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Continuing the Lauries Journey www.slcoldboys.com.au On College Hill Continuing the Lauries Journey The Official Publication of the St Laurence’s College Old Boys’ Association June/July 2019 Mailing Address: SLOBA Registrar SLOBA Registrar Phone: 07 3010 1178 St Laurence’s College Email: [email protected] 82 Stephens Road South Brisbane QLD 4101 A Publication of the St Laurence’s College Old Boys’ Association—June/ July 2019 Page 1 On College Hill Continuing the Laurie’s Journey In this Edition From the Association 3 From the Foundation 4 A Message from Chris—College Principal 5 SLOBACare 6 Q3 /4 2019 Key Dates 7 Save the Date—Reunion Weekend 8 Mikel Mellick (‘89) - The Psychology of Sport 9 Our Latest Honorary Life Members 14 The Runcorn Project Update 17 On the Board at #1—John Dalton (‘52) 17 Back to Runcorn Day Old Boys Challenge 19 Back to Runcorn Function 21 Know your History—Take the Crossword Challenge 23 “Woody Cup” Report 24 College Cultural and Sporting Update 28 College Anzac and Race Day 31 On the Grapevine…. 32 We Pray 33 Plus, Our Service Record, 2021 Year 5 intake deadline, College Corporate Lunch and the 2019 Musical, “The Addams Family” and From the Past…... 2019 Committee: President: Peter Wendt (‘88); Vice-President—Antoni Raiteri (‘84); Secretary—Michael Campbell (‘72); Treasurer—Chris Webster (‘69)/ Michael Campbell (‘72); Junior Vice-President—Jock Scahill (‘10); Registrar—Helen Turner; Committee—Di Taylor (Life Member); Denis Brown (’59), Chris Skelton (‘78), John Dinnen (‘78), Anthony Samios (‘80), Scott Stanford (‘89), Cameron Wigan (‘95), Steve Leszczynski (‘96), John O’Brien (‘98) A Publication of the St Laurence’s College Old Boys’ Association—June/ July 2019 Page 2 On College Hill Continuing the Laurie’s Journey From the Association Peter Wendt (’88) - President Welcome to our mid year newsletter - I hope you find it to be an enjoyable and informative read. The Association has been very active in the past 6 months with a number of significant events and activities taking place. Back to Runcorn Day SLOBACare May saw yet another successful Back to Runcorn At the Back to Runcorn Day in May we undertake a Day. It was good to see so many Old Boys present. “soft launch” of SLOBACare with a view to raising The Old Boy Football and Touch Challenges against awareness of this very significant partnership we Marist Ashgrove where again a huge success and are developing with the Mater Hospital through played in fine spirit, representative of the fine Mater at Home. SLOBACare is designed to provide tradition of competition between the 2 Colleges an avenue for Old Boys seeking assistance. We over 79 years. handed out 250 business card flyers and through the great support of the College ran a raffle to raise It was also pleasing to see we finally got our hands valuable funds. Page 6 outlines the current stage of on the Shield. The first time we have done so since development with SLOBACare. We will continue to the new format commenced in 2015. The Football raise its profile over the coming months. lead let the way with a 1 point victory, followed by a draw in the Touch to allow us to win by the The Runcorn Project narrowest of margins in the Aggregate. Events like these take a lot of planning and effort. It is worth noting that a lot of work continues as we Thank you to the Marist Ashgrove Old Boys for try to raise funds to complete the stairs at Runcorn their continued support of this event with the (from the dressing sheds to Crawford Oval). In the enthusiasm and pride we expect of such a fine past several months we have sought alternative College. The success of such a day would not be funding arrangements to the supplement existing possible without the College. The College continues avenues we have in place. Unfortunately these to be extremely accommodating to allow us the alternative arrangements have not come to fruition luxury of playing 2 matches within an already busy so we will continue with our drive to seek day of sport (over 70 matches played). Thanks to contributions from the Old Boy community. Chris and Eddie Wallace (Sports Director) for allowing us the time to be part of such a great day. A lot has been made of the Runcorn facilities and the College is finalising its strategic plan of which the Old Boys would like to contribute. Now is the opportunity for Old Boys to stand up and be Looking Ahead counted and help develop Runcorn into the facility we know it can and want it to be. The Stairs is the Finally, as we head into the back end of the year, first step in that journey. Page 18 outlines how you just a reminder about the Reunion Weekend on the can make a contribution. You can make a tax last weekend in August with includes the Memorial deduction via the Australian Sports Commission Mass and Seniors Lunch. Check out Facebook or website or a direct debit payment in to the Old Boys the Website for further details. I hope to see you Account specifically set up for the project. You can there. also contact us if you would like to set up a recurring direct debit facility. Peter A Publication of the St Laurence’s College Old Boys’ Association—June/ July 2019 Page 3 On College Hill Continuing the Laurie’s Journey From the Foundation Rob Siganto (‘86) — Chairman Three years ago, I was If you would like to assist us in our cause, donations introduced to two Brisbane can be made via the online payment portal here or businessmen who had heard please contact Helen Turner on (07) 3010 1178. of our Foundation. Neither gentlemen are Old Boys (one is a dad of a past student) and while both are Rob comfortable, neither are in the high wealth category. For several years, they have supported different charities, often changing after 1-2 years. Archive Request We had the opportunity to describe Laurie’s, our inclusive culture and our theme of “always giving a kid a go”. We explained that we have families The College is on the hunt for any pieces of that run into financial difficulty and sometimes memorabilia pertaining to unable to meet their school fees. We explained our great school. If any Old that these families are often going through very Boys would like to gift or hard times and what should be the least of their lend an item for display worries is school fees. A parent may have passed during the year (for example school jackets, away, the family may be refugees or just photos or memorabilia) experiencing difficulties. We didn’t get a chance to please contact the College finish before one of the gentleman interrupted and on (07) 3010 1105 or said “I get it - how can we help”. [email protected]. Over the last 3 years, these gentlemen have now contributed a total of $26,000 to the Foundation. Neither want any recognition, other than the opportunity to hear how the Foundation is helping boys and their families. We are proud to represent the Old Boys as the Trustees of the Foundation and pleased to report that we have extended our reach as part of the broader Laurie’s Giving Program. We now manage a corpus of over $2 million and will continue to grow this with help from the Old Boys and the community. We will also continue to help boys and their families in the Edmund Rice May 16— Lauries Giving Program Donors Function tradition. A Publication of the St Laurence’s College Old Boys’ Association—June/ July 2019 Page 4 On College Hill Continuing the Laurie’s Journey A Message from Chris Chris Leadbetter—College Principal At the start of 2019 we have welcomed over 300 new students to the College. These boys are our Year 5 boys and new Year 7 students. We have also seen new enrolments in all other year levels. To cope with large numbers, we have moved to a I also received the news recently that Richard House structure for Pastoral Care of the boys. These Malouf from the Class of 1957 received an honorary ten new Houses have allowed for the boys to remain Doctorate from the Queensland University of connected and engaged at the College. Technology. This is a great honour and recognises Richard’s contribution to the Sciences and, in The Houses include: Callan, Duhig, Hogan, Kilian, particular, pharmacy. We congratulate Dr Malouf. Nagle, Rice, Sion, Treacy, Waterford and Xavier. Each boy will remain in this House for his Lauries We have had a significant growth in our Journey. Such a change means that significant staff co-curricular program this year. Over 930 boys will know the story of each boy intimately as he participate in the music program and our sporting grows within the school context. offerings continue to grow. During Term 2 we have fielded over 70 Rugby and Football teams across all The Theme for 2019 is: ‘A new era of Pastoral care year levels. and Learning’. Both AFL and Rugby League have been introduced to We have also instigated many changes to our the program on a trial basis. On August 1 and 2, curriculum and how it is delivered. The key to this the College students from St Laurence’s College and approach is to prepare students to be self-directed local girls’ schools will be involved in the production learners. New models of learning have been of The Addams Family.
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