The Ruyton Reporter - Autumn 2016

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We are grateful to the following
donors for their generosity:
The Adgemis Family
Mr J & Mrs M Andronis
Mrs M Ashton neé Marshall (1965)
Ms D Baggiere
The Banting Family
The Bate Family
The Baumgartner Family
The Billings Family
Ms S Blyth (2007)
Ms L Broadfoot
Mrs B Burke neé Hardie (1970)
The Carbone Family
The Cheah Family
The Chee Lin Family
The Chen Family
Ms L Chen
The Cheng Family
Mrs M Clarke neé Menzies (1957)
Mr A and Mrs L Clarke
The Cleeve Family
Mrs F Coldwell neé Summons (1990)
The Collins Family
The Courtney Family
The Cran Family
Mrs L Cunningham neé Bodycomb
(1952)
The Danks Family
The Davidson Family
Mrs M Davis neé McHaffie (1946)
The De Bortoli Family
Ms S Dean (1970)
The Denovan Family
The Doan Family
The Dontschuk Family
Mr C and Mrs A Doufas
Ms L Douglas & Mr T Guglielmo
The Driscoll Family
The Dumbrell Family
Mrs B Dwyer neé Nicholls (1968)
The Elford Family
Mrs J Elliott neé Phillips (1968)
The Fitzgibbon Family
The Fox Family
The Frith Family
Mr M and Mrs S Fryer
The Furey Family
Mr R Gannon & Ms A Helps
The Gillam Family
Mrs N Ginnane
The Griffiths Osmond Family
Mr A Grollo
Mrs G Gumley
The Hartin Family
The Hogg Family
The Houlihan Family
Mr J & Mrs K Hudson
Ms C Jarrett (2005)
The Jayaswal Cooper Family
Mrs P Jin
The Jin Family
The Kanat Family
Dr C & Mrs P Karopoulos
The Kelly Family
The Kelly Family
The Kenafacke Family
The Kenyon Family
The Kimber Family
Mrs H & Dr J King
The Kleeman Family
The Kleiman Family
The Kotsos Family
The Lee Family
The Li Family
The Lin Family
Mr F Lin & Ms T Rudometova
The Magdich Family
The Maher Family
The Malamas Family
The Marsden Braithwaite Family
Mr C and Mrs F Marsh
The Mason Family
The McCombe Pettigrew Family
Dr J McCutcheon (1969)
The McGregor Family
Mr S McLeay & Ms W Schrader
The McLeish Family
The McPhail Family
The Meehan Family
The Melton Family
Dr J Morgan neé Simms (1969)
Mrs N Morton neé Miles (1970)
The Moten Family
The Mugavin Family
The Mullins Family
The Neoh Family
The Ng Family
The O’Brien Family
The Old Ruytonians’ Association
Ms T Peters
The Parents of Ruyton
Ms H Powers (1963)
Mr C and Dr M Price
The Rigg Family
The Riva Family
The Roberts Family
Mr T & Mrs N Rule
Mr A & Mrs S Sando
The Schonfeldt Family
The Sciberras Family
The Sharples Family
The Sibree Family
Miss J Simms (1943) Dec
The Slater Family
Ms S Sloan & Mr D Hall
Mrs L & Mr M Smith
The Starkins Family
Mr B Sutherland & Ms S King
The Sutherland Family
The Tan Family
Mr J & Mrs L Thomas
Dr H Toh & Dr T Horng
The Toor Family
Ms S Tossoun & Mr N Calil
The Tucker Family
Mr G and Mrs D Tymms
The van Haandel Family
The Verrocchi Family
The Walmsley Family
The Wanless Robertson Family
Ms K Watt
The Weeraman Family
Dr D Williams & Dr S Ellis
Mrs J Williams neé Beyer (1943) Dec
The Wilmshurst Family
Mrs MWilson neé De Campo (1974)
The Woollard Family
The Woolrich Family
Mrs R Xie
Mr X Xu & Mrs WWu
The Xu Family
The Xu Family
Mr Y Yang
Mr Z Yang
Ms L Yang & Mr P Lai
Mr J Yang & Ms Q Pan
Ms F Yucel & Mr D Sylva
Mr P & Mrs I Zaparas
The Zervos Family
The Zhang Family
The Zhao Family
Anonymous x 18
Foundation
Collaboration, Generosity
and Creativity
The new Margaret McRae Centre stands as testimony
to the power of collaboration, generosity and creativity.
The successful completion of our most recent Capital
Campaign saw the opening of this Centre on Monday
22 February 2016 and this was due entirely to the
significant generosity of the wonderful community we
enjoy here, Inside Ruyton. The Foundation believes that
our girls’ opportunities should be unconstrained by
inadequate facilities and buildings, traditional
learning avenues or inaccessibility. It is because our
Ruyton community has embraced this belief that we
have raised the most we have ever achieved in a Capital
Campaign to date.
Historically, the largest amount previously raised by
the Foundation for capital works was $500,000 for the
swimming pool. I am delighted to announce that, for
this project, we have received an amazing $953,000 in
donations and pledges. Our donors come from across
our community: past students and current and past
board members, parents, and staff. The Honour Board,
located just inside the front doors, acknowledges all of
our donors who have partnered with us to continue the
tradition of supporting Ruyton girls to do their best.
The School has chosen to name nine learning areas
in recognition of significant donations, with three of
the rooms scheduled to be named at a later date in
collaboration with the families involved. Six of the
room names are already installed: the Woolrich Family
Laboratory, the Penne Furmage Room, the Rebecca
Starkins Room, the Verrocchi Family Room, the Kanat
Family Room and the Bate Family Room.
Our community has accompanied us on every step of
the way on this exciting journey, from the campaign
launch in March 2013 at the Ruyton Fair, a wonderful
community-building and fundraising event, to where
we are today. I would like to acknowledge all our donors,
who have each made personally meaningful gifts.
I thank the Parents of Ruyton (the POR) who
generously contributed funds raised at two Balls and
two Luncheons towards providing this facility for our
girls. We are most grateful to the Old Ruytonians’
Association (the ORA) for their contribution and we
know they are looking forward to hosting many
Reunions and other events in the Margaret McRae
Centre. It is through the combined generosity of our
community, individual donors, families and groups that
we have been able to help achieve this wonderful result.
We sincerely thank you all.
And I have to let you know that it is never too late to
contribute! We are still very happy to receive further
donations to the Margaret McRae Centre Capital
Campaign and have opportunities available for the
School to acknowledge significant donations with
room names. If you would like to make a donation
of any size, please contact Ms Tonya Peters, Director
of Development at or
on 9290 9318.
Mr Peter Kanat, President of the Ruyton Foundation