I fully support the sentiments of my former classmate Jim McDonald. Tim was a teacher of conspicuous enthusiasm for his subject; to have this Cambridge scholar filling our adolescent minds with the literary greats was a daily treat for us 28 5th year boys in a 1962 country boarding school-obviously his immense talent was wasted on us 'brats' and he was soon swept into the university circuit to enchant other generations of youth. May he enjoy in perpetuity the literary wisdom of the greats. He confessed one day to 'the 28' that if he was lost on an isolated island his wished-for companions would be The Bible and works of Shakespeare thanks tim!! Father John George

Tim Kelly was the best teacher I ever had. Nearly fifty years ago, he inspired in my final year of school a love of literature and literary skills, which I have to this day. Over the years I kept in touch with him and would visit him at University of Sydney where he would take me to lunch at the Staff Club, and later in Melbourne in the Department of English there. After I moved to Queensland, we corresponded in fits and starts until a couple of years ago and he was still busy preparing his Shakespeare classes for his U3A students in Melbourne. He was an inspirational teacher,energetic, learned but with humour, a Shakespearean scholar to the end. And his legacy will live on through his students. Jim McDonald