Associate Professor Terry Harden, Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Wine & Food Sciences Head of School, remembers well his first few days in Wagga Wagga. “I arrived just before the 1974 big flood, so I was filling sandbags to save my newly adopted town. They hadn’t built the Boorooma Campus then. Times have changed dramatically.” Professor Harden retires soon after 32 years with CSU. He says highlights include “Getting the very first overseas course going for the University with our Hong Kong medical laboratory science students - there was no international office in those days. Also, one of our PhD students, Melanie Whitelaw, found a fungus that promotes the growth of wheat, and that was quite exciting, and another PhD student, Stephen Simpfendorfer, found bacteria that produced a potent anti-fungal agent.” Professor Harden and his wife are retiring to the Gold Coast to “get involved in community work, exercise, travel – I’ll be doing what I want to do.”