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New Leadership for the College AUSTRALIAN PROVINCE OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS Provincial Office: Telephone: (03) 9818 1336 130 Power St., Hawthorn, Victoria. Fax: (03) 9818 3602 P.O. Box 6071, Hawthorn, Victoria. 3122 E-mail: Jesuits@jesuit.org.au 22 Febuary 2002 Dear Members of the College Community I am pleased to announce in consultation with the Chair of St Aloysius' College Council, Mrs Josephine Lonergan, the future leadership structure of the College following the completion of Rev Fr Anthony Smith’s long and dedicated term of office next year. The College leadership will follow the pattern which has been evolving in other Jesuit schools within the Province. I am appointing Rev Fr Ross Jones SJ as “Director of Jesuit Mission”, responsible for overall leadership of the College, with Rev Fr Christopher Middleton SJ as “Head of School”. Rev Fr Smith will complete his term at Easter 2003, at which time, Rev Frs Jones and Middleton will assume their new roles. Up to that time, Rev Fr Jones will continue as Socius in the transition of the new Provincial. From September 2003 until March 2004, he will undertake Tertianship, the final stage of his Jesuit formation, and after that, return once again to the College. Later this year the process will commence at St Ignatius, Adelaide, to replace Rev Fr Middleton as Superior and Deputy to Rev Fr O'Kelly, who remains as Headmaster. I am inviting the College Council, in the light of its recent school review, to work in conjunction with Rev Frs Jones and Middleton on the detailed structure of the leadership model from titles to responsibilities. In making this announcement I want to pay the first of many tributes to Rev Fr Anthony Smith for his seventeen years of Headmastership of the College - surely a record by any standard. That period has been an era of energetic building and consolidation, owing in no small measure to his energy, generosity and vision. Yours sincerely Rev Fr Daven Day SJ Provincial Mrs Josephine Lonergan Chair of Council Rev Fr Ross Jones SJ Rev Fr Christopher Middleton SJ 2
St. Aloysius’ College 47 UPPER PITT STREET • MILSONS POINT NSW 2061 • TELEPHONE 9922 1177 • FACSIMILE 9929 6414 22 February 2002 Dear Members of the College Community It gives me great pleasure to pass on to you the news that the Provincial of the Society of Jesus in Australia, Rev Fr Daven Day SJ has made his decision concerning the replacements in running the College. From Easter of 2003, the College will be governed by Rev Fr Ross Jones SJ and Rev Fr Chris Middleton SJ. Both are well known to the St. Aloysius’ College community – if not recently! As “Head of the Jesuit Mission”, a term more familiar to Jesuits than to our associates, Rev Fr Ross Jones SJ former teacher in the College and local North Sydneysider, will assume the role which, in an American setting, would be described as the President of the College. Rev Fr Jones SJ joined the Society of Jesus from his teaching post at St Aloysius’. He was the inaugural head of Loyola College, Mt Druitt and relinquished that post to take up the position of Socius to the Provincial. He has faithfully carried out that role for the last six years. Ross retires from that position at the end of this year (as will Rev Fr Day SJ as Provincial). Rev Fr Jones SJ will spend the first couple of months in 2003 inducting the new Socius into his role. As “Head of School”, Rev Fr Middleton brings to this office at St Aloysius’ College, professional qualifications in educational administration gained at the Fordham University in New York and the experience of Deputy Headmaster at St Ignatius’ College, South Australia. He also has spent time in the Jesuit University College’s administration. So he is conversant with both the secondary and tertiary spheres of education. He has spent more than three years on the staff here at St Aloysius’ College. It is a bold move (considering the declining Jesuit manpower) on the part of the Provincial to assign two Jesuits to the College and is obviously a sign of his high regard for the College. It ensures that the transition from my governance to that of the new team will be an easy one. St Aloysius’ College is the winner in this transfusion of Jesuit leaders. As for me, there is no word. In our Jesuit way of doing things this is no surprise. Such postings are usually done in the second part of the year (which makes this announcement more courageous). I will remain at the reins of the College until Easter 2003. As far as I am concerned, it will be business as usual. Let me assure you that my role over the next year will not be that of a caretaker. There is a lot to be accomplished. I am confident that the review will be launched, teaching will be done, students will be examined, the Aloysian community will be ignatianised – life as "normal", full of challenge. Yours sincerely, Rev Fr Anthony V Smith SJ Headmaster 3
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