media Portfolio is now officially apart of "OSCA Communications", which has been Jack Auld's responsibility until recently, and we congratulate Jack on his Marriage to Lauren this year, in the Littlejohn Memorial Chapel.  Jack and Lauren are heading off to the USA to live, and we wish them well in their new life together!

So, "Auld Scotchie" was keeping a keen but loving eye on OSCA's facebook and other sites, and this will now become Andrew Coates pleasure as the new OSCA Communications Councilor.  Congratulations Andrew, and Scotch 82 looks forward to your input.



I'd like to also add a special thank-you to our Scotch 82 Active Admins for helping with checking out the Draft Copy of this Years Wrap.




Welcome, and I hope you enjoy our End of Year Wrap Up!  
Mick Arnott
Equal



SCOTCH 82 REUNION VISION 2022 A.D & SOCIAL MEDIA.




Did you know Scotch College is planning and building a Futuristic Looking Design & Technology Cube to be assimilated by the Scotch Family Neural Network?
OSCA have updated our Scotch Alumni OSCAnet.com.au website, and since we created our Scotch 82 Social Media albums, Old Boys from all Year Groups are similarly updating their Member details using the NEW Member Social Media Networking drop down menu!


We have significant room open for us to continue to develop our own Scotch 82 Social Media Strategic Plan that is a fit to the larger picture OSCA paints strategically, in their Annual Reports ->  http://oscanet.com.au/#annualreports  (If your reading this OSCA, the 2015-16 link needs adjusting!)
We will do our best to display what our Social Media Strategic Plan in action looks like in our Scotch 82 End of Year Wraps, and with everyone's creative input, we will keep kicking goals using Social Media all the way to our 40 Year Reunion (and beyond)...




 40 YEAR REUNION NEWS - LOCATION WISE! 

Boykett (function) Room is inside "The Cardinal Club Pavilion"!


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Our Classmates are living all over the globe! 
Perhaps, we might like to have a live Social Media feed within our 40 Year Reunion, which we could perhaps practice at our BBQ/Campfire Night in 2018, 2019, 2020, and/or 2021??

Please take a glimpse into the future and see how you would like our Social Media Experience to be further planned, built, and/or tactically implemented, so that we continue to support everyone to get-together in 2022.
I'm looking forward to seeing if our Sci-Fi Creatives come up with a Holographic way of our lads getting-together!  Hahahaha!
Thank-you Gentlemen Classmates for helping to make our Equal Admin approach work, and we are all free to share ideas and visions to our Scotch 82 Wall, or please try #Scotch82 at anytime you may feel inspired!  Please don't be shy!
 

  STRIKING A CHORD WITH THE SCOTCH FAMILY! 

Q.  What's Sounds So Different About this Post?

A.  It Struck A Chord With A Unusually High Audience!

At the time of writing, our Scotch 82 Post below reached 819 people...



This Post genre below also had an unusually wide number of people paying attention, and given it perhaps falls within our wider Scotch Family's interests, we include it in this year's Wrap Analytics!


Noticed anything different about The Scotch Family Magazine "Great Scot" Recently?


It's great to think of an educational broadcast as being more like conversation, in the life of a Gen Z Scotch Student...
I've found Durga's Editorials to be a wonderful reflection on the life and times facing current Scotch Students!
It's extremely helpful, I believe, to have an Old Boys Magazine prefaced with a wide audience insight Durga gives into the glossy pages of the 1971 OSCA initiated circulation.
Absolute zero journalism creds come with my view, and the highly readable Great Scot Editorial (click link below) most certainly doesn't need any appeal to readership from me. But having said that...
The Scotch Cube (enterprise) is coming alive!  (Will it be Assimilated by the Scotch Virtual Neural-Network?)
Durga Kamte is bringing an excellent Editorial to our Scotch Family Magazine, imho!
 

MOST LIKED 2017 SCOTCH 82 POSTS!

Each year we have been featuring our Most Liked Post on our Scotch 82 facebook page.  Yearly Wraps provide an important Analytic that helps with learning what Post genres are of most interest, and also helps provide some feedback to OSCA about what is relevant for OSCA Social Media too! 


Coming in a very close second to the Hooper Family Photo above, we have Andrew Evans and (Fancee?) Best-Girl Kari Hummer, or as they confectionately like to be known, "Kandy", and their children!


Special Selfie With a Difference Mention!

Our Scotch 82 "Selfies With a Difference" entrants in 2017 have been extremely well received, and we'd like to thank Scotch 82's Michael Jones & Ian C. Mckenzie for providing the inspiration early on in the year from Time Square, NYC!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1639748429663211&set=a.1509811679323554.1073741831.100008842091139&type=3&theater

*** MORE SWAD WINNERS TOWARDS WRAPS END ***


SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS & MENTAL HEALTH ARE WINNERS!

Q.  What Does Old Scotch FC and Richmon FC Have in Common?

A. Both Clubs Partake In Mental Health First Aid Training!

Congratulations to the Old Scotch FC on being Runners Up in 2017 to Old Brighton 
Grammarians, and to the Richmond FC on winning the AFL 2017 Grand Final!
Well done also to Old Scotch FC on moving up into the VAFA Premier A Competition in 2018!


https://mhfa.com.au/news/2017-08-09/34483/mhfa-victorian-amateur-football-association
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2017-03-15/tigers-conduct-mental-health-first-aid-training

The Scotch 82 Richmond FC Cheer-squad!






SCOTCH 82 SOCIAL MEDIA COURTESY!

For the first time this year, OSCA have decided to 'unpublish' (or perhaps tidy up) posts on their Old Scotch Collegians' Association facebook page.

We also tidy up our posts on our facebook page as a new Milestone is reached, so that Classmates' post preferences are better reflected on our website/page, moving forward!

As a courtesy, to best reflect our year's Social Media interests, we now give OSCA a 6 weeks "NOTICE OF DELETION" before removing a Post from their facebook page!

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Scotch 82 Social Media Housekeeping Courtesy!

SCOTCH 82 SOCIAL CLASS (SECRET) GROUP ARCHIVED

Thank-you to those Scotch 82 Social Class Group members who participated in transferring across to our Scotch 82 Friendship Group (Please contact Andy Evans for membership details)!
Scotch 82 Social Class Group was Created in August 2014...

"What's the difference between Arching and Deleting a Group I hear you ask?"

There has been a number of suggestion from Classmates about different Group ideas, and since 2012 we have helped everyone with Social Media website/page/group ideas put these into a format that is familiar to our School Leaders at the General House Committee, during our HSC Year in 1982.

Thanks everyone for helping keep our Scotch 82 Group Initiatives Classmate driven with an Inclusive approach for all our Classmates who have expressed an interest in our lads Reconnecting, as we head towards our next 10 Year Reunion, in 2022!  



2017 BBQ GET-TOGETHER AT THE BITTERN RANCH!

Andrew Evans, Bruce Roscrow, Cameron Cantley-Smith, and Mark Learner have pulled together to Support and Care for those attending our face to face BBQ/Campfire get-togethers, at Andy Evans' Property, #TheBitternRanch, on the glorious evening of Saturday 14th of October, 2017!!  

Comments below, from Bruce Roscrow's Byte about the Evening, pretty much sums up the Fantastic effort Andy Evans and Team - Bruce, Cameron Cantley-Smith & Mark Learner - put in to make our "2017 BBQ" a Friendly and Inclusive occasion for all Scotch 82 lads.

Thank-you once again Gentlemen, as it takes a team effort to make Scotch 82 Get-togethers awesome!

Shared From #Scotch82!

Bruce Roscrow took this great photo of Andy Evans Property (#TheBitternRanch) during set-up, just prior to our Scotch 82 "2017 BBQ"!  Nice one Bruce!!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=800525830120320&set=a.116378781868365.19624.100004887314286&type=3&theater


Our OSCA (Honourary) Chaplain, Graham Bradbeer, Cares!

We said a big "THANK-YOU" to Graham on our Scotch 82 Wall for his help with considering the (Pastoral) Care aspects of our "2017 BBQ" and future Get-togethers!  Your prayers for our year are very much appreciated too Padre!

 

We're Looking Forward to 2018!

Quick note to let everyone know that our Scotch 82 BBQ/Campfire Committee(?) have felt motivated to look ahead to next year!
God bless you heaps Gentlemen (Andy, Bruce, Cam, Mark) for all your great teamwork and leadership!
image credit: Cameron Cantley-Smith "Getting Better" -> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1668953323179787&set=p.1668953323179787&type=3&theater



GOT AN IDEA FOR AN OSCA CLUB OR SCOTCH 82 GET TOGETHER?

Consider making a suggestion to OSCA or make a comment on their Social Media pages!  There's a variety of ways to Contact "CLUBS" listed on the Old Scotch Collegians Website ->   http://oscanet.com.au/

You can also message Scotch 82 on our facebook page for help with your idea(s) ->   https://www.facebook.com/Scotch1982



SCOTCH 82 FACEBOOK WEBSITE/PAGE "POOL ROOM" MOMENT!

Our "Scotch 82 Reformat" featured highly on our facebook page during 2017, and now the year is over it's become a Straight to The Pool Room moment!  

The Reformat 2017 Objective came about from lessons learned on our Transitional "Scotch College Class of 1982" facebook page as well as our Two Milestones strong Scotch 82 facebook page.  

Following our 30 Year Reunion, in 2012, Scotch 82 Social Media has been striving to help our year Reconnect, Reconcile, and Reunite.


Hoorah for Us!!



NEW ALBUM FOR SCOTCH 82!

Looking ahead to 2018, I, Michael Arnott, Propose a New Album for our Scotch 82 facebook page called: "Scotch 82/OSCA Synergy", which will contain Posts (and/or Important Messages) between our Year and OSCA for the Purposes of  Recording ongoing Synergistic Social Media Communications.



HONOUR ONE & HONOUR ALL!

So you were probably thinking: "Where's all the other Selfie With a Difference Winners?" :D 

Family Feasting Photo Winner Evan Thornely! 


Cheesy Grins Couple Winners Chris Warren-Smith & Diana Brown!

(Photo Bomb Comment Winner to Bruce Roscrow!)

Co-Winner of Best Costume(s) Bruce and Kerry Roscrow!


Biggest Fiji Fish Catch Winner to Cameron Cantley-Smith!


Duncan Hardie and Lisa Handley Alpine Skiing Photo Winners!

Robert and Teagan Kirsopp Winners Father/Daughter AFL Beanie!


Marriage Celebrant in Vineyard Winner Stocky, on Instagram!


Grand Final Coach Winner Hamish Bayston!


Trying to Look Warm in Melbourne Winners George and Jacqueline Nagy! 


Photo Bombed by Son Named Kai Winner Paul Russel (on left)!

RIP PRINCIPAL PHILIP ANTHONY VERE ROFF

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35 YEARS ON - SCHOOL LEADERS OF 1982!

Most of our 1982 School Leaders are now using Social Media to keep in contact with our Classmates, and the medium is continuing to prove itself to be a valuable (Pastoral) Care assist for our year's Reconnect, Reconcile, and Reunite approach, as we head towards "The Big One", in 2022!

Philip Roff encouraged the Scotch Family to communicate in a way that promoted Student/Teacher dialogue, Inter-House & Intra-House chats and formal occasions between lads, as well as encouraging the Staff Room to also be a Committee Workspace; all with similar dynamic changeability.

Philips approach to Learning has proven itself to be valuable right across Australian Society, where class distinctions are now almost a thing of the past, or at least totally unrecognizable, compared to when we became Young Alumni (Young Old BoyS)!

Thanks Mark Learner for this Wonderful Memory, Posted to Scotch 82.



OSCA Life Transitions & Scotch 82 Groups!

It's a part of our current Scotch 82 Support approach to include updates on how OSCA are providing Services to our Year, and the Scotch Family.

OSCA and OSCA's Life Transitions Team, have encouraged our Campfire & BBQ Nights, and I have had the great Honour of staying in touch with Andrew Wilson, as my OSCA Mentor.  

I also consider it a further great Honour that our year is in contact with our OSCA (Honourary) Chaplain, Graham Bradbeer (linkedIn picture below), who has been an invaluable Pastoral support to me as a Christian, and to our Year as our go to person for Prayer and Chaplaincy related issues.


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Many of us will be in the cinema this Summer connecting with George Lucas' Star Wars and The Force's Mythological Hollywood presence in our lives, since our school days.

Graham wrote a great Star Wars wrap, 5 years ago in Great Scott, during his time as the Scotch College Chaplain.  Graham also throws in a bit of Tolkien (Lord of the Rings) and Lewis' (Chronicles of Narnia) for good measure, when thinking about the Hebrew Creator, in Scripture ->  https://www.scotch.vic.edu.au/greatscot/2013janGS/08.htm


The OSCA Life Transitions Objective is recorded in the 2012-2013 OSCA Annual Report: "The objective is to provide a whole-of-life Scotch community based on Old Boys giving and receiving personal support and friendship."



Scotch 82 Active Admins (Secret) Group!

(Group Proposed and Seconded by Michael Arnott & Mark Learner)

Not just a forum for Brain-storming and Discussion.

Coming up with Ideas, Thinking them through, Planning their Implementation, and Applying the Lessons learned through the whole process of Our Year's Social Media Page and Group Development, requires the combined Brain Power of Committed Classmates, as well as Listening to those Who Use and Benefit from our Social Media Adventure together, that commenced shortly after our 30 Year Reunion, in 2012.

Furthermore, Overseeing and Organizing a Reformat of our Scotch 82 facebook page is no easy task.  I'd like to Honour and Thank our Scotch 82 Active Admins, who have offered invaluable Moral Support and Input again this year during what potentially may have been a difficult and lonely task at times.

In addition to our Scotch 82 Active Admins (Secret) Group, that is linked to our Scotch 82 website/page, our Scotch College Class of 1982 (Secret) Group provides similar behind the scenes assistance for our Transition facebook page "Scotch College Melbourne Class of 1982".  Mike Poynter and Jim Glaspole are members of this group, along with our Scotch 82 Active Admins.  

Our Scotch College Class of 1982 (Secret) Group, remains a Proposed Group for the time being, but Proposed Groups, that don't receive a Seconder are proving to be Transitional in nature, as has been our Scotch College Melbourne Class of 1982 page.




Scotch 82 Friendship (Secret) Group Support!


(Group Proposed and Seconded by Andrew Evans & Jim Glaspole)



Virtual and face to face Campfires help with Reconnecting, Reconciling, and Remaining in touch, in the lead up to Reuniting as a Year every 10 Years.

Admin Management and Leadership of our Scotch 82 Friendship Group requires heart and soul, and a lot of thought about what is best for our year as whole, if we desire to be mindful of our Lads (Mental) Health and Fitness.  So who is best qualified to Care and Support for Year Groups, 
within the Scotch Family?

This is an ongoing important question being considered in conjunction with OSCA Collegians and OSCA "Alumni Relations" Life Transitions Team, who evolved from within our Old Scotch Collegians' Association (Pastoral) Care and Support platform, as articulated in OSCA's Articles of Association.  

Social Media, and in particular facebook Groups, like our Scotch 82 Friendship (Secret) Group, provide Year Groups with the ability to come together around what is relevant and of greatest importance to an individual Year.  



OSCA's Andrew Wilson (circled above), Andrew Evans, and Jim Glaspole helped to establish our Scotch 82 Friendship Group as a Virtual Campfire, where our lads have done a fantastic job at sharing their lives with each other!

For some of us it is an extremely difficult and challenging time to face the hurt they suffered as Students, (especially that which has been buried for decades), and they need applauding for the gift they are giving the Scotch Family by sharing!

These Classmates are the most courageous of all us lads, and to Reconcile with Scotch College, and receive an Apology, after all these years, is a testimony to their character!  Thank-you Men!

Andrew Evans and Jim Glaspole have faced very challenging times as our Scotch 82 Support team, and they have not bulked at hearing and supporting our lads, to the best of their ability.

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Andrew and Jim are both very capable of remaining in touch with our Classmates Virtual Campfire needs, and helping OSCA Collegians with any feedback that may be needed to assist the Life Transitions Team. 

I can now safely say that I have had no more reports or requests for Support from those who were abused during our time as Students.

Furthermore, I have had a bit of a health scare during the year, and  more recently have had to reconsider use of my Time as to how much I can contribute to the helping out in an Admin Capacity.

Subsequently, I see no real need for me to return to a Management/Leadership position in this group during 2018, but leave Jim and Andrew to continue with the good work!


Scotch 82 Businesses (Secret) Group!

(Group Proposed and Seconded by David Klinger & Cameron Cantley-Smith)



Scotch 82 Businesses (Secret) Group Welcomes Cameron Cantley-Smith to an Admin position!!

Cameron will be acting in the capacity of our Membership Admin, and is very happy to receive Membership inquiries to join in with our Scotch 82 Business opportunities discussions.

When next chatting with Cameron, please take the opportunity to congratulate and thank him for taking up this recently created role! 

Scotch 82 Business lads have a tremendous amount of combined Business experience, and within our year we have Professionals representing Industries in Australian and International arenas.

Our Scotch 82 linkedIn Album can provide you with a great cross-sectional overview of what our year is doing in Business, and who has taken on what challenges, since our Scotch College Student days...  

Scotch 82 Support (Honourary) Role!


 I feel extremely honoured by George Nagy's Scotch 82 Support Nomination, so I thank-him from the bottom of my heart; as I am deeply touched that he'd recognize me as playing an important (Honourary) Support role.

 Perhaps I don't always talk about it until the end of each year, but in the different functions I have the privilege to perform, on behalf of our year using Social Media, I very much enjoy the opportunity to identify the needs of, and be of service to, others in our year. 

"To serve", to me, means that I have been given the opportunity to do my utmost to encourage and empower members of our year to explore their Scotch Family gifting, as perhaps we had the equal opportunity to do during our time at Scotch College as Students? 

Helping Classmates explore the different roles and functions available for getting involved with our facebook website/page, and in our groups, and other platforms, is something that first and foremost puts me in touch with more and more of our Classmates, on a regular basis. 

I believe it's a win for me, a win for our year, a win for OSCA, and a win for the Scotch Family on the whole, if we keep offering each other Support, Friendship, and Care. Fortunately, we are seeing more and more classmates feeling they are able to help others, and I think we like to contribute because there are opportunities to do what we feel we can, when we are able, and with as sense of joy and achievement, when we do. 

For me to keep track of all this positive activity, I feel I need to maintain a broad focus, and in doing so I am able to keep in touch with as many Classmates as possible, and thereby perhaps provide assistance to our year and to OSCA, even if their OSCA's Representative and Reunion Committee Roles don't clearly help to define what we can do, presently. 

OSCA seemed to be putting so many changes into place, following increasing the avenues of communication they are wanting to provide to roughly 18500 Old Boys, and by increasing communication opportunities, it seems they feel they are empowering us to keep in touch with one another more easily.  Social Media is an area through which our year is providing a considerable amount of feedback to OSCA, as are OSCA Clubs and Activities, who are using Social Media as well. 

Our Scotch 82 (Honourary) Support Role is undefined, and perhaps needs to stay that way for now, as our year draws closer into the growing Support being offered by our OSCA (Honourary) Chaplain, OSCA Collegians, OSCA/Scotch College Counselor, our Scotch 82 Virtual Campfire/Friendship Group/Active Admins/Bussinesses, Scotch 82 Annual Get-tegether,  OSCA Clubs and Activities, and OSCA's Scotch Family Branches, etc.

I therefore look forward to being a part of this broadening Support, Friendship, and (Pastoral) Care approach in 2018, and I trust those participating in our Scotch 82 (Honourary) Support Capacity will continue to do a marvelous job in welcoming others into our Scotch 82 Social Media fold. 

Thank-you Scotch 82 Lads, once again, for the Trust placed in me in 2017, as I feel it is truly a very great Honour and Privilege to be counted as an Equal with all our Classmates, and to serve you and the greater Scotch Family, along with our Year's Social Media Initiatives!

Richard Gorringe's Christmas Funny!



Jesus the Christ at the Centre of Christmas!

The greatest gift I have received in life has been the Gift of Salvation, not because of any Good Works I've done, a Scotch College Education, or because I believe a Human Achievement of reaching a level of Eternal Self-Enlightenment is possible!  

The Bible simple says it, I believe, and that's what I put my faith in! 



Please let me pray: "Father God, thank-you we can put our faith in you!  Thank-you God that you've never failed us yet!  Father we pray for our Scotch Family, Old Scotch Collegians Association, and Scotch College Melbourne.  Thank-you Father that we have Social Media as way of helping us keep in touch, as we head towards our next 10 Year Reunion, in 2022. 

Father please be with all us, the Scotch Family, over the Festive Season, and keep us safe, and please help us to be refreshed for 2018, over the holidays, by the power of your Holy Spirit.  Father, bless the Scotch College Melbourne Class of 1982, so we can be a blessing to others!! Thank-you Lord for the opportunity to celebrate the joy of your birth, and Happy Birthday to you our Wonderful and Majestic Saviour!!  All the Glory, Honour & Power belongs to you God!  In your Glorious name Jesus, Amen!"

Traditional Grotto Location for Jesus Manger, marked with a silver inlaid star in the Church of The Nativity, Bethlehem, Central West Bank, South of Jerusalem.

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Look forward to more of our Adventure in 2018!

Mick  

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