Summer 2008 - St Aloysius

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The Magazine of St Aloysius’ College • ‘Men for Others’ • Issue XLVI • Summer 2008

from the rector 

Art in the Jesuit Educational 

Tradition 

The Irish, who are always adept at coining curious 

phrases, speak of “thin places”. Not surprisingly, it is 

a spiritual term, because the Irish are a very spiritual 

people. Thin places are moments in time when boundaries 

break down and we are aware of something greater 

– the all, or a harmony, or something quite Other. Where 

spirit and matter meet, perhaps. Those transcendent or 

transporting moments in time. 

At Aloysius’, “a thin place” is what the prayer of the 

Examen strives for. It is what happens at Kairos retreats 

(that is, in fact, what kairos means). Prayer takes us to a 

“thin place”, as does good liturgy. And the thin place is 

where the artist takes us. That is why we have a home for 

art in our schools. Our College abounds in “thin places”. 

Portals, they might be called these days. Doorways into the 

world of the imagination and of beauty. And, as we would 

expect in a school like ours, doorways into the world of 

the Spirit. 

Jesuits have a long history with art and artists. Bernini 

made the Spiritual Exercises. Ignatius’ friend, Michelangelo, 

offered to design our first church in Rome. Jesuit artist 

Br Andrea Pozzo (after whom our Visual Art Centre is 

named) was encouraged in his talents, and perfected 

the art of three-dimensional representation. His book was 

the standard reference for Hollywood set designers until 

only fifty years ago. It is rumoured that the “flat dome” 

he painted in the ceiling of St Ignatius’ Church in Rome, 

producing an extraordinary optical illusion, was because 

the Dominican neighbours objected to a real dome 

casting a shadow on their library next door! 

The more likely reason was pecuniary 

limitations during the building. 

Jesuits on mission to the edges 

of the then-known world used art to 

enter foreign cultures and then to 

teach the Christian culture. Rubens 

(an old boy of the Jesuit College 

in Cologne and a staunch 

member of the Jesuit Sodality) 

painted thirty-nine panels for the 

Jesuit church in Antwerp, 

alas destroyed by fire in 

1818. In 1583, Jesuit 

missionaries in Japan 

directed an academy 

of painters, influencing 

even non-Christian 

artists. By the late 

sixteenth century the 

Jesuits in Antwerp 

commissioned the 

most expensive 

and technically 

brilliant volumes of Gospel illustrations for use on the 

missions. These would have been the equivalent of 

DVDs and plasma screens today. In the China 

mission of the eighteenth century there were also 

Jesuit missionaries who practiced the fine arts – painting, 

engraving and marble sculpting – in the service of the 

emperor. The young Italian Jesuit, Br Giuseppe Castiglione 

(after whom the Junior School art space is named), became 

famous for his work in Beijing at that time. 

In speaking once to Jesuit artists the General at the time, 

Pedro Arrupe, proposed that Ignatius had at least three 

purposes for art. First, for God’s greater glory, with the artist 

as interpreter, to direct the view of the observer, elevating 

him or her to God. Art is also didactic, enriching one at the 

intellectual, emotional or spiritual level. Then art also can 

form one in the Christian life, that is, it is catechetical. Lest this 

sounds too pious an assertion, one might recall the number 

of works in this year’s Art Exhibition at the College which 

touched upon and communicated religious themes and 

issues of justice or ethics. Our Jesuit style of formation is best 

described as experience-reflection-action. In that light, it was 

encouraging to see in the Art Exhibition earlier this year, for 

example, Luke De Zilva drawing on his experience working 

with the aboriginal community at Redfern, for David Lindaya 

and Henry Newton sifting through their experiences with the 

poor in the Philippines, and for Joseph Koh translating the 

Way of the Cross into the context of his school. 

St Aloysius’ College 

A Jesuit School for Boys _ Founded 1879 

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The Rector congratulates David Lindaya on his award 

No fewer than six of last year’s Year 12 Visual Arts 

students – Henry Newton, Adrian Leones, Ben Antico, 

Nicholas De Lorenzo, David De Boos and Sam Hewitt 

– had their major works reserved by the Board of Studies 

for display in Art Express. Of these, Henry and Ben had 

their artworks finally selected. 

Boys viewing art 

Fine art in a fine tradition. 

Fr Ross Jones SJ 

Rector 

THE ALOYSIAD 

Executive Editor: Fr Ross Jones SJ 

Editor: Murray Happ (SAC 1985) 

Assistant Editors: Trish Flynn and Magar Etmekdjian 

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Senior: 47 Upper Pitt Street, Milsons Point NSW 2061 

Telephone: 02 9922 1177, Fax: 02 9929 6414 

Junior: 29 Burton Street, Milsons Point NSW 2061 

Telephone: 02 9955 9200, Fax: 02 9955 0736 

Website: www.staloysius.nsw.edu.au 

Cover pic: David Lindaya image from his Immersion Series 

College Council Update 

Over the past number of months the College has 

been preparing a Master Plan for the College into 

the future. 

This process has involved looking at educational 

requirements now and in the future, and matching them with 

the physical needs required to satisfy these requirements. 

As you may know, the College has been on the main 

campus since 1903 when it moved from Darlinghurst. 

Many times the Jesuit Community has considered whether 

this was the correct location to provide affordable education 

to a wide range of students from all parts of Sydney and 

each time a conscious decision was made that this was the 

ideal location for this purpose. 

With this in mind, the Jesuit Community over the years 

has purchased Wyalla, the three properties to the north of 

it, and the former Milsons Point Primary School, which now 

houses our Junior School. 

The Master Plan proposes that development will occur 

on three fronts: 

An addition to the Junior School to provide additional 

classrooms, common areas and an undercroft play area. 

Internal renovations to the main campus to provide 

better use of existing spaces. 

A new complex containing a gymnasium and 

additional classrooms will be created on the land 

currently occupied by the properties to the north 

of Wyalla. It is intended that this complex will be 

designed to be sympathetic to Wyalla and be of the 

same approximate height. 

It should be pointed out that there will be no more 

students than there are today. 

The rationale for the renovations and additions is to 

provide additional and more usable space for our existing 

number of students, particularly to accommodate curriculum 

changes and smaller classes over time. 

The College Council has recently given its approval to 

the lodgement of Development Applications for the three 

campuses. 

Mr Eric Goodwin 

Chair of Council 


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from the principal 

It is sometimes said that the journey we take in life is made 

easier by knowing the end-point, by having a clear sense 

of the destination. We do know that when we work 

hard for something – be it for results or success or saving 

money – having a goal to work towards makes the effort 

that bit easier. So too with our life journey – being true to 

one’s self, faithful to relationships in life, and making the 

necessary sacrifices, are all the easier if we have a clear 

understanding of the meaning and purpose of life. 

One could say today that in our society there has been 

a certain loss of confidence in the idea of having direction, 

goals, meaning, or purpose. In part, this certain loss of 

confidence is tied to a similar loss of confidence in religion, 

which in the human story has so often been the bearer of 

meaning and purpose. 

What is my evidence for this? I can point to the 

experience of many of the boys here at the College. 

Despite living in a society that enjoys the benefits of 

education, goods and lifestyle in unprecedented measures, 

we know that so many struggle to find their way through life. 

Frequently, I hear boys return from experiences with people in 

other societies, where people have much less, and comment 

on the happiness they saw there – this is true of some of 

our Seniors who have undertaken the Philippines Immersion. 

For many of our Seniors, who have been on the Kairos 

Retreats, the chance to talk and reflect on issues of identity, 

relationships and spirituality can have a liberating impact, 

in part because our lives are all too busy and complicated 

to give time to what is most important. And despite our 

abundance in material things, depression is a growing 

endemic in our society, which to some extent may relate 

to the struggle to find happiness, even when we have so 

much. Many of us have struggled with its darkness. Escapism 

through excessive drinking, drugs and other addictions is 

but one way of handling the questions of purpose and 

meaning. And alternatives to religion multiply, as it were, to 

fill the vacuum created by its loss – new age philosophies, 

astrology, meditation movements, cults and the like. 

It has been said that the heart of 

education is the education of the 

heart. Ultimately the success 

of what is attempted at St 

Aloysius’ will be measured 

by the character and heart of 

the young men who leave this 

school. We seek to offer here a 

vision of life that carries meaning 

and purpose, and a spirituality 

that underpins that vision. 

Belonging to a 

c o m m u n i t y, 

found here at 

school, but 

symbolising 

the wider 

Church, and 

friendship with our God through the following of Jesus; these 

lie at the heart of our mission at St Aloysius’. This mission 

has as its starting point a profoundly positive affirmation that 

each of us, and our world itself, is of God and is good. 

We are born of God’s creativity and God’s love; indeed 

we are God’s artwork. But we also are profoundly aware 

of the reality of pain, alienation and suffering in our own 

lives, and in our world. 

It is in this context of forming young men for their life 

journey that we emphasise so much the wider dimension 

of education, of reflecting on meaning and purpose. To 

have a goal and direction in life is to know something of 

who and what we are. Jesuit spirituality and educational 

philosophy inform much of our way of proceeding, and to 

some extent distinguish us from other Catholic schools. We 

see no necessary conflict between faith and reason, and 

thus Jesuit education should be at ease with human learning 

and with a questioning faith. This approach stems in part 

from the origin of Jesuit schools in the tumultuous times of the 

Reformation and the Renaissance. It also led to significant 

Jesuit contributions through both Jesuits and their alumni in 

areas of human learning as diverse as geology, astronomy, 

electricity, geography, anthropology and physics, to name 

just a few. In my Jesuit life I have known Jesuit astronomers 

and wine-makers, musicians and physicists, poets and 

seismologists. The point here is to value the human mind 

as a gift from God. Applied to the educational enterprise 

we should encourage critical thinking from our students, 

and not be surprised, or even disappointed, if at times they 

follow a different path than that which we might urge. 

In a similar vein the Jesuit way of proceeding provides 

an essentially positive outlook on human culture. Jesuit 

educational works, as well as Jesuits themselves, have 

contributed to the fields of history, drama, ballet, Vietnamese 

language, Chinese art, music, again to name a few. 

Respect is given to all authentic forms of human endeavour, 

for such work is seen as being part of God’s creativity. The 

work of the human imagination, and our ability as human 

beings to express ourselves, whether in music or by the 

spoken or written word, carry genuine importance in the 

curriculum of a Jesuit school. Here at St Aloysius’ our proud 

tradition in debating, music and drama, are embodiments of 

this approach. I believe it also shapes the way we are called 

to look at our young people and their education; we should 

look first to the positive and seek to build on this, which is a 

necessarily optimistic and hope-filled approach. 

At the same time the awareness that human beings 

are flawed, individually and as societies, also drives Jesuit 

education to work for a faith that does justice. Our goal 

of forming men and women for others reflects a concern 

that our graduates should make a difference in our world, 

and that as followers of the Lord they carry a responsibility 

in love for all people. The emphasis in the College 

on community service involvements such as the Arrupe 

Outreach Programme in the Junior School, our Years 10 

and 11 ‘Faith in Service’ programme, and the Philippines 



Immersion, along with Amnesty and St Vincent de Paul 

groups, embody this significant part of our identity. 

Our identity as a school community is a multi-faceted 

one, which is defined in a number of ways. What perhaps 

unites these various aspects to who and what we are, is a 

faith-based vision of the dignity of each person, the value of 

a life lived generously within the framework of relationships 

that shape and direct our journey (family, community, 

church, humankind), and the challenge of striving for the 

magis, for the better, in all we do. Everyone, we affirm, 

is touched by the generous grace of God. And we know 

too, that there are times when we, as individuals and as 

a school, fail to live out fully our identity and let ourselves 

down. As with all education, it remains work in progress. 

Fr Chris Middleton SJ 

College Principal 

From the Registrar 

Last year closed with every year level fully booked 

for 2008 as well as for Year 7, 2009. Entrance 

examinations and family interviews were completed 

early last year and there are now waitlists for all year levels 

for 2008. 

Orientation Day was held in November for the Junior 

School and for Year 7, 2008. The boys participated in 

sporting and classroom activities while the Junior School 

new parents attended an information session as an 

introduction to what they can expect for next year. 

Open Day in 2008 will be held this year on Sunday 

2 March for both Junior and Senior School campuses. A 

variety of demonstrations and displays will be held including 

activities for children. Staff, current parents and students of 

the College will be available for discussion and to conduct 

guided tours. There is no need to book, just come along 

and enjoy the day. 

Shortly after Open Day, entrance examinations will be 

held in March for students wishing to enter Years 3, 4, 5 

and 8 to 11, 2009 as well as Year 7, 2010. 

Bursary applications for 2009 are now open. The 

bursary scheme is means-tested and offers students an 

opportunity to avail themselves of a Jesuit education in 

circumstances when such enrolment is not affordable or 

sustainable. A number of these bursaries are offered to 

boys wishing to enter Year 7 and Year 11 in 2009 and are 

reviewed annually. Please contact the Registrar if you would 

like more details about this scheme. Information can also be 

found on our website. The closing date for all applications 

is 6 March 2008. 

If you would like more information on enrolments, 

please contact the Registrar on +61 2 9936 5535 or 

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

information can be accessed on the Admissions page of 

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

Mrs Anne-Maree McCarthy 

Registrar 

AMDG 


St Aloysius’ College is an independent Catholic School for 

boys in Years 3 to 12 conducted by the Society of Jesus 

(Jesuit Fathers and Brothers). Students desirous of attending 

the College should be sympathetic to, and supportive of the 

school’s faith, tradition and educational aims, have a sound 

academic record and be willing to participate actively in the 

College’s co-curricular activities. 

Open Day 

Sunday 2 March 2008 

Junior School: 9.30am – 12.30pm 

Senior School: 10.30am – 1.00pm 

Junior School Campus 

29 Burton Street, Milsons Point 

Senior School Campus 

47 Upper Pitt Street, Milsons Point 

All welcome 

Applications – 2009 and 2010 

Parents who have not yet made application for their sons for 

Years 3, 4, 5 and 8 to 11 in 2009 and for Year 7 in 2010 

are invited to do so now. 

Closing date for enrolment applications: 

Thursday 6 March 2008 

Entrance examinations will be held on the following dates: 

Year 3 & 4, 2009 Wednesday 19 March, 2008 

Year 5, 2009 Tuesday 18 March, 2008 

Years 8 to 11, 2009 Saturday 15 March, 2008 

Year 7, 2010 Saturday 15 March, 2008 

Bursaries 2009 

A number of Bursaries (means-tested scholarships) will be offered 

to boys entering the College in Years 7 and 11 in 2009. 

The entrance examination will be held on 

Saturday 15 March 2008. 

Closing date for Bursary applications is 

Thursday 6 March 2008. 

Further information may be obtained from our website: 

www.staloysius.nsw.edu.au or by contacting: 

The Registrar, St Aloysius’ College 

47 Upper Pitt Street, Milsons Point NSW 2061 

Phone: (02) 9936 5535 

Email: registrar@staloysius.nsw.edu.au 



from the foundation 

St Aloysius’ College Foundation 

Limited 

In every corner of the College students, staff and Jesuits 

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

benefactors. Your extraordinary generosity in the past 

year has enabled the College to provide better facilities for 

our boys, more educational aids to promote and encourage 

a greater sense of learning and has assisted a large number 

of boys through the provision of bursaries. 

The ongoing financial support of the entire Aloysian 

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

education in Australia. 

Recent developments like the renovation of the Year 7 

area, the installation of electronic whiteboards (Smartboards) 

and digital data projectors throughout most classrooms 

across the College not only provides us with the best 

educational tools, but also enables the boys to experience 

cutting edge technology. 

The College is humbled by the active generous support 

of so many people. In 2007 over 1,100 people made 

a donation to the College Foundation. These gifts totalled 

more than $970,000, a significant increase on the 2006 

figure. 

On behalf of the students, staff and Jesuits of the 

College; Thank You! 

Mr Murray Happ (SAC 1985) 

Director of Development 

2007 Annual Fund Building Appeal 

Mr & Mrs M M Abolakian Current Parent 

Mr C F Aboud (SAC 2005) 

Mr & Mrs V Aboud Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs D Acton (SAC 1988) 

Mr & Mrs R M Aldridge Past Parent 

Mr K Andrejewskis (SAC 1989) 

Anonymous 

Dr P Bannon (SAC 1944) 

Mr & Mrs T Barakat Current Parent 

Mr A Baume & Mrs R Arthur Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs A Baumgart Past Parent 

Mr N Bennett (SAC 1946) 

Mr & Mrs J R Bergin (SAC 1957) Past Parent 

Dr G Boffa OAM & Mrs L Boffa 

Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs M C Bullen (SAC 1972) Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs B J Buncle Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs D Burch Current Parent 

Mr K Burges (SAC 1946) 

Mr & Mrs P Burke Current Parent 

Dr & Mrs A P Cahill (SAC 1935) 

Mr V Calabria (SAC 1984) 

Mr P H Cearns (SAC 1960) 

Mr & Mrs C Chan Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs D P H Chan Past Parent 

Mr K Chan & Ms S Cheung Past Parent 

Mr S Chan & Mrs K Law Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs R Chen-Chow Past Parent 

Mr B J Clarke (SAC 2000) 

Mr & Mrs D J Clarke Current Parent 

Mr M R Cockburn & Mrs R Crowe 

Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs D A K Cohen (SAC 1977) Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs C J Collins Current Parent 

Mr D C Collins (SAC 1962) 

Mr & Mrs M Connaghan (SAC 1983) 

Mr P Cornwell & Ms C Rice Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs A J Cowle (SAC 1977) Current Parent 

Dr K R Cramer (SAC 1956) 

Mr A F Crawley (SAC 1959) 

Mr & Mrs B Croft 

Current Parent 

Mr M A Cromer (SAC 1993) 

Anonymous (SAC 1942) 

Mr & Mrs B Cubis (SAC 1975) 

Dr J Cunningham (SAC 1988) 

Mr P G Currie (SAC 1948) 

Mrs E Daly 

Widow of Old Boy 

Dr S M Danieletto Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs P J de Gail Current Parent 

Mr P de Lasala (SAC 1975) 

Mr & Mrs R Dennett Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs K F Dixon Past Parent 

Dr & Mrs T D’Netto Current Parent 

Mr P B Donnelly (SAC 1944) 

Mr & Mrs A J Drew (SAC 1956) Past Parent 

Mr J A Drummond (SAC 1979) 

Mr & Mrs S J Dunn (SAC 1985) 

Mr V Egan OAM (SAC 1935) 

Mrs G A Elkington Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs D H Emanuel (SAC 1962) Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs J I Escobar Staff Member Past Parent 

Mrs K Evans 


Mr & Mrs R M Evans (SAC 1945) 

Dr & Mrs R E Evans (SAC 1983) Current Parent 

Mr & Dr F Fadhil 


Mr & Dr Farag 

Past Parent 

Mr M A Fargas (SAC 1975) 

Mr P I Farmer 

Past Staff Member 

Mr & Mrs L H Fay (SAC 1972) Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs A Field 

Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs J Field 


Mr P F Flynn (SAC 1952) 

Mr & Mrs P T Ford (SAC 1954) Past Parent 

Dr & Mrs A Forrest Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs J Fox-Smith Past Parent 

Dr & Mrs M P France Current Parent 

Ms S Francisco 

Past Parent 

Anonymous 


Mr & Mrs S J Gageler Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs J Gandar Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs F A M Gardner (SAC 1951) 

Dr L E Georgeson OAM (SAC 1944) 

Dr G Gibson (SAC 1945) 

Mr & Mrs T J Giersz Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs D M Giffney Past Parent 

Mrs L Gillis Widow of Old Boy Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs C L Godbold Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs M J Goodman Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs D J Grace (SAC 1988) 

Mrs M M Grant & Mr J B Grant 


Mr & Mrs M J Hall (SAC 1957) Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs E J Halliday Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs M J Happ (SAC 1985) 

Mrs F Harriman 

Past Parent 

Mr S Gynne 

Mr & Mrs J M Hartigan Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs A Harvey Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs B L Hayes Current Parent 

Assoc Prof & Mrs B T Haylen (SAC 1970) Past Parent 

Cpt & Dr D R Haywood Current Parent 

Mr M D Healey & Mrs M A Hamilton Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs B J Heddle Current Parent 

Ms F Hertz 


Mrs A Hesford 


Ms J A Hewett & Mr V P Ruehl Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs W C Hilder Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs A M Hogan Current Parent 

Dr R Honner (SAC 1952) 

Mr J S Hrdina 

Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs P Iliffe 

Past Parent 

Mr & Ms J P Jacobs Current Parent 

Mr B J Jenkins (SAC 1943) Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs F B Jolley Current Parent 

Dr M Jude (SAC 1978) 

Mr K B H Kalamae (SAC 2004) 

The Hon J Kearney QC, KCSG & Mrs M Kearney 

(SAC 1938) Past Parent 

Mr R Kelly & Dr M Byrne Current Parent 

Mr M Kelly (SAC 1953) 

Mr D R Kenna (SAC 1960) 

Mrs G M Kennedy Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs M Kishore Current Parent 

Mr C Kitching (SAC 1981) 

Mr J R Kitching (SAC 1941) Past Parent 

Dr & Mrs A J Knox Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs W Krygsman Current Parent 

Mr P J Latham & Ms S M Leahy 

Member of Staff Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs J Le Gras (SAC 1953) 

Mr & Mrs K A Leighton Current Parent 

Mrs C J Leong 


Mrs I L’Estrange Widow of Old Boy Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs P Lewis Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs M Lill (SAC 1985) 

Mr & Mrs J M Lindaya Past Parent 

Mr T A Mackerras (SAC 1973) 

Mr J Madden (SAC 1960) 

Mr & Ms M Maneschi (SAC 1979) 

Mr A C Masson (SAC 1988) 

Mr M E Masson (SAC 1995) 

Mr & Mrs R J Masson Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs T Mazaraki (SAC 1966) 

Mr J L McBride (SAC 1939) 

Mr & Mrs D P McCarthy (SAC 1944) 

Mr & Mrs M McClatchey Current Parent 

Rev Fr R McGinley SAC (SAC 1937) 

Mr & Mrs P McGirr (SAC 1965) Past Parent 

Mr E M Meyer (SAC 1943) 

Mr & Mrs S Miller Current Parent 

Mrs M Molloy Widow of Old Boy Past Parent 

Mr M J Moloney (SAC 1964) 

Mr A J Moon (SAC 1987) 

Mr & Mrs D P Morgan (SAC 1974) Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs P Mouret (SAC 1984) 

Mr & Mrs W Mueller Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs K J Murray Current Parent 

Mr & Dr J W Nolan Past Parent 

Professor Emeritus Sir G Nossal ACCBE FAA FRS 

& Lady L Nossal (SAC 1947) 

Mrs J Nysen Widow of Old Boy Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs M J O’Callaghan Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs B O’Loughlin (SAC 1987) 

Mrs M O’Loughlin Past Parent 

Mr G O’Neill (SAC 1956) 

Mrs J Pastega & Mr V P Sweeney 


Mr & Mrs M D Patten Current Parent 



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Mr & Mrs R Paul 

Past Parent 

Dr R Pirola OAM & Mrs M Pirola OAM (SAC 1951) 

Mr H J Polin (SAC 1936) Past Parent 

Mr A Powe (SAC 1974) 

Dr F Pribil (SAC 1959) 

Mr & Mrs J P Prosser Current Parent 

Rev Fr P Quilty (SAC 1954) 

Mr & Mrs T J Quilty (SAC 1971) Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs W E Rathborne (SAC 1965) Past Parent 

Mr B Rathborne (SAC 1953) 

Mr P L Richardson Past Parent 

Dr J S Roarty (SAC 1941) 

Mr A Robertson (SAC 1942) 

Mr & Mrs A P Robertson (SAC 1954) 

Mr & Mrs J Rogge Past Parent 

Mr & Dr D Ronzani Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs G Rorke (SAC 1955) 

Mr & Mrs I Russell (SAC 1948) 

Mr R T Ryan (SAC 1943) Past Parent 

Mr N Salter (SAC 2006) 

Mr & Mrs G San Pedro Current Parent 

Mr J B Scroope (SAC 1942) 

Professor A G Shannon AM Past Staff Member 

Mr & Mrs J Shek 

Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs C S Shum Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs J Simic Current Parent 

Dr D Sindone & Prof A P Sindone 


Dr & Mrs M W Size Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs I E Skinner Current Parent 

Mr B L Smith (SAC 1965) 

Mr & Mrs M C Smith Current Parent 

St Aloysius’ College Old Boys’ Union 

Mr & Mrs K Steggles Past Parent 

Dr & Mrs M J Stevens Current Parent 

The Hon Mr Justice T J Studdert QC 

& Mrs J Studdert (SAC 1952) 

Mr & Mrs P W Stuntz Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs K Szymanski Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs R Tai 

Past Parent 

Dr P W Tait (SAC 1973) 

Mrs D N Teng 

Past Parent 

Mr G M M Thompson (SAC 1949) 

Mr & Mrs B G Thwaites (SAC 1945) 

Mr & Mrs L A Ticehurst (SAC 1979) Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs J Tobin Current Parent 

Mr A Tracy (SAC 1981) 

Mr & Mrs M T Tsang Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs P J Verschuer Current Parent 

Mr M Virgona (SAC 1956) 

Mr & Mrs R von Gutzeit Past Parent 

Mr V M Walsh (SAC 1948) 

Mr & Mrs J Weingarth (SAC 1958) Past Parent 

Mr D White (SAC 1982) 

Mrs J Wilkinson 

Past Parent 

Dr W L Williams (SAC 1940) 

Rev Fr W J Wright PP (SAC 1970) 

Mr P G Wyatt (SAC 1963) 

Rev Fr B C Yates (SAC 1947) 

MrC J Yee (SAC 2003) 

Mr & Mrs K Yee 

Past Parent 

2007 Annual Fund Library Appeal 

Mr P M Barr (SAC 1970) 

Mr & Mrs S Bartels (SAC 1981) 

Dr & Ms M T Biggs (SAC 1977) 


Past Parent 

Mr J F Bourgeois (SAC 1959) 

Mr & Mrs D Burch Current Parent 

Mr K Burges (SAC 1946) 

Mr & Mrs W P Burton (SAC 1944) Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs P C Calov Current Parent 

Dr G Carney (SAC 1965) 

Mr T Cavill & Ms A Mirams (SAC 1980) 

Mr & Mrs P Choy Current Parent 

Mr P Christie & Ms M Hardy Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs B Clibborn Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs P L Cornelius Current Parent 


Mr & Mrs L Crisanti Current Parent 

Mrs P Cunningham Widow of Old Boy Past Parent 

Mr P GCurrie (SAC 1948) 

Mr & Mrs A J Darwell (SAC 1981) 

Ms R A Davies & Mr R V Quirk 

Mr & Mrs J Day (SAC 1980) Current Parent 

Mr P A De Baun (SAC 1955) 

Mr & Mrs M J Donohoe (SAC 1967) Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs X Droulers (SAC 1947) 

Mr & Mrs W Elton Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs D H Emanuel (SAC 1962) Current Parent 

Mr P Evans (SAC 1964) 

Mr & Dr Farag 

Mr & Mrs M Georgeson Past Parent 

Dr G Gibson (SAC 1945) 

Mr P Golden (SAC 1969) 

Mr D I Hamilton (SAC 1948) 

Mr A Haylen (SAC 1965) 

Mr G J Hickey & Ms T S O’Donoghue 


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


Mr J A Holland 


Dr R Honner (SAC 1952) 

Mr & Mrs B G Hunt Current Parent 

Mr P T Ioannou (SAC 2000) 

Dr & Mrs D O Irving Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs A G Johnston Past Parent 


Mr & Mrs R Kassabian Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs A Kinnear (SAC 1983) 

Mr & Mrs P Knoblanche Current Parent 

Mrs D Landers 

Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs P J Larbalestier Current Parent 

Mr J A Law (SAC 1948) 

Mr R Leung 

Dr I S Lovett & Ms C M Mullane 

Mr & Ms M Maneschi (SAC 1979) 

Mr M Marriner 

Past Parent 

Prof B A Marshall Past Parent 

Dr F Martin AM & Mrs M MartinPast Parent 

Mr & Mrs V McLenaghan Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs S A McSweeney (SAC 1975) 

Mr & Mrs R Meagher Past Parent 

Emeritus Professor J F Miller AC FAA FRS 

& Mrs Miller (SAC 1948) 

Mr R Morath (SAC 1965) 

Dr & Mrs G Morel Current Parent 

Mr P T Morrison (SAC 1974) 

Mr & Mrs R Murphy Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs A J Murray Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs P W O’Brien Current Parent 

Mr P M O’Donnell (SAC 1978) 

Mr T J O’Keefe & Ms N Mencinsky 

Mrs E O’Reilly 

Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs M L Pastega Current Parent 



Dr & Mrs H Patapanian Current Parent 

Mr M Paul (SAC 1952) Past Parent 

Mr & Mrs S G Perks Current Parent 

Dr & Mrs R D Perry Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs N Playoust (SAC 1991) 

Mr D Porter 

Friend of the College 

Mr & Mrs J P Prosser Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs F Pucci Current Parent 

Dr G H Romans 


Mr & Mrs S J Rush (SAC 1985) 

Dr & Mrs R Sahagian Current Parent 

Professor A G Shannon AM Past Staff Member 

Mr & Mrs J Shek 

Past Parent 

Mr J H Sherwin (SAC 1945) 

Mr & Mrs C S Shum Past Parent 

Dr D Sindone & Prof A P Sindone 


Mr & Mrs T Smyth Past Parent 

Dr & Dr R M Sorial Current Parent 

Mrs L T Sudarmana & Mr L Sudarmana Current Parent 

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Mr & Mrs A Vlachos Current Parent 

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Past Parent 

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Friend of the College 

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Past Parent 

2007 Annual Fund Bursary Appeal 

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Past Parent 

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Past Parent 

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Mr & Mrs P Bowd Friend of the College 

Mr J F Bray (SAC 1992) 

Mr T W Burfitt-Williams & Ms S Maclachlan (SAC 1968) 

Mrs P Cahalan 

Past Parent 

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Mr & Mrs D P Cavanagh (SAC 1950) 

Mr R Clifton 

Past Staff Member 


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Mrs J Coulton & Mr A Coulton 

Past Parent 

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Mr & Mrs J T Horder Past Parent 

Mr J Hurney (SAC 1948) 

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Anonymous 


Anonymous (SAC 1955) Past Parent 

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Dr B T Martin (SAC 1989) 

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Dr & Dr G J Morgan Current Parent 

Mr C H Norville (SAC 1944) 

Mr & Mrs P W O’Brien Current Parent 

Dr K O’Shannessy (SAC 1960) 

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Reuben F Scarf Memorial Foundation Friend of the College 

Mrs S Y Soohoo 

Past Parent 

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Mrs C Waddle 

Past Parent 

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Mr & Mrs R Brennan Current Parent 

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Mr & Mrs D F Brimson (SAC 1977) Current Parent 

Mr K J Brotherson & Ms L M Byrnes Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs P Bryant Current Parent 

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Mr M E Butler & Mrs E Koutiris-Butler Current Parent 

Mr & Mrs D J Caleo (SAC 1981) Current Parent 

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Mr P Choy 



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Mr & Mrs M J Donohoe (SAC 1967) Current Parent 

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Mr & Mrs J Doyle Current Parent 

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Mr & Dr F Fadhil 


Mr A A Farley & Ms V Scarf Current Parent 

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Mr & Mrs R Gillespie (SAC 1976) Current Parent 

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Mr & Mrs C Hall 


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Mr & Mrs E J Halliday Current Parent 

Mr M G Hand & Ms R Stanley 


Dr & Mrs R A Harris Current Parent 

Dr R D Harris (SAC 1984) Current Parent 

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Mr & Mrs R Ingui Current Parent 

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junior school sport (cont'd) 

Prep 1st Basketball Team: Back row from left to right; Fabijan Krslovic, Ross Noone, Chris David, Oliver Telan, 

Zac Sweeney and Mr Trevor Dunne (Coach). Front row left to right; Robbie Joannides, Tom Kennedy, 

Terrence Kwan and Daniel Agius. 

Stadium to compete in the Parramatta Diocesan Basketball 

Gala Day with more than 120 teams participating over two 

days. This annual event in our sport calendar is Basketball’s 

equivalent to a ‘tour’, so all boys were very excited. 

Some great basketball was played over the day, 

especially with the modified halves of twelve minutes and 

a running clock which meant no time could be wasted. 

With 25 schools sending teams in the Year 6 competition 

we had to start strong. With the Prep 1sts representing St 

Aloysius’, with Daniel Agius and Zac Sweeney, we played 

four pool games with the following results; 

GAME 1 v Cranebrook, SAC winning 43-16 

GAME 2 v St Michaels Baulkham Hills, SAC winning 

26-19 

GAME 3 v Kellyville 2, SAC winning 34-4 

GAME 4 v Quakers Hill, SAC winning 52-2 

Coming first in our pool we advanced to the quarter 

final where we had to play St Michaels’ again, this time 

winning 27-6. From there, with no rest time between 

games, we went on to play St Anthony’s in the semi final 

where we won 31-12. In the grand final we played a very 

slick team from Kingswood going down 44-34. 

In Cricket this term the boys unfortunately, had two 

wash-outs, but our Junior Teams are showing how it should 

be done. The 5B cricket team, coached by Mr Lister, 

currently is undefeated with convincing wins over Trinity, 

Grammar St Ives and Scots. They showed amazing focus 

and determination which on more than one occasion 

stunned their opposition. The boys worked very hard to 

learn how to chase down a total with a limited number of 

balls remaining. Their hard work paid off with St Aloysius’ 

heroically chasing down big totals which the opposition 

had thought unbeatable. All the boys in the 5Bs should be 

congratulated for an outstanding season. 

We are very fortunate to have a number of boys playing 

representative cricket outside JSHAA sport and a special 

mention must go to Ben Mitchell (4.1) for his selection 

into the Canterbury Western Suburbs Cricket Association’s 

representative team for the second year running. We wish 

Ben and all other SAC students who have trialed and 

made external representative teams the best of luck for the 

upcoming season. 

Mr Trevor Dunne 

Sportsmaster 



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from the deputy principal senior school 

Mr Matthew Bentley (Science) 

Mr Mark Coventry (Year 6) 

Mrs Ingrid Mendes (Science) 

Induction and 

Welcome for New 

Teaching Staff 

We welcome the 

following new staff to 


for 2008 and look forward 

to their involvement in this 

collective endeavour of Ignatian 

Education. 

Mr Christopher Pelly (Economics) 

Mr Bentley, a Chemistry teacher, has joined our 

Science department from St Pius X College Chatswood. Mr 

Coventry is an Old Boy of St Ignatius’ College Athelstone 

(SA) and is beginning his teaching career. Mrs Mendes, 

a Science/Engineering graduate, also commences her 

teaching career with us. Mr Pelly, an Old Boy of St Ignatius’ 

College Riverview, comes to us from The Scots’ College 

Bellevue Hill. We wish all our new staff well. 

Staff Recruitment and Induction 

- An Ignatian Perspective 

It is said that maintaining and developing the Jesuit 

identity of our school depends on the careful selection of 

such people as these new teachers and on a programme 

of appropriate formation in the Ignatian charism and 

pedagogy for them. Their induction programme covers not 

only the administrivia of commencing in a new workplace, 

but more significantly an understanding of the distinctive 

quality and nature of our tradition. New staff are led 

through an interpretation of what we understand of Jesuit 

Schools in the Ignatian tradition; namely, to 

Seek and to find God in the experiences of our 

everyday life. 

Be involved in a conversation, between God and 

ourselves. 

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

His Kingdom alive. 

Be witnesses to charity and service in helping and 

working for others. 

Our Jesuit heritage is introduced to new staff as being 

alive in many facets of our daily rituals. Understanding 

what it means to be a teacher in the Ignatian context is to 

be open to the pedagogy of reflective teaching. Teachers 

in a Jesuit school are asked to consider these five key 

questions when preparing to engage their students: 

Context What do I need to know about my students in 

order for me to teach them well? 

Experience What is the best way for me to engage 

them as a whole person in the teaching and 

learning process? 

Reflection How can I help them to be more reflective 

so that they more deeply understand the 

significance of what they have learnt? 

Action How can I create an environment where 

my students are positively challenged and 

changed by their learning? 

Evaluation How can I create the reflective space for my 

students and myself to decide how we can do 

things better next time? 

The process of formation for new teachers commences 

with this induction and continues with days of reflection 

throughout the year. Staff are given insights to the story 

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

formation of the Jesuits in schools, as well as an introduction 

to the meditations and prayer experiences of Ignatius. 

Parent Induction - An Ignatian 

Perspective 

New parents too participate in a similar process 

of formation when commencing at St Aloysius’ 

College, through the Parent Ignatian Evenings. 

Using a variety of information and media, we enable new 

members of our school community to access our faith story 

and its heritage. So far we have had the first part of a two 

evening inductions for parents in each year group. 

The two-evening presentation for parents mirrors the 

programme for staff induction and what is also presented 

for Year 7 students through their Religious Education 

classes in Term One where they study School and Church 

Communities in their own contexts. It is this emphasis on 

bringing people ‘into the fold’, as it were, that provides for 

a more informed and better equipped school community. 

Jesuit schools today seek to sustain a tradition which has 

honed many to be fine instruments of God in the service 

of others; men of contemplation, competence, compassion 

and commitment. 

The Characteristics of Jesuit Education (1987) is the 

blueprint for what we provide for our students at St Aloysius’ 

College. Its nine main characteristics, laid before our 

new staff, parents and boys, act as their barometer for 

measuring our success as an Ignatian and Jesuit educational 

community, Jesuit Education - 

1. Is world-affirming, assisting in the total formation of 

each individual. It provides for a religious dimension 

that permeates the entire curriculum, apostolic in nature, 

promoting dialogue between faith and culture. 

2. Insists on individual care and concern for each person, 

emphasising activity on the part of the student and 

encouraging life-long openness to growth. 



from the deputy principal senior school 

3. Is value-oriented, encouraging a realistic knowledge, 

love and acceptance of self and providing a realistic 

knowledge of the world in which we live. 

4. Proposes Christ as the model of human life, celebrating 

faith, prayer, worship and service. 

5. Is preparation for active life commitment, serving 

the faith that does justice. It seeks to form “men and 

women for others”, manifesting a particular concern for 

the poor. 

6. Is an apostolic instrument, in service of the Church. 

7. Pursues excellence in its work of formation and 

witnesses to excellence. 

8. Stresses a lay-Jesuit collaboration relying on a spirit of 

community among all members of the community. 

9. Is a “system” of schools with a common vision and 

common goals, assisting in providing the professional 

training and ongoing formation. 

We wish all our new staff, parents and boys every 

encouragement as they settle into the Aloysius community 

and look forward to a prosperous collaboration and 

contribution for many years to come. 

Healthy Staff - Healthy School 

One of the more rewarding and encouraging 

initiatives implemented for staff here at St Aloysius’ 

College has been the “Healthy Staff – Healthy 

School” programme, run in conjunction with a corporate 

health group. We have successfully run this initiative for four 

years now, growing in interest and involvement each term. 

Programmes available for staff have involved the 

presentation of a full-day health expo, combining free 

health checks and screenings for cholesterol, blood sugars, 

blood pressure and body mass index with short workshops 

and seminars on a range of relevant topics such as nutrition, 

back care, voice care and sun care. 

Each term, since the introduction of the programme, we 

have had a focus topic presented to staff in seminar format 

by a health consultant, followed by one-on-one or smallgroup 

assessments. Staff have also had the benefit of flu 

vaccinations being available at the College. Of late, we 

have had a marvellous response to heart checks, as well as 

nutrition assessments and advice on diet. A good number of 

staff, throughout the summer of 2006-07, had free on-site 

skin cancer checks, as well as participating in workshops 

for voice and back care. 

The most popular programmes involve a little pampering 

– and why not! We have had access to a masseur for 

10-minute head, neck and shoulder massages, as well 

as a reflexologist – proving a great hit with staff. Our 

health consultants have also co-ordinated some training 

programmes in the lead up to the City to Surf and smaller 

local fun runs like the September Bridge Run. A yoga 

programme is also offered of an afternoon, which has 

attracted many interested participants. 

Many parents will, no doubt, know personally the 

benefit of such programmes in the workplace. My hope, 

through such an initiative, is two fold – first, to show our 

staff that they are truly valued; and, also, that we are 

aware of the benefit of providing support for them. Like 

many adults, teachers spend long hours in the workplace, 

forming poor work habits, and the opportunity to access 

health programmes and services during the work day is of 

value, not only to them individually, but has a far-reaching 

positive impact on their colleagues, their families and the 

children they teach. It is often quipped that the spirit of 

the staffroom is the spirit of the school. For this reason, I 

think our “Healthy Staff – Healthy School” programme is a 

worthwhile enterprise. 

If you would like to know more about our programme, 

or the group we deal with, please feel free to contact me 

at the College. 

Sam Di Sano 

Deputy Principal 

(sam.disano@staloysius.nsw.edu.au) 

What on 

earth 

are you 

doing for 

Christ’s 

sake? 

www.jesuit.org.au 

Br Ian Cribb SJ 

PO Box 6071 

Hawthorn VIC 3122 

E-mail: cribbi@mira.net 



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from the senior school 

Young People’s Mass in the lead up 

to Magis and World Youth Day 2008 

The second Young People’s Mass on 12 August was 

held at St Mary’s Church, North Sydney. The youth 

masses are part of MAGiS’s efforts to mobilise young 

people ahead of next year’s World Youth Day, giving them 

a chance to take part in a programme that gives them 

space to explore faith and their place in the world in an 

open and welcoming environment. 

St Aloysius’ College helped organise the mass, with 

representatives of St Ignatius’ College, Loreto Kirribilli, 

Monte Sant’ Angelo, Marist North Shore and St Mary’s 

Primary School North Sydney in attendance. 

During the reflection, St Aloysius’ student Sam Stevens 

(Year 11) spoke about his own faith and his hopes for 

World Youth Day 2008 and Tom Haremza (SAC 2006) 

spoke of his experience as a pilgrim to World Youth Day 

2005 in Cologne and the impact it has had on him. 

The liturgy provided the young people with the 

opportunity to recognize the life of Jesus within them and 

to draw strength and hope from their relationship with Him. 

‘My 14-year-old daughter thanked me for encouraging her 

to attend the Mass because she enjoyed it so much’, one 

of the St Aloysius’ parents said. 

Thanks to Fr Edward Dooley SJ and Fr Chris Middleton 

SJ, who celebrated the mass, as well as Mr Chris Gould, Ms 

Emily Moran and Mrs Michele Curtin who were involved in 

the co-ordination. I am also grateful to the musicians, led 

by Mr Jerry Scelzi, Mr Matt Tennikoff, Jonathan Chan (Year 

8), Michael Curtin (Year 11), the Fathers’ Choir, members 

of the Junior School Zipoli Choir and all the other boys and 

families who took an active role in this special liturgy. 

Mr Joe El-Khoury 

Junior School Director of Pastoral Services and RE 

My hopes for World Youth Day 2008 

The celebrations during the week of the 15 – 20 July 

2008 will bring together nearly half a million young 

Christians in a celebration of faith, youth, and life. It will 

The World Youth Day Cross is carried over the Harbour Bridge 

confirm to many young Christians, the sense of belonging to 

a greater community. World Youth Day will give confirmation 

of the global status of Christianity and the Church and the 

opportunity is to participate in a united community, rather 

than standing alone, in an atmosphere of celebration and 

communal joy. 

My Catholic faith often unconsciously forms the basis of 

many of my judgements and decision-making in everyday 

life. God for me is my ultimate guid and protector; 

someone I can look to whenever I need support, and 

also someone whose love I experience everyday through 

the love of my friends and family, and through the things 

I am privileged to experience in my lifetime. A fantastic 

experience for me was getting to know and appreciate 

these things on a deeper level on the College Kairos 

Retreats, and then helping to implement this in the lives of 

my friends by serving as a leader in the July holidays. An 

experience of self, of others, and of God, Kairos opened 

my eyes to the reality of God in my life. World Youth 

Day 2008 will only serve to give a deeper grounding to 

my faith and beliefs, and bring me to the realisation of 

belonging to something greater – hopefully also providing 

a chance for me to find out more about how other people 

view their faith by meeting a few people along the way. 

So I urge you to get yourselves involved, and to join me 

in the greatest Christian youth movement of our time. We 

may never see the event again in Australia in our lifetimes, 

so embrace the opportunity of World Youth Day 2008. 

Sam Stevens (Year 11) 

My Impressions of World Youth 

Day 2005 

To me World Youth Day 2005 was not about big 

crowds, nor was it about flag-waving and social 

functions; rather, it was (and indeed still is) personally 

significant to me because of the unique opportunity that it 

provided the individual to express and indeed to feel proud 

of their faith and beliefs. 



from the senior school (cont'd) 

Night Patrol - Mr Chris Gould, Mr Joseph El Khoury, Stephen Vranas, 

Sam Stevens, Henry Cornwell and Ms Emily Moran. 

highly trained tradesmen and doctors who have fallen on 

hard times. Engaging with these people and meeting some 

of these ‘characters of the street’ make the Night Patrol a 

very enjoyable and worthwhile venture. 

I would like to thank the many people who help with 

Night Patrol each month, particularly Mrs Gail Cotton who 

is always willing to assist whenever she can. 

Mr Michael Cronin 

Assistant Co-ordinator of St Vincent de Paul 

Nambucca Heads Exchange and 

Cultural Immersion 

The inaugural Nambucca Heads Exchange which took 

place in September 2006 was the result of much 

planning and collaboration from many dedicated 

stakeholders, bringing the Aloysian community together 

in partnership with the broader community of Nambucca 

Heads and Valley region. 

This is the second year that I have had the privilege 

of taking four Year 9 students away for two weeks to the 

Nambucca Valley. This year we selected four fine young 

men from a large pool of contenders: Sam Burrett, Luke 

Dobrovic, Joel Martorana and Ed Mortimer. 

Once again the September 2007 trip, a collaborative 

programme, saw our Aloysian Community join forces 

with integral people and communities such as Mr Hilton 

Humphries, the Principal, and the generous billeting 

families of Nambucca Heads High School; Ms Shirley and 

Mr Martin Ballangarry, who are elders of the indigenous 

Gumbaynggirr nation of the carpet snake tribe; the Marist 

Missionary Priests, Fr Paul and Fr Bernie; Ms Clair Mellon, 

the Principal of St Mary’s Primary School, and staff; 

along with the co-operation of Muurrbay Language and 

Cultural Co-operative Staff David Prosser, Michael Jarrett 

and Pauline (Moylan) Hooler just to name a few, and not 

forgetting the local Koori Radio Service. 

Goorie Ministry - Mass for the Marian Feast Day, Smoke Ceremony 

- Fr Bernie (presider), Fr Paul Sullivan (assist), Emily Moran and 

Uncle John Marshall. 

The inspiration for the Exchange and Cultural Immersion 

came from our School Principal, Fr Chris Middleton SJ 

following the “The ten action points” outlined in a talk by 

Mark Raper SJ, 27 – 29 April 2006. 

It was agreed here at St Aloysius’ that one way of 

developing an understanding of the plight of others is to 

be immersed into their life situation. It is for this reason 

the Nambucca Heads Exchange and Cultural Immersion 

was devised. So that through understanding, insight and 

compassion for others can develop. As a result, a select 

number of Year 9 students were chosen to take part in this 

programme for 2007. 

This programme took on a number of activities, some 

of which were classroom-based at Nambucca Heads 

High School, while other activities such as Croc Fest, Koori 

Ministry, Muurrbay Language and Cultural Co-operative 

Centre with Gumbaynggirr language classes and the 

continuation of our painting of the Vee Wall were conducted 

in the wider community. It was not all hard work as there 

was one free day when we spent some time having fun at 

the Big Banana. 

The generosity and hospitality shown to us at every 

leg of our journey was overwhelming, particularly from 

the elders and members of the indigenous Gumbaynggirr 

nation along with billeting families. Each of these families 

extended themselves in warmth and hospitality with one 

family, the Hicks’, accommodating three of the four boys in 

the second week of our stay. 

All four of the boys have been asked to share some of 

their experiences from their time in the Nambucca Valley. 

Ms Emily Moran 

Youth Minister 



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St Mary’s School 

During our time at Nambucca, we also visited a school 

called St Mary’s. St Mary’s, is a Catholic p[rimary 

school with many students from a lower socio-economic 

background to that of St Aloysius’. The children themselves 

however, were lively, happy and fun to be around. We 

played a game of rugby with them and it was great to 

see how good they were at it. We later learnt that the 

Rugby League player Greg Inglis had also attended the 

same school. 

more important aspect of this trip was meeting with the 

indigenous members of the local Gumbaynggirr nation 

and Dunghutti nations. We were fortunate to meet these 

lovely people on a number of occasions; particularly in 

worship, where we attended two indigenous masses with 

the Koori Ministry, one in Macksville and the other in 

Kempsey. 

The aboriginal people were very welcoming and 

comforting to us, and were very kind to have let us join in 

their ceremonies. 

One of the most amazing things that we experienced 

were the aboriginal masses. We attended two masses. 

What I found the most fulfilling was the smoking ceremony. 

This was a change from the normal masses that we attend. 

This is a procedure which consists of one person who goes 

around carrying the bowl with smoke in it. The smoke 

symbolises aboriginal life. 

Muurrbay Language and Cultural Centre - Ed Mortimer, 

Luke Dobrovic, Sam Burrett and Joel Martorana. 

The Principal is Mrs Claire, who has along with her 

staff and the local community, has put together a wonderful 

environment in which, these children, who don’t really 

have much, can gain a great education. She has opened 

up doors to a world in which they can succeed and go 

somewhere with their lives. For me, this was one of the 

most amazing things to see. It was a real eye opener; these 

children had a completely different lifestyle to mine and yet 

they still found happiness. 

Muurrbay Centre 

The Muurrbay Centre was another great place that we 

visited during these two weeks away. The centre offers 

language and art classes, as well as providing support 

for the wider Koori community. Through this centre we 

were able to meet a number of people who have been 

integral to putting this service together and supporting other 

programmes with the community. 

One day we spent a morning here learning about the 

more in-depth aspects of the Gumbaynggirr language, 

vocabulary, pronunciation and the origin of totems. Ms 

Pauline (Moylan) Hooler was our teacher. These classes 

were great as we learned important phrases like greetings 

and small talk. 

Sam Burrett (Year 9) 

Aboriginal Community and Spirituality 

Along with the Nambucca Heads High School and 

billeting aspects of the trip, another equally if not 

St Mary’s Bowraville - Joel Martorana and Edward Mortimer in 

language class with some students (teacher Mr Michael Jarrett). 

Being able to share our faith as one family really 

opened up our relationship with many of the indigenous 

people we came to know and form friendships with. It was 

a great surprise to then meet many of them at Croc Fest 

only a few days later. We were then introduced a bigger 

group of people which in turn made the experience all the 

more special. 

The Koori Ministry is run by the Marist Missionary 

Fathers and through their wonderful involvement in this 

region we have come to know many people. Sadly one 

elder of the community, Aunty Bernadette Wilks, passed 

away while we were up there. This, however, gave us the 

opportunity to lend our care, support, and prayers to the 

grieving community. 

The objective of the exchange programme is to give us 

a better understanding of what life is like in an aboriginal 

community. We experienced many different views and 



from the senior school (cont'd) 

billeted with families from Nambucca Heads High School. 

While some of the students here at Aloys said to us that we 

would be sleeping out in the sticks, we actually had some 

fantastic experiences meeting new people and making new 

friends. 

On the weekend we were in Nambucca Heads, we 

held a BBQ to thank the billeting families for their kindness 

and hospitality. 

The Vee Wall - Ed Mortimer, Joel Martorana, Luke Dobrovic and 

Sam Burrett. 

feelings which gave us a completely different perspective 

of aboriginal life. 

Luke Dobrovic (Year 9) 

St Aloysius' College Nambucca Heads 

Exchange and Immersion, 2007 

The Nambucca Heads Exchange and Immersion unveiled 

many truths to me. From participating, the little unhealthy 

stereotypes at the back of my mind were dispelled. All that 

I have learnt on this immersion will forever stay in my mind, 

until I am in a position to assist and help the indigenous 

people. On behalf of the four of us, we would like to thank 

the College and in particular Ms Moran for making the 

immersion not only enjoyable, but also a lot of fun. We 

would also like to thank the Gumbaynggirr and Dunghutti 

aboriginal tribes, St Mary’s Primary School, Nambucca 

Heads High, all the families that billeted us and everyone 

else that made the immersion so beneficial and enjoyable. 

Croc Fest 

Another of the highlights of the immersion is the Croc 

Fest, a festival that travels through Australia to educate 

people on good health, university and TAFE courses, and 

also on the indigenous cultures. The festival was held at 

Kempsey and, whilst we were there, we learnt how to 

make didgeridoos and the technique of circular breathing 

was explained to us. Another activity we took part in 

was rock climbing, this was really fun. We also had the 

opportunity to talk with some of the Aboriginal elders of the 

Dunghutti tribe. They told us stories of their upbringing and 

dreamtime stories. I feel so honoured to have been able to 

listen and speak with these people, and I have personally 

gained so much from what they have shared with us. 

Joel Martorana (Year 9) 

The Billeting Experience 

One of the integral aspects of the Nambucca Exchange 

and Cultural Immersion was that we were to be 

Nambucca Heads High School 

Nambucca Heads High School is a great school.We 

attended this school most days for part of the day in 

some cases when we had other activities organised, but 

on average we spent 1-2 full days per week at the school 

to really get a taste of what life is like there. Mr Hilton 

Humphries is the school principal. He has a dry sense of 

humour but always has his finger on the pulse of what is 

happening. 

The hours of school are different with school starting 

with a roll call at 9.00 and finishing for the day at about 

3.15pm. The uniform is also very different and much more 

relaxed than here at Aloys. 

There is also a huge range of elective subjects that 

we were all involved in, some of them we would usually 

not experience. This includes food technology, metalwork, 

woodwork, as well as all the electives and normal subjects 

we already have, which we also enjoyed doing, such 

as maths and drama. Food technology was a particular 

favourite as we had the opportunity to cook in these classes 

and to eat our creations. 

Like Aloys, Nambucca Heads has a strong academic 

focus, however they also have a lot more space than we 

have which allows them to have many additional facilities. 

During our stay in Nambucca Heads, we made a lot 

of close friends in the school and we realised how different 

our lifestyles were. In short, we had a lot of fun and would 

definitely do it again. 

Edward Mortimer (Year 9) 

Returning to Sydney - Ed Mortimer, Sam Burrett, Luke Dobrovic and 

Joel Martorana. 



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A Jesuit School for Boys _ Founded 1879

drama (cont'd) 

builds throughout it’s progression to ridiculous heights at the 

conclusion. 

As I was cast in the title role of The Bourgeois 

Gentleman, my experience of the play was going to be 

a progressively challenging one. Throughout the rehearsal 

periods leading up to the performances, my attitude toward 

my character changed tremendously. My first impressions of 

Monsieur Jordain, as is his name within the play, were that 

he was little more than an artless buffoon and a crass fool. 

This is the most obvious aspect of the man, as his ignorance 

L to R: Sean Hurley and Alex Cubis 

involved proved their talents on stage and the play was 

very well received by enthusiastic audiences, including two 

‘full houses’. 

Special thanks go to Mr Peter Gough as the producer/ 

director whose tireless efforts made the production come to 

life on stage under his careful direction. His involvement in 

Drama at the College over the years has been invaluable. 

Other special mentions go to Ms Jacqui Field as codirector 

and choreographer, her time and efforts during the 

rehearsal period were helpful beyond measure; Ms Michelle 

Sheldon, Ms Kim Holmes and Ms Janelle Fitzgerald for their 

help with costumes and Ms Peta Sawtell for her assistance 

in musical direction. I personally thank all these individuals 

on behalf of the cast of The Bourgeois Gentleman as their 

contributions made staging this production possible. 

Connaugh McKenzie (Year 11) 

An Actor’s Experience 

The Bourgeois Gentleman for me, was a profound 

exploration of Comedia dell Arte’ style workshop and 

performance. The play was a huge comic farce which 

L to R: Connaugh McKenzie and Rupert Holmes 

L to R: Liam Gibson, Connaugh McKenzie, Lisa Henderson, 

Sally Willmot, Rupert Holmes and James Fitzgerald 

of culture, disrespect for his wife and political incorrectness 

hit the audience straight in the face. I found it difficult at 

first to find the lovable side to this protagonist, for I could 

see that if I were to make him hated by the audience – the 

good humour would be short lived. However, the balance 

between an infuriating vulgar idiot and a sympathetically 

lovable simple bourgeois gentleman was soon found 

through the rehearsals. This balance came as I was able 

to rely more and more on the other actors in the cast. 

My interplay with characters such as Madame Jordain, 

Count Dorante, Madame Dorante and Nicole helped 

me to understand just what it meant to be The Bourgious 

Gentleman. All the members of the cast I found were very 

supportive in aiding each other to find the purpose of their 

characters; this was a play where each role needed to 

uplift the next. There were obvious fluctuations in the energy 

during the performance period, however, with the drive of 

Mr Gough and Mrs Field, the cast found the appropriate 

levels and rhythms of the play as the show neared it’s 

opening. This maturing of the actor’s performance was 

accompanied by a maturing of the production, with props, 

make up and costumes elevating the humour of the play. 

The cast and crew felt a tremendous sense of achievement 

to perform successfully what is, in essence, a very difficult 

comedy. But how rewarding Moliere is to those who take 

his work to it’s full potential! 

Liam Gibson (Year 11) 



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Page To Stage 2007 

Being selected to have my script performed and 

published is certainly an amazing feeling. Never did 

I believe that when my mother begrudgingly signed 

a permission form to send the Year 11 Drama students off 

to the NSW Writers’ Centre for two days, I was soon to 

create the premise for Teens, Tyranny and Trouble. 

Jack Oakey with fellow winners 

Jack Oakley with his cast 

On the 26th and 27th of March 2007, I participated 

in a Scriptwriters’ Workshop at the NSW Writers’ Centre 

at Rozelle, led by Australian playwright Tommy Murphy. 

Year 11 students were taught how to produce a playscript 

in terms of structure, plot, originality, style, language, 

characterisation and dialogue. 

Throughout the two-day workshop, I began working 

on my script, gaining inspiration partly from the College 

environment. By the end of the course, I had produced a 

ten-page draft of what was to become a published play. 

In the next few weeks, I had finalised the script and had 

submitted it for assessment and to the Young Dramatists’ 

Page to Stage competition. Following this, I was subjected 

to derisory, yet light-hearted, accusations of plagiarism 

from members in my cohort for an apparent similarity in 

the first three lines of dialogue in my script to that of Morris 

Glietzman’s Bumface, coining me the nickname Morris. 

Apart from that, not too much happened in the next few 

weeks until an ostensibly ecstatic Mr Gough ran up to me in 

the library and told me that my play had been selected for 

publication and performance at the Ensemble Theatre. 

I was pretty surprised and as a result, copped a lot of 

light-hearted mocking from members of the class; I didn’t 

mind. Soon, I was to attend a dramaturgy workshop with 

several experienced Australian writers and dramaturgs. We 

ad-libbed all the selected plays, which was quite a humorous 

exercise and, following this, I had a discussion about my 

style of writing and the potential ways in which I could 

improve my script. It was a very informative experience and 

I gained many skills for my future expeditions into writing. 

The next step was to rehearse the play. I was very happy 

with the actors who had been selected and felt they were 

doing justice to the script. Before my eyes I witnessed my 

play come to life in the performance space as I attended 

the group rehearsals every Wednesday. 

Finally, on the 9th and 10th of September, my play 

was performed at the Ensemble Theatre and I couldn’t 

believe that people actually found it funny. It was really 

heart warming to see my creative work appreciated on a 

grander scale. 

Throughout the whole experience, I learnt a variety of 

techniques about scriptwriting, I saw my play performed 

and published, and most of all, I had fun doing it. I even 

got into the North Side Courier newspaper which was a 

first for me. Despite the evidently pretentious nature of this 

report, as members of my cohort will no doubt identify, I 

truly enjoyed this dramatic experience and I learnt a lot 

from it. 

Jack Oakley (Year 11) 

Friends of Drama Annual Dinner 

Since leaving St Aloysius’ in 1973, Brendan Higgins 

– son of Ross (1946) and brother to Scott (1965) 

and Grant 1976) – has graduated from NIDA, 

worked on stage, in film and with television. He now 

works in IT. Guest of Honour, along with Fr Don Lane SJ 

(SAC staff 1968 to 1978), at the Annual Drama Dinner, 

Brendan spoke of the influence of drama classes, plays 

and Fr Lane in his life. The closing lines of his address are 

an eloquent testimony to the place of drama in any Jesuit 

formation: 

So what do we learn when we study drama? Does 

studying drama just train you to become an actor? Well 

apart from learning that your imaginations are something 

you should respect, value and encourage, you’ll also learn 

there is a whole world beyond the neat confines of a 

comfortable, protected, middle class, Catholic life. 

You see, you can’t explore other people’s lives on stage, 

or in front of a camera, without having some understanding 

of what they are going through. You can’t judge your 



Australian Defence Force Academy 

(ADFA) - Education Award 

On Friday 27 July, Kurt Menzies (Year 12), immediate 

past Senior Under Officer of the College Cadet 

Unit, was presented with an Australian Defence 

Force Academy (ADFA) Education Award by Defence Force 

Recruiting. The award is presented only to those students 

applying to enter the Academy who have passed all initial 

interview and assessment criteria and who, in the opinion 

of the Defence Department, offer the Australian Defence 

Force a mature, motivated and educated future leader. 

Armed and dangerous. Year 7 recruits await the attack. 

platoons against a well entrenched Year 7 company heavily 

armed with a cache of water bombs. An overly eager 

treatment of the bombs meant that many exploded within 

their secure area and some boys seized the opportunity to 

get back at recalcitrant classmates with the odd close range 

shot, but overall the Year 7s were victorious on the day. 

The attack ended with the launch of the Unit hovercraft to 

evacuate the wounded. 

The attack and defence exercise was followed by a 

series of static and active displays that illustrated the various 

skills available to cadets. Signals, Abseiling, Engineering 

and First Aid were all explained and demonstrated. A very 

realistic Section Orders demonstration was conducted, 

complete with lighting and sound effects, before a very 

enthusiastic audience. 

The Unit is open to all students of the College once 

they reach twelve and a half years of age and this year 

we expect to enrol about eighty cadets from Year 7. The 

‘Recruit Company’ then attends their first camp during the 

September holidays. 

Major David Clancy 

Commanding Officer 

The hovercraft to the rescue. 

Kurt Menzies receives his ADFA Education Award from Lt Andrew 

Bernie (SAC 2001) representing Defence Force Recruiting. 

The award comprises a laptop computer and assorted 

peripheral equipment, an award certificate and a plaque 

for the College. Entry to the Academy is assured following 

Kurt’s HSC examinations. 

In a fitting tribute to Kurt’s efforts his award was 

presented to him by Lieutenant Andrew Bernie (SAC 2001), 

currently Adjutant/Operations Officer at Lancer Barracks 

in Parramatta, with the 1/15th Royal NSW Lancers. 

Lieutenant Bernie was a CUO in the College Unit in 2001. 

When Andrew heard that Kurt was to receive the award 

he volunteered to be the presenter on behalf of Defence 

Force Recruiting. 

This is the second award won by a senior cadet of 

the Unit; Tristan Deves (SAC 2005) received the award in 

2005 and is currently an Officer Cadet at ADFA. 

Lt Andrew Bernie (SAC 2001) 



from the archives 

Left to right: Ticket for a fund-raising concert in aid of The Boys’ industrial Home, 1911; Invitation to the Fete in aid of Wounded Soldiers’ Fund, 

1915; Ticket to the Fete in aid of Wounded Soldiers’ Fund, 1915. 

Amongst the College’s records are notes, cards, 

photographs and reports that attest to the efforts of 

the boys in support of charitable causes and those 

less fortunate than themselves. The focus of their efforts 

varies considerably over time; however, the ideal of being 

Men for Others has remained constant throughout. 

A few examples highlight this. In the early 1900s, the 

College worked with the St Vincent de Paul Society in 

support of a home in Westmead for disadvantaged boys. 

The advent of the First World War gave a distinct focus to 

the boys’ efforts, primarily through the establishment of the 

College Wounded Soldiers’ Fund in 1915. Snippets from 

SAC Monthly, the College magazine from 1915-1921 

which was written, edited and published largely by the 

boys, show just how committed they were. 

Belgian Day Concert 1915 

On Friday 14 May, a concert was held in the College 

hall for the purpose of raising money for the Belgians, who 

have dared so much in resisting the Germans. Taking into 

account the fact that the concert was got up at very short 

notice, so as to admit of only two or three rehearsals, the 

result was remarkable for its maturity. The success was 

never in doubt, and an appreciative audience composed 

of the boys, the school staff and a few visitors vigorously 

applauded each item. The takings altogether raised well 

over £4, a very creditable sum. 

The College Wounded Soldiers’ Fund, August 1915 

We wanted to do something for our wounded soldiers. We 

all wanted to do this. At a meeting of all the boys held in 

the College hall, Father Rector told us we were going to 

do something big for the Red Cross. The Old Boys and the 

present boys were to join their efforts together to raise a sum 

of two hundred pounds. The rousing cheers, which made 

answer to Father Rector’s stirring appeal to us to do our best 

for our wounded and for our College left no doubt that, the 

heart of every boy was in the work. 

Among the fundraising activities was a ‘holiday raffle’, 

in which tickets ‘were issued and sold for a trifling sum’. 

The entire class of the person owning the winning ticket 

was granted a ‘holiday’ – that is a day off school. Each 

class also had its own ‘self denial fund’, with a box in 

each classroom into which pennies went, the results of boys 

giving up tram rides, lollies and comic purchases. ‘This 

effort is valuable to us as well as to our wounded soldiers. 

‘In the Mission room’ (1932) Officials of the Mission Society (1937) 



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St Vincent De Paul Society (1939) 

While it will help to provide them with comforts it teaches 

us something well worth knowing and practicing’ – that is 

how to be men for others. 

Later in August, the College held a fete, the proceeds 

of which went to the Wounded Soldiers Fund. Held in the 

College Hall over two days, from Friday evening until late 

Saturday night, the ‘fete’ included entertainment from the St 

Aloysius’ College Choir, and the Orchestras from Monte 

Sant’ Angelo and the Convent of Mercy in Parramatta. 

‘Gaming’ tables at which simple games of chance were 

played, raffles and auctions of donated items and services 

proved very popular; the event raised over £165, which 

put the boys well on their way towards the £200 target. 

The boys’ service and fund-raising efforts were to continue 

well after the war ended in 1918. 

In 1932, some of the boys’ service efforts were directed 

towards the establishment of ‘The Mission Society’, the aim 

being to support the Home and Foreign Missions. As well as 

raising and collecting funds, the Mission Society developed 

a Museum ‘which contains many interesting articles from 

China, Japan and their sister missions’. The Society held 

weekly meetings at which the secretary and treasurer 

presented reports, plans were made and progressed, 

and short papers such as ‘Catholic Action in Africa’ and 

‘Population and hardships of Catholics in the Solomons’ 

were read and discussed. In their annual report, the boys 

of the Mission Society noted their inspiration: ‘The acts of 

courage that the world admires are those accomplished 

in the heat of battle, those that last for a fleeting moment. 

But the greatest and noblest deeds are those that last not 

an hour, nor a day, nor a year, but a lifetime. Such are 

the deeds that make up the life-long commitment of the 

missionary.’ Sadly, pressures on available classroom space 

meant that the museum was closed in 1939. The work of 

the Mission Society, as well as that of the St Vincent de Paul 

Society, continued for many years, and World War Two 

unfortunately presented a new focus for service efforts by 

current and past students. 

Ms Kim Eberhard 

College Archivist 



from SACOBU 

Old Boys and the Creative Arts 

St Aloysius’ College has nurtured many noted musicians, 

actors and other artists, whose stories are being collected 

by current parent and oral historian Siobhan McHugh for 

a forthcoming history of the creative arts at the College. 

Below is our first excerpt. 

An organ-playing 

chemical engineer 

sounds unusual 

enough, but Norbert Kelvin 

(SAC 1956) didn’t stop there. 

The Yale educated Old Boy 

has just completed a law 

degree at University College 

Cork, in Ireland, and hopes 

to return to Sydney soon to 

work with the Jesuit Refugee 

Norbert Kelvin (SAC 1956) Service – an appropriate 

undertaking, perhaps, given 

that Norbert’s parents came to Australia from Austria to 

escape Hitler. ‘My father was of Jewish background’, 

Norbert explains. ‘My parents came just before the war 

started… they were very lucky to get in.’ 

Norbert’s mother was Catholic and his godfather was 

one of the eminent Nossal family, who attended the College. 

‘They persuaded my parents to send me to Aloysius’, for 

which I am very grateful’. The Kelvin family was steeped 

in science and music. Norbert’s grandfather in honour of 

the Scottish scientist and engineer, Lord Kelvin, adopted 

the un-Austrian surname; Norbert’s great-grandparents were 

friends of Haydn and Greig and his grandmother, a concert 

pianist, had an indirect connection to Beethoven. 

Norbert’s mother played the piano, his father the cello 

– yet as a young student at St Aloysius’, Norbert was 

a reluctant musician. ‘I really hated having to practise 

the piano when all the other kids were out in the street, 

playing cricket or running billycarts!’ The annual College 

Gilbert and Sullivan extravaganzas staged at the Cremorne 

Orpheum by the remarkable duo of Fr William Comerford 

SJ and art teacher Mr Bill Caspars were more appealing. 

‘They were superb musicians when I think back. The first 

opera I was in was The Mikado. Then we did Iolanthe and 

Patience. It was very exciting to be actually on the stage as 

one of the chorus girls!’ 

Around the time he entered high school, in 1950, 

Norbert had a musical epiphany. ‘I was very ill for a few 

days and in bed listening to the radio and I thought, my 

God that’s a lovely song, what’s that? My mother said, 

‘that’s an organ’.’ Aware of his lack of enthusiasm for the 

piano and concerned at his distaste for sport, Norbert 

recalls that his mother encouraged him to pursue the organ 

for practical reasons. ‘She said, ‘at least it will give you 

some exercise, because you’ve got to use your feet’.’ 

From such prosaic beginnings Norbert’s abiding passion 

would grow. While at St Aloysius’, whose Chapel then 

Norbert Kelvin indulging in his 

passion 

had only a harmonium, 

he studied the organ at 

the Conservatorium and 

practised at St Mary’s, 

North Sydney. As a 

post-graduate chemical 

engineering student at 

Yale, he revelled in the 

‘fantastic pipe organs’ 

in the United States, 

paying his college fees 

by playing ‘for Masses, 

funerals, weddings and 

Requiem Masses.’ 

Norbert and his 

Australian wife Sinead 

then lived in Houston for five years. During the week Norbert 

conducted research for the Exxon oil refinery, but on Sundays 

he was in demand elsewhere. ‘I took on far too many organ 

jobs because there weren’t very many organists in that town, 

but quite a number of nice pipe organs. Many Sundays I 

remember playing at five different services. 

But how important is a church setting or liturgical context? 

Last year we were in Saint Sernin, Toulouse. That church 

has another world-renowned pipe organ. The organist was 

playing away at Communion an accompaniment to the 

song we know as While Shepherds Watched, improvising 

a different harmony to accompany each verse. After the 

Communion hymn ended the organist played a gorgeous 

mellifluous improvised melody. There then followed two 

minutes of stunning silence - absolutely no sound. Then the 

priest gave the final blessing and the organ blazed forth, 

and it was just such a beautiful sound. 

During a recent stint as an engineering lecturer at 

University College Cork, Norbert was awarded a grant to 

audit the pipe organs of Ireland. Meanwhile, an ongoing 

interest in law led him to enrol in a law degree, from which 

he graduated in June this year – fifty-one years after leaving 

St Aloysius’ College. His twin passions, for law and the 

organ, coalesce in what he humorously describes as a 

fight for organ ‘rights’. ‘I believe the organ is a piece of our 

environmental cultural heritage and it needs protection and 

conservation. The other thing about organs is that they can 

be dismantled and moved from one church to the other, so 

there needs to be some kind of world legal structure that 

gives organs and other artefacts, artworks, some kind of 

‘human rights’ - because it is so important an instrument 

in the liturgy. It’s a special part of the Christian worship 

tradition and if it is allowed to die, it’s just one more nail in 

the coffin of Christianity. The art and culture of the Christian 

Church are a way of keeping this wonderful source of 

God’s grace on the boil, keeping it before people.’ 

Anyone who wishes to contribute to the History of 

Creative Arts at St Aloysius’ College is invited to contact 

author Siobhan McHugh at siobhan@mchugh.org or phone 

02 95558002. 



Old Boy Updates 

Philip Donnelly lives in Canberra. Philip 

1942retired from the Department of Immigration 

after a long career which included three overseas postings, 

two to Rome and one to Frankfurt. His wife of fifty-two 

years, Marjorie, passed away in March this year leaving 

Philip with his three daughters, eleven grandchildren and 

one great grandchild. 

Frank Gardner recently underwent a 

1951successful heart procedure and is back on 

his feet and fighting fit. Frank is looking for Old Boys who 

are members of Rotary, who own a boat and may be 

interested in joining the IYFR, the International Yachting and 

Cruising Fellowship of Rotarians. For further details, please 

contact Frank on 02 9660 7433. 

Mathew Vadas trained in medicine at the 

1962University of Sydney and as a physician at the 

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital before completing a doctorate 

at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. After 

postdoctoral work at Harvard, he returned to Australia and 

built up a significant research enterprise in Adelaide. He 

was a chief initiator and Inaugural Director of the Hanson 

Centre for Cancer Research (now Hanson Institute). He is 

one of Australia’s most highly cited scientists with citations in 

excess of 16,000. He has over two hundred publications 

and twenty patents. Professor Vadas has also contributed 

significantly to the Australian biotechnology sector, being 

involved variously as founder and acting CEO in of two 

ASX listed biotechnology companies. He has also served 

as consultant to several universities, as well as national 

biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies. His current pro 

bono work includes chairing the Medical Research Advisory 

Board of the Australian Cancer Research Foundation, serving 

on the NH&MRC committees, the Board of Governors of 

the SMILE Foundation and supporting the Contemporary 

Collection Benefactors of the Art Gallery of NSW. Professor 

Vadas’ research embodies a multi-disciplinary approach 

to discover new molecules or pathways that may uncover 

fundamental phenomena of nature and/or lead to novel 

therapeutics. Using techniques of cell biology, molecular 

biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics and genomics, he 

has primarily focused on endothelial and leucocyte biology 

with special emphasis on cytokines or growth factors and 

pathways of cellular signalling. 

Tim Carter has had two new plays - The 

1964Velveteen Rabbit and The Little Prince - open 

at The Scots College recently. Tim visited the College for 

an evening of Theatresports with the Scots Team. Father 

Jim Lyons SJ and Tim produced the first event in The Great 

Hall at the end on 1964 – a spoof they jointly wrote on 

Shakespeare’s The Tempest. 

Nick Shanahan recently wrote to the College. 

1969“I had my last three years of schooling at St 

Aloysius’ College, leaving after the HSC in 1969. I spent 

time in the Northern Territory and Queensland. In 1974 I 

Nick, his wife Dianne and their three sons and their wives. 

married a Queensland girl and after a succession of jobs 

I joined the Queensland Police. I worked at Logan, south 

of Brisbane, as a crime scene examiner. In 1993 I was 

promoted to the rank of Senior Sergeant and appointed 

Regional Crime Scene Coordinator for the Gold Coast 

police region. In 2000 I won a scholarship with the Courier 

Mail newspaper to study the use of DNA Technology in 

policing in the United Kingdom. On my return to Queensland 

I was put in charge of establishing the Queensland DNA 

database. Unfortunately in 2004, I commenced a fight with 

cancer, which I have now been told I will lose. I am on 

long service leave until my retirement in March 2008. My 

wife and I raised three boys and I’m now a grandfather. 

My Catholic upbringing reminds me that I’m on a journey. I 

am sorry that I have not kept up contact with my classmates 

from my years at St Aloysius’. Growing older or facing a 

crisis helps you to understand the importance of your school 

years and the values learned.” 

Professor Nicholas Talley has been appointed 

1973Chief of Medicine and Professor of Medicine 

at the Mayo Clinic’s Campus at Jacksonville, Florida in the 

United States having been the Professor of Medicine and 

Professor of Epidemiology at the Mayo Clinic and Mayo 

Medical School in Rochester Minnesota, USA. Nick still 

keeps his ties with medical research in Australia through 

his honorary membership of the Sydney University Medical 

Staff having been the Foundation Professor of Medicine 

at the Nepean Hospital Campus. Nick commenced in his 

new role on 1 July 2007. 

Jim L’Estrange has been appointed the Chief 

1974Executive Officer of the NSW Rugby Union. 

Prior to his appointment, Jim was the CEO of Star City 

Casino in Sydney and previously worked for Westpac and 

Citibank. Before entering the corporate world, Jim taught 

History and English at the College in the late 1970s and 

early 1980s. 

Colonel Mark Shephard has been appointed 

1981Commander of Operation Outreach in 

support of the Northern Territory Emergency Response Task 



from SACOBU 

Force. Mark has had extensive experience with the Army 

Aboriginal Community Assistance Programme, which has 

worked in remote communities over the past eleven years. 

Mark co-ordinates the Defence Force support to the Task 

Force including mobility, communications and sustainment 

assistance to police and civilian health teams, interagency 

liaison and assistance with the procurement and, provision 

of medical stores and contracted trade services. 

Andrew Tracy walked the OxFam 100km Walk in Sydney 

in late August. 

Ian Yu recently made contact with the 

1983College. Ian attended the College from 

Year 5 in 1976 to Year 7 in 1978. He completed his 

schooling at The Scots College and started flying as 

a career. Ian spent four years doing charter flights in 

Australia then went to Hong Kong and flew for Dragonair 

for nine years. He then went to Emirates Airline based 

in Dubai and has been there for ten years and counting. 

Ian flies the Airbus 340 and does many flights to Sydney. 

He married his childhood sweetheart Julianne (no she 

wasn’t from Loreto) in 1989 and they have two boys, 

James (11) and Andrew (8). The boys are completing 

their education at The King’s School. Ian’s nephew, Josh 

Maas, commenced at the College this year and is in Year 

5. Ian commutes regularly from Dubai each month, and 

would very much like to catch up with his old mates and 

see what they have been up to in the last 30 years. Ian 

can be contacted on 0419 213 398 or ianjulieyu@ 

hotmail.com 

James Smyth has recently opened his own 

1986real estate company. James Smyth Estate 

Agents specialises in property on the Northern Beaches. 

As an independent agency, James believes he can offer 

more personalised service with lower overheads than other 

local companies. James can be contacted via his website, 

www.smythestateagents.com.au. James would be delighted 

to assist any member of the Aloysian Family with their real 

estate needs. 

Mario Traversi is working for HelpAge 

1988International, a British based non-government 

organisation working in Mozambique, as their Financial 

and Administrative Manager. 

Michael Kelly was until eighteen months a 

1990crew member on tug boats in Sydney. He 

has recently been working as a Marine Pilot in Mackay 

bringing in the coal carriers to Hay Point which is south 

of the city of Mackay. Michael hopes to return to Sydney 

as a Marine Pilot in the near future. Michael writes “I 

cannot believe how quick the time is going – one day I 

was looking at the ships from the College and today I am 

driving them!!!!” 

James Eagleton and his wife Anna had a baby daughter in 

August. Ella Cate Eagleton is doing well and settling in well 

to life at home. James is working for Sun Microsystems and 

is a member of the Old Boys’ Executive. 

Richard Field and his wife held a 

1991photographic exhibition at The Blender 

Gallery in Paddington recently. The photographs, assembled 

from the couples’ years living and working in Africa, focus 

on African wildlife. 

Stephen Hicks PhD is a Research Fellow at the 

1992Imperial College London in the Department 

of Neuro-Science and Mental Health. He and wife Elly 

have a daughter Delphi. 

Matthew Milne owns and operates Pitstop Mobile 

Mechanical. Specialising in Honda vehicles, Matthew’s 

company will service all makes and models of cars, 

anywhere, anytime. 

Matthew Corcoran and his wife Cathryn had their first 

child Hamish Patrick Corcoran on 5 June 2007. A second 

grandson for Matthew’s father, Bill Corcoran (SAC 1952) 

and wife Jan. 

Travis Toemoe returned home with his wife 

1993Heidi after almost five years of living and 

working as a solicitor in Bristol, England at the same law 

firm as Joe Eizenberg (SAC 1993). After a year traipsing 

around the world, Travis and Heidi have settled into their 

new home in Sydney, new jobs and are expecting their first 

child in July. 

Travis reports some other news for members of the Class of 

1993. Jon Molloy (SAC 1993) and his wife Sabrina are 

parents to Hugo; Rob Brady (SAC 1993) and his wife Ang 

are expecting their first child in August and Tom Mazzei 

(SAC 1993) married Vanessa Applegate in May 2007. 

Greg Stephens is living in Innsbruck, Austria 

1997and playing the French Horn with the Tyrolean 

Symphony Orchestra. Greg first visited the city with the 

College Choir, on the European Tour in 1995 and little did 

he know then, he would eventually move to the city. There is 

a very large Jesuit community in Innsbruck and Greg warmly 

invites any Aloysian passing through the city or region to 

attend the Jesuit University Church for the Mass in English, 

every Saturday at 6pm. When he is not working, Greg 

travels up to the mountains and works on his skiing! 

Sam Whitehead has left the Regular 

1998Australian Army after graduating from the 

Australian Defence Force Academy and is working as 

a commissioned officer. Since leaving the Army, Sam 

has taken up employment with Apis Consulting Group in 

Canberra. Over the last year he has been the Operations 

Manager for the SCOTT 2006 Australian 24 hour 

Mountain Bike Championships (the world’s largest twentyfour 

hour mountain bike race with over three thousand 

competitors), the Ticketmates 2007 Australian Mountain 

Bike Championships, and the Event Manager for the 2007 

Australian Solo 24 hour Mountain Bike Championship. 

Sam was also a part of the bidding team who won the bid 

for Canberra to host tthe 2009 World Mountain Bike and 

Trials Championships. 



On Saturday night at a ceremony and dinner at the Great 

Hall at the University of Sydney, Edward Binnie was 

awarded a Gold Blazer for his services to the University of 

Sydney Sport. He was ‘dressed’ in the gold blazer by the 

Vice Chancellor of the University, Gavin Brown. Edward is 

the first SAC recipient of this prestigious award since this 

was the first such award ceremony and was conducted 

at the same event as the awards for University Blues. He 

was captain of the Gymnastics Club and held the same 

position in Volleyball Club. He was also Vice President of 

Sydney University Sport. The citation included his work in 

resurrecting the Volleyball Club from a major setback, his 

work at developing a talent search amongst promising high 

school students from within NSW, his work as a volleyball 

coach and referee at state and national level. 

Peter Clifton-Smith has just completed a 

1999six month study exchange at the University 

of Trento in northern Italy as part of his Master’s Degree 

in International Politics. He will be spending the next 

six months working in London before returning home at 

Christmas. 

Jeremy Hastings has graduated with a 

2001double degree in Business Administration 

and Management and now lives nine hundred and fifty 

kilometres South-east of Darwin working for the mining 

company Xstrata at the McArthur River Mine where he is 

the Community Relations Officer. Jeremy reports he very 

much enjoys the work, which he finds challenging and 

diverse. He is still refereeing rugby and reports he is the 

second highest qualified referee in the NT. Jeremy has 

been appointed as Touch Judge and Reserve Referee for 

the upcoming Australian Rugby Shield Matches to be held 

in Darwin. 

John McCormack recently spent six weeks 

2004 working on the campaign team for US 

Presidential Candidate, 

Senator Barrack Obama. 

In Senator Obama’s Iowa 

campaign headquarters in 

Des Moines, John worked 

on various tasks including 

constituency outreach. 

Pictured is John with Senator 

Obama on the campaign 

trail. 

Please let the College know of your news, or that of a 

classmate. Material for the Old Boys’ Updates and Past 

Staff News can be faxed to 02 9936 5691 or e-mailed 

to murray.happ@staloysius.nsw.edu.au. 

Obituaries 

The College is saddened to hear of the passing of the 

following Old Boys of the College. We ask you to remember 

them and their families in your prayers. 

John Lamerand (SAC 1922) 

The College’s oldest living Old Boy, John Lamerand (SAC 

1922); died on Monday 30 July 2007 aged 102 His 

daughter, Sr Yvonne Lamerand IBVM, is a member of the 

Loreto Kirribilli community and his son Ray (SAC 1949) 

along with a large number of family members and Knights 

of the Southern Cross attended his Requiem. John’s funeral 

was held at Star of the Sea Church in Kirribilli and was 

attended by a large number of Old Boys and members of 

the Aloysian Family. A number of Year 11 boys formed a 

guard of honour as John left the Church. 

Paul Byers (SAC 1932) died on 21 April 2007. 

Frank Schell (SAC 1934) died on 15 May 2007 

Keith Hesford (SAC 1944) died on 16 June 2007. 

John Coombs QC (SAC 1953) died on 16 July 2007. 

Eternal Rest grant to them O Lord 

and let perpetual light shine upon them, 

may their Souls and all the Souls 

of the faithfully departed Old Boys of the College, 

through the mercy of God, rest In Peace. Amen. 

St Aloysius, pray for us! 

John McCormack (SAC 2004) 

with Senator Barrack Obama 

Danny Clayton is a presenter 

on Channel V, on Foxtel 

cable television. Danny 

recently appeared on the Live Earth telecast, along with 

Adam Spencer (SAC 1986). 

Geoffrey Clifton-Smith is in his second year of his degree 

in Human Movement and Health Education at Sydney 

University. On the weekends he captains the Roseville 

Under 21s Colts Rugby Team. 



AMDG 

“..Little did I know at the time of the enormous impact my days 

at St Aloysius’ College would have on the rest of my life. Though 

times were harder then, the enduring lessons learnt from the 

Jesuit Fathers and the lay staff and the deep bonds of friendship 

formed with my schoolmates have had a tremendously positive 

influence on my own, and on my family’s lives. 

This was St Aloysius’ gift to me and it is why I have chosen to 

remember the College in my estate. In this way I can create 

my own legacy by helping future generations of Aloysians to be 

educated and guided in the Jesuit tradition for many years after 

I have gone.” 

Words of an Old Boy of the College 

A gift to the St Aloysius’ College Foundation Limited in your Will is one way 

of ensuring that your memories of life at the College can be experienced 

by future generations of Aloysians. 

If you would like to find out how a gift in your Will will benefit future Aloysians, 

please contact the Director of Development, Mr Murray Happ (SAC 1985) 

on 02 9936 5561 or murray.happ@staloysius.nsw.edu.au

Summer 2008 - St Aloysius

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