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St Patrick's College Ballarat ST PATRICK’S COLLEGE BALLARAT Vol. 12 Ed.1 April 2013 the Shamrock Top shot! the Shamrock Year 8 student Declan Hanrahan competed in the breast stroke event in the BAS Swimming Championships at the Eureka Pool on March 6. Credits Editor: Mr Paul Nolan Thanks to: Dr Peter Casey, Mr Chris St Patrick’s College Caldow, Mr Stephen Hill, Mr Rick Locked Bag 31 Blanchfield, Mr Chris Gleeson, Ballarat Victoria 3350 Mr Michael Busscher, Ms Tamara 1431 Sturt Street Westwood, Mr Brendon Gilbert, Ballarat Victoria 3350 Mr Gerry Willis. Telephone +61 3 5331 1688 Front Cover: Facsimile +61 3 5331 8150 College vice-captains Nicholas McMaster, left, and Luke Wilson, right, CRICOS Provider No. 00620E flank Christian Brothers Province Leader Br Vince Duggan and College Web www.stpats.vic.edu.au Captain Peter Oakley at the unveiling Email [email protected] of a plaque to commemorate 120 years of service by the Christian Twitter @spcballarat Brothers to the St Patrick’s College OCA enquiries [email protected] community. Facebook www.facebook.com/spcoca Page 2 April 2013 the Shamrock Pages 4-7 Academic Assembly, list of 2012 Duces Page 8 Student leaders for 2013 Page 9 Staff changes for 2013 Page 10-11 Farewell Br Breach Page 12 Year 7 camps Page 13 Year 9 camps Welcome to Page 14 Year 10 and Year 12 the first edition retreats Page 15 Performing Arts of the Shamrock Pages 16-17 Chris Nolan Awards for 2013 Pages 18-19 Farewell to We hope you like our new, fresher look and Christian Brothers/ design as we continue to provide you with all the St Patrick’s Day up-to-date news and views from around our Pages 20 College. As we celebrate our 120th anniversary, we News from around have thoroughly enjoyed a hectic and fulfilling the College start to the year! Our St Patrick’s Day celebrations, Pages 21-28 including our emotional offering of thanks and Sports reports farewell to the Christian Brothers, stand out as the highlight of Term 1 and will long live in the Page 29-33 memories of all those involved. Yet Term 1 was Green, White and also tinged with much sadness as we heard of the Blue: News from death of the much loved Br Theo Breach. All major the OCA events and achievements from the first part of Page 34 the year are covered in the following pages. We Upcoming events hope you enjoy reading them and we thank you Page 35 for your ongoing support of the College. SPC Foundation the Shamrock Page 3 the Shamrock Headmaster’s Academic Assembly Address I extend a welcome to our Assembly, Wing refurbishment and extension. As for 80 years a dedicated follower of to students, staff, parents, Old we have done in the Sir Hugh Devine Blessed Edmund Rice. In the funeral Collegians and guests. I remind you Wing and the Br W.T. O’Malley Wing, service yesterday in our Chapel, two that we gather on the lands we will have words etched on the characteristics of Br Breach came traditionally cared for by the doors. What I have chosen for Treacy I through: his commitment to practicing Wathaurong people and I pay my have borrowed from the Gospel of St and his perseverance. He emphasised respects to their elders past and Matthew (7:16) coupled with a line the beauty of practicing in his teaching present and to any other elders who from the prophet Isaiah (11:2-3): of French and in his stroke play in join us today. In this week when we cricket and in other sports. I think that have buried Br Herbert Theodore “By their fruits you shall know them: these two characteristics are Breach, I also acknowledge the wisdom, understanding, wonder and exemplified in our award winners from Christian Brothers who have accepted awe, guidance, knowledge, strength, Years 8 to Year 13 but especially in our Dr Peter Casey and reverence’. These are often Headmaster responsibility for this land since 1893. Dux of the College, James Fahey. I referred to as the gifts of the Holy congratulate James and all those who As an educational institution I have Spirit. What great attributes for any of follow in his stead for their consistent always maintained that we should us to develop, and what great practising and their perseverance in “As an educational stand to be judged by our outcomes. outcomes for any Paddy Boy: wisdom, academic studies. I hope that you all institution I have Where do we find our outcomes? In understanding, wonder and awe, continue to grow in wisdom and in always maintained our graduating students with their guidance, knowledge, strength, and grace, so that we in turn will be judged character and their achievements, reverence. well because of you. that we should their commitments and their stand to be judged aspirations. Today the builders will Br Breach was an identity at St Patrick’s by our outcomes. hand over the last rooms of the Treacy College over the last 40 years. He was Where do we find our outcomes? In our graduating students with their character and their achievements, their commitments and their aspirations.” Right: Guest speaker Peter Wilson (SPC 1959-65) Page 4 April 2013 the Shamrock 2012 Dux Academic Assembly Address Dr Casey, Mr Caldow, invited guests, As it turns out, it doesn’t work like today; your passion for what you staff and, most importantly, everyone that. Consider the question, ‘How do taught fuelled my own, and for that I else. To me, the human body is like a you cope with stress?’ It sounds pretty thank all of you. I could probably count puzzle; constructed by the hand of simple to answer, but to give a the number of schools in Victoria that God and each and every one is perfect 90-second, multi-faceted response offer gymnastics with one hand, and it in its own way. Absolutely everything that shows you’re a mature and was in that room, week after week for about a human is a miracle - the way a conscientious individual - now that’s six years that I learnt to never give up muscle can contract to move the something else. I remember as hard as things may seem. I just skeleton, the way the heart has its something my dad told me years ago: wish I could thank Brother Scott one own pacemaker and can pump blood “Sometimes, it’s not about being more time. Where would I be without even when the brain fails, the way a smart - it’s about being clever”. I may my family, who are proud of me even cell can be stimulated to take up not be the most articulate person in when I’m not proud of myself? Thanks James Fahey glucose from the blood by a simple, the world, but if I’ve learnt anything for everything Mum and Dad, and 2012 Dux tiny hormone called insulin. from my gymnastics, it’s that the only Mon and Lach. The friends I’ve made Sometimes, problems can arise in the way to improve is to practice, practice here I’ll keep forever; you helped me to body. Sometimes, for example, a until you’re perfect and then practice push through all the challenges that person’s immune system might decide some more. I’ve faced so that I can stand up here “To everyone, to start destroying a type of pancreatic today. To everyone, St Pat’s has created St Pat’s has created cell so that no more insulin will be The third thing that I had to do to get the path for me to fulfil my dream; I the path for me to into medicine was perform well in the produced. This is what medicine is all hope this school can change your lives fulfil my dream; I about, and this is what I want to do for ATAR. Based on my UMAT score, I’d say the way it has changed mine. the rest of my life. that I’m pretty average when it comes hope this school to intelligence. For my first few years Thank you. can change your With life being the journey it is, there at St Pat’s, I was far from a dux lives the way it has are countless paths that you can take competitor. I didn’t even receive my to lead the life you choose for yourself. first Chris Nolan Award until Year 9. I changed mine.” The path I was walking became clear did do my homework, most of the Below: to me through St Pat’s. No stage so far time, but I can’t say that I was an A Dr Peter Casey with 2012 Dux James Fahey has been easy, but to get into student, or that I enjoyed it. That was medicine, there were three things that until something inside me changed. I I had to do. don’t know why I love science. I don’t know why I love maths. When I think First, I had to perform well at what’s about it, studying the way tiny called the Undergraduate Medical particles orbit bigger particles sounds Admissions Test, or the “UMAT”. Now, if kind of stupid. But for some reason, I you’ve ever done a NAPLAN test, or for think it’s awesome. And it wasn’t until Year 12s, a General Achievement Test, I started studying because I wanted to, the UMAT is just about exactly the that I became pretty damn good at it.
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