Geoffrey Walter Edelsten’s graduation year, 1966, is sometimes referred to as the best graduation year because of the number of people who went on to stellar careers.

They included the likes of Dr Richard Larkins, who following a distinguished career in medical research became dean of medicine at the University of Melbourne.

Edelsten’s talents meant he was high enough on the graduation list to be accepted for an intern position at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and to be given a term working at Melbourne’s Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital – a much sought after position at the time.

I arrived at the The Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1969. I was told – and this might be apocryphal scuttlebutt – that he would often do his ward rounds at 6am or 7am, and then leave to run his record company, Hit Productions and his family’s record retail chain.