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ALOYSIA D 

‘Men for Others’

from the rector 

It is often the case that when renovations or a house move 

are undertaken, a forgotten-about treasure pops out of the 

recesses of a cupboard or drawer. Just that happened 

earlier in the year when some of our offices were relocated. 

A small book appeared, beautifully bound in leather with 

gold lettering: Vita Aloysii, “The Life of Aloysius”. Written in 

Latin. And there was an inscription: 

“Presented by Joseph J Spruson to St Aloysius’ College, 

Auburn, Bourke Street Sydney, on the occasion of the 

opening of the College, 17 September, 1883.” 

The youngest boy in the College, Christopher Kohout (Year 3), 

examines the oldest artifacte in our possession (apart from the 

sandstone wall?). Vita Aloysii is nearly fifty times Chris' age. 

Auburn was the name of the old house on the second 

College site at Darlinghurst. Spruson had no connection 

with the College. He was an Irish Catholic, a patent and 

copyright officer with the government, who also owned the 

impressive Royal Princess Hotel at Victoria 

Cross North Sydney (which boasted 

three floors and twenty rooms). He 

is recorded as one of the founders 

of the St Vincent de Paul Society in 

Sydney. A good man. And also a 

collector of books. 

I looked more closely at the 

book and was more surprised. 

It was the second edition of 

this “Life of Aloysius”, printed 

in 1609 – only eighteen 

years after Aloysius died. 

More than 400 years 

old. Spruson would 

have appreciated the 

antiquity of the book. 

He would have known 

the Jesuits at the time 

would also have 

appreciated it for 

their library. So 

this book will, at 

last, find its way 

to our Archives. But being Latin, few will ever read it from 

now on. A four-hundred-year-old collectible. 

Aloysius Gonzaga the Student. 

Attributed to El Greco 

But that “fate” does 

not disappoint me at 

all. It does not worry 

me because the life of 

Aloysius is not something 

trapped in a costly antique 

book. Rather, it is a story 

everyone here knows. It is 

a story of appeal because 

it is full of youthful idealism 

and energy. It is a story 

of virtue and service, of 

faith and justice. I know 

many Aloysians, old and 

young, who aspire to it. 

Many model and live it 

– from the youngest boy 

engaging in his first Arrupe Outreach Programme in the 

Junior School to Old Boys expressing their generosity in 

service years upon graduation. 

Recently I was given another book from Italy on the 

life of Aloysius – this one in Italian! The book was of extra 

interest in that it contained a portrait of the fourteen-year-old 

Aloysius painted while the family were with relatives at the 

court of Spain. The artist was said to be none less than 

El Greco. I had read that such a portrait existed, but had 

never seen a copy. Though not everyone agrees it is from 

the hand of that master, it certainly has some “El Greco 

touches”, especially the fine hands. Cards have been 

printed from it for the boys this Aloysius’ Day. 

Vita Aloysii is not the only slice of antiquity to come our 

way in recent times. The other concerns St Francis Xavier. 

One of the first Companions of St Ignatius – that band which 

was later to become the Society of Jesus – was Xavier. The 

two Spaniards shared a room in college at the University 

of Paris where they studied together. And Xavier was the 

hardest for Ignatius to win over. They were to become the 

best of friends. 

The young Xavier surely once imagined that upon 

his graduation, he would have returned to a secure 

and comfortable life, administering the family estates in 

Navarre, northern Spain. How wrong he was. Then, after 

joining the Jesuits, it seemed (given all his talents and noble 

connections) that an attractive ministry in Europe lay ahead 

of him. Wrong again. A need suddenly arose for Jesuits 

in the East. The King of Portugal had asked for two Jesuits 

for Goa in India. This at a time when the Jesuits numbered 

only ten. The night before sailing, one of those chosen fell 

ill. Xavier was to substitute. When told of the task, it is 

recorded he simply replied to Ignatius, “Good! I’m here 

and ready.” Within twenty-four hours, he found himself en 

route to a mission which took him to the very edge of the 

known world. He was never to see Ignatius again. Did he 

agonise over his limitations? Or over the risks (fifty percent 

St Aloysius’ College 

A Jesuit School for Boys _ Founded 1879 

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Year 12 Geography students (l-r) Tom Doolan, Ben Patterson and Alex Agius explore the Scherer map. 

of such travellers in those times perished at sea through 

shipwreck, disease or pirates)? Was he self-preoccupied? I 

think not. He was a free man and disponible. “The world is 

our home” is how early Jesuits interpreted Ignatius’ concept 

of mission and mobility. That is how Xavier lived. For the 

next twelve years he journeyed through India, present day 

Malaysia and Indonesia, then Japan. He died a lonely 

death off the coast of China in 1552, believing that if he 

could convert that nation, all of Asia would follow. In his 

missionary journeys, Xavier was at first intolerant of other 

faith traditions. But along the way, he began to understand 

what Jesuit “accommodation” (adaptation to times, places 

and circumstances) really meant. With simple beginnings, 

what we now know as inter-religious dialogue began. After 

his canonisation, Xavier was named the Patron Saint of 

Missions. So, when Australia was yet a missionary land, he 

was adopted as one of our national Patrons. 

With the assistance of a generous gift from the families of 

the 2009 Year 12 graduates, the College has been able to 

acquire a three-century old map which outlines “The Journey 

of St Francis Xavier from Europe to India and Japan”. The 

map was made by the noted Jesuit map-maker, Heinrich 

Scherer SJ (1628-1704). Scherer taught as Professor 

of Hebrew, Mathematics and Ethics at the University of 

Dillingen. Thereafter he obtained positions as tutor to the 

sons of various European nobles. It was during this period 

that his lifetime's work as a cartographer received acclaim 

and recognition. 

Scherer's World Atlas, the Atlas Novus – comprising of 

seven separate volumes – was first published in Munich in 

1702. Scholars say it formed a singularly unusual, almost 

revolutionary, work in terms of the development of European 

map-making at the beginning of the 18th Century. What 

makes Scherer's maps so unusual is their highly decorative 

Catholic iconography and the thematic nature of many of 

the maps, which draw heavily from the history and growth of 

the Jesuit order. Why would a Jesuit become a map-maker? 

In one sense, some of Scherer’s maps were “promotional” 

items, displaying very graphically the Jesuit missionary 

enterprise. But more than that. It is yet another expression 

of “finding God in all things”. Scherer had an artistic and 

technical gift, so he gave God glory by expressing it. The 

world – and all those geographies and cultures which it 

embraced – was also God’s gift. So Scherer’s pen and 

palette captured and shared that gift with others. 

Xavier’s response to Ignatius at the start of this heroic 

mission was bursting with enthusiasm. In the last letter he wrote, 

still fired up and only three weeks before his death, that he was 

planning to go to Siam should his entry to China be frustrated. 

A man of bold dreams and desires to the end. 

“Direct me for the best!” prayed Aloysius. “I’m here and 

ready!” was Xavier’s response to an apostolic need. Fine 

Patrons for our boys. Models for us all. 

Fr Ross Jones SJ 

Rector 

THE ALOYSIAD 

Executive Editor: Fr Ross Jones SJ 

Editor: Murray Happ (SAC 1985) 

Assistant Editor: Magar Etmekdjian 

Printing: 

The Precision Printers Pty Ltd 

Circulation: 10,000 

E-Mail: 

murray.happ@staloysius.nsw.edu.au 


Senior: 47 Upper Pitt Street, Milsons Point NSW 2061 

Telephone: 02 9922 1177, Fax: 02 9929 6414 

Junior: 29 Burton Street, Milsons Point NSW 2061 

Telephone: 02 9955 9200, Fax: 02 9955 0736 

Website: www.staloysius.nsw.edu.au 

Cover pic: The Cast of The Producers. 


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from the principal 

At our opening Senior School Assembly for 2010, 

thirty-three of our graduates of 2009 were our 

guests. Others of our top forty academic achievers 

were overseas on Gap years. Alex Cubis, son of Brent 

Cubis (SAC 1977), was acknowledged as College Dux 

and spoke of his experience of school. The presence at the 

Assembly of the graduates from the prior year has become 

something of a tradition in recent years. They are rightly 

held up as models for the younger students, for as I noted 

at the assembly: 

At this school we refer frequently to the ideal of generosity 

and to the goal of the formation of the whole person. These 

young men have embodied our ideals and they show that 

one can achieve academic excellence and at the same time 

be generous in participation and involvement. Two have 

represented Australia in sport; many played for our Firsts in 

various sports. Four have had their work selected for State 

exhibition in Drama, Music and Art. Thirty-six undertook the 

Kairos Retreat. Some have just returned from an immersion 

experience in Vietnam; some will be working this year in 

an orphanage in Africa. Some were leaders of the College 

Cadet Unit, while others were members of our St Vincent 

de Paul and Benenson Societies. Some were outstanding 

school leaders, while others were among the quiet members 

of the Year level. They were involved across every aspect 

of school life. They grew in friendship and in generosity. 

Their presence here is a reminder that whether you aspire 

to excellence in your studies, or in any other area of activity 

or interest, it is possible to achieve success and to be ‘men 

for others’. It is possible to develop the whole person – this 

is our dream for every student here this morning. Their 

presence this morning should give us confidence in this task 

of growth and education. 

This year the academic performance of the school, as 

with all schools, has come under added scrutiny thanks to 

the launch of the Federal Government’s My School website. 

The launch has been accompanied by ongoing debate 

about the accuracy and efficacy of this approach. Many 

parents are attracted to the ideas of accountability 

and transparency, while many 

professionals in the area argue 

about its equity and its impact 

on teaching and learning. The 

press also played the launch as 

a freedom of information issue 

and provided a spectacular 

four-page State-wide league 

table. 

St Aloysius’ fared well 

in The Sydney 

M o r n i n g 

Herald’s 

tables, ranked 

twenty-second 

in the State 

in the Senior 

School (and ranked the second highest non-government 

school) and thirteenth in the State in the Junior School. In the 

Government’s own listing of ‘like schools’ across the nation 

we stood out in our grouping of schools, second only to 

Sydney Grammar School. The spotlight was heightened 

when The Weekend Australian published in May what 

it described as ‘the definitive list of Australia’s best 100 

primary and secondary schools for literacy and numeracy’. 

St Aloysius’ featured in the top thirty schools in all four lists 

in the newspaper. 

It should be said that while such results were very 

pleasing, broadly speaking they should be expected, as 

we are a partially selective school. We are not selective 

in the sense of a James Ruse High School or a Sydney 

Grammar School, but we do have an entry examination 

as a factor in the selection process because of our more 

limited curriculum in the Senior years. On the other hand, 

we do not offer any academic scholarships (one way that 

schools have of maintaining a certain level of HSC results). 

It could also be argued that many other schools are de 

facto partially selective through their interview process and 

the fees they charge. Additionally, one could note that St 

Aloysius’ has relatively large class sizes and more modest 

resources than some of the bigger, more expensive schools, 

though of course we compare well in resources to the 

majority of schools. 

Leaving aside the issue of publicity for the moment, My 

School will have some value to the College, especially 

as information accumulates over a number of years. It 

might enable us to recognise relative weaknesses in our 

programme in a particular area of the curriculum, or a 

relative weakness in a particular cohort that needs more 

attention. The ability to compare ourselves to other schools 

that we judge as relevant to our style and population is of 

more use than simply having our statistics compared to a 

generic State average. 

It is worth noting, however, from the point of view of the 

site’s intention to better inform parents, that parents need 

to be fully aware of its limitations and of the problems that 

may be associated with a publically accessible site and the 

attendant league tables. 

Firstly, in terms of accountability, schools such as ours 

already provide consistent, hard evidence of what is, or is 

not, working. The national Naplan testing of literacy and 

numeracy in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9, the Year 6 Religious 

Education test in Sydney, the numerous University-sponsored 

competitions we enter, the fifteen formal school examination 

periods from Years 3-12, the School Certificate and the 

Higher School Certificate, all give specific feedback to 

parents on their sons’ academic progress. 

Secondly, the publicity surrounding My School carried 

too much ideological colour. Much initial coverage was 

framed around government versus non-government schools, 

often with inaccurate or superficial detail. Such reports are 

often linked to comment on Federal Government funding of 

non-government schools, ignoring the fact that 80% of all 



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Top achievers 2009 HSC 

Government funding goes to government schools, when, for 

example, in cities nearly 50% of secondary school students 

attend the non-government sector. 

Thirdly, what was largely ignored was that perhaps 

the biggest issue in public education, especially in NSW, 

namely the relation between Government selective and 

comprehensive schools. The data clearly identifies this as 

being the biggest range in results between schools. It is 

clear that there are a number of factors that could influence 

or distort rankings, as distinct from the quality of each 

school, factors that render comparisons in league tables 

questionable. Recorded differences based on geography, 

between states, and between city and country, go beyond 

the performance of individual schools. The evidence suggests 

that the socio-economic status of parents has an impact in 

determining the ‘best’ schools, though it is encouraging to 

see a school such as Macquarie Fields High School do so 

well, while some very wealthy schools are not on the lists. 

Gender is also a factor, so that, for example, over 50% of 

the top fifty secondary schools in literacy are girls’ schools, 

while less than 25% in numeracy are girls’ schools. 

The downside to this competitive, public outing is that 

schools may focus strongly on teaching to the Naplan tests. 

Anecdotal accounts already point to some schools heavily 

focusing on this testing, even though, unlike say the HSC, 

such tests were not intended for such use. They are meant 

to be diagnostic tools for identifying issues with students 

and teaching, and not as mechanisms of assessment. 

Tutoring and coaching and undue focus in the classroom 

will distort such results and even render them invalid as 

tools to improve literacy and numeracy. Another drawback 

of the focus on Naplan testing is that such a narrow focus 

may impact adversely on the teaching of the creative arts, 

science, social sciences and the like. 

The focus on academic results should not blind us to the 

wider implications of the various approaches to the roles of 

schools in contemporary education. One of the challenges 

facing schools is the sheer range of expectations placed 

on them – educating the young and/or preparing them for 

the workforce, conferring life-skills and/or teaching students 

to think, acting as substitute parents and being part of the 

welfare net, transmitting cultural identity, and so on. In all this 

there sometimes seems to be an ever-rising tide of pressures 

on students and schools alike: the impact of technology in 

areas such as cyber-bullying and social networks, drugs, 

violence, family breakdown and conflicting models of 

parenting, mental illness, confusion over values, and so on. 

Naturally enough we question as to how we can provide 

a safe and nurturing environment, as well as one that is 

competitive and successful. 

The novelist, Kurt Vonnegut, has reflected: “What should 

young people do with their lives today? Many things 

obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable 

communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can 

be cured”. I’m not sure that many of us would associate 

community building with being “the most daring thing”, but 

however we look at the world, whether from the point of the 

environment or economics, from the viewpoint of justice, or 

the healthiness of relationships, to issues of depression and 

acceptance, the challenge to make better community is a 

compelling one. 

The New York Times recently detailed a study identifying 

the root of many problems in schools (poor academic 

performance, bullying etc) as resulting from the fact that 

“some students just don’t feel any ‘connectedness’ to their 

school, the teachers, other students or even their parents”. 

This can lead them to believe that no one will worry or 

even notice if they do badly, and can even encourage 



from the principal (cont'd) 

poor behaviour to attract attention. The study, from the 

American Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and 

the Division of Adolescent and School Health, focuses on 

the various protective factors that influence the well-being 

of students. It concludes that “of the protective factors, 

school connectedness was found to have huge impact on 

the health, well-being and educational outcomes of the 

students”. The challenge then, for schools and parents was 

to forge connectedness. 

Educational research has increasingly validated this 

focus on community, and on the significance that is 

attached to school community and to student connectedness 

with school. Authors over recent years have increasingly 

highlighted school culture or climate, teacher-student 

relationships, student engagement and school spirit or 

bonding, to describe that sense of belonging that can 

influence, positively or otherwise, student learning, and 

even student well-being. 

The nurturing of a sense of community at Aloysius’ thus 

serves both a formative role in preparing the boys for the 

world, and an educational role in influencing learning and 

performance. Encouraging participation and involvement in 

a wide range of school activities, providing opportunities 

for community, giving priority to experiences of belonging 

and connecting, all help prepare the boys for a world in 

need of a stronger sense of community, both locally and 

globally, while also improving their educational outcomes. 

By and large, friendships are made and treasured at 

St Aloysius’ College, and comments from the outsider are 

frequently made as to how well the boys know each other, 

even across Year levels. Our relatively small size ensures that 

the boys do come to know each other. The Tutor System, 

the Pastoral Services’ Team, our retreat programmes, the 

involvement of Prefects with the younger Years, all seek to 

build connectedness. It must be stressed that they are not 

incidental to the academic enterprise. We seek to forge 

opportunities for connectedness by providing opportunities 

for teamwork or creativity or friendship. The remarkably 

wide co-curricular programme here at the College, which 

gives priority to student participation in activities where they 

will gain life, and where they can give support to each 

other, plays an important role in helping the boys to feel 

that they belong, are valued and are happy. Sport, Music, 

Drama, Debating and Cadets all play an invaluable role 

in connecting the boys, in providing good experiences 

of belonging and participation. Studies have also shown 

that faith and active membership of a faith community are 

also significant protective factors. In a school context our 

expression of our faith, through liturgy and prayer, can 

strongly reinforce our sense of belonging and the values that 

shape our identity. 

The College is a strong academic performer; I would 

like to think that it is an even strong performer as an 

educational community. 

Fr Chris Middleton SJ 

College Principal 

AMDG 

The 2010 Australia Day 

Honours List 

The College warmly congratulates the following Old 

Boys who were recognised in the 2010 Australia 

Day Honour's List: 

Rev Fr Dr Peter L'Estrange SJ, AO (SAC 1966) who 

was awarded an Officer in the General Division of the 

Order of Australia (AO) for service to higher education 

and to the community through the Catholic Church as an 

administrator and academic. Fr L'Estrange was for many 

years the Rector of Newman College at the University 

of Melbourne and is a Past Rector of Campion College, 

Oxford. He is currently at Georgetown University in 

Washington DC as Special Assistant to the President of 

the University. 

Don Burke OAM (SAC 1964) was awarded a Medal 

in the General Division of the Order of Australia (OAM) 

for service to conservation and the environment through 

advisory roles, to the horticulture industry, and to the 

media as a television producer and presenter. For many 

years Don hosted his own show, Burke's Backyard on 

the Nine Network and has produced a number of other 

lifestyle shows for television. 

Professor Andrew Short OAM (SAC 1963) was 

awarded a Medal in the General Division of the Order 

of Australia (OAM) for service to science in the area of 

coastal studies, and to the Australian Beach Safety and 

Management Programme. Andy is widely regarded 

as Australia's foremost authority on coastal issues like 

beach erosion and is leading research into the possible 

effects of climate change on Australia's coastline. 

Barry Rubie OAM (SAC 1949) was awarded a 

Medal in the General Division of the Order of Australia 

(OAM) for service to the community through the Asthma 

Foundation of Western Australia. Barry has been 

involved in the Asthma Foundation of Western Australia 

for many years and was honoured for his work by being 

appointed an Honorary Life Member of the Foundation. 

He has served on the board of the Foundation for many 

years and has been a tireless fundraiser and advocate 

for Asthma. 

The College warmly congratulates each man for his 

award. 

Laus Deo Semper 



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from the development office 

In every corner of the College, students, staff and Jesuits 

are benefiting from the faith-filled generosity of you, our 

benefactors. The extraordinary generosity of the Aloysian 

Family over the past year has enabled the College to 

provide better facilities for our boys, more educational aids 

to promote and encourage a greater sense of learning and 

has assisted a large number of boys through the provision 

of means-tested bursaries. 

Dalton Hall rises from the excavation site. 

Junior School - new buildings. 

The ongoing financial support of the entire Aloysian 

Family is vital if we are to remain at the forefront of boys’ 

education in Australia. 

Phase I of the College Masterplan, the extension of and 

renovation to the Junior School was completed in October 

2009. This work, costing over $2.5 million has seen 

the construction of a multi-purpose room, specialist Music 

facilities, a Science laboratory, sports storage equipment, 

a new under-croft play area and some tutorial rooms. The 

Junior School students and staff report that the facilities are a 

great improvement and have enabled the College to reduce 

the number of students in classes, whilst retaining the overall 

student numbers in the Junior School. 

Phase II of the Masterplan, the construction of a new 

building next to Wyalla commenced in October 2009. This 

building, to be known as Dalton Hall, after the Founder of 

the College, Rev Fr Joseph Dalton SJ, will provide the College 

with much needed facilities. Dalton Hall will be home to a 

new College Gymnasium, a championship size basketball 

and volleyball court, a 25 metre indoor pool, eight new 

classrooms, some tutorial and seminar rooms, change room 

facilities, off-court training areas and the College Uniform 

Shop. Dalton Hall is scheduled for completion in late 2010, 

ready for Day 1 of Term I, 2011. 

Phase III of the Masterplan, the renovation of the 

Main School Building will hopefully commence in 2012, 

depending on funds being available. 

This work will see the creation of specialist Music and 

Drama facilities, the construction of a new College Canteen 

and casual dining area (very popular with the boys!) and 

the renovation of existing classrooms 

The College is humbled by the active generous support 

of so many people. In 2009 over 3,000 donations were 

made to the College Foundation. These gifts totalled more 

than $1,800,000, a significant increase on the 2008 

figure of $1,300,000. 

On behalf of the students, staff and Jesuits of the College 

I would like to thank every member of the Aloysian Family 

for their generous financial and personal support of St 

Aloysius’ College. With the ongoing support of everyone, 

our great school can only get better! 

Murray Happ (SAC 1985) 

Director of Development 

Junior School - new buildings 

Excavation work on the site of Dalton Hall. 



from the development office (cont'd) 

 

Mr and Mrs V Aboud Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D Acton SAC 1988 

Mr and Mrs A Alexandrou Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A Ashcroft Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs G Ashton-Maxwell Past Parent 

Mr A J Avery 

Current Parent 

Dr P Bannon SAC 1944 

Mr and Mrs S Bartels SAC 1981 

Mr and Mrs A Baumgart Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs B Begbie Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R Benitez Current Parent 

Mr N Bennett SAC 1946 

Mr S Biddle SAC 1989 

Mr L D Blattmann and Ms B M McGree 


Dr G Boffa OAM and Mrs L Boffa Past Parent 

Mr J F Bourgeois SAC 1959 

Mr and Mrs D F Brimson SAC 1977 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs W P Burton SAC 1944 

Mrs P Cahalan 

Past Parent 

Dr and Mrs A P Cahill SAC 1935 

Anonymous 


Dr G E Carroll SAC 1973 

Mr T J Cavill and Ms A J Mirams SAC 1980 Current Parent 

Mrs A Chalk 

Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs A P L Chalmers Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs B Chan Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D P H Chan Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs J M Chase Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs R Chen-Chow Past Parent 

Dr and Mrs C Cheng Current Parent 

Mr D J Chick and Dr K E Ilbery Past Parent 

Mr B J Clarke SAC 2000 

Mr and Mrs B Clibborn Past Parent 

Mr M R Cockburn and Mrs R Crowe 

Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs M Conlon Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P F Cordi Current Parent 

Mr P Cornwell and Ms C Rice Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D P Courtenay Current Parent 

Dr K R Cramer SAC 1956 

Mr R D J Crawford and Ms A Gum Gee 


Mr L J Creek and Ms H M Barrett 


Mr and Mrs P Crellin SAC 1986 

Mr M A Cromer SAC 1993 

Mr M G Crooks SAC 1985 

Mr L P Crowley SAC 1942 

Mr and Mrs M S Crumpton Current Parent 

Mr A M Daly and Ms R A Burton Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D Dang Current Parent 

Dr S M Danieletto Past Parent 

Mr C W Davies and Mrs G Wong-Davies 


Mr R De Fina SAC 1958 

Mr and Mrs P J de Gail Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D L Deetlefs Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R A Dembecki Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R Dennett Past Parent 

Mr X H J Desdoigts and Ms F Coonan 


Mr and Mrs K F Dixon Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs S J Dixon Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs T D'Netto Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs T J Doolan Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P J Downs SAC 1987 Current Parent 

Mr P Doyle and Ms M Cassidy Current Parent 

Mr H W Driver SAC 1993 

Mrs L Duffy and Mr J Duffy Current Parent 

Mrs M C Duncan and Dr R Baber Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D A Dwyer SAC 1988 

Dr and Mrs R P Eaton Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs B M Egan SAC 1967 Past Parent 

Mr V Egan OAM SAC 1935 

Mr J Elhindi and Ms J Mansour Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D H Emanuel SAC 1962 Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs R E Evans SAC 1983 Current Parent 

Mr P Evans SAC 1964 

Mrs S Favaloro 

Past Parent 

Mr P F Flynn SAC 1952 

Mr and Mrs P T Ford SAC 1954 Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs J Fox-Smith Past Parent 

Dr and Mrs P Freeman SAC 1968 

Mr and Mrs J Fuentes Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs T D Gabbedy Current Staff Member 

Dr L E Georgeson OAM SAC 1944 

Mr and Mrs M Georgeson Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs R L Giannone Current Parent 

Dr G Gibson SAC 1945 

Mr N J Gibson and Ms I Rusak Current Parent 

Mr P D Grace and Ms A G Pearman 


Mr and Mrs J B Grant Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs C S Greaves Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs D Green Current Staff Member 

Mr and Mrs K Greenaway SAC 1955 

Mr and Mrs G Hajjar Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs B D Hamer SAC 1959 Past Parent 

Mr M G Hand and Ms R Stanley Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M J Happ SAC 1985 

Current Staff Member 

Mrs S P Harrison 


Mr and Mrs J M Hartigan Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs B L Hayes Current Parent 

Assoc Prof and Mrs B T Haylen SAC 1970 Past Parent 

Mr P Haylen SAC 1978 

Mr and Mrs B J Heddle Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A J K Hioe Past Parent 

Mr R H L S Ho and Mrs E I Lie Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M J Humphreys Current Parent 

Mr A Hyde SAC 1955 

Mr and Mrs P Iliffe Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs R Ingui Current Parent 

Investec Bank (Australia) Limited Friend of the College 

Mr and Ms J P Jacobs Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R J Janssen Current Parent 

Mr B J Jenkins SAC 1943 

Mr and Mrs J B Kain Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs P J Kavalamthara Current Parent 

Mr R Keaney SAC 1982 

Mr H Kendy and Ms M Odagaki Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S R Knight Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs A J Knox Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs E B Korhonen Current Parent 

Mr F Kunc SC, KHS and Ms F J Rourke 


Mrs D Landers 

Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs O E Larach Past Parent 

Mr L B S Lee 


Mr and Mrs K A Leighton Current Parent 

Mrs C J Leong 


Mrs I L'Estrange 

Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs S D Levy Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs P Lewis Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs S D Lewis Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D A Lidbetter SAC 1988 Current Parent 

Mr D Lill and Ms M M C Leung SAC 1983 

Mrs N Lill 

Past Parent 

Mr M Lopresti SAC 1997 

Mr Y Lui and Mrs S Cheung Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P C Lynch Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs L Macken SAC 1983 

Mr and Mrs G J Malouf Current Parent 

Mr C J Manion and Mrs C M Logan 


Dr F Martin AM and Mrs M Martin 

Past Parent 

Mrs V Maruno 

Past Parent 

Mr J F Mastrangelo Jr and Mrs L Mastrangelo Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs V Mateffy SAC 1979 Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs G P May Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs T M Mazaraki SAC 1986 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D P McCarthy SAC 1944 

Mr N McCarthy and Ms S J Vincent 


Mr and Mrs M McClatchey Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S J McEwen Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M McFadden SAC 1948 Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs P McGirr SAC 1965 Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs A J McGloin Current Parent 

Dr G R McNally and Dr S Lynch Current Parent 

Mrs B McNally and Mr J McNally Friend of the College 

Miss M Meyer 


Emeritus Professor J F Miller AC FAA FRS SAC 1948 

Mr and Mrs G J Mitchell Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A Molloy SAC 1988 

Mr A J Moon SAC 1987 

Mr and Mrs M Morris SAC 1955 

Mr R G Morris and Dr P Hector Past Parent 

Mr P Morton SAC 1947 

Mr and Mrs B Moscaritolo Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R Murphy Current Parent 

Mr L A Newton SAC 2006 

Mr and Mrs A Nicotra Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs I A Nimac Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs M C Nissen SAC 1983 Current Parent 

Mr and Dr J W Nolan Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs B C Noonan Current Parent 

Mr C H Norville SAC 1944 

Professor Emeritus Sir G Nossal AC CBE FAA FRS 

and Lady L Nossal SAC 1947 

Mr and Mrs D Nott Past Parent 

Mrs J Nysen 

Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs M J O'Donnell Current Parent 

Mrs L M Oehlers and Mr J G Oehlers 

Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs A S Ojong Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs B O'Loughlin SAC 1987 

Mrs M O'Loughlin Past Parent 

The Hon Judge J O'Meally AM, RFD and Mrs M O'Meally 

Past Parent 

Mr G O'Neill SAC 1956 

Dr K O'Shannessy SAC 1959 

Mr S A Pacak and Ms R M Nelson 


Mr and Mrs T E Parker Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M L Pastega Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R J Pelletier SAC 1968 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M Peric Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M Perkins Current Parent 

Assoc Prof and Mrs V Perkovic Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S G Perks Current Parent 

Mr T Perriman SAC 1949 

Mr A Perry SAC 1959 

Mr and Mrs V C Pham Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J J F Playoust SAC 1949 

Mr H J Polin SAC 1936 

Mr and Mrs K Poon Past Parent 

Rev Fr P Quilty SAC 1954 

Mr and Mrs A B Raeside Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P M Rafferty Past Parent 

Mr B Rathborne SAC 1953 

Mr P L Richardson Past Parent 

Mr A Robertson SAC 1942 

Mr H Robinson 

Friend of the College 

Mr and Mrs C T Rowbotham SAC 1971 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs I Russell SAC 1948 

Ms A Rustamzadeh Current Parent 

Mr A J Ryan SAC 1946 

Mr A T S Ryrie and Ms S M Sherwood 


Mr and Mrs G San Pedro Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs T P Scollon Past Parent 

Mr J B Scroope SAC 1942 

Dr J H Seymour FRCS, FRACS SAC 1940 

Professor A G Shannon AM Past Staff Member 

Mr and Mrs P W A Sherlock Current Parent 



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Mr J H Sherwin SAC 1945 

Mr and Mrs C S Shum Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs S Sims Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S G Sinclair Current Parent 

Prof and Dr A P Sindone Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs T Smyth Past Parent 

Dr and Dr R M Sorial Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs E D Spooner Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs L Sudarmana Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs J B Sullivan SAC 1943 

Mr V P Sweeney and Mrs J Pastega 

SAC 1972 

Mr and Mrs K Szymanski Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs R Tai 

Past Parent 


Mr S Tandjung and Mrs J Wijono Current Parent 

Mr G M M Thompson SAC 1949 

Mr P A Thompson SAC 1948 

Mr and Mrs L A Ticehurst SAC 1979 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S Trovato Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs V Tsang Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M T Tsang Past Parent 

Mr I A Tsang SAC 2005 

Mrs D Vincent 


Mr and Mrs E Vozzo Current Parent 

Mr W G Wade and Ms P McCarthy 


Mr and Mrs M J Walcott Current Parent 

Mr V M Walsh SAC 1948 

Mr and Mrs S B Walters Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs T M White Past Parent 

Mr L A White and Mrs C E Allibone-White 


Mrs J Wilkinson 

Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs W Winship SAC 1944 

Mr and Mrs H H C Wong SAC 1983 

Mr P G Wyatt SAC 1963 

Dr and Mrs B Wyeth Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs K Yee Past Parent 

Mr C J Yee SAC 2003 

Mr and Mrs G Zakos Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs W Zhang Current Parent 

 


Mr and Mrs R M Aldridge Past Parent 

Dr and Mrs P W Anderson Current Parent 

Ms M Armstrong 

Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs G Ashton-Maxwell Past Parent 

Mr J A Barnes SAC 1956 

Mr and Mrs J P Bartolotta Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs L Benaud Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs J R Bergin SAC 1957 Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs W M Bergin SAC 1968 


Mr and Mrs T G Bradbury SAC 1983 

Mr S J Bright SAC 1969 


Mr and Mrs M Brown Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs B J Buncle Current Parent 

Mr K Burges SAC 1946 

Dr and Mrs T Carroll Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs M A Casey Current Parent 

Mr A J Chalk and Ms S M Singarayar 

SAC 1980 Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs E S K Chan Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P Choy Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M D Collins Current Parent 

Mr D C Collins SAC 1962 

Mr and Mrs A Coulton Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs L Crisanti Current Parent 

Mrs P Cunningham Past Parent 

Mr P G Currie SAC 1948 

Mr and Mrs A J Darwell SAC 1981 

Mr C T Davitt SAC 1996 


Mr P de Lasala SAC 1975 

Mr D J Dignam SAC 1964 

Mr H C Dillon and Mrs A K Britton 

SAC 1970 

Mr P B Donnelly SAC 1944 

Mr H W Driver SAC 1993 

Dr and Mrs D M Droulers SAC 1944 

Mr and Mrs X Droulers SAC 1947 

Mr and Mrs P Dugan Past Parent 


Mr and Mrs P M Ellis Current Parent 

Mr and Ms R P Emery Current Parent 

Mrs J M Evans 


Mr and Mrs M I Fitzgerald Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs M P France Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs P C Frederiksen Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs C P Gall Current Parent 

Dr G Gibson SAC 1945 

Mr and Mrs T W Gillis SAC 1980 Current Parent 

Mrs L Gillis SAC 1940 Past Parent 

Dr and Mrs P Goldrick SAC 1984 

Mr and Mrs K Greenaway SAC 1955 

Rev Fr J F Grumitt SJ Friend of the College 

Mr D I Hamilton SAC 1948 




Mr M D Healey and Mrs M A Hamilton 

Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs A M Hogan Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs G A Holloway 

Dr R Honner SAC 1952 

Mr and Mrs L Ioannou SAC 1996 

Mr P M Irvin SAC 1944 


Mr and Mrs A G Johnston Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs F Jordan Current Parent 

The Late Hon J Kearney QC, KCSG and Mrs M Kearney 

SAC 1938 

Anonymous SAC 1955 

Mr and Mrs A Kinnear SAC 1983 

Mr C Kitching SAC 1981 

Dr and Mrs F X Lah Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs R Lamerand SAC 1949 

Mr and Mrs S H Lee Current Parent 

Mr L B S Lee 


Mr and Mrs P A Lewis Current Parent 


Mr R N Lipinski SAC 1992 

Dr and Mrs J E Macken SAC 1940 

Mr and Mrs C Madden Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs R J Masson Past Parent 

Mr A C Masson SAC 1988 

Mr M E Masson SAC 1995 

Dr M A McGuigan SAC 1943 

Mr and Mrs S A McSweeney SAC 1975 

Mr and Mrs R Meagher Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs B G Menzies Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs A Molloy SAC 1988 

Mr and Mrs T E Moult Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs W Mueller Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P G Nacard SAC 1960 Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs P J Naughton SAC 1955 

Mr and Mrs P Nicolaou Current Parent 


Mr C H Norville SAC 1944 

Mr P T O'Connor SAC 1975 

Mrs E M O'Toole 


Mr S A Pacak and Ms R M Nelson 


Mr G Parry SAC 1956 Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs D Patterson Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs R S Pearsall Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs M J Peck Past Parent 

Dr and Mrs R D Perry Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J Pfister Current Parent 

Mr S Porcaro and Ms N Ackarie Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs F Pucci Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs W E Rathborne SAC 1965 Past Parent 

Mrs A Roach 

Past Parent 

Dr J S Roarty SAC 1941 

Mr and Mrs P J Roberts Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A P Robertson SAC 1954 

Mr P J Robertson AM and Mrs L Robertson 

SAC 1970 

Mr I Rolfe SAC 1964 

Mr and Mrs L I Rozman Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs S J Rubic Current Parent 

Mr V P Ruehl and Ms J A Hewett Current Parent 

Mr R T Ryan SAC 1943 Past Parent 

Mr R Scarf (Memorial Foundation) 


Mrs A Schaafsma 

Past Parent 

Dr and Mrs M Shanahan Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs J Simic Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs I E Skinner Current Parent 

Mr P Sochacki SAC 1965 

Mrs S Y Soohoo 

Past Parent 

St Aloysius' College Old Boys' Union 

St Aloysius' College Parent and Friends Committee 

The Hon Mr Justice T J Studdert QC and Mrs J Studdert 

SAC 1952 

Mr and Mrs H Sutanto Current Parent 

Mr W Taylor and Ms V Howard Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs J T Toohey Past Parent 

Mr S T Toohey SAC 2007 

Mr and Mrs P J Verschuer Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R von Gutzeit Past Parent 

Dr and Mrs D Walker Past Parent 

Mrs S Weress 

Past Parent 

Dr W L Williams SAC 1940 

Mr and Mrs J Woerde Past Parent 

Dr E Wong and Dr C Ko SAC 1983 

Mr and Dr T Woodbury SAC 1985 

Rev Fr W J Wright PP SAC 1970 

Rev Fr B C Yates SAC 1947 

 


Anonymous 

Past Parent 


Mr and Mrs M G Boffa SAC 1982 Current Parent 

Mrs and Mr L M Boffa Current Parent 

Mr J F Bourgeois SAC 1959 


Mrs H Burch and Mr D Burch Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs W P Burton SAC 1944 

Mrs P Cahalan 

Past Parent 

Dr and Mrs P M Carter Current Parent 

Mr C Cheuk SAC 2006 


Mr M J Crawford and Mrs C M Finlay 

SAC 1980 

Mr and Mrs C D'Cruz Current Parent 

Mr P A De Baun SAC 1955 


Mr and Mrs B Devaraj Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M J Donohoe SAC 1967 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J F Duffy Current Parent 

Mrs M C Duncan and Dr R Baber 


Mr P Evans SAC 1964 

Mr M A Fargas SAC 1974 

Mr P I Farmer 

Past Staff Member 

Mr M J Fisher 

Past Parent 




Mr and Mrs T J Giersz Current Parent 




Mr J A Holland 


Mr and Mrs C J Holmes Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs R Kassabian Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S Kim Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P Knoblanche Current Parent 

Mr F Kunc SC, KHS and Ms F J Rourke 


Mr and Mrs P J Larbalestier Current Parent 

Mr J A Law SAC 1948 

Mr and Mrs J Le Gras SAC 1953 

Mr L B S Lee 


Dr I S Lovett and Ms C M Mullane 


Mr and Mrs N Macken SAC 1974 Current Parent 

Mr T A Mackerras SAC 1973 

Mr J P Mair and Ms L Malady SAC 1987 

Mr and Ms M Maneschi SAC 1979 

Mr M Marriner 

Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs M J McCann Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R Meagher Past Parent 

Mr E M Meyer SAC 1943 

Mr P T Morrison SAC 1974 

Mr and Mrs P Mouret SAC 1984 

Mr and Mrs K J Murray Current Parent 


Mr P M O'Donnell SAC 1978 

Mr and Mrs W M Painter Current Parent 

Mr T Peh and Ms G M Banks Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs F Peronace Current Parent 



Dr and Mrs R Sahagian Current Parent 

Mrs M Salmi and Mr M G Salmi Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs B J Scott Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs L D G Sheldon Current Parent 

Mr J H Sherwin SAC 1945 

Mr and Mrs C S Shum Past Parent 



Anonymous 


Mrs G J Veersema Past Parent 

Mrs D Vincent 


Mr and Mrs A Vlachos Current Parent 

Mrs C Waddle 

Past Parent 

Rev Fr B C Yates SAC 1947 

 

Mrs D M Alexandrou and Mr A Alexandrou 




Mr and Mrs M S Morgan SAC 1973 Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs R Sahagian 


 

Mr and Mrs C Adams Current Parent 

Mr S Cray and Mrs M Austin Cray 




Mr and Mrs J J Barry Current Parent 

Mr A Baume and Mrs R Arthur Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs T M Blythe Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs T Borden Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs G M Browning Current Parent 

Mr R I Chambers and Ms G Y S Chan 


Mr and Mrs A Chan Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs K Chan Past Parent 


Mr W Cheng and Dr T Lai Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A Chin Current Parent 

Mr P Christie and Ms M Hardy Current Parent 


Mr M A Connaghan and Ms F M Tiver 


Mr and Mrs P Coolentianos Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs P C Corkill Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P L Cornelius Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs F J Daher Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A C Dainton Current Parent 

Mr R V Quirk and Ms R A Davies 


Mr and Mrs R A de Waal SAC 1980 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J E Dennett Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs L J Diamond Current Parent 

Mr R Dick and Ms E Shiel Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D M Ebbs Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs J O Ferreira Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J Field Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S A Fittler Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A Francis Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs T J Freed Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M J French SAC 1985 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J S Garnon Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P J Gibson Current Parent 

Ms I Rusak and Mr N J Gibson Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P R Gillman Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M J Goodman Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D F Gorman Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S J Graham Current Parent 

Mr D P Murray and Ms C H Gygax 


Mr and Mrs A Handisurya Current Parent 

Cpt and Mrs D R Haywood Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P Heuzenroeder Current Parent 

Mr I Ho and Mrs D Tcheng-Ho Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs A J C Hughes Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs T Ibrahim Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R Ienco Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P A Irving Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R A D Jackson Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs W J Jammal Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs B J Jenkins SAC 1976 Current Parent 

Mr H Kendy and Ms M Odagaki Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P J Kingston Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs W J Laukka Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P A Lewis Current Parent 

Anonymous 


Mr and Mrs M S Lindsay SAC 1978 Current Parent 

Mrs W Linsao and Mr W Linsao Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P Long Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs P R MacIntyre Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs O Mann Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A I Marks Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs C J May Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs M F McAlary Past Parent 



Mr and Mrs D G McCreton SAC 1979 Current Parent 

Mr S D McDonagh and Ms E M Tydd 


Dr and Dr A E Mechtler Current Parent 

Ms N Mencinsky 


Mr and Mrs G Milosavljevic Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs D Moiso Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs G Morel Current Parent 


Mr P G Mouatt and Ms T Daly Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs R W Mowbray Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs G M Murray SAC 1974 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs Z Nalbandian Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs M Nissen SAC 1983 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M Nissen Current Parent 

Mr W O'Mara and Ms L J Booth Current Parent 



Mr and Mrs S F Pierce Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P W Pindsle Current Parent 

Ms M Pitton and Mr L Hereward Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs M R Riches Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs G A Russell Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P T Ryan Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs H Sarkissian Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P L D Scicluna Current Parent 

Mr C Scott and Ms J C Ryan Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs D R N K Siow Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs B N Stene Current Parent 

Mr R Talas and Ms E Quinlan Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs J E Tapang Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs D A Taylor Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A Tcharlassian Current Parent 

Mr and Dr F Telan Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs B Testa Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs C H Thomson Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs W D Thomson Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs J L Walker Current Parent 

Mr C Walsh and Mrs S Odorisio Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P E Ward SAC 1985 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs C Whittle SAC 1979 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M A Wigney Current Parent 

Mr M Willson and Ms J V Archer SAC 1979 Current Parent 

Mr M A Witts and Mrs G A Blohm-Witts 


Mr and Mrs D A Wunder SAC 1970 Past Parent 

Mr and Mrs T Zhang Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M J Zwar Past Parent 

 

Mr and Mrs M M Abolakian 

Mr and Mrs V Aboud 

Mr and Mrs C Adams 

Mr and Mrs C J Adams 

Mr and Mrs N Agosta 






Mr and Mrs R P Alessi 

Mr and Mrs A Alexandrou 

Mr and Mrs J Amirtharaj 

Dr and Mrs P W Anderson 

Mr and Mrs A Anderson 

Mr and Mrs S Angelis 







Mr E Angelucci and Mrs I Voyage 


Mr and Mrs M V Antico SAC 1985 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R M Aprile SAC 1983 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D J Archibald Current Parent 

Mr F J Argent and Ms O Stosic Current Parent 



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Ms M Armstrong 


Mr P J Arnold and Ms J M Southward 


Mr and Mrs A Ashcroft Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M Avanus Current Parent 

Mr G M Bain and Mrs S C Lobo-Bain 


Mr and Mrs A R Bainton Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs T Barakat Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J Barassi Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J J Barry Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J P Bartolotta Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S P Bartter Current Parent 

Mr A Baume and Mrs R Arthur Current Parent 

Mr P A Baumgart SAC 1986 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs B Begbie Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs A P Bentley Current Parent 

Mr A Bertini 


Dr and Ms M T Biggs SAC 1977 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J Biviano SAC 1989 Current Parent 

Mrs J Blau 


Mr and Mrs T M Blythe Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S Bodie Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M G Boffa SAC 1982 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M F Booth Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs H G Boudakin Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P R Bounds Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A L Boyd Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A L Boyle Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J R P Boyle SAC 1987 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S Bradley Current Parent 

Ms A E Brassil 


Mr and Mrs P D Brennan Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A J Breznik Current Parent 


Mr K J Brotherson and Ms L M Byrnes 


Mr and Ms G M Browning Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D R Buckley Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P Burke Current Parent 

Mr M E Butler and Mrs E Koutiris-Butler 


Mr and Mrs C S Caccamo Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D J Caleo SAC 1981 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs L Cali Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P C Calov Current Parent 

Mr T R Candido and Mrs R Nielsen-Candido 


Mr and Mrs D M Carbone Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs F A Carbone Current Parent 

Mr J Carmichael and Ms C Cox Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S P Carmody SAC 1983 Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs J Carroll Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J Carrozzi Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs P M Carter Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs K M Carter Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs M A Casey Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs G Casey Current Parent 

Mr T J Cavill and Ms A J Mirams SAC 1980 Current Parent 

Mr A Cerbara and Ms M D Horgan 




Mr and Mrs A P L Chalmers Current Parent 

Mr R I Chambers and Ms G Y S Chan 



Mr and Mrs K Chan Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs G R Chapple Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs P Chia Current Parent 

Mr D J Chick and Dr K E Ilbery Current Parent 

Dr R M Chin 


Mr and Mrs A Chin Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D Chowdry Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P Choy Current Parent 

Mr P Choy (Peter) Current Parent 

Mr P A Christie and Ms M M Hardy 


Mr and Mrs D J Clarke Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P Colinares Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs D Collins Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs M J Collins Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs C G Colosi Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D C Comerford Current Parent 

Mr Z Cong and Mrs A J Joyce Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs M Connaghan SAC 1983 Current Parent 

Mr M A Connaghan and Ms F M Tiver 


Mrs J M Conroy and Mr J A Conroy 




Mr and Mrs P L Cornelius Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs K F Cosgriff Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P C Cotton Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs K J Craft Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M J Craven Current Parent 

Mr M J Crawford and Mrs C M Finlay Crawford 


Mr S Cray and Mrs M Austin Cray 




Mr J R Crepaldi and Ms M C Milone 



Mr and Mrs M D Crocker Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs B Croft Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs G T Crosby Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A Crott SAC 1980 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M S Crumpton Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P Cubelic Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs C F Cunha Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R P Curulli Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs F J Daher Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A C Dainton Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M C Daly Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M T Daly Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D Dang Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs G D'Angelo Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs T J Dardare Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P J Darwell SAC 1981 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J Dath Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J C David Current Parent 



Mr J F de Constantin and Mrs A R de Pietra Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs S J De Lorenzo SAC 1984 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J D de Mestre SAC 1979 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M J De Vera Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R A de Waal SAC 1980 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D L Deetlefs Current Parent 

Mr R A Delezio and Ms C Martin-Delezio 


Dr and Mrs R A Denny SAC 1984 Current Parent 

Mr X H J Desdoigts and Ms F Coonan 


Mr and Mrs S P Dettre SAC 1974 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs B Devaraj Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S Di Sano Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J Diamant Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs L J Diamond Current Parent 

Mr R Dick and Ms E Shiel Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M E Dirckze Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D G Dixon Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S J Dixon Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs T D'Netto Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M Dobson Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M Dolores Current Parent 

Mr S Dong and Ms Y Ding Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M J Donohoe SAC 1967 Current Parent 

Mr R R Doughty and Ms G A Collins 


Mr and Mrs P J Downs SAC 1987 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J Doyle Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J M Doyle Current Parent 

Mr P Doyle and Ms M Cassidy Current Parent 

Mrs V Doyle 


Mr and Mrs I S Drewe Current Parent 

Ms M P Drewe 


Mr and Mrs B C D'Souza Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J E Ducklin Current Parent 


Dr and Mrs P J Dunkin Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs D M Ebbs Current Parent 

Dr R Edwards and Mrs A M Brosnan 


Mr J Elhindi and Ms J Mansour Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P M Ellis Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M Er 



Mr and Mrs P A Evans Current Parent 

Mrs J M Evans 


Mr and Mrs A Facchin Current Parent 

Mr and Dr F Fadhil Current Parent 

Mr M Fane and Ms L Spencer Current Parent 

Mr A A Farley and Ms V Scarf Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A Farmakis Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs L H Fay SAC 1972 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs E T Felipe Current Parent 

Mr Fernie and Mrs Maxwell Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S R Finniecome Current Parent 

Dr and Dr J R Fisher Current Parent 

Mr M J Fisher 


Mr and Mrs S A Fittler Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M I Fitzgerald Current Parent 

Mr B T Fitzgerald 


Ms A M Flahvin and Mr R Dale Current Parent 

Mr S Flanigan and Ms V McGrath 


Mr and Mrs M K Foldi Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M Fong Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S Foo Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs A Forrest Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs N J Forster Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs A Franklin Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D J Fraser Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M B Fraser SAC 1974 Current Parent 

Mr P D Frater and Ms J M Cooper 


Dr and Mrs P C Frederiksen Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M J French SAC 1985 Current Parent 

Anonymous 


Mr and Mrs S J Gageler Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs C P Gall Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P Gallart Current Parent 

Mrs L Gan-Bedson Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J S Garnon Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P Gavan Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P N Geldens Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs N Giannini Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R L Giannone Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P J Gibson Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs T J Giersz Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R Gillespie SAC 1976 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P R Gillman Current Parent 

Mr M J Gillon SAC 1978 Current Parent 




Mrs D M Gillon 


Mr and Mrs P J Gilroy Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J D Goode Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M J Goodman Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs E J O Gorga Current Parent 


Mr P D Grace and Ms A G Pearman 


Mr and Mrs J B Grant Current Parent 

Mrs A M Grant-Puentes and Mr T Grant 


Mr and Mrs S A Gregg Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R Greves Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R M Gyoery Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs G Hajjar Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M Hall Current Parent 

Mr P C Hall and Ms D W Litherland 


Mr M G Hand and Ms R Stanley Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs R A Harris Current Parent 

Dr R D Harris and Dr G Webb SAC 1984 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A W Harrison Friend of the College 

Mrs S P Harrison 


Mr and Mrs P P Hart Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R L Harvey Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A F Haworth Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs J E Hayes Current Parent 

Mr J D Hayes and Ms J O'Meara Hayes 


Mr and Mrs D R Haywood Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M G Heath Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P D Heaton SAC 1977 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs B J Heddle Current Parent 

Dr M P Hennessy and Dr F M Boyle AM 


Mr and Mrs J R Hesketh Current Parent 

Commander and Mrs M J Hickey SAC 1981 Current Parent 

Mr G J Hickey and Ms T S O'Donoghue 


Mr and Ms F W Hides-Pearson Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs J Hill Current Parent 

Mr I Ho and Mrs D Tcheng-Ho Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs C J Holmes Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs E A Holtsmark Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P K Hora SAC 1978 Current Parent 

Mr J N Hortle and Mrs B Tan Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D Huang Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M L Hudson Current Parent 


Mr H Huitema and Mrs E Ivancsics 



Mr and Mrs P J Humphreys Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M P Hundleby Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs G Hunt Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P A Hurley Current Parent 

Mr B E Hyde and Mrs P M Kiernan 


Mr and Mrs T Ibrahim Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R Ienco Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R Ingui Current Parent 

Mr A K L Ip and Mrs M B C Chung-Ip 



Mr and Mrs R A D Jackson Current Parent 

Mr and Ms J P Jacobs Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A I Jansson Current Parent 

Mr J V Jeffery and Mrs C De Villecourt 



Mr and Mrs M P Johnston Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs F B Jolley Current Parent 

Mr and Ms G Jones Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs F Jordan Current Parent 

Mr A G Jordan and Ms A F Repton 


Mr and Mrs D N Judge Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S Kafes Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs K G Kartun Current Parent 


Dr D Kell and Mrs K Jamieson-Kell 


Mr and Mrs D J C Kells Current Parent 

Mr M A Kelly and Ms M M Diamond 


Mrs L M Kelly 


Mr P I Kemsley and Ms M M Kerbage 


Mr and Mrs S Keniry Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A D Kennedy SAC 1969 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs G Q Kennedy Current Parent 

Mr B Kennedy and Mrs L Arthur Current Parent 

Dr and Dr G Keogh Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P M H Kewin SAC 1983 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S Kim Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P J Kingston Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M Kishore Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs R Klaric Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs D A Klarich SAC 1979 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S R Knight Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P Knoblanche Current Parent 

Dr and Mrs A J Knox Current Parent 


Mr and Mrs R Krslovic Current Parent 

Mr F Kunc and Ms F J Rourke Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs W Kwan Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M Lalic Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs S J Lalor Current Parent 

Dr and Dr A Lam 


Mr and Mrs W Lam Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs E G Lapitan Current Parent 

Mr P J Latham and Ms S M Leahy 


Mr and Mrs R Latimer Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P Lau Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs I M Lauder Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs A M Lavan SAC 1970 Current Parent 

Mr A F Lawson and Ms M A Eckersley 


Mr and Mrs S H Lee Current Parent 

Dr R W Leeds and Dr G Y Pei Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs K A Leighton Current Parent 

Mr M Lennon and Mrs N O'Leary 


Mrs L Liang 



Mr and Mrs V P Liew Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P I Lim SAC 1979 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs M S Lindsay SAC 1978 Current Parent 

Mr M S Lindsay and Dr J E Daly SAC 1978 Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs W Linsao Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs G J Logan Current Parent 

Mr and Mrs P Long Current Parent 

Dr I S Lovett and Ms C M Mullane 


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Mr and Mrs N Lush SAC 1970 Current Parent 

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hsc 

2009 HSC Report 

The Class of 2009 has received an exceptional set of 

results in the Higher School Certificate (HSC). One 

of the easiest points of comparison in performance is 

the number of students in the Merit List. Two hundred and 

thirty-six mentions is an excellent result maintaining upon the 

strong results of recent years. This is an outstanding result 

by a group of hard working students who have participated 

fully in the cultural, sporting, religious and service life of the 

College. 

Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 

Total students 144 134 145 145 142 

Distinguished Achievers 131 165 198 258 236 

A close reading of all the results indicates that the 

results across the board were strong. This trend has been a 

pleasing feature of results in recent years. Too often results 

can be measured by only looking at the top students. There 

has been a pleasing improvement in the performance of 

students of all abilities reflecting in stronger means and the 

continued lack of a ‘tail’ in our results. 

The following tables reflect strong results across the 

top bands with fewer students outside the top 2 bands. In 

2009 we had the highest proportion of students in the top 2 

bands for both 2 unit (73%) and extension subjects (95%). 

Band Results for all 2 unit courses 

2006 2007 2008 2009 

Band 6 119 (19.2%) 162 (21.2%) 209 (28%) 194 (26.6%) 

Band 5 265 (42.9%) 343 (45%) 308 (41%) 337 (46.2%) 

Band 4 204 (33%) 217 (28.5%) 193 (26%) 160 (22%) 

Band 3 28 (4.55) 34 (4.46%) 31 (4%) 38 (5%) 

Band 2 1 6 (0.79%) 8 (1%) 1 

Band 1 0 

(2009: Total of 730 individual student results in 2 Unit 

courses, including 1 unit Studies of Religion) 

Band Results for all Extension courses 

2006 2007 2008 2009 

Band 4 42 (33%) 36 (40%) 49 (47%) 42 (43.3%) 

Band 3 66 (51.9%) 49 (54%) 48 (46%) 53 (51.5%) 

Band 2 19 (14.9%) 5 (5.5%) 7 (6%) 1 

Band 1 0 0 1 1 

(2009: Total of 97 individual students in Extension 

courses) 

All-Rounders 

There were 12 students named in the Premier’s 

All-rounders list. These students scored 90 or better in 

10 units. They were: Mitchell Bainton, Robert Barakat, 

Roman Barbera, Benjamin Carrozzi, Christopher Chan, 

Alexander Cubis, Ben Holmes, Thomas Kingston, Robert 

Makepeace, Marcello Puglisi, John Slaven and James 

Stephenson. 

Top Achievers 

This is an area of continued improvement. There were 

55 scores of 95 or better. Of particular note were: 

Mathematics 

Two Year 11 students from our Accelerant Class achieved 

outstanding results. Daniel Farinha scored 100 placing him 

6th in the State while James Ross achieved a mark of 99 

and was placed 18th in the State. 

Extension History: 

Matthew Rubic and Frederick (Alex) Jolley both scored 

50/50. Matthew was placed 5th in the State and Alex 

8th. 

Drama: 

Alexander Cubis scored 99 placing him outright second 

in the State. 

Standard English: 

Joseph Gaudioso, through dent of hard work, achieved a 

score of 93 and was placed 11th in the State. 

Accounting: 

Mitchell Bainton scored 100 in this course and was placed 

3rd in the State. 

ATAR calculations 

Nine students achieved an Australian Tertiary 

Assessment Ranking (ATAR) above 99. A few others 

missed by the smallest of margins, with thirty-six 

students scoring between 95 and 99. Sixty-nine boys 

achieved ATAR’s over 90 – 49% of the Year the top 10% in 

the State. The median ATAR was 89.85. 

Creative Arts 

We have had an unprecedented number of our 

students selected to display/perform in the 

varying showcases for HSC creative arts courses. 

This reflects very well on the healthy state of Creative Arts 

at St Aloysius’ and our ongoing commitment to holistic 

education. 

Visual Arts: 4 students Jayson Fong, Luke Fussell, Michael 

Mariniello and William Marshall have had their major 

artworks selected for ArtExpress 2010. 

Music: Four students, Ben Holmes, James Chick, Liam 

Chandler and Timothy Geldens were nominated to perform 

in Encore, a selection of exemplary performances from HSC 

students 

Drama: Alexander Cubis. Adrian Forrest, Charles Newton 



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and Ciaran Tobin have been selected for OnStage to present 

their group performance entitled To A De (greed). Also 

Joseph McKenzie had his play performed by professional 

actors in Writers On Stage, while Mitchell Bainton’s short 

film was a part of OnScreen. 

This reflects the excellent performance skills of our Drama 

students in the Class of 2009. 

Faculty Highlights 

English: The English results were once again outstanding. 

The policy of directing boys to the appropriate courses, 

along with the work ethic of staff and students, has led to 

this pleasing outcome. The Standard English results were the 

best ever with 2 students achieving Band 6 and the school 

mean being 12.6 above the State mean. The Advanced 

course improved on last year with 43% of students 

achieving a Band 6. Similar results were achieved in both 

Extension courses. 

Mathematics: At times the consistently strong results of this 

faculty, across all courses, can be taken for granted. 36% 

of courses attempted in Maths achieved in the top band 

which compares favourably with other schools across 

the State. The excellent results of our Accelerant class 

(including 6th & 18th in State) are proof of the success of 

this programme. 

History: The results in Ancient History were the best in recent 

times with a mean 14.72 above the State. 41% of students 

achieved a Band 6. The Extension History results were also 

exceptional, with two students in the top 10 of the State and 

58% of candidature in the top band. 

Economics/Business Studies: A strong set of results were 

again achieved in these subjects. We have had consistently 

good results in Economics so the improvement in the 

Business Studies results was particularly welcome. 

General Comments 

One of the most outstanding characteristics of the 

Class of 2009 has been their ability to assist each 

other and work together. The effectiveness of study 

groups, the generous sharing of notes and the willingness 

to assist those struggling has been readily apparent across 

the year. Mindful of ethical student behaviour they have 

approached their studies in a communal manner. This was 

evidenced in their use of the library; their commitment 

to study in “StuVacs” and the willingness to create and 

maintain a culture that encouraged all to achieve to their 

potential. 

Mr Neville Williams 

Director of Curriculum 

School Certificate - 2009 

The College has received a pleasing set of results in the 

School Certificate for 2009. 

Some of the significant features include: 

Five ‘All-Rounders’ received a Band 6 Result for 

every subject. These boys were: Harrison Collins, 

Patrick Horne, Justin Lam, Luke McAlpin and Matthew 

McEwen. 

Continued strong results in Mathematics and English 

Improved results in Science resulting in 80% of students 

being placed in top two Bands, 

The maintenance of the College’s outstanding results in 

Australian History 

The results indicate the following: 

There is a growing culture of academic achievement 

within the middle years of schooling at St Aloysius’. 

If one examines the table immediately below this is 

evidenced with a growing percentage of students in 

top two Bands. 

Despite the commitment to extensive co-curricular, 

service, cultural and liturgical programmes; academic 

achievement is maintained while hoping to grow well 

rounded men for others. 

To put the results in their broader context I have included 

the performance of our students in the top two Bands (i.e. 80 

or above) and compared that to the percentage of students 

in the State that achieved the same results in 2009. 

St Aloysius’ College vs State comparison 

Subject 

SAC (top 

2 bands) 

2006 

SAC (top 

2 bands) 

2007 

SAC (top 

2 bands) 

2008 

SAC (top 

2 bands) 

2009 

State (top 

2 bands) 

2009 

English Literacy 74% 77% 78% 79% 41% 

Mathematics* 64% 62% 79% 74% 24% 

Science 70% 68% 70% 80% 36% 

Geography, Civics & 

Citizenship 

75% 82% 59% 58% 27% 

Australian History, Civics 

& Citizenship 

88% 87% 89% 87% 23% 

The following tables compare School Certificate results 

over the past five years at St Aloysius’ College. 

English 

All figures are in percentages that are rounded. The figures 

in brackets are the state percentages. 

Year Band 6 Band 5 Band4 

Band 3 and 

below 

Exam mean 

2009 18 (6) 61 (35) 19 (42) 1 (16) 

84.51 

(77.43) 

2008 11 (6) 71 (33) 18 (38) 0 (23) 84.03 

2007 19 (6) 58 (28) 23 (39) 0 (27) 83.89 

2006 24 (6) 50 (25) 25 (40) 1 (27) 

84.71 

(74.11) 

2005 8 57 34 2 81.83 



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Mathematics 


Band 3 and 

below 

Exam Mean 

2009 25 (6) 49 (18) 20 (25) 4 (48) 84.3 (70.6) 

2008 31 (7) 48 (18) 16 (24) 4 (51) 85.48 

2007 18 (6) 45 (15) 28 (23) 9 (56) 81.67 

2006 27 (6) 37 (14) 26 (21) 8 (57) 

2005 28 (7) 45 (18) 20 (26) 6 

Science 

82.77 

(67.87) 

84.66 

(71.01) 


Band 3 and 

below 

Exam mean 

2009 22 (7) 58 (29) 15 (34( 3 (29) 84.8 (75) 

2008 17 (6) 53 (26) 28 (33) 1 (35) 83.48 

2007 10 (4) 58 (23) 29 (38) 3 (35) 82.16 

2006 14 (5) 55 (25) 29 (33) 2 (36) 

82.35 

(72.86) 

2005 11 66 21 2 82.98 

Year 9 - Introduction of Netbooks 

St Aloysius’ College has taken bold new steps in our 

journey towards a new digital learning environment, 

further harnessing 21st Century technologies in 

the service of learning. We have initiated a Netbook 

Programme for all students in Year 9. This will be supported 

by the introduction of the College’s new intranet portal; 

both programmes combining to create a diverse array of 

learning opportunities for students, their teachers and the 

wider Aloysian Family. 

In week two of Gonzaga Term, Year 9 students were 

issued with a College Netbook. This opportunity has been 

readily grasped by the boys who have eagerly begun to 

digitise their class work. The Netbooks also enable the 

boys to maximize their interaction with electronic resources. 

Our new portal will expand these possibilities by providing 

a digital learning management system to support the work 

of both students and teachers through the provision of 

high quality digital resources to best achieve curriculum 

outcomes for all. Because the learning platform is digital, it 

can be customised and personalised to address the diverse 

teaching and learning styles of the learning community. 

History 


Band 3 and 

below 

Exam mean 

2009 46 (5) 41 (18) 10 (35) 1 (40) 87.6 (71.6) 

2008 59 (5) 30 (18) 9 (28) 0 (49) 89.45 

2007 43 (6) 43 (18) 13 (36) 1 (40) 87.14 

2006 51 (7) 37 (17) 11 (28) 1 (46) 88.28 (71) 

2005 28 52 17 1 84.58 

Geography 


Band 3 and 

below 

Exam mean 

2009 8 (5) 50 (22) 31 (31) 8 (41) 80.4 (72.3) 

2008 16 (7) 43 (21) 39 (37) 1 (35) 82.31 

2007 27 (6) 55 (26) 16 (38) 1 (30) 85.62 

2006 28 (8) 47 (22) 23 (35) 2 (32) 

84.98 

(74.38) 

2005 8 57 31 3 81.11 

Computing Skills 

Year 

Highly 

Competent 

Competent CND Exam mean 

2009 93 (62) 6 (37) 0 91 (81.7) 

2008 97 (57) 3 (41) 0 (2) 90.04 

2007 86 (58) 14 (40) 0 (2) 

2006 89 (59) 11 (39) 0 (1) 87.3 (80.56) 

Year 9 students, Marco DeVera and Brendan Chan, with their 

Netbooks. 

It is an exciting time in education for students and their 

teachers at St Aloysius’ College and we are looking forward 

to the imaginative new ways that teachers and their students 

will embrace the digital curriculum learning opportunities 

that advanced technologies can create and sustain. 

Mrs Marie Taylor 

Head of Design and Technology 

Mr Neville Williams 

Director of Curriculum 



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from the junior school 

Mr Martin Lobo - 30 years of 

Outstanding Service to St Aloysius’ 

College Junior School 

We congratulate Mr Martin Lobo and thank him for 

the thirty years of dedicated and faithful service 

that he has given to the Aloysian Community. I 

have had the privilege of knowing and working alongside 

Martin for the past fifteen years. 

As Head of the Junior School, Mr Lobo has worked 

alongside our Jesuits over the past thirty years and his very 

strong commitment to the Ignatian mission and vision has 

always been at the centre of all his decisions. 

The Junior School operates with effortless efficiency. 

The school’s stable and calm organisation enables staff 

to work effectively and our boys to feel safe. This feature 

of our school has largely been the result of Mr Lobo in 

his role as Head of Junior School. He has ensured that 

the daily organisation of the school is first rate. He is an 

exceptional administrative leader and a gifted teacher. 

He is compassionate and caring and has always been 

motivated by what is best for the staff and boys of our 

community and has worked tirelessly to secure this. 

His generosity, love and care are evident in his dealings 

with his staff, the boys and the parents. His impact will 

Mr Lobo addresses the Junior School 

continue to resound in many ways; particularly in the lives 

of the boys who have been inspired by his leadership and 

through his many initiatives at St Aloysius’. 

Humble, well-respected, committed, loyal, funny, reliable 

and just, are all words that spring to mind to describe 

Martin. He would not want any of these accolades 

bestowed upon him and he knew nothing about the surprise 

tribute in September that was given to him by the College 

Community. It was once said: ‘Great men are among the 

best gifts which God bestows upon a people’. We thank 

God for the gift of Mr Lobo and we wish him all God’s 

blessings in the next thirty years. He is an inspiration to all 

of us and truly a Man for Others. 

Mr Joe El-Khoury 

Deputy Head of the Junior School 

A Tribute to Mr Lobo 

Commitment is something many people have problems 

with these days, including me. With this in mind try 

committing yourself to something for thirty years. Mr 

Lobo is a man who has managed to achieve this. He has 

amazed us all by staying committed for thirty years to St 

Aloysius’. 

Mr Lobo has poured all his wisdom and knowledge 

into our school for thirty years. With this in mind let’s go 

back thirty years to get an idea what it was like for Mr 

Lobo to enter into St Aloysius’ College in 1979. In 1979 

Mr Lobo would have been entering the Junior School in 

Wyalla in the Senior School as this was where it was 

located then. The Prime Minister at the time was The Rt 

Hon Malcolm Fraser. Mr Lobo probably used to watch the 

most popular television show, The Sullivans, as it scooped 

the Logie Awards for that year. Given that disco reigned 

supreme in 1979, Mr Lobo might have boogied on the 

dance floor like John Travolta and listened to music of the 

Bee Gees or even Donna Summer. Mr Lobo was more 

than likely wearing baggy jeans after throwing out his 

flared jeans and his hair would have been considerably 

longer than what it is now. In 1979 I was not born, Mr 



from the junior school (cont'd) 

Coventry was not born and I think Mr El-Khoury would still 

be in Primary School. 

Now this was happening when Mr Lobo started 

teaching at St Aloysius’ College. He has seen an enormous 

amount of change, particularly in the change of the Junior 

School moving to its present site and the changes that we 

see around us now. 

So what is so special about Mr Lobo that would want 

him to stay at St Aloysius’ for thirty years? 

Firstly, Mr Lobo loves St Aloysius’! He has a very happy 

personality and we rarely see him get mad. You can always 

guarantee to see a smile upon his face at most times. 

Secondly, Mr Lobo is always generous with his time 

making sure that he is there for as many events possible. 

He was there for our Debating Grand Final, Year Camps, 

Family Masses, Concerts and many other performances. 

Mr Lobo is the Head of the Junior School and helps with 

the direction our Junior School is taking. He always puts 

in an enormous amount of effort and has great pride in 

our College. We thank him for his amazing thirty years of 

service at the College. 

Xavier Gould (Year 6) 

National Young Leaders Day 

- Reflection 

On 15 March, Mr El-Khoury, Mrs Breznik, Mr 

O’Byrne, twenty-three boys including House 

Captains, Prefects and Chess and Debating 

Captains went to the National Young Leaders Day at 

the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Darling Harbour. This 

is where we would listen to inspirational speakers and 

learn about leadership and how to lead well. This day 

was about leadership and how to be a leader and a role 

model. 

There were 7,000 Year 6 students from all over NSW 

and ACT at the Entertainment Centre, to learn how to be a 

leader. There were five guest speakers who were leaders 

in their own league who came to speak to us about how 

they were leaders and how to be a good leader, showing 

how to lead by example. The guest speakers were: Mike 

Martin (World Vision Australia), Nikki Bart (Mountaineer), 

Melissa Doyle (Channel 7 Sunrise), Bill Harrigan (NRL), and 

Michael Milton (Paralympics Gold Medallist). 

Mike Martin is a spokesman for World Vision Australia 

and is involved in most of their campaigns. He is a leader 

because he is leading Australia in helping out other countries 

and supporting people less fortunate than us. 

Nikki Bart is a mountaineer who has achieved some 

marvellous feats in her life. She and her mother were the 

first Australian mother and daughter team to climb Mt 

Everest. She and her mother have also climbed the seven 

peaks which meant that she has climbed the highest peak 

in every continent. She sees herself as a leader by being 

inspirational to young climbers that want to climb Mt Everest 

Junior School attendees at the National Young Leaders Day. 

and do the 7 peaks just like she did. Her strategies are to 

take one step at a time and to follow every rainbow. The 

first one is about patience. On Mt Everest you have to take 

17 breaths before each step so that means you would 

only do 100m in 30mins. Her other motto was to follow 

every rainbow. After they started, the mountain was closed 

and they had to wait three months, but one day she saw 

a rainbow and that same day the mountain was opened 

again so she believes you have to follow every rainbow in 

your life. 

Melissa Doyle is the co-host on the Channel 7 

programme, Sunrise. Melissa co-hosts the programme with 

David “Kochie” Koch. She reports news stories and talks 

to famous people on a daily basis. She is a leader of the 

Sunrise team as she is the anchor woman. She shared with 

us how Sunrise supports many campaigns and projects 

towards charity and bullying and all kinds of things that 

involves making a difference in the world. Melissa spends 

lots of her time supporting these charities and using the fact 

that she is a celebrity in a good way to get support from 

the general public. 

Michael Milton was amazing! He is known as the fastest 

skier (able or disabled) in Australia. He has one leg and has 

won 6 Paralympics gold medals in the Super G, Downhill, 

Slalom, and Giant Slalom. At 9 years of age he was 

diagnosed with bone cancer. They had to remove his leg 

so that the cancer would not spread to the rest of his body. 

He loved to ski so he was really disappointed that he lost 

his leg. When he was in hospital his parents showed him 

a video of a one legged skier so he decided he wouldn’t 

give up and wouldn’t let his disability affect his desire to 

achieve lots of things. 

I would have to say that I found the day to be exciting 

and interesting because these ordinary people were able 

to show us that a leader is not just about being the head of 

something but about doing good things for other people. 

It’s about being inspirational and showing the way to make 

a difference. 

Nicholas Angelucci (Year 6) 



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Debating Report 

The year started with a bang when the debating trials 

were held. About seventy students trialled to make the 

squad of 14 and the competition was intense. In the 

end a strong squad was chosen, consisting of Years 5 and 

6 students split into two teams, the A and B team. 

Junior School Debators with their Coaches, Sam Stevens (SAC 2008) 

and Nick Sunderland (SAC 2006) and Mr Joe El-Khoury. 

Junior School Debators with their trophies. 

With our two Old Boy coaches, Nick Sunderland 

(SAC 2006) and Sam Stevens (SAC 2008), along with 

the Debating Coordinator Mr El-Khoury, both teams were 

unstoppable. The season looked promising with both teams 

scoring wins against some very strong schools, such as 

Trinity Grammar, Tangara School for Girls, Barker College 

and The King’s School. 

Due to the success of our debating teams we went into 

the finals placed at the top of the group, winning all of 

our debates but one. In the semi-finals, the intensity was 

astounding, but we pushed through to win. However, the 

final hurdle, the toughest of them all, had to be overcome 

before being champions, the Grand Final! 

The A team went up against Sydney Grammar School 

and the B team against rival CAS school Trinity Grammar 

School. The topic debated was That we should ban 

animal testing for medical research. The adjudicators 

were persuaded and awarded St Aloysius’ College, in a 

unanimous decision, the win in both the A and B divisions. 

The teams celebrated into the night with many thanks to 

our coaches, Mr. El-Khoury and all the debating boys. Now 

St Aloysius’ College Junior School debaters are the crowned 

debating champions making them the best in NSW. 

We would like to thank all the parents who helped 

transport us to our debates, as well as organising us on a 

weekly basis. We couldn’t have done it without you. 

Liam Thorne and Xavier Gould (Year 6) 

Debating Captains 2009 

Presentation of the trophies at a College Assembly. 



junior school sport 

Junior School – Term I Sport 

In what would be one of the busiest terms to date 

we certainly have had our fair share of success and 

dominance in the blue and gold. From Swimming to 

Cross Country, Basketball and Cricket, Tennis and Chess 

Term 1 has seen many highlights. Before any sporting 

competition took place there was a need to elect our 

sports leaders and these boys have certainly lived up to the 

expectations required of them. 

HOUSE CAPTAIN VICE CAPTAIN 

OGILVIE Alexander Heath Peter Zenos 

CAMPION Peter Slaven Patrick Brimson 

SOUTHWELL Matt Dainton Vincent Hrdina 

OWEN Jeremy Nissen Jack Mazaraki 

Swimming 

Their first role was to prepare their houses for the 

Swimming Carnival held in week two. Following the 

success of the last years’ twilight carnival at Sydney 

Olympic Park Homebush another exciting carnival was 

planned for 2010. This twilight carnival format allowed 

for the carnival to be run away from the harsh element of 

the sun but also the destructive element of rain which is the 

greatest fear of all sports masters worldwide. 

This year proved to be a great success again both 

in the pool and from the number of parents who were in 

attendance. By having 10 lanes to swim in we were able 

to finish well ahead of time despite having more entries 

than we had in previous years. This year also saw 37 more 

heats of various strokes added to the program which reflects 

on the boys’ enthusiasm to participate in the carnival. Boys 

were also fortunate enough to use the racing start blocks 

that were used in a few weeks later at the Telstra Swimming 

Championships where our Commonwealth Games Team 

was selected. Boys can also say that Stephanie Rice, 

Eamon Sullivan, Jessicah Schipper swam in their lane! 

Southwell House won the event, only 18 points in front 

of Ogilvie House and raised their house flag in celebration 

the following day at school. Age champions for the event 

included Luke Jepson and Patrick Butler in the Opens, Lucas 

Anderson and Harrison Scott in the Under 11’s, Thomas 

Gillis and Jack Spano in the 10’s and Ben Pollack and Joe 

Bonadeo in the Under 9’s 

As we entered our season there was a need for a 

Swimming captain to be nominated to take on the role of 

leadership from within the team. Luke Jepson was selected 

for this position and performed this role diligently. 

Our first carnival was our annual Brothers Invitational 

Swimming Carnival held at Riverview. The following schools 

were involved; St Ignatius’ College, Riverview, St Patrick’s 

College Strathfield, Waverley College, St Pius X College 

Chatswood and Christian Brothers’ High School Lewisham. 

Our 9s and 10s age group performed considerably well 

and will certainly be a force to be reckoned with in the 

years to come. Our 10years 6x25m relay made up of 

Tom Gillis, Darcy Hampton, Jack Spano, Harry Hertz, Jack 

Vozzo, and Tom Van Dongen won the race and also won 

the 4x25m relay. Our 11s and 12s came third and fourth 

respectively. All up we had 18 first places, 15 second 

places and 7 third places. 

In a fiercely contested carnival with the lead changing 

just before the relays’ St Aloysius’ came second place 

overall and second place in aggregate which is based on 

results and numbers of enrolments. 

From there our Junior School Swimming Team competed 

at Homebush in the IPSHA Swimming Carnival. Notoriously 

difficult, this competition allows successful swimmers to go 

on and represent IPSHA at the CIS Carnival. The day started 

well with the Junior Relay team (Gillis, Hampton, Spano, 

Hertz) posting the fastest time of the meet with 2:28.65. 

The Senior Relay team (Anderson, Jepson, Mazaraki, Dong) 

faced some tough competition and came out seventh fastest 

overall with a time of 2:18.16. We also had some good 

results in the 200m IM with Tom Gillis finishing second in his 

race (3:28.47), Luke Jepson finishing first in his (3:09.10) 

and Lucas Anderson finishing third (3:00.21). 

With the start of 50m freestyle, we had many strong 

performances from Junior School Swimmers. Notable 

swimmers included Ben Pollack (42.52s; fourth), Jack Spano 

(36.35s; first), Tom Gillis (35.90s; second), Lucas Anderson 

(32.20s; first) and Luke Jepson (33.86s; fourth). In the 50m 

butterfly, Lucas Anderson again showed what an all round 

swimmer he is with a strong first place in 37.50s. 

This year we had 5 boys selected to swim at IPSHA 

carnival for possible CIS selection. Darcy Hampton, Jack 

Spano, Harry Hertz and Thomas Gillis in our relay team 

and Lucas Anderson and Thomas Gillis in their individual 

events. 

Jack Spano (Year 5) reports on the IPSHA and CIS 

carnivals below. 

I am very happy that I made it into the IPSHA Swimming 

Team along with my fellow team mates Darcy Hampton, 

Harry Hertz and Thomas Gillis. This meant we are off to 

compete in the NSWCIS Carnival which was held on 

Friday, 26 March 2010. 

Early Friday morning Mum and I were in the car at 

7:00, off to SOPAC at Homebush for a very exciting day. 

After I collected my uniform, I went down and I am on the 

blocks about to dive in to do my 200m warm up and I am 

feeling very nervous and excited all at the same time. After 

I have done my warm up, we go back and sit with our 

parents for a rest and have a snack. About 2 hours later we 

are called down to marshalling for the relay heat. 

It’s about 10.00am and our heat is about to get 

underway with Darcy our first swimmer, followed by Harry, 

then Tom and I bring it home for St Aloysius’. We did 



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a great time of 2.25.81 – We were the second fastest 

overall. So we have made it to the final! Can’t believe it. 

So now we rest and eat, and then finally we are 

marshalled at about 12.30pm, we are all feeling anxious 

and can’t believe we are here with all these other schools 

and children. Darcy is on the blocks, the horn goes and 

he is off, we are in lane 5, he touches first, then dives in 

Harry and is swimming his best and keeps us in the race 

touching the wall in second place, then in dives Tom, with 

his work cut out keeps our second place, then I dive in and 

swim my guts out and trying to catch the boy near me and 

we did it! We came in first and got gold for St Aloysius’ at 

the NSWCIS Carnival for the 4 x 50m Freestyle. Also we 

did a personal best time of 2.23.59 and our parents were 

going crazy with support in the grandstand. 

Now we are off to represent CIS at the State NSWPSSA 

Carnival the following week, Friday 1 April 2010. 

Jack Spano (Year 5) 

Our Junior Relay team made of up Jack Spano, Harry 

Hertz, Darcy Hampton and Tom Gillis, having already 

qualified for IPSHA and CIS participation and teams swam 

at the NSW PSSA carnival at Homebush. There were 

accompanied by Lucas Anderson who was swimming his 

individual events of Breaststroke and Freestyle. Harry Hertz 

(Year 4) reports on the NSW PSSA carnival 

The Junior Relay (L-R) Jack Spano, Harry Hertz, Darcy Hampton and 

Tom Gillis 

The day of State (NSWPSSA) arrived. As my mum and 

I walked from the car to the entry at SOPAC, the fire alarm 

went off. They weren't letting anyone in, but they weren't 

letting anyone out either. Jack, Darcy and Tom were all 

inside. After a very long time, we could go in. 

We came first in our heat and were second fastest going 

into the final. The fastest qualifier was Cromer. We were 

excited about making it into the final; we even received a 

ribbon just for making it. 

It was a long time from the heat to the final. I knew 

we all had to swim fast as I train with one of the boys on 

the Cromer team and he is very fast. We came fourth in 

the end. Cromer came first, Lindfield came second and 

Burraneer Bay came third. I am very proud of us all. We 

did our best. We are the fourth fastest U10 Boys Relay 

Team in NSW... and it was a lot of fun to get there. 

Harry Hertz (Year 4) 

IPSHA Cross Country 

In what would be our most successful team yet, in terms of 

placing and qualifications, the 2010 SAC team was one 

made of some extremely talented runners as well as men 

for others. For the boys who attended training in the weeks 

prior, to the way the boys conducted themselves on the day; 

all should be commended for their enthusiasm and athletic 

professionalism that extends beyond their years. 

We were fortunate enough to have six boys through to 

the CIS team which ranks St Aloysius’ as the equal top Boys’ 

School alongside Barker, Cranbrook and Shore. 

These boys will be competing at the CIS Cross Country 

carnival in June at Eastern Creek Raceway. 

Thomas Gillis, Liam Gorman, James McFadden, Tom 

Van Dongen, Gus and Hugo Whelan will now run for 

IPSHA at CIS carnival later this term. 

Rugby 

The Armidale School Rugby Tournament 

SHHHHHHH... the television static signalled the 

premature end of the movie on the bus. The DVD 

player had overheated and we’d only seen the 

beginning of The Mighty Ducks. When we left it, the team 

was in shambles having never had a proper training session 

together. The story certainly sounded familiar to the touring 

Under 12 St Aloysius’ College Rugby team. Apart from one 

session prior to the team’s departure, the St Aloysius’ side 

had not in fact trained or played together before. Twenty 

boys from teams ranging from the 2009 11As to the 2009 

11Cs comprised a quick and courageous outfit to compete 

in the annual TAS Armidale Rugby Carnival. Over the three 

pool games and warm-up sessions, the boys gelled as a 

unit and built on their previous performances. How would 

the story end though? Hopefully the DVD player would be 

fixed by the time we headed home to Sydney. 

In a new format this year; teams were placed in 

pools before playing off in a final series with the Grand 

Final being played as a full game on the last day. St 

Aloysius’ drew a reasonably tough pool featuring St Mary’s 

Armidale, Tamworth RUFC and Lismore RUFC. Aloysius’ 

first game against Tamworth RUFC highlighted the clear 

talent among the boys as they triumphed 18-0 on the back 

of some wonderful attacking moves. Despite a slow start 

in the second game against Lismore which saw them fall 

behind on the scoreboard, Aloysius’ superb attacking flair 

came to the fore in the second half scoring two tries to win 

the match 12-6. We needed to win our last pool match 

to finish top of our group and progress to the semi-final 

and when St Mary’s Armidale scored a converted try after 



junior school sport (cont'd) 

some very poor defence it would have been easy for the 

boys to hang their heads. As there was no extra time in the 

carnival games, the team to score first in drawn matches 

was awarded victory. Therefore, our boys needed to score 

twice in the remaining 15 minutes to win the match without 

conceding. Cometh the moment, cometh the man as it was 

then that Peter Slaven decided to take the game by the 

scruff of the neck, scoring a try from a perfectly weighted 

chip and chase. With only minutes remaining, St Mary’s 

again looked to set up another promising backline move 

before Peter advanced at an amazing speed from defence 

to intercept a ball and run half the field to score again. If the 

game hadn’t provided enough twists and turns, with only 

seconds remaining, St Mary’s kicked the ball downfield and 

one of their players chased it down, leaving him one on 

one with Alexander Heath, 20 metres from the line. Despite 

the player being almost twice his size, Alexander made 

the tackle and support arrived as the air horn sounded out 

across the field. Aloysius’ had made the semis! 

The coaching staff and travelling parents had been 

given a few scares and grey hairs in the minor round so 

a few holes needed to be plugged and areas addressed 

for the finals. However, before some small targeted training 

drills, boys were encouraged to rest and recover in our two 

hour break. Looking at the draw, we assumed we would 

be playing King’s School; however, St. Andrew’s Anglican 

College from the Sunshine Coast had knocked them out 

in the last game. We had heard rumours that St Andrew’s 

had a phenomenal running side who loved getting the 

ball to their fast backline. Thus, the training session before 

our game revolved around clearing out, recycling the ball, 

defensive pressure and tackling. We would aim to hold 

on to the ball and control the tempo of the game in the 

forwards. The boys listened to these instructions and carried 

them out to perfection. Two brilliant individual displays from 

Aaron Jeffrey, which saw him firstly score a try, running 

freakishly fast down the wing one way before chasing the 

opposition the other way 5 minutes later, making up 15m 

to drag him down inches short of the line, had us up a 

converted try at the break. St Andrew’s came out like a team 

possessed in the second half scoring two converted tries. 

With only 3 minutes to go, Vincent Hrdina made a great run 

up the wing before Peter Sleiman put the ball down coolly 

by the corner post. The coolest player on the field though 

was Matt Dainton who, with great poise and composure 

slotted the ball between the posts (like he had done all day) 

despite being under enormous pressure. 

game before suiting up for the final. The coaches spoke to 

the boys half an hour before the game and the message 

was clear; in order to beat Toowoomba Souths, we would 

use the same game plan that had worked for us in the semi 

final. We ran through the same drills to target those areas 

that would help us win the game before running out and 

playing the most intense first ten minutes you’re likely to ever 

see in junior rugby. Todd Gillman and Nick Hrdina led the 

forwards like they had all day, fearlessly picking and driving 

and making big tackles. If there was one word to describe 

the Aloysius’ team, it would “hard”. At least 8 of our players 

made enormous hits on bigger players and watching this 

inspired everyone else in the team. The forwards absolutely 

dominated and our backs’ defensive pressure and tackling 

was flawless. By half-time, Aloysius’ was in a commanding 

position, three tries up. Toowoomba kept pressing but we 

kept our heads and some very smart decisions from Matt 

Dainton and Jack Mazaraki in pressure situations allowed 

us to hold our nerve and hold on for a memorable 17-0 

victory. 

A big thank you must go firstly to the boys for not only 

their wonderful performance on the field but also their 

wonderful behaviour off the field. They were an absolute 

pleasure to take on tour and made it a very enjoyable 

experience for the teachers involved. Secondly, a big thank 

you to the support from the travelling parents who also 

added to the wonderful experience and a final thank you 

to coach Mr David Hegarty and assistant Will O’Byrne. 

Mr Hegarty’s specific instructions were well carried out by 

the boys and were the keys to the team’s success. Both 

Mr Hegarty and Will’s composure throughout all games 

seemed to rub off on the boys who were focused, yet at 

ease when facing difficult opponents and situations. 

We boarded the bus home, receiving the good news of 

a repaired DVD player and immediately resumed viewing 

Mighty Ducks and guess what? That team that many people 

thought would struggle to win a game actually won the 

whole competition! 

Mr Mark Coventry - Tour Manager 

Mr David Hegarty - Coach 

Once again though, there was one last twist as St 

Andrew’s threw everything at us. Everyone’s heart sank as 

the opposition winger made a dashing run down the wing 

only to be brought down by our ever reliable fullback, Jack 

Mazaraki. The full time whistle blew and the first try scoring 

team in the drawn game progressed to Sunday’s Grand 

Final... Aloysius! 

After a relaxing morning, the boys arrived at the ground 

later than all other teams and casually watched another 



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from the deputy principal 

Induction and Welcome for New 

Teaching Staff 

Ms Jessica Jorna (Kircher Library) 

We welcome the 

following new staff to 


for 2010 and look forward 

to their involvement in this 

collective endeavour of Ignatian 

Education. 

Ms Danae Craig 

(Technology) 

Mrs Mary Diggins 

(Religious Education) 

Mrs Katie Lee (Senior School Reception) 

Mrs Barbara Irwin (Science) 

Ms Maryanne Magri (Head of Learning Support) 

Ms Carla Maxted (English) 

Mr Gary Molloy (Science) 

Mrs Michelle Reay (Junior School 6.4 Homeroom) 

Mr Mijo Ticinovic (Youth Minister) 

Ms Monica Wei (Languages) 

It is said that maintaining and developing the Jesuit 

identity of our school depends on the careful selection of 

such people as these new teachers and on a programme 

of appropriate formation in the Ignatian Charism and 

pedagogy for them. Their induction programme covers not 

only the administrivia of commencing in a new workplace, 

but more significantly an understanding of the distinctive 

quality and nature of our tradition. New staff are led 

through an interpretation of what we understand of Jesuit 

Schools in the Ignatian tradition; namely, to 

Seek and to find God in the experiences of our 

everyday life. 

Be involved in a conversation, between God and 

ourselves. 

Desire to do the will of Christ and in our actions bring 

His Kingdom alive. 

Be witnesses to charity and service in helping and 

working for others. 

The process of formation for new teachers commences 

with this induction and continues with days of reflection 

throughout the year. Staff are given insights to the story and 

life of Ignatius, his spirituality and the legacy of his formation 

of the Jesuits in Schools, as well as an introduction to the 

meditations and prayer experiences of Ignatius. 

New parents too participate in a similar process of 

formation when commencing at St Aloysius’ College, 

through The New Parent Ignatian Evenings. Using a variety 

of information and media, we enable new members of our 

school community to access our faith story and its heritage. 

So far we have had the first part of a two evening induction 

for parents in each year group. 

The two-evening presentation for parents mirrors the 

programme for staff induction and what is also presented 

for Year 7 students through their Religious Education classes 

in Term I where they study School and Church Communities 

such as their own context. It is this emphasis on bringing 

people ‘into the fold’ as it were that provides for a more 

informed and better equipped school community. 

Jesuit schools today seek to sustain a tradition which has 

honed many to be fine instruments of God in the service 

of others; men and women of contemplation, competence, 

compassion and commitment. 

We wish all our new staff, parents and boys every 

encouragement as they settle into the Aloysian Family and 

look forward to a prosperous collaboration and contribution 

for many years to come. 

Mr Sam Di Sano 

Deputy College Principal 

Matteo Ricci SJ 

The cover of the 2010 Student Diary shows an image 

of Matteo Ricci SJ. The Society of Jesus worldwide 

celebrates 2010 as marking 400 years since his 

death. Ricci born 6 October 1552, died on 11 May 

1620. Incidentally, 1552 marked the passing of one 

missionary giant, St Francis Xavier, and the beginnings 

of another, Matteo Ricci, who was born that year. Father 

Jeremy Clarke SJ an Australian Province Jesuit, is a visiting 

fellow in Pacific and Asian history at the Australian 

National University. He will be an assistant professor in 



from the deputy principal (cont'd) 

the history department of Boston College in Massachusetts 

beginning in the 2010–11 academic year and has written 

a wonderful paper on Matteo Ricci’s legacy, from which I 

have put together this summary. 

Over the next 30 years following Ricci’s death 

missionaries from many orders sought to enter China, 

but because the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) rigorously 

controlled its borders at the time, they were all unsuccessful. 

Some were deported, others died in prison. In the end the 

church was able to bypass Ming defenses by applying 

a new missionary policy of rigorous adaptation to local 

culture. It was in this way that Ricci made his mark. 

In 1578 he entered China and became the first Catholic 

missionary to that land. Once there, he started learning the 

Chinese language and customs – the beginnings of a long 

project that, eventually, made him one of the first western 

scholars to master Chinese script. Ricci’s varied and impressive 

works testify to his genius. Once he mastered enough spoken 

and written Chinese to communicate freely he tried his hand 

at whatever would help him develop relationships with 

officials. In pursuit of his ultimate evangelical goal, Ricci 

produced works in many scientific fields. 

Ricci worked with one of the leaders of the early Chinese 

Christians, the Ming dynasty statesman Xu Guangqi 

(1562-1633). The statue depicted on the front of the 

diary shows them together. The statue is found in Guangqi 

Park in the Xujiahui District of Shanghai. Together they 

translated geometry into Chinese. This task was made all 

the more difficult because concepts like parallel lines and 

acute angles, for example, had no Chinese equivalent 

terminology. Ever creative, Ricci and his companion 

invented terms for them, which today are still used by 

Chinese mathematicians. 

Ricci was a true Renaissance man, representing the 

breadth of the humanistic learning undertaken by Jesuits 

throughout Europe at that time. He was a man of deep 

faith too, regularly translating language dictionaries so other 

missionaries could compose prayer books and catechisms. 

His remarkable feats of scholarship were achieved in the 

face of much adversity and peril, being a stranger in a 

strange land. His success was due in no small part to his 

ministry being one of friendship. 

Mr Sam Di Sano 

Deputy College Principal 

from the registrar 

Our next Open Day will be held in Term IV this year. 

So please come along! It is an opportunity to speak 

with staff, parents and the students themselves as 

well as to see the progress of our new building Dalton 

Hall in Jeffrey Street. This will house a championship-size 

basketball/volleyball court, change rooms, classrooms, a 

25m swimming pool, weights and cardio studio, specialist 

classrooms and tutorial rooms. 

OPEN DAY 2010 

Sunday 24 October 

9.30am - 12.30pm (Junior School); 

10.30am - 1.00pm (Senior School) 

Entrance examinations were held in February this year 

and we had record numbers sitting these examinations. 

Approximately 90 boys sat the Year 3 2011 examination 

for 48 available places, 90 sat for Year 4, 2011 for 20 

places, over 200 sat for Year 5, 2011 for 60 places and 

approximately 140 sat for Year 7, 2012 for 30 places. 

This year was the last time we tested for Year 4 entry. From 

2012 (ie for entrance examinations held in 2011), entry 

points will only be in Years 3, 5 and 7 (and in other Years 

only if places become available). 

Currently no places are available for 2011 nor Year 

7, 2012. However, sometimes there is movement in our 

waitlists towards the end of the year. Orientation Day 

for boys starting at the College in 2011 will be held on 

Wednesday 3 November 8.30am – 12.40pm. 

Information for new students commencing at the College 

next year will be available via a link on the College 

website in the last week of Term III this year. This will 

include information regarding the Orientation Day, uniforms, 

textbooks, travel arrangements to school etc). 

Entrance examinations for entry into Years 3, 5 and 

8 to 11, 2012 as well as Year 7, 2013 will be held in 

mid-February 2011. Any new applications for these entry 

points need to be submitted by December this year. 

Bursary applications for 2012 entry will open in 

November this year. The College Bursary Programme is 

means-tested and offers students on opportunity to avail 

themselves of a Jesuit education in circumstances when such 

enrolment is not affordable or sustainable. These bursaries 

are offered to new students entering the College at all 

Year Levels and are reviewed annually. Please contact the 

Registrar if you would like more details about this scheme. 

The closing date for all applications will be in the first week 

of February 2011 (exact date to be advertised on the 

College website later this year). The entrance examination 

will be held in mid-February. 

If you would like more information on enrolments, 

please contact the Registrar on +61 2 9936 5535 or 

email: registrar@staloysius.nsw.edu.au. Alternatively, this 

information can be accessed on the Admissions page of 

our website: www.staloysius.nsw.edu.au 

Mrs Anne-Maree McCarthy 

Registrar 



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from the senior school 

LIFE FOR KIDS 

LIFE FOR KIDS’ programmes and activities continue with 

a great sense of community amongst our Aboriginal 

children and their families (from Woolloomooloo, 

Redfern, Waterloo, Marrickville and nearby areas) and 

our many committed volunteers, a number being students 

from St Aloysius’, Riverview and other schools. Our weekly 

Saturday BBQ breakfasts and activities enable us to focus 

on extended programmes for some one hundred and fifty 

children well known to us and to respond to their many 

needs. 

Haircuts. 

Joe Williams (Souths player) - mentor. 

The highlight of each year is our Christmas Party and, 

once again, this was a wondrous time of joy and goodwill 

for each other, regardless of the many difficulties facing our 

families each day. A number of organisations and groups 

assisted us with donations of presents and the St Aloysius’ 

school community gathered foodstuffs and Christmas fare, 

thence packed into magnificent hampers for each family. 

Special thanks are extended to everyone who gave so 

generously. 

Our extended support in education, health, social, 

sporting and cultural arenas has made for a very busy 

year so far, commencing with provision of ‘back to school’ 

uniforms, books and shoes and the continuation of tutoring 

and assistance with school work and assignments. Joe 

Williams, a Souths’ player, was extremely popular when he 

mentored the kids at breakfast and with a game of Austag. 

We had a ‘big day out’ at Jamberoo, have had surfboard 

riding lessons, days at indoor bowling and rock climbing 

and ‘just fishin’ and ‘goin’ bush’. 

We are constantly seeking medical and dental treatment 

for our children. A local identity comes to breakfast each 

month for $1 ‘hair cuts’ – the ‘kids’ are looking very smart! 

Mothers of our fourteen babies born during the last year 

have been supported by one of our volunteers who is a 

lactation professional. Other volunteers make home visits 

and we’ve made many visits to hospitals and to parents 

in correctional centres and to some older teenagers who 

are in detention. Pro bono legal support has been of great 

assistance and we have been fortunate in securing priority 

housing for single mothers and older teenagers who seek 

opportunities in training for the workplace, unable to do so 

in their sometimes dysfunctional domestic situations. 

So, it has been a very busy year! – and we continue to 

imbue confidence, hope and dignity for our children who 

are so proud of their Aboriginal heritage, yet confused 

with their ‘grass roots’ in an urban environment. We are 

indebted to our many dedicated volunteers and to those 

who offer us support in so many ways - THANK YOU! 

Ailsa Gillett OAM 

Co-ordinator of Life for Kids 

At Jamberoo. 



senior school sport 

The College experienced its most successful season ever, 

winning three of the five CAS Summer Competitions 

- Tennis, Waterpolo and Volleyball. Outside CAS 

competition, our 1st IV Tennis team won the Australian Jesuit 

Schools Tennis Championships whilst our 1st VIII Waterpolo 

team won the Tasman Cup which brings together the very 

best waterpolo schools from both Australia and New 

Zealand. Following these competitions, a number of our 

boys were selected for State and National Teams. 

Basketball 

The 1st V finished fifth in the CAS competition, winning 

three matches against Waverley College, Cranbrook 

School and Barker College. The 1st V almost beat the 

undefeated Trinity Grammar School away at Trinity losing 

on the buzzer. Under Old Boy coach Dom Pelosi (SAC 

2000), the team improved noticeably throughout the season 

and with many players returning next year, should be a real 

force in the competition. Captain Liam Andrew (Year 12) 

was selected in CAS 1st V Team and Fabijan Krslovic (Year 

9) and Alex Perkins (Year 10) in CAS 2nd V. 

The 5th V, under Old Boy coach David Telfer (SAC 

2006), was our best performing team, winning nine out of 

ten games. For the first time, a 1st V and Development Team 

toured overseas in December 2009, playing games against 

Jesuit Colleges on the west coast of the United States. 

Cricket 

The 1st XI competition was the closest in many seasons 

with any one of the six teams in contention for the CAS 

title during the year. The 1st XI, coached by Mr Andrew 

Quinane, won four CAS matches in the season and should 

have finished much higher in the final standings. In the last 

game against Trinity Grammar School, if the team had taken 

the final Trinity wicket, they would have secured overall third 

placing. Only seven competition points separated five 

schools in the final tally. Patrick Kennedy (Year 11) was 

selected in the CAS 1st XI team. 

The 1st XI made the final of the Australian Jesuit Schools 

Cricket Carnival, losing only narrowly to Xavier College, 

Melbourne, who they had beaten in the earlier rounds. 

Four boys were selected in the Australian Jesuit Schools 

Cricket Team; Nic Donohoe (Year 12), Jordan Daly (Year 

11), Alec Cornelius (Year 11), and Will Craft (Year 12). 

The 10As were unofficial winners of their competition. 

Dom Thompson (Year 10) made the Combined Independent 

Schools Under 15 Team for the second year in a row. 

Throughout the season, four boys hit centuries in various 

grades. 

Swimming 

The 79th Annual CAS Swimming Championships were 

held in early March at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic 

Centre. Our team performed very well on the night finishing 

fourth overall and ahead of both Waverley College and 

Cranbrook School. We had six wins, eight seconds and 

eight thirds at the carnival. Matt Jepson (Year 10) broke two 

CAS records in the 100 metres freestyle (53.26) and 200 

metres freestyle (1.55.75) Matt now holds eight personal 

CAS records, more that any other CAS swimmer from any 

school. Paul Sindone (Year 11) also broke the 17 years 50 

metre breastroke record with a time of 30.32. Our seniors, 

led by Captain Jack Grant (Year 12) and Vice Captain Trent 

Klouzal (Year 12), swam superbly at the meet. 

Winners on the night included: Elliot Long (Year 11) 16 

years 50 metre freestyle, Matt Jepson (Opens 400 metre 

freestyle), Paul Sindone (17 years 50 metre breastroke), 

Matt Jepson (16 years 100 metre freestyle), Matt Jepson 

(16 years 200 metre freestyle) and Elliot Long (16 years 

50 metre butterfly) 

The swim team competed at a number of lead up events 

to the CAS Championships. The team won the St Patrick’s 

College Invitational and were runners up in the SCECGS, 

Oakhill College and our own invitational carnival. 

Individually, Matt Jepson won four gold medals at the 

NSW Metropolitan Championships, five silvers at the 

NSW Aged Championships and only recently won gold in 

the 400 individual medley at the Australian Championships 

and narrowly missed winning the 200 individual medley. 

Consequently he was selected for the Australian Trans 

Tasman Team to compete in New Zealand in July. 

A number of our boys competed recently at All Schools 

Swimming. Elliot Long won the 50 freestyle; Paul Sindone 

was placed third in the 50 breastroke whilst the relay team 

of Trent Klouzal, Paul Sindone, Jack Grant and Marcus 

Anderson (Year 11) was placed third. 

My thanks extend to Coach Graeme Brewer and MIC 

Miss Erin Hogan for their tireless efforts in preparing the 

team for the Championships. Staff members Mr Damian 

Corrigan (SAC 1971) and Ms Marie Taylor also worked 

well behind the scenes in swimming. Many thanks also 

to all the parents who assisted at carnivals and morning 

breakfasts. 

Whilst on swimming, twenty of our boys competed in 

the annual Head of the Harbour Classic, a two kilometre 

swim. This is an opens event and again this year about one 

thousand people swam. Our swimmers again dominated 

the event with the school filling the first three places. Trent 

Klouzal beat Matt Jepson by the narrowest of margins. 

Elliot Long was placed third. The team of Trent Klouzal, 

Matt Jepson, Elliot Long, Marcus Anderson and Joseph 

Mastrangelo (Year 10) was the winners of the team event. 

Tennis 

Our 1st IV summer tennis team won their third summer 

CAS competition in a row. The team went through 

undefeated after ten rounds and accumulated 114 points. 

The closest school in second place was Waverley College 

on 67 points. All boys in the team, Nic Fuentes (Year 12), 



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Harry Kelleher (Year 11), Matt Rowland (Year 11) and Benji 

Pfister (Year 12) were selected in CAS teams. 

The 1st IV plus Ben Lalic (Year 11), Justin Lam (Year 11), 

Nic Mytowski (Year 11) and Scott Murray (Year 10) won 

the Australian Jesuits Schools Tennis Carnival in Melbourne, 

to emulate last year’s first win ever in the competition. Nic 

Fuentes, Harry Kelleher and Matt Rowland were selected in 

the Australian Jesuit Schools Tennis Team. 

Our 2nd IV and 10As were also unofficial winners of 

their respective CAS competitions. The 10As went through 

undefeated whilst the 2nds lost only one game in the season. 

Volleyball 

Our 1st VI volleyball team won their first ever CAS summer 

competition. Under staff member Ms Jen Zongor, the 

team improved considerably throughout the season and 

eventually won all but two games. The team was well led 

by Captain Julian Wilson (Year 12) and benefitted from the 

presence of NSW Representative Ben Lalic. The 2nd VI was 

unofficially placed second in their competition. 

Waterpolo 

Our 1st VIII Waterpolo team for the second year in 

a row went through undefeated in the demanding 

combined CAS/GPS Competition. The team showed great 

character to beat both Newington College and St Ignatius’ 

College, Riverview, in the final games of the season. The 

latter game was played in the Gartlan Centre in front of a 

packed crowd of boisterous supporters from each school. 

The team was well coached by Old Boys Peter de Gail 

(SAC 2002) and Jeremy May (SAC 2002) and managed 

by staff member Mrs Margaret Loomes. 

The team also won the Tasman Cup, beating the best 

waterpolo schools from New Zealand and Australia. Paul 

Sindone was the highest point scorer in the competition 

and scored six goals in the final. Paul was voted most 

valuable player of the tournament. Both Paul Sindone and 

Michael de Gail (Year 12) were picked in the Team of the 

Tournament. 

Under the skilful coaching of parent Mr Mario Sindone, 

our 16As was the best performing CAS team in the Under 

16s CAS/GPS Competition. 

1st VIII Waterpolo CAS/GPS Champions. 

Paul Sindone and Michael de Gail both played in the 

NSW Under 18s that won the Australian Championships. 

Michael represented Australia in the Under 18s and along 

with Paul, were selected in the Australian Under 19 team 

that played over Easter. Lachlan Viney (Year 12), Harrison 

Williams (Year 10) and Paul Sindone all played for CIS 

Under17s this season. 

Chess 

Chess at the College continues to improve. Overall results 

throughout the CAS competition placed St Aloysius’ 

either third or fourth in standings. Our Seniors team, under 

Captain Julian Wilson (Year 12), beat Cranbrook School 

and Waverley College in competition. 

Individually, Connor O’Shea (Year 7) in the Juniors went 

through undefeated in matches in the CAS competition. 

Fencing 

Hayden Fitzgerald (Year 12) represented Australia 

in the Asian Fencing Championships in Manila. In 

2009, Hayden competed in the Under 20 National 

Championships, finishing seventh overall. 

At the recent State Championships, Hayden Fitzgerald 

was placed third in the Seniors, Lachlan Fitzgerald (Year 9) 

third in the Under 15s and Edoardo Crepaldi-Milone (Year 

8) second in the Under 13s. 

Athletics 

Luke Gorman (Year 7) competed for NSW Little Athletics 

in New Zealand during the Christmas holidays. Alex 

Diamond (Year 7) won three events at the NSW Junior and 

Youth Athletic Championships. 

Rowing 

Elliot Hunt (Year 11) qualified for and rowed at 

Nationals. 

Surf Life Saving 

Nic Mulcahy (Year 12) was selected in the NSW Team. 

Nic won silver in the Under 17 sprint and was a 

member of the winning Under 17 relay team at the NSW 

Titles. Trent Klouzal(Year 12) was placed third in the Under 

17 Ironman and was a member of the Under 17 taplin 

team that won gold. 

Matt Jepson (Year 10) won silver in the Under 17 swim. 

Winter Preview 2010 

Rugby 

The 1st XV rugby team will again be coached by Messrs 

Greg Austin and Sinclair Watson. Mr Austin is both 

Rugby Director and MIC. 



senior school sport (cont'd) 

A number of boys from last year’s 1st XV and 2nd XV 

will be backing up again to form what should be a highly 

competitive outfit this season. Will Thompson (Year 12) was 

appointed as 1st XV Captain and Tim Duncan (Year 12) as 

Captain of Rugby. 

The team has already played a number of trials against 

Oakhill College and St Pius X College. The 1st XV won 

back the Shields-Moran Shield in their 22-10 defeat of St 

Pius X College. 

An opens squad toured Coffs Harbour during the holiday 

period and stayed at Camp Rabbito (ex-Camp Wallaby) 

In the opening CAS match of the season, the 1st XV went 

down 15-22 to Barker College in a physical encounter at 

The College War Memorial Oval. However the team 

bounced back in Round II to beat Cranbrook School 20-19 

at Hordern. 

Old Boys involved in coaching this season in the 

Senior School include: David Telfer (SAC 2006), Alex Er 

(SAC 2009), Tim Spiteri (SAC 2009), Chris Wells (SAC 

2009), Felix Buddee (SAC 2009), Sam Morrison (SAC 

2009), Liam O’Hare (SAC 2009), Jayson Fong (SAC 

2009), Tim Rowland (SAC 2009) and James Edwards 

(SASC 2008) 

Football 

Mr Ian Gillan continues this season as 1st XI coach 

and staff member Mr Antony Sindone as MIC and 

1st XI Manager. Sean Casey (Year 12) was appointed 1st 

XI Captain and Nicholas Aboud (Year 12) as Captain of 

Football. 

The 1st XI have already played a number of trial 

games and participated in the St Andrews’ Cup where 

they had wins over Oakhill College and Sydney Grammar 

School. The 1st XI lost their first CAS game, going down 

disappointingly 0-4 to Barker College. However the team 

had a morale boosting 2-1 win over Cranbrook School in 

Round II. 

Old Boys involved in coaching this season in the 

Senior School include: Callum Pendleton (SAC 2007), 

Ben Carrozzi (SAC 2009), Jonathon Coolentianos (SAC 

2009), Matt Carnuccio (SAC 2007), Rocco Pirello (SAC 

2007), James Flint (SAC 2008), Steve Kelly (SAC 2008), 

Alex Koumarelas (SAC 2007), Carlo Colosi (SAC 2008), 

Toby Douglas (SAC 2008), Tom Kelly (SAC 2007), Adam 

Pasfield (SAC 2008) and Jack McLean (SAC 2009). 

Volleyball 

The College will be fielding two relatively inexperienced 

volleyball teams in this winter competition. The 1st VI is 

being coached by staff member Mr Garry O’Neill. 

Cross Country 

small number of boys will compete in the weekly 

A combined CAS/GPS competition. Staff Member Mr 

Paul Batten has replaced Mr Justin Langley as MIC. 

Mr Paul Rowland (SAC 1973) 

Director of Co-Curricula 

Fencing – NSW Schools Fencing 

Championships 2010 

Saturday 29 May 2010 saw the conclusion of the 

NSW Schools - Fencing Team finals, an event which 

had been building up over the past few weeks with 

poules matches. Our teams were placed very conveniently 

in all three divisions - U13s, U15s and Opens - and all 

had a very good chance to take home the gold. The U13s 

did just that, overcoming a very game Sydney Grammar 

School team in the final match to bring home the shield for 

the second year in a row. Mentions especially to Emmanuel 

Lapitan (Year 6), who won the final bout of the match. The 

team consisted of Emmanuel Lapitan, Shaun Foo (Year 7), 

Matthew Fisher (Year 7) and Edoardo Crepaldi-Milone 

(Year 8). 

Our U15s, ranked second going into the finals, fought 

hard to overcome a strong Newington College side in the 

semi-finals, only to fall narrowly short in the finals 45-39 to 

a very strong Sydney Boys High School team - picking up 

silver. The U15s consisted of Joel Patniotis (Year 9), Brendan 

Chan (Year 9), Nathan Depangher (Year 10) and Lachlan 

Fitzgerald (Year 9). 

The Opens boys, who ranked third heading into the 

elimination rounds, faced stiff competition against Sydney 

Grammar School in the finals. In a match where the boys 

were trailing for the majority of it, Matthew McEwen (Year 

11) was able to turn around our fortunes in the second last 

Tennis 

The 1st IV tennis team will be hoping to secure a second 

consecutive CAS Winter Competition this year. With 

three boys back, the team has a real chance of securing 

back to back titles but will face strong opposition from 

Barker College. The team has already won its first two 

CAS matches against Barker College and Cranbrook 

School. 

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State School Championship-U13 Boys Team - Gold. 

bout, and we managed to come through and win a close 

42-38 matchup. Unfortunately, despite a valiant comeback 

effort, the boys lost the final to St Andrew’s Cathedral 

School 45-43 - a remarkable effort against the top team in 

the comp - and took home silver medals. The team consisted 

of James Lauder (Year 12), Matthew McEwen (Year 11), 

Tom McGloin (Year 11) and Hayden Fitzgerald (Year 12). 

Additionally, we had very strong results in the individual 

field. On 1 May, the U11s, U13s and U15s fenced - and 

we achieved some very commendable results. In the U11s 

Emilio Lapitan from the Junior School took out a bronze 

medal. In the U13 Boys, Edoardo Crepaldi-Milone picked 

up silver, while Emmanuel Lapitan and Shaun Foo ranked 

9th and 12th respectfully. The U15s too had a strong 

showing, with Lachlan Fitzgerald winning a bronze medal 

and Nathan Depangher ranking in the top 16. 

The Opens boys took to the piste on 8 May. They, too, 

ranked very highly. Hayden Fitzgerald took out a bronze 

medal, while Matthew McEwen ranked in the top 8 and 

James Lauder in the top 16. In a spot of bad luck, Hayden 

had to knock out both boys to progress further - both tough 

matches which indicated the strength of our Opens team. 

Other commendable results included Marcele Gemperle 

(Year 10), Tom McGloin and Alex Hui (Year 11) all making 

Seniors Boys - 2010. 

the top 32. Although some boys were not mentioned, all 

of the Aloysius’ squad performed remarkably well and 

represented their school with pride. 

Overall it was a superb effort from all the boys, and 

Aloysius’ were the most successful school of the competition. 

The performances of the last few weeks have left me assured 

that not only will the remainder of this season be successful, 

but fencing will be left in good hands in the following years. 

Much thanks must go to our coaches – Mr Jeff Gray, our 

head coach who constantly works tirelessly for our boys 

not only coaching wise, but in repairing and providing 

our equipment, and assistant coach Mr Frank Bartolillo, 

(Australian Olympian in Athens 2004 and top ranked fencer 

in Australia) who provides us with his priceless knowledge 

on the sport. And, of course, many thanks to all the boys 

who turn up every week without fail to training - none of 

these results would be possible without you. 

Hayden Fitzgerald (Year 12) 

Captain of Fencing 

Swimming 

The CAS Swimming Championships were held at 

Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre (SOPAC) on 

Thursday, 11 March. St Aloysius’ College achieved 

fourth placing - an outstanding achievement for the 2010 

CAS Swimming Team. The College won first place in 6 

events on the night, congratulations to Matthew Jepson, 

Elliot Long and Paul Sindone. 

Special congratulations to Matthew Jepson for breaking 

the 16 years 100 Freestyle CAS Record with a time of 

53.26 and the 16 years 200 Freestyle CAS Record 

1.55.75.Congratulations to Paul Sindone for breaking the 

17 years 50 Breastroke CAS Record with a time of 30.32. 

Many team members improved their personal best times 

reflecting their hard work at training. The Year 11 and 12 

students and the Blue and Gold Army were an excellent 

support on the night as their cheered on the CAS Team. 

The Head of the Harbour Swim Classic was held on 

Sunday 14 March at the Opera House. The College had 

13 competitors on the day complete a 2km swim from the 

steps of the Opera House to Mrs Macquarie's Chair and 

back to the Opera House. The boys competed both as 

individuals and as part of a team. Matthew Jepson and 

Trent Klouzal were placed equal first overall winning the 

2km swim with a time of 19.28 over 800 other competitors 

from age groups 13-65 - a wonderful achievement. Elliot 

Long was third placing overall. This is an exceptional 

achievement by the swimmers. The Senior Team of Marcus 

Anderson, Matthew Jepson, Trent Klouzal, Elliot Long, 

Joseph Mastrangelo were the fastest team to finish on the 

day winning the overall team category and the Schools 

category. It was wonderful to see so many Aloysians on the 

podium competing on the day. 

The 2010 season drew to a close with the All Schools 

Swimming Championships at SOPAC. Congratulations 



senior school sport (cont'd) 

Head of Harbour 2010 Team 1 

to Matthew Jepson, Elliot Long, Paul Sindone and Trent 

Klouzal on their individual swims and medals at a State 

level. Captain of Swimming Jack Grant wrote the following 

on the senior relay team at the meet. “The medley relay 

was the highlight of the meet with Trent Klouzal, Marcus 

Anderson, Paul Sindone and I, competing against the best 

relay teams in all of New South Wales. The race was 

started with Trent clocking a PB to give the boys a handy 

lead alongside that of powerhouses, Trinity Grammar and 

Oakhill College. With Paul following behind closely, he 

touched in second place leading myself into butterfly, where 

I touched closely behind the two schools. The final leg was 

swum by Marcus, who held our place and established us 

as the third fastest medley relay team in New South Wales. 

The day was great, however, due to the perseverance of 

all the boys and the hard early morning sessions we were 

able to carve our names into swimming history as the third 

fastest school in the state! Nonetheless, the effort from the 

boys was immeasurable and all thanks must go to them and 

the coaches”. 

Miss Erin Hogan 

MIC Swimming 

Jack Grant (Year 12) 

Captain of Swimming 

Water Polo 

The 2009-2010 Water Polo season has been the 

most successful since its inception at St Aloysius’ 

in 1987. Not only were the Opens’ teams highly 

successful, illustrated primarily through wins in the CAS/ 

GPS Premiership and the Trans Tasman Cup, but the 

talent and improvement shown by the younger boys has 

demonstrated the broad success of St Aloysius’ Water Polo 

and the bright future ahead. 

1sts Water Polo had a wonderful season, reclaiming their 

CAS/GPS Premiership of 2008/2009 with an outstanding 

7-6 victory over Riverview. It was a fairy tale season. 

Despite two uncharacteristic defeats to both Newington 

and Riverview in trial matches, the boys regrouped and 

consolidated quite a successful first half of the season. This 

featured big wins against Waverley and Knox. 

After the conclusion of Term IV, the team flew across 

to Auckland to compete in the Trans Tasman Cup – a 

schoolboys’ competition comprising the best sides from both 

Australia and New Zealand. Disheartened by the narrow 

loss we experienced in this same tournament 12 months 

earlier, we had one goal here – to win. Tough competition 

from Westlake BHS (Christchurch), Melbourne High (the 

side who beat us last year) and Newington College 

created what was, a very close tournament. Eventually 

however, we met Melbourne High in the final, defeating 

them 8-6 – Lachlan Viney (Year 12), our goalie, was voted 

Man of the Tour by his Aloys’ teammates. 

The first three fixtures of Term I included wins over Scots 

College, Trinity and Barker. Following this, our season 

heated up. We met Newington at Newington in the second 

last round. The winner would progress in the premiership 

race, and the loser would fall behind on points. It was a 

classic match. Thankfully, with the help of the enthusiastic 

Year 12 crowd we were able to overcome Newington in a 

blockbuster 7-5 victory. 

The Grand final was against Riverview at the Gartlan 

Centre. For those who made it to the game, it was an 

amazing morning. For those who didn’t, picture a crowd of 

400 + exuberant Aloys’ and Riverview supporters equipped 

with voice, drums and trumpets, all fuelled by one desire - 

CAS/GPS glory. A great game from all the boys, notably 

Paul Sindone (Year 11) with his 4 great goals and a solid 

defensive performance by Marcus Anderson (Year 11), 

capped off a wonderful Grand Final victory. 

Other notable mentions include Christian Colosi and 

Harry Williams. Both players really stepped up toward the 

end of the season and had wonderful games in the semi 

final and grand final. Also, Trent Kllouzal who missed our 

Newington game was an influential member of our grand 

final winning team – he had a wonderful season. I’d like 

to thank our big men, Ciaran Macwhite, Will Thompson 

and Alex Huitema who played out of their skin in the last 

few games of the season when we had a few key players 

missing. Without these guys the team would not have 

achieved all that it has over the past year. 

Finally, big thanks goes out to the governing bodies, 

notably, Fr Middleton, Fr Ross, Mr Rowland, Mr Watson 

and Mr Braithwaite. Their continuing support for Aloysius’ 

Water Polo has been influential. To Mrs Loomes, your 

tireless managerial campaign has not gone unnoticed - your 

behind-the-scenes logistical works have greatly helped the 

running of our season and I hope you have enjoyed your 

time with us. Thanks to our three coaches for the year, 

notably Mario Sindone for taking us to Trans-Tasman cup 

and Peter de Gail and Jeremy May without whom the 

team would not have matured and regrouped to win the 

premiership. To all Water Polo boys, well done on a great 

season and good luck for the future. 

Michael de Gail (Year 12) 



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drama 

Twelfth Night 

While the Soccer boys spent their summer running 

drills, and the Rugby boys spent theirs in the 

gym, it was the Drama students who pushed their 

physical, mental and emotional fortitude to the limit, in what 

can only be regarded as the ‘Twelfth Night Experience’. 

Lachlan McNab. 

We were the 1st XV of Drama being let onto a field 

without a coach. While Shakespeare is hard to perform at 

the best of times, it was not made easier by being the first 

entirely student produced play in many, many years. There 

were inevitable complications, namely, difficulties regarding 

rehearsal spaces. When it became apparent that public 

parks weren’t good enough, it was the generosity of the 

Gageler family who came to the rescue, and for this they 

deserve a special mention. 

Twelfth Night was a play rehearsed during the holidays, 

solely in the free time of students during their HSC year. It 

was given no budget, and although having the blessing 

and support of the College, was largely a demonstration 

of the ability and talent residing within this group of 

Benjamin Gageler and Nathaniel Pemberton. 

students. The experienced cast consisted of Vincent Power 

(Count Orsino), Lachlan McNab (Sebastian), James Ross 

(Sir Toby Belch), Sean O’Grady (Sir Andrew Aguecheek), 

Nathaniel Pemberton (Malvolio), Benjamin Gageler (Feste), 

Dominic Byrne (Maria), Luke Jones (Fabian), Samuel Murray 

(Antonio), James Lauder (Sea Captain, Officer 2), Giancarlo 

Puglisi (Valentine, Officer 1, Priest) and two students from 

North Sydney Girls High School; Madeline Miller (Viola) 

and Shalia Eime (Lady Olivia). It was the individual work 

of actors through the countless hours spent rehearsing that 

Vincent Power, Madeline Miller and Shalia Eime. 

James Ross and Dominic Byrne. 



drama (cont'd) 

ultimately resulted in the brilliant performances that the play 

exhibited. There was certainly times of conflict throughout 

the process, some more dramatic than others, but all this 

was ultimately overcome. 

On a personal level, I will say that this has been a 

highlight of Drama at the College, and I hope that later 

years continue this example, and form a tradition of student 

led productions. It is an entirely different experience working 

together as an ensemble to create a piece of theatre which 

you all care about. Theatre isn’t just about the final result, 

it isn’t just about the rehearsal process of developing a 

performance which you would be proud to present to 

others, it is about the experience and who you share it with, 

and that’s just what Twelfth Night was, an experience. 

Bennett Sheldon (Year 12) 

Director 

Bear Hug 

Originally scheduled as a twilight performance in 

the Junior School amphitheatre, the Year 12 drama 

production Bear Hug made its Australian premiere 

in February 2010 at The Miguel Pro Playhouse. With a 

small cast of only three actors, Bear Hug, written by Robin 

French, is a play unlike any other produced at the College 

in the recent past. Directed by Ms Melinda Pedavoli, the 

production is an absurdist parable about the damage 

children can inflict on their parents – whether through 

adolescent angst or more serious problems such as drug 

addiction and mental illness. 

Adam Ibrahim and Nicholas Cordi. 

Bear Hug delves into the private lives of a typical, yet 

hyperbolic family whose son, Michael, has transformed 

into a bear (Daniel Farinha). As the action unfolds and 

the prospect of returning Michael to the zoo becomes a 

real possibility, we see each character express universal 

emotions such as frustration, desperation and isolation. 

Despite the ambiguity surrounding the bear metaphor, it was 

the grotesque transformation (both literal and metaphorical) 

of the bear’s parents, David (Adam Ibrahim) and Linda 

Adam Ibrahim, Daniel Farinha and Nicholas Cordi. 

(Nicholas Cordi) that resonated with the audience long after 

the play ended. 

Much of the play’s success turned on the cast’s ability 

to effectively capture the comic surrealism of the situation, 

whilst simultaneously conveying the futility and despair that 

underscore French’s writing. To this end, the cast undertook 

a very intensive rehearsal process that began in late 2009 

and continued throughout the Christmas holidays. 

Ms Pedavoli is to be commended for her efforts in 

challenging each of us and our theatrical abilities, as we 

worked on creating real-life characters that were performed 

with great conviction. One could only imagine the difficulties 

involved in such a task, considering the cast consisted of a 

bear, his supportive mother who loses a finger in the chicken 

Kiev after a… well… bear attack, and his father who must 

teach his son how to drive amidst surprised onlookers. 

Despite the usual last minute stress, the opening night 

was received extremely well by audience members, who 

witnessed a piece of drama that was atypical of previous 

productions at the College. We were all overwhelmed by 

the large numbers in the audience, with some members 

unfortunately being turned away as the playhouse reached 

full capacity earlier than expected. Admittedly, as each 

row was filling up with eager audience members, the cast 

became increasingly nervous. However, as we entered the 

performance space, Daniel, Adam and I relished at the 

sight of an audience in whose presence we could finally 

perform the tumultuous story of Michael, David and Linda. 

The play did not disappoint and many described it as 

“comical”, “confronting” and “emotional”. 

Thanks must go to Ms Pedavoli who spent so much 

of her time dedicated to the success of the production, 

ensuring that each of us not only grew as actors but that 

our experience remained a most memorable one. Further 

thanks must go to Mrs Michelle O’Donnell as well as Mr 

David Clancy as Master-in-Charge of Stage Crew whose 

combined efforts and assistance with wardrobe, props 

and a wonderful 70’s inspired set were invaluable to the 

production. Finally, we would like to thank Mr Peter Gough 



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and the College Drama Department for their continued 

support with co-curricular Drama. Your assistance did not go 

unnoticed and it was greatly appreciated by all involved. 

Nicholas Cordi (Year 12) 

Biloxi Blues 

Our Year 11 Drama 

production this 

year was Neil 

Simon’s Biloxi Blues. Mr 

Gough chose this piece 

because of its witty 

dialogue, appealing 

themes and interesting 

characters. An executive 

decision was made to 

double cast the play, with 

the Blue Cast to perform on 

Thursday night (opening 

night) and Saturday night, 

whilst the Gold Cast to 

perform Friday night and 

Thomas McGloin. 

Sunday afternoon. This 

created the opportunity for 

most of us to take on a production role which would aid 

in understanding the logistical aspects of the play, as well 

as what had to be done behind the scenes to create this 

wonderful production. 

The two-act play narrated by Eugene Jerome played 

by Tim Boyd and Tom McGloin, follows the journey of 

seven recruits in their basic training in ‘the murky swamps 

of Mississippi”. Jack Lee played by James Nguyen in 

all four performances, was of Chinese descent and had 

an exceptional love for Chinese Food. James Hennesey 

played by Robbie Walcott and Matthew Reynolds, is a 

Patrick Horne and the recruits. 

rather quiet, respectful man yet further into the play it is 

revealed that Hennesey is a homosexual and he is sent to 

gaol for three months. Roy Selridge played by Ben Jacobs 

and Joshua Begbie, is the joker in the group with a loud 

mouth. He restrains his emotions and always follows Joseph 

Wykowski’s lead. Wykowski played by James Wilkinson 

and Charlie Pitt-Rawlinson is the belligerent loudmouth 

who craves power over his fellow men. He becomes 

the unofficial spokesperson yet his opinion is affected by 

prejudice especially for the Jewish population. Arnold 

Epstein played by James Conroy and Nick Elderton is 

an intellectual individual who has a sensitive mind and 

stomach. He refuses to follow orders and refuses to give in 

to Sergeant Toomey’s demands. He is steadfast in his pursuit 

of truth and justice. He enjoys doing things the hard way 

because it is more interesting. Sergeant Merwin Toomey, 

played by Pat Horne and Oscar Lush, is a sadistic leader 

of men who challenges the men and attempts to make them 

obedient ‘khaki idiots’. He has very unusual methods of 

teaching lessons and is very harsh with discipline. 

Yaer 11 Drama production cast members. 



drama (cont'd) 

Patrick Bell. 

Don Carney played by Paddy Bell and Zach Parker 

loves to sing, is incredibly indecisive and insecure and 

‘isn’t too strong in the arms’ when ordered to do push 

ups. The narrator, Eugene Jerome is from Brooklyn New 

York. He provides incites to further character development 

throughout the play by interacting with the audience. He 

tells the audience that he has three goals in the war; not to 

get killed, to lose his virginity and to become a writer. He 

keeps a record of events occurring in his memoirs which is 

a critical part to the play. The play also involved two girls. 

Claire Henessey from Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College 

played Daisy Hannigan, Eugene’s love interest from the 

local catholic school. Rowena, the prostitute who takes 

Jerome’s virginity was played by Polly Nowicki who is a 

graduate from The Sydney Acting School. 

The interaction between characters provides a hilarious 

encounter in which the audience is thrusted into the drama 

of the play. They are kept on the edge of their seats with the 

witty one-liners, and side-splitting situations. 

The other side of the production; that being the 

production roles were filled by; James Carr Rufle, Will 

Frolich as Stage Managers, Josh Begbie and Ben Jacobs as 

Deputy Stage Managers, Charlie Pitt- Rawlinson and Paddy 

Bell as Assistant Stage Managers, Matt Reynolds and 

Robbie Walcott as Props 

Managers, Zach Parker 

and James Wilkinson as 

Sound Technicians, and 

James Nguyen as Lighting 

Technician. This is a very 

insightful experience as 

it is rare for actors to 

take on these roles. I am 

sure that we all gained 

a lot from these and 

began to understand the 

extensive work stage crew 

have to put in to assist a 

production. 

The cast would like 

to extend our immense 

Nicholas Elderton. 

gratitude to Mr Peter 

Gough for the countless 

hours he put into this production and his faith in us to create 

this great performance. His assistance in creating our 

characters and developing our acting skills is appreciated 

by all. We would also like to thank the Stage Crew for 

their hours of sacrifice to put into our production. We would 

particularly like to thank Mr David Clancy for his tiresome 

effort. He is axiomatic to the Stage Crew. 

The Head of Drama, Mr Peter Gough, hard at work. 



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music 

William Nelson (Year 12) “Springtime for Hitler”. 

Chronicle of a Musical: 

The Producers 2010 

St Aloysius’ College has a proud tradition of presenting 

superb musical theatre. In March of this year that 

tradition continued with the presentation of a season 

of Mel Brooks’ hilarious and irreverent recent Broadway hit, 

The Producers. The process of staging a full-scale musical 

is long and complex and commences at least 18 months 

before the actual season opens. Once the decision had 

been taken to stage this work, the performance rights to 

the show were obtained from the Australian holders of the 

international copyright. The Producers had only recently 

become available for world-wide, amateur production 

and as such had never before been attempted in Australia 

at the high school level. We would be breaking new 

ground with this show. This proved to be a most complex 

musical requiring multiple casts, a great deal of demanding 

choreography, large sets with technical and staging 

demands far beyond the capacity of our The Great Hall at 

the College. In order to make a season of The Producers a 

reality, a large and talented production team would firstly 

need to be assembled and then a suitable theatre found off 

site. Eventually with the generous support of the College, 

The Parade Theatre at Kensington was secured for one 

week for the late March 2010 season. This wonderful 

venue is home to our own National Institute of Dramatic Art 

(NIDA) and as such is replete with every possible technical 

and artistic requirement for a successful staging of a season 

of The Producers. 

Auditions were held in October 2009, with more than 

250 hopefuls trying out from the College and from a number 

of Girls’ schools. Some wonderful principal singers and 

dancers were discovered in this process as well as a large, 

enthusiastic chorus of boys and girls. The collaborating 

schools in the project were Loreto Kirribilli, Monte Sant’ 

Angelo Mercy College, PLC Sydney and Santa Sabina 

College. The final cast, crew and orchestra numbered 

in excess of 140 students. Rehearsals commenced in 

November of 2009 for chorus and principals. 

With the new 2010 school year, the preparations 

continued under the direction of Mr David MacSwan and 

choreographer Ms Patricia Cotter. The auditioning of the 

24 piece orchestra which was comprised of student, staff 

and professional musicians was completed. The production 

team continued the very complex planning of the myriad 

details associated with this, our most major musical 

undertaking ever. It was decided at the outset to create a 

spectacular-looking and sounding show as the budget would 

allow. Key professional designers and subcontractors were 

retained to develop the set design, lighting plan, audio 

scheme Dominic Scarf and plays other Franz technical Liebkind. matters. Timetabling of all 



music (cont'd) 

Jonathan Chan (Year 11) - Max Bialystuck and Benjamin McCann 

(Year 10) - Leo Bloom. 

events associated with this production would prove to be 

the critical factor as the theatre could be accessed for one 

week only and all set elements, lighting and sound would 

have to be installed in a single day before the arrival of the 

cast for final rehearsals in the venue. 

As noted, the staging of The Producers proved to be one 

of the most technically demanding ever staged by SAC, 

requiring the highest degree of technical theatrical expertise. 

Fortunately notable amongst the production team was Old 

Laura Hadfield - Villa, Loretto Kirribilli (Year 10). 

Boy of the College Mr Cameron Hissey (SAC 2005). He 

managed the design, planning, sourcing, installation and 

operation of the technical department of the production. 

By the beginning of March all of the elements of the 

impressive set designed by Mr Adam Lindberg had been 

completed and lay on the floor of The Great Hall ready to 

assemble, awaiting transport to Kensington. A key element 

in the set design was to be a state-of-the-art large data 

projector screen which was to provide, through digital 

imaging, the setting, historical context and ‘atmosphere’ 

for each of the many complex scenes in this musical and 

requiring a digital library of still and video images. The 

technical specifications also called for ‘live feed’ video of 

John Walden (Year 11) - FDR and William Nelson. 

Benjamin McCann, Dominic Scarf, and Jonathan Chan 

“Guten Tag Nop-Klop”. 



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“Prisoners of Love” - Act II Finale. 

the action on the stage. This advanced technology proved 

to be one of the ‘big hits’ of this production. 

Rehearsals for principals and chorus were ongoing 

throughout February and early March and orchestral 

rehearsals were in full swing by the third week of term 

under the baton of the Musical Director, Mrs Sia Mastro 

(SAC Staff). Teams of costume sewers ably led by Costume 

Coordinator, Associate Professor Fran Boyle AM (Current 

Parent) worked tirelessly for months: measuring, sewing 

and at times seeking at op-shops and St Vincent de Paul 

outlets the weird and exotic fabrics and retro 1950s 

costumes required for this period production They sourced 

by scrounging, borrowing, everything from formal wear 

to German Nazi uniforms. Only Fran Boyle could have 

supplied 20 little old ladies with matching walking frames! 

On Sunday March 14 the complex process of 

transporting and installing the set, costumes and musical 

paraphernalia to NIDA commenced at sunrise. In record 

time and with military precision under the guidance of 

Mr David Clancy (SAC Staff) and his willing stage crew 

(plus a number of dragooned parents!), the set was safely 

installed at the theatre. The sound systems were completed 

by Loud & Clear Audio, the lighting array, data projector 

and cabling installed by Mandy Lights. Then, as all of the 

many components rapidly came together, it was becoming 

clear by the time the cast arrived at the theatre that this 

production was going to be very different from the average 

student musical. 

By opening night, the months of preparation and attention 

to detail bore fruit. The spectacular production setting, 

the wonderful orchestra, fabulous singing and amazing 

choreography (of Ms Patricia Cotter) had all coalesced 

Jonathan Chan and Claire Hennessy (Monte Year 11). The accountants sing “I wanna be a Producer”. 



music (cont'd) 

James Muy (Stormtrooper) and William Nelson (Hitler). 

Thomas McGloin (Year 11) “Lady in Pearls”. 

to create a professional standard student musical in the 

magnificent setting of the Parade Theatre. Word spread 

across Sydney of this exceptional student production and a 

series of packed houses bore tribute to this amazing effort. 

This student cast, orchestra and crew worked magnificently 

to ensure that the tradition of first class St Aloysius’ College 

musical productions continues. Following the last standing 

ovation of the packed theatre and the last curtain call with 

the sweeping of the empty stage in the quiet of the now 

darkened theatre, there was a feeling of satisfaction in 

the knowledge that those who come after the College’s 

ground-breaking season of The Producers will have indeed 

a hard act to follow! 

My sincere thanks to all involved. 

Mr Michael Hissey 

Director of Music 

Mr De Bris' Production Team. Act I Finale. 



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honour board 

Fr Ross Jones SJ addresses the gathering. 

Honour Board for Long Serving Staff 

St Aloysius’ College, like comparable schools, has its fair 

share of Honour Boards celebrating the achievements 

of students which reach back to the beginning of 

the College. This is understandable and appropriate. 

There are also Boards which offer proper recognition of 

the contributions over the years of many parents. Father 

Anthony Smith SJ, during his term as Headmaster, noticed 

one omission was a Board to acknowledge the service 

of staff, both Jesuit and Lay. He began a process, which 

the school’s Development Office brought to completion, to 

address this. 

On March 8 2010 twenty two former staff members 

gathered for a Mass of Thanksgiving which celebrated the 

collaboration of the Jesuit/Lay partnership at the College. 

They then moved to The Lawrence Campbell Common 

Room to witness an Honour Board unveiled by Father Geoff 

Schneider SJ, now in his fortieth year at the College, and 

blessed by the Principal, Father Middleton SJ. It lists those 

staff who have given the College twenty or more years of 

generous and loyal service. Currently the Board displays the 

names and years of service of forty-five teachers and other 

servants of the College. 

In reporting events in The Gonzagan, the Rector, Father 

Jones SJ, drew attention to the range of service. “What a 

community this Board represents... Lay and Jesuit... Junior 

Mrs Maureen Power, wife of Mr Harry 'Hal' Power points to his name 

on the Honourboard. 

and Seniors School staff... teachers of the Humanities, 

the Sciences and the Arts, peripatetic Elocution and P.E. 

teachers, an O.C. of the College Cadet Unit, a Secretary, 

a Librarian, a Bursar, a Manager of the Print Room and two 

groundsmen”. Father noted that in sum their generous and 

dedicated service totalled 1,215 years. The Board will be 

a living testament on the staff Common Room, particularly 

as other names are added in time and in turn. 

Former Deputy Headmaster, Mr Paul Meagher and his wife 

Bernadette. 

The events of the day finished with a morning tea, to 

which the current staff were invited to join their former 

colleagues. It was a very happy and moving day. One of 

those recognised on the day wrote to me to express her 

delight with these words. “I felt so honoured to be at St 

Aloysius’ on our big day and was so happy to renew old 

acquaintances. St Aloysius’ holds a very special place in 

my heart. How blessed was I to spend those happy days 

in the Junior School”. It might be appreciated quickly that 

the benefit of this employer/employee partnerships was 

mutually rewarding. 

The workplace was also a home. 

Fr Rector with Mr Deegan, Fr Schneider SJ and Mr Clarkson. 

Mr Bruce Clarkson (SAC Hon Old Boy) 

(SAC Staff 1976-2009) 



micronesia 2009 

A year in the islands, 

or How we learned to live life and 

love laziness. 

What to say, how to capture one magical, 

unforgettable year in a few words. From the 

moment we boarded the plane at Sydney, 

leaving behind slightly bereaved parents, we were thrown 

into something entirely new. Travelling, on our own, to a 

strange country, with our all-important entry permits waiting 

to be picked up at Chuuk’s not-so International Airport, was 

a daunting prospect. Yet as soon as we deplaned, onto the 

only smooth tarmac that any of us would see for months, 

now sweating in the high humidity and tropical sun, we 

knew that we’d made the right decision. 

We were greeted at the airport by the local Jesuit 

Superior, Fr Jim Croghan SJ, who at about ten foot tall, give 

or take a few inches, was easy to locate in the crowd of 

families welcoming home their relatives. Piling our luggage 

into two small SUVs, we began the drive up to Xavier High 

School, the most prestigious school in the region and our 

home for the next 12 months. One thing we quickly learned 

about life on the little island of Weno – an island so small 

that no atlas had more than a pin prick of green in the vast 

blue of the Pacific Ocean – was that going anywhere took 

on average 45 minutes by car, truck or bus, while walking 

around the island took no more than six hours. 

Once we arrived at Xavier High School, sitting atop 

Mabuchi Hill at the eastern corner of the island, we 

Transporting fruit and vegetables in Chuuk. 

Joe Croft (SAC 2008) with some of his students at Xavier High School. 

were warmly welcomed by staff and students, everyone 

equally curious to see the newest set of arrivals in a world 

almost entirely dependent on short-term volunteers. We 

soon discovered this curiosity to be symptomatic of a sad 

truth – many of Xavier’s teachers are only at the school for 

two school years, while the students attend for four. This 

extreme turnover rate, combined with constant financial 

pressures, makes the job of the Director, Fr Rich McAuliff 

SJ, a demanding and anxious one. We soon saw how 

truly miraculous it is that the school continues to function, 

let alone that it has educated Micronesian leaders for over 

50 years. 

Its proud history and dedicated alumni notwithstanding, 

Xavier still faces great difficulties in educating each new 

generation of Micronesians. Even basic necessities like 

water and electricity cannot be taken for granted at Xavier, 

let alone in the rest of the state of Chuuk. As we found 

out, repeatedly, the island’s power, supplied at exorbitant 

rates by two large diesel generators, often cut out, 

without warning and with any number of possible causes. 

Occasionally a coconut tree would fall across the power 

lines, but usually the generators would break down – in 

any case, Xavier still needed power to educate its students, 

and this was and continues to be provided by an ancient 

generator of its own, which is currently dying a slow death 

due to lack of maintenance and lack of funds. Clearly, 

Xavier relies on the kindness of strangers, and from time 

to time receives government grants, as well as private and 

corporate donations, all of which are gratefully accepted 

and implemented into a remarkably holistic education, 

constantly adapting to the resources and staff available at 

any given time. 

In spite of these many challenges, or perhaps because 

of them, Xavier seems to exist in its own world where the 

unwritten rules that govern much of the developed world 

cease to apply. With around 160 students across four 

grades, Xavier makes Aloys seem truly Ignatian in its size. 

This small number of students, combined with the nine or so 

months of each year they spend living in close proximity to 



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one another, fosters an incredible family dynamic, with older 

students playfully ‘adopting’ younger students and becoming 

a ‘mommy’, ‘daddy’, or any other relation imaginable. 

While impossibly confusing to us, informed in our first week 

that 12th graders had ‘children’ in 9th grade and too 

disoriented to know any better, these strange relationships 

showed us how close-knit the community was and continues 

to be. Indeed, the alumni tend to flock together wherever 

they go after graduating, many to universities and colleges 

in Micronesia and some even to mainland America. 

We all found the teaching experience, especially in 

such a familial environment, to be immensely rewarding, 

from the slight thrill of being thrust into positions of authority 

(even if, as we found out later, some students were a year 

or two older than we were) to the well-documented joy of 

seeing comprehension dawn in their eyes. As an aside 

to our teachers, and indeed all educators, we quickly 

appreciated how hard it can be to teach people as forgetful, 

disorganised and stubborn as high school students, yet we 

instantly understood their motivations. 

What struck us, however, and many other westerners 

passing through Xavier, was how, for better or worse, the 

traditional teacher-student barriers became much more 

informal. For instance, the day we arrived, after about 18 

hours’ travel, with only a handful given to sleep, I was told 

I had my first music class with 15 seniors. This was an 

exciting prospect, for we were all keen to try our hand at 

teaching, but I soon ran out of introductory things to say 

and, unable to fill the 50 minute period, let the class go 

much earlier than usual. Needless to say, they liked their 

new music teacher, and the principal had some helpful 

suggestions for the next day. On another occasion, after 

the day’s classes, a few faculty and students went to pick 

some coconuts – that is, the Americans and Australians 

collected dozens of coconuts that the nimble students sent 

raining down, before all sharing in the spoils. Shortly after, 

the students shuffled off to study, while the teachers finished 

off the coconuts – the informality only went so far. 

As I alluded to earlier, however, my most memorable 

moments were those spent with students outside the 

classroom. This, I believe, is what makes Xavier such 

a magical place – once the largely western volunteers 

(most from the US, with some from Japan, the Philippines, 

Indonesia, Burma and, of course, Australia) have finished 

teaching in the classroom, the roles reverse and the students 

can teach us about themselves and their cultures (for 

excellent articles about all things Micronesian, Micronesian 

Seminar is the place – http://www.micsem.org). 

Living in such close proximity with the other staff and the 

boys (the boys boarded on campus, while the girls stayed 

with host families around the island) – although thankfully 

not sharing their meals (usually rice with a combination 

of canned tuna or mackerel) or accommodation (their 

shower-house and toilet block had the distinct smell of 

a zoo enclosure) – afforded many opportunities to build 

lasting relationships. Indeed, on weekends, we would go 

Some local children in Chuuk. 

swimming with the boys (which always ended up as ‘push 

the American/Australian into the water’), or play basketball, 

watch a movie, or simply chat about anything and 

everything. No matter the activity, however, their affinity for 

photos was clear, with various hand gestures, some totally 

innocent, following the first signs of a camera. 

Island life is a far cry from the rush of city life, not to 

mention the demands and stresses of Year 12, and we all 

greatly enjoyed the year-long change of pace. While there 

were inevitably times where we would have liked a little 

more action, we learned to love the notion of ‘island time’, 

a tropical variation of Timon & Pumba’s ‘hakuna matata’. 

Things happened in their own time, if at all, and you didn’t 

worry if they didn’t – after all, there’s always tomorrow. This 

excellent outlook had its limitations in a school environment, 

particularly in the school’s M&R (maintenance and repair) 

department, which more often resembled R&R, but came 

into its own when technology, in its various forms, failed 

(often). For instance, we once had to change a tyre, only 

to find the spare was also flat – an apparent nightmare, 

but really just another opportunity to share a coconut with 

the locals. 

Life in the islands was like nothing we expected, and 

was everything we had hoped for. We had the opportunity 

to teach, to serve, to relax, to reflect, to experience new 

things and forge lasting friendships, to stand on our own 

feet in some ways. While we are even now trying to 

discern exactly what our year in the islands means for us in 

future, it offered us an insight into the joys of teaching, as 

well as a new perspective on another life, adapted to the 

heat of the sun and the proximity of family. 

Robin Jordan (SAC 2008) 

2009 Micronesian Scholar 



east timor 

A reflection on my time in Timor 

When I got off the plane at Comoro Airport on 

19 March 2009, I was struck by an immediate 

culture shock. Having been on the College 

Philippines Immersion two years before, I thought I had 

some idea of what to expect from a new, poverty-stricken 

country. Instead, I came to realise that my experience there 

and the experience of East Timor would be entirely different 

to anything I’d previously even imagined. 

Early in the morning, Fr Quyen Vu SJ picked me up in 

a dilapidated Daihatsu, whose steering wheel was held 

together by a tightly wound piece of string. In itself, the 

fifteen-minute drive from the airport to the Jesuit residence 

in Taibessi was an eye-opening experience. We drove 

past the shells of cars destroyed in the civil crisis of 2006, 

as well as the façades of houses that were ruined during 

Indonesia’s violent withdrawal in 1999. 

The cars dangled with children using them as playground 

equipment, while the houses stood empty and deserted out 

of both superstition and a belief that their owners may yet 

come back to claim them. Once we had crossed Comoro 

Bridge – which runs parallel to one that fell down only a 

few years ago – we entered the centre of Dili, where I 

was struck by the entirety of East Timor’s poverty. None of 

the buildings looked finished, the roads swarmed with UN 

four-wheel drives and on the footpaths (where footpaths 

existed), and people stood around trying to sell things or 

Henry Cornwall (SAC 2008) with Nobel Laureate and President of 

East Timor, HE Jose Ramos-Horta on a ferry in East Timor. 

Henry Cornwall (SAC 2008) takes part in a Passion Parade in Dili. 

looking for work. It was incredibly hot and children were 

everywhere, especially in the open sewers that were 

bridged by stray bonnets and car-doors between the street 

and people’s homes. 

As soon as we arrived at the Jesuit candidates’ house, 

Casa Gonzaga, I was warmly welcomed by the priest and 

eighteen other young men with whom I would be living. I 

was shown to my room and informed that as the house was 

not connected to the town mains, water for cooking and 

washing would be collected each week. Electricity would 

come on occasionally and unpredictably. 

The city of Dili itself is an interesting mix of chaos and 

lethargy. This is largely due to the contrasting influences 

of Indonesian and Melanesian culture, along with the 

self-important busyness of government and UN officials 

compared to the sky-scraping unemployment rates of the 

general population. Downtown, the poverty is squalid and 

cramped, yet just past the headlands at the city’s eastern 

end; people enjoy an incredibly simple yet vaguely idyllic 

dependence upon fishing and hunting for shellfish. Beautiful 

old Portuguese buildings stand next door to ramshackle 

unplanned shacks, from which you can see two of the most 

picturesque beaches in the world. During the dry season the 

surrounding hills and mountains are as parched and brown 

as North-Western New South Wales, until the wet season’s 

first rains suddenly transform Timor into the archetypal 

tropical island. 

East Timorese culture is as varied as the sixteen language 

groups to which people can belong – variation which has 

been furthered by four hundred and fifty years of Portuguese 

rule and twenty-four years of Indonesian occupation. Despite 

the nation’s recent history of violence, I have found the 

people to be naturally friendly and easygoing. Ninety-eight 

percent are Catholic and in general far more pious than 

Australians, though a widespread belief in ghosts and faith 

in traditional medicine demonstrates the surviving presence 

of their ancient animistic beliefs. 

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city changed in the nine months between my arrival and 

departure. On the first drive with Fr Quyen we passed 

a number of UN vehicles and only a few motorbikes 

and trucks. But by November, the streets were regularly 

jammed with traffic, and it seemed that within only a few 

months almost every family in Dili had a vehicle. While 

I was there, a scenic walk along the beach was built 

(as well as benches and a car park), work began on a 

number of public and administrative buildings, and the 

Chinese-donated Presidential Palace was finished (though 

unfortunately it looks more like a foreboding warehouse 

than a palace). Social, cultural and political development 

take a lot more time than I spent in Timor, though that 

didn’t stop me from getting upset on occasion by just how 

slowly things seemed to be progressing. After ten years of 

Independence and UN help, corruption is still rife, children 

are still starving, safety is never guaranteed and education 

remains far behind what any Australian would consider 

acceptable. 

Last year was the first time that students were allowed 

to fail the National Exams (until then, results were buoyed 

so that everybody passed, regardless of their performance). 

Those who failed rioted and a number of schools were burnt 

down. Recently the police department attempted to follow 

suit by not letting all candidates pass the promotions exam, 

so in a display of originality and professionalism, the police 

have threatened to riot as well. 

While I went to East Timor with a genuine desire to 

repay some of my blessings and live in differently to the 

more familiar North Shore safety and comfort, I’m not 

ashamed to admit that tied to my (possibly clichéd) idealism 

was an entirely primal, boyish commitment to adventure. 

Of course, one of my first lessons was that routine becomes 

routine no matter where you are. Having said that, I still 

think I got a decent taste of adventure. Every morning on 

my way to classes, for instance, I would take a shortcut 

through a shell-hole in a wall. Most weekends I went to the 

mission station at Railako, where I participated in coconut 

harvests (at which I made a little girl cry for hours because 

she’d never seen a white person before), walks through 

the jungle to help transport sacks of rice, and drove to 

tiny mountain villages as part of a feeding programme to 

improve children’s diets. Memories of a trip to the island 

of Atauro will stay with me forever. Rising at 4am to find a 

fishing boat that would take us back to Timor, negotiating 

the cost through language barriers and seriously drunk 

skipper, and finally watching the sun rise over Dili harbour 

as we made our way back were the types of encounters 

I couldn’t have dreamt of a year earlier. Sitting in the 

passenger seat of a four-wheel-drive as it rolled over a cliff, 

and a week convalescing with malaria were adventures of 

a rather different kind to what I sought – yet even still, they 

left me with an understanding of the world that I believe I 

am now better for. 

These experiences led me to understand aspects of 

myself and this world that I never could have touched upon 

if I’d spent the year back at home. It was a year that I 

was prepared and driven towards by my time at school, 

demonstrating that what we’re taught to value at Aloys – 

challenging, confusing and even veiled in rhetoric as it 

may sometimes be – can become the seeds of the future’s 

experiences and lessons. The option to carry them with us 

is ours alone. 

Henry Cornwall (SAC 2008) 

Gap Year in Vietnam 

For our first year out of high school we chose to spend a 

Gap Year volunteering as English teachers in Vietnam. 

Finding ourselves in a devout Catholic community in 

Communist, non-English speaking Vietnam has made for a 

fascinating four months. 

When we first arrived at our new home – the parish 

of Thuan Nghia in the poor province of Nghe An in the 

North – we found a village of 13,000 people located just 

off the national highway, 200 kilometres South of Hanoi, 

and 60 kilometres north from the nearest city, Vinh. The rural 

setting is certainly striking where rice fields are a two minute 

walk away with buffalos and motorbikes winding their way 

through the streets – little more than widened footpaths. It is 

certainly a big change from Sydney! 

Bernard Greaves (SAC 2009) and Ben Holmes (SAC 2009). 

Within three days we were put to work, teaching English 

in a classroom attached to the Priest’s house. Faced with the 

daunting task of trying to get 250 students speaking fluent 

English our work was compounded by the vast age and 

skill bracket – our youngest students are 8 whilst the oldest 

is a man of 42. Teaching two – 2 hour periods a day is 

certainly tiring work – trying to help children who replied to 

the question “How old are you?” with “I’m fine thanks” was 

certainly a struggle, not least because we had no teaching 

experience before. 

The enthusiasm that greeted us when we arrived was not 

because of any credentials we had – it’s because foreign 

speakers are the best way for students to learn English, a 

skill they struggle to pick up in local schools. 

Indeed, the poverty in Nghe An means the standard 



vietnam gap year 

Ben Holmes teaching some children. 

of schooling is shockingly low; teachers who can’t even 

speak English attempt to teach from atrociously incorrect 

textbooks (false grammar and invented vocabulary are 

not uncommon) – meaning that the students who can even 

afford to go to school can hardly speak or understand the 

language. History is taught from an interesting point-of-view 

to say the least. 

The poverty we witness is seen in most families, living 

with usually 11 or 12 children in a two roomed house, 

everyone sleeping on wooden slats that pass as beds and 

surviving on a meagre income. The occasional open sewer, 

the extended daily blackouts (meaning cold showers and 

dinner on a mat by candlelight) helps paint a picture of the 

difficult living conditions. Most parents of the children are 

farmers who work long, backbreaking days under the sun 

in the rice paddies. For their children to escape this poverty 

cycle, they need English – an essential skill requisite for 

many jobs in a rapidly globalising Vietnam. 

Vietnamese culture itself is starkly different to life in 

Australia. Vietnam is a place where time is as flexible as 

rubber (the timetable for our lessons is a mere formality – 

anywhere between 30 and 80 kids turn up when they 

choose). Being the only white people in a province well 

off the tourist trail certainly draws a few strange looks (or 

in some cases, a shifty photographer with a camera phone 

from behind a tree). The immersion extends to the food as 

well – sampling traditional fare such as chicken and duck 

foetus, eel rice porridge, worms and duck innards dressed 

in blood are a few of the more interesting. However, the 

food is generally as good (if not better – sorry Mum!) as 

any food back home. 

Living in a religious community in a communist society 

has allowed us to appreciate the importance of individual 

freedom. The relationship between the Church and the 

Government is one that would never be understood in 

Australia. Witnessing the ways things operate here has 

made us grateful for parts of life in Australia that we took 

for granted. 

The Catholics in Thuan Nghia remain steadfastly devout 

and sure of their faith; indeed, all life revolves around the 

Church. The larger part of the community attends Mass 

every morning at 4.30 and kneels in prayer for an hour 

each night – more of the congregation usually spills outside 

the already packed church. 

Without a doubt the greatest attribute of this country is 

its people. Their generosity and gratitude goes a long way 

and has also influenced our decision to stay longer than 

we had first predicted. Where else can you walk around 

town and have people you’ve never seen before drag you 

into their living room for beers and a friendly conversation? 

Where else can you sit outside for 5 minutes before there 

is a crowd of 20 beaming children grabbing your ‘noodle’ 

hair? It is the people here that have made our stay so 

enjoyable. As an experience that’s opened our eyes to the 

world we recommend it fully to anyone considering taking 

a ‘Gap Year’ in Vietnam. 

Bernard Greaves and Ben Holmes (SAC 2009) 

Ben and Bernard with a family in their home. 



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french tour 

On 29 December 2009, 31 intrepid adventurers 

and 3 courageous teachers arrived at Sydney 

Airport ready to embark on a three week trip of 

a lifetime. Of course no trip was going to be without its 

problems as we quickly discovered. We managed to lose 

one of the boys at the airport and we hadn’t even taken 

off! Having paged him twice, he wandered back eventually 

as they were closing the flight, giving us the excuse that he 

had gone looking to find out how to get his GST back on 

his duty free purchase. 

So we ushered him onto the Singapore Airlines new 

A380 and found our seats ready for the 23 hour flight. 

Arriving in Paris in the dark we cleared customs and 

immigration without a problem and then had to find our 

bus driver. Driving along the Périphérique, many of the 

boys were fascinated with what they were seeing and all 

desperately looking for a monument that they recognised. 

So began our first week of the tour, five days in Paris. 

The first day we had to keep the boys upright and moving 

or they would have all been asleep so we took them off to 

La Sainte Chapelle to see the stained glass windows, half 

of which were covered with tarpaulins and scaffolding as 

they were getting cleaned. Then off to Notre Dame and one 

of the Rose windows was undergoing a good clean too. 

Next the Bastille, well the roundabout where it stood. The 

boys weren’t too sure about this as they expected to see a 

stone prison of some sort. By 4pm, the boys were starting 

to wilt so we went back to our accommodation. Dinner was 

not spectacular as it was at the accommodation, however a 

posh restaurant would have been a waste of money the first 

night as they were all fighting to stay awake long enough 

to get some food into themselves. 

Day 2 saw us go to les Invalides and Napoleon’s tomb 

where we were treated to a full dress ceremony, military 

band and marching soldiers, as an American officer was 

awarded the Legion D’Honneur, France’s highest honour for 

a civilian. Then off to the sewers which of course produced 

the usual “toilet humour”. Our guide was very good, having 

no English , he simplified what he was saying very well 

so that the boys needed very little help from staff in their 

understanding of what he was saying. Finally the day was 

ended with a walk up the Arc De Triomphe and watching 

the Ravivage de la Flamme preparations where the flame 

burning on the grave of the unknown soldier is rekindled 

every evening at 1830h. 

Day 3 we spent a long day out at the Somme battlefields. 

After numerous conversations with Father Middleton SJ and 

Mr Williams about what to see and what to do in a 

day, we chose to go to the Australian Museum at Villers 

Bretonneux, the Lochnagar Crater, The Australian War 

Memorial and the Newfoundland Memorial with its miles 

and miles of trenches which we were able to walk through. 

This day had quite an impact on the boys as they saw 

gravestone after gravestone of young Australians, most only 

a year or two older than them, and each country had their 

own memorial or cemetery. 

Moulin de daudet. 

Dinner that night, which was booked at the last minute, 

was in Le Procope in St Michel, the world’s oldest café. This 

was where great writers and philosophers would gather to 

discuss their ideas over a drink. It was like stepping back 

into the 17th Century with its old books on the shelves, the 

crooked walls and the sympathetic décor. 

Day 4 in Paris we were up early and on the train going 

out to Versailles. We arrived to find lots of people standing 

around. Having found a poor fireman to interrogate, we 

found out that the staff of Versailles were on strike. It was 

as simple as that. The only Versailles worker to be found 

was some poor lady manning the toilets and of course she 

had no idea what was going on. So we had to come up 

with an alternative plan and took the boys to Montmartre 

for the afternoon. Then we went onto the Pantheon with it’s 

fascinating Foucault Pendulum which had us all mesmerised 

as we tried to get our heads around the fact that we were 

the ones moving not the dial of the clock. 

Day 5 we set off for the Louvre and were met this time 

with a big demonstration. TV cameras were there, chanting, 

shouting and general mayhem met our eyes. The French 

were on strike at the Louvre as well, having come out in 

sympathy with Versailles. Anyway having discovered that 

the staff were going to take a vote in half an hour we hung 

around and were able to get into the Louvre. The staff 

having voted to send in a skeleton staff and then everyone 

else went home to be on strike!! 

Day 6 meant we were off to Avignon, this however was 

marred by the fact that we were supposed to be on the 9am 

train and our tickets said the 11am train so the boys all had 

to phone their host families. Upon arrival in Avignon, one 

family accosted us wanting to know why they hadn’t been 

informed of the late arrival. Having questioned our boy, he 

swore he had phoned his family, had spoken to the father 

and told him what had happened. This was not the case, so 

there was some puzzled man in Avignon, wondering why 

he should be at the station in Avignon at 1pm to pick up a 

strange Australian child! 

The two weeks in Avignon passed reasonably quietly 

and we all counted our blessings when we found out that 



french tour (cont'd) 

the Metro was on strike in Paris and the RER (express Metro) 

was having a few sympathy strike days too. So we started 

off with the usual day in Avignon exploring the Palais 

des Papes and the Bridge. We explored the villages and 

towns around Avignon visiting the Roman town of Vaison 

la Romaine, Orange, Nimes, La Fontaine de Vaucluse, Isle 

sur la Sorgue, Les Baux de Provence. We had a couple of 

new things on the agenda this time including horse riding in 

the Camargue and visiting Les Bories de Gordes. 

The horse riding experience was the best fun. The farm 

we used was fantastic having organised their own 20 

horses plus another 14 from a neighbouring farm, plus 6 

very good guides. We spent a good 40 minutes being 

matched to our horses and having our stirrups adjusted so 

we could ride safely and then we set off on a 2 hour trek 

down narrow bridle paths, along the lagoons and water 

ways of the Camargue. We got to see the wild bulls and 

the Camargue ponies as well as the odd flamingo who had 

forgotten to fly south for the winter. It was bitterly cold and 

everyone was so glad to get back on the warm bus despite 

the fun we had had on the horse trek. Most of the horses 

were well behaved however we had a couple of injuries, 

with one horse trying to bite one of the boys for overtaking! 

Ben McCann’s horse was quite undisciplined and the horse 

and Ben caused quite a lot of amusement as they did their 

own thing. Vincent Culina, who was cold, kept his hands 

in his pockets most of the way and of course his horse had 

its reins around its ears, so it did as it wanted. We had 

the best time on that horse ride despite the freezing cold 

wind. 

The other new place we visited was les Bories near 

Gordes, which is probably the most picturesque village in 

France. Les Bories is a village about 5 km outside Gordes 

which was straight out of an Asterix comic. The buildings 

Palais de papes. 

were all made of local stone, stacked on top of each 

other like dry stone walls. The building had been there 

for centuries and were only abandoned in the early 20th 

Century. The boys studying Extension found this of particular 

interest as it gave them an insight into the Provence of Jean 

de Florette by Pagnol which they are currently studying. 

Once again our attempts to visit the Chateau D’if in the 

bay of Marseilles were thwarted. We had it all organised 

and the morning of the trip we rang to check everything 

was still on, only to find that the Harbourmaster in Marseilles 

had stopped all ferries going out to the Island of If. So we 

took the boys to a Hypermarket instead. 

Finally the other new activity we had come up with was 

the Musee du Bonbon in Uzes – the Haribo factory where 

the boys bought kilos of lollies, on the pretence that the 

lollies were for their siblings!! 

We then went back to Paris for 3 days. As we are 

standing on the platform in the freezing cold in Avignon 

waiting for the train, it starts to snow. Our train arrived 45 

minutes late into Paris because it couldn’t run at its normal 

speed because of the ice on the tracks. As we got closer to 

Paris, the landscape got whiter and whiter. 

We took the boys out that afternoon to go up the 

Eiffel Tower, having spent 2 hours the day before trying to 

organise a group booking. We arrived at our designated 

time to find no one queuing. Odd? Having found a hapless 

woman having a quick cigarette, we established that the 

Eiffel Tower was closed because of snow and ice and 

would not open that afternoon and that all personnel had 

in fact gone home!! We then asked the same smoking lady 

where we could get our money back having had to pay 

for it all on line. As only the French can, she shrugged her 

shoulders, pointed at the sky and declared “ no refund, it’s 

not our fault, it’s ze wezzer”. So our boys only got to see 

the underside of the Eiffel Tower. We even tried Cimetière 

Père Lachaise as some of the boys wanted to see the grave 

of Jim Morrison and would you believe it, it too was closed 

because of snow and ice. 

To add insult to injury, the RER express metro Line A was 

on strike causing the EuroDisney trip to have to be timed to 

the 4 trains running there. Due to the school holidays in the 

UK and France having started on the Friday, the boys were 

greeted with not thousands of French people, but thousands 

of English tourists, mainly it seemed from Liverpool!. 

We got home safely on 22 December, our families 

waiting for us at the airport. It has to be said that the tour 

was our best from the point of view of the language. The 

boys were constantly bombarding us with questions about 

why you said one thing in French but not another, what 

the vocabulary was for anything and everything, how the 

grammar worked. The boys showed great curiosity for the 

French language and French life and customs and this was 

very gratifying to see after the huge organisation that goes 

into the tour. 

Mrs Karen Downes 

Head of Languages 



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men for others 

Warmun sunrise. 

The Outback... visiting the Hughes 

Family 

I’m sitting in a small dusty cemetery in an isolated outback 

community in the Kimberley just on dusk. The sun has 

disappeared behind the red hills and a full moon is rising 

slowly behind me, pushing through the grey storm clouds 

that have been gathering all day. Far away in the distance 

a thunderstorm is lighting up the sky, threatening to upstage 

the All Souls Mass taking place before me. I take a moment 

to reflect on the week that I’ve just experienced in this tiny 

and remote Aboriginal community, thousands of miles from 

my family back in Sydney. 

It’s not a typical mass, that’s for sure. Firstly, it’s a 

combined Sunday mass and All Souls Mass, taking place 

on a Monday night to work in with the priest who’s driven 

from Kununurra, 200 kilometres away and secondly, it’s 

taking place in a cemetery dotted with graves piled high 

with plastic flowers. Father Mark is sitting at his makeshift 

altar, a trestle table lit only with a big heavy-duty torch 

borrowed from someone’s 4-wheel drive. Behind him, a 

road train rumbles along the highway, its driver oblivious to 

the ‘goings on’ in the cemetery. 

Around me on plastic garden chairs sit members of the 

Warmun Aboriginal Community, here to pay respect to their 

deceased. Next to me sits Michael Hughes, my son’s Year 7 

Coordinator from St Aloysius’ College in Sydney, Michael’s 

wife, Rebecca, and a fellow Aloysius’ parent, Jenny Carter. 

Michael’s five-year old daughter, Juliette, perches on my lap, 

desperate to stay awake for as long as possible. 

Moments before the mass I am honoured to meet 

Shirley Purdie and her partner Gordon Barney, two 

highly respected Aboriginal artists whose works hang in 

boardrooms, offices and homes around the globe. The 

mass, or Ngapuny time as the Gidja people call it, proves 

to be a memorable mix of Catholicism and Aboriginal 

ceremony and I doubt I will ever experience anything as 

moving or spiritual again in my lifetime. But then, after all, 

this is the Kimberley and in my short time here, I’ve come 

to expect the unexpected. 

When my fellow traveller, Jenny Carter and I, had first 

talked about visiting the Hughes family many months before, 

we had no idea what was in store for us, or the impact it 

would have on our lives. We’d both been impressed by 

Michael and Rebecca’s decision to move to the Outback 

and teach in an indigenous community for 12 months and 

we’d had done all we could to coordinate the collection of 

much-needed items for the kids at Ngalangangpum School. 

Thanks to the support of many families from St Aloysius’ 

College, my daughter’s local Catholic primary school, our 

close friends, and the amazing generosity of Australian Air 



men for others (cont'd) 

Express, dozens of boxes had been freighted across to 

Warmun, free of charge. 

While collecting the items had been something we could 

do to support Michael and Rebecca on a practical level, 

it had also provided an invaluable connection between 

Michael and our boys in Year 8 at St Aloysius’. Michael 

had been their Year 7 Coordinator the previous year and 

now our boys were witnessing, through the Hughes’ actions 

what it truly meant to be men for others. Rather than just 

teaching it, Michael and Rebecca were living it. 

Rebecca’s monthly blog Hughes Kimberley Calling had 

also provided many people with an amazing glimpse of 

their outback experience and the huge challenges they had 

faced along the way. In our conversations with Michael, 

both Jenny and I had both wondered if such an experience 

would be something that could be of benefit to the Aloysius’ 

boys and whether they too could also do something of value 

within their own country. And so, dozens of emails and 

phone conversations later, here we are, sitting in a cemetery 

in far north Western Australia, praying in the dark! 

Fittingly, we’d arrived in Warmun the week before 

in the dark. Against our better judgement we’d left 

Kununurra Airport just before sundown and driven most of 

the 200-kilometre journey in the pitch-black desert night, 

passing only an occasional 4WD and several terrifyingly 

large road trains. While we’d lost mobile phone reception 

only minutes after we’d driven out of town, we were more 

concerned about the animals we’d been told to watch out 

for along the unfenced highway. Not just kangaroos, but 

scrub bulls, wandering cows and wild horses! Needless 

to say we passed many and mercifully hit none, arriving in 

Warmun several hours later. 

In the days that followed, we were constantly confronted, 

challenged and overwhelmed by what we saw and 

experienced. The poverty, unemployment, social issues and 

alcohol-related problems combined with the intense heat 

and extreme isolation proved to be quite a reality shock at 

first. Looking beyond that we saw hope in the work being 

carried out at Ngalangangpum School, the determination, 

Ngalangangpum school. 

Warmun community. 

compassion and dedication of the teachers and staff and 

the way in which the school bridges the gaps between the 

cultures. The younger kids were gorgeous with their wide 

smiles and their willingness to accept Jenny and I into their 

classroom. The older kids were much harder work and our 

hearts went out to Michael and Rebecca and the daily 

struggles they encountered trying to engage with and teach 

these young people. 

For Jenny and I, or ‘Miss Jenny’ and ‘Miss Sue’ as 

we were called, our work was of a practical nature from 

teaching the Year 1-2 Kids how to swim, to playing Water 

Polo with the high school kids, cleaning out classrooms, 

making breakfast for the kids before school or doing the 

50 kilometre Bow River school bus run with Michael. We 

were thrilled to help the high school kids get ready for the 

Barefoot Ball, the first of its kind for the community and 

fortunate to meet some of the local artists at the Warmun 

Art Centre. Climbing Mirillingki Hill in the early morning 

heat and swimming with the goannas at Winiper Springs 

definitely put us outside our comfort zones. 

I loved the way the heat forced everything and everyone 

to slow down to what I now call “Screen Saver Mode” 

and was enthralled by the warm, engaging and diverse 

nature of everyone we met, including the complete strangers 

that Jenny and I ‘door stopped’ every afternoon at the 

Roadhouse. When we first set out on our journey, neither 

Jenny nor I imagined that we’d be sitting under the desert 

stars, enjoying a BBQ in the Hughes’ front yard, sipping a 

warm beer and talking to their friends Pete and Di about 

their recent trip to Iceland! 

While I may never get used to the snakes, the heat and 

the ‘cheeky’ bulls, I constantly crave the wide, open spaces 

and the intense colours of the Outback and every now 

and then I find myself back there, in my mind at least. In 

the meantime, my hope is that many more will travel to the 

Kimberley and follow in Michael and Rebecca’s footsteps. 

Sue Boudakin 

SAC Parent 



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from the P&F 

The Parents and Friends Association is a time-honoured 

tradition at St Aloysius’ and plays an integral role 

in creating a supportive and inclusive environment 

for the parents of the College, particularly new parents 

to the school. Each incoming P&F Committee inherits the 

accumulated wisdom and experience handed down by 

previous presidents and committees; this has helped the 

Association keep a clear focus on ‘friend raising’ within our 

large parent body through connecting our families within 

the Aloysian Family. 

Committee changeover occurs in Term IV when we 

provide the BBQ at the Christmas Carols. In Term I of the 

new academic year the P&F activities focus on welcoming 

and informing our new parents and the establishment of the 

2010 Parent Coordinator, Class Parent and Helper Teams 

that organise the Class and Year social functions and Class 

Masses throughout the year. 

As a parent association we are also committed to keep 

up to date and informed on issues that concern us all. Our 

Forum nights are opportunities for parents to hear relevant 

and inspirational speakers in their areas of expertise. 

We are very fortunate that many parents volunteer to 

be involved in a variety of ways, sharing time, talents, and 

interesting skills with stories and laughs along the way. 

Consequently many friendships are formed which is what 

we are all about. In my role as President I have found it a 

privilege to experience firsthand the day-to-day operational 

management of the school and work with the dedicated 

executive, staff and teachers of St Aloysius’. The Jesuit and 

Aloysian spirit is alive and well in the day-to-day life of our 

school. 

Mrs Anita Lee 

P&F President 

Guests at the 2010 Commencement Cocktail Party. 

The 2010 P & F Executive. 



from SACOBU 

SACOBU President’s Report 

This year has seen the rejuvenation of the Old Aloysians 

Cricket Club (OACC). Under the guidance of Nick 

Garling (SAC 1983), the new captain Carl Henschke 

(SAC 2000) has built up a strong side which has shown 

continually good results throughout the season. The numbers 

have grown significantly from a wide range of year groups, 

and there is a hope that two sides may play under the 

banner next year. 

On the back of the success of the OACC, there is a 

growing push in the Old Boys community to establish an 

Old Boys Soccer Club, lead vocally by Chris Chase (SAC 

2003) and Ben Wilford (SAC 2001). The Club would give 

Old Boys an opportunity to continue to play at a decent 

level with their former team mates and friends. The Club 

would hopefully be entered into the KDSA competition 

and a push would be made to entice Old Boys playing 

elsewhere to join the Club. This endeavour will need the 

ongoing support of the College as well as Old Boys to get 

off the ground. 

Saturday 1 May saw a gathering of Old Boys, parents 

and teachers at Alberts in North Sydney, to celebrate 

the ten year reunion of the 2000 Athletics team and its 

performance. Organised by Peter West (SAC 2000) 

and James Nakkan (SAC 2000) it was a chance to 

reminiscence on a proud sporting moment that saw the 

College come second at the CAS carnival (with the most 

points ever amassed by an Aloysian Athletics Team). Jeremy 

Scott (SAC 2000), Captain of the team, spoke about the 

hard work that made it possible and remarked that despite 

the different Athletic pursuits essentially being individual 

sports, that particular year had a great team environment. 

This was due in part to the personalities involved and the 

fantastic support from teachers such as Mr Rowland, Mr 

Saltos and Mr Zolezzi. 

Old Boys continue to do fantastic work in Australia 

and around the globe. The last couple of years has seen 

a growing trend among Old Boys to continue with the 

principle of ‘giving back’ promoted by the College and 

has seen the establishment of a number of initiatives and 

charities. David Braithwaite SJ (SAC 1990), a Jesuit at the 

College, led a group of young Old Boys on an Immersion 

trip in January of this year to Vietnam where they visited 

and supported local communities, particularly a school 

for disabled children. Two of the boys, Bernard Greaves 

(SAC 2009) and Ben Holmes (SAC 2009) actually stayed 

on for a ‘gap’ year in the local community. Another trip is 

planned for the beginning of 2011 and anyone interested 

in supporting or participating can contact David at David. 

Braithwaite@staloysius.nsw.edu.au. 

Kickstart Kids International, the creation of James 

Woodward (SAC 2006) and James Harrison (SAC 2006), 

continues to expand their projects and good works in 

Africa. Tom Cavanagh (SAC 2006) is currently in Kenya 

overseeing the work on a new project. This project aims 

to provide an environmentally and financially sustainable 

home for around 100 orphans in the town of Ulturoto, 

south of Nairobi. More information about the project and 

the charity can be found at http://www.kickstartkidsinternational.com/. 

Nicholas Edwards (SAC 2000) 

President, SACOBU 

Old Aloysians’ Cricket Club (OACC) 

Season in Review 

It is no stretch to liken the OACC’s season of 2009-2010 

to that of ‘Lazarus with a triple bypass’. After a number of 

lean years, which included 1 win from 10 matches in the 

previous season, OACC was rejuvenated with some much 

needed young blood into its playing ranks and an able 

and enthusiastic leader in Carl Henschke (SAC 2000), who 

under the tutelage of Nick Garling (SAC 1983) has put the 

club back on the path to former glory. 

With a winning percentage for the season of 70%, 

including resounding wins over some of the strongest teams 

in the comp in the form of Knox Old Boys and Yaralla, not 

to mention a run to the semi-finals of the Jack Pace Shield 

knock out competition, order has slowly been restored 

to the City and Suburban Cricket Association with the 

OACC resuming its position amongst the competition’s 

heavyweights. 

With Old Boys Jono Hill (SAC 1998), Daniel McGirr 

(SAC 1999), Justin Drew, James Nakkan, Hugo de Jong, 

Tony Perna (SAC 2000), Abe Robertson (SAC 2001) and 

David Coburn (SAC 2002) forming the nucleus of the side 

and regular appearances from the Chase brothers, Chris 

and John (SAC 2003) and Michael (SAC 2005) as well 

as Matthew Fernandez (SAC 1998), Richard Sullivan (SAC 

1997), Russell Skinner, Mark Elizondo (SAC 2000), John 

Donohoe (SAC 2001), Chris McKenzie (SAC 2002), Ed 

Nethery (SAC 2002), Simon Danieleto, Patrick Nakkan, 

Bernard Foley, Geoffrey Lodge (SAC 2007) and James 

Edwards (SAC 2008); the OACC is looking to build upon 

its watershed season. 

With the emphasis on having fun, enjoying our cricket 

and the opportunity to catch up with old friends the OACC 

is going from strength to strength. The sky is the limit for 

season 2010-2011, which incidentally will be the club’s 

semi sesquicentennial anniversary. 

Any Old Boys that are interested in playing next season 

or becoming social members of the OACC should contact 

Carl Henschke by phone: 0412 097 331 or email: 

oldaloys.cricket@gmail.com. The OACC is hoping to field 

two sides next year so would welcome any new players 

and support. 

Carl Henschke and Justin Drew (SAC 2000) 



1975 Reunion 

In mid May, 50 class mates attended The Class of 1975 

thirty five year reunion. The event started at the Waverley 

versus Aloys home rugby match (W29:A13). The 

Reunion Mass followed in The Boys’ Chapel, concelebrated 

by class mate Father Greg Homeming (OCD Carmelite) 

and Rector Father Ross Jones SJ. Class mate Pastor de 

Lasala played the organ magnificently as usual. Father 

Greg gave us an almost tangible homily that we could take 

home and ponder. The Dinner in The Juana Mateo Room 

on level 4 of the College overlooking the Harbour Bridge 

and the Opera House was a most enjoyable affair. The 

evening also included a humorous speech from Father Ross 

Jones SJ, great food, a static photo and slide show display 

and, of course, excellent company all round. Four hours 

is never enough time to catch up with everyone, but still a 

very enjoyable evening, until next time. A big thank you to 

Murray and Terry from the SAC Development team, whose 

help in organising the event and liaising with the SAC75 

Committee is much appreciated. 

The Class of 1975 has established its own website. 

Please visit www.sac75.com for more information. 

1979 Reunion 

The Class of 1979 at their 30 Year Reunion. 

On 6 November 2009, 61 old boys from the 

Centenary Year of the College gathered for our 30 

year reunion. It was also a 29th anniversary from 

the time when we revisited the school after our first reunion. 

This time we were actually invited to the wonderful level 

4 vista of the college known as The Juana Mateo Room. 

There was an extremely large turnout at the Mass preceding 

the function which was most impressive. Thank you to 

John Ledlin and Wax Anderson and others for helping 

in the Mass ceremony. As always a great time was had 

by all. One of the highlights was Brendan Elkins looking 

resplendent in all black. Thanks to Peter Haylen and Don 

Hardman for their organisational help and Terry Gabbedy 

from the Foundation. I hope everyone is looking forward to 

the next one! Photos of the night can be accessed at the 

following Facebook group: St Aloysius College Class of 

1979 (Centenary Year). 

Paul Wilkinson (SAC 1979) 



from SACOBU 

Old Boys News 

John H Sherwin is married to Betty and 

1944 retired in 1990. Now in good health and 

aged 83. Looks forward to The Aloysiad and attending 

some College functions. Living in Mooroobool, near Cairns 

Qld. 

Barry Rubie OAM. Barry, in the 2010 

1949 Australia Day Honours Awards was awarded 

a Medal in The Order of Australia for Community Service 

through 30 years of service to the Asthma Foundation of 

Western Australia. As a Life Member he continues to serve 

on the Boards of both the Asthma Foundation and the 

Busselton Population Medical Research Foundation. He was 

the Founding Chair of the Asthma Foundation of Australia. 

In an extended career with Shell Company Barry worked 

in NSW and several overseas assignments. In 1968 Barry 

was posted to Perth and settled there with his wife Colleen 

and five children. Now retired he lives in Jolimont close to 

Perth. Barry’s father Rupert Rubie was an Old Aloysian from 

the Class of 1909 and his brother Paul Rubie was in the 

Class of 1952. In a recent edition of The Post Newspaper 

Subiaco, it is noted that the success of WA based research 

into asthma, which had been recognised internationally, 

was among Barry’s proudest achievements. 

Paul Lenehan. The Class of 1955 – Fifty 

1955 Five Years Reunion is being arranged by 

Paul to take place on Friday 3 September. The day will 

commence with Mass in The Boys’ Chapel at 11:30am 

followed by Lunch at the new venue of the Vibe Hotel, 

88 Alfred Street North Sydney. Invitations will follow to 

also include The Class of 1954 via Peter Ford. For those 

wishing to stay overnight, the Vibe Hotel will be offering a 

special rate to SAC Old Boys. Paul’s email is – spoiltdog@ 

optusnet.com.au 

Jerry Weingarth. According to Paul Lenehan (SAC 1955), 

Jerry has emigrated and now lives in Begur, the capital 

of Girona, Spain. Jerry recently returned to Sydney to sell 

his house. He plans on buying a computer and will send 

e-mails to all his fellow class mates. He loves living in Spain 

and visits Andorra, France and all of Europe. 

Charles Watson. Charles tells us that he 

1959 married Prue Morrow, a Loreto girl from 

Brisbane, when he was in fifth year medicine. The couple 

have two girls, Julia and Anna, both of whom have 

produced two beautiful grandchildren. After finishing 

medicine Charles lectured in Anatomy for 14 years at UWA 

and UNSW, during which time he became interested in 

brain mapping and began a 30 year collaboration with 

George Paxinos. In 1982, Charles left the university to 

take up a career in public health, and later became Chief 

Health Officer in WA. He returned to the university scene 

as a Dean at Wollongong and Curtin from 1994 to 2006. 

Since then he has been occupied full-time in brain research 

at Curtin, making atlases of rat, mouse and chicken brains. 

Our rat brain atlas is the most cited Australian publication 

ever!! Prue and Charles separated 15 years ago, and he 

now shares his life in Perth with partner Anwen Williams. 

Charles’ hobbies are swimming and music – he plays the 

baritone saxophone in a concert band. Charles cites his 

greatest debt to SAC is undoubtedly the inspired English 

teaching he received from Mr Geoff Deegan (SAC Hon Old 

Boy and SAC Staff 1950 – 1985). 

Jon Duggan was born in Canada to Australian Parents and 

arrived in Sydney in 1949. Jon worked as a Computing 

General Manager and is now consulting to Four Soft on 

a part-time basis. He married Diana in St Francis Xavier 

Church Lavender Bay. The couple have three children 

Rachel, Gabriella and Nicholas and two grandchildren, 

Jemima and Joel. Jon tells us that he attends Mass at St 

Ignatius’ College most Sundays and often sees Father 

David Strong SJ (SAC 1956). 

Michael Hallett reports that he continues to 

1960 be married to Helen, the girl he met at the 

Loreto Kirribilli Fourth Year Dance. They have two children, 

Chris who is a Vet at Coolah and Fiona who works with 

Telstra Bigpond. Michael remains as a sole-practice 

solicitor. In the past he has pursued rural interests owning 

land near Muswellbrook with a vineyard and a cattle 

enterprise. In the recent past Michael has acquired a 

residence at Wamberal (NSW Central Coast) in which 

he seeks peace and tranquillity! Over the years Michael 

has been involved in horse racing with mixed success 

(isn’t that always the case), there appears to be a reverse 

equation in that the more one spends on a horse the worse 

it is! Helen and Michael have had the benefit of personal 

travels to the United States, England and the Continent, 

India, Nepal, Iran, Croatia and even the North Pole. He 

sends his warmest regards to all. 

John Garrett writes in reference to Michael Prendergast 

(SAC 1960). Michael was listed as a missing-in-action for 

the reunion of the Class of 1960. John tells us that he was 

killed in a car crash about 1962. The crash occurred as he 

was returning from attending the Head of the River rowing 

regatta. “The Prendergasts were friends of my family, hence 

my knowledge of this sad event. Michael was an only son 

and the family survivor is his sister Diana (and her family).” 

Michael was remembered at a recent Mass in The Boys’ 

Chapel. 

Joe Horan lives is Tamworth. Sadly, Joe suffers from 

Vascular Dementia and is a resident in Nazareth House, 

Nursing Home. He retired from his legal practice in 

2006. Joe is married to Sue with three children and three 

grandchildren. 

Dave Ekman attended the Class of 1964 

1964 Reunion last year and during Mass in The 

Boys’ Chapel, he couldn’t help but notice a large brass 

vase near the lectern. A quick glimpse on the way out 

suggested it might be a 4.5” cartridge case used by several 

classes of UK and RAN frigates (now well and truly out of 

commission). “I have a vague recollection of maybe giving 

the vase to the College around the time of our wedding in 



the Chapel nearly forty years ago. I can’t be certain as I 

swapped a few of them with other Australian and visiting 

services from time to time. It would come as no surprise if 

the mouth of the case was very slightly belled out. If your 

Archivist has no recollection as to the source of the vase, 

this may be the missing link. The thought of it standing 

there during countless student Masses, weddings and 

funerals is a powerful image. It’s of no great importance but 

certainly of passing interest. Finally I thank the College for 

the hospitality shown to us Old Boys. It was a warm and 

wonderful get together, albeit with some sense of sadness 

for those no longer with us.” 

Gordon Bauer. Gordon tells us that he is 

1965 ‘alive and well’ on the Gold Coast, Qld. 

Gordon is involved in selling pharmacy businesses around 

Australia and running the management rights therein. 

Mark O’Sullivan recently joined the Queensland Competition 

Authority, a statutory body that regulates prices for various 

utilities and enjoying the most challenging analytical work 

in his career. He has four married sons, two of whom 

completed their legal studies overseas: one with a D.Phil 

from Oxford and another with a Masters from The American 

University in Washington, DC. Mark has eight grandsons 

and one granddaughter who live in Brisbane. One son is 

still in the USA working on climate change issues. Mark, 

who divorced in 2001, married Janine Hancox in 2007. 

Mark sends his warmest greetings to Mick Limerick. 

Louis Izzo is a Senior Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at 

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. He has five children, 

no grand kids (yet!). Louis tells us that with three children still 

at home, it looks like retirement is a long way off! 

Gavin Carney is a Physician and Nephrologist in Canberra 

and a father of five. Gavin reports that he is a very content 

Aloysian! 

Father Andrew Bullen SJ, is the Rector of St Ignatius’ 

College, Riverview. Andy reports “John Knight and I were 

friends during my time at Aloys. Although we had no 

contact after I joined the Society, he came to my Ordination 

in 1979. At that time he lived in Bundeena. Andy has had 

no news of him since, (and wonders why anyone would 

move away from Bundeena!). He is keen to make contact 

with John and wonders if anyone has any contact details? 

Paul Nysen lives with his wife Debbie in the USA on a 

Native American Indian Reservation at Pala, California. 

Paul and Debbie recently flew into Sydney for the reunion 

of The Class of 1965 and to see his Mum, Jean who still 

lives in Cremorne. 

Steve Weingarth owns Pro Doco Pty Ltd a video production 

company. The firm offers 17 Geography DVD Kits for 

the NSW HSC Syllabus. Winner of numerous education 

awards including the Australian Geography Teachers’ 

Association Award for his programme Coastal Management 

– Australian Beach & Development Issues. 

David Parle lives in Peppertree Cottage at McLaren Vale, 

SA. David is a well regarded artist and is holding an 

Exhibition of his work at the Headland Gallery (Suite 2 

Gunshot Alley, Suakin Drive, Mosman) opening on 24 July. 

The exhibition is entitled, Mosman Foreshore Views. 

Philip Iacono has been involved in the retail 

1969 and automotive industries and is the former 

general manager of a large Sydney dealership. In 2004 

he joined Mark Walsh International, a global specialist 

organisation in automotive training. As Director, he heads 

the Toyota and Mercedes Benz retail training programmes 

for Australia, New Zealand, Canada and China. Philip 

now lives in Bella Vista, NSW. He writes “I would like to 

thank every SAC class mate for the friendship they gave and 

the fantastic memories I cherish from my school years.” 

Tony Edmond tells us that after leaving Aloys he went 

to college and pursued a career in Accountancy. After 

deciding that he wasn’t destined to be an auditor, he 

travelled to England, toured Europe and crossed Africa 

overland. Tony ended up in the Australian Lifeguard Team 

that went to California where he met his wife (although he 

didn’t know at that time!). Married and settled in Orange 

County near Disneyland, Tony is a manager for Family 

Health overseeing 300 doctors, dentists, nurses and allied 

health professionals. He and his wife Diane have two 

beautiful daughters. Tony plans to retire shortly and busy 

himself with charitable work. “We have had a blessed life 

with plenty of travel (my wife is a professional photographer) 

mainly to places with palm trees and lagoons. We visit 

Sydney every few years”. 

John Kramer continues to work in General 

1971 Practice in Woolgoolga (25 kms north of 

Coffs Harbour) and has been in the region since 1981. 

John still works one day per week at UNSW Rural Clinical 

School in Coffs Harbour as a Senior Lecturer. He has just 

taken up the position as Inaugural Corlis Travelling Fellow 

with the NSW Faculty of the RACGP. John is keen to hear 

from any Old Boys working in General Practice in rural 

and regional Australia. John recently became a grandfather 

for the first time. He is married to Annette, who is also a 

General Practitioner. 

Stephen May graduated from the University of Sydney with 

an MBBS in 1978. After three years studying in England 

in the early 1980s, he has lived in Coffs Harbour since 

1985. He works as a procedural GP (in Obstetrics and 

Anaesthetics) and is also conjoint lecturer with the University 

of NSW Rural Campus. Stephen is married to Mary and 

they have five children. Stephen was honoured to be made 

Coffs Harbour Citizen of the Year in 2003. 

Nicholas Talley is a Gastroenterologist and 

1973 has been lured back to Australia from his 

position at the respected Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, USA, 

to head up the University of Newcastle’s Faculty of Health. 

According to The Australian, Professor Talley is excited to 

be working at Newcastle University which he describes 

as “a dynamic and young university”. Nicholas wants to 

explore introducing a ‘competency-based’ curriculum that 

involves giving medical students explicit benchmarks and 



from SACOBU 

the resources to achieve them, while giving them more 

freedom to decide ‘how and why’. 

John Cashmore writes “Angie and I recently 

1975 returned from our three fantastic years in Fiji 

and we are now living in Melbourne and still working with 

Westpac. Our second Grandchild is due shortly and all our 

family is well and enjoying life. See you in five years time 

at the 40th Reunion!”. 

Mark McGuire is managing the Lenah Valley RSL Club in 

Hobart, Tasmania. Mark still lives on 8 acres in the Huon 

Valley south of Hobart. “Now that our daughter Kathleen has 

left home, wife Cherie and I are enjoying being a couple 

again, doing more travelling and trying hard to maintain the 

balance of working to live not living to work”. 

David Hardman lives in Canberra and is married with one 

daughter aged six years. Currently Adjunct Professor of 

Surgery and Anatomy at the University of Canberra and 

Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Surgery at The 

Australian National University, David works as a Vascular 

Surgeon in both public and private practice. David’s spare 

time is spent skiing, practising his French (still trying to get 

rid of Father Barden’s Irish accent) and drinking his share 

of good wine. 

Peter Ryan lives on his property near Byron Bay and grows 

avocados and bananas and is building a new home. Peter 

tells us that he is not travelling like he used to and says ‘life 

is fine, the kids are nice young adults, and peace reigns’. 

William Walsh returned to Australia in 

1978 September 2007 after working and living 

in the UK for nine years. Married to Cathy with one son 

named Harry, William is a solicitor and in-house counsel. 

The family are living in Lilyfield. 

Craig Stapleton has recently become engaged to Sennia 

Stahl a Swedish lady he met whilst teaching in Bourke! 

Craig and Sennia became engaged on a visit to Sweden 

over Christmas 2009. 

Andrew Heggie is married to Paula. The 

1979 couple have two children, James and 

Rhiannon and live in Woolwich. Andrew owns Origin 

Industries which trades pre-owned CT, MRI and Ultrasound 

scanners and other diagnostic imaging equipment. 

Peter McAniff lives and works in Pasadena, 

1984 USA, recently visited the college. He has 

worked in the mergers and acquisitions groups at Bank of 

America Securities and JP Morgan. Peter holds an MBA 

from UCLA and also a JD from the UCLA School of Law. Of 

late he has achieved extensive publishing of books relating 

to investment banking, corporate finance and banking 

recruitment sectors. 

Patrick Crehan. Patrick and his wife Suzy 

1989 welcomed their first child Bridie Alys Collier 

in November 2009. Baby and parents all doing well and 

grandparents ‘over the moon’. The family are living in the 

Lenah Valley, Tasmania. 

Richard Allan is presently living in London 

1991 with his wife Monica and three daughters 

April, Annabel and Alexandra. Richard was recently 

appointed a Managing Director in Morgan Stanley’s 

Investment Banking Division where he covers the global 

mining sector. He dreams one day of returning to his house 

in Sydney and swimming at the beach each morning! 

Christopher Doherty studied and has worked 

1992 as a geologist in various parts of Australia 

since leaving the College. Keen for a change in direction 

he joined the law enforcement sector and completed 

a Masters Degree in Criminology. He is now working 

overseas for the United Nations. 

Stuart Smith recently purchased a house in Wheeler 

Heights, NSW and is busy with renovations. He has 

recently taken up new position with Battery Energy who 

specialise in gel batteries designed for uninterrupted power 

supplies. Stuart is married to Rebecca. 

Anthony Hamer is a solicitor and married to Judith. Every 

Australia Day, approximately 30 Old Boys from the Class of 

1992 (and a few from other years) play a game of cricket 

at the College Oval in Willoughby. This annual event has 

become somewhat of a tradition for the Class and a trophy 

has been produced to record the annual winners. 

Michael Thorpe is currently playing his fifteenth season 

of Sydney Grade Cricket for the North Sydney Bears 4th 

Grade side. Michael reports he is ‘a Calypso type batsman 

and wicketkeeper’. Michael works as a professional cricket 

tipster for luckypunter.com.au. So if you like a punt use a 

pro. Michael adds ‘I'm single which is probably the reason 

my cricket career has had such longevity!’. 

Christopher Iffland married Elizabeth Sidik 

1993 from Bandung, Indonesia at St Catherine 

Laboure, Gymea, in 2005 and their daughter Catherine 

Mary was born in October 2007. Christopher is an 

Electrical Engineer. The family are living in Lilli Pilli. 

Matt Masson. For the past six years Matt 

1995 has lived in Vietnam and worked in the 

travel industry. His residence and main office is in Saigon 

(Ho Chi Minh City). He is the Chief Operating Officer 

for ‘Trails of Indochina’, an inbound tour company. As 

well as Vietnam, he manages offices in Cambodia, Laos, 

Thailand and Burma. Now married to Tiana Hoang in 

Hoi An, Vietnam. Matt recently organised a trip for David 

Braithwaite SJ (SAC 1990) and several members of the 

Class of 2009 who were in community work with Jesuits 

in central Vietnam, followed by a little sightseeing. Another 

SAC group of students and parents, organised through 

SACOBU, will travel to Vietnam in July for a two week 

visit. For further details of Matt’s company, please visit 

www.trailsofindochina.com 

Andrew McMillan is working in Hydrabad 

1999 India for Engineers Without Borders. 

Greg Egan is the President of the Student 

2003 

Association of the Canberra Campus of the 



Australian Catholic University. Greg is currently spending a 

month teaching at two of the schools (Efogi and Manari) 

along the Kokoda Track in PNG. 

Upcoming Reunions 

Class of 1955 – 3 September 

Class of 1985 – 28 August 




The Gonzaga Society Christmas Mass and Lunch will be 

held at the College on Thursday, 2 December 2010. 

Does the College have your correct e-mail, postal address 

and telephone number? Please use the enclosed fly-sheet or 

contact Terry Gabbedy at the College on 02 9936 5568 or 

via e-mail terry.gabbedy@staloysius.nsw.edu.au 

Past Staff News 

Harry ‘Hal’ Power (SAC Hon Old Boy and SAC Staff 

1948 – 1978). Son Shane Power writes – “I am responding 

to you on behalf of my father, Harry Power. He wishes 

to thank you very much for your kind invitations to Class 

Reunions. Regretfully, he is not able to attend due to a lack 

of mobility. He hopes all Reunions will be very successful 

and extends his good wishes to all of his former students. 

He appreciates he is remembered when these important 

occasions occur. My father turned 97 years of age in 

May this year. Whilst physically ‘not so sturdy’, he remains 

a genius in all things scientific and mathematic, as well 

as brilliant at everything else. His ten grandchildren (and 

five great grandchildren) constantly test him out with 

homework requests (from university to primary school level). 

The answers and explanations roll out with rapidity! Dad 

remains an avid reader and is a source of great knowledge 

on current events, history, politics and sport. We all want 

him on our team for trivial pursuit. His beloved Balmain 

Tigers nearly made it to the finals last year and he cheered 

them on via FoxSports in every game. No-one in the family 

acknowledges the merger with Wests – so Dad calls out for 

‘Balmain’ as they play. He won the footy tipping competition 

for the last few years and picked the AFL grand final winner 

and score margin. He loves cricket. These days, his home 

is his palace He doesn’t venture out too often because it’s 

not easy moving around. But he never misses Sunday Mass. 

He loves visits from all the family and thrives on the devotion 

of his beloved bride of 60 years, Maureen. He keeps up 

to date on the latest news of St Aloysius’ via contact with 

former colleagues and Old Boys. He enjoys hearing of their 

successes and adventures. Please pass on my father’s news 

to all and with best wishes.” 

Obituaries 

The College is saddened to hear of the passing of the 

following Old Boys. We ask you to remember them and 

their families in your prayers. 

1937 

Fr Roger McGinley SAC. Fr Roger was an enthusiastic 

Old Boy of St Aloysius’ College. In fact, after a reunion of 

The Gonzaga Society in 2004, Fr Ross Jones SJ wrote in 

The Aloysiad.... ‘it seems he even joined an Order (The 

Pallottine Fathers) bearing the initials of his old College’. 

Fr Roger’s brother Barry (SAC 1935) also attended St 

Aloysius’ as did his great nephews, Andrew Hunt (SAC 

1990) and Tim Hunt (SAC 2002). 

Roger joined the Pallottine Fathers and went to Melbourne 

to study for the priesthood. During his life he was a 

missionary in India and parish priest at Riverton in Western 

Australia. He also worked at Beagle Bay with Aboriginal 

people. Later in life he stayed with Fr Bede Griffiths at 

his Ashram in India. When he returned to Melbourne, Fr 

Roger established his own ashram at Montserrat in the 

Victorian mountains near Warburton. He was known as a 

great friend and a holy man and he gave counsel to many 

who were suffering. Montserrat became a place of quiet 

contemplation and prayer for people who needed time to 

think about their God. 

For his family Roger was always a man who enjoyed 

life. He loved a good meal with friends and family and 

we have many happy memories of a special Christmas 

when he celebrated Mass with the family and we were all 

together from overseas and in Sydney. He was always an 

example of a man who could find God everywhere. He 

learnt from the example of Jesus and was totally accepting 

of all. We will miss him. 

Andrew Hunt (SAC 1990) and Tim Hunt (SAC 2002) 

1940 

Dr James (Jim) Macken passed away on 19 January 

2010 at St Vincent’s Hospital. Jim was an active member 

of The Gonzaga Society and enjoyed visiting the College 

regularly. 

1942 

John Scroope died on 28 February 1942 after a battle 

with cancer. His wife Jessie, known as Pat, predeceased 

him. He is survived by his daughters Maria and Jane and 

sons Stephen, Martin (SAC Staff 1980 – 1984 and 1994 

– 2000), Matthew and Damian. 

1944 

Charles Henry Norville died recently aged 84 years. 

1946 

Captain Charles Flaherty AM, RFD, RANVR (Rtd) died in 

Melbourne on 27 December 2009. 

1948 

Peter Currie died on 10 February 2010 in Brisbane. Peter 

was a stalwart of the Jesuit Mission Indian Bazaar and used 



from SACOBU 

to come down from Brisbane each year to set up the event 

held at Riverview. 

David Wallis died on 3 May 2010, older brother of John 

(SAC 1952) (deceased). David lived for many years in 

Adelaide where he worked as the Chief Financial Officer at 

The Adelaide Advertiser, before he retired to Queensland. 

1952 

Bob Lenehan died on 23 April 2010. Brother of Paul 

Lenehan (SAC 1955). 

1963 

Joe Dwyer wrote to the Sydney Morning Herald in March 

2005: 

"As Robin Hood said, here's how it works: we take from 

the rich and give to the poor – keeping only enough 

for the waterfronts and cruisers, Mercs and Beemers, 

Whiteleys and Nolans, Ascham fees and Aspen skis and, 

if there's any change, then a gross of Grange." 

Joe Dwyer, Rose Bay 

Joe Dwyer was born in Mosman in July 1945 and 

christened Joseph Richard after his Great Uncle, Dr Joseph 

Wilfrid Dwyer (SAC 1884), the Bishop of Wagga Wagga. 

His Dwyer great grandparents immigrated from Ireland in 

1856. The family connections with St Aloysius’ College 

date back to the year the School opened in 1879, when 

his Grandfather and two Great Uncles attended the 

College. Joe and his younger brother Jim (SAC 1964) were 

third generation Aloysians. 

Joe was the third child of the late Mr Justice Frank and 

Anne Dwyer and grew up in Mosman. His father died 

suddenly when Joe was 8 years old leaving his mother to 

raise four children under thirteen. Life was not easy. 

Whilst at the College Joe developed a great love of 

English and history. He had the greatest respect for English 

master, Geoff Deegan. He considered the teaching skills 

and sermons of Fr Emmet Costello SJ to be legendary. Joe 

liked people to get to the point and to express themselves 

clearly and succinctly. He was punctilious when it came 

to use of the English language. He was involved in the 

Gilbert and Sullivan Productions, the SAC swimming team 

and played cricket and rugby. He enjoyed his years in 

the College Cadet Unit and, in his final year, acted as the 

Quarter Master in charge of the Q Store. 

On leaving school he studied law but decided that his 

preference was in the world of real estate. He developed a 

circle of friends from both school and university and became 

an active member of the Palm Beach Surf Club. As his close 

friend, Michael Crimmins, said at his funeral Mass: 

"Joe was a people person who was very worldly with an 

ability to mix with people from all walks of life." 

He had a great sense of "family" and provided rock solid 

support to his older sister, Metta, and her husband, Richard, 

in New York following the tragic accident which resulted in 

the death of their son, Simon Nottidge, in 1989. Joe was 

extremely close to, and regularly spent time with, his sister, 

Anne Marie, and her five children. Joe often stayed at Jim 

and Anne's home where he had his own "separate quarters" 

and library. The family loved these visits and looked forward 

to his cheeky remarks and amusing stories. 

He was proud of his family and the achievements of 

his nine nieces and nephews. Joe's presence at family 

gatherings always gave rise to witty and entertaining stories 

concerning current and former politicians. Joe shared many 

happy years with his partner, Penny Conlon. They both had 

a strong sense of humour and affection for each other and 

her unexpected death changed Joe's life. 

Joe was a prolific reader of history and a keen follower 

of Australian politics. He was extremely proud of his Irish 

heritage and kept in contact with his first cousins in Ireland 

and in New York. Joe's passion for current affairs and history 

was in part reflected by the fact that over 40 years he had 

several hundred letters to the editor published in The Sydney 

Morning Herald and a number in The Australian, some of 

which were referred to or read on commercial radio. His 

sign off: "Joe Dwyer - Rose Bay" became very well known. 

His sense of humour and incisive wit never left him. 

1964 

Harley Adams died on 3 November 2009 from motor 

neurone disease. 

1968 

James Scott passed away on 7 February 2010 after a 

battle with cancer. 

1979 

Jeremy Vermeesch died in Melbourne on 7 February 

2010. Jeremy leaves behind his children Max and Olivia. 

Jeremy worked for the Australian Workers Union as their 

National Media Manager and was a former member of 

band called Wrong Kind of Stone Age. 

I first met Jez around 1970, when we both became 

‘prisoners’ at St Aloysius’ College. Over the years I got 

to know and like him more and more. He had a great 

and Dadaesque sense of humour, for example muttering 

in Science one day that the teacher was a 'muffin' and a 

'cupcake', and sending me into hysterics. In a school ruled 

by Rugby fanatics, Jez was a shining light of gentleness. He 

had a refreshing lack of interest in football and competition, 

although he enjoyed wagging study periods to talk and play 

basketball. He was a great student of Latin (completing 3 Unit 

Latin for his HSC), and no doubt this contributed to the deep 

understanding of language that underpinned his writing. 

Although intellectual, Jez was also quietly rebellious. 

He was part of a group that scared, alarmed, intrigued 

and excited me they met before school at a cafe and 

smoked cigarettes; they took off their ties on the way home. 

They went away on surfing holidays. They seemed to be 

anti authority in general and the school in particular. Some 

were very left wing and had fewer hang-ups about sex. 



They seemed to walk the line, and one was expelled. I'm 

pleased to say now that I occasionally raided my brother's 

secret cigarette stash and joined them at that cafe, to share 

in that underground frisson and try to understand what the 

hell they were on about. 

Having finished school, Jez and I occasionally met 

in the eighties before losing touch. I next met Jez around 

1992, after uni, travel, and immersion in protest movements 

and communes had opened my eyes a little. I was 

finally catching up politically with Jez. We spent a great 

evening in his bohemian Newtown digs, talking about the 

Erskineville 'peoples park' protest nearby (the park is still 

there, saved from the developers), and about his coverage 

of the treatment of asylum seekers (which was way ahead 

of his time). He was passionate about his work and life in 

general, although a fainting spell indicated that even then 

he was working and living too hard. 

I last spoke with Jez last year. It was 30 years since we'd 

left school, and I wasn't sure I wanted to attend the official 

reunion, so I was organising an alternative reunion/surf 

trip. Jez was someone I definitely wanted to catch up with. 

Fortunately, I was able to track him down through a mobile 

number on an old AWU press release on the web. Once 

again, we had a great rave, covering a wide range of 

political topics, including some of the characters we knew 

in common, such as our former schoolmate Joe Hockey 

(SAC 1983). 

Jesuit schools are said to produce people who are either 

very radical or very conservative. Hockey and Tony Abbott 

(SAC 1975) are examples of the latter, upholding the status 

quo. Jez was an example of the former a free thinker who 

was dedicated to social change, egalitarianism and a fair 

go for all. 

He was kind, generous and thoughtful. I never met his 

children, but I know he would have been a great father. 

News of his death was an enormous shock to his mates 

from the class of 1979. As a small child, I will never forget 

being on the steps of the church outside my grandfather's 

funeral. My grandmother, summing up all that was good 

about him, said to me: 'He was a gentle man'. 

Jez Vermeesch was a gentle man, a scholar and 

someone who dedicated his life to making the world a 

better place. I can't believe he has gone. Like so many 

others who were touched by him, I will miss him terribly. 

My condolences to Genevieve, Olivia and Max, and all 

his family and comrades. 

Dr Marty Branagan (SAC 1979) 

Lecturer in Peace Studies, University of New England, 

Armidale NSW 

Deceased Past Staff Members 

Mrs Maureen Porteous (SAC Past Staff) 

The Hon Mr Justice Terry Sheahan AO (Past Parent) wrote 

to advise the College of the sad passing of Mrs Maureen 

Porteous, who taught at the College (as both Miss Sheahan 

and later Mrs Porteous). Although a gifted violinist and 

music teacher, her days at St Aloysius’ were spent as 

a classroom teacher in the Junior School, where she is 

believed to have been the first woman to teach a class as 

senior as Year 6. Maureen died on 14 February 2009 and 

her husband John predeceased her by only nine weeks. She 

had no children but her nephew Paul Sheahan (SAC 2004) 

attended the College. After leaving St Aloysius’, Maureen 

taught for almost 25 years at St Francis of Assisi Primary 

School in Paddington. 

Mr James ‘Jim’ Barnett (SAC Staff 1995 – 2003) 

Passed away on 25 May 2010 at home surrounded by 

his loving family after a battle with cancer. Jim worked at 

the College for eight years as the Student Supervisor after 

a very long and distinguished career at Sydney Boys’ High 

School. Jim had a gruff exterior, but underneath was a 

warm and friendly man. He played his role ‘by the book’ 

and the boys respected him for his integrity. 

Fr John Grumitt SJ (SAC Hon Old Boy) 

Fr John Grumitt SJ 

(SAC Hon Old Boy) 

St Aloysius’ College lost 

a great friend on 19 

October, 2009 when 

Rev Fr John Grumitt SJ 

(SAC Hon Old Boy) died 

unexpectedly in the United 

Kingdom. 

Fr Grumitt was born 

and baptised in 1930 in 

Penang in Malaysia, where 

his parents owned rubber 

plantations and tin mines. 

He, along with his mother 

and brother, managed to 

escape Singapore on the 

last ship to successfully leave the city as the Japanese 

invaded in WWII. Arriving in Sydney, Fr Grumitt went to 

our brother Jesuit School, St Ignatius’ College, Riverview. At 

the end of the War, the Grumitt family returned to the UK 

where Fr Grumitt finished his schooling at our brother Jesuit 

School, Stonyhurst College in Lancashire. 

Fr Grumitt SJ and his family were forever grateful to 

Australia for providing them with a home during the War, 

and from this point, he developed a great love of this 

country and its people. 

Upon completing his A Levels, he joined the Society of 

Jesus in 1947. He did the normal course of Jesuit studies, 

which included teaching for three years at St Mary’s Hall 

(Stonyhurst College Prep School) for his Regency. He was 

ordained in 1961 and after his Tertianship he went to 

Zimbabwe (then known as Rhodesia) for nine years, first of 

all in charge of the Lower School (Hartman House) at our 

brother Jesuit School, St George’s School, then spending 

three years doing a degree in English at the University of 



from SACOBU 

Rhodesia, then a couple of years as Assistant Headmaster 

at St George's School. 

He returned to the UK in 1972 and taught for four 

years at the Jesuit school in Glasgow, St Aloysius’ College. 

In 1976 he was appointed Headmaster of Mount Saint 

Mary's School, a highly responsible position which he held 

for 15 years. While at the school Fr Grumitt’s reputation 

as a somewhat eccentric educationalist grew. An urbane 

man with a keen sense of humour, Fr Grumitt was also a 

considerable raconteur. 

While at Mount St Mary’s Fr Grumitt established a 

programme for alumni of UK and Australian Jesuit schools, 

allowing them to spend time in international service 

placements. At the heart of this enterprise was the Ignatian 

maxim that we be men for others. 

Fr Grumitt, through the generosity of The Grumitt Family 

Trust, established the Young British Jesuit Alumni Programme. 

The Programme involved Old Boys travelling to the UK for a 

12 month period where they would work in a Jesuit School 

and do some very challenging work with marginalised 

people (for example severely disabled children, who our 

boys had to care for each day for three months). 

From 1989 until the programme ceased in 2002, 

twenty-seven Old Boys of the College benefitted from this 

life-changing experience of service. The College, in return, 

hosted two students from Jesuits Schools in the UK each 

year. Originally, and correctly, referred to as the Young 

British Jesuit Alumni Programme, it soon affectionately 

became referred to as ‘The Grumitt Scholarship’ and those 

fortunate to be selected to take part in the programme as 

‘Grumitt Scholars’. 

Father Grumitt was born into a life of privilege and ease. 

Despite this he used his inheritance for the benefit of others. 

He had an abiding interest in youth and was aware of their 

capacity for idealism and service. Thus he established the 

Programme to give those chosen an experience away from 

their comfort zones. This, he hoped, would challenge them 

to respond to the needs of those around them. 

Our twenty-seven Grumitt Scholars owe a significant 

debt to this man. He gave them opportunities they would 

not have had otherwise. When we assess the success or 

otherwise of Fr Grumitt’s Programme, we look to the kind of 

people it produced. If they are still aware of their blessings 

and have a sense of justice, if they are committed to those 

less fortunate, if they are people of compassion and service, 

then his programme may be judged successful. 

Through their hard work and generous disposition, Fr 

Grumitt developed a great love and admiration for the boys 

of St Aloysius’ College. Despite never attending the school 

or working here, he developed a genuine interest in the 

wellbeing of the school and our boys. 

He told me of the incident that cemented in his mind that 

Aloysians were a ‘cut above the rest’, when he inoccuously 

mentioned one morning to a group of assembled Grumitt 

Scholars that he thought the garden at his London home 

needed a general clean up. He returned later that day 

to find the garden looking immaculate after the Aloysian 

Grunitt Scholars had toiled all day in the garden, whilst 

others living in the house had spent the day seeing the sights 

of the city. 

I had the privilege of getting to know Fr Grumitt through 

being appointed the ‘Grumitt Master’ at the College. I 

co-ordinated the applications of our boys heading to the 

UK and looked after the UK students who worked at the 

College. At the cessation of the Grumitt Scholarship in 

2002, Fr Grumitt contacted me to advise of the news. Over 

a series of telephone calls and faxes, Fr Grumitt expressed 

a desire to continue to assist the College. Eventually he 

decided that in lieu of spending the funds on sending Old 

Boys to the UK, he would provide the funds to the College 

for use in our Bursary Programme. 

Since 2003 The Grumitt Family Trust has generously 

provided funds so that a number of boys, who would not 

normally have the opportunity to attend the College due to 

their family’s financial situation, have had the benefit of an 

Aloysian education. 

Father Grumitt was a regular attendee at our annual Old 

Boys’ Dinners in London. He married a number of Old Boys 

living in the UK and enjoyed frequent dinner invitations to 

Old Boys’ homes. 

His love of St Aloysius’ College and generous support 

of the College and our boys was recognised when the St 

Aloysius’ College Old Boys Union made him the seventh 

Honorary Old Boy in the 131 year history of the College. 

Since 2003 he had been living at Corpus Christi Jesuit 

Community, a care home for elderly or sick Jesuits, but even 

here he became Assistant Chaplain to the local Catholic 

primary school. Father Grumitt died very unexpectedly in his 

sleep in the early hours of 19 October 2009. 

The College hosted a Memorial Mass and Wake for Fr 

Grumitt where past Grumitt Scholars from St Aloysius’ and 

other Australian Jesuit Schools were present. 

His extraordinary generosity will continue for many years 

to come and his name and legacy, will endure in a place 

he loved. 

Murray Happ (SAC 1985) 

Director of Development 

Eternal Rest grant to them O Lord 

and let perpetual light shine upon them, 

may their Souls and all the Souls 

of the faithfully departed Old Boys of the College, 

through the mercy of God, rest In Peace. Amen. 

St Aloysius, pray for us!

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