Caitlin Stone
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The Samuel Wadham Wing: ‘A microcosm of the world’
The second purpose-built accommodation wing at International House, ‘Wadham’, opened in 1963. Planning for Wadham had begun in earnest in 1960, when International House launched an appeal to raise money for a new building. The goal was to raise £250,000 (equivalent to more than 7.5 million dollars in 2020 1) to construct accommodation for an […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2021/03/22/the-samuel-wadham-wing
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When did female residents arrive at IH?
The first residents of IH were all male. So when did female residents arrive? In April 1953, the University Council agreed that IH should “eventually” have a building for women (Larkins, 2018, 9). According to Norman Harper, a member of the International House Committee in the 1950s, it was felt that there was a more […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2020/10/25/when-did-female-residents-arrive-at-ih
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Can I leave a message?
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 […] -
What happened to the squash court?
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 […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2020/10/10/what-happened-to-the-squash-court
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1959: The President reports
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 […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2020/09/21/1959-the-president-reports
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