International House: The early years 1949-56

Sam Dimmick Sam Dimmick was Secretary and President of the Students’ Representative Council. In 1959, when he wrote this article, he was Liaison Officer for Overseas Students. He went on to become the second Warden (Head) of International House. This is an edited version of an article published in Satadal in 1959. Early post war […]


Experiences in international living

Gopal Bhattacharyya Gopal Bhattacharyya arrived in Australia from India in 1956 to study education at the University of Melbourne. He arrived at IH in 1957. This is an edited version of an article he wrote for the first issue of Satadal in 1959. It was January, 1956, the year I arrived in Australia. As I […]


Satadal 1959 – Editorial

This editorial was published in Satadal in 1959. ‘Satadal’ is a Sanskrit word used to suggest unity in diversity, and harmony in multiformity, as symbolized by the lotus, the flower of a hundred petals. In International House, we are attaining this unity, and, in an attempt at embodying this in a permanent form, we publish […]

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