School Annual of the I.B. V.M. in Australia
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Ij PJCTl1RES: LORETO, NEDLANDS 70 Ii - SPRINGS OF HAPPINESS 71 - I PlCTURES: LORETO, MARRY A TVILLE 78 I i AMONG OUR OLD GIRLS 82 i -_- Ca reers: lVToHi e Brady, Hannah Buckley, Renee Erdos, J oan Holl::tnd , I=_ Kay Kinane, Constance Moffi t, Rita B. Rice {Bid 5 TOP FIFTH AND SIXTH CLASSES AND JUNIOR SCHOOL BACK ROW: S. Martin, E . Briedy, M. Holmes, S. Hen nessy, M. Hollins, IT. James. THIRD ROW: D. Jackson, M. O'Donnell, C. Byrne, J . Garvey, G. Hayes, K. Drown, F. Jones. ~ECON_D .ROW: D. O'Donnell, L. Najim, L. Koopmans, L. D1bdin, H. de Graaff, M. Creati, B. Chatham J . Rinaldi, B . Najim, P. Crameri. ' FRONT ROW : M. K oopmans, D. Hanrahan, M. L. Mc Carren, V. Quinn, l\L Trelevan, J. Hutchison, B. Hay den, A. De Grnaff, J . McCunnie, J. Byrne, M. Falvey. THE KINDERGARTEN BACK RO\V: Anita Butzkowsky, R. Crameri, S. Smith, P. E ll iott, P. McCunnie, G. Hayes, P. Canny, S. Gud geon, D. Jens, P . Coghlan. SECOND ROW : M. L. Banting, J . Canny, H . Banting, J . Mclver, A. Byrne, E . Falvy. FRONT ROW: A. R amsden, S. H u rly, .M. McArthur, A. M. Hayden ABSENT: B . Elliott, D. Robertson. TOP - INTERMEDIATE, LEAVING AND MATRICULATION CLASSES BACK ROW: C. Fawcus, J. Auer, J. Sull ivan, E . Pritchard, l\ f. Lard nor, P. Rubino, !IL L. Crowley, I I. Hughes, l\L Fay, A. Buckley, K. Timmins. FOUR.TH ROW: J. Bolleman, R. Callil, S. Go1ey, F. J ens, U. Keating, G McGenn1 ss, A. Faulkner, lit Frawley, P. Mc.Man111s, E. Ryan. THIRD ROW: J. Griffiths, R. Reynolds, E. Mciver, J. Carroll, S. O 'B11e11, J . O'Call aghan G. lla1ke1, W. Engli sh, T. Jens, M. O'Conner, A. Sparks. SECOND ROW : S. Peel, J. Kerrins, J. McGilp, C. Reidy, S. Mackenzie, J. Willis, H . Monkivitch, C. Burchell , P. Puli, T. Blackie. FIR.ST ROW: R. Murphy, C. Reidy, M. Carter, L. Podge r, P. Shanahan, A. Smurthwaite, R. Hall. ABSENT : B. A. Purdie, F. Meere. BOTTOM - FIRST YEAR, SECOND YEAR AND SUB-INTERMEDIATE CLASSES BACK ROW': F. R yan, !If. L. Coghlan, H. Kearney, A. !If. Burchell, M. llfonkivitch, K. Cooper, F. Faulkner, A. Mountjoy, N. Hughes, JI. P earse, !If. Macklin, H. van der Kleij. FOURTH ROW : P . Mountjoy, K. Dibdin, P. Hayden, K. O'Callaghan, I. Daffey, H. Willis, J. Coghlan, J . Buckley, K. Lucas, D: Bourke, l\f.. Dunn, l\f. White, J, . Mize. THIRD ROW: !If. Tajber, D . Ramsden, !ll. .'.\'unn, !\!. Hayes, H . Bilson, J. Powell, P. O'Donohue, C. Hadden, A. Jens, S. Bateson, J. Hunter, 111. Broidy llf. Smith, G. McGrath. SF.CO ND ROW: H. 1-f agor, II. Fry, S. J oshua, K. Jackman, llf. Sullivan, M . Brosnan, G. Duffy, L. Buckley, J. Chatham, JI. Hayden, A. Jens. FTRST RO\V : 111. 1\farchant, !If. ~{e e rb ac h, A. llardy, J. Bilson, !If. Coburn, R. Salt, P. Summons. LORETO ABBEY, MARY'S MOUNT, BALLARAT, VICTORIA (See Photo P. 5) LORETO MAISIE WARD'S INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN LIFE OF MARY WARD (Foundress of the I.B.V.M.) * At the first World Congress of the Lay Apostolate from Paul V in 1612 ; so, three year s l a ter, did the our late Holy Father, Pius XII, offered Mary Ward new order of Notre Dame. \Vhen St. Francis d e as a model for the activity of Catholic women Sales, an eminent Bishop, sought to establish for the throughout the Church. He called her " that incom Visitation a Rule with much modified enclosure, h e parable woman given by Catholic England to the found so deep-rooted an opposi tion that h e gave up Church in the darkest and most blood-stained of the idea. St. Vincent de Paul found that, since en periods." c losure was literally impossible for his sisters, whose chief work was nursing the sick poor in their own Again in the second World Cong1·ess he returned homes, the only alternative was to give up the claim to the them e of lay apostles, women as well as m en. to be a r eligious order at a 11. "There has always been" he said "an apostolate of the laity in the Church of Christ. Saints like H enry Almost as difficult was the question of government. II, Stephen the creator of Catholic Hungary, Louis Back in the first centuries of r eligious life we find IX of France, were lay apostles albeit at first their that in the E ast a struggle be tween the bishops and world was unaware of it and the term lay apostle the (often unruly) m onks anrl h ermits who p eopled did not exist at the time. \Vomen too, like St. the deserts of E gypt and Syria. A little later in the Pulcheria, sister of the Emperor Theodore II or W est, St. Gregory the Gr eat, himself a monk and Mary Ward wer e lay apostles." sympathetic with m onastic autonom y, carefully de ]imited an authority of bishop and abbot. As for Mother Mary Oliver gives us in this book an ex women , while for m an y years in Church history we citing story set in cruel but stiuing times. A Loreto find ahbesses with as much author ity as abbots-in mm, h erself in Sydney Australia, she is one of Mary deed St. Brigid of Ireland, St. Hilda of Whitby, St. Ward's large and scattered family, and can write of Bridget of Sweden ruled m en as well as w om en her Mother with contagious enthusiasm. I attempt such a thing would have heen unthinkable in the this Introduction with great diffidence. I am only Counter-reformation p eriod. Nuns wer e often in r elated to Mary as a devoted pupil from one of h er spiritual matters subject to the m onk s of th e sam e schools in her OW11 land. But for many years I have order; for their external work s they were directly studied h er life and character and have seen her under the local bishop. W h en Clement X I in 1701 especially in connection with that fruitful lay aposto uttered the famous words "Lascia te governare le late to which Pius XII linked h er name and which donne dalle donne" (let wom en be r uled b y women ), should be so dear to all her children. For Mother h e was confirming a r evolutionarv ch ange which Olive~ Mary is primarily a Mother in religion, for m e today has become an establish ed custom." a Leader in the Lay Apostolate. "THEY ARE BUT WOMEN" MARY WARD IN THE FRAMEWORK OF HISTORY When we r ead the words of Pius XII we marvel If bishops are o cc a ~ i o n a ll y jea lous of t h e ir authority that Mary Ward should have had to suffer so much how much more so wer e lesser m en in the p eriods of to set on foot much that is to us a matter of course: high rule of those they wer e p leased Lo call " the not even a Secular Institute with some freedom for weaker sex." The phrase " they are but w'O m en"' future adaptations, but just a r eligious order without which moved Mary Ward to wrath was spoken often enclosure governed not b y the local bishop but by enough in the days of m ale suprem acy, and womcn 's a Mother General directly under Rome. powers were generally deprecated. Mary had far l eR~ chance than St. Francis or St. Vincen t of achit>v ing W e must set the story in the framework of history, h er goal. and then we may begin to understand. As far as the universal Church was concerned, Mary, in asking for All this was in Catholic countries : how much worse no enclosure, was going dead against the trend of the was the situation in E ngl and. M ary was born while ti.mes, which, esp ecially since the Counc il of Trent, Elizabe th r eigned, but most of h er active life was was for more, not less, seclusion for all nuns. spent un11 er the Stua rts. E nglish Catholics had St. Theresa's r eforms against worldliness made the clung to the faith, suffering m uch with immense strictest enclosure a chief elem ent. Active orders of courage; the advent of J ames, son of the Catholic women were in their infancy, and the Ursulines, be Mary Queen of Scots, had pronii ~ed r elief, the dis ginning without it, ask ed for a Bull of enclosure appointment was acute, the disillusionment bitter . And, as so often happen s, the u nity of the p e rsecuted *To be published at the end of 1959 in New York; minority was b eginning lo show crack s, esp ecially and in London early in 1960. Both editions will be on sale in Australia. This Introduction by Mrs. Sheed is in an incr e ~ s i.n g cleavage between th e secular cler gy here printed with permission of the publishers, Sheed and the r eh g10us orders- above all, th e J esuits, an and Ward. order not yet quite a hundred years old, whose foun- 7 LORETO dcr was n ot yet canonised . It was the J esuit Rule, " Besides teaching of children, I endeavour to in adapted for wom en, that Mary believed her self in struct the simple and vulga1· sort, I teach them their sp ired to take, and she and her little band incurred in Pater, Ave, Creed , Commandments, etc .... I tend the eyes of th e secular cler gy all the odium of the and serve poor people in their sickness. I make order. "Th e J esuitrices her e follow their suit under ~a l ves to cure their sores, and endeavour to nrnke handed," wrote an E n glish priest from Rome. " The p eace between those at variance." J esuits disclaim openly, but I know they assist under " But, alas, when those who had ceased to be hand and wh a t they can." " living members of the Catholic Church ... desire Unfortunatel y this was very far from be ing the n othing more than to save their souls b y m eans of ease. T h er e was never an y question in Mary's mind the sacraments it is incredible to say how hard it of her I nstitute being a branch of the J esuits. Sh e is to find a priest Lo r econcile them ; partly thro' the wanted the Rule and the name, but not, she said, sca1·city of priests, and partly through the fears of "the dependency." And although some of h er best those with whom they live .. . Three things I observe friends an d supporte rs were J esuits, the General was to h appen at the conversion of any ( 1) That I most of the time in opposition and the gr eater part never gain one alone, but more. (2 ) One at least of th e Order felt that Mar y complicated their already ever die th, the rest lives. (3 ) That whe nsoeve1· any difficu lt position and were cager to disclaim h er , a re r econciled presently comes upon u s per secution some even to p ersecute h er. While Father Gerard, much more veh em ent than at other times." S.J ., thou ght and wrote of h er aR a great servant of Often Dorothea walked many miles to find a God it was the h ead of the J esuit house at Munich p riest for the dying, or for the many Catholics who of wh om Ma1·y wrote from her prison: " Father from fear, lack of in ~ tru c tion or m ere inability to Contzen mak es braggs tha t he hath done this deed." practice, had lapsed from the Faith. At the risk T h e British a mb a ~ sa d o r at Brussels wrote to James I hoth of his life and h er own, sh e would arrange a about "certain brain-sick English gentlewom en at St. m eeting in a fi eld between priest and penitent if no Omer." Among Catholics they were spoken of as h ouse wer e available. One of these priests, s h ~ "thi1> exorbitant institute of wom en," as "gallopping r elated with some amusement, praising h er warmly girls"- from their frequent journeys- an " apostoli said it was a pity Mrs. \Varel and her girls were not <'al viragoes," a nd " notable goshops"; they wer e said like Dorothea! to be n o bette r than they sh ould be, "gadding about," yet claim ing the name of nun. They wer e " dangerous F or wher ever Mary or her Institute b ecame to oth er mon aste1·ies," seizing upon all who com e known they wer e admired. The stories against them from E ngland for their own institute. always arrived from some other town or country through which the grape-vine of goesip initiated by MARY'S WORK IN JACOBEAN ENGLAND h er foes. Even for their principal work of education enclo As time went on the strain of the atmosphere sure would in England itself have been totally im aff ected some of "M 1· ~ . \V ard's girls" themselves. possible. O nce they wer e recogn ised as nuns, fli ght The vast m ajority were loyal to Mary, but not to would h ave b een the only alte rnative to impr ison know when or whether their Institute would be men t or even death. As i t was, wearing l ay cloth es approved Eh ook a few of them badly. Some were work in g as laywomen several of th em includin g for changing th e R u le, for goin g behind Mary's Mary h er self underwent pet·iods of imprisonment . b ack t o gain approba tion for som e thing less than sh e A n d i t seem s clear that while education was their had ask ed . One lay sister had h er own " r evelations" primary work Mary did not think of it as the exclu to set against Mary's, one of the oldest nuns left sive occupation of h er rem arkable regiment in the the lnctitute and furnish ed secret and libellous in church 's army. A fascinating letter from a Sister forma tion to the English clergy which was made Doroth f'a ~ h o w s h er filling a v ital need in the d esolate use of in Rome." " What Pope," ask ed Fr. Gerrard English countryside of the p eriod. She is reporting sadl y, " would confirm a R eligion (i.e . r eligious to 1ary and we can imagine h er lette1·s r ead aloud order ) which is itself disunited?" al Recreation in the communities " overseas". \Ve are re minded today of som ething that probably FRIENDS AND ENEMIES pa ~ s ed unnoticed b y them : the gulf between the Seen in historical p er sp ective, Mary becomes a fi wealthv-educated and the p oor-uneducated was as gure of immense significance: a pioneer with all the wide at tha t date as the gulf beween m en on the on e loneliness that the word implies, the leader in that h an d and wom en and children on the other. All first brilliant and :!pparently unsuccessful engage these wer e ranked together as " women, children and me11t which so often initiates a triumphant campaign. the lower sort." Against h er we re arrayed not only bishops and secu "I dare n ot k eep schools publicly (writes D oro lar cler gy and J esuits but all the force of custom, thea) as we d o beyond the seas ... but I t each and preced ent and male supremacy, together with the instr uct children in the h ou ses of p ar ents .. . and b y weakness that an unconfirmed Rule was bound to th at occasion I get acquaintance and, so gaining first en gender. What had sh e on h er side ? the affections of their p ar ents, after , with more Only the greatness with which God had endowed facility their souls a re converted to God . .. li e r, which had grown with her steadfast co-ope ra- 8 LORETO lion, and the perfect trust in Him that n ever left undergo more willingly such things as hath the title her. and outward appearance of excellen cy and greatness, It is remarkable how different was the view of I will h enceforth endeavour to embrace and execute Mary taken by those who knew only from rumours more simpler things with a particular love, devotion and those who had m et h er face to face. F erdinand and diligence." Prince Bishop of Liege and Cologne, went so far as MARY'S COURAGE to compare Queen Elizabeth and Mary Ward in Eng She feared nothing: impri onment in England, im land to Eve and Om· Lady : " What a woman has prisonment in Bavaria, a life of intense p enance, first destroyed , by a woman may be restored." Bi!hop among the Poor Clares, later, not under obedience Blaise of Li1\ ge supported her petition to R ome and hut of her own steady volition, vast labours, which n~ main e d he r fr iend always. Cardinal Frederigo with h er austerities bore h eavily on an always Borromeo, St. Charles' nephew, and Father Domen delicate constitution. H e r journeys alone would have ico de Gesn Maximilian, Electol· of Bavaria, and his killed m any a stronger woman ; the first expedition wife, were her warm admirers, Maximilian sa ying . to R om e was made on foot at an average of t went y that " the English had been the first to teach the miles a day for two months. On one day the little people their faith; they were now to teach them group walked thirty-five miles ; a single horse al1 ow the manner of Christian Living." The Bishop 'of ing an occasional respite for each pilgrim. Bad inns, P crugia came out to m eet her singing the T e Deum Lad food, short sleep meant nothing to Mary. From and wearing his full r egalia. The nuns al the Anger h e r ver y childhood sh e eem to have risen above convent, preparing to receive her as a h eretic, r ealised the orrlinary trials that break so many in mind and there had been some gi gantic error. " This is a great body ; her testing was on a high er plane; h er chief servant of Goel ," one of the m aid; " our house is agony the difficulty first in knowing what w as God's happy at h er sett ing foot in it." The four Cardinah will- " which only, only I desired ," and then in gc t before whom sh e plead ed in R ome tried hard to find t ing that will accepted and carried out. a way, owing to the impres ion made on them hy Magnanimity makes hard things easy. "Mirth;' Ylary, a n FRONT RO \\": I'. Webster, M. O'S ulliv;:rn , A. Davies, A. Re, R . A l~ · lt tJ, :\1. 7\1 orrison, A. ]l y n e :" . SECON IJ R O \\' IL Le.1ch, ~1 M a tt hews, ~· Nol2 11, A . 1'\e <.: ter, U. R;:une, J. ll anraha11, L . French, B. :-\ damsons. TTllRD RO\\' : II. Gannon , C. S tracha n, J. T a ff e, H. Ilrayan ... , L. Duggan, ~I . Barry, E. Ilrisbane. IlACK R O \\': :\ L Cooke. H. \\'ilson , E. R eidy, C. Rid>da le, 111. D arsy. GRADES 2, :FRON T R O \\': B. Hulett, Butler, R. D obson, T. P orte r, G. K eat i11 g' , G. J ones, E. Sa vo ia , B . R a tcliffe. SECO N D ROW : G . D'Arcy, J. D owney, M. R a tcliffe, 11. Spring, E . Condon, ~- Tie r ney, AL Cann, A . Mc inerney, B. O'Loug hlin, E. Flyn n, i\ l . Stahl, D . Mc Dermott, J. Cook, II . R osmalen. THIRD R O \\" : P. T obin, S. Gurrie, R . D'Arcy, l . Gulbis, C. Birch, M. l'ig-go tt, C. \\'a nl, R. Williams, D. D'Arcy, M . Panarell o , J. Taylo r, J. Me r· curio, M. R yan, E. !l!~K ;iy. FOU RTH R O \\' : M ·. E gan, II. Fly nn, 11 . 11 arm an, A . Bo 11 - gio rno, ] . ·Farrell , P . look, P. H a nna n, C. l' r 1111t y, I-\ . :\1 orri son, C. l l a i11t z, A. l'anarell n. BACK RO\\". 11. ~lu rray, R. O'Neil, M. Bedfo rd , C. Call a han, K. Lorensini, C. Ifay, A. Hulett, C. James, C. Colbert, M. L orensini. ABSENT: G. i\ !t :r, F. R oot s man, A. Street, P . \Vyn ne. FIRST YEAR AND GRADE VI FRO'.\T T RO\\' : M. llaintz. F. Cook, J. l.ynch, ] . va11 ll aan · 11 LORETO Sc,hool V ignettes TOORAK GIRLS VISIT THE HEIGHTS "Th ere was movem ent at the convent when the the most frilly nighties. Bcdsocks and night caps word was passed around were frequently featured!" And our pioneering hearts were filled with joy. 2nd June: Very early, according to Mary Palfy, Spider webs were prophesied on roof as well as " the unwelcome bell echoed its chime through the ground mists. However, it was not the bell that woke most - This infonnation culled from H eJen Hoy!" of us, but the groans of others and the shrieks of the {Sang Helen Murphy) . early birds who suffered under the cold showers in Harrie tville ahead! Our first school excursion to the bathroom n earby. With all this, our day began the snowy heights and power centre of Victoria. - well, not quite immediately; perhaps about half Let Barbara McKecknie take over the story: an hour later when our vexed teachers and our 6.30 a.m., 1st June: Outside in the dark to the hunge1· succeeded in coaxing, luring and pulling us sweet music of an alarm clock. 8.15 a.m.: Scrambled out of bed, and down to an appetising breakfast. " breathlessly on to the train at Spencer Street. 1 p.m.: After breakfast, we had our first daylight impres Wangaratta - Lunch! Then, our first expeditions ; sions of Harrietville. These are Sue R esch 's: to a woollen factory, then to the local factory! " People all over the world write about the beautiful "Twilight and the m ellowness of years h elped to scenes of nature, but they never seem to sPe beauty soften the harsh silence as the party of gay young in a piggery. I found it so interesting that I could girls ran laughing up the main street. The street was have spent days there," mys Patricia Mcinerney. empty, neither cars nor people to be seen. " We a ll expected to see a few fat old pigs strolling " Only half the little town was even occupied, yet around a very dirty, untidy, sm elly pen. But how it was once a gay thriving town ringing with the our faces changed when we saw a dainty, almost ele laughter of fortune hunters who had climbed up gant pig come to greet us. As we scrambled for our he re in the mountains in search of gold. Then, they cam eras, he willingly sat up and posed for us - a had planned for a great future, planting trees in porcine film star, no doubt! their wide streets. But there are few people now to All around us were concrete pens with, at the end admire their height or stand beneath their spreading of each, a straw-cover ed pen where the more weeny branches. The trees look rndly as they lean before or perhaps lazier pigs were resting. But when we the wind on to the broken down houses, deserted by went to see the m, they politely arose and came to the the p eople who had become rich and gone away to front of the pen to greet us, ~norting perhaps an spend their money, or by the people who had failed address of a welcome - and then providing a de and had been forced lo seek their fortune further monstration of how they ate." still. Our education was beginning! " Even the wide Owens river narrows here and you hardly need the stepping s ton e~ the miners placed 5.30 p.m. : Arrived at Harrietville. Jill Larkins across the river, in order to wash their gold in the was inspired thus - great dredge pool just below the town. \Ve cam e there in the evening when all was very dark, " The girls walked slower now, past the empty The trees were all a-rustling and dogs were heard houres. Somehow it was all strangely d eprnssing. lo bark. Even the burnt-down shell of the hotel spoke of the Alighted from the buses, we rushed inside to bag four hotels so full of life in the gold-rush days; the Our cosy little corners and none were seen to lag." two churches stood still in their gloomy surround Dinner. Then recreation in the log cabin - a new ings, dreaming of the days when many people came, insight into some people ! Then , bed. dre ~s e d in their Sunday best, to worship and, per According to Denise Banett: "About twenty Leav haps, to thank God for their good fortune. ings chose to sleep in the log cabin, the ground floor "The empty white face of the daylight moon smi being the recreation room with ping-pong table3, an led sadly and the mist drifted behind the mountaim old stove, a record player and plenty of floor space surrounding the town. In the silence, th e town re (very necessary). Our sleeping cubicles were on the turned to sleep and the only sound was the dreamy second storey r eached by stairs or {for the down river, gurgling over the still, grey stones.'" ward trip!) a fireman's greasy pole. Here, wer e about ten little cubicles, a double bunk, a cupboard After a visit lo a gold mine - and lunch - the and a window in each. Those who retired early did energetic set off to r each Mount Hotham. Some have the showers, but did they have the sleep?. reached the goal, !'Ome did not -•1c.co rdin(.!; to Jill Lar Our education continued with a comparative kins : study in night attire which ranged from football " Thal day we went a-climhing up the rocky moun colours, polka-dots, ivv league, aqua ski-jarnas to tain sides, 12 LORETO The ice was a II a round us, so I herefore we had slides. '·Was it only the beauty of the scen e tha t took Up and down we slither ed , a-singing as we went, our breath away or was it the feeling of smallness And right around the mountain top our gi rlish glee that overwhelmed us as we looked down the moun was sent." tain to the towns and green plains below ? Ye t, for Geralrlinc R yan, however, admirerl the scenery : once, man seem ed to fit in : the roofs of th<' town ship seemed to he part of the scene, to adfl rnml'thinl! "The tall trees rose like great columns on either to it. side of our 11arrow path. The ir rl ark foliage, so " Cameras clicked and we h arl our photo,.. hut no thick that the misty rain could hardly penetrate, mere black and white reproduction could ever cap grudgingly le t through a pale, watery light. There ture the moment ther e on the mountain and tlw raindrops falling from the tips of shining leaves. beauty we knew." But as we went forward, there came to us a sound of gently falling water. 5th June: Heavy rain, but the bu:es wound a I on~ Lhc slippery mountain roads to Mount Buffa lo - " Suddenly it was the re before us, a wirle expame some interesting studies on moment um as l!at h <' rf'fl of rlarkly moving wate r in all it s flowing beauty; by Slithering Girls on Mountain Slopes! water which flowed ponde rously lo the brink of a fall, paused, lingered a moment in the pale gold 8 p.m.: Our m emorable fa rewe ll <'O n<' <' rl hega11: light of the sun and then fell in ever changing cur As Mary King saw it: tains of snowy mist. Somehow, this sight seemed " On the rainy night of the Xavier B all to speak to m e of one of the secrets of our Austra We all crowded into the log-cabin hall lian land, the secret of unfathomable beauty and And had our grand concert which made us forp;<'t depth so often hidden beneath the barren plains and The morrow's departure and outside, the wet. timeless mystery of the hills." First, three teacher s showed us all hoarding I he At the hostel that night our tired limbs curlcrl train - by the blazing fire, Deni F<' Lee had h er glimpse We lau ghed and we laugh ed till we were in pain of beauty : And talents so varied em e rged 'fore our eye~, Som e sani:i:, som e recited , some crooned wi th slralll!f' " T h e fire crackled and I he flames leapt, cries; Filling the room with a rlull, red glow; And when it was over, we said, 'W ell that's tha t, Like some m ys terious thin i:i: that cre pt Our farewell we've give n with vim and eclat"." Along the wood, devouring, slow." 6th June : Some found a certain difficultv in ris 3rd June : Travelled one hundred and thirty mile,. inl! ! Last glimpses of Harriet ville, last far e , ~e ll s anrl to see the butter factory a t Kiewa where they pro we left about 10 a.m. Lunch in ''' angaratta anrl our duce very fine chocolate-flavoured milk. At Tallan last excursion, a visit to one of the old pioneering ga tta, we had a lecture on the Hume \Veir and i Is homes outside the town. E li zabe th Lef' was im history. Back at HarrictviHe that evening we con pressed: tinued our study of modern music! " The bus turned into the driveway linefl on e itlw r 4th June : To Kiewa again, this time lo Falls Creek side with big old elms, so o ld that ihey see111 ed part and the new dam being hu i It as part of the vast of the land it ~c lf. lt was autumn anfl the i:i:o ldPn H ydro-electric sch em e. lt was so cold that the Lake hrown l e av e ~ wer e fal1i11g to the ground whil<' the w~ s frozen over. Som e scientists discovere a day to be remembered and a great financial November: DRY. success. "Cleaning-up" until light failed. As we go to press, June, 1959, it is still DRY - but it 6th May: Terminal holidays-welcomed-well earned. could h appen again. 8th May: Dance at "Blackfriars" - six prefects went (While we make fun w e realise that the creek should and enjoyed it. flow well from March to December. Prayers are needed for rain throughout S.A.) Second Term 26th May: First day back. Surprised to see how foun dations of n ew science block had advanced. At last. SPORTS' DAY, MARRYATVILLE, 1959 New hopes about being first into the "Up-to-the minute" labs. Six of the courts have been re On the 19th of April Lore to, Marryatville, h eld its surfaced. annual Sports' Day. Each year the four teams - 28th May: Feast of Corpus Christi. Special Holy Hour. Barry, Ward, Mulhall and McGrath - compete for Exposition and Benediction. the "George Scantlebury Shield," while each girl 30th May: Senior A and B basketball teams played tries for h er resp ective age group cup. Early in the friendly games with teams from Presbyterian Girls' year captains and vice-captains are elected and these College. Good games. place the new girls in teams. Practice for events be 4th June: Welcome to new singing teacher, Mrs. Clark gins early in the year, and Mr. Hubble coaches u s in son. Regret that Mr. Govenlock "cannot spare the finer points of marching. time" for us this year. It was wet during mid-April but the 19th dawned 10th June: Mother M. Bernadette's n ephew, Rev. G. bright, clear and warm. The Fathers' Club had seen Grogan, C.SS.R., offered Mass at 9.30. Whole senior to mowing, trimming up and marking, and on the school attended. We all hope that he has a good oval, the smart lines for the "Marryatville Mara holiday after his long years in the Mission fields. thon" gleamed white and clear. Crosses, circles, Welcome to Mother Provincial. We hear that Sis squares and dots showed where the contestants must ter M. Annunciata is "staying." Welcome to Marry stand each game. Mothers had spent the morning atville. seeing to arrangements for afternoon tea. Banners 12th June: We welcomed Very. Rev. E. J. Mulvihill and and balloons were floating gaily at the far end of Right Rev. Monsignor A. R. E. Thomas, P .A. , who the oval. "Barry" had its u sual distinctive touch. addressed the Senior School. All hearts were stir Long before the appointed time the team s were red by his talk on the Propagation of the Faith. in readiness. Some captains gave a "pep-talk" as We realised how much more we could do. formation-of-line time drew near. The music began. 16th June: All the glories of the week-end gone. The We were marching on. Flat races were followed by Honours had some compensation - two film nights novelty races. The Senior Cup was won by D. Rofe - "Richard the Third" and "Romeo and Juliet." (Barry Captain) and Junior Cup by K. Barry, the "Compulsory sport" at 12.30 and 4.30 - no knit Juvenile by H. Campbell and the Midget by C. ting. Grumbles from non-athletes. Mueller. Barry forged ahead in traditional style with 19th June: Mother Provincial come to each classroom McGrath close at its heels. The Mulhall Captain to see us. "Julius Caesar" film after all. Kind in handed round jelly beans to her team. (On e j.b. is vitation to St. Ignatius' College. equal to a quarter of a pound of steak - so we 21st June: Feast of St. Aloysius. Y.C.S. Leaders went h ear!) As event followed event in quick succession to One-Day Retreat - at Dominican Convent, Cah Mulhall and Ward teams slowly caught up. Tension ra, this year. grew, nervousness must be avoided lest one drop 24th June: The Ten Commandments - Norwood - for a baton or ball, miEs a goal or a skittle. Mulhall's senior school. score was rising. H ere w e ask the Captain, Philippa MARY BENNETT, Leaving-Hons., Richards to speak for h erself. BARBARA DORIAN, Leaving. "You may imagine my feelings. Mulhall had not won the sports for fourteen years, but chances were A FEELING POSTSCRIPT ON DROUGHT good this year. Two more points to be even with CONDITIONS AS DEMONSTRATED BY THE CREEK IN THE MARRYATVILLE GROUNDS Barry, THREE to b e winning. Ward suddenly caught up and passed u s. W e were down to third when the October to July 1958: DRY. Pardon - one trickle for teams went to line for the March Past. The music one week in May. had begun, the signal had sounded; we were marking July: The creek RAN - ROSE steadily to half level. time. Brother Dally, our judge, stood in positio.n. August: Sank slowly. Father Bachelor, SJ., was r eady to Lake the salute. 11th September: FLOODS in sunken garden - near Never before had the flag seem ed so h eavy. Some oval - part of front lawn. thing was walking over m y face ! Ever y time I caught 12th, 13th, 14th September: Great waves leaping brid a glimpse of the judge h e seemed to be frowning ges - torrent swift and strong. "Even a man would at Mulhall. Would the march n ever end? At last - have no chance in that." Roaring of waters could mark time - stand at ease. The judge told u s how b e heard all over the grounds - in all parts of difficult it was to judge - the teams were so well the house. trained - they marched so well! Suddenly I h eard! 21st September: A full but gentle stream. First, Mulhall, I h eard no mot·e, I was clapping October: Isolated pools. wildly, I hope onlooker s thought that it waR for 15 LORETO the team that came second. W e led off the field. ARE WE APPRECIATED? We were one point behind Ward and it was after noon tea time. For the mothers this was a busy The undersigned the writers of this short but edi period, for m e it was reckoning time. If we could fying essay, have the privilege of being two members win the n ext three even ts and IF Ward came last of the unappreciated " minority" at Loreto Convent, {nasty thought) we would win. According to the Marryatville, and, on behalf of that minority, we score board 'Vard was still winning but ;, cor es al h er eby voice our opinions, and put our cases bravely ways follow events slowly. Suddenly up went the before you. final score. Mulhall had WON by ONE point. Just ho"lv appreciated are we ? W ell let u s not Distribution of prizes. The National A nthem waste time but come straight to the point. Could AND Con gratula tions, J'\llulhall ! WE be done without? What would the school do without US? ANALISA GRIGUOL, ANNE MORCOM, Take for instance the word " Sports' Day." Our ANNE McCUSl{ER (Intermediates). spelling is CHAIRS, C-H-A-1-R-S. And why? W ell, PHILIPPA RICHARDS (Leaving), Marryatville. while the Majority r est and dream about the com ing afternoon we, the Minority, carry chair after chair to the oval where we arrange them in end THE FETE less rows. Sports over , the Majority chat and laugh - off they go to rest and dream, while " WE" carry The following is taken from the Southern Cross chair after chair to classrooms that seem to be miles of May the 15th, 1959. a part. \Vh en "Perfect order" reigns again, who LORETO FETE - £2,000 FOR SCIENCE BLOCK thinks of " The Minority"? Yes, and about that " Doggy Story." H ere is a brief In brilliant autumn sunshine a r ecord crowd ga explanation. Three of u s lock the music cells every thered on the lawns at Lore to Convent, Marrya t evening. It is routine work - one c loses the piano, ville, for a fetc on Saturday. May 2. on e closes the window, the third locks the door. All The date coincided with the 50th anniver sary of went well - at least we thought so until the n ext the blessing and opening of the original Norwood morning brought the question - " How did a dog house by Archbishop O'Riley. get into a lock ed music cell" ? The m ys tery is, of This time the object was funds for the new Science course, still unsolved. But h er e is where we come in. Block, which wilJ consist of up-to-the-minute Science A room with an adequate supply of music is never R oom s and three senior clarn rooms. in a wonderful state when a dog has been ( acci d ently) lock ed in it for fourteen hours ! - the r est The fete was organised b y the Fathers', Mothers' is left to your imagination. and Old Scholars' Associations, and when all money is in hand we hope to have made £2,000. Another occasion on which the Minority wer e left surmising, was when the " Marryatville Entertainer s" Conveners of the stalls were : Afternoon Tea: Mn. came to Loreto on the 17th of March this vear. In J. Glynn and Mrs. A. Walsh ; Produce : Mrs. J. honour of the day, we had donned outdoor. clothes. Pi ant~ , Misses J . Holland and M. T andy; Bottle : That evening we wondered why the audience was so Mrs. K . Pierce, Mrs. C. King and Mrs. C. Meuller; gaily colourful. Most conspicuousl y absent were the Work: Mrs. W . Gough and Mrs. R. Monks; Sweets : more sombre shades ! Mrs. A. J . Anderson and Mrs. R. Burden ; Cake: Mrs. M. Phillips and Mrs. J. Klug ; Dips: Misses H. De May, 1959, saw the revival of a once honoured vitt and A. McAulcy; Uniforms : Mrs. J. Kelly. annual function. It was one of those occasions when H elp {with a capital H ) was r equired. Once more 'Ve are glad to say that "expectations" were 1nore the Minority went into action. To our surprise {tak than realised. At the final m eeting of the Committee, ing orders is our sp ecialty you know!) this time it when all r ecords wer e h anded in, two thousand was not "Chai1·s" in endless rows, but DOOM! Down pounds proved to be the final count. The day itself to the underworld went those chairs - what a jolt was enjoyed b y all. Mother Superior and the nuns to their pride ! After several hours of manual labour would like to take this opportunity of thanking each all was in readiness for the gr eat event. No rest for m ember of the Father s' Club, of the Mother s' Club, the Minority - this time we were called upon to and each Old Scholar for the enthusiastic way in " pray for a p erfect day." which they worked, the novel entertainments pro vided previous to the fe te day, and for generous fi It cam e, and for the Minority it was a day of ease nancial assistance given . To those whose homes b e and fun - a spell - alas ! short lived. The paper removers went into action on lawns and the oval. came centres for working-bees, storage-bases, enter Some found two shillings, other s smaller coins and tainment-bureaux, m eeting places for planning and many just wondered if " Park Cleaning" would be organising, we issue this warning: " It could happen easier than the profession they were thinking about again!" . . . but not yet! W e thank you, and we and preparing for. " 'Vho are we ?" did you ask? pray for you. W e should also like to thank all The BOARDERS of course! friends who attended the fete and who h elped to make the day such a successful one. MARY BENNETT and BARBARA DORIAN, God bless you all. Leaving Honours, Marryatville. 16 SCHOOL ORCHESTRA ST.·\:'\ 1)1:'\G: J. Auer. A. Smurthwait e. S. Peel, S. ~ J ac k e n z ie , P. Puli, '.II. H olmrs. K. O 'Call aghan, G. B arker. ~." J TTJXG: Y. L O 'Conn or, .\ . S p~rk ..-. J. B ollema 11 , ~L L. Crowley, K. Timmins 1 E . R yan , :!\[. Kunn, J. Catham, S. Dateson, J. Hunter, C. }{ager, N. H ughes. 1:'\ F R OXT: ~ I. '.l leerbach, '.If. '.l l archant. INSET - PREFECTS T.T::FT TO R IGHT : J. \\'jJlj, ( H ead of the School), S. '.ll ackenzie, H. '.lfonkivi tclt, C. R eidy, C. B urchell , J. i\lcGilp. LORETO ABB EY. MARYS MOUNT, BALLARAT, VICTORIA LORETO MARY'S MOUNT-JOTTINGS FOR 1959 February 10th: Boarders returned to school. There were May 13th: For pupils - Home, sweet home! For Nuns many new faces but we missed lots of old friends. - three weeks peace. February 12th: The Seniors much appreciated their June 2nd: Re-awakening of Mary's Mount - the boar visit to the Japanese Art Exhibition at Myers, and ders return. also a talk by Father Glynn. June 3rd: Matriculations and Leavings went to the Ci February 13th: Enjoyed a long film on Chopin's life, vic Hall to hear the Viennese Boys' Choir. "A Song to Remember." June 4th: Mary's Mount again victorious at Basketball. February 16th: Sports' Captains announced: Barry, Jo The A team had a decisive victory against High Willis is Captain and Jackie McGilp is Vice School. captain; Ward, S. Mackenzie and H. Monkivitch; June 5th: All thrilled with G regory P eck and Audrey Mulhall, C. Burchell and A. Sparkes; General Hepburn in "Roman Holiday." Sports Captain, Sandra Mackenzie. June 8th: Senior choir sang at a Public Concert held at March 5th: Quarant 'Ore: The Prefects were announ the Civic Hall. ced. Head of the School is Jocelyn Willis; then the June 13th: Mother Antionette's feast day was high prefects - Sandra Mackenzie, Helen Monkivich, lighted by a very impromptu concert - the talent Claire Burchell, and two day-scholar prefects: shown was amazing. Clare Reidy and Jacqueline McGilp. Congratula June 17th: The Senior Classes watched the TV pro tions to all! duction of "Anton y and Cleopatra." It was very March 9th: Softball teams ·.vere privileged to watch much enjoyed and for the Matriculation English the Finals of the Victorian Softball Championships. Literature students - most profitable. March 14th: Mandeville girls visited us. We had a won June 23rd: Silence reigns supreme - Annual Retreat derful day; our A Softball Team lost but the B conducted by F ather Kennedy, C.SS.R. team won. June 27th: Silence shattered as the Retreat ended with March 17th: Irish airs were much appreciated. High all wearing shining halos! Variety entertainment light of the day was the picnic to Lake Learmonth held in the evening was enjoyed by all. after lunch. March 18th: Great elation when we won the Vigaro S. MACKENZIE and J. WILLIS, against Loreto-, Dawson Street. Matriculation, Mary's Mount. March 21st: Running team sadly defeated in Inter school Relay. EXCERPTS FROM OUR MUSIC DIARY March 23rd: Softball teams comfortably defeated High School. 1958 March 25th: Boarders went home for Easter holidays July 31 st : The Senior Choir recorded eleven unison and - Peace at Mary's Mount. part songs in a half-hour broadcast made in the March 31 st : Peace disturbed - boarders returned. ultra-modern 3BA studio. April 12th: Lined the dr ive to farewell Gabrielle Willis, August: In accordance with the wishes of the late Pope who is now Sister M. Gabriel at the Novitiate, Pius XII to pa rticipate more fully in the Mass, Loreto, Normanhurst. we began Dialogue Mass twice a week. As we April 19th: Surprise arrival of new boarder - Pip, the grew accustomed to answering the Dialogue Mass, wire-haired terrier. we were able to accompany it by singing an Eng May 1st: May P rocession around the grounds, followed by the Crowning of Our Lady, whose altar looked lish translation of Gelineau's Psalms at the Introit, beautiful, being decorated with gold and white Offertory and Communion, on special feast days. flowers. Tableaux in honour of Our Lady at Night. October 11th: We were invited to sing at the wedding May 2nd: Boat Race! Anxiety turned to disappoint of Nanette Crameri (an old Mary's Mount pupil) ment when Ballarat College narrowly defeated St. and Peter Murray at St. Patrick's Cathedral. We Patrick's College. were greatly impressed when we arrived to find May 3rd: Empire Youth March - everyone spick and Professor Meerbach, our conductor, at the organ span. This was followed by the May Procession and improvising on melodies we were about to sing. Benediction at the Cathedral. Change in app2ar October: During the following week, we were invited ance of Leavings and Matriculations setting out for to sing the 9.30 Mass at the Cathedral. We con the Social at St. Patrick's was remarkable. sidered it as a compliment on our singing at the May 6th: Seniors enjoy the N.C.G.M. Mannequin Pa wedding. We sang the two-part Mass of the Little rade. Flower, with Mozart's "Ave Verum" at the Offer May 7th: 1st match of Inter-School basketball. Teams tory. returned downcast - we were beaten! December 3rd: After four months of waiting, we were May 8th: Exams co-mpleted - Grand Finale to hard at last able to hear the broadcast of our recording work was a much enjoyed "Fancy Dress Frolic." m ade at the end of July. May 10th: Leavings and Matriculations were privileged December 8th: For the closing of the Lourdes Year we to meet Group Captain Cheshire, V.C., and his wife. sang a full "Missa Cantata" - the four part "Mis May 12th: 2nd Basketball match - tables turned and sa Marialis," which is written for a Choir and Con success was ours. gregation alternating. l8 LORETO 1959 understand the dialogue and singing (as it was in February: At the commencement of 1959, in response German) the audience could Collow each move to the wish of our late Holy Father, we began the ment of the story. The colourful cos tum e ~' a nd the practice of singing Mass every Sunday. wigs (Lux was balcl ) produced an effecti ve atmos March 17th: The orchestra played the traditional Irish phere for the gay little ope ra. Airs after Mass, in the Senior Study. I think the boys' favourite was the "Vienna March 24th: Noreen Hughes received a pleasant sur Waltz." Their conduc tor, Franz-Xeve r Meyer , ac prise on he r birthday when she was awarded the companied them and poured his whole h eart into Third Grade Violin Exhibition. his playing. One might almost say the " Waltz" was May 11th: Another trip to the Cathedral, this time their signature tune and they certainly seemed lo to sing a full "Missa Cantata," and as a result enjoy singing it. of intensified practice, the difficult Gregorian Their rendition of " Valtzing Matilda" was very "Vidi Aquam." colourful and lilting as also was a song e ntitled " The June 3rd: The Vienna Boys' Choir visited Ballarat to Alphabet," which ended most emphatically with Z. sing at the Civic Hall and the Leaving and Mat Encore succeeded encore, until they sang "Now is riculations were privileged to obtain front seats. the hour," which I think was a gentle hint that even The following week, on the 8th June, we ourselves encores have a limit. were on the stage to sing at a charity concert for JANET BOLLEMAN, the hospital. It was quite an experience to be back (16), Mary's Mount. stage - and on stage! And so the year goes on. Laudate Dominum! ANNE SPARKS (16) , CHIRISTINA FAWCUS (16), AN EXPERIENCE NOT TO BE MARY O'CONNOR (15), Mary's Mount. REPEATED When we excitedly left home, on Saturday, 17th THE VIENNA BOYS' CHOIR January, 1959, we did not dream that b efore the day was over, we would be plunged into the life of a city The Vienna Boys' Choir originated during the wholly concerned with one of Australia's most t er reign of Emperor Maximian I of Austria on 7th July, rible m enaces - bushfire ! 1498, whe n h e decreed that a group of eight boys \Ve left at five. It was a beautiful morning - or would sing Mass in his Imperial Chapel. From this seem ed to be, as we drove through the outskirts of smaJl but distinguished beginning the Choir has be Ballarat, and on through the lovely bush scenes that come world-famous, su ch musicians as Schubert, lined the road b e tween Ballarat and Hamilton. We Mozart and Haydn, having been numbered in its aimed at reaching Hamilton for breakfast, and ar ranks. i·iving at our destination, Mount Gambier , for lunch . Selec tion for m embership in the choir is based en tirel y on the quality of the voices, so of the many As we approached Hamilton, the cool wind that boys who have applied only a fe w are considered had been rushing through the four open windows of ~ uitabl c as after two years of training thii·ty are suf the car, began to be warmish , and after we had eaten fici ently qualified to join the choir. a substantial breakfast, the sun now higher in the With the othe r Leavings and Matriculations I had sk y seemed to have made the atmosphere somewhat the pleasure of hearing this remarkable choir al the " boiling." The h eat became almost unbearable in Civic Hall, Ballarat, on June 3rd. the car, and whe n, h aving arrived at Coleraine, we My favourite item was " The Village Barber," a stopped to have a drink, I got out onto the foo t comic opera by J ohann Schenk, which the boys per path in bare fee t, but with a most restrained and formed in costume. The story concerned a barber ladylike "shriek" I jumped back into the car - physician named Lux who claimed to be a rniracle that footpath was HOT! healer. He wish ed lo marry his young ward Su It was n ear Coleraine, that we first noticed the zanne, who, however, loved another young man, Herr huge biJlowing clouds, which reach ed out across the Joseph. \Vith the aid of the schoolmaster , Rund, they sk y for miles. W e were a nnoyed, thinking that they hatch a plot to extricate Suzanne. Joseph pretends to held rain and would spoil our h ol iday. \Vhe n my take poison and in his " last moments" b equeaths father said they were "smoke clouds," I did not b e his esta te to Suzanne. Since this can only be h ers lieve him - the whole horizon was cover ed with if sh e marries him, Lux agrees to the marriage, them! But as we approached Mt. Gambier, it becam e thinking that the money will eve ntuaJly be his when apparent that fathe r was correct. The flam es, al he marries the widowed Suzanne. though some ten miles from u s a t this stage, were However, after the marriage, Joseph with his last plainly visible. We turned on the radio a nd h eard vesti ge of stren gth eats some of Lux' h ealing ham, urgent calls for fire-fighter s, although m ost of the and after a short sleep is r estored to h ealth. The m en must have been out ther e already. \V e also disappointed barber is comforted by Rund who says, h eard the temperature - 107.7 degrees at 12.45 ! "What is love against fame," and so Lux bask s in My sister and I went, with a cou sin, to h!.'r sister's his n ew found fame as a miracle-healer , and Joseph farm, so that if the order wer e to come over the and Suzanne live happily ever after. radio for them to evacuate their home, we could In this opera, the boys r evealed themselves ta h elp. The temperature had now climbed to 111 de lented actors as well as singe rs. Although unable to grees in the shade and a terribly strong. h ot north ] ') LORETO AN ORCHESTRAL CONCERT ln o ur music;d appreciation classes al school w e have come to u11 (Continued from Page 19) the best of courage and kindness out of so manv w ind was blowing. In that h eat, cows had to be cha people. sed over plough ed paddock s, with the sm ell of the N or was the midnight to b e the end of this t er ~ m o k e, driven towards u s by the wind, urging eve r y rible day ! All through the night the glow was bril one on . liant in the sk y. W e r e turned to our cousin's farm T he radio was on and p eople were ask ed lo u se and sat on a haystac k watching. It was a magnificent electric ity for nothing except this n ecessity. W e and majestic, if te rrible, sight. The fire r a ged nearby heard that the fire had c r o : ~e d the Bay Roar] in the all t.h c n ext da y and a ft er a fe w more days finally vic init y o f the B e ll am , wher e all the fi ghte rs we re LORETO, CLAREMONT School reopened on February 10th. Many new faces One of these was in Claremont. It overlooked the Swan and many we had seen many times before! Ri ver and was superbly situated. Welcome addition to the school-week! Swimming on He called it "Osborne." With considerable enterprise Wednesdays after school. he developed the estate. The task was a difficult one. The term proceeded , regulated by bells! There was much dense scrub to be cleared. However, March 6th: Prefect s announced . Congratulations to w hen this preparation was made, h e designed and built Mary Wiese on being elected Head of the School, a nd to the Osborne Hotel. A fortune was spent on the place: the following prefects: Anne Ahern, Mary Quinla n, Sally every modern comfort and convenience that could be Ryan, Maria Zilko, Elizabeth Pren degast, Jacky Biddles, obtained was ins talled. Janferie Gallagher. Where our dormitories now stand a mighty power March 17th: St. Patrick's Day provided the usual engine and pumping system provided 150,000 gallons inter ests: Mass on the Subiaco Oval; the Schools march of water for the magnificent gardens. Splendid native past His Grace the Archbishop; swim in the afternoon; trees entwined w ith the tendrils of countless creepers concert at night. provided a contrast to the neatly trimmed lawns and flower beds. Swimming Inters-always enjoyable and a lovely sunny day helped along the excitement of the barrackers. It was an incomparable pleasure spot. In the heat of summer, "Osborne" was shady a nd cool. It was ope n Congratulations to Mary Quinlan, Maria Zilko and to the r efreshing breezes of the Indian Ocean. During Leonie McNamara on being received into Our Lady's these hot months steamers came frequently across the Sodality. T'he choir's beautiful singing made the cere Swan River and moored at a jetty fronting the hotel. mony more beautiful. From this jetty hundreds of people made their way up Cricket series are finished. Gold Team swept all five long fli ghts of steps. before the other teams, followed by Blue. We are told in the 1898 issue of the weekend Mail: The Mursell Shield Tea'm-P. O'Connor, M. Dunphy, " . ... For lux ury a nd brilliancy, beauty and enjoy R. Watkins, A. Ahern were most successful in the Tennis ment, Osborne stands alone, and w ill stand alone as a Teams competition, reaching the semi-finals. spot wher e all may be laid aside and existence may Exams., 27th April: The usual last-minute cramming become one protracted hour of soft delight." -with many pleasant results. St. Michael's, that classroom of many memories, was April 30th: Aquinas College Y.C.S. Dance enjoyed by a tennis pavilion, beyond which, were the tennis courts. the Leavings. Ther2 was a bowling green (now the grass court), May 1st : May Procession and crowning of Our Lady. summer h ouses and a tea kiosk. There were also a The May Altar looked as beautiful as on previous year s. fernery, the remnant of w hich stands near the top of May 7th: Strains of "O Causa Nostrae Laetitiae" the avenue; pigeon lofts, swimming baths and countless echoed throughout the school. other attractions. The bar was in wh at now is our The first Term of 1959 was over! school library - St. Thomas'. A seventy -foot tower stood above the main building A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST an d guests would readily climb up the long stairs to look at the vast panorama of Swan River and Indian OF OSBORNE Ocean. When night fell, this tower was hung with bril Loreto Convent, Osborne, is a beautiful school and we liant fairy lights, that could be seen for miles around. are proud of it. It combines the old with the new to The garden s were swathed in soft light and the guests give us not only spacious grounds, pleasant buildings a nd sat on chairs in the pleasant cool of the evening. a magnificent setting, but also an air of the past. In 1901, M:r. Grave sold his lovely property to the We find this unique a tmosphere in the empty front nuns of th e Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who hall at night, when , in the semi-light the shadows play had established the ir Order in the West in 1897. Some on the yellowed walls and vanish into the darkness necessary alterations were made and the boarders were of the old world garden outside. transferred from the city school in Adelaide Terrace. How many of us know the full story? It is not only Little did Mr. Grave imagine his prized possession as the story of our school, but part of the history of our it is today-our pride and our school. State. We conclude w ith the words of a contemporary writer It all began in the year 1897, w h en a certain James w ho spent many of his days at "Osborne" Hotel, and Grave' came to Perth and sta rted up a prosperous busi we extend this invitation to all who come this way: ness. Gold and a yearning for adventure had lured " .... die if you like, but see Osbo1·ne first; you have him away from Londor. at the age of sixteen. He had not lived if you don't .. . . " tried his luck in both New Zeala nd a nd Victoria before JACQUELINE BIDDLES, assistsd in re he decided to settle in the West. The colony was then search by JUDY CARMICHAEL, at an unprogressive stage and held no fair prospect for Leaving, Loreto, Claremont. the settler. He was, however, a shrewd business man and worked hard to establish himself. When at last *James Grave, father of Mother M. Xaveria, now at he managed to secure a financial footing, he obtained Loreto, Claremont, and of our past-pupil and benefac several valuable properties close to and around P erth. tress, Occie Grave. 21 LORETO LORETO, NEDLANDS, DIARY, 1958-9 1958 1959 11th-14th June: R etreat, directed by Rev. Fr. Cahill - 9th January: L eaving results, 100% pass. Congratula Retreat breakfast on the Saturday morning. tions to our ex-Leavin g Class. 22nd, 23rd June: "Good-bye Mr. Chips" shown as a mis 23rd January: Good results again - this time the Ju sionary effort instead of the Senior F ancy Dress niors. Ball. 10th F ebruary: Opening of the School Year, 1959. Wel come to Mother Superior (M. M. Julia na), Mother 27th June: Aquinas Cadet Dance - 20 invited. Judith, Mother Bernadette and Sister L abre. 28th June: Robin Miller (Head Prefect ) and Mary 11th F ebruary: Lent begins with Mass and ash es at Holy Joyce (2nd Prefect) attended the tree planting Rosary Church. ceremony at Swanbourne. 25th F ebruary: Sports and House Captains elected. 29th June: 26 girls consecrated Children of Mary. They are: Sports Captain, Rhonda F erguson ; Cap 5th July: Loreto Prefects' Dance held at Dalkeith H all. tains of St. Anne's, St. Michael's and St. Francis 8th July: Attended a Symphony Concert at Capitol Xavier's Houses, Rhonda, Lucille Durack and Helen Theatre. Smith. Congratulations. 9th July: Entertainment given by Sub-Juniors, for 9th March : H ead of the School and Prefects elected. Missions. Directed by M. M. Ann, who invented They are: Rhonda F erguson, H ead of the School, many typical and topical asides on various pupils Julie Miller, Anne Grave, Judith Boyd, Dale H ealy, and prominent people. Jill Heenan, Christine Bodeker. Congratulations and best wishes. 11th July: Eileen Joyce visits us (for 10 minutes). Mo CHRISTINE BODEKER, ther M. Eulalia had taught Eileen in Loreto, Os L eaving Class, Nedlands. borne and M. M. Ann h ad been a pupil in the class senior to Eileen - so old friends. 21st-25th July: Y.C.S. Week. On Friday, 25th, a small BACK TO SCHOOL entertainment given, complete with quiz, fashion Second T erm began on the 2nd of June, on a ra parade and skiffle group. £6/ 10/- was acquired. ther damp note as usual. G irls w ho have the r eputa 25th July: Seniors heard Emlyn Williams r eading of tion of always b eing l a te for sch ool arrived almost at Dickens at His Majesty's Theatre. the crack of dawn to join their h appy throng of 9th August: Annual School and Mission F ete. A great friends, all eager lo narrate the happening of th e success. previous three weeks. Each n ew m ember of the group was welcomed a s if sh e was a long Jost cousin 20th August: Geography excursion for L eaving and w h om the r est had n o t seen for the past thirty years, Subs. even though the group proba bly spent the previous 21st August: End of 2nd Term, with 11 a.m. Mass at week-e nd hiking in the bush with this very girl. Holy Rosary Church. We returned to school Cha pel to sing the Holiday Hymn and then departed. Wherever one goes one cannot evad e the gay laughing and chattering of the girls; in the sh oe 4th October: Quarant' Ore, sing at Mass then breakfast room wher e the r ule of stric t silen ce is normally at school and rush off for Alliance exams. observed , in the playground or on the running track 9th October: The H oly F ather died while we were at - where the more ener getic girls take the opporlu 11.30 a.m. Mass. nitv to illustrate the ir conversation with a flourish of .the h and or foot. Anoth er group of small girls 15th Octob2r: Holiday of Mourning. Requiem at St. is seen laughing and talking - at l east two at a Mary's Cathedral. time - in a sm all patch of sunlight n ear the tennis 25th October: Feast of Christ the King. Procession at courts. Suddenly they see a n ew girl; the group Aquinas. then put the ir h e ads toge ther and work out a speech 28th October: Pope J ohn XXIII is the n ew Holy Father. and a plan of " attack." The speech is composed with as much thoroughness as if it was to be read in the 4th November: Orchestral Con cert. House of Lords. When all the pre parations ar e made 7th November: Combined feasts of Mother Superior they approach the litlte girl, clear their throats, (M. M. Theodore) and our Mistress of Schools, M. and in the excitem ent forget the prepared speech, M. Benignus. and a friendly conver sation follows and another new girl is drawn into the friendly atmosph ere of school Junior School enjoyed film of "Gypsy Colt" and girls. the Seniors, "Great Expectations." The familiar cl an g of the b ell is soon h e ard and During the holidays there was a great exodus of nuns, all go to the Chapel for a Visit. including M. M. Theodore, M. M. Eulalia, M. M. At tracta, and S. M. Dympn a. M. M. Kevin left for a holi JUDITH BOYD, day in Ireland, and M. M. Benignus for Normanhurst. L eaving Class, N edlands. 22 LORETO DIARY FOR 1958-1959, LORETO, BRISBANE July 10th: Junior Publics saw "King Richard II" at the March 22nd: Nuns and boarders were among the fif Albert Hall. teen thousand who attended the Iona Passion Play. July 14th: Middle School enter their first day retreat. April 7th: Junior Public's Mission night. They raised What self control they will need. the total of £150. July 16th: The Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. April 10th: Twenty-six boarders in bed with 'flu. Am Annual Senior School retreat given by Father Dan bulances called three nights in succession. do, S.J. Our psalm singing gave the chapel a celes April 11th: This year we entered the swimming carni tial air. val in which ten Catholic schools competed. Came sixth, but had many children replaced owing to July 26th: C grade victorious against All Hallow's at the 'flu epidemic. the semi-finals held at the Ashgrove Courts. May 20th. There are bowler hats bombarding bowler August 2nd: C grade fought in vain against St. Rita's hats: "Does it really suit me?" at the Catholic tennis finals. May 25th: Our Lady Help of Christians. Dorothy August 4th: Mother Superior's feast day. Great festi crowned Our Lady, after the May procession. vities. A Missa Cantata and an interesting film May 27th: Junior Publics benefited by the play "A "Five Fingers." We brought groceries and clothing Midsummer Night's Dream." for the Brown Sisters. June 3rd: All the children enjoyed the Nations Con August 5th: Monsieur Condon, Oral French test. The cert held in Brisbane's new Festival Hall. Perfor stock phrase for most of us was "Je ne comprends mers came from so many places. pas." June 5th: Enthronement of the Sacred Heart. Redemp September 18th: St. Joseph of Cupertino. Public ex torist Father preached a magnificent sermon. We amination classes praying furiously. Sub-Seniors were most impressed. and Juniors enjoyed "The Boy with the Cart," pro June 6th: Sub-Junior Literary Club present their play duced by the Villanova Players. "The Doctor of Dunmoor." This is a humorous Irish September 26th: Art of Speech Examination. Even play. Dialogue superb. those not doing one, caught the fever. June 7th: Corpus Christi. The most impressive demon October 10th: Today a solemn air pervades the school. stration of faith yet. Mass was offered for the late Pope Pius XII. June 8th: Vinny D'Cruz gave us a very interesting talk October 12th: Many little children made their First on Communism. He is doing great work in Mel Holy Communion this morning. In the afternoon bourne as a journalist. twenty-four girls were consecrated Children of June 11th: There was a Centenary Concert, run by the Mary by the Archbishop. Xavier Society in the Festival Hall. We sang three October 26th: Junior School Sports on the new play Bach Choracles, from the Christmas Oratorios. ground. The Maypole dance was grand, thanks to MIRIAM DIEUDONNE and Pat Kelly. MARY LUDDY, November 7th: This evening Father Hayes, a great geo Sub-Senior, Loreto Convent, Brisbane. logist, gave us an interesting talk on the Carnarvon Ranges in Central Queensland. November 21 st : F east of the Presentation. Our new SPOT - THE CONVENT DOG shrine in honour of Our Lady of Lourdes was bless ed by Father McMahon O.Carm. It is flood lit On r eturning to £c hool last year, we were surprised every night from 7 p.m. to midnight. to find that there was a n ew hoarde r, with a rather December 2nd: The two plays, "The Admirable Crich eccentric na' ure, who spent most of the school day ton," and "Something to Talk About" were most chasing sh adows and all ending a few classes. entertaining after a day at the Oasis. Our newcomer h ccame fast frie nds with the gar December 4th: Monsignor English presents the prizes. dener - Joe, so h e sleeps on his bc W ha l a eo nlra ~ I ! \Ve ~ lepp c d in l'ru1n Ili c sunlit se u111 were fa1· s i111il c~. Bui this wa :- cert ain ly one quatlran1.dc of the Univc rs il y, whe re ~ tud c nl s stro l uf the few origi nals. led or hastened o r talke d in gro up ~ - we sle p[ll'd EYE PAINT inlo a worlrl five 1hou ~a nd vca rs o lJ. We felt con scious of this as we looked ,;t the slalucs of anc ie nt N ol vl' ry far away fro111 the head of Il'fl'rlili, we pharaoh ~ of Egypt. I 1nn1 e Diony s iu ~ . In lhis staluc, Praxilcles, in lhe HelJenis scul pt.urcd it as h e is re n owned 1 n I hi ~ pe riod of li c pe riod, had c hiselle d a graceful portrait of the Gree k sculplure. m essen ger-god Hermes. ln his uplifte d right hand, JEWELLERY which is now broken off, he probably h eld a bunch of grapes wi1h wh ic h h e was a111u sing the little In the Ro111an section of the Muse u111 1h c rc arc Dionys ius, the god of wine. The stalue we saw in glass cases in whic h arc cxhibils of ancient Roman the icholson museum is a valuable original of j ewelJ ery - mos I of I h e m originals. \~T c we're all fao Parian marble, which was given to the founder of cinated by a small pair of gold earrings. Eac h was a the Museum, S ir Charles N icholson, n early a hundred spirit of victory, carr ying a wreath to place o n some years ago. 1t 111ust have lain for centuries in the one's h ead. \Ve could imagine from the great d c lail bed of a stream, for the greater part of the surface is of the earrings that the angel was d ecorating some furrowed h y flowing wateL one. The curator told u s that they are worth £800. The angels were Jike those in the scen e of a painter 's APOLLO studio on an Athenian vase, whe re the painters are Whe n I saw 1h c statue of the Apollo Belvedere, b eing crowned with a wrea th. But thoce e arrings I was greatly surprised at its h eight; I expected to were tiny, yet p erfect in every way, though so con see only a life-size statue. From our Ancient History deneed. There was a wonderful display of ame thyst: and History of Art, we had le arnt that Apollo was Necklaces. Even on the small beads of ameth yst the god of the sun, of poetry, prophecy and m edi which made up the n ecklace there were tiny shapes c ine. In art Apollo is always r epr esented as youthful, engraved. Some beads had lines or small d esigns for vigorous and graceful. H e was the ideal young man d ecoration. W e w er e told that all this jewellery h ad of the Greeks ; and b y exer cises and athletics the come from Palestine and Arabia. young men of those days hoped to b e as fine-looking ROMAN HEADS AND COINS as Apollo. The Greeks built shrines to Apollo in A s we moved round the museum we saw suddenly many important places. The one we h ear most about in one corner several Roman statues, and, rnost in is D elphi, where the re was a gr eat temple built in te r esting of alJ, many h ead s of Roman Emperors. his honour. The original ApolJo Belved er e is in the Ther e was Augustus, Caesar, Pompey, Constantine Hall of S tatues at the Vatican. Last night at school and many more, all ·teJling a story of the ir own, by we had a film showing the Vatican, and we saw the the expres ions the sculptors put into their faces. ln statue of Apollo in lhc beautiful setting of the Hall the h ead of A ugustus we saw stre n gth in the facial of Statues. express ion which showed a man u sed to wielding THE WINGED VICTORY powe r . In the face of Con stantine the re was dig The \V ingerl Victory of Samothracc is said to b e nity and r estraint ; h e was the first Christia n Em one of the m ost beautiful works of the Hellenistic p e ror of the Roman Empire. We examined many pe riod of sculp ture. Since I have known about the!!e Roman coin s, h eautifnJly car ved, sh owing the fea things l have aJmirerl it; so I was glad to sec it in tures of the Roman Empc-ror who h ad order e d the m. I he Nicholson Museum - only a cop y of course. The The re was a ]i11l e m edallion showing Con stantine original was sculpture d on the I sland of Samo th race pe rsonifie d , and a figtHC of v ic lor y crowning lhe to comme m orate a Greek naval victory; it is usually Emperor. r e presented on the prow of a ship wilh its garments L. STEPHENS, M. A. DAN ancl C. P ETERSON, wind-blown. Although her h ead and arms arn miss A. HALL, A. WEBB, R. WATTEL, M. ing, the wings show a ve ry powerful move m ent, and WERNARD, C. STEVENS, J. HICKEY, they s ignify victory. History i ~ not sure of the name Ki. IRELAND, J. McDONNELL, U. MEYNINK. of the scu l ptor, hut it is 1hought that: Praxitel es Fourth Y ear , Normanhurst. AT SCHOOL IN DARJEELING I h ave happy memories of m y school days a t Dar We gave him a concert at the convent. His daughters jeeling where I spent nine years as a boarder. Each are now there at school, as the Indian Government al y ear we spent nine months at school, three on holidays. lowed Tensing to ch oose any school in India for them. I spent these chiefly at my home near Calcutta. In 1957 H e chose L oreto, and would not be refused. I came to Australia with m y parents. I am now in the I have vivid memories of our meeting with Group L eaving Class at Normanhurst. Captain Cheshire, V.C., he gave us an inspiring talk In my class of twenty -four girls at Darjeeling, only a nd we entertained him at a concert. H e is v ery fri end three of us were Europeans ; the r est came chiefly from ly with the Darjeeling nuns. Siam a nd Burma, and places in India. They were H in ZVITI ZITEK, dus, Mosle ms or Buddhists; but we were all ver y h ap Normanhu1·st. py together w ith the L or eto nuns. In a class b elow (The above bald little paragraphs are not a sample mine was P ema Yapshi, the sister of the Dalai L ama of Zviti's Engl ish style, w h ich is really quite good. of Tibet. They are answers to questions we asked her in the There was great excitement at school w hen Tensing school quadrangle one day as sh e was on h er way to arrived in Darjeeling after climbing Mount Everest. class - Ed. Loreto.) 25 LEFT TO R IGH T: l'. L uehman ( I-l ead), J. Gurry, M. H olmes, ~~1. Nansen. B~TTOM- GEOGRAPHY EXCURSION (See Names P. 27) TOP - SOME Vs and Vis HA YING A DIP (See Names P. 27) LORETO CONVENT, PORTLAND, VICTORIA 26 TOP SAND-CASTLE COMPETITION FOR THE JUNIORS K . Filc11, S. ~ l iln cr, A. Oakley, E. Andre, A. Cameron, S. \\.abh, J. lhndal l;, ~I. (}'.'\c ill , J. St owart, ~I. (211i ~ l y , S. l'arki11 so11 , D . A y res, Al . Ca 111 u 111 , I ~. Cn11d o 11, A. Mi lg"a l e, l\ 1. Co rd y , S. ll ammett, F. . H a clan ic h , (;. J c 1111i11g- ~ , C. :.t iller, \1. lk 1111 e 11 , .J . ( '011d o 11 , I .. !Je an e, \ '. Fred e ri c k ~, J. i\Jillc r, G. S 111ilh , A. S u 1t o 11 , I'. l'arki nso n , II. Filen, J. 1.oft u :- , ri. 1. Tie rne y, :.t. S1 c wart, I ·~. Quif(lcy, G . P ri ce. INSET - GROUP OF BOARDERS ON THE R OCK S BA C K RO \ \ . : .\ I. J\l cCabe, C. Turner, I. llroderick, H . Gash, E. M cCabe, Y . Kane, 1\I. Co nnell. FRONT R OW : L. 1 lannagan, P. Turner, C. Bullock, T. Caffre y. BOTTOM - VIGORO MATCH A. Carden, J. Crook s, P. K e nihan, ('. L udkie wiez, J. ~\lar s h a ll, J. Turue r, S. IHa ke, T. Ho:-. tock , D. Fr e d e ri ck~, I'. Bou rke, S. C a lvi n, ~f. Guthridg'e, R. l larris, C. 1 ledt , D. l lo lmes, C. ~ l os ing , P. Shie ld s, ~ I . \\' aJ:.. h, C. \\' id ecki. TOP - SOME Vs and Vis HAVING A DIP (See Photo P revious Page) !\ f. B ourke, J. Allwood , 1:. Brode ri ck J. D eane, ~I. lfadanich, E. p ,,g- 1111 y, J. J or.~e t1 ..\I. .\l c .\" a ma ra, \I. Ki1111a11 c, G. Sutton, C. C am pbe ll , J. Preece , I: . .\ l a1· ~ hall , C. 11ull ock: P Thomas, I'. i\ [ilga te. BOTTOM - GEOGRAPHY EXCURSION Tl . Hrccn , I I. C 1111n i 11 1...d1am. :\ I. (';1rr, G. \\.il son , l... lludso11 1 N. Jlolmc:-., i\ I. X ; 111 ~ c11 , T . Hc 1111 clt 1 .\! . 1\ . \\'all ace, K. \\'alsh, F. T.ucluna n . .M . Jl olrnc :-., ). Curry, J. Car111 0 11 1 ('. Fahe y. LORETO CONVE T, PORTLA D, VlCTORlA LORETO This Australia John Antill succeede d first with his balle t " Cor roboree," but his taEk was easier b ecause h e dealt only wi1h the rhy1hm of the dance, but James P en be rlhy has managed to interpre t in mus ic the e mo tion ~ , tender and passionate, terrified and fatalistic, of the aboriginal girl who falls in love with the whi te boss, bul is torn from him by the tribal lore of h e r p eople. The orch estral score is supe rb throughout. It is insistent, evocative, and, without the u se of any strange devices, it carries an air of authentic abori ginal music that is tre m e ndousl y impresaive. The orch estra, under the direction of John Farnsworth Hall, played magnifice ntly. It is in the vocal section that the composer has had to face his hardest task . Aboriginal singing is main l y a chant with a r estricte d range of note, and any attempt at arias of the accepte d operatic type would completely destroy the authenticity of the mucic. The singing might well have turned out mono tonous, but the c ompo ~ e r has woven solo singing, choral background and straight dialogue into a most acceptable and stirring whole. The Elizabe than Theatre Trust has purchased all rights including interstate, over seas, film and tele vision rights. The three signatories to the contract are Ma1·y Du rack Miller , James P enberthy and George Harwood*, representing the Native \Velfare Council, for the au thors have volunteered to pay a quarter of the ir MARY DURACK MILLER royalties into that Council which is establishing a (Past Pupil, Loreto, W.A.) community centre for natives in P erth. Mrs. Mille r said the money will h elp build a community centre OPERA ON AN ABORIGINAL THEME and hostel, one purpose of which will b e to serve as a social centre for adolescent n a tives when they leave The organisation of the F estival of P erth can ac the Mfrsions to come to P erth for employment. Mr. cept a bouque t for their initiative in arranging the P e nberthy said: " It is not charity. A fter all the d e but of " Dalgerie." It could well be that this year's tunes on which the Dalgerie score is based came fectival will earn a small place in the cultural his from an old desert song-man I m et in Wiluna in tory of Au stralia when a balance is struck in the 1956." years to come. * In a private letter to the Editor of Loreto, Mary It is a little difficult to know wher e to hand the writes: "George is a fine type of half-caste educated at m ajor honours for the ope ra itself, b ecause it is such the Broome Convent." a m agnificent combination of the work of three ar (NOTE: This article is compiled from notices in the tists : Mar y Durack , whose best seller, " K eep Him W.A. "Catholic Record." - Ed.) My Country," provide d the story; James P enberthy wh o conceived the idea of turning the story into an "LA CUESTA" o pera ; and Elizabe th Durack, who thought out the setting in which plays such an important part in La Cuesta is situated in the wheat and sheep b elt evoking the atmospher e of the north-west. It is the of West Australia, almost two hundred miles north first opera written on an aboriginal the m e. of P erth. It is the home of m y sister and h er hus D espite the marvellous contri butions of the Du band. rack siste rs, not to m e ntion the inspit·ed direction of The prope rty contains over three thousand acres, Stefan Hagg, " Dalge rie" is, in my opinion, James aho nt eil!ht hundred of which are under crop, and P enberthy's triumph. over the remaining acres two thousand rh eep roam H e richly d eserves it, for h e has had to overcome and feed. the innate prejudice of Australians where local mu The outer boundary of the property is defined hy sic is concerned. H e has also succeeded brilliantly a series of salt lakes - twenty-six miles long and in tran sla ting the aboriginal motif into orc he s tr~l seven miles wide, these are known as the " Yarra for m . Yarra Lakes." 28 LORETO What a busy life they lead there! The working YACHTING-MY SPORT! year begins with lambing from late March to May. That m eans that the fanner must make a journey Yachting is my hobby and favourite sport; when round the farm at least every second day to check the sailing season is ov~r I turn to horse-riding for on the lambs and their mothers. Very often h e re consolation. turns carrying an orphan "lamb under his arm, leav You may consider that yachting is a queer sport ing it to be bottle-fed until it is strong enough to for a girl. Well I took it up because it " was in the go hack to the paddock. family" so to speak. My father talked about sail Next comes seeding - after the first seasonal rains ing, my big brother was always talking about his of May. As soon as that is finished the lambs are Gwen-12, and m y younger brother talked incessantly ready to be tailed. Preparation for sh earing begins of his 'Pelican,' and the conver sation of friends who about September; then the wool is sorted into clas visited us was always about yachts. ses and pressed into hales b y a wool compressor. When m y brother was in great need of a cr ewman Then off it is sent to a wool m erchant, and sold by for sailing has boat with him I accepted the chal auction Lo the wool buyer s who frequent thece sales. lenge and I skippered the boat. After a few weeks sailing my brother proved h eller than I at skipper Harvest comes in November; a very strenuous ing, so I then becam e his sh eet-hand or cr ewmate. time is this for all con cerned. \Vork begins early and Both of us seem ed to be natural sailors. \Ve en ends late, for the precious crops can so easily be tered for races and after two very poor shows in ruined at this stage by hail or wind storms. The which we almost capsized a dozen times, we began wheat is carted to the silos and eventually taken by to improve in our boat work , and in our third and rail for sale at a local market or shipped overseas. fourth races (organised by the Royal P erth Yacht ROBIN WILLIAMS, Club) we were r eally up to form. Then we won the Junior Class, Nedlands. next eight races and the Club Championship. In or der to achieve that we had to beat forty-three boats, FONTY'S POOL, MANJIMUP, so it was not easy work. It was a tremendous thrill to pass the rival crews one hy one. WEST AUSTRALIA Next we entered in the events at Rockingham R e Nearly two hundred miles from Perth, among fruit gatta and did very well, winning most of the races trees and forests of giant karri and jarrah trees, is for which we entered. i:; ituated the town of Manjimup. With all the sur Alas, now I am too big to sail in m y brother 's rounding beauty of the countryside to compete with boat and at the moment do not know what I shall its popularity, Manjimup's showpiece, its r eal at do n ext season - perhaps own and sail a craft of traction, is its swimming pool, situated six miles or m y own. SANDRA LUCAS, so out from the township. Junior Class, Nedlands. Mr. Fontinini (Fonty Lo all ) was born in Italy in 1880 and came to Australia in 1904. Fm the fir8t few years h e stayed in Frcmantle and P erth, then, WESTERN SKIES wise man, h e bought a few acreo of land near Man During the May holidays, I stayed one week at jimup and planted fruit trees. Shoalwater Bay, which is a little bay between Safety Running through his prope rty was a Preek, in Bay and Rockingham. In this bay are three pictur which his five children loved to swim. In 1925 he de esque islands not far from the mainland ; they are cided Lo dam the water a nd make a pool. Soon the called Penguin Island, Bird I sland a nd Sandy Island. children 's school frie1ul s we re coming Lo enjoy the There is a srna)] settlem ent on Penguin Island, hut pleasures a swimming pool can give on a hot day. the other two islands are inhabitated only by Ee a Gradually more and more children came, by invi gulls, whence Bird I sland's name. tation only in those days. Fonty then decided to en Bird I sland is a ve ry rocky island covered with large this much loved pool to its present size. bird n ests. On some days when the re is a very low Today, Fonty's Pool li e ~. amid evergreen _lawns ride, people arc able to walk out Lo e ither P enguin and a profusion of ga il y coloured flowe rs. lVla Fs ivc or Sand y I sland, although sometimes it ca n he dan green £hrubs form the background for the 1·os1·:;;. ge rous. camelias and dahlias. The re are some very big sandhills a lillle furlh :> r ow all vi sitors arc wekome lo share lhe cool around the bay, which I climbed one evening just delights of the pool, to picnic and to re lax in the hefore sunset. At the foot of the hill the wave :~ were rhade of giant trees. A ve ry small fee is charged, not gelltly breaking on to the shore. I could see lhe for profit, hut lo enable Fonty to maintain the pool. porpoises playing among the reefs in the middle Every year during the summer months children learn of the bay, and I could hear the scrf'eching of 1h e to swim, visitors from far and n ear, write their seagulls as !hey went hack to the ioland for the names in the Visitors' Book, and carry away with night. Amidst all of this ] watched the stmset. them a happy memory of a pleasure ground pro The cky around the sun was a bright rosy-langerine vided b y a man who loved to make children happy. colour which then faded to a pale pink, while the PATRICIA ADAM, r est of the sky looked dark and storr11 y. 'V hilc I \vas Junior Class, Nedlands. sitting there l eould ~ee in lhf' sky among thP clonrls 29 LORETO THE LEGEND OF THE BLACK SWANS large holding yards. Here the cattle are left for the night with m en camped nearby with saddled hor:: es Long ago near Perth in Western A ustralia, wh en in readiness for a "rush" in which the t errified black people alone li ved the re, they told to their plunging cattle may break the yard . The next day children the Legend of the Black Swans. these cattle a re branded by a few native stockmcn T h e country in those parts (so the L egend tells wh o are skilled in k eeping the m in formation. Others us) was inha bited only by women who made fin e gathc 1· [Ca tter ed mobs in va1·ious pock ets, valleys or weapons. One d ay a man from a n eighbouring tribe plains. visited the women and exchanged 'possum [kins When the area that the "camp" set out to muster for some of their weapons. \Vhcn h e re turned to his h as been thoroughly done the men r e turn to the triheEm en, they longed Lo have these fine weapons. station with the r emainder of th e cattle that have So a magic-maker thought of a way: H e turned two been "cut out." T h e :: e pick e r] cattle are to be bran· of the tribesmen into bi g wh ite bi r (Continued from Page 29) the o ther side of the r iver from wh ere I live, was a a very clear picture of Perth with the waters of the bright splash of r ed which could have been a bush Swan River surroun Five of ten panels pain ted by Elizabeth Durack Clancy, to illustrate the Legend of the Black Swans. The panels measure IO by 3 feet and made an effective mural in black white and terra cotta i~ the diningroom of the Perth Chest Hospital. Elizabeth is a past pupil of Loreto, W.A. (See Story on Opposite Page.) 31 LORETO A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO THE CARN ARVON RANGES* ln 1947 a scientific expedition was be ing a rrangc THE CENTENARY OF QUEENSLAND CATHOLIC CELEBRATIONS IN THE It is one hundred years n ow since the historic QUEENSLAND CENTENARY moment, when Governor Bowen first landed in This year , 1959, besides marking the hundredth Queensland to govern a straggling settlement. anniversary of the state, commem orates also the cen Queensland stands today as one of the great states tenary of the Church in Queensland. The oldest of the Commonwealth, after one hundred year s of Archbishop in the world, His Grace, Sir .Tam es Du progress. Its r esources are still being discover ed , so hig, presides over the archdiocese of Brisbane, where in the future it could support the lar ge~t popula these Centenary celebrations have been so outstand tion among the Australian states. ing and certainly worthy of so great an occasion. For the feast of Corpus Christi, a vast crowd, esti Bowe n cam e to a large, silent land, sparsely popu mated at 70,000 assembled at the Exhibition Grounds lated along the coastal plain and t:howing no signs for the 46th Corpus Christi procession in Brisbane. of the wealth and prosp erity to com e. The town, To be present in that crowd, as we wer e, joining our Brisbane, to which h e was welcomed, was sma11 and prayer s with this huge congregation of worshippers, , flat, with dirt streets, scattered colo nial buildings, was an unforgettable exp erience. largely popula led by quarrelsome, r even geful ex For two hours that wonderful procession progres convicts. sed around the Grounds, until at length the arena The few adventurous farmer s and squatters, who was filled and hundreds of m en, women and chil did go further afield to such places as Bundaberg, dren , knelt together with priests, brothers and nuns Rockhampton and the Darling Downs, were often for Benediction. The clear fanfare of trumpets rang attacked by the fierce natives, while the food they out over the silent crowd, as the :Monstrance was produced was scarcely sufficient to feed the grow raised in blessing. Indeed it was a m emorable occa ing population of the colony. sion and in k eeping with the r eal celebration of our Centenary. Som ehow, from the£e unpromising beginnings, a Another special feature this year was the Xavier great state was built. If Bowen landed today, h e Concert, h eld in the n ew F estival Hall, at which would see a far differ ent picture. The small colonial most of the Catholic Schools performed. This So town of Brisbane is now a modern city, with a ra ciety h elps to raise funds for the Mount Olivet Hos· dius of thirteen miles, crowned by the most beauti pital, which the Sisters of Charity conduct, for the ful City Hall in the Southern H emispher e. Indeed dyin g. W e were represented by a choir of one hun all over Queensland, the re are modern cities and dred and thirty from both Senior and Middle School towns in many places, that a hundred years ar,o children. were only blank sp aces o n the map. In August, we shall be privileged to have the The acres of wheat fi elds on the Darling Downs, visit of His Eminence Cardinal Agagianian, as Pa the bales of high class wool and the fi n t gr ade pal Legate for the celebrations. All the m embers of cattle which Queensland produces each year, are a the Au stralian Hie;rarch y h ave been invited too. good indication of the flourishing primary indus How proud His Grace wilJ feel, wh en h e can show tries of the state. A more r ecently developed industry them Catholic Brisbane, built up over the past cen is the tourist trade. Our wonderful climate attracts tury, with its Church es, hospitals, homes for orphans, tourists from aJJ parts of the world, who spend long schools and colleges, and above all its people, who holidays her e, especially in the winter. have been said to possess, "zeal, fervour, and en lhusiasm, which are completel y spontaneous." MARGARET KENNY, TONIA ARNOLD, Junior Public, Brisbane. Junior Public, Brisbane. 33 TOP SECOND DIVISION (For Inset see names P age 35 ) FRONT RO\\": G. Adams, J. Megna, J. T_o neragan, R H an, M. Mey11i11k, C. Gardiner, K. Scarff, J. Kitche11, L. Schroeder, £. O'K eeffe, M. Brady, M. Cutcliffe, C. Boyle. SECOND RO\\': R. O'Brien, P. Cutcliffe, D . :Robin son, P. R yan, E. Rog-erson, M. Shepherd, S. Cl ifT ord, S. Jasprizza, K. Hartigan, C. Goode11 J. l .. eeder, A. Nelson, G. Stevens, 1\1.. J ones, S. Myerson, I'. lh ennan. Till RD H 6 11·: :\L Ha u, S. A11;:us, C. ll e 11d erson, M. Stone, P. \VaJ , h, M. \\"illiams, J. Carter, M. Caner, M. Passmore, K. Cobby, B. Nader, E . l ... enehan, S. Turner, C. Turner, D. M"c1\1i_ll an, K _. Keat in g-, C. L ocke, J. \\'er11ard. l~OLT RTI I RO\\' : D. Basha, A. Nelson, C. Urady, K. M orton, F. Cohen, I r. A rcher, l... Curti s, C. Ehrenbu rg- , A. Drake. Brockmann, 1\{. Salvat, n. 1\fcPhee, J. Clarke, H . O'Brien, J. O'Brien. BACK RO\V: D. Findlay, P. -Poirrier, J. Pearson , K. H ore, R. S tevens, E. \\'ilds, E. Stalley, A. L yons, J. Spill ane, P. Birch, P. ".Merkel· bach, l~ . Oxenham, S. Forgham. BOTTOM - THIRD DIVISION FRONT HOW: M. llfcQuellin, J. Dwyer, J. l1oulton, A. Hurley, V. Abbott, G. R yan, H. P od;:orski, B. K. Green, P . Tl oran, B. Tiffin, M. Spier:-.. SECO TD RO\\': K. Brady, C. Abbott, J. Dowling-, A. 1\f. Alexander, S. Lonerag-an, _ F. Newnham, G. Coolahan, ). f. Parsons, J. Green, G. Robert ~ . C. Archer, V. Rubensohn , S. O'Ryan, B. Richardson, K. t ackenzie, A. ~lcC o rmick. THIRD HO\\': Tl. Hlack, ~I. Bovie, B. Kevin, C. Russell , E. M cNamara, J. Ewingto n, S. Carroll, I.. Coolahan, C. Doyle, K. W ilkin son, J. P owell. A. M. T ome, G. Mitchell, M . \\"oodcock, L. Aaron. F01"HT11 RO\\": A. :\I. \\"a lker, M. L ewis, M. Gearin, K. McNamara, '.II. A. Madden, J. Alexander, T. St;.lley, S. Summons, A. 111. Scarff, V. Mar..;ha ll , S. Petter, J. Knigh t, L . Kevin, G. Ewing-ton, fl. flurns. Fl FT ll RO\\": B. Carter, C. Marsh, R. Burch, D. Flanai:tan, F . Tully, P . ~fa s eler, S. H ansel. P 1 l ansel, D. English, S. Fortune, E. Mcl.011 .o: hlin, D. Darke. S. Sulli va n, J. P olski, M . Huxley. LORETO CONVENT, NORMANHURST, N.S.W. TOP - LEAVING CLASS FRONT RO \\.: M·. Jago, Z. Zitek, P . Conduit, C. Miller. SECO'.'JD .RO\\' _( sitting-): B. rvl_c P hee, D. l'rince, K. i\fcNcill , P. Tierney, J. Gates, A. \'itou, G. Partridge, P. Crimmins, :l\f. Birch. THIRD RO\\' : J. l reland 1 JI . J asprizza, }.!-. Dalg-arno, i\I . Hansel, (;. K earney, L. Donely, J. ll arris, K . H.i chard:-011 . BACK RO\\' : F. O'Nei ll , M. O'Connor, J. Morl ey, L. Curran. BOTTOM - FOURTH YEAR FRONT RO\\' D. Byrnes, J. Cohen, J . lhandt, R. Partridge, J. McDonell. SECOND RO\\': C. Streber, R. Strachan, C. Stevens, 711. E . i'riebe, S. J asprizza. 1\ . I Jail, \\'. R owe, R. \\'at tel, K. Trelan ~!) SOME NORMANHURST GIRLS ON HOLIDAY TOP LEFT: Ch ri stine S tre be r in Venice ( Bridge of Sigh s in background). -~llDDIJ :;: LEFT: Daphne Prince i11 Scot la nd ( before ll ighland cottage). HO 'TTOi\'I LEVT: Juliet Tre land w ith pet la mbs in her C)ttntry home, N.S. \V. , Aus tra li a . BOTTO ~t R IG 11 T: P e 1111 y J asprizza, home from a ride, at Juliet's home. M-1 DDLl::. R fG I IT: Bonit a a nd Michaelina I Ia n w ith cocoa nuts. Also their home in New Lrela nd, O ceania. ( Ilottom CentT·e). TOP R r G TTT : Patric ia ~ferke lb ach (with her fathe r's share-fa rmer a nd his small chil d). P a tricia and her father have come to see the mot o r-cutter a t work o n the lucerne crop. LORETO CONVE T, NORMANHURST, N.S.W. 36 ,__QRETO Holiday Meinories FROM OCEANIA tering our horses. This usually takes quite a long time and we ar e very glad to get over to breakfast. We have had nice Christmas holidays with our pa B ed s are made after breakfast and in n o time we rents at home in New Ireland. After our holidays we are over at the stalls again feeding and saddling the had to go back to sch ool in Australia. We went on the horses for morning instruction which continues until ship at the wharf on the west coast, and sailed to ten thirty; then we have som e fruit and ii lecture New Britain. There were big seas, and the ship rolled, follows. and we were holding on, and we were tired. It was 9 Dinner is at twelve and then the same routine con o'clock at night when we got to New Britain. Next tinues until five o'clock. At this time the horses are morning Dad took us to Qantas and asked them what watere d, groomed a nd fed for the night a nd when plane would depart to Sydney, and he said to Dad, to th is is finish ed we u sually have a hot m eal and afte r morrow at 7 o'clock, and be there at 5 o'clock. Dad took it ther e are some times .pictures or lectures. Ther e us to the aer odrome and we were very early and it was were some ve ry interesting films on the Grand Na dark and cold at the aerodrome. Then we saw cars tional in Stockholm. coming and we got into the plane and fastened our seat belts. The engines began rumbling and the plane Ther e is no p ermission for going outside after started and we all waved our hands. We felt we would eight o'clock and no smoking is allowed at any time. miss our friends and relations, because we would not This whole delightful week is a great b en efit for the see them for a year. We thought it was a lon g way to horse and rider and there is never a dul1 moment. * A country town in N.S.W. go to school. This part of the journey took only two WENDY ROWE, hours and we landed at Lae in New Guinea at 8 o'clock. Fourth Year, Normanhurst. We stayed ther e for half an hour. Then we changed planes; the next one was a big Skymaster. This took A NEW GUINEA NIGHT us to Port Moresby; and we stayed there for half an hour, too. It was in the afternoon. At 11 o'clock that A native village, situated in the mountains, with night we landed in Brisbane, and we had our dinner the moon illuminating Kunai-thatch cd huts and at a hotel. Soon we were back on the plane and up in bathing the whitish clay in moonlight ... This is a the air again, and it was very cold. We got to Sydney scen e in a village, Partip, high up in the n ew Guinea at 2 o'clock in the morning. We were glad to leave the mountains, about five miles from Bulolo, m y home plane and to see Miss Huffam. She took us to her lovely town. The moonlight makes patte rns as it cr eeps home and gave us breakfast. between the wooden stumps of the huts. The na We were very glad to be back at the Convent at tives are practising their cere monial sing-sing for Normanhurst and to meet our school friends and nuns. Ch ri s tma ~, and the Kundus b eat out the rhythm of We had been travelling for three days. their ch ant. A fire burns brightly in the centre of the great ring, around which the chief and luluwai BONITA AND MICHAELINA RAN, rit watching the dancers. Normanhurst. Their story describes the appearance of an aero A PONY CAMP plane, and they go through a11 the motions imita ting the scen e p e rfectl y. The ir dress is similar to that of A few days ago I was surprised to hear that w m e their ancestors, while many adorn their h ead-dreso, of my friends had never h eard of a pony camp. As with binl of paradise feathers, that have heen han I have been to quite a few, including one in the ]\fay ded down for generations. holidays, the pleasures of such a camp are sti11 fresh I enjoy watching these coloudul scenrs on m y in my mind. Christmas vacation, as they con trast so greatly with It is a thriJJing time spent in riding and edu m y pt·esent life of study and bustle. cating your own horse. Every boy or girl that can SHERIDAN COOPER, ride, if only sit in a saddle, has a marvellous time Senior, Brisbane. for a whole week. Our camp was held in the Young* Showground THE SHOW from the first of May till lhe 8th. Instructors we re 111 recenl yea rs, since Aunralian ride rs have be brought from as far away as Melbourne to instruc t. com e intereste d in international compe tition, Olym uD. The whole camp was organised b y a committee pic-st yle hurdles have grown to be a part of nearly who selected people to stay at the camp and look all Australian show-rings. Hours of training make after everyone. There were about sixty people in horses skilful in negotiating these hurdlec, som e of camp so the matrons had their hands full. which are over six and a half feet high and six feet The day is quite a long one. It b egins at six wide. o'clock in the morning. The frost is always thick The idea travelled lo a country town I know. and on the ground and it is absolutel y freezing at this al its Annual Show, it was decider! that there should time of the yea r, but after a half an hour or so be an Olympic Show Jumping Competition. It was we are all up and ove r at lhe stalh feeding and w a- we1l adve rtifed for months prior lo 1h c Show and 37 LORETO entries were received from far and wide. A dozen n early surrounded by bush and growing very thickly Royal National riders from various States were along the ground were hundreds of ferns. At night among the first entrants. On 5eeing this, the local ri kangaroos came to eat the grass round the house. ders said that they were not to be out-done by a lot The first day of our stay, we swam in the channel, of "cit y slick e rs," and immediately set to work con which was quite cold, but the next day we decided ditioning their stock horses for Olympic jumping. to try the surf. This turned out to b e just as cold, It was indeed a very strange fight to see, in the pro but i t was all good fun. cess of mustering, a home suddenly takes a flying The m ain attraction on the island is fishing, that leap over the cow-yard fence. One jumped com people do either for a profession or a hobby. There pletel y over a high horse trough. is also a picture theatre and two bowling greens, So the gr eat day soon arrive d and, despite their much u sed by holiday make rs or retired p eople. rough training, the local stock horses certainly looke d fine as they parade d about the spacious showgrounds. Too soon our holiday came to an end, aml waiting There were horrns ever ywhere : draft horses, hack s, in the queue of forty cars, our thoughts recalled the hunters, trotters and, of course, an almost endless r eally delightful past three days, sp e nt on that charm· procession of children 's ponies, in which their young ing little island - Bribie. own e rs took a great pride, and rightly so. ANGELA BRIDGE, After lunch the loudspeak er informed u s, there For m II, Brisbane. was to be a most inter esting hunting programme, the highlight of which was to be the long-awaite d Olym A HOLIDAY EXPERIENCE pic Jumping. The are na seem ed to change shape in a few seconds. Where ther e had been a three-foot The story I am about to r elate happe ned in the post and rail jump, there soon was a huge imitation North W est of W cs te rn Australia in the small town stone wall. The course was skilfully, very skilfully, of Broo me, May 1959. One must under stand, though, laid out and it seem e d an impossible task for any that Broome was not the only town afflicte d in this horse to comple te it. It took the horse two full way. circuits of the ordinary track , and the n right across On a rriving home after b e ing away at school I the centre of the arena, stood three giant Olympic was distressed to h ear that many of the inhabitants hurdles. The highest was six feet six inch es with a of Broome had been struck with the ' flu, including spread of six feet three inch es. m y fathe r. The Distric t Hospital was almost full, One after an oth e r the city rider s either had re and so was the N ative Hospital. This was all right fusals from their mounts or gave up after taking a for a while but the n most of the District Hospital heavy fall. Fortunately no horse or rider was hurt Staff also went clown with the germ. throughout the day. The same fate gree ted alJ the lo The Matron and D octor sent out an S.O.S. to all cal u ntil there were only two horEe s left to jump. the women who were free to come and help for a One was a well-known polo pony and the other a tall while. Som e women we nt in the morning to do the bay Arab mare to be ridden by h er thirteen-year-old laundry and to cook the m eals for the day, b ecause master. It was d ecided that the polo pony, called both the laundress and cook we re sick. Other s went Gentle Annie, should jump first. Ever ything went around during the day to feed the babies, and to do well until the first high hurdle was reach e d. Ther e, other odd jobs. Gentle A nnie baulked , taking h e r rider unawares After I had had the 'flu I decided to go round and and he turned a comple te som e rsault, landing on his see if there was an ything I could do to h elp. One of feet with the reins in his hands, only on the op m y friends. Sally, also had the sam e idea, so we went posite side of the hurdle to the horse. But the Arab round toge ther. Firstly we had to bath the nine mare and h er young owner jumped a clear round babies and then to feed the four that were b eing without a fault and triumphantly won the Olympic bottle-fed. After this I did a few odd jobs for the Jumping Competition. Sister in ch arge, while Sally h elped fold the linen. PATRICIA COOK, Then the Matron callc cl u s for afternoon tea, so we Junior Public Class, Brisbane. had a little break. Ther e wasn't much to do after that so we went home about five. OUR VISIT TO BRIBIE ISLAND As the days went on more p eople came in but As the sun began to rise a little, we p eep ed under only a few were discharged. By this time most of the blinds of differ ent h ouses. Some p eople wer e the babies we re being bottle-fed because their mo still in the land of Nod ; others had just risen; but in thers also had the 'flu. our house, ever yone was wide awake, as we wer e B y the end of the month there had been about goin g to Bribie Island for three days. llO p eople entered into the District Hospital and Soon we were sp eeding down Bruce Highway, and eight had died , including a little baby of four before Jong we wer e on the diesel barge that was months. Whe n I finish e d my short career as a nurse chugging slowly but steadily across the channel. the number of m en , women and children in the ho ~ Once o n the island, we made haste to our little house pital had greatly diminishe d and the Matron coulcl on the outskirts of the bush. breathe freel y once again. Bribie Island is a sanctuary for wild birds, walla ANNE FARRELL, bies a nd kangaroos. The grounds of our house were Sub-Junior, Claremont. 38 LORETO THE HAZARDS OF CARAVANNING of relief. Jn spite of all mishaps J am still con vinced that it is 1h e best way for a famil~' to have B e ing a veleran of Lhrec caravan trips, 1 feel that a holiday. I am qualified Lo off(•r so111e advice on this suhject ! DEIRDRE ROFE, The ve ry word " caravan11ing" suggests the "simple Leaving Class, Marr yatville. life" - so alluring, so attrac tive, so rPs tfnl, so free - no daily chores. Ah, hut wait, I warn you. A FISHING HOLIDAY The firsl essential is to have the right psychologi cal. approach. ff your idea of a holi1lay is to lounge After travelling two hundre d and four miles south until noon, or late r, in a mounta in of pillows, or, if Lo Augusta, arriving tired and weary, the had ne ws you yearn to sec all those theatre shows you have that the fi sh were scarce made one feel flppressed " unfortunatel y missed" in your home citv, caravan for the firEt day of a fi shing holiday. N e n·rthcless ning is definite ly NOT fo,: you. But, IF . you enjoy the famil y decided to 111akc pre paralions for a fish slee ping on a plank less than two feet wide, and ing expedition in lhc morning. being squeezed into Lhirt y-two square feet, it is just All arose early the next morning and were down the thing for you. at Skippy Rock, one mile north of Cape Le nwin, The caravan is, of course, the next impol'tant con before sunrise. It was ve ry cold and all were well side ration. Though you may be tempted hy the dressed with warm c lothes. The wate r looked cold streamline models with curved enrls, l feelingly re and uninviting. The gulls, which were usuaLl v war commend the square alumin ium ones. Though gla ing round the hay, utte ring the ir war cries, ~ec m c d mourous from without, the curved ones a re trf'acher to know that the best thing to do was to he h ome ous within, as r have cause to remember. Tt was the shelte red from the wind. firn morning of our trip, and I rose quicklv " to We burleycd up. Within a matte r of seeonds 1hc greet the happy morn." Alas! I forgot the ove r water was alive with he rring and othe1· huge fi sh. hanging cupboard. A ll on the mad were filled with excitement and \Vhc n you arc insp ecting a caravan note \veil the hurried to put the ir line in the wale r. As soon as gadgets in the inte rior. A caravan withoul placf's the lines were in the water 1he rc was a stead y move for tins is u sc l e~s . Onr fir ~ ! caravan lacked man y of people towards the fish bags to put th c i~· catch amenities anrl with dire 1·csults. Suffice it to men in safety. All the h e rring seemed lo he at I ractcd lo tion one or two de tails. Being inexpc1·ienced in the the burley as soon as it was put into the waler. ways of caravanning, we JefL an opened tin of con Huge bull herring we re pulled out. For tho 0 e who denPed milk safel y on one of the shelves. Late r, could not throw the ir Jines out far e no ugh for the afte r a delightful drive through mosl inte resting h e rring, huge skipjack we re to be caught within a country, we ope ned the caravan only to be greeted drop of the line. by a white gluti11 om suhstance oozing through the door - the conde nsed milk, of course. Right through When about: four doze n fi sh had lieen caught, the cupboard! enough for m eals for a few days, the hungry family made the ir way home to a large breakfast and lhe Usu ally there is an air vc11t in the roof of the task of clea ning all those fi sh. This was a pleasant ca ravan. B e sure to sec that it is in working order. beginning to a fi shing holiday. Unfortunately, ours jammed and could not he clo sed. That night it raine d - the first time for three ANNA CHRISTINE HEALY, months. The country neede d rain badl y ( we did Sub-Leaving, Loreto, Nedlands. not). Anothe 1· little matter - the halting pl:iccs for STATION PETS the night d1ould he worked out in adv:111 ee and strictly . adhered to. Not hcing a m ethodical famil y, I live on the " Humherl River Station" in the Nor more than once we we re driving around strange the rn Territory. My sister and I have a pie bald pony towns at night "looking for the park. One night in eac h. Her horse is named Bubbles and mine is Lux. particula1· stands out in m y memor y. lt wa ~ late They know u s and love us, hut 1h cv do not like and ve ry dark, so we decided to park a t the side many othe r people. \Ve each have a .liridle, saddle of the road. Pools of water glistened around u s. The and breast plate. Lux likes me because T tlo not hit caravan was pe rc hed at an angle of twentv degrees. him when h e puts his h ead in the feed bin before During the night s ix se mi-traile rs rumbled pasl u s I am ready. Bubbles has a little foal now which we and ther e was frantic grabbing at the side of the hope Lo s~e when we hreak up for the C hrist mas bunks to prevent descent to the floor. holidays. I woulrl a lso advise you to resist the te mpt at ion We ge t alJ the calves 1hat a rc left in the ya rd hv to park in pictureSfJU e spots snch as the bed of a dry the ir mothe rs. Sometimes the mothers co11{e hack , creek. The picturesque can be treacherou s al times. hut very fe w really do. The fi1·s t poddy we had has In our case rain fell and soon we were bogged ; the had three calves. W e have seventy-six goats and some wheels were sinking deeper and deep e r into lhc little kiddie-goats which arc very funnv. l nsuallv mud and the caravan flound e red about hope le:: sl y. milk the goats whe n [ a m home.. . . The young ones were placed in safety on the hank BETTY SCHULTZ, and given order s to pray. Finally - h eartfelt s igh ~ G rade VI, Ma rryatville. 39 LORETO Travellers' Tales WAITING IN ST. PETER'S SQUARE As we stood in the sun in St. P eter's Square on the morning of October 26th, I thought to m y· self: How lucky can you be ! We had just arrived in Rome where we found everyone in a state of excited expectancy, for the Conclave was about to meet for the election of the Holy Father. Christine could not get to St. P ete r's Square rnon enough on the fi mt day of the election. We took up our position there one hour before the smoke sig nal was expected , and we seem ed to be the only in terested spectators in Rome. Jt still seems incred ihle how in less than forty minutes the Square was packe GOODBYE, ENGLAND! "Arcadia." We had a rough passage across the Aus tralian Bight and scores of sharks m et us outside The gallant tugs pulled on the great ropes, the S.S. the entrance to Outer Harbour, but the busy little Arcadia slowly drifted from the quayside and we tugs scared them away. Soon we were in the docks were on our great journey to Australia. The night and our long voyage was over. came on quickly, so, taking our last look at England, EILEEN LAMBERT, we retired to our cabins. Leaving, Marryatville. Two days sailing through rough seas in the Bay of Biscay brought us in sight of Spain, and soon the MEMORY OF AN ENGLISH ABBEY Rock of Gibraltar was silhouetted against the sky Now when I shut my eyes I still can see it, line. Our stay was brief. The native traders were the See it as clearly as I saw it then - highlight of the day. They were selling everything The Abbey, lovely still in desolation, from castanets to rare silks. Three days smooth sa il Smiling at secrets far above my ken. ing on a very blue Mediterranean brought us to the The daisies winking through the shining dew-drops, beautiful Bay of Naples, with sleeping Vesuvius do The little trickling brook meandering by, minating the town and dwarfing the skyscrapers. Shaded by elm, and beech and hazel, The blue of the Mediterranean changed to a light Sharing its secret, smiled to see me cry. green as we approached the statue of Ferdinand de The thrush whose morning hymns re-echoed clearly, Lessep pointing the way through the Suez Canal. Recalling Abbey prayers of by-gone years, The usual swarm of boats piled high with goods Knowing its secret, wondered at my sorrow; for sale, and manned by leather-lunged natives en This Heaven-sent morning seemed no place for tears! livened the routine of docking. The Suez brought MARGARET DURACK, our first real glimpse of the East, as we saw cam el Fifth Year, Kirribilli. caravans of merchandise being led across the sandy wastes by Arab drivers. We by-passed Port Suez and EXCERPTS FROM OUR TRAVEL were soon sweltering in the furnace-like atmosphere of the R ed Sea. A further three days a nd the dirty DIARY brown rocks of Aden, smudged the horizon. Going In 1955 we left \Vestern Australia for our three ashore by motor boat in compara tive coolness of the years abroad. My father was going to establish the evening, we were once again pestered by natives, Migration post in Salzburg and later transfer it to anxious to sell us anything from table mats to arte Vienna. sian wells. The odour in the streets had puzzled us Salzburg is a famous old city where there are until we glimpsed flocks of goats roaming about the many lovely old church es; all is quaint and fascina valleys. ting. We were sorry to leave it after three and a half months ; still we were looking forwa1·d to our time By morning we had run into a monsoon and it in Vienna. was exciting to stand on the top deck and watch the mountainous waves almost swallow the ship. As she W e wer e not disappointed - from the start we plunged through the water, the wash scattered found Vienna wonderful, it had such an atmos shoals of flying fish. Four days of rough sailing phere of warmth, and music. One could not miss found us steaming round the palm-fringed Island of the love and appreciation for music which the Vien Ceylon and h eading for Colombo, which was just nese possess. There was, too, gracious happiness and recovering from a three days deluge of rain. Bril pride in their city. One shared this when standing and looking down the drive of that famous and liant skies heralded our arrival, and we were m et at the port by a naval officer who acted as our beautiful 'Schonbrunn' Palace with its magnificent guide. We watched elephants at work pulling tre approaches, gardens and avenues. The Viennese are m endous loads. We saw ]ions, ti gers, a thirty foot very friendly, and English seem ed to be a second language to them. python and a tortoise the size of a sh eep. We were entertained by snake charmers, and we ate coconut As the education problem was difficult for us in fresh from the palm. Vienna, we were sent to the Convent of the Faith ful Companions in Ware, H ertfordshire. 'Poles' We left Colombo and were soon crossing the Equa which had once belonged to Blessed Margaret Pole tor. The intense h eat did not prevent the ship's com is a very lovely place. pany from holding the "crossing-the-line ceremony" During holidays we saw som e of the beauty spots and King Neptune and Davy Jones delighted u s with of England; we loved the drive through the New their antics. Passing the blue lagoons and coral r eefs Forest, and the old town of Bath cam e up to our of the lonely Cocos I slands, we did not lack company ideas of elegan ce in past days. Strangely enough from porpoises, whales and fl ying fish. in Bath we saw a shop bearing our surname - and A further four days brought us our first glimpse that name spelled correctly! We went to Stratford of Australia as we enter ed Fremantle Harbour. The on Avon, saw Ann Hathaway's cottage, stayed at gangways were lowered and we stepped on to Aus "Th e Swan's Nest" Hotel - the name suited the tralian soil. R ecovering from our surprise at finding place perfectly. ourselves the right way up, we just had time for a Back on the Continent, we visited Venir:e which, visit to Perth before resuming our voyage on the of course, we found full of interest and beauty. 42 LORETO Southern A ustria - Carinthia was one of our very A TRIP TO THE BARRIER REEF special favourites. The scenery is grand; mountains After a week in Mack ay we embarked for the and Jakes, vilJages of another age, sh eltered in val Cruise. Three small ships go out, each taking twenty leys, far off the beaten track even in this car-minded cight passengers. They were submarine chasers dur age. ing the war, and have been splendidly converted to Once we travelled by car from Bologne to Paris, pleasure yachts. It is a family affair, the name on through Nancy to Strassbourg where we stayed Roylen being a contraction of the owners' names. overnight. The next day we travelJed along the au Roy and Helen. Captain Tom McLean is in com tobahn to Munich. Another time we went through mand of " Roylen I " on which I travelled, his son Brussels to Luxembourg, always seeing so much and takes " Roylen 11" and a nephew has " Roylen Star." storing happy memories. They a1·e comfortable and clean, the food is good Many interestin g visits must be passed over - the and everyon e concen1 ed , from the Captain down to one to Bertschesgarden and "The Eagles Nest," the the galley boy, combined to make the trip the original White Horse Inn, in Wolfgansec, twelve memorable cruise it was. Nothing was a trouble. miles from Salzburg - Heidelburg with its glorious After about two hours in the open sea, we sighted fountains with sprays of coloured water - and all many small islands, and we were actually in the Ba1· the delights of Vienna - the Operas and the Opera rier R eef passage. Our first port of call, and the last, House - the Vienna Boys' Choir in their own su was Brampton I sland, where we went ashore for a perb setting - the Spanish riding horses - you can while and had a swim. I was enchanted with it, and guess w e were very r eluctant to leave all this charm was very happy to know I was to have a fortnight of the Old World and Lake a train for Amsterdam there after the cmise, but more about this little on the first stage of our homeward trip in January Eden later. Nobody is allowed ashore without sand of this year. But shall we be misunderstood when shoes. All these islands, and there are hundreds of we say that our biggest thrill was the sight of Sydney them , are coral, and the r eefs are exposed at low Bridge with its beautiful promite that soon we would tide and the coral is like needles. W e even wore our be really h om e in Perth. sandshoes wading in the shallow water. There are ELIZABETH and PATRICIA MEMBREY, also many queer creatures whose sting means death Junior Class, Nedlands. or paralysis. The most deadly and repulsive of all is the stone fish, and it has perfect camouflage - pieces of cora] , seaweed and sh ells stuck on it. It A NIGHT SCENE IN HONG KONG looks exactly like any othe r piece of rock on the From the floating restaurant, where I am dining reef. this evening, the little island looks like a crown, That evening we came to a lovely sh eltered an with the coloured lights as its jewels. The lilt of the chorage only a few hunilred yards from Goldsmith Chinese fi shermen drifts to my ears, as I enjoy Island, which is uninhabited and densely wooded. my delicious Chinese ~ hark '~ fin soup. The three Roylens m et each evening, and it was lovely to see them like great white swans at rest On the shore line of the harbour is a ring of on the water, just at sunset. It was all there - brilliant lights, above which are the l ess vivid lights everything I had read of tropical islands. Emerald of the residential areas on the hillside. These be isles, sapphire sea, golden beach es, burning blue come sparser as they fade away into the stars. Then c.k y, velvet night, blazing stars and wh ispering palm there are the lights from the nume rous ships in the trees; but nowhere did I read or imagine such utter harbour which also add to this fairy-like scene. peace. Not a sound anywhere after the three anchors Sitting here, I listen to Chinese Opera sung on a splashed down. The water cryEtal clear and still, anrl wireless, and this brings back lo my m emory the as the sun went down in a go1den haze, it was sud opera I saw a few nights ago. It was a wonderful denly night. The Ji ghts from the Ehip fanned out production, so different from European operas, and ove1· the minor of black glass w ith dramatic effect, so ve ry noisy. The orchestra, consisting of a violin, and the green and red navigation lights seemed like dmms, flute, cymbals accompanied the singers, who scattered jewels. 1 stayed on deck a long while that were nearly all sopranos. The singi ng was difficult night, and by d egrees the ships' Jights went out, leav to understand, because it was sung in a dialect not ing the brilliant r eflection of the stars. It was a su spoken in Hong Kong. The loveliest part of the preme moment really, and I thought of the millions opera is the costuming, made of material h eavily of tiny crnatures who built up there bcautifu] islands beaded in vivid colours. and reefs, and the birds bringing growth to them. I felt that surely here was the peace and mystery But my thoughts have drifted from my sampan of creation itself, with God made manifest. restaurant! They no lon ger dwell on opera music, glittering lights, refl ected on the harbour and the WHITSUNDAY PASSAGE delicious sh ark's fin soup. I am thinking of the con The next day we entered the Whitsunday Passage, trast forty miles away in Communist China. I hope passing hundreds of islanJs, and breathtaking scenes the " Bamboo Curtain" does not fall on this p eace of unforgettab]e beauty. Everywhere one looked ful scene. there was some thing Jovcl y to see. I imagined the ANGELA GARDNER, Barrier Reef l s1ands as a long cha in of low coral Junior Public, Brisbane. islands extending many humlred miles, but they are 43 LORETO mostly mountainous, and the effect is that of moun HAYMAN ISLAND tain Jake country - one p eak rising behind the Then on e night we reached the millionaire para other. Some of us used to get up early and be on dise, Hayman Island. I dislike the current word deck to sec the sunrise ever y day. It was well worth " fa bulous," but it really is the only one to do jus the effort, and a wonderfu I experience. The hostess tice to Hayman. It was a lovely night, c1 ear, warm brought our morning tea there, and we did enjoy it. and still. The jetty is very long and there is a train, Some part of every day the Captain would anch'Jr, a very gay affair, painted in r ed and white stripes, and then we fi sh ed off deck. The lines wer e all all of its two carriages. The gau ge is about eighteen read y and baited for us. We had fresh fish every day, inches, and the tiny thing jolts along with much and I have n ever seen such a variety of colour, size noise and m any stops. They call it " the spirit of and beauty. The cornl trout, parrot fi sh, r ed lip, red protest." Leaving the je tty the line winds through emperor arc so brilliantly coloured, they look quite beautiful bushland, and strings of lights are car artificial. ried from tree to tree, the effect being enchanting. Some of the m en had rod and reel , and they Eventually and thankfully, we arrived at "Wynyard caught great game fish such as grope r - like young Station," a tiny platform massed with lovely flower sharks. The parrot fi sh by the way is pretty, right ing shrnbs., which is actualJy the entrance to the to the end. One haE, a pi le of blue bones on the vestibule of the Hotel. From then on it was Holly plate ! I onl y h ad one catch, but it was a big R ed wood. All the furnishings and fittings are ultra mo Emperor - one of the crew had to land it for me. dern in style and colouring, the lighting effects be T he scales are bright red and nearly an inch wide. ing really lovel y. The ceiling in the baJlroom was There is q uite an industry throughout the islands, studded with coloured electric stars and the dressing making lovel y flower s and trinkets from them. could have been that of some important function. lt was so lovely rniling through these quiet places. W e spent the evening the 1·e, and returned in the Groups of islands and fascinating glimpses• of ex morning to have a swim in the pool. It is a beauti quisite little bays and no human habitation. As I ful one lined with azure blue tiles in a garden set said hefot· e, most of them are mountainous, and ting, with tables, chairs and lounges all very brightly year s ago the Government planted coconuts, and put coloured. The whole effect was wonderful. Whoever goats and pigs on the islands which had natural wa planted the gardens must be an artist. The1·c are ter, and most of them have those wonderful clear such lovel y contrasts - a mass of yellow near some springs. It is very treacherous for navigation, and exotic purple shrub, and neub y an exquisite blue there used to be many wrecks, Eo the trees provi flowet· with a background of trees in full bloom, all ded food and she lter, and the animals could be scarlet. I was very plea E'C d to see Hayman, but I eaten, and life could be sustained for quite a long would not like Lo stay there, although the bedrooms time. It was strange to see these little white dots are lux urious and beautifully furnish ed and most of moving over the mountain tops. All the places we them have glorious views. For one thing the re is too visited were lovely. Hayman, Blacksmith and Tho much dressing for anyon e wanting a completely r es t mas, and then Lindeman which is1 a very popular ful holiday, and the gt·eat lack on Hayman is fresh tourist r esort, and is one of the loveliest of them. We water. A certain amount is alJowed in the bedrooms, spent quite a while ther e, swimming, reefing and ga other than that, they charge sixpence a glass' for it, thering shelJs. We also took the oppot·tunity of wri and only salt water showet·s. I can assure you, after ting home, as they have an air mail service. spending a day out on the reefs, swimming or hi king, the thought of a warm shower of fresh water THE CORAL SEA is sheet· bliss. It seems incredible that a resort such Opposit e Lindeman is Seaforth I sland, with· a as Hayman, d eveloped on an island (one of the few) beach of gleaming white powdered coral. It was without a good water supply. They have ever y mo h er e the Queen and Prince PhiJlip had their fa dern appliance and comfort imagi nable - their own mous picnic day. It really looked like a picture airstrip, telephone to any part of the world, good from Hans Andere.on fairy tales. During the war communication b y sea to the mainland, but they Lindeman was the Ame rican H .Q., and General cannot give you a fresh wate r shower. MacArthur's yacht "Shangri-la" was brought by the managemen L Between these islands and Hamilton BARRIER REEF and Long, is a huge area where the ships gathered for the Battle of the Coral Sea. None of these islands, The Captain told us that as the weather reports except Hayman, has a jetty, but we soon became were excell ent, a nd the tide better than it had been quite used to (a) wading ashore, (b) swimming for three months, h e was taking us right to the outer ashore or (c) be ing carried ashore ! It was great fnp Barrier R eef, which is not often done. It is open sea and everyone was carefree and happy. We made there, of cout·se, and needs p erfect tide, wind and weather. W e wer e vet·y fortunate. As it m eant an ~ hort stops at Pine, Long and Dent I slands, and all early start, evct· yon e was in bed very early and some the way more beautiful vistas opened up. The varie~y in shades of green was amazing, and the ever chang where about half past five the engines woke u s up ing colour of the water was fascinating - Em me and we were off to Barrier. times deep blue or: emerald green, silver, and often The tide was perfect, only about six inch es of quite black, the variety being due mostl y to the water ovet· the r eef and very clear. We wandered coral reefs and garden s. over the reef and fonnd 80111 e beautiful eh ells, and 44 LORETO saw some wonderful liule marine creatures; but the The soft corals wer e lovely too, just waving about great moment was going out in glass bottomed boats gently. W e also saw some beautiful clams with their to see the coral gardens. W e were all completely coloured mantles, blue, green or brown. T here was speJlbound. The boat drifted slowly over masses of a huge starfish spread out on the sea bed - it was coral of many colours. Blue, red, green and mauve. really a wonderful sight on the white powdered One huge area of coral was the colour and shape of coral. Hundreds of fi sh wer e darting in and ou t of lavender. One exquisite " tree" of blue coral was the glorious coral gardens - all beautifully coloured, tipped with white and had a little yellow spot in the but one was not any shade at all; he was quite trans centre. It looked like blue candles alight. The r ed parent, with a touch of yellow on his tail. coral was lovely and there is a vai·iety called "organ ENID D'ARCY GOLDRICK, coral," which is exactly like the pipes of an organ. P ast-Pupil, Normanhurst. Fiction THE SNAIL WHO SOUGHT BEAUTY The Vene rable was rudely awakened from sleep up, behold the vision," thought h e. But they laughed by an uncouth dewdrop dropping from the bush al him and let him potter on his way. above onto his snail she ll. Crossl y he bumbled and On one of those sunny days, when h e was inspired blinked his head out, gave a snail snort, then anew, and went forth with yet greatei· zeal, his little stretched and yawned. But he was caught half way ; eye shone and his heels kicked a little, and he smi for out of the corne r of his eye h e saw a vi ~ ion. led to himself. Suddenly, a monstrous bii·d swooped Above him, far above, there hung as if susp ended down on him, his beak stretch ed open. The Vener by some immortal thread . .. could it be ? .. . no ... able hid only just in time under a leaf and with but yes . .. a d ead Hollyhock. drew into his shell. When the bird had passed over, The old snail, slightly grey about the feelers, and he eme rged, shattered and trembling, once more a chipped about the sh ell, gazed up in wonder. There doddei·y old grey snail. came to him, in that moment, the r evelation of his Y et h e struggled on, badly unnerved as h e was; life. This was why he had been creat.ed. The time his crack ed sh ell had lost its shine, his feet drag was now come. Hidden from hint for so long, now it ged, and his eyesight was failing, until h e saw at the was manifest before him - the true beauty that had end of a twig on his right - the hollyhock. But the been his life-long quest. . way looked hard, the twig rugged. It hung, a glorious mixture of moist r ed p etal As he set out along it, two soldier beetles who were and dry chipped fringe, almost velvet in texture, its passing, snapped to attention and saluted him, at exquisite drooping form silhoue tted against the which his h eart grew lighter. dawn sk y. Along the treach e rous twig h e went, not daring Without more ado, the Venerable set out on the lo look forward or back, up or dow11 , until a t last journey - the journey h e knew would p erhaps Lake he reached the flowe r. Trembling in anticipation, his lifetime, for h e was old and could no longe r tra h e slowly raised his head, almost in fear of the v i vel with the sp eed of his youth. Slowly, h e made his sion h e was to behold. A swarm of bees were buzz way across the grass, over stones, down furrows, and ing around him, a dizziness swept over him ... around the primroses; and when a few days h ad This was not his hollyhock ; it was alive, too bright passed, h e arrived at the foot of the hollyhock. H e a r ed, it did not droop. was weary but did not pause for rest. On h e went, H e was trying to r ecollect his sense, when at once starting the great climb up the ste m. he caught sight of his fl ower just a bove him. Alas, h e m e t with many hazards. On the first day And so, he turned and re traced his ste ps until he pauced for a moment on one of the lower leaves, he cam e at last to the top of the stem. There, but a but it was dead, and with a crackle and rustle h e few paces away, hung the hollyhock. fell from the plant. H e fell, h owever , the right way " Oh, h eavenly Muse, witness this m y life and up, and despite the shock began to climb once more, beauty . . . " undaunted. H e stood in that moment, glorified, resplendent, But there were his fellow snaiJq further to hinder a golden glow enshrining him. Thus life left him ; him. They wer e constantly pass ing him, or stopping the hollyhock sagged and snapped from the o ld stern him with idle chatter ; " Good day, indeed!" " Fine and snail and !"lower fell to the grass below. It was walking weather! " " O brethren moJluscs, poor mis enough . guided souls, do you nol know what you are doing, PHILIPP A McCLELLAND, where you are going? Why you were cr eated? Look Matriculation, Toorak. 45 LORETO THE GARDEN Oh yes ! it is a silent night and a holy night. It was one of those luxuriously lazy days of sum Now like the snow, when it first touch es the mer, when all the world catches the mood and lies earth, H e "sleeps in h eavenly peace ... sleep s m in happy sluggishness. heavenly peace." ROSEMARY JOSEPHSON, The cicadas at first were the only forces to resist. The chorus of rattling, throaty clicking was swelling Sub-Junior, Brisbane. and falling, changing from gallop to skip, but al ways the same. A louder voice thrust in, puffed out AN EPISODE IN TWO PARTS with self-bestowed authority, over-ruling his indus trious, persistent brothers in a momentary burst NORTH: a raucous triumph. But like a tyrant h e died away, A warm harmonious glow of numerous clocks and and the body of the chorus continued impassively, dials ; a feeling of well-be ing in the lighted air unaware of interruption. craft cockpit where the Captain's steady voice is The trees stood in m editation, their antelered tuning into port. branches e tched in black against infinite depths of Favourable weather r eports, flight plan completed, blue. cockpit lights off. Suddenly the air awakened. H eat and indolence Above in the blue-black sk y a million million were banish ed. The shrub leaves with their p eeping gleaming stars and a quarter moon, throw light, lace-edged petticoats stood on tip-toe. They fluttered purify and whiten fleeting nimbus stratus : And then archly in reply to the flatter y of their awaited part - praised be the Creator! For what more beauti ner - the wind. At first set a-quiver with excited an ful than this rift in the white, and 8,000 feet below, ticipation, they became quiet, graver. I s it the effect stretching endless - our Great \V estern Coast, and of experience ? There was only a fleeting light there, gleaming silver, Hammelin Pool, broken b y a heartedness. silhouette of Hartog Island; and to the east, Aus The young dainty hibiscus in her pink, is shy as tralia's rugged edge. she gazes on the activity. Her wide-open innocence Suddenly all the dream-like quality of this night is not struck into awareness by the dashing, h eart flight gives way to nightmare r eality back in the less partner. Sh yly sh e withdraws then trustingly chaotic cabin. presents h er dear blooming freshness to the world again. SOUTH: The grey, grave ti-tree looks on, nodding in sym pathy. How well she r em embers. So short a time Clocks and dials are bouncin g about, boxes and since sh e, arrayed in white, was caught in those im cases are slipping and jumping; the air-radio is petuous, whirling embraces. H e caresses h er now in letting out a stream of ear-shattering screams ; streak s passing as a charmingly forgetful son. of lightning in horizontal and rake-like parallels change the solid black outside to cumbersome gi PAMELA ROBERTS, gantic blue-white threatening masses. In front, to the Leaving Class, Nedlands. sides, and up from below, like crazily flashing Neon signs the lightning strikes about, leaving a trail of r ed flames where it comes in contact with the earth. A SOUND IN THE NIGHT The aircraft is tossed about like a leaf in an (Written by A H ermit On A Hill) Autumn gale. Hail on the outer aluminium of our It is dark where I sit now, and very quiet. The giddy world, in a thundering roar, d eaden s all other silence is all around me, pressing and closing m e in sound. The sp eedometer does a jig in leaps and - a h eavy silence, a painful silence, a silence that is lurches from 50 feet to 300 feet. H er e in the cock like the aching sound of distant, throbbing drums. pit two m en wear one countenance of grim deter It is night, a night cold and dark. mination; as though bewitched and as in fascina tion they steer their charge on into the stormy "Silent night, Holy night, all is calm, all is quiet." night. Now I can see a few lost snowflakes creeping to the earth and very softly brushing the darkness. They JULIANA MILLER, com e at first slowly, but they are now quickening Leaving Class, N edlands. more and more, and what was once just a softly gentle brushing, is becoming the pressing of drops on the quivering calm of night. MASS ON SUNDAY "Silent night, Holy night, all is calm, all is quiet." Seven-year-old Helen: "Mummy, is the Queen a Catho lic?" But lo! what is this? A babe has com e into the world with the first snows, come like a sound in the Mother: "No, dear." night. A small h eavenly babe has com e to a cruel, Helen (thoughtfully): "I think it is just as well ... harsh world - come into the waiting arms of a She would have to get off the throne every Mother, in a stable at Bethleh em. Sunday." 46 PREFECTS LEFT to R IG ll T: .\lelanie Burnett, Anne · ~tarie J ohn stone, S ue 11 yde, J\f ary Do nne ll y, Chr istine BurLe ( ll ead l'rcfect ), J ill Aldis, Anne Devine, Ca1·ol l lolt, R osalind Hat cman. J\ llSENT: Geraldine Shelton, J\J argaret \\ "a l ~h , I l_eather Gannon. LEAVING CLASS 1959 BAC K ROW: l.yne tte Earl, J enmfer Guig-11i, Catherin..: JJ.1v 1dson, Julie ll anlima11, Maureen l\t ooney, I l c le 11 tv1or rane, .Mary Donn e ll y, fl.laq:raret Ourack, Ji ll .- \ !d i~. SECOND ROW : Dia na A l le n, Vivienne Sark:-;, Jen nifer 11 ind, R obyn Row land, l\ 1 ari ly n Schof:eld, T oni Shiels, M ary Eliza lH' th ll o ran, Pauline Prc 11 - clerua st, An ne \\' illiams. FRO:'>IT RO\\" Jnlia l! v n w, H. obvn 11 enn·, n osalincl Bakeman, Carol If oft , .\I e la11ie nu r n e11, Ch ri s tine l"!urkc, Anne Devi 11e, Susan ll yde, Anne Marie John !--to11 c, -1.csley \\ a11g-man. ABSENT: I leather Gannon, i\I arg-aret \\'alsh, Geraldine Shelton. FOURTH YEAR, 1959 llACK RO\\': Toni Rolfe, \lar~ar et J lo nner, 1 le len Lourey 1 Sue Dick son, Judy \\'yndham, Elizabeth lJartlett, Pam I larclyma11, Gene vieve Demeulemeester, .\I arg-aret Stubbs, L o uise Reg-an. S TAND I NG : Christ ine l11g-li s, Do1·othea .\l cCleery, .\l oya 0'~1ara, Anne Marie Dwyer, .Astrid K elly, Therese M cCaffer y, Jean Sou1ho11, Barbara de M eur, A11net te J lea ney, J oseph ine O' ll a11l o n, :\faureen O' ll anlon, Sue .Rich. SEATED: ll ele11 :\l a"uire, f rene Palo tas, ?1.1' ar,1:raret Power, ~tar- garet \\'arcl, Jennifer Newton, Aneva Borthwick, Philomena Papallo , Vicki ~I c Evoy, Patricia R eill y, ~ l aureen Scott, Elizabe th S ullivan, Anne ~ 1 awso11. FRONT RO\\' : Julia1111 i.- O'Neill, L oui~e Clapin, Anne T.oug-hlancl, Elizabeth Sheerin, Deirdre lh1rke, J ennifer Day. A TIS E NT : Beatrice Ratcman, Joanne Burton, l'anicia Ertr11gey. LORETO CONVENT, KIRRIBJLLI , .S.W . 47 LORETO CONVENT, KIRRIBILLI, N.S.\V . (Names on P. 52) 48 TOP - FIRST YEAR IlACK RO\V: -J\ l o na Nancarrow, Jane Blair, Sally Callen, Geraldine H e rbert, !Vl ar,.~aret H awke, Denise \\.hitty, S uzan ne Uoylc, ~1al ana H ickey, Helen Perkins, Veronica Emer~o11. 1\l l DDLE RO\V: ~[a r y Graydon, Geraldine Tracy, Dianne J\ l aguire, Kancye H arper, Anne-i\larie !\ l e Luckie, Clover Colli11:-;, S11san Rowe, Susan Cashmore, Su ~ an U radley, Marianne Ka posy, Denise Perrottet. FRONT RO\\.. Lesley Ri c h, 1': ari11 Skoglund, Jetmy Chan, Ann Parmentier, Carolyn Nyse11 . Patricia Huckly, Dominica T.ieu1e11a11t , !\rarg-aret M-ary Kidman , De n ise Plas to, P at ri c ia Leonhard, Jill !vl acnaught. ATIS IC:N T : Coll een Shelton. BOTTOM - FIRST YEAR BACK RO\\. : i\f. English, K . Coll in s, C. Tiurke, L. Frase r, P. T.erge ~s 11er , J. Burkitt, J. Trainor, P. Da voren. V'. Spence, S. \\ 'at~on, S. Y oung, S . Stokes. MTDDLE RO\\' : N . L ou1.d1la11d, J. Staunton, T . Clarke, II. iv1cD ona1d 1 E. A r on~te n , C. Coady, S . .MuJl aly, A. nuckingham, R. 1-\:n ight, K. Milne, S. ll olt. FRO~T RO\\': K . Green, M. Gardi11er, G. Amerio. D. !\ l nrrow, C. Clarke, C. M cCleery, ·11 . Shann on. ABSENT: J. Allen, l. D' Ab rem, G. O'Donnell. LORETO CONVENT, KIRRIBILLI, N.S.W. 49 LORETO CONVENT, KIRRIBILLI, N.S.W. (Names on P. 52) 50 LORETO CONVENT, KIRRIBILLI, N.S.W. (Names on P . 52) 51 LORETO LORETO, DAWSON STREET, BALLARAT, Vl CTORl A (See Photo P . 10) TOP - SECOND YEAR AND SUB-INTERMEDIATE FRONT ROW : R. Barry, I'. Thomas, D. Gemmola, J . Brayb1 ook, B. R osmalcn, L. L akey, D. D obbi e, C. Tomkin , D. Taylo r, J. Morri son, P . v\.illiams, E . Cooke. SECOND ROW: J . Diamond, A. White, P. Edwards, M. Stout, E . K ennedy, F. Keating, M. Scott, L. Emery, K. Coug h lan, S. Upmalis, I'. Roc hfo rd. Tll LRD ROW : JI. Kell y, M. Cleary, S. O'Neil, J. Bryant, M. Woo lard, C. R yan, K. O'S u ll ivan, C. R yan, L. Burton, C. Evans. DACK RO\\': F . Taffe, E. Jl e i11 en, Jl. 13 ootsman, L. L ooken, A. Vi sse r ~ , I.. ll anrahan, P. S tapleton, M. va n ]l aandel, K \Vaterhouse. ABSENT: 1. Upmalis, C. Duggan . LORETO CONVENT, KIRRIBILLI, N.S.W. TOP - INTERMEDIATE CLASS (See Photo P. 48) DACK RO\V: I::. Simpson, S. llc:d die, ] I. Simpson, 1'1. Nelson, 11. Finn, P. Sherl ock, R. R owe, T. P rendergast, J . .M cD onough, J. O'Flahartie. TH I RD ROW: C. 1\:lagney, T. Bo la nd, V. Sarks, 11. Dennett, G. R yan, M. Riddington, D. J ohnsto n, G. H ickey, G. Shannon, K . Tracey, J\l.. C. Beckman. SECOND ROW : P . W atson, M. Fealy, M. Donoghoe, H . B eato n, H. Vernon, I'. Leonard, C. Earl, M. Wilson, L. Murphy, M . McGinty, G. ~:f c Kin s tr y , A. Donnelly. l, RONT ROW: V. Bagot, E. Gall ery, S. Duncan, H. Dive r, H . Divine, M. D'abrera, P. Sida way, N. B yrne, J . S tinson. ABSENT: R. Creagh, l\1. Gannon, P . S he lton. BOTTOM - SECOND YEAR DACK R O \ V: E. Shaw, E. Skipper, P. J lo Imes, J. Ford, C. Cahill, Il. R ei ll y, S. Parmentier, P. Scott-Yo ung, E. R ud wick, B. George. SECOND ROW: J. McDonald, C. Campey, K. Nagy, G. Sutherland, R. Murphy, E. Shannon, i\l.. Owen, L. Shiel s, L. Clinch, E . Spies, C. Strong, A. B owne, M. Courtenay. T 111 RI) RO \ V: C. 1-lellm rich, P. \\'a t son, C. Scott, E. .Matthews, J. \ Val sh, R . Yew Ballarat is renowned for the musicians it has en red bangle and a r ed bracelet. If you go Lu Neder tertained and the music it has fostered. The annual land in Spring you will see fields full with tulips; "South Street Competitions" attract entries from all it is a lovely sight. ove r Australia and the high standard is r ecognised The Capital, Amsterdam, is in Noord-Holland, one by many. of the eleven provinces. Amsterdam is the place The most prominent of Ballarat's features is the wher e I was born and lived until we came to Au s remarkable educational system it has attained, in tralia. In Nederland there is a place wher e Delph is proportion to the size of the city. There are a num found. In 1953 one of the Nederland Provinces was be r of secondary, primary and technical schools, flooded with water; it's name is Zeeland; its capi while the r ecently-built T each er s' College has at tal is Midelburg. Zeeland is made of little islands. tracted many entrants. The Queen 's name is Juliana. H er Palace is in Soes The city itself is quite industrial though not in dyk. She has four children , their names are B eatrix dustrial looking. Ther e are many important indus (19), Erene (17 ), Margreit (15 ) and Maryke (12). tries, including the Sunshine Biscuit Factory, the I love my Country. Abbatoirs, Villiers Engineering Works, Paper Mills, VERA BEVERS, Brick Works, Pipe Works, Woollen Mills and Tim Grade VI, Marryatville. kins Engineering Works. (Lately arrived from Holland.) B y writing this essay, I have endeavoured to show that Ballarat - our "Gard en City of the South" - THE TWIG is well worth visiting esp ecially if you love an in The lightning flashed as I stepped out on the moor. vigorating climate ! ANN SMURTHWAITE, And in the fierce howling wind, (15) , Mary's Mount. The trees seemed to be lonely things silhouetted in the blackness of the sky. AFTER THE RAIN Why had God made them so desolate, Pitted them against the hatred of the winds? Ever ything was c1 can and bright, rain drops glis Why? - the word went beating like the rain, tened everywhere. All along the fences tiny drops Until I saw the solitary little twig upon the last most clung to the wire, logs wer e slippery and shiny, the twisted tree. current was strong and the river was up. It had just In all the wild fury of the storm finish ed raining. Not muc h had fallen , only wha t Nothing could break it, they call a sun-showe r and the sun was filtering Although the torrents drowned it, the wind rattled it through the wet leaves. All was clean and fresh as hour by hour; I stood there watching, watching all these things. Was it a symbol of hope? I felt lonely and yet happy in a sad sort of a way, There is in anything, no matter how small strangel y left out of things standing up there watch The power to endure, to resist anything no matter ing the river and trees and birds sharing the won how vast; derful feeling, h ~ aring, them all whisp ering and Let storms rage around me - ch attering a bout the latest shower. Birds on the 1 know that that little twig holds the mystery branch es stood a3 if on their toes and shook the To stand, to endure, drops from their fea the rs and flew across the rays As it stood and conquered the night. of the sun ; and I watched them , envying them be And it seemed to me that Someone had shown it how cause of their powe r to fly a way for miles and miles to endure, on end. And, mightiest of all, way up in the h eaven s, Someone had shown it how to be strong as He is strong. was the eagle soaring round in circles perhaps watch JILL LARKINS, ing its nest or searching for prey or even basking ( 15 ), Toorak. in the sun. All these things cam e to life after the rain, trees became greener, the river flowed more quickly, the THE PINES OF "OSBORNE" birds sang and whistled after their re treat before I miss the pine trees, straight and tall, the rain and the farme r thanked God for his That grew against the highway wall. blessing. We hardly valued them at all MARGARET HILL, Until we knew they had to fall. Intermediate, Toorak. A learned man had pointed out T'h at they wer e dead, or just about; MY COUNTRY This meant the branches they must lop My country Nederland is very fl at ; its mam ani And so they started from the top. mal is the cow ; its main flower is the Tulip. lr.i F·ive men , they set about the task, Nederland the national costume for m en is a black And sawed and chopped until, at last, cap, a red dotted cloth around his n eck , a black Only stumps and chips with autographs suit, klock s, and golden buttons around the waist. Remained to tell us of the past. The ladies wear a white hood with two golden buttons SUSAN CONNOLLY, on it, a black dress with a white apron on Lop, a 1st Year, Claremont. 57 LORETO The Hoine Circle phones and typewriters." June thinks " that house wives should use the creative talent they possess, rather than try to find outside ente rtainment, provi ded that their hobbies don't get the upper hand." June k eep s up affectionate connections with the nuns who taught h er at Lore to, Toorak. THE KITCHEN It was about 6 o'clock - a1most tea time one wintry night when I realised how wonderful a kit chen is. Outside it was pitch black. I could h ear the wind howling around the house and the trees groaning in agony. A thin, watering moon p eep ed timidly from behind huge black clouds every now and again, but inside the kitche n the atmospher e was completely differ ent. Mum was busily cooking the m eal. The whole room was warm and cosy and I could sm elJ the roast in the oven ; an appetising smell of searnning and gravy and my mouth watered. Suddenly, I r ealised that the who]e family was congregated in the kitch en. Brian was sitting at the table reading the H era]d, while P eter leaned against the frig. with his hands deep in his pock ets. H e was MRS. JUNE WRIGHT (at home) staring fixedly at the warm red glow of the k ero sen e h eater and there was a contented smile on his JUNE WRIGHT lips. P erhaps h e was thinking of the roast lamb or \Vh en June ]cft Lore to Convent, Toorak, after ma maybe h e was thinking about his latest girl, any· tric ulating with honours neady twenty years ago, sh e way h e looked comple tely at peace. h ad no thought of becoming a writer of thri11er s. Dad was standing with his back against the oven She lives in Melbourne with h er husband and six door and I could see that h e was enjoying the ch ildren - an very proud of h er. H er eldest son, warmth coming from it as h e puffed on his beloved P a trick, who is studying French for Matriculation, pipe. Mum was stirring the tomato soup at the stove ho pes to 5ecure a French copy of his mother's book, and the r edness of it reflected on h er motherly face . "Murder at the T elephone Exchange." Sh e began How happy sh e look ed as I poured out to her all to write this when Patrick was a year old - writing that had happen ed during the day and clicked my in longhand with the baby very often on h er knee. fingers in time to the hit parade. H utchinsons of London publish ed it, and they re It was then that I knew that a kitch en 1s the m ain h er publish er s. She has recently written her most friendly, warm and excitinl! room in a home. fourth m ys ter y story, " R eservation for Murder." MARIA LIGHTFOOT, In an artic1e we r ead r ecently in the Me1bourne (16) , Toor ak. Age, we saw many interesting 1itt1e bits about June. " The money sh e receives for h er books is used for SAILOR different things around the home, which the whole When a young bundle of fur and fury was deli fami]y can enjoy. The kitchen was renovated after vered into Dad's hands, nobody dreamt that it would h er first book was publish ed. And since h er last be the second best dog that we have ever harl. This book was on the bookstalls she has had sliding doors litt]e black and white pup was already named when p u t in the living-room . . ." How can she look after h e arrived, "Sailor." Now h e is the boss of the dogs six children and find time for writing? " That's one and, of course, h e is Dad's favourite. H e is just an of the gr eatest mysteries," says June. She adds that ordinary dog with sharp features and a very rough bein (I; a wife and mother is great fun, and that wri coat patterned in black and white. He has big fept ting a]ways comes second. Music is an interest which and lacks one toe. they an share. Mother plays the piano, father ~he Sailor is a very good worker with the sheep, but violin, and Tony the r ecorder. And the rest hke h e can become cantankerous and wild. When he is community singing. out with sh eep Dad has only lo give a whistle or " H ousewives can train them se1ves to write against make signs with his hands and Sailor does ever ything a n oisy back ground, in the same way as business he is told. If h e hears a shot from a gun h e races off girls ]earn to concentrate against the noise of te1 e- and sulks behind a bush . 58 LORETO Once when a workman had one of his dogs, Ruby, sh e might not know m e but sh e welcomed me with in the pens, Sailor was off the chain and, as u sual, a whinny and I enjoyed m y ride and h er tame ways he raced round and round the dog-yard and p ens, with others that day. barking at those inside. Ruby got furious and so the Mitzi knew how to get out of stables anil yards two had a brawl. Somehow Sailor shove SUB-JUNIOR l3ACK RO\\": C. \\'at so n, J. Ridley, N. C larke, J. C larke, J. Bussanich, S. \\.iese, J.:. O'l lare, I'. Daly Smit h, S. \\"ells, .\ I. Curran. S E CO:\ [) RO\\. : J. Va lc11tine, T. E11 gcl b recht, J. de Rooy, ~ I. ~l c ll ugh, 0 . Daly, L. l\ I ilcs, .i\1. l1 rcn11an, \'. S l,cet , :\ I. Burgi11 . A. n~}; ;~ ~lerlHf\1 · : l ;~;: r o lt'. ~- g- ue, D. Sull ivan, K. Lumsden , A. Ho urke, A . Farrell , P. \\'1·ight, l I . ~ I c Cu>ker, A . Ros !' iter, K. Fowler, C. \\"yatt, E. R yan. AilS l'NT: IL Drake· lhockman, J. Lavan, J\ 1. La11 ig-a11 1 L. .Mc ~ 1 aho 11, H. Page. FORM III BACK l ~O \\ . . Y . A101 oine, ~ I. O'Jl alloi-a 11 1 S. l.0 11 g, 1 .. llackett, J. Haynes, T. Atkinson, D. Gly nn, ~L \\ihee le r, V. Brc 1111 a 11 , C. \\'il kinso11, E. J en :-; c11. SECOND RO\\': N. B ourne, J. Glynn, C. Bridg-wood, E. Ahern , B. Stewan, C. O 'Neil. THIRD RO\\" : ~ I. O' ll oll o ran, R. O'J-l a ll oran, ~ I. La ABSE:-JT: ~l. l.ad11er, ~f. L ee, P. 1\£.c~ f aho n, G. T o wnsend, J. Healey. LORETO CONVE IT, CLAREMO T, W.A. 61 BOTTOM LEFT - CLASSES I, II and BOYS BACK RO\\': E. Moody, L. Seward, M. Bahen, T . Simper, S. Seward, D. Farrelly, A. Mahoney, M. Hawke, J. Farrelly, T. Bahen. MIDDLE RO\\': .\f . Seward, P. Murphy, P. Delfs, D . Hammond, P. f>unphy, M. Ahern, P. Cocks, G. \\'oodham, R. :\ettleton, ~1. L. Lobascher. FRO:\T RO\\. : A . .\fc:\'amara, J. Keely, E. Saint, J. Tilley, ~f.. Hadfield, S. Hopkins, J. Bellemore, P. Simper, R. Moody. ABSENT: T. Tilley, C. Gallagher, S. Smith, P. Smith, M . Penington. TOP RIGHT - JUNIOR PUBLIC CLASS BACK RO\\': E. Collins, M. Borbas, J . Keenan, S. Glynn, B. \ Viese, M. Maunsell , J. Lloyd, A. Hindley, R. Hayes, D. Cocks. SECOND ROW: C. Mac D ougal, !\. Connell, C. Pozzi, J. Cuming, H. Haines, T . H ughes, J . Beckett, J . Flynn, L. Logue, J. H agan, L. Evangelisti, S. Valentine. FRONT RO\\': B. I-Tynes, M. F orward, L. J . Crommelin, K. O'Loughlin, R. Marshall, F. Curtis, D. J ensen, J. Keeling, S. Bridgewood, l\I. ~[ c i\l ahon, R . .\l cFarlane-Reid, B. Tnrlermaur, R. Garnett. ABSE:\'T: M. Barrett, A. Davis. BOTTOM RIGHT - CLASSES III, IV and V BACK RO\\. : .\f. Fan ell, J Edwards, E. Meehan, E. \\'illiams, P. Adams, K. Dobson, M. Holbrook, S. l\Iarshall, V. Lumsden, C. Cocks, T. Callea, C. Clarke. MTDDLE RO\\': A. Hawke, P. Jeffs, V. H a nson, J . Delfs, S. Shanahan, E . H opkins, P. l\forgan, J. Lee, P. Farrell. C. Tl orba>, J . .\f. Cullitv. FRONT RO\\': P. Meehan , ~!. Keely, P. Harrold, S. Stewart, . Belle more, P. Grey, G. Ryan, A. McBride, S. Hopkins, A. Epstein, S. McNeil!. ABSENT: E. Johnston, M. D evlin. M . Hicks, R. Orr. LORETO CONVENT, CLAREMONT. W.A. LORETO Interesting People THE KNIGHTHOOD OF at the far end of the hall. We were allotted the row of chairs directly facing the dais. At 3.30 p.m. we all ARCHBISHOP DUHIG stood as the Group Captain and his wife entered, We, as m embers of the Brisbane Archdiocese, felt accompanied by the Mayor and Mayoress. After say justly proud at the announcement that Her Majesty, ing a few words of introduction, the Mayor handed the Queen, had conferred upon His Grace, Arch over the microphone Lo Group Captain Cheshire, bishop Duhig, the Order of Knight Commander of a hero of the last War. H e told us that his main St. Michae] and St. George. reason for coming to Australia was to visit his war It has been a r ecognised fact throughout Austra time companions. He m entioned a few incidents, one lia, and overseas, that Archbishop Duhig, patron of being the well-known flight of the " Dam Busters," arts and fosterer of higher education, is universally when he fought with Australians and when, as he loved and esteemed. said, " he had only to follow their lead." His other When as a young Irish lad, h e had his first in reason for this visit to Australia was Lo gain the troduction to Queensland, h e was unaware of the support of the Australians for the work h e and his fact, that one day he would becom e Archbishop of wife are doing. Then, after saying how much he had Brisbane, one of the greatest figures in the history enjoyed his stay in our country, he ask ed his wife of the Church and State in the new country of his to tell us exactly what their work entails. adoption. Yet h e became these things and more, as Mrs. Cheshire, a former member of the Under he is one of the most thoroughly Australian men of ground in Europe, came to the microphone and ex his age. pressed h er pleasure at being in Australia. Then sh e In our state, there is a ver y favourable situation told us that in Europe today there is still t errible for religious and civic life. It is traditiona] here, that suffering and privation among people as a direct re happy and friendly relations shouJd exist between sult of the last War. This celebrated couple have the various denominations ; that re]igion should be set up " Homes" for those suffering from incurable respected and given its rightful p1ace in society; and diseases and for those left comple tely destitute after that religious leaders should be accorded their fuJl the war. This is the work for which they wanted role and given the opportunity to contribute to edu Australians' support. cation, political progress and social harmony. The influence of Archbishop Duhig is, in this fi eld, para At the end of h er talk, we had the pleasure of meeting both h er and h er husband p ersonally. The mount. It has always been ArchbiEhop Duhig's policy to Group Captain, escorted by the President of the educate the young, and so h e has brought many pro R.S.L., started m eeting those on the left side of the perties, for the building of schools and other edu hall, while Mrs. Cheshire, accompanied by the Senior cational projects. Since 1917, when h e succeeded to Commander of the R.A.A.F. School in Ballarat, the See of Brisbane, he has invited fourteen different spoke to the various groups of people on the right r eligious orders to Leach his beloved children, in the hand side. Mrs. Cheshiw reached us first and re schools h e has fostered. marked on the beautiful blue of our unifurms. She wa11 delighted to see r epresentatives of a Catholic We Queenslanders have naturally received the School. AJmost immediately after sh e had Jeft u s, news of His Grace's new honour with sp ecial pride Group Captain Cheshire came up to u s. H e joked and joy. He belongs to us in an especial way; his with us about the study we were missing in coming s u cce ~s e s are our successes; hin joys are ours, too. to this meeting. Therefore we pray that God will spare him Lo make yet further contributions to the welfare of the When they r eturned to the dais, a photograph al Church and State in Queensland. bum, containing views of BaJlarat, was presented to SANDRA MORROW, the couple. A request for " Waltzing Mati]da" was Sub-Senior, Brisbane. made -- to give a r eal Australian farewe ll. A dread ful moment of anxiety for the President, then plead ing eyes turned to the row of Mary's Mount girls. GROUP CAPTAIN CHESHIRE, V.C., Robyn R eynolds came to their assistance and played VISITS BALLARAT the old Australian favourite. R ecently the Matriculation and Leaving Classes Outside, we had the opportunity of taking some had the privilege of seeing and speaking to Group snaps of them before they left. \Ve r e turned to Captain Leonard Cheshire, V.C., D.S.O. double-bar, school feeling very honoured to have m e t such a D.F.C., and Mrs. Cheshire, nee Miss Sue Ryder, when marvellous pair as Group Captain Cheshire, V.C., they cam e to BaJlarat on an informal visit to m eet and his wife. some of the m embers of the Air Force. JOCELYN WILLIS (17), The meeting was held in the R.S.L. Hall, rather SANDRA MACKENZIE (16), small in size, with a row of chairs bordering both Matriculation, Mary's Mount: walls and across the back. A dais had been erected (See Also P. 99) 63 LORETO JOHN JOSEPH HOLLAND honorary surgeon to the \Vestcrn A ustralian Turf Club and the W estern Au stralian Trotting Associa We are indebted to Dr. B. C. Cohen for the fol tion for about forty year s. H e was a m embe r of lowing account of the career of the late Dr. John various clubs in P erth, and at least on one occasion Joseph Holland. won the billiard tournament at Tauersall's Club. With the passing of J. J . Holland on January 4, H e will always be remembered for his great efforts 1959, Western Australia lost an outstanding p ersona in furthering the work of the St. John Ambulance lity. He was born at Windsor, N.S.W., on F ebruary A c.sociation. In the movem ent he has become almost 11, 1876, and attended the Parish School and then St. a legendary fi gure. In 1914 h e joined the St. John Joseph's College as a boarder from 1887 till 1894. H e Council, and was its pres ident for e ighteen years. Un entered St. John's College, University of Sydney, as der his guidance the movem ent flourish ed, and it the Norbert Quirk Scholar in Class.j cs, it being at was mainly due to his efforts that we have the that Lime incumbent on undergraduates to hold an beautiful building for our h eadquarters which is r e arts foundation before commencing m edicine. garded as one of the best centres of its kind in Aus In 1895 h e had perforce to leave college for fi tralia, if not in the world. In 1924 he became officer nancial reasons. In the bank smash his father, with of the order, and in 1930 h e was invested as. a Com many others, lost practically everything, and Joe re mander by King George V in London. On that oc fused to become a further burden on the family. casion Mr. Ghandi was present. In 1934 h e becam e a However, as an "out-patient" h e continued his stu Knight of Grace, ancl was the personal m edical at dies and qualified soon after the turn of the cen tendant to the Duke of Gloucester on his visit to tury. H e was a house surgeon at St. Vincent's Hos \Vestern Australia and South Australia. pital and Prince Henry Hospital at a salary of 10s. In 1937 h e was invited to a seat in \Vestminster per week. From ther e he went to Lewisham Hospital. Abbey to witness the coronation of King George VI. As h e whimsically said, he was the first and last house surgeon at Lewisham, at least for a very long In 1952 Holland r eceived the C.B.E. for the in time. valuable work h e had done for the Ambulance Ser vices in W esit:ern Australia. His interest in this work It was in 1896 that h e was. the first "case" of dated back to his Kanowna days. One of his pupils appendicectom y operated on by Alexander McCor in first aid was a postal officer named Tuckett. In mick. 1917 Tuckett was the postmaster a t Hall's Creek. A He came to Western Australia in 1907, and com man, James Darcey, fell from his h orse, and was menced practice at Kanowna, then a flourishing gold brought in a distance of 40 miles over extremely fields town, but now n early obliterated in a desert bad country by his brothers. Darcey's condition was of sand. After three years he left the goldfields for critical. H e had sever e pelvic injuries and r etention the great southern agricultural town of Katanning. of urine. It would have taken a week to get him to In 1914 he came to P erth, agreeing to look after Dr. the n ear est doctor at Wyndham, and of course, h e Deakin's practice whilst that doctor was at the war, could not have survived. Then was enacted the epic and after Dr. Deakin's r eturn to Sydney in 1917, case of treatment h y telegraph. Wires were sent back Holland continued on with his surgery in the A.M.P. and forth between Tuck ett and Holland several times Buildings until his retirem ent in 1946. a day, each wire {the first of 279 words) costing Whilst house surgeon in Sydney, Holland cam e in about £40. There were pages of them, at a total cost contact with some famous characters. Henry Lawson of about £600. Holland instructed Tuck ett how to was a patient in Prince H enry Hospital, and was at perform first of all a p erinea! and later a supra tended by young Dr. Holland and nurse Alicia Sim pubic cystostomy. Ther e was immediate relief; but monds, who was to become Mrs. Holland in 1906. it was arranged that Dr. Holland and a nurse should He was on friendly terms with Banjo Patterson, the go up, as Darcey's condition was precarious. The art of speech instructor Victor Daly, and Douglas 2,000 mile journey in those days presented many Mawson. H e knew John Haynes and Archibald, who difficulties. Because of r egulations, Dr. Holland had were instrumental in founding The Bulletin. to sign on as a cattle man on the S.S. Moira. From Derby h e set out for Hall's Creek with Jack Haly, and Amongst his many interests, music played a pro after a nightmare journey partly b y car, partly b y minent part. H e was no m ean exponent on the piano, horses, through terrible country and crocodile-in and in the early days when his daughters Judy and fest ed cr eek s, they r each ed their goal. Twenty miles Eleanor brought Eileen Joyce home from the Loreto from Moolaboola natives brought word that Darcey's Convent, h e Often played duets with h er. H e was a condition was deteriorating. They drove their " T " member of the Council of the Western Australian model Ford all through the night at top sp eed in Society of Concert Artists, which produced a dozen order to maintain the lights. {It was the first time operas, and he h elped to found the Green Room a car had been driven at night in the Kimberleys.) Club for p ersom:• interested in music. They arrived at Hall's Creek to find that Darcey Holland was a great lover of horses. H e was pre had died three hours previousl y. A post-mortem ex sident of the Katanning Polo Club and later owned amination disclosed that the operations had been gallopers and pacers which m et with moderate suc skilfully p erformed, ther e was no sep sis, no p eri cess. His black and lilac colours saluted the judge tonitis and the kidneys were normal. Ther e was a many times on his best mare Rainaway. H e was the very large spleen and it appeared that the patient LORETO had succumbed to a very sever e malarial attack, si.arling two days previously. When Dr. Holland returned to Perth h e was m et on the railway station by Doctor John Flynn. H e recounted his adventure:: , and said: " The n ext time I go to Hall's Ct·eck, I'll fl y," " Good idea," said Flynn. It was at that moment that the seed of the R~ ya l Flying Doctor Service for our north-west was planted , and we all know how it has borne fruit. Dr. Holland was one of the founders of this service, and always took an active inter est in it. In British 1edical Associatio n affairs h e wan a grand worke r. H e was a councillor for many years, and presid nt of the W cstern Australian Branch in 1929. H e was a prime move r in the formation of the Medical Benevolent Sche me, aml a founder of the Medical Der en cc Association of \Ves tern Australia. In the formation of the Medical School h e took a k een inter est. H e worked ve ry hard to have the Anatomy School established he re. His colleagues, Dr. H. J. Gray and Dr. L. E. LcSouef, worked with him to have the A nat,om y A ct paEsed in 1936, and together they carried out the first preservations and dissections. H e sold his practice lo Dr. A be rdeen in 1946, but r emained ve ry active, playing bowls and carrying out part-Lim e medical work for the R epatriation De part m enL and the Government up to wi thin a few months of his d eath. His w ife predeceased him, and ,.,,,. h e leaves two sons and Lwo daugh ters. -- ~ Goodbye, Joseph Holland ; yours was a full and useful life and you wilJ be remember ed for your good work h y your patients, the p eople and the profession. MR. AND MRS. H. ELLIOTT (P rinted by permission of the Medical J ournal of Australia.) But a few years ago that same beautiful young bride was our co-student ; rnmehow iL was not d if A WEDDING PARTY VISITS LORETO, fi cul L Lo r em ember the facl. NED LANDS R. F. 011 the 111orning of May 2nd, at aboul 10 30, H erb Watching the wedding-party walking to the p ar Elliott arrived at our school w ith his newl y wedded lour after theit· visit to t he Chapel, I was admiring wife, who was for me rl y A nne Dudley, Anne, being the balanced judgment of this young couple wh o ~ e an old Loreto girl, kept up the school traditions and wPclding could so easily have been rnch a glamouriscd came to >: cc h er old t each e rs immediate ly aftet· h er affair. In tead, the whole event was mat·k ed by sim wedding. She looked ver y sweet and radiantly hap plicity, sincerity and r everence. "No camer as in the p y in a beautiful full le ngth wedding gown. H erb Church," had ruled the hridc-groom. T o the br ides looked ve ry happy and proud of his wife. Anne's maid deciding on her attire - " You will be in a siste r, Marian, was bridesmaid. She wore a pink church, so wear a hat;' had said her father. frock with a big pink hat of the same material. H erb's brothe r, Laurie was besl man. So quiet had they ke pt the ir plans that no t a J. Q. camera was on the ale rt to catch the couple visiting the Convent, hut, as someone remarked with a Many times have I wa tched the young brides b e twinkle, the photograph of the day would h ave bcf'n ing escorted up the front path hy their proud hus one of H erb and his bride running from the ga te bands ; many times have I heard the door-hell h erald to the ve randah to escape the rain. the arrival of a bride and her groom. M. But for the cmall crowd that had ga thered outside the front gate, no-one wou ld have thought ther e was anything pecial about this bride and groom. I stood ONLY ONE HERB with a few othe r Saturday morning students at the end of the corridor, anfl saw the smile of r ecognition Oral Qu2stion: What is a herb? liirht on Lh e bride's face as she came towards u s. Class looks quite startled. (Is that the way to talk H er husband gave u s a ch eer y smile as he followed about Herb Elliott?) This, of course, was at Loreto, his wife into the parlour. Nedlands, W.A. 65 LORETO TENNIS AND SWIMMING CHAMPIONS THE SWIMMING TEAM OF ST. MARY'S HALL, MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY (1959) STANDl NG: A. \Vi emann, J. Gorman, K. Ce sna . SEATED: J. Rvan, C. Moorehead, J. D e F e rranti (Unive rsity Swimming Champion for 1959 ). (See Also P. 106) ------ DOROTHY ANN WHITELEY (17) , Loreto Con vent, Nedlands. Selected in Wilson Cup Team for 1959, after three years of continuous success. A BRAVE MAN Chris : This is how I and many others know him. Chris told m e, " That was the last thing I could I met him when I visited m y father at the R epatria r em ember. When I cam e to I was l ying in a hospital tion Hospital in H eidelberg, Melbourne, during the bed. I tried to sit up, but every time I fell back. ~ummer holidays. There was a strange numbness in m y leg. That was He is a typical Norwegian with sandy hair and when I r ealised what h ad happened ." bright blue eyes and in only one aspect is Chris dif ferent from us : H e h as no legs. Today Chris is in the Heidelber g R epatriation During the Second World War h e was on a sub Hospital. H e spends most of his time quietly making marine operating in the Pacific. The men in the sub model boats. Chris has been in hospital for three marine had been at sea eighteen months, yet none years, and in all that time he has never complained of them knew of the imminent dange1· they faced. of the terrible pain h e suffer s. H e always listens Lo On the 2nd of May they surfaced. The sub. had the stories of the other unfortunate men in the been up an hour wh en the dull throb of an aero hospital, h elping them to r ealise that they have plane engine was h eard overhead. Instantly the sub " hope" to r ely on. marine dived. The planes were escorting a convoy A week from now Chris is undergoing another when they sighted the sub. The ship was no sooner operation, his sixty-third in three year s. Let u s pray under sea when the plane overhead dropped its that h e will respond to treatment. H e has deserved d eadly cargo on its target. It was too late to run. it for carrying his cross patiently all these years. The bomb found its mark in the intersection be Indeed, h e is the most heroic man I have ever met. tween the engine room and the m en's quarters. Ther e was a d eafening explosion and the sub. was broken MORNA NANSEN, in two. (15) , Portland. 66 LORETO GUNPOWDER, TREASON AND PLOT don. Cecil, at the request of Monteagle, placed his room overlooking the street at the disposal of L'ldy At present the Fourth Year girls are preparing Catesby and B ess Rookwood. As Ambrose was drag a play for Mother Superior's feast on the 20th July. ged past on a hurdle, h e called to Bess to pray for W e found the text in a volume of the "Six Best Plays him. She said: "I will; and be of good courage, of the Year" - produced in England in 1956. The and offer yourself wholly to God. I on m y part do author is Hugh Ross Williamson (a non-Catholic at as freely give you back to God as He once gave you the time of writing}. H e ha ~ done a great deal of to 1ne." historical research into the whole R eformation To Cecil commenting on the course of justice, Lady period, and may be trusted in his findings. "Gun Catesby r eplied: "It is our consola tion, my lord, that powder, Treason and Plot" is the name he gave to all of us must appear before another JUDGE." his dramatic play on the Gunpowder Plot in 1603. At that time, high-spirited and adventurous young EPILOGUE: Thio play has a special significance Catholic nobles were debarred from the Universities; for children of Loreto, as on the night of the 5th no Catholic scholars were allowed in England, and of November , while the pursuivants wer e scouring if they did not attend Protestant services they we1·e the countryside for the conspirators, Mary Ward heavily fined. We cannot wonder that many of these and h er father were riding to London from York. frustrated young m en turned their thoughts to re Mary (later to become the Foundress of the bellion. l.B.V.M.) was on h er way to Flanders Lo become a Our play opens with Cecil, trusted adviser of 11un. On their way to London they m et the very King James I, but hard, sly and ambitious. He is pursuivants who were looking for Catesby and the showing Monteagle, a renegade Catholic, his n ew rest. Mr. Ward was seized and taken aside for ex study, purposel y situa ted overlooking the street to amination; the pur ~ uivant s became especially sus enable him to h ear the "chatter of the people, which picious when it turned out that most of the conspira is mo£t rewarding." As his occupation is secretary tors we re in some way related to Mr. Ward. The to the king, h e reads all his lette1·s, and at this mo only thing that saved him was that he had always h eld aloof from any r ebellion. ment is rea~ing a le tter from Monteagle announcing that h e is becominl! a Protestant. Cecil informs Another matter of interest to the children of the Monteagle that the King will need some guarantee l.B.V.M. is tha t Ambrose Rookwood's sister Susann a that h e is in good faith in protesting that his only was one of the first companions of Mary Ward. Be s ~ ambition is to serve the King. Then is hatch ed Rookwood, A mbroee's wife, was a cousin of Mary the gunpowder plot, wtih Monteagle as agent pro Ward's. Mary often visited their country mansion, vocateur. There is a later scene in which Cecil says Coldham Hall, and was very dear to the Rookwoods. to Monteagle: " We h ave nursed this plot for eight After Mary h ad founded h er Institute on the Con months since you first put the idea into Catesby's tinent, sh e also founded a House in London. This h ead. There were times when I feared they would was in 1611; and Susanna Rookwood now a nun susp ect us ... Everything has been made ~asy for was made Superior of the London H~u se. She wa~ them. \Vhen they were not ready I advised the King always courageous and was imprisoned many times to prorogue Parliament for six months . . . we made for h er religion; during those imprisonments sh e it possible for them to rent the cel1ar under the would encourage those who wer e suffering as sh e House of Lords ; when they could not procure enou gh was. In later years when Mary founded a House in gunpowder, we arranged for a secret bargain with Naples, again is was Susanna Rookwood - or Mo the storek eeper of the tower." ther Su sanna as we should call her - who was appointed Superior. After fifteen yea rs in religion The scen e in the home of Lady Catesby is tragic in the extreme. She is Robert Catesby's mother. The sh e died , greatly mourned by Mary Wanl. Susann:i had given incomparable cxamp of love, wisdom scene with the pursuivants is a typical scene of those le and goodness. days. All the scen es between the mother and the L. FERRIER, J. FLANAGAN, son are fateful and stirring. Bess Rookwood, the wife S. JASPRIZZA, M. MEANY, of Ambrose, is gen erally with Lady Catesby. Am M. MULHEARN, R. PARTRIDGE, brose Rookwood has the best horses in England and F ourth Year, Normanhurst. as these will be needed for the escape after the gun powder deed is done, Robert Catesby, against the THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK wishes of the rest of the party, brings A mbrorn into the plot. The author of the play shows clearly that Several times in Catholic papers we have seen m en the J esuit, Father Garnet, was in no way responsible tion o~ thi_s h eroic J cwess, ba1·ely sixteen years olrl, for the plot. History has been twisted and arranged who died m a German concentration camp towardci for coming centuries, for Father Garnet was descri the end of the last world war. Father Pire, O.P., bed as a traitor until recent years. who won the Nobel peace prize last year has an ex As we know, the Gunpowder Plot fails, and there tract from h er diary on the wall of his office in is a ten se and suffering ecene when Robert and Holland. H e has opened several v illages for disp la his frienrls rm:h into Lady Catesby's home. Robert ced p er sons, the last one with the name, " the vil was killed while resisting arrest, and the others were lage of Anne Frank." Last week we saw a photo taken prisoners. The last scene is almost unbearable graph of Fr. Pire laying the foundation ~to n e of in its sadness. It is the day of the execution in Lon- this village, while Anne's father, a J ew, enclosed a 67 LORtTO SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC lL is not always that a film and a play on the same The climax of the story Lukes place at the Pole subject a rc equally satisfy ing; very often they spoil when lh e British expedition finds the Norwegian each other. B ut this h as not been our exp e rience flag flutte ring afar off over the white waste. lhat with Scolt of the Antarctic. Jt was one of our long was where they had hope d to plant their flag. Scott's films at school a few week s ago, and we found it: ~ i mplc wo1·d s : " Y cs, it is a flag," held a world of most impressive. Then, several of u s read Fire on lhe disappointme nt. Yet h e a nd his four companions S11v1c, the beautiful radio play by the Aus:ralian pressed forward, carrie d on by their dauntless cour writer and poet, Douglas Stewart. H e learnt much age. T he whole A ntarc ti c had begun to lash i tself to l'rom lhe conte n (Continued From P. 67) it is h e r wornlcl"f u1 courage and c heerfulness. H er handful of earth from the terrible B elce n camp pathe tic little document has Etirrcd p eople in many where sh e died. countries to work for charity and peace. J. BRANDT, K. MORONEY, J . RUDD, For two yea rs before her d eath sh e was hiding in Fourth Year, Normanhur st. a secre t annexe w i ~h seven oth er people, including her parents and sister . We would n ever have heard POET AND PEASANT of her hut for the fact that she kept a diary which My world is full of music, yet I find she left in the annexe the day they were discovere d That what is in my heart and in my mind and taken by the Gestapo to the concentration camp. Is indefinable: and my voice and pen After her death the diary was found; it has heen puh Cannot translate into the tongues of men lid1ed in twe nty-eight languages, and has been a What I alone have heard. play in twe nty-four countries, as well as being made The poet whom all ages will applaud, in to a radio play and a film. A nd all from that oh Who wields a weapon mightier than the sword, scure annexe in A msterdam. Is he whose sentiments, his joy and strife, The rcven people in the a nnexe spent two years His whole philosophy - his life - there without ever going outside the door, r. lways in Is crystalised forever in a word. fear of being discovered. The p ent-up e motions of But all men, when their ways in life are trod, each led to constant quarrels and bick ering. Anne Will sing their poems in the courts of God. wisel y kept a diary: the e ntries are humourous and WENDY WILSON, shrewd. Perhaps the greatest lesson we learn from (15) , Toorak. TOP LEFT - PREFECTS (See Photo P. 69) DACK RO\\": J. ll eenan, R . F erg- 11 son ( Head of the School) , A. Grave. FRONT RO\\": C. Ilodeker, J . Miller, D . H ealy, J. Doyd. TOP RIGHT - SENIOR AND SUB-SENIORS TIA CK RO\\" : T. Quirk, l r. Smith, J. Johns, L. Durack, A . Shcr '. dan, S. \\"a llwork, J. Quin, A. C. Healy. SECO ND RO\\': A. W o rne r, S. R owe, C. F ountain, T. Elliott. TlllRD RO\\": D . H ealv, J . Heenan, C. Ilodeker, r. Robins, J. Iloyd. FRONT RO\\": A. Grave, .R. F erguson, J. Miller. AilSENT: A. llkMullen, M . D onaldson. BOTTOM - OUR JUBILARIANS WITH MOTHER SUPERIOR, DECEMBER, 1958 LEFT TO RI G-1 IT : D o roth~ r \Vhitcley, Anne Edg-ar, Perpetua Clancy, Anne 1;- urlong, Mary J oyce, ?\fa ther Superior, Christine O'J-Jara, Judith Quin, Hribi n ?\ filler, Ruth Fogarty. 68 LORETO CONVE T, NEDLANDS, W.A. (See Names Previous Pag·e) 69 ~ -. LORETO CONVENT, NEDLANDS, W.A. (See Names P , 77) Springs of Happiness ION A PASSION PLAY The power of the play was su ch , that it cast back The famous Passion Play of Oberammergau was the veil of two thousand years and we were with introduced into Australia in March, 1958. This year Christ on His entry into J erusalem. W e lived with it was performed at Iona College, Lindum, about the ten le per s and -felt His compassion. The wonder £even miles from Brisbane, and the three perfor of the Last Supper, the most touching scene in the mances of this year forme d an integral part of whole play, becam e r eal to u s. It was Christ's Pas Quee nsland's Centenary Celebrations. sion that moved u s, but it was not in a sentimental The origin of this play is very interesting. In the way that we followed Chi-ist to Calvary. We r ealised seventeenth century, the inhabitants of the tiny Ba that we crucified Him, we as much as Pontius Pi varian village Oberammergau, having been late, Annas, Caiaphas and the J ews, made that agony miraculousl y delivered from the plague, decided to so brutal. Then we Ei aw beyond the dazzle of the p erform Our Lord's Passion each year in thanks modern world and in our hearts we r ep ented. MOIRA FINNIMORE, giving. That village is now renowned and is the scen e Sub-Senior, Brisbane. of many religious pilgrimages. And so, spanning three centuries, the faith of these simple p eople has DISMAS given rise to a unique experience for thousands of I passed up quickly through the throngs Queenslanders, who were privileged to see the play. And heard a thousand angel songs; The beginning of this remarkable achievement Unseeing eyes recorded light was most unsp ectacular. If it were not for the fer The which makes e'en the sun like night. tile brain of an Oblate priest, Father Shortall, and My heart was singing like a bird, the zeal and co-operation of his cast and techni Still could I hear His tender word. cians, the play would have been no more than a I ran - and stumbled on the clouds; nebulous idea. No need had I for winding shrouds: Father Shortall, soon after his arrival at Iona Col My limbs had now begun to ache, lege, read the text of the play, based on r ecent Three hours I'd hung upon that stake. American translations of the Gospels a nd immedia The air was sweet and cleanly fresh, tely r esolved to stage it. Howeve r, h e says, "I knew Like balm it was to my sore flesh . no-one in Lindum at the Lim e, but at the first meet How, oh how, could this be me ing called to discuss the ve nture, fifty-eight people Changed by my Comrade on His tree? were present. From these, the bulk of the cast was What made me speak in His defence? chosen ." In the 1958 produc tion, there was a cast Why did I seek for penitence? of eighty-four p eople, but this year the cast had Bloody, derided and forlorn - grown to one hundred and e ighty-four. Not for this had He been born! This rapid and obviousl y inevitable expan sion was Why not blaspheme with spiteful curse? not confined to the cast, for this year there were None had e'er been treated worse! three p erformances. Characteristically, Father Short And yet ... what was it that H e said all was not ambitious when h e expected five thou While hanging from His cruel death bed? sand spectators at the first staging of the play, when "Father forgive them-they know not what they do." actually ther e we re three times that number in the My heart was filled with love, to burst, audience. About forty-five thousand people saw the To hear Him tell me I was first play this year, but most significant was the crowd To sit with Him that self-same night, of six thousand, who stood in the torrential rain on And share w ith Him all heaven's delight. Good Friday night to see Christ's Passion presented MACUSHLA BEIRNE, so graphically. Sub-Senior, Brisbane. The tre mendous appeal of this production lay in its since rity and simplicity, as it was utter1v devoid A CHILD'S MEDITATION ON THE of Hollywood glamour or synthe tic e moti~nal ap p eal. Not only did the play attract Catholic atten PASSION tion but it also appealed to Non-Catholics, who as They had whipped Him, dragged Him and slash er! actors a nd officials in it, were unfailingly e nthusias His Sacred Hands and F eet. In thorn long hours of tic in their work. The actors were ordinary people, agony they continue d spitting, blaspheming! An d drawn from all sphe res of life; unive rsity students, Our Lord was crying: " O Father, for give the m, they tax con sultants, schoolteach ers, housewives and chil do not know what they are doing." dren, whose ac ting experie nce had been almost n e g On Calvary that day, that's what Our Lord wa~ ligible. saying to save our wicke d souls from going to hell. Iona College possesses a natural open air ampi Yes, Our Lord died this shameful death for u s ! He theatre, so the public had a superb view of the hun had called " I thirst," and all they offere d Him wa ~ dred foot long stage. Scatter ed all round the stage a bitter drink. H e was suffering from such loss of were microphones, susp ended from fine lines of bl~wd, stone cold, sore and in this dreadful agony. wire, so that the words of all the actors were carried His headach e from the thorns and prickles bv the to the farthest part of the audience, which sat on te ns was like nothing we have ever known. ' the top of the hill. (Continued Foot of Next Page) 71 LORETO OUR CHRISTMAS PAGEANT CHRISTMAS NIGHT " l s it over? I really can't be lieve it." These words I do not know any m o re beautiful legend than were said b y many of the girls afte r the pageant. tha t of the birth of the Infant J esus and the sweet The pageant had become part of our lives and it stories of Christmas. My mothe r often sings to n s was hard to believe it was over. All the week s of the song of the Infant J es us, who would not µ;o to intense pre paration were over in one night. Gleep , and his holy Mother telling him that eh e is It took place in the open air. T h e tableaux we re going to cr y. So Ji ttle J es us falls asleep. acted from the time of the A nnunciation to the I like Christmas but especially the F rench cele A doration of the Magi. Suitable h ymns and music bration. Although I am now Frnnco-Aust rali an, ,,·c were played after each. The spot1ight was turne d k eep our tradition. \Ve spend Chrictmas eve quie tl y on the tableau which was taking place. After it and r eve rently. My m other prepm·cs a h u~ e feast. was over the spotlight was turned off and the n ext The n we go to M idnig ht .ass without forgetting to tableau assembled into position. The narrators tolrl put our best sh oes in fron t of the chimney. BaC'k the Gospel story while the actors acted differ e nt from Church , we begin o u r Christmas m eal , which parts. lasts till dawn in the 111 i J. Bell a 11 to, J. Uc lc,hcry, ~ 1. Bathur:- t, A. Kirov (Sta11di11 g- 011 ~l aypo l e) . J. llall, .\I. l 'ar~ons, I> . ll o ll111 g d a le, A. Burns, A. Gamble, C. \\'onds, D. Stuart, .\ . .\1. Stuart, F. .\! e rke l. C. Stone, IJ . J\ l oon ey, II. Z1ch lkc, T. Schroeder, _I . {)\\' t'llS, j. Owen :-., P. Conduit, I'. \\' heeler. . \ ..\I. Schroede1·, J. Rube11 .... o h11 . II. .\l erkel, I'. Roherb, I >. Hren nan, ,\1. lh1s ... c ll , C. .\I c()uellan, C. J o hn:--0 11. J\ ll ;i l-:.'\T I'. 1\ l o lo 11 ey. \ '. l'i11cl lay, M. ll a rpe r. A. ll arper. * * GRADE III AND GRADE IV J. Stephe11:-ion, ~1. Barling , C. Brown, .\1. La mmey. ~. F1<111 a,1.. n t11 , I •. Gamble, I,. Hrc 11 - 11a11 , C. Schadel, A. l)yg-n am, P. ( '011du it, C. F o r ,i:.,:Tatn. 1 1 • Summon:-;, S. F J;.1m1g'an. S. (;owans, (; , Beniman. ~ I . lk lla11t o, j. ll a 11 :-;e J, .\ l. .A. lh1 r fitt , A . .\rcher, J. H oyle, J. J\1 c rkcl, S. Kirov, ..-\. l'ar ... 0 11 .... 1\H S l ~i\' T : R. Robinson. J ..\ rthur, R. Cafe. * * JUNIOR SCHOOL-LORETO CONVENT, NORMANHURST LORETO n:T SlCAL PERSONALITIES AT NORMANHURST PROKOFIEV'S CLASSICAL SYMPHONY .1n the I ifc of every genius the re seem s Lo he an Century. ln fac t Prokofiev takes a conscious delight hour o f d c~ tiny. ]n 190-t., when he was barely thir in re p-e ating the clichcs of 18ih Centurv 111u s1c. teen, the RusP ian cornposer, Prokofiev, was intro Would it be too muc h to link this conscious return duced to the e mine nt composer, G lazounov, who muf ically, with the stro ng inte rest and p o pularit y r xarninctl his work and recognised re al tale nt in it. that hegan about the sa111e time for 18th Century So Pr·o kofi cv e nte red the St. P e tc rshurg Conserva poetry and p a inting. ln 1916 when this Sy111phony toire af, a pupil of Rirnsk y Korsakov. H e stayed was written, the world, built so high and prosper the re for te n ~' ea r s and although h e was freque ntly o us h v the 19th Ccnturv ro m an tic ism and hacked c ritic ized fo r 111od e rn i: ti c tende nc ies of which the li y in~lu s lrial capitalism ," wa:• collapsing in the b!!.( aulhorit i e~ strongly disa pprover!, h e gained dip"lo- (!es t holacaust t]w world harl yet seen. 111a s i 11 con1 poPi I ion ao a p ian isl and as a conduc to r. It d ocs not seem far-fet ched to sav that a ~' en Jt!PI before the first world war Prokofiev came to sitive artiPt would try, hv a musicai" composition. be rq.(a rde d in 111u sieal c ircles as one of the "coming to recall for himself anrl his conte mpo raries the men." ' This was pc rhap;; due to his unde rRtanrling world that was ;- hatte red h v the French Revolution. of the wav m od e rn 111u sie was Phaping in o the r The rearnn for the popula;·ity of this work 111av he countries. The G re at War did not seriously affect that a ::rreat number of people share Prokofiev' s his ca reer, hccauEc be ing the o nly son of a widow, nostalgic rl c light or th e ~' find in it rnme cs<·ape h e was ext>111pt from military serv ice. fro m realities that prc ~s around them with th <' folk Prokofiev's greatest wartime achievement was the music that form~ the 1h c1w1tic inspiration. The popular " Classical Symphony" written in 1917 and "Clascica l Symphony" is ve r y close lo Haydn ' ~ n111- first pe rfo r111 cd in St. P e tc rfl)lng on April 21st, 1918, sic, happy, bright the m es sugµ: estive of the id eas unde r hi ~ own direction. This work brought him th l:' of people laq!?ly untouched by power politic;,. allc!-(iancc of mmic ians all over the world. On a first Prokofiev left Rmsia in 1917 and lived in the h eari11!-(, this work appears to b e a saucy littJc 18th Uniter! Sta tes anrl other countrie s unt il 1933. \Vhcn h<' Century ~y mphon y drcs:' e d up in morlc rrr c lothes: but when we have h eard it often we arc aware of returned to Russia he evidently found himself in its rl e pl h of feeling. The Lh c rnat ie mate rial is re harmo n y with Soviet aspirations. As a cornpo:er hr miniscent of Mozart with pe rhaps even a little of had found his final for111 of conl-(enial expression. Ra111eau . Particularly ~ i111ilar to -Mozart is the l· e bas ic all y l yrical a11d mc lod;c. Prokofiev dierl in itcrating of a flute t11 e 111 e, rising lo a climax in a Ru s~ ia on 4th March, 1953. hi!-(h nole through 4uavcr or triple t varied rlr ytl11n P. ln the " Class ical Sy11q1ho ny·· the re seem s to be a DAPHNE PRINCE, no;;talgia for tlw sl:' ll lc tl su rt' world of t lw 18th Leaving, Normanhurst. 75 LORETO ENCHANTED CHILDHOOD with burning shrubbery all around, the huge n :d flames r eaching high into the sky. Now a stretch The moon's pale fingers reach out gently of golden sand with the blue water lapping on the Push aside the drifting mists; edge, and a portion of pink and deep red, where They fall upon the quiet waters .... one could imagine a huge rose garden blooming. A distant star hangs coldly brilliant, The sun sank further and further until it was Winking through the timeless ages. out of sight completely, but the ray of light re Eons cannot mar its beauty mained, and lo m e it seemed as a reminder to all Silent is the river ebbing who saw it, that there would always be a light to Through the night down to the ocean , guide us on our way, and, even as this guiding light Where it joins the wind-tossed billows . does and always will come from H eaven, so did the A breeze springs up and stirs the reeds beautiful golde n ray from the sunset. That grow along the moonlit shore; They whisper soft to one another . ... SUSIE WALLWORK, "Heart and soul are bound in beauty Sub-Leaving, Nedlands. All around is Heaven's magic. In this peace I feel His presence. . . ." In the shallows men are crabbing, THE WIND AND THE RAIN Splashing through the moon's reflections; 1. Laughter echoes in the silence . . .. Gently a wind blows . . . In the boundless dome above me Over the miles of scorching ground Scudding clouds make skiey patterns, Over the breathless plains Dancing in the pale moonbeams. . . . Over the dark, cool mountains On the far bank, lights are dimmed ; Deep into the Valley of Time. Shadows merge into the night. Gently a wind blows . . . The moon's rays stretch across the water. Over the white ridges of the South On the dark horizon, Venus Over the ice, the sleet, and the snow Sinks behind the pinewood grove; Across the ocean of forgetfulness She leaves a rosy glow of splendour. Into the green mountains of Regret. 'Tis the witching hour of night- Gently a wind blows . . . The sky's dark cloak afire with jewels. Shaking the wind in the leaves Childhood cannot last forever. . . . . On to the bright, moist land, "Heart and soul are bound in beauty Over the new greenness All around is Heaven's magic. Into the long grass moving with Spring. In this peace I feel His presence..... " Gently a wind blows ... Over the pale, glittering seas MARGARET ROSE DUNPHY, Over the low, bleached beaches Leaving, Claremont. Into the dark, murmuring caves, Out on to the restless sand-dunes. SUNSET SKY WENDY ANN GUNSON, Many inter esting things took place before my eyes Matriculation, Toorak. during the holidays, but to me, the most interesting and beautiful of all these things was a sunset at 2. Shoalwaler Bay. The wind and rain upon my face, Sittin g on the summit of a very high sandhilJ, as My eyes opened the sun was sinking low in the West, I had a per And I saw the shining moon above. fect view of the whole bay. The seagulls which had Suddenly my heart was filled with love been reeling and screeching in the sky all day seem For its silver light. ed to Ecnse that the end of the day was coming, and I rose and ran into th ~ night, and ran, were all flying towards an island in the middle of the Until, exhausted, I sank into luxurious sand. bay, where they had their nests. The ocean roared and the wind howled Along the deserted beach. The blue of the sky began changing to pink, red But all around me I felt a d 2ep, protectivP. peace and gold. The waves calme d down until the sea And I was not afraid. looked like a huge mirror, and reaching from the To me this mighty ocean was beautiful. horizon, where the sun was just touching the mirror With h er dark blue waters tipped with white like water, to the bottom of the sand hill on which Shimmering in the moonlit night, I was sitting, was a ray of golden light, like a path And this, only a minute part acro' s the bay. Of a world full of oceans. All in a matter of seconds, the sky changed to I felt an awakening in me deeper and richer colours, and the sun was rapidly And a love of nature filled my heart. sinking from sight, but still the path of light stayed. In the sky now, one could imagine various scenes, JENNY MARSH, formed by the vividly coloured clouds. Now a lake, Leaving, Toorak. 76 LORETO 3. starving sh eep and cattle. I lean against the glistening window pane, A promise of unhoped for wealth to the landowner. And gaze out at the softly falling rain. And the rainbow w ith all I see in it many things, its glorious colours, is And I see that it holds many symbols - an assurance of that promise. Rain is the symbol CATHRYNE JONES, Of sorrow. Each tiny drop is (16), Toorak. a tear - a tear of that Mother w ho MY GILGIE CREEK experienced the greatest sorrow of all time. At the bottom of our garden The rain too, has many tears for A creek runs all the day. The mothers of those who It's a noisy, restless fellow died for their country. That only seems to play. Rain is the symbol It's as pretty as a picture of cleansing. A long time ago, God As its seething torrents boil; sent down torrents of rain to Ferns and flowers surround it, cleanse the world of its wickedness. Nestling in the soil. Rain, like a confession, is a Deep down in its muddy bed Pur ifier , which wash es away Gilgies hide away. all previous grime. With line and meat and weighty lead Rain is a symbol We entice them out to play. of new life - of hope - of For 'tho' we often catch them promise. In a drought-stricken We always let them go, land, Rain brings a promise And for each request for gilgies: of water for the A firm and fi nal NO! dry, parched land. ANNE-MARIE BAKER, A promise of food for the Sub-Junior, Claremont. TOP LEFT - JUNIOR, SUB-JUNIOR, FORM ID (See Photo P. 70) DJ\CJ-; RO\\' : I '. Membrey, J. Randell , M. Adams, E. l'alandri, p·. Wright, M. Sinclair. SECOND RO \\.: J. Baker, ~t. ·McCarter, P. Adam, D . Colvin, J. Logan, G. \\'hy te, S. Somer:-;, S. Fra11ctovich, S. Trevenan, D. Smith, R . Williams, E . ~lembrey. T Jl I l~IJ RO\\": T. Summer, A. \\falser, L. \ Vhite, C. Frugtniet, A. D onnan , P . \ Valsh, J. Ca s tenelle, ~t. Grieve, S. 1\ l cMull en, G. Adams. FRO N T RO\Y: 1\ 1. Li thgo, S. O'Donoghue, J. Slade, J. Durkin, J. Brown, ll. Ireland, P. Grave, S . Lucas, S . .M cDonald, 1\L \\'ilmink, M. \Naish, K. Elliott, K. D urkin. . ABSENT : Junior - ]. Bonser, V. Morris, E. Donnan, J. Brophy. Sub-Jumor - D. Ri ley. Form lJI - R. Hitchman. TOP RIGHT - FORMS I and Il DACK RO\V : S. ll eaton, L. B rophy, C. W1·ight, C. Bonser, S. Baker. i\f I DDLE ROW: N. Montefio1·e, A. Fitz-Gibbon, C. Dwyer, M. Bamford, R. Elliott, E. Burt, M. Coffey, D . Elliott, \V. 13aker, J. Rehn, P. Browning'. l~ RONT ROW: P. ll ea l", M. Colbert, C. Fuller, L. O'Hara, F. George, C. Bonser, G. Stewart, S. Sheridan, V. Edmondson, M. O'Keefe, J. M . Seward, S. E lli s. ABSENT: J. Byrne, C. Keogh, R. Moore, M. Rocke, D. Sheridan. BOTTOM LEFT - GRADES IV and V TIA CK ROVV: ~r. Giannasi, E. Tiverios, C. l\1cCarthy, J. ~eward, D. llarker, Y. Kurz, D. Cole, J. Quinlan, T. :Moo re, G. van Banning. SECOND ROW : J. John5o n, C. Ahern, R . Nicholas, M. Grave, M-. Adam,, J. Beaton, M. T. Jensen. Tl-llRD ROW: H . Walsh, M. R. Miller, J . Hamilton-Brown, P . Beaton, M. Brown, K. Brady, E. Brain. FRONT ROW: L. Fuller, B. E lli ott, J. Montefiore. ABSENT: J . Chapple, C. Keogh, B. W a rner, J. R yan. BOTTOM RIGHT - GRADES I, II and III BACK ROW : M. L. Trevenen, M. Snowball , J. E lli,, M. L. McCarter, G. H artley, C. i\fcComi5h. SECOND ROW: P. Grave, V. Sibley, J . Jensen, J. W hite, M. Cullity, E. Harris, S. Moran, M. Ahern, S. Manchoulas, H. Castenell e, Y. Sibley. Tl-I I RD ROW (Seated): V. Birmingham, J. MoO!·e, C. Allen, P. Brain, S. D obson , E. Worner, M. L. Baker, C. Al len, D. Brown, P. Worner. A DSENT: C. and R . Anderson, M. and J. Chapple. INTERMEDIATE (See Photo P. 79) F RONT ROW: A. Kenihan, M. l'l'f cNamara, J. Edwards, C. Abbott, A. McCusker, A. Grigoul, M. Preiss, G. Fitzgerald. SECOND RO\V: E. Richards, S. Keats, A. Brogan, P . Brown, L. van Neiclermueller, S. D oherty, R. Lumb, A. Webster, D . Crotti, M. A. J-l" onn er. THIRD ROW: H. Crouch, C. Sulli van, R. Glynn, C. Brazel, L. George, P. Tracey, J. P eoples, A. Morcom, C. Goldi e, C. R yder, A. Sexton, M. Glynn. DACK ROW: M. J oll y, M. O'Connell , D. Koch, M-. Nicholas, I'. Barnett, M. Mueller, S. Hamilton, M. Edwards, K. Prescott, C. Walsh, A. M. Stokes. ABSENT: M Keene, M. Moriarty. SECOND YEAR FRONT RO\·V: R . Mi chalanney, H . Naulty, P. Cundy, R. Richards, S. :L ennon, 1H . Johnson, P. ~ f.urn ane, A. McNall y, A. Ringer, E. Vidovic. SECOND ROW: P. Reilly, N. Forsyth, C. King, D. O'Loghlin, i\f. R .,llison, R . Hall, J. Doran , C. Mc Ewin. E. O'Brien, J. Nolan, H. Coates. THIRD ROW: J. Monks, M. Fry, G. H arris, B . lhrtels. R. Kearnev, B . Bond, S. Lambert, B . Thompson , J. Dorian, M. Madigan BACK ROW: P McLaughlin, P . Barry, Y. Spencer, D . Schultz, L. Clanchy, J. McClure. ABSENT: Y. Bazzica, P. Klug. FIRST YEAR FRONT ROW: M. Doherty, P. Gregerson, A. Rei;-a11 . J. F laherty, P. Fried, P. Y oung, hl. l3 each, J. Fried. SECOND ROW: M·. Gordon, E. Moloney, K. Lane, R. Kerins, A. Riches, V. Coates, C. l\fcAnaney, G. George, J. D odd , S. Smith, P . Morcom, R. Tyler. THIRD ROW: M. Malai;:, N. Burden, M . Baker, J. Hamilton, K. Bany, llf. Texler, A. Gray, C. Shea, M. T. Dupuy, F. Barry, S. W ard, C. Jackson, H. T aylor. FOURTH ROW: R. O'Grady, P. R yan, V. An gove, K. Jones, P. Davies, B. Quilan, P. Lane, P . Turnbull, J. Brazel, J. Corlevich, H. Ber tram, P. llfa ynard, J. O'Kell y. BACK R OW: M. McClure, A. Daly, R. H art, F. O'Loghlin, P. Madigan, J. M·arshall , M. A. llf cClure, H. Stott, D. \\'ebb. ABSENT : S. Kenny, M. King. 77 P REFECTS BACK :~OW: P ..McAn a ney, E. llarnett, E. Cul shaw, F. \Yei r, V. Tursky, Y. \\'alsh, C. Doyle. FRONT RO\\': D. Henderson, B. Dorian, ~!. Bennett, r\. !v[ c-1n erney, J. Glynn, P. Pridham. INSET Jl :F.LE:"J KEN .\' -EDY who wa ~ the winner o f three Scholarships in the lntermediate Examination in 1958 : 1. The Savage M emorial Scholarship awarded to the Ca tho li c student who attained the best pass in J ntermediate. 2. The Eden Scholarship awarded to the two students who attained the best two passes in the State. 1 t was a nece:-sa rv conditio 11 that History or a Social Stuch· be included in the sub]ects. · 3. A Continuation Exhibition awarded by the University a nd tenable for two rears. BELOW - LEAVING AND LEAVING HONOURS FRONT RO\\. · J. Marlin, J. B1 ool,s, P Pridham, A. :\(clnerney, E. Barnett, ~\!. Bennett, B. Dorian, E. Culshaw, V. Walsh, J. Gl ynn. SECOND RO\\' : L. :lfoo re, L. l I anna, D. H en · derson, F. \\"eir, D. Keats, P. ~fcAn aney, ~L Bau1derstone, E. Dempsey, D. Barry, E. Lam bert, P. Vail, Y. Turs ky. THIRD ROW: L. Thompson, M . Arend, J. Ilayes, ~1. Doherty, S. R oyal, C. ?\lurphy, C. Dalgeish, E. \\'ebb, D. R ofe, P. Richards, II . Joseph. DACK RO\\' : C. Lunn, J. Thyer, i\L Doyle, J-I. K ennedy, C. Doyle, H. Shannon, A. ·McCarthy, , I. Clanchy. LORETO CONVENT, MARRY ATVILLE, S.A. INT ERMEDIATE SECOND YEAR FI RST YEAR LORETO CONVENT, MARRYATVILLE, S.A. (See Names P. 77) 79 SEVENTH GRADE FRONT ROW: S. Byrne, E. Perdelwitz, B. Mead,, K. Antalf fy, L. Jones, S. Hannon, C. Marshall. SECOND ROW: K. Okrutay, C. Smith, B. }.fclnnes, M. J3raz zale, J. Prope rj ohn, I. Farkas, S. Starrenberg, A. Dupuy, P. Gluyas, T. Jordan, L. H ender son. THIRD ROW: C. Baker, C. Hart, D . Vi luinas, M. Moloney, A. Kelly, Y. Buckley, C. Shannon, A. McAnaney, R. Koch, H. Sa- lier, V. Hawkes, A. Baulder stone. BACK ROW : J . Thompson, A. Anderson, B . O'Donohue, 1'.L Daile Nogare, K. Hackendorf, K . Furst, M. ~furray, E. Green, R. Cappelutti, P . Pierce, H. Campbell. SIXTH GRADE FRONT ROW: J. U rdanoff, R. Evans, V. Burden, E. 'f'olladay, :M. Dyer, N . Palm er, M. H aken· dorf. SECOND R OW : J . Walsh, E. Beach, J. Brown, ~L Ringer, B . Schultz, f\L ll 1ady, P. Johnson, A. Packham, A. Laffan, C. Mc Carthy, E. Maher. THIRD ROW: M. McGuire, A. Reilley, E. O'Conno r, F. Minarel li, M. O'Gracly, G. Naulty,_ M. Brady, 1vL Brogan, A. A. Partndge, M. Turner, 11. Regan. FOURTH ROW: S. H oldcroft, L. Giesecke, S. Dalziel, ~1 [· . Corlevich, C. l\foeller, M. Jasiak, K. B. Murphy, I. Krumm in , C. Peters, C. Dennett. DACK ROW: E. Burns, J. Sker ritt, A. O'Grady, P. Ga(fney, J. Johnson, ~L Pierce, V. Bevers, S. Keeley, L. di Guisto. ABSENT : J. Sinclair, A. l\L Black. FIFTH GRADE FRONT ROW: S. Perdelwitz, I. Rus sin, M. Brandon, ~1. T orpy. SECOND ROW : J . O'Loghlin, B. Murray, M. Sheehan, J . O'Grady, S. Kell y, P. Il ertram, Y. Devers, M . Siebert, T. Panizza. THIRD ROW : M . O'Hara, G. Boy lan, 13. Koldowski, E. M·a di gan, M. Jones, D. Williamson, J. Proper· john, P . Sheridan. FOURTH ROW : S. Payne, n. Wheeler, C. J ordan, J. Higgins, S. James, K . J oseph, M-. T. Fountain. ABSENT: A. Hayes, M . Munro Ford, R. Sands, R. Harris, J. Chaple. LORETO CONVENT, MARRYATVILLE, S.A. 80 PREP. GRADES I and II BOYS FRONT ROW: S. Cotton, Il. J. 1\1cKusker, P. Co rnish, P. l :;o ried, J. Evan ~, D . Rice, M. Janus. SECOND ROW: S. Brown, M. Buckley, M. Cescato, K. Da vey, P. Brew, A. Coghlan, M. James, C. Kennedy, D. \\Tard. THIRD ROW: P. Kennedy, M. Cavana~h, J. Horne, J. Ro dighiero, ~i. 1\1acKinto ~ h. Il. Hicken, l\L McDo well, P. To r py, P. \\' hite, ,\f.. Shanahan, R . Clark. FOURT ll ROW: A. R oller, J. Kelly, J. Scollin, S. P ower, C. Glaetzer, M. lleyse11, A. Schulz, R. J-l eysen. ABSENT: P. B oylan, P. N eil sen, E. Power, P. \\'heeler, N. Fitzpatrick, K. \Vaters, 11. Giaccio. THIRD AND FOURTH FRONT ROW: J. Davey, S. Jarnes, D. J-[orne, R. Knowles. SECO ' D ROW: C. Coomue, S. Buckley, L. Jordan, 11. O'Loghlin, C. .McNamara, K. James, S . Spri11gbett, J. Buchanan, R. Kc1111edy, C. Anderson, E. Baulderstone, G. nrady, L. Marshall. Tl-11 RD ROW : C. Walters, M. James, S. Kenihan, D. Lang ley, ]. Rehrcns, M. Go ugh, E. Coles, P. Cornwell, S. Ra11d ell, J. Tobin, P. Burden, J. Scollin. FOURTH ROW: D. Evans, S. Darwent, L . J:i.nmeijs, P. Mulhearn, ll. Brady, J. Kel· ly, G. Brew, M. Keen, P. Doherty, J. 'mith, C. Ander son, S. Lange, A. 1-l oey. FIFTH ROW: 111. Walsh, L. R odighiero, R. ll e)'sen, J. R yan, J. Gunson, S. Ditty, D. J ohnson , J. Springbett, Af. 1-1 ancock, A. i\1f orkunas, :M. J oseph, M . Muller, L. Conaghty. ABSJ':NT: M. Elwood, E . Keats, V. Phillips, J . Win chester. PREP. GRADES I and II GIRLS FRONT ROW: llf. K een, J. Ba ker, A. Darwent, }.l. A. R ofe, S. .Miller, K. V;:,ughan, S. Keen, R. Panizza, l ,. Duluk. SECOND ROW: J. J learnshaw, A. M. Glaetzer, R. Lange, C. Turner, J. Nichola s, ] . Wheel· er, E. Lynch, J. Statton, C. Anderson, P . R ofe, A. lllen· coe, L . Properjohn, Il. Joseph. TJ-n RD ROW: J. Ke11iha11, G. Giaccio, J. Fielder, M. Cray, L. Struthers, P. Regan, AI. \Val. ters, J. l\Ians fielcl, M. Atkin son, S. V'u ssen, C. Allan, 1\(. Dower J. P olomka. FOURTir ROW: M. Waters, T. I nkenharg, l\L Kenihan, J . Paech, M. Shanahan, K. Bra dy, A. Campbell, P. K ell y, R. Blackwell, A. Cray, C. Keogh, M. Brady. FIFTH ROW: L. Davey, M. Johnson, M. Klemich, L. Ed wards, P. Vaugl13n, C. Coles, A. i\[.acKintosh, J. Cla nchr, J. Baker, ] . Kennedy, C. Wilson. ABSENT: 5. Dalzies, S. King, J. Schulz, N. Treloar, S. Baul· derstone, J. Sexton, J. Chaple, LORETO CONVENT, MARRYATVILLE, S.A. M. Chaple. 81 LORETO Among Our Old Girls CAREERS HANNAH BUCKLEY was the first Loreto Old Scholar music h et· career , but after leaving school sh e did from Marryatville to train as a Social \Vorker. h er training as a nurse at the Perth Hospital which I believe that sh e wa the first Social Worker at has no more honoured trainee amo:1g its graduates. the Catholic Social Service Bureau in Adelaide. (I After faithful work in several places, sh e is now the was fortuna te enough to be a student with Hannah Matron of the Perth Dental Hospital. It has been supervising m y work at this Bureau. ) Social work at said that, after Sweden , it is the best- equipped d en the Bureau was much more than a " nine to five job" tal hospital in the world. Besides her gifts as an ad with Hannah, who sp ent a good deal of h er off ministrator, MoJlie is a leader in P erth in the Ca tholic Nurses' Guild, where she holds the office of duty time and her personal capital in furthering President. When the Guild makes a retreat at Loreto, the work of the Bureau, establishing happy relation Claremont, J\!Iollic is always among the r eti·eatants. ships with the various Catholic Institutions, and She also attends the Past Pupils' R eunions, thus acting as a valuable and r esp ected liaison between maintaining h e r friendship with Loreto. them and various statutory bodies such as the Chil dren 's W elfare and Public R elief Department and I the Women Police. Hannah's co-operative and kindly RENEE ERDOS, after leaving Loreto, Kirribilli, gra personality make h er an ideal Social Worker. duated in Arts at the Sydney University and secured h er Dip.Ed. After spending several years as a teacher H e r work at the Bureau included child placement, of English and History in State High Schools, sh e e.g., in institutions, fo: ter homes, etc., fol1ow-up and joined the N .S.W. Departm ent of Technical Educa car e of delinquents, marital problem s, r elief giving, tion. As far as we know this is the most important for example, where the h ead of the house was un branch of Technical Education in Australia. It is employed or had deserted his family leaving them concerned sole ly with adults who are provided, by destitute. m eans of this D epartment, with technical and gen After several years at the Catholic Social Service eral education. A great deal of it is done b y cor Bureau, Hannah took a post as social worker with r espondence. R enee is now Supervisor of Correspon the Tuberculosis Association (S.A. ) . This A ssocia d ence Courses in that Department. She is the first tion assists c ivilians (as opposed to ex-service per woman to occupy this por. ition, and when sh e visits sonnel ) who contract tuberculosir, and who may country centres, authorities are often prepared for need h elp for them selves and their families. lt3 Mr. R. Erdos. But R enee is so plea2ant and efficient committee is h eaded by medical m en who are spe that any embarrassm ent soon passes. Sh e is also cialists in this fi eld. At the time that Hannah was Chairman of the History T eachers' Association of ther e, part of the Social Worker's duties involved N.S.W., and a m ember of the Advicory Sub-commit· visiting patients at Bedford Park and Morris Hospi t ee d ealing with School broadcasts. Sh e i8 a true tals with a view to h elping them with p ersonal or friend to her old ~ chool. family problem s, which had arisen became of, or during their ill h ealth. JOAN HOLLAND. After r eceiving h er secondary edu After a p eriod of years with the Tuberculosis As cation at Loreto Convent, Marryatville, Joan Holland sociation, Ranah worked very briefly at the Family entered the Adelaide Teacher s' College as a student W elfare Bureau of the World War II Services Wc1- teach er. During this training Joan obtained her Aris f are Fund before going to her present position, as Degree and Diploma of Secondary Education from social worke r at the Immigration Department Ade the University of Adelaide. Then followed three laide. H erc sh e is concerned with the problem s of years teaching at the Naracoorte High School. From immigrants, British and European in their adjuGt this appointment Joan r esigned to become a li m ent to living in a n ew country. Hannah's voluntary brarian at the Barr Smith Library within the Uni activitie ::J are many and varied. Sh e is an active m6m versity and, while in this position, Joan completed ber of the S.A. Branch of the Australian Associa the prescribed course and became a m e m her of tlw tion of Social \Vorker s and has h eld positions on Library Association of Australia. Joan sub»equen 1l y the Executive Committee. She is also a member joined the staff of the Wea pons' Resear ch Employ of the Committee of St. Joan's Social and Political m ent at Salisbury and was appointed in ch arge of, Alliance (S.A. Branch) . and set up, the Technical Library. During this time Joan ~ p ent two years overseas and was, for a tim e, MOLLIE BRADY spent all h er school life as a boarder with the Technical Information Bureau at the Bri at Loreto, Claremont. She came there as a little girl from Albany in the south of W.A. Her teachers tish Ministry of Supply. In 1957 Joan resigned and r em ember h er gift as a pianist. She could have made joined the staff of the Wattle Park T each er s' Train- LORETO ing College on it s formation hy the Erlucation De home with internsl. " H o me" is with h er sisters, parlnwnt. H ere, .loan holrls the po ~ ition of the Li Shie la (Lady Cross) and Margaret. They were all lu-arian Lecture r in Hi ~1or y . al school at Claremont and keep close contact with Loreto wherever they are. Despite he r onerous duties at the College, Joan finds the time lo take part in many activities. She is vice-president of the Ass isian Guild (Catholic RITA B. RICE (BIDDY) NORTH. All Marryatville Old Teachers), a m ember of the O ld Scholars' Commit Scholars and many past pupils of other states know tee, a m ember of the Library Committee of the S.A. of Biddy North, who has been President of the Old Institute of T eache rs. With several othe1· Old Scho Scholars' Asrncia tion for the past two years. lars, Joan has given talks to the present pupils and A student at Loreto for eleven years, Biddy has helped them greatly with advice on Univei·s ity cour always been an active member of the As ~ ociation , ses. J oan's main recreations are music, the thea tre having been Vice-President and a committee m em and sport. ber several times. During the year 1956-57 sh e wa~ Loyalty and helpfulness are the k eynotes to her the President of the Loreto F ederation of Australia character. and it was la1·gel y because of her efforts that the conferen ce in Ad elaide was su ch a success. KAY KINANE has been interested 111 drnma and Biddy holds the Degree of Bach elor of Laws of broadcasting since she was at school in Loreto Con the U niver sity of Adelaide. Sh e is one of the small vent, P erth. In 1944 she joined the staff of the A.B.C. band of women lawyers practi sing in Ad elaide. in Perth as Supervisor of Schools Broadcasts. The \Vhile sh e was an undergraduate sh e was Secretary h ead of the B.B.C. Schools Broadcasts, Miss Mary of the A quinas Socie ty at the University and she has Somerville, visited Australia in 194 7 and, seeing the been Secretary of the graduate section of that so work be ing done in P erth, recommended that Kay cie ty, and several times a committee m ember. She go to England to work wi th the B.B.C. for a time. is also an active member of St. Joan's Social and Consequently the first Imperial Relations Scholar P olitical Allian ce and has only r ecently resigned ship to be granted lo an A .B.C. m ember from Au s from the committee. She h as, on several occasions, tralia was given to Kay, and she spent ten months addressed the m embers on a variety of subjects. abroad, working with the B.B.C., visiting the Conti nent and re turning home through Canada and the Biddy's experience as a barrister and solic itor has United States to look at Education broadcasting there. been called upon by the National Council of Women In Sydney sh e was appointed Federal Producer and whe 1·e she is a convenor of the Standing Committee Script Editor for the Youth Education Department, for Trades and Professions and a m ember of the and in this position she travelled round Australia Law Committee. Sh e is also a member of the Gradu co-ordinating the work of States, training young pro ates Association of the U niversity of Adelaide. In ducer s, and producing Australia-wide schools broad 1950 sh e was a m ember of the A ustralian National cast series. Pilgrimage to R om e for the Holy Year and, on her return, sh e gave seve ral talks for the Australian In 1956 Kay went overseas again, this time to study Broadcasting Commiss ion. television with the help of a scholarship from the Association of Educational Broadcasters in the U ni But Biddy's talents are not purel y academic. She ted States. Visits to the studios of the major n et is very inter ested in music and in gardening, and works, small Educational Stations and a concentra £h e is particularly gifted at handicrafts. We realise ted course at the Univer sity of Iowa made a ver y that Biddy is, in ever y way, truly representative of interesting visit, and led the way for training work the ideals of Lore to. in introductory television schools here in Australia. Kay says sh e has not much time for leisure or bore dom. BERNIE O'DEA is one of the leading pracl!sm g soli c itors in P erth, belonging to the old-established firm of O'Dea and O'Dea, who were the chief legal firm CONSTANCE MOFFIT has been for some years the early in the century in Kalgoorlie. Later, they came Director of the Australian branch of International to P erth. It was from " the goldfields" that Bernie Services, wi th H eadquarter s in Sydney. Soon after first came to school as a boarder at Claremont - graduatin g from the Unive rsity of W estern Austra Osborne, as it used to be called. Sh e might easily lia, Conny went to Washington, U.S.A., where sh e have had a su ccessful career as a pianist, but after gained the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology. matriculating sh e went to the Melbourne U niversity When appointed to her present position sh e had al where sh e graduated in Law. She was a r esident stu ready passed through several years of arduous work dent at St. Mary's HaH during that time. When sh e in Europe. For five years after the last war sh e wor returned to P erth, sh e easily found h er nich e in the ked in R efugee camps in Germany with U.N.R.R.A. and the International R c.!U gce Organisation. H er old firm, wher e sh e is now the chief comultor. Ber work in he1· present position occasionally takes h er nie is worthy in every way of carrying on good tra overseas again. The last time, sh e spent most of h er ditions, and sh e is one of Perth's leading citizens, time in Greece and Austria, and we read h er letters who look up to h er in ever ything. H er car is al- 83 LORETO ways on offer at week-ends to drive people from rector of a Co-Operative Socie ty and Honorary L egal charitable institutions. In fact, we can not begin to Adviser to the Medical Women's Society of N.S.W. set down in cold type h er numerous charities. As in Joyce holds an Honours degree in Arts from Sydney her school-days she is greatly loved by the Lore to U niversity and serves as a Vice-president on the com nuns who1n sh e still numbers among her d earest mittee of the N.S.W. Association of Univer sity Wo friends. m en Graduates and is also a m ember of the commit tee of the English Association which produces the JOYCE SHEWCROFI', a past pupil of Kirribilli, was literary quarterly, "Southerly," in which her " Syd the first woman to be admitted as Barrister-at-Law ney Morning H erald" and Australian Poe try W eek from the Barristers Admission Board Course of the prize poems were publish ed. She learnt to be a pub Supreme Court of N.S.W. As the L egal Officer of the lic speaker to appear before Parliamentary Commit Australian Broadcasting Commission, she turned h er tees and various tribunals. Joyce, who has r eviewed literary interest to legal drafting and various organi for " The Catholic Weekly" and " Harvest," studied sations function under constitutions drawn up by for three years at the Aquinas Academy and con h er. She was the original Convenor of the R esearch tinues to follow adult education courses, such as the Committee of the N.S.W. Women Lawve rs' Associa course in Creative Drama wher e the students write tion, which briefs representatives to the Status of plays and produce them. Joyce has many friends Women Commission of United Nations. She is a Di- among h er old teach er s at Loreto. "", .I ~t)l. ,; DEBUTANTES FROM LORETO, MARRYATVILLE, 1959 INSET: The Lord Mayor of Adelaide ( L. M. S. Hargrave, Esq.) and the Lady .Ma yoress with Mrs. R. K enihan ( Ball Convenor) on the right. On the le ft , M i" R. B. Rice North ( President of the Old Scholars A ssociation). 84 LORETO LORETO OLD SCHOLARS' 1h c Seholar~hip Fu11d has grown gradually - the income, however, is still not sufficient to meet the ASSOCIATION, MARRY ATVILLE full cost of the Scholarship but in time it will do so. The Annual Ball of the Association was h eld on The fund now stands at over £450, which at t he the 15th April in the A Noud, Patricia Hamilton, Pa11·icia Hickey, Barbara and g1vmg the thrust Stein, Yvonne Thomas, Roslyn Lamb and Suellen more force. So I now Rushbrook. Past pupils who brought parties along learn a mixture of were Elin Elson Green, Jill Webb and Elizabeth H u n g a r i a n and Rhodes, Elizabeth Nowotny, Josephine Simmonds French, m ing the di and Mrs. Ann Carrick. rectness and force of A great number of our membe rs are in country the Hungarian, while centres all over the State but the Committee is proud retaining tlic subtle of the inter est and active part these member s take ty of the French. in the activities of the Association. This is the style The Association's objective of furnishing the n ew used in electdc fenc school library has, as we go to press, been almost ing. Le t me explain completed. Our new objective takes us further afield, the term " c1ectric:' to Burma, where we are planning to pay for the edu The conduct of a cation of a Catholic student in a Science Diploma bout is as follows. Course at the University of Rangoon, over a period The two fencers of two years. Such a student would then be qualified stand some yards to teach in one of the schools run by the Columban apart, the president Missionaries. A number of activities are planned to between and four ensure this objective and to foster the spiritual and judges round t h em , social life of the Association. They include a R e two to watch each treat, participation in a school fete, a function to be targe t. The presi- run by the younger members of the Association, a dent says. " On luncheon party to be held on Melbourne Cup Day Guard," or if he has and functions in private homes. been to the Olympic MARY NATHAN Games, "En Garde," The Association is k eenly interested in the ac at which the fencers tivities of the Loreto Federation and is looking for salute each other and assume the on guard position. ward to having the F ed eration H eadquarters in The president then says, "Ar e you read y" (Etes-vous Queensland at the end of the year. It will seem a pretes being too much of a mouthful ), to which tha fitting close to our Centenary Y ear which is being fencer s reply, "Yes," or "oui"- in New Zealand they marked by special activities in many societies say " Yes sir." The president then says " play" or throughout the State. "Allez," and the fencers move into distance. Chivalry MARIE DOOLEY, Honorary Secretary. is put aside, and, working themselves into a state where they would like to cut each other's throat, they FENCING fence. When a hit is seen, the judge, or judges, puts up his hand, the president stops the play, analyses A few months ago I went on TV to give a dis the movements and awa1·ds a hit against one or other l' lay of fencing. Befor e we fenced we were inter of the fencers. So the bout goes on until one fencer viewed and asked several questions, such as: " Why has 5 hits against him. do you fence? What does it do for you? What made But judges often give wrong decisions, either you take it up?" To take the last question, I was a through bias, faulty perception, or inattention. Us romantic soul, and I thought that fencing carried ing electric equipment, however, almost 100% ac on the romantic tradition from the old days of curacy can be obtained. A wire runs from the point duelling and courtesy. I wasn't altogether disillu of the weapon up the blade to a plug inside the sioned in my first year of fencing becau se where I guard. Anoth er wire then runs from ther e up the started to learn they held the same views as I did. sleeve under the jacket and out the back where But when I left m y stronghold of romanticism and it is attached to yet one more plug. To this is fixed went to the University I heard views expressed and a cord from a r eel at the end of the pist e which gives saw fencing that gave me somewhat of a shock, but and takes as the fencer moves forward or back. A was alw an eye opener. My m ethod of fencing was wire connects the reel to a box in the middle which changed drastically, and for the better, and although sounds a buzzer and shines a light wh en a hit is I sometimes argued with my coach, I knew that the made. In foil, wher e the target area is only the old m ethod was inefficient. The "old method" was torso, back and front, a special wired jacke t cover the classic French style used before the advent of ing the target area is worn, so that a hit on it re electric fencing. It differed from the other two gisters. In ep ee (a h eavier weapon, the d escendant schools, the Hungarian and the Italian, only really of the rapier ) the whole body is target, so the cpe in one r esp ect - the attack. The French attack was cial jack et is not worn. Electric equipment is u sed in to bend the wrist upward, thus raising the arm after State, National and International competitions. hitting. Naturally the attack came to be made with The price of having sound judging is that the the arm raised and wrist bent from the beginning, weapon is h eavier and more awkward to manage, as a method which has numerous disadvantages. The well as being somewhat expensive. The simplest other two schools made the attack with the arm movements are best and a great deal of athletic ex straight, thus saving time, an all important factor, ertion is required. 86 LORETO The F r en ch say it takes 10 years to make a fen THE DRAGON OF THE STORM cer. That is probably true if you want to be a world champion. But you can begin to get som ething out The Dragon of the Storm of fencing after three years, and after about five P aced among the flowers you feel you are som ebody who matters in the fen Sniffing ... cing world. People are often put off fencing by the And a waving of branches amount of effort required and the poor results. But · Announced his approach after five years or so of going strong at it, all effort And splinters of early rain will be rewarded. In m y fourth year now, though Mingling ... d efeat is more frequent than victory, I feel the re The Dragon crept on tiptoe ward of the last three years of effort. Through the fire on the grasses To tak e an example I am familiar with, I shall Cautiously, menacing, tell how I b ecame a fencer. In my first year at the Snapping and lifting the heavy heat Swords Club, which is the best club in Sydney, I got That stuck to his drifting face. a good grounding in basic movements. Next year at The bracken swayed and touched the University all classic en cumbrances were cleared His armoured paw, away and I started to enter competitions, needless And the rose dropped, unlooked at, to say without winning anything. N ext year I won Into the grass, som e thing and managed to get into semi-finals and Muttering ... even finals of small compe titions. That year m y And the Dragon stood up and splayed fencing took a different turn. Previously I won from His tremendous feet, luck or because my opponent was even worse than And between them the storm ran I was. But that year my excellent coach began to Darting, drum into m e timing and distance, without which, And the lightning played, style is useless and which, once they become second And the face of rock nature, give a style full opportunity to show itself Sifted through the Dragon's claws off. For the two combined (style with timing and And shook his powered frame. distance) open up a possibility of good fencing. A nd VENETIA NATHAN, when there is adrled a third element - tempera (Past Pupil, Normanhurst), ment, anrl the will to w in - they can prove irre sistible. Now this thit·d element is the most impor Third Years Arts, tant, but it must be combine d with the other two; Sydney University. without them the fe ncin g is lurlicrous, looking more like the slash-and-run tactic& of the fighting husky MARY ADDS A CLASSICAL TOUCH TO dog. First you mu ~ t be dete rmined to win. In orde r VENETIA'S FANTASY to do that you must work yourself into ~nc h a STAT MONSTRUM, SQUAi\ 11 S FULGENTIB US, ORE TRE- state that, as I m entioned before, you woul NO LIGHT READING LIFE WITHOUT TEARS Librarian (offering a book en philosophy to a lady): "I have another one here, but I think it is a bit Four-year-old girl ( to elder sister, who jibs at go heavy." ing to school) : "You needn' t go. 1'11 go. And when Lady Borrower: "Oh, don't mind that, I have the car.'' we grow up if you get a letter I'll read it to you." 87 LORETO COGHLAN'S AT MARY'S MOUNT From the day the first Loreto school opened in 1940. Margaret was H ead in 1944 and 1945. Charlie Australia, at Mary's Mount, Ballarat, in 1875, until Coghlan's daughter, Lois, came in the early 40's, but the present time, 1959, ther e has never been a period died at home from a sudden illness during a school when there was not some Coghlan or Coghlan des vacation. In the cloister there is a life-size statue of cendant at Lore to. St. Therese which her mother gave in m emory of Lois. Jasper Coghlan's two daughters, Pat and Betty, Margaret and Maud Coghlan were among the first went first as Day-Scholars to Loreto, Dawson Street, pupils in 1875; they were later followed by their and then as Boarder s to Loreto, Toorak. sisters, Kathleen, B eatrice, Eileen , Mollie and Daisy. Maud Coghlan enter ed the Brigidine Order !md lived The third generation began their Loreto School most of her religious life at Beechworth. B eatrice days in the 1940's. The first of the three sons of Mary became a Good Shepherd Nun, the well-known Mo Andre Hutchinson came to the Kindergarten, the ther of St. Madeleine, Superior of Abbotsford Con other two folJowing at intervals. vent. Eileen married Mr. W. Andre. Mollie became Mrs. Clairmonte and for many years was a pro Then I , Jillian Coghlan, came in 1950. My bro minent leader of the Women's Catholic Social Acti ther, James, later on came to the Kindergarten, and vities in BalJarat. She is now calJed " The Aunt" b y my youngest brother , Philip, is there now. all the Coghlan family of which she is the h ead. On the 13th November, 1955, the Foundation Daisy cam e lo Mary's Mount from Dawson Street Stone of the new St. Anne's Wing was laid. This n ew Loreto in 1895. She was here when the Countess Eli wing comprises four large classrooms, an office, zabeth Wolf Metternich came in 1898 and was made locker-room, cloakroom. Upstairs is a large Dormi a Child of Mary with the Countess . The Count ~ss, tory, shower s, bathrooms and an isolated bathroom wh ile over h er e from Germany came to see the and Infirmary block. Three of u s have used this new nuns. Sh e stayed for a while and then left for home wing - H elen Hughes, the daughter of LalJa Cogh to get permission to become a nun in Ballarat. How lan, Mary Louise Coghlan, Uncle Dan's eldest daugh ever on the way home she died. She left h er fortune ter, and m yself. So there are four of us now to carry to the nuns to build our beautiful chapel. It is said on the family tradition of being educated at Loreto to be the most beautiful school chapel in Australia. Abbey, Mary's Mount. The brass gates of the beautiful Siena marble altar Other Coghlans have travelled to far-off Loreto rails were given by my great-grandfather, Jam es Convents, some at Portland, some at Toorak, some at Coghlan , K.S.G. St. Alban's, England. At the present time, Jasper In the 1920's the second generation began. Eileen Coghlan's daughters, Ann e Marie, Maureen, Joan Coghlan Andre's children carried on the tradition. and Susan are at Toorak. T h e four boys at Loreto, Portland, the three girls - In all about fifty of the Coghlan clan have been in Mary, later Mrs. Hutchinson, Dorothy and Rosalie Loreto Schools - so there is little Australian Loreto at Mar y's Mount. Oswald Coghlan's four sons also History in which we have not played some part. began at Portland and his three daughters came to Mary's Mount. Mary came in 1928, and was H ead of JILLIAN COGHLAN, the School in 1933. T ess followed and was H ead m Second Year, Mary's Mount. A TRIBUTE TO MOTHER M. COLOMBIERE * I regard her influence as the most significant in Our hearts are lifted with joy and gratitude to m y life. H er gentle spirituality, her k een brain and know that our dear Mother M. Colombie re was ta firmness of purpose left their imprint on the most ken to h er rest on the F east of the Assumption. It formative years of m y life. was h er wish , and we acknowledge, with esteem, To h er I owe that critical faculty; that urge to the will of Our Divine Lord, Who signified, in a most examine the p er sonalities, the very souls of those wonderful manner His protection of the Institute. around m e; to read and go over the written word, OLD SCHOLAR, and to listen carefully to the spoken word of the Marryatville. radio and the films. With detachment and calm, I shalJ view tele * Our late and beloved Mo ther Provincial who died vision, and hope to avoid the mass thinking in this in Normanhurst on the 15th August, 1958. She was well medium. \Ve are told that the effect of the "suh known in Marryatville where in earlier years she was a mistress of studies. Houses that had been privileged to limal advertising" is negligible, but what of the ma h ave her as Superior mourned her death. As Prov inciia l terial of the " p er sonalities," insufficiently edited, Superior she had the love and respect of the whole Aus and fed to us per tape via the telephone? tralian Province. May she rest in peace.-Ed. 88 MATRICULATION CLASS FRONT ROW : J. D oyle, !IL A. E dgerton. K. Mel· ville, C. Kuhlman, P. Ogge, A. Saunders, D. O 'Brien, C. Kell y. SECO N D ROW (sitting ) : P. Mclnerney, G. Brennan, E. L ee, M. Frede ri co. TH I RD ROW : R . Robinson, W. A. Gunson, G. Ryan , G. Acton. BACK ROW: P. McClelland, K. Mclnerney, K. Jens, L. Ferguson. LEAVING CLASS FRO NT ROW : C. i\l·ulquiney, H . Stokes, D. Lee, N. F unde r, 1\ l. G urry, B. 1\1. c K echnie . S E CO N D ROW: S. Ba rrett, J. Ma rsh, A. Lynch, D. Barre tt, J. F akhry . THIRD ROW : L. Pitt, Y . von Hartel, J . Sullivan, V . Gl ove1·, S . J-l ope, G. Farley, 1\1. Byrne, M. K ing, M. Duck. FOU RTH ROW: M . Wilson, A. O 'Rorke, H. Murphy, S. Gu es t, S. fi1 aggia, P. 1\tl aggia, A . Sir, n, K . Gil· chri st, J. F eelt:y , N . Lee. FIFTH RO\'I : B. Johnston, Il. McGuinn ess, J . Ander· son, A. Corben, J. Larkins, A. Egan, .M. Li ghtfoot. BACK ROW : M. Palfey, S. Resch, J. McNama ra. LORETO CONVENT, TOORAK, VICTORIA 89 TOP - INTERMEDIATE CLASS l~RONT RO\\.: I'. Hoppe, D. Wilson, M. R oche, E. Curtis, K. Gorm a n, M. Graham, A. Diam ond, n. Duc k, M. . Hill. SECOND R O W: M. L . Williams, L . R yan, H. L echte, S . Forsyth , L. Corby, J. Colema n, E. I re la nd, D . W ell stead. THI R D ROW: N. Occlesha w, R. Arnold, C. Russo, A. Lynch, B. Pannuck, N. C lancy, J . O'Ro rke, D . 0'J3rien, 1\1. H oy, 1-1. ()'Do he rt y, N. Hanley. BACK ROW: M. Wright, T. Call il, C. Ma nning, A. Slattery, I. O'Brien, 13 . Stevenson, J. L ey. STA NDI NG AT BACK: M. Costigan, S. Knowles, J . Andrews, G. Farley. BOTTOM - SUB-INTERMEDIATE CLASS F RO NT ROW: M. Virgona, E . Daily, E. Humes, H . Naug hton, K. J ohnston, E. Kuhlman. SECOND ROW: E. Everett, C. Anderson, M . Lyo ns, M. Jaquinot, M . Mcl\'l enamin, C. L eonard, K . Little, P. M cL ell a nd. TI-IlRD ROW : G. H ogan-Taylor, S. P erry, D. Adessio, J . l\kDavitt, R. Richardson, J. K el ly, M. Flynn, F. Burrell , E. Connellan, R. Pitt, S. Hempel. BACK ROW: M. R adcliffe, P. Dwyer, S. Acton, P . S impson, H . M ort, S. Glover, l.. L ynch, A. Ga lba ll y, M. l\ t errick, S. Dail y, Y. T om · linson, S. Nixon. LORETO CONVENT, TOORAK, VICTORIA 90 TOP SECOND YEAR A }'R ONT .RO \\. C. J earney, E. Hirsch, J\1. L y nch, J. ]lowden, 7v1. 11oilenu, T . \Vynhave11 , R. Tie rna n, M. Duck, E. ll amilton, A. Carolan, L. Ci·osbie, S. Synma n. B A C K :RO\V: G. Clayton, C. z~izsmann, J. Adams, E. Stewart, D. G a rdini, A. Noone, S. Burke, J. Magg-io, C. Calli I, R. Ahern, D. Gay, M . i\1 o rrison, A. '.\lcCoy. CENTRE: M. T. Sweeney, J. Robertson. ABSENT : S. Flanagan, S. K ell y, P. O'Day. BOTTOM - SECOND YEAR B FRONT RO\\" : F . ll aydon, G. Virgo11 a, M. Keena11, J. Guest, M . McL ella11d, A. F ilcock. SECOND RO\\": J. T ownsend , C. Simpson, F. Sinn, E. Daily, J. Walsh, A. h ela11 d , G. W a re. BACK RO\V: E. Campbell , i'. Galba ll y, M_. A. Norma n, ] f. "Mort, A. \ Voodward, C. 1\l cNamara, E. Edg-erton, R . Binning, A. M.iddleton, G. Gilb e 1 ·t~o n , n. D onahoe. LORETO CONVENT, TOORAK, VICTORIA 91 TOP - FIRST YEAR FRONT RO\\' : P. Fetherstonhaugh, M. E. Coleman, M. Daly, S. l lo re, D. McS winey, C. Gerke, K. Johnson, ~!. A. Mc.\fe11a111i 11 . G ..\r ch- bold, K. Smith. SECOND RO\V: S. Godfrey, B. Anderson, C. Virgona, J. Starr, J. Olrlfields. ~ !. T. Quigg . C. T one1·, C. Zae1ta, A . .\f orri 0 11 . THIRD RO\\' : A. Mulvany, M. ~ 1 cD0 11ald, C. \\limpole, A. L ees, P. D owling, D. Gillon, B. Nolan, B. Conquest, A. J ohnston, J. Mo loney. )~ACK RO\\": A. Gallagher, S. A. Spain, N. Edgerton, C. Mann, A. M. H ughes, J. Timewell. ABSENT: M . Mann, P. O'Shaughnessy, M . M. Parker. BOTTOM - GRADE VI FRONT RO\\": G. McCauley, 11'f. Peters, J. Parker, P. Anstce, L. Lynch, M. \\"arry, C. \\"a lker, C. I.ea. SECOND ROW: M. O 'Hara, A. weeney, M. L. Ebstein, A. McMahon, S. Barrett, l\f. O'Brien, D. Coleman, J. Tierna11, J. Douglas, I'. Schaefar, F.. 11oileau, E . \ le Ca11 11 , ·M. Jaquinot. T Hl RD RO\\": J. Buxton, C. Ru,;so, K. Koch, V. R obson. S. T.ey, N. 11 1. Lynch, J. Smith, J. Adanb, J. Naughton, 0. Buxton, M. L. l\{orrison, L. B urrell, C. L echte, L. Edgerton, A. Tierney. BACK RO\\' : G. O 'Coll ins, M. Ki ft, S. Mort, M. Jo11es, H. Ca hi II, \. Nicl1 01l, , M. She;iha11, A. M. Coghlan, J. Kearney. ARSE 1T : F. Bryce. G. Byrne, J . Junokas, S. ]'vkEncroc. LORETO CONVE T, TOORAK, VJCTORTA 92 TOP - GRADE V FRON T RO\\. A. Til eechmore, H . F etherstonha ug-h , E. O'lfrien, F . :d c. E1 H.: n >~, l'. J oh n ~ t o 11 1 J. .\1 c Coy. SECOND RO\\': S. Funde1-, I I. \lag-inn, J. C;dler, C. H all , E . Skene, P. Knowl e,, :\I. E. McCardel, :1. Chapman, ~1. \t cCardlc, \'. Gerber, TI . lluxt.on, C. J ohnson, M. Gerke. TH I RD R OW: J. H odgkinson, S. H uxt. on, J . 13 elt, J. Simpson, E. Cal LORETO CONVENT, TOOHAK. V ICTOR IA 93 GRADE III A FRONT ROW : A. Smith, A. Eng land, A. Reid, 111. Coghlan, H . Sheahan, L. Clayton. SECOND ROW: S. Stewart, J. Ry land, R. M. Ryan, R. Johnson, A. Cahill, A. Smith, 1'-1. McEncroe. THIRD ROW: G. Douez, J. Skene, F. P itt, B. Lea, A. \\!right, Il. Bristow, S. A. Walker, S. Walker. BACK ROW: A. Callanan, M. A. ~1arz o r ini , 1. McCardel, R . Lechte, W. Gerber, S. A. Breheny, P . Coleman. ABSENT: J. Hughes. GRADE III B FRONT ROW: J. Fetherston haugh, M. Wilcox, J. Hamil ton. SECOND ROW : M. L. Con naughton, M. R yan, J. ~f.c Can~ M. McCann, C. Guest, E. u'Brien. THIRD ROW: E. Ryan, A. Junokas, A. Best, N. Scharpe, K. Timar, C. M oly neux, J. Galbally, H. Tier nan, P. Ahern. BACK ROW: M. Paccini, K. Kelly, E. McQueen Thomp son, J. Wellstead, A. Hally wood, A. Mort. AflSENT: A. Kevin, M. Ki ft, C. Thomas. GRADE II FRONT ROW : T. Starr, M. Vale, N. Hoppe, N. Coleman, G. O 'Keeffe, IJ. Kienrnn, J. D owling-, P. Spain, .M. }{enderson, R . H odgkinson, T. llell , J . F orrest, R. Burke. SECO D ROW : B. Tier ney, H. McKechnie, J. Kearney, D. Jones, M. Tiernan, C. Joseph, K. Allen, J . i\fotthe.ws, L. :Mahon, K. Alessio, M. McClelland, P . Jaquinot, F . Pitt, S. McCauley. BACK ROW: J. Con- naughton, V. Curtis, S. Lewis, J. PetersbE. West, M. Sakacs, M. ynon, D . Gill, E. O'Brien. C. Sweeney, G. Hyde, E. Collie. ABSENT : A. Co LORETO CONVENT, TOORAK, VICTORIA 94 GRADE I (Upper) FRONT ROW: A. Cantwell, M. \.Vilden, E. Partington, F. Stewart, M. R. Sinn, A. flanagan, A. Cal· ler. llACK ROW: N. M ighell, T . Resch, .\I. Rennie, N. Pizer, i\f. Dwyer, D. Bristow, A. Dwyer C. Klop penborg, E. O'Rorke. ABSENT: J . Bourke, H. Bourke, S. Evans, S. Taylor, S. A. Lodge, V. Tiernan, M-. Breheny. GRADE I (Lower) FRONT ROW : G. Molyneaux, I'. Galballyf l'. Reid, P. Ry and, P. Testart, S . Rey nolds, J. Mc/\l o· namin, T. F or rest. SECOND ROW: S. Van Asche, J . Dynon, M. Lynch, G. Eng land, J. Anstee, S. Arendsen, J . M'ortenson, H. McCardle, M. Bes t, G. Coply, P. R ai nford. THTRD ROW: A. Peppard, P. Bux ton, E. Cahill , J. Coghlan, S. Coghlan, C. Leth bridge, M. McCoy, G. Wal ker, J. Conquest. A HS ENT : J. Al ston, L. .Bro wn. J. Call anan, A. McKenzie, J. Kindergarten Whelan. FRONT ROW: R. Martin, L. Butler, W . Uest, T. Smith, J. Ry· land, J . :-rc- Cann, P. 1'fc- Cann, J. Bird, IL Smith, T. Lewis P. No lan, C. Dale. SECOND RO\\' : J. Ferrie, Il. Wilson, K. Ke vin, V. Gebbie, M. Bell, J. te wart, C. Hill, S. Pizer, B. Starr. THIRD ROW : D. Mulvaney, T. Fetherstonaugh, J. Height, C. Crosby, M. Jones, M. Cooke, P. EvaHs, A. 0 ' Shaughnessy, G. Stewart, E. Bartley, C. Ma hon, A. God frey. BACK ROW: K. Smith, J. Barry, P. ?\{artin, r. Hughes, J. Glo ver, 1\{. Oale, J. D ynon, Jamt:s Dynon. ABSE.. 1 T : Joanne Hird, Mariana lfrown, ~fary Carroll, Timothy Chapman, Peter Connaughton, Sylvie Dug-o ujard. l\taq.~a ret Dwyer, ~f.aree l;-ak hry, Virginia Grigsby, Stephen ll o ppe, J\ l ary Louise Lechte, Dia na ey, The mas ~fc~Jenamin , Margaret Peppard, Jane Schlesinger, Mi chael Trenchard, ~ l arian Walker. LORETO CONVENT, TOORAK, VICTORIA 95 LORETO SURVEY OF LORETO GRANDCHILDREN ON ROLL CALL, 1959, LORETO, TOORAK PARENTS GRANDPARENTS ADAMS, Julia and Joan Julie Murphy, Toorak AHERN, Rosalind, Penelope and Sally P atricia McKnight, Claremont ANDERSON, Jillian, Carol and Barbara Claire Murphy, Toorak ANSTEE, Pamela and Judith Mollie Carter, Toorak ARCHBOLD, G erardine P atricia Black, Albert P ark BARTLEY, Elizabeth Yutha Lodge, Toorak Gus Lodge, Hamilton BEST, Ann, Mary and Billy Nancy Donovan, Toorak BLEECHMORE, Antonia Mary Williams, Toorak BOURKE, Joan and Helen Joan Doheny, Toorak BOWDEN, Jane Joan Coleman, Mary's Mt. BREHENY, Mark Lettie King and Des Breheny, Nina Keyes, Mary's Mt. Toorak BUXTON, Susan and Philippa P at Ahern, Claremont BUXTON, Doone and Barbara Mollie O'Brien, P ortland, Toorak BYRNE, Mary and Gail Mary Sheehan, Toorak CAHILL, Bernadette Eileen Colby, Toorak CAHILL, Mary and Anna Marjery Atchison, Toorak CALDER, Elizabeth Amy Lucini, Toorak CALLANAN, Susan, Ann and John Elizabeth Healy, Toorak Kathleen Tunbridge, Mary's Mt. CAROLAN, Ann Kathleen Connaughton, Claremont CHAPMAN, Joanna Pat Doyle, Toorak COGHLAN, Ann Marie, Maureen, Joan and Nell Miles, P erth, and Susan Jasper Coghlan, P ortland COLEMAN, Jill Rita McKenzie, Mary's Mt. CONNAUGHTON, Joanne, Mary Lou and Joan McCardel, Toorak Peter CONQUEST, Bernadette, Margaret and Eileen P eppard, Toorak James COOKE, Mardi P atricia Collins, Toorak COREEN, Ann Marion Breheny, Toorak CORBY, Rosemary Stephanie Cox, Toorak COX, Michele Patricia Collins, Toorak CROSBIE, Cathy Joan Barry, Toorak DAILY, Susan and Elizabeth Moira Scaly, Toorak DALE, Dominie, Michael and Christopher Mary Nolan, Toorak Redmond Nolan, Albert Park DIAMOND, Alexis Margot Mullany, Toorak Beatrice Coolihan, Mary's Mt. DOWLING, Patricia and John Nancy P eppard, Toorak DOYLE, Edwina and Diana Maureen Wilton, Toorak DUCK, Margaret, Bernadette, Marita and Carmel Draper, Toorak Christine DWYER, Angela Beryl Young, Toorak DWYER, Patricia, Michael and Margaret Hilary Dunlea, Toorak, and John Dwyer, Albert Park DYNON, Michele, J acinta, John and James Moira Shelton, Toorak EDGERTON, Mary Anita, Elizabeth Nina Sylvia Burke, Toorak and Louise. EGAN, Annette Marjery Carroll, Dawson Street Training School ENGLAND, Andrea and Gabrielle Mary Rowan, Toorak FEELY, Julie Ronine Lake, Claremont FORREST, Jack and Terrence Nancy Mornane, Albert Park (grandmother) Anne Dynon, Mary's Mt. (great-grand mother) FORSYTH, Sunny Nan Jacobs, Mary's Mt. GALLAGHER, Anne Dorothy Nair, Kirribilli GALBALL Y, Francis Bernadette O'Bryan, Toorak GALBALL Y, Ann, P atricia and Jane Sheila Kenny, Toorak GEBBIE, Virginia Fay Reynolds, Toorak GERBER, Vicki, Wendy and Lindy Fay Carter, Toorak GILLON, Diana P at Buxton, Toorak GODFREY, Susan and Anthony Leslie Brown, Toorak GORMAN, Kerry Rene Richardson, Mary's Mt. GRAHAM, Margaret Marie Lloyd, Toorak GREEN, Wendy J oan Sykes, Mary's Mt. GRIGSBY, Briginia Shirley Carroll, Toorak GUNSON, Wendy Ann Edna McClure, Kirribilli 96 LORETO PARENTS GRANDPARENTS HAYDEN, Frances P eggy Barry, Mary's Mt. HEMPEL, Susan Judith Montague, Toorak HENDERSON, Michael Marguerite Skeha n, Albert Park HILL, Margaret Bon Hegerty, Toorak HILL, Rosemary and Catherine Thea Knowles, Marryatville HODGKINSON, Jane, Richard J anet White, Toorak HOLLYWOOD, Adele Mary Fowler, Toorak JOHNSON, Kristen, Karen and Rosemary Sheila Lovig, Toorak JOHNSTON, Barbara, Ann a nd Catherine Mary P eppard, Toorak JONES, Catherine K athleen Morrissey, Claremont JONES, Margot, Amanda and Deborah P atricia McDonald, Mary's Mt. KEARNEY, Christine and Jane Lorna Hoban, Toorak KELLY, Caroline and J ane Mary Ellis, Mary's Mt. KELLY, Sue Kathleen Breheny, Toorak KEVIN, Ann and Catherine Mary Lodge, Toor ak KIERNAN, Benedict Joan Silk, Toorak KING, Mary Noreen Sheehan, Claremont KNOWLES, Susan, Penelope and Ann Marjery Byrne, Toorak LARKINS, Jill P eggy J enkins, Dawson St. LEONARD, Christine J ean Dickinson, Mary's Mt. LETHBRIDGE, Christine J ean Chisholm, Toorak LEWIS, Sharon Corinne Keegan, Normanhurst, Toorak LITTLE, K eiran and Jane Patricia McNamara, Toorak LYNCH, Helen and Margaret Blanche Fitzgerald, Toorak Blanche Sheehan, Albert Park MAGGIA, Prue and Sue Mab Bowyer, Normanhurst MARTIN, P eter J oselyn Barclay, Toorak MOLYNEUX, Clarinda and Grevor P at McGirr, Normanhurst MULVANY, Angela and Damien Elsie Warton, Toorak MURPHY, Helen Lyle Meaks, Kirribilli McCAFFERY, Margar et Mary Laurie O'Brien, Toorak McCANN, Elizabeth , Judith, Margaret, Joan June Shelton, Toorak and Patricia McCARDEL, Mary Ellen, Irene and Bruce Yvonne Wearne, Toorak McCAULEY, Genevieve Lyla Reynolds, Toorak McCOY, Ann, Julia and Marea Olive Williams, Toorak McDAVITT, J ane Jean Naughton, Toorak McGUINNESS, Brenda Marie Hocking, Dawson St. McKECKNIE, Barbara and Hugh Isobel Crosbie, Toorak McKENZIE, Alexandra Elizabeth Cahill, Toorak Phyllis Dureau, Mary's Mt. McSWINEY, Deirdre Sheila Knowles, Adelaide MIDGEL Y, Blaan Mary Reynolds, Toorak NAUGHTON, J ennifer J ohn Naughton, P ortland NICHOLLS, Carolyn a nd Yvonne Pamela Corben, Toorak O'KEEFE, Elizabeth and Gerald Tess Fitzgerald, Toorak Blanche Sheehan, Albert P ark O'RORKE, Ann, Joan and Edmund Phyllis Wearne, Toorak PA CINI, Merrin P auline J ackson, Toorak PARKER, Margaret Mary and Josephine Roma Fowler, Mary's Mt. PERRY, Suzanne J ean Hansom, Toorak PITT, Lorna and Rosalind Sheila Sullivan, Toorak QUIGG, Marie-Therese Nell Vaughan, Toorak RADCLIFFE, Alexandra Ellen Motherway, Navan, Ireland REID, Ann and Peter Helen Plunket, Toorak RY AN, Elizabeth J oan Finn, Toorak RYAN, Rosemary Marjery Manly, Toorak SCHLESINGER, Ann Marie and Jane J eannette Bowen, Normanhurst SHEAHAN, Mary and Helen Clare Winship, Brisban e Eileen Lennon, Portland SIMPSON, Philippa, Catherine and J oanna Geraldine Spring, Toorak SINN, Anna, F elicity, Mary Rose and Wilma Murphy, Toorak Patricia SMlTH, Helen and K evin Pat Cooper, Toorak SMITH, K erry and Jacqueline Hilary Kearney, Claremont, Toorak SPAIN, Carol Ann and Paul Mary Viles, Loreto Heights College, Denver, Col orado SWEENEY, Catherine Betty Need, Toorak (Continued Foot of N ext Page) 97 LORETO The I.B. V.M. A bro ad ANDALUSIA EN FETE Once a year, in Spring or Summer, the fair com es Between the central plateau and Sierra Nevada is to village and city alike. The buying and selling of Andalusia, Spain's southernmost region, Andalusia cattle is still the serious occupation of the country - the land of castanets and owirling skirts - draws folk who come to the fair. But for everybody else tourists in their thousands to its "Costa del Sol." it is a week of r ejoicing and feasting. The fair Although processions during Holy Week are held grounds are decorated with streamers and Chinese throughout Spain, they acquire g1·ealer splendour 1.anterns; s tall-ke~pc1·s shout their wares, which range and magnificence in the south; and Seville* holds from toys and tnnkets to nougat and almond paste; pride of place in this sphere. From Palm Sunday to the crowds move along the grounds amid the mono Easter Sunday, the Passion of Our Lord is re-lived in tonous sounds coming from the roundabouts, thl' the processions. Day and night the " pasos" 01· tab tinny music of the barrel organ, the shrieks of de leaux, leave the vast Gothic Cathedral with its light from the childre n on the sec-saws and the cries Moorish minaret, the Giralda, to join the procession. from the toboggan slide. Each "paso" is composed of life-size statues repre The most famous of all these fairs is the one held senting some scene from the Passion, or simply Our at Seville in April, when the Andalusian sun still Lady of Sorrows. The statues are the works of scul looks with a kindly eye on the city. The renowned ptors like Montanes, who belonged to the Spanish cattle fair is h eld on the outskirts, where the well School of the seventeenth century. They sp ecialised to-do families have large wooden huts built. These in this type of dramatic, realistic sculpture so much are b eautifully decorated and illuminated , and fa to the taste of the Spanish p eople. There heavy mily and friends resort thithe r every night to enjoy "pasos" are borne aloft by image b earers, and ther e them selves with songs and dancing. The sh erry from fore the pace of the procession is always slow and J erez docs much to looEe n tongues and quicken feet; hesitant, which seem s to intensify the solemnity of and a group of girls in the typical Andalusian frilly the occasion, while the quive ring light of the lamps dresses wearing carnations in the ir hair delight on and candles surrounding the tableau casts a dramatic looke1·s with their graceful " sevillanas." glow on the images. The " paso" is flanked by two The "sine qua non" of the Spanish fair is the bull long rows of penitents, men wearing black or purple fight, which is still looked upon as the national tunics and conical hoods with slits for the eyes, and entertainment. The bull-ring is a typical feature carrying thick candles. As the procession winds its of ever y Spanish city, with its dark, austere exterior way along the crowded stree ts hung with rich rugs, and its dazzling interior. The bull-fighter is a na silks and Manila shawls, the silence is pierced by tional hero, admired for his courage and skill. Some the anguished cry of a "saeta", an arrow. As the Spaniards condemn bull-fights, hut they are the very name implies this is a short song with a religious small minority. To the majority, the bull-fight is theme, addressed at the image with the sharpness like opium, and it excites the emotions. It is a colour of an arrow. The procession stops while the "saeta" ful sp ectacle of brilliant costumes shining in the is being sung, out of resp ect for the p erson who is sun, of scarle t capes, mu5ic, excitem ent and su sp en se. thus pouring forth his grief. Before returning to the The " Romeria del Rocio" is the most popular rus Cath edral, the " paso" passes by the prirnn gates, tic feast in A ndalu ia. Following an ancient tradi where the prirnners jostle each other in order to tion, thousands of pilgrims from all over Andalusia catch a glimpse of the procession which means so gather on Whitsun at Rocio, a little village near much to the Spanish people. Huelva. They wind their way, on horseback, in car- (Concluded From Page 97) PARENTS GRANDPARENTS McQUEEN-THOMPSON, Elizabeth Gerta McAree, Marryatville TIERNAN, Andre and Rani Diane Burke, Kirribilli TIERNAN, Janet, Mary Lou, Helen and Lenore Jorgensen, Toorak Virginia TIERNAN, Virginia Beverley O'Connor, Toorak Nancy Skehan, Albert Park TRENCHARD, Michael Pat Noonan, Toorak VIRGONA, Maria, Gina and Christina Cathleen Lopez, Normanhurst WAL KER, Sally Anne Margaret Prendergast, Mary's Mt. WALSH, J ennifer Eithne Kidd, Marryatville WARE, Geraldine Kathleen Deshon, Brisbane WARD, Angela Evelyn Lightfoot, Toorak WILLIS, Jane Margaret Daly, Toorak WHELAN, Jane Carmel Simon, Toorak WILSON, Diane Moira Curtain, Mary's Mt. WIMPOLE, Catherine Genevieve McGrath, Toorak WRIGHT, Mary and Angela Molleen Daly, Toorak ZSIZSMAN, Christine Susan Keve, I.B.V.M., Budapest 98 INSET - Rock of Gibraltar. Girls in grounds of Loreto Convent, Gibraltar. riages and on foot, along fooLpaths, cross bogs and port, so h e took possess·ion in the year 711 and erec wade through river R if necessary. The carriages are ted a stronghold, the Moorish Castle, which stands decorated with garlands and streamer s, and the girls, to this day and is now used as a prison. The Moors dressed in the typ ical costume, cany tambourines finally lost Gibraltar in 1462 to the Spanish who re and castanets, while the cadenced notes of a guitar tained the Rock until 1704. A sel'ious Turkish raid fill the air. No one would gues thi is a pilgrimage in 1540 decided the Emperor Charles V to surround on Lh e way to the shrine of Our Lady of Rocio. Y et the city with a defen ce syst em . Thus came into be to the A ndalusian, a feast - be it r eligious or n a ing Charles V's \Vall, which runs from South port tional - is a time of rejoic ing, and Lh ey express the ir Gates to the top of the Rock and is still in p erfect "alegria" by dancing and singing. condition. A British fleet under Admiral Rooke took E. BRUZON, Gibraltar in 1704 and the Rock has remained in Bri Loreto High School, tish h ands since that d a te. Gibraltar. It requires time to explore thoroughly all places * At Seville is the Mother House of the I.B.V.M. (Lo of interest in Gibraltar. The Museum in itself h as reto) in Spain, founded from Rathfarnham in 1888). a mass of very inter esting exhibits, besides the r e GIBRALTAR mains in excellent condition of a Moorish bath above \Vhat H m ck m e most, both mentally and phys i which the Museum is built. Because the Rock is cally, w h en I arrived at G ibraltar and stepped for the porous limestone caves are numerous and of them first time, on to the runway h eneath the towering all St. Michael's is best worth a visit. There, won North face of the Rock , was the chi]] wind. This derful talagmites and stalactites - the d elight of p articular east wind, w hich chanced, for it certainly any geographer 's h eart - may be seen. Of further does not blow at all times, to greet me, is known interest is lower St. lVIichael's in which is a lake of as the Levanter , and quite often cauces a cloud "LO fresh water up to twenty feet d eep a nd encrusted pile up at the top of the Rock. Fortunately the in with crystal. Equally worth visiting is the Moorish habited side of the Rock, the west, is sh eltered from Castle so formidable and so weH preserved even to the wind. The Rock is indeed an impressive sight the present day. and may be Eeen from miles into Spain towerinp:. Most p eople are incJined to r egard the Gibral- white, above the surround ing hills. 1. a rian s as Spanish or of Spanish origin but this is To the ancient p eoples of tlw Mediterranean the not so even though their language is Spanish. In 1704 end of the world was marked b y the Pillars of I he Spanish population of Gibraltar fl ed to San Ro H er cules, of which Gibraltar was one. The high esl que a nd Los Barrioh, in pain, leaving only Genoese point of the Rock , the oulhcrn 1· ncl , i ~ 1.398 l' PPI and J ews. Thus the present p eople of Gibraltar are high . mainly of Genoese origin as the surnames confirm. P e rpetua ted in the word "' G ibraltar'' is lhc name The population of the Rock now numbers 25,000. A of Tarik, for Gibraltar m eans Gibcl-Tarik, or Moun smalJ city, but the k ey to the Mediterranean. tain of Tarik. This Tarik, a Moor, was the first Lo CEINWYN BERMINGHAM, realise the importance of the Rock as a fortress and Loreto High School, Gibraltar. INDIA See captions next page. 't and the feelings of Scott and h is companions on reaching home again. that fatefu l journey to the South Pole. Doug~as Seeing Evans die, they are determined not lo Stc-wart must have thought d eepl y and with g1·eat fall sick. Oates becom es too ill and weak to k eep up. sympathy over the heroic expedi tion. From the very Dr. Wilson and Scott loo k after him as if h e was fi n t word Scott utte rs h e h as u s k eyed up about their dearest; but he is tortured by th e thought that the journey. Scott, with all his party round him says: h y holding back their progress he is endangering " We can nianage the load all right. Better say good their lives. One nigh t as the blizzard is raging round bye .-' lt is so simple and genuine. thei r Lent, Oates walks out into the fury - a white Talking about goodbyes, I thought the scenes in flame of sacrifice. the film were specially wcH done, when Scott and Th ree men arc left: Bowers, Wilson and Scott. Wilson were saying goodbye to their wives. They T hey are freez ing to death. Bowers is the first to we re beautifu l and wonderful women; and I d1all die. \Vilrnn breaks the news to Scott who is as1cep: never foqiet them as they waved to their hucbnnds " W hi !c you we re sleeping a fire went out in the from the wharf in New Zealand. Knowing what was te nt. Bowers is dead." Two me n arc left: \Vilson and to happen we felt a sense of doom as the boatload Scott, e nduring, resigned to the Will of God. They of heroic m e n set its course for the South Pole. talk about th eir lives and ag1·ec that their is nothing Later on we are to be impressed with the flame they would ch a nge. Wilson dies. Scott is alone. like courage and burning e nduran ce of Scott, Wil "Two dead m en ; a nd a d y ing man r e me mbering :: on, Evans, Bowers and Oates, who are the five to The burning snow, the crags towering like fla m e." lose their lives surrounded by the icy terrorn of the M. CLIFFORD, K. KNIGHT, Antarctic r egions. At various points, ordered by H. O'NEILL, G. O'SHANNASSY, Scott, the majority of the expedition return to the R. STRACHAN, early base camps. F ourth Year, Normanhurst.