An interesting comment on the governance of different Research Schools in the ANU was published in the Sydney Morning Herald at the time of Ennor's farewell dinner:
If Senator Gorton was looking for a strong man to head his new Commonwealth Department of Education and Science, he has certainly found such a man in Sir Hugh Ennor. Sir Hugh is a big, hearty biochemist whose administrative talents have come into full flower at the Australian National University. Since 1953 Sir Hugh has been Dean of the John Curtin School of Medical Research, and since 1964 he has been Deputy Vice-Chancellor. Unlike the humanities schools at the Australian National University, the John Curtin School has no faculty structure. It is run entirely by the Dean. The School of Social Sciences, under Professor P. H. Partridge, is referred to jocularly as an Athenian democracy; the School of Pacific Studies, headed by Sir John Crawford until he recently became Vice-Chancellor, as a guided democracy and the John Curtin School of Medical Research as an Oriental despotism.
One of my first jobs on becoming Director was to introduce the Faculty/Faculty Board structure into the School. Fortunately, I had been a member of the Committee appointed by Vice-Chancellor Huxley and chaired by economist David Bensusan-Butt, as had Frank Gibson, Professor of Biochemistry and three senior non-professorial staff—Desmond Brown, from Medical Chemistry, Hugh Mackenzie, from Physical Biochemistry, and Bede Morris, from Experimental Pathology—along with Sir Robert Madgwick, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England and Geoffrey Sawer, Professor of Law in the Research School of Social Sciences. In May 1967, the Butt Committee produced a report recommending that there should be a Faculty consisting of all academic staff of and above the rank of Research Fellow, and a Faculty Board, composed of Heads of Departments and four members of the non-professorial academic staff elected by Faculty, with the Director as Chairman. For my term of office, as recommended by the Butt Committee, I acted as Chairman of both Faculty Board and Faculty. After my resignation in May 1973, Faculty Board decided that the Chairman of Faculty should be elected by Faculty, and Ian Marshall, my first PhD student and by then Senior Fellow, was elected to that position.