Vice-Chancellor of Sydney University Michael Spencer handles $2.4 billion tertiary education business. At university, he looks after 67,000 students and at home, he makes himself busy to care for his own seven children and the 8th child is coming in early December.
Dr Spence became a widowed father of five when he lost his American wife Beth to cancer in 2012. After that, he met Jenny Ihn, a young, artistic Anglican minister in a church and successfully married her.
However, the couple’s journey to tie the knot was not easy.
As Reverend Ihn was a part-time PhD student at the university, Dr Spence had to get an agreement from the University Senate's Human Resources Committee each time when they made a move to forward. The couple was allowed to marry in 2015 and soon had their first son Ted.
The Spence family including several of their seven children and Reverend Ihn’s Korean parents are living together at University House. Dr Spence told the Sydney Morning Herald that his wife changed the home culture as well as home language.
Dr Spence’s oldest child James told his house is chaos with industrial cooking, but it is a fun, loud and exciting place.
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