Month: August 2018

You believed me And our love is in a time capsule Let’s dig it up Matthew Sweet, ‘Time Capsule’, 1993 There’s a future in my life I can’t foresee One Direction, “Ready to Run”, 2014 ___________________________ Is it possible that a boy band is linked to our college history? Or, perhaps more accurately, a possible […]

Eleanor Clapham (Class of 2001) is the creator of Cheeky Tunes. Weekend notes report that Cheeky Tunes is “an incredibly fun interactive song and dance show for kids. Kids can be a monkey tumbling through the jungle or a super hero powering through the skies. They beat on drums to the rhythm of the songs. Craft boxes […]

There are very few places on the planet you would find something quite like the Dirrum Festival: a student-led conference, now in its sixth year, featuring some inspirational and often high-profile speakers, gathering from places as near as the Radford quadrangle to as far as a Southern Somalian prison. As 2018 Committee member, Annie Creer, […]

Dr Liana Leach (Class of 1998) from ANU Research School of Population Health says that the biggest childcare problem we face cannot be solved by women.  She says there needs to be dedicated leave provisions for partners. Dr Leach says we need to change the culture of what we mean when we talk about parenting. […]

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.  Maya Angelou  He definitely gave me my love of literature. Nerida Dyne (Class of 1991)   Many of us are reminded, later in life, of inspirational teachers and mentors from […]

  This H for History article is dedicated with respect to all the Canteen staff who have quite literally served the Radford Community over the decades.  For me, the chunion was a beacon of light in a cold and dreary winter’s day. My mouth would start watering in Period 1 and I was always anxious […]

It was a unique scenario on the 19th Gamilaraay trip (G19) in December 2017: one of the staff members, Suzanne Goddard, participating on her first trip north, has a daughter who participated in G1 in 2011. Since then, over 400 students and 21 staff have undertaken the journey, to learn more about themselves, their country […]