Aloysiad Autumn 2006 - St Aloysius
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ALOYSIA D<br />
The Magazine of <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College • ‘Men for Others’ • Issue XLII • <strong>Autumn</strong> <strong>2006</strong><br />
60th Anniversary of Ordination to the Priesthood<br />
of Father Geoffrey Schneider SJ (SAC <strong>St</strong>aff 1966 - Present)
from the council<br />
College Council Report<br />
Following the retirement of Mrs Josephine Lonergan<br />
AM, Mr Eric Goodwin has been appointed as Chair<br />
of the Council. Mr Goodwin is a Past Parent of the<br />
College (Daniel SAC 1992 and Joshua SAC 1994) and<br />
is a Member of the Council Finance Committee and Chair<br />
of the Council Building Committee. Mr Goodwin is an<br />
engineer by profession with experience in project and<br />
construction management and in his role as Chair of the<br />
Building Committee he will oversee the development of<br />
the new College Masterplan that will be released later this<br />
year. Mrs Rosalie Nott has been appointed Deputy Chair<br />
of the Council. Mrs Nott is a Past Parent (Patrick SAC<br />
2004) and works as the Assistant Director (Policy) for the<br />
Catholic Education Commission, NSW.<br />
Following the retirement of Mrs Lonergan AM, Mrs<br />
Natalie McNamara AM and Brother Ian Cribb SJ, four<br />
people have been appointed to fill these vacancies:<br />
Mr John Bowie AM (SAC 1957 and SAC <strong>St</strong>aff 1961<br />
– 1975) is a former staff member of the College and<br />
Deputy Headmaster of <strong>St</strong> Ignatius’ College Riverview<br />
and until 2005 was the Principal of Brigidine College,<br />
<strong>St</strong> Ives. Mr Bowie served as the President of the<br />
World Union of Jesuit Alumni/ae between 1992 and<br />
1997 and is a former Chair of the Loyola Institute.<br />
Following his retirement from Brigidine College, Mr<br />
Bowie has taken up a new role as Executive Director<br />
of the Shepherd Centre.<br />
Mrs Josephine Lonergan AM<br />
In December 2005, Mrs Josephine Lonergan AM<br />
stepped down as Chair of the College Council and<br />
after thirteen years of tireless service to the College,<br />
retired from the Council. One of the original members<br />
of the College Council when it was formed in 1992,<br />
Jo served as the Chair of the Council from 2001 until<br />
2005. A former Chief Executive Officer of the Australian<br />
Parents Council, Jo has dedicated her professional life to<br />
the advancement of private education in Australia. The<br />
mother of four Old Boys of the College (Sean SAC 1976,<br />
Peter SAC 1977, Patrick SAC 1980 and Thomas SAC<br />
1984) Jo has worked tirelessly for the College for over<br />
thirty years in a voluntary capacity. The entire Aloysian<br />
Family wishes Jo every best wish for her ‘retirement’ and<br />
trusts that she will enjoy spending more time with her<br />
family and friends.<br />
Recognition of her work for the Church and society was<br />
made in December 2005 when the Holy Father, Pope<br />
Benedict XVI, honoured Jo with a Papal Knighthood, a<br />
Dame Commander of the Order of <strong>St</strong> Gregory the Great.<br />
The Aloysian Family celebrates this great honour, due<br />
recognition from a church she has served so marvellously<br />
well for many years.<br />
Fr Rob Davoren SJ is the Head of Middle School at <strong>St</strong><br />
Ignatius’ College, Riverview. Prior to his appointment at<br />
Riverview, Fr Davoren was the Deputy Headmaster at<br />
his alma mater, Saint Ignatius’ College, Adelaide.<br />
The Honourable Mr Justice Tim <strong>St</strong>uddert (SAC 1952) is<br />
a Judge of the Common Law Division of the Supreme<br />
Court of New South Wales. Mr Justice <strong>St</strong>uddert<br />
administers the Professional Negligence List of the<br />
Court and was an eminent Queen's Counsel prior to<br />
his elevation to the bench in 1988.<br />
Mrs Robyn Wunder is the Planning Director of the<br />
Australian Province of the Jesuits. A former strategic<br />
planner and project manager, she is married to Tim<br />
Wunder (SAC 1981) an Old Boy of the College. Her<br />
nephew, John Wunder, is in Year 10 at the College.<br />
The Council warmly welcomes all the new members<br />
and thanks them for agreeing to take an active role in the<br />
ongoing development and betterment of the College.<br />
Other current Members and Officers of the Council are:<br />
Fr Ross Jones SJ, Fr Chris Middleton SJ, Mr David Green, Mr<br />
Brian Skinner, Fr Gerry Healy SJ, Mrs Ailsa Gillett OAM (all exofficio),<br />
Mr Rahoul Chowdry, Mr John Churchill (SAC 1971),<br />
Mr Jock Murray (SAC 1966), Mr Brendan O’Loughlin (SAC<br />
1987), Sister Marilyn Kelleher SGS, Fr Brendan Kelly SJ and<br />
Br Paul Oakley CFC.<br />
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from the rector<br />
The Three Amigos<br />
Those who have lived or worked in University Colleges<br />
know them to be sometimes very boisterous, sometimes<br />
Godless, places. At the end of his first year as Rector of<br />
the Jesuit University at Ingolstadt in 1550, <strong>St</strong> Peter Canisius<br />
wrote to Father General:<br />
Governing this place is bringing me a good deal of<br />
trouble, and precious little so far in the way of obvious<br />
results. The Rector’s principal duties are to find new students,<br />
to see that the bills are paid, to listen to the complaints of<br />
men and women from the town against the young men, to<br />
reprimand the students who get drunk and roam the streets<br />
at night, and finally to preside at official festivities, and at<br />
academic functions. They say, and it’s true, that the lawyers<br />
run the place.<br />
However, some fifteen years earlier, a group of three<br />
students living together in a college of the University of<br />
Paris were preparing to put a different stamp on the<br />
world. Jesuits world-wide this year are celebrating them<br />
in a combined anniversary – five hundred years since the<br />
births of <strong>St</strong> Francis Xavier and Blessed Peter Faber, and four<br />
hundred and fifty years since the death of their mentor, <strong>St</strong><br />
Ignatius Loyola. They were the first among the self-styled<br />
amigos en el Señor, friends in the Lord. Seven graduates,<br />
laymen all, bound by vows to serve God in ways that were<br />
as yet unknown to them.<br />
Three very different men. Ignatius: soldier-courtier,<br />
gambler-womaniser, now turned mystic, administrator,<br />
dreamer and visionary. Francis: influential nobleman,<br />
youthful athlete, to become a restless missionary, an engager<br />
with cultures. Peter: shepherd’s son, scholar, compassionate<br />
man of conversation and acclaimed retreat-giver.<br />
In recent times,<br />
historians of the Society<br />
of Jesus have suggested<br />
Ignatius has given the<br />
Church (and especially<br />
those associated with<br />
Jesuit ministries) four<br />
insights:<br />
Finding God in all<br />
things – that is, a spirituality<br />
which readily discovers<br />
God in creation, in human<br />
history and in others. This<br />
has special application for<br />
those who work with the<br />
young. Ignatius was very fond of the adage of his day “go<br />
in by the other person’s door and lead them out your own”.<br />
For those of us in schools, we go in by the door of the boys’<br />
experience, help them discern the traces of God in their lives,<br />
seeing God’s fingerprints if you like, then take them out the<br />
door of a named encounter with God. The second insight,<br />
Dreams and Desires, encourages a reflective interiority. For a<br />
young Aloysian, on the threshold of choosing a path in life, it<br />
is a way to help him get in touch with what really attracts and<br />
motivates him, what is ultimately and genuinely life-giving<br />
(and therefore from God). The third insight is Serving Others.<br />
That orientation is clear in this community which takes forming<br />
“men for others” (the mantra of Pedro Arrupe, himself called<br />
“the second Ignatius”) seriously. It is a generous disposition<br />
impelled both by a realisation that our gifts and blessings<br />
are not to be selfishly hoarded, and a conviction that we<br />
are blessed by those we serve and from whom we learn.<br />
Finally, Ignatius saw graced moments in Conversations.<br />
Such conversations are at three levels. They are with oneself<br />
– engendering a certain reflectivity which draws meaning<br />
from one’s experiences. They are conversations with others<br />
– in this school at the heart of the teaching/learning<br />
process, in communication and respectful dialogue, and of<br />
course in pastoral care. And they are with God – in prayer,<br />
especially that quintessentially Ignatian prayer, the Examen.<br />
Ignatius called them Holy Conversations. Not to sound<br />
excessively pious, but from a realisation that they all draw<br />
us Godward.<br />
Indirectly we can<br />
thank Francis Xavier for<br />
opening the schools’<br />
ministry to us. When he<br />
arrived in Goa (India),<br />
Francis saw possibilities<br />
for the Society working<br />
in a school there, the<br />
recently established<br />
College of the Holy<br />
Faith. He saw the need<br />
for education in the faith<br />
and was first to seize<br />
on “the multiplier effect”,<br />
that is, the influence that<br />
educated youth might have on their present and future<br />
families. In no uncertain terms, he wrote to his companions<br />
in Rome, about the ecclesiastics in the universities there<br />
seeking comfy benefits and honours when there was so<br />
much to be done for Christ abroad. About five years after<br />
Xavier’s Goa experience, Ignatius acceded to opening<br />
the first Jesuit-owned school for lay students in Messina<br />
(Italy).<br />
Always one to engage with local cultures, Francis,<br />
when in Japan, broke new ground in casting off his shabby<br />
priestly attire to don the dress of an educated and influential<br />
person to gain access to the local lords. It was a style<br />
of adaptation and accommodation to times, places and<br />
circumstances which Ignatius had always encouraged.<br />
Such was to become the hallmark of Jesuit missionary<br />
endeavour down to the present day.<br />
<strong>St</strong> Francis Xavier is Patron Saint of Missions and one of<br />
the Patron Saints of Australia – Australia being regarded by<br />
Rome as a mission country up until 1976.<br />
Xavier died off the coast of China believing that it would<br />
be in China that his, and ultimately the Church’s, influence<br />
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would be greatest. His life to the end was ever-searching<br />
for the magis.<br />
At University, Peter<br />
Faber (already a priest)<br />
tutored Ignatius in the<br />
philosophy of Aristotle.<br />
It was Faber who<br />
celebrated mass at<br />
Montmartre when the<br />
seven First Companions<br />
began their vowed life<br />
together.<br />
Ignatius always<br />
regarded Peter as the<br />
best giver of the Spiritual<br />
Exercises. Faber had a<br />
great sensitivity to the<br />
action of God in people’s lives and an ability to help them<br />
discern it. Historians suspect he was given to depression,<br />
and perhaps this enabled him to relate with the struggles of<br />
others more readily. Peter’s ease of conversing with others<br />
resulted in many vocations to the growing Society of Jesus.<br />
The great <strong>St</strong> Peter Canisius, apostle to Germany was one<br />
whom he won over.<br />
In a time of much turmoil during the Reformation, of<br />
accusations and counter-condemnations, Peter had a calm<br />
and sobering influence. He insisted that any engagement<br />
with the Protestants be inspired by modesty, love and<br />
humanity.<br />
In a letter to a Spanish Jesuit in 1546, Faber had<br />
explained how to deal with heretics. This letter<br />
became a directive for many Jesuits of the<br />
first generation. It reads in part:<br />
If we will help the heretics of this<br />
time, we have to be attentive to<br />
look at them with love, to love them<br />
in truth, and to banish out of our<br />
hearts any thought that could lessen<br />
our reverence for them. Pastoral<br />
care, dialogue, benevolence, and<br />
confidence will help; controversy,<br />
which would only bring the<br />
partner into discredit, would<br />
not help.<br />
In our present times<br />
of religious suspicion<br />
and unyielding<br />
fundamentalism, such an<br />
attitude is a welcome<br />
vade-mecum.<br />
Three “friends<br />
in the Lord” lived<br />
on the cusp of two<br />
worlds nearly four<br />
centuries ago: the<br />
flourishing of the Renaissance, emerging technologies, an<br />
expanding globe, challenges to the Faith. We, too, are in<br />
transition times. And they speak to us still.<br />
Fr Ross Jones SJ<br />
Rector<br />
A contemporary image of Ignatius, Francis and Peter styled on the<br />
famous Trinity by Rublev. Ignatius in traditional garb, Francis with his<br />
missionary cross and world globe, Peter with priestly vestments and<br />
book of the Excercises<br />
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from the principal<br />
Teachers are a school’s most valuable resource and the<br />
relationship between staff and students is such a critical<br />
factor in creating an environment that best facilitates<br />
student learning and formation. The relationship between<br />
teachers and their students lies at the core of any school that<br />
professes to be about formation and education, and not just<br />
about instruction and the imparting of information.<br />
I have always been fond of, and have used regularly,<br />
the words of <strong>St</strong> John Chrysostom, who wrote of teachers<br />
some sixteen hundred years ago:<br />
"What is a greater work than to direct the minds and<br />
form the character of the young? I hold with certainty,<br />
that no painter, no sculptor, nor any artist does such<br />
excellent work as the one who moulds the mind of<br />
youth."<br />
<strong>St</strong> Ignatius of Loyola echoed <strong>St</strong> John’s appreciation of<br />
teaching with his own keen appreciation of the significance<br />
of education as an investment in the future of any society or<br />
culture or community:<br />
"Our present students will in time assume various roles,<br />
some in the religious life, some in the government of<br />
the land and in the administration of justice, others in<br />
all sorts of responsible occupations, for the children of<br />
today become the adults of tomorrow, so their good<br />
formation in life and learning will benefit many others,<br />
with the good results of that spreading more widely<br />
each day, to the greater glory and service of God our<br />
Lord."<br />
Those who would perhaps see computer technology<br />
replacing teaching, and work stations at home replacing<br />
educational communities, miss the essential relational<br />
nature of learning and ignore the wider ambitions of the<br />
educational enterprise. Education is not primarily about<br />
examination results (not that examinations are not important,<br />
and historically Jesuit schools were among the first to have<br />
a system of examinations). The formation of character, of<br />
the intellect and of the heart, or, as we might say, forming<br />
young men of conscience, competence and community, all<br />
have a place in the role of a school.<br />
The role of teachers is critical.<br />
It is a varied role. Some<br />
critiques of teaching, often from<br />
outsiders, can tend to stereotype<br />
teaching as a profession.<br />
Appraisal processes can tend<br />
to be reductionist in looking<br />
for clear measurable outcomes,<br />
performance indicators and the<br />
like, yet teaching, as with<br />
parenting itself,<br />
is<br />
more<br />
intangible. A<br />
teacher may<br />
fail by one<br />
measure yet<br />
exercise a<br />
profoundly important impact on a student’s life through, for<br />
example, inspiring love for a subject, or being there at a<br />
time of crisis. Many of our fondest memories of teachers<br />
might not be of the most technically proficient teachers<br />
we have, but rather of teachers who touched us at some<br />
level.<br />
Teaching is not a single discipline; it is approached<br />
differently by its practitioners. For some it is a craft mastered<br />
over time, where the teacher measures his approach<br />
according to his students and the subject matter. For others<br />
teaching is more of a science where certain skills and<br />
strategies are applied to the task at hand to achieve an<br />
outcome. <strong>St</strong>ill others approach teaching as a form of art<br />
where the nature of the communication, teaching, is almost<br />
performance. Uniting all these approaches in the best of<br />
teaching is that passion for the subject and for the act of<br />
teaching another to learn.<br />
Our society, at least as depicted in the movies, holds<br />
an almost instinctive regard for teachers, because we<br />
recognise that teaching is an act of hope in the future, and<br />
it is an affirmation of the value of the human. Teachers are<br />
portrayed as agents of empowerment, people who can<br />
touch and transform the lives of young people, people<br />
who can inspire and bring out the best in the human,<br />
companions on the journey of discovery. The list is rich and<br />
varied over the history of cinema: Goodbye Mr Chips,<br />
Blackboard Jungle, Mona Lisa Smile, Dead Poet’s Society,<br />
Good Will Hunting, Mr Holland’s Opus, Finding Forrester,<br />
Children of a Lesser God, Conrack, <strong>St</strong>and and Deliver, to<br />
name a few.<br />
The way we imagine or regard our teachers can shape<br />
very much how we see education itself, and the vision we<br />
have for a school such as <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’. When I reflect on<br />
teaching at the school I would hold to three central focuses<br />
for what we would ask of teachers here at the College.<br />
Firstly, teaching is a profession. Whether practised as<br />
a craft or a science or an art, it demands of the teacher a<br />
proficiency in the discipline in which he/she is engaged.<br />
The subject area should engage the teacher, and therefore<br />
engage the student. There is a commitment to knowing the<br />
material being taught, and an openness to learn more,<br />
whether it be what is being taught or how it is being<br />
taught, which again models learning to the student. At <strong>St</strong><br />
<strong>Aloysius</strong>’ we have teachers who do engage in professional<br />
development. There are teachers who pursue higher degrees<br />
in their area of teaching, and the College subsidises that.<br />
Many serve on Board of <strong>St</strong>udies committees preparing<br />
syllabi, setting examinations for the School Certificate and<br />
HSC, and marking the HSC. Increasingly teachers are<br />
improving their capabilities with technology so as to assist<br />
them in their task.<br />
Secondly, teaching at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ draws on the<br />
insights of Ignatian pedagogy and spirituality. Teachers are<br />
encouraged to introduce an element of reflection into their<br />
teaching. The role of the Examen within the school is one<br />
sign of this value. Formation of “men for others”, graduates<br />
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who are generous of heart, and who have nurtured and<br />
developed the gifts which God has bestowed on them<br />
provides a rich way of seeing the educational process. The<br />
emphasis on community service within the College reflects<br />
this outlook. It spills over to parents, staff and graduates.<br />
Our desired outcomes are ambitious in the extreme. They<br />
reflect an essentially positive outlook on the work, and<br />
approach the student with an attitude that seeks to build on<br />
the good, rather than focus on the bad. We seek to embed<br />
Ignatian spirituality and pedagogy in our curriculum and in<br />
our teaching practice.<br />
Thirdly, teaching at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ should also reflect<br />
the element of pastoral pedagogy, that is, teaching that<br />
recognises and addresses the emotional and social needs<br />
of students. It reflects something of the Ignatian sense of<br />
the importance of context and of the Ignatian emphasis on<br />
education as formation. Last year our students in Years 7-11<br />
participated in a research study into student motivation and<br />
engagement undertaken by Dr Andrew Martin. I was struck<br />
by Dr Martin’s emphasis on pastoral pedagogy because it<br />
reflects something of my sense of a traditional strength of<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’, the relationship between staff and boys. Dr<br />
Martin writes:<br />
"Pastoral pedagogy implies that education is more<br />
than simply the transmission of curriculum content<br />
and the development of skills and competencies. It<br />
implies that although these are necessary conditions<br />
for quality pedagogy, they are not sufficient. Indeed,<br />
the research summarized above in relation to teacherstudent<br />
relationships clearly shows that when the social<br />
and emotional needs of students are met, they are likely<br />
to be more engaged with the process of information<br />
and skill transmission”. (Dr A Martin, Measuring and<br />
Enhancing <strong>St</strong>udent Motivation and Engagement, p.34)<br />
<strong>St</strong> Ignatius and <strong>St</strong> John Chrysostom would surely have<br />
agreed!<br />
Among the practices that Dr Martin identifies as being<br />
encompassed by pastoral pedagogy are: developing a<br />
sense of community amongst students; nurturing resilience in<br />
students through relational connectedness; being optimistic<br />
for students and aiming for mastery of skills and subject<br />
wherever possible; maintaining positive home-school links;<br />
and respecting, affirming, and getting to know students.<br />
In a school our size one of its strengths is that students are<br />
known. Teachers are constantly thrown into contact with<br />
the boys: in the classroom and in the yard, on the sporting<br />
field and on stage, on the parade ground, on camps<br />
and retreats, on tours. In the Junior School the home-room<br />
teacher plays a critical role in the education of the boys.<br />
In the Senior School most teachers also serve as tutors and<br />
coaches. The boys appreciate the generosity of teachers<br />
with their time. There is generally a very positive rapport<br />
between teachers and the boys. Constraints placed on<br />
teachers’ time by growing bureaucratic loads and the<br />
expectations/pressures of achieving success should not be<br />
allowed to undermine the pastoral role of the teacher.<br />
In the gospel story one of the favoured ways of depicting<br />
Jesus is as the Teacher. Jesus as Teacher addresses the<br />
human heart above all. He is not primarily a giver of<br />
information, but rather as One who gives life. Both friend<br />
and foe alike address Jesus as Teacher when they seek his<br />
view on the key questions in life. In the Eastern churches a<br />
favoured icon of Jesus is that of the Teacher. Jesus points<br />
above all to the centrality of love in life and to the God<br />
who is Love. Christians speak of the vocation of teaching<br />
because, in part, teachers partake in the ministry of Jesus.<br />
Fr Chris Middleton SJ<br />
College Principal<br />
Australia Day Honours List<br />
The College congratulates the following members<br />
of the Aloysian Family who were recognised in the<br />
<strong>2006</strong> Australia Day Honours List for their service to<br />
the community and our nation:<br />
Associate Professor Malcolm Mackerras (SAC 1956)<br />
was made an Officer in the General Division (AO)<br />
for service to the community by raising awareness<br />
and encouraging debate about the political process<br />
in Australia and other western democracies, and<br />
through commitment to reform and improvement of<br />
the electoral system. Perhaps best known for his<br />
invention of the Mackerras Electoral Pendulum in<br />
1972, Professor Mackerras works as a lecturer at the<br />
Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra and<br />
is a regular contributor to The Australian.<br />
Mr Peter Kneeshaw (SAC <strong>St</strong>aff 2001 – Present) was<br />
made a Member in the General Division (AM) for<br />
service to Music and the community as an organist<br />
and choirmaster, and as an adviser in organ design<br />
and restoration. Mr Kneeshaw has been the College<br />
organist since 2001 and teaches the organ to a<br />
number of our boys. He is also the head organist at<br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney.<br />
Brigadier Paul Retter (SAC 1971) was made a<br />
Member in the Military Division (AM) for exceptional<br />
service to the Australian Defence Force as Director<br />
General Preparedness and Plans – Army, Deputy<br />
Force Commander United Nations Mission in East<br />
Timor and Director General Land Development.<br />
Brigadier Retter is currently stationed in Canberra.<br />
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from the foundation<br />
Philanthropy, the efforts and generosity of benefactors,<br />
lies at the heart of the growth of the <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
Foundation. The Rector, Fr Ross Jones SJ, is very fond of<br />
reminding the Aloysian Family that the bulk of developments<br />
at the College has been made possible by the generosity of<br />
previous generations. <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College has grown to the<br />
shape and size, character and reputation that it enjoys today<br />
thanks to the continuing generosity of many supporters and<br />
benefactors in the Aloysian Family.<br />
For us who oversee this process today, it is a privilege to<br />
handle the charitable donations that are made to the College.<br />
Friendships ripen with <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ donors; connections flourish.<br />
Our satisfaction is seeing their hard-earned contributions<br />
being spent to good use for the advancement of <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’<br />
College and the enhancement of opportunities for current and<br />
future generations of students. Their satisfaction, so they tell<br />
us, is being kept in touch with our boys’ many achievements<br />
and being involved in the progress of the College. We<br />
express grateful thanks to all of them!<br />
Gifts to the Foundation in 2005 totalled $670,000 (not<br />
including income from investments or returns on capital).<br />
These funds will ensure that the College is able to provide<br />
our boys, both current and future, with the best educational<br />
facilities possible.<br />
Mr Murray Happ (SAC 1985)<br />
Director of Foundation and Development<br />
The following lists are of 2005 Donors only. It does not<br />
include those who gave to the Foundation in previous years.<br />
Building Fund Donations<br />
Gifts to the Foundation Building Fund from the Parent<br />
Pledge Appeal raised a total of $278,045 whilst gifts<br />
to the 2005 Annual Giving Appeal raised $204,120, a<br />
total of $482,165.<br />
Pledge Donors<br />
Mr & Mrs E Abeleda<br />
Mr & Mrs C Adams<br />
Mr & Mrs J Agius SC<br />
Mr & Mrs K Anderson<br />
Dr & Mrs P W Anderson<br />
Mr F J Argent &<br />
Mrs O <strong>St</strong>osic<br />
Ms M Armstrong<br />
Mr & Mrs R Ashton<br />
Mr & Mrs A R Bainton<br />
Mr & Mrs T Barakat<br />
Mr & Mrs J J Barry<br />
Mr & Mrs J P Bartolotta<br />
Mr & Mrs A K Betts<br />
Mr & Mrs M W Birrell<br />
Mr & Mrs D G Blues<br />
Mr & Mrs T M Blythe<br />
Mr & Mrs L Boueri<br />
Mr & Mrs R Brennan<br />
Mr & Mrs A J Breznik<br />
Mr K J Brotherson &<br />
Ms L M Byrnes<br />
Mr & Mrs P Bryant<br />
Dr M Byrne &<br />
Mr R Kelly<br />
Mr & Mrs T G Caristo<br />
Dr & Mrs T Carroll<br />
Mr & Mrs K Chan<br />
Dr E S K Chan &<br />
Mrs C Chan<br />
Mr & Mrs G R Chapple<br />
Dr & Mrs C Cheng<br />
Mr & Mrs E Cheuk<br />
Dr & Mrs P Cheung<br />
Ms S Cheung &<br />
Mr K Chan<br />
Mr & Mrs D J Chick<br />
Dr R M Chin<br />
Mr & Mrs A Chow<br />
Mr & Mrs C Chow<br />
Mr & Mrs D J Clarke<br />
Mr P Cornwell &<br />
Ms C Rice<br />
Mr & Mrs D P Courtenay<br />
Mr S Cray &<br />
Mrs M Austin Cray<br />
Mr & Mrs P J Darwell<br />
(SAC 1981)<br />
Mr & Mrs B J Dawes<br />
Mr & Mrs J E Dennett<br />
Mr & Mrs M L Depangher<br />
Mr & Mrs P J de Gail<br />
Mr & Mrs P De Lucia<br />
Mr & Mrs R A de Waal<br />
(SAC 1980)<br />
Dr & Mrs T D’Netto<br />
Mr & Mrs E Doraisamy<br />
Mr & Mrs J Doyle<br />
Anonymous<br />
Mr & Mrs I S Drewe<br />
Mr & Mrs D M Ebbs<br />
Mrs G A Elkington<br />
Mr & Mrs P M Ellis<br />
Mr & Mrs D A Esdaile<br />
Mr & Mrs S Fan<br />
Mr & Mrs A Farmakis<br />
Mrs S Favaloro<br />
Mr & Mrs M I Fitzgerald<br />
Mr & Mrs M Fong<br />
Dr & Mrs M France<br />
Mr & Mrs A Francis<br />
Mr & Mrs T J Freed<br />
Mr & Mrs T J Fussell<br />
Mr & Mrs P Gallart<br />
Mr & Mrs S Gatehouse<br />
Mr & Mrs R L Giannone<br />
Mr & Mrs P J Gibson<br />
Mr & Mrs F A Giugni<br />
Mr A J Good & Mrs J T<br />
Symington-Good<br />
Mr & Mrs R Greves<br />
Mr & Mrs B Grundy<br />
Mr & Mrs M Happ<br />
(SAC 1985)<br />
Mr & Mrs M W Harte<br />
Mr & Mrs A F Haworth<br />
Mr & Mrs W C Hilder<br />
Mr & Mrs C G Hockey<br />
The Hon J B Hockey<br />
MP (SAC 1983) &<br />
Ms M Babbage<br />
Mr & Mrs A M Hogan<br />
Mr & Mrs C J Holmes<br />
Mr & Mrs D J Hoon<br />
Mr & Mrs D Huang<br />
Mr & Mrs M J Humphreys<br />
Mr & Mrs P J Humphreys<br />
Mr & Mrs R A D Jackson<br />
Mr & Mrs B J Jenkins<br />
(SAC 1976)<br />
Mr & Mrs G Jones<br />
Mr & Mrs J Karbowiak<br />
(SAC 1979)<br />
Mr & Mrs G Karikios<br />
Mr & Mrs P P Kintanar<br />
Mr & Mrs D King<br />
Mr & Mrs P J Kingston<br />
Mr & Mrs D A Klarich<br />
(SAC 1979)<br />
Mr B K S Koh &<br />
Mrs E Wong-Koh<br />
Mr J Koumarelas &<br />
Mrs K L Dundas<br />
Mr & Mrs W Krygsman<br />
Mr & Mrs J Lai<br />
Mr & Mrs M S Lam<br />
Mr & Mrs A Lavorato<br />
Mr & Mrs T Lee<br />
Mr & Mrs A Legrand<br />
Mr & Mrs P I Lim<br />
(SAC 1979)<br />
Mr & Mrs I D Maclean<br />
(SAC 1961)<br />
Mr & Mrs M Mahoney<br />
Mr & Mrs N Malek<br />
Mr & Mrs J A Martorana<br />
Dr J A Masson<br />
(SAC 1979)<br />
These funds will be directed to the ongoing capital<br />
development of the College, specifically the new Masterplan<br />
which will be released to the Aloysian Family in late<br />
<strong>2006</strong>.<br />
Mr G Masters &<br />
Dr N Bolzan<br />
Mr & Mrs C J May<br />
Mr & Mrs M F McAlary<br />
Mr P J McAuley<br />
Mr & Mrs D G McCreton<br />
(SAC 1979)<br />
Mr & Mrs P McKenzie<br />
Mr & Mrs I S McLean<br />
Mr & Mrs M G McMahon<br />
Mr & Mrs P J McNab<br />
Ms N Mencinsky<br />
Mr & Mrs R Mendoza<br />
Mr & Mrs A V Mills<br />
Mr & Mrs W P Mockler<br />
(SAC 1965)<br />
Mr & Mrs M S Morgan<br />
(SAC 1973)<br />
Mr R G Morris &<br />
Dr P Hector<br />
Mr & Ms D H Morrison<br />
Mr P G Mouatt &<br />
Ms T Daly<br />
Mr & Mrs G Munday<br />
Mr & Mrs E K Mytkowski<br />
Mr & Mrs P Noone<br />
Mr & Mrs J G Oehlers<br />
Mr & Mrs G O’Hare<br />
Mr & Mrs D J Parker<br />
Mr & Mrs I A Pavey<br />
Mr & Mrs R S Pearsall<br />
Mr & Mrs R J Pelletier<br />
(SAC 1968)<br />
Mr & Mrs F Peronace<br />
Mr & Mrs V Pham<br />
Mr & Mrs P W Pindsle<br />
Mr & Mrs B A Pirola<br />
Mr & Mrs G J Pointing<br />
Mr & Mrs L Power<br />
Mr & Mrs J P Prosser<br />
Mr & Mrs R Quek<br />
Mr R V Quirk &<br />
Ms R A Davies<br />
Mr & Mrs D Rahme<br />
Mr & Mrs S R Raisin<br />
Mr & Mrs R J Reynolds<br />
Dr & Mrs G Riisfeldt<br />
Mr & Mrs I P Robinson<br />
Mr V P Ruehl &<br />
Ms J A Hewett<br />
Mr M R Rush<br />
Mr & Mrs J A Santarosa<br />
Mr & Mrs R J P Sauerman<br />
Mr & Mrs D D Scott<br />
Mr & Mrs R Sequeira<br />
Mr & Mrs C A Shea<br />
Mr & Mrs M P Sindone<br />
Mr & Mrs D R N K Siow<br />
Dr B C Smith &<br />
Dr C A O’Connell<br />
Mr K G Smith &<br />
Mrs L M Wallwork<br />
Mr & Mrs M C Smith<br />
Mr & Mrs J Soerjoko<br />
Dr & Dr R M Sorial<br />
Mr & Mrs A E <strong>St</strong>ephenson<br />
Mr & Mrs J J <strong>St</strong>apleton<br />
Mr & Mrs P W <strong>St</strong>untz<br />
Mr & Mrs L Sudarmana<br />
Mr & Mrs R J Suffield<br />
Mr A M Sunderland<br />
Mr & Mrs G Surman<br />
Mr & Mrs H Sutanto<br />
Mr & Mrs D Sweeney<br />
Mr V P Sweeney (SAC<br />
1972) & Mrs J Pastega<br />
Mr & Mrs C Z Tan<br />
Mr R Talas &<br />
Ms E Quinlan<br />
Mr & Mrs P Tapp<br />
Ms J Taylor<br />
Mr & Mrs R A Tesoriero<br />
Mr M E Tooth &<br />
Mrs N R Hodson-Tooth<br />
Mr & Mrs W D Thomson<br />
Mr & Mrs S D Tracy<br />
(SAC 1980)<br />
Mr & Mrs J Tripodi<br />
Mr & Mrs M T Tsang<br />
Mr & Mrs N Velcic<br />
Mr & Mrs P Vergara<br />
Mr C Walsh &<br />
Mrs S Odorisio<br />
Mr & Mrs M J Walcott<br />
Mr & Mrs S B Walters<br />
Dr & Mrs P A Wells<br />
Mr W M Wilson &<br />
Mrs S Park-Wilson<br />
Mr D P Williams &<br />
Mrs L P Sullivan<br />
Mrs G Wong-Davies &<br />
Mr C W Davies<br />
Mr & Mrs D A Wunder<br />
(SAC 1970)<br />
Mr & Mrs M J Zwar<br />
2005 Annual Giving<br />
Building Fund<br />
Mr & Mrs V Aboud<br />
Mr & Mrs D Acton<br />
(SAC 1988)<br />
Mr & Mrs R M Aldridge<br />
Mr S G Aldridge<br />
(SAC 2002)<br />
Anonymous<br />
Mr & Mrs A Baumgart<br />
Mr & Mrs L Benaud<br />
Mr N Bennett (SAC 1946)<br />
Mr & Mrs A K Betts<br />
Dr G Boffa OAM &<br />
Mrs L Boffa<br />
Rev Fr J H Boland<br />
(SAC 1932)<br />
Mr & Mrs A Bouris<br />
Dr M Branley FRACO,<br />
FRACS (SAC 1979)<br />
Mrs G Bryant<br />
Mr & Mrs G J Bryant<br />
Mr & Mrs G J Bulters<br />
Mrs F Byers<br />
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from the foundation<br />
Dr & Mrs P Cahill<br />
(SAC 1942)<br />
Mr & Mrs R A Cavanagh<br />
(SAC 1976)<br />
Mr & Mrs P H Cearns<br />
(SAC 1960)<br />
Mr J Charteris (SAC 1940)<br />
Mr & Mrs M D Chavez<br />
Mr & Mrs R Chen-Chow<br />
Mr & Mrs R Chowdry<br />
Mr & Mrs G Churcher<br />
(SAC 1987)<br />
Mr B J Clarke (SAC 2000)<br />
Mr P Clifton-Smith<br />
(SAC 1999)<br />
Mr M R Cockburn &<br />
Mrs R Crowe<br />
Mr D C Collins (SAC 1962)<br />
Mr & Mrs C G Colosi<br />
Mr & Mrs A Coulton<br />
Mr & Mrs A J Cowle<br />
(SAC 1977)<br />
Mr K Cranney (SAC 1937)<br />
Mr M A Cromer<br />
(SAC 1993)<br />
Mr & Mrs K F Crowe<br />
Mr & Mrs B Cubis<br />
(SAC 1975)<br />
Mr R L Cunningham<br />
(SAC 1935)<br />
Mrs P M Cunningham<br />
Mr P G Currie (SAC 1948)<br />
Anonymous<br />
Mr & Mrs M W De Boos<br />
Mr P de Lasala<br />
(SAC 1975)<br />
Mr & Mrs K F Dixon<br />
Mr & Mrs J Doyle<br />
Dr D M Droulers<br />
(SAC 1944)<br />
Mr & Mrs X Droulers<br />
(SAC 1947)<br />
Mr & Mrs R Dudley<br />
(SAC 1987)<br />
Mrs M C Duncan<br />
Mr J Edwards (SAC 1961)<br />
Mr & Mrs D H Emanuel<br />
(SAC 1962)<br />
Dr M L Eutick &<br />
Mrs C M Shearer<br />
Mr Q Evans (SAC 1967)<br />
Mr J G Flipo (SAC 1947)<br />
Mr R J Flitcroft (SAC<br />
1976) & Ms M McCluskey<br />
Mr P F Flynn (SAC 1952)<br />
Mr & Mrs P T Ford<br />
(SAC 1954)<br />
Dr & Mrs A Forrest<br />
Mr & Mrs J Fox-Smith<br />
Mr & Mrs M B Fraser<br />
(SAC 1974)<br />
Dr L E Georgeson<br />
OAM (SAC 1944)<br />
Mr & Mrs M Georgeson<br />
Dr G Gibson (SAC 1945)<br />
Mr & Mrs D V Goldrick<br />
(SAC 1949)<br />
Mr D J Grace (SAC 1988)<br />
Mr & Mrs P Haire<br />
Mr D I Hamilton<br />
(SAC 1948)<br />
Mr G T Hannan<br />
(SAC 1963)<br />
Mr M J Happ (SAC<br />
1985) & Mrs C Happ<br />
Mr & Mrs B L Hayes<br />
Assoc Professor & Mrs<br />
B T Haylen (SAC 1970)<br />
Mr P Haylen (SAC 1979)<br />
Mr & Mrs A M Hogan<br />
Mr E Hollebecq<br />
(SAC 1972)<br />
Mr J N Hortle &<br />
Mrs B Tan<br />
Mrs P Horton<br />
Mr & Mrs B G Hunt<br />
Mr & Mrs P Iliffe<br />
Mr P M Irvin (SAC 1944)<br />
Mr G Jarrett &<br />
Ms T Bennetts<br />
Mr B J Jenkins<br />
(SAC 1943)<br />
Mr & Mrs A G Johnston<br />
Mr & Mrs F B Jolley<br />
Mr K B H Kalamae<br />
(SAC 2004)<br />
Mr & Mrs R Kassabian<br />
The Hon J Kearney<br />
QC, KCSG (SAC 1938)<br />
& Mrs M Kearney<br />
Mr & Mrs R A Kennedy<br />
Mr S Kevans (SAC 1989)<br />
Mr & Mrs P M Kiely<br />
Mr & Mrs G A King<br />
Mr & Mrs M Kishore<br />
Mr J R Kitching<br />
(SAC 1941)<br />
Mrs D Landers<br />
Mr & Mrs P J Larbalestier<br />
Mr H Lardner &<br />
Mrs H Allen<br />
Mr P J Latham &<br />
Ms S Leahy<br />
Mr & Mrs A M Lavan<br />
(SAC 1970)<br />
Mr & Mrs D Lawrence<br />
Mr & Mrs G Leahy<br />
(SAC 1944)<br />
Mr & Mrs K A Leighton<br />
Mr & Mrs P I Lim<br />
(SAC 1979)<br />
Mrs J Lonergan AM<br />
Dr I S Lovett &<br />
Ms C M Mullane<br />
Dr T J Macnaught<br />
(SAC 1961)<br />
Mr J Madden (SAC 1960)<br />
Dr F Martin AM &<br />
Mrs M Martin<br />
Mr T Martin & Mrs T Smits<br />
Mr A C Masson<br />
(SAC 1988)<br />
Mr M E Masson<br />
(SAC 1995)<br />
Mr & Mrs T Mazaraki<br />
(SAC 1986)<br />
Mr & Mrs M McClatchey<br />
Rev Fr R McGinley<br />
SAC (SAC 1937)<br />
Mr P McGirr (SAC 1965)<br />
Mr & Mrs W McManus<br />
(SAC 1982)<br />
Mr R G McMillan<br />
Mr & Mrs S A McSweeney<br />
(SAC 1975)<br />
Mr & Mrs B G Menzies<br />
Mr & Mrs M J Merven<br />
Mr & Mrs E M Meyer<br />
(SAC 1943)<br />
Mr & Mrs G J Michel<br />
Mr & Mrs S Miller<br />
Mr & Mrs R Mimmo<br />
Ms A Mirams &<br />
Mr T Cavill<br />
Mr A J Moon (SAC 1987)<br />
Mr A Morrow (SAC 1959)<br />
Mr P Morton (SAC 1947)<br />
Mr B Mungoven<br />
(SAC 1941)<br />
Mr & Mrs R Murphy<br />
Mr & Mrs M Nissen<br />
(SAC 1983)<br />
Mr & Mrs C J Nolan<br />
Professor Emeritus<br />
Sir G Nossal AC CBE<br />
(SAC 1947)<br />
Mr P M O’Donnell<br />
(SAC 1978)<br />
Mrs M O’Loughlin<br />
Dr & Mrs M O’Meara<br />
(SAC 1981)<br />
Mr G O’Neill (SAC 1956)<br />
Mr & Mrs D Patterson<br />
Mr M Paul (SAC 1952)<br />
Mr & Mrs R Paul<br />
Mr & Mrs I A Pavey<br />
Mr & Mrs I W Perkes<br />
Mr & Mrs J J Playoust<br />
(SAC 1949)<br />
Mr & Mrs J Punch<br />
(SAC 1951)<br />
Rev Fr P Quilty<br />
(SAC 1954)<br />
Mrs J Quoyle<br />
Mr B Rathborne<br />
(SAC 1953)<br />
Mr P J Remond<br />
(SAC 1948)<br />
Mr & Mrs A J Restuccia<br />
(SAC 1954)<br />
Mr J Rex (SAC 1990)<br />
Mr P L Richardson<br />
Mr & Mrs P S Ricketts<br />
Dr J S Roarty (SAC 1941)<br />
Mr & Mrs A P Robertson<br />
(SAC 1954)<br />
Mr & Dr D Ronzani<br />
Mr & Mrs I Russell<br />
(SAC 1948)<br />
Mr R T Ryan (SAC 1943)<br />
Mr & Mrs G San Pedro<br />
Mrs A Schaafsma<br />
Mr J B Scroope<br />
(SAC 1942)<br />
Dr J H Seymour FRCS,<br />
FRACS (SAC 1940) &<br />
Mrs M Seymour<br />
Professor A G Shannon AM<br />
Mr T Sheahan (SAC 1934)<br />
Mr & Mrs J Shek<br />
Mr & Mrs C S Shum<br />
Mr A N Sochacki<br />
(SAC 1962)<br />
Dom Hugh (Scott)<br />
Somerville-Knapman<br />
OSB (SAC 1986)<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong> College Old<br />
Boys Union<br />
Dr & Mrs M J <strong>St</strong>evens<br />
Mr & Mrs R Tai<br />
Mrs D N Teng<br />
Mr & Mrs G M Thompson<br />
(SAC 1949)<br />
Mr P A Thompson<br />
(SAC 1948)<br />
Mr & Mrs L A Ticehurst<br />
(SAC 1979)<br />
Mrs C Waddle<br />
Mr J Walker-Powell<br />
(SAC 1983)<br />
Mr V M Walsh (SAC 1948)<br />
Mr & Mrs J Weingarth<br />
(SAC 1955)<br />
Mrs J Wilkinson<br />
Dr W L Williams<br />
(SAC 1940)<br />
Mr & Mrs H H Wong<br />
(SAC 1983)<br />
Mr P G Wyatt<br />
(SAC 1963)<br />
Mr C J Yee (SAC 2003)<br />
Mr & Mrs K Yee<br />
Mr W J Young (SAC 1928)<br />
Mr & Mrs J Ziaziaris<br />
Library Fund Donations<br />
Gifts to the College Foundation through the 2005<br />
Annual Giving Appeal raised $24,265, gifts in<br />
support of the Year 6 Library Appeal raised $6,950 and<br />
2005 Annual Giving<br />
Library Fund<br />
Mr & Mrs C Adams<br />
Mr & Mrs S J Bowles<br />
Mr & Mrs W P Burton<br />
(SAC 1944)<br />
Dr & Mrs A P Cahill<br />
(SAC 1935)<br />
Ms H J Carr<br />
Mr & Mrs P H Cearns<br />
(SAC 1960)<br />
Mr & Mrs J Chalk<br />
(SAC 1980)<br />
Mr & Mrs D P H Chan<br />
Mr K Chan &<br />
Ms S Cheung<br />
Mr B J Clarke (SAC 2000)<br />
Mrs A Connaghan<br />
Mr H N Darwell<br />
(SAC 1978)<br />
Mr & Mrs J L Day<br />
(SAC 1981)<br />
Mr P A De Baun<br />
(SAC 1955)<br />
Mr & Mrs R Dennett<br />
Mr & Mrs B M Egan<br />
(SAC 1967)<br />
Mr P Evans (SAC 1964)<br />
Mr P I Farmer<br />
Mr & Mrs M B Fraser<br />
(SAC 1974)<br />
Mr & Mrs D Galanos<br />
(SAC 1985)<br />
Mr & Mrs L J Grech<br />
Dr G V Hall AO, KCSG<br />
(SAC 1932)<br />
Mr & Mrs M Haynes<br />
Mr RLS Ho & Mrs EILie<br />
Dr R Honner (SAC 1952)<br />
Mr & Mrs D J Hoon<br />
Mr & Mrs K G Jeghelian<br />
Mr J Law (SAC 1948)<br />
Mr & Mrs J Le Gras<br />
(SAC 1953)<br />
Mr & Mrs G Leahy<br />
(SAC 1944)<br />
Mrs I L’Estrange<br />
Mr J Macinante<br />
(SAC 1976)<br />
Mr & Mrs L G Mackey<br />
Mr & Ms M Maneschi<br />
(SAC 1979)<br />
Mr & Mrs R J Masson<br />
Mr & Mrs C J May<br />
Anonymous<br />
Mr & Mrs R Meagher<br />
Emeritus Professor J F<br />
Miller AC (SAC 1948)<br />
Mr P T Morrison<br />
(SAC 1974)<br />
Dr J Muller (SAC 1940)<br />
Mr & Mrs K J Murray<br />
Mr & Mrs A J Murray<br />
Mr & Mrs M J O’Callaghan<br />
Mr & Mrs F Peronace<br />
Mr & Mrs V Pham<br />
donations to the Year 12 Library Appeal raised $13,445.<br />
These funds, totalling $44,660 will enable the College<br />
to purchase additional educational resources (books, CD-<br />
ROMS and computer programmes) that would not have<br />
been possible under budgetary limitations.<br />
Mr & Mrs W E Rathborne<br />
(SAC 1965)<br />
Mr & Mrs I Russell<br />
(SAC 1948)<br />
Dr J H Seymour FRCS,<br />
FRACS (SAC 1940)<br />
& Mrs M Seymour<br />
Mr & Mrs PWA Sherlock<br />
Mr J H Sherwin<br />
(SAC 1945)<br />
Mr & Mrs C S Shum<br />
Anonymous<br />
Mr M J M Smith &<br />
Ms D P Skopal<br />
Dr & Dr R M Sorial<br />
Mr P A Thompson<br />
(SAC 1948)<br />
Mr & Mrs R Thorpe<br />
Mr & Mrs J Tobin<br />
Mr & Mrs P C Tumminello<br />
(SAC 1972)<br />
Mrs G J Veersema<br />
Mr & Mrs C Virgona<br />
(SAC 1961)<br />
Mrs C Waddle<br />
Mrs S Weress<br />
Mr & Mrs D R Westaway<br />
Year 6 Library Appeal<br />
2005<br />
Mr & Mrs A Anderson<br />
Mr G M Bain &<br />
Mrs S C Lobo-Bain<br />
Mr & Mrs J P Bartolotta<br />
Mr & Mrs A R Bell<br />
Mr & Mrs P A Boyd<br />
Mr & Mrs D P Carey<br />
Mr & Mrs C Chow<br />
Mr & Mrs M D Collins<br />
Mr & Mrs J A Conroy<br />
Mr & Mrs A Conti<br />
Mr & Mrs P L Cornelius<br />
Mr S Cray &<br />
Mrs M Austin Cray<br />
Mr & Mrs G D’Angelo<br />
Mr & Mrs P J Darwell<br />
(SAC 1981)<br />
Mr C W Davies &<br />
Mrs G Wong-Davies<br />
Dr & Mrs T D’Netto<br />
Mr & Mrs M F Edwards<br />
Mr & Ms R P Emery<br />
Mr & Mrs S J Ferguson<br />
Mr & Mrs S A Fittler<br />
Mr & Mrs R V W Frohlich<br />
Mr & Mrs M Furneaux<br />
Mr & Mrs J B Grant<br />
Mr & Mrs S A Gregg<br />
Mr & Ms J P Jacobs<br />
Mr & Mrs P Knoblanche<br />
Mr B K S Koh &<br />
Mrs E Wong-Koh<br />
Mr & Mrs W Kwan<br />
Mr & Mrs P J Larbalestier<br />
Mr & Mrs A M Lavan<br />
(SAC 1970)<br />
Mr & Mrs K A Lester<br />
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Mr & Mrs S C Lewis<br />
Mr & Mrs R G McAlpin<br />
Mr & Mrs D G McCreton<br />
(SAC 1970)<br />
Mr R J McCue &<br />
Ms J M Tancred<br />
Mr & Mrs M J Mendezona<br />
Mr & Mrs E K Mytkowski<br />
Mr & Mrs D J Parker<br />
Mr & Mrs R J Pelletier<br />
(SAC 1968)<br />
Ms D Pellicer<br />
Mr & Mrs P W Pindsle<br />
Mr & Mrs M Price<br />
Mr & Mrs R J Reynolds<br />
Dr & Mrs G Riisfeldt<br />
Mr & Mrs I E Skinner<br />
Dr & Dr R M Sorial<br />
Mr P Sotiriou (SAC 1968)<br />
Mr & Mrs J H <strong>St</strong>retch<br />
Mr & Mrs P W <strong>St</strong>untz<br />
Mr & Mrs G Surman<br />
Mr & Mrs R A Tesoriero<br />
Mr & Mrs M J Walcott<br />
Mr & Mrs P J Walden<br />
Ms M Wetzlar<br />
Mr & Mrs P J Wilkinson<br />
(SAC 1979)<br />
Mr & Mrs K W K Wong<br />
Year 12 Library<br />
Appeal 2005<br />
Mr & Mrs V Aboud<br />
Mr & Mrs S H Alder<br />
Mr & Mrs P W Baxter<br />
Mrs J Beilby<br />
Mr & Mrs A P Bentley<br />
Mr & Mrs A J Capito<br />
Dr & Mrs P Cheung<br />
Mr & Mrs A Cocco<br />
Ms H Codd<br />
Mr & Mrs P E Coolahan<br />
Dr M J Cooper &<br />
Dr A Vasic<br />
Mr & Mrs K F Crowe<br />
Mr & Mrs R Culbert<br />
Mr & Mrs F Del Rosario<br />
Mr & Mrs J E Dennett<br />
Mr & Mrs L A Deves<br />
Mrs K Dolce<br />
Mr & Mrs M J Donohoe<br />
(SAC 1967)<br />
Mr & Mrs B Doroni-Dawes<br />
Mr & Mrs M F Edwards<br />
Prof & Mrs G R Elliott<br />
Mr & Mrs D A Esdaile<br />
Mr & Mrs D Fabricatorian<br />
Mr & Mrs J Gandar<br />
Mr & Mrs A Gaudioso<br />
Mr & Mrs G J Gemmell<br />
(SAC 1974)<br />
Mr & Mrs C Goldrick<br />
Mr & Mrs P R Halter<br />
Mr & Mrs J P Hickey<br />
Mr & Mrs D J Hoon<br />
Mr & Mrs D R Hunter<br />
Mr & Mrs K G Jeghelian<br />
Mr & Mrs A D Kennedy<br />
(SAC 1969)<br />
Mr & Mrs C Kiely<br />
Mr & Mrs G A King<br />
Mr & Mrs D J Koorey<br />
Mr & Mrs A Kwan<br />
Mr & Mrs J Lai<br />
Mr & Mrs M E Lasky<br />
Mr & Mrs P B Lockley<br />
Mr & Mrs I D Maclean<br />
(SAC 1961)<br />
Mr & Mrs M J Mazza<br />
Mr & Mrs T S McCabe<br />
Mr & Mrs P Menzagopian<br />
Mr & Mrs F Messina<br />
Mr & Mrs A V Mills<br />
Mr & Mrs P M Moses<br />
Mr & Mrs D V Murray<br />
(SAC 1966)<br />
Mrs E S O’Young &<br />
Dr G O’Young<br />
Mr & Mrs L N Patsalos<br />
(SAC 1977)<br />
Mr & Mrs R J Pelletier<br />
(SAC 1968)<br />
Mr & Mrs D Pereira<br />
Mr & Mrs I W Perkes<br />
Mr & Mrs R Perna<br />
Mr & Mrs M J Pieterse<br />
(SAC 1968)<br />
Mr & Mrs J M Pigott<br />
Mr & Mrs M S Plan<br />
Mr & Mrs C P Punturiero<br />
Mr & Mrs S M Purcell<br />
Mr & Mrs M F Ramos<br />
Mr & Mrs P M Rushton<br />
Mr & Mrs V Sagar<br />
Mr & Mrs M G Salmi<br />
Mr & Mrs R Santos<br />
Mr & Mrs T P Scollon<br />
Mr & Mrs C S Shum<br />
Mr & Mrs J P Sinclair<br />
Mr M J M Smith &<br />
Ms D P Skopal<br />
Mr & Mrs D Tardo<br />
Mr & Mrs M T Tsang<br />
Mr & Mrs R M Vecchio<br />
Mr I D Vickovich & Mrs<br />
A Nicholl<br />
Mr & Mrs P J Walden<br />
Mr & Mrs D R Waller<br />
Mr & Mrs D R Westaway<br />
Mr & Mrs E W Yeung<br />
Education Fund<br />
Gifts to the College Foundation Education Fund support<br />
the ongoing provision of academic scholarships and<br />
means-tested bursaries at the College. The Foundation<br />
currently funds twelve Bursaries and Scholarships at the<br />
College and through the ongoing generous support<br />
of the Aloysian Family, this number is set to rise each<br />
year. Gifts to the Education Fund through the 2005<br />
Annual Giving Appeal raised $51,905, the College<br />
School Fee Raffle raised $79,680 and the income<br />
from ticket sales and donations to the Dr Anthony<br />
Wallington (SAC 1959) Music Concert raised $5,900.<br />
The total raised for the Education Fund of $137,485<br />
will go a long way to providing fee assistance to families<br />
in need.<br />
2005 Annual Giving<br />
Education Fund<br />
Anonymous<br />
Anonymous<br />
Dr P Bannon (SAC 1944)<br />
Mr & Mrs J T Berkemeier<br />
(SAC 1967)<br />
Mr MA Bulfield (SAC 2000)<br />
Mrs P Cahalan<br />
J Chan<br />
Mr M Chan (SAC 2001)<br />
Mrs E Dwyer<br />
Mr C T Davitt (SAC 1996)<br />
Mr R Donnelly (SAC 1964)<br />
Mrs J Edmonds<br />
Mr & Mrs M B Fraser<br />
(SAC 1974)<br />
Dr & Mrs P Freeman<br />
(SAC 1968)<br />
Mr & Mrs D M Giffney<br />
Mr D J Grace (SAC 1988)<br />
Mr C R Grant (SAC 1976)<br />
Mr & Mrs M J Happ<br />
(SAC 1985)<br />
Mr J Hurney (SAC 1948)<br />
Anonymous<br />
Mr & Mrs G Leahy<br />
(SAC 1944)<br />
Dr & Mrs L Macken<br />
(SAC 1983)<br />
Mr & Mrs C Madden<br />
Dr R M Moore OA<br />
(SAC 1932)<br />
Mr S R Murtough<br />
(SAC 1942)<br />
Mr W F Nichol<br />
Mr C H Norville<br />
(SAC 1944)<br />
Mr & Mrs G N Oakley<br />
Dr K O’Shannessy<br />
(SAC 1960)<br />
Mr & Mrs S R Raisin<br />
Mr & Mrs J Rogge<br />
Mr & Mrs I Russell<br />
(SAC 1948)<br />
SAC Jesuit Community<br />
SAC Parents and<br />
Friends’ Association<br />
Mrs S Y Soohoo<br />
Ms J Taylor<br />
Mr & Mrs R A Tesoriero<br />
Rev Fr B Tiernan SAC<br />
(SAC 1946)<br />
Anonymous<br />
Anthony Wallington<br />
(SAC 1959) Music<br />
Scholarship Appeal<br />
Sr M Clarke SM<br />
SAC Co-Curricular<br />
Dinner donations<br />
Mr P Cornwell &<br />
Ms C Rice<br />
Mr W F Nichol<br />
Mrs S Pelletier<br />
Mrs M Wallington<br />
Mr P Wallington<br />
(SAC 1962)<br />
Anthony Wallington<br />
Concert Proceeds<br />
Smart School, Smart Board<br />
The College recently purchased six Interactive White<br />
Boards (IWBs) as a trial to test their suitability for a<br />
future rollout throughout the College. Two of the IWBs<br />
have been located in Junior School Classrooms and one in<br />
the Computer Laboratory. Whilst in the Senior School, two<br />
have been located in general learning areas and one in a<br />
Science Laboratory.<br />
The IWBs have a touch sensitive large format display<br />
screen, and support infrastructure including a computer,<br />
DVD/video player, speaker system and data projector.<br />
IWBs enrich the educational experience for the boys of<br />
the College. Their interactive nature appeals to auditory,<br />
visual and tactile learners. They also provide productive and<br />
time-saving tools for the staff of the College.<br />
Each IWB host a multitude of resources including world<br />
maps, interactive protractors, colour pallets, mind-mapping<br />
tools, e-mail access and links to the internet. Onscreen<br />
materials can be printed or saved for future revision by the<br />
staff and students.<br />
Feedback from staff, students and parents indicate that<br />
the IWBs have been a great success and have proved to<br />
be a great classroom aide.<br />
The trial of these exciting educational tools has been<br />
made possible through the generous support of the <strong>St</strong><br />
<strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College Foundation and the many members of<br />
the Aloysian Family who support the fundraising appeals<br />
conducted by the Foundation and Development Office.<br />
If the trial of the IWBs is a success, the College will look<br />
at rolling out IWBs throughout every classroom as a part<br />
of the Masterplan currently being prepared by the College<br />
Council.<br />
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<strong>2006</strong> Annual Giving Appeal<br />
– Think Beyond the Square<br />
This edition of The <strong>Aloysiad</strong> launches the 2005 Annual<br />
Giving Appeal – Think Beyond the Square.<br />
With the new College<br />
Masterplan currently being<br />
developed by the College<br />
Council in conjunction with<br />
architects from Gardner Wetherill<br />
& Associates the philanthropic<br />
support of the Aloysian Family<br />
to this Appeal is crucial for the<br />
ongoing physical, academic<br />
and social justice development<br />
of the College.<br />
Emeritus Professor Jacques<br />
Miller AC (SAC 1948), pictured, has kindly agreed to<br />
be the Patron of the Think Beyond the Square Appeal.<br />
Professor Miller is one of Australia’s greatest scientists. He<br />
left the College in 1948 and studied Medicine at Sydney<br />
University and has worked at the Walter and Eliza Hall<br />
Institute in Melbourne for over forty years.<br />
Professor Miller’s research work made two vital<br />
discoveries. His research showed how the thymus – an<br />
organ others had thought to be obsolete – was crucial to<br />
the immune system. This discovery made him one of the few<br />
scientists in history to ever determine the function of an entire<br />
organ. He also discovered that mammals had two distinct<br />
types of white blood cells.<br />
In recognition of his valuable research, Professor Miller<br />
was named the winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for<br />
Science and has been awarded a Companion of the<br />
Order of Australia and is a past winner of the Faulding<br />
Florey Medal and the Copley Medal from the Royal<br />
Society in London and is regarded by many to be one of<br />
the greatest living scientists in the world today.<br />
As an active supporter of the College Foundation and<br />
a very proud Old Boy of the College, we are honoured<br />
that Professor Miller has accepted the role as Patron of<br />
this year’s Annual Giving Appeal. As someone who for<br />
over fifty years has had to ‘think beyond the square’ in<br />
his research, it is logical that he be Patron of the Think<br />
Beyond the Square Appeal<br />
Appeal material will be posted to all members of the<br />
Aloysian Family (Old Boys, current parents, past parents<br />
and Friends of the College) in May. Anyone wishing to<br />
Yes, I would like to support the <strong>2006</strong> Annual Giving Appeal<br />
"Think Beyond the Square"<br />
I would like to make a gift of:<br />
$100 $250 $50 $500 $350<br />
$750 $1,000 Other $ ........ to the<br />
Building Fund – for the new Masterplan works<br />
Library Fund – Library materials and new computers<br />
Bursary Fund – Bursaries and Scholarships<br />
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College a Bequest in my Will<br />
Sons of <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ – current and future – will benefit from your support<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College Foundation<br />
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make an early gift is asked to return the gift form on the<br />
previous page.<br />
Funds raised from the Appeal will be directed to the<br />
following programmes:<br />
The Foundation Building Fund will provide the funding<br />
for the implementation of the new Masterplan. Possible<br />
new facilities identified by the College Council and the<br />
Architects include: the construction of more classrooms and<br />
a multi-purpose room in the Junior School, construction of a<br />
new gymnasium and classrooms in the Senior School and<br />
renovation of the Middle School building. Gifts made in<br />
support of the 2005 Annual Giving Appeal enabled the<br />
College, through a donation from the College Foundation,<br />
to purchase the property next door to Wyalla on which<br />
a new building will be constructed as a result of the<br />
Masterplan. Melbourne Sculptor Andrew Patience is being<br />
commissioned to create a bronze of <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong> caring for<br />
a victim of the plague. Andrew was the artist who crafted<br />
the very attractive statue of <strong>St</strong> Ignatius positioned en route<br />
to The Boys' Chapel. The new work will be seen in the<br />
entrance foyer to the College, a dramatic and engaging<br />
statement of the values we espouse in the boys we form at<br />
the College. Funds donated to the Appeal will also support<br />
this artwork.<br />
The Foundation Library Fund will provide additional<br />
academic resources for the MacKillop Library in the Junior<br />
School and the Kircher Library in the Senior School. These<br />
resources, CD-Roms, books, computer programmes and<br />
other educational aides, would not be readily available<br />
under normal College budgetary allocations. Funds raised<br />
through the 2005 Annual Giving Appeal enabled the<br />
College to purchase over three-hundred additional books<br />
and other aides for the use of the boys.<br />
The Foundation Education Fund provides funds for the<br />
provision of Scholarships and Academic Means-Tested<br />
Bursaries to students at the College. The Jesuit mantra of<br />
being ‘Men for Others’ drives the Foundation to provide this<br />
assistance to families of boys who would not normally be<br />
able to attend the College.<br />
Gap Year<br />
In recent years it has become popular for Year 12 students<br />
to take some time off between finishing school and starting<br />
university. Widely know as a ‘Gap Year’, the activities that<br />
the students undertake are varied and very interesting. Some<br />
elect to work in boarding schools in the UK, others do some<br />
form of charity work either in Australia or abroad and some<br />
work as a Jackeroo. The members of the Class of 2005 have<br />
continued this tradition and have ventured off to further their<br />
‘life’ education.<br />
Daniel Baxter<br />
Ryan Codd<br />
Daniel Coolahan<br />
Patrick Delaney<br />
<strong>St</strong> George’s College, Windsor UK<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College, Glasgow UK<br />
Jesuit Missions, Panama<br />
Jesuit Missions, Panama<br />
William Dennis Reading Preparatory School, UK<br />
Scott Dolce <strong>St</strong> George’s College, Windsor UK<br />
Jerome Doraisamy Vaum High School,Vanuatu<br />
Patrick Foley <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College, Glasgow UK<br />
Nic Halter Xavier High School, Micronesia<br />
Jeremy Lardner Xavier High School, Micronesia<br />
Luke McCabe Jesuit Missions, Panama<br />
Anton Messina Rotary Exchange, Sweden<br />
Matthew Perkes <strong>St</strong> Edmunds College, UK<br />
Jason Rushton Rotary Exchange, Finland<br />
Angus Ryan Jesuit Missions, Panama<br />
Fabiano Salmi Rotary Exchange, France<br />
Mick Scollon Missionary Work, Africa<br />
In the next edition of the <strong>Aloysiad</strong> we will feature some<br />
stories from these young men.<br />
Mr Murray Happ (SAC 1985)<br />
Gap <strong>St</strong>udents<br />
The College warmly welcomes James Clark, Mark<br />
Glowinkowski and Tim Fitzgerald as Gap <strong>St</strong>udents to<br />
the College for 2005 – <strong>2006</strong>.<br />
All three lads are Old Boys of <strong>St</strong>onyhurst College, our<br />
brother Jesuit School in England and they will work with the<br />
Junior School and Years 7 – 10 during their time here.<br />
Mark Glowinkowski, James Clark and Tim Fitzgerald, Gap <strong>St</strong>udents<br />
from <strong>St</strong>onyhurst College, England.<br />
Gap <strong>St</strong>udent Activities<br />
Mick Scollon (SAC 2005) is spending six months working in<br />
Kenya with a group of Australian volunteers. He recently sent<br />
us this report on his most recent escapades in East Africa.<br />
I<br />
have been in Gilgil for the past week. In contrast to<br />
Bondo, I have been very busy. I am working at Saidia<br />
(Swahili for ‘help’) Children’s Home. There are around<br />
twenty-five children here who are very much traumatised.<br />
Many are orphans but also many have been abused. In the<br />
first visit in February there was a child who arrived a week<br />
earlier after being found at the bus station alone, he is only<br />
three or four years old and just learning to talk. So here I<br />
am setting up a farming plot and installing a drip irrigation<br />
system. The people will plant beans, carrots and spinach<br />
to supplement their diet.<br />
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I am very much enjoying my time here in Africa and<br />
helping those who are less fortunate than ourselves. I now<br />
realise what it means when the Jesuit teach us to be “Men<br />
for Others”. Being amongst people with so little makes you<br />
realise just how lucky we are back in Australia and how we<br />
take some of the most basic things in life for granted, like<br />
running water and medical care.<br />
Mick Scollon (SAC 2005)<br />
Mick Scollon (SAC 2005) working in a vegetable plot in Gilgil, Kenya<br />
Gilgil is in the Great Rift Valley and I am surrounded by<br />
picturesque highlands as well as lakes covered by a pink<br />
carpet of flamingos. Last week I went to Nakuru, a huge<br />
tourist attraction not far from Gilgil. One of the locals at<br />
Gilgil offered to take me to see some animals. By the end<br />
of the day I still hadn’t seen any animals, rather, I had walked<br />
twenty kilometres carrying a bag of maize and sitting and<br />
drinking extremely sweet tea in his two homesteads, one for<br />
each of his wives! Though I was getting extremely frustrated,<br />
it had its moments. We arranged to get a bike down the<br />
side of the Valley which was a lot easier than walking. My<br />
friend was sitting in between the handles and the rider and<br />
I were on the back. By the time we got back to Nakuru it<br />
was dark and being the only mzungu (white man) out in the<br />
streets and having this friend of mine who was skinny and<br />
small as my sole security I rolled up my sleeves to reveal<br />
my arms, puffed out my chest and stood tall to deter any<br />
possible attackers.<br />
I am slowly discovering the local area has huge potential<br />
for tourism and agriculture. The other day I climbed Longonaut<br />
Mountain (about 6,500 feet high). It is situated in one of the<br />
few National Parks where you can walk through it, so you<br />
are walking amongst zebras and buffalo.<br />
Once you reach the first stage of the mountain you are<br />
opened to an amazing crater in the middle of the mountain,<br />
almost like a lost world. Full of green grass, the crater is as<br />
flat as a pancake. As you reach the top you are rewarded<br />
with a 360 degree view of all the lakes. It was certainly a<br />
great place to have lunch!<br />
I recently had to travel to Nairobi to renew my visa for<br />
another three months as well as pick up another volunteer,<br />
an Australian lawyer.<br />
The Australian Embassy is organising a memorial<br />
service on Anzac Day followed by a BBQ breakfast at<br />
the Embassy. Back at the camp we are organising a lunch<br />
where there will be a spit roast, damper, lamingtons, VB<br />
beer, two-up and backyard cricket as well as a bit of<br />
Australian Crawl coming from my Ipod. So we will certainly<br />
celebrate Anzac Day in the traditional Australian manner<br />
here in the African bush!<br />
<strong>2006</strong> Micronesia Scholars<br />
Each year the College Foundation funds two boys who have<br />
just completed Year 12 on a twelve month exchange with our<br />
brother Jesuit school, Xavier High School in Chuuk, Micronesia.<br />
This year's Micronesian Scholars are Nicholas Halter (SAC<br />
2005) and Jeremy Lardner (SAC 2005). The lads are involved in<br />
the academic and sporting programmes of Xavier High School.<br />
The following report was recently filed by them.<br />
The past two months in Micronesia have been wonderful<br />
for both of us. Xavier High School is beginning to feel<br />
more like home every day. Here are a few events that<br />
have happened lately:<br />
Our task of marking and analysing the entrance exam<br />
results for Micronesia have been completed recently. It<br />
was a long and arduous job, but it was interesting to see<br />
the results which indicate a major slump from almost every<br />
state! We have been showing PowerPoint presentations to<br />
the local Chuuk schools, and are helping Fr Arthur to set<br />
up a programme for the Grade 7 and Grade 8 during the<br />
summer break.<br />
On Saturday 11 February we went to the Blue Lagoon<br />
Resort for a staff retreat. We only stayed over one night but<br />
it was fantastic: sitting under the shade of palm trees, with<br />
air-conditioned rooms and hot showers and comfy beds.<br />
During the day, if we are not tutoring or marking exams,<br />
we can observe some of the classes. Classes include<br />
watching the senior English class perform renditions of<br />
Hamlet, and the Freshman class learn to samba. Chuukese<br />
culture classes are particularly interesting, as the kids are<br />
taught how to climb coconut trees, build huts and speak<br />
Chuukese.<br />
Nic Halter (SAC 2005) with some of the locals in Chuuk<br />
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Xavier has had quite a few visitors of late, including<br />
many American tourists, the Czech, French and Australian<br />
Ambassadors and a group of French sailors! A French navy<br />
frigate was even docked at Weno for a week. They invited<br />
the JVs (Jesuit Volunteers) to a cocktail party on the boat on<br />
Friday night, with French food and champagne! The girls<br />
received a lot of attention from the charming sailors. On<br />
Sunday they circled Xavier in their helicopter as we looked<br />
on from the roof of the School.<br />
We arrived during Micronesia’s dry season but it is<br />
beginning to rain more frequently now. During the latter<br />
part of the week the heavens opened up and we had some<br />
great wet weather activities. The field was flooded and full<br />
of frogs! We coaxed the girls out onto the field to run track<br />
and played basketball in the pouring rain. Apparently, the<br />
locals downtown were soaping up and showering outside<br />
in the street at that time, because that was the highest water<br />
pressure they had ever had for a shower!<br />
We have only done some exploring of Weno so far<br />
(even though there is not much to explore). We have visited<br />
the Japanese lighthouse which commands a view of most of<br />
the island and the main channel through the reef. We have<br />
also visited the one million gallon water tank that supplies<br />
Xavier with water. Hopefully we will be able to camp up<br />
on one of the hills soon and check out the Japanese guns<br />
left over since the War<br />
On Tuesday, 14 March the Juniors arrived back from the<br />
Emmaus Retreat. It was clearly a very powerful retreat, just<br />
like Kairos Retreats at <strong>Aloysius</strong>’. We went with the Seniors<br />
to welcome them back at a hall. The students are very close<br />
to each other and supportive, since it is such a small school<br />
with less than fifty children per Year Group.<br />
The WASC team (Western Accreditation of School<br />
and Colleges) arrived on Sunday 19 March. We all<br />
sat in the Callaghan Hall and sang many Xavier songs,<br />
before the kids from each island group performed their<br />
cultural dances. Both boys and girls sang beautiful songs,<br />
wore colourful costumes, beat drums, performed highly<br />
energetic stick dances and chants. By Wednesday the<br />
WASC visit had finally ended. The visitors had meetings<br />
with all the staff, and walked around observing the<br />
classrooms. Their report recommends that Xavier improve<br />
their safety procedures, counseling and teacher training,<br />
teacher retention and technology (i.e. computers). These<br />
were all fair points. Last year when there was a fire in the<br />
dorm apparently all the students ran towards the fire and<br />
put it out. Safety first!<br />
We are slowly becoming more experienced here.<br />
One Thursday morning the staff did a big bag inspection<br />
looking for beetle nut and snuff. Beetle nut, although widely<br />
accepted on the island, is banned at Xavier, and the habit<br />
is very hard to break. (Beetle nut is a naturally occurring<br />
drug that is chewed by people across Asia and the Pacific<br />
region. The nut contains a mild narcotic and whilst not<br />
illegal in the region, governments and schools are trying to<br />
break this cultural habit. Editor).<br />
We are also learning new language pronunciations.<br />
We have been teased about the way we say ‘z’ and<br />
‘thongs’ (the footwear) are called ‘slippers’. When I told the<br />
girls to take their thongs off for athletics training I got some<br />
very strange looks!<br />
The food here, although repetitive, still tastes good. On<br />
the last two Saturdays the staff have cooked dinner. One<br />
night the JVs cooked a scrumptious Italian dinner and the<br />
next week the Micronesians made a huge feast of fish,<br />
crab, octopus and chicken. It was magnificent.<br />
The Japanese classes (Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors)<br />
have been busy practising for the song contest in Chuuk. It<br />
was great to sit and watch them. Sitting under a hut with<br />
the sophomores, listening them sing a beautiful song with<br />
the guitar playing as the rain drummed down on the roof<br />
outside was a memorable moment. Their musical abilities<br />
with the guitar and piano and voice are great.<br />
On Saturday morning another Aussie arrived at Xavier.<br />
His name was Terry West, a volunteer traveling around<br />
Micronesia teaching coaches and students about athletics.<br />
He also gave some coaching lectures later that week.<br />
Pressure is building for the big track and field meet - it is<br />
the event in Chuuk and everyone wants to beat Xavier. Fr<br />
Arthur even forced all the boys to run to the next village one<br />
weekend for training. It nearly killed half of them, and Fr<br />
Arthur was chasing them down the road on a push bike.<br />
The kids have gone crazy for mangoes lately, ever since<br />
the small green fruits began to grow bigger. There are<br />
mango trees everywhere, but they prefer eating the unripe<br />
mangoes. It’s very tart and crunchy.<br />
Now things are calming down. The school year is<br />
coming to an end, and everyone is feeling exhausted. We<br />
are looking forward to a break from school, a chance to<br />
explore the island and perhaps even travel to the Mortlock<br />
Islands.<br />
We have very much enjoyed our time to date and thank<br />
the College Foundation for their ongoing support of the<br />
Micronesian Scholar Programme.<br />
Nic Halter (SAC 2005) and Jeremy Lardner (SAC 2005)<br />
<strong>2006</strong> Micronesian Scholars<br />
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junior school<br />
Here we are already at the end of what has been<br />
a hectic and eventful Term I in <strong>2006</strong>. New boys<br />
and new teachers have well and truly settled into<br />
their new school community. They have hopefully been<br />
helped along with a variety of Orientation Evenings<br />
including Parent Information Night, Ignatian Evening, Parent<br />
- Teacher Interviews, Year 3 and 4 orientation “Getaway”<br />
and The Great Aussie Bush Camp. These camps were a<br />
great opportunity for boys and their teachers to form new<br />
friendships and cement old ones.<br />
Mr Martin Lobo with new <strong>St</strong>aff in the Junior School, Mr Chris Haynes<br />
(SAC 1994), Ms Alex Hill, Ms Julie Hart, Mrs Helen McCarthy and<br />
Mr James Lister (SAC 1997)<br />
On the staffing front, we welcome a number of new<br />
teachers in <strong>2006</strong>, albeit on a temporary basis. We are<br />
delighted to welcome back two Old Boys, Mr James Lister<br />
(SAC 1997) teaching 4.1 and Mr Chris Haynes (SAC<br />
1994) teaching 6.5. They are covering for Ms Christine<br />
Messer and Mr Nic Boys who have taken twelve months<br />
extended leave. Also joining the staff for 12 months are<br />
Ms Alexandra Hill (6.2) and Ms Julie Hart (5.3) replacing<br />
Mrs Jennifer Walker who is on maternity leave and Mr<br />
Scott Hardgrove who has taken a position in the Senior<br />
School. Finally Mrs Helen McCarthy is filling in for Mr Greg<br />
Marinan who is on long service leave, currently teaching<br />
in the UK.<br />
There has been many a highlight in the sporting arena<br />
over the last ten weeks. The Campion House flag flew<br />
proudly following a successful Inter-House Swimming<br />
Carnival. Matthew Jepson (Year 6), the Junior School<br />
Captain of Swimming is once again having a fabulous year<br />
in his chosen sport and is to be congratulated for breaking<br />
the CAS record in the Under12 Freestyle.<br />
Robin Pfister (Year 5), our number one ranked player<br />
in Tennis has gained CIS Honours along with Alex<br />
Perkins (Year 6) in CIS Basketball. A number of our Tennis<br />
Teams along with the Prep 1st V Basketball team are still<br />
undefeated.<br />
It’s another landmark year for the great Fr Geoffrey<br />
Schneider SJ, the evergreen Chaplain of the Junior School.<br />
This years marks the 60th Anniversary of Fr Schneider’s<br />
Ordination to the Priesthood. What we are celebrating<br />
here is not just sixty years of extraordinary service but a man<br />
who is a fine exemplar of service, humility and simplicity.<br />
This occasion was especially celebrated on March 30 at a<br />
Solemn High Mass at which the Provincial of the Society of<br />
Jesus, Rev Fr Mark Raper SJ AM (SAC 1960) was the main<br />
celebrant with a number of other Jesuits concelebrating.<br />
The Eucharist and the special morning tea was attended<br />
by a number of religious and lay staff who have worked<br />
alongside Fr Schneider since he came to the College in<br />
1966.<br />
As per tradition in the Junior School, students and staff<br />
are working most enthusiastically to observe Lent in its true<br />
spirit - that of giving generously to Project Compassion<br />
appeal by Caritas Australia whose slogan this year is<br />
‘Compassion in Action’. Activities initiated mainly by the<br />
boys include a “Run for Compassion and <strong>St</strong>ay Fit”, raffles,<br />
and a taking on of daily chores especially during Lent.<br />
Boys are encouraged also to give up or sacrifice something<br />
that would result in a more harmonious home and school<br />
or our world in general. You can read more about the<br />
boys’ involvement in this campaign and some of the other<br />
activities in this edition of the <strong>Aloysiad</strong>.<br />
Mr Martin Lobo<br />
Deputy Principal – Junior School<br />
Groovy Getaway<br />
Year 3 and 4 students, teachers and parents went to<br />
their annual Getaway on 22 and 23 February at<br />
Clifton Gardens. The purpose of the Getaway was<br />
to have a break, make new friends and have fun. When<br />
everyone arrived we rushed to our squadron colours. Mrs<br />
Johnson (our organiser) spoke to us about the rules. My<br />
group went to the Juggling Balls first. All you had to do was<br />
L to R: Louis Dettre (Year 4), Jack Scanes (Year 3), Ben Harte (Year 3),<br />
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on the small Macintosh computers which were originally<br />
installed when the Junior School was established on the<br />
Burton <strong>St</strong>reet site in 1994. However, several years later<br />
the school went over to PCs and these machines were<br />
inappropriate for the design of the room. An example of<br />
this design fault was that a large percentage of the students<br />
could not see the teacher or vice versa. All this has now<br />
changed and the room is in excellent shape for good<br />
instruction!<br />
Having a Blast!<br />
to pop ricebags into a balloon or two, make juggling balls<br />
and learn to juggle. After that we went to play fruit salad<br />
and three or four legged races.<br />
Next it was recess. The school provided us with<br />
oranges, apples and water. At play time I played bandits<br />
on the play equipment (I was a bandit). I had to get people<br />
off the ship.<br />
After that we made sand sculptures; my group made a<br />
turtle. Next we had a treasure hunt and Blue 1 won. This<br />
was followed by similar games to recess. After that we<br />
played with the Javelin and Frisbees. Then it was time to<br />
go home. We all had heaps of fun and some of us made<br />
many more friends.<br />
Christian Pappas (Year 3)<br />
Big Changes in the IT infrastructure<br />
in the Junior School<br />
A<br />
major<br />
refurbishment of the computer laboratory in<br />
the Junior School was completed over the Christmas<br />
holidays. The basic design of the room was based<br />
Mr Doherty in the new Junior School computer laboratory<br />
Junior School boys using the new computers installed during the<br />
Christmas holidays.<br />
New desks which now house the computer box under<br />
the desk and now allow for students to do written work on<br />
the desk as well as their computer work were installed and<br />
the latest Pentium 4 computers with flat screen monitors<br />
were installed. All of the computers have Windows XP and<br />
a very good array of software. This other software includes<br />
the office suite and educational software appropriate for<br />
this age group.<br />
An Interactive White Board (IWB) was also installed<br />
in the laboratory. This feature has been an enormous help<br />
for instructional purposes. The changes and improvements<br />
have made a remarkable difference to the look of the room<br />
and the Junior School students have given the changes their<br />
tick of approval. The changes just in this room alone come<br />
close to $100,000.<br />
The net effect of these improvements will last for many<br />
years and will see <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ provide the best in computer<br />
education facilities for all of its students.<br />
In what has been a first for the Junior School two<br />
classrooms have been fitted with Interactive White Boards<br />
(IWBs) bringing their number to three in the Junior School.<br />
Mr Paul Van Der Meer (Class 6.3) and Mr David Hegarty<br />
(Class 5.2) are using these boards in their classrooms and<br />
both report good results from such equipment. Both these<br />
teachers have had some training and with practical use of<br />
this equipment will be able to give the College very useful<br />
views on extending this infrastructure to other classrooms.<br />
The renovation of the Junior School Computer Laboratory,<br />
the purchase of the new computer equipment and the<br />
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acquisition of the Interactive White Boards was made<br />
possible through the generous support of the <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’<br />
College Foundation Limited. On behalf of the <strong>St</strong>aff<br />
and <strong>St</strong>udents of the Junior School, I would like to thank<br />
the Foundation and all the donors for their wonderful<br />
assistance.<br />
Mr Denis Doherty<br />
IT Coordinator Junior School<br />
Pancake Pandemonium!<br />
On the Christian calendar, Shrove Tuesday is the<br />
last day before the beginning of Lent, which starts<br />
on Ash Wednesday. In Ireland, Australia and<br />
Canada, Shrove Tuesday is known as Pancake Tuesday.<br />
The hardworking mothers cooking the pancakes for Pancake Tuesday.<br />
In the Junior School, we launched this year's Lenten<br />
Programme on Tuesday, 28 February with Pancake<br />
Tuesday. Boys donated a gold coin for fresh pancakes<br />
and the day was a huge success. Thank you to the Junior<br />
School Community for their generosity with our Pancakes<br />
for Compassion Day. We raised over $800 for Project<br />
Compassion. Also, our sincere thanks to the following<br />
parents for the magnificent job they did in cooking up a<br />
feast on a hot and humid day: Mesdames Sue Hyde, Barb<br />
Goh, Sally Velcic, Ingrid McNab, Lynette Peronace, Alison<br />
D’Netto, Rosie Morgan, Joelle Vrisakis and Sella <strong>St</strong>untz<br />
Mr Joe El-Khoury<br />
Religious Education Co-ordinator<br />
Fr Geoffrey Schneider SJ<br />
(SAC <strong>St</strong>aff 1966 – Present)<br />
– 60 Years a Jesuit Priest<br />
Amazing, incredible and magnificent are perhaps<br />
the most frequently used words most people use<br />
when describing and/or referring to Fr Geoffrey<br />
Schneider SJ. Over the years, people associated with the<br />
College have been accustomed to celebrating milestones in<br />
the life of this truly great man.<br />
This year marks yet another of these milestones – the<br />
celebration of his Diamond Jubilee as a Priest in the Society<br />
of Jesus. The Junior School Community held a very special<br />
celebration of this event on 24 March with a Solemn Mass<br />
at which the Provincial of the Society, Fr Mark Raper SJ<br />
AM (SAC 1960), presided. It was a beautiful Mass made<br />
all the more special by the fact that he was also assisted<br />
by Fr Joe Hassan SJ, a fellow Diamond Jubilarian and a<br />
large number of Jesuit Priests. Highlights of the Mass were<br />
the delightful singing from the boys, reflections on the life<br />
and contribution of Fr Schneider by various representatives<br />
of the College Community. Moving tributes were paid<br />
in recognition of Fr Schneider by Miss Jenny Hoare (a<br />
past teacher and close friend of Fr Schneider), Tom Goh<br />
(Year 6), Guillaume Buckley (Year 12) and Mr Anthony<br />
Chandler (a Past Parent with over twenty five years of<br />
close partnership with the College).<br />
Mass was followed by a sumptuous morning tea in<br />
The Juana Mateo Room for parents and invited guests<br />
that included teachers at the Junior School over the last<br />
thirty years who have been inspired by the wisdom of this<br />
remarkable man.<br />
The final chapter of the celebration took place in the<br />
Junior School when the boys offered special prayers for<br />
him at the Assembly followed by one of the loudest and<br />
most spontaneous War Cries ever belted out in Milsons<br />
Point. Of course no celebration would be complete<br />
without the cutting of a giant cake that was shared<br />
and enjoyed by every student and staff at the Junior<br />
School.<br />
One of the real highlights of this joyous celebration was<br />
a commemorative photo-story power point presentation<br />
produced by Miss Linda Maher, Mr Joe El-Khoury and Mrs<br />
Michelle Curtin. A treasure chest of Fr Schneider’s images<br />
from when he was a toddler to now was enhanced by Louis<br />
Armstrong’s song What a Wonderful World.<br />
I thank him on all of our behalves for a life dedicated in<br />
selfless service of children and education in general. Thank<br />
you for your great example, Father, you are indeed a man<br />
of deeds not words – we salute you.<br />
Mr Martin Lobo<br />
Deputy Principal – Junior School<br />
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Faith & Service Programmes in the<br />
Junior School<br />
The boys in the Junior School are encouraged to become<br />
involved in our Faith and Service Programme, especially<br />
our own Year 3-6 Arrupe Outreach Programme and those<br />
such as ‘Project Compassion’, Catholic Mission, Matthew<br />
Talbot Hostel, the Jesuit Refugees Services, Indian Bazaar,<br />
<strong>St</strong> Vincent de Paul and many others. These appeals were<br />
very well supported by our boys and their families and were<br />
a great success. We raised over $8,000.00 for Caritas<br />
Australia and $500.00 for the Catholic Mission. The boys<br />
brought in over 2,000 items for the homeless men at Matthew<br />
Talbot Hostel. Our thanks and appreciation to our families for<br />
their overwhelmingly charitable response to all the appeals<br />
undertaken.<br />
Fr Ross Jones SJ, Rector of the College, officially<br />
launched the Junior School Arrupe Outreach Programme in<br />
Term II 2005. One of the outcomes, of this programme is to<br />
develop the belief in the boys that they do have much to offer<br />
the wider community, and that their positive contribution can<br />
make a difference to individuals and to society. The basis of<br />
our social justice initiatives hinges on the Arrupe Outreach<br />
Programme in the Junior School. Each class chooses a<br />
welfare agency, charity or project to focus on for the year.<br />
The boys are encouraged to learn more about the charity,<br />
agency or project through research and exploration. The<br />
class is then encouraged to raise awareness of their focus<br />
in the school community. This initiative is not meant to be just<br />
where the boys have to meet a financial goal but to allow<br />
them to learn about ways to serve others through action<br />
and reflection.<br />
The following reports outline the boys experiencing an<br />
endless number of opportunities to participate in a vast array<br />
of activities outside the classroom. In the spirit of Ignatius,<br />
they are developing a sense of personal responsibility for<br />
the common good. As their social consciences develop,<br />
they show increased compassion towards those suffering<br />
and respond generously. The enthusiasm and support for our<br />
Arrupe Outreach Programme in 2005 was significant and<br />
inspiring. We look forward to the ongoing success of this<br />
vital work in the years to come.<br />
Mr Joe El-Khoury<br />
Religious Education Co-ordinator<br />
Year 5.3 Aboriginal Community of<br />
Amoonguna<br />
Amoonguna Primary is a small school in the Aboriginal<br />
Community of Amoonguna, 14 kilometres south east<br />
of Alice Springs. They have approximately twentyfive<br />
students covering kindergarten through to Year 4. Their<br />
dedicated teacher Mrs Wright is the only teacher in the<br />
school. She hopes that every day is stimulating, exciting and<br />
nurturing. Unfortunately the children who attend Amoonguna<br />
come from an underprivileged background. Unemployment,<br />
malnourishment and violence are a stark reality for many of<br />
these children. Success at school and tertiary qualifications<br />
are distant goals for Mrs Wright and her students as daily<br />
priorities such as hunger and illiteracy take hold.<br />
We were able to support the school last year through the<br />
supply of valuable art materials and maths equipment. This<br />
year in 5.3 we supported Mrs Wright in her endeavours to<br />
provide her students with comfortable, practical uniforms that<br />
students can wear, in doing so providing the students with a<br />
sense of unity, pride and belonging.<br />
In the lead up to Mothers' Day we conducted a Mother’s<br />
Day Raffle, generously supported by The Crowne Plaza<br />
Newcastle, Hunter Valley Wine & Dine Carriages, The<br />
Ensemble Theatre, Captain Cook Cruises and GLOW skin,<br />
body and beauty. With great success we were able to raise<br />
$2,500 dollars.<br />
A huge thank you is extended to the various companies<br />
that donated prizes for our raffle and to the parents and<br />
students of <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College Junior School for their<br />
generosity with our appeal.<br />
Ms Jennifer Walker<br />
Year 5.3 Class Teacher<br />
Year 6.4 James Milsons Village<br />
Nursing Home<br />
On Tuesday 18 October the students, Mr El-Khoury<br />
and parents from Year 6.4 paid a visit to James<br />
Milsons Village as part of our Arrupe Outreach<br />
Programme.<br />
When we arrived at the nursing home there were some<br />
twenty-five elderly men and women sitting quietly in the<br />
main room. Some were struggling with hearing difficulties<br />
or poor sight. At this point a number seemed unaware of<br />
our presence.<br />
The day’s activities started with William Austin-Cray<br />
making an introductory speech about what we would be<br />
doing and was then followed by an opening prayer by<br />
Paul Sindone.<br />
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our newly made friends. They had all brightened up and<br />
seemed much happier than when we had arrived. We left<br />
there realising that we had not only shared our gifts with<br />
our new friends but that we made a small difference in their<br />
lives. We look forward to our next visit.<br />
Sebastian Duggan, Nikhil Sequeira and Jonathan Chan<br />
Year 5 Great Aussie Bush Camp<br />
On 6 March we woke up and got dressed, but<br />
there was no need for school uniform. Year 5 were<br />
going on a three hour bus trip to the Great Aussie<br />
Bush Camp, set in Bundabuh Creek near Hawks Nest.<br />
Outreach participants: Damien Tesoriero (Year 7) and Rory Meagher<br />
(Year 7)<br />
Alec Cornelius, Jack Evans and Rory Meagher read<br />
some of their own poetry with the residents and slowly<br />
but surely they started to brighten up and become more<br />
engaged. They were then treated to the musical talents of<br />
Robbie Walcott, Anthony Rahme, Damian Tesoriero, Zach<br />
Parker, Jack Evans, William Austin-Cray and Jonathan<br />
Chan playing Chariots of Fire on the piano, Drummers<br />
March on the Violin and singing Panis Angelicus among<br />
others.<br />
After the musical presentation we all paired up and<br />
spent time with the residents chatting and getting to know<br />
them. Some were very responsive and really enjoyed<br />
our company. They were all interested in what we were<br />
learning in school and what sports we played. We asked<br />
them about themselves and the lives they had led which<br />
were very varied and interesting. We then offered round<br />
cakes and muffins that we had prepared the previous<br />
night, which went down a treat with very few remaining<br />
afterwards!<br />
Once we had resumed our seats Anthony Carrozzi<br />
led us all in the school prayer before we bid farewell to<br />
Zach Parker (Year 7) and Will Lavan (Year 7) introduce today's<br />
technology<br />
(left to right) Tom Booth, Adam Barry, Marco De Vera, Oscar Hawkins<br />
and Zigi Blau. Gearing up for the high ropes activity.<br />
When we arrived, we grabbed our bags out of the bus<br />
and placed them in our tents. Then we went back outside and<br />
sat on some logs around a campfire, which was surrounded<br />
by the tents. Then we had a lecture covering the camp rules<br />
and other things related to our stay.<br />
It was almost lunchtime and we were really hungry. The<br />
instructors then took us on a bushwalk for fifteen minutes.<br />
We had to walk with another person along the rocky track.<br />
There were a lot of spider webs and animal holes so when<br />
we finally got to the Big Rock we were very, very hungry.<br />
The big rock was a fake Uluru with tables and chairs inside<br />
where we would eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. We sat<br />
with our tent group while we were waiting to go inside. By<br />
that time we were absolutely starving. The hamburger lunch<br />
was much appreciated by all the boys.<br />
After lunch we took a shortcut along an old railway track<br />
back to our campsite. Then we went off in four separate<br />
activity groups to our first activity. We did activities such as<br />
high ropes, canoeing, archery, giant swing, team initiatives<br />
plus two night activities.<br />
In high ropes, the first thing you did was to sit down<br />
and the instructor would tell you how to put on the safety<br />
harnesses and helmet. Once it was your turn, you would<br />
climb along three sets of ropes suspended from tall trees<br />
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around five metres high. Then you would finish the last set<br />
of ropes and slide really fast down a flying fox.<br />
With canoeing there were three man, Canadian made<br />
wobbegong canoes. We had to push our canoe into the<br />
water and hop into the canoe. In canoeing we played a<br />
game in two teams where we had to try and get the ball<br />
and throw it into the instructor’s canoe. Canoeing was<br />
really fun and by far one of the best activities.<br />
When we first got to archery, we sat down and the<br />
instructor told us the rules and the techniques. There were<br />
four targets and four bows with four sets of three arrows.<br />
The aim was to get the arrow as close as possible to the<br />
centre of the foam target. In archery there were a lot of<br />
safety rules and regulations.<br />
find a stall. Then we had to run the stall and earn the fake<br />
money. The group at the end that had the most money had<br />
first pick at a set of cards with prizes written on them. Some<br />
prizes were good but others were unfortunate.<br />
On the third and last day of camp, we packed our<br />
bags, had our last activity and got ready to get on the bus.<br />
We returned to Sydney and were met by our parents at<br />
Bradfield Park. All in all, we really enjoyed camp and we<br />
would love to go there again.<br />
Harrison Boudakin and William Scott (Year 5.4)<br />
(left to right) Harry Elderton, Sean Graham, Jordan Caleo, George<br />
Butler, Tim Russell, Max Sherlock. Enjoying some onion ring snacks in<br />
their ten man tent.<br />
The giant swing was by far the most terrifying activity at<br />
the camp. It was a thirteen metre high harnessed pendulum<br />
swing. You would be attached to a rope which was then<br />
pulled by your team members and you would be raised up<br />
to the point you selected. Most people went the whole way<br />
to the top but some did not. Then you pulled a rope that<br />
would release you from the rope that your team mates were<br />
holding on too and another rope would be attached to you<br />
and you would swing like a pendulum.<br />
In team initiatives we played some team building games<br />
like human knot and other fun games. Team initiatives really<br />
helped our team building skills.<br />
On the first night, we played commando, which was<br />
a game in the dark where we had to try to rescue the<br />
hostages from the other team which was the teachers from<br />
school and the instructors from camp. The thing was, you<br />
had to try avoid being spotlighted by the other team. If you<br />
were, you would have to give up your “life”, which was<br />
a milk bottle cap, and go back to base to receive another<br />
life and continue your search. We only found one hostage<br />
before it was game over!<br />
On the second night we had a county fair, where we<br />
had fake money and we had to get in groups of ten and<br />
JRS Winter<br />
Solstice Ball <strong>2006</strong><br />
The Jesuit Refugee Service works in solidarity with refugees<br />
and displaced people in conflict hotspots around the<br />
world. From building houses with tsunami survivors on an<br />
isolated island off the coast of Aceh to training teachers<br />
in refugee camps on the Thai-Burma border, JRS works<br />
to empower the powerless and bring about real change<br />
in people’s lives. You can find out more about what JRS<br />
is doing around the world, and be a part of this life<br />
changing work by supporting the annual JRS fundraiser<br />
– the Winter Solstice Ball.<br />
When: Saturday 1 July<br />
Where: Dockside, Darling Harbour<br />
Dress: Black Tie<br />
Cost: $125 per ticket<br />
RSVP: 23 June<br />
Live entertainment and ‘after party’<br />
For bookings call Veronica Jeffery on<br />
(02) 9356 3888 or email georgina.pike@jrs.org.au<br />
School girls practise traditional Burmese dances at a JRS<br />
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Junior School Curriculum Report<br />
This year the Junior School are trialling an excellent<br />
web-based maths programme called Mathletics. This<br />
is a Board of <strong>St</strong>udies compliant programme from K-<br />
12 which allows boys, parents and teachers to access the<br />
programme during school hours and at home if families have<br />
purchased a home licence. The programme (home licence)<br />
allows twenty-four hour access and is highly effective and<br />
inter-active for K-12. There are default courses for Year 11<br />
and 12, General and Advanced. The Advanced course is<br />
Calculus based.<br />
A large number of our Junior School teachers have been<br />
participating in a Professional Development course for Gifted<br />
Education with the emphasis on writing programmes and<br />
KLA units which cater better for the diverse learning needs<br />
of the students in our classes. The main component of this<br />
exercise is to differentiate the curriculum in terms of modified,<br />
standard and extension based curriculum content, process<br />
and product. A differentiated classroom provides different<br />
avenues to acquire content, to process or make sense of<br />
information and ideas, and to develop products. This way<br />
of proceeding gives teachers opportunity for recognition<br />
and commitment to plan for student differences.<br />
Differentiated curriculum is not something that is<br />
developed overnight, in one month, one semester, or even<br />
one year. It is an ongoing process in which professionals<br />
continually strive to improve learning experiences for all<br />
children (Keirouz 1993).<br />
In the Junior School we have formed a small poetry<br />
group with Mrs Byrne and Mr Haynes (SAC 1994) (6.5)<br />
which runs at lunch time on Thursdays for those boys in<br />
Years 5 and 6 who have a passion for writing, reading and<br />
appreciating language in its many poetic forms. There are<br />
two major poetry awards for which the students are aiming<br />
to submit poetry of a high standard. The teaching and love<br />
of poetry is a wonderful vehicle for experiencing the magic<br />
of our language.<br />
We continue to develop literacy and language skills<br />
through our Debating Programme which involves boys<br />
in Years 5 and 6. We are part of the JSHAA and ISDA<br />
Debating Competition which runs over three Terms. Another<br />
avenue in which to develop academic and group skills is<br />
by participation in the Tournament of Minds Competition.<br />
This involves twenty-one boys from Years 5 and 6 in group<br />
problem solving over an intense six week period before<br />
proceeding to Regional Finals to present their solutions. Our<br />
chess competition also invites boys to pit their wits against<br />
each other and other schools in the Friday afternoon Inter-<br />
School Chess Competition.<br />
The results of the compulsory Board of <strong>St</strong>udies Basic<br />
Skills Testing (BST) for Years 3 and 5 in 2005 were, once<br />
again, very strong. Year 3 was particularly strong in the<br />
genre of explanation and narrative as tested and criteria<br />
marked. We were strongest in the Language section with<br />
no difference between Reading and Writing. Eighty-eight<br />
percent of the students in Year 3 were in the top two<br />
bands for Literacy. In Numeracy one hundred percent<br />
of the students scored in the top two bands. Of the one<br />
hundred and twenty-three boys in Year 5 who sat the BST,<br />
ninety-four percent were in the top two bands for Literacy<br />
and ninety-three percent were in the top two bands for<br />
Numeracy. These results are very pleasing and consistent,<br />
and marginally stronger, than the previous few years.<br />
Another measure of academic achievement is the results<br />
we have received from the University of NSW Assessments<br />
and Competitions in Maths, Science, English, Spelling,<br />
Writing and Computer Skills.<br />
Overall we received three High Distinctions in English,<br />
three High Distinctions in Maths and fifteen High Distinctions<br />
in Science. A High Distinction places a student in the top<br />
one percent in the <strong>St</strong>ate. We received fifty-five Distinctions<br />
in English, seventy-seven Distinctions in Maths and sixtyeight<br />
Distinctions in Science. A Distinction places a student<br />
in the top ten percent in the <strong>St</strong>ate. In the Computer Skills<br />
Assessment undertaken by Year 6 only we received six<br />
High Distinctions, thirty-six Distinctions and twenty-two<br />
Credits. In the Spelling Assessment undertaken by Year 4<br />
we received one High Distinction, nine Distinctions and<br />
twenty-two Credits. The Writing Assessment in which we<br />
entered forty-six boys from Year 3 to 6 we received four<br />
High Distinctions, eleven Distinctions and fifteen Credits. A<br />
number of boys received High Distinctions and Distinctions<br />
in all competitions and/or assessments undertaken.<br />
Twenty-eight gifted mathematicians participated in<br />
the 2005 Maths Olympiad Competition which runs on<br />
Wednesday mornings. This is a very challenging problem<br />
solving competition for Years 4 to 6 and runs over two<br />
Terms. In 2005 we had nine boys in the top ten percent<br />
and seven more boys in the top twenty-five percent. There<br />
are five problems to be solved every month and answered<br />
under exam conditions. In the weeks in between the<br />
Olympiads we work in groups of mixed ages to solve the<br />
practice problems and enjoy cross age interaction in an<br />
academic forum.<br />
We look forward to many challenges and strong results<br />
in <strong>2006</strong> in the pursuit of academic excellence and life-long<br />
learning.<br />
Mrs Caroline Byrne<br />
Junior School Director of Curriculum<br />
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junior school sport<br />
Welcome back to another year, another year of<br />
sport, a year of trials and a year of highs and<br />
lows. I am pleased to advise the following boys<br />
were appointed to lead the four Junior School Houses<br />
for <strong>2006</strong>:<br />
Campion House:<br />
Jerome Abelda (Captain)<br />
Ollie Masters (Vice Captain)<br />
Ogilvie House:<br />
Tom Goh (Captain)<br />
Alex Perkins (Vice Captain)<br />
Owen House:<br />
Tom Lindsay (Captain)<br />
Tom Craven (Vice Captain)<br />
Southwell House<br />
Declan McCarthy (Captain)<br />
<strong>St</strong>efan Michael (Vice Captain)<br />
This Term we are trialling an intensive coaching<br />
programme where at each training session a professional<br />
coach assists the staff and Old Boy coaches in their<br />
selected sport. This Term saw cricket greats Adam and<br />
Dean Gilchrist assist the teams and coaches. All sports have<br />
benefited from this programme and a strong skills base has<br />
been built, one that we will improve upon in Term IV.<br />
At the recent College Open Day a number of Junior<br />
School students were involved in some sporting displays<br />
for prospective families. Kieran Joel (Year 6) performed a<br />
mini trampoline display much to the delight of the gathered<br />
crowd.<br />
The Junior School Swimming carnival was held recently.<br />
Every boy in the Junior School participated in events and<br />
with the assistance of a number of parents and staff, the<br />
day was a resounding success.<br />
Congratulations to Campion House, led by Ollie<br />
Masters and Jerome Abelda (both Year 6) who led their<br />
team to victory on the day with the following points being<br />
awarded for the first Colour House competition of the<br />
year:<br />
Campion House: 295<br />
Southwell House: 285<br />
Ogilvie House: 195<br />
Owen House: 190<br />
The Carnival also produced a number of new College<br />
records. Matthew Jepson (Year 6) set a new record of<br />
1minute .435 seconds in the 100m Freestyle, beating<br />
the record set in 1999 by more than 1 second. He also<br />
went on to set a new record in the 200 metre Individual<br />
Medley, of 2 minutes 14.18 seconds, breaking the record<br />
set in 2005 by close to 9 seconds. In the Under 9s, Harry<br />
Bartter set a new record time of 1 minute 57 seconds in<br />
the 50metre Freestyle. The Under 9 4 x 50metre Campion<br />
House Relay Team comprising Harry Bartter, Edward<br />
Moult, Ben Harte and Joseph Hickey set a new record<br />
time of 3 minutes 34.14 seconds. The Under 12 4 x<br />
50metre Ogilvie House Relay Team made up of Joseph<br />
Mastrangelo, Patrick Prendergast, Nic Alexandrou and<br />
Mitchell Baumgart also set a new record of 2 minutes<br />
30.02 seconds<br />
Congratulations to Matthew Jepson (Year 6) who has<br />
been named Junior School Swimming Captain for <strong>2006</strong>.<br />
To date Matthew has been an inspirational leader who has<br />
not only led the Team in the pool but has demonstrated<br />
leadership skills beyond his years, especially in the lead<br />
up to Carnivals. I would particularly like to thank the many<br />
parents who assisted the staff in the organisation of the<br />
College Swimming Carnival, your assistance made the day<br />
such a success.<br />
In November 2005, the Junior School Tennis Trials<br />
were held to select the team for <strong>2006</strong>. Due to a very wet<br />
weekend, only the first day of the trials were completed.<br />
As a result, the boys needed to make up the washed out<br />
weekend and participated in trials to rank all players. The<br />
boys were very organised and made up this lost time during<br />
the first week of sport trials held earlier this year.<br />
After the trials were completed, we were able to<br />
announce the names of the sixteen boys who made up the<br />
Prep Squads for <strong>2006</strong>. Robin Pfister was the winner of the<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College Junior School Tennis Championship<br />
as a result of this event. The remaining thirty-two boys<br />
have entered into the Northern Suburbs Tennis Association<br />
Competition where they represent the College each week<br />
and play against other schools and tennis clubs. Robin<br />
Pfister, Max Evans and Olivier Wetzlar (all Year 5) were<br />
invited to trial for the JSHAA Tennis Trials recently. Each boy<br />
performed very well against some very strong competition.<br />
Congratulations to Robin Pfister who was selected in the<br />
JSHAA Tennis Team.<br />
I am pleased to advise that a number of the Junior<br />
School Teams were undefeated during the Term I Summer<br />
Sport Competition. The Prep 1st V Basketball and 10a<br />
Cricket Team are to be congratulated on their performances<br />
this Term. A number of other teams were unlucky to lose only<br />
one or two games the whole season.<br />
Special mention to <strong>St</strong>efan Michael, Mike Bentley and<br />
Alex Perkins who were selected in the JSHAA Basketball<br />
Team. The College was the only school in the JSHAA<br />
where three members of one school were selected<br />
to attend the trials for the CIS Team. While all boys<br />
trialled very well Alex was successful in being selected<br />
as a member of the CIS Basketball Team. This is a<br />
huge achievement not only for Alex (who is Captain of<br />
Basketball <strong>2006</strong>) but for <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ to be represented<br />
in this sport. Alex will travel to Tamworth for a week later<br />
in this year to trial for a spot on the NSW Team and we<br />
wish Alex the best of luck.<br />
In softball, both teams have put in a great effort over the<br />
five games. Matthew Jepson and Lewis Pointing had some<br />
momentous catches in the Prep A Team along with some<br />
notable batters including Matthew Jepson, Ben Chapple<br />
and Joseph Mastrangelo, along with Tom <strong>St</strong>ephenson who<br />
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always puts in a great fielding effort. All players work very<br />
well as a team and have demonstrated great sportsmanship<br />
throughout the season. Jordan Caleo, Justin Owens and<br />
Sam McGraw had some fantastic catches with fine batting<br />
performances from Jordan Caleo, Justin Owens and Max<br />
Sherlock.<br />
In Term I optional fitness sessions are available to all<br />
boys and parents who want to increase their fitness levels<br />
in preparation for the winter season or just to get fit each<br />
Tuesday morning. The group has increased from twenty-five<br />
boys on the first morning to over sixty each Tuesday.<br />
To date it has been a very successful Term I, a very busy<br />
Term, but a Term which all the boys have enjoyed. In Term<br />
II we are very fortunate to have a strong representation at<br />
JSHAA Football Trials with Chris Anderson, Tom Craven,<br />
Scott Murray and Grant Jansson (all Year 6) due to compete<br />
in the trials. We wish these boys the best of luck.<br />
Mr Trevor Dunne<br />
Junior School Sportsmaster<br />
Swimming Report <strong>2006</strong><br />
Congratulations are offered to Matthew Jepson (Year<br />
6) who was named Swim Captain for the <strong>2006</strong><br />
Junior School Swim Squad.<br />
The Swimming season for <strong>2006</strong> began with the<br />
College Inter-House Carnival held at Lane Cove Pool in<br />
week two and concluded for the majority of the team with<br />
the JSHAA Carnival at Homebush on Monday, 13 March.<br />
In between we had two meets; one Friday evening meet<br />
at Knox Grammar School and a Brother’s Meet held at<br />
Riverview on Friday, 3 March.<br />
The Inter-House Carnival was won by Campion on<br />
295 points, closely followed by Southwell on 285 points.<br />
Ogilvie and Owen closely contested for third and fourth<br />
places respectively. The relays at the conclusion of the<br />
day proved, as usual, to be the most exciting and closely<br />
contested for house points to decide the final placing of our<br />
four Houses.<br />
Age Champions were:<br />
Under 9s:<br />
Runner Up:<br />
Harry Bartter (Year 3), Campion House<br />
Laurence Smith (Year 4), Campion House<br />
Under 10s: Oliver Wetzlar (Year 5), Campion House<br />
Runner Up:<br />
Oliver Gibson (Year 5), Southwell House<br />
Under 11s: Harrison Williams (Year 6), Campion House<br />
Runner Up:<br />
Under12s:<br />
Runner Up:<br />
Patrick O’Connell (Year 5), Campion House<br />
Matthew Jepson (Year 6), Southwell House<br />
Patrick Prendergast (Year 6), Ogilvie House<br />
Our next meet was held at Knox Grammar School on<br />
the evening of 24 February. This was a short course time<br />
trial only, so no places were given and teachers and team<br />
managers were asked to time their own swimmers. Boys<br />
were aiming for Personal Bests and to better their Inter-House<br />
times. This meet was for 9 years to 12 years and netted<br />
fifteen first placings, ten second placings and twelve third<br />
placings. The most pleasing results were seven first placings<br />
by Matthew Jepson (Year 6), our Swim Team Captain,<br />
including a couple of PB times. Also pleasing were the efforts<br />
of Oliver Gibson (Year 5), Harrison Williams (Year 6), Patrick<br />
O’Connell (Year 5), Alex Hyde (Year 6), Harry Bartter (Year<br />
3), Andre Anderson (Year 5) and Nic Alexandrou (Year 6).<br />
Our Under 12 Relay Team came first and our Under 11<br />
Relay Team came third.<br />
The BPSSA Swimming Carnival held at Riverview on<br />
Friday, 3 March was most impressive in terms of results for <strong>St</strong><br />
<strong>Aloysius</strong>’. The College took out the trophy for the third year<br />
in a row. We finished sixty plus points ahead of our nearest<br />
rivals, Riverview. We were also awarded the handicap<br />
title which is based on results versus size of school, number<br />
of students. The <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ team at Riverview included a<br />
number of different boys who had swum well at our school<br />
carnival and events only for the 10, 11 and 12 year olds.<br />
A number of boys had to step up a Division and swim in<br />
races other than their form stroke owing to late withdrawals<br />
and illness. We were placed first, second or third in almost<br />
every event, including the 4 x 25 metre Medley Relays, the<br />
6 x 25 metre Freestyle Relays and the favourite event of the<br />
day, the Jersey Relay!<br />
With strong results from the first two Swimming Meets<br />
in <strong>2006</strong>, Knox and Riverview, our swimmers proceeded<br />
to JSHAA championships competing in the 9,10, 11 and<br />
12 year age groups. This level of competition proved<br />
very challenging and only a small number of our team<br />
were placed at this meet, the most successful being<br />
Matthew Jepson who timed fastest in all his six events<br />
except one where he was placed third. Oliver Wetzlar<br />
(Year 5) was placed second in the Under 10 50 metre<br />
Breaststroke in a time of 48.12 seconds and Harrison<br />
Williams (Year 6) came third in the Under 11 50 metre<br />
Freestyle in a time of 31.96 seconds. The Under 12<br />
Relay Team of Matt Jepson, Patrick Prendergast, Joseph<br />
Mastrangelo (Year 6) and Harrison Williams took out first<br />
place in the Under 12 50 metre freestyle relay in a time<br />
of 2:09:29.<br />
From the JSHAA Carnival these five swimmers went<br />
forward to the CIS Carnival on 28 March with Alex Hyde<br />
(Year 6) as a reserve for the Relay Team. This small band<br />
of Junior School swimmers were very successful at these<br />
trials and all squad members will proceed to PSSA (<strong>St</strong>ate)<br />
in mid-April. We took out six gold and two silver medals.<br />
Matthew Jepson was named swimmer of the meet and <strong>St</strong><br />
<strong>Aloysius</strong>’ won the team points score as well.<br />
Our Senior Relay Team of Harrison Williams, Joseph<br />
Mastrangelo, Alex Hyde and anchor man, Matthew Jepson<br />
came first in 2.07 minutes to take out the team’s first gold<br />
medal.<br />
This was followed by Matthew winning the 100 metre<br />
Freestyle in 1.02 minutes and the 50 metre freestyle in<br />
28.26 seconds. Next Oliver Wetzlar swam a brilliant race<br />
to come second in the Under 10 Breaststroke. This was<br />
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followed by Matthew Jepson with gold in the 50 metre<br />
Butterfly and 50 metre Backstroke. Matthew was very proud<br />
of his second in the Breaststroke as he swam a Personal<br />
Best of 40.00 seconds. To cap off a successful day for <strong>St</strong><br />
<strong>Aloysius</strong>’, Matthew Jepson swam the 200 metre Individual<br />
Medley in a new record time of 2.37 minutes which was<br />
a second personal best. We congratulate this little team of<br />
athletes who do not win races without a great deal of effort<br />
and training behind their successes. We wish them well at<br />
the upcoming PSSA Carnival. Congratulations.<br />
Many swimmers have recorded PBs this season, the<br />
standout being Matt Jepson who also represented NSW in<br />
the Pan Pacific Games in Melbourne and returned with four<br />
medals. He also competed in a recent NSW Championship<br />
and won two events and was placed in two others.<br />
I encourage all team members to continue to enjoy<br />
their swimming and training and keep up their fitness. I<br />
thank parents for the support and help offered and given<br />
at carnivals and swim meets and I look forward to some<br />
exciting results from the PSSA event in April.<br />
Mrs Caroline Byrne<br />
MIC Swimming Junior School<br />
Presidential Meeting<br />
The President of the Republic of Lithuania, Valdas<br />
Adamkus attended a luncheon in his honour at<br />
Taronga Zoo Function Centre on Saturday, 25<br />
February. Representatives of the Lithuanian Parliament,<br />
NSW Government and the Sydney-Lithuanian<br />
Community were present.<br />
The President discussed the changes in social and<br />
economic status in Lithuania since the end of Soviet<br />
occupation with Aloysian students: Dailius Wilson (Year<br />
9), Julian Wilson (Year 8) and Old Boy, Aistis Bieri<br />
(SAC 1991).<br />
The Jesuits have enjoyed a proud tradition in<br />
Lithuania since 1569, striving to promote excellence<br />
in Catholic education. The Jesuits created two schools<br />
in Vilnius and Kaunas. Following the end of Soviet<br />
rule in Lithuania, two universities in these cities were<br />
established by the Jesuits in addition to raising over<br />
$1million in aid to fund structural repair projects all over<br />
Lithuania rectifying post-war damage and assisting the<br />
Lithuanian community.<br />
Aistis, Dailius and Julian were deeply influenced by<br />
this event and were proud to represent the Aloysian<br />
Family at such an important occasion.<br />
Left to Right: Aistis Bieri (SAC 1991), His Excellency Valdas<br />
Adamkus, Julian Wilson (Year 8) and Dailius Wilson (Year 9)<br />
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Induction and Welcome for New<br />
Teaching <strong>St</strong>aff<br />
We welcome the following new staff to <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’<br />
College for <strong>2006</strong> and look forward to their<br />
involvement in this collective endeavour of<br />
Ignatian Education.<br />
Miss Gillian Clarke<br />
Mrs Debbie Edwards<br />
Mr John Frare<br />
Miss Julie Hart<br />
Mr Chris Haynes (SAC 1994)<br />
Miss Alexandra Hill<br />
Mr James Lister (SAC 1997)<br />
Mrs Helen McCarthy<br />
Mr Tom Riemer SJ<br />
Mrs Kyoko Rodgers<br />
Miss Natalie Selwood<br />
Mr John Williams (SAC 1995)<br />
Miss Jen Zongor<br />
Science<br />
Administration <strong>St</strong>aff<br />
PDHPE<br />
Junior School<br />
Junior School<br />
Junior School<br />
Junior School<br />
Junior School<br />
RE<br />
LOTE<br />
IT<br />
Mathematics<br />
<strong>St</strong>aff Recruitment and Induction<br />
- An Ignatian Perspective<br />
PDHPE<br />
It is said that maintaining and developing the Jesuit<br />
identity of our school depends on the careful selection of<br />
such people as these new teachers and on a programme<br />
of appropriate formation in the Ignatian Charism and<br />
pedagogy for them. Their induction programme covers not<br />
only the administrivia and minutiae of commencing in a<br />
new workplace, but more significantly an understanding of<br />
our Charism and the charter of expectations of an educator<br />
in the Ignatian tradition. New staff are led through an<br />
interpretation of what we understand of Jesuit Schools in the<br />
Ignatian tradition, namely, to<br />
Desire to do the will of Christ and in our actions bring<br />
His Kingdom alive.<br />
Be witnesses to charity and service in helping and<br />
working for others.<br />
Be involved in a conversation, between God and<br />
ourselves.<br />
Seek and to find God in the experiences of our<br />
everyday life.<br />
Our Jesuit Heritage is introduced to new staff as being alive<br />
in many facets of our daily rituals:<br />
Our mission statement<br />
Our motto<br />
Our patron<br />
Our crest<br />
Our method of teaching<br />
Our discipline processes<br />
Our service programmes<br />
Our pastoral network<br />
Our faith story<br />
Understanding what it means to be a teacher in the<br />
Ignatian context is to be open to the pedagogy of reflective<br />
teaching. We consider these five key questions when<br />
preparing to engage our students:<br />
Context<br />
Experience<br />
Reflection<br />
Action<br />
Evaluation<br />
What do I need to know about my students in<br />
order for me to teach them well?<br />
What is the best way for me to engage<br />
them as a whole person in the teaching and<br />
learning process?<br />
How can I help them to be more reflective<br />
so that they more deeply understand the<br />
significance of what they have learnt?<br />
How can I create an environment where<br />
my students are positively challenged and<br />
changed by their learning?<br />
How can I create the reflective space for my<br />
students and myself to decide how we can do<br />
things better next time?<br />
The process of formation for new teachers commences<br />
with this induction and continues with days of reflection<br />
teamed with staff from Saint Ignatius’ College Riverview and<br />
Loyola Catholic High School, with a view to conceptualising<br />
their experience. <strong>St</strong>aff are given insights to the story and life<br />
of Ignatius, his spirituality and the legacy of his formation<br />
of the Jesuits in Schools. An introduction to the meditations<br />
and prayer experiences of Ignatius emphasise reflection as<br />
a part of our custom of prayer, both in our lives and in their<br />
teaching.<br />
Parent Induction - An Ignatian<br />
Perspective<br />
New parents too undergo this process of formation<br />
when commencing at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College, through<br />
the Parent Ignatian Evenings. Using a variety of<br />
information and media, we enable new members of our<br />
school community to access our faith story and its heritage.<br />
To understand well what it means to be involved in a Jesuit<br />
School, one best look at the Jesuits as a religious order<br />
– their history, their spirit, their reason for existence. To<br />
understand that best, one needs to look at the life story of<br />
their founder Inigo de Loyola – Saint Ignatius. His life story<br />
best reflects the foundational insights of the Society of Jesus<br />
(The Jesuits), and the ministry of schools in which we are<br />
situated.<br />
From the outset, Jesuit schools stressed the development<br />
of critical analysis; the skills of analysing, evaluating and<br />
communicating, rather than knowledge for its own sake,<br />
and so we seek staff of this same ilk. Education in our<br />
context is seen to be apostolic. Ignatius sought to educate<br />
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young men to work for the betterment of others. For this<br />
they needed to be erudite, clear-sighted, generous and<br />
influential. Today the same qualities are sought both of our<br />
students and of the teachers who guide and form them.<br />
A two-evening presentation for parents mirrors this<br />
programme for staff induction and what is also presented<br />
for Year 7 students through their Religious Education classes<br />
in Term I where they study School and Church Communities<br />
such as their own context. It is this emphasis on bringing<br />
people ‘into the fold’ as it were that provides for a more<br />
informed and better equipped school community.<br />
Jesuit schools today seek to sustain a tradition which has<br />
honed many to be fine instruments of God in the service<br />
of others; men of contemplation, competence, compassion<br />
and commitment.<br />
The Characteristics of Jesuit Education (1987) is the<br />
blueprint for what we provide for our students at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’<br />
College. Its nine main characteristics, laid before our new<br />
staff, parents and boys, act as their barometer for measuring<br />
our success as an Ignatian educational community. Jesuit<br />
Education:<br />
1. Is world-affirming, assisting in the total formation of<br />
each individual. It provides for a religious dimension<br />
that permeates the entire curriculum, apostolic in nature,<br />
promoting dialogue between faith and culture.<br />
2. Insists on individual care and concern for each person,<br />
emphasising activity on the part of the student and<br />
encouraging life-long openness to growth.<br />
3. Is value-oriented, encouraging a realistic knowledge,<br />
love and acceptance of self and providing a realistic<br />
knowledge of the world in which we live.<br />
4. Proposes Christ as the model of human life, celebrating<br />
faith, prayer, worship and service.<br />
5. Is preparation for active life commitment, serving the<br />
faith that does justice. It seeks to form “men and women<br />
for others”, manifesting a particular concern for the<br />
poor.<br />
6. Is an apostolic instrument, in service of the Church.<br />
7. Pursues excellence in its work of formation and<br />
witnesses to excellence.<br />
8. <strong>St</strong>resses a lay-Jesuit collaboration relying on a spirit of<br />
community among all members of the community.<br />
9. Is a “system” of schools with a common vision and<br />
common goals, assisting in providing the professional<br />
training and ongoing formation.<br />
We wish all our new staff, parents and boys every<br />
encouragement as they settle into the Aloysian community<br />
and look forward to a prosperous collaboration and<br />
contribution for many years to come.<br />
IGNATIAN VOLUNTEERS<br />
AUSTRALIA<br />
Companions for a Faith that does Justice<br />
Ignatian Volunteers Australia is a national volunteer programme<br />
being developed by the Australian Jesuit Province.<br />
The volunteer community of women and men seek the<br />
opportunity to accompany and serve the poor and marginalised<br />
through a wide range of activities. This service is enhanced by<br />
reflection in the Ignatian tradition.<br />
IVA Sydney programme will be officially launched by Fr Mark<br />
Raper SJ AM (SAC 1960), Provincial of the Society of Jesus,<br />
at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College, in The Juana Mateo Room (formerly<br />
called the Conference Room, on level 4 of the College<br />
– entrance via Jeffrey <strong>St</strong>reet), Milsons Point on Tuesday May<br />
9 <strong>2006</strong> at 6.00 pm.<br />
The Launch will be an opportunity to hear of the developments<br />
of IVA and of the many openings available to an Ignatian<br />
Volunteer. We welcome you.<br />
Light refreshments will be served and, to assist in catering, could<br />
you kindly reply if you are able to share the evening to:<br />
Christina James<br />
kandcjames@bigpond.com 9418 3796 h<br />
Ailsa Gillett OAM<br />
ailsa.gillett@staloysius.nsw.edu.au 9936 5563 w<br />
Mr Sam Di Sano<br />
Deputy Principal – Senior School<br />
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from the senior school<br />
Director of Curriculum<br />
- 2005 HSC Report<br />
The Class of 2005 has received a creditable set of<br />
results in the Higher School Certificate (HSC). One<br />
of the easiest points of comparison in performance is<br />
the number of students in the Merit List. To be eligible for<br />
the Merit List a student must score 90 or more in a 2 Unit<br />
course, or 45 or more in a 1 Unit course. While this is a<br />
limited comparison as it only looks at the top performing<br />
students, it is the one used by the press, as these results are<br />
made public.<br />
Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005<br />
Total students 126 119 124 109 144<br />
Mentions 82 117 134 83 131<br />
All-Rounders:<br />
There were six students named in the Premiers All-Rounders<br />
List. These students scored 90 or better in 10 Units. They<br />
were: Jason Cheung, Raymond Chua, Mark Pieterse,<br />
Angus Ryan, Patrick Schneider and Ben Shum.<br />
Significantly three students missed out on this list by one<br />
mark in one subject. These students were: John Maclean,<br />
Patrick Hurley and Jason Rushton. Two students also achieved<br />
over 90 in 9 Units: Chris Aboud and Nic Halter.<br />
Top Ten Achievers:<br />
We had three students placed in the top 10 for individual<br />
subjects:<br />
Extension Music:<br />
PDHPE:<br />
2U <strong>St</strong>udies of Religion:<br />
Angus Ryan<br />
Matthew Walker<br />
Jason Rushton<br />
University Admission Index (UAI) Calculations:<br />
Due to government regulations, the College does not have<br />
access to students UAI’s. However, we have used the<br />
scaling information provided by the Universities Admission<br />
Centre to estimate UAI scores.<br />
Our calculations indicate that approximately forty-five<br />
students (out of one hundred and forty-one who were<br />
undertaking a full programme of study in 2005) achieved a<br />
UAI of 90 or above. This is thirty-two percent of the cohort;<br />
a pleasing result given that the <strong>St</strong>ate average is sixteen<br />
percent. Similarly fifty-five percent of our students had a<br />
UAI above 80.<br />
Faculty Highlights:<br />
Music: The efforts made by the Music Department to<br />
raise the academic results in the HSC have been hugely<br />
successful. Their efforts, combined with a talented group of<br />
students have culminated in outstanding results. Angus Ryan<br />
came equal first in the state for Extension Music scoring<br />
50/50. The proportion of students in the top band was<br />
high in all courses: Music 1 fifty-seven percent; Music 2<br />
thirty-three percent and Extension Music a very pleasing<br />
seventy-five percent.<br />
PDHPE: This is a relatively new course at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’.<br />
Nevertheless it has achieved consistently high results. In<br />
2005 nearly forty-three percent of the candidature were in<br />
Band 6, compared to fewer than six percent state-wide.<br />
Economics: The performance of this subject continues to<br />
improve. Twenty-five percent of the students achieved a<br />
Band 6 and the course average was 8.31 above the<br />
state.<br />
Mathematics: The results in Mathematics continue to be<br />
bedrock on which a sound HSC is based at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’.<br />
The performance in the more demanding Extension 1 and<br />
Extension 2 courses was particularly pleasing. The high<br />
demands of our Mathematics teachers has once again<br />
achieved excellent results. Forty-seven percent of the<br />
Extension 1 course and forty percent of the Extension 2<br />
course achieved marks in the top band.<br />
Sciences: Like Mathematics this has been a key learning<br />
area of traditional strength at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’. The results in<br />
each science subject were strong. Of particular note were<br />
the strong performance in Physics and especially Chemistry<br />
where twenty-three percent achieved above 90 compared<br />
to a state-wide figure of eight percent.<br />
Drama: This subject attracts a diverse range of students and<br />
has a significant practical component. Like previous years<br />
there have been excellent results with thirty-one percent<br />
achieving the top band compared to a state figure of less<br />
than eight percent.<br />
<strong>St</strong>udies of Religion: This subject, particularly the 2 Unit<br />
course has achieved excellent results for several years. Not<br />
only was Jason Rushton in the top Achievers list, but twentyseven<br />
percent of candidature achieved Band 6, compared<br />
to eight percent state-wide.<br />
General Comments:<br />
As is done every year the College has analysed the HSC<br />
results using statistical investigations provided by Catholic<br />
Education Commission and by an independent company<br />
Academic Profiles. Using this data Father Principal and I<br />
have met with various Heads of Department to discuss the<br />
results and learn from them.<br />
In every subject area we have endeavoured to build<br />
on strengths and identify and address areas of relative<br />
weakness.<br />
Some of the changes introduced in recent years as a<br />
result of our analysis and reflections include:<br />
Introduction of streamed classes in English: Year 11<br />
2005; Year 10 <strong>2006</strong><br />
Review of advice to students about suitability for<br />
General Mathematics and <strong>St</strong>andard English<br />
More demanding entry requirements into Extension courses<br />
Extra lessons in Extension History<br />
Greater emphasis on writing<br />
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Continual review of nature of assessment tasks eg<br />
inclusion of mid-year examination for English<br />
Communicating our changes to parents and students<br />
Supervised study in Kircher Library<br />
Introduction of Legal <strong>St</strong>udies in <strong>2006</strong><br />
The feedback from students regarding University entry<br />
has been particularly pleasing. A significant proportion<br />
of students seem to have achieved access to courses of<br />
preference. A number of students have received scholarships<br />
and bursaries, reflecting the all-round strengths of many of<br />
our graduates.<br />
This report rightly recognises and celebrates the<br />
achievements of many. The Class of 2005 have achieved<br />
some very outstanding outcomes. However not every<br />
student will be satisfied with the results they obtained.<br />
A prominent adolescent mental health expert, Dr<br />
Michael Carr-Gregg wrote the following letter in the<br />
Sydney Morning Herald. I include as a reminder to all of<br />
the need for perspective at this time.<br />
“To all those students who were disappointed by their<br />
HSC results – just remember four things. One, this is the only<br />
week in your life anyone will ever ask you what your UAI<br />
is. Two, you are not your score; life will still be worth living<br />
irrespective of what score you get. Three, it is possible to<br />
get 99.95 and fail life. Finally, there are many ways to get<br />
where you want to go, many back doors and opportunities<br />
to be grabbed. Allow yourself some time to process the<br />
results and when you are ready, talk through your options<br />
with someone knowledgeable”.<br />
Band Results for all 2 Unit courses*<br />
Band <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ Result Percentage of<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ Candidature<br />
Band 6 91 13%<br />
Band 5 318 45%<br />
Band 4 220 31%<br />
Band 3 70 10%<br />
Band 2 7 1%<br />
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from the senior school<br />
In the Kircher Library<br />
A<br />
wonderful<br />
thing happened to me this week. A Year<br />
8 boy came to borrow Philip Pullman’s novel, The<br />
Amber Spyglass. As is my usual modis operandi I<br />
asked if he had read the prescribed novel for Year 8 English<br />
students - Northern Lights.<br />
“Yes Miss. We have to read that for English and I<br />
absolutely loved it. Now I just have to read the next one.”<br />
He replied enthusiastically.<br />
This situation demonstrates what ‘Library’ is truly about.<br />
This boy had to read a particular title, and, lo and behold,<br />
he discovered that not only did he actually enjoy that<br />
experience but now he wanted to read on. It is this type of<br />
reaction that makes me love what I do.<br />
The Kircher Library and the Department of English<br />
are driving a new initiative that will commence in Term<br />
II. This exciting new programme will be known as The<br />
Gerard Manly Hopkins’ Wide Reading Challenge. Book<br />
lists of about thirty titles have been created for each<br />
Year Group and multiple copies of each title have been<br />
purchased with the support of the College Foundation’s<br />
Library Fund. The aim of these lists is to introduce the<br />
boys to a wide variety of authors, and styles of writing,<br />
while still keeping within the reading level appropriate to<br />
each Year Group. In many cases we have only included<br />
the first title of a series of titles in the hope that what<br />
happened to the boy in Year 8 will occur over and over<br />
for many boys. The challenge in Years 7 - 9 will coincide<br />
with the English Department's Literature Circle that will<br />
operate once a cycle.<br />
The basic challenge for each boy will be to read fifteen<br />
titles in total – ten from the set list and then after negotiation<br />
with their English teacher a further five suitable titles. This<br />
will earn them a Certificate of Achievement. For students<br />
wishing to extend themselves even further there are three<br />
extension levels of titles for each Year Group - a bronze,<br />
silver and gold level. Each student will receive a table that<br />
they will use as a record of their reading. We will require<br />
parental signatures next to the title of each novel upon<br />
completion of the reading process.<br />
This is an exciting initiative for the boys of this College.<br />
Not only are we challenging each boy to read, we are<br />
encouraging him to extend himself beyond his normal<br />
comfort zone. We are offering modern titles and authors<br />
while maintaining contact with titles that may be considered<br />
worthy of being part of the canon. There is something on<br />
the lists of titles for everyone.<br />
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Fr Middleton<br />
SJ for his support and contribution to this exciting wide<br />
reading initiative.<br />
Watch this space for enthusiastic updates on the boys’<br />
achievements.<br />
Ms Louise Burgett<br />
Teacher Librarian – <strong>St</strong>udent and <strong>St</strong>aff Services<br />
Debating Report<br />
The year has got off to a flying start and we are well<br />
and truly into the debating season. The Captain of<br />
Debating and Public Speaking for <strong>2006</strong> is Harry<br />
Grace (Year 12). Harry recently progressed to the final<br />
twelve students in consideration for a place in the NSW<br />
Schools Debating Team. The College wishes Harry all the<br />
best in his efforts to secure a place in the final four.<br />
Debating continues to be a great strength of the College<br />
Co-curricula Programme. However, other schools have<br />
started to put more effort into debating and our long-held<br />
traditional success has been challenged on a number of<br />
fronts.<br />
A number of Old Boys of the College have kindly<br />
returned to coach the boys and assist them in their<br />
preparation for the weekly competitions. The boys very<br />
much appreciate the assistance of the Old Boys and enjoy<br />
the interaction with these young men.<br />
This year the College will enter into the Independent<br />
Schools Debating Association competitions, the Catholic<br />
Schools Debating Competition as well as the traditional<br />
CAS competition. A number of regular social debates will<br />
also be held throughout the year.<br />
With over one hundred boys involved in the College<br />
debating programme, we continue to be a powerhouse of<br />
the spoken word amongst schools in the <strong>St</strong>ate.<br />
Mr Mark Norton<br />
Debating Master<br />
Youth Minister and The Lunchroom<br />
The lunchroom opened three years ago when the new<br />
Youth Minister, Miss Emily Moran joined the College in<br />
2004. Each week and almost at every lunchtime, she<br />
has opened up her office for the boys to come for lunch to<br />
sit down and have a chat amongst themselves.<br />
Some of the usual visitors have been going there since<br />
it opened and in that time Miss Moran has come to know<br />
more about them. There are also a large number of boys<br />
who come here either for part of lunchtime or semi regularly<br />
a couple of times per week for a chat, or a chance to catch<br />
up with mates or to do homework.<br />
Many of the boys, who have been attending the<br />
lunchroom over the past three years, could be considered<br />
regulars. This group of regular boys consist of mainly students<br />
from Years 9 and 10. However, each year has seen new<br />
boys come to this room from Years 7and 8. Boys come<br />
to the lunchroom for various reasons, some for a place to<br />
hangout with their friends, for others it is a chance to meet<br />
new people and have a chat, it is also a good place to<br />
go if you are experiencing a few hassles and are in need<br />
of some help. Whatever the reason, the ‘Lunchroom’ is a<br />
great alternative space to that of the Quadrangle, Bradfield<br />
Park or The Kircher Library and everyone is made to feel<br />
welcome.<br />
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Miss Moran and some of the Lunchroom members<br />
When asked what they enjoy most about the ‘Lunchroom’<br />
some of the students’ responses were as follows;<br />
Joel said; “The lunchroom is a nice place to relax<br />
and talk to others and if you aren’t interested in talking to<br />
anyone just sit down or kick back and relax. It is a nice<br />
place to go...”<br />
Nick said; “You can sit down and relax, without having<br />
to move around, you can read a book, chat with your<br />
friends and/or do some study.”<br />
James said; “It’s a good opportunity to meet other<br />
people and make new friends”.<br />
Tom says “I mainly like it because it is much cooler than<br />
outside when it is hot and also has comfy seating”.<br />
Tristan says “We have the opportunity to talk amongst<br />
ourselves and it is the only place you can eat inside the<br />
building without getting into trouble!”<br />
Kenneth says “The room is a nice place to rest and at<br />
the same time to talk”.<br />
Brian finishes with “The choices in music aren’t all<br />
that great but some times we can be lucky and listen to<br />
something good”.<br />
Personally, I have found the lunchroom to be a quiet<br />
sanctuary where you can go to be with friends, talk about<br />
what’s going on and come to a place if ever you are in<br />
need of any help or advice. Personally I have found the<br />
‘Lunchroom’ to be a very beneficial part of my schooling<br />
life.<br />
William Johnson (Year 10)<br />
Mathematics Olympiad<br />
The International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) is the<br />
pinnacle of excellence and achievement for school<br />
students of mathematics throughout the world. The<br />
first IMO was held in Romania in 1959 and Australia has<br />
entered teams since 1981 with six bronze medals in 2005<br />
(Mexico) and one gold, one silver and two bronze medals<br />
in 2004 (Athens).<br />
The aims of the IMO include:<br />
the discovering, encouraging and challenging of<br />
mathematically gifted school students,<br />
the fostering of friendly international relations between<br />
students and their teachers,<br />
the sharing of information on educational syllabi and<br />
practice throughout the world.<br />
We have just received news that Sean Gomes (Year<br />
11) has been invited with twenty-four other students from<br />
around Australia to be a member of this year’s Mathematics<br />
Olympiad Selection School to be held at Shore School in<br />
April. The 47th International Mathematics Olympiad will be<br />
held in Ljubljana, Slovenia in July.<br />
Sean, Jimmy Kiely (Year 11) and Jason Lee (Year 12),<br />
have been attempting Mathematics Olympiad problem<br />
solving competitions for the past few years and have had<br />
considerable success at this very high level of intellectual<br />
endeavour. Each of these boys is to be commended for his<br />
determination in attempting some very difficult problems.<br />
Sean achieved a bronze award for his outstanding<br />
results in this year’s Australian competition and is to be<br />
congratulated on his outstanding achievement which is a<br />
reward for his hard work over the past few years and his<br />
devotion to Mathematics.<br />
Mr Brian Shanley<br />
Head of Mathematics<br />
Life For Kids<br />
Christmas for Life For Kids was a time of goodwill,<br />
joy and community. The one hundred and fifty<br />
children and their families were able to enjoy<br />
and celebrate, some relief from their day to day poverty<br />
and crisis.<br />
Some of the Redfern children enjoying the Annual Christmas Party<br />
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from the senior school<br />
Senior Boys packing the Christmas Hampers for Life for Kids<br />
Decorations, clowns, music and games, turkey and ham<br />
dinner, Santa, the Christmas story and hampers all made for<br />
time of great sharing and fun.<br />
We are indebted to the generosity of so many at <strong>St</strong><br />
<strong>Aloysius</strong>’ who provided and prepared hampers, tirelessly<br />
wrapped and sorted presents and who were part of the<br />
celebrations – to our students doing ‘Faith in Service’,<br />
parents past and present, and staff – a big thank you!<br />
The Parents and Friends’ donation enabled us to outfit<br />
one hundred children for school which was some venture!<br />
The ‘kids’ take great pride in owning a pair of shoes of their<br />
choice and it is our hope this brings the confidence and<br />
dignity they deserve in seeking an education.<br />
Our weekly breakfast continues, together with Surfboard<br />
riding, beach, movie and theatre outings, and support for<br />
families. If you would like to be part of Life for Kids, we<br />
encompass a myriad of activities and would welcome<br />
you.<br />
Ailsa Gillett OAM<br />
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The Corrette Project<br />
Just after 9.00 pm on the evening of Sunday 26,<br />
February, a violent storm erupted as in mimicry of the<br />
final strains of a thunderous D Major chord which<br />
had just dissolved into the golden brickwork of The Boys’<br />
Chapel at the College. The recording of the Corrette<br />
Project, which had progressed from the modest seed of an<br />
idea, was now complete and safely stored within the cyber<br />
viscera of a computer. The reader might ask: Who or what<br />
is ‘Corrette’?<br />
Michel Corrette was born in Rouen on 10 April 1707<br />
and was baptised the same day in the parish of Saint-<br />
Vincent. Corrette led a distinguished career; he was<br />
concurrently organist at two prestigious churches. The first<br />
of these was at Sainte-Marie-du-Temple and the second was<br />
the Jesuit Church of <strong>St</strong> Louis. The Jesuit Church, however, is<br />
known today as <strong>St</strong> Paul-<strong>St</strong> Louis. Corrette was organist here<br />
until 1764 when Louis XV expelled the Jesuits from France.<br />
Apart from his activities as a composer and organist,<br />
Corrette was a pedagogue par excellence. He was<br />
responsible for writing seventeen teaching methods for a<br />
wide range of instruments including the voice. He regularly<br />
held concerts in his home where his students would perform.<br />
There is little doubt that the organ concertos, published in<br />
1756, were performed in this context. Like a number of<br />
organists of the time, it was not unusual to have an organ<br />
in the house.<br />
If the organ concertos of Handel are well known,<br />
those of Corrette have been obscured by time. It is known<br />
that Corrette travelled to England in 1738 where he<br />
would have encountered Handel’s music. Corrette’s organ<br />
concertos can be considered as ground-breaking as they<br />
are the first known keyboard concertos in France. Having<br />
been alerted to the existence of these works in the early<br />
1990s, I was later to find out that no one had published a<br />
complete, modern edition.<br />
Towards the end of 2005, I had a phone call from<br />
the Director of Music at the College, Mr Michael Hissey,<br />
indeed a deus ex machina experience. He asked, inter<br />
alia, about the idea to record the Corrette concertos.<br />
On saying that some players were unavailable, I was<br />
immediately offered a hand-picked list: James Zwar (Year<br />
11) (Violin I), Alex Smith (SAC 2007) (Violin II), Jonathan<br />
Chan (Year 7) (Violin III), Cameron Hissey (SAC 2005)<br />
(Viola), Angus Ryan (SAC 2005) (Cello) and Findley<br />
Hipkin (Year 12) (Flute). Cameron Hissey was to be the<br />
recording engineer and editor, and James Goldrick (SAC<br />
2005) gladly accepted the invitation to be my assistant<br />
at the console in addition to being a very valuable<br />
second set of ears. Voilà! I immediately contacted James<br />
Dixon (SAC 2004) who arranged the first meeting of the<br />
players during the January <strong>2006</strong> holidays. The synergy<br />
The 1774 Isnard organ at the Basilica of Mary Magdalene,<br />
<strong>St</strong> Maximin-en-Provence.<br />
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of this group exceeded my expectations. I must confess<br />
that I have rarely experienced the joy of performing with<br />
such a dynamic group of young players.<br />
On the evening of Sunday 5 February, we had<br />
successfully recorded Concertos no. 2, 3 and 6 all within<br />
two hours. Ever conscious that the students had just started<br />
a new school year and with the burdensome commitments<br />
of Jesus Christ Superstar looming, I judiciously decided to<br />
record the remaining three concertos as organ solos, an<br />
option which Corrette specified in his preface. As ‘filler<br />
items’ on this CD, I have chosen a small selection of works<br />
from Corrette’s 1756 organ book, none of which has ever<br />
been recorded.<br />
Anthony Wallington Scholarship<br />
All the money raised from the sales of the CD will be<br />
directed to the Dr Anthony Wallington (SAC 1959)<br />
Memorial Music Scholarship. Let it be known that<br />
the players donated their time. I am indebted to the College<br />
Foundation for making this project a reality. I am also very<br />
grateful for the support given by the College Rector, Fr<br />
Ross Jones SJ. For my part, it is my heart-felt pleasure to<br />
be able give something back to the College. Here lies a<br />
sobering thought: had I never attended the College, I might<br />
have never played the organ. The Corrette Project is the<br />
realisation of a dream come true. How many of us can say<br />
that we continue to live our dreams?<br />
Mr Pastór de Lasala (SAC 1975)<br />
A Just Society <strong>St</strong>arts with a Deep<br />
Conversation<br />
Traditionally, a jubilee year is about liberation, about<br />
setting things right. In this jubilee year, we celebrate the<br />
lives of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, <strong>St</strong> Francis Xavier and<br />
Blessed Peter Faber.<br />
What stands out for me about these three men is their<br />
capacity to engage in deep conversations... with each<br />
other, with their God and ultimately with countless others.<br />
At Jesuit Social Services, we continue this tradition by<br />
being in relationship with people, by truly listening to, and<br />
connecting with them.<br />
Our mission is ‘standing in solidarity with those in need;<br />
expressing a faith that promotes justice’.<br />
Although stated separately, these two components are<br />
inextricably linked. Why? Because when we talk about<br />
‘those in need’, it compels us to ask:<br />
Who are they?<br />
How did they come to be in need?<br />
What would it take for them to move out of that situation?<br />
If we agree that every one of us shares a common<br />
humanity, we are then challenged to take the condition<br />
of all people to heart. We need to apply our intelligence,<br />
our resources and our efforts to building the kind of world<br />
that puts those most disadvantaged among us in the same<br />
regard as those with whom we share a fence (or school<br />
room, or team or workplace).<br />
Our vision for Australia is a place where people can<br />
access opportunities; feel they have a contribution to make.<br />
This is the gospel way. If it goes the other way, we risk the<br />
rise of an underclass – and the problems associated with<br />
marginalised, angry, desperate people.<br />
At Jesuit Social Services, we act on this by viewing<br />
service delivery as impossible without first forming respectful<br />
relationships with people. These crucial relationships are<br />
based on understanding the causes why people offend,<br />
whether it is drugs, mental illness, neglect or trauma.<br />
We believe that we are all shaped by our family, our<br />
community and the broader society. But, equally, we can<br />
shape these institutions.<br />
For this reason, we make it our priority to keep up<br />
an open dialogue with our stakeholders and the broader<br />
community about values - about the kind of world we want<br />
to live in. In this way, disadvantage stops being ‘out there’,<br />
and we’re several steps closer to building a society that is<br />
inclusive, respectful, compassionate and just.<br />
This is what drives our research and advocacy work.<br />
By understanding and analysing the cause of entrenched<br />
problems, we can then work to alleviate problems.<br />
In this jubilee year, let’s focus on having deep<br />
conversations that explore our shared human journey,<br />
reminding ourselves that our liberation is intrinsically tied up<br />
with the liberation of others.<br />
Ms Julie Edwards<br />
CEO, Jesuit Social Services<br />
If you want to find out more about Jesuit Social Services<br />
and how you can support our work please look up our<br />
website www.jss.org.au, phone us on (03)9427 7388<br />
or email julie.edwards@jss.org.au<br />
Jesuit Social Services<br />
<strong>St</strong>anding in solidarity with those<br />
in need, expressing a faith<br />
that promotes justice.<br />
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from the registrar<br />
Prospective Parents and boys in the Junior School on Open Day<br />
The year started with one hundred and fifty-seven<br />
new students and one hundred new families who<br />
commenced at the College. Thirty-nine siblings of<br />
current students commenced their studies here this year.<br />
Prospective students try out the Cadet Unit sling shot.<br />
Parents cook up a storm to welcome prospective families on Open Day<br />
Late in January our new Senior School students had a<br />
tour of the College just before school started. This was a<br />
good opportunity to meet staff and have any last minute<br />
questions answered.<br />
Open Day was held on Sunday 5 March this year. We<br />
were fortunate to have beautiful weather for the day. <strong>St</strong>aff,<br />
students, parents and Old Boys were available for tours and<br />
to provide information about the College.<br />
During March, all our 2007 scholarship and entrance<br />
examinations were held as well as entrance examinations for<br />
Year 7, 2008 entry. This year, only academic scholarships<br />
were offered. We had a record number of one hundred and<br />
seventy-five boys sitting the Year 5, 2007 examination for sixty<br />
places available. Half of the Year 3 and Year 4 intake were<br />
siblings of current students. Twenty-eight sons of Old Boys sat<br />
an entrance examination this year.<br />
All applicants will be advised of the outcome of their<br />
applications in May. A waitlist will be put together for those<br />
applicants who did not gain a first round offer. Sometimes a<br />
late entrance examination is held around November, should<br />
any last minute places become available. So if you’ve<br />
missed the March exams, perhaps contact the College in<br />
late October, to enquire if this examination will take place.<br />
If you would like more information on enrolments,<br />
please contact the Registrar on (02) 9936 5535 or email:<br />
registrar@staloysius.nsw.edu.au<br />
Mrs Anne-Maree McCarthy<br />
Registrar<br />
Miss <strong>St</strong>ella Robinson (Mathematics Deaprtment) with Mrs Helen Jones and<br />
Mr Warwick Jones (SAC 1986) and their son Henry at the College Open Day<br />
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A M D G<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College Foundation Limited<br />
“..Little did I know at the time of the enormous impact my days<br />
at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College would have on the rest of my life. Though<br />
times were harder then, the enduring lessons learnt from the<br />
Jesuit Fathers and the lay staff and the deep bonds of friendship<br />
formed with my schoolmates have had a tremendously positive<br />
influence on my own, and on my family’s lives.<br />
This was <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ gift to me and it is why I have chosen to<br />
remember the College in my estate. In this way I can create<br />
my own legacy by helping future generations of Aloysians to be<br />
educated and guided in the Jesuit tradition for many years after<br />
I have gone.”<br />
Words of an Old Boy of the College<br />
A gift to the <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College Foundation Limited in your Will is one way<br />
of ensuring that your memories of life at the College can be experienced<br />
by future generations of Aloysians.<br />
If you would like to find out how a gift in your Will will benefit future Aloysians,<br />
please contact the Director of Development, Mr Murray Happ (SAC 1985)<br />
on 02 9929 4692 or murray.happ@staloysius.nsw.edu.au<br />
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from the senior school<br />
French Tour<br />
D-Day was 27 November 2005. Thirty-four people<br />
stood waiting at Sydney Airport, waiting on their<br />
Malaysia Airlines flight to Paris. Everyone had<br />
packed light and no-one managed to forget any documents.<br />
This was a healthy start to the tour; however this gave us<br />
three weeks to have lots of incidents.<br />
We were met in Paris by a major traffic jam on the<br />
freeway into Paris and on the périphérique, the ring road.<br />
The restaurant owners had decided to take their protest over<br />
taxation to the roads – they were doing such a good job<br />
too. A normal 1 hour trip took 2 1⁄2 hours. We were told<br />
that they were protesting against the tax of 18% on their<br />
businesses whilst fast food outlets only paid 5%.<br />
Our accommodation of course was ready for us by the<br />
time we got there. We dumped our bags, cleaned our<br />
teeth and met again to start our adventure. We quickly<br />
assessed that we were going to have to work on ‘Aloysian<br />
Meantime”. The boys did not quite comprehend the idea of<br />
1pm meaning 1pm. So we added 20 minutes to the times<br />
we gave so that we could leave on time.<br />
The first week in Paris saw us do the usual tourist sites,<br />
as well as the not so usual sites. The sewers were great<br />
amusement to the boys, and all the usual standard jokes<br />
were brushed off and tried out. The poor guide, whose<br />
English was very good, found the boys most amusing and<br />
she had a great tour.<br />
Naturally no tour is complete without its mishaps, and<br />
we managed to lose at least one boy in the metro every<br />
day for the week. Fortunately we found them all again, but<br />
it took a while to train them all.<br />
We ate out every night in wonderful restaurants. We<br />
made friends with restaurant owners and wait staff. The<br />
boys tried everything they could taking full advantage of the<br />
generous servings of food they were presented with.<br />
Then we were off to Avignon. We caught the train down<br />
there and like a well-oiled machine were able to get all the<br />
bags off the train in 2 minutes. The boys and their billets<br />
were so pleased to see each other, no-one could move on<br />
the platform and the station staff were despairing of us.<br />
The French Tour Group in Avignon<br />
We visited some brilliant places in Avignon and<br />
surrounding countryside, and some not so brilliant places.<br />
One episode that will stick out in the boys’ memory is<br />
Marseilles. Our bus driver wanted to drop us off at the<br />
end of the port; however a road block was in place<br />
because of a big protest outside the town hall. So he<br />
dropped us as close as he could. He fortunately decided<br />
to come with us. We rounded a corner to find riot police<br />
facing us. We were all wearing blue jackets. We were<br />
a group of thirty-four. What do you think the French riot<br />
police thought? The four officers lifted their shields and<br />
batons. The boys were told to stop. Mrs Downes and the<br />
bus driver tentatively walked to the officers to ask if we<br />
could walk to the end of the port. The riot police thought<br />
we might provoke matters so sent us around the back of<br />
the town hall to avoid the protestors. They radioed each<br />
other either end of the protest to warn the other police that<br />
a group of kangaroos in blue jackets were coming through<br />
and they were not a threat!<br />
While in Marseille we persuaded our driver to take us<br />
to Estaque which is the setting for the Extension prescribed<br />
text. However he would not let us get out of the bus, fearing<br />
for our safety. So we got to see the Estaque from the comfort<br />
and safety of the bus.<br />
We visited the usual places around Avignon. La<br />
Fontaine de Vaucluse being one of the favourites, as was<br />
les Baux de Provence. The not so exciting places were the<br />
Musée du Vitrail – a stained glass window museum which<br />
was organised at the last minute by the school in Avignon<br />
to replace the Perrier factory which has closed down.<br />
Needless to say the most memorable part of the Musée du<br />
Vitrail was there was only one toilet!!!<br />
We completed the tour with Eurodisney, meeting an Old<br />
Boy in the middle of it all (Patrick Tai SAC 2002). Then we<br />
ended up with a magnificent meal which nearly ended in<br />
disaster for the teachers, when the waiter coming up the<br />
stairs, missed his footing, tried to steady himself against<br />
the wall, and managed to drop 30 cokes and oranginas<br />
he was holding on the tray he had. The boys were very<br />
sympathetic and we all asked his boss not to get upset with<br />
him. It was all OK in the end.<br />
Then we had to come home. We left eight boys behind<br />
as they were going to spend Christmas in England with<br />
family and we all headed wearily for the airport. Our<br />
luggage bulging at the seams, and our hearts full of<br />
sadness at leaving Paris, Avignon and the language tour<br />
of a lifetime.<br />
Ms Robinson and Mr Caillard were marched around<br />
Paris and Avignon, getting up at the crack of dawn and<br />
were not allowed to go to bed until the last boy was<br />
sound asleep. They did this all with such great humour and<br />
enthusiasm, even on the days when the mercury fell below<br />
zero, and they were a great team to take on tour.<br />
Mrs Karen Downes<br />
Head of Languages<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
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Of Septics and Sceptics – the 2005<br />
Philippines Immersion Experience<br />
The 2005 trip to the Philippines of eleven Year 11 students<br />
was in the deepest sense, an immersion experience<br />
entailing all the sights and scenes one would hope to<br />
expect on a journey to a largely Third World country. On<br />
arriving we enjoyed the comfort of luxury that our friends at the<br />
Jesuit High School, Ateneo de Manila were more than happy<br />
to provide. However upon conclusion of the first week, after<br />
seeing the sights and experiencing the schooling of the Filipino<br />
elite, we embarked for what would constitute the more authentic<br />
‘immersion’ of our stay. Our travels initially took us to the putridsmelling<br />
squatter area of Payatas (the rubbish dump of Manila)<br />
where we found a community that not even the smell could<br />
prevent us adopting. Later, we conversed with and ultimately<br />
found ourselves sympathising with those condemned by the<br />
corrupt hypocrisy of Muntinlupa Penitentiary, the sorts who we<br />
would have previously passed off as “criminal” and “wicked”.<br />
Finally, we compared our busy western lifestyle to the simplicity<br />
of the mountain farmers, people who know only rice, rivers and<br />
ravines.<br />
We found to our noses’ delight that digging in septic soil is<br />
a truly humbling experience, especially when you have only a<br />
bucket to shower with at day’s end. Yet in our discomfort we<br />
found God. Building houses for the victims of poverty brought<br />
with it a heart-warming sensation, for in our work and sharing<br />
of experiences we found truth in the words of <strong>St</strong> Columban<br />
who once said, “A life other than your own can be your<br />
teacher”. One of life’s truths which we came to understand.<br />
Our Journal motto, “learning to serve and serving to learn”<br />
exemplified what lay at the very heart of our month-long stay.<br />
Although we were aware that our presence and money raised<br />
would indeed help the people we encountered, what we<br />
knew (but perhaps did not fully comprehend) was what we<br />
ourselves would gain from the experience. We could give<br />
these people basic necessities such as housing and food, and<br />
perhaps a share in our own perspectives on life. However the<br />
worth of materials seemed shallow and almost inconsequential<br />
compared with what they offered us – a sense of humility for<br />
our gifts and a wider experience of the real nature of our<br />
world.<br />
Peter De Vega (Year 12) starts the human chain from roadside to homesite<br />
“The Team” outside one of the simple houses constructed in Payatas<br />
Above the glamour of the city, the unbelievably low prices<br />
and the celebrity attention received, we found an amazing<br />
and perplexing social phenomenon which became more<br />
and more apparent throughout our stay. In Payatas, I will<br />
never forget seeing so many smiles and warm expressions on<br />
the faces of people with so little, who despite their material<br />
limitations gave everything they could to virtual strangers far<br />
wealthier than they. It quickly became apparent the reality of<br />
life in which only the poor can afford to be generous, a truth<br />
we all came to appreciate. In Muntinlupa people who would<br />
probably spend the rest of their lives behind locked doors or<br />
die in an inhumane excuse for an infirmary seemed to me,<br />
despite the hardships of their existence, to also be some of<br />
the deepest, enlightened and genuinely happy people. In<br />
Kiangan we found a community poor in earthly wealth yet<br />
abounding in happiness. As complete strangers we were<br />
treated with more enthusiasm and gratefulness than we were<br />
used to receiving at home.<br />
One of the things that I personally came to realise was<br />
what the real nature of paradise could be. After seeing how<br />
the other half lives we can say without doubt that heaven is no<br />
big rock candy mountain, it is no Elysian Fields, Olympos or<br />
Garden of Eden. If there ever is to be a heaven on earth then it<br />
is in communities such as the ones we encountered, where an<br />
eight-month pregnant woman will sleep on the ground to give<br />
a stranger her bed, where our Prayer for Generosity speaks not<br />
just in words but in actions, where the presence of God can<br />
be found in even the deepest of darkness.<br />
It defied all logic and seemed a contradiction, but it was<br />
ultimately undeniable that those who had the least in life were<br />
actually happier in their existence than we with so much.<br />
However what we saw and experienced left us with more<br />
than mere memories. We will not tire of the memories, nor will<br />
they fade from our minds. But we learned from our encounters<br />
life-long lessons. Above all that we experienced, we came to<br />
appreciate an undeniable element of our faith. Sceptics may<br />
ask where is the work of God in the world? To this we can<br />
only reply that after seeing such generosity in places of such<br />
hopelessness, God’s presence is palpable, and for this we are<br />
so more the richer.<br />
Dominic McNeil (Year 12)<br />
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from the senior school<br />
Gifted Education at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>'<br />
College<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College continues to show a strong<br />
commitment to supporting Gifted Education through<br />
the process of differentiating the curriculum in all<br />
Key Learning Areas. In order to refine this process, the<br />
College has enlisted the support of Ms Bronwyn McLeod<br />
from Gateways Education. Bronwyn has been working<br />
collaboratively with the College on developing programmes<br />
that meet the needs of our gifted student population.<br />
Bronwyn MacLeod has brought considerable knowledge<br />
and expertise to the College. Not only has she taught<br />
self-contained gifted classes herself but she has worked<br />
closely with Dr Miraca Gross at GERRIC (Gifted Education<br />
Research Resource and Information Centre) at the University<br />
of NSW. Bronwyn has lectured to postgraduate students in<br />
Gifted Education and she has also written a series of books<br />
on Gifted Education.<br />
In addition to her experience in Gifted Education,<br />
Bronwyn also spent fifteen years as a classroom teacher<br />
in both primary and secondary schools. Her extensive<br />
knowledge and experience has meant that she has been<br />
able to offer practical advice for our classroom teachers.<br />
In 2005 the focus was on supporting Year 6 teachers<br />
as well as staff members from the English and History<br />
Departments. In <strong>2006</strong>, the focus will be on supporting<br />
Year 5 teachers as well as the Technology and Geography<br />
Departments.<br />
The History Department found the workshops last year so<br />
valuable that they also volunteered to be involved in <strong>2006</strong>.<br />
This time they will be focusing on refining and incorporating<br />
higher order thinking skills into their programmes.<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College continues to follow Maker’s (1982) model<br />
of curriculum differentiation i.e. differentiating the following:<br />
Differentiating the Curriculum Workshop showing Bronwyn McLeod<br />
leading a group of Year 5 teachers<br />
Content: Curriculum content is made up of ideas,<br />
concepts and information shared with students. In<br />
order to meet the needs of gifted students the content<br />
must be more complex, abstract, varied and organised<br />
differently.<br />
Process: The way in which the content is delivered to<br />
students. Questioning techniques, mental and physical<br />
activities form part of the process. In order to meet the<br />
needs of gifted children the level of thinking needs to<br />
be modified. The pace of teaching and the approach<br />
used also needs to be modified.<br />
Product: In order to cater for the needs of gifted<br />
students, teachers need to be flexible regarding<br />
the way that gifted students demonstrate mastery of<br />
learning outcomes i.e. the product. Products should<br />
allow students to develop higher order thinking skills.<br />
Learning Environment: In order to modify content,<br />
process and product it is imperative that changes are<br />
also made to the learning environment. An optimal<br />
learning environment should be student-centred;<br />
allowing students to be independent; open rather than<br />
closed; accepting; complex and abstract; permit and<br />
encourage high mobility.<br />
Changes to the learning environment also allows those<br />
students who have achieved mastery in the core curriculum<br />
to work on areas of interest. This may mean working on<br />
topics within and outside the classroom.<br />
I am enjoying the opportunity of working with Bronwyn<br />
and both our Junior School and Senior School teachers. I<br />
am convinced that effective curriculum differentiation is the<br />
key to improving classroom pedagogy, student engagement<br />
and supporting all of our boys to reach their full academic<br />
potential.<br />
Academic Mentoring Programme<br />
The Academic Mentoring Programme commenced<br />
in 2005 and its creation was the direct result of<br />
a conversation between myself and the College<br />
Principal, Fr Chris Middleton SJ. Fr Middleton was very<br />
keen for <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College to develop a programme that<br />
would assist students to reach their full academic potential.<br />
So in March 2005, Nick Halter, a Year 12 Prefect was<br />
assigned to work with me on developing the Academic<br />
Mentoring Programme.<br />
By the end of 2005 there was a total enrolment of<br />
approximately eighty students (forty Year 11 and 12 mentors<br />
and forty mentees). This number has doubled over the past<br />
twelve months and I am pleased to say that in <strong>2006</strong> we<br />
have a total enrolment of over 160 students (eighty mentors<br />
and eighty mentees) involved in the programme.<br />
The aim of this programme is to provide students in<br />
Years 7-10 with an older ‘buddy’ who is able to spend<br />
some quality time with their younger counterpart, offering<br />
friendship and educational/learning support.<br />
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Year 11 student showing a younger student correct diary usage<br />
Each student in Year 11/12 is paired with a younger<br />
student. The students then make their own arrangements<br />
regarding when and where to meet each week.<br />
At each meeting they discuss various topics including:<br />
As alluded to earlier by Ms Maher, each mentor and<br />
his respective mentee are encouraged to meet at least once<br />
a week. This enables frequent communication between<br />
students and progress is made. However, weekly meetings<br />
could consist of a simple ‘get together’ for example, at<br />
lunch. They do not necessarily involve the stereotypical<br />
“tutor” approach, whereby the mentor is required to tutor<br />
his mentee in a specific subject – this is not the primary<br />
aim of the programme. Rather, the aim is to encourage<br />
communication between students and in doing so, establish<br />
and reinforce those values mentioned above. From personal<br />
experience, once a healthy relationship is established it<br />
becomes much easier to assist the mentee with help in a<br />
particular subject. Therefore Linda and I will always try<br />
to match mentees with mentors that they can relate to (in<br />
respect to personality, learning, subjects etc).<br />
The programme has got off to a flying start in <strong>2006</strong> and<br />
I look forward to its continued success throughout the year.<br />
Rohan Chowdry (Year 12)<br />
Senior Prefect for Academics<br />
and the Academic Mentoring<br />
Programme<br />
Goal setting<br />
Time management<br />
Subject specific assistance<br />
Diary usage<br />
Good study habits<br />
Other topics as determined by the students<br />
themselves.<br />
Rohan Chowdry is the Senior Prefect assigned to assist<br />
with the Academic Mentoring Programme in <strong>2006</strong>. He is<br />
very keen to see this programme succeed and in addition to<br />
assisting me with communication to all mentees, he is also<br />
a mentor himself. I am really enjoying working with Rohan<br />
on this very worthwhile programme and I hope to see it<br />
continuing at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College for many years to come.<br />
Ms Linda Maher<br />
Head of Learning Enrichment<br />
A word from Rohan Chowdry<br />
The Academic Mentoring Programme is a unique<br />
and wonderful opportunity for boys from Years 7-10<br />
to develop their academic and social skills. While<br />
the aim of the programme targets academic growth and<br />
success with the help of a senior “buddy” (in either Year 11<br />
or 12), it also provides an effective environment in which<br />
boys can communicate freely and openly in confidence<br />
with their mentor. In doing so, boys are able to develop<br />
social skills (a valuable asset in life); however the underlying<br />
importance lies in the fact that students develop confidence<br />
and enthusiasm towards their school-life in general.<br />
"<strong>Aloysius</strong>, Man for Others" by Michael Chiu (SAC 2003)<br />
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senior school sport<br />
From the Director of Co-Curricula<br />
Summer Review<br />
Basketball<br />
After a slow start to the season, the First V finished<br />
strongly in the final home games, just missing third<br />
placing in the CAS competition. Captain Tom<br />
Wright (Year 12), playing his fourth season in the First V,<br />
was again picked in the CAS First V whilst Matthew Jones<br />
(Year 12) made the CAS Second V. Waverley College<br />
went through undefeated in the CAS competition.<br />
The team did well in other matches and tournaments<br />
during the year winning the annual Fr AV Smith SJ<br />
Trophy game against <strong>St</strong> Ignatius’ College 89-67. The<br />
Team competed at the Annual Jesuit Schools Basketball<br />
Competition and were runners up to Xavier College,<br />
Melbourne. The team also played in the Trinity Tournament<br />
losing to competition favourites Cranbrook in the semis.<br />
Coach and Director of Basketball Mr Michael Turton, did a<br />
wonderful job with the team.<br />
The Second V, under the coaching of Old Boy Dom<br />
Pelosi (SAC 2000), were unlucky in many of their matches<br />
and improved markedly throughout the season. All A and<br />
B teams were very competitive winning many games. The<br />
9As, under coach and MIC Mr Sinclair Watson, was<br />
our most successful team with five wins and one draw in<br />
the CAS competition. Our new 7s age group was most<br />
impressive with the As and Bs losing only one CAS game<br />
this Term. Congratulations to Liam Andrew (Year 8) who<br />
was selected to play in the Sydney Metropolitan team<br />
which won the Under 14 Interstate Tournament in Victoria<br />
last December. In the Junior School, congratulations to Alex<br />
Perkins (Year 6) on his selection in the CIS team. The Prep<br />
First V are currently undefeated at the completion of Term<br />
I.<br />
Old Boys involved with teams included Adam Fisher<br />
(SAC 2004) (Third and Fourth V), Phil Cunningham (SAC<br />
1991) (10As), Daniel Tardo (SAC 2005) (9Bs), Andrew<br />
Punteriero (SAC 2005) (8Cs and Ds), Justin Fontana (SAC<br />
2005) (8Es and Fs), Andrew Little (SAC 2003) (7As) and<br />
Michael Kennedy (SAC 2005) (7Cs and Ds).<br />
My thanks to the MIC, Mr Sinclair Watson, who did a<br />
tremendous amount of work in his first year in the role and<br />
the parent committee who assisted him so well.<br />
Cricket<br />
Like Basketball, the First XI played their best cricket late in<br />
the season with excellent wins over Barker College and<br />
Cranbrook School and an unlucky loss to Knox Grammar<br />
when the game was all but won. The highlight of Term IV<br />
was the huge 227 partnership between Michael Bryant<br />
(Year 12) and Marc Harrold (Year 11) in the Cranbrook<br />
game. Needless to say, both boys posted centuries and<br />
Michael Bryant scored another century during Jesuit Cricket<br />
Week. Despite the few wins, the team was placed sixth.<br />
However four of the team were chosen in the CAS First XI<br />
including Michael Bryant, Tim Eather (Year 12), Paul Ellis<br />
(Year 12) and Bernard Foley (Year 11). This was the biggest<br />
representation of any school. Captain Nic Geldens (Year<br />
12) and Vice Captain Michael Bryant (Year 12) were also<br />
selected in the Australian Jesuit Schools Team following the<br />
carnival in Adelaide. Old Boy and First XI coach Adrian<br />
Danieletto (SAC 002) performed very well in his first year<br />
in this position.<br />
Our 9s age group were very strong with the As winning<br />
many of their matches but were pipped by the 9Bs for best<br />
team in the school. The Bs won nine out of ten games.<br />
Our overall results against Cranbrook and Waverley were<br />
particularly pleasing with the College winning the majority<br />
of matches played.<br />
In the Junior School, the 10A’s are currently undefeated<br />
at the end of Term I. Old Boys involved in coaching teams<br />
included Jeremy Curtin (SAC 2003) (Second XI), Dom<br />
Haylen (SAC 2003) (3rds), John McCormack (SAC 2004)<br />
(10Cs), Paul O’Byrne (SAC 2003) (8Bs) and Tom Borger<br />
(SAC 2003) (7As).<br />
Swimming<br />
This season was one of our best for many years both<br />
individually and in terms of team performances. The<br />
Senior School Swim Team won the <strong>St</strong> Patricks’ Invitation<br />
and SCECGS Redlands Invitation easily and was placed<br />
second at our own invitation to Trinity Grammar in lead up to<br />
the CAS Championships. The Junior School won their annual<br />
Catholic Schools Competition at <strong>St</strong> Ignatius’ College by a<br />
comfortable margin.<br />
At the CAS Championships, we finished a distinguished<br />
fourth, only forty points off second and third placing but<br />
well clear of fifth placed Waverley who were sixty-three<br />
points behind us. We had twelve wins on the night and<br />
were placed in twenty-six other events.<br />
A more detailed report on the 2005/<strong>2006</strong> Swimming<br />
season appears in this edition of the <strong>Aloysiad</strong>.<br />
<strong>St</strong>efan Prendergast, Sam McConnell, Vincent <strong>St</strong>okes and Luke Veverka<br />
(all Year 11) U16, 4x50 Relay Team and CAS Record Holders<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
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Tennis<br />
The First IV finished fourth in the CAS competition but<br />
two players from the team, Captain Rohan Chowdry<br />
(Year 12) and Alex Patten (Year 10) were selected<br />
in the CAS First IV team to play GPS. Simon Jackson<br />
(Year 12) was also selected as reserve for the Second IV.<br />
Only three CAS schools were represented at Firsts level.<br />
Our other team member was Nic Fuentes (Year 8) who<br />
played at number three in the team. Our best performed<br />
teams were the 9As and 9Bs who had seven wins each<br />
in the competition from ten games. The 7As played only<br />
four games this season but went through undefeated not<br />
losing a set to any school. Congratulations to Robin Pfister<br />
(Year 5) who was selected in the CIS team this Term. Well<br />
done to the Prep As and Bs and SAC 1 who are presently<br />
undefeated at the end of Term I.<br />
Volleyball<br />
The College fielded three summer teams again and<br />
all were successful again. The First VI were placed<br />
second overall to Trinity Grammar whilst the other two<br />
teams finished unofficially also second in their respective<br />
competitions.<br />
Waterpolo<br />
The College fielded a young but talented First VII team<br />
this season under the coaching of Old Boys Sam<br />
Nolan (SAC 1999) and Peter de Gail (SAC 2002).<br />
Paul Sindone (Year 7) and Michael de Gail (Year 8) are<br />
young, but both have been selected in the NSW Under14<br />
<strong>St</strong>ate Squad along with Mark Sindone (Year 9). The team<br />
finished fifth in the combined CAS/GPS competition ahead<br />
of Barker, Waverley and Knox.<br />
The 16As, under the coaching of Old Boy Jeremy May<br />
(SAC 2002) was our best performed team winning seven<br />
matches. Our 14s improved noticeably as the season<br />
progressed under Old Boy coaches Todd Miller (SAC<br />
2004) and Nic Bateman (SAC 2005).<br />
<strong>St</strong>udent Achievements<br />
Athletics<br />
Matthew Rowland (Year 7) was a member of the Manly<br />
Warringah All Age Relay Team that won silver at the <strong>St</strong>ate<br />
Little Athletics Championships.<br />
Fencing<br />
David Donato (Year 12) was selected to represent Australia<br />
in the World Championships in Korea in April.<br />
Golf<br />
Daniel Soglanich (Year 12) was selected in the CIS<br />
team. Kieran Chowdry (Year 7) was placed third in the<br />
NSW Under13s Jack Newton sponsored tournament in<br />
Cessnock.<br />
Rowing<br />
Noel Pearson (Year 9) was a member of the Mosman<br />
Quads Team that came third at the NSW Under 16<br />
Championships.<br />
Surf Life Saving<br />
At the <strong>St</strong>ate Life Savings Championships, Tom Kingston<br />
(Year 9) won the silver medal in the 15 years Beach<br />
Sprint. Michael Mulcahy (Year 11) won silver in the 17<br />
years Beach Sprint. Tom Mathew (Year 11) won bronze<br />
in the 17 years Beach Relay. All boys have qualified for<br />
Nationals.<br />
Chris Millar (SAC <strong>St</strong>aff 1983 – <strong>2006</strong>)<br />
After twenty-two years of service as Groundsman at<br />
the College Oval, Chris has retired from the job<br />
and has begun driving trains. Chris developed a<br />
close rapport with everyone at the Oval – coaches, staff,<br />
parents and especially Old Boys. For many years he<br />
coached the Second XI cricket team and boys from those<br />
teams would have many wonderful memories of the BBQ’s<br />
and his infamous ‘bake a cake competition’ that took place<br />
after matches. Chris was excellent in preparing wickets<br />
for Saturday games and always had the Oval looking a<br />
treat in the winter season. Chris was never short on giving<br />
advice and will be sorely missed.<br />
An opportunity for Old Boys and members of the<br />
Aloysian Family to farewell him will take place at the<br />
College Oval following the last home game of the winter<br />
season against Trinity Grammar on 29 July. Further details<br />
can be obtained from my office at the College.<br />
Senior School Winter Preview<br />
Football<br />
Unfortunately the First XI Coach from 2005, Mr Ian<br />
Gillin, is unable to coach the team due to work<br />
commitments. However, the College has been<br />
very fortunate to acquire the services of former Socceroo,<br />
Mr David Mitchell to coach both the First XI and Second<br />
XI this season. David played forty-six games for Australia<br />
and was involved in four World Cup campaigns.<br />
David played for Adelaide City, Sydney City, Sydney<br />
Olympic, and Sydney United between 1979-2000.<br />
David also had plenty of overseas experience having<br />
played for Glasgow Rangers and Chelsea to mention<br />
but a few. David has also coached Sydney Olympic,<br />
Sydney United, Parramatta Power and was the Assistant<br />
Coach for the Australian Olympic Team in 1999. In<br />
1999/2000, David was voted Australian Coach of the<br />
Year.<br />
MIC Mr Antony Sindone will replace Fr Chris Middleton<br />
SJ as Manager of the Opens Team. I would like to personally<br />
thank Fr Middleton SJ for making himself available last year<br />
to assist.<br />
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senior school sport<br />
Old Boys coaching this year include Chris Chase (SAC<br />
2003) (10As), Paul O’Byrne (SAC 2003) (10Bs), Phil<br />
O’Bryne (SAC 2004) (9As), Tim Scarfe (SAC 2004) (9Bs),<br />
David Rigby (SAC 2004) (9Cs), Ben Wilford (SAC 2001)<br />
(8Bs), Mark Bingham (SAC 2005) (8Ds), Matt Walker<br />
(SAC 2005) and Damian Pasfield (SAC 2003) (7As and<br />
Bs), Michael Kennedy (SAC 2005) (7Cs ) and Michael<br />
Gemmell (SAC 2005) (7Cs)<br />
Rugby<br />
Messrs Frank Clarke and Paul Harkin will co-coach the First<br />
XV again this season. Old Boys involved include Adrian<br />
Danieletto (SAC 2001) (16Bs), Andrew Geldens (SAC<br />
2004) (15Bs), Ian Skinner (SAC 2004) (15s Skills Coach),<br />
Jonathan Owen (SAC 2004) (15s Skills Coach), Russell<br />
Skinner (SAC 2004) (14s Skills Coach), Ben Marshall<br />
(SAC 2005) (13Cs) and Nic Edwards (SAC 2000) (13s<br />
Skills Coach).<br />
Mr Paul Rowland<br />
Director of Co-curricula<br />
Pre-Season and CAS Competition Schedule<br />
Pre-Season:<br />
6 May v <strong>St</strong> Ignatius’ College, Riverview (home)<br />
Double Header - First XI Football at 1.30pm<br />
First XV Rugby at 3.15pm<br />
13 May v <strong>St</strong> Patrick’s College, <strong>St</strong>rathfield (away)<br />
20 May v <strong>St</strong> Pius X College (away)<br />
27 May v Barker College (home)<br />
3 June v Trinity Grammar School (away)<br />
CAS Season:<br />
17 June v Knox Grammar School (home) CAS Round 1<br />
22 July v CBC Waverley (home) CAS Round 2<br />
29 July v Trinity Grammar School (home) CAS Round 3<br />
Double Header (times same as 6 May).<br />
5 August v Cranbrook School (away) CAS Round 4<br />
12 August v Barker College (away) CAS Round 5<br />
The following article was omitted from the Christmas 2005<br />
edition of the <strong>Aloysiad</strong> in error.<br />
2005 Winter Sports Update<br />
Tennis<br />
Though not overly successful in the First IV competition<br />
this winter, the team was involved in many close<br />
matches and were unlucky not to win a few of the<br />
CAS games. Captain David Lee (Year 12) was chosen in<br />
the CAS First IV team and Alex Patten (Year 9) was selected<br />
as reserve. The 8Bs was the most successful College team<br />
being undefeated after ten rounds of CAS competition.<br />
Congratulations to their coach Miss <strong>St</strong>ella Robinson and<br />
the team members.<br />
During the July holidays, Nic Fuentes (Year 7) reached<br />
the consolation final of the prestigious Metropolitan<br />
Championships and won the Northern Suburbs Metropolitan<br />
Championships.<br />
In the Junior School Matt Rowland (Year 6) was selected<br />
in the CIS Team.<br />
Volleyball<br />
The College fielded only one team in the winter<br />
competition but they were quite successful. The team<br />
finished second overall amongst the CAS Schools. A<br />
win over Knox in the final game would have seen the team<br />
share the premiership with Knox but Knox were able to<br />
beat the Firsts which unfortunately was not at full strength<br />
for the match.<br />
Cross Country<br />
The College fielded a small but talented band of athletes<br />
who were involved in regular Saturday competition<br />
with other CAS and GPS schools. Angus Ryan (Year<br />
12) was our stand out performer representing CIS at All<br />
Schools. Angus, along with Graham Purcell (Year 11) and<br />
Alex Godbold (Year 10) represented CAS at Opens Level<br />
against GPS.<br />
At the CAS Championships, Graham Purcell came third<br />
and Brendan McLenaghan (Year 11) fourth individually in<br />
the Opens event. Alex Godbold was placed second in the<br />
16 years whilst Joe Craft (Year 9) won the 14 years. The<br />
team of Joe Craft, Ben Klarich (Year 8), Thorne Pastega<br />
(Year 7) and Chris Joannides (Year 7) came second in the<br />
teams’ event.<br />
Fencing<br />
Our small band of Fencers did wonderfully well<br />
during the winter period. Captain David Donato<br />
(Year 11) was chosen in the NSW Under 17 Foil<br />
and Sabre Team and was later selected in the Australian<br />
Schoolboys Under 17 Fencing that competed in New<br />
Zealand.<br />
At the <strong>St</strong>ate Championships, our two senior teams<br />
finished both eighth and tenth respectively. Individually<br />
David Donato was placed fifth in the Foil, James Zwar<br />
(Year 10) thirteenth and Mark Uy (Year 11) twentieth.<br />
Our Under 13 Team comprising of James Lauder, Jeremy<br />
Amies, Michael Parker and Hayden Fitzgerald (all Year<br />
7) secured first place in the NSW Schools League final.<br />
This is the third time in six years that we have won this title.<br />
Jeremy Amies collected the silver medal for his individual<br />
bouts. The senior team of David Donato, James Zwar, Mark<br />
Uy and Ed Mackenzie was placed third in their final.<br />
Australian Rules<br />
The College fielded three teams again in an expanded<br />
competition this year. Unfortunately we were unable to<br />
emulate our wonderful results from last year. Many of<br />
the games however saw very close results. Bernard Foley<br />
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and Simon Lobascher (both Year 10) were selected to play<br />
in a North Harbour combined team that played as a curtain<br />
raiser to the Swans versus Lions match at Telstra <strong>St</strong>adium.<br />
My thanks extend to parents Paul Robinson, Bernie Buncle<br />
and Old Boy Chris Lobascher (SAC 2003) for organising<br />
the season and coaching the boys.<br />
Golf<br />
Daniel Soglanich (Year 11) won the Sydney Schoolboys<br />
Championships. In the Jack Newton sponsored<br />
tournaments in Cessnock during the October<br />
holidays, Kieran Chowdry (Year 7) won the International<br />
Event for Under 12 boys whilst brother Neal (Year 8) came<br />
seventh in NSW in the invitational tournament in the Under<br />
14’s.<br />
Snow Sports<br />
The following boys competed in the NSW All Schools<br />
Championships and all qualified for Nationals. They<br />
included Baden Hunt (Year 9), Ben Sweeney (Year<br />
9), Matthew Cowle (Year 9), Tim Eather (Year 11), Rohan<br />
Chowdry (Year 11), David Bulters (Year 11), James Ashton-<br />
Maxwell (Year 11), Daniel Boyd (Year 6) and Sam Norman<br />
(Year 12).<br />
Gold Blazers<br />
Congratulations to two of our Year 12 students in<br />
achieving this rare sporting honour. Captain of the<br />
College Matt Walker, who incidentally won a Gold<br />
Blazer in 2004, achieved the same again this season. Matt<br />
was selected in the CAS First XI Football and CIS First XI<br />
Football team, made the CIS First VI Volleyball team and<br />
won the Opens Long Jump at the CAS Championships.<br />
Angus Ryan represented CIS at Cross Country, was in<br />
the College First XI Cricket team and was placed at the<br />
CAS Athletic Championships in the Open 800 metre and<br />
1500 metre events.<br />
Mr Paul Rowland<br />
Director of Co-Curricula<br />
Football Report – 2005 Season Roundup<br />
The following article was submitted for the Christmas 2005<br />
Edition of The <strong>Aloysiad</strong>, but due to an error was omitted.<br />
There are many ways of measuring success. <strong>St</strong>atisticians<br />
will argue that the best way is empirically. In that case,<br />
the College can be proud of winning or drawing the<br />
majority of fixtures contested (over sixty percent). Indeed the<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College Football fraternity can boast of being<br />
the largest and most successful of the seven major sports on<br />
offer at the College. I prefer however to take a ‘qualitative’<br />
approach to success, that is an appreciation of the many<br />
and varied minor victories that occur week in and week<br />
out of the Football season. These success stories are the<br />
ones that can be lost in the morass of numbers. They begin<br />
in the hearts of players who dream of representing their<br />
College. For many, it begins in the junior years, the Under<br />
9s, 10s and 11s, who pull on the Blue and Gold jersey for<br />
the first time. For other, more experienced campaigners, it<br />
occurs whenever they lace up their boots. Football success<br />
happens on the training paddock and the locker room, in<br />
the halftime huddles and end of game war-cries. Success<br />
is about using your God-given talent to play, – to the best<br />
of your ability, whether in the 1st XI or the Under 9s. And if<br />
the game ends in victory the celebration is all the sweeter.<br />
If not, a player can be proud of having given it his all. The<br />
season has been a success, not just because the numbers<br />
went our way, more often than not, but because hundreds<br />
of Aloysians, representing thirty-two teams, ran out on the<br />
field each week.<br />
It would be remiss of me however not to mention a<br />
number of standout performances<br />
Despite losing the final two games of the CAS, the First<br />
XI had an outstanding season. Building on the success of<br />
last year’s team, the Firsts claimed the <strong>St</strong> Andrew’s Cup (a<br />
preseason tournament), the Fr Whitely SJ Cup (defeating<br />
<strong>St</strong> Ignatius’ College, Riverview), the <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ – Sydney<br />
Grammar Challenge Shield, and the Loyola Cup (Jesuit<br />
Schools Tournament held this year in Adelaide).<br />
On Wednesday, 17 August the First XI were unlucky to<br />
lose to Newington College in the Independent Schools Cup<br />
final. After dominating the match with incisive runs and strong<br />
defence, the First XI conceded a goal in the final minute of<br />
the match, to lose 2-1. The convincing display was all the<br />
more noteworthy, with the absence of key players. In all,<br />
the First XI lost only four games from the twenty-four fixtures<br />
played, a truly remarkable achievement.<br />
The 10 Cs are to be congratulated on being the most<br />
successful team in the Senior School with only a single loss<br />
from ten games. The 9Bs were undefeated in the CAS<br />
competition.<br />
In the Junior School, the under 10As went throughout<br />
the whole season (nine fixtures) without defeat. While the<br />
Under 11 age group (three teams) lost only four of their<br />
twenty-seven games.<br />
Success is only possible with support, and <strong>Aloysius</strong>’<br />
players are wonderfully supported by Coaching staff, parents<br />
and friends. Ably led by Director of Football, Mr Eduardo<br />
Moerbeck, the Coaches are to be commended on their<br />
dedication to the task and their professionalism. A number<br />
of Old Boys have stepped into coaching roles this year and<br />
handled themselves with aplomb. Thanks to the many parents<br />
who staffed the BBQ, especially Mr Dan Mulcahy and Mr<br />
Gary Walker who co-ordinated all things ‘culinary’. The BBQ<br />
not only provides a valuable service to parents and players<br />
but is an invaluable fund raiser for Football. It is through these<br />
efforts that vital equipment can be purchased. Many thanks<br />
to Mr Bruno Maurel, Mr Paul Pendleton and Mr Rob Spano<br />
who in addition to Messrs Mulcahy and Walker contributed<br />
much to the SAC Football Committee. Mr Malcolm Lasky<br />
ably coordinated the refereeing appointments, which proved<br />
a wonderful service to the College. Thanks to Mrs Michelle<br />
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Walker and all the Mums (and Dads) who provided fantastic<br />
morning and afternoon teas that were the envy of all visiting<br />
First XI teams. Thanks to the College Groundsman, Mr Chris<br />
Millar, for preparing ‘table-top’ pitches that helped the First XI<br />
win all but one of their home matches.<br />
A debt of gratitude to Fr Chris Middleton SJ who was<br />
manager of the First XI and a wonderful patron of the sport.<br />
Thanks to Director of Co-curricular Mr Paul Rowland (ably<br />
assisted by Mrs Kathy Fitzgerald) for his superb leadership<br />
of sport (and non-sport) in the College. Although not his<br />
first love, Football has gone from strength to strength under<br />
his care. Ongoing thanks to Mrs Caroline Linschoten,<br />
who guided Football for half of its thirty year history at the<br />
College. Football continues to be a success at the College<br />
because of Caroline’s distinguished tenure. Lastly to the<br />
players – continue to wear the Blue and Gold with pride.<br />
Dream big and work hard and successes both large and<br />
small will come your way.<br />
Mr Antony Sindone<br />
MIC Football<br />
Jesuit Schools’ Tennis Carnival, 2005<br />
The 2005 Carnival was held between Sunday 4<br />
December and Thursday 8 December at the home<br />
courts of our hosts, Xavier College, Melbourne. <strong>St</strong><br />
<strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College was represented by Rohan Chowdry<br />
(Captain – Year 12), Alex Patten (Year 10), Nick Fuentes<br />
(Year 8), Simon Jackson (Year 12), Nicholas O’Sullivan<br />
- Avery (Year 11), Andy Igoe (SAC 2007) and Paul<br />
Capito (Year 11). Accompanying the squad was Mr Terry<br />
Watson (MIC) and Mr Michael Cronin. This squad was<br />
the strongest we have been able to field for a number<br />
of years and the results were excellent. Riverview were<br />
unable to participate and Xavier fielded two teams to<br />
make up for this absence.<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ won both rubbers against Xavier 2 (8-1, 7-2)<br />
convincingly with all team members playing an extremely<br />
high standard game. Over the years the matches between<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ and <strong>St</strong> Ignatius’ College Adelaide have been<br />
keenly contested and 2005 was no exception. Although<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ lost both rubbers 3-6, 3-6, game scores were<br />
close often going to multiple deuces. In the first rubber<br />
Rohan Chowdry and Alex Patten combined well to win<br />
their doubles 9-6, as did Nick O’Sullivan-Avery and Andy<br />
Igoe to win 9-5. Alex Patten played a real power game to<br />
win his singles 9-5. In the return match Alex repeated his<br />
singles performance to win 6-3, Nick Fuentes did not give<br />
his opponent a chance convincingly winning 6-2 while Andy<br />
came back from 1-4 down to win 6-4. In our first rubber<br />
against Xavier 1 we lost 8-0; however, in the return rubber<br />
we took 3 sets from Xavier to go down 3-6. Rohan Chowdry<br />
and Alex Patten combined to win their doubles match in<br />
a tie break 8-6. Then Rohan Chowdry produced his best<br />
tennis of the Carnival to comprehensively defeat his Xavier<br />
counterpart 6-2. Nick Fuentes then inflicted a decisive defeat<br />
on his opponent 6-2.<br />
Jesuit Tennis Carnival<br />
Overall it was a most enjoyable Carnival for our<br />
boys. They produced some excellent tennis over the four<br />
competition days. Alex Patten was rewarded with selection<br />
in the Australian Jesuit Tennis Team. All team members<br />
exhibited the sportsmanship one normally associates with<br />
our boys and they were fine ambassadors for our College<br />
and a credit to their families. I wish to also thank those<br />
supporter parents who made the trip south: Mrs Chowdry<br />
and Mr and Mrs Fuentes. Finally, I would like to thank Mr<br />
Michael Cronin for his expertise and support of our team.<br />
We now look forward to the <strong>2006</strong> carnival which will be<br />
hosted by the College in December.<br />
Mr Terry Watson<br />
Master in Charge – Tennis<br />
Swimming 2005 - <strong>2006</strong><br />
As early as the middle of the 2005, the prospects of<br />
our <strong>2006</strong> <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ Swim Team looked promising.<br />
Three of our swimmers, Sam McConnell (Year 11),<br />
Paul Sindone (Year 7) and Matthew Jepson (Year 6), were<br />
selected to represent the <strong>St</strong>ate at the Pacific School Games<br />
in Melbourne in November 2005. The three boys performed<br />
outstandingly, bringing home a total of twelve medals.<br />
Buoyed by these efforts, the College Swim Team began<br />
the new season at the <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College Invitational<br />
Carnival at North Sydney Pool and finished a very<br />
creditable second overall to the strong Trinity Grammar<br />
School Team - this was without our Year 10 swimmers who<br />
had a school formal on the same night. Very promising<br />
were the number of personal bests by boys so early in their<br />
preparation.<br />
From here, we headed to the <strong>St</strong> Patrick’s Invitational<br />
at Auburn Pool where the squad performed outstandingly<br />
- winning the Junior Shield, Intermediate Shield and taking<br />
the overall Point Score Trophy by a massive margin. The<br />
team was taking shape.<br />
The College Championships was held at the Warringah<br />
Aquatic Centre during the last week of Term IV 2005 and<br />
I am proud to announce the following as Age Champions<br />
for <strong>2006</strong>.<br />
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Age Champions<br />
Opens: Graham Purcell (Year 12)<br />
17 Years: Christian McMahon (Year 11)<br />
16 Years: Luke Veverka (Year 10)<br />
15 Years: Chris Sudarmana (Year 9)<br />
14 Years: Michael de Gail (Year 8) and<br />
Mark Sindone (Year 9)<br />
13 Years: Marcus Anderson (Year 7)<br />
The unfortunate cancellation of the Oakhill College<br />
Invitational this year meant that our final hit out before the<br />
CIS Championships and trial, was to be at the SCECGS<br />
Redlands Invitational at Homebush in February. Here we<br />
were teamed with the girls from Monte Sant’ Angelo in a<br />
point score carnival against eighteen other schools (nine<br />
pairings). In a powerful display by both girls and boys we<br />
were victorious to the time of some eighty-five points, a<br />
great result!<br />
The <strong>2006</strong> CAS Swimming Championships at Homebush<br />
proved to be the most successful for <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
in many years. Highlights of the night were many, but<br />
noticeable were:<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College moved up the point score ladder to<br />
fourth and greatly closed the gap between us and the<br />
top three - Trinity, Knox and Barker. We were the only<br />
team to register an increase in points – forty-five points<br />
or thirteen percent.<br />
An analysis of the spread of points clearly indicates that<br />
those above us will struggle over the next few years as<br />
our strong Intermediates and Juniors move through the<br />
ranks.<br />
Sam McConnell (Year 11) won six events on the night,<br />
breaking three CAS records along the way.<br />
Matthew Jepson (Year 6) won the 12 years Freestyle in<br />
CAS record time.<br />
Four of our relay teams won.<br />
A total of twelve boys were selected in the CAS Team.<br />
Congratulations to Graham Purcell (Year 12), Sam<br />
McConnell (Year 11), Vincent <strong>St</strong>okes (Year 11), Luke<br />
Veverka (Year 10), <strong>St</strong>ephan Prendergast (Year 10),<br />
Chris Sudarmana (Year 9), Chris Chan (Year 9), Mark<br />
Sindone (Year 9), Michael de Gail (Year 8), Taylor<br />
Dent (Year 9), Paul Sindone (Year 7) and Marcus<br />
Anderson (Year 7).<br />
From JSHAA Championships (Junior School), six boys<br />
gained representative honours and joined the seniors to<br />
advance to CIS. These lads were; Matthew Jepson (Year<br />
6), Harrison Williams (Year 6), Alex Hyde (Year 6), Joseph<br />
Mastrangelo (Year 6), Patrick Prendergast (Year 6) and<br />
Oliver Wetzlar (Year 5)<br />
The Combined Independent Schools (CIS) Championships<br />
were held at Homebush on Tuesday 28 March and saw <strong>St</strong><br />
<strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College really put the icing on the cake of a most<br />
successful season. Personal bests were the order of the day,<br />
the highlights being:<br />
The Team at the conclusion of the Carnival<br />
Senior School<br />
Sam McConnell’s eight wins and four CIS records.<br />
Both Intermediate Relay Teams registering wins.<br />
Same ten swimmers now advancing to NSW All<br />
Schools.<br />
Junior School<br />
Swim Relay Team victorious.<br />
Matthew Jepson won six events and set a new CIS<br />
record.<br />
Oliver Wetzlar placed in the 10 years Breaststroke.<br />
All six boys now advancing to <strong>St</strong>ate All Schools.<br />
With up to sixteen boys earning the right to represent<br />
the College at NSW All Schools, I can only say “well done<br />
lads” and good luck. With talent such as this our immediate<br />
future looks in safe hands.<br />
Mr Martin Tenisons<br />
MIC Swimming<br />
The College CAS Swimming Team prior to the carnival<br />
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music<br />
The Grand Finale!<br />
Anatomy of a Musical<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College has a proud tradition of presenting<br />
superb musical theatre. In March that tradition<br />
continued with a wonderful season of the rock opera<br />
by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jesus Christ Superstar. The<br />
programme annotations summarise the context of this iconic<br />
musical production thus:<br />
“The earliest appearance of the Passion of Christ dates<br />
back to the fourth century. The bare Gospel accounts<br />
were eventually recited and chanted during Holy Week,<br />
with several members of the clergy assigned to portray<br />
Jesus is bullied by Pilate and his tormentors<br />
the roles of various characters in the narrative. A parallel<br />
development can be traced to the medieval guild “mystery”<br />
plays which by the 13th century began to incorporate the<br />
Passion story into dramatic presentations. This tradition<br />
survives today in Bavaria at the Oberammergau Festival. As<br />
the centuries passed ever more complex musical accounts<br />
of the Passion story evolved. Bach’s great Oratorios led<br />
inexorably to the Nineteenth century oratorios by Beethoven<br />
Christ on the Mount of Olives, Spohr The Last Hour of Our<br />
Saviour and <strong>St</strong>ainer Crucifixion. In the 20th century there<br />
was a return to more understated settings. Distler’s Choral<br />
- Passion and Pepping’s <strong>St</strong> Matthew Passion hark back to<br />
earlier models, while the Luke Passion of Penderecki and<br />
Passio by Arvo Pärt take on a new dramatic intensity. Lord<br />
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar revives the<br />
tradition of flamboyant theatricality.<br />
Jesus Christ Superstar is neither Gospel proclamation<br />
nor history, it is a two-act rock opera, which gave opera<br />
a radical facelift through its use of vibrant rock music for<br />
this most solemn of topics. The narrative of the passion<br />
story is incomplete leaving out the Resurrection. This has<br />
been considered both blasphemous and brilliant, bringing<br />
picketers to the streets to protest the play, while critics<br />
raved its genius. Jesus is portrayed as having human<br />
qualities, doubts, and faults, yet his crucifixion becomes<br />
all the more poignant for it. The play was unique in its<br />
genesis as well, having begun its life as an LP record, thus<br />
putting initial emphasis on musicality over plot and staging.<br />
The first Broadway musical to have started in this way, it<br />
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emains an innovative work of drama and music that has<br />
weathered well, with a production nearly always taking<br />
place somewhere in the world.<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College has been visited by this rock opera<br />
on a previous occasion as Jesus Christ Superstar was first<br />
staged in the Great Hall in 1983. A number of the original<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College cast and production team were present<br />
at the performances; many of whom have sons currently<br />
enrolled at the College.”<br />
The process of producing a full-scale musical is long and<br />
complex. Once the decision had been taken to stage this<br />
particular musical the rights to the show were sought and<br />
obtained from the Australian holders of the international<br />
copyright. It was decided to stage the season in late<br />
March to allow for the inclusion of more senior boys in<br />
the cast who would otherwise have been too pressured<br />
by academic commitments later in the year. Auditions<br />
were held in October of 2005, with a number of girls'<br />
schools being invited to become involved. Some wonderful<br />
principals were discovered in this process as well as a<br />
large, enthusiastic chorus of boys and girls. For the final<br />
production, the following schools collaborated with the<br />
College in the project: Loreto Kirribilli, Monte Sant’ Angelo<br />
College, Santa Sabina College, Wenona School and the<br />
Newtown School of Performing Arts. The final cast, crew<br />
and orchestra numbered in excess of one hundred and fifty<br />
students. Rehearsals commenced in November for chorus<br />
Madelaine McCloy with Sebastian Lush<br />
and principals. The girls and boys were then provided<br />
weigh material to study over the long summer vacation.<br />
The preparations then continued with the creation of<br />
a production team of staff and talented parent associates<br />
whose task it was to tackle the myriad details associated<br />
with a major musical production. It was decided at the<br />
outset to create as professional looking and sounding<br />
show as the budget would allow. To this end a number<br />
of set designers, lighting and sound engineers would be<br />
approached. The final production team was one of the<br />
finest groups of professionals we could hope for:<br />
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music<br />
Kurt, Isabelle, Danielle and Lisa groove on! Liam and the girls in Herod’s number<br />
Properties Co-ordinator: Ms Lisa Aronson,<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
Property Manager:<br />
Mr Andrew Baxter,<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
Orchestral Preparation: Mr Philip Chu, <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
Ticket Manager:<br />
Co-Producer:<br />
Choreographer:<br />
<strong>St</strong>aging:<br />
Mr Bruce Clarkson,<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
Mrs Regina Ferguson,<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
Ms Trish Flynn, <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
Mr Peter Gough, Head of Drama,<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
Programmes and Publicity:<br />
Mr Murray Happ (SAC 1985),<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
Producer:<br />
Sound Design:<br />
Mr Michael Hissey<br />
Director of Music,<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
Mr Noel Lightfoot, Lightfoot Sound<br />
Set Design and Construction:<br />
Mr Adam Lindberg,<br />
Adam Lindberg Design<br />
Accompanist:<br />
Costume Mistress:<br />
Chorus Mistress:<br />
Mrs Sia Mastro,<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
Mrs Dale Menzies,<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College Parent<br />
Ms Lindy Montgomery,<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
Lighting Designer: Mr John Pappas (SAC 1997)<br />
Pappas Media<br />
Musical Director/Conductor:<br />
Mr Andrew Quinane,<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
Director:<br />
Mrs Heidi Quinn,<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College.<br />
Notable amongst the team was Mr John Pappas (SAC<br />
1997). This young lighting designer has an award winning<br />
career of whom the College Rector, Fr Ross Jones SJ,<br />
recently wrote:<br />
“John is an international Emmy Award - winning artist.<br />
He began his interest in lighting as a boy at Aloys’ in drama<br />
productions Most times he is on call for NBC or CNN.<br />
The Winter Olympics in Turin was a recent engagement.<br />
His most fulfilling commission? A 2:00am phone call last<br />
year: “How soon can you be in Rome? The Pope is dying.”<br />
and there was John directing the lighting at <strong>St</strong> Peter’s for<br />
possibly the largest funeral event of all time. John stepped<br />
out of an international circuit to donate his time and talents<br />
to our production in a way that reflects the large-hearted<br />
disposition of so many who leave this unique community.<br />
What have I received? What more can I return? In a very<br />
moving speech after the final night’s production, John also<br />
told us that he also did this in memory of his great friend,<br />
who died so young - Edward Hastings (SAC 2004). What<br />
things characterise our community at its best? Unstinting<br />
generosity. Lasting friendships. Both signs of the Eternal.”<br />
By February <strong>2006</strong> a magnificent set design had been<br />
completed by Adam Lindberg from Lindberg Design based<br />
upon a stark and extended Great Hall stage laid bare to<br />
its fullest extent and with a huge dramatic stylised Sydney<br />
Harbour Bridge backdrop on a deep cyclamen sky and<br />
with multi layered black moveable scaffolding to support<br />
the action. Rehearsals for principals and chorus were<br />
ongoing throughout February and March and orchestral<br />
rehearsals were in full swing by the third week of Term.<br />
Teams of costume sewers ably led by parent Mrs Dale<br />
Menzies worked throughout each rehearsal: measuring,<br />
sewing and at other times seeking the weird and exotic<br />
fabrics required for this ultra-modern production.<br />
By late March all was ready. The Sound design and<br />
system were completed by Lighfoot Sound. The lighting<br />
array installed in the days prior to the dress rehearsal by<br />
John Pappas provided the final touch to the total combined<br />
production efforts. It was by this time becoming clear that<br />
this production was going to be very different from the<br />
average student musical. In the end, the cast, orchestra and<br />
crew worked magnificently to ensure that the tradition of<br />
world-standard College musical productions at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>'<br />
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College continues. Seen by four capacity houses of more<br />
than two thousand patrons each of whom seemed in<br />
agreement that the season was a rousing success.<br />
Fr Middleton SJ wrote in his review. “The production<br />
maximised student participation. The leads were supported<br />
by apostles and their wives, lepers, tormentors, acrobats,<br />
dancers, reporters, and chorus. Madelaine McCloy (Year<br />
10 at Monte Sant’ Angelo College) was magnificent as<br />
Mary, and the girls from Monte, Loreto Normanhurst,<br />
Wenona, SCECGS, Roseville, Santa Sabina, and<br />
Newtown High School of Performing Arts, enriched<br />
the production at every level. The aerobatics of Elise<br />
Pendlebury, from Year 8 at Monte, brought gasps from the<br />
audience. The <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ leads gave their all to the show.<br />
Sebastian Lush (Year 10) gave a powerful performance as<br />
Jesus (interestingly, his father was an Old Boy who was the<br />
youngest cast member in the original Australian production<br />
of Jesus Christ Superstar!). Kurt Menzies (Year 11), as one<br />
staff member put it, smouldered as Judas, while David<br />
Bulters (Year 12) was a commanding presence as Pilate.<br />
The foreboding figures of Caiaphas and Annas, played by<br />
Alex Knight (Year 11) and Leigh Tuckwell (Year 12), and<br />
assisted by the priests, Billy Sunderland (Year 10), Luke<br />
Swithenbank (Year 11) and Tom Malek (Year 11), added<br />
menace and malevolence to their scenes. Liam Gibson<br />
(Year 10), as Herod, gave an unforgettable performance<br />
as the hedonistic king. Michael De Waal (Year 11) and<br />
John Slaven (Year 9), playing Peter and Simon Zeolotes,<br />
conveyed beautifully the emotions of Jesus’ supporters.<br />
The stage crew, led by Adam Pasfield (Year 10) and<br />
his deputy, Michael Ward (Year 12), along with sixteen<br />
other boys, enabled the production to run<br />
with great professionalism – moving<br />
the set, assisting with the lighting<br />
and sound. The responsibility that<br />
these boys carried did them great<br />
credit. Almost everyone I spoke<br />
to commented on the quality of<br />
the orchestra.<br />
Men in Black and Judas<br />
Under concertmaster James Zwar (Year 11), assistant<br />
concertmaster, Jonathan Chan (Year 7), principals, Joseph<br />
McKenzie (Year 9), Jesse De Lisle (Year 11), Thomas Chan<br />
(Year 11), Henry Cornwell (Year 10), Charles Hipkin<br />
(Year 9) and Ken Koh (Year 7), and guest principals<br />
Angus Ryan (SAC 2005), James Dixon (SAC 2004), Ms<br />
Rosemary Turner, Chris Oxley (SAC 2004) and Mr Adrian<br />
Hallam, the fifty-plus musicians mastered a demanding<br />
production. The rock band of James Daly (Year 10),<br />
David McNevin (Year 11), Oscar Walmsley (Year 10)<br />
and <strong>St</strong>ephen Woodward (Year 12) injected great energy<br />
into the music.”<br />
As the Producer of Jesus Christ Superstar <strong>2006</strong>, looking<br />
back, I can only wonder and be amazed by the combined<br />
talents and generosity of so many colleagues, parents, girls<br />
and boys which made this such a memoroable musical.<br />
Another case of the product being far, far in excess<br />
of the sum total of its parts. This seems to happen<br />
often at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College.<br />
Mr Michael Hissey<br />
Director of Music<br />
Jesus and the Lepers<br />
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cadets<br />
Who’s looking after the children?...<br />
Have you ever wondered who is looking after your<br />
children? After all, you deliver them to Bradfield Park<br />
on the morning of camp and pick them up five or<br />
six days later. If they’re anything like mine were they do<br />
not talk much about the experience on the way home. You<br />
might be lucky enough to be told some wild story, but by<br />
the time you arrive home, get them washed, as they haven’t<br />
showered for the past five days, and fed, as they would<br />
have you believe they haven’t eaten either, you probably<br />
do not have the energy to ask, ‘who looked after you for<br />
the past week?’<br />
Lieutenants Edison Yeung, Robyn Chin and Philip Halter on annual<br />
camp<br />
CUO David Bulters (Year 12), Major David Clancy, Lieutenant Peter<br />
Marosszeky and Lieutenant Andy Ojong attend a planning meeting<br />
on annual camp.<br />
I would like to introduce you to our unit team responsible<br />
for the welfare of your sons. For the most part, the team<br />
is made up of fathers of past cadets; Anthony Chandler<br />
(<strong>St</strong>ewart SAC 1990 and Michael SAC 1997) started as<br />
a volunteer parent helping with the bivouac in 1993. He<br />
undertook the required training courses and currently holds<br />
the rank of Major in the Australian Army Cadets. Lieutenant<br />
Lachlan Donald (Grant SAC 2003) joined us in 2003<br />
along with Lieutenant Phillip Halter (Nicholas SAC 2005),<br />
Lieutenant Andy Ojong (Simon currently Year 8), Lieutenant<br />
Peter Marosszeky (Martin SAC 1998 and Paul SAC 2003)<br />
and Lieutenant Edison Yeung (Jeremy SAC 2005). More<br />
recently we have welcomed to the ranks Lieutenant Robyn<br />
Chin and Lieutenant Justin Langley, both teachers at the<br />
College. Justin teaches Year 9 and Robyn Year 8, and both<br />
became Officers of Cadets in 2005. A new and welcome<br />
addition this year is Sergeant John Williams (SAC 1998),<br />
teaching math in Years 7, an Old Boy of the College and<br />
a former cadet member of the unit. Sergeant Williams is<br />
also a former member of the Australian Army so he brings<br />
relevant skills to our training programme as an Instructor of<br />
Cadets.<br />
The commitment to become a fully trained officer of<br />
cadets is considerable. Each member of our unit was<br />
required to enlist in the Australian Army Cadets and<br />
undergo the equivalent physical and psychological testing<br />
of a regular soldier entering the armed services. They had<br />
to initially commit to thirteen days of training conducted<br />
by Sydney University Regiment, including one nine day<br />
Officers Course. Following that were five additional<br />
prescribed weekend courses throughout the year designed<br />
to qualify them for a range of responsible positions within<br />
the unit, such as Training Officer or Quartermaster.<br />
Officers of Cadets are paid by the Department of Defence<br />
for a limited number of days per year at a rate commensurate<br />
with that of a Reservist Officer of the same rank.<br />
We are always looking for additional dedicated staff<br />
and I would welcome any approach from current parents<br />
or teachers who would like to be more involved with the<br />
unit. It does require a large commitment in terms of time<br />
and training, but if you have failed at golf, what else do<br />
you do with your spare time?<br />
Major David Clancy<br />
Officer Commanding<br />
News from ADFA<br />
Officer Cadet Tristan Deves (SAC 2005), Regimental<br />
Sergeant Major of the Unit in 2005, sends his<br />
regards to all members of the Unit from his new<br />
digs at the Australian Defence Force Academy. Tristan was<br />
awarded an Australian Defence Force Academy Education<br />
Award in 2004/5 and has now<br />
completed his initial 6 week<br />
induction/training programme.<br />
His studies begin in earnest<br />
now as he works towards his<br />
university degree and copes with<br />
the demands of life as an Officer<br />
Cadet. We all wish Tristan well<br />
in his new environment.<br />
Major David Clancy<br />
Officer Commanding<br />
Officer Cadet Tristan Deves<br />
(SAC 2005) in his uniform at the<br />
Australian Defence Force Academy<br />
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from the archives...<br />
Four Generations<br />
One of the strengths of <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College is the<br />
depth of family connections. Some families can<br />
claim four or five generations of direct descendents.<br />
When we start adding cousins and ‘related by marriage’,<br />
the Aloysian network is astonishing!<br />
Another strength is the camaraderie of the Old Boys,<br />
particularly those who left over fifty years ago and<br />
qualify for the Gonzaga Society. At last year’s Christmas<br />
gathering, Margaret Ryan (wife of Tony Ryan, SAC 1946)<br />
presented me with copyprints from the schoolboy album of<br />
her uncle, Tom Coady (SAC 1923). Tom was a Prefect,<br />
a member of the First XV and the First XI Cricket and a<br />
good athlete. Tom’s brothers, Jack and Bill Coady (SAC<br />
1910s) were also students and her great uncles, Edward<br />
and James Coady, were Bourke <strong>St</strong>reet boys in the 1890s.<br />
Margaret and Tony’s sons, Mark Ryan (SAC 1974), Peter<br />
Ryan (SAC 1975) and John Ryan (SAC 1982) also wore<br />
the blue and gold.<br />
I’m always grateful to receive copyprints from family<br />
albums to complement the more formal photographs in the<br />
College Archives.<br />
Mrs Gerri Nicholas<br />
Archivist<br />
c1920s – swimming carnival, probably at Manly Baths c1920 – junior cricket. Tom Coady, middle row, second left<br />
1917 – College excursion with Fr J Forster SJ. Tom Coady is in the<br />
front, far right<br />
1923 – First XI cricket, at North Sydney Oval. Tom Coady, middle<br />
row, second right<br />
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from the aloysian family<br />
Parents and Friends<br />
The newly elected P&F Committee for <strong>2006</strong> began<br />
their year with the celebration of Christmas Carols<br />
in the Senior School. The change of venue and<br />
threatening rain did not dampen the spirits of the families<br />
that attended.<br />
The commencement of the School year saw in true<br />
Aloysian fashion a well attended Commencement Cocktail<br />
Party. New parents to the School were welcomed with a<br />
Mass and morning tea which was well supported by both<br />
the old and new families to the School.<br />
The activities on Open Day necessitated calling upon<br />
the parent body to volunteer to help in various areas. The<br />
parents and students rose to the occasion and did the<br />
School proud.<br />
Already a number of years have held their main<br />
functions. Year 12 started the ball rolling with their Mass<br />
and Supper – the evening was well attended and provided<br />
an opportunity for the parents and boys to catch up before<br />
their year comes to an end. Years 3 and 4 dined in style<br />
at the College Oval. In addition a number of years have<br />
organised casual get togethers. It is great to see that a<br />
number of families are keen to socialise outside their formal<br />
event.<br />
The first P&F Forum was held in March. The topic for<br />
discussion was “Moving toward the School Certificate<br />
and the Higher School Certificate: Making Decisions<br />
and Maintaining the Balance”. We were very grateful to<br />
Messers Neville Williams, Darren Livingstone and Keith<br />
Chester who provided valuable information and practical<br />
suggestions. The evening was well attended and feedback<br />
from parents at the Forum was very positive.<br />
A date to note in your diaries is August 26 which is the<br />
date of the P&F main event. The evening which will be a<br />
Gala Dinner Dance at the InterContinental Hotel promises to<br />
be a night to be remembered and not to be missed.<br />
Mrs Jane Smith<br />
P&F President<br />
Parents of Past <strong>St</strong>udents<br />
Our Christmas Mass and Cocktail Party was a small<br />
but very happy occasion. Mass was celebrated in<br />
the Chapel by Fr Ross Jones SJ, Fr Chris Middleton<br />
SJ and Fr Geoff Schneider SJ. The organist Jonathan Chan<br />
(Year 7) was brilliant and we enjoyed singing Carols before<br />
moving to the Canisius Room for our party.<br />
We celebrated Bill Nichol’s 90th birthday. Margaret<br />
Quinnell had made a superb cake to mark the occasion<br />
which impressed Bill greatly – and was enjoyed by all<br />
present.<br />
In view of the small attendance we had an open<br />
discussion as to whether we were past our ‘use-by date’ as a<br />
group and if we should limit our gatherings to one per year.<br />
The overwhelming consensus was that we should certainly<br />
continue with two meetings annually - and hopefully have<br />
others join us – so we will continue as we are.<br />
The first POPS event for <strong>2006</strong> will be a Mass, followed<br />
by a sausage sizzle, on Sunday 4 June beginning at 12<br />
Noon. The second event will take place at 6.00 pm on<br />
Sunday 3 December. Invitations will be sent out closer to<br />
the dates.<br />
If any parents want to join POPS, the tear off registration<br />
slip is on this page, fill it in and return it to me care of<br />
the College. If anyone would like to help with invitations,<br />
please let me know on 9144 2587<br />
Best wishes<br />
Mrs Pat Kennedy (SAC Parent 1981 – 1988)<br />
POPS Coordinator<br />
Parents of Past <strong>St</strong>udents<br />
Membership Form<br />
Name: ....................................................................................<br />
Name of sons: ........................................................................<br />
Years attended SAC: ..............................................................<br />
Address: .................................................................................<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College Card Day<br />
Thursday 15 June <strong>2006</strong><br />
The College Oval<br />
Tyneside Avenue, Willoughby<br />
Coffee on arrival 10.30am<br />
$30 including<br />
Delicious lunch with wine<br />
Bookings: Mrs Anne Scollon 9969 1303 h<br />
...............................................................................................<br />
Telephone No: .......................................................................<br />
Fax No: ..................................................................................<br />
Email: ....................................................................................<br />
Please complete and return to:<br />
Mrs Pat Kennedy 47 Upper Pitt <strong>St</strong>reet,<br />
Milsons Point NSW 2061 or fax to 02 9929 6414.<br />
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from SACOBU<br />
From the President<br />
A<br />
couple<br />
of years after I left <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>' College, my<br />
father told me one day that he had just sent off a<br />
cheque to the Old Boys' Union to pay my fees and<br />
my three brothers' fees to be life members. At the time,<br />
I confess to not really appreciating the significance of<br />
my father’s actions but remember him saying that it was<br />
important to stay in contact with the friends you made while<br />
at school as they will remain friends for life. Twenty-five<br />
years later, I now appreciate the significance of my father’s<br />
foresight and thank him for it.<br />
SACOBU is responsible for administering the SACOBU<br />
Life Subscription Education Trust. The trust was established<br />
to receive the life subscription fees that the parents pay for<br />
their sons to become members of SACOBU. In addition<br />
to paying the administration costs of SACOBU each year,<br />
the fund provides financial assistance to any Old Boy<br />
that is experiencing financial difficulty paying school fees<br />
due to job loss or illness. I would like to acknowledge<br />
the SACOBU committee in 1991 for their foresight in<br />
establishing the SACOBU Life Subscription Education Trust.<br />
In particular, I would like to thank Michael McCoy (SAC<br />
1963), Tony Bland (SAC 1957) and Brian Hamer (SAC<br />
1963), all Past Presidents of SACOBU, for the role they<br />
played in establishing the Trust and the role they continue<br />
to play by acting as trustees.<br />
This year’s Annual Dinner will be held on Friday, 23<br />
June at North Sydney Bowling Club so mark it in your<br />
diaries and get a table or two of your classmates together.<br />
The 2005 Annual Dinner had representatives from the<br />
year of 1938 right through to 2003. Special thanks to<br />
Paul Rowland (SAC 1973) Director of Co-curricula at the<br />
College for being our guest speaker for the evening. During<br />
his speech, Paul especially thanked the significant number<br />
of Old Boys who regularly assist as coaches and managers<br />
of various teams. It has become very popular for young<br />
Old Boys (and some not so young!) to return as coaches<br />
of College teams. The younger boys think it is fantastic<br />
when senior boys, who they watched and admired, return<br />
to coach them. It is a great example of the spirit that exists<br />
at the school and the appreciation the senior boys feel that<br />
they want to give back something to the school that gave<br />
them so much.<br />
A significant number of Old Boys who left the college more<br />
than fifty years ago attended the dinner as they do each and<br />
every year. A good turn out was seen from the years of 1967,<br />
1974, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986, 1987, 2001<br />
and 2003 who all seemed to enjoy themselves. Many groups<br />
continued on after the dinner finished to various locations of<br />
spiritual significance in the North Sydney area.<br />
Please make a note of the following events scheduled for<br />
this year:<br />
Friday 23 June<br />
Sunday 23 July<br />
SACOBU Annual Dinner<br />
2005 Year 12 BBQ<br />
College Oval<br />
Thursday 10 August<br />
Sunday 27 August<br />
Friday 1 September<br />
Saturday 23 September<br />
Aloysian Golf Day<br />
Manly Golf Club<br />
Retreat<br />
<strong>St</strong> Ignatius’ College, Riverview<br />
Father & Son Mass<br />
Indian Bazaar to raise funds<br />
for the Jesuit Missions<br />
<strong>St</strong> Ignatius’ College, Riverview<br />
It has become very popular to start class reunions at<br />
the College Oval watching the Rugby and Football. For<br />
those classes planning a reunion later this year, keep the<br />
following dates in mind.<br />
Rugby/Soccer vs Knox<br />
Rugby/Soccer vs Waverley<br />
Rugby/Soccer vs Trinity<br />
Rugby/Soccer vs Cranbrook<br />
Rugby/Soccer vs Barker<br />
Saturday 17 June<br />
Away<br />
Saturday 22 July<br />
Home<br />
Saturday 29 July<br />
Home<br />
Saturday 5 August<br />
Away<br />
Saturday 12 August<br />
Away<br />
Any news you would like to share with other Old Boys is<br />
always welcome and if you are aware of Old Boys quietly<br />
doing good and often great things in the community, please<br />
let me know.<br />
Scott Tracy (SAC 1980)<br />
President<br />
Email: stracy@endeavourfunds.com<br />
Mobile: 0417 810223<br />
SACOBU Life Subscription<br />
Education Trust<br />
In 1991, the <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>' College Old Boys' Union<br />
(SACOBU) Committee decided to establish a separate<br />
fund to accumulate the subscription fees that boys<br />
paid to become life members of SACOBU. The concept<br />
was to secure the long term financial stability of the<br />
Union and to ensure that the relationships developed at<br />
school could be maintained for life. After seeking advice<br />
on the best way to structure such a fund, the SACOBU<br />
Life Subscription Education Trust was established. The<br />
Headmaster of the College at the time, Fr Anthony<br />
Smith SJ, fully supported the idea and agreed to collect<br />
the life subscription fee from students in their final year<br />
at the College, on behalf of the Union. While the life<br />
membership fee is not compulsory, it is very pleasing to<br />
report that almost all students in their final year now join<br />
the Union as life members.<br />
The accumulation of subscription fees over the past<br />
five years has seen the assets of the trust grow to the point<br />
where the income each year now funds Bursaries for Old<br />
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Boys who, for financial reasons, may not be able to send<br />
their son to the College or may not be able to retain their<br />
son at the College for completion of their studies. The<br />
identity of anyone receiving financial support from the<br />
SACOBU Life Subscription Education Trust is only known by<br />
the Rector of the College.<br />
If any Old Boy is experiencing financial difficulty, please<br />
keep the role of the SACOBU Life Subscription Education<br />
Trust in mind. Support provided may be short term, until<br />
things return to normal, or may take the form of longer term<br />
assistance. Please contact Fr Ross Jones SJ if you would like<br />
any further information.<br />
SACOBU Inaugural Young Old Boys’<br />
‘Drinks-for-Charity’ Pub Night<br />
On the evening of Friday 17 February, approximately<br />
one hundred Old Boys congregated at the<br />
Commodore Hotel in North Sydney for the inaugural<br />
Young Old Boys ‘Drinks-for-Charity’ Pub Night.<br />
This idea originated after numerous younger Old Boys<br />
shared with me their desire to have an event targeted at the<br />
Younger Old Boys. With this in mind, I thought it might be<br />
worthwhile organising a function that combined a casual<br />
atmosphere for young Old Boys with a charitable deed<br />
– and thus was born, the ‘Drinks-for-Charity’ Pub Night!!<br />
James Clarke (<strong>2006</strong> Gap <strong>St</strong>udent), Aleks Vickovich (SAC 2005),<br />
Michael Chase (SAC 2005) and William Clark (SAC 2005) take a<br />
breather at the Drinks for Charity Pub Night.<br />
years old! Classes of 1985, 1987, 1999, 2001, 2003,<br />
2004 and 2005 were particularly well represented, and<br />
it was great to see such a diverse age group meeting over<br />
many a beverage or three.<br />
This evening wouldn’t have been possible without the<br />
support of several Old Boys. In particular, I would like to<br />
thank Damien Reed (SAC 1989) and the other owners<br />
of the Icon Hospitality Group for allowing us to use the<br />
Commodore Hotel at no cost and their generous financial<br />
assistance in providing us with the $1 from every drink as<br />
mentioned above to donate to charity.<br />
Similarly, thanks to Murray Happ (SAC 1985) for his<br />
assistance in the organisation of the evening and to the<br />
Old Boys' Union for their financial support of this charitable<br />
cause.<br />
Last, but certainly not least, to all the Old Boys who<br />
attended – thank you for your generosity and I hope you<br />
had a good time catching up with fellow Old Boys and will<br />
continue to support the evening in coming years.<br />
Mark Chan (SAC 2001)<br />
Sarosh Batliwalla, Rod O’Connor, Tom Switzer and Brad Martin (all<br />
SAC 1989) enjoying the Drinks for Charity Pub Night.<br />
One dollar from every drink that was purchased on the<br />
night was donated to charity: Fifty cents was directed to the<br />
College’s Bursary Programme so that those less fortunate<br />
than ourselves may have the opportunity to benefit from<br />
the education we received; and a further fifty cents will<br />
be directed to the Jesuit Prison Ministry in the Philippines<br />
Province to fund scholarships so that impoverished children<br />
of prisoners will be able to continue their schooling and to<br />
purchase textbooks.<br />
A total of $1,000 was raised; half of which will be<br />
more than sufficient to cover a scholarship for one student<br />
in the Philippines to attend school for one year.<br />
Old Boys spanning more than thirty years turned up,<br />
with an appearance from one past parent who was ninety<br />
<strong>2006</strong> Overseas Reunions -<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ Abroad<br />
Reunions for Old Boys, Past Parents, Current Parents and Future Parents<br />
of the College will be held in Hong Kong, USA and UK in<br />
October/November this year. Anyone living in these regions who currently<br />
receives the <strong>Aloysiad</strong> direct from the College (as opposed to being<br />
forwarded a copy from friends or relatives in Australia)<br />
will receive an invitation to these events.<br />
If you would like to know more about the Reunions<br />
or would like to be placed on the invitation list,<br />
please contact Murray Happ in the Development Office<br />
on 02 9929 4692 or e-mail murray.happ@staloysius.nsw.edu.au<br />
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John Desmarchelier AM, ED is to receive<br />
1953the award of Doctor of Economics, honoris<br />
causa, from the University of Queensland in recognition<br />
of his distinguished career and his contribution to the<br />
University. John has been a member of the UQ Senate for<br />
thirteen years and is an Adjunct Professor, School of Land<br />
and Food Sciences.<br />
Tim Carter has written in to thank the many<br />
1963former classmates from SAC 1964 – 1966<br />
who contacted him during his recent stint in the Prince of<br />
Wales Hospital Randwick. Tim did two big trips to Turkey<br />
and Germany at the end of 2005, spending two weeks<br />
over Christmas - New Year with his youngest daughter Lib<br />
in Munich. While there he developed chest pains, and<br />
immediately on return to Sydney on January 11 was rushed<br />
to the Prince of Wales “what a magnificent institution and<br />
staff!” A coronary angiogram indicated immediate surgery<br />
for five major coronary artery blockages ranging from 70 to<br />
90%. Open heart bypass surgery was then very successfully<br />
conducted and Tim returned home in late January. Tim<br />
reports that he has made a fabulous recovery (he was<br />
lucky not to have a heart attack, so the heart muscle is not<br />
damaged.) He will be recuperating at home for a period.<br />
A funny coincidence happened when Tim’s agent phoned<br />
him the day after his return from hospital to see if he<br />
wanted to audition for the role of a doctor in a new Telstra<br />
advertisement!!! Tim reports he politely suggested that the<br />
role of the prone patient might be more his thing at present.<br />
Finally Tim says “Cheers to my mates from the LC class of<br />
1963, my ‘real’ year.”<br />
Peter Saxton has been promoted to<br />
1964Commander in the Royal Australian Navy<br />
and is now Head of the Royal Australian Navy Intelligence<br />
Reserve.<br />
After completing thirteen years as Managing<br />
1966Director and Chief Executive Officer of the<br />
Commonwealth Bank, David Murray has accepted the<br />
position of Chief Executive of the Future Fund. The Future<br />
Fund has been established by the Federal Government and<br />
will cover the unfunded superannuation liabilities of public<br />
servants.<br />
Cam Lavac has written a novel, Satan’s<br />
1967Church, published by New Holland, which<br />
has become a best seller, four months after its release. The<br />
book is a conspiracy thriller about a Jesuit priest and a nun,<br />
who team together to resolve the mystery of the Third Secret<br />
of Fatima. They find themselves caught up in a struggle to<br />
find the prophecy and reveal how it links to the third secret.<br />
Their search takes them around the world, placing them in<br />
desperate peril as the forces of evil contrive against them in<br />
a frantic race to find the truth before it is lost forever. Cam<br />
is currently working on his next novel, The Ark.<br />
Greg Bateman has taken up the position<br />
1969of General Counsel at ASX-listed Primary<br />
Healthcare Limited, having been a corporate Partner at<br />
Abbott Tout Lawyers from 1982 – 2005.<br />
Paul Berkemeier recently won a world-wide competition to<br />
design the redevelopment of the container and shipping<br />
terminal at East Darling Harbour in Sydney. Covering<br />
twenty-two hectares, Paul and his fellow architects,<br />
Phil Thalis and Jane Irwin were thrilled with their win<br />
when announced by the Premier on 23 March. The<br />
winning design incorporates an eleven hectare foreshore<br />
park open to the public, some public buildings, office<br />
accommodation and residential accommodation. Paul’s<br />
win in this competition follows his success in designing<br />
the wining entrant in the competition to design the<br />
Australian Shearers Hall of Fame in Hay. Paul also won<br />
an Award from Architecture Australia for the use of steel in<br />
this design. Paul runs his own architecture practice, Paul<br />
Berkemeier Architect, based in Cremorne, and is a former<br />
Trustee of the Historic Houses Trust of NSW. Somehow,<br />
Paul also manages to work as a casual lecturer at the<br />
Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney.<br />
Mark Ryan is working as an Anaesthetist<br />
1974in Newcastle. Mark, his wife Christine and<br />
their three children, enjoy spending life at Bar Beach,<br />
swimming most days. The family have previously lived in<br />
Tamworth and Darwin.<br />
David Morgan has had his book The<br />
1978Australian Miscellany published by Random<br />
House in late 2005. Following the launch, David appeared<br />
on Richard Glover’s programme on ABC 702 Sydney<br />
and conducted an Australian trivia quiz with a studio<br />
audience.<br />
Michael Smith is currently playing the role<br />
1980of Boone in Lord Andrew Lloyd Weber’s<br />
Whistle Down The Wind at The Palace Theatre, in London’s<br />
West End. Michael reports that the opening night went<br />
well and celebrations at The Hilton continued into the early<br />
hours of the morning! In between performances Michael is<br />
continuing the ‘dual career’ theory by studying for the UK<br />
Chiropractic Board exams.<br />
Brendan Dwyer has been in the Army for<br />
1984the past twenty years, fifteen of those years<br />
as a helicopter pilot. Brendan reports he has no interest<br />
in civilian life yet. He met Georgina De-Bank in the late<br />
1980s and they have had two healthy boys Nathan (15)<br />
and Daniel (13). Brendan is currently posted in Canberra<br />
with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.<br />
Brian Girdlestone moved to the US in 1986<br />
1985and graduated from university with a Degree<br />
in Finance and a Degree in Psychology. Following a<br />
Masters Degree in Counselling/Psychology Brian worked<br />
as a chemical dependency counsellor for nine years. For<br />
the last four years Brian has worked as a school counsellor<br />
at the North Canton School District in Canton, Ohio,<br />
looking after the needs of over four hundred students in<br />
Years 9 – 12 with a range of different mental health issues,<br />
scheduling, and college applications. Brian is married and<br />
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has two children, Nathan (2 years) and Thomas (seven<br />
months). Brian would be pleased to hear from any of his<br />
classmates (please contact the Development Office for his<br />
e-mail address).<br />
James Ross has written a book called Beginning Algorithms<br />
in conjunction with Simon Harris. The publisher, Wylie<br />
Publishers, describes the book as providing a good<br />
understanding of algorithms, and the knowledge of when<br />
to apply them, which is crucial to producing software that<br />
not only works correctly, but also performs efficiently. This is<br />
the only book to impart all this essential information – from<br />
the basics of algorithms, data structures, and performance<br />
characteristics to the specific algorithms used in development<br />
and programming tasks. Packed with detailed explanations<br />
and instructive examples, the book begins by offering some<br />
fundamental data structures and then goes on to explain<br />
various sorting algorithms.<br />
John Kennedy and his wife Lucy had another daughter on<br />
11 January <strong>2006</strong>. Julia Rose is the youngest sister to Eliza<br />
and Emma.<br />
Adam Spencer is the new host of ABC<br />
1986Radio 702 Sydney (formerly 2BL) Breakfast<br />
Show. No stranger to the media, Adam is a former host<br />
of the Triple J Breakfast Show and a well known media<br />
identity.<br />
Chris Saunders and his wife Christofili had their fourth<br />
child in December 2005. Noah is the younger brother to<br />
Samuel, Isaac and Sophie.<br />
Guy Churcher and his wife Mary-Kate (nee<br />
1987 Hawkins) had a baby boy on 7 January <strong>2006</strong>.<br />
Kent Anthony weighed 9lb 10ozs and is fit and healthy.<br />
Mario Traversi married Albena Todorova<br />
1988in Rome in 2004. Mario and Albena are<br />
currently living in Mozambique but are looking at the<br />
possibility of returning to Australia in <strong>2006</strong>.<br />
Simon Foale married Clare Taylor on 25 January at Manly in<br />
the company of family and many Aloy’s Old Boys.<br />
Matthew Nacard and his wife Karen have<br />
1989recently moved to Hong Kong. Matthew<br />
is working as an Equities Analyst for Macquarie Bank,<br />
specialising in listed property analysis for the growing<br />
area of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), due in part<br />
to expected growth in China. Matthew has offered to be<br />
an Old Boy contact for all Old Boys in Hong Kong and<br />
Southern China. It is planned that a reunion of Old Boys<br />
living in the region will be held in October/November<br />
<strong>2006</strong>. If you know of any Old Boys living in the region<br />
who might not be on the College database, please contact<br />
Murray Happ (SAC 1985) in the College Development<br />
Office on 02 9929 4692 or murray.happ@staloysius.<br />
nsw.edu.au to ensure they receive notification of the<br />
event.<br />
ABC Television has commissioned a series<br />
1991of twenty-seven episodes from The Chaser<br />
team. Julian Morrow and three university friends established<br />
The Chaser in the 1990’s as a satirical comedy team.Over<br />
the years they have produced a number of programmes<br />
for the ABC including 2001’s Election Chaser, CNNNN<br />
(two series in 2003 and 2004) and the 2004 election<br />
review, The Chaser Decides. The new programme, The<br />
Chaser’s War on Everything is shown on ABC television on<br />
Friday nights. The Chaser team won a 2005 Logie for Most<br />
Outstanding Comedy programme.<br />
Justin Smith (brother of Michael SAC 1980)<br />
1992recently toured with Australian singer John<br />
Farnham on his nationwide Arena Tour. Prior to the<br />
tour, Justin appeared in the Sydney Theatre Company’s<br />
production of Cherry Orchard at the Wharf Theatre in<br />
Sydney, with Phillip Quast.<br />
Christian Griffiths and his wife Karen and their four<br />
children have moved from Cloncurry to Burketown in far<br />
North-Western Queensland. Christian is a Sergeant at the<br />
Burketown Police <strong>St</strong>ation. Any Old Boy or member of the<br />
Aloysian Family are welcome to pop into the Police <strong>St</strong>ation<br />
on their travels through the district and Christian will help<br />
them catch a Burramundi!<br />
Luke Rex is directing, producing and acting in a production<br />
of, The Cheapest Hotel in Southern Victoria - at The Old<br />
Fitzroy Hotel, Woolloomooloo. In mid-May, Luke is moving<br />
to the United <strong>St</strong>ates to pursue an acting and entertainment<br />
career in New York, having won a Greencard to live in<br />
the US.<br />
In 2005 <strong>St</strong>ephen Hicks completed his PhD in Neuroscience<br />
at the University of Sydney. He explored how our sense of<br />
balance interacts with the region of the brain called the<br />
hippocampus in the formation of spatial memories. He<br />
is now in London developing software for the National<br />
Institute of Medical Research and intends to pursue a career<br />
in science communication.<br />
James Chegwidden recently adjudicated<br />
1995a mooting (mock trial) competition in<br />
Moscow. Whilst in Russia, James caught up with Sean<br />
Berry (SAC 1995) who is a journalist and television<br />
presenter based in Moscow. James is studying a Master’s<br />
of Civil Law at Oxford University and recently competed<br />
in The Shearman & <strong>St</strong>erling Oxford Moot Competition,<br />
an Oxford-wide competition open to all law students,<br />
graduate and undergraduate. The competition attracted<br />
over forty teams, with the top twelve teams mooting<br />
against each other in a sudden-death competition over<br />
the course of one day. The case concerned an appeal<br />
on a question of restitutionary damages for the breach of<br />
a negative stipulation in an employment contract. James<br />
and his moot partner, Gareth Tilley won the moot by<br />
defeating a team from Brasenose College in a final that<br />
was judged by Mr Justice Paul Walker, a UK High Court<br />
judge. James and Gareth won £500 and an automatic<br />
vacation clerkship with Shearman & <strong>St</strong>erling in their<br />
London office over summer. Whilst studying at Sydney<br />
University, James and Gareth were the reigning Sydney<br />
Jessup Moot Team champions.<br />
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Past <strong>St</strong>aff News:<br />
Following his retirement from the College, Phil Farmer<br />
(SAC <strong>St</strong>aff 1979 – 2004) moved to Mudgee in the<br />
Central West of NSW. Phil reports he is enjoying<br />
the country life and is slowly acquainting himself with the<br />
vast number of wineries and gourmet food businesses in<br />
the district! Phil was awarded the Australian Cadet Forces<br />
Service Medal by the Army in recognition of his tireless<br />
work with the College Cadet Unit over the years.<br />
Obituaries<br />
20 Year Reunion<br />
for the Class of 1986<br />
For all inquiries please call James Smyth on 0408 007 390 or 02 9939 3388<br />
to leave your latest contact details. Alternatively, please email those details<br />
to james.smyth@raywhite.com.<br />
What a night it will be, so don’t miss out. If you know the whereabouts<br />
of your fellow past students let me know.<br />
The College is saddened to hear of the passing of the<br />
following Old Boys of the College. We ask you to<br />
remember them and their families in your prayers.<br />
Colonel Tony Hitchman (SAC 1933)<br />
died on 10 January <strong>2006</strong>, aged 91.<br />
Basil Smith (SAC 1944)<br />
died on 5 December 2005<br />
James Unicomb (SAC 2000)<br />
died on 9 December 2005.<br />
Father Philip Francis Kurts SJ<br />
(SAC <strong>St</strong>aff 1947 - 1949)<br />
Died peacefully on 7 April <strong>2006</strong> at Hornsby Hospital. Fr<br />
Kurts taught briefly at the College, before many years of<br />
work in Parishes and Missionary work in Australia, Papua New<br />
Guinea and Pakistan. Despite the brief time he spent at the<br />
College, Fr Kurts was very fond of the College and the boys<br />
and was a regular attendee at Gonzaga Society events until<br />
just before he died. He was buried from <strong>St</strong> Mary’s Parish, North<br />
Sydney on Wednesday 12 April <strong>2006</strong> with a large contingent<br />
of Old Boys present. <strong>St</strong>udents from the College provided music<br />
for his solemn requiem mass.<br />
"How was life lived by Phillip Francis Kurts whose passing<br />
we mourn and whose life we celebrate in this Eucharist today?.<br />
Phil's neice, Kate, will speak later about his rich contribution to<br />
the lives of his siblings and their children. I would like to focus<br />
on the later years of his Jesuit life, years which I personally<br />
know best, years in which he confronted that fundamental<br />
Christian challenge of allowing the "wheat grains" to die, years<br />
of moving towards the "rich harvest". First of all, though, I want<br />
to summarise his years of multi-faceted contributions to the life<br />
of Church. He spent six years in Jesuit schools – <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>'<br />
College, Milsons Point, (for which Phil always retained a<br />
strong affection and some of whose students, appropriately,<br />
are singing at this Mass), and <strong>St</strong> Ignatius', Riverview; two<br />
years as Parish Priest at Hawthorn, Victoria; six years as<br />
Assistant to the Novice-Master at Watsonia, Victoria, a role<br />
which he excercised with an at times daunting firmness; sixteen<br />
years in Papua New Guinea, firstly, in charge of the Institute of<br />
Social Order and, secondly, in starting a House of Prayer; five<br />
years in retreat work in Pakistan; and the last seventeen years<br />
at Canisius College, Pymble, in a variety of ministries".<br />
John Evans (SAC 1945)<br />
John and I started at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>' together in 1936, finished<br />
together in 1945. As young men we shared the same<br />
friends, went to the same parties, took out the same girls. He<br />
was a groomsman at my wedding; his daughter Margaret is<br />
my godchild. Our children went to the same schools. We even<br />
managed, quite fortuitously, to retire on the same day some 15<br />
years ago. And since then a group of us, mostly school friends,<br />
have met regularly for holidays, picnics, and other activities.<br />
He was always courteous and considerate, particularly of<br />
those who needed help; he was loyal and he was generous,<br />
especially with his time; and he was good company, with a<br />
ready wit.<br />
There is a story told, for example, of the day on which he<br />
went to Mass at Canisius College, something he and Kath did<br />
regularly, when Fr Dineau SJ spoke of John the Baptist. He told<br />
how Zechariah, on being informed by the Angel Gabriel that<br />
his wife was to bear him a child in her old age, was struck<br />
dumb. And a voice from the congregation was heard to say,<br />
“I know just how he felt”<br />
We all know, of course that he and Kath had a large<br />
family of nine children, large even by the standards amongst<br />
our friends where four, five, six children were the norm rather<br />
the exception. And at the time, I rather think I stood in awe<br />
of his ability to manage. In part at least it was because he<br />
worked very hard to do so. He built their first house himself,<br />
doing all of the labouring, and most of the carpentry, painting<br />
etc. He had some help from friends, notably Jack Sullivan (SAC<br />
1943), but the achievement was his.<br />
That house was no sooner finished than they bought a<br />
large old house in Killara, Bishops Court, and so commenced<br />
what seems to have been a never ending round of additions,<br />
alterations and renovations to meet the needs of a still growing<br />
family. And whilst all this was going on he still found time to<br />
build the house at Copacabana because, as he claimed,<br />
he could not otherwise have afforded to take the family on<br />
holidays. Many of us have enjoyed his hospitality there.<br />
But as I look back over the years, one of the memories that<br />
will stand out most in my mind was his love for his wife and<br />
for their family. I can remember to this day the joy with which<br />
his daughter Margaret was greeted, a joy repeated with each<br />
new arrival. He was proud of his children and took delight in<br />
their achievements.<br />
These few words would not be complete without mention of<br />
John’s association with and affection for the Jesuits. Commencing<br />
in 1936, it was an association which continued throughout his<br />
life, first as a pupil and then as an Old Boy of <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’, as<br />
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the Bursar of <strong>St</strong> Ignatius’ College, Riverview, for some 15 years<br />
and then as a ‘parishioner’, if that is the right word, of Canisius<br />
College where he and Kath attended Mass regularly. There must<br />
be few who have lived there in recent years that do not know<br />
them.<br />
I have forgotten which Jesuit it was who first said, “Give me<br />
the boy and I will show you the man” but whomever it was I<br />
imagine that those who taught him at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ must now be<br />
looking with great satisfaction on their handiwork<br />
It is in this context that I recall something said by Fr Tom<br />
O’Donovan SJ, thirty-five years ago, when he celebrated the<br />
Requiem Mass of a young man who had finished school only<br />
months before. He said that we should grieve for his parents<br />
and his family but we should not grieve for him. God had<br />
created him for a purpose; he had fulfilled that purpose and<br />
now God had called him to his reward. I cannot imagine a<br />
more fitting epitaph for an old friend.<br />
Kevin Cavanagh (SAC 1945)<br />
This eulogy for John Evans at his funeral held at <strong>St</strong> Ignatius<br />
College Chapel, Riverview, 7 June 2005, was written by<br />
Michael Evans and presented by Anthony Evans, on behalf of<br />
all the Evans’ families, relatives and friends.<br />
My father, Wilfred Austin John Evans, was christened<br />
“Wilfred Austin”, but called, “Wilf”, all his life by his<br />
father. Born at home, it was noted by his sister, Pat, how much<br />
Dad looked like John, the boy next door, when he was a baby.<br />
So Dad was called John.<br />
That was until Dad arrived at his first school where an<br />
unfortunate boy took to taunting him about his name on the class<br />
roll, “Wilfred”. Dad explained that his name wasn’t Wilfred, it<br />
was John. However, the lad for some reason wouldn’t see it<br />
Dad’s way and there was an altercation, a bloody nose and<br />
the next day at Dad’s new school, his name on the roll was John<br />
Evans. Apparently his name was John.<br />
On entering <strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>' College, the then headmaster,<br />
Fr Austin Kelly SJ, thought that Austin was a wonderful name<br />
and would be Dad’s name henceforth. Apparently his name<br />
wasn’t John.<br />
This is why his father called him Wilf, his school mates<br />
called him Aussie, but he really was John.<br />
Married for 55 years to my mother, Kath, father of nine<br />
children, and grandfather to eighteen grandchildren, we are<br />
his testament.<br />
In every way, Dad was a solid citizen of this country.<br />
Desperate to join the armed forces, Dad left school only to be<br />
thwarted by an inconvenient outbreak of peace, as first the<br />
Germans and then the Japanese capitulated. Consequently,<br />
Dad went to work, and work he did!<br />
Dad was a pretty good sportsman. He played in <strong>St</strong><br />
<strong>Aloysius</strong>’ First XV in Year 8, played first grade rugby for North’s<br />
whilst still at school and still holds the Associated Schools<br />
Open 440 yard record. The following year they changed the<br />
race to 400 metres, but the record still stands.<br />
I was talking to Fr Tom O’Donovan SJ the other night by<br />
Dad’s bedside and we both were in agreement that Dad<br />
wasn’t a man to leave things to chance. Dad was not a<br />
gambler, he would take his time to decide if something could<br />
be done, then he would do it. He was no shirker, he couldn’t<br />
abide them. Dad was a man of action.<br />
Dad was not the kind of bloke you would go for a<br />
beer with, either–he just wouldn’t go to the pub. We lived<br />
within shouting distance of the Greengate Hotel, but to my<br />
knowledge, Dad never set foot in the place, unlike most of<br />
his children.<br />
In one of life’s amusing ironies, last Thursday night after<br />
Dad died, we all went to the Greengate for dinner and a<br />
drink. Kath had set aside some of Dad’s money for just such an<br />
occasion, so wouldn’t you know it, it was Dad’s shout!<br />
Dad had always maintained our beach home at Copacabana.<br />
He, Chris and I built it 35 years ago when I was only 12 and<br />
Chris only 13. Therefore Dad built the house.<br />
After Dad was admitted to the nursing home, we decided<br />
to have a working bee to tidy the place up. Five sons, four<br />
grandsons and a grand daughter, a boyfriend and a son in<br />
law – we toiled all day to achieve what Dad would have got<br />
done within a day and a half.<br />
But in Dad’s true handyman style, we left the job not quite<br />
finished.<br />
Dad was a man of true faith, a great Catholic and a<br />
tremendous supporter of his Church, and the priests. Over<br />
Dad’s last few days he was anointed so many times, by so<br />
many of his priest friends, that I thought Dad was going to get<br />
holy water and chrism toxicity!<br />
Dad spent the last fifteen years of his working life as Bursar<br />
at <strong>St</strong> Ignatius College, Riverview. To be able to work with<br />
and for the Jesuits gave him fulfilment and joy far and above<br />
anything he had hoped in his career.<br />
After Dad retired, I had the good fortune to be able to<br />
spend some time with him, either alone or with Jack Sullivan<br />
(SAC 1943) or Dom Droulers (SAC 1944). Sometimes we<br />
would play golf and after a few hours of walking the links with<br />
him, I was finally able to see what it was that his mates saw<br />
in him – Dad really was quite good company, although a little<br />
opinionated.<br />
I then realised what a toll the responsibility of all those<br />
children had taken on him. Dad volunteered to me, just once,<br />
that he was envious of his children, in that they could spend<br />
so much time with their own children and really get to know<br />
them, as he couldn’t. It was perhaps the only time Dad let me<br />
in, but I was grateful for the insight.<br />
I only wish Dad had taken more time to smell the roses.<br />
Family, church, work – these things defined Dad.<br />
We will miss him.<br />
Eternal Rest grant to them O Lord<br />
and let perpetual light shine upon them,<br />
may their Souls and all the Souls<br />
of the faithfully departed Old Boys of the College,<br />
through the mercy of God, rest In Peace. Amen.<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>, pray for us!<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
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