November 2020 Dan McErlean Bryan McSweeney 12 Werona Street email:[email protected] Sunnybank Qld 4109 Dear Old Boys Hopefully we can find some time in 2021 to come back to our usual gatherings at Harlequin Jacks or a similar central venue to where we have been in the past. Our Acting Principal, Mr Stephen Monk has advised the St Mary’s College Presentation Night had to be held differently this year due to COVID 19 and new QCE requirements. A Year 12 Awards Ceremony will be held for Year 12 students on their final day at the College, 20/11/2020. A separate ceremony will be held for students in Years (5-11). This ceremony will be streamed online for parents and St Mary’s College family members. Special and perpetual awards will be awarded to students from members of the St Mary’s College, Executive Leadership Team, in the absence of trophy donors representatives. Once again the St Mary’s College thanks supporters and looks forward to the return of our Presentations Night evening restrictions ease Please remember in your prayers Old Boys and Friends of the College recently deceased: Edward John (Ted) Gill, husband of Barbara (Toomey) and father of Sandra Patricia (Kuhnemann) and Peter. Life Member Stanley Charles Myers (1944-1945), husband of Betty (dec) and father of Chris, Greg and Paul Life Member No.120 Daniel William Reilly (1939-1946), husband of Carmel. Dan will be sorely missed after having been our coordinator of information for more than 20 years. Life Member No.141 Errol Ryan (1952-1957) husband of Elizabeth, father to Craig, Scott and Gavin and brother of Malcolm (dec), Dallas and Gavin. Life Member Brien Regis Dunne (1942-1948) husband of Patricia (Roney) and father of Marie, Rosie, Stephen, Michael, John and Bernard, brother of sister Regis Mary AM (dec) and brother-in-law of Val (McErlean), Ron and Allan (Roney). Kevin Patrick Standish, husband of Brenda, father of Karen & Nicole. Betty Mary Duncan (late of Dalby) wife of Allan, mother of Pam, Kerry and Lee-Ann, sister-in-law of Les Duncan. Rita Grace Card (aged 89 years) wife of Joseph (Joe) (dec) and mother of John. Clare (Keogh) Kearney wife of Frank (RIP), mother of Denis, Helen, Chris, Cathy, Marg, Frances, and Maureen. Life Member John Orford (Scholarship 1947) husband of Glenda (Carroll) Life Member Jim Mullins 1942- 48 husband of Fay, brother of Mary, Joe, John (all dec), Pat and Brian Also please remember in your prayers a number who are unwell or recovering from surgery: John Arndell, Tim Coonan, Colin Green, Gail (Rosenthal) Mahon, Wally Nugent, Joe Short, Bob Sullivan, Philip Stephens, Grahame Swenson, Kevin Garrett, Syl Stower, Max Winter, Jim Hannant, and Bevan Zeller. Annual Membership Fee ($10.00) for Calendar Year 2020 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. Bryan McSweeney President Mobile 0420 565 712 Dan McErlean Secretary (07) 3345 4404 1 Errol John Ryan (11/01/1943 - 02/09/2020) Scott and Gavin, and wife, Elizabeth worked Friends and family were all alongside him. saddened by the unexpected Always willing to try something different, he gained a passing of our St Marys CBC franchise to open one of the first Nandos Chicken Old Boys member, Errol John Restaurants in Brisbane. Here he employed many Ryan (77 years) at his home young people over the years, some of whom in Aspley, Brisbane on progressed to their own businesses, and a good many 2nd September 2020. of them became enduring friends. His first restaurant The son of Ray and Jessie was in Sunnybank. He later opened a 2nd restaurant Ryan, he was born in in Underwood, Brisbane. Two sons, Scott and Gavin Toowoomba and received his managed these businesses before Errol retired. early education at Our Lady His workmates and associates from Bougainville of Lourdes Primary School. spread out over Australia following closure of the He then attended St Marys Christian Brothers College Copper Mine. They reunited each year in Queensland in West Street, Toowoomba until completing his and he retained close friendships with many, who education. He was a proud member of St Marys Old regularly visited him over the years. Boys Association until his passing. Errol is survived by his wife, Elizabeth (McNicol), Along with his elder brother, Malcolm, he served as and sons, Craig, Scott and Gavin. His siblings were an altar boy at Holy Name Church in Toowoomba. Malcolm, Berniece, Dallas, Kerry and Gavin. Two Errol was an inaugural member of the Downs Sports brothers predeceased him, Malcolm on 2/3/2019 and Parachute Club which was formed in Toowoomba in Dallas on 2/5/2020. The five Ryan brothers all March 1964. Its headquarters were based near attended St Mary's Christian Brothers College. Greenwattle Street. Errol began his working life at the Toowoomba Edward John (Ted) Gill Foundry, where he attained his Boiler Maker certificate. He used this trade in his subsequent Ted was a Special friend of occupations in Sydney, then Mt Newman Mines many Old Boys and the in Western Australia, and later moved on to College. He was one of (8) Bougainville Copper Mine. children and worked hard He continued working at the Copper Mine for twenty for his family even earning years, until the mine shut down, due to unrest a small wage milking cows between New Guinea and the indigenous locals. He when he was (8) years old. became "Mr Fix-it" to his co-workers, one of whom He loved Double Sars, had composed a rhyming ditty on his ability to find a a strong handshake and solution to problems. believed everything could At Panguna, in Bougainville, he acted as social be fixed with ‘superglue’. Ted enjoyed dancing at the director of the Cricket Club, although he had never Holy Name Hall and at the Memo, and his courtship played cricket, apart from social games. Many top with Barbara (Toomey) began when he walked into line acts from Australia entertained there. One of the Hall in his checked sportscoat. It lasted (59) years. Errol's particular favourites was Col Joy who used to Prior to meeting Barbara, Rugby League was his first stay after the show and have some drinks with the love. He played with a number of Old Boys, from members. 1951 to 1959, in the Southern Suburbs RL Tigers ‘A’ While he worked in Bougainville, his three sons were grade sides. Their 1957 team, outright premiers, educated as boarders at Toowoomba included Old Boys Austin Mulhall (5/8) and Kevin Prep and then Grammar School. They returned to Stephen (lock). Ted was a second rower. He was a Bougainville on school holidays. Toowoomba Rugby League representative player (9) On his return to Queensland, he started his successful times over 3 seasons : 1957, 1958 and 1959. family business with Tint-A- In the early 1960’s Ted and Barbara moved North for Car in Barry Parade, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, and Ted to accept Captain/Coach positions at Townsville then expanded to Newstead. His three sons, Craig, and then Cairns. He represented both cities in the Foley Shield competition. 2 Ted continued his playing career as Captain/Coach at Eastern Suburbs Tigers, Warwick, between 1964 & 1966, then Clifton in 1967/68 before returning to Southern Suburbs Tigers in 1969. In 2001 Ted with his son-in-law Scott Kuhnemann, coached the Tigers. They were both named in Souths ’Team of the Century’ in 2008. When their son, Peter, was having a successful career as a Rugby Player with Brisbane Brothers, St George and the London Broncos, Ted made many trips to Brisbane, Sydney and overseas to London to follow his career. After the love of rugby league and his family (Barbara, Sandra, Peter and Patrina) Ted found a new A group photo of past students and one teacher from love, his Cab 35, which gave him as a popular taxi our era was taken in front of the "Brothers" house. driver the ability to enjoy conversations with people he met. Later we all gathered at the Toowoomba Sports Club Following a period of ill health Ted passed away on for an evening of renewing acquaintances, 2/9/2020 and was buried following a Thankgiving remembering stories old and new. Refreshments and a Mass celebrated by Frs Ray Crowley and Hal Ranger fine dinner helped us through the long evening. A at Our Lady of Lourdes Newtown on 9/9/2020. shout out to the staff at Toowoomba Sports Club for their hospitality too. Kevin Patrick Standish, (23/3/1954 – 31/8/2020) As the evening began to wrap up Noel Stallard (bush Kevin went to St Marys for poet) regaled a group of us with one of his wonderful a few years after coming poems. over from Holy Name with a Thanks to our organisers Tony Platz, Mick Kelly, large group of pupils in Frank O'Mara and Leigh Madden onwards to the next 1963. At the cohorts 40th 50....... Reunion back in 2011, Kevin was one of nine of those St. Mary’s Annual Reunion Lunch: Holy Name boys present. Class ’56 – ’65. Kevin played footy at Holy Name & at St Mary's. Kevin was a well-respected lawyer in Brisbane and practiced as Standish Partners. Classes from 1967-1969 and 1968 – 1970 50 year Reunion 14 November 2020 On Saturday 14 November a group of old boys gathered at the College for a tour of old and the new with Tyhla Larkin (Public Relations Officer).