Graeme McIlveen

Graeme’s crew on the St Lucia Reach

Graeme McIlveen, Senior Research Fellow in the Sustainable Minerals Institute, is one of the many UQ staff members who is a member of a UQ sporting club. 

I row at UQ Boat Club with the Masters DEF men, a mix of staff, alumni and locals.  I am the grandson of a WW1 soldier who did not return from France.  I asked, on the morning of ANZAC Day this year, while our eight was out rowing up-river near the tree-lined banks at St Lucia golf course in the pre-dawn light, that we stop rowing, float with the current and hold a Minute's Silence.  The crew agreed and we did.  I could only hear the bush birds calling and the water lapping.  A good thing to do.  Very moving.   

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