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22 Nov 1943
25 Feb 2024
McCLAY, David James Livingstone
In Loving Memory of
David JL McClay (AM)
Son of Zena and Arthur, Brother of Rosemarie and Pauline, Father to Louise, Jonny and William (and partner Sophie), Grandfather to Jude, Lenny, Frankie and Billy, and Partner to Michele.
To many others a friend, a teacher, an advocate, a researcher, a lover of science, literature, art, and maker of funny and sometimes, not so funny jokes!
Significant Professional Contributions included:
Principal of Milingimbi Bilingual School: 1970-1980
Deputy Director Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education: 1989-2001
For his dedication to Indigenous Education, he received an Order of Australia: 2000
Following this he wokerd as an
International Education Advisor and Consultant: 2001-2015
We will miss your intellect, humour, dogged determinism, and persistence, but most of all we will miss your reliable gentleness, warmth, and loving kindness.
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that does fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong,
Hark! Now I hear them – Ding-dong, bell.
William Shakespeare
“The Tempest”.
