Telephones have long been an important part of life at IH allowing contact with family and friends overseas or interstate. But using or even finding a phone wasn’t always easy. Before mobile phones, telephones tended to be chunky, heavy and often affixed to a wall; in other words, immobile. The first IHers had access to […]
Now demolished, the International House squash court was on the site now occupied by the Multi-Purpose Study Room. Funding for the court was provided by the Sunshine Foundation (a charitable foundation established by the family of the industrialist H. V. McKay) and Dame Hilda Stevenson (H. V. McKay’s daughter and the foundation’s chair). The court […]
R. J. Seddon This is an edited version of a report published in Satadal in 1959. At the official opening of International House on 24th May, 1958, the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr Menzies, said, ‘The answer to the problems of the world is personal friendship between the people of all nations’; and this is […]
As we look forward to the 2020 Satadal, in this History Mystery we look back at its very first issue. The first Satadal was produced in 1959. Editors Andrew Deacon and Bill Holder explained its title and aims: ‘Satadal’ is a Sanskrit word used to suggest unity in diversity, and harmony in multiformity, as symbolized […]
Microbiologist Mavis Jackson (1913–2000) was a key figure in fundraising for International House and a chair of the International House Council. She was born in India and moved to Melbourne to attend boarding school. In 1935, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne (Kilpatrick, 2000). In the early 1950s, Mavis […]
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