HALL, Philip Henry (1923-2014) Phillip Hall, engineer and College benefactor, generously provided an endowment to the College in July 2008 to establish the
PHILIP HALL SCHOLARSHIP for academically able students entering Year 9.
Phillip was first enrolled as a day student at College on 15 February 1929 after previously attending Miss McAuliffe’s, Primary School, Neossia in Newtown. He left College in December 1940. During his education at College, Philip was a keen participant in a variety of activities ranging from his 3rd place in the Preparatory School Sack Race of 1937 to rowing in the 4th VIII and the Senior Fours in the House rowing competition of 1940. A member of the College House of Guilds, and a member of the Stamp Collectors, he won the Under 14 section of the annual College Philatelic competition in 1936. He also became a cadet sergeant of the College Cadet Corps. During World War II, while at Ridley College, he was a member of the Melbourne University Rifles from 27 October 1941 until the end of 1941.
After completing his engineering degree at Melbourne University, Philip commenced as a cadet engineer with the Commonwealth Department of Supply, later working at the ordinance factory at Maribyrnong where he was to become Manger of the Heavy Machine Division. During this period he also completed a Commerce Degree. In 1953, he resigned to establish his own management consultancy working with many major companies such as Kelvinator. In 1960, he established Halco Engineering which initially specialized in aircraft refuelling equipment but later diversified into plastics and packaging machinery. Although he retired from Halco in 1988, which he sold shortly afterwards, he retained chairmanship and part ownership of the chemicals company K & H Service Technologies which was eventually sold to the global company 3M in 2008. The Hall Family originally settled near Anakie and Phillip’s father, Henry Newman Hall (1892-1962), a grain merchant, was also educated at the College from 1905 to 1910, as were Phillip’s uncles William Phillip Hall (1889-1917) and Thomas Oswald Hall.
Sources: Philip Henry Hall. (OGC 1936).