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CAS Hawker Memorial Scholarship Trust Fund

Hon. Alexander Downer MP
Presents 2003 Hawker Scholarships 
 

Five new Charles Hawker Scholars were presented with their scholarship certificates in the historic Senior Common Room of St. Mark’s College in Adelaide last week by Minister for Foreign Affairs Hon. Alexander Downer MP. The function was attended by a wide cross section of the Australian education sector.  

The 2003 Charles Hawker Scholarship recipients are Ms Carolyn Gill, Ms Lorraine Ingham, Mr Rodger Shannon, Mr Christian Winterfield and Ms Teegan Waples.

 

Successful Applicants - 2003

(L-R) Lorraine Ingham, Carolyn Gill, Rodger Shannon,
Teegan Waples and Christian Winterfield		 (L-R) Trustee Andrew Hawker, 2003 Hawker Scholar Lorraine Ingham and Hon. Alexander Downer MP.

 

Carolyn Gill from Abbotsleigh Girls’ School in Sydney and Lorraine Ingham from the New England Girls’ School in Armidale NSW are enrolled at the Australian National University in Canberra and residing at Burgmann College. Carolyn and Lorraine are both studying Arts / Law degrees.

Christian Winterfield completed his secondary school at Trinity College at Gawler in South Australia last year with a Tertiary Entrance Rank of 99.35. Christian is enrolled in a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics) and Bachelor of Arts (Politics) at the University of Adelaide and is in residence at St Mark’s College.

Teegan Waples graduated from the Faith Lutheran Secondary School at Tanunda in South Australia in 2001 and completed a certificate in Technical Production with TAFE in 2002. Teegan has enrolled in the Bachelor of Agriculture degree at the University of Adelaide and is the first Hawker Scholar to reside at Roseworthy Campus.

Rodger Shannon is completing a Bachelor of Business (Agricultural Management) at Marcus Oldham College at Geelong. Rodger has family farming connections with Cudal in the Central West of NSW and the Hunter Valley and his secondary education was at The King’s School Parramatta.  Rodger is committed to developing sustainable farming practices and lobbying on behalf of regional Australia. Rodger is in third year and in residence at Marcus Oldham College.

 

The five successful candidates were awarded a Charles Hawker Scholarship from a strong field of 140 applicants from Australia and overseas.  

Describing the Charles Hawker Scholarship as ‘Australia’s Rhodes’, Hon. Alexander Downer MP encouraged year twelve and undergraduate students to visit the Hawker Scholarship web site to find out more about Charles Hawker and the scholarship named in his memory. 

“The Charles Hawker Scholarship is one of the most important in Australia. I commend the Trustees for the contribution the scholarship has already made and will continue to make to education of a number of outstanding young Australians," Alexander Downer said. 

There are a number of fully and partly funded scholarships awarded each year. The Trustees offer them to academically capable students of principle and character, who are committed to Australia’s future. “Each of these recipients has already displayed a strong commitment to the ideals upon which the Charles Hawker Scholarship is founded. They are gifted scholars with inquiring minds and have already contributed to the wider community,” Alexander Downer said. 

The Charles Hawker Scholarship perpetuates the memory of scholar, soldier, pastoralist and statesman Charles Allan Seymour Hawker and commemorates the achievements of one of Australia’s most respected pastoral pioneers. 

Established by Charles Hawker's sister Lilias Needham, the prestigious Charles Hawker Scholarships, valued up to $60,000.00 over four years, are the most generous privately funded scholarship available to year twelve and undergraduate students in Australia.  

Since 1991, the Trustees have awarded more than 1.8 million dollars to thirty-nine young Australians, including a significant number from regional areas.

Born on May 16th 1894 at Bungaree homestead near Clare in South Australia, Charles Hawker was educated at Geelong Church of England Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Post-graduate Charles Hawker Scholars are offered the opportunity to follow in Charles Hawker’s footsteps by enrolling at Trinity College and studying at Cambridge. Hawker Scholars are also able to attend a range of other educational institutions. These include the Australian National, Adelaide, Flinders, South Australian and New England Universities and the Marcus Oldham College.

"C.A.S. Hawker was truly a remarkable man and a great Australian. This scholarship is a fitting tribute to his memory and each of these five scholars is a very worthy recipient,” Mr. Andrew Hawker, Scholarship Trustee and Hawker family member said. 

Selection is based on personal qualities as well as academic ability. Applications for the 2004 Charles Hawker Scholarships open on December 1st 2003 and close on January 16th 2004. 

An application form and further information are available from www.hawkerscholarship.org or by contacting the secretary to the Trustees at TOWER Trust Ltd on 08 8238 6295.

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