rostrevor A Catholic School in the Edmund Rice Tradition March 2012 ROSTREVOR COLLEGE inside Palma Merenti Chair of the Board From the Headmaster Senior Years Middle Years Junior Years Scholastic Highlights Red and Black ROCCC Elders’ Lunch 2011 1976 Reunion John McInnes Reflects Butch Harding Obituary 1981 Reunion KOK Willowfest ROCFC ROCSC In Memoriam QUARTERLY Print Post Approved PPP 535216-00029 Rostrevor College Glen Stuart Road, Woodforde South Australia 5072 Telephone 08 8364 8200 Facsimile 08 8364 8396 email
[email protected] www.rostrevor.sa.edu.au 2 Palma Merenti From the Outgoing Chairperson 2011 Isn’t it strange that we admire The elephant gets another gig in that College and community facilities in the innovation yet often feel uncomfortable we also talk of the elephant in the form of an Early Learning & in the face of change and unwilling to room or (as George Clooney says) the Development Centre and Sports & take risks? Risk taking, after all, is a moose in the room. Meaning a problem Aquatic Centre on the Magill Secure pre-condition for innovation and an or truth that is so big, so obvious, that Care Centre site. absolute game changer when it comes it’s impossible to overlook – yet we We have been thinking big, wanting to to conceptualising and implementing pretend is not there because no one pre-empt and precipitate change rather successful organisational change. We wants to discuss it. than simply adapt and react to it. The would do well to remember a lesson or And I’ve been known to say that it’s opportunities are exciting, the two from our own adolescence, and easier to extract teeth out of a live challenges are enormous, the outcomes continue to learn from our adolescent crocodile than it is to convince people still unknown.