September 2019 Dan McErlean Bryan McSweeney 12 Werona Street email: [email protected] Sunnybank Qld 4109 Dear Old Boys The next meeting of our Brisbane Sub-Branch of the Toowoomba (St Mary’s) Brothers Old Boys’ Association will be held on Friday 20th September 2019 at 12:00 noon in “Harlequin Jacks” Bistro in the Sofitel Hotel situated above Central Station. Access to the Bistro is via the escalator from within the Railway building, just look for the doors directly opposite the front “Go-Card” entry gates to the station platforms. Please reserve as Claimer Dates Friday 22nd November for our Brisbane “Pre-Christmas” luncheon, and 6th December 2019 for the similar function at the Headland Golf Club Buderim, (contact Terry Murphy 54564340). Old Boys, please don’t miss the 120th Year Dinner at our College on Saturday 19th October. It will be held in the T. P. O’Brien Hall from 7pm – 10pm. This is the opportunity to celebrate this major milestone, the opening of St Mary’s College in 1899. Tickets are $50, which includes a three-course meal. Drinks will be sold at the venue. Wives and partners are also invited to the function. During the evening James O’Shea (1999) will interview Old Boy Ethan Lowe (2005) – the 2015 Premiership wining NRL backrower and now South Sydney Rabbitohs player who made a stunning debut in Game 3 of the 2019 State of Origin series. The night will include a major auction of sports memorabilia and the launch of the new St Mary’s College history book: “Good Old Boys – Conversations with Dan” by author Felicity McArdle.Tickets are now available at www.trybooking.com/BEJMM or by phoning Bronte Latham at the College on (07) 4631 7333. Please remember in your prayers Old Boys & Friends of the College recently deceased; • Francis Gillick (Frank) Donaghue, (97 yrs) died 3/7/2019, husband of Joan (RIP), father of Judith, Michael and Terrance, • R.J. (John) Englart (1950-1959), husband of Maureen, father of Kerri, brother-in-law of Sue (OÇonnor) Englart, • Joseph Anthony (Joe) Hanna (1947-1954) son of Norman and Lavina (both dec), husband of Judy, father of Robert. Brother to John, Margaret, Joan, Michael (dec), Elizabeth, James, Dianne, Anthony and David, • J.T. (Trevor) Muller (1948-1955), husband of Josephine, father of Jillian (Korneha) and James, brother of Terry, Noel and Lorraine (Fraser), • J.W. (Jim) Stokes (1937-1943), Husband of Carmel, father of Kerry, Tony, Chris, Sarah, Sam (dec) and Ben, • Joan Thygesen, wife of Bill, mother of Charles (dec), Peter, Catherine, James, Anthony and Bernadette, sister-in-law of Frank and Sister Helen, • Jean Mary Mullins, wife of Joe (dec), twin sister of Joan (Fitzgerald) (dec), Pat Waters, Tom and Kevin (dec), mother of Peter, Michael, Clare, Paul, Cathy, Christopher and Stephen. • Gary Blacka (1967-74), son of Bill and Irene (dec), brother of Kevin, Bryan, Tony (dec), Laurie, and Kathryn • Fr Peter Schulz former college Chaplin Bryan McSweeney Dan McErlean Dan Reilly President Secretary Co-Ordinator Mobile: 0420 565 712 (07) 3345 4404 (07) 3395 1813 1 T.B.O.B.A. (Brisbane Sub-Branch) Meeting – 19th July 2019 Present Apologies Br Barry Buckley cfc AM Dan McErlean Fr Tyrone Deere Frank Deighton Br Garry Ferguson cfc Justin McErlean Bryan McSweeney (TBOBA Brian Dobbyn Carl Betros Peter McMahon Brisbane Sub-branch Les Duncan Bernie Collins John Noonan President) Peter Kennedy Brian Gagen Reg Oliver Frank Adamson Fred Lincoln Terry Gesch John O’Neill Laurie Atzeni (Hon) Dick Lynch Rolly Griffin Errol Ryan John Bagget Pat Mullins John Hagan Philip Simpson John Brady Rod McDonald Tim Hagan Kerry Taylor Greg Butler Denis McClure Doug Lee Nat Chandler Paul McClure Jim Long Noel Cronin Wayne Nuss Mick Lyons Jack Davis Martin O’Sullivan Leigh Madden John Drew Peter Rosin Michael Murphy Pat Stringer Trevor Taylor Glen Wiedman T.B.O.B.A. Buderim Meeting – 5th July 2019 Present Apologies Fr Tyrone Deere Dan McErlean Reg Boland Peter Rosin Geoff Anderson Joe McLaughlin Bernie Collins Darel Sterling Rod Anderson Pat Mullins Bill Fechner Glen Thompson Kevin Bowden Terry Murphy Graham Hurst Bevan Zeller Redmond Byrne Martin O’Sullivan Kev Leadbetter Graeme Dornbusch Dave Robson John McClure Michael Long Ron Roney Trevor McGlenn Tim Long Paul Smith Brian McNamara Tom Long Brad Wilson John Noonan Dan McCaul Lance Wilson Merv Paddison “Coming Events” Brisbane TBOBA Sub Branch Meeting at 12 noon – “Harlequin Jack’s Bistro” Central 20th September 2019 Railway Station 120th Year Dinner 7pm in T P O’Brien Hall to celebrate the opening of St Mary’s College 19th October 2019 in 1899. Contact Bronte Latham (07) 4631 7333 or email: [email protected] 1950-1959 Class Reunion Luncheon to be held at the Toowoomba Irish Club at 12noon. 17th November 2019 Please contact Mick Quinlan (0418 465 159) 22nd – 24th November Class of 1979, 40th Year Reunion for any past students who attended the college during 2019 the period 1972-1979 (yrs 5 – 12) Contact Craig Bell email: [email protected] TBOBA Sunshine Coast meeting at the Headland Golf Club, Buderim at 12 noon. Please 6th December 2019 contact Terry Murphy (54564340) or Redmond Byrne (54776705) 2 Annual Membership Fee ($10.00) for Calendar Year 2019 is now due / or Life Memberships are available (Fee $100.00) Cheques for Membership should be made payable to the “Toowoomba Brothers Old Boy’s Association” * * * Cheques as donations towards the Indoor Sports Complex should be made payable to ‘Br. Baptiste O’Sullivan Building Fund’. They are fully Tax Deductible and will be receipted. Also please remember in your prayers a number of members unwell or recovering from surgery: John Arndell, Jim Coonan, Lyle Dornbusch, Brien Dunne, Colin Green, Eric Howe, Kevin Killoran, Mike Ledbury, Gail (Rosenthal) Mahon, Margaret Murphy, wife of Robin, Wally Nugent, Joe Short, Bob Sullivan, Philip Stephens, Graham Swenson, Kevin Garrett, Ted Gill, Jim Hannant, and Bevan Zeller. Joseph (Joe) Hanna (18/01/1939 – 20/07/2019) and become a Jackeroo. Strangely, at fifteen, Judy too Joe, Life member and was set on heading west and becoming a Jilleroo. student 1945 - 1954 passed Joe would be sent to Goondiwindi, not to Jackeroo, to Eternal Life on 20July but to learn the drapery trade for two years with his 2019 uncle at Cooreys, before opening a very small Joe was born in the business in Ruthven Street Toowoomba. Through his picturesque little village of initial perseverance and hard work this would grow Kfarsghab in the mountains into the HANNAS of today. north of Lebanon on 18 Judy had a very happy and contented childhood with January 1939. He was her parents and three sisters at “Langmuir”, a dairy christened Joseph Anthony farm at Forest Hill. Although Jillerooing was her Hanna in the Maronite faith. choice, she would be persuaded to return to the Five years later on the other side of the world a baby Lockyer District State High School to matriculate and girl was born also in a picturesque little village called become a school teacher. Ironically, it was not until Laidley in the Lockyer Valley, Queensland. She was the pair retired in 2004 that they had a taste of the christened Judith Marie Logan in the Presbyterian west. They enjoyed a droving trip down the Birdsville faith. One would imagine that the likelihood of these Track. two babies getting together would be extremely It was when Judy was transferred to Toowoomba to remote. Nevertheless, get together they did, and in teach that she met Joe on a blind date. Joe joked that March 1970 they were married in Toowoomba. he must have been very blind! They became engaged After a busy and successful partnership of almost 50 and six months later they were married. Joe was years, they happily retired in an idyllic spot on the always a conscientious and tireless worker, and it banks of the Macintyre River in Goondiwindi. would be eleven years before he and Judy took a Although the two came from very different cultural holiday – a trip to England and Europe in 1981. It was backgrounds, their basic conservative ideals were one after this that their only child, a son Robert Joseph and the same. They both believed in the importance was born. of family values, hard work, honesty, commitment to When Robby was little, Judy would do the shop the community and the old-fashioned tradition of the warehouse accounts on a computer at home while husband being the provider and the wife being a looking after Rob, and some of his many cousins. Joe helpmate and homemaker. and Judy built two homes in Toowoomba. They were Joe’s parents would migrate to Australia and progress both very active in Rotary – Joe as a member and from the hawking of fruit and vegetables, then Judy as a Rotaryanne. They also acquired, in 1974, clothing to retailing in drapery. His siblings were the Logan family farm at Forest Hill and grew John, Margaret, Joan, Michael deceased, Elizabeth, lucerne, cauliflowers and rockmelons for thirty years. James, Dianne, Anthony, and David. Through Joe’s tireless and determined management Even though Joe was reared in an atmosphere of and assisted by his five brothers, Hannas family buying and selling, at fifteen he wanted to head west business prospered and grew to eventually become a modern two-story emporium covering almost a 3 hectare of floor space, with a massive bulk store at the beer. Having friends visit and share their rear, and adjacent car park and also encompassing surroundings is what they liked best. They lived by Cooreys department store and bulk store in and believed in the saying “Happiness is a way of Goondiwindi, purchased in 1967.