{"id":105,"date":"2025-09-03T22:23:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:00:05","slug":"back-to-monash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/back-to-monash\/","title":{"rendered":"A visit to Monash Clayton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peter &#8220;Bluey&#8221; McLaughlin and I were passing the Clayton Campus @ Monash today and couldn&#8217;t resist going in to look around. I hadn&#8217;t been back to the campus since our graduation in 1974, and found the changes jaw-dropping &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/menzies-building.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/menzies-building.jpg 960w, https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/menzies-building-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/menzies-building-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Robert Menzies building was still recognizable amongst the botanical landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"363\" data-id=\"108\" src=\"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/union-building-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/union-building-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/union-building-1-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/union-building-1-768x290.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But the old Union Building, now re-badged as the Campus Centre, was difficult to recognise both inside and out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/lecture-theatre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/lecture-theatre.jpg 960w, https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/lecture-theatre-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/lecture-theatre-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas the lecture theatres in the Medical Faculty (AKA Health Sciences) hadn&#8217;t changed, and brought back memories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('hiddenPlayer').style.display='block'; document.getElementById('hiddenPlayer').play(); return false;\">&#8220;Good morning class.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n<audio id=\"hiddenPlayer\" style=\"display:none;\" controls>\n  <source src=\"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/eric_pihl.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\">\n  Your browser does not support the audio element.\n<\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter &#8220;Bluey&#8221; McLaughlin and I were passing the Clayton Campus @ Monash today and couldn&#8217;t resist going in to look&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/back-to-monash\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A visit to Monash Clayton<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}