Award of Merit 2008

Ian Hickinbotham OAM (pictured with ROCA President Mr Dale Manson) was awarded the Roseworthy Old Collegians Association Award of Merit for 2009 at the ROCA Annual Reunion Dinner held in October.

Ian Laurie Hickinbotham OAM (RDOen, 1950) has made an outstanding contribution to the progression of the Australian wine industry. He studied at Roseworthy in 1948 and 1949 and

in this latter year captained/coached the premiership-winning football team.
John Vickery RDOen said Ian Hickinbotham’s contribution to the wine industry had been as a “thinker, innovator, educator and instigator of technological change...he should be proud of his achievements and the legacy he leaves for both his family and the wine industry. He is an industry icon.”

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