Bulletin LATEST 2010 - St. Columba's College

2THE CENTENARY OF THE SOCIETYThe Society was founded in 1909 (see page 2 of the 2009 Bulletin for the Editor’s account of itsfounding). Our centenary year was a most busy and successful year, details of which are reportedin the pages which follow. The centrepiece was the Centenary Dinner, held in Dun Laoghaire,which was booked-out well in advance, and was a very happy and successful event. ThePresident, J.N. White, and the Warden, L.J. Haslett, made speeches during the evening.In addition, a drinks party was held in London (Britain has the second greatest number of OldColumbans, after the Republic of Ireland), as well as a pleasing number of reunions (these areself-organising, and not under the aegis of the Society, but we are always happy to help out withcontacts, and in arranging tours of the College). It was also gratifying that, thanks to K.T. Large,the golf section of the Society was reborn during the year. Finally, the Society continues to keeppace with modern technology: a Facebook group was set up in the summer, which alreadycontains 25% of all members, and members for the first time were able to download The Bulletinfrom our website and so keep an electronic copy. We can say without complacency that going intoits second 100 years, the Society has never been busier or more effective in its activities.SOCIETY MEETINGSAnnual General Meeting, 2010This will be held on Wednesday 9th June 2010 (St Columba’s Day) at the Kildare Street andUniversity Club, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, commencing at 6.30 pm. Those interested inhaving dinner after the meeting should contact the Secretary (contact details on page 1) by Friday4th June.Annual General Meeting 2009This was held at the Kildare Street and University Club, Wednesday 10th June 2009. As iscustomary, before the meeting began the President read out the names of Old Columbans whohad died since the last AGM, and those present kept a minute’s silence. The Secretary reportedon the revamping of the Society’s section of the new College website, as well as the highlysuccessful Berlin party, the burgeoning numbers of reunions and the Connacht party in Galway.In common with other institutions, the Society has lost money in the current equity downturn,though income from leavers still covers the cost of The Bulletin and its posting. A possible schemeinvestigated by Robin Simpson for raising money for bursaries and scholarships was put on holddue to the same economic circumstances. Reverend Michael Heaney, retiring as CollegeChaplain, was elected an Honorary Member of the Society.Committee meetingsThese are held at least once a year, and discuss the running of the Society, plan social events andoversee the Society’s finances. Old Columbans who may be interested in contributing to theCommittee’s work might contact the Secretary, and/or attend the Annual General Meeting. Themost recent meeting was in early March 2010.CommunicationNewsletters: As members will realise on receiving this Bulletin, the colour newsletter formerlydistributed with it is no more: it has been discontinued by the College, and replaced by a moreregular e-mail newsletter, which is sent out twice a term. This newsletter contains lots of Collegenews, interesting links, and indeed regular Old Columban news. Many Old Columbans havealready subscribed to this (it is free, takes a few seconds, and members unsubscribe easily). Other

3members are urged to subscribe: go to the Latest News page of www.stcolumbas.ie, and type inyour name and e-mail address.The Website: http://stcolumbas.ie/ocs.php (or click on ‘Old Columbans’ anywhere onwww.stcolumbas.ie). This has a news section specially for Old Columban matters, as well as thee-mail directory (fill in the form under ‘OC Registration’).Facebook: in summer 2009 the Society set itself up on Facebook, at www.facebook.com/ocsociety(or search for ‘Old Columbans’). This facility is only for members of the Society, and provides uswith another way to communicate, being particularly useful for younger Old Columbans. ByMarch 2009 over 850 members of the Society were ‘friends’. You need to be on Facebook alreadyto join them.College Website and Twitter: we encourage all Old Columbans to look regularly at the excellentre-vamped College site, www.stcolumbas.ie. Since the end of 2009, there is also a Twitter feed onthe Latest News page (below the four news boxes), which provides a daily stream of news aboutthe College. You can also follow the Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/sccdublin.Electronic copy of The Bulletin: you can download this from the Society’s section of the website.If you have already registered, sign in at http://stcolumbas.ie/ocs.php with your username andpassword, and then click on the link above the photograph.Open DayAll Old Columbans with young children are invited to attend the annual Open Day in theCollege. Many have already attended the first four such occasions. You will get a tour around theCollege led by a senior pupil, see the many splendid new and improved facilities, and be able totalk to members of staff. It is an easy way to look around without making a formal appointment.It is held every September, and in 2010 is likely to be on the morning of Saturday 25th September(but please check on www.stcolumbas.ie in the weeks beforehand).SOCIAL EVENTS 2010Dinner in Dublin, Friday 5th November 2010A dinner will be held at the Royal Irish Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire on Friday 5th November2010 at 7.30pm. All Old Columbans and their guests are welcome. The cost will be €50 per person(to include some wine with the meal). Dress will be club dress (code: jacket and tie). The enclosedinsert should be filled out and sent with a cheque made out for the appropriate amount to ‘TheOld Columban Society’, and posted to N.F.D. Falkiner, The Creek, 18 Strand Rd, Sutton,Co. Dublin (email: nfalkiner@eircom.net).Golf Event, Thursday 16th September 2010The next outing will be held at the Kilmashogue Golf Course on Thursday 16th September 2010.Old Columbans interested in playing pleaes contact Kenneth Large by e-mail at comprint@iol.ie,by fax (01) 8557409, by telephone (087) 2561367, or by letter to 37, Cherry Glade, Delgany Wood,Delgany, Co. Wicklow.1990 Reunion, Saturday 11th September 2010A 20-year reunion of those who left in 1990 is being planned for Saturday 11th September 2010 inDublin. If you are interested, please contact Anna Baker (née Nichols) via email atoldcolumban1990@yahoo.co.uk, or by mobile phone at 00-353-86-8141888 or by post at Covehill,Sandycove, Kinsale, Co. Cork.

42000 Reunion, Saturday 25th September 2010A reunion of those who left the College in 2000 will be held on Saturday 25th September 2010. Itis being organised by K.S. Douglas (email krisdouglas2001@yahoo.co.uk).SOCIAL EVENTS 2009The Centenary Dinner, November 2009A dinner celebrating 100 years of the Old Columban Society was held at the Royal Irish YachtClub in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, on Friday 6th November 2009. Over 150 members and theirguests were present. The event was organised by Rosie Johnson and Julian Girdham.The following people were present: W.J.N. Allison and Karen Hollis, Peter and Carol Beamish,Denis and Christine Beare, Alec and Heather Bell, Ali Bell, Marcus and Adele Beresford, Davidand Darina (née Carter) Bewley, Sue Brittain (née Gault), Tony Brown and Maureen Muir, Gerardand Ann Buchanan, Robin Bury, Angus and Gillian (née Perdue) Buttanshaw, Francois vonChappuis, Richard and Rose de Courcy-Wheeler, Eric Earle, Brian Dalrymple, Andrew andElizabeth Davidson, Brian and Sally Davidson, Ninian Falkiner, John Fanagan, Owen andAdrienne Fenton, Christopher Fettes, Iain Finnegan and guest, John and Susan Fisher, RobinGatenby and Kate Lyons, Nigel Gault, David and Sally Gibbs, William and Sally Gibbs, JulianGirdham, Malcolm Goodbody, Brian Gordon, Patrick Gray, Paul Griffin, Louise Hadden, MichaelHannon, J.E. Harte and Eve Schultz, William Harvey, Lindsay and Marie Haslett, Sonja Hayes,Geoffrey and Liz Hilton, Andrew Hewat, Christopher Hone and Mary Jennings, Rosie and RobJohnson, Dawn Johnston, Corinna Knaggs, Kenneth and Aoife Large, Frank Latchford and JoanKelly, Hussein and Rhianon Lari, David Leslie, Sammy Leslie, Colin Lush, Norman and JoyceLush, Tessa Lush, John and Ger Lyttle, Alistair McCaw, Charles McCaw and guest, Michael andVicky McClintock, Brett McEntaggart and guest, John McEntaggart and Mary Henry, MarkMcKeever and Justina Reeves-Smith, Max McMullan and Elizabeth Fitzsimons, Terence Metcalfe,Desmond Miller, Jason Miller, Jonathan and Vivienne Mitchell, Terence Moran and guest, JeanneMorgan Doyle, Fraser Morris, Jamie Myerscough, Philip Myerscough, Gus Nichols, Oisin Nolan,Patricia Nolan, Grellan O’Kelly, Charles O’Malley and guest, David O’Morchoe, Robbie O’Neilland guest, Michael and Margaret Pettigrew, Tom and Karen Plewman, Charlie Reid and AmandaMcGowan, Ian Roberts, Bill and Pam Russell, Brian and Alice Shaw, John Sheils, Richard and DelSherriff, Edward Simpson and Muriel McEntaggart, William and Jane Simpson, David Smith,Dudley Smith, Simon Somerville-Large, David Sowby, Michael and Juliet Stephens, Glascott andAdrienne Symes, Roxanne Wallace, John and Sarah White, Peter White, Christopher Wilshere,Patrick and Genevieve Wilshere, Trevor Wood and guest.London Party, October 2009A party organised by William Simpson was held at The Cross Keys in Chelsea on Friday 2ndOctober 2009. In gratitude for his work over the years, he was presented by the President of theSociety with a framed copy of one of the builder’s drawings of the College Chapel. OldColumbans interested in attending future Old Columban parties in London should contactWilliam Simpson at william@simpson.plus.com.The following were present: Jan Baker (née Fleming), David Browne, Alannah Cryer, NicolaCunningham (née Hamilton), Stephanie Doig, Ninian Falkiner, John Fanagan, Charles Hudson,Shaun Nesbitt, Grellan O’Kelly, Robbie O’Neill, Brian and Lucy Pappas (née White), TimPettigrew, Henry Reade, John Sheils, Vicky Sheppard (née O’Mahony), and William and JaneSimpson, Desmond Watt and guest, Philip Webb, John White, Mark Willis, Michael Wood-Martin.

5Golf Event, August 2009A golf outing, organised by Kenneth Large, was held at Killiney Golf Club on 12th August 2009.The following took part: Robin Bury, Mervyn Ellis, Nigel Gault, Ann Hackett, Caroline Kennedy,Kenneth Large, Brett McEntagart, David Reed, Edward Simpson, and Neale Webb. Though thenumbers were not high, the occasion was much enjoyed and felt to be a great success. Theobjective of making a start to holding annually an Old Columban golf outing was achieved anda golf committee is in the making A perpetual golf trophy has been sponsored by Kenneth Large.On this first occasion it was won by Mervyn Ellis (with a handicap of 12). After the golf, there wasan excellent meal in the club house along with the prize giving and a few speeches. The nextouting will be held at Kilmashogue Golf Course on Thursday 16th September 2010.Old Columbans interested in playing should contact Kenneth Large by e-mail atcomprint@iol.ie, by fax (01) 8557409, by telephone (087) 2561367, or by letter to 37, Cherry Glade,Delgany Wood, Delgany, Co. Wicklow.1959-1966 Reunion, April 2009A 1959-66 reunion was held in the Kildare Street and University Club, St Stephen’s Green,Dublin, on Friday 24th April 2009. The event was organised by Ian Craigie, assisted by DavidCrawford, Ninian Falkiner, Glascott Symes and John White. The following were present:Denis Beare, Jonathan Bailey, Jack Baily, Edmund Barrow, Marcus Beresford, John Blow,Geoffrey Brooks, Tony Brown, Gavin Caldwell, Alan Campbell, Roderick Cooper, Ian Craigie,Brian Crawford, David Crawford, Andrew Davidson, Ninian Falkiner, Garry Fenelon, GuyFrench, Andrew Furlong, Michael Ganly, Hugh Gash, Trevor Goodbody, Richard Grainger,Michael Graves-Johnston, John Greene, Robin Greene, Paul Griffin, William Hamill, PeterHarrison, Geoffrey Hilton, Christopher Hone, Timothy Jackson, Frank Latchford, JohnMcBratney, Richard (Bud) McMullen, David Mayne, Jonathan Mitchell, Arthur Moran, PhilipMyerscough, David Leslie, Anthony Lowry, Geoffrey Perrin, Ian Roberts, William Robertson,Claude Seale, Robin Simpson, Billy Smith, Dudley Smith, Peter Smith, Glascott Symes, LynnTemple, Gwynne Thomas, Michael Warren, John White.1989 Reunion, June 2009A reunion of those who left the College in 1989 was held on Friday 19th June 2009 at the OdessaClub, Dame Court, Dublin. It was organised by Andrew Hewat and Oisin Nolan who, with thehelp of others, made all the necessary contacts to gather up 37 Old Columbans and two membersof staff. The evening started with Pimms and continued with a sumptuous barbeque on therooftop terrace. Some of those present had travelled very long distances to be there: from the FarEast, the Middle East, North America and mainland Europe. The following were present:Shelley Atkinson, John Bamford, Nicola Bohm, Antoine Byrne, Brian Clarke, Orla Chohan (néeFitzpatrick), Nicholas Coveney, Emmet Daly, Karen Doyle, John Ellis, John Fanagan, Alice Forde(née Madden), Desmond Gleeson, Julian Girdham, Mark Godkin, Walid Kambal, KennethKingston, Corinna Knaggs, Charlotte Hansjee (née Greacen), Katherine Hardy (née Kavanagh),Andrew Hewat, Dale Holt (née Evans), Charlotte Howard, Marni Laux, Keelin McCormick (néeKavanagh), Darrell Miller, Roisin Mills, Jeanne Morgan Doyle (née Morgan), Oisin Nolan, DerekO’Donnell, Bronwyn Owens, Patrick Passmore, Alannah Robins, Alannah Roche-Kelly, Peta Scott(née McMullan), Andrew Shaw, Dirk Tinne, Glenn Treacy.1984 Reunion, November 2009On Saturday November 28th 2009 a reunion was held of those who left the College in 1984. It wasorganised by David Smith, Jay Bourke, William Stokes and Simon Walker and held in the Odessa

6Club on Dame Court, Dublin. There were messages of best wishes from those who were unableto attend. Many memories were swapped and lots of news exchanged. It was decided to holdanother reunion in five years’ time.The following were present: Jay Bourke, Mark Brett, Helen Caird, Caleb Cairns, Grania Clarke,Gail Coman (née Wheeler), David Coyle, Dominick Donnelly, Sheona Foley, Eva Hamilton, HughHall, Timothy Lucas, Michael Love, Nikolaus Lucas, Sonja Hayes, Colin Heather, Jonathan Henry,Tarquin Landseer, Hilary McCormick, Alex McKenzie, Michael Mura, Patricia Nolan, Mark Nulty,Kean O’Hara, Constantine Panayotou, Valerie Pedlow, Adrienne Perdue, James Robinson, DavidSmith, Paula Ryder, Lucy Tottenham (née Ormsby), Ciaran Twomey, Simon Walker and WilliamStokes.1999 Reunion, November 2009Also (by coincidence) on Saturday November 28th 2009 43 of those who left the College in 1999gathered to celebrate their ten-year reunion. The event was organised by Colin Fitzpatrick andJamie Macken. The evening started in The Stag’s Head and then continued in the Odessa Clubon Dame Court for a dinner. The occasion was very successful with the sharing of manymemories. Some of those present had not seen one another since they had left the College. It wasagreed that smaller gatherings might tale place before the next reunion.The following were present: Edward Braddell, Leila Budd, Kevin Campbell, Liam Canning(1977, member of staff), Marta Castresana, Emily Cooper, William Davis-Goff, Charles Day, NiallDenham, John Fanagan (former member of staff), Colin Fitzpatrick, Matthew Fortune, ChristinaGervais, Lisa-Jane Graffard (née Moeran), Andrew Kidd, Katie Larsen, Jamie Macken, DarrenMackenzie, Lisa Macey, Philip McKinley, Stephen Mangan, Richard Mayne, Vincent Mulvey,Patrick Osborne, Arrabella Page, Hugh Passmore, Jack Penruddock, Nicola Pierpoint, AnnikaRiemenschneider, Beatrice Portera Ramayal, Hazel Ruane, Maxe Schroth, Helen Sinabulya, LindaStephens, Jeremy Stone (member of staff), Joseph Sullivan and Paul Sullivan.The Society’s Awards1. The Society aims to award annually a scholarship (currently €1,250) to the son or daughter ofan Old Columban who sits the College Scholarship Examination and has subsequently beenrecommended by the Warden for the award. In 2009 the scholarship was awarded to LydiaJohnson, daughter of Rob Johnson (1997) and Rosie Johnson (née Overend, 1979).2. The R.M.Gwynn Memorial Prize (currently €130) is awarded to an appropriate candidate whohas entered Dublin University, for the purchase of books. In 2010 this was awarded toOliver Smith.3. The winner of the Old Columban Society Award for the best results in the 2009 JuniorCertificate is Lingfan Gao, who will receive a book token for €100 at the St Columba’s DayCelebrations prize-giving on Saturday 5th June 2010.The Buildings Committee of the FellowsThe Board of the College is divided into a number of Committees monitoring key functions of theCollege. One of these is the Buildings Committee, whose members comprise the Warden, theBursar, Mr Ian Roberts (chairman) and Mrs Caroline Kennedy. Mr Brian Bond has recently retiredfrom the Committee and from being a Fellow, after sterling work delivering the Grange building.St Columba’s College sits on 150 acres of land. It is a small village - including a new dormitory

7building, the size of a small hotel, a school, a chapel, a sports campus and a 9-hole golf course. Ithas streams and a forest, part of a farm and even-bee hives. Some 60 people live therepermanently in houses on the Campus; around 220 pupils live there during term and over 100attend summer courses etc. In total there are around 40 buildings within the College grounds,including 23 houses and apartments for the permanent residents.All of this constitutes a substantial piece of real estate which must be managed to the veryhighest standards as befits the reputation of the College and the expectations of the pupils,parents and staff.Day-to-day management of the grounds and buildings is by the Bursar and her staff of abouteight. The work involves managing the grounds, including the playing fields and gardens;maintaining the buildings after the natural wear and tear that time and a busy school can cause;organising painting, upgrading, repairs and renewals and particularly managing the "SummerWorks" programme. The golf course also has to be cared for to full professional standards. Recentcapital works have required adaptability and substantial collateral works as pupils are movedinto new buildings or areas.In the last seven years capital expenditure has amounted to over €8 m, with maintenance,upkeep and renewal costs in the order of €750,000. New works include the Grange building,Cadogan, Main House roof, Iona renewal, hockey pitch, tennis courts and the improvement ofthe cricket pavilion (this undertaking was made possible by donations from Old Columbans).The consequence is that the College is in very good condition, has a constant improvement anddevelopment programme and is adaptable to suit variations that are sure to occur in the College’srequirements.The role of the Buildings Committee is to support the executive of the Fellows in all of thiswork. Policy on the development of the infrastructure of the College is set by the Fellows, inconjunction with the Warden and the staff and in response to the need for development of theeducational facilities. In St Columba’s the seven-day-boarding structure requires a much broaderview of the facilities than might be the case in other schools.As a need is perceived, or when an opportunity arises thanks to generosity by parents or OldColumbans, the Buildings Committee establishes the team to carry out the development andmonitors the progress of the works for time, quality and budget. The Committee advises theFellows of these matters and advises when changes are needed. The Committee also advises andreviews, in conjunction with the Bursar, the need for maintenance and upgrade works. It workswith professional designers and planners to suggest the location and type of future developmentwhich will satisfy overall College policy. A recent example is the proposal for a new HurleyQuadrangle, formed by a new Beresford House on the South side. The concept is designed tocontinue the series of linked quadrangles, which are a feature of the College and which give it itsunique quality of comfort and scale.For the future the Committee is looking at five- and ten-year development plans that allow fora structured development of the College within a master plan. It is looking at energy costs andefficiencies in infrastructure in the long term. It monitors value for money in all that isundertaken within the College. That it can do so is thanks to the great ability of the Bursar andher staff, who have worked wonders in extracting value and reducing costs.I.S. Roberts (1959, Acting Chairman of the Fellows)

8From the WardenThe past year was one in which schools, like the country generally, faced considerable challengeson the economic front. Those of us in the voluntary sector were hit with a sudden and unforeseenrise in the pupil-teacher ratio from 18:1 to 20:1, thus increasing our staffing costs at the stroke ofa ministerial pen. On top of this, and without consultation, the government decided to end its 40-year treatment of fee-paying schools under Protestant management in the same way as those inthe ‘free’ sector. This latter measure saw the immediate withdrawal of previously-awarded grants,in our case totalling over €100,000. Blows like these are seldom easy to cope with, not least whenthey take immediate effect in the middle of a financial year.Although the introduction of these measures had a major impact on the College, and led to thecreation of a significant campaign to overturn them on the part of all schools in the Protestantsector, we continue to do the best we can for our pupils and the parents who send them to us.Happily, the academic year 2008-2009 saw us once again beat our previous record in terms ofacademic results, with an average points score in the Leaving Certificate examinations of 446points per candidate. This included two pupils who recorded a maximum 600 points; indeed,they actually scored 790 and 780 points when their full totals are calculated. Remarkably, ouraverage of 446 produced a range of marks from 60 at the bottom to 600 at the top, once againemphasising that St. Columba’s is a school for all abilities and levels. In the Junior Certificate oneboy achieved the remarkable feat of ten ‘A’ grades. Two other candidates were each awarded nine‘A’ grades.Whilst such outstanding results once again placed us at the very top in terms of national results,this fact is not as widely recognised as it might be: the tables published in the national press arebased solely on the percentage of pupils from individual schools going on to universities inIreland and the UK. In our case, those admitted to universities further afield, such as Germanyfor example, from which we attract significant numbers of pupils, are omitted from the statistics.This is a shame because the reputation of the College in such countries is quite exceptional. Weare obliged annually to decline large numbers of boys and girls from Germany in order to retaina proper balance in our overall numbers. Old Columbans will, however, be interested to note thatthe Columban diaspora is now such that a German branch of the society exists and thrives,holding in Berlin a reunion for its members attended by as many as 80 Old Columbans.The work ethic in the College is of course strong, both among pupils and teachers: academicresults such as those referred to could not be achieved were this not the case. Comings andgoings among the staff have been few in recent years and this no doubt adds to our strength aswell as our togetherness. One notable departure in 2009, however, was that of the Chaplain, theReverend Michael Heaney, after 43 years’ distinguished service to the College. Michael Heaneywill be well known to many in our community having been here for so many years and havingperformed so many roles during that time. I would like to thank him for his dedication andprofessionalism as a teacher, a housemaster, a guidance counsellor and a chaplain. In anticipationof his retirement, I appointed Mr. Humphrey Jones, who joined us as a biology teacher inSeptember 2005, to the position of careers and guidance counsellor. This is an exceptionallyimportant role in any school, not least in one such as ours where, so many pupils go on touniversities around the world and require sound, practical advice about varying applicationprocedures. In succession to Michael Heaney as chaplain, the year also saw the appointment ofthe Reverend Nigel Crossey, an Ulsterman educated at Campbell College and Cambridge, and arecent parent of a boy and a girl in the College. Nigel Crossey’s experience in two parishes in thenineteen- eighties and nineteen-nineties, followed by a time in the British Army during which hereached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, will no doubt serve him well in his new role as ourChaplain.Unsurprisingly, given the economic circumstances prevailing in the country, there have been

9few major capital developments in the College in recent years. It is of considerable comfort to metherefore that ‘we made hay while the sun shone’ in the good years which preceded the currentdownturn, during which the College invested almost €20 million in infrastructure over sevenyears. This saw the introduction of the Grange building, the new dining facilities, therefurbishment of Stackallan House in the Argyle building and the creation of the music school inthe Cadogan, among many other projects. Less well known, but equally important, are the moreroutine upgrades which take place annually in classrooms, boarding houses and around theCollege generally. During 2008-2009, for example, work began to refurbish the girls’ dormitoriesin Iona House and to bring them up to the standard in other houses. This has been a great successand will be added to in the years ahead. Another significant development has been the workcarried out on the College cricket pavilion, a historic building with a strong place in the hearts ofmany Old Columbans. The College is indebted to the efforts of Mr. Liam Canning, master incharge of cricket, and to Mr. Norman Lush, who was in charge of cricket for over thirty years, fortheir unstinting efforts in raising the funds for this particular project.Perhaps inevitably, the principal theme of much of this report has been financial. I am thereforeall the more grateful to the large numbers of Old Columbans who, conscious of the real value ofan education here, continue to send their sons and daughters to us at considerable cost. Numbersin the College are of course essential to our income stream, enabling us to employ the very bestteachers and in such number that we are able to maintain a pupil-teacher ratio of 7:1 which is theenvy of every school in the country. In view of the recession, however, the Fellows and I aremindful of the need to keep costs down in the fees which we charge. With this in mind, this yearsaw the creation of a bursary fund which aims to provide assistance to those who have investedin us by sending their children here and who are currently experiencing financial difficulty. I amenormously grateful in particular to those of you who forgo the Old Columban discount on thefees of 10% to contribute to this fund, as I am also to those who give up scholarship and siblingdiscounts to make a contribution to the fund. Regrettably, we are not able to help as many as wewould wish to but every little helps. It is reassuring to me – as it will be to you – that the Collegecontinues to thrive amid the turmoil of the times. This is due in no small part to the efforts ofeveryone connected with this fine institution to ensure its prosperity. A Columban educationremains a first-class preparation for a successful and happy life and the readership andcirculation of the Bulletin is fitting testimony to this fact. I would like to thank the officers andmembers of the Old Columban Society for their work on the College’s behalf and am confidentthat our reputation for excellence and distinction will be retained in the future, whatever itthrows at us.L.J. HaslettB.W.N. Walsh Memorial Fund for the College Chapel OrganA fund has been launched in memory of the former College Chaplain, Reverend Bertram Walsh,who died in March 2008 (a tribute to him by former Warden Gibbs was published in last year’sBulletin).A long-serving Chaplain, and much-loved by generations of Columbans, Bert Walsh arrived inthe College in 1960 and left in 1993, being Chaplain from 1960 to 1983 and Dean of ReligiousStudies from 1983 to 1993, as well as a distinguished Irish teacher (the College Irish Prize is nownamed after him). It is therefore appropriate that his Memorial Fund will be dedicated to majorwork on the Chapel Organ. The Walsh family has already started our fund-raising efforts with amost generous donation, and the College is most grateful to them for this. In addition, theChapel’s own Fabric Fund has contributed substantially (contributions are collected each year in

10the service at the St Columba’s Day Celebrations). However, a sum of about €50,000 is nowneeded to secure the future of this key instrument in this key building.As all Old Columbans know, the Chapel is very much at the heart of College life, and the organis crucial during its services. The instrument needs major maintenance and renovation work onall its elements — the blowing mechanism, reservoir, console, pipes and safety aspects — so thatit can continue to be used for future generations of pupils. The Fund has already contributed tothis work, which needs to be done during the summer months when the College is empty andwhich thus will take several years to complete. We are therefore now appealing to all OldColumbans to contribute whatever you can. The recently retired College Chaplain, ReverendMichael Heaney, who worked alongside Bert Walsh for many years, is the Secretary of the fund,and the person to send donations to (see further details at the end of this piece).All contributions will be acknowledged individually, and noted in future editions of thisBulletin (unless requested otherwise), and all donors will be invited to a musical event in theChapel which we hope to put on when substantial work has been completed. A plaque on theorgan will recognise this renovation work carried out in memory of the Reverend B.W.N.Walsh.Donations should be sent to: Reverend Michael Heaney, Walsh Fund, Montana, ScholarstownRoad, Dublin 16. He may also be contacted by email at revmheaney@gmail.com. A reply slip isenclosed with this Bulletin, but if you lose this please send your donation to Rev Michael Heaneywith your postal address, and also preferably an email address.Donations may also be sent directly to the St Columba’s College Chapel Account, 10 MainStreet, Dundrum, Dublin 14. Sort code: 93-31-20. Account number: 16821-099. IBAN: IE25 AIBK9331 2016 8210 99 (BIC AIBKIE2D). Please write ‘Walsh Fund’ as well as your name and addresson the form.Rev M.R. Heaney and J.M. Girdham (1974)A Window in the ChapelOld Columbans may remember stained glass window on the north wall of the Chapel dedicatedto the memory of the Reverend Henry Irwin. It shows a shepherd, dressed in a blue smock,carrying a sheep to safety. A distinctive feature of the window is a mountain range in thebackground: these are the Rocky Mountains of western Canada where Henry Irwin, an OldColumban, worked as an Anglican priest. The Editor has put together the following extracts fromThe Columban of December 1910 which describe Henry Irwin’s work among the settlers andminers.Born in 1859 in County Fermanagh, but after 1863 reared at his father’s home therectory of Newtownmountkennedy, he came to St Columba’s at the age of twelve.From his boyhood he had resolved to be ‘a missionary in a cold climate’…. In thosedays he was remarkable for his love of animals, devotion to games (a strong and pluckyfootball player, he was also a mighty hitter) and overflowing fun and energy.Industrious but not brilliant, his promotion to the rank of Prefect, and his successtherein, was due to character rather than high place in the school; a terror to bullies, hewas the champion of the weak.He attended Keble College, Oxford and Ely Theological College, and from there he wasappointed to a curacy in the town of Rugby.In 1885 the opportunity came for which he had long been waiting. The Diocese ofNew Westminster, in British Columbia, appealed to home for men. It is as large asFrance, and contained 100,000 people mainly English immigrants. Large numbers were

11dispersed in mining camps among the mountains or employed in the Canadian PacificRailway, which was then fighting through stupendous natural obstacles to completion.Irwin was stationed at Kamloops, in the lower hills, and afterwards at Donald in thevery heart of the Rockies. But properly speaking, he was everywhere… Unheard ofjourneys, on foot or on horse back, in the shabbiest of miner’s clothes, amid all sorts ofweather, enabled him to reach his scattered countrymen. Saddlebag on back and chest,crawling along trails, sliding down ice slopes and scrambling up the steepest ofprecipices – there was no risk he was not prepared to take.In 1890 Irwin married Miss Frances Innes, but within a year his wife, and new-born child,were dead. Irwin now volunteered for work in the toughest mining camps in the wildest partsof the Rockies. Here, among the miners prospecting for gold, his constant care for them, hisdirectness of speech in his sermons, and his boxing skills, earned him the respect and evenlove of the miners, who simply called him ‘Father Pat’ (these two words appear prominentlyon the stained glass window in Chapel).Irwin’s extraordinary exertions finally broke his health. In 1902 he was on his way back toIreland for some recuperation, but died in Notre Dame Hospital in Montreal after muchsuffering.But the miners for whom he lived and died would not allow him to be buriedanywhere but among them, and of the memorials which they vied in raising tocommemorate him …..none is more touching than the cairn, of all the choicest oresfrom his old camps, chosen by the men themselves. ‘He’s a good man’ said one of themin his lifetime. ‘We know that. There’s nothing we can give him. His reward is readyfor him, for all the poor fellows he’s nursed and cared for that nobody else wouldbother about. No one can take it from him. He’s recorded his claim all right’.The Cricket PavilionIn May 2007 the Cricket Pavilion Restoration Appeal was launched in the Bulletin. I would like toreport that the external and internal refurbishment has been largely completed. Anyone who hasseen the work has been very impressed with its quality. The building has lost none of its originalappeal while being enhanced as a facility. To date €43,844 has been raised and the account iscurrently overdrawn by €1,800.The final phase is to replicate some of the boards in a downscaled font to get all the namesup-to-date and leave room for future teams. We are delighted we have found someone who willbe able to do exactly what we want: namely, 72 teams from 1937 until 2010 will be made from pineplanks and mouldings in keeping with the original boards. The new boards will be primed,undercoated, painted and aged to blend in as closely as possible. The names will be individuallypainted onto the new boards and there will be room for teams to be added until 2060.These works and paving that is needed to finish off the front of the pavilion will cost anadditional €11,000 which the fund does not yet have. A substantial amount of what is requiredhas been pledged but there is a shortfall which does need additional donations (at least €3,000). Ihave decided to continue with the final phase, trusting that the money will come in.If anyone with the intention of donating has not yet done so it is not too late. Could I please askanyone in this situation to make a donation if they intend to? If so, please send a cheque to LiamCanning (Master-in-Charge of Cricket), St. Columba’s College, Whitechurch, Dublin 16, madepayable to 'SCC Pavilion Fund'. If anyone wants to make a direct donation you will need thefollowing bank codes: IBAN 60AIBK93338407165218. BIC AIBKIE2D

12If you do make a donation in this way, please include an identifier with the lodgement, so thatyour donation can be acknowledged. Indeed if anyone knows someone who may not have beena cricketer or even in the College but is sympathetic, please do pass on the details to them.I would like to thank everyone who has already donated and all others who have contributedin many other valuable ways. All donors will be formally invited to the official opening on June16th. It is anticipated that the opening will be at 2.00pm and that a cricket match will be played.Any Old Columban who is interested is very welcome to attend, to see what has been done andto enjoy watching a cricket match in blazing sunshine.L.J. Canning (1977)H.D. BarronHenry Barron entered the College in 1941. He soon showed great scholastic and athletic abilities.He was a scholar and took the Earl of Pembroke’s prize for mathematics. In his final year he wasa school prefect.He played on a number of sports teams and obtained colours for hockey and cricket, thoughdescribed as displaying ‘his usual erratic self’. This contrasted with his ability in tennis to show‘characteristic flashes of his most tenacious style’. This tenacity was to stand him in good stead inlater life.Having won a junior exhibition to Trinity College Dublin, he graduated with first class honoursin legal science in 1950. He was called to the Bar in1951 and took silk in 1970.A High Court judge from 1982, Mr Justice Barron in 1997 became the first Jew to be appointedto the Supreme Court. In that same year he was the first judge in the State to grant a divorce afterthe 1995 divorce referendum.He retired from the Supreme Court in May 2000, five months before taking up his appointmentas sole member of the Commission of Inquiry into the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings andinto a number of other atrocities which occurred in the 1970s, a task he undertook with sensitivityand thoroughness. He showed great commitment in the search for truth about these events, andin his dealing with the families he displayed exceptional sympathy. It was as a result of the refusalof the British authorities to cooperate fully with the investigation, rather than any failings on thepart of Henry Barron, that those responsible have still not been brought to justice. He was criticalof the British and Irish governments and security forces in several reports he wrote on theatrocities.Henry Barron was a pleasant, unassuming person. I came across him from time-to-time,usually shopping in the local supermarket. He was always ready to stop and have a bit of a chat,perhaps about how Masonic beat us in the senior cricket cup in 1944.On February 25th 2010, after a short illness, former Supreme Court judge Henry Barron diedin St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin. He was 81.D. Sowby (1940)D. M. DowseDavid Michael Dowse (or Walsh as he was known to most Columbans of his generation) died inParis in April 2009 after an exceptionally brave fight with cancer.David came to the College in 1960 from The High School and made an immediate impact dueto his exceptional academic and sporting abilities. In his final year he captained the first rugby XVand obtained an Irish schoolboys’ trial for hockey. This sporting prowess together with aformidable intellect made him a complete all rounder. He was awarded an exhibition into TrinityCollege Dublin where he read modern languages, French and English. Throughout his life hederived enormous pleasure from art, literature and music. Having an inquisitive and

13independent mind he relished challenging and confronting conventional wisdom and did sowith great intellectual success. During his degree course he developed a particular interest in thepoems and writings of William Blake: ‘Blake is for strong minds … but not to have read him is tohave missed one of the most rewarding experiences in English literature’. David, as in all things,embodied that statement.Those of us who played with or against him on the sports field or who challenged him to agame of scrabble encountered a very competitive individual – that is not a criticism, it is the wayhe was, the essence of the man.His enormous circle of friends (to whom he always showed an unusual and unique loyalty),his wonderful wife Audrey and children Rebecca and Matthew, miss him hugely. It’s easy to sayof someone that a person has left a big gap in our lives – in David’s case he really has. As Blakesaid ‘excessive sorrow laughs, excessive joy weeps’ – in David’s case we ‘laughed’ with greatsorrow.B.G. French (1961)J.P.T. LeeJohn Lee entered the College in 1941. He was destined to share his school years with a remarkablegroup of fellow Columbans, many of whom were to distinguish themselves in the areas ofwriting, art, science and the law. As a scholar he was well able to hold his own, with a particularlove of history and of music. His contemporaries remember him spending long hours at the pianoin the Kennedy Building. A professional career seemed to be a strong possibility.John went on to Trinity College where he obtained a moderatorship in history in 1951. He spentsome time with the Friends’ Ambulance in post-war France before embarking on a career as aschoolmaster teaching history, as well as being organist and choirmaster, at The King’s Hospitalin Blackhall Place in Dublin. His former pupils have fond memories of an exceptional teacherwho instilled a lifelong love of his subject. He was equally revered as a choirmaster showing akeen appreciation of the role of music in the liturgy of the church (which he also demonstratedlater during his ten tears as organist of Holy Trinity Church, Killiney).However in 1963 he was needed to assume the role of managing director, later chairman, of thefamily drapery business, Edward Lee & Co. One feels that John may not have been entirely athome in the world of business, but he brought to it the same high standards that he displayed inthe classroom, even returning to Trinity College to take a master’s degree in business. Followinga takeover of the firm, it was typical of the man that he established a trust fund for the formeremployees.Now he had the opportunity to return to what was probably his first love, education. So it wasback to The King’s Hospital in 1976, now in the premises in Palmerstown Co Dublin, and this timeas Bursar. He steered the school through the economic downturn of the 1980s and oversaw twochanges in the headship. As Bursar he displayed the same high ethical standards and concern forthose in trouble that he had shown in his business life.John was blessed in his marriage and we extend our sympathy to his widow Ishbel and theirchildren Christopher and Jennifer.To quote from his son’s funeral tribute: ‘He had that extraordinary need to question the world,to ask why, and to try always to do what was right. My Dad set very high ethical standards, andsometimes the effort to do right by others had a significant cost for himself.’John Lee was an able, kind and generous man who walked with God, his family and friendsand who left the world a better place.May John’s gentle soul rest in eternal peace and rise in glory.G.J.R.M. Symes (1959)

14F.H. MooreFrederick Hugh Moore was a skilled and respected surgeon whose professional dedication wasrecognised in Ireland and in Britain. He graduated from TCD in 1946 and after various houseappointments in Dublin hospitals he moved to Liverpool to train in surgery. From there he wentto work as a ship’s doctor for six months and, on his return, went to work at the Bridge of EarnHospital in Scotland. It was there that he decided to pursue a career in orthopaedics. He waselected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Scotland. He moved to Dundee RoyalInfirmary in 1955 where he met his future wife Elma Rankine who was a resident in anaesthetics.They married in 1960 at St Andrews (where Elma had attended university).A chance meeting at an orthopaedic conference in Washington led him to be appointed to anew consultant post in Cork in 1960. Orthopaedics was in its infancy in Cork at the time, andpractitioners were extremely busy due to an outbreak of polio in 1956. Fred took a keen interestin the musculoskeletal problems related to polio, and in paediatrics. He set up a highly successfulscreening programme for the early detection of congenital dislocation of the hip and of club foot.He was appointed a part-time lecturer in surgery in UCC Medical School and was also involvedin the national training programme in orthopaedic surgery. His great interest was in paediatricorthopaedics. He had a remarkable ability to relate to children and their parents. He was a manof immense common sense who had an outstanding aptitude for choosing the correctmanagement of the individual patient, even if it meant advising against surgical treatment. Heserved on a number of professional associations.All his life Fred was a keen sportsman. He captained the senior XV in TCD, played forLancashire, and later for Perthshire Academicals, and in 1953 for the north of Scotland against theAll Blacks. He took up golf, representing Cork Golf Club in many competitions (at the age of 80he achieved a hole in one), as well as playing a good game of tennis. He was a member of thechoir of his local church.His death last June after a short illness has robbed his wife Elma, his son Donald and hisdaughters Caroline and Linda, of a great husband, father and strong family man.John CurtinJ.L. OlsenJørgen Lykke Olsen entered the College in September, 1938. His name is explained by the fact thathis parents were Danish, his father being the manager of the Irish branch of a Danish cementfirm. During his first term the fifteen-year-old Olsen made his mark at a debate on a subject thatwould be unthinkable today: ‘That in the opinion of this house the Jews are a source of dangerto the peoples of the world’. Jørgen spoke against the motion, which – fortunately for thereputation of the College – was defeated. He also spoke in a later debate that same term; in 1940he became President of the Debating Society. At the end of his first year he indicated the directionhis future career would take by sharing the Crofton Prize for Experimental Science with anotherfuture scientist, A.N. Argue, as well as a School Prize for Science. The following year he wasawarded the Earl of Pembroke Prize for Mathematics.In September 1940 he was appointed Second Prefect and head of Glen. At the end of thatacademic year Dr Willis, fully aware of his mathematical ability, arranged for him to sit the TCDentrance scholarship examination in mathematics. Although he received very high marks in thethree papers he wrote, and won Honour Privileges in Mathematics, he didn’t in fact go to Trinity.Instead he joined the Royal Navy and subsequently went to Oxford, where he studied physics atthe Clarendon Laboratory. He was soon specialising in low temperature physics, the subject thatwas to become his lifetime occupation. It was also at the Clarendon Laboratory that he met hisfuture wife, Marianne Bär, who was also working in low temperature physics.

15Soon after receiving his doctorate in Oxford, he accepted an offer from the EidgenössischeTechnische Hochschule (ETH) in Zürich, to install and direct a liquid helium laboratory. Hestarted a group doing research mostly on superconductors; in those days, superconductivity wasstill an unexplained phenomenon.In addition to scientific papers, in 1962 Jørgen published a book titled Electron Transport inMetals. In barely a hundred pages it presents a picture as it was known then of the quantumphysics of metals whose foundations had been laid by such as Bethe, Bloch, Sommerfeld, Peierls,and Mott. It is written in a style which should give particular pleasure to a reader who isinterested in the history of physics, a style that echoes how physics was done then at laboratoriessuch as the Clarendon and the Cavendish.The character of the research group he headed was demonstrated by their shared extracurricularinterests, which during one period was classic cars such as a 1926 Lancia Lambda, a1938 BMW cabriolet, and a somewhat younger Riley. In these cars the group would go out onexcursions, wisely disguised as "scientific summer schools".Someone who worked with him for more than thirty years described Jørgen as "one of the verylast gentlemen (this almost extinct species), we lose a good man who, with his humour, tolerance,generosity and intelligence was a very good and dear friend to all of us." He was certainly one ofthe College’s most distinguished alumni.Jørgen Lykke Olsen, professor emeritus of low temperature physics at the ETH, died at hishome in Zürich on March 14, 2006. He is survived by his wife and two children.D. Sowby (1940)EngagementsUna Budd (1989) to Mr Richard Power.C.R. Carroll (1991) to Miss Louise Cooney.T.K. Donnelly (1990) to Miss Haruko Hayakawa.J.R. Douglas (1990) to Miss Julie McGouran.B.A. Huskinson (1990) to Miss Sally Ann Quirke.Olivia Kerveillant (1998) to Mr Kristopher J. Thornton.J.E. Macken (1994) and Aoife Gormley (1997).S.H. Macken (1990) to Miss Natalie Rhoades.R.J.H. McArdle (1994) and Veronica Roden (2001)Jane McManus (2003) and M. Graf zu Waldburg Wolfegg (1999).P.R.G. Syme (1992) to Miss Anna Gaymer.F.C.E. Wahnschaffe (1997) to Mr Daniel von Saldern.MarriagesL.J. Baugh (1966) to Ms Pilar Sanchez in December 2009.Sinead Clarkin (1989) to Mr Paul Maurice Buxton in January 2009.J. von Frankenberg (1993) to Katharina Myllius in 2009.Adebanke Funsho (1998) to Mr Tosin Olufemi on September 26th 2009.Lisa-Jane Graffard (née Moeran, 1996) to M. Francis-Henri Graffard in April 2009, in France.A.M. Green (1986) to Miss Lucie Wright on May 31st 2008.B.A. Huskinson (1990) to Miss Sally-Anne Quirke on March 20th 2009.D.Y. Johnson (1984) to Lady Ana Wyndham Quin on June 12th 2009.Danielle Mura (1984) to Mr Kieran Flanagan on October 23rd 2007.D.M.R. Orr (1993) to Miss Kelly Carrasco Ponce de Leon on June 22nd 2009.

16U. Riemenschneider (1993) to Mr John Donohue on October 6th 2009.Hazel E. Ruane (1993) to Mr Jonathan Craig in January 2010.F. von Schintling-Horny (1995) to Miss Rosalie Eltz-Rübenach on September 19th 2009.D.R.M. Sheehy (1994) to Miss Lisa Wright on October 17th 2009.E.M.D. Simpson (1981) to Miss Muriel McEntagart on February 27th 2010.N.E. Somerfield (1972) to Miss Anne O’Hare on April 15th 2009.Jasmine Tyrrell (1987) to Mr Ivan van Niekerk on October 9th 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa.Alannah Whitehead (1997) to Mr David van Onselen in April 2009.Rory Whitehead (1997) to Mr Ian Symons on January 30th 2010.BirthsAnna Baker (née Nichols, 1985). A son (Nicholas Michael Benjamin) on June 23rd 2009.R. Brownlee (1984). A daughter (Juno Alexandra Zénaïde) on October 4th 2009.Coibhe (née Plunket, 1989) and C.H.E. Butler (1980). A son (Charles Patrick McDonald Esdon) onDecember 17th 2008.Sarah Clarkin (1989). A daughter (Sarah Catherine Leyden) on March 26th 2010.Sinead Clarkin (1989). A daughter (Hannah Rose Buxton) on March 23rd 2009.J.P. Curtin (1991). A son (Conor Patrick) on February 3rd 2010.C.E. Daly (1987). A daughter (Laura Peggy) on February 25th 2009.D.J.J. Donnelly (1988). Twin sons (Jed and Jack) on April 22nd 2009.J. von Frankenberg (1993). A daughter (Xenia) on November 9th 2009.D.G.P. Gleeson (1985). A daughter (Emily Sarah Napier) on August 6th 2009.Lisa-Jane Graffard (née Moeran, 1996). A daughter (Victoria) on February 10th 2010.A.M. Green (1986). A daughter (Maia) on September 17th 2009.J.A.B. Hewat (1984). A son (Oliver Matthew Bingham) on February 16th 2010.Martha Love (née Kennedy, 1983). A daughter (Cera Kennedy) on January 6th 2009.Antonia Mahon-Fidelle (née Mahon, 1990). A son (Raphael Ambrose) on January 25th 2009.Keelin McCormack (née Kavanagh, 1985). A son (Alexander Xavier Joseph) on December 27th 2009.P.R.G. McKinley (1993). A daughter (Isobel Grace) on April 7th 2009.Kathryn Neil (née Hodgson, 1986). A daughter (Lauren) on November 28th 2009.Linda Newell (née Pullman, 1980). A daughter (Amy-Anne) on August 20th 2009.A.M. Nichols (1984). A daughter (Emily Sarah) on May 10th 2009.Jasmine van Nierek (née Tyrrell, 1987). A daughter (Chloe) on January 30th 2010.O.P. Nolan (1984). A daughter (Marlayne Ivy) on August 6th 2009.Jennifer Palmer (née Hodgson, 1991). A son (Crispin) on October 31st 2009.Lucy Pappas (née White, 1992). A daughter (Alannah Christina) on January 16th 2010(granddaughter of J.N. White, 1963).D.A.R. Reed (1985). A son (Nicholas Joshua) on November 23rd 2009.J. Riemenschneider (1998). A son (Oskar) on July 13th 2009.G.W. Russell (1987). A son (Tomás Patrick) on March 30th 2008.S.J.D Russell (1978). A daughter (Melina Sophia) on January 24th 2009.P.T. Scott (1986). A son (Alexander Liam) on July 11th 2009.A.M. Shaw (1982). A daughter (Zoe) on August 16th 2009.H.A.F. Stacpoole (1992). A daughter (Iseult Mary Lucia) August 18th 2009.Cressida Williams (nee Annseley, 1986). A daughter (Naomi) on February 3rd 2007 and a son(Matthew) on September 20th 2009.J.P. Wong (1991). A daughter (Sophia) on June 3rd 2008 and daughter (Elizabeth) on February27th 2010.

17DeathsH.D. Barron (1941) on February 25th 2010.W.E.S. Cooper (1952) on October 16th 2009, in Surrey.C.S. Cummins (1932) on October 31st 2009, in Blaksburg, Virginia, USA.D.M. Gordon (1947) on February 6th 2010.M.L. Gordon (1953) on July 21st 2009.F.I. Hurley (1935) in July 2009, in Brazil.M.B. Johnston (1959) on November 15th 2009, in Ontario, Canada.J.P.T. Lee (1941) on December 30th 2009.R.D. Metchette (1941) on October 8th 2009, in France.F.H. Moore (1934) on June 25th 2009.R.D. Moore (1934) on May 23rd 2009.J.L. Olsen (1934) on March 14th 2006, in Switzerland.D.J. Spiller (1946) on January 31st 2009.P. Thomas (1934) on January 23rd 2010.G.B. Wallace (1934) on July 17th 2009, in Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada,Old Columban TCD & UCD NewsTCD Entrance exhibitions were awarded in 2008 to J. Trayer and M.O’Connell and in 2009 toRebecca Feeney-Barry, A. Crampton and J. Crampton. UCD Entrance exhibitions were awardedin 2008 to Claudia Felstead, C. Fenelon and Lauren O’Connell.Entered TCD in 2009: D. Beresford (geography and political science), S. Cole (history of art andphilosophy), A. Crampton (business, economics and sociology), J. Crampton (business, economicsand sociology), Rebecca Feeney-Barry (science), C. Maenpaa (history and political science),O. Nunan (history), Katie Murphy (history and political science), P. Owens (history), O. Smith(philosophy).Entered UCD in 2009: J. Hargan (philosophy), B. Leveau (science), Louise McGarrigle(architecture).Old Columban NewsCarol Acton (1976) is on sabbatical leave doing research on the experiences in war of medicalpersonnel, in particular their written articulation of trauma and resilience. She is also hopingto work on a collection of accounts by Irish volunteers in the Second World War, as well aspublishing the diary of an Irish nurse who saw service in that conflict. She recently madepossible (through J.M. Fanagan, a former member of staff) generous gifts of books to theCollege Library, including a major new publication, the Dictionary of Irish Biography.Emily Archer (1999) had an impressive solo art exhibition at the MTSL in South William Street,Dublin, in December 2009 (the College has purchased one of the works for its collection). Shehas a strong interest in the field of art and healthcare, and has been involved in the OpenWindow project. Her website is www.emilyrobynarcher.com.Tania Banotti (1985). Apart from her day job running Theatre Forum, she recently set up theNational Campaign for the Arts, an umbrella group campaigning for greater public supportfor the arts. For this work she was awarded the Judges Special Award from The Irish Times. Atthe end of 2009 and early 2010 she travelled extensively in West Africa. In the final stage of hertravels she joined a group from Dublin which included J.M. Fanagan (former member of staff)and N.F.D. Falkiner (1959, former member of staff). The group was touring in Mali, andattended the Festival au Desert near Timbuktu.L.J. Baugh (1966) is living in Miami where he runs a small investment brokerage firm. He has an

18adult son and daughter. He is still on the International Board of Trinity Rugby Club and plansto attend the next Colours match.S. Bauvet (2003) is studying in the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology for a diploma in outdoorpursuits.M.R. Beamish (1970) has left Hong Kong, having lived and worked there for the last five years.He spent 30 years in the wine and spirits industry, but has now moved to Singapore wherehe and other partners have set up their own consulting and investing business. He remains agreat enthusiast about Asia where he has been living for more than 20 years. He finds thevariety and speed of life there very exciting. He remains in touch with his Old Columbancontemporaries through the OC Facebook site.D.F. Beare (1959) has recently retired from Lisneys, the Dublin estate agents, where he workedfor 37 years. He and his wife have since been on a long cruise across the Atlantic and thePacific oceans and have spent some time in Australia.E.H. Beckett (1956), a distinguished flautist, has presented to the College some memorabilia of hisrelative J.S. Beckett (1940), the composer. In early 2010 the College also received a generousdonation of a portrait of John Beckett, painted by Reginald Gray in the 1960s. The paintingwill be hung in the Cadogan Music Centre. John Beckett died in 2007 and it was this thatprompted Reginald Gray to donate his portrait to the College. The artist met the musicianwhile studying under Cecil ffrench Salkeld in London. His work is on display in the NationalPortrait Gallery, the Museum of London and other galleries abroad.R. Beresford (2001). In 2007 he attended the Belle Isle cookery course after which he travelled inEurope and in Australia. In 2009 he set up a company in Ireland called Eaglesite(www.eaglesite.ie) which specialises in website design and internet marketing. This year anoffice has been set up in England in order to have a bigger presence there.F.D.A. Bertram (1971) lives in New South Wales, Australia. He has completed a bachelor of artsdegree with majors in indigenous studies, English and core units in information technology.Next semester he doing a postgraduate course in secondary education.Suzanne Blackley (née Lalor, 1975) has a new business selling greetings cards to horse, dog, catand country enthusiasts worldwide from her website www.EquestrianandCountryStore.com.J.U.P. Bourke (1979) was featured in an Irish Times Weekend Review article in which he talked ofhis determination to maintain successfully his restaurant businesses in the present economicrecession. In his own words ‘I am Irish, and therefore I am building in Ireland. I know aboutmaking things for Irish people. I understand being Irish. What else would I do?’.W.M. Boyce (1982) is spiritual director of the Inpatient Addictions Treatment Center in WesternMassachusetts, USA.J.W. Brittain (1973). He and his wife Sue Brittain (née Gault, 1978) continue to run a successfuldeep-sea fishing and bed and breakfast business near Clifden, Co Galway. In September 2009he secured images of a 30-foot whale east of Inisbofin. It was later identified by the IrishWhale and Dolphin Group to be a sea whale, hardly ever seen in Irish inshore waters.G.L. Brooks (1960) has worked for Brooks Thomas since leaving the College. He was captain ofthe Three Rock Rovers Hockey Club in the 1992-93 season and president of the LeinsterBranch of the Irish Hockey Union in 1997-98. He is at present captain of the Kilmashogue GolfClub (which is under licence from the College).D.A. Browne (1971) is head of group funding and external relations at Man Group plc in London(sponsors of the Man Booker Prize).K.P. Buckley (1980) has set up his own quantity surveying practice, called St Kevin’s, in London.Leah Cameron-Blake (2004). After transferring last year from Exeter University to GlasgowUniversity, she is now in her third year of a four-year course, studying classics. As part of hercourse she will be travelling this summer in Italy and in Greece (as well as returning to StKitt’s to work at a sailing camp).C. Carey (1981) has founded the Cramer Consort, a flexible project-based ensemble singing early

19music. While the founding members are all UK-based consort singers, the aspiration is to haveperformers drawn from both Ireland and the UK. The inaugural concert was on March 2nd2010 in the TCD Chapel with Peter Barley (organ) and members of the Campanile Consort.T. Chamney (1998). In July 2009 he caused an upset by finishing third in the 800 metre event atthe Bislett Games in Oslo. In August he won the Irish senior 800 metre championship for thethird time and so was selected for the world championships in Berlin.M.A. Charles (1983) is a malaria and community health coordinator working for the InternationalFederation of the Red Cross, based in Johannesburg, South Africa.Orla Chohan (née Fitzpatrick, 1986) worked for 12 years as head of sales and marketing for theinvestment management department of Barclays. She lives in Dubai with her husband and isnow taking a career break to be a full-time mother of her two children.Sinead Clarkin (1989) was recently promoted to marketing director at GE Capital's BusinessFinance division in the UK, based in London.A.C. Clayton (1973) of U2 visited the College in May 2009. He presented a bass guitar to theCollege, which he had played in a concert in New Orleans in aid of those displaced afterHurricane Katrina. This is displayed in the Cadogan Music Building. To welcome him severalpupils played a short informal concert in the Big Schoolroom. Adam Clayton spokememorably to the audience of his days in the College and also praised the inspiration of someof his teachers, especially the head of art, Mr Chris Vis. He was very generous with his time,which was most appreciated by the pupils, many of whom walked away with a cherishedautograph. Afterwards a very pleasant reception was held in the Drawing Room in HollyparkHouse (formerly called the Warden’s House).S. Cole (2007) is studying art history and architecture with ancient history and archaeology atTCD. In June he will kayak around the Irish coast, from Coleraine to Waterford, to raisemoney for research on Alzheimer’s disease.J. Cooper (2002) is studying business management at the Royal College of Horticulture inCirencester, England.Victoria Cooper (2002) is studying Montessori teaching in the Liberties College in Dublin.W.T. Cox (1944) is the distinguished author William Trevor. His novel ‘Love and Summer’ wasreleased in 2009 to enormous acclaim. The Guardian reported that it was ‘a beautifulmeditation on love, belonging and the impossibility of escape.’ It was also shortlisted for theMan Booker Prize for fiction. In 2008 William Trevor became an Alumni Awards Recipient ofTrinity College Dublin.G.D. Crampton (1967, Fellow of the College). He, other Old Columbans and a friend of theCollege, got together in April 2009 and secured by purchase a set of elk antlers which hadpreviously belonged to the College. The antlers had been presented to the College in 1963 byMrs Joyce Somerville-Large, mother of B.P. Somerville-Large (1941) and of P.C. Somerville-Large (1941). However the College sold them to B.D. Thompson (1945) in 1973 (the same yearhe acquired Cloghan Castle, Co Offaly). The antlers and skull have now been carefullyconserved and have been hung in the Dining Hall.D.W.J. Crawford (1962). After leaving the College in 1966 he qualified in motor businessmanagement in 1970 at the Bolton Street College of Technology in Dublin. After two years inAustralia, he returned to work in the family retail motor business, W.B. Crawford (Dublin) Ltd,where he stayed until 2002 when the family interest was sold (he remained with the companyin an advisory role until 2007). Since then he has been involved in a number of ventures, onein software which was successfully bought out by Oracle, and another venture, at presentbeing developed, is a moving game seat for children. He is chairman of Rathdown School,Glenageary (he has been on the board since 1996). He has sailed out of the RIYC DunLaoghaire for over 30 years, at present sailing a Sigma 33. He is a keen hillwalker.Mary Cromer (2000) is studying business and Italian in the Dublin Institute of Technology and isat present undertaking an Erasmus year in Sardinia, Italy.

20P. Danaswamy (1996) has been working in financial services in London since he graduated fromDurham University with a business degree.A.J.L. Davidson (1958). He and his wife Elizabeth (née Mills, former member of staff) have set upa business called ‘Quickcrop’, now in its second year of trading (www.quickcrop.ie).Quickcrop provides planted raised-bed vegetable gardens, trays of young vegetable plantsand organic gardening equipment. It will be the subject of an RTÉ programme to be televisedin June of this year.R.G.C. Donald (1985), a BSc graduate of the University of Arizona majoring in studio art, lives inSan Francisco working as an artist and running a yoga studio. He will be having a one-manexhibition in San Francisco in November 2010. In 2008 he donated to the College a paintingwhich hangs in the Lower Argyle dining hall.T.R. Dormer (1956). He continues his work as an underwater photographer. He has made eightvisits to the Galapagos, Indonesia and the Red Sea since 2008. He is also a public advocate ofIreland re-joining the Commonwealth. The birth of his first grandchild last September hasbeen a source of much joy to him.Klara Douglas (1996). After graduating from Durham University, she completed diploma coursesin public relations, in event management and in marketing and advertising. She has beenworking for CBS Outdoor for over a year.K. Douglas (1994) was called to the Irish bar in July 2009. He is finding the work interesting,varied and enjoyable. He is devilling for A.D. Buttanshaw (1976).J.R. Douglas (1990) graduated from the Dublin Institute of Technology in 2008 with a degree inauctioneering, valuation and estate agency. He has been working with Norths Property (alsoknown as H. North & Co) since July 2008.J.T.R. Dreaper (1964) is regularly mentioned on sports news programmes for his work atKilsallaghan Stud, Co Dublin, where his father trained the legendary Arkle.Ana Echevarria (1985) lives in Madrid with her husband and two children. As well as continuingher work as a graphic designer, she and her husband organise different types of nauticalevents such as bespoke sailing and yacht-racing for the corporate sector, and competitionregattas. They also provide consultancy services on technical aspects of racing, and on navalarchitecture and yacht design.C.J.M. Erwin (2000) is in his final year reading for an MA in rural surveying at the University ofAberdeen. He is planning to gain work experience and to travel in New Zealand, the PacificIslands and South East Asia.J.T.R. Erwin (1994) has completed the entrance examinations for the Incorporated Law Societyand is now with Hayes, Solicitors, Dublin. He is captain of the Three Rock Rovers 3rd XI.P. Fahey (1984). He graduated from TCD with a moderatorship in management science andinformation systems and with an MSc in networks and distributed system studies. He then livedand worked as an information technology consultant in Belgium, London and Paris. He hasalso worked in such countries as the USA, Brazil, Israel. For the last nine years he has been inMadrid and is at present working in business development for Cisco, a global IT company. Heis married and has three children. Recently he met P.T. Scott (1986) at a reception at the IrishEmbassy in Madrid. When back in Ireland at Christmas 2009 he visited E.D.H. Slator (1932,former Chaplain) and his wife Eileen. He was sorry to be unable to attend the 1989 Reunion.E.O. Fairbank (1971) is at present working as a civil servant with the US army in Korea. He is themanager of the industrial hygiene program at the US Army base at Daegu. He inspects themilitary-related industrial and maintenance operations keeping the workers safe from healthhazards. He has done similar work in Kuwait and in various army bases in the USA. He is alsoa US Army reserve officer.B.F. Farrington (1939). His memoir A Rich Soup will be published by Ashfield Press of Dublin inSeptember of this year. It is described by the publisher as ‘a concatenation of anecdotes,descriptions, stories and ideas, some moving, some hilariously funny being by-products of a

21long and on the whole enjoyable life spent exploiting an awkwardly heterogeneous set oftalents and fitting them into a teacher’s career’.Rebecca Feeney-Barry (2006), last year’s Senior Prefect, is currently enjoying studying science atTCD (physics, chemistry and maths). She received an Entrance Exhibition in the autumn, andin December 2009 was awarded a medal from the Institute of Physics in Ireland for the highestlevel of achievement in the whole country in the Leaving Certificate physics examination.C.D. Fettes (former member of staff, 1963-2000), on a visit to Australia, stayed with I.W.Montgomery (1960) whose superb bird photographs – nearly five thousand of them – can beviewed on his website www.birdway.com.au.C.A. Fitzpatrick (1993) is a sales specialist for Oracle Corporation, as well as a part-time discjockey and club promoter. He recently helped to organise a ten-year reunion for OldColumbans who left in 1999.Rhona Fitzpatrick (1985) moved back to Ireland permanently in December 2009. She works forBoodles on Grafton Street, Dublin, a jewellery firm established in 1768.C. Fitz-Simon (1948) has been commissioned by the BBC to write a further sequence of comediesin his 'Ballylenon' series for BBC Radio 4 and Overseas. His book on pre-Yeatsian plays,Buffoonery & Easy Sentiment, will be published later in 2010.Bridget Flinn (1977), a professional artist, lives in Sandymount, Co Dublin, with her husband andtwo children. In October 2009 The Sunday Independent Life Magazine featured an article ontheir renovated house.Fiona Forrest (1984) and her partner Mark James have opened a bookshop/toyshop/coffee shopin Ferns, Co. Wexford where they live with their children.R.A.S. Fry (1973) is a freelance photographer, whose exclusive photographs have included workon Nelson Mandela, Pele, F.W. de Klerk, President Mary McAleese, and the Hothouse Flowers.His work has also been shown on Canadian national television. He has toured extensivelywith Damien Rice Band, and also to Burma and the Thai border for the U.S. Campaign forBurma to meet and support Karen refugees close to Aung San Suu Kyi. He has been publishedin Rolling Stone magazine, The Irish Times, and Harper’s Bazaar. He also is an eventphotographer and can be contacted at (mobile) 00-353-87-2103238, by email atrobbiefry@gmail.com and on Facebook at Robbie Fry Photography..J. von Fürstenberg (1993). In 1998-9 he served in the mountain infantry with the German Armyin Bosnia with SFOR. He next obtained a BSc at the University of Applied Science in Bochum.Since 2006 he has worked as a commercial property consultant with the BNP Paribas Groupin Münich. His pastimes include judo, skiing, fly-fishing and reading.Tessen Fürstner (1995) After five years working for the French bank Societé Générale in Londonhe left in March 2009 to start working at Evolution Securities plc, a smaller independentEnglish investment bank, also based in London.J.J. Gillooly (1987) practises as an osteopath in Bath, England.R. Gilmour (2004) is studying for a degree in business in the University of Cape Town, SouthAfrica.R.M. Goodbody (1976) has restored the fifteenth century Dunsandle Castle near Athenry, CoGalway (www.dunsandle.com). It was opened to the public in July 2009.G.E. Gough (1985) has moved with his wife and daughter to Tokyo to work there, and plans tostay for a few years. He would like to get in touch with other Old Columbans in that part ofthe world.Lisa-Jane Graffard (née Moeran, 1996) lives and work in Chantilly, France, where she is theFrench racing representative for Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum.Hanne Grainger (2006) is reading Italian and Spanish at Edinburgh University.M.F. Graves-Johnston (1960) since 1978 has worked in London as an antiquarian bookseller.M.A. Greene (1967). When in Lagos, Nigeria in August 2009 he met A.B. Adesanya (1970) whoorganised for him a dinner attended by 25 people, all of whom had some form of link with

22Ireland. It was a generous and moving occasion. Among those present was O.O. Olumide(1972), now a doctor. Unfortunately A.A. Lambo (1969), also a doctor, could not be present.Sophie Grenham (1997) graduated from UCD in 2004 after studying English Literature andGreek and Roman Civilisation. After that she took a course in journalism with the IrishAcademy of Public Relations. She was published for the first time in The Sunday Independent,while still a student. She has since written several articles for that paper and for Social andPersonal. She is currently taking an acting course with the Abbey School of Music and Dramaand is also in the process of getting her first novel published.Rhea Halford (1995) is an editor at a London publishing house.S.W. Halford (1995) is working in interior design in the Middle East and is based in Dubai.D.G. Hannon (1943). He and his wife emigrated permanently to England in early 2006 to benearer their family. He continues to play golf and bridge, but has not produced anything sincethe publication of a biography of his father in 2004. He had previously written five books onthe general area of motivation.J. Hargan (2003) is studying for a degree in arts in University College Dublin.P.S. Harrison (1961), a senior partner in the law firm of Hayes in Dublin, retired from thepartnership in 2004, but has continued as a consultant with the firm, which has freed up timefor him to pursue other interests in horticulture and in drama. He is the current chairman ofthe Council of the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland (an office he has held twicepreviously). He and his wife Wendy (sister of D.J. Ledbetter, 1957) open their gardens inGreystones every year for charity. He also lectures across the country to horticultural societiesand garden clubs and leads garden tours to the United Kingdom. He formed an amateurdrama group in Delgany, Co Wicklow over ten years ago and is now director of the Bray OneAct Drama Festival (now in its 34th year, holding the festival each January in the MermaidTheatre in Bray).J.L. Harte (1975) owns and operates a general contracting company specialising in residentialremodelling. It is licensed in Pennsylvania and California, and focuses on kitchen, bathroomand space conversion projects, with an emphasis on historic renovations, energy efficiencyand aging-in-place.W.S. Harvey (1952). After completing his National Service with the Royal Inniskillen Fusiliers, hewent to live and work in Manchester, where he began his career in paper manufacture. Heworked with Bowaters UK, becoming sales manager for the United Kingdom and for Europe.He is now retired and still lives in Manchester. He is married with two daughters and fourgrandchildren. He attended the Centenary Dinner in November 2009.Laura Hatton (2001) is reading classical studies at Newcastle University.Rev M.R. Heaney (former Chaplain). He is the secretary of the newly-launched Rev B.W.N. WalshFund, which is raising money to renovate the College organ (see appeal details on page 10). Inthe summer of 2009 he continued his chaplaincy in Brittany (with the Intercontinental ChurchSociety) to English-speaking holidaymakers. He and his wife Rhodanne also have beenleading an Alpha Course for business people at St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, Dublin, andalso in Whitechurch Parish. He does Sunday parish duty when required. When not workinghe makes visits to family in Cork and in London, as well as return visits to the College forvarious functions. With the assistance of J.M. Fanagan he set up in autumn 2009 a group calledPage Four, which provides an opportunity for those who have completed their teachingcareer in the College, and are now retired, to meet over lunch. Two very successful gatheringshave taken place in The Eden, a restaurant-pub near the College. His email address isrevmheaney@gmail.com. He would be delighted to hear from Old Columbans.J.E.T. Heuston (1938). In November 2009 he and his wife Rosemary went on a cruise to the WestIndies, visiting five islands. More recently and nearer to home, they visited B.F. Farrington(1939) and his wife in Aberdeen.Rebecca Hickey (2000) directed the DCU drama production of the musical Hair at the Helix

23Theatre in Dublin in April 2010.G.J. Hilton (1963) worked for a time in electronics with a US company. He is now self-employed.He lives in England, is married and has two children. His interests are motor sport, travel andskiing.J. Hone (1952). His book Wicked Little Joe – A Tale of Childhood and Youth was published in theautumn of 2009 and reviewed in The Irish Times.E.H-Y. Hsu (1996). Some months ago he opened a bar in Luton, which he is managing himself.C.R.G. Hudson (1977) is a shipbroker in London. He takes a keen interest in Leinster rugby andin the turf.Sive Hughes (1980) is now working for Tripadvisor and lives in London.Isobel Hunter (2002) is studying for a degree in fashion at Manchester University.Milano Izumimoto (2006) is studying politics at Royal Holloway, University of London.A.T. Jackson (1989) is doing research at Lilongwe Hospital, Malawi into aspects of cryptococcalmeningitis, a life-threatening fungal infection common in Africa, associated with advancedHIV treatment (he has blogged on his experiences at www.jacksonarthur.blogspot.com). Hereturns to Dublin in July for his final year of specialist training and to complete his registrartraining (in infectious diseases and general medicine). Following that he hopes to go to theUnited States for further training, probably getting involved in more international healthprojects at the same time.J.R.W. Jackson (1966). In the autumn of 2009 he published two further anthologies of comic andcurious verses, Ulster’s Other Poetry: Rhymes and Songs of the Province and Dublin’s Other Poetry:Rhymes and Songs of the City. The Dublin anthology includes a contribution by H.M. Dockrell(1952, and former member of staff).Naomi Jackson (1991) works as accounts manager in the Citco Overseas Bank in Cork. She has agreat interest in sailing which she does from Kinsale.T.M.R. Jackson (1959) is a consultant in public health medicine with the HSE in Cork and inKerry. He is also busy doing research into disability issues. Last August he and his wife visitedtheir son Arthur (A.T. Jackson, 1989) in Malawi and had a fascinating time seeing the southernpart of the country, including Lake Malawi.C.F.T. Jenkins (former member of staff) in 2009 had a successful liver transplant in a Londonhospital. He and his wife Carole now live in Northern Ireland.C.R. St J. Judd (1991) continues to work for Ernst and Young in London. He is now on the realestate corporate finance team. He plays hockey for Spencer Hockey Club in Earlsfield. WithK.J.P.P. Smyth (1991), he has been helping to organise an annual reunion dinner. His flatmateis N.C.Wheeler (1991).S.T.B. Judd (1994) has been working as a chartered surveyor in London, but is now taking timeout for the skiing season which he is greatly enjoying. He plans to return to either Dublin orLondon.Zoe Judd (1996) lives in Vauxhall in London and is working as an interior design consultant forMarston & Langinger near the King’s Road.W. Jung (2006) is reading for a degree in electronic and electrical engineering in Edinburgh.Aoife Kenny (2002) is at the University of Edinburgh, reading business studies, French, andaccountancy.N.W. Kenny (1967) was featured in an article in The Irish Times. He was working as a doctor inManchester when at the age of 30 he first experienced the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. Hewent on to work at Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin and was diagnosed withmultiple sclerosis in 1985. In spite of the seriousness of this diagnosis he was able to work inpsychiatry in Newcastle Hospital in Co Wicklow. However from 1990 onward his conditiondeteriorated rapidly and he had to give up working. He was able to live at home inSandymount with his wife and children, but in 2002 he moved to the Royal Hospital inDonnybrook where he is looked after. He takes part in tutorials with medical students,

24explaining to them the importance of avoiding both alcohol and smoking for people whohave multiple sclerosis. Avoiding stress is equally important: he believes stress caused his ownillness. He has great difficulty speaking, but he enjoys the company of everyone who comesto visit him.N. Khashoggi (1999) graduated in 2009 from the University of West England, Bristol with a BA inBusiness and European Studies. He is currently attending the Royal Military AcademySandhurst, and is due to receive a commission with the Irish Guards in August 2010, ready forpossible deployment to Helmand in Afghanistan in early 2011.Leanne King (2000). After attending the Liberties College in Dublin, where she obtained acertificate as a Montessori teacher, she went to the Portobello Institute where she gained herdiploma. She now plans to do a degree in Montessori teaching and then to open her own school.K.W. Kingston (1983) lives and works in Tipperary where he runs the family shoe shop. He ismarried and has two small children. In 2007, 2008 and 2009 he travelled with the Niall MellonTownship Trust to Cape Town, South Africa, to help build low-cost houses in the townships.He plans to go out to Cape Town again this year to do the same sort of work. Moreinformation about this charity is available on www.irishtownship.com. He was delighted thatR.M.McMullen (former Sub-Warden) called in to see him last summer.Emma Klyne (2003) is reading arts at NUI Galway.Erin Large (2005) is studying film production at Farnham University.Marni Laux (1987). After leaving the College (and Ireland) she studied psychology and wasawarded a degree at the University of Leipzig. She then worked in Berlin for a few years asan actor in film, but subsequently returned to psychology, specializing in behavioural therapyfor children. She worked in a number of clinics for children and young people. Since January2008 she has been with the EJF-Lazarus (Aufsuchende Familienhilfe) in Berlin working withfamilies from youth welfare. She came to the 1989 Reunion Party in Dublin which she enjoyedvery much. She found it very special to be back in Ireland, after an interval of 20 years. In 2005she married Boualem Madani, who is from Algeria.S. Lavin (2002) is studying with Pulse Recording College, doing an honours BA in musicproduction, and also working at Windmill Lane recording studios in Dublin.Poppy Law (2003) is studying occupational therapy at Oxford Brookes in England.G. Lawler (2003) is taking a gap year in New Zealand and Australia, and is coaching some rugbyand cricket there.Emily Lawn (1999) graduated with a BA in French and Italian from TCD in October 2009. Thisyear she is teaching English in the Université de Sud, in Toulon Var in France, and is alsostudying for her master’s degree in Langue et Semiologie.D.J. Ledbetter (1957), formerly professor of music at the Royal Northern College of Music andManchester University, has retired and is now concentrating on writing.M.G. Lenehan (1990) frequently contributes to Domini Kemp’s recipe page in Saturday’s Irish Times.She and her sister Petria (1992) were featured in an Irish Times article in February 2010. Their newventure is "a cafe and clothing boutique in a beautifully restored corner shop on EmorvilleAvenue, off Dublin’s South Circular Road. Called Dolls, after Petria’s shop on Clarendon Street,the boutique will showcase a similar selection of interesting and innovative clothes, jewelleryand accessories, plus pieces picked up from Petria’s extensive travels abroad. Alongside will beMaisha’s cafe, Bibi’s, offering coffee and cakes as well as lunchtime fare … The sisters want it tobe a neighbourhood gathering place with wearable, alongside edible, temptations."Louisa von Lenthe (2004) is studying major event management in Duale Hochscule Baden-Württemberg, Ravensberg and is at present on one term of an Erasmus year at NapierUniversity, Edinburgh.R.D.G. Leslie (1962) is a consultant physician at St Bartholomew’s Hospital London andProfessor of Diabetes and Autoimmunity at the Institute of Cell and Molecular Science in theUniversity of London. He is a visiting professor at the University of Rome and an honorary

25professor at Central South University, China. He runs the world’s largest analysis of twinswith diabetes, and a European consortium called Action LADA, studying a form of diabetes.His work on twins was featured on a BBC television programme on differences betweentwins. Any Old Columban who has a son or daughter at the College in the Sixth Form, or atundergraduate level, who wants to do work experience in London, with a view to applyingto medical school in England, should contact him. He is married with two sons. He attendedtwo Old Columban events in Dublin in 2009 and thoroughly enjoyed them both.B. Leveau (2002) is reading science in University College Dublin.Margarete von Luckner (2007) is doing a "Studium Generale" at the Leibniz Kolleg in Tübingen(near Stuttgart). She hopes to apply for a medicine course starting in October.N. von Luckner (2004) is studying for BSc in business engineering with a focus on energyeconomics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.N.H. Lush (former Sub-Warden) inspected the renovation work which has been done to theCricket Pavilion and was pleased with what he saw. He was the very active Patron of thecommittee that ran the appeal for the Pavilion.Max v Lüttichau (2005) is studying business administration in London.A.J. Lyttle (1975). He attended the National College of Art and Design in Dublin from 1980 to 1984and was awarded a degree in fine art painting. In 2008-9 he attended St Martin’s Universityof the Arts in London where he obtained a master’s degree in fine arts. He has beenrepresented in a number of exhibitions in recent years: The Holy Show in the Chester BeattyLibrary, Dublin; Estampe/Print in the Galerie Michele Broutta, Paris; Impressions at the Art ofthe State, Dublin and at the Eigse Open in which he received the Re/Max Dolmen Award. In2007 he held his own exhibition Horizons at the Norman Gallery.T.E. Macey (1959, former Warden) has spent most of the first part of the year travelling in Indiaand Vietnam. He met another former Warden, D.S. Gibbs in Goa.N. A. Mackay (1992) has recently completed the Hastings half-marathon and the 2010 VirginLondon marathon, raising money for the Royal British Legion.Antonia Mahon (1990). After graduating from Edinburgh University, she moved to Paris for ayear, then to Luxembourg for two years where she was a consultant with Accenture. She thenreturned to Paris where she has spent eight years in consulting roles in various financialinstitutions. She is currently Head of Organisation at Groupama Asset Management,managing any non-IT projects which go on in the company.Millie Mantle (2003) is studying at Griffith College, Dublin, where she is taking a photographydiploma and then in October goes to the Royal Agriculture College in Cirencester, England,to study conservation and heritage management.L. Mathews (2003) is studying journalism at the Dublin Institute of Technology.Katie Maxwell (2007) is studying physiotherapy at Glasgow Caledonian, Scotland.A.H. McArdle (1996) is reading for a PhD in sixteenth-century Irish history at TCD.C.W.L. McCaw (1943). He and his wife celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2008 (theynow have nine grandchildren). In September 2009 he celebrated his 80th birthday at a lunchin the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghhaire. He is still playing golf at Portmarnock, where hehas been a member for 57 years. He was very much involved in the centenary publication ofthe Dublin University Golf Society, and was fortunate to have chosen the title College Coursesand Lasting Links.S.H. McElligott (1982) lives in Dublin with his wife and two children. He is a director with amechanical services contractor, Lynskey Engineering Ltd. The company undertakes heating,plumbing, ventilation and air conditioning work in the industrial and commercial sectors.Times in the economy are, of course, difficult, but the firm is long-established and resilient. Hekeeps in touch with a number of Old Columbans, meeting up with them two or three times ayear.Louise McGarrigle (2007) is reading architecture at University College Dublin.

26I. McKinley (2002). In early 2010 he suffered a very serious injury to one of his eyes in a rugbymatch (playing for Leinster in the Magners League). He is making a good recovery and inMarch was fit enough to coach some rugby in the College.Jane McManus (2003) is in her final year reading medicine at TCD.M. McNicholas (1990) is working as an in-house solicitor with the Bank of Ireland in Dublin.J.R. McWilliam (1982) continues to enjoy living in Hong Kong, where after 15 years ininvestment banking he runs a risk-management consultancy. He is heavily involved in sailingin Hong Kong. He is married with a young son and a daughter.R. Meehan (1986) is a tree surgeon and runs his company Branching Out in Dublin.J. Miller (2003) is reading American and English history at the University of East Anglia.Roisin Mills (1983) moved to London in 2009 where she works for Damovo, as an internationalproject manager. She works on a team with M.U.F. Nordbrink (1987), sales director for thecompany. She previously worked in Singapore, first for Ernst & Young, then set up her ownevents company and was later employed as the executive director of the Irish Chamber ofCommerce. In Singapore she was also the treasurer, secretary and sponsorship officer of theSt Patrick’s Society Committee. She project-managed the St Patrick’s Day parade in 2009,attracting 2,500 entrants.P. Milner (2007) is studying biomaterials and tissue engineering at Imperial College London, wherehe is social secretary for the Imperial College Boxing Society, doing a boxing coaching course,and running for the office of president next year. He is heavily involved in numerous charityevents.J.D. de C. E. Minchin (1960) reported on RTE’s Drivetime in August 2009 that there are now morezebra mussels in Lough Derg than there are humans on the planet.A. Mitchell (2001) is reading for a BSc at UCD. He plays senior rugby with Greystones RFC.R.K.A. Moeran (1997) has recently set up a tree surgery company. He also runs a paint-ballingadventure course on his farm at Terryglass, Co Tipperary.Cordelia Mulholland (2006) is studying for a degree in arts in University College Dublin.Danielle Mura (1984). She, her husband and son live in Dublin near the Irish Financial ServicesCentre. She works as a statistical programmer analysing clinical trials for a research company.Her interests include first aid, alternative medicine, complementary therapies and jewellerymaking.From time to time she teaches reiki to prisoners in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin.D. Murphy (2002) is a trainee manager at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin.O.M.G. Murphy (former member of staff, 1956-8). He continues to run Education for PoorChildren and Orphans Uganda (EPCOU). The organisation has been going for many years inMbarara district in south-west Uganda. It has helped more than a 1,000 children, some ofwhom have had successful careers in the professions. Dr Murphy is now physically severelyhandicapped and can move about only with help.Sophie Murphy (2003) is reading for a degree in the history of art and French at the Universityof Bristol. She is at present undertaking an Erasmus year in Paris where she is studying for aterm at the Sorbonne and doing an internship at Sotheby’s, Paris.P.F. Myerscough (1961, Fellow of the College) has worked for a good few years in the bloodstockindustry, first with Goff’s and more recently with Tattersall’s in Ireland and in the UK. He ismarried and has four children, three of whom are Old Columbans. He lives on a stud farm inCo Kildare.D.M. Neligan (1949, former member of staff, 1949) and G.D. Crampton (1967, Fellow) have puttogether a history of St Stephen’s School entitled St Stephen’s School 1946-1963. It is made upof an anthology of reminiscences. They are grateful to the Old Columbans who responded tothe note in last year’s Bulletin by sending to them accounts of their memories of the ReverendH.M. Brodie and his school. Research shows that more than 35% of Old Stephanians went onto St Columba’s, so this initiative attracted considerable interest. A copy of the history may beobtained on application to David Crampton c/o G&T Crampton, Ballintaggart House,

27Clonskeagh, Dublin 14 (mobile number 087 245 9728). A copy of the book has been presentedto the College Library.Jasmine van Niekerk (née Tyrrell, 1987). After graduating from Cardiff University with a degreein international transport she moved to London where she lived for seven years working fora Japanese shipping company, then as a shipping reporter in bulk commodities (she alsoplayed hockey for Wimbledon). From there she worked in dry bulk cargo with the NobleGroup, who transferred her to Hong Kong in 2004. In 2006 she moved to Singapore to workas a freight trader with the Cargill company. She has taken part in trail-walking in Hong Kongin an annual 100 km event raising money for charity and has helped to build houses inLonavala, near Mumbai in India. Her interests include travel, squash, cycling, running andkeeping in touch with friends (including D.E.J. Miller (1982), who also lives in Singapore).Patricia Nolan (1981) spent ten years working for SIG plc as human resources business partnerSIG Ireland and human resources director, SIG Special Markets, International Division. She isnow doing a full-time MBA course in the UCD Smurfit Business School.T. Nolan (1999) in September 2009 completed with a distinction a diploma course in adventuretourism management at Queeenstown College, New Zealand. Since then he has beenworking as a sea kayak guide on Doubtful Sound. He has recently been offered a lectureshipat Queenstown College.G.A. Novell (1998), since graduating from Exeter University, has been working as a skiinginstructor while looking for more permanent employment.W.J. Novell (2001), after a year at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, now plans to train as a gamewarden in the Kruger National Park in South Africa.A. Novoa (2007) is studying for a degree in electronic and electrical engineering at ManchesterUniversity.M.A.F. Nulty (1980). In June 2009 he played for the MCC against the Leinster Schools XI. TheMCC XI won by 41 runs.Mel O’Dea, previously Annesley (1985). She continues, in her own words, as a struggling artist,and with some success as a human rights activist, working with about 20 human rightsorganisations (such as Amnesty International and Greenpeace). She does a fair amount oftravelling, inter-railing around Europe. She is apprehensive that the recent acquisition of adog carries the risk of her becoming physically fit.Ciara O’Driscoll (2007) is reading history in Edinburgh University.E.J.J. O’Hanlon (1980). His advertising agency in Johannesburg, South Africa, now employs 92people, an operation which requires a fair amount of managing. He also does some guestlecturing (on brands and communication) to MBA and other students at the Wits BusinessSchool.T.E. O’Hara (1954) and his son M.E. O’Hara (1980) continue to run the family farm at Cooper’sHill, Co Sligo.G.P. O’Kelly (1980) works in Dublin for the National Bank of Ireland. He is married with two sonsand a daughter, all of whom are aged under five.Justine O’Mahony (2002) has recently graduated from UCD Smurfit School of Business with aMBS in International Business (Second Class Honours, Grade One). She has been working forBank of Ireland in Dublin since October 2009.G.H. O’Neill (1979) is a senior executive working for Enterprise Ireland. He is married, has twochildren and lives in Wimbledon.S.C. O’Rourke (1984). For 14 years he successfully ran the North American part of Setanta Sport.Many sports events were covered and three channels were launched in Canada, the US andthe Caribbean. He has recently started a group called Premium Sports Inc, with offices in SanFrancisco and Vancouver, which will present sports on the web, in bars and on the internet.D.M.R. Orr (1993) is studying for a PhD researching popular understandings and treatment ofmental illness in rural southern Peru. He is also doing some work for Sussex University

28investigating the best ways for services to safeguard vulnerable adults from abuse.Alexandra Panayotou (1982) had another successful year of running events: a 220 kilometre nonstoprace finishing with the marathon of Barcelona, a 166 kilometre non-stop mountainchallenge, and the 2010 kilometre event (which took 31 days to complete), promoting theEuropean Athletics Championships (to be held this year in Barcelona). This last event shefound the toughest she has ever undertaken. She is now writing a book about the experience.As well as continuing to organise running events, she gives motivational talks to businesscompanies, schools and clubs. She has also launched a campaign for environmentalawareness called Running Green. She plans this year to run the Trans Pyrenees event (fromIrun to the Cap de Creus in Catalonia) as well as the famous GR11 trail.Camilla de Patoul (2001) expects to graduate this summer from Aberdeen University with amaster of arts in anthropology. She is treasurer of the recently founded branch of the UnitedNations Youth and Student Association in Aberdeen.G.R. Perrin (1958). He retired from Ferguson McIlveen, civil engineering consultants in Belfast,in 2008. He and his wife live near Saintfield, Co Down (their two children are at university ).In 2003 he was captain of Royal County Down Golf Club. He is at present studying Irishhistory on an open learning course at Queen’s University.Mia Peters (2007) is studying medicine at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg,Bavaria. Previously she was a tourist guide in Hamburg city hall.Penny Philips (née Nesbitt, 1983) has been living for the past three years in Canada with herhusband and children. Her husband T.D.D. Philips (1979) has recently been appointed headof Morrison’s, the UK supermarket chain, and so they and their family will be living in Yorkin England. She has two nephews who are at the College and enjoys reliving her school daysvicariously through theirs and discovering what has changed and what has not.A.P. Philpot (2000) has set up a company (with Irish rugby international Luke Fitzgerald) whichsupplies sports compression tops. He plays senior rugby with De la Salle Palmerston in Co.Dublin.Amanda Pierpoint (1997) has been awarded a degree in diagnostic radiography from KingstonUniversity. She is now working at the Royal London Hospital.Karen Pierpoint (1996) has obtained an MSc in genetic counselling from Manchester University.She now works at Belfast City Hospital.Rachel Pierpoint (1999) is in her final year in TCD studying for a degree in nursing.Emily Plunket (2004) is reading history of art at Manchester University.A. Preston (2003) is reading for a degree at Edinburgh University.Eliza Preston (2001) is in her final year at Keble College Oxford reading for a degree inarchaeology and anthropology. She plans to spend the next year or so gaining experiencewith NGOs and international organisations, beginning with development work inMozambique.Jane Quigley (2006) is studying for a degree in arts at NUI Galway.S.J.H. Raben (1987), who now works as account manager for Corus Steel (soon to be known asTata Steel), is married with four children all under five years old. In his own words ‘I live in anoisy but fun household. I could not be happier’.F. Reade (2003) is in his final year at Edinburgh University reading for a degree in neuroscience.Rosanna Reade (2006) is reading history of art at Edinburgh University.T.R. Reade (1997) works in London for Randox, a Northern Ireland company, that specialises indiagnostic equipment. He is responsible for sales to laboratories and hospitals in London andin the south-east of England.D.C. Rhatigan (1981) has moved out of the property market and into fashion by setting up RubyCouture, which sells discounted designer stock. He was featured in an article in The SundayBusiness Post in September 2009.Veronica Roden (2001) has qualified as a goldsmith with the Crafts Council of Ireland and is

29working with Amoc Jewellery in Greystones, Co Wicklow.Rebecca Roe (2003) is studying retail management at the London College of Fashion andCommunications.B. Russsell (2001) has been making a name for himself in singing circles in Dublin. He came fifthin the final of the prestigious Veronica Dunne International singing competition at theNational Concert Hall, at 21 being much the youngest of the finalists, who came from all overthe world. He also won the Dame Joan Sutherland Prize for most promising young singer. InFebruary 2010 with Anna Brady (soprano) he gave a most-enjoyable Valentine’s concert in theGrand Hotel, Wicklow, attended by many Old Columbans and by teachers from the College.Tarka Russell (2001) is reading history and the history of art at York University.B.A. Sadek (1996) was awarded a degree in business and sociology from Durham Universitythree years ago. He is now working for the AMV advertising agency in London.N.F. Sadek (1975). In 2006 he sold Sadek Wynberg Research, a very substantial business. He thenran Research Internation, an organisation employing many thousands of people in 52different countries. Wishing however to do something unusual, he bought Inishturkbeg inClew Bay off the coast of Co Mayo. He is now president and chief islander on Inishturkbeg,where he runs a hospitality business and a Connemara pony stud. He also runs a successfulfood business extending throughout Ireland and the United Kingdom. Among otheractivities, he is a partner in Clew Bay Marine services, a company which installs and maintainsnavigation markers along the coast of Ireland.G.P.H. Schniewind (1999) will shortly be commencing a master’s degree course in internationalmanagement at the Insituto de Empressa in Madrid.Sophie Schniewind (1999) successfully completed her master’s in modern history at St AndrewsUniversity in August 2009. She has now moved to Chile, where she experienced one of theworst earthquakes in history.K. Schnittger (1993) completed the acquisition of McKeon’s Shoes, North Main Street, Wexford inSeptember 2009, adding to his retail outlets in Kilkenny and Limerick. He was electedPresident of the Irish branch of the HEC Paris Business School Alumni Association in June2009 (he completed his master’s degree at HEC Paris in 2002).P.S. Scott (1935) has been awarded an honorary D.Litt by Trinity College Dublin in recognition ofhis contribution to modern Irish art.J.M. Sheils (1977) has returned to Dublin and is practicing as a solicitor with Beale’s, Solicitors.S. Shonibare (2007) is reading business studies and economics at Edinburgh University.W.H.P. Simpson (1977). After graduating from TCD, like many of his contemporaries in the 1980s,he went to London (shortly afterwards he was followed by other Old Columban Simpsons).He settled into stockbroking and later private banking with stints at James Capel, BZW, NMRothschild and latterly Barclays Wealth Private Bank (whose UK and Ireland operations areheaded by R.W. Gilbert [1982]). He was board representative to the Association of PrivateClient Stockbrokers & Investment Managers. He has been the organiser for some time of theLondon Old Columban Party. In recognition of his efforts, at the 2009 party he was presentedby the President of the Society with a framed copy of one of the builder’s drawings of theCollege Chapel. He has been helped by C.R.G. Hudson (1977), Jan Baker (née Fleming, 1985),Vicky Shepperd (nee O’Mahony, 1985), and Nicola Cunningham (née Hamilton, 1986). OldColumbans interested in attending future Old Columban parties in London should contactWilliam Simpson at william@simpson.plus.com.H. Sinabulya (1998), having taken a medical degree, is now doing her residency at KarolinskaUniversity Hospital, Stockholm.Alexandra Singerman (1983) lives with her husband on the Lower East Side in New York. She isworking as a freelance personal assistant to several ‘Mom-preneurs’ and also travels thecountry setting up cruise-style art auctions (an undertaking she describes as less glamorousthan it sounds). She very much enjoys seeing Old Columbans when they pass through New

30York, helping them with suggestions for restaurants, hotels and so forth. She may becontacted on Facebook. She gives keen assistance in gathering up news for the Bulletin and afew years ago organised a reunion in Dublin of her Old Columban contemporaries.E.D.H. Slator (1932, former Chaplain) and his wife Eileen (a former nurse in the College) live inSandymount, Co Dublin. They paid a visit to the College in the early autumn of 2009 and weremet by the Warden and Mrs Haslett and by the Chaplain, the Reverend Nigel Crossey. Agentle tour of the College was much enjoyed, in particular of the Chapel.K. Smith (1983). In July he attended the Henley Royal Regatta for the 20th year. He also competedin the Concept 2 World Indoor Rowing Marathon in a time of 3 hours 37 minutes and 55seconds, earning a world ranking of 63 for the event. He says it was not an altogether pleasantexperience.P.B. Smith (1958). He spent a number of years project-managing the construction of the golfcourse and the log clubhouse at Luttrelstown House, Co Kildare and the restoration ofArdbraccan House, Navan, Co Meath. He is at present working as a technical adviser forEcological Buildings Systems, Athboy, Co Meath. This allows him to use his interest inencouraging sustainable building practices and the use of appropriate materials inconstruction and renovation. He also advises architectural practices on the use of naturalinsulations and achieving airtightness. Last autumn he delivered a paper on energy efficiencyin historic houses as part of a series of seminars held by the Irish Georgian Society. He lives inDonadea, Co Kildare with his daughter. Last January he suffered great tragedy when his wifeAlice Reeves-Smyth died in a car crash. She was the mother of B.A. Reeves-Smyth (1998) anda sister of Justina McKeever (née Reeves-Smyth, 1981).P.W.J. Smith (1977). An exhibition of his drawings and installations, The Red Thread, Drawings fromIndia, was held in the Douglas Hyde Gallery TCD in August and September 2009.Emma Smithwick (1993) has been working as a television producer at the BBC for the past fewyears. She has recently taken on a drama-writing role in conjunction with producing.A.E. Somerfield (1941, former member of staff). For the last four years he has recited the Latingrace ‘before and after meat’ memoriter at the Christmas Commons in Trinity College Dublin(these graces are similar to those used in St Columba’s at lunch and at Sunday breakfast atleast until the end of Warden Sowby’s time).D. Sowby (1940) maintains a keen interest in the merits of nuclear power (he is sceptical of howmuch can be achieved with wind power). He has been doing further research on OldColumbans who served in the Second World War, in particular helping with work being donein Edinburgh University.B.P. Somerville-Large (1941) has completed the presentation to the College Library of a signedcopy of each of the books he has written.R.J. Spiller (1996) Having gained an MA in international relations from St Andrews University,he attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and then received a commission with theBlues and Royals, the Household Cavalry. Following the reconnaisance troop leaders' course,he took part in a series of exercises across the UK. He then spent a year at ceremonial duty,attending Trooping the Colour, the State Opening of Parliament and other occasions. Afterpassing selection for Airborne Forces (Pegasus or P Company), he was deployed toAfghanistan as assault troop leader in summer 2008, during which time he was wounded inaction. After rehabilitation, he returned to complete the tour, largely doing long-rangepatrolling. He completed a series of courses and was then re-deployed to Afghanistan inSeptember 2009 as an intelligence officer for another seven-month tour.H.A.F. Stacpoole (1992) lives in London and is still working in the railway industry. He recently lefthis job as media relations manager at the Association of Train Operating Companies. He continuesto return to Limerick often to see his family and to support the Munster rugby team.W.A.C.Stanford (1964) is now in his seventh year with the Colorado Department ofHigher Education. The Department's Career and College Planning resource

31www.CollegeInColorado.org now serves over 400,000 students of all ages across the state. Hewas honoured this year with a lifetime service award from the Scientific and Cultural FacilitiesDistrict (a $40-million a year cultural taxing district which he helped create in 1988 – seewww.scfd.org). He will celebrate the silver anniversary of his wedding to Dorothy Denny thisyear. Communications are welcome to gullystan@msn.com.Linda Stephens (1993), who obtained her degree in medicine from TCD, has now received hermembership of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She is a registrar in Our Lady ofLourdes Hospital in Drogheda.Wendy Stephens (1996) has graduated from the National College of Art and Design with a degreein design. She has recently been appointed community artist in Dublin.S.F. Stewart (1980) lives with his family in Newcastle-on-Tyne and works there as a consultanthepatologist focussing on alcoholic liver disease, liver transplantation, and clinical research.He will be moving to Dublin in August 2010 where he has been appointed to a consultant postat the Mater Misericordiae Hospital. He enjoys golf, cooking, live music, table tennis anddarts. The latter two sports are keenly contested with E.V. Lenox-Conyngham (1981).W.G. Stickland (1968) has donated to the College an exceptional photograph of the Irish rugbyXV which won the Grand Slam in 2009. The photograph will hang in the foyer of the SportsHall.N.R.H. Stronach (1970), former director of Fota Island, is now a freelance expert in biodiversityand wildlife conservation management services, based in Midleton, Co Cork. In November2009 he gave the Annual Geography Lecture in the College, describing his time living andworking in Tanzania, and illustrating this with many splendid photographs.G.G.M. Symes (1958). From 1964 until last year he worked as a professional photographer inBelfast. He is married and has two children. Later this year he plans to move with his familyfrom Belfast to Cornwall, where he intends setting up a business.G.J.R.M. Symes (1959) is in his seventh year as deputy head of The King’s Hospital in Palmerstown,Co Dublin. In the absence through injury of the headmistress, he was the acting headmasterfrom August 2009 to February 2010. As a member of the Dublin and Glendalough Board ofEducation he has been involved in efforts to secure the financial position of the Protestantmanagedschools in the education system. He is married and has four adult children.Charlotte Temple (1996) was featured in an article in The Irish Times. A former Irish Army officer,she is now the retail manager of Magee’s of Donegal. She has completed the Dublin and theParis marathons.F.D. Tinné (1982) continues to work as production manager for LEO Pharma in Cork. His job hasgiven him the opportunity to travel, most recently to China to such cities as Shanghai,Chengdu and Chongqing. He lives near Whitegate, Co Cork with his wife and three childrenaged between ten and two. He and his wife are keen vegetable and fruit growers and plan tokeep chickens.Louise Tinné (1984) is managing, in Meath for RehabCare, a respite service for children withlearning disabilities, physical and sensory disabilities and autism/Asperger’s Syndrome.G.A.M. Treacy (1984) helped organise and took part in September 2009 in a relay swimmingevent across the English Channel. The event raised funds for the Irish Cancer Society.Information is available on http://www.iasc-swim.com/Serena Tyrrell (1986) lives in London with her family. She is based there as a Japanese fundmanager for Pictet, a Swiss bank.Alexandra Wachtmeister (1996) is a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in Frankfurt.F.C.E. Wahnschaffe (1997) is managing partner at "Visa for Russia" in Hamburg, Germany.C.G. Ward (1936). He and his wife Isabel celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in April2009 in Rome.Rebecca Wardell (1994). After graduating from Edinburgh University she worked for the RoyalBank of Scotland in Edinburgh. She then became a ski-resort manager in Verbier, Switzerland.

32She is now working at a senior level in the commercial section of the British Embassy inDublin.M.G. Warren (1964) serves on the Arts Committee, a sub-committee of the Fellows of the College.M. Wehle (2003) did military service in Bad Reichenhall, Germany, in the year after leaving theCollege. From 2006 to 2008 he studied law at Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn, and forthe last two years he has studied international business at the Munich Business School. He isnow studying business at San Diego State University, USA.Andreea Weisl-Shaw (née Weisl, 1999) has been awarded a PhD from Cambridge University. Herthesis was on the subject of medieval Castilian and French comic tales used within didacticcontexts.A.G. White (1996) has left Ryanair and is now managing the Dublin constituency office of theIreland East MEP Nessa Childers, a job which he enjoys immensely.A.P.C. Willis (1993) is economics correspondent with the EU Observer in Brussels.E. Wilson (2003) is reading business and commerce at Cape Town University, South Africa.B.C.C. Wong (1995) works in Dublin for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, the investment andbanking firm. He will be working for a time in Mumbai and greatly looks forward to seeingsomething of India.M.J. Wood-Martin (1977) is a director with Henderson Global Investors in London. A captain ofcross country when in the College, he remains physically fit and is an enthusiast of Pilates.A.I. Yates (1973). The owner of a chain of bookmaker shops (and former Minister for Agriculture),he has also become a successful radio broadcaster, covering current affairs, on the Newstalkstation. His family roots were analysed on the RTE 1 programme ‘Who do you think you are?’(among his antecedents were a Jameson and a Marconi). C.I.D. Moriarty (1949) appeared onthe programme in his role as archivist to the Society of Friends.News about the CollegeMichaelmas 2008 to Trinity 2009Mr J.R.E. Bewley retired as Chairman of the Fellows after ten years of service. Mr P.W. Kempreplaced him as the new Chairman. Mr I.S. Roberts (1959) became the Vice-Chairman.The Reverend M.R. Heaney retired from the Chaplaincy at the end of the academic year (he hadretired 12 months beforehand as a geography teacher), and was replaced by the Reverend N.Crossey from September 2009.At the start of the Michaelmas Term Mr F.H. Morris became the new Senior Master. Ms K. Smithjoined the staff to teach English. Dr U. Riemenschneider (1993) left the College to take up anappointment in the USA. Ms A. Hallahan taught French until Christmas as a maternity leavereplacementThe Senior Prefect was Rebecca Feeney-Barry and the Second Prefect was David Beresford. Theother College Prefects were Johnnie Cooper (Chapel Prefect), Hanne Grainger, Emma Klyne,Poppy Law, Gary Lawler, Crispin Maenpaa, Oliver Smith and Sarah Wilson (Chapel Prefect).During the summer of 2009 very substantial and vital repairs were started to the roof ofHollypark House (previously called the Warden’s House). These were completed inNovember 2009.

33Form Prizes, 2009Primary Nicola Dalrymple Mark RussellForm I Qasim Bari Pia GromotkaSadhbh SheeranWilliam WoodForm II Christopher Doherty Hamish LawKezia WrightForm III Lingfan Gao Opeline KellettAlbert Kyd-Rebenburg Patrick TiceForm IV Kate Boyd Crotty Susannah CookeMiriam PoultonIgor VerkhovskiyForm V Fiona Boyd Ciara ConwayChristopher Faerber Olga KolobkovaGina MirowAnna TraillForm VI Allen Crampton James CramptonRebecca Feeney-Barry Max GuennewigCrispin MaenpaaCiara O’DriscollSubject Prizes 2009Siobhan BradyBronwyn MallonLauren ScullyEleanor DolphinHamish LawDaniel PhillipsLingfan GaoOpeline KellettMichael KempShannen KeoganAlbert Kyd-RebenburgEmma MoorePatrick TiceJoanna TottenhamHannah WentgesRobbie HollisMiriam PoultonFiona BoydCiara ConwayEmma DaviesPatrick FaulknerJamie LyttleJunior Music Prize (Vocal)Richard Hayes Crofton Prize for Geography (Junior)The Earl of Meath Prize for Art (Junior) (ex aequo)The Earl of Meath Prize for Art (Junior) (ex aequo)Junior Latin PrizeJunior Craft PrizeJunior Music Prize (Piano), Junior English Prize,Christopher Cosgrave Memorial Prize for French (Junior)Junior Poetry Prize, Junior Classical Studies PrizeArthur Barton Prize for History (Junior)Bertram Walsh Prize for Irish (Junior)Junior Spanish PrizeJunior Drama PrizeJunior Music Prize (Instrumental), Sandham Willis MemorialPrize for Mathematics (Form III)Junior Technical Graphics Prize (ex aequo)Junior Technical Graphics Prize (ex aequo), Junior Science PrizeTransition Year Academic PrizeOld Columban Society Junior Certificate AwardPeter Dix Memorial Prize for PoetrySenior Latin PrizeSenior Classical Studies PrizeBlack-Macken Prize for PhotographySenior Construction Studies Prize

34David BeresfordMikeila CameronAllen CramptonRebecca Feeney-BarryCeleste GuinnessShane LavinCrispin MaenpaaLouise McGarrigleCiara O’DriscollEmily PlunketOliver SmithLavinia ThelenRosemary WentgesSarah WilsonRichard Hayes Crofton Prize for Geography (Senior)Senior Craft PrizeBusiness Studies Prize, Bulbulia Prize for EconomicsPhysics Prize, Christopher Cosgrave Memorial Prize for French(Senior), Applied Mathematics Prize, Bertram Walsh Prize forIrish (Senior), Senior English Prize, Chemistry Prize, SandhamWillis Memorial Prize for Mathematics (Senior)Aroti Sisodia Music PrizeJohn Jenkins Music PrizeWillis Memorial Prize for ShakespeareSenior Spanish PrizeArthur Barton Prize for History (Senior), Geology Prize(ex aequo)Fry Prize for StagecraftSandham Willis Prize for Music, Senior Drama Prize, GeologyPrize (ex aequo)Mansergh Travel AwardRichard Hayes Crofton Prize for BiologyThe Earl of Meath Prize for Art (Senior)Senior Todd Prize 2008Lauren O’ConnellJunior Todd Prize 2008Christopher FenelonOld Columban Scholarship, 2008-09Mark RussellSenior Scholarship, 2008-09Olga KolobkovaPennefather Scholarship, 2008-09Lingfan GaoPennefather Exhibitions, 2008-09Emma Moore, Albert Kyd-Rebenburg, Patrick TiceSt Columba’s Day 2009The St Columba’s Day Celebrations were held on Saturday 30th May. The guest of honour, MrsJustice Harding Clarke, presented the prizes. Speaking as a former parent of two pupils in theCollege (Kate Bielinski, 1983, B.J.R.C. Bielinski, 1984), she emphasised the College’s splendidfacilities and location, its religious ethos and academic encouragement and freedom. Hermessage to carry through life was to use one’s intellectual curiosity and always to ask the rightquestions.The Chairman of the Fellows, Mr J.R.E. Bewley, spoke of the difficult circumstances faced byfee-paying schools under Protestant management, in particular the recent reduction in grants

35and payments by the Department of Education.The Warden presented his annual report covering the year’s activities in the College. He spokeof the continued high level of academic achievement in the College. He in particular praised thecontribution made to the College by the out-going Chairman of the Fellows, Mr J.R.E. Bewley,and by the retiring Chaplain, the Reverend M.R. Heaney.The Senior Prefect, Rebecca Feeney-Barry, praised the education she and her fellow leavers hadbeen given while in the College.At the Chapel service, the Chaplain appealed strongly for funds to restore the Organ (this hasnow developed into the Walsh Fund).ChapelThe Confirmation Service was held on Ascension Thursday May 21st 2009. The service wasconducted by His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Reverend John R.W. Neill. Thefollowing members of the College were confirmed: Thomas Gibbs, Angus Johnson, HarryJohnson, Harry Morris, Ben Richardson, Lucy Mantle, Sadhbh Sheeran and Lilian Glennon.Other important services were Remembrance Sunday, the Carol Services, the Service for StPatrick’s Day and the service on St Columba’s Day. Again, the College assembled on ChapelSquare on Remembrance Day (Tuesday 11th November) in memory of Old Columbans who havelost their lives in war.There were 10 visiting preachers during the year. Among them was Archbishop Donald Cairdwho reflected with characteristic humour and sensitivity on the 50th anniversary of his comingto teach Irish in the College. His close connection with the College continued when he became aFellow and also he visited the College annually on Ascension Thursday to conduct the service ofconfirmation.Collections held in the course of the year were held for many causes, including Christian Aid,a Whitechurch parish project in Rwanda, Aware, Focus Ireland, the Mansion House Fuel Fund,the Bishops’ Appeal, the Emergency Fund, the Leprosy Mission, a South-East cancer centre, theIrish Poppy Appeal, Barnardo’s, UNICEF, the Dublin University Mission to Chota Nagpur, theMotor Neurone Disease, DSPCA, Fields of Life, the CMSI Romania project, the RNLI, and Bothar.An ‘Emergency Fund’ collection is also regularly taken, so that the College can build up funds torespond to sudden crises around the world.On Wednesday mornings there were talks from the Warden (on the nature of well-being), theSub-Warden (on sound in poetry, and on Seamus Heaney), Mr McCarthy (on the gift of reading),Mrs Haslett (on St Patrick) and also on other days frequent appeals from pupils for collections, aswell as several fine music recitals by pupils and staff, including one by Mr Alan Grundy on hisnew lute.DramaThere was a very active year in drama. The Senior Play was a major production of My Fair Ladyby Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner. It was produced by Dr J.J. Stone and Mr J.M. Girdhamwith Mrs G. Malone-Brady as director of music. Costumes were by Ms K. Hennessey and by aparent, Mrs Helen Roden. It featured outstanding performances by Oliver Smith (ProfessorHenry Higgins) and Poppy Vernon (Eliza Doolittle).The Junior Play was a ‘shorter, faster, louder’ version of Romeo and Juliet by WilliamShakespeare, produced by Mr Evan Jameson, and featured Jasper Pickersgill and Emma Moorein the title roles. Here We Are by Dorothy Parker (produced by Mr P.G. McCarthy) was entered forthe St Andrew’s College Drama Festival and was awarded a certificate of merit. The Actiontrackteam from Somerset again visited for workshops with Second Form and the week-long‘Showbuild’ with Transition Year in June. In addition, there was the Christmas Pantomime My FatLaddy (written and produced by Dr J.J. Stone and Mr J.M. Girdham), Primary, First Form andSecond Form playlets, and the Language Plays evening organised by the French, Irish and

36Spanish Departments. Many plays in Dublin were visited, mostly organised by the EnglishDepartment – Happy Days, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Comedy of Errors, All My Sons, King Lear,An Ideal Husband, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Winter’s Tale, Iolanthe.MusicThe choral concert on Tuesday 24th March 2009 in the Chapel had Mozart’s Coronation Mass asits centrepoint. It also raised €1,140 for the Habitat Hungary trip. Ms G. Malone-Brady conducted,Mairéad Hurley was the accompanist on piano, and a mixture of pupils and College staff werethe soloists: Daphne Wright, Poppy Vernon, Sylvia O’Regan, Barry Finn, Julian Girdham. Thereception in the Big Schoolroom afterwards allowed visitors to see the art work from the previousweekend’s Art, Craft and Photography prizes evening.The Gala Concert was held on Saturday 16th May 2009. The distinguished violinist Cora VenusLunny was the central performer. The College Choir (conducted Ms G. Malone-Brady) and theCollege Choral Society took part, as did a number of Old Columbans P-H.Y. Kam (2001),A.P. Marchant (1999), B.J.D. Russell (2001) and Eleanor Russell (2004) and members of staff.The Staff-Pupil Concert illustrates both the ‘love and talent for music’ to be found in theCollege. To quote further from The Columban ‘the concert was a pleasant blend of genres, andboasted some fantastic performances from both staff and pupils’.The House Singing competition is, as ever, a very popular and competitive event. This year itwas won by Iona. A small orchestra was started. Several ‘soirées’ were held on Saturday evenings.After being assessed in performance, Music Scholarships were awarded to seniors Luisa Hell,Shane Lavin and Mia Peters, intermediates Lingfan Gao and Daphne Wright, and juniors MollyBuckingham and Siobhan Brady.The choir was enormously busy before Christmas, singing at Blackrock Shopping Centre(raising €900 for the Simon Community); the College’s neighbours the Marlay Nursing Home (onthe site of the old tennis courts near the former front gate); the Stillorgan Shopping Centre(raising money for the Irish Heart Foundation), and the Bloomfield Nursing Home. The CarolService was very fine, with much excellent singing by the choir and congregation. The lessonswere read by seven pupils, the Sub-Warden, the Warden and the Chaplain.The Barbershop Group, its personnel having mutated, continued to perform to the Collegewhenever possible. The staff members are Mr B. Finn (leader), Mr J.M. Girdham, Mr F.H. Morrisand Mr R. Swift. They are joined by four pupils.Art, Craft and PhotographyThe adjudicator and guest speaker at the Prize Evening and Exhibition was Professor GarryGranville, head of education at the National College of Art and Design. Garments and fashionpieces were a new addition to the exhibition this year. Lino and clay were also well represented.Other guest speakers during the year were H.J. Trayer (1975), a graphic designer, who spoke toFifth and Sixth Forms about the adaptability of an art education and the many careeropportunities available. P.W.J. Smith (1977), artist, film set designer and writer spoke about hiswork (which includes such films as Batman Returns). There was also an expedition in March toFlorence and to Venice which was enormously enjoyed.Transition YearA group again travelled to Hungary to build houses under the aegis of the Habitat for Humanityorganisation. They had to raise over €30,000 before setting off, and did so with time to spare. Seemore at www.scchabitat.blogspot.com.Transition Year pupils took part in the House Speeches, the Tenderfoot drama programme andthe Actiontrack Showbuild week.The annual Information Evening was held on Wednesday 21st January 2009. Following DrStone and Mr Jones, there were brief presentations by James Bowlby (sport), Harry Brooke (the

37Tenderfoot programme), Olivia Plunket (the English course) and Robbie Hollis (fund-raising).This evening is directed particularly at Third Formers and their parents, to show them theopportunities that lie ahead of them in this exciting and often transformative year.The annual Transition Year English Evening again featured fine pieces of writing producedduring the year: the guest speaker, Garrett Fagan from UCD, was most impressed.An innovation this year was a special Prize Presentation Evening in June. It was presented bythe deputy Transition Year co-ordinator Mr H. Jones. It featured talks and performances by thepupils, and the presentation by the Warden of book tokens to the top pupils in each subject.Public Speaking & DebatingThe English Department runs the annual Transition Year speeches (this time won by AndrewMartin on ‘Things that irritate me about girls’) as well as First Form competition, and preparedSecond Formers for their evening in May. Mrs Haslett continues to run the House Debatingcompetition: there are two evenings in the Michaelmas Term in which Houses debate againsteach other, and the final is in the Hilary Term: on this occasion Tibradden (with two Sixth Formmonitors) beat Iona.The College had considerable success in the annual Poetry Aloud competition, run by theNational Library of Ireland and Poetry Ireland: Opeline Kellett and William Maire reached thefinal (and Molly Buckingham the semi-final), in which 20 pupils (whittled down from 900) recitedpoems to distinguished judges.Information TechnologyAs noted earlier in this Bulletin, the revamped website (created by A.M. Green, 1986, ofwww.bristlebird.com) was completed during the year: there is now much more frequent news,and the site provides an enormous amount of information to prospective pupils and theirparents, as well as being aesthetically pleasing.The College now benefits from a campus-wide wireless network, as well as a wired one, andmost classrooms are equipped with data projectors. This is in addition to the main ComputerRoom (formerly the classroom Monsell). Large numbers of pupils have their own laptops, anduse these for academic work.The English blog, www.sccenglish.ie, won the Best Group category at the international EdublogAwards (based in Australia). It was the only Irish site in the shortlist. It was also shortlisted in theBest Blog category at the main Irish web awards, the Golden Spiders, and featured in The IrishTimes and the Teaching English magazine. During the year it started podcasting. Other sites,especially the Frog Blog from the Science Department (www.sccscience.com), are showcasingwork and news from the College most effectively. The Frog Blog was named a Scoilnet Star Site.Voices of PoetryThis long-established event was co-ordinated and presented by Mr R. Swift on Sunday 24th May2009 in the Big Schoolroom. Twenty-four pupils and staff read poetry in various languages,Among the foreign languages to be heard were Russian (Olga Kolobkova), Dutch (LaviniaThelen), Farsi (Milo Reddaway), Latin (Patrick Faulkner), Italian (Sophie Kyd-Rebenburg),Spanish (Gina Mirow), French (Philip Arndt), Gujerati (Rishi Manuel), and German (HeleneTonner). Our national language was represented by Oscar Nunan from Donegal reading a poemby Cathal O Searcaigh. Poems in English were read by their authors from many different forms,including Matt Brooke, Molly Buckingham, Olivia Plunket, Robbie Hollis, Thomas Emmet,Opeline Kellett, Patrick McGonagle, William Maire, Rebecca Feeney-Barry, and Fiona Boyd thewinner of the annual senior poetry prize, named after P.T.S. Dix (1966). The Chaplain, who readPeter Dix’s We all Walk on Walls, which is inscribed on the front of the Dix Memorial Trophy (keptin the Library).

38It was a superb evening, full of juxtapositions and surprises, eddying through seriousness andhumour, and expertly brought together by organiser and presenter Mr R. Swift.MiscellaneousThere were again elections for the Pupils’ Council, now an established institution. Mrs F.Heffernan is the staff member who oversees the Council.The Annual Geography Lecture was given by Mr Tim Lavery, on the Beyond Endurance projectin Antarctica.On Tuesday 9th December the whole school (including many staff) took part in an EnglishDepartment experiment, writing for 15 minutes on the topic of Christmas Past: many of the pieceswere published on the English site, www.sccenglish.ie, as well as being turned into postersdisplayed on the walls of the Library.Mr R. Swift released his first CD of songs, called Farewell Future Wives, and featuring art workon the cover by E.C.L. Frankel (1991). It is well-worth listening to.The ‘Lights Out’ competition was organised by Mr Swift and a CSPE III form Action Group. Thescheme publicised the waste of electricity in the school and thus aimed to reduce it. Other ActionProjects included a ‘can crush’ to highlight recycling, and a 24-hour fast for Trocaire.A portion of the tuck shop profits was used to buy a piece of art by E.C.L. Frankel (1991). It hasbeen presented to the College Arts Committee and will be hung in the College.Mr Jameson started a largely pupil-driven termly magazine called Second Bell (titled thus forreasons which will be obvious to all Old Columbans): it covers all sorts of interests.The annual Bullying Awareness Day involved pupils and staff discussing this issue in formgroups; afterwards, all pupils wrote useful and constructive comments in their feedback.Mr R. Swift again organised the Fun Run, on the night of Saturday 13th December, duringwhich a huge number of pupils, dressed in many bizarre guises, ran around the College in thedark.LibraryA Fifth Form team took part in the annual Library quiz at Muckross Park School. The Librarymarked World Book Day in March by organising a survey of the College’s favourite books, ajunior quiz, a junior short story competition, a senior crossword puzzle and, again in conjunctionwith the English Department, distributed professionally-printed bookmarks which had beendesigned by junior pupils in art classes.The Submarine, a magazine put together by Librarian Mr T.J. McConville (1971), is into its thirdyear now (it can be read online on www.sccenglish.ie). Mr McConville also organised a displayof first editions by William Trevor, O.C.The Library continues to thrive; its collection is of the highest standard. It benefits from thepainstaking work of Mr J.R. Brett, the College Librarian.Lectures and TalksThe English novelist Belinda Seaward gave an absorbing talk to senior pupils about her work,including her recent novel Hotel Juliet. It took place in the Upper Cadogan, an excellent space fortalks and recitals that do not require the size of the Big Schoolroom.Mrs Elizabeth Burton-Philips and her husband Tony gave talks to the whole school and toparents on their terrible experiences with their sons and drugs. The talk had a powerful effect onmany pupils. After the talk many bought her book Mum, Can You Lend Me a Quid?.We were pleased to welcome back to the College Professor Terry Dolan, who for over 30 yearshas been delighting Columbans by talking about topics such as Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘bad’ language,and Hiberno-English. Professor Dolan had suffered a severe stroke in 2008, but is recovering well,and gave an illuminating and educative talk on American English to 35 pupils and staff in theDrawing Room in May.

39ExpeditionsThere was an excellent study trip to the beautiful Spanish city Salamanca over the February halfterm.There was also a cultural trip to Italy.There was a skiing expedition at Easter, to Austria, the annual study trip to the Burren for FifthForm, and an outdoor pursuits expedition to Achill for the Transition Year.There were art and art history expeditions to the Gallagher Gallery in Dublin, the NationalMuseum and Newgrange. There were Spanish and French expeditions to films at the MermaidTheatre in Bray, a science expedition to the Bodies exhibition and several Agricultural Sciencetrips. Sixth Form took their annual trip to the Higher Options exhibition at the RDS (whichshowcases careers and university courses).SportDuring the year there were 359 sports fixtures, including 87 girls’ hockey matches, 72 rugby, 66girls’ basketball, 40 boys’ hockey, 34 boys’ cricket, 27 girls’ cricket, 16 boys’ basketball, 8 tennis,plus athletics meets, cross-country, and archery. It is a formidable list for a small school.The Annual Sports DinnerThe guest speaker was Eric Miller, the former Ireland and British and Irish Lions rugby player. Iton this annual occasion that colours in the various College sports are awarded.ArcheryDuring the winter months ten archers practised in the Sports Hall. One of them later won a goldmedal in the outdoor and the indoor competitions.AthleticsThe College was as usual well represented by pupils of all ages at the East Leinsterchampionships in Irishtown stadium. There were notable performances. Seven contestantsqualified for the Leinster championships, though no one got through to the All Ireland events.BasketballGirls’ basketball went from strength to strength. A lot of progress was made by all the girls’ teamsin the league competitions. The senior and the cadette girls’ teams reached advanced stages intheir divisions. The junior girls’ team was highly-motivated, managing to win the South DublinLeague final. The minor girls’ team reached the final of the South Dublin League.The boys’ senior team took time to become a unit and to play to their strengths, though theysecured quite a few match successes.Boys’ CricketThe Senior XI played six matches in a short and very wet season: two matches were won, threewere lost and one was drawn. It was a mixed performance revealing some need for improvementin basic skills.A happy event was the Senior XI match against the Leprechauns. This was the 60th consecutivematch between the Leprechauns and the College. Among the spectators were D. Sowby (1940),who played for the Leprechauns in the inaugural game in 1949, and G.A. McCaw (1945) whoplayed for the College then.The Junior XI enjoyed some very good results, but overall there were some disappointments.The season was a stop-start affair, lacking fluidity and a sustained desire for winning.Nevertheless there were some real successes and there are some able players on the team, givingreason to be optimistic about the future.The Minor XI did not have a good season, while the Tibradden XI were a talented squadshowing lots of enthusiasm and improvement in their skills. The Tibradden B XI had somematches, but weather made for a disrupted season. Nevertheless some useful cricket was learned.

40Girls’ CricketThere were no fewer than six girls’ teams playing in the 2009 season. Despite the weather nearlyall matches were played and with many successes. There was a good sporting attitude and strongcommitment on all the teams.CroquetThe playing of croquet has been moved from the terrace to the Warden’s and Masters’ tenniscourt and so has benefited from the improvements made to the court. Home and away matcheswere played against the Carrickmines Club. Mr M. O’Shaughnessy, an expert player in his ownright, is in charge.Cross CountryThe cross country runners had an active season, training on Kilmashogue and in Marlay Park.There was a core of talented runners who took part in the East Leinster championships, with oneof them going on to the Leinster finals. Mr N. Coldrick is the enthusiastic coach.FencingA group of ten was coached by an outside expert. They practised and had contests on a weeklybasis in the Sports Hall.GolfFriendly games are played, on the College golf course. There are plans to allow College golfers tobecome junior members of Kilmashogue golf club so that College teams might play in clubcompetitions.Boys’ HockeyThe concern for a coach is on the development of all the players and so the winning of matches,when there is an over-reliance on the better players, is not always forthcoming. The Senior XI hada mixed season with some good and some poor results. On some occasions they wereunfortunate to see leads slip away. Throughout the season the squad showed great effort,commitment, discipline and passion, putting in a determined effort in the cup competition.The Junior XI had mixed results. However players maintained a steady improvement duringthe season.The Leps XI had a good season narrowly missing out on playing in the league final. Withgreater focus this talented team should do well in the future.Tibradden (under-13s) fielded an A and a B team, such was the number of players available.Both teams enjoyed their hockey and improved their skills.Girls’ HockeyThe Senior XI was a keen and able team which achieved some hard-earned results against toughopposition. The team reached the semi-final stage of the cup competition and the quarter-finalstage of the league competition.The Second XI enjoyed their hockey, worked hard and achieved some successes.The Third XI (consisting of beginners from the VI and V Forms) learnt a lot of hockey andplayed many matches. The team reached the quarter-finals of the competition, an achievementwhich was much enjoyed.The Junior XI, a team with a good few talented players, put in a great deal of hard work. In spiteof limited success in the cup competition, it was reckoned to be a successful season. The teamworked well together and many individuals improved their skills considerably.The Form I XI had a busy and hardworking season, playing their matches with enthusiasm. Theteam enjoyed some success in their league competition.

41RugbyAfter the successes of the 2007-8 1st XV, the 2008-9 XV was promoted to Section B in the leaguecompetition. A number of keen matches were played in this section, but without achieving a win.The team also played in the McMullen Cup and reached the final. In all, 22 matches were played:nine were won, and 13 lost.The 2nd XV had a very successful season, playing with enthusiasm in their league and withsome success. Many Fourth Formers were introduced to the game. A majority of the players willbe available for the 1st XV in the 2009-2010 season.At the start of the season the Junior XV was on a steep learning curve. Mind-set, and defensiveskills in particular, had to be put in place. In terms of results it may have been a modest enoughseason, but the forwards were never out-played and the backs showed some definite skills. A lotwas achieved and progress was made.The Tibradden XV had mixed fortune in their match results, but they showed a positiveapproach and a good esprit de corps. A defining fixture in late January was played in the mostferocious of Columban weather.SailingIn such poor summer weather there were very few days suitable for sailing. However threeafternoons of sailing were possible. Aifric Tracey was selected for the Ireland under-16 sailingteamTennisFour league teams represented the College in a short but busy season. Though no team managedto proceed beyond the group stages of their league, there is a good deal of serious tennis beingplayed. The Warden and Masters’ grass court (built in 1882) continues to be improved by Mr R.Swift, master in charge of tennis. He is frequently to be seen scarifying it.