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R6.31 - JOHN MELVIN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

Recitals-

1. James Gossip Melvin and his wife Margaret Drew Melvin both of 'Stanmere' Sandham Street Elsternwick in the State of Victoria presented to the University the sum of £1,000 in the form of a Commonwealth of Australia Treasury Bond.
   
   
2. The said donors desired that the sum should form the foundation of a scholarship in Engineering to be called the 'John Melvin Memorial Scholarship' in memory of their son John Melvin, B.C.E., who was killed in battle at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915.
   
   
3. The University received £1,000 at the time of the donation, which sum increased to $4,958 at 31 December 1994.

It is provided as follows-

1. The sum of $4,958 and any accumulations or additions forms the endowment of a scholarship called the 'John Melvin Memorial Scholarship' ('the fund') and the fund, after the Treasury bonds have been redeemed, must be invested as the Council from time to time directs.
   
   
2. The scholarship is tenable for one year but may be awarded two or more years in succession to the same candidate and is of the value of the annual income of the fund.
   
   
3. Applications for the John Melvin Memorial scholarship ('the scholarship') may be made by-
   
   
   1. persons who have completed the Fourth Year of a course for the degree of bachelor of Engineering at this University in the preceding year and have obtained final honours in that course;
      
      
   2. persons who have completed the Third Year of the course for the degree of bachelor of Science of this University in the preceding year and have obtained honours;
      
      
   3. graduates in Engineering or in Science of this University of not less than one year's standing;
      
      
   4. graduates in Engineering or in Science of some other university who are approved by the faculty of Engineering.
      
      
4. The scholarship is awarded annually by the Council on the recommendation of the faculty of Engineering ('the faculty'). The faculty in making its recommendation as between candidates from the different categories listed in section 3 of this regulation must where all other things are equal give preference according to the order in which those categories appear in that section.
   
   
5. The holder of the scholarship must during the scholar's year of tenure either conduct research in Engineering or at the discretion of the faculty enter on an approved course of travel in Australia or abroad for the purpose of furthering his or her education or experience in Engineering:
   
   Provided that if the holder of the scholarship be a person who has completed the Third Year of the course for the degree of bachelor of Science or a graduate of some other university he or she must carry out approved research in Engineering under the control and direction of the faculty.
   
   
6. The successful candidate must be awarded a parchment certificate bearing an inscription prepared by the donors and approved by the Council descriptive of the career of John Melvin.
   
   
7. The scholarship will not be awarded in any year in which the faculty considers there is no candidate worthy of the award and, in that event, the net annual income may be retained to provide in any subsequent year a second scholarship or a larger scholarship than the net annual income in any year would provide or it may be added to the capital of the fund.

 

[Edit am. 24/4/98, am. 3/5/99, effective 1/7/99, ss. 3, 7, 8, 9 and 11 revoked, ss. 4, 5 and 6 renumbered 3, 4 and 5, s. 10 renumbered 6, ss. 3, 4 and 5 am. and new s. 7 made 6/11/00.]