WC+Leaders

=Origin of Homeroom/Tutorial Names= In 1979 Mr. Anthony Conabere, Head of Prahran, divided the College into administrative or pastoral groups, and named each after a significant individual in College history. He intentionally chose people who were important in the College history but not necessarily famous.

(1902-1912) Founding Headmistress of the Preparatory School Miss Cooper was the head of the prep school at University High School in Melbourne when Mr. Lawrence Adamson, Head of Wesley College, invited her to join the Wesley staff. Miss Cooper knew Mr. Adamson when he was head of University High School. Mr. Adamson also hired other staff members from UHS.
 * Miss EH Cooper**

Miss Cooper was never married. Most women teachers at that time were not married because schools usually hired only single women. She retired as Headmistress of the Wesley College prep school in 1912 due to ill health, and was replaced by the prep sports master. Men continued to be appointed to be Head of the Prep School until the late 1970s.

Architect of GW Prep School, and various building developments at Wesley College Mr. McGlashan was born in Melbourne in 1927 and died within a few days of retiring in 1997. He was a Wesley College graduate, and a well-known architect.
 * Mr. David McGlashan (OW 1941-1998)**

He met his business partner, Mr. Neil Everist, while they were both studying architecture at the University of Melbourne. In 1955 they formed a partnership and set up practice in Melbourne under the practice name McGlashan & Everist. They went into business together and began designing homes. They designed their first house in 1957, the Barry House located in Roosevelt Court, Brighton. Later, they shifted to focus on designing educational spaces. Their work was the subject of a special exhibit, called //Living in Landscape//, at the Heide Gallery in 2006.

First Prep School student to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship; became Head of Newington College, Sydney Mr. Laurence Richard Dimond Pyke, known as Lardy to his school mates, was the senior prefect of 1930. He was born in Queensland in 1912, and moved to Melbourne with his mother and sisters after the death of his father in 1914. His mother, Lillian, began writing novels to support her family.
 * Mr. LRD Pyke (OW 1920)**

Lardy attended first Haileybury and then Wesley College. He won the R.A. Oakley Prize in 1924, and later several more prestigious awards both within Wesley as well as more widely in Victoria. In 1930, his last year at Wesley, he won all of the academic honours--dux of the school, the //Argus// Prize, the Alexander Wawn Scholarship and the Walter Powell Scholarship.

Mr. Pyke was also an excellent athlete participating in football, athletics and cricket where his best score was 69 not out. He was a 'triple colours' man. He held the school record for the half mile, and represented Wesley at at the APS combined sports. He also rowed in the second crew. While at Queen's College and the University of Melbourne, Mr. Pyke continued his successes winning many academic honours and awards of university blues in rowing and football. In 1934 he became the Victorian Rhodes Scholar.

Mr. Pyke returned to teach at Wesley College in 1939 until 1946 when he left to take up a position at Adelaide University.

First woman Superintendent, in charge of Fernside (1908-1911) Fernside was the name of a large, old house located across the road from the original Prep school. It was leased by Mr. Adamson in 1908 and used as a boarding house for the juniors. Mrs. Sadleir-Forster was chosen to be in charge of the house. She was the first woman appointed to a leadership position at Wesley College.
 * Mrs. Sadleir-Forster**