BOARDS’ Program #LMLBC LORETO BOARDS’ COLLOQUIUM 26-28 JULY 2019 LORETO COLLEGE MARRYATVILLE SA Loreto Nedlands 2 | LORETO BOARDS’ COLLOQUIUM 2019 WELCOME Welcome to Loreto College Marryatville. In partnership by hearing from the leaders of the Institute and with the Loreto Australia and South East Asia Province, Sr Noelle and Sr Wendy; and to hear some Province, Loreto Ministries is delighted to host our professional insights on ethical and responsible inaugural Loreto Boards’ Colloquium. governance from outstanding Loreto women leaders, Susan Pascoe AM, Rachel Grimes and Tara McKnight, I particularly welcome Sr Noelle Corscadden ibvm at a time when our civil and ecclesiastical narrative (Institute Leader), Sr Brenda Eagan ibvm (Member of demands corporate integrity, ethical leadership and an the Institute Leadership Team), Sr Wendy Hildebrand enduring vision derived from our core values. ibvm (Loreto Australia and South East Asia Province Leader), members of the Province Council and Loreto I wish to express my gratitude to Peter Hoban (Board Sisters. I welcome board directors of Loreto Ministries, Chair, Loreto College Marryatville), to Marryatville’s Loreto Vietnam, Loreto Timor-Leste, Mary Ward Principal Dr Nicole Archard, Deputy Principal Penny International Australia and each of our Loreto schools. Minchin and the wider Loreto College Marryatville I am very pleased that we are joined by principals and community for their gracious and generous hospitality. staff from Loreto schools across the Province. I also express my gratitude to the staff of Loreto Ministries, under the leadership of Cate Sydes, for There are a number of reasons for holding the all of their hard work and thorough preparation for Colloquium: to provide a collegial environment where our gathering. we are challenged to reflect on our organisational culture and how this impacts on ethical and Although our gathering is brief, I am confident our responsible governance in order to strengthen listening and learning, dialogue and discussion will the Loreto mission in the Province into the future; make a positive contribution to the growth of Loreto to strengthen our Loreto network by deepening in our local context and across the Province. our knowledge of the charism of Mary Ward and the educational vision of Mother Gonzaga Barry, Across these wintry days, I welcome you most warmly with assistance from Dr Elaine McDonald and Sr to our inaugural Colloquium and trust that you will be Jane Kelly ibvm; to broaden our understanding of engaged and challenged to reflect on strengthening the contemporary challenges, priorities, mission the Loreto mission through ethical and responsible and ministry of our Mary Ward ‘circle of friends’ governance under the leadership of Loreto Ministries. The Honourable Justice Peter Garling Board Chair, Loreto Ministries July 2019 LORETO BOARDS’ COLLOQUIUM 2019 | 3 Loreto College Ballarat 4 | LORETO BOARDS’ COLLOQUIUM 2019 2019 PROVINCE COUNCIL Wendy Hildebrand ibvm Natalie Houlihan ibvm Anne Kelly ibvm Mercia Richards ibvm Libby Rogerson ibvm Loreto Ministries acknowledges the ongoing support of the Loreto Australia and South East Asia Province with sincere gratitude and appreciation. The continual encouragement of Loreto Ministries facilitates connection, progression and success. LORETO BOARDS’ COLLOQUIUM 2019 | 5 Loreto Pre-Primary School Gari-uai, Timor-Leste 6 | LORETO BOARDS’ COLLOQUIUM 2019 2019 LORETO MINISTRIES BOARD The Hon. Justice Peter Garling Anne Kelly ibvm Mary Wright ibvm Board Chair Dr Judy Smeed Paul Henderson Chris Dodd Rachel Grimes LORETO BOARDS’ COLLOQUIUM 2019 | 7 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Noelle Corscadden ibvm Wendy Hildebrand ibvm Institute Leader, IBVM Generalate Province Leader, Loreto Australia and South East Asia Noelle’s comprehensive educational ministry has Wendy has held a number of senior management included working as a teacher and principal of Loreto roles in social service organisations, most notably at primary schools, in addition to membership of the Mission Australia, directing a wide range of programs Loreto Education Network and the Loreto Trust Board, responding to the needs of marginalised and Ireland. disadvantaged young people. Noelle’s experience of working with the Jesuit Refugee A past student of Loreto College Coorparoo, teacher Service in the Rwandan Refugee camps in Tanzania in and social worker, Wendy has worked at Loreto the mid-1990s proved life-changing. She subsequently Mandeville Hall Toorak and Loreto Normanhurst, where completed a Masters in Peace and Development she also held the role of Director of the Boarding studies and established Mary Ward International. Noelle School. was a founding member and Board Chair of Misean Cara, the funding agency which supports the work of Following a province-wide discernment process, Irish missionary congregations and their collaborators. Wendy was chosen as Province Leader in 2017. She works closely with the Province Council, comprising of It was during this time that she visited and became Anne Kelly ibvm, Libby Rogerson ibvm, Mercia Richards familiar with the various ministries and projects of ibvm and Natalie Houlihan ibvm. the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary worldwide, becoming even more aware of the enormous poverty Wendy draws strength from the fact that she walks in and needs in our world. the footsteps of many wise and courageous leaders who have gone before her. She believes strongly in Prior to her election as Institute Leader in Rome, Noelle the transformative impact of education and values the was Leader of the Irish Province. During this time she collegiality between the Province, Loreto Ministries and served as Vice-President and then President of the Mary Ward International in furthering the mission of Conference of Religious of Ireland. Jesus, Mary Ward International Australia and the Loreto Sisters in Australia and South East Asia. 8 | LORETO BOARDS’ COLLOQUIUM 2019 Jane Kelly ibvm Dr Elaine McDonald Victoria Community Leader, Loreto Australia Head of Policy and Practice, Dublin City University and South East Asia A gifted storyteller and historian, Jane has degrees in Elaine is a great proponent of the life and legacy of English and History (University of Melbourne) Public Mary Ward. Her 2008 doctoral research explored the History (Monash University) and Theology (Heythrop educational legacy of the Loreto order from the time of College, London). Mary Ward (1585 – 1645) to Mother Michael (Frances) Corcoran (1846 – 1927). She taught at Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak and Loreto Normanhurst for a number of years, before being Through her involvement in teacher education and appointed principal of Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak. In policy development, Elaine brings this heritage to life 1980 she took on responsibility as principal of St Mary’s and is able to dialogue with contemporary educational College, Melbourne University - a position she held with and social trends. Australian participants in the 2017 distinction for sixteen years. Friends of Mary Ward Conference in York so valued Elaine’s scholarly engagement with Mary Ward’s Jane has been entrusted with many different leadership vision that an invitation was extended to continue the roles within the Province, including the oversight of conversation ‘down-under’. the 2009 publication of Loreto Australia by Mary Ryllis Clark (UNSW Press). Elaine’s long connection with Loreto, experience as a secondary teacher, in teacher education and the She is currently involved in researching the lives of the Catholic education sector, and as Board Chair of an first Loreto Sisters to arrive in Australia, with the intent Irish Loreto school, stands her in good stead to meet us to publish. Her research into the handwritten letters on common ground. of these women has taken her to various parts of the world, tracing the trajectory of their correspondence. Jane has been invited to attend academic conferences and present papers on her findings in the United States, England and in Ireland. LORETO BOARDS’ COLLOQUIUM 2019 | 9 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Susan Pascoe AM Mary Wright ibvm Adjunct Professor, University of Western Australia Board Director, Loreto Ministries and President and Board Chair, Australian Council for International Development Susan’s achievements in the fields of education and Mary has gained extensive experience advising international development are extraordinary. From the religious institutes and teaching at Yarra Theological outset of her career, she has been deeply engaged with Union before being appointed as Provincial of Loreto efforts to improve the quality and equity of education at Australia in 1996. Two years later she was elected state, national and global levels. General Superior of the Institute, which involved an eight-year term in Rome. Susan has served as President of the Australian College of Educators, CEO of the Victorian Curriculum and In Mary’s earlier life she completed studies in Science, Assessment Authority, CEO of the Catholic Education Education and Theology, and worked as a teacher Commission of Victoria and Board Chair of the Australian and principal in Loreto schools in Australia. She National Commission for UNESCO. For a number of years went on to study Canon Law in Ottawa, Canada, she also chaired the Loreto Education Board for Loreto writing her doctoral thesis on the history of the and FCJ Schools in Australia. Institute’s Constitutions. In 2011, having led the task force to create the Australian After her homecoming in 2007, Mary was invited