2004 Charles Hawker Scholarships Announced

Six new Charles Hawker Scholars have been announced by the Hawker Scholarship Trustees. The 2004 Hawker Scholars were presented with their scholarship certificates by Speaker of the House of Representatives Hon Neil Andrew MP.

The 2004 Charles Hawker Scholarship recipients are Ms Jessica Allen (NSW), Ms Megan Davis (Qld), Mr Charles Deutscher (Vic), Ms Amie Milligan (NSW), Ms Kaylene Nuske (SA) and Mr Stuart Watts (NSW).

2004 Presentation At ANU

2004 ANU Hawker Scholars with Trustees, Hon Neil Andrew MP and Principal of Burgmann College Dr Lewis Rushbrook.

Successful Applicants - 2004

Jessica Allen is a second year Arts / Law student at ANU with an intended career path in public service in either politics or public administration. Jessica graduated from Abbotsleigh in Sydney in 2002 where she was Head Prefect. Jessica is an outstanding student who has been recognized academically and on the sporting field. She is a successful performer and debater and has demonstrated a life long comitment to her community and the environment. Jessica's UAI was 97.5 and she is in residence at Burgmann College.

Megan Davis completed a Bachelor of Arts / Business Studies at the University of Southern Queensland in 2003 and is currently enrolled in a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) majoring in marketing at ANU. Megan was Head Girl of Fairholme College in Toowoomba in 1999, the same year she was awarded an Order of Australia Association Student Citizenship Award. Megan is actively involved in ANU and a range of community-based activities including the Leukaemia Foundation and Red Cross. Megan is in residence at Burgmann College.

Charles Deutscher's goal in life is to pursue a career in international relations and foreign affairs in a leadership role with the aim of improving the quality of life for the world community. Charles is well travelled and was Vice Captain of Ballarat Grammar School in 2003. He's multilingual, a talented musician, sportsperson and a Gold Duke of Edinburgh awardee. Charles is enrolled in Arts / Law at ANU and is in residence at Burgmann College.

Amie Milligan grew up on a family dairy farm at Cundletown in NSW, was School Captain and graduated from the Taree High School in 2003 with a UAI of 96.05. Amie is a multi-award winning student who has actively participated in a plethora of community and school based activities including the Young Endeavour voyage, the UN Eco-Innovate Youth Conference and the national Youth Roundtable '02. She is enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts at ANU and is in residence at Burgmann College and is working towards a career in Foreign Afairs at AUSAID.

Kaylene Nuske is enrolled at the University of Adelaide and is studying a Bachelor of Agriculture at the Roseworthy Campus specializing in salt land agronomy. Kaylene comes from a third generation farming family at Tintinara, 220 kilometres south of Adelaide and was educated at the Tintinara Area School. Kaylene completed her secondary education at the Urrbrae Agricultural High School in Adelaide in 2003 with a Tertiary Entrance Rank of 93.3 and is in residence at the Roseworthy Campus of the University of Adelaide.

Stuart Watts was raised on the New England Tablelands, attended The Armidale School in NSW and graduated from the Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Business / International Relations in 2001. He has spent time in Japan teaching English as part of the JET (Japanese and English Teaching) Program. He is an active participant in numerous developing country projects including an orphanage in Fiji and the Pilgrimage of Hope in India. Stuart is studying a Graduate Diploma in International Affairs at ANU and is in residence at Burgmann 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 16^th 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 1^st 2003 and close on January 16^th 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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