P007214 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2023-04-26 human Thomas Spurling updated 2025-12-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007214b.htm corporateBody RAAF Academy, Point Cook Royal Australian Air Force AACR2 1961 1986 Start Place Point Cook, Victoria, Australia End Place Point Cook, Victoria, Australia In a note to the Air Member for Personnel (Air Commodore J E Hewitt) in 1945, the Director of Training (Group Captain P G Heffernan) suggesting that post-war planning should include an Air Force Cadet College based on the Army and Navy models at Duntroon and Flinders. His arguments were successful, and the RAAF College was established at Point Cook in 1947. It became the RAAF Academy in 1961 when it became associated with the University of Melbourne. The RAAF Academy closed in 1986 when all officer training for the Australian Defence Forces was conducted at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra. (Reference: R E Frost, RAAF College and Academy, Commonwealth of Australia (Royal Australian Air Force), Canberra, 1991)

There were three science disciplines taught at Point Cook, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. The staff members were:

Physics

Victor David Hopper
James Frederick Ward
John Angus Thomas
Jean Elizabeth Laby
Peter James Eccles
Donald Gordon McIntyre
David Keith Aitken
Ian Arthur Bourne
John Francis Gearge Darby
John Victor Denholm
Eric Leonard Unthank
Owen Mace
David John Heilbrown
Brian Vaughan Denehy
Garry Robinson
Paul Lehmann
Ravinder Kumar Sood

Chemistry

Bernard Arthur Schaefer
Donald Mather Douglas
John Albert Bowden (Biochemistry)
Eileen Gruen
James Oliver Sawyer

Mathematics

Basil Cameron Rennie
Maurice Norman Brearley
Donald Ross Watson
Michael John Christopher Baker
Elizabeth Sonenberg
John Lewelyn Hopper
David Lloyd Hopper
Van Tu Le
Philip Cookson
Trevor Edward Gilham
Kathryn Jennifer Horadam

 Douglas, Donald Marder (1926 - 2010)

Lecturer in Chemistry 1961 - 1986

 Brearley, Maurice Norman (Maurie) (1920 - 2013) Brann, Harold Walter Allan Neall (Bill) (1911 - 1995) Hopper, Victor David (1913 - 2005)

Professor of Physics 1961 -1978; Dean of Students 1961 - 1980

 Laby, Jean (1915 - 2008)

Senior Lecturer c.1961 - c.1982

 The University of Melbourne (1853 - )

Associated 1961 - 1986

 Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Commonwealth of Australia (1921 - ) 'RAAF Academy, Point Cook', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology RAAF Academy, Point Cook Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: RAAF college and academy, 1947-86 Frost, R. E. RAAF college and academy, 1947-86 [Canberra] Royal Australian Air Force 1991 Book: RAAF College and Academy 1947-86 Frost. R. E. RAAF College and Academy 1947-86 Canberra Commonwealth of Australia (Royal Australian Air Force) 1991