Classnotes

1990s

Grietje Soer (BA(SocSci) 1991, BA(Hons) 1993) has recently graduated with a European Master in Gerontology. Her dissertation focused on elder abuse in a rural setting in the north of the Netherlands .

Rowena Perry (BA(Craft) 1992) and husband Phil have launched China Close Up, a 28-day tour of China focusing on the history and culture of the country.

Derrick Sim

Currently exhibiting with Helen Gory Galerie in Melbourne, Chris Humphries (BA(FineArt) 1992) joined fellow Monash University Fine Arts alumni to celebrate his recent marriage to Therese Connolly.

Since relocating from Melbourne to Singapore in 2002, Derrick Sim (MBBS 1993) has established the medical affairs function for GlaxoSmithKline's vaccines division in the Asia region.

Now based in Poland, Anita Seibert (BA(Hons) 1993, PhD 2003) works for gender equality coalition KARAT where she addresses the economic position of women from the former Soviet Union and central and eastern Europe.

Having experience with radio at Monash's former student station 3MU, Natasha Mitchell (BE 1994) now hosts a successful weekly program on ABC Radio National. The show, called 'All in the Mind', focuses on science and health.

Luu Phuoc Dung (GradDipBusAdmin 1995, MBA 1996) is vice-director of Sonadezi College of Technology and Management in Vietnam where he also lectures in economics and management.

Endang Soemartono (MA 1995) teaches English and linguistics to undergraduate and postgraduate students at Gunadarma and Indraprasta universities in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Along with managing a travel stories website, Chong See Ming (BBus(Mktg) 1996) has recently been appointed communications advisor with Hess Corporation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Kate McIntyre (BA(Hons) 1996) is marketing manager of her family-owned business, incorporating Moorooduc Estate winery and Jill's at Moorooduc Estate restaurant on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. She is also studying a Master of Wine from the London-based Institute of Masters of Wine.

Stefanus Muryanto (MEngSc 1996) has been appointed head of the University Research Centre at UNTAG University in Semarang, Indonesia.

Following her time as a postdoctoral research fellow at AgResearch in New Zealand, Isabelle Hoong (BA 1997, BSc(Hons) 1997, PhD 2004) now works as a lecturer in life sciences at Massey University in New Zealand.

Susan Valerio (GradDipEnvSci 1998, MA 1999) was promoted to the position of chief of the economic development division of the National Economic and Development Authority Regional Office IX in the Philippines.

Zoe Knox (BA(EurStud)(Hons) 1998, PhD 2002) has been appointed lecturer in Russian and Eastern European history at the University of Leicester in the UK. This follows two years as an Andrew W Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Humanities Research Center at Rice University in Houston, USA.

Matt Anderson

Ivan Alidjaja (BBus(Mktg) 1998) is a trade and development officer with the Embassy of Finland in Indonesia.

Matt Anderson (MAFAT 1998) has been appointed High Commissioner to Samoa after spending time as the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's spokesman and its director of media liaison.

Sue Brooke-Roberton (BA(SocSc) 1998) has moved on from voluntary community work to pursue her artistic goals. Sue held her first solo exhibition at Yanchep National Park in Western Australia in 2002. In 2006 she was invited to submit digital paintings to the Museum of Computer Art in the USA.

Ed Smith (MBA 1999) has been appointed chief executive of carsguide.com.au - News Digital Media's motoring classified business.

Rhonda Dotson

Martin Leonard (BA(PoliceSt) 1999) has written a 9,000-word essay about the fabrication of Ned Kelly, published in the December issue of the Australian Police Journal. Martin is currently investigations manager in passport frauds with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

After spending six years in Tasmania, Rhonda Dotson (MBBS 1999) has settled in Canberra, Australia, where she works in the psychiatric unit of the Canberra Hospital.

Since studying and working at Monash University, Konrad Marshall (BA 1999, MComn&MediaSt 2002) has moved to the USA and was named 2006 Young Journalist of the Year by the New York State Associated Press.