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25 July 2007

Former Vice-Chancellor, Dr Louis Matheson (left) pictured with the spoon at his farewell. Photo by Richard Crompton, 1975. Courtesy of Monpix.

In true collegiate style humour, at the 1961 opening of Monash University, students from Melbourne University presented our then Vice-Chancellor Dr Louis Matheson with a very unusual gift ... a wooden spoon!

While there are no known photos of the presentation, Monpix has contributed this photo taken by Richard Crompton in 1975 at the official farewell of Vice-Chancellor Dr Matheson.

The spoon itself is now in the Archives and has a tag attached with a note written by Dr Matheson: 'presented to Monash on our opening day, March 1961, by a delegation of Melbourne University students'.

This week's contribution with thanks to Monash Archives.