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Alumni Event
Save
the date
Sydney and
Melbourne!
March 2024
Alumni in Melbourne and Sydney are
invited to join senior leaders from the
University for a cocktail receptions in 2024.
Please save the date for your chance to join
the celebrations for the University’s 150th
anniversary, share a drink and reconnect
with your fellow alumni and University
community.
Sydney - Tuesday 19 March 2024
Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
Melbourne - Wednesday 20 March 2024
Jardin Tan, Royal Botanic Gardens,
Victoria, Melbourne
To be the first to hear when registration
opens for these and other events, be sure
to update your details by scanning the QR
code or visit the website: adelaide.edu.au/
alumni/get-involved/update-your-details
Waite 100
Saturday 4 May 2024
There’s a lot to celebrate next year.
Not only is the University of Adelaide
celebrating its 150th anniversary – our
magnificent Waite campus will also be
celebrating a huge milestone, the 100th
anniversary of the Waite Gift.
In 1923, after the death of Peter and
Matilda Waite, Urrbrae house and 300 acres
of accompanying land was gifted to the
University of Adelaide by their daughters,
Lily and Eva Waite.
The purpose was “to advance the cause of
education and more especially to promote
the teaching and study of agriculture and
forestry and allied subjects”.
In the time since the Waite Gift, those wishes
have been fulfilled and the University of
Adelaide’s Waite campus has become home
to one of the largest concentrations of
agricultural and wine research and teaching
expertise in the southern hemisphere.
Hay baling, Waite campus 1940s
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the
Waite Gift, the University of Adelaide will be
inviting guests to a once-in-a-lifetime blacktie cocktail event.
Waite 100 will feature an elegantly curated
menu which celebrates the work of alumni
in the world of food and wine, and includes
the outstanding contributions to agriculture,
food and wine made by the Waite campus.
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