ClassNotes Profiles
Lorna Robertson
Lorna Robertson, one of the University’s oldest foundation members and recently an Alumni member moved to Darwin from Sydney with her husband in 1989. This is her reflection of Darwin, the Cyclone and the rebuilding of a great city.
We had been visiting Darwin since before Cyclone Tracy. The cyclone cleaned up Darwin in a lot of respect and it has given us the life style we love today. I feel that Tracy was a very important event and the rebuilding of Darwin to its current form would not have happened if not for Tracy. I was privileged to be able to attend the St. Mary's Cathedral, remembrance service 10 years ago with my husband who unfortunately passed away nearly 8 years ago. He was 84 years of age when he died in February 1997. I hope to attend the 30th anniversary of Cyclone Tracy if I am not in Sydney with Family for Christmas.
I remember being in Fiji when I had pneumonia the first time. It was disappointingly warm and humid in the May when we arrived, and I remember saying to Garth (my husband) that there is only one place which you can rely on to be warm and dry at this time of the year, and it is on our doorstep, Darwin. After that experience my love affair with Darwin began and I have seen it blossom from the ‘frontier’ town it was when we first arrived in 1989. Darwin is now a city to be proud of, a jewel in Asia, or at least on Asia’s doorstep.
