The Principal
Mr Wayne Erickson MBA GradDipLegStud DipPE JP FAIM
Mr Erickson joined St Andrew's in March 2004 in the role of Secretary to the Council and College Manager. In March 2008, on the retirement of Dr William Porges, Mr Erickson was appointed Principal, having been selected from a field of highly qualified candidates of both national and international origin.
In the four years that Mr Erickson was Secretary to Council and College Manager the College witnessed a significant expansion of its facilities and undertook major changes in the provision of services for students in residence. The completion of the Carillon Wing – a project which saw the first major addition to residential capacity in over forty years and for which Mr Erickson acted as Superintendent – and major renovations to tennis courts, all bathrooms and the historic Main Building are highlights of a lengthy list of achievements.
Early in his teaching career he taught at The Scots College in Sydney where he was a member of the College Executive and the Housemaster of Deane House. Prior to joining St Andrew’s Mr Erickson held various executive management positions with Australian Rugby. He was the General Manager of Operations, and became world rugby's first full time professional referee. From 1994 until his retirement at the end of the 2002 season, he refereed over 150 first class matches, including 27 Internationals and 40 Super 12 matches. He represented Australia at the Rugby World Cup tournaments in 1995 and 1999, and was part of the Wallabies’ management team during the 2003 tournament in Australia. He is currently the Chairman of Australian Rugby’s National Referee Selection Committee, and he continues to apply his refereeing skills here at the College, though there are nowhere near the same number of yellow cards issued as in his former life!
His interests include a passion (but no talent) for the music of the Classical period, and particularly for opera of the Enlightenment.
He keeps wicket for the Old Men of Briars, is Chairman of Rotary's Outback Education Scholarship program, and still enjoys telling audiences of anyone who'll listen about the delights of touring the world penalising people.
principal@standrewscollege.edu.au
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Secretary to the Council and College Bursar
Ms Josephine G L Lead BA MBus ASA
Josephine was appointed Bursar and Secretary to the Council at St Andrew’s College in March 2008. In addition to her duty to provide Secretarial support to the Council she is responsible for administration, governance, communication infrastructure, finance, human resources, house, catering, works and maintenance. Together with a team of dedicated staff Josephine’s mandate is to make St Andrew’s College a safe, happy, healthy and academically and culturally enriching environment for all College residents.
Prior to joining St Andrew’s Josephine worked at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1989-2000) in several different roles in the divisions of television, radio, concerts, corporate finance and technology, strategy and development. In 2000, she took up her first role in the education sector becoming Business Manager of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney; in 2006 she joined Macquarie University as Division Manager at the Law Faculty.
When not at College Josephine is a passionate bush walker and photographer.
bursar@standrewscollege.edu.au
Vice Principal
Mr John Sergeant BSc BA(Hons) MMRS QPMR MAICD
John entered St Andrew's from Dubbo in 1983 and stayed for six years, serving on the House Committee and as Hon. Secretary of the Students' Club. During this time, he completed a BSc in Biological Sciences and a BA (Hons1) in Psychology.
While at University, he was a student representative on the Academic Board, Secretary of the University of Sydney Union and Chair of the Students' Representative Council, and represented the University in Rowing, Debating and on University Challenge.
He served on the Committee of the St Andrew's College Alumni Society for much of the period between leaving College in 1988 and returning, initially as Dean, in 2001. He was appointed as Vice Principal and College Fellow in 2003.
John's day job is as the Chair of the Ipsos-Eureka Social Research Institute, where he specialises in social policy research.
At College, John is a member of the Administrative Committee, the Academic Committee, the Strategy Committee and the Communications Committee and attends Council meetings. He is a Governor of the Foundation and serves on the Board of Management.
vp@standrewscollege.edu.au
Senior Tutor
Dr Hester Wilson BMed(Hons), LTCL, ARCM, Assoc AMEB, Grad Dip Vocal, Grad Dip Opera, FRACGP, FAChAM
Hester completed her schooling in Manly Vale and moved to Newcastle to study medicine at the University of Newcastle. After completing her degree with honours she was awarded the Doris Smith Scholarship and a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to study singing in London.
Following this she returned to Australia and completed postgraduate vocal training at the Griffith University in Brisbane. She was awarded the McDonald's Aria competition and returned to London to continue her vocal studies with renowned teacher Janice Chapman. Throughout this time Hester continued her medical training in general practice, sexual health, alcohol and other drugs and working with marginalised groups.
She completed the Fellowship for the Royal Australian College of General Practice on her return to Australia. She was admitted to the Royal Australian College of Physician's Chapter of Addiction Medicine in late 2003.
She works in private general practice in Newtown, and is the Drug and Alcohol adviser for the Central Sydney Division of General Practitioners. She works as a Associate Lecturer at the central clinical school at Sydney University and trains general practitioners and other heath professionals in the areas of alcohol and other drugs, mental heath and sexual health.
She also maintains a busy performance schedule singing with Opera Australia, Cantilation, The Tall Poppeas and Thoroughbass as well as many other performances.
seniortutor@standrewscollege.edu.au
Hester is responsible for the College's Tutorial Program and the Academic Mentoring program.
Chairman of the Council
Dr Robert R I Harper SC BA LLB PhD (Syd)
Barrister at Law, appointed Senior Counsel for the State of New South Wales on 29 September, 2004. Dr Harper joined the Council in July 2005 and was appointed Chairman in July 2005.
He was a resident in College from 1979 to 1983, and served on the House Committee in 1981, 1982 and 1983. He played some cricket and a lot of Rugby for College. He was Captain of the College XV from 1981 to 1983 and Sydney University Rugby Club in 1985.
He conducts a general commercial equity practice specialising in Banking, Trade Practices, International Transport, Insurance, including Marine Insurance, Property, Insolvency, individual and corporate insolvency, and Equity.
He currently serves on the Equity Division Liaison Committee of the Supreme Court of NSW.
In May 2006 he was appointed as an honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney.
He is Chairman of the Kudos Foundation, a charity supporting the study of Classical Languages in Australia, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens.
Dr Harper is ex-officio a member of all Council Committees.
Click here to view a list of St Andrew's College Councillors.
Chairman of the Foundation
Dr R D Wines MB.,BS.,(Hons II)(Syd.),FRCS(Edin.),FRCS(Eng.),FRACS(Urology)
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Dr. Wines entered College from Newcastle in 1959 to study Medicine, graduating at the end of 1964. He represented Andrews in Athletics, Cricket and Rugby and Sydney University in Rugby. He served some years on the House Committee and was Secretary of the College Club in 1963. After graduation he worked as a Resident Medical Officer at Sydney Hospital then as an Anatomy Demonstrator at Sydney University.
He trained as a Surgical Registrar at the York Hospitals in England then as a Senior Registrar in the Urology at the Meath Hospital Dublin then Prince Henry Hospital ,Sydney. He then entered Consultant Urological Practice and was appointed to Honorary then VMO Urological Positions at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Ryde Hospital and Hornsby Hospital. Since his retirement from Consultant Practice he has continued to provide Urological Medico-legal opinions.
His elder son Andrew, now an Orthopaedic Surgeon , was Senior Student of St Andrews College in 1991 and his younger son Michael has followed him into Urology. Both daughters, Penny (deceased-Law ) and Phillipa (Vet) resided at The Women’s College. He is married to Barbara, sister of Tony Low (deceased – also a Urologist) a fresher in 1959, and lives at Whale Beach.
foundation@standrewscollege.edu.au
President of the Alumni Society
Mr Bradley Wheaton BScAg MCom (Ec) MIntS 
Bradley entered College in 1997 while undertaking a BScAg (Ag Ec) at USyd, as a part of a Twynam Group management cadetship. During four years at College he served on the House Committee of the Students’ Club and in his final year was Senior Student. He represented College in debating, athletics and rugby, receiving a rugby Blue in 2000. He later completed a MCom (Ec) at the Universities of NSW and Copenhagen and a Master of International Studies at USyd.
Earlier in his career he was a policy adviser to the NSW Minister for Primary Industries, Natural Resources, Energy, State Development and Mineral Resources, the Hon. Ian Macdonald MLA, and an economist for the agriculture industry peak body in NSW. He currently works in the renewable energy sector and is a founding director of the National Biofuels Group that is developing renewable energy projects in South Africa and Australia.
He is a trustee and secretary of the Puffin Magic Foundation (puffinmagic.org.au), a charity established to support James Gribble (SAC fr 1997) following an accident that left him a quadriplegic in November 2008.
Bradley is president of the Alumni Society and attends Council and Foundation meetings.
alumnisociety@standrewscollege.edu.au
Senior Fellow
Associate Professor R Ian Jack MA PhD FRHistS FRAHS
Professor Jack has been a Fellow of St Andrew's College since 1980 and has been continuously resident in College longer than any other current Fellow. After serving as Senior Tutor, he became Senior Fellow and is responsible for the Senior Common Room, the College Archives, the College Library and, with Dr Hester Wilson, for musical events generally in the Chapel and elsewhere. As College historian, he wrote the third edition of The Andrew's Book and the photographic history to celebrate 125 years of College. He is preparing a fourth edition of The Andrew's Book to be published in 2007.
He was until 2001 Associate Professor in the Department of History. For eight years he was Head of the Department, for five years Dean of the Faculty of Arts and for fourteen years Chair of the Board of Studies in Music.
Professor Jack is a member of the Academic, Administrative and Communication Committees and attends Council meetings and is also responsible for the Colleges Archives.
seniorfellow@standrewscollege.edu.au
Dean of Students
Mr Tim Dunstone B.Physio., M.Hlth.Sc. (Manip. Physio.), M.Hlth.Sc. (Sports Physio.)
Mr Dunstone joined the St Andrew's College community in 2007 as a postgraduate student and tutor. He graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy, where he was on a sports scholarship for rowing. Mr Dunstone worked for a few years in private practice in Adelaide before moving to Sydney and completing two masters degrees by coursework in manipulative and sports physiotherapy. He is currently researching low back injuries in rowers as part of a PhD, and occasionally teaches musculoskeletal physiotherapy at the University of Sydney. He continues part time clinical work at Neutral Bay Physiotherapy. In his spare time, Mr Dunstone sings with the college choirs and also with the Sydney Philharmonia Symphony Chorus. He is a past national president of the Australian Intervarsity Choral Societies' Assoc. He has coached the rowing men's eight for St Andrew's College since 2008, and recently coached a group of female rowers for Sydney University and Australian University Sport for two years.
Mr Dunstone is a member of the college's Academic and Administrative Committees and attends college Council meetings. He is also a member of the Council for the Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association. The Dean of Students supports the Principal and the Senior Tutor in their duties and provides after hours pastoral care and support to residents.
deanofstudents-td@standrewscollege.edu.au
Ms Gillian Bowan B. Arts (Hons1)
Gillian joined the college in 2010 accepting the newly created role of female Dean of Students. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons1) in 2008 and has returned to complete a PhD in the Department of Anthropology. Her honours thesis was awarded the Australian Anthropological Society Thesis Prize for Best Honours thesis (2008). Her PhD research explores the continuity of arranged marriage among South Asian migrant communities.
While completing her undergraduate course, she worked as a student advisor in both the Faculty of Arts and later the Scholarships and Prizes Office. In these roles she assisted new and continuing students with planning of their courses, special consideration and welfare support. She has also worked as a research assistant in the Department of Anthropology assisting with projects on everyday life in remote Aboriginal communities and an ecological study of water use in North India.
As one of the Deans of Students, Gillian is a member of the administrative committee and attends meeting of the St Andrews College Council.
deanofstudents-gb@standrewscollege.edu.au
