Since 1953, when staff moved to the temporary laboratories, Hugh Ennor had acted as chairman of a committee, comprising the heads of departments, which ran the School. As such, he acted as the primary channel of communication with Florey. In 1957, the University Council formally endorsed this ‘School Committee’, chaired by Ennor as Dean, as the governing body of the School. With minor concessions to other academic staff, this structure of governance continued until 1967, when a Committee of Council recommended that the John Curtin School should adopt the Faculty/Faculty Board structure that had been adopted as early as 1954 in two other Research Schools. The authors of the history of the first 50 years of the ANU (Foster and Varghese, 1996) comment on the early arrangements: ‘the notion of God Professor had extended beyond Olympian heights…when there were rumblings among "other ranks" for regular "academic staff meetings" and the creation of a faculty structure…Ennor, supported by most other members of the School Committee, firmly resisted [these suggestions].’