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Letters
to the
Editor
Contest entries
We invited readers of our Autumn
issue of Lumen to enter a special 150th
University celebration competition by
telling us about important relationships
they formed during their time at Uni.
Prizes were special commemorative
wines, whisky and glasses.
Here we present some excerpts
from the many warm and
delightful responses we
received, and name the winners.
There’s a new contest this time too
– your chance to win one of the Peter
Drew posters featured in this issue.
Details page 31.
Have your say! Letters to the
Editor are most welcome –
email lumen@adelaide.edu.au
Lumen is your magazine. Please let us
know what you think of this issue, and
what you’d like to read more about in
the future.
Middleback Field Centre
I am sure there are many past students who
attended the Middleback Field Centre at
Whyalla, under the guidance of Dr Bob
Lange and Dr Des Coleman, who may be
interested and saddened to see what has
happened to it with the Nicholsons moving
off the site and the army taking over.
Ben Turner
Five engineers, five friends and five
very different careers. Yet we’ve
stayed in touch, supported each
other in our chosen fields, attended
weddings, travelled as a group, celebrated
births, and laughed a lot! We’ve experienced
the good and the bad together. None of this
would have been possible if we hadn’t met
while studying engineering. We bonded over
late night assignments, study sessions at
home, and exam preparation in the library.
I am forever grateful we met and remain
friends. None of it would have been possible
without the University of Adelaide.
Ambika Khatiwada, Nepal
I met my best friend while doing my degree.
We met during a practical session and from
there we became best friends. We spent
nights discussing the tutorials and
assignments and plans after study.
We enjoyed eating crispy fries and chai latte
in the University cafe on the ground floor
during our break. We now invite each other
to family functions, and we have become
family more than friends which we
cherish deeply.
M Clin Nursing, 2022
Truong Nhat Vy Nguyen
I found that the army (I presume) had
completely cleared the site (it was taken
over to extend their land holdings for
tank trainings).
Keith Cowley, Gawler
Ass Dip Wine Mkt, 1985, B Ag Sc (Oen)
(Hons), 2000
B E (Mechatronic), 2004, M Proj Mgmt, 2013
I have had a very long association with the
site, being involved with many of the camps
held there as a technical officer between
Roseworthy and the University of Adelaide
during my 27-year employment. This long
association was the reason I recently made
a trip to see how it had fared.
For many years it was used to study
rangeland ecology, natural resource
management and terrestrial ecology.
meeting at RAC, our parents by chance met
at the caravan and camping show, talking
about their daughters who had just started
at the college, totally unknown to each other.
We were destined to meet. We have now been
besties for 41 years, she was a bridesmaid in
my wedding, I’m godmother to her two
gorgeous now adult children, we have
travelled together, laughed and cried and just
had the greatest friendship over this time.
Sue Franke
Jenelle and I met at Roseworthy Agricultural
College in 1983. Two scared and nervous
17-year-olds knowing no other students,
leaving our families and friends behind in
Adelaide. We found each other cowering in
the TV room debating with ourselves
whether we were brave enough to venture
to the dining room for dinner, we eventually
did it together. Her discipline was
agriculture, mine wine, but we still stuck
together. Coincidently when we were
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The Covid-19 pandemic locked me out of
Adelaide Uni's halls, but it unlocked a
virtual friendship with my bestie Andrea
(and many others!). Texts became our
lifeline, fuelling late-night Zoom study
sessions. Social life unfolded over shared
memes. We dissected lectures, celebrated
milestones (virtually then in real life!), and
discovered a mutual love for statistics,
reading, gardening and DIY. Distance
couldn't weaken our bond – every message
made it stronger. Proof that friendship
can bloom anywhere – especially in the
University of Adelaide, even between a data
science student like me and a future science
teacher like Andrea!
B Ma and Comp Sc, 2022
