Balwyn High School 1957 to 1962 Reunion
  • Welcome
  • About our 50 year reunion
  • FEEDBACK on Get-together 27 October 2012
  • Photos from 2012 Reunion Dinner
  • Lost and Found
  • Vale
  • Students' Stories: What have you been doing for the past 50 years?"
    • Andy Blunden
    • Anne Hawker (Jubb)
    • Brian Stagoll
    • Diane Kerr (Davidson)
    • David Slater and Dorothy Fergusson
    • Carol Poon
    • Dorothy Vietz (Gibson)
    • Gerd Kratzer
    • Gisela Olbrich
    • Greer Larsson (Allica)
    • Ian Priestly
    • Ian Stavely
    • John Sinclair
    • John Willis
    • Kath Semmel (McKay)
    • Lindsay Cook
    • Michael Alston
    • Otto Rehak
    • Pam Heath
    • Paul Barnard
    • Peter Barter
    • Peter Thomas
    • Peter Winford
    • Phyl Coath
    • Ray Walker
    • Robyn Dalziel
    • Roger Schnagl
    • Sue Foster (Jones)
    • Sylvia Garnham (Geddes)
    • Tim Green
    • Val Brooks (Bennett)
    • Warren Pill
  • A 1962 Teacher's Story
  • Photos and Memories of our time at BHS 1957 to 1962
    • Personal reminiscences >
      • Brian Stagoll Memories
      • Gerd Kratzer
      • Kath Semmel (McKay)
      • Lindsay Cook Memories
      • Michael Alston
      • Paul Barnard
      • Peter Barter - Nostalgic Memories
      • Peter Thomas reflections on BHS
      • Sylvia Garnham (Geddes)
      • Val Brooks (Bennett)
    • 1957 Group photos
    • 1958 Group Photos
    • 1959 Group photos
    • 1960 Group Photos
    • 1961 Group Photos
    • 1962 Group photos
    • 1963 Group Photo
    • 'Feeder' Primary Schools
    • Biology Field Trip
    • Broken Hill and Canberra Excursions 1961 and 1962
    • School Social May 1962
    • 1962 teachers
    • The Voice of the Three Per Cent
    • A student debate
    • Speech Night 1962 program
  • 1962 School Statistics
  • 'Organising mob' Contacts
  • Share your thoughts and comments Blog
  • Forum
  • 14 July 2013 gathering
  • 16 August 2014 Gathering
  • 11 November 2017 Gathering
  • 10 November 2018 Gathering

Roger Schnagl

After leaving Balwyn High School I studied for a B.Sc. at Melbourne University. I was never a great student academically (lack of application then?) but I did succed when I got into the laboratory and research. I completed my B.Sc(Hons) and PhD in the Department of Microbiology at Melbourne Uni. Research areas for the PhD were on arthropod-borne viruses and then the previously unknown human rotavirus, later to be shown to be the major cause of infantile diarrhoea in the world. After completing the PhD I worked as a post doctoral research fellow in the Department of Microbiology at Melbourne Uni. on the characterisation of human rotavirus and the potential importance of this virus in Aboriginal health in Western Australia and then Central Australia. I met my wife Heather, currently the principal of Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School, while she was doing her PhD. in immunology in a laboratory down the passage from me in the Microbiology Department.  

In 1979 I took up a position as lecturer and electron microscopist in medical microbiology in the Department of Microbiology at La Trobe University. Later became deputy head and then head of department. Research areas included the characterisation and epidemiology (spread), especially in Aboriginal communities, of human rotavirus as well as of a number of other human enteric viruses.  

I changed to part time in 2003 to complete a Diploma of Financial Planning (share investing had long been a hobby) and fully retired from the University in 2004. In 2005 I took up a position as a financial planner with a small firm and then a larger one in Camberwell and then in the Melbourne CBD. In 2010 I set up my own small practice as a financial adviser which I now run.  

I played competition squash while at and for Balwyn High and am still playing competition squash, although now at a much lower level. 
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