for some decades has been the Wade Institute. The building is Australia's first passivhaus building, constructed to rigorous standards of sustainability and energy efficiency. In 2018, Lara McKay became master of Ormond, navigating the college through a period of change in the Melbourne student accommodation landscape, enhancing the wellbeing services available to students and leading the college successfully through the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gallery Choir The Choir of Ormond College was founded in 1982. It was an eight-part choir with twenty four choral scholars, who were both residents and non-residents of the college. From 1982 to 2010 the choir performed and recorded regularly and gave 12 international concert tours of New Zealand, Japan, Singapore and Europe. The choir last toured in 2009, which was to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. At the end of 2010, the choir was formally disbanded. In 2011 the college employed Raymond Yong as the director of music and he created a new unauditioned singing group, the Ormond Singers, which remains as an unauditioned group lead by the head of music of the Ormond Students' Club. Directors Douglas Lawrence(1982–2006) John O'Donnell (2007–2010) Raymond Yong (2011, of the Ormond Singers) List of masters 1881–1914 John Henry MacFarland 1915–1943 David Kennedy Picken (J.C. McPhee, acting master, August 1943 – September 1944) (The Revd J. E. Owen, acting master, September 1944 – December 1945) 1946–1953 Stanley L. Prescott 1954–1958 Brinley Newton-John (The Revd John S. Alexander, acting master, 1959) 1959–1979 John Davis McCaughey 1980–1989 David Henry Parker 1990–1993 Alan Gregory (Kenneth Robin Jackson, acting master, September 1992 – December 1993) 1994–2008 Hugh Norman Collins 2009–2017 Rufus E. R. Black 2018–present Lara McKay Notable alumni Politics and government Neil Brown – politician and Commonwealth Attorney-General John Button – politician and federal government minister Sir Littleton Groom- Federal Minister and Speaker in Federal Parliament Henry Cohen – State parliamentarian Sir Zelman Cowen – 19th Governor General of Australia Mark Dreyfus KC – Federal Member for Isaacs, Attorney-General of Australia Gareth Evans – Senator, academic and Commonwealth Minister of Foreign Affairs Greg Hunt – Federal Member for Flinders, Federal Minister for Health Rod Kemp – politician and federal government minister. David Kemp – politician and federal government minister. John Langmore – Federal politician, academic and diplomat Sir John Mackey – state politician Sir Robert Menzies – Prime Minister of Australia (Menzies was a non-resident postgraduate law tutor) Ian MacFarlan – Premier