Convenor's Chain - AICSApedia

In 1970, during Melbourne IV, the Intervarsity Choral Festival movement celebrated its twenty-first birthday. Present as honoured guests were IV’s ‘Founding Parents’, Peggy and Colin Russell-Jones. They had been, before they were married, and in their roles as SUMS Secretary and SUMS President respectively, among the organisers of the first festival in 1950. At the 1970 festival, they presented the then ‘IV Father’ Andrew Bunting of MUCS with a Convenor’s Chain and suggested that each subsequent Convenor add another link. The tradition of including a ‘quotable quote’, sometimes taken from the text of one of the works performed at the festival, was begun by Andrew Penman two years later. Below is a complete transcription of the Convenor’s Chain. By 1995, the chain had become so long that a new top-piece was added inscribed with the words ‘IVCF CONVENORS’, and new panels can now be added down beside the old links.

Year	City	Convenor	Society	Inscription
1970	Melbourne	Andrew Bunting	MUCS	IVCF Festival Father
1971	Canberra	Brian Hingerty	SCUNA	[no inscription]
1972	Brisbane	Andrew Penman	QUMS	Organise, organise
1973	Perth	Timothy Mason	PUCS	Piano subito
1974	Adelaide	Matthew Mitchell	AUCS	Esiona2
1975	Sydney	David Goodwin	UNCS	Cecil B. de G.
1976	Hobart	Christopher Thomas	TUMS	Mit clusters
1977	Canberra	Rik Allen	SCUNA	He slumbers not, nor sleeps
1978	Melbourne	Phil O’Byrne	MUCS	Pastime with good company
1979	Brisbane	Gary Price	QUMS	Did I do that?
1980	Perth	Rob Kay	PUCS	How kind of you to let me come
1981	Adelaide	Deb Tranter	FUCS	Lamaragashu
1982	Sydney	Ann Stephens	SUMS	One meeting puhleeze!
1983	Melbourne	Libby Nottle	MonUCS	Who wants a casting vote or two?
1984	Perth	Serena Kay	PUCS	Ease in Frogs
1985	Hobart	Chris McDermott	TUMS	Selig Sind
1986	Brisbane	Noel Wilmott	QUMS	Oh, the wild joys of living!
1987	Adelaide	Ali Jonas	FUCS	Sit down, you’re rocking the boat!
1988	Sydney	Stephen Schafer	SUMS	The straight and the narrow, the sad and the gay
1989	Canberra	40th IV Committee	SCUNA	We did it with a k
1990	Perth	Geoffrey Garside	PUCS	Behold in me a sofa, rest on me
1991	Melbourne	Jacqui Harrison	MonUCS	Make love, not war
1992	Hobart	Chris McDermott	TUMS	Et in Arcadia ego
1993	Brisbane	Noel Wilmott	QUMS	What the hey, make it so!
1994	Adelaide	Catherine Campbell	FUCS	Low-born clods of brute earth–is not the night restless for them?
1995	Sydney	Craig Miller	SUMS	To all that went down doing their duty: Geschwinde!
1996	Canberra	Liz Keogh	SCUNA	Ain’t got time to die
1997	Perth	Sarah Penn	PUCS	Nothing succeeds like success
1998	Melbourne	Andrew Wailes	MUCS	Raise your voice, O mighty throng! Alleluia!
1999	Hobart	Antony Logan	TUMS
2000	Brisbane	Michael Scott	QUMS
2001	Adelaide
2002	Sydney	Jon Hogan-Doran	SUMS
2003	Canberra	Luke Murtagh	SCUNA
2004	Perth	Joel Mendelson	PUCS
2005	Melbourne	Sarah Chan	MonMUCS,ROCS	I will fear no Evil: Thy Rod & thy Staff comfort me.
2006	Adelaide	Ange Randall	AUCS
2007	Brisbane	Horst Joachim Schirra	QUMS
2008	Sydney
2009	Hobart