2N1 I kti . i° 4 ( ii.r 1962 .fifq) ,76,44, o v v %1:Pb:1":71-': Pj), ea Registered at G.P.O., Brisbane for Transmission by Post as a Periodical 6 _ - ii ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE GREGORY TERRACE 1876-1962 CArintral 4 I4a9'azine 1962 I I, sr it Blocks by courtesy of Catholic Leader. From the original Painting by A D. Colquhoun. THE MOST REV. SIR JAMES DUHIG, D.D., K.C.M.G., LL.D. "4/0411......111/..41,411W, Dedication this (Volume is dedicated to the memory of ,Brother William //tart cRet4y, toho in his ttoenty-seven years of association With gregory 'Ferrace, and his seenteen years as Readmaster, did more than any other to establish and maintain her traditions and her honourable name. gris emphasis on manly character, his impartial administration of justice, his inflexible adherence to principle, and his fine Pirile example hale placed many generations in his debt, and hate :Jell qualified him for the retoard of those c ;oho instruct many unto justice. Rev. Br. W. M. REIDY Welniescat in race Headmaster : 1905-8, 1923-25, 1931-34, 1941-46. Page Three O C e t MOST REV. P. M. O'DONNELL, D.D., COADJUTOR ARCHBISHOP OF BRISBANE THE ANNUAL REPORT, 1962 The Annual Speech Night was held in the Festival It is fitting that I should record here the death of Hall on Wednesday, 31st October. The Guests of Br. William Mark Reidy whose name was linked so Honour were His Excellency the Governor, Sir Henry long and so honourably with that of Terrace. His Abel Smith, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., D.S.O., LL.D, and wise and impartial administration during the years His Grace the Archbishop, Sir James Duhig, D.D., of His Headmastership of the school, the fine manli- K.C.M.G., LL.D. Also in the official party were Rt. Rev. ness of his teaching and of his still more eloquent Monsignor J. Torpie, Mr. James Mahoney, Queensland example left a deep impression on the life of the Rhodes Scholar for 1962, Professor James Mahoney school, and thoroughly earned the magnificent tribute who fittingly moved the vote of thanks to His Excel- that his obsequies evoked. lency, and Mr. John Tully, President of the Old Boys' Association who moved the vote of thanks to His CURRICULUM. On the surface the routine of the Grace the Archibishop. school's life has not differed appreciably from that His Grace was welcomed with sustained and enthus- of other years, although educational developments iastic applause, expressing the delight of the audience and pending changes in the curriculum have quicken- to have him with us so soon after his illness. The ed our interest in the immediate future. The Com- feelings of the student body for their most illustrous mittee for Revision of Secondary Education have Old Boy were fittingly conveyed by His Excellency advanced their investigations to the Syllabus stage, when he said during the course of his address : the Catholic Education Advisory Committee under the "We are indeed fortunate to have a great man with presidency of the Coadjutor Archbishop and Rev. us this evening. Father 0 Shea the Director of Catholic Education Your most famous old boy, and Queensland's most have striven to ensure that Catholic Schools will not eminent citizen, is Archbishop Sir James Duhig. be unprepared to meet the very real problems that Throughout His Grace's long life, by his inspired the 1964 Syllabus will entail. The State Scholarship wisdom, breadth of vision and selfless service to Examination which has in the fifty years of its ex- his fellow men, he has set us a God -like example." istence given their first opportunity of educational advancement to many leaders of educational, profes- Excerpts from the Headmaster's Report are given : sional and commercial life is enjoying its last few The year 1962 has had an additional significance weeks of existence, and will soon pass away, unlament- for the Christian Brothers in the fact that we cele- ed by those who saw in it only a lowering cloud on the brate this year the Bi-Centenary of the Birth of Our educational horizon, lamented by those who recog- Founder Edmund Ignatius Rice the cause of whose nised its value in ensuring that pupils who did not beatification has in recent months been officially be- proceed further had reached at least an objective gun. The boys join us in daily prayer that soon, in standard in basic education, and that those who did the providence of God, he may be raised to the full would join one of the many streams of higher ed- honours of the altar. ucation with the confidence of a thoroughly dis- Page Five ciplined preparation. The immediate effect of the classroom plants will form as broad and strong and abolition of qualifying Primary Final Examination true to type as he can make it. will of course be an intake into the Secondary Classes EXPANSION. Our own particular garden is of at once numerically increased and more varied in course still filled to capacity with 450 Junior seed- quality and attainment. That all students should have lings and 530 secondary plants of maturer growth. the opportunity of some secondary education is un- In last years report I hopefully announced as a pro- deniably a good thing - it is equally valid to con- ject for 1962 the provision of a self contained Senior jecture that there will be many to whom the ex- School with additional Science and Library accom- tension of schooling will be either an irksome re- odation. Though plans were duly drawn early this straint on freedom, or at the opposite pole a pleasant year the project met with such a series of frustra- substitute for the discipline of external work and tions from unexpected quarters that no further hence that schools may find it necessary to ensure practical advance has been made. It is pleasing how- by some form of domestic examination, that all the ever, to be able to announce that within the last pupils are at least interested in attaining a minimum week building approval has been granted, without standard of intellectual fitness in primary work. the imposition of unreasonable conditions, and that plans can at last be finalised. The delay of course DISCIPLINE. It is equally undeniable that the has made it imperative to move at once if we hope more cosmopolitan intake will include a greater to secure the extended accomodation in time to minority who by temperament or circumstances or answer the requirements of the 1964 syllabus. Of a combination of both will be unwilling to conform course, even though the General Conference of Unesco to the discipline of school regulations for an extend- unanimously accepted last year the principle that ed period. There is increasing evidence even in a "Education is a basic component of economic de- reasonably normal School Community that the silly velopment - an investment as fundamental as the modern cult of juvenile self-expression is still not building of roads" this principle is not interpreted without its devotees. Far be it from me to to include education according to conscience. Hence suggest that this is typical of all students, or even we can expect no immediate financial help from any the school should discourage individuality, or cast source except the source that has been steadfastly all its pupils in the one physical or intellectual mould providing it for the past eighty-seven years. If then - but while real education requires that we should we reluctantly resort to some form of direct appeal take the child as he comes to us and encourage him to meet our estimated total outlay of little short of to develop his own gifts and talents as a human £150,000 we are confident that you will meet the personality - commonsense equally requires that as challenge as loyally as you have met other challenges a rational being he should conform to a recognised in the past. standard of deportment and behaviour. Earlier RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES. The work of the mission parental insistence on such a standard and firmer societies has been generously, maintained; the Crusad- parental co-operation with legitimate school require- ers of the Blessed Sacrament in the Junior Classes, ments could avoid the minor crises that occur to and in the Senior Classes the St. Vincent de Paul those who are reluctant to conform. It may seem Society, the Catholic Literature Crusade and the strange to stress tendencies that are symptomatic of Pioneer Association have been powerful instruments only a small minority - but if a teacher is to fulfil for good. In this connection I gladly express the his prime function as a "gardener of souls" he must gratitude of Brothers and boys to Rt. Rev. Mgr. take sympathetic care that even the weakest of his Torpie, Administrator of the Cathedral, the priests Page Six of the Cathedral staff, and the Carmelites of Gregory In the Report the Headmaster took the opportunity Terrace for their unremitting zeal and attention to to express the gratitude of the school to those who our spiritual needs, and to the Redemptorist Fathers helped us during the year- who conducted the highly successful Annual Retreat for the Secondary Classes. By way of spiritual corol- "At last year's function I reported the formation of lary we are pleased to record two entrants to Banyo a Rowing Auxiliary composed of Fathers of boys in Seminary, two to the Society of the Divine Word and the Rowing Club, and predicted that it would be a one to our own Training College at the beginning of useful adjunct to Terrace Rowing in future years.