There were some twenty-four original sponsoring companies. The number has since grown to eighty.
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For example, the chairman of the Council for its first five years was Mr. Essington Lewis, C.H., of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, by common consent the doyen of the Australian industrialists in recent decades.
3.
The present Principal, who succeeded Copland in 1960, is Lieutenant-General Sir Ragnar Garrett, lately Chief of the Australian Army General Staff.
4.
The College has recently established a four-week Intermediate Course for substantially less senior managers. References throughout this article are however to the more senior course.
5.
Increasingly, overseas companies with interests in Australia and the Pacific are sending men to the College as a means not only of personal development, but of familiarisation with Australian attitudes and problems.
6.
The course is to be shortened to ten weeks in 1963 to enable the College to include certain other activities in its programme.
7.
Sir Noel Hall, the first Principal of Henley and the originator of the course of studies there, visited Australia before the Australian College was established, and in the early days of the College a member of the Henley directing staff was seconded to help in planning and launching the course.
8.
One noticeable feature of this pattern is a phenomenon known to the staff as “eighth week blues,” a tendency to general depression which frequently gives rise to a series of dissatisfactions about quite unrelated things—the diet, the typists' spelling, or the weather. Care is taken to counter this tendency by diversifying the programme as much as possible at this stage.
9.
It is not the practice of the College to submit members to any formal tests or to make any observations on a member's performance unless specifically asked to do so by his nominator. It is possible, however, that this very fact heightens rather than reduces the pressure to make a maximum contribution.
10.
See, for example, his article “Reaction to University Development Programs,”Harvard Business Review, Vol. 39, No. 3 (May-June, 1961), 116–134.
