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Loreto Coorparoo Loreto Coorparoo 1931 A guide to archival records relating to Loreto Coorparoo held by the Loreto Provincial Archives Ballarat. Kieran Donnelly October 2019 1 Contents Acknowledgement 3 Using this guide 3 Loreto Provincial Archives 4 Loreto College Coorparoo 6 Loreto College Coorparro Archives 7 Series 32 Records relating to Coorparoo Brisbane 8 Series 194 Photographs Vol 50 Coorparoo 22 Series 202 Loreto College Coorparoo Magazines 1979-1999 22 Series 350 Coorparoo Community Administration Files. 23 Series 358Coorparoo Account Books/Pupil Pensions or Fees 23 Series 361 Coorparoo Pupil Pensions 1952-1959 24 Series 362 Coorparoo Class Lists 25 2 Acknowledgement In 2019, The Loreto Provincial Archives and the Mary’s Mount Ballarat Archives hosted me for two weeks in the Loreto Archives Centre, Sturt St., Ballarat. My hosts were Robin Scott, Loreto Provincial Archivist and Matthew Roberts, Loreto College Ballarat Archivist. The following guide resulted from a project dimension of a practicum for the Graduate Diploma in Records Management and Archives at Curtin University, Western Australia. I am grateful to both Robin Scott and Matthew Roberts for being generous hosts and professional mentors. Using this guide. Although situated in repositories separated by two thousand kilometres, the archival collections of Loreto Coorparoo and the Loreto Province, Ballarat can be understood as parts of the one collection. This guide has been created to promote this understanding and to support collaboration between those archives. The Loreto College electronic Library catalogue, “Oliver” lists and describes the Archival Collection held at Loreto Coorparoo archives. This guide augments that catalogue by listing and describing records relevant to Loreto College Coorparoo held in the Loreto Provincial Archives at Ballarat. This guide aims to describe and facilitate access to records held in the Loreto Provincial Archives that deal with Loreto Coorparoo, Queensland. The guide describes seven Series of records referencing Loreto Coorparoo, held in the Loreto Provincial Archives. Series No. Series name 032 Records relating to Coorparoo Brisbane 149 Photographs Vol 50 Coorparoo 202 Loreto College Coorparoo Magazines 1979-1999 350 Coorparoo Community Administration Files 358 Coorparoo Account Books/Pupil Pensions or Fees 361 Coorparoo Pupil Pensions 1952-1959 362 Coorparoo Class Lists 3 Loreto Provincial Archives. The Loreto Archives, located at Loreto College Ballarat, holds records of enduring value relating to Australian Loreto foundations, missions and members since 1875. We are committed to documenting and preserving relevant and historically significant records and artefacts and sharing our cultural heritage within our networks and the wider community. We welcome and encourage use of our historic collection and visits to our Province Archives in Ballarat. Research assistance and facilities are available for students, genealogists, academics and public historians. For information on the history of Loreto in Australia or for more details about our archival collection please contact us using the information below. Archivist: Robin Scott. Location: 1600 Sturt Street, Ballarat, VIC 3350 Telephone: (03) 8832 0423 Email: [email protected] https://www.loreto.org.au/about-us/archives/enquiries/ Loreto Archives Centre Ballarat 4 Loreto College Coorparoo Loreto College Coorparoo opened in 1928 in a house, “Kemendine”, purchased for the Loreto Sisters by Archbishop Duhig. Purchased from the Deshon family, the 1889 house sat on a hilltop approximately 6kms from the city centre. In September 1927, two Loreto Sisters visited Brisbane and agreed to establish a school on the site in Cavendish Rd. In December 1927, six Loreto Sisters came and prepared the house. In January, these six sisters returned south, before being replaced by five sisters who constituted the first Loreto community at Coorparoo. The Sisters purchased the house and 3 acres of land for 4,500 pounds. Until its demolition in 1977, Kemendine was known as the “Pink Building”, because of its distinctive colour. 1931. IBVM community on verandah of Kemendine The unusually named “Casket Building”, the oldest extant Loreto Coorparoo building, stands in the middle of the school’s grounds. The ground and first floor of the building were built in 1931 adjacent to the pre-existing “Kemendine”. The third floor was added in 1933: 5 The naming of the “Casket Building” resulted from the 5000 pounds winning proceeds of the Golden Casket in 1929 that paid for its’ construction. The winning ticket had been gifted to the Sisters by Alice Cummins, a past pupil from Loreto Adelaide and a friend of Mother Crescentia Collins, Superior of the Coorparoo community of Loreto Sisters. Loreto College Coorparoo commenced in February 1928 with an enrolment of seven students, increasing to 42 (pictured below) by 1932. At the beginning of 1942, the school evacuated to Glen Innes for wartime security reasons and the school became a wartime convalescent hospital for soldiers. 6 Loreto College Coorparoo Archives The Loreto Coorparoo Archives has three major organisational contexts. They are the Student Master File Archive consisting of approximately 200 boxes, located offsite in the Grace records depository Willawong. It contains graduate student files from the 1960s to two years preceding the current calendar year. Secondly, the Loreto College Archives housed in the archive area at the College, consisting of approximately 460 archival boxes and varied objects. Finally, the Loreto College Digital Archive consisting of approximately 30,000 files on “SharePoint”, Microsoft’s cloud based Enterprise Content Management System. Contact: Kieran Donnelly Loreto College 415 Cavendish Rd Coorparoo Q. 4151 0733949999 [email protected] 7 Series 32 Series Name: Coorparoo, Brisbane Box 1 (1)-(14) Date start: 1927 Date End: 2014 Location: Loreto Province Archives Ballarat. 2.2.4 Contents Overview: This archival box contains material relating to the Loreto IBVM Community and College in Coorparoo Brisbane. Amongst other materials it includes Mary Ward plays, short histories of Loreto Coorparoo, letters, minutes of the College Advisory Board, financial records, property records, school prospectuses, records of College celebrations, newspaper cuttings, Glenn Innes property correspondence, school evaluation documentation, newsletters of the Past Pupils Association and lists of IBVM members who have worked in Coorparoo. Series 32 Item 1 Mary Ward Plays “Mary Ward”. Script of a play for grade 2. Annotated as Sister Lena’s play 1966. 5-pages. “The Life of Mary Ward”. Script of a play in three Acts. 28-pages. Addresses Mary Ward’s upbringing, vocational discernment, gathering of followers and relations with Church hierarchy. “Scenes from the life of Mary Ward, Foundress of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary”. Script of scenes 4 and 5 only of a play with five scenes. 5-pages. Addresses Mary Ward’s return to England in 1638. “Mary Ward-Her life and Times”. A presentation in drama and music to commemorate the Australian centenary of the IBVM 1875-1975. Includes a programme for the presentation and a script of the dramatic element of the commemoration. Addresses Mary Ward’s vocational discernment, gathering of companions, religious adversity in England, establishment of the Institute on the Continent and engagement with Church Hierarchy. Series 32 Item 2 History of Coorparoo. Double sided page annotated as “1949” with 1) Image of Kemendine” annotated “As the nuns first knew it”. 2) Image of Loreto Convent Brisbane prefects and image of senior group. Endicott, Michael. A. (OSA). “Coorparoo Stones Corner Retrospect”. Augustinian Historical Commission 1979. 89-pages. A history of the Coorparoo and Stones Corner area from European settlement. Includes references to Loreto Coorparoo pages 42-43. 8 “Loreto Convent, Cavendish Rd, Coorparoo, Queensland.” Author unknown. 4-pages. A history of the establishment of the IBVM community and college at Coorparoo circa 1927- 1933. Lang, R. “A Spirit Continues with Adapted Traditions”. (A History of Loreto Convent, Brisbane 1928-1978.) Unpublished assignment for University of Queensland Course ED819. The author is a past teacher at Loreto Coorparoo. Addresses: 1) The establishment of the College and its development through to the late 1970s. 2) Implementing a Loreto educational philosophy 3) The impact of Vatican Council II 4) Relations with the local parish and other local religious Congregations. O’Shaughnessy, J.E. “Report of School Inspection”. July 1940. Single page report following an inspection of Loreto Convent, Coorparoo by the Diocesan Inspector of Schools. Particularly addresses the perceived effectiveness of religious education. Letter from Archbishop Duhig to Mother Provincial on July 2nd 1927. Single page letter discussing arrangements for Mother provincial’s visit to Brisbane to assess potential sites for the proposed establishment of the IBVM in Brisbane. (Annotated as “duplicate”). Browne, Deirdre (IBVM) Single page letter to fellow members of the IBVM informing them of impending developments at Coorparoo in 1977. The letter references the demolition of Kemendine, phasing out of the junior school and a proposal to build a Religion Centre. “The Property”. 1-page list of property developments at Coorparoo from 1928 to 1973 with associated costs. “Loreto” Brisbane. 1927-1972. Author unknown. 2-pages. A brief historical overview of the College. (Two copies.) Copy