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MON246: Records related to the Vallejo Gantner Memorial Scholarship

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Series identifierMON246Series titleRecords related to the Vallejo Gantner Memorial ScholarshipSeries descriptionThe Vallejo Gantner Memorial Scholarship was established in 1963 as a memorial to Vallejo Gantner a student of the Faculty of Arts in 1961 who died accidentally in 1962. Originally known as the Memorial Essay Prize, the award was made for an undergraduate essay on a subject relating to problems of the contemporary world, and was funded by an annual grant to the university. In 1967 the prize became known as the Vallejo Gantner Memorial Scholarship and was awarded by a Memorial Scholarship Committee, membership of which included Mrs Neilma Gantner. In 1970 the Vallejo Gantner Memorial Travel Fund was created to be awarded to second year undergraduates in the Faculties of Arts or Economics and Politics, and to be administered according to regulations under Statute 11.1.1 of the Monash University Act.

This series comprises correspondence between Mrs Gantner and officers of the university re the establishment and award of the scholarship; essays submitted in the early years of the prize; correspondence between Mrs Gantner and prize winners; and reports, forwarded to Mrs Gantner, on trips funded by the prize. Also included is correspondence from Mrs Gantner re donation of this collection to the University Archives.Date range1962 - 1992Series typeUniversity SeriesLinear metreage0.2Format, size, conditionfilesKeywordsClaytonExecutive Service

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[Correspondence re transfer of material to archives]

Scholarship recipient reports - N. Cobby, 1975; N. Sullivan, 1976; A. Williams, 1977; P. Maddick, 1978; S. Williamson, 1985; A. Loveband, 1986; A. Reed, 1987; G. Horne, 1987; J. Turnbull, 1987

1987 Vallejo Gantner Scholarship

Miscellaneous Correspondence

1968-70 & 71 Correspondence [Gantner to] Monash

1967 Project Submission by K. Hatton

1966 Correspondence Payment of Scholarship

Correspondence 1965 Anthony C-R [A. Clunies-Ross]

VG Scholarship 1964 Correspondence re funding 1963-65 Miscellaneous

Announcements

Monash Uni [Copy of Orpheus as for item 3, draft letter Gantner to Matheson] c.1965

Orpheus 1963 [p.11 R. Fitzgerald, Gantner Memorial Essay]

Reading list

Foundation of scholarship [N. Gantner corresp. with Matheson]

Reports of overseas travel undertaken with support from the Vallejo Gantner Memorial Travel Fund

Essays submitted for the memorial essay prize 1966 - J. Maidment (winner), E. Allen

Essays submitted for the memorial essay prize 1964 - R. Cooper, H. Dimsey, F. Farrow, A. Firestone, F. Garner, P. Scherer, P. Smart, N. Bibic

Essays submitted for the memorial essay prize 1963 - D. G. Alexander, I. A. Dudgeon, R. Fitzgerald (winner), M. C. Frazer, K. W. Gooding, J. Morieson, I. Mullens, P. Smart

Letter from Mrs Gantner & conditions of award

Vallejo Gantner Memorial Travel Fund correspondence

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MON246: Records related to the Vallejo Gantner Memorial Scholarship