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xNovember 2014 y Dan McErlean 12 Werona Street Sunnybank Qld 4109 Dear Old Boys Our Pre-Christmas meeting will be held at ‘The Public Service Club’, Level 1 Function Room, 84 William Street (cnr Stephens Lane), Brisbane on Friday21 st November 2014 from 12 noon through until about 2.00 pm; but feel free to drop in anytime from 11.00 am on, as your commitments dictate and join Old Boy mates in convivial fellowship. If Old Boys are coming by train to the Central Railway Station, there is a free City Loop bus from Stop 8 opposite Central Station in Ann Street which allows you to alight at Stop 103 in the Government Precinct, just outside ‘The Public Service Club’ at 84 William Street.The bus services on this route are every 10-15 minutes. As the 2014 Calendar Year draws to a close, Old Boys wish to pay a special tribute to the TBOBA President Joe Guerrini and his Executive, Peter Walters, Matthew Booth, Donald Stephens, Paul Canning, Greg Manthey and James Dixon who have so tirelessly committed considerable time driving fund raising for the redemption of our Loan on the Clive Berghofer Sports Complex. It would help the Committee greatly if Old Boys would please consider giving generously to the Brother Baptiste O’Sullivan School Building Fund to assist with the Debt Reduction Program on our Indoor Sports Complex. Donations, which are fully Tax Deductible will be receipted. • Our Special Thanks are extended to Ronald John Smith (1939 – 1947) of Toowong and Trevor McGovern (Senior (1965) of Southport for taking up Life Memberships recently. • The St Mary’s College 116 th Prize Presentation Night was held in the Empire Theatre, Toowoomba, on Wednesday 5 th November 2014. As November is the month of the ‘Holy Souls’ please remember our deceased Old Boys, Christian Brothers and Friends of the College. A number have passed away recently: • Denis Patrick McGuin (1955 – 1963) • Bernard Hugh (Bernie) Reilly (husband of Jo) and cousin of DanReilly • Tad Wlodarczyk (101 years), father of Wieslaw (John) of Emerald (Vic), Jadzia, Barbara, Krystyna,Christopher (Tennyson) & Mariusz (Adelaide) • Johan Coulton , daughter of Bernie and Margaret Murphy A number are also unwell or recovering from surgery including: • Kevin, Doug and Tim Coonan, Justin Kingsford, Kevin Killoran, Tom Lincoln, Pat Seymour, John Keightley, Des Franklin, Colin Green, Bill Oliver, Joe Mulhall, Trevor Muller, Tom Hutchinson, Mrs Greg Dunne, Marie Keen and Annette Gilbert. Please note that our first Brisbane meeting in 2015 will be on Friday 6th March. Annual Membership Fee ($10.00) for Calendar Year 2015 is now due / or Life Memberships are available(Fee $100.00) * * * Cheques as donations towards the Indoor Sports Complex should be made payable to ‘Br. Baptiste O’Sullivan Building Fund ’. They are fully Tax Deductible and will be receipted. Bryan McSweeney Dan McErlean Dan Reilly 1 President Secretary Co-Ordinator (07) 3278 9682 (07) 3345 4404 (07) 3395 1813 T.B.O.B.A. (Brisbane Sub-Branch) Meeting – 19/9/14 Present Apologies Laurie Atzeni (Hon) John Hutchinson Fr Paul Chandler Dick Lynch John Bagget Doug Lee Fr Tyrone Deere Bernie Murphy Darryl Baker Jim Long Frank Adamson Robin Murphy Nev Card Mick Moloney Nat Chandler Terry Murphy Frank Deighton Pat Mullins John Coyer Rob McDonald John Drew Denis McClure Bernie Collins Justin McErlean Les Duncan Dan McErlean Noel Cronin Bryan McSweeney Merv Henson Peter McMahon Jack Davis (Hon) Lee Nightingale Peter Kennedy Graham Swenson Allan Duncan John Noonan Terry Gesch Kerry Taylor Brien Dunne Wayne Nuss Rolly Griffin Gerry Williams Graham Ehler John O’Neill Barry Gordon Des Franklin Jack Parker Tom Hutchinson Ron Smith Barry Kuhnemann Reg Taylor Fred Lincoln Glen Wiedman ‘Coming Events’ 31/10/14 Sydney TBOBA Luncheon at Castlereagh Club – (Noon) Contact: Mick Quinlan (02) 9997 2397 21/11/14 Brisbane TBOBA Sub-Branch Pre-Christmas Break Up Meeting (11 am – 2 pm) 1st Floor Function Room, ‘The Public Service Club’ 84 William Street (cnr Stephens Lane) 12/12/14 TBOBA Sunshine Coast Luncheon at Headland Golf Club on Golf Links Road, (Noon) Buderim. Contacts: Bernie Murphy (5478 0742), Terry Murphy (5456 4340) and Redmond Byrne (5477 6705) and Carl Betros on Saturday 18/10/2014 to give him A very successful Reunion was held by the 1958 Scholarship Class on the 13/9/2014. Those who answered the Roll Call that night were: Michael Bou-Samra, Leigh Brady, Carl Betros, Greg Butler, John Cloake, Vern Donovan, Pat Drew, Gene Green, John Kelly, Bob Kretchman, Barry Lancaster, Phil Long, Peter Ludgate, Allan Roney, John Stephen, Pat Stringer and Colin Zeller (pictured right) and with partners on the school bus (pictured below). Highlights were the tour of the College facilities, especially the restored Brothers’ House, led by guide, Paul Canning, and the hour floor show feedback on the event. entertainment provided by Col Zeller on drums and his musicians Des Patch, Ray Moore, Kerry Wright, Ron Smith and Bob Donovan during Dinner that evening at the Gladstone Hotel. Patrick McErlean has had indifferent health recently and could not attend this Class Reunion, but was thrilled to have a visit from five former classmates – Colin Zeller, John Stephen, Gene Green, Phil Long 2 outskirts of the growing provincial centre of • Tadeusz Czeslaw ‘Tad’ Wlodarczyk passed to Toowoomba. Amongst other jobs to make ends meet, Eternal Life on 16 th September 2014, aged 101 years. Pat’s father Edward was a Night Officer at the Born on 22/12/1912 in Poland he served in the Polish Harristown and Spring Bluff railway stations. Army’s 3 rd Carpathian Division under British command after escaping Poland with his wife and 3 The interwar years were tough times for the family as young children, following the German and Russian it was for many Australians. On their Harristown invasions. acreage they grew vegetables and grazed milking cows for their mother so that she could make butter that was given to the neighbours in order to share the load of poverty during this difficult period. Those early years of financial hardship and sacrifice instilled in him the virtues of family, hard work, sharing what you have and an appreciation of good fortune when it came his way. Pat did his primary schooling at Newtown State School before his enrolment at St Mary’s Christian Brothers from 1934 to 1942. Having answered a calling Pat finished his senior schooling year at the Banyo Seminary and went on to spend a further 3 (L) Tadeusz Wlodarczyk in 1988 and years there before deciding that this wasn’t to be his (R) in 2012 aged 100 life’s vocation. Impressed by the Australian troops he met while they Pat began his medical training at the University of Queensland in 1949, and received a Commonwealth served together as Rats of Tobruk, Tad set his mind to nd settling in Australia and post war, he and his wife scholarship from 2 year. In order to help pay his Irena and five of their seven children migrated and board and keep, Pat worked as a bookie’s penciller on they settled in Toowoomba. He built a five bedroom the Brisbane tracks. This early interest in the world of white brick home in the early 1950’s. A bricklayer, racing and his sometimes successful ownership of plasterer and stonemason, Tad worked for local race horses was a passion, along with his love of the builders A H Hodge & Sons where he developed an land, which he shared with his brother Andrew. exceptional reputation for his tradesmanlike work on construction projects. After graduating in 1956 and following a period at the Mater Hospital he spent a 2 years from 1958 in St The family were foundation members of St Thomas George, as part of a general practice which were More’s Parish which opened in 1958 under Rev Fr happy times for Pat and the source of many Bill Hall , as Parish Priest. Their three sons John, reminiscences and teachable moments for his young Chris and Mariusz enrolled at St Mary’s College. charges over the coming years. Tad was honoured with Good Wishes from the Queen, In June 1960 at a flash party hosted by the young the Governor General and the Prime Minister on his socialite Annette Hallet , Pat met the lovely and 100 th Birthday. He celebrated this Special milestone eligible Janet Cecilia Power , daughter of a well- with his family – 6 children, 14 grandchildren and 19 known Brisbane family. Such was their attraction for great grandchildren at home, enjoying Polish treats each other and his ‘need for speed’ that they were like Pierogi (dumplings filled with meat and potato) engaged within 3 weeks. and Golabki (minced meat wrapped in cabbage leaves). His wife, Irena, died in 1989 after 55 years of After a four month engagement they were married on marriage and their eldest daughter, Maria , passed 24 November 1960 at St Stephen’s Cathedral in the away in 2007. city. Following a brief honeymoon on the Sunshine Coast they boarded a ship for England to start their Tadeusz’s funeral was held on Friday 19/9/2014 after life together. a Requiem Mass celebrated by Rev Fr Hal Ranger at St Thomas More’s Catholic Church. He is survived by Wieslaw (John), Jadzia, Barbara, Krystyna, Christopher and Mariusz . Vale Patrick Francis O’Dwyer (9/12/26-28/5/14) • Life Member, Patrick Francis O’Dwyer was born on 9December 1926 in the Toowoomba General Hospital to Edward and Catherine O’Dwyer. Pat was the second child to older brother E’Brian and younger siblings Bernice, Colleen and Andrew.