School Annual of the J.B. V.M. in Australia

Registered at the G.P.O., Melbourne, for transmission December, 1955 by Post as a periodical. ( 1886-1 924)

.. T ache. toi, d'etre uaillante et bonne -- ce sont !es grand es qualites des femmes ." - Fenelon.

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Ll J)icture of ~t. Jluke' 5 JMabonna )}enernteb for Qtenturies as tbe ~pecial ill!labonna of tbe 3JJJl)}.:iffil. MA R Y WARD ( 1585- 1645) Foundress of the I.B.V. M .

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Most of our friends have heard by now of the transference of the Novitiate from Mary's Mount to Normanhurst.· - perhaps it would be more accurate to speak of the transference of the novices.

The change in location for their training has become neces­ sary because of the steady increase, in recent years, of their numbers; and because there is no space at Mary's Mount for further building, unless for school purposes. In fact, a large new wing is being built there to serve the expanding needs of the boarding-school.

The Nuns of the Australian Province are trying to accustom themselves to the thought of Mary's Mount, without the white­ veiled novices. Their energetic fervour and cheerful faces have graced the scene since the foundation of Mary's Mount in 1875.

The convent at N ormanhurst is to be the gainer; and every­ one wishes well to the new venture, where a brick building of three storeys, to accommodate forty novices, is being built, joined by a covered passage to the existing convent building.

Mother Provincial hopes to see the novices installed there early in 1956, but we know that the departure from Mary's Mount will cause her a feeling of loneliness. We shall all feel as if we are saying good-bye to something hallowed and precious, when the old Mary's Mount novitiate is dismantled.

May Cod bless the new chapter, and all the young, generous lives who will help to write it in the new novitiate. CONTENTS Page EDITORIAL ...... 3 CATHOLIC LLFE EXHlBlTION, with Pictures .. 5 l NDJA LORETO AT THE EXHIBITION .... 8 GOLDE J BJLEE OF LORETO, MARRYATVILLE .. . . 9 PICTURES: LORETO, MARRY ATV ILLE ...... 11 SCHOOL VIGNETTES ...... 15 PICTURES CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION, ORMANHURST .. 21, 22 PICTURES: MARY'S MOUNT ...... 28 THIS AUSTRALIA ...... 30 PICTURES: LORETO, DAWSON STREET ...... 36 SPRINGS OF HAPPINESS ...... 38 HOME kr LAST, BY JOYCE D UNPHY. THREE POEMS. SCHOOL Co TRIBUTIO s . PICTURES: LORETO, PORTLA D ...... PICTURES: LORETO, KIRRIBILLI SCENES I HA VE LOVED ...... 50 ST. ETHELREDA's CHAPEL. (A Poe m by Lynd Nathan.) :MEMORIES OF THE VELD, BY VEnA NATHAN. SCHOOL CONTRIBUTIONS. PICTURES: LORETO, NORMANHURST . . 56 TRAVELLERS' TALES ...... 59 PICTURES: LORETO, CLAREMO T ...... 63 PLEASURES OF LITERATURE ...... 66 PICTURES: LORETO, EDLANDS ...... 73 HOURS OF LEISURE ...... 76 PICTURES: LORETO, TOORAK ...... 80 THE HOME FRONT ...... -~ 4 PICTURES: LORETO, BRISBANE ...... 88 AMONG OUR OLD GIRLS . . . . 91 ~fr lVh ssIONARY BROTHER (Fr. L. Dowde n , S.M. ) CARMEL HACKENDORF. HOPKIN , BY BnENDA HEAGNEY. MESSAGE TO GIBRALTAR . . . . 94 -DONATIONS TO THE MAGAZINE ...... 94 PICTURE: ST. MARY'S HALL ...... 95 PAUL CLAUDEL, BY ]ILL CON'.'lOLLY ...... 96 THE I.B.V.M. OVERSEAS ...... 97 FOR THE JUNIORS ...... 102 OBITUARY ...... 106 INDEX ...... 107

Original anecdotes from our schools are sca lle red throughout. LORETO Catholic Life Exhibition

A play was acted here in Melbourne a few m ents and for the r efinem ent of its character and years ago for the Catholic lay people ; it was called design. A beautiful figure of Mary Ward stood h igh " No Mean City" . The title is all I know about it ; on the background of the Stand and rotating towards of its story and meaning I am ignorant, but I think h er were two rows of midget fi gures rep resentin g that at the moment it is a fitting name for the great the various stages in the life of a Loreto student. archdiocese of Melbourne. The magnificent scen es Coloured films were shown all day portrayin g the which have been witnessed at the Exhibition Buil: crecn. The ir field of labour is vast. Five hundred Jews who had closed their hearts to Him, " If you of these brothers teach fifteen thousand boys. A mon g do not believe Me because of what I say, at least the ir schools is St. Joseph's College, Sydney, a public believe Me because of the works I p erform." Voca­ school and the biggest boys' boarding sch ool in tions to the religiom life are urgently n eeded , so the southern h emisphere. The ir parallel am on g th e all Religious Order s of Priests, Nuns and Brnther s orders of teaching Nuns would be I h e Mercy Sisters were invited to show their great works among the who had a laq~ e and ver y descriptive stand com plete youth, the sick, the aged , the poor and the pagan, with movie films. The extent of their education al in a public exhibit ion. In this way it was madP work in A ustralia is indeed vast and most admirable. possible for thomancls of Catholic young people of They have over two hundred and fifty sch ools estah- the State to observe, and for many consequentlv li s h~d throughout the country. . to be led to follow, the heroism and work of the The Carmelitc Stand was always the centre of Religious Orders. l!reat attraction. It was the first time the majority From a purely observatory point of vi ew the of people had come into contact with these con­ Exhibition was extrem ely well set out and archi­ templatives and they showed themselves eager to tecturally I think it would be difficult to fault it. conver se with lay people and other r eligious at all Above the entrance door was a huge, white cruc ified times. Close b y, the Sisters of the Little Com pan y figure of Christ - His Cross being the symbol and of Mary occupied a large open stand back ed with meaning of all Christianity. My first impression photographs of all stages of their work a mong th e was the altar, which stood above the h eads of the sick. The Catholic Press, Immigration Office and thronging crowds in front of m e away in the distance, Vocational Gt!idance Bureau all presented lar ge and but visible from most vantage points of the Exhibi­ colourful ~ tand s in this vicinity. A nother centre tion. It was a splendid altar - emphatically austere of attraction nearby was the Cisterc ian Stand: a and simple in design. R eceding from the altar was contemplative Order and one ver y recently estab­ seating accommodation the size of a Cathedral, for lish ed in Australia. Great books of beautiful print­ the thousands who attended the daily cer emonies. ing and illustration done b y the monks were on My attention was then attracted to a huge, life­ display. Behind the scenes at this end of the like figure of J esus with His arms outstretched in Exhibition was a huge cafeteria. Man y people were Benediction as if to welcome His children. Thi5 glad to avail them selves of th is service as thou :o ands figure stood on a great arch high above all else. remained at the building for wh ole d ays at a t im e. Beneath Christ, and symbolically elevated above the A t a less central position and at the righ t of milling throngs, was the figure of a vested Priest, the m ain altar a very small Chapel was Prected his hands joined to Christ's b y streams of Grace. where the Blessed Sacram ent was visited b y thron gs These Graces flowe

O ther Pictures: Stand of the Sisters usually called the Caravan Sister s, founded in Tasmania in l947.

L oreto Sta nd, showing statues o f Our Lady and Mary Ward.

Each day during the Exhibition different ceremonies took place. Herc we have the baptism of a baby by A1 ch­ bishop Simonds. The baby is the ch:Id of Dr. and Wilma Tie rna n who is a past pupil of Loreto, Toorak.

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(Continued from Page 5. ) The Exhibition closed afte r ten days and after onlv verv fe w of the exhibits and have described having been witnessed by some two hundred the;n a l( too inadequately. In addition Lo these few and thirty-eight thousand v1 s1tors. On Friday, were the S.V.D. Fathe rs. The Little Sisters of the June 17th, His Grace the Archbishop pre­ Poor, The Dominicans, The Franciscans and count­ sided at the concluding ceremony and took part less o the rs, all equally beautiful and successful in in the triumphant proc e~s ion from the High Altar the portrayal of their work. lo the entrance doors. The procession was led b y me mbers of the Holy Name Society, followed by T h e Catholic Life Exhibition was more than a Bishops, Monsignori, Priests and Archbishop Man­ landma rk in Catholic Historv which has always nix. It was followed by ranks of footsore but happy been te mpereq b y generosity ·and h e ro~ s m as well lay people who we nded their way into the rainy as adve1·sitv. It was the consummatwn of the streets with a n ew pride in the ir faith. Through ach ievem ent of the Catholics in Australia to do what the Exhibition Catholicism throws a challen ge to is done nowhere else in the world. That is the the growing m enace of the age. The strength and education of their childre n comple te ly unaided by unitv behind the C hurch lies in the work of its the government of the country. The Catholic p eople Pri e.s t ~, N uns and Brothers who combat the evils faced the extra burde ns of taxation and expense of the day with humility in the ir lives, love for thus incurred and the ir retaliation to this injusti ce their great work, and an unfailing trust in their God. is to be seen in their co-opera ti on with the religious wh o came to their aid in organizing a highly e ffi cient JUDY HILL (Matriculation) , education system. Toorak.

INDIAN LORETO AT THE EXHIBITION In Novembe r , 1954, we had the pleasure of o ur pupils there. Particularly inte resting were t.h e welcoming two m embers of the l.B.V.M. f~·om India. photos of the Daughters of St. Anne, the Congrega­ Mother M . .Joan and Mother M. Columc1lle. They tion of Native Nuns which was inaugurated by the came to Australia, their h omeland, fo1· a short Institute. holiday after nearly thirty years in India. W e The Catholi c Life Exhibition was not able to enjoyed their company till the e nd of Marc h this offe r a room for the inte resting exhibits from India, vear, when they returned , one to Calcutta and the but prominence was given to as many as possible ~t her to Asan sol. The ir holiday in A ustralia was in the limited space available. The vibitors to the a happy time by reunion with the ir own peoples, Exhibition we re inte reste d in the Mission Section, and a happy time for Australian m embers of the and more than one past pupil of Loreto in India Institute. made he rself known a nd was d elighted to scan the Hearing of the Exhibition of Catholic Life to photographs of h er old school. We are all grateful be h eld in Melbourne in June, 1955, Mother M . to the nuns from India for their generous contribu­ J oan and Mothe r M. Columcille brought with them tions to the Exhibition. most interesting exhibits. In January, 1953, a - N., Melbourne. Cath olic Exhibition had been h eld in Calcutta. Loreto in India had a large room in which to dis­ play its work, and most of the contents of this MARY Exhibit cam e to Australia, incidentally increasing The three wise kings came from afar luggage problem s. Ther e was an artistic frieze, Led by a shining angel's star, showing the crest of the Institute, and very large They came to a stable quiet and dim charts showing Our Lord and Our Blessed Lady And kneeling down they worshipped Him. surrounded by adults and c hildre n, a11 painted specially for the Exhibition by a me mber of the And Mary looked and saw their gifts, Institute in India. A m ap of India illustrate d by Myrrh and gold and frankincense, m eans of tiny snapshots, the variety of nationalities But Mary looked and further saw from different parts of India, all studying at Lore to Three awkward shepherds at the door Training College, Calcutta. Realistic models of Her gentle smile made place for them houses, and plaster figures de picted customs and And they too came and worshipped Him. costumes one would meet in a n Indian village, rnc h as Moropai where our nuns have a home. And Mary looked and further saw T h e progress in modes of transport from the Our weary world stood at the door, days when the pioneer nuns were carried in a litter And still her smile was gentle, sweet, through the jungle, to the fast moving ae roplane And we too knelt at the Christ Child's feet. of to-day was cleve rly ske tch e d by one of the Indian stude nt; . The nuns brought w ith the m also hun­ CARMEN CALLIL (Leaving) . dreds of photos showin g our Convents in India, and Toorak. 8 LORE T O Golden J11bilee of Marryatville LORETO'S HISTORY GOES BACK TO ELIZABETHAN TIMES The celebration of a 50th anniversar y m arks It was Mother Gonzaga Barry, who h ad com e an important milestone in the p rogress of an y from R athfar nha m in 1875 to fou nd the first Loreto group or institution in this young country. In th e Convent in A ustralia, Mar y's Mount , at Ballarat caee of Loreto Convent, in Ad ela ide, which is at in Victoria, wh o ca me to Adelaide in 1905, at the present celebrating the end of its first h alf-century invitation of Arch b ish op O'R eilly, to open a Loreto of existence, that m ilestone is one on a journey foundation he re. that began in E ngland in the reign of E lizabeth I. lt was h er belief that '" the miss ion of teachers The foundress of the Institute of the Blessed is high and h ol y a nd to ful fi l it righ t ly the bc;; t Virgin Mary, to which L or eto Convent s belon g, w a ~ gifts thoroughly cultiva ted are not too great:' a young Engli;; hwom an of no ble birth, named Mary Alert a lwavs to new ideas in educati on her l ife Ward, whose famil y traced it s descent from the as an educator ~va s concerned wi th an elemental n eed " Gilded Knights" of the reign of W illiam the - the building u p of h a p p y hom es. Conqueror. More than 50 years ago Mother Gonzaga B ar r ~ · Born in 1585 Mary W ard grew up in the days drew up a plan for wh a t sh e consid erer! would he of the p enal laws against Catholics wh o refused to an ideal " Uni versil v fo r Wome n'·, which woul d range take the O ath of Suprem acy. Member of one of from infant: sch ool to lJ n iversitv and won lrl em brace the great Catho li c fa milies determined to preset·ve both intellectua l and rl omcsti c ~ du ca t i o n . their faith at all costs, Mary Warrl at an early age '·If we would h aVf' a n ati on of wise women and realised a vocation for the religious life. T his m eant brave men", she said, " we must fi rst look to the that sh e must leave her home, her family and her mother, who wiH h ave to l av the foundat ion, in the country for a ;; trange land. ~' o tm g mind, of wisdom anrf va lor" . \Vise word;;. Sh e was only 20 when she left E n gland to jo in a Religious order in Catholic F lande rs. That was IN ADELAIDE the first ste p in a lo ng jou r ney, beset with man y vicissitudes and tragedies, but which lcrl eventuall y T o re turn to A dela id e, Loreto Conven t heii;an to the foundation of the first Acti ve O rder in the its own histor v in a h ouse in Sydcn h a m R oad , Nor­ Catholic Church as a pa rt from the E nclosed Orders, wood, " in a s·ad sta te of d isrepair,., minus all con· with education as its m a in objective and named the veniences and equipment. Institute of the Blessed V irgin Mary. T he sch ool o pene rl with fi ve children. In 1907 Many biographies of Mary Ward h ave been it moved to a new prope rty on the Pa rad e. As the written in many lan guages. It i.s a fascinating stor y, number s grew accommod ation became severely taxerl. not only fo r those of her own fa ith. A p art from its It was not until December, 1921, when, on the death historical back ground, of life in E n gland and on of Sir Edwin Smith , his fine h ome, with spacious the Continent in those days, it is the stor y of a grounds, in :Ma rryatville, was pu t u p for sale, that woman who could h ave h ad few peers in her own the Nuns found the house of their d rea 111 s and found or an v other time. the means to p urch ase it. To br ing that stor y up to the present time, Since then two n ew mode rn wi ngs h ave been Adelaide's Loreto is one of more than 200 Con vents added anrl Loreto to-d av is equa l lo the dem ands throughout the worlfl which are branches of the entailed hy the presen t roll-call of 365 p upil s, I.B.V.M. boat·rl ers a nrl

Althou gh it was a wintry day, the rnn shone Costell oe, S.J ., de li ve red a short a ddrt ·s~, fo llowed brilliantly wh en His G race, A rchbish op BeoviclL by M r. Acting Justice Hannan who gave a brief arrived a·t the G arden P arty, where he was receiverl resume of the histo ry of th e A dela ide Loreto dur i n~ by the Mother Superior and the Community, fol­ the pas t: 50 yea rs. lowed by the President of the O ld Sch olars' Associ­ ation (H elen Cox) , tlw Preside nt of the Mothers' The Archhishop then co mmended lit e Nuno an rl Club ( Mrs. 0 . A tkinson ) ; and l he P resident of the supporters of Lore to throughou t the State fo r the Fathers' Club (Mr. George Siebe rt ) . T he R ev. T . excell en t work do ne in a short space of SO years. 9 LORETO

He also spoke highly of those parents who had I hope sh e will be the first Australian saint to be given their daughters to the Convent. canonized." More than 600 people in leisurely fashion The first house occupied by Loreto was in strolled about the beautiful Convent grounds; and Sydenham Road, Norwood, where the first Mass was the occasion was highlighted by the presence of celebrated on a tiny temporary altar which Father Mother Brigid Jones (now in Toorak) who taught John Ryan, S.J., had sent along. On the previous for 23 successive years at Loreto in Adelaide, and day the original group had been joined b y M.M. of Mother Ant h~n y Walsh (of Kirribilli) who Borgia Kirby and M.M. Ursula Lyons. Later, in had taught with her for more than 15 years. Both February, M.M. Elizabeth Forbes and Sister Eliza­ had returned especially for the few days of the beth Whelan had come from W.A. M.M. Boniface Jubilee. was the Superior, and they opened school with five In his speech , Mr. Justice Hannan outlined the pupils. In 1906, Margaret Spain (now Mrs. Little) story of the foundation and growth of Loreto in was admitted as the first boarder. Mr. Peter Gray, Adelaide. On January 14, 1905, Mother M. Gonzaga of Norwood, was a foundation student, and two of Barry, M.lVI. Boniface, M.M. Bertrand and M.M. his children are now Loreto Nuns. In 1921 they Antonia arrived in Adelaide. They stayed with the bought the present house " The Accacias", the home Si~ters of Mercy, Angas Stree t, for a fortnight. M.M. of Sir Edwin Smith. Superiors during that time Gonzaga's letters were full of gratitude to them and were: Mothers Emilian, Philomena, Paul and to the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary at Aloysius Leeson. Calvary Hospital, and to the Sisters of St. Joseph. Great progress was made throughout the years, Indeed, the Loreto Nuns had been urged to come the present Superior, Mother Mercedes, having by Mother Mary of Cross (McKillop), the holy succeed ed M.M. Dorothea Riley. foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph . A special bond of friendship united her with Mother Gonzaga who (Excerpts from the "Southern Cross", the Catholic u sed to say: " I looked on Mother Mary as a saint, and weekly journal of South Australia.-April 29, 1955.)

MY CHILDHOOD IN FRANCE where my parents owned a house. Unfortunately, the Germans saw fit to blow it to pieces, as it was Sixteen years ago, I was born in a very sad facing the beach. We were given a month's notice France, the year W odd War II began. My parents, to evacuate. One night after school, my brother and my little brother and I lived in Paris, in a building I went chasing butterflies in a mined field. The containing about forty flats. Rue du Bae, famous whole school soon knew about it and was searching for its Chapel where Our Lady appeared to Catherine for us. I might add that it was a German officer Laboure, was close by, and our parish was Saint who drove us back home. We escaped death very Sulpice. When I was six, I was sent to school. It narrowly. Another time at twilight a German battle­ was a private school with Catholic secular teachers, ship anchored a mile away from the beach. We as there are no teaching Nuns in France. I made m y were on roller skates in the street when American First Holy Communion there and from then on I 'planes passed over us. We were so frightened that was allowed to go to Mass with the grown-ups. we threw ourselves on the ground and crawled to the In France it is common for most housewives to beach. In a few minutes the German warship was have maids to do their work. Daddy always promised ablaze, and when Daddy arrived with his binoculars, to write a book about Mummy and her maids. They we could see the unfortunate sailors jumping into were often in conflict, and as it was difficult to the sea. It was a terrible sight, and the next day find a good person, we ended up by having a new all the bodies, which the tide had washed up, lay maid every month. At one stage we had a good on the beach, covered with sand. woman who always ~ poke in the very respectful But life was not always so tragic. I remember third p erson: " lVIadam e veut ceci, Monsieur veut the lovely holidays we had when, during the three cela ?" But still she would not allow Mummy in the summer months, we visited many lovely countries. kitchen while sh e was there. She washed the baby's Now we are finally settled in Australia. clothes. Thev were not always washed as Mummy ETIENNETTE DUPUY (16), wished, so one Sunday night, when the maid was Marryatville. not home, Mummy d ecided to boil the clothes. She went to the pictures that night and when she came SCIENCE! back she forgot to switch off the stove. Early next Marie Jones tells us that molecules of oxygen morning a dreadful sm ell woke u s up. The clothes are diatonic. had been burnt. Towards nine o'clock the maid "Is your heart in your music, Marie?" arrived and seeing this, sh e was so angry that sh e * * * * left us on the spot. Pauline Brazel: "Carbon-dioxide is mixed with During the war we left Paris and lived for two oxygen for suffocating patients 111 Hospital."­ years on the Atlantic coast in the Sable d 'Olonne, Pauline, dear! 10 LORETO CONVENT, MARRY ATVILLE, S.A.

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LEAVING CLASS Back Row: F . Kildea, R. Kenny, H . Smith, A. Isenstein, E. Molony, M. Sykes, M. Woods, A. Pick, C. McAuley, P . Clota. Second Row: B. Kennedy, J. Meldrum, J . Heggie, J . Mulqueen, H . Goyder. Fr0nt Row : B. Dobson, M. Honner, M. Jones, E. Dupuy, M. Hannan.

INTERMEDIATE CLASS Back Row : G. Pick, H. Pick, J . Shanahan, J . Sykes, J. Arend, A. Koerner, A. Lawrie, I. Laing, C. Altschwager. Third Row : A. Power, A . M cEwen, J . Mclnnes, M. Reilly, M. Beer­ worth, C. Maher, C. H arris, W . Jones, P. Shanahan. Second Row: J . Tyler, J . Stott, J. Mclnnes, J . Phelan, D. O 'L oghlin, T . Jungfrr, A. Halloran, J . English. Front Row: J . Gleeson, M. Naulty, H . M cCarthy, P . Brazel, M. Moriarty. Absent : J . Brady. N. H ogan.

The Editor h opes to be forgiven for omitting the interesting account of the Sports. Although in print, it disappeared from her table. Woe! Woe! LORETO CONVENT, MARRY ATVILLE, S.A.

SECOND YEAR CLASS Back Row: S. Gun. P. Smith, M . L onergan, E. Nea!!le, P . Caught, K. Bates, C. Doyle. Third Row: D . Milaknis, H. Doherty, J. F isher, R. Green, S. M cEwen, W . Spring bett, S. Parish, S. Scantlebury, A. Kennare, R. Isenstein. Second Row: B. K ennedy, K. O'Connor, J. Arm strong, ]. James, B. Brown, M . Gullotta, M . Pritchard, M. H arbison, A. Kelly. Front Row: P. Pridham, H. M c Donnell, A. Angove, H . Pitman, R. Lorbeer, C. Moriarty,

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~ FIRST YEAR rn Back Row: W . A. Gunson, Y. Chene, G. Treloar, J . M cAna ney, A. M. Walsh, J . Martin, E. W oods, M . -l Bennett. Fourth Row: L . Moore, E. D oyle, F . Weir, P. Michalanney, 0 V. T ursky, H. Joseph, J . Glynn, 0 . Tursky, R. Doran. Third Row: E. Barnett, S. Power, R. Moore, J. L awton, L . Hanna, A. Burley, L. Fielder, L. Rech, A. Banks, A. Mcinerney. Second Row : E . W ebb, J . Brooks, B. Tanner, M. Connell, J . Green, M. Shanahan, V. Walshe, B . Dorian. F ront Row : P. V ail, E. Culshaw, P . Lonergan, N. Cunning­ ham, M . Stratman, D . H ender son. Absent : R. Keats, V. Clanchy.

GRADES III & IV. (Captions for Page 14-Top.) Fron: Row: S. Byrne, H. Campbell, E. Perdelwitz, J. Fried, A. Dup uy, M. Brazzale, C. W hitford, L . J ones, E. D oher ty. Second Row : S. Springbett, C. Smith, S. Smith, M. T . Dt•puy, R. T yler, M. Siebert, P. Ryan, A. Gray, K . Hak endorf. S. Cashmere, E. Ma tiukas. Third R ow: C. Shannon. M. Murray, M. Mc Clure, P. Lane, J. J ohnson, K. Moore, P. Madigan, P. T urnbull, D. W ebb, F . O 'Loghlin. P. Morcom , C. Kiley. Fourth R ow : S. P r ince, Y. Buckley, R. Cappelluti, M. D alle Noga.re, S. W ard, G. Sowden, S. K enny, V . Angove, C. M c Donald, C. Shea , M . King. B ack R ow: T . J ordan, M . Beach, B. Mead, J . Properjohn, N Burden, A. Baulderstone, P. Gluyas, K. Antalffy, D . Viliunas, B. M cinnes. Absent : J. Hamilton. ------LO R ETO LORETO CONVENT, MARRYATVILLE, S.A.

GRADE VII (Top). Back Row: F. Upton, ] . H ayes, M. Moriarty, S. Milaknis, S. Pierce, E. Beerworth, C. Matthews, M. Edwards, R. Hakendorf, M. Baulderstone. Third Row: J . Burke. M. Doyle, C. D algleish, A. Dupuy, M. Jolley, H. Shanno n, R. Glynn, D . Rafe, G. Fitzger ald, M . Mackie-Smith. Second Row: J. Cashmo re, M. D oh erty, R . Higgins, C. Murphy, E. R\chards. B. Prescott, B. W ood, A. Ubaldi, M. Stott. Front Row : H . Kennedy, P. Richards, S. Tunbridge, A. M cCarthy, J. Thy cr. Absent : M. Clan chy. GRADES V and VI. Back Row: E. v;dovic, C. Connolly, C. W alsh, P . Stacey, J - Britten-J oneo, S. S mith, S. Hamilto n. I. Glass, M_ Glynn, J . M cClure, A. Sexton, A. Siebert. Third Row: Y. Bazzica, E. O'Brien, M. Texle r, J. Edwards, C. Ryder, C. Abbott. J. Stock. R. H all, A. Griguol, K . Prescott, Y. Spen cer, P. B arnett, P. Maynard. P. M c L aughlin, B. Bartels. Second Row: H . Naulty, H . Nolan, M. Gordon, J. D oran, M. Madi gan, ] . D orian. D . Crotti, P. Brow n. A. Morcom, A. Mc Cusker, ] . Brown, C. Sullivan, M. Rollison, S. D oherty, P . Upton. Fron t Row : A. Goyder, A. Riches. M . J ohnson, P. Reilly, B. Quinlan. M _ Forsvth, C. King, p_ Fried , J. Monks, R . Edwell, R. Rich ards, A . .Re gan. Absent: M. M c N ~ m a r~. C. M cEwen, M . Muell er, L . Clan chy. 13 LORETO CONVENT, MARRYATVILLE, S.A.

Front Row: A. Bailey, P. Riches, P. Mansfield, P . Blencowe, D. Campbell, 0 . Dupuy, M. R ichards, P. Rofe. 2nd Row : P. Behrens, A. V on Niedermuller, J. Springbett, B. Doherty, D. King, D. Cornwall, J. Rollison, J. Woods, 0 . Walsh, S. W ard, E. Mulhearn. Third Row : G. Walsh, J . Scollin, J . Reid, M . Armitage, R. Gordon. T. Anderson, B. Atkinson, B. Moore, B . Winchester, P . Bird. Absent : P. Mc Donald. C. Coles, D. Cashmore, J . Whitford, M . Fried, M. Abbs, J. Scroop. PREP. I & II - Girls (Below) Front Row: G. Winchester, K. Joseph, J. Ryan, G. Boylan, C. Jordan, C. M cCarthy, P. Doherty, J . Honner, C. H amlin, M. T. Foun tain. Second Row: I. Russin, H . Cashmore, J. O'Logh1in, M. Jones, E. Beach, M. Brady, S. Stock, V . Burden, L . M artin, J . Brown, M. Hakendorf. Third Row: J. Sinclair, S. Kelly, M. Regan, G. Naulty, D. J ohnson, E. S chumann, S. Holdcroft, F. Minare lli, S . K eeley, E. O 'Connor. Fourth Row : S. Perdelwirz, A. Packham, R. Hocking, L . Rodgihiero, R. Tolladay, E. M adigan, J. Properjohn, R. H eysen, A. Partridge, B. Murray, A. Reilly, A. Laffan. Back Row: P. Neag le, P . Johnson, A. K elly, M. Pierce, L. de Giusts, S. Dal7iel, J . Walsh. Absent : P. Sheridan, S. Ditty, M. Josiak, M . Joseph, D. Stevens, G. Brew, L . Marshall, S. J ames. LORETO School Vignettes

MARRY ATVILLE DIARY, JANUARY - JULY, 1955 JANUARY: 29th.-We acquire a beautiful Radiogram presented J ennifer Elliott wins the Tennyson Medal for to the Nuns by our mothers for a Jubilee Souvenir. Honours English ; Anne Robertson secures second place We christened it with " Hamlet" records. in Leaving History. We break our tradition of ignoring APRIL: results, and resolve to hitch our wagons to these 5th.-Prefects: M. Honner (Head), A. Pick, C. "stars". McCauley, M. Sykes, M. Jones, P . Shanahan, E. Molony, FEBRUARY: B. Dobson, P . Clota, R. K enny, A. Isenstein, F. Kildea. 8th.-We return, and regretfully find M.M. Benig­ Congratulations to them and to Kath Crispe who is nus, M.M. de Chantal and S.M. Roch gone West and entering at Easter. North-East, and welcome M.M. Aquin, M.M. R epara­ 15th.-Special ch oir practised for Jubilee BenEidic­ trice, S.M. Imelda and S.M. Finbar t o Marryatville, tion, made and played back tape r ecordings - then and M.M. P auline as Mistress of Schools. Leavings h ad extra practices. delighted to be "alone" and upstairs. The underground 17th.-Jubilee Garden P arty. Old Scholars send us is gay and "arty" with new lights and vivid table tops. delicious sweets. We. welcome Miss Dolling a nd Mr. Govenlock to Latin 21st-Jubilee Debutantes - all eighteen came and Sinp,ing Classes. a particularly lovely set . We said goodbye to Ann 16tb -Sports Captains - Ward: M. Sykes, C. Robertson - off to Sydney to live. McAuley; McGrath: A. Pick, E. Molony; Barry: T. 29th.-Leavings begin terminal clean-up of under­ Jungfer, F . Kildea; Mulhall: M. Jones, A. Halloran . ground shoe-room. Youthful and virile, emerge later 17th.-Film taken for Melbourne Exhibition. When white-haired and worn. told to "look natural a nd study" Leavings couldn't. 30th.-Jubilee Sports Day. Record weather, extra "No wonder", commented their class Nun. special programmes. l~th . -Film of David Copperfield. We had tears MAY: - and shed them. 4th.-We loved Fr. Flanagan of Boys' Town. 27th.-Two new Tennis Courts built by our fathers, 24th.-Back to school again. Miss Annette and her officially opened by Rever end T. Costelloe, S.J. Crowds "gentle ways" Find mysterious tables, platforms and attended exhibition matches by B. Phillips-Moore, G. steps scattered throughout the school. Discover they Kerr, J . Schultz and J . Mehaffey. Thanks are also due are the tiered seating accommodation for all future to benefac.tors, chair carriers and mound levellers. functions - will be first used for Carmel Hakendorf's 28th.-Mr. B. Rofe's t alk on Christianity and Concert a t end of July. Democracy left us subdued, scared and resolute. 26th.-Mission Fete. R ecord proceeds. MARCH: 3l st.-Continuous Rosary in the Chapel. 17th.-St. P atrick's Day - in the morning, t o JUNE: the Cathedral and then disperse. The thirty boarders left in had a grand time at Glenelg. At night, while l st.-We retreat with Father J ames, C.P. We were the boarders amused the Nuns and children with play, im pressed by Father's sincerity, zeal and witty stories. Many r esolved to "fill those shoes". dance and song, Leaving Day Scholars were at Sir John Shepherd's lecture, "Oedipus to Lear". H e shook 19th.-T wenty -one First Holy Communicants - hands with them later . the Chapel and little ones especially beautiful. Father 25th.-Dazzled by the broad blues of M. Sykes, Bardon 's sermon touch ed us all. C. McAuley, M. J ones, A. P ower, P. Shanahan, M. 30th.-We attend Symphony Concert in the morn­ Hannan, E. Dupuy, M. Woods, H. Smith and A. ing - in a double-decker. and return to "This Big Isenstein. City". God Bless the P ope . .. and M.M. Pauline.

MARCH OF TIME 1954 3rd.-Basketball match against Loreto Nedlands. JUNE: who departed vanquished. lst.-Second Term began. 4th.-Leavings pitted wits against St. Louis boys lOth.-Wendy Nash gave excellent recital at school, in debate, "Is Modern Youth Worthy of its Heritage?" before going abroad. We won. 23rd.-Mulberry trees pulled down, amid wails lOth.-Basketball match against St. Joseph's, Fre­ and moans from boarders, to prepare for new class­ mantle. Our A team won, the B's lost. rooms, which now stand on this much loved spot. 15th.-Father Wilkins from Xavier, gave talk to .JULY : the Sodality of Our Lady . 2nd.- Many "chapeaux bizarres" at the Mad Hat­ 24th.-Another victory for us in basketball match ters' Ball. against Jona. 15 LORETO

28th.-Senior School went to see and hear Viennese 23rd.-Voted for Sports Captains. Congratulations Boys' Choir. Their singing rather abashed our up-and­ to Valmae Dodd, Sarah Curran, Leonie P eterson and coming prima donnas ! Mary O'Hara. AUGUST: All wilted in record heat wave. 21st.-Sports Day. Despite fervent prayers, rain MARCH: poured down, dampening more than our spirits! 9th.-Prefects chosen. Head girl, Leonie Peterson. 22nd.-Consecration of new Children of Mary. Prefects: Sarah Curran, Elizabeth Bartlett, Gil Roberts, SEPTEMBER: Valmae Dodd, Marcia Dwyer, P eggy Jones, Helen 24th.-Sweets for the fete were made, besides a Boylson, Josie Dunphy and Margaret Walsh. great deal of chaos, in the homes of some of the lOth.-Many aspiring "starlets" revealed during Leavings' parents w ho heroically offered their kitchens. technicolour movie photos of school (and us!). 25th.-The fete, and square dancing by the seniors, 17th.-St. Patrick's Day. Everyone sincerely was a big success. thanked St. Patrick for a holiday. Mass at Subiaco OCTOBER: Oval was followed by a refreshing swim at North 3rd.-Members of the Sodality of Our Lady visited Cottesloe. the Little Sisters of the Poor and cheered the inmates 20th.-St. P atrick's Public Concert at His Majesty's. with gay entertainment. Loreto "Osborne" proudly presented Play, "Our Lady lOth.-Sub-Leavings debated with St. Louis - "The of Guadaloupe". United Nations' Organization is worthy of our con­ 27th.-Tennis teams returned home victorious from tinued support". St. Louis won. school tennis championships, bearing both Mursell 31st.-Schools and faithful congregated at Aquinas Shield and Herbert Edwards Cup. CongratulatiPope Pius X . re.cord floods. MAUREEN BUTLER, MARY O'HARA, 14th.-Routine slightly r elieved by blackout, sup­ Sub-Leaving (1955) , per by candlelight. Claremont.

OUR DAY OUR WEST Half past six begins our day, I'll give my due to "you, other States" And off to Mass with prayers to say. For the beauties that you possess, At eight (we're rarely ever late), But in the climate of " us all", We're busy o'er our breakfast plate. None can beat the West. And then, provided weather's fine We file out in a wriggly line, We also have our lovely "Swan" Till the bell at ten to nine. The Yarra's not a match - At nine o'clock we set to work, We do not freeze as in Ballarat, And well we know we mustn't shirk. Our Summer is no "catch". Then it's twelve, and time to dine, And out to play in gay s unshine. We cannot serve up Mur ray cod, The afternoo n's for working well, So that is your advantage Till the sound of "break-off" bell. That you have over us, I guess; Then off to take a snack we go, But, we've New Norcia vintage. And out to play till, dreadful woe! Off to study we must go. We don't possess the Mountain Blue, And by that time we're starved again, We don't possess the snow, So off to tea at seven, and then We don't possess the Sydney Bridge, Some merry fun, some prayers to say, But the things, we do, you know. And that's the end of a happy day. JACQUELINE RIDDLES (Form III) , JUDITH HARTIGAN (Form III) , Claremont. Claremont. 16 LORETO A GREAT OCCASION May 22nd was a grcal day for Loreto Brisbane, Our Lady gave us a lovely day, and at half as it fulfilled our hopes an1l exp ectations of the past past three, Hi~ Grace Dr. Duhig arrived, driving eighteen months. H you, perhaps, have not much through a guard of honour which we had formed. to do with us, you may not r ealize the cause of A big crowd of parents and friends of the children our excitement. It was the opening day of our and the Nuns had arrived and assembled in front beautiful new school building, which Archbishop of the verandah from which the speeches were to Duhig came to bless. be given. For months we had watched it grow - from When the rooms had been blessed, including the very cla y Mother Superior put medals into the our two beautiful classrooms, and library, His Grace

VIEWS OF THE NEW BUILDING AT LORETO, CAVENDISH ROAD, BRISBANE foundations whPn the first c1>111 e nl was laid. As it went to the verandah and gave us a very i11t c1·csting grew we became used to the sounds, which were sp eech. H e spoke about our great foundrcss, Mary unfamiliar al first, of the drills, hammers, cranes \Vard, and h e r influe nce on moflern educational Orders. Father Johnston, S..I., made a very witty and above all - I he singing. This singing u sed lo appeal for funds which met with a great response vary from to-clay's ·'hit" tunes lo h ymns. And now, from the people pr e~e nt. although we miss these frie ndly noises, we have 111 ELIZABETH NOWOTNY (15) . their place our building which we already love. Brisbane. IN TEN YEARS' TIME '·The Climate of India, childre n is mostly . . . ,. Diana R edmond is to be seen gliding gracefully :vly eye-,; gaze from the teach e r to Kay Barry, the around the skating rink at Switzerland with her " Brains'· of the Claes . J ean see Kay in te n year s· partner, Bert Colosskyzi from the C.B.S. Association. time on the Radio advertising " Jane Engel High .. . Margare t Crawfonl is standing in front of an Fashion Garnwnt of World Class. Go in to-day to unruly class. She bange her ruler down and silt>nee gel the cheap hargain ~ on sa le now:· r eigns! .My eyes the n, pass from Kay lo Suellen Rush­ Seated in a large c ushioned chair is Carolyn brook, who is on the front page of the \Vomen's Kerlin married lo a millionaire with every wish al :Monthly with a s111ilc on her face advertising Mac­ her command ... The visit of the leading jazz singer. Nabs' Toothpaste. The n I pass on lo Christine H elen Sumner! A verv. well marked dav. for Am- Cleary whom l sec in te n yea rs walking on to the I ralia when she once again sets foot on h er native tennis court with eight racquets unde r h er a rm and land .... Kay Noud breeding prize bulldogs, run­ a towel a1·011nd lwr neck, preparing lo play the ning around the ring showing off one of her Ladies' Tennis Finals. Of course, she wins and is thoroughbreds. . . . Marilyn Fogarty modelling preeented with a Cup and then· is a crowd of people Paris's latest shoes. (Large feet is what they need , clamouring for li er autograph. My eye lights next of course, so that thcv can sec the shoes! I and then to Monica Ritzke, a ba lk t teach e r. She could not thne is . . . . . make a ballerina ; he r ambition wm: good, her ability PATRICIA SIMMONDS (13) . was very good, hut alas. ~ h e is half an inch loo tall. Bris ba ne. 17

L2 SCENES AT THE SPORTS, NEDLANDS

ANXIETY AMONG THE SPECTATORS THE MARCH PAST We pick up the threads of last year's sports g1v111g the ir decision while we awaited anxiously. d iar y in July when the Basketball season was in The result showed that St. Michael's won. full swing. Mary Dwyer - Sports Captain and Prize-giving by our much esteem ed and devoted Captain of St. Michael's (Green ), Mary Pannell, Parish Priest, Rt. R ev. Monsignor E. Moss. As the Captain of St. Francis Xavier 's (Red ) , and Coralie prizes for individual races were distributed excite­ Mackie, Captain of St. Anne's (Gold ), having been ment was reaching fever point. Who would win elected earlier in first term were then busily engaged the Cup for the Combined Events of the Sports in the difficult task of picking and superv1sm,r Activities of the year? The answer was St. Anne's. team s for Inter-Home matches. Even though we Congratulations, Coralie ! Mary 1Dwyer carried off did not shine in Inter-School matches, the games the Ba£k e tball Cup for St. Michael 's. which we played against Osborne were as in previous Later in the T erm the School T ennis Champion­ years, perfect "social" afternoons. ships wer e played. School Champion - Barbara Combined with Basketball activities the girls Allen. Doubles Champions wer e Jill Clune and h ad to practise vi gorously for Sports Day, held on Cecile Daly Smith. the first Saturday in third term. All too soon the Not to be outdone by the Seniors, Forms I Sch ool Championshi p and Flat Races had to be and II gave a ver y good exhibition of tennis stars run - this year at Nedlands Oval, because the in the making. Their work was supervised by our newl y renovated running track was not ready for coach, Mr. Stan Edwards. He presented a splendid use. Mar y Pannell won the Championship - no racquet to the girl who kept up the longest rally. wonder ! Such grace as well as speed could not It was won by Angela Colben ! \V ell done, Ang e l~! be . out-done. Runner-up was a surprise - Glenys 1955 Sports Captains were elected soon after Angell of Form Ill. Congratulations, Glenys - the re-opening of school. Elizabeth Foley - Sports great things are expected for next year. Captain ; Valerie Guthrie, Captain of St. Anne's; Barbara Allen - St. Michael's; and Jane t McComish Novelty R aces opened the programme on Sports - St. Francis Xavier's. Day. \Ve found them more amusing than evl'r. T ennis Tournaments to raise funds for Missions Prou d p arents beamed on their diminutive treasures held in First T erm. Now Second Term is h ere of the Junior Schoo] - and wer e equally delighted and we are hoping to improve our Basketball. \Ve whether they finish ed first or last. are fortunate in having our former Sports Captain, T he March! Each year it holds first place for Mary Dwyer, as our coach. all - the p arents as well as the children. If any­ Soon the Captains will be busy looking out thing, this year it was more spectacular than before. for the promising competitors for the various teams Hours of tedious practise were well rewarded. The for Sports Day which is to be early in Third Term. Judges - who have given u s the ir time and help ELIZABETH FOLEY, VALERIE GUTHRIE, so generously - consulted ver y seriously before Ned lands. LORETO DATES WITH A DIFFERENCE (As seen by four girls in the Fourth Year) NORMANHURST. of su pense such as this there were many dose-ups THE CONSECRATION OF THE ALTAR of wild animal life in the Nationa l Pat·k. The 13th October, 1954, is a day to be remem­ As the sound track of our oJd projector had bered by all at Lore to, Normanhurst, for it was hecomc worn and indistincl, Mother A ntoine tte sur­ on that day that Cardinal Gilroy came to consecrate prise<] us with a new projector for the long film, the Altar Stone of our new Chapel. The Winslow Boy, on Loreto Day al the end of As we formed a guanl of honour along the las t. yea r. A great difference in the sound wa~ drive for His Emi11 ence. we remembered a day, immedia teJy noticed and this he lp<' d m to enjoy almosl a vear before, when we had formed . a this exceptional1y good film. similar gua.nl of honour on the day of the laying Not only Jong films have we enjoyed hut al~u of the foundation stone of the Chapel. many shorts. some on Orchesl ra I performan ce~. The ceremony of consecrating Lh e altar began Botanica l experimenls and numerous other t opic~. about ten o'clock. There we re many priests assisting One short we particularly enjoyed sh owed us Betty the Cardinal, while six J esuit Scholastics from Scott - the profess ional ice-sk a ter. Her grace and Canisius College, P ymble, sang the various Liturgical ease left many with a deep feeling of admiration. Responses. One of the workmen who had h elped Bing Cros by brought us enl f' rtainment in hi ~ in the construction of the Chapel was there, as some racing film, Riding High. Many a tear glistened in cement had lo he used for e mbedding the Altar the corner of an eve when lw lost his fa i thf 11 I Stone. The only visitor in the congregation was ra ee hor ~e, Broadway. Bill. Mr. \V. Burfitt, senior, the donor of the Altar; as Perhaps the best picture we h ave r;e en Esmey ifa nn, sh e was the first pupil at Normanhurst. was the Shakespearian film , Julius Caesar. ]1 The Altar is impressive and beautiful, being seemed to m e that James Mason excelled in his made of the cr eam ma rble with russet veinings that portrayal of Brutus. The Fourth Year c lass wert' come from the Wombeyan Quarries at Goulburn. amused many a time as they compared their actions The cer emony at the Altar was ver y lengthy of their r ecent production of thP play with those - it look almost two hours - hut. every minute of of the professional actors. it was inte res ting. We were all provided with a \Ve have also seen a few ve ry inte resting pictures typed copy explaining the whole procedure. The in the Father Peyton series. P erhaps the one we only tedious pe riod occurred when the Cardinal enjoyed most was one entitled That l May See, which circled the A ltar seven times, sprinkling it with was a very movin g story built around the event;; holy wate r - though I am sure it was twice as that led to Our 'Divine Lord's Crucifixion. tiring for His Eminence. CLAIRE MASON. T o complete the cer emony the Cardinal said Mass. during which we sang the Mass of St. MISSION INTERESTS Therc\rn, accompanied hy the new organ. After Mass, the Ca rdinal and pries ts had lunch 111 our A ustralian Convent-girls are given ~o much to refectory, while we all had a picnic lunch in the make them happy that the re is a tendency amongst grounds. us to forget those who are Jess privileged. Some After lunch we assemble

SPORTING COMPETITIONS Normanhurst was rather successful in the Sport­ in improving the school tennis standard. \Ve were ing line during 1954. To the sh eer delight of all, privileged to have Noeline Josephine and Lesley the ··B .. baske tball team su cceed ed in winning the Turner h ere on the 29th June to g ive the " A" team B Grad e Cup. The "C' team worked their way practice. to the finals, but failerl in their last match against The Sporting Activities of this year began with Kincoppal. In tennis we were happy to win the the r e-electing of Sports Captains. Our congratula­ UndfT 18 a nd Under 16 years iDo ubles. Gwen ti ons go to Marilyn Matha, Barbara Scullard , Carmel JHaygcr, Patricia Roche and Marilyn JVlatha, Carmel Cattle, Toni Croft, Mary Dennett and Megan Le wi s. Cattle - at the Catholic Schools T ennis Champion­ The sport of this year seems promising as the ship h eld al Santa Sabina on the 31st July, 1954. " A" team with Marilyn Matha (Captain ), Ca rme l The finals of the Sch ool Tennis Tournament Cattle, Christine Dempsey and Megan LPwis are were played on Lore to Day. The Singles Title being still undefeated. " won by GwPn :Vlavger, who defeated Megan Lewis. The " B" basketba11 team has also achieved great

THE CARDIN AL'S CUP \V e have to refrain ourselves from going roman ti c and dramatic over the 10th of July, 1955, when our tennis team brought home the Cardinal's Cup, h aving beaten St. Scholastica's, Glebe, in the finals. One would have to live in the atmosphere of e mulation which is the very air breathed by the te nnis teams of the Catholic Secondary Girls' Schools in Sydney to realize what it m eans to bring home the Cup - and for the first time ! Congratulations to all, including the skilful and devoted Profes3ional Coach, Mr. Coady. The Cup is now standing on the Chippendale sideboard in the boarrlers' r efec­ torv. And the general feeling among the girls is : Long m ay it stand! lt was h er second wrn 1n two successive vears. All success in early match es. The most enjoyable be ing were pleased as sh P was 111 the Leaving Class. against K ensington on the 11th June. h ended in Because of bad weather the Doubles were not a draw. W e are still hoping to keep the Cup which played. wa r. won last year. As ever yone knows, Sydney has harl more than During the last two years the seniors of the its share of rain during 1955, so the two main tennis school have had the privilege of seeing som e of courts havP had to unde rgo a coating of blue m etal, Australia's leading amateur tennis players, namel y which h as comide rably improved the m. The Lewis Road, John Bromwich, Adrian Quist, J eff Board e r ~ are grt'atly indebted to the Parents who Brown, Ashley Cooper, R ex Hartwiir, Warren \Voocl­ have been very helpful in re-organizing thP lower cock and Neil Gibson. courts. (Some of the fathers have formed a working­ MEGAN LEWIS. hee for this.) We are also very grateful to our Professional * Stop Press.-They brought home the coveted Tennis Coach, Mr. Coady, who has been so helpful trophy of the year : the Cardinal's Cup. Congratulations! 20 LORETO

The L iturgical Choir from Canisius College (Jesuit H ouse of Studies, Pymblc) leading the hymns at the microphone on the front lawn.

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The schoolgirls assembling outside the class­ rooms. The m ain building of the Convent and the old Chapel a re in the backg round. A corne r of the cloist er of the new Chapel is seen on the left.

Above: Alo ng the Lower W alk.

THE CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION IN THE GROUNDS OF LORETO, NORMANHURST 21 LORETO

(!) Schoolgirls. (2) Vis itors

The side of the Chapel fa cin g the P ennant Hills Road. A shrubbery has been planted round the Liquidambar.

Photographed k indly by Mrs. G. H artig a n (mother of Anne, Sue a nd Kerry) . CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION AT LORETO, NORMANHURST. 22 LORETO

OUR CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION* H ere at Normanhurst., we have a yearly proces­ afte r the feast of the Sacred H eart, so that people sion of th e Blessed Sacrament, h eld as near as could go to both. At. ours, because of the increased possible to thf' feast of Corpus Christi. Parents, numbe rs that: attended , the fin al B e nerliction was friends and p eople from the W aitara and Thorn­ given for a few years on the front steps, while th!' leigh parish es are invited, and they com e in great people knelt. on the lawn. Then, last year {19541 numbers. It is always a very beautiful and edifying we harl the h appiness of ga the ring 111 011r new spectacle to see so many p eople honouring Our Lorri Chapel, late ly comple ted. in the Blesserl Sacrament as they precerl e it round It always seem s to us that <'ach procession is the garrlens and lawns. The procession at Loreto, more lovely than its pred ecessor. That is how Wf' Normanhurst, has a history of over fifty years. felt this year (1955). Most of the vi sitors walker! fo 1903 the first procession was held on the in the procession, joining in the Rosary and singing feast itself, with a borrowed canopy and a few which was led by a Liturgical ch oir of J <' ' uit banners made by the Nuns anrl children. There students from Canisius College, Pymble, over an were 11 0 o the r worshippe rs. Towards the end of amplified system . B esides our own Nuns there were that year, the late Mr. and Mrs. Bryant"* returned Sisters of Mercy from \Vaitara, Diocesan and from a trip to Europe, bringing with them a canopy R eligious Priests, girls from Kirribilli, Children of sp ecially made in Rome. Its e mblem s included th•~ Mary a nrl Holy Name m en from Waitara ; and of sc hool crest, embroide red in pure gold. After fifty­ course, large numbers of our own white-clad girls. one years the golrl is still fresh , and also the sa tin Fathe r R. Nolan, from Waitara {in the absence of of the canopy. the R ev. M . Farrell, P.P.), carried the Monstrnncc, From then onwards there were two B en edic­ pt·eced ed by tiny page boys and flower-strcwers. The tions outside in the golrl and red arbours, and a well-known hymns filled the grounds with their third on!' in the Senior Study {now the reception harmony, and we wer e stirred with the inspiring room) . Visitors began to com e and the crowd grew h ymn, W e Stand For God. too big for the Stmlv; then the final Be nedic tion . At the final B e nediction in the Chapel, thP was gi'ven in the hal i. The day of the procession Canisius c hoir aml our own girls sang the Tf' was alrn c hanged ; first lo tlw octave d ay to fit in Deum and othe r liturgical h ymns. Then to end the with the c hildren 's holidays; later to the Sunday beautiful day we ail san g Faith of Our Fathers. after Corpus Christi so that the parishion ers could DIANA MARY BOOTH (Fourth Year), also com e. Normanhurst. After the seconrl \Vorlrl War when the big procession at the Manl y Seminary was again h eld * See picture on pages 21 and 22. on the Sunday after Corpus Christi, we ch a nged ** Parents of Miss E. Bryant, Mrs. T. J. Purcell ours, at the request of the Carrlinal, to the Sunrlav (both of Sydney), and Mrs. Dunstan (of Cooma) .

FIRST WEEK IN SECOND TERM, 1955 We were back at school again, for another term The n we settle r! rlown to hear and watch the had begun. The KirrihilJi Loreto, which yesterday orch estra, we realized anew how wonrlerful it wa~ had lain quiet and peaceful in the sunshine enjoy­ that all tho ~e m en a nd women, each with a different ing its long v iews down the Harbour, was now a instrument, sh ould be workinl! as a team, anrl pro­ lively centre of schoolgirl activity. Neat grey-clad duc ing that marvellous thing called music which fi gures in perfect uniform gathe red in groups affects u s in so m an y diffe rent ways, taking our exchanging gay greetings, and the N uns welcomed moods to go along with it. They played folk dances. us with pleasant smiles. which made one want Lo danc!' for joy, a µ:rand The first day, Tuesday, was just a matte r of rolJing piece that made on!' think of a ll the wonder­ getting into the rout in!' ; so we went through each ful things of life, a sari piec!' whic h made one ff'cl hour philosophicallv. 1n the afte rnoon came the strangely m elancholy. Finally, came th!' \Villiam stirring news that onr C IMs was to go to an Orches­ T eU Overture - a fa vourite with us a ll. Too soon tral Concert in the Ci tv on the fo1lowing day. So, it was over a nd re luc tantly we kft t hf' ha 11 and on W ednPs d ay, afte r a sh ort class period, we sf' t the beautiful music be hind us. off with great zest, accompanied by Mrs. K ean!', That afte rnoon at sch ool W<' had to 1nakf' our who was to ,·ubrlue ns if a n y subduing were needer!. own music, as it was the d av for the visit of our After the short trip to town we wcrf' surprised cho ir-maste r, Mr. Johnson, who has thi· u11e11viabl!' Lo find ourselves the first arrivals at tllf' Town Hall. task of try ing to coax angelic, musical sounds out of From our comfortabk ~e at s we watcher! group after us. However, he succeed s, thanks to his own hard group take their sea ts, and thf'n we watched the work and that of Moth e r Loyola who (H<'pares a orchestra take their pla!'es. T lw Conc!'rt b egan by musicale wi th our work at the e nd of th!' \'Par. the singing of the Nat ion a I A 11 tlw111 :u.: c-om pan icrl Thursday was a very interesting clay as. Wf' had by the blast of trump e t ~ and the rolling of rlrurrn•. c·ooking and dancing. ~Ti ss Sc n!I~ · l eaclw~ 11 s dam·- 23 LORETO in g a nd pre pares us to take our place in our hours it was discover ed that some girls we re not n e arly as of leisure a nd ple asure, both at school and away high as they look e r! . They were then put down from school. W e are grateful to the Nuns for pro­ among the shorter girls whe re it was realize d that vidin g all th e~c advantages for u s. they were really quite tall afte r all! The F riday was First Friday, so we had adora­ Finally, the day was ove r ; we pre pared to go tion of th e Blessed Sacrament in the School Chapel home for the first week-end of the te rm. In our d u rin g the for enoon. It was wonde rful to be kneel­ h eart of h earts we we r e glad lo be in the second ing the re in tha t e nveloping p eace and unspoken te rm. In our silent m om ents we wer e even d1·ead-

TENNIS VICTORY T h <' Monsignor Meaney T ennis Trophy for schoolgirls (under 15) atte nding Catholic Second arv Sch ools in Sydney, has been won for 1955 by Loreto, Kirribilli. Congratulations to all al Kirribilli! T h e p la ye r ~ we re : H e len :McGowan, Barbara Bray, E velvn Purcell, V e rona Greenaway. joy w hich is always fe lt m places where God is ing the day when our schooldays would be over esp ecia lly present. and we would walk out of the gates for the last At inte rvals during that morning we had time to face a world much stronger than we poor v i ~ it i: rl tlw Ch a p el, but the sch ool routine we nt on human beings could ever b e . Sch ooldays at Kirri­ it ;; tranquil way, if we except that irritating inter­ billi really are the happy days of life. lude wh en we had lo have our photographs taken for the m agazine . W e wer e arranged on the lawn JUDI FRASER (F our th Year ), according to our h eight, and then r e-arra n ged wh e n Kirr ibilli.

LORETO CONVENT, NEDLANDS DIARY. JULY, 1954 - JUNE, 1955. JULY: 2n d.-Second day of Quarant 'Ore and Alliance 7th.-Orchestral Concert. We en joyed the music F rancaise Exam. Those doing t his exam. h ad their very much: also the opport unity of missing school! breakfast at sch ool after Mass. 16th.-The Singing F estival. 15th.-Leaving F rench Orals and J unior Domestic 19th.-F ath er Wilkins, S.J., spoke to the Children Scien ce Exams. Judging by the pleasing odours of of Mary about the obligations of Sodalists. various dishes issuing from the Domestic Science 2l st.- We celebrat ed Mother Cyril's F east. Room, the Cookery Section m ust h ave been very good. 28th.-To the Capitol Theatre to h ear the Vi enn a 25 th.-F rench Orals - J unior. Boys' Choir. It was a beautiful performance. 29th.-Ger man Orals. 30t h.-St. Louis Dance at the My ola Hall, Clare­ NOVEMBER: mont. Several gir ls went and enjoyed themselves. l st.-Chr istian Doctrine Exam. for J unior P ublic AUGUST: and Leaving. 4th.-We saw "Monsieur Vincent" at the Capitol. 6th.-Annual Sch ool F ete - a great success. Were there any dry eyes after this m oving film? llth.-Alliance r esults. Despit e some very pessi­ 14th.-School Dance. No need to comment on the mistic pecple, we m an aged to acquit ou rselves success of the evening. favourably. 25th.-Fashion P ar ade and Musicale . Many beauti­ 2lst .-Little ones made their First Holy Com ­ ful dresses mod elled by m any beautiful girls! Artists munion. In the afternoon n ew members were r eceived from the A.B.C. helped to entertain the many visitors. into the Children of Mar y Sodality, Mar garet McDon­ SEPTEMBER: nell, Chr istine Howson, Dorothy Durack, P at H ickey, 13th .-We had the great privilege of singing at J anet McComish, Valerie Guthr ie, Rosemary Hanrah an , the Ordin ation of F ather Foley (Elizabeth's brother ) Anne Furlon g. and of F ath er Toop in the H oly Rosary Church, 22nd.-On this day, dreaded fo r so lon g, Juniors Nedlan ds. and Leavin gs set out for the University, arm ed w ith 14th.-Father F oley celebrated his First Mass in r ulers, rubbers, pens, etc. the Con vent Chapel, and, later in the day, we all DECEMBER: received his blessing after Benediction. 7th.-Crowning of J ubilarians. Congrat ulations to: 18th.-Sports Day. Mar y Dwyer , Mar y P annell, Mary Tallboys, Brenda OCTOBER: F ounrain, Helen Durack, Dorothy Durack, Margar et l st.- Quaran t 'Ore at the Holy Rosary Church, Wallwork, Margaret McDonnell, Dallas Deary, Chr istine Mass at 6.30 a.m., so our choristers had to rise early. H owson. 24 LORETO

8th.-Prize Distribution. 22nd.-Senior School Fancy Dress Ball. Many 9th.-Break-up Day. Many cameras appear, and weird and wonderful costumes seen. The Sub-Leavings after singing the Holiday Hymn, we say goodbye to had the brilliantly intellectual idea of coming as the school for nine lovely weeks. characters from "Oliver Twist". 27th.-We said goodbye to Mother Cyril; we were 23rd.-Public Schools Rowing. sorry to hear that she was going so far away. 28th.-The Rowers' Dance at Aquinas which was BARBARA ALLEN, BARBARA CRANFIELD, thoroughly enjoyed by our Leavings and Sub-Leavings. (Sub-Leaving). 29th.-Junior School Fancy Dress Ball. FEBRUARY: MAY: 8th.-Back to school. Congratulations to all who 2nd.-May Day Procession and Crowning of Our passed Junior and Leaving Exams, especially to Mary Lady. Monsignor read the Act of Consecration, gave Dwyer for passing her Leaving with seven subjects us a little talk on Our Lady and then gave Benediction. and seven credits! JUNE: MARCH: 5th.-Pet Show. Convent invaded by Dogs, Cats, 5th.-Fathers have a working bee and make new Birds, Fish, a Shetland Pony and oth er animals. There paths; it is good to have bitumen. The new fence was a Popular P et Competition and the small children is begun. had Pony Rides. Afternoon tea was served and Prizes 8th.-The Film is taken. · We walk out of the distributed to proud owners of distinguished Pets. Church beautifully for the camera-man and engage 6th.-The Senior School went to a special screen­ in other school activities at his pleasure. in;j of "Secret Conclave", a film about Pope Pius X. Our first Dialogue Mass. We are using Father 8th-10th.-Retreat for Seniors, given by Father Paul Ryan's book and are reminded of the words of Hennessy, C.SS.R. Pope Pius X : "Do not pray at Mass but pray the llth.-8 o'clock Mass at school and Communion Mass". Breakfast. We were all enrolled in the Miraculous 9th.-The Sports Captains are announced :-Eliza­ Medal. beth Foley, Sports Captain; and the House Captains are 16th.-Historical Exhibition at the Perth Town Janet McComish (Red), Valerie Guthrie (Gold), Bar­ Hall: "Stirling and the early days." bara Allen (Green). 29th.-Symphony Orchestral Concert at the Capitol 12th.-Spiritual Retreat for Hungarians held at Theatre. the Convent. HELEN COGAN, JOAN MARKEY, 16th.-Prefects are announced. Congratulations to Elizabeth Foley (Head of the School) , and to the (Sub-Leaving) . Prefects, Valerie Guthrie, Janet McComish, Rosemary Hanrahan, Betty Connor and Barbara Allen. CRAZES 17th.-St. Patr ick's Day. High Mass at Subiaco Oval and March Past of Metropolitan Catholic Schools. Jus t. as the seasons come and go, So do the crazes, I'm sure you know. APRIL: \V c started on Scvem, when school began, l st.-Seniors h ad a helpful lecture on the functions But the ball ~ got lost, as away they ran. and services of a Bank. 6th-12th.-Easter Holidays. We sang at the Holy Now that S u111111 Pr is drawing n ear, Rosary Church on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and The girls go swimming without a fear. Easter Sunday. On Holy Saturday som e of the Leav­ Someon e tried to i;;tand on h e r head : ings and Sub-Leavings came up to school to s ing the They're all duck-diving now, ' tis said. Regina for the Nuns. 15th.-First Y.C.S. meeting at Loreto, Nedlands. I'm afrairl the Nuns can't ~ay their prayers, The Leaders a re: Elizabeth Foley, Valerie Guthrie, In case they trip, all unawares. Janet McComish, Barbara Allen, Jill Clune, Kathleen The paths are littered with hoppy laws. Dwyer, Erica Johnson, Anne Edgar. As we play this game wi thout any pause. 16th.-We went to "The Sleeping Prince", and though the Play did not do justice to such great " There are wccrls in the garden", said a kindly one, actors, we considered ourselves fortunate to see Dame "Let's all go at it ; 'twill be great fun." Sybil Thorndike, Sir Lewis Casson, · Sir Ralph and Soon it was looking spick anrl span, Lady Richardson. And each took turns w ith th!' watering-can. 17th.-The Newman Society Communion Break­ fast was held at the school; about 160 graduates and This always happen >" at our l'c hool, undergraduates were present. And sometime!' I think it's a general rule : 19th.-The Senior Classes went to see the Blake A s soon as someone starts a new game, Prize Exhibition at the Perth Art Gallery. Father Each orw rloes pxactly tlw same. Challis explained to us the purpose of Modern Art and gave us an explanation of each picture. It was JOAN GURRY (12 Years) , an interesting experience. Portland. 25 LOR E: TO FILM STARS FOR A DAY F riday m o rning ! Never had there been such to come along in h a ppy groups, ch a tting and l augh­ eagerness a m o n g the day-scholars for school to ing. Bask e ts of sandwich es, highly p olish ed a pples open . To-day, a film was to b e tak e n which would and golden oranges in string-bags proved the be shown a t the Catholic Life Exhibition in Mel­ genuineness of our outing. R ounde rs in a cleared bourne. A ll of u s were excite d at the thought of this sp ace was the subject of the next scene. H ot and new experien ce. rather tired , we formed a picnic group, some round First to a ppea r before the camera were the the camp-fire, o the rs seated o n the trunk of a falle n Al! Saints' c h ildren , w alking in procession, Our tree. A ll too soon, it was time to le ave the bush Lady's banner at th eir h ead. A t last, it was our and r eturn to sch ool. Om· h a ppy h ours of acting turn! T h e Con vent - gates wer e op en ed. The were ove r. photograph e r m oved to a suita ble position. Acr oss A bout a week la te r, as I came in, I was greeted the road trip ped the excited children, carrying b y a number of girls ch orusing, " W e' re seeing the bathe rs an d b each-bags. Down the r amp, along the film to-day." The b ell rang and a set of ver y excited beach , u p to the box we wen t, M r. Richards film­ children made their w ay to the hall. The doo rs in" us. Soon all were in swim-suits, and, at a word, were closed , the lights switch e d off and a hush of pl~nged into th e ro1ling blue waves, which we re antic ipation was felt throughout the room. E ach was crested with dancing white foam. The "stars" in thinking, " What shall I be like ? " The whole film the next scen e hurrie d back to school to change was wonderful but I was esp ecially i mpressed with into uniform s for a ~ce n e in the Ch a p el. What a the Ch a pel scen e. The altai· and sanctuary l a mp chaotic few minutes ! W e still: felt salty and sandy ! wer e the highlights, while the N uns and girls However , a d e mure group in brown soon arrived formed a dim group of worshipper s. It wa s in at th e Ch apel door, aml the picture (Nuns and girls strong contrast to the ga y picnic group and the at prayer) was tak en. The filming was ove r! Our bright scenes on the beach. con tract was ended! What fun we had had! H aving seen the film, we all considered that But all was no t over! A week later , another the little difficulties m e t with in its making wer e gurprise awaited u s. B efore a fternoon prayer s, well worthwhile. W e forgot the many r eh e arsals Mothci· E dmund impressed upon u s that n ext for each scene, the scramble up and down the cliff morning we were to wear h a ts, no t bere ts. Full of p a th, the swim that w as cut shor t, ver y short, our wonderm ent, we cam e to sch ool, hats on h eads. A t hurrie r! ch an ging, the game of rounders tha t n ever Aesembl y, we heard that we wer e to be "stars" seem ed to end a nd the bull ant n est that some once m o re, this t ime at Govey. I need not explain accide ntalJy chose as their seat in the picnic group! Govey to the N uns. The girls of the other h ouses You should h ave seen our ea ger faces light up as may not know that it is a Government R eserve of we scanned the screen and caught the first glimpse u ncleare r! hushlanrl, about a mile from the town . of oursel ves. The question which had been h am­ It has been a favourite picnic spot for gen e rations m ering in ever yone's brain, "Am I photogenic?" of Loreto children . was an swer ed. Yes, I am, but I am far too m o d est T h e fi rst film was taken as the hiking party to a dmit it. came round a bend in the bush -track , shadowed b y MARLENE KEMPTON (14 Years), bush es a nd tall gums. B y dint of practice, we learnt P ortland.

JOTTINGS FROM A JOURNAL MARY'S MOUNT, BALLARAT 1954 20th.-A victorious day; our A and B basketball JUNE : teams defeated Clarendon P .L.C. 26 th .- To Toorak . A memorable day, although 22nd.-Mother Superior's Feast Day. All enjoyed Toorak was victorious in all basketball matches. Some a delicious party, followed by the pict ure, "Chr istoph er hoarse throats on our ret urn, w hich all goes to show Columbus." Than k you, Mother, for a lovely day. that so much volume can be produced by so few! !! 23 rd.-Did anyone peering through a front w indow JULY: notice five girls returning up the drive w ith bulky 7th.-Leaving Geography Class went on a most cordial bottles t ucked (rather surreptit iously!!) under interesting excursion to Myer's Woollen Mills. Returned their blazers? The Leaving Geography Class was over-loaded with specimens of wool. That afternoon retur ning from an excurs ion to Rowlands Cordial Queen's C. of E . G.G.S. visited us for basketball. We Factory! won the B match ; Queen's t he A. 26th-30th.-Y.C.S. Week. Played our (spectacular ) 9th.-General tur moil as the boarders leave for inter-group basketball matches. The Daniel Lord the long week-end - a welcome break. P amphlet Group was victorious. Closed t he week with 16th.-We attended the Concert given by the General Meeting. Viennese Boys' Choir. M. Reparata now listens with 31st.-An enjoyable day of basketball against great deligh t to her "Mary's Mount G irls' Choir!!" Loreto, Dawson Street. 26 LORETO

AUGUST: 9th.-A mixture of joy and tears as we set out in 3rd.-All enjoyed "The Robe" in cinemascope at the different directions - homeward bound! !! Goodbye, Regent. Mary's Mount, 'till 1955. 7th.-"Mais, oui," "non, non", (but mostly "Je ne 1955 sais pas") were to be heard as French students departed FEBRUARY: to air their knowledge (?) at the Alliance Francaise 8th.-Back to school!! Many new faces replaced de Ballarat. those of the old ones we missed. llth.-Clarendon, victorious in A and B basketball. l 7th.-Congratulations to the new House Captains 15th.-Seniors rejoiced as they saw the boys of - Mary Bourke, of Mulhall; Jan Barker, of Ward; and St. Pat's. College football team defeat St. Kevin's, Denise Hoare, of Barry; also to their Vice-Captains - Toorak. Therese Leckte, Denise Fla herty and Noel Shea han. 25th.-Holiday hymn sung with the usual vigour, preparatory to our departure for the September break. MARCH: 3rd-5th.-The Quarant 'Ore ceremonies were as SEPTEMBER: lovely as ever. 14th.-Back to the old grind, and with g-r-e-a-t 6th.-We attended "Music for the P eople." resolutions, as exams. loom ahead. l 7th.-St. Patrick's Day. Once more, our Orchestra 24th.-Mother Superior's Golden Jubilee. The rendered their delightful arrangement of Irish Airs. Nuns' and Children's Choirs combined to sing the Missa That night we performed "The First Exile" - a story Marialis. At night we entertained Mother with a of Coleman of Ireland. series of tableaux reproduced from the Old Masters, 19th.-We all enjoyed Toorak's visit, although the whilst the "angelic choir" provided soft background Melbourne girls won most of the games. music. Congratulations, M.M. Ursula and M.M. Aquin. 25th.-The Feast of the Annunciation was a ppro­ 27th.-We all had a helter-skelter afternoon chas­ priate for the reception of six Children of Mary. ing one another up and dovvn the lovely slopes of Mt. Buninyong. APRIL: 5th.-Congratulations to the new Head of the School OCTOBER: a nd Councillors - Jan Barker, Denise Hoare, Mary 2nd.-Eight tiny girls and two little boys made Bourke, Denise Flaherty and G ay Rice. their First Holy Communion. We know their souls 6th-12th.-Easter Break. must have been as radiant as that memorable day. 16th.-We enjoyed our day of vigoro and tennis llth-12th.-Strict silence in the corridor, for the against Loreto, Dawson Street. The honours were suffering musicians sat for piano exams. Later, we all, s hared. including Mr. Biggins, enjoyed the welcome respite 23rd.-We rejoiced at seeing St. P at's. College of a tennis exhibition by Davis Cup Stars, Rex Hart­ Crew win the Head of the Lake. wig and Ashley Cooper. MAY: 19th.-Mus icians again tested themselves in the lOth.-Y.C.S. Amateur Hour. Competition was vital P erception exams. At dinner-time the results keen, but the Matriculation Opera Company won the of the music exams. were announced. Sighs of relief: day with their performance of "Goldricks and the all candidates had passed. Three ~ ears!" 23rd.-Sports Day! Barry House again carried off 12th.-Hats and scarves flying eve rywhere. Excited the la urels. Congrats., Pat O'Bree and Anne Vaughan. girls scurrying about. Term holidays!!! 3lst.-We assembled on St. Pat's. Oval for the Annual Procession to Christ the King. In the evening JUNE: we all enjoyed the film "Boys' Town." lOth.-We enjoyed our day in Melbourne at the Catholic Life Exhibition. NOVEMBER: P .S .-A welcome innovation is the Tuck Shop con­ 13th.-The Seniors of Mary's Mount enjoyed a ducted every Thursday by the Mothe rs' Club. A hearty well-conducted Sports Day at St. P at's. College. "Thank You!" from us all. Nov. 30th-Dec. lOth.-Public Exams!!! Nothing to DENISE HOARE, JAN BARKER. be said. DECEMBER: THE MOON 4th.-Loreto Day: Some small consolation for exam. When night fall comes to us sitters. Congratulations to our seven jubilarians, Janet See the moon in the sky, Hayden, Pat Rinaldo, Clare Hager, Margaret Holmes, Praising God, by his pale rays, Margot Podger, Margaret O'Halloran, Anne Vaughan. For us, who sleeping lie. 5th.-Ten lucky girls were received into the But whe n the dawn is near, Sodality of the Children of Mary. She fades away in haze 8th.-A procession marked the close of the Marian While we ourselves must rise Year at Mary's Mount. Pupils from the Loreto Con­ And to our God give Praise. vent, Dawson Street, Redan. and St. Joseph's, joined FRANCES GASH (12), in singing Our Lady 's praises. Portland. 27 I~ORETO ABBEY, . 'IARY'S MOUNT, BALLARAT, VIC.

PREFECTS (Left to Right) Deni se F laherty, Gabrielle .Rice, Mary Bourke (Seated ) , J a n Barker (Hearl) , D enise Hoare.

INTERMEDIATE, LEAVING & MATRICULATION (Left to Right) Back Row: F . J oyce, M. M eere, T. L echte, N. Sheahan. P. Byrne, M. O 'Log hlen, J. Tweddle, J. Matthews. Third Row: P. Jess, G. Joshua, W . Barber, C. Conlan, S. Higgins, L. Hicks. M. Sullivan, K. Hanrahan, G. Griffith, I. Rinaldi, H . O 'Br!en. Second R ow: C. M cMahon, A. Mc Swiney, M. Pode;e r, D. Flaherty, D. H oare, J . Barker, M. Bourke, G. Rice, A. Do ney, H . Baker. F1 ont Row: R. Beer, C. Carlile, C. Rice, S. Gudgeon, L. Starr, A. Doolan, M. Besemeres.

KINDERGARTEN (Left to Right) (Standing): H. Eckel. J . Coe;hlan, J . Carey. (Seated): B. H ayden, G. H ayes, S. Dickinson, H . DeGraaff, M . Creati, C. Salt, .T. Garvey. Absent : A. Corbett.

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LORETO ABBEY, MARY'S MOUNT, BALLARAT, VIC.

SUB-INTERMEDIATE, FIRST & SECOND YRS. (Left to Right) Back R ow: A. Saunders, F. Fay, G. Slee, J. Faulkner, H. Monki­ vitch, S. M acken zie, C. K eating, M. L. Crow­ ley, C. M cSwiney.

3rd Row: L . Holmes, E. Ryan, G. McGilp, J. Bolleman, G. Fordham, ]. O'Callagha n, M. Shana ha n, J. M cGilp, J. Carroll, E. Besemeres. 2nd Row : W. Pritchard, J. H urley, J. Olipha nt, F . M ee re, J. 0' L oghlen, H. Powell, M . Fay, S. H ayes, A . Faulk ner. Front Row: M. O 'Connor, S. Lubransky, J. Ben­ nett, P. Puli, A . Sparks, ] . Gibson , M. Creati. Absent : E . Fraser, R Fulton.

FIFTH & SIXTH CLASSES AND JUNIOR SCHOOL (Left to Right) Bae!: Row : E . Bun­ ning, V. Dickinson , Marilyn J enkins, G. M cGenniss, M. Troy, H . L echte, H. Nuna n , H. Bilson. 4th Row: A. Bell, M . J enkins, A. Gibson, M. Nunn, P. H ay­ den, M. Sennett, M. Dunne, J. Powell. 3rd Row: M. A. Ger­ aghty, N . Hugh es, J . Cole, P . H ayes, G. Barker, K . P ic­ kett, F. Faulkner, L . J enkins, L. P od­ ger. 2n

29 LORETO This _i\ustralia THE WEST AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL EXHIBITION At the Exhibition ther e were all kinds of inter­ The A boriginal section was very interesting. esting exhibits. Some of the best, I think, wer e Among other exhibits were some of the aboriginal the ch arts and maps made by the early explorers. weapons - digging sticks which the native women These are su rprisingly accurate, and there was a use to dig up hardies and yams, and are also u sed le tter, translated into English, from one of the early to kill snakes and lizards. The re was also a milling· Dutch sea-captains. One of the charts had just stone which the natives use for grinding nardoo arrived from the Netherlands showing part of the (a kind of flour ) into small cakes. Nardoo is a coast of Wes tern Australia, and the Swan River - very hard seed and has to be ground for hours to Freshwater Bay was shown on it, but not the be fin e enough to use. Also on display were boomer· Abrohlos Group of islands, thus proving that the angs, woomeras, and spears . Dutch discovered the Bay. . After seeing all these things we went into In another case, were the different relics they another room where a film of Captain Stirling and still have of a Dutch boat wrecked off the coast of his exploration up the Swan River was being shown. W .A. Two steering wheels, a bell, a piece of carved This was the most educational part of the Exhibi­ wood which i" believed to be the front piece of a tion, the script for the sound track being a letter ship, 300 years old. Despite its years the shape of a of Captain Stirling describing every de tail of the woman was still perceptible and though it had suf­ journey. fer ed much weathering the wood was still good. A pageant of Old and New fashions since 1800 There wer e m odels of different typ es of sailing ships, to the present day was presented as a Grand Finale m bottles, a 11 clear to the least d etail. to the Historical Exhibition. The Parade was T here were the sword and snuff-box, presented opened by the Lady Mayoress in the P erth Town to Sir James Stirling b y Queen Adelaide; because Hall. The hostesses were dignified and stately in once when sh e visited his ship, it was only by his charming gowns of the last century. quick action that she was saved from slipping. With The curtain was drawn back on a scene of a these was a rather l arge polish ed wood box made drawing room of the 19th Century. Playing the from the tree which was felled by Mrs. Dance at century old piano was a young lad y, Dorothy John­ the founding of the Settlem ent. There was an exact son (a past pupil of Loreto, Nedlands) dressed in r eproduction of the " Old Mill" at South P erth. a green velve t evening dress with big dollman which was usefl to grind the flour of the first settlers: sleeves of the early p art of that century. The fashion parade b egan with the 1800's, the grand­ The Printing Press that printed the first copies daughter of a pioneer was wearing a pink crinoline of the \Vest Australian newspaper was there. W e gown with a sweetheart neckline, tiny puffed s l eev e ~ were able to buy copies of the paper printed in and little flcumces of net cascading down the front June, 1831, which were being taken off as we waited. of the skirt which was held out by a hoop. 1830 One article in this interesting magazine read thus : presented a different style of dress - royal blue Notice is h er eby given that the new General Quarter velvet, fitted bodice, with a n arrow skirt not h eld Session of the P eace, for the Colony of W estern by a hoop. Gowns of royal blue, yellow, irrev and Australia will be holden at Fremantle on Friday, green, were ~ hown with matching handbags. the first day of July, Monday next, at nine of the parasols, hats and bonnets. And so on, throughout clock in the forenoon. Dated the 7th June, 1831. the changing decades. I think the loveliest section was the one that The Bussell ColJ ection from Busselton was most took up a whole wall, and was furnish ed with interesting. The girls of the Bussell family had been pieces of furniture and dummies dressed in the noted for their tiny 18-inch waists. One evening old-fashioned clothes. There was also a piano, over dress of black velve t, fitted bodice, off shoulder neck­ a hundred years old. line trimmed with coffee coloured lace, the skirt of Many were the inte1·esting souvenirs of the which taper ed at the back to an elegant train - first Bank - ledgers, and many slips , of official still drew glances of admiration despite the clif­ papers. There was even a chart with many of the f erence of the 1955 styles. land-builders' names on it. This was very interest­ "' * ::: ing because of all the familiar names. There were This Historical Exhibition has been successful also the charts proclaiming Stirling, the Governor for us for we have learnt more from what we saw of Western Amtralia. there than from all the history lessons on \V.A. There was one room which gave an idea of in our school life; and that we think was the object Fremantle as it was with the Dutch and English in mind of th o s~ who took us to see it. boats; around the room were cardboard figures JOAN MARKEY, MARGARET RINTOUL, (life-size ones) of soldiers from various periods. JENIFER HEALY, PERPETUA CLANCY, with a note about each one. Ned lands . 30 LORETO SHADES OF YESTERDAY one has been built. \Vate rfalls furthe r up the rive r make it stiJJ pre tl ier. Nearby are found the ruins The p eaceful grounds of Loreto, " Osborne", of a house in which Adam Lindsay Gordon lived . may seem a far cry from the early history of our In early Septembe r boronia and croyea bloom. State. They are, in fact, closely related to the Boronia is found in swamp ground. There are d if­ discovery of \Vcste rn Australia. fe rent shades of horonia, hrown, black , vellow and In the year 1497, Vasco Da Gama rounded the pink. Croyea grows in Karri country a·nd usu ally Cape of Good Hope. ln doing so, h e open ed the grows better after bnshfires. It is a white flo wer route to the rich Eas t lndies, and eventually brought (sometimes pink ) in the shape of a star. \Ve always about the discove ry of the g1·eat unknown South pick boronia and c royea for Flower Day each year. Land. MARGARET McCARTER ( 11) , Nearly two hundred years late r, William de Nedlands. Vlaming, in the "Geelvink" and two other vessels anchored off a large island (to-day caJJ ed Rottnest ). On 5th January, 1697, Vlaming, with eighty-six ROAST LIZARD well-armed men , landed on the beach near the During the May h olidays, m y siste r Julie an

THE HUNTER RIVER VALLEY

A.-PROSPERITY. B.-ADVERSITY: FLOODS. [n 1797 a p arty of convicts escaped from The worsl Hoods eve r recorded in 1he history Sydney and we nt northwards. Lie utenant John of New South \Vales swe pt savagely across th~ Sh o rtla nd was detail ed to go in search of the m. country in mid-Fe bruary this year. The catastrophe Sailin g northwa rds, he came upon the entrance to and the tre m endous damage they caused are a la rge harbour, into which flowed a fine river. unimaginable to those who have not expe rie nced He la nded a t the m outh of this rive r, on a peculiar the violence and tragedy they carry with the m. outc rop of rock now known as Nobby's. The re his Inexperie nced people have the idea 1hat flood m en made a mom c n t ous d iscoven ' - coa I. The water s are calm an

THE MACQUARIE IN FLOOD

A.-NARROMINE. B.-WARREN. On the Lanks of the Macquarie Rive r a bout What a nightmare the p eople of our little three hundred miles north-w e~ t of Sydney is situated home town we nt through e arly in March of this the rapidly expanding town of Narromine. The year! Many W este rn towns in New South Wale,. flood wate rs of 1950 also swept down this river ; but. reef'ive d .i terrible visitation of d estruction ; but with the aid of hi gh sand-Lank lcveeR, the town we arc 111ostl v concerned with \Va rrc n. This tow11. was protected. But this year the dark, turbule nt on the ed ge ~f the W este rn slopes, has a populat ion waters de fi e r! the barrie rs and n1 slwd unch eck ed np of about five thousa nd. Never be f'orl' in its history the main thornu ghfarc. had the sm·ging w a ters broke n the levee banks. The Seein g the plight these inha bitants we re in, rive r, whic h is the Macquarie, rose rapidly withi11 friends from all over the tow11 rush e d to the ir aid. a few days. While the m en worke d unceas ing ly on It was h er e that Nature played an impish trick: the le vees, filling sand lrngs, the wornrnfolk worked the river again hrokc, aLoul half a mile back , and on canteen .- provi1ling tlw worke rs wi th food and the silty waters floode d the vacant home;; of the drink. charity workers. The wate rs spread until most of A t e leven o'clo1·k on Sunday m orning som e of the town was cove re d. The hospital at the further­ thesf' ladies Wf're on their wav to the levees w ith most point from the river was surrounded b y foo1l, whe n sornl' hody gave the lf' rrify ing alarm swirling wa te r which faile d to pe n etrate insirle. that they had been defeated Ly the muddy, rush ing Thus Narron1i nP aga in Lceanw the swamp tha t it water. The wa tn· poured through ~e veral openings. wa s in the nine teenth cPnlury. and, within half a 11 h o ur, the town wa ,; under thn·e A few miles out of town i" a small creek known feet of wate r. ln so m e parts it wa,; six feet d eep . as the Backwate r Canal. Jts capac it y for water lt was rushing i11 the doors and tumbling o ut tlw at any time is not ve ry largP, hut with the great windows of the Housing Commi;;s ion homes in one volume of flood waler it wrought untold damage. street. Families were evacu ated to the two-storey Across it span the bridges 011 the main P eak Hill buildincr0 s in lhe main street. and to the Convent and Bogan Roads and the important Narromine­ Scl100l, w hil'h is built abo ut three and a h alf feel Parkes railway line . This railwav line was abso­ from the ground. .Ln so 111 c ca ,-ps 1wople rowc·d lutely destroyl: d. The on-rushing ~ lr ea 1n just lifte d through the ir l10111 e>" . it up and c urled it like a corkscrPw, splittin ii; the sturdy slee pe rs into 111atch-sticks. The p eople Ji v ing away fro111 the town wl're nol as hadh· affecte d , but many land-own cn: lost AH during the floods and y in the Ja ,- 1 frw m onth s building lasting l cvl' c ·~ the springs having first to be washerl carpfuJl y. The arournl Warre n. These should re allv makf' n :' ,afe carpe ts and 111at s had to he removed and wash ed in the future; for thf'y are six feet high a1ul al1011t thorou ghly rn that they wer e free from all the four ya n] ,- wide acros" the top. fetid mud; all c rock e r y and cutle ry harl to go \Vhat one e a11 do whe n one is lorcPd to do it! through the same process, whilf' wall-pape r had to A woman who li ved in the badly fioorl ed an'a had be r emoved and the walls snnhbe d and re-papered a rlrcarl o f snakes. But whe n the water fir ~ t brokf· or painted. D c teq.!C lll had lo he applied all ovf'r through I h e levees I hi ~ panic-stricken wom an, to the gardens. get to her Hood ed home, fought he r way throul,!h In these ways. arrd various o the rs, tilt' flo od s of the swifth' fl owin g water~ .. among man\· walPr 1955 werf' a grc a I rceor

L3 LORETO

QUEENSLAND SCENES A.-MOUNT ISA AND ITS URANIUM. farming a rea is the Brisbane River, which enables Uranium ! \Vhat. a sensation that one word irrigati on for crops in the Queensland they made their way into the heart of tide and the result would be

ABORIGINES IN THE NORTHERN PORTLAND'S NEW HARBOUR TERRITORY (Australia) ln recent years, Portlan. abroad, heard much criticism berth. The harbour is to hf' partially en closed of Australia's treatment of the natives. with two breakwater s. The first, already begun. The criticism was justified when applied to the runs due north from Batter y Point for over fo ur pre-war and immediately post-war periods. Northern thousand fee t. Huge rocks . are brought in from T erritory aborigines were then employed on cattle Cape Grant. The quarry is right on the edge of tlw stations for 5/ - a week. The food was a hunk of cliff. Stone is blasted out with d yn amite an d deton­ beef or damper, and what was saved from the scraps ators and shovelled up by a po\\;erful mach ine into from the manager's table ; and the accommodation the waiting Eclids (large tip-trucks). It is then was, very often, the nearest sharl v tree. Little was carried along the n ewly-made road Lo L ady Bay. done to care for the ir h ealth. · H e re thP trucks d escend to the sea-level down a Since then the re has been a gradual improve­ road cut into the side of the cliff. On reaching tlw ment in their treatment, particularly during the breakwate r at Battery Point the load is tip ped last three or four years. The problem s now being into the sea. All day a continuous stream of these tackled are :- Improving their health, their employ­ trucks bring loads of stone or earth and alread ,. ment conditions and opportunities ; their standard a large area has been reclaimed. When the form <;­ of Jiving ; their education ; the acceptance by the t ion is completed, the work will be concrf'ted. Two white population. oil-berths will be provided for tanker s an d there One or two years ago, the H ealth Department will be several wharves for cargo steamers. recommended that full health survevs of the It is little more than a century since the H enty,­ natives should be carried out, not only t~ avoid the settled at Portland and devoted themselves io possible extinction of natives in the T erritory, but farming and sheep-raising in addition to their to prevent the danger of spreading native diseases whaling activities. With what interest would the,· to the ever-growing white population. This policy watch the rapid development of " P o rtland Ba/· was carried out and the surveys are nearly finish ed. in r ecent years and how heartily would th ~Y Doctors are making monthly routine ch ecks by approve of this Harbour Sch eme. . . aerial ambulance, of all natives and whites in the JOYCE KNIGHT (14 Years) . Territory's outback. Dental treatment is free and P ortland. dentists also make regular vi sits to the outback to treat whites and natives. Before the whites intervened in the ir lives, the aborigines lived a comple tely nomadic existence, but, when the white man came, they were crowded THE HOLY SOULS into missions and settlements and around cattle stations. The natives were not forced into settle­ The Juniors were having vegeta ble I rouble. ments; they were drawn there because they liked After many days of coaxing and urging, the little the easy life and the issue of such commod.ities as ones had just become initiated into the h eroic act tea, flour, sugar and tobacco. They became increas­ of offering them up for the H oly Souls. T hcrt> wa,; ingly dep endent on the whites, and to-day they eat, a lull in the chatter at dinner time : sleep and live in small tin shanties, six or seven ·'Oh!" said one of the h ero ines, " Wha t would the feet high. Holy Souls do witho ut v ege t a bl e~?" On the whole, tlwy are a h a ppy-go-lucky race. When young, they arc quil t> clever in school, but * * * * as a gene ral rule, leave al an early age. There i ~ PUFFING BILLY an occasional one like Namatjira, the great artist. Children going home by train which stop1wcl who shows talent amounting to genius. frequently on a stee p incline. KERRY SHIELS (Fourth Year), l st Girl: "I don"t think we' ll ever get honw." Kirribilli. 2nd Girl : '·No. tlw poor driver mu ~ t lw puffed: · 35 LORETO CONVENT, DAWSON STREET, BALLARAT, VIC.

PREFECTS Left : E . Davies, P. Quinlan, P. Brown, E . Taffe (Head}.

SENIOR SCHOOL Back Row : E. Davies, C. Grace, E. Cunningham, N. Don· nelly, A. Sutherland, M. Meeny, E . Taffe, A. Davison, M. Elliott, P . Brown. Fourth Row : G. Nicholson, D . Muller, H. Salter, P . Drew, N . Sherril, S. Nicholson, M. Martino, C. Kennedy, N. Hood. Third Row : B. Matthews, L. Gemmola, F. McLeod, E. Elliott, B . Goodwin, M. Bergin, V . Kincade, A. Davies, J. Kerrins, A. Re. Second Row: M. Taffe, M. Reidy, K . Hayes, A. Bradley, P. Quinlan. M. Callaghan, N. Ruizrok, C. Tuddenham, J. McArdle, M. Fitzpatrick. Front Row: R. Higgins, M. Cooke, N. Sheehan, D. Keogh, R. Pittard, M. Hynes, C. Prout, M. Savenije, M. Barry, B . N ajim, T . Tuppen.

TENNIS GROUP Back (Left to Right) : P. Brown (Ballarat Schoolgirl Champion 1954-55), E. Davies, N. Donnelly, C. Grace, A. Sutherland. Front : M. Ber2'.in, P . Quinlan, M . Cooke.

36 LORETO

LORETO CONVENT, DAWSON STREET, BALLARAT, VIC.

MIDDLE SCHOOL (Top) Back Row : M. Mo rrison, F. Callaghan, M. Tuppen, V. Bog ner, T . J a nsen, K . Hobby, C. Callag h an, D. Paddle, M. Darsy, U. Raine. F ourth Row: D. Taylor, C. Ruiz, D. D obbie, M . Cooper, L. Hay, D. Gemmola, J . Diamond, J . M orrison, J. Bryant, S. H oward, J. Braybrook. Third Row: G. W ard, K . Coughlan, M . Scott, B . Cham, K. Strachan, H . B rya ns, S. O'Neil. F . Kincade, E . Kennedy, C. Strachan. R. Adamsons, B. Porter. Second Row : F . Call ag ha n, M . Sheehan. P . W eb ster , M . Donovan. P . Webster. R . Wilsen, J . Findlay, F . Cavarro. M . D o novan . B. Adamsons, C. Dugga n, C. W erts. Front Row: L. Rai ne, M. Quinlan, F . Cook, R. Birch. D . Skinner, M. Borgiorno, S . Morris. S . Upinali s. J. W olschots. P . Najim. M. H ea ly, M. Diamond. M . Ni chols, M . P ittard. Absen t : M . Cooke. I. Upinalis. JUNIOR SCHOOL Back Row: M . Dobson, J. Pontefract, G. Torpy. P . Rngg, G . Strach an, L. Clarke. K. Daviscn, A. Scott. E. Brya nt. R. Najim. J . T aylor, P. Spring, D. Hickey. Fifth Row: D. M c Culloch, P. W oodford, G. Casey. S. Strachan, N. Gavin, M. Gurrie, M. Porter. M . W ebster, D. Gallagher, M . K earney. M . Powell , M. W a rd, D . N ajim, M . Green. F ourth Row: T . Calnin, M . Lillis, C. W ard, A. Bongiorno, H . Harman, M . Duffy. M . Bedford, M . Hughes, J . Lynch, F . J ones. C. Prunty, R. Williams, E . Condon, D. D'Arcy, G. D'Arcy, M . Stahl. Third Row : P. Cook, L. M c Namar a, C. H ay, K. Lorensini, A. Hulet t. G. M uir, J. O 'Loug hlin. G. Lorensini, G. Brooks, S. Ni cholls. C. C.;llahan, C. J am es. A. Rice, R. O 'Neill, P . Harman. Second Row : P. Tobin, P. Bon g iorno. P. O ' Donnell, C. Tobin, B . O ' L ou11:hlin, P. D'Arcy. M . Pitzen. T . Cann. B. Schippes. D. Pell, R. Scott, B . Duffy . A. W oodford, P . Hanrahan, K . Skinner, .T . P owell. Front Row: G. Downes, M . Ratcliffe. H. Brooks, M. Panarell o. C. B ir ch, M. T orµ v, D . Mc D ermott. G. Dan iels . 37 LORETO Springs of Happiness HOME AT LAST " You have not chosen Me but I have chosen you." ships and, above all, serious work and mental I, the convert, am aware of the truth of these stimulus. A course of Kantian philosophy left me words. If I am to tell the story of m y conversion. feeling that there must be something far more per­ I must go back to m y ear1 y childhood, where the fect. Other German philosophers were utterly founda ti ons of m y own personality were laid, though depressing, even the learned and egregious Spen gler. the actual summons to embrace the Faith did not Goethe, the exception, opened the door to dw com e until m y seventeenth yea r. very possibilities I sought, not only through his own beautiful poetry and philosophy, but h ec au ~c GROUNDING IN SACRED SCRIPTURE h e left with me the feeling that h e, too, had faih·d As a young child in a famil y of adults, I wa ~ to find what h e yearned fo1·, though h e knew that o ld-fashioned and fond of speculation. The mystery it was there. "Stay awhile; thou art so fair! " Hi ~ of m y own ego was paramount and yet subject to last words were " more light" . the all-enveloping Presence of God, Author of m y English literature impressed me only with a small being and yet apart, infinite and everlasting. great love of Shakespeare and many of the l yrie Back, hack I would go, trying to visualise the poe ts, and an aesthetic a ppreciation of the langu age Eternal and then, in the limits of thought, the frus­ itself. In French literature, I found a medium in tration of human power. Nothing short of Truth which I could work tire1ess]y. There was so much itself could ever satisfy such a curiosity. ground to cover , so much .to stimulate the mind Later I was to learn how Au gustine had solved and a c1assic beauty and purity of form in the lhc same problem . In the year s that followed. a language, which never fai)s to interest and enthrall real thirst for knowledge kept me from dwelling me. 100 c losely on the sadder aspects of life. Music, FRENCH AND SPANISH poetry, literature and history and later moder11 I had always been !rained Lo reg a rd 1lw languages and fin e art filled m y mind with interest CaLholic Church as the enem y of true Christianity, and hard work. an oppressor of moral liberty, a vast and c ffi cie 111 I h ad been baptised an A nglican and attended 01·ganisa tion, surviving from medieval m achiavel­ regularly at Church services and Sunday-school, Jianism and still conslraining the minds of he r fin ally teaching th ere from the age of fourteen, unfortunate adherents. Spiritually, sh e was to me and singing twice a day on Sundays in the choir. a. dark, formless ~ hap e, the ver y ground of oppo~i­ My mothe r gave m e an excellent working knowledgP t10n and yet - and yet - I was curious, too. of the Bible, particularly of the New T estament and The historic sense of which I spoke is a pro­ the Psalm s, interpre ted along individualistic lines jection of mind and im agination into the past, and I think that all the time I was absorbing this combining p eople of aJl races, periods and cultures knowledge, I was subconsciously try ing to reconcile into one vast continuous and united panorama, in theory with logical research and I knew there was which the Middle Ages we re at that time gradu,ally a huge discrepancy somewhere. supplanting the ancient world in m y intetest. \Vestern Europe became m y sp ecial study, and in FAILURE OF GERMAN PHILOSOPHY French literature from the origins to the modern I had always a kPen sense of historic values day, I found m y joy. \ and had stored up treasures from most of the old But other voices were callin!l; now, voices I civilisations, especially the Golden Age of GreecP, h ad never h eard before, from far down the Wes tern which gave me some basis for comparison and the P eninsula. Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint John of promise of a fuller and more logical spiritual the Cross, and Fray Luis de Leon roused my heart existence, one which would harmonise with the and mind to a greater fervour than the death of experiment of d aily life. By the age of seventeen, Roland at Roneesvalles. The first breath of Catholic though outwardly a bright and happy girl, I was love and d evotion stirred in m e when I read the m entally uneasy and walked often on the brink of Spanish sonnet, "No me mueve, mi 'Dios, para terrifying uncertainty. querertc." I sensed the imperi ous, irresistible Then in 1930 U niversitv life impacted with its personality of the great Saint Teresa as she po inted hopes and disillusionments·, bringing new friend- the way lo the "Seven Mansions of the Soul", with

THE AUTHOR - From a 'practising' Anglican, Mrs. John Dunphy was led to the Church largely through University studies, mainly philosophy, French language and an acquaintance with the Spanish mystics. She has found spiritual strength and so·lace in the rearing of a Catholic family. The eldest child, Jocelyn, is a Novice in Mary's Mount, Ballarat. 38 LORETO so much grace, such supe rhuman love and convic­ tion. The first chord h ad bee n ~ truck. And now the incarnate figure of Our Lorri began to emerge more c learly from the penumbra of my thoughts, as I began Lo reali se that it wa;: a personal Jove of J esus C hrist whic h was requirer! for the practice of the C hristi an life. How extra­ ordinarily true this is ! Having signified rlimly that I desired lo Jove Him, l wa ~ given the o pportunit~ · and the grace to become a mrmhrr of His Mystica l Body. "Ask a nrl you ~ hall reeeive'·. " [f any man love Me, I anrl the Fathe r will come lo him'". a nd H e makes no rules about the qualit y of our love. just that it. be si nee re. Unknown to m<', thf' F re nc h professor " had been taking Catholic inst m e t ion and she aske rl m e if I were a Catho lic, as m y tut o rial ~ reflected a great interest in the doctrine. We decided lo ptll" ~ tie the study of French lilf'ra lure on a Catholic anrl philosophical hasis in our private tutorials and for comparison we eve n c on ~ irl e r c d Confucius. Bu' ancestors ! Mav vo11 rf'sl in pf'aee ! l to Francf' in the Ag<" of Faith, raising lwr irrf'al PARENTS' OPPOSITION soaring eathe rlrals to thC' grf'a tc r glor~ · of Gori. poems in stone anrl slaine1l glass, huilt to the lap­ That was A ugust 18. 1930. My mo tllf'r, a larmed ping of hamme r on chisf' I and rhe twang of a at the turn things WC'r e taking, offered m e a Catholi<· Trouve re"s viclle. ca techism given her lo ng ago, so that I eottlrl S<" f' r wa;; sturl yi n;r 11111 s i1 · also a ;; well a" 111~ · reliµion. • Dr. Margaret Clarke. a 11d <"Vf' r·,· a ,; 1wet of I hi" Ii bC'r a I ed ll !'a I io 11 ,; h mH•d 39 LORETO me the Church as the custodian of all art and In frequent approach to the Sacraments and in culture as well as the Pillar and Ground of Truth. the R eal Presence, in constant reading of the ew All philosophy was now contained for me in Divine Testament (particularly the four Gospels and Saint R evelation, and I began to inherit riches from the Paul), and in the lives and writings of the Saints Church"s great storehouse of grace, as I began to and Doctors of the Church ever y we ak and striving learn some thing of the lives of the Saints - ~ oul will gain strength and inspiration. Augustine of Hippo, Bernard of Clairvaux, Thomar: Each must choose according to his taste and Aquinas, T er esa of Avila, Francis de Sales, Alphon­ temperament, but in these diff.icult d ays, Dom ~ u s Liguori - to name but a few who influenced Marmion, CaryH Houselander and Thomas Mert'ln nw at that time. As the years go on, my only wish are shining lights. Saint Therese summed up all is to learn more fr:om this great inspirational learned doctrine in he r " little way of aban

INTRODUCTION TO THE BIBLE

T h is year we are prorlncin g a Morality Play, AARON ente rs, veste d as a B i ~ h op. and his ~ t aff "Adam'', translate d fro m A ng lo-Norma n h y Fathe r hears fruit a nd n o w e r ~ to symho l ize t he odour of J. W. Doyle, S.J. salvatio n and the w iping awa y of o ur tears at d f'at h Apart from o ur inte rest i11 thf' Play itself a nd - he is a t ype o f Christ, the G rea t High Priest. the excitement of acting it, we h ave made a very "Out of my stock is such a shoot to spring interesting discovery : llw Bihl<' h as come to life As w ill do Satan ill for us. Ad a m a nd Eve a r <' re al peo ple a nd we arc * * * * not only acting their p a rts. we art' A d a m a nd Eve. This saving Fruit s ha ll draw Adam from We love God for Hi;; iroodnc;;;s a nd for a ll He h a;;; prison ." given to us. B ut the D<'v il is real. too. a nd this Play, b y portraying his subtle te mpting of Adam The young pro phe t. DA V I D. tllf'11 app1·ars. and Eve, makes us rea li ze m ore fully the power ro hed a nrl crowne d as a king. Hf' t <" ll,. 11 ,.: of the good· of Satan over man. rf they found it impossihlf' ncss o f Gori . to resist te n1 p tation , how <"a n we rf' sist ? As Eve ~ ay s : "God w ill be bountiful to us: OUI· land will y ield w heat, "My misdeed, And of that wheat's flour My great mischance The Bread that's to save the sons of Eve - Our seed will dearly pay for it." SOLOJ\ION e nters. a lso dressed as a kinir. Hl' B u t the re is a no te of ho pe: !'Ollde mns the J ews for t llf'ir wickPdncss. lle say,: "And yet is my hope in God: 1hat God w ill hav<' m e n ·v 0 11 tlw just and forel<"il, For this sin w ill there be reconciliation 1111· d Pall1 o f Christ o n tlw Cross : God w ill give us back His grace . "T hey tha t are Masters of the Law. His presence, too . . . In bad faith they will kill him: And by His power will draw us out of Hell." Against justice, B ut. in the mcant im r t lw "tnq.(gl<' hctw<" e n Good Against right, and Evil is e nacte d d ra 111 aticallv lw Cain a nd Alw l. T hey will set him like a thief upon a cross. and W C ar<' ho th in turn. \V~ a;T generous w ith Abel, desiring to g ive God o f o u r hest. hut selfis h * * * * But God will have mercy on poor Adam with Cain, d esi ring to kf'<' P the IJf'st f®r o tirselves. And deliver him from sin." and so tl1c st ruggle goes on . \'\fe src tllf' 1·o n sc q u e n e<'~ of the sin o f A d a m a nd Eve in the mun l<'r of Ahc l HALAAM is an o lrl m an "eated 011 an a~s: by hir. hrothc r, Cain. B ut yet again there is a n o te "Out of Israel is Christ to come, of hope . . . ft is sounded down th ro ugh the Hl:(t'" A bright star between the Fall and the Red e mptio n by the Bringing light to all." Prophe ts. And now the P la y introduces a p rocession Nrxl, a grave and d ign ifie d yoUlll:( 111a11 1·a llf'd of Proph ets. How sh adowy h ave these fi gures heen DANl EL for ete lls the coming of Christ and pl ea d ~ before, and now how real ! w ith tlw .J ews: ABR AHAM is the fi rst to appear. He is a n o ld " It is Christ that 'Holy' means man w ith a lo ng he a rd anrl nowing rolw s. H e rela te< Through Him shall the faithful all have li fe. the story of the ;;;a(' rifie<' of his so n fsaa1· an d God·s Agains t Him will your race make war." reward for his o bedience: H A B ACUC, a n o ld m a n. rl eserihf':' tlw liirlh of "There sh all come for me Chri:' t 111 a m a n ger : Such an Heir as w ill conquer a ll His foes, So strong He'll be and potent." "In a cradle cut out of hard stone Shepherds shall find Him, * * * * Where cattle eat corn. By Him s hall all the world be saved. Then to Kings H e'll s how H imself." And Adam set free from pa in, Through Him a blessing for men of every .J E R E MlAS 1hen appears a nd arld res,.:e,.: 1lw nation." lrihe o f Juda. He g ivrs the m good advi1·c ahoul ho" · to li vP : .\1 0SES is next. a ,.: ta fT in h i:' r il:(hl h a nd a nd lhc T ables of the Law in hi ,- lef t. "Let your minds be set upon good. And evil have no place therein. "From a mon gst our brethren. Do that Out of the Law, And God w ill come God shall raise up a man. And d well a mong you And H e a Prophet - The Son of God, * * * * The Glorious One Him you s hould believe more than me." Come down to earth to you -

· ~ l LORETO

The Lord of Heaven with you JESUS MEETS HIS MOTHER ON THE Like a mortal man. Adam He shall draw from bondage, WAY TO CALVARY In ransom His own Body give." He came to her F inally I SAIAS, the greatest of the literary N ot as He came at N azareth or B ethlehem; prophe ts, a ppears : He ca.me to her - "From his stock will J esse make a sh ool come Salus l nfirmorum - forth, With His Flesh ha11 gi11g off Him. Bearing a fl ower worthy of great honour." Once He had torn His robe, sh<> remembered , As n boy in Nazcireth, He is c hallen ged in hi ~ sp eech b y a J ew. I saia c. On n nail in the w orkshop of ]usl'ph. te ll s him he is ~ i f' k with wick edness and contimH'S He came to her now . his prophecy: From the worl1:shop of the u:orld's n •demption, "Behold And H e rame to her for I he heali11 g of h<'r love and The Vi rgin shall conceive in her womb faith in Him, And bear a Son In the Criminal stciggering under th<' Cross of Whose name will be Emmanuel. execution Near is the time Whom I he mob hated It is not far off. ( Th<> y lw.d to give Him police protection) ; H <' came to her * * * * He Who was God, The F ruit of Life she will bear, He came to her, her Son ; J esus, Our Saviour, This w as her Son. And she w ill dr aw Adam from his great grief You would think she 1.cou.ld hat1> us for this, And set him back in P ar adise." Or at least despis<' us for our cou;-urd's part In shouting w.ith I.he mob. It can he seen t hat the whole period be tween But she saw Jesus the creati on of the worl

PRAYER BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS THE CIBORIUM (Composed by a 11U'mber of Y.C.S. ) (Before Holy Communion) Dear Lord, the holidays will he h e re in a few Cold cup! days' time. They will be a welcome break, as I am Wrought to beauty b y unheeding hand; getting rathe r tired of school. Besides, it's such a Counts thy worth lon g time since I've seen all the family. No doubt In cold coin who cannot understand. you know what it's like, Loo, Lord, to be homesick , as you must have missed Mary and Joseph a great deal when you we re teaching away from home. Warm nest! Whence Heaven 's Pelican will soon take wmgs, I want to have fun these holidays, Lord, and Cradling Love, I know you want m e to have fun, too. But le t m e think, while I'm having m y fun, that I can offer it Thou harbourest ine ffable things ! all up to You. It seem s queer to think that I can please you just as much , Lord, b y offering up my Cold h e art: fun to You, as b y offering up m y schoolwork, which Flame ! craving Eden s yet to come. is su ch a cross to be ar. Ple ase, Lord, watch over Dare Thy flight m e during the holidays - keep m e from danger of Winged love, h eart's warmth will fold bo th bod y a nd soul. (An

MOMENTS OF LIGHT

1.-JOY. 2.-SORROW. T he evening cam!' in ver y clear and bright with Sh e h ad heard that thc r C' was to he a no the r a slight breeze hlowing across the hills to thf' ]ittk of those c ruc ifix ions. Veronica was a lady in even· village where Pete r was pre p a ring the evening mea l wa~' anrl sh e d id no t like to jo in the crowd wh en for John and hirrnw lf. it followed a condemned m a n to his rl eath . To-day·s victim was a Galilean. They calle r! Him, J esus. John 11·as \'Ollll gcr than Pr tf' r and thus full or H earing the no ise of tllf' multitude, Veronica li fe and fr rvour at tlw heginning of f'ac h ne w da~ ' · went lo in vesti ga te. Looking rl own the narrow Although he w a~ fi vf' feet nirw. h e sf'e mc rl a nwrc street :' he sa w tlw \'Ia n. Tho ugh voung in Yf'ars. b o ~ · bes ide P f' te r the s ix fre t two. H r, looke r! o ld with p a in. H e lurch NI a lo n g, under Peter was whist ling 111 c rrih· a ~ lw ,-c rvcd 0111 a h cav ~ -. woode n

Sa iling l1a t' k. 1111 · wa te r s1•(• 111 c d so peacd'ul Now sh e knew tha t H <' loved he r. Hf' wanter! and calm. The ri sing sun was shining down o n the he r. H e kne w he r as sh C' wa nt e r! to k now him. A t wa ter. ,·enrlin µ: its golrl f' n ravs ac ross tlw lak e as tha t sa m e ho ur Veroni ca fo und fa ith. far as the eye t'On ld Sf'f' . Thi' Man :'l ood rn o ti o 11 · A NNETTE McSWINEY (15) . less with Hi ~ fa ir hair lilow i11 g i11 tlw gl'ntlP hn·cz<'. Mar y's Mount. Thi' hirrls were ~ till eallin!! and fl v i11 ir in the •kl-.

W he n the boat rt' adwd th<' ~ hor c .J ohn ~a id to SILENCE P e ter: '".It i.• the Lo rd ... At this, P r· tc r fpfl clo wn \Vaters of silence, fl ood my th irsting soul! on his knees i11 th C' hoal and ado re d the Strange r. Engulf with in thy depths each idle word, J esus said to him : "'S i111 0 11 . fro m this rl a ~' fo r ward . That truth and charity may fl ourish there, vou shall catch 111 e n.'· And midst thy flow God's Voice alone be heard.

P ete r a nd .John relnrrlf'd to lhP town and thi ~ M.D., was the 111 o rni11 :.r o r th1 · Ill ' \\' dav of tlw world . Normanhurst. LO RE lO

This entry was by a girl of my own age. Simple, yet deep in religious fervour, it was entitled "Day of Prayer" . It depicted a Mothe1· and Child kneeling before a Crucifix. Beside it, the other entries of Easter Fairies and Bunnies appeared futile and without meaning. I had not been courageous enough to produce a religious subject for a secular newspaper, hut this changed my attitude. The next Easter I sent in two draw­ in gs, one, a H ead of Christ ; the other a scene afte r the Resurrection. H owever, they arrived too Jate, but Possum sent me a note of thanks and congratulation. Last Christmas, Possum asked me to do a Nativity sce11e for the special edition of the " Mail" publi hed on Christmas Eve. One afternoon was spent in this pen-drawing, but I was not completely satisfi ed with the hair of the Child-Madonna. H owever, the E ditor must have been, as I received two lilac certificates and a postal note for 10/ 6. This E aster, Poss um ask ed for per· mission to use m y " H ead of Christ" which had been too late for the previous year. I told him of m y intention Lo do something better. H e agreed. I wanted to draw a stained-glass window of the Crucifix ion. I set lo work, hut after a bout an hour I abandoned the idea of the stained· glass window. It wouldn' t work. I began to be depressed. I made a fresh start and succeeded. THE STORY OF THIS PICTURE I t wasn't exactly what I wanted, but it would have T his is no account of the Crucifixion. That story to do. My Art T eacher suggested that I include the has been told too beautifully and succintly to r e qui r~ map of A ustralia to make the drawing more personal repetition : and symbolic of the fact that Christ is dying for the "Now th e r ~ stood by the Cross of J esus, H is world of to-day as well as for that of nearly two Mother". thousa nd years ago. I also hoped tha t someone I am merely telling how I came to draw this might be influenced by thi drawing as I h ad b een picture. I n First Year I began to love horses and by the " Day of Prayer". wanted to draw th em. W ith the h elp of cuttings A few days after the publication of m y Cruci­ from the racing page of the p a per, I studied the fi xion I received two lovely le tters of congra tula tion. build of h orses. Possum's P age for Children in th e One was from the children in Grade IV of a public Sunday Mail interested me. I filled in an entry form primary school, thanking m e for drawing it and ancl duly received a Membership Card. Immediately, saying that they had cut out the picture and put it I sen t in a head of a horse, m y first, and a h ead of in their social studie book. The other note was a girl. Neither of these were printed hut I won from a non-Catholic who came to Australia from two Blue Certificates. E ngland a year ago. H e also is interested in A rt , Later, on the same day as the Marian Proces­ particularly in religion art. sion in Adelaide, m y first picture was p r inted. Draw­ I am very grateful to m y Teach er for h er h elp, ings by other children were mostly of fairies, so I to Richard King for his inspiration, and to Possum sent in a fairy and r eceived m y first lilac certificate. for giving me the block of this drawing for the In th e Easter of 1953, the winning entry of a Loreto Magazine. " Mail" Competition for which I had entered, was a BEVERLEY DOBSON (16 ), religious subject and very appropriate to th e season. Marryatville. 44 LORETO CONVENT, PORTLAND, VICTORIA

Back Row : Maureen Lyons, Margaret Hudson, Helen Uebergang, Eileen Gurry, Margaret Gash, L ois Mosing, Maureen Lovell, Nola Uebergang, Frances Toye, Angela Carroll, Carmel Uebergang, Maureen W alsh, Sally Leighton. Fourth Row : Marlene Kempton, Margaret Gurry, Anne Turnbull, Lorraine Peacock, Sandra Green, Maureen Buchan, M argaret Cummins, Barbara Cunningham, Norma Holmes, Margaret Holmes, Glenise Lamb, Frances Gash, Lynette Martin. Third Row: Dell as P reece, Dorothy Lyons, Leslie Hennesey, Muriel Boyer, Kathleen C!i fford, Gale Gourlay, Coral Bourke, Josephine Fitzgerald, Joan Gurry, Kathleen Cordy, Theresa Canavan, Joan Lyons, Judith Alwood. Second Row : Sally Blake, Janice Martin, Therese Bostock, Wendy Wilson, Pauline Fenton, Antoinette Bennett, Mary O 'Halloran, Elizabeth M cCabe, Ann Carden, Helen Clarke, Deanna Fredericks, Ann-M arie O 'Brien, Helen Breen, Ann Mating, Jennifer Dean, Judith Gurry, Jan Woolcock, Helen Gash, Meredith King, Shirley Galvin, Georgia Sutton, Margot M cCabe. First Row: Carol Martin, Margaret Hallam, L eslie Parker, Ma rgarete H adinich, Beverley Campbetl, Vicky Fredericks, Glenda Price, Helen McNair, Margot Tierney, Sharon Nash. Absent: Joyce Knight, Dia na Stuchbury, Wendy Baker, Julie Preece, Luella Dean. LORETO CONVENT, KIRRIBILLI, N.S.W.

PREFECTS Back Row : J. Orchard, E. Byrne, A. Hegerty, H . Kenny, M. McM;llan, A. Grant. Centre: B. Ryan, B. Eagles.

LEAVING & 4th YEAR CLASSES Back Row: Y. Lamerand, G. Crampton, L . Bergelin, J. Ryan, J. Ford, P. Roche, J. Casey, J. Simpson, J. Comrie-Thomson, S. Eather, C. Smiles, j . Cunningham, S. Collins. 2nd Row: P. Barlow, K. Nevill, T. Barrett, E. Keane, D. Preston, A. Pullen, K . Shiels, C. Hulls, G. McEvoy, K. Collin§, M. Dwyer, P. Clarke, L. Peterson, M. Su11i van, V. Bradley, F. Livermore, G Stewart, Ng Siok Lay, J. Fraser, M. Monahan. Front Row: B. Ryan, B. Eagles, E. Byrne, S. Donegan, M. Mc Millan, H . Kenny, A. Hegerty, H. Byfield C. Creagh, B. Tay lor, j . Orchard, A. Grant, M. Masters. Abser.t: G. Glaser. LORETO CONVENT, KIRRIBILLI, N.S.W.

INTERMEDIATE Back Row: M. Bond, D . Holahan, H. McGowan, L . Sullivan, F. Burke, E. Purcell, K. H arrison, M. Cav­ a nagh, M. Collingridge, C. Cudmore, R. Lund, G. Ferguson, S. Bellair. 2nd Row : B. Power, L. Dusseldorp, A. Hellmrich, B. Bray, S. Larkin. E. Sheil, V . Greenaway, F . Muller, A. Stubbs, P. Skehan, J. Bergin, M. Egan-Lee.

Front Row: S. Bees ton, C. Morris. M. Strangman, M. Diver. G. Hockey, D. R egan, S. Magney, B. M cEncroe, P . Kelly, M. Heathcote, M. L. W ales. Absent : A. M. Bakewell, R. L each.

2nd YEAR Back Row: G. Hogan. A. McDermott, B. Bain, ] . Balding, M. Prendergast, R. Casey, ]. O ' Gorman, D. Rocht, N. Madden, ] . Hamilton, M. Don­ nelly, ] . Seagoe, S. Burke. 2nd Row : H . Ritchard, L . Brown, K. Tait, M. O 'Donnell, M. Ritchard, M. Tracy, C. M c Donagh, ] . Ruthven, J. Henry, M. Clarke, P. Morath, M. P errottet. T. H endriks. Front Row: S. Clapin, M. Fitzpatrick, S. Chadwick, A. Marshall, M. Bradley, ] . King, B. Power, A. Hockey, P. Sherwood. A. Fitzger ald. Absent: M. Bellhouse. LORETO CONVENT, KIRRIBILLI, N.S.W.

FORM I & ELEMENTARY Back Row: M. W ard, M. Power, M. L ochrin, T . Rolfe, P. Papallo, T . Mazza, C. Allen, A. Kelly, S. Durant, D. Rapei, A. Loughland, A. M. Dwyer, H. Crampton, G. Demeulemeester, P . Flynn, A. Pellegrino. 2nd Row: N. Byrne, V . Sarks, D. John­ ston, D. Burke, M. McGinty, P. Sid­ away, L. Regan, M. Dennett, C. Mag­ ney, E . Simpson, E. Sullivan, K . Tracy, R. Rowe, G. Hickey, A. Steedman, J. Day. 3rd Row: A. Donnelly, G. McGrath, B. Bateman, T. McCaffrey, C. Inglis, M. Scott, J. Byron, H . Lowery, T . Boland, H . Maguire, M. Nelson, M. O'Hanlon , J. O 'Hanlon, P. Reilly, C. Ehrenburg, H . Devine. Front: E . Bartlett, L . Clapin, B. de Meur, S. Rich, R. Watte!, M. Clarke, S. Armstrong, V. O'Gorman, D. Mc­ Cleery, B. W alsh, M. O'Mara, K . Wilson. Absent : j . O'Neill, M. Honner. v. McEvoy, H . Diver, P. Leonard. D. McMillan.

FIRST YEAR Back Row : J . McColl, E. Sheerin, C. Holt, P . Hardyman, G. Shelton, M. Walsh, C. Davidson, M. Mooney, J. Hardiman, D . McC2ffrey, L . Duncan, K. Barlow, S . Hyde, H . Mornane, J. Giugi. 2nd Row: J . Rowley, R. Bateman, J. Aldi•, M. Durack, M. Laws, A . M. Madden, C. Payne, J. Byrne, J. Moulder. P . Earngey, L. Wongman, P . Prender­ gast. Front Row : G. Leach, M. Bensley, R. HenrJ, V . Sarks, A. M. Johnstone, J . Hind, A. Devine, J . Blair, M. Scholfield, T . Shiels, A. Williams. R. Rowland, H . Smith, R. Barrett.

Absent: C. Burke. C. Hayes. LORETO CONVENT, KIRRIBILLI, N.S.W.

GRADES III & IV (Top). Back Row : G. Sutherla nd, M. 0°Reilly, M . O wen, E . Matthews, C. Flynn, P Scott-Yo ung , C. Cahill, P. H olmes, J. Ford, M . Courtenay, M. Allen. E . Skippen, J. Thomson. Second Row: G. H ellmrich, E . Matthews, C. Maloney. C. Coll ins, E. Buckley, M. Willis, C. Mazza, C. Scott, C. Strong, C. Nagy, D . Hewitson, E. Spies, S. Ca ll en, T. A. Comri e-Thomson, M. Hic key . Third Row : D. Lieutenant, K. Collins, G. Amerio, G. Tracey, A. Hug hes, N . Lo ughland, P . Buckley, A. McClucki e, M. H awke, D. W hitty, F . Tully, E . Pierpo int, S. Stokes, M. Kidman, L . Rich, T . Clarke, S. Holt. Front Row : N. H a rper. A. L eonhard. D . M ag uire, D. Morrow, C. Mc Cleery. Absent: C. F erg uson, J. W a lsh. D . Plasto. TRANSITION, GRADES I & II. Back Row: A. Courtenay, M. Purcell, M . Murphy, M . Burke, B . Holmes, C. Duffield, F . Sida way, J. F ay, S. Skippen, C. Slattery, M . de Fina, M. Jones. L . Galiungi, R. P lasto, K. Dusseldorp. Second Row : C G t•n son. K . Lim erick , M. K ennedy, S. P etter, P . Donnelly, P . Horan, C. Holmes. C. Dusseldorp, J . Kelly, M. M . Flynn. C. M c Do no ug h, K. Traynor, B. Scott. E. Marsden, H. Sidaway. A. H olden, S. Hind, T . Palmer, M . Buckley. C. Lieutenant, B. M c Cluck ie. rhird Row: R. L opes, F. H oare, C. Maclurcan. A. Callig eros, T . 0°R eilly, P . Smith, A. Kidman, S. F ahy. C. Hawkins, H . Slattery, M . Hardima n, J. de Tiha nyi. K. Nagy, C. Kennedy, J. Merkel, P . Bye, A. Ame6o, R. Rubbi. 'ront Row: T . B atem an. P . Cahill, P. Leuin, C. Ball. D. Merkel, C. K oenig, G. M a rton, B. Courten ay, P. L eonard, H . Devine, M . Barlow. W . Dusseldorp, M. Cafarella. J. K ennedy. W . Bye, R. Hawke, C. Nagy. bsent : J. Merkel, K. Sheil , A. M. Punch, A. L . Molo ney. G. Pa rmen t ier. 49

L4 LORETO Scenes I I-lave Loved ST. ETHELREDA'S CHAPEL, HOLBURN, LONDON Mullioned w indow, shaft cmd pillar From. eter11hy H e loved you, T hrob with multicoloured hues; Lonely wanderers through the night! .41c;f ul Monarch, gentle Maiden, You are His : your soul's intention Saint and shepherd, light diffuse. By these signs lov ed Him: His Right. Towering nw nstrance, teeming censer, Quaint escutcheons, tattered raiment, Candle-glint on cloth of gold, Y et they sy mbol thoughts of Thee: Scicramental Christ - veiled Splendour King returned to ancient altars H im W hom eye may not behold. Earth's suprem e R eality. LYND NATHAN, Pitying Mother, spire cidoring, Sydney. Grip of demon, gargoyle, clown, Arch sublime - 0 hecivenward soaring! (From a note that accompanied the poem when Bea.rded pale Christ, nimbus-crown; it was sent to the Editor: " .. . I wrote this after Forms and figures t,hcit through Babel you lent me the booklet on St. Ethelreda's. * It Like a pac k of cards cascade; revived memories: I have often been to Mass there. Yet they tell of Him Whose glory My poem is not, of course, an accurate description Was before the world was made. " I,.N.)

•"St. Ethelreda's and Ely Place", by Linwood makes it a place of inte rest to people from all over Sleigh (London : P aternoster Publications, 1952.) The the world who r espond to ancient beauty. But St. following paragraphs are from the Foreword by Doug­ Ethelrerla's is right up to date as well, spanning las Hyde. We reprint them as we feel that many of the years between the days of that other England our readers would like to visit St. Ethelreda's when and our own as easil y as does the great East window they go to London.-Ed. span the modem glass which now fill s it. Althou gh I am by birth a Sussex man, I spent Its organic growth c ontinm~s, a growth which most of m y boyhood years in the W est Country. was the secret of Gothic, enabling Early English to T he m en of the West Country are jealous for change by easy stages as naturally into decorated the fam e of their churches, and rightly so. For as a boy changes into manhood, outwardly trans­ did n ot the Severn masons work miracles in the formed yet retaining his individuality. For May stone which they made to flow as easily as water? Blakeman's Mother and Child is now as much a And didn't Somerset consecrate the years of h er part of St. Ethelreda's as is even its grey-walled prosperity, in a fashion that would thrill the cen­ crypt. It is part of a living thing. turies, by throwing up great " wool churches" which And that brings m e to what is for me its remain like small Cathedrals in the half-forgotten chiefest charm. Once, after years of struggle anrl hamlets of the Me ndips? re5istance over ever y inch of the way, I knelt before Yet, rl espite the exuberance of the flying but­ a statue in this same St. Ethelreda's and prayed tresses of St. Mary R edcliffe, the magnificently a prayer which , had it not been the turning point proportion ed tower of Wrington which casts its of m y life, might have seem ed almost blasphemous. shadow from one end of the little township to For it took the form of the words of a tawdry dance th e other , and 1 h e west front of W ells which crowds tune : the bi ble story into a few square feet, I have to "O sweet and lovely lady b<' good, admit that for m e the brightest Gothic gem is St. 0 lady be good to m e." Ethelreda"s, Ely Place. The Lady was good, and to-day, inside the gaily T h ose o thers speak mainly of the past, despite coloured modern statue of Our Lady and her Child the few good souls who still worship between their those same words are inscribed , making them a part walls. They are above all else museum pieces, of the ver y fabric of this Gothic gem. Could any works of art from another age, echoes of days convert want more ? with a faith which to-day is not theirs. St. Ethelrerla's, which has see.n the city of But St. E thelrerla's is alive. Like the thousands London change with the centuries, belongs to our of Gothic churches which grow like trees in our own day. It is the city worker's church, the Fleet countryside i t belongs to the Ages with the Faith ; Street journalist's church, the church of the m edical hu t its p rayer-soaked walls belong in this twentieth students who work in great hospitals which owe century to the P eople with the Faith, as well. their own origin Lo the same source as St. Ethel­ T h ere are important features of its architecture rnda's itself, and which still bear the names of saints which ar e unsurpasserl , even in Gothic, and that whom all England once veneraterl. 50 LORETO

MEMORIES OF THE VELD The buck family was a familiar part of my on the wide veld. T hey were away in the morning childhood in South Africa, for venison was a well­ frosts to shoot game, bringing back springbok for known dish in my home; and the horns of spring­ making into biltong. T his is buckmeat cut into bok, e land, impala, kudu and gemsbok as well as strips which is well rubbed with a preparation of buffalo - the worst tempered animal in the world salt and brown sugar and then hung up to dry i11 - d ecorated the walls of entrance hall and dininti: the shade, in this case, of gniat oaks, many of which room. were over two hundred years old. Bihong k eeps During week-ends we roamed over the estate almost indefinitely, and, with keeping, acquires a of Cecil Rhodes at Groote Schuur watching buck d elicious flavour. of various species grazing in the paddocks, and tlw It was in Rhodesia rathe r than in the Union great cal family from m eerkat lo lion and leopard that my brothers looked for bigger game, and the gazing back disdainfully at the gesticulating visitors. results of their shooting was often made into During winter holidays - for winter on the karosses of monkey and jackal skins for the polish ed ve ld is a glorious season with frosty nights and floors of their h omes. But I was satisfi ed to do my

Drawn by Mary Nathan (16 ), Normanhurst .

------mornings followed by days of briJliant sunshine - adventuring by car through the wilder parts, or to we enjoyed the spacious hospitality of Dutch friends journey clown the Zambesi by launch. The alliga­ at Stellenboch 01· Ceres or \Vorceste1·. Life flowed tors lying in the sun along the river bank, chatter· bountifully at these farms where we were waited ing monkeys swinging along an ae rial route and a on by more servants - black and comely - tlrnn vast twenty-feet python curled round the branch I have ever known elsewhere. of an overhanging tree - all these crc:-i tures cured The architectural perfection of these home­ me of any longing I might have had for a more steads, with the ir gables and gracious white-wash ed intimate venture into big game territory. facades and huge many-paned windows, was a fit­ VERA NATHAN. ting setting for the wcll:-proportioned furnitffle Sydney. wher e English Georgian, brought out in sailing ships b y forebears, harmonized with Colonial style [We had the happy thought of asking the artist's made from South African mahogany. . mother for a few memories. As Mrs. Nathan said: But m y brothers had thoughts for other joys "Mary's springboks were the beginning of it and needed no second invitation to join their hosts all."-Ed.]

TEE-ING UP IN THE AUSTRALIAN HISTORY TEST JUST A PLAIN TALE Then he turned his steps to the Golf of Captain T est on the nse of its and it's. Example: The dog wags it s tail. Terrier. (Oh, no, he was on his way to the Gulf of Explanation: The dog owns his tail and does Carpentaria. ) not need an apostrophe. 51 LORETO

VIGNETTES OF LIFE IN CHIN A The main religion of the Chinese is Con­ fucianism. In each town can b e found many On the 28th November, 1949, our family left temples, the interiors of which are adorned with China, for good, on the S.S. Eastern. I was ten the figures of gods and goddesses. In every pagan yea1·s old and had sp ent most of that decade in home, joss-sticks are burnt each evening to honour China. \V e were ve ry happy there, so it was a the god or goddess invoked by that household. memorable occasion when we packed ou1· belongings China is a Janel of ancient culture. Her people and set sail for this "Sunny South Land." l often are clever and friendly. It seems a long time since think of the life we led the re and of its people. we said farewell to Chinese shores. Since then we Although it is probably greatly changed now, I h ave started a new life in a new country, but I shall som e times imagine tha t I am back in our old home never forget my former home, China. or walking along a Chinese street. l still retain a very vivid picture in my mind of the latter , so 1 SALLY LEIGHTON (15 Years), shall tell you about it. Portland. l am walking a long a narrow street 1n the Chinese sector of Tientsin, Nonh China. The shops A GIRL GUIDE AND HER CAMERA on e ither side of the street are small and very close together. l can hear the cries of the various hawkers Last September, om· Guide Captain, Miss Kerr, as they walk up and down, displaying their goods took our company on a camping holiday to Bridge­ on large trays which are hung round their neck s water for a week. Bridgewater is twelve miles from by leath er straps. Some carry their wares in two Portland. Unlike our town, which is situated on a round baskets, one al each end of a bamboo pole, sheltered bay, Bridgewater is on the Southern which is balanced across their shoulders. The Ocean, exposed to fierce gales and huge seas. R ealiz­ travelling salesm en include the sweet and cake man, ing the photographic possibilities of the place, we the haberdash ery man, the pieman, the barber, the all went well equipped with cameras and extra knife-sharpener and the chiropodist. These hawkers films. go from house to h ouse and from street to street, To our d elight, we found that our camping proclaiming the ir wares in loud voices for all to site was beside an empty house, n estling at the h ear. In addition, they carry small wooden or metal bottom of som e high hills. \Ve hiked to the top instruments. Each plays a different tune, according of the highest hill and took some good maps of the to his trade. camp and its 8urroundings. Some o.f us, wh~ w?nt On the sweet and cake hawker's tray are buns for water, photographed a group o{ cows drmkmg made of rice-flom· with dates or candied fruits in from a trough , an old windmill forming the back­ them. On Moon F estiva ls, these cak es have a round groun

By the Cross on the hillside she watches The last lonely hour with her Son And the na ils fastening deep in His Hands and her heart - Leave the sorrowing Mother a lone.

As a star li ghts the wings of the morning Dispelling the shadows of night Mary, guide the young feet that are stumbling Let your love be our piloting li ght. Port Victor is one of South Australia's most beautiful Where you are, there can never be darkness, holiday places. \Vaves, often over one hundred feet But laughter - and co urage to fight. high, break against the huge granite rocks of the island in the foreg·rouncl and against the cliff in the background. JOAN McCLELLAND (Matriculation). - Drawn by B. Dobson. Marryatvill e. Toorak. 53 LORETO

MEMORY PICTURES OF EIGHT LITTLE GIRLS AT DAWSON STREET

.. They flash upon that. inwcird eye

ff/ hich is the bhss of solitude." -Wordsworth.

DUSK I shall always remember this scene as it seemed Dusk in the country is beautiful. Miles of to me like a re fl ection of H eaven. waving wheat look like a great silver sea shim­ V. KINCADE (1 3). mering in the breeze. H ere and the re bright red poppies on slender green stem s are clear to sight. OUR LOVELY COUNTRY T he great ghost gums, like some m ysterious sh adowy giants, stretch up to catch the stars. Among the many beautiful scenes that I looked I n the distance the mopoke can be h eard send­ at in books and magazines ther e are none more ing forth his dreary call: " Mopoke ! Mopoke !" ; love ly than some I have seen ver y near my own while now and again, from the gully beyond, the home. First of all I think of a drive through the P entland Hills, on the W estern Highway between notes of bellbirds sound like fairy bells. Melbourne and Ballarat. A short while ago we Soon the magic m antle of night drop3 on the drove through these hills at sunset and I shall bush and all is silent except the mopoke still calling always remember it as one of the great pleasures - calling, as if it mourned through the night. of my life. The sun setting in the distance spread K. STRACHAN (12) . beautiful rays in various shades of pink over a clear blue sky touching with light the green and THE ROCKS AT SUNSET brown of the gorges. I felt full of pride in the One summer evening, about half past seven. beauty of my native land and marvelled at the we walked along the beach at Queenscliff until we richness of the simple things of life, which God came to some jagged rocks. The blue waves has given us to enjoy. M. MORRISON (12 ), splash ed gaily up to them so that it was hard to get past without being caught b y the tide. At length we succeeded and continued our A BUSH STREAM AT SUNSET walk a little further along the beach. It was then The fading sunlight was filtering through the we saw the most beautiful sight. The sun was set­ feathery wattle trees and casting a dancing pattern ting in a blaze of red, pink and gold, casting a on the stream. It whispered merrily as it meandered glorious r efl ection on the blue sea. W e stood there around the stern granite boulders standing like senti­ an d stared. F ive minutes later the sunset threw nels. It may have begun as a tiny cascade tumbling its refl ection onto the wet golden sand. It was so like rubies and amber from some hidden cavern. beautiful a scene that it is difficult to d escribe. We Then plunging earthwards unde r the d ying sun was wen t for that lovely walk nearly every evening. snatched into darkness by deep beckoning shadows. F. KINCADE (11) . H ere and there it fought its way into the glowing: light lying in great pools of scarlet and gold. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MEMORY I HAVE A tiny rabbit jumped and hopped fearlessly down to the wat e r ~ id e b1·eaking the glassy surface A beautiful picture that I can see with m y with a tiny paw uncertain of its reality and sending inwa rd eye is St. Patrick 's Cathedral at eight ever widening i·ipples across the stream. Dingoes o'clock Mass. It was the most wonderful morning sent up their wail in defiance at the d ying sun. in the lives of many small children, because it was their first Holy Communion morning. The little And slowly, as the sun r etired before advancing girls looked simply lovely in their dainty white twilight and sank reluctantly behind the purple frocks and veils and the small boys in navy blue hill, the bush around settled down to sleep with the r es oun~ing laugh of the kookaburra echoinir ~uits and white shirts. and re-echomg from the deep valley. T h e great organ played a solemn h vmn which the cho ir sang. The hymn seemed t~ swell in B. GOODWIN (1 3). prayerful praise to God. Sure ly the souls of the people too wer e lifted up. I know mine was. T he impressive moment was when the little A DAY IN THE COUNTRY Communicants walked up to the altar rails to One beautiful morning as the sun was just pee p· receive their Lord and God. As they came back ing ove1· the horizon we left home to spenrl a dav to their seats they seemed to look even mo1·e in the country. beau tiful ; they had Our Lord in their hearts. The We wal~ed along the country roads and Cathedral also seem ed to be aglow. through the parldocks bright with buttercups and 54 L 0 R E T 0

ie lds of corn until we halted al a c ha11 c ring stream. Sunset is likened to deal h, as ~ l cp b~ · ~ t e p . the fhere we ale our lunch unde r the shade of the tall lamp of light grows dim. With the end of tht" ~reen gums surrounded hy ferns and wild flowe rs. working day comes the setting of the sun. with the We took a different route home and noticed encl of all trouble comes the setting of the sun. and many more heautiful things. W e saw frisky little with the selling of the s1111 comes one of God·, lambs al play. As we we re nearing the town the greatest miracles. To me the setting of 1lw ~ un sun began to set. W e slopped and watched it ; at seem" to be the end of all 111 v worri c~. but with firsl the clouds were tinter! in pastel colours, then the rising of the sun comes yet ,another daY of trial the colours deepened until the sun sank behind the and punishment. " horizon leaving a c irc le of pale golde n li ght. The sun is a ball of fire, bul unlike us, it nevn B. MATTHEWS (13). r c~ t s . \\/hen it is rising in one corne r of the earth il is setting in another. Jt i ~ one of God· ~ greatc ~ t creations, that scientist" know l ea~ t about. But 10 A SNOW SCENE me it is ever present, living, dying. symbolical of A verv lieautiful scene J re 111 cmher was a snow the human being falling, stumbling, hut ~ till con­ scene in Ballarat. It was in September when all tirrninz.c along life's road. Yes ! the Setting of the Sun the trees were in blossom. It had been snowing and the rising thereof, is but the touch of th t" nearly all night and about lwo inches of snow lay Maslf'r's Hand. on the ground a nd all the trees were snow-capped , MADONNA McAULIFFE (16 ) their branches bending over with the weight of tlw Brisbane, snow. The prettiest sight of all was the snow fall­ * At Cavendish Road - delightful spot - ing softl y on the bl o~so m trees bending with the ir Trial and punishment! flow ers. Many people were gathering snow off the ir Surely not ! lawns and m aking snow m en. Romant ic Madonna!-Ed. M. SHEEHAN (12). OUR BUSH* THE GRAMPIANS Wlwn we go down to the 1r,,fro111i11g Bush. We were camping at the Grampians during W" alw ays have pf<.111 y of fun ; the Easter holidays. On Eai" te r Saturday afternoon We ju.mp the ror ks and 11 ·<· laugh out loud. about twenty of . us went fo r a walk up to the A11rl when Wt' t·an 11 ·,, run. Pinnacle at .the very top of the mountain. Only eight of us reached the top. rri,, som e'tim es go lo tht• .. ship" ur ··sphinx''. The mountain is rather steep in so111e parts : Grotesque formations of ro(·ks: now and then there arc iron ste ps to climb and a But the "waterfall" is the Javouri/(' spot. place called " The Sil ent Street" made from an (Now, Juniors, take off your sorks. ) excavation of rock-forming sle p i<. From the summit there is a splendid view all around. Five lakes can Th f' re's plf'nty of fun in our Bush, be seen on a clear day. Below is a large hotel and Must u;t• speak of the bull-a.nts. tuo? boarding house which is very po pular. Cars in You. ha.ve to be very quir /..: 0 11 your tot's unending procession go backwards and forwards; B f' fore they take

LORETO CONVENT, NORM ANHURST, N .S.W.

PREFECTS (Top )

Frnm Left to Ri ght: D. M cCarron, J. Bull, M. Matha, P. Moroney, M. O 'Brien ( Head of the School), E . Clifford.

FIRST DIVISION

SECOND DIVISION Front Row: M. W ebb, L. Chan, P . Felton, D . Prendergast, P . Goodwin, M. Donnelley, A. Chan, A. H ansel, K. Miller, D. Hall, D. M o nro, A. Keating. Second Row : A. Har tigan. L . Dawson, S. Tilbrook, S. Azar, S. H artigan, J. Kennedy Green, K. Cheeseman, A. Bull, M. Kelly, J. Passmore. J. Ziehlkc, G. Hill. H . Gannon. Third Row : R. Wheeler, J. J o rdan, ] . Partridge, M. M cEvoy, J. Cunningham , D . M. Booth, J . Jasprizza, S. Cunningham, D. Poirier. L. K elly, G. Shanley, A. Walsh. P . O 'Connor. Fourth Row: P. Basha, M. L . Meacle. R. Mann, C. Glass, A. Crim­ mins. M. O ' Keeffe, E. Kennedy Green, M . A. Borthwick, J. Heathershaw, G. Garner. Back Row : H . E nglish. A. M or ck, A. Dynon, P. Reardon, L. Purcell, B. Roche. T . Croft, A. Farah. M. M ason, G. McPhee, W . Hill. Absent: B. Butler. M. C. Streber, C. Taylor.

THIRD DIVISION

Absent : P. Jasprizza, P. Conduit. Front Row : H. O "Neill, L. Curtis, F. Maddocks Cohen, R. Partridge, L. Ferrier, K. Moroney, L. H eraghty, A. Drake-Brockman, A. Dunstan, M. Boyce, M. Cannon. Second Row: A. Stern. B. Rohan, G. Partridge, F. O'Neill, W. Rowe, B. Montague, P . Crimmins, B . Cha n, K. Keating, E. Lenehan, S. Forgham. Third Row: M. Williams, S. Lenehan, G. K earn ey, K. M c Neil!, L. W ard. D . Prince, B. McPhee, L . Do neley, S. Seigworth, M. Hansel, K. Richardson. Fourt h Row : L. Curran, D. Ki elkowska, E . Brummer, K. Irelanrl. L . Stephens, M. E. Priebe, J. Noonan, M. O'Co nnor, ] . Carter, K. Knight, D . Herriman, J. Maddocks Cohen, M. Dalgarno, C. Turner .. Fifth Row: D . O we ns. S. Al saker, L . Burgin, P. O 'Con­ nell, J. Gates, H. Kelly, S. Neylo n, C. Miller. M. Gannon, S . Jasprizza. M. Meaney. Back Row : J. Ireland. C. Streber, R. Doherty. D. O 'Brien, J. L ai ng, J. H arris. J. Morley, C. Stevens, D. Stevens. K. Rickard A. Borthwick, M. Burch, J. H ickey. LORETO CONVENT, NORMANHURST, N.S.W.

JUNIOR BALLET CLASS IN NURSERY RHYMES Dancers have just come out of the " Shoe", dancing to relayed music.

(See P age 132)

ROLL CALL OF JUNIOR SCHOOL C. Abbott, V . Abbott, R. Burch, D. Chance, K . Cobby, M. Crowley, D. Darke, M . A. D-ynon, C. Forg ha n, J. Frank, L . Gamble, C. Gearin, M . A. Gearin, N. Giblin. j. Green, S. H ansel, K. Harti­ gan, C. Henderson, M . Huxley, M . Jone!i, K . Keating, T. Lawrence, E . M c Namara, K. M cNamara, A. Madden,

ROLL CALL (Continued).

M. McQuellan, P. Merkelbach, S. Myer­ son, M . O ' Connell, A. Parsons, M. Parsons, j . Powell, L. Schroder, M. Spier!i, G. Stevens, G. Stewart, A. Tancred, J. Thoman, M. Thoman, B. Tiffin, A. M. Tome, S. Turner, S. Watson. Absent : J. Hansel, P . Haseler.

JUNIOR SCHOOL GROUPS 58 LORETO Travellers' Tales MY TRIP FROM HOLLAND TO AUSTRALIA (From the Leaves of a Diary) When we lc- ft Holland on 26th J\fay, 1951. it the P yra mids and Sphinx in the distance anrl thc­ was typical Dutch weather, rain y and cold. \V e h ad nalive people riding on camels. 10 wait a few h ours in the large ~ h e d adjoining the lt was a great contrast lo see the modc-rn quay, whe r<' the customs were. When at last we western c ivilization, with the beautiful house.·. were out. we went to the ;; hip which was to take u s road s and railways on one side of the Cana l and on to Australia. A t six o'clock in the evening a bras;; the opposite bank the endless desert wit h 11 0 ~ ign band struck up rhe Dutch Iational Anthem, while of en ltivation. ;< lowl y the ship moved away. On the quay many On Monday afternoon, we saw the tropica l eity people- wc-re waving goodbye; most of them were of Suez and noticed there the memorial to Ferd inanrl crying. lt took a long time to sail oul of the har­ New South Wales. Oth e r smaJl centres Ruch as Manuka and Kingston LOUISE PETERSEN (Fourth Year), 9upp ly the daily h ousehold need s. Kirribilli. Other inte resting places a re the R.A.A.F. and Naval bases and also the new U nive rsit y which was IMPRESSIONS OF NEW GUINEA opened last year b y the Duke of Edinburgh. (As seen by two Brisbane Loreto Girls) PATRICIA ROCHE & TONI BARRETT, (Fourth Year ), Kirribilli. A.-AITAPE. I h ad h eard so much ahout New Guinea from HOLIDAYS IN THE BLUE m y parents, that 1 oft en thought h ow nice it would MOUNTAINS be to v isit ii. My father returned to New Guinea last year , and al Christmas time we went to A itape, A t last the term examinations were over, and Northern New G uinea, for the holidays. The first we looked forwar

Cold climates make us think of fur coats, and Thus we walked for a month. Then we were Iceland cater s for this. There are several fox farms. packed into cattle truck s which took us to Ger­ If a p erson wi shes to buy a fur h e may go to one many. Then we were taken into a Camp. All around of these farms and watch the young foxes playing it there was a barbed wire fencing. In the centre in the fi eld. Having selected the one he wants, he stood some woode n ramshackle shacks, and we had watch es the fa rme r fix an ide ntification tag to the to live in the re. \V c were always hungry, cold and fox's collar. \Vhe n it is full grown, it is killed ; the ve ry poor. fur· is c ured and sent to the owner. My fathe r has At the end of lhe war we had a ve ry happy to ld m e many stories of the foxes' cunning: Because re union with our fathe r who had bee n a war it had re peatedly escaped, a fox was chained to pri$one r. an iron stake about six feet high. It could find no way to get loose until one day h e discove i·ed a large Opening m y eyes l inte rrupt mv thought ~ stone. H e stood on it 11nd leapt into the a ir. The lwcause the y te rrih me. result was that the ring of the chain was forced VIRA TURSKY (13) , up over the top of the stake and the clever fox Marryatville. escap ed. If we we nt to one of the cafes beside the d elight­ ful lake in the centre of the city we could have blue­ MARY berry soup a nd fresh river trout with vege tahlf's and Slowly along the way c ream cakes. He trod before, We could sit drinking coffee until twelve p.m. A Mother fo llowed on that day; then re turn home nodding to the m en as they work A cross she bore. in their gardens by the light of a midnight sun. W h :it do they grow? Well, not Icelandic poppies. She fou nd no time for tears because m y father never saw one of these g11y flow e r ~ Her eyes were dry; until h e came lo Australia. She knew from all the jeers VALERIE WALSH (12 ), He had passed by. Marryatville. She stumbled blindly on A REMEMBRANCE To that high hill, Where on the cross her Son Closing m y eyes, I see as if at the pictures, my Hung, ve ry still. past, which runs ac ross m y brain like a film tape. T h e good, bad and terrifying times. She did not raise her head The war - planes, bombs, fire, corpses and Until a t last blood. A t night whe n we sleep fully dressed , we '" You shall Mother men," He said h ear the whistle of siren s, alarms, and Mummy takes And from life passed. ns a nd a small parcel, and we rush lo the cellar. Peal afte r p eal, and the earth tre mbles. \V e c ry She bowed her head again a nd Mummy prays. Eve rything is dark as lights And there forgave ai·c n ot allowed. I cannot unde rstand what is hap­ All who caused Her Son's pain pening, but I am afraid - very much afraid - for All He died to save. I can feel some thing ver y frightening. Coming out GRANIA LATTANZI (Leaving). of the cellar eve rything is light. Fires, more c orp se~ Toorak. and blood as if wate r after rain. \Ve ask Mummy why those p eople won"t move. and M ummy telJ s us that the bombs killed them . MARY Moming! - We are hungry and thirsty. But She stood the re is no food. The shops arc destroyed and the in a pool of sunlight milk was not delivered. surveying her work, How long this lasted , I carmot re member. But When slowly across I do rem ember that many times we ran to the cellar her face came for sh elte r and that we. were ve r y frightened. a shade. T h e n one dav, some soldie rs came and told Picking up her broom Mummy that we ;nust leave, for this place would s he bent to look. be u sed as a frontie r. ~lumm y wept but the soldiers But it was only threw us out on to the road wher e the re wer e the shadow of a great w ing m a ny othe rs like us. fl ying over her soul \Ve walked and walked till we we re weary, And Mary s miled . hungry, cold and tired. At night we slept outside, cuddled up to Mummy. The soldie rs wer e always BEVERLEY QUINN (Matriculation). there, forcing us to move on. Toorak. 62 LORETO CONVENT, CLAREMONT, W.A.

Back Row : C. Antoine, S. Gwynne, V. Dodd. D. W alsh, G. Golding, J . Fontaine, P . Harris, M. Staples, G. Hadfield. Second Row: J . Dunphy, P . J ones, L . Peterson, S. Curran, M. Dwyer. F ront Row: E. Bartlett, M. Kennedy, M. P2ton. H . Boylson, M. W alsh, G. Roberts.

SUB-JUNIOR CLASS A. Ahern. A. Castenell e, D. Clarke, A. Stanley, L. H anzli cek, C. Cunningham, D . Hurst, F. Sunter-Smith, G. Grieve, M. O 'Neill, D. Morrow . Second Row: M. Dodd, B . Burgin, H . Lockyer, E . O ' Neill, F. Riley, M . Barden, V. J ackman, M . H ayes, J . Durack, J . Gardiner, J . Ag new, J . Hay­ wood, J. Hopkins. K. V allentine. Front Row: C. Dunphy, M. O 'Connor, K. Morgan, P. Brocken, K. L avan, N. O berir, E. Calder, J . Peterson, T. Fitzpatrick, S. Anto!ne, L. Ryan, S. Noble, M. Connolly, M. Sing leton, D. Bateman. Absent : S. Wood.

FORM III O'Neill, j . Hanson, E. Prendergast, G. F oss, H . Devane. G. Fitzgerald, M. Weise, J . Gallagher, C. D obson. M. Meehan, D. Kennedy, P . V entouras. Second Row: A. Shanahan, S. Taylor, P. Jones, P. O 'Connor, P. Shanahan, R. W antling, J . Hogan, V. Leeson, A. Harris, J. Bull, L. Hulls, J. Hartigan, ]. Piggford, C. Wishart, J . Carmichael. Front Row: E. Trethowan. M. Co nnell. F. Ryan, A. Fitzgerald, M. Zilka, B . Bessen, M. Dunphy, S. Allen, K . O'Loughlin, C. Flynn, M. Dimond. R. Lorrimar, R. Watkins, J. Biddies, M. Quinlan, C. Noble. LORETO CONVENT, CLAREMONT, W.A.

Back Row: M. Walsh, G. Roberts, P . J ones, L . Peterson ( Head Prefect ), H. Boylson, S. Curran, M. Dwyer. Front Row: J . Dunphy, V. Dodd, E. Bartlett.

JUNIOR PUBLIC Back Row: E. Fitzgerald, F. Burke, S. McMahon-Glynn, A . Jones, W. Williams. Second Row: E. O'Connor, N. Gardner. I. Goerke, S. Cranston, S. Routledge, S. Wratten, S. Meagher, G. Ettinger, J . Cullen. Front Row: C. Lloyd, J. Shanahan, J. Gadston, G. W hite, P. Connor, D. McPhee, M. Noble, B. Ridley, G. Horsfall, G. Evans, A. Holbrook. Absent : D. Ollivier.

LEAVING CLASS Back Row: S. Watkins, J. Fontaine. J . H owie­ son, P. Kelly, P . Harris, H. Boylson, P. Jones, D. Walsh, G. Roberts, M. Walsh, G. Hadfield, M. Staples. Second Row: G. Golding, C. Magee, A. Slattery, H . Reilly, M. O'Hara, C. Antoine, C. Daly­ Smith, J. Killerby, M. Kellond, ]. Hunt, S. Curran, · J . Dunphy. Front Row: E . Bartlett, S. Gwynne, M. Ken­ nedy, N. Sadler, M. Dwyer, V. Dodd, L . Peterson, M. Paton, M. Bonjolo, M . Butler, D. O ' Neill, M. King, E. O ' Donohoe. CENTRE CAPTION (Page 65.) JUNIOR SCHOOL (Classes III and IV ) Back Row: K. Kee, B. Drake-Brockman. A. Killick, A. Wheeler, J. Blazejewicz, J. Ridley, N. Clarke, B. Page, E. Ahern, B. Stewart. Y. Antoine, M. O'Halloran, M. Curran. Front Row: E. Clarke, M. Collier, T. Logan, R. O ' Halloran, M. Ladner, C. Wilkinson, B. B r idge, M. Ladner, P. O ' Neill, M. O 'Hal­ lor an, C. Clarke, E. Ryan. Absent: A. Baker, S. W ood. LORETO CONVENT, CLAREMONT, W.A.

FORMS I AND II (Top) Ba ck Row (Standing): C. Jones, M. Slattery, P . Rumble, J . Green, T. Lesli e, S. Dodd, K . Turner, J. Connell, C. O ' Halloran, L . Evangelisti, T . Hug hes, L. Log ue, C. M c Dougall, J . Davis, M. Barrett. Se co nd Row ( Sittini:t l : D . Page, H . Downes, M. Payne, V Meehan, P. Huzzard, M. Rvan, A. W orner, A. M cAuliffe, A. Davis, S. Tomlinson, A. V e ntouras, B . Nicholls, J. Hagan. Front Row : L . Nettle ton, D. O'Donnell, N. Ryan, B . Hynes. A. Bridge, K . Parne ll , R. Gannon, J . Keenan, L . M c N amara, D. Farley, P. Drake-Broc kman, D . Cocks, K. O 'Loughlin. Ab sent: L . Crommelin, A. Hindley, J. Lavan. (\Vith much regret we omitted the p icture of the fine new Junior S chool. Space is the tyrant.-Ed.)

CLASSES I, II & PREPARATORY The Swan River in the Background. B"k Row: R. Orr, S. Hogan, V. Stewart, C. Daly, N. Page, M . Bod dy, M. Adams, J. Lavan, J. Meehan, K . Dobson, N. Teague, P. Hopkins, S. Far rell, J. Hadfield, M. Holbrook. S

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L5 LORETO Pleasures of Literature RADIO PLAY: DAISY BATES Characters - DAISY BATES, EDITOR OF '"TIMES", MICHAEL ( her friend ): JINGAROO, BAN_YADA, NURSE, NARRATOR, WOMAN.

(Soft a se (There is silence fo1· a m o m. e nt as the Edito r signs papers. Then Miss .Meehan. (Mu sic.) he puts d o wn the pen a nd pushes the papers away.) EDJTOR: And now, wha t can I do for you, ·Mrs. - - S C E N E 2. DAISY: Bates, :Mrs. Bates. N ARRATOR: After her wo rk for the " Times" Daisy Bate• was EDITOR : \'Ve il, Mrs. Bates ? commissioned b y the \Vest Australian Government to write a DAISY: read a lette r in t he " Times" a few days ago where history of a certain abo rig ina l tribe. After two years of work it was alleged tha t white settltrs in \ Vestern Australia had in this field, Daisy Bates came back to Perth. \Ve find her sh own cruelty to the natives there. talking to a frie nd, who wa5 also on the expedit ion. (~iu s ic EDITOR : Yes, J remember that letter. st op s.) DA] S Y : I am a sking you if you will allow me to go to Aust ralia MlCHAEL: \\"d i, it's good to see civilization again a fter those as your representa tive to investigate these a llegatio n s. years in the interio r, Daisy. Do you think Perth still looks the EDITOR ( After a m oment's silence) : D o you know a nything same? o f Australia, o f the nature o f the wo rk you wish to undertake ? DAISY ( H a ll heartedly): Mmm-.

DAISY: I spent ten years there when I was about twenty·seve 11 ~ U CHA.EL: \Vhat are you going t o do, anyway, now we're back because I h ad a serious lung disease, which could only be in Perth? c ured by living in a warme r climat e. DAISY: That's wha t I've been thinking about. EDITOR : \Vhat experience in journa li sm have you had, !i.f r s. ~I I CHAEL : So that's the reason why you've been so quiet. \Veil, Bates? what is it ? \ Vhat a re you going t o do? DAISY: W hen J returned t o L ondon in 1895, T wo rked fo r \V. T. DAISY: am going back. S tead o n the staff of " Review o f Reviews ". MTCl-IAEL: G oing back ? To the interior, t o the natives, and t he EDlTOR: Are you i11 good health ? Has your lung disease been heat and loneliness and silence o f the desert. Back, jus t 11ow completely cured? when you've made a name for yourself. DAlSY: Y es, the warmer clima te o f Australia completely c ured DA l SY : Yes, back to the natives. me, a nd n ow l enjoy very good health. MI CH AEL: H o w will you, one woman, help them ? \\"he re will EDITO R: Have You any family ties? yo u g-et the money? DAISY: No, I am alone no w . DAISY: will sell my pastoral h oldings. (A silence - The n soft fa ra wa y music. The vo ice or Daisy Hate ~ ~I ! CHAEL: V\' herc will you live? Where wi ll you sleep ? \Vho speaks as if far away in her mind.) will be you r friend s? " Yes, I a m alone no w, and this w ork with the a b o ri g ine ~ i :-' DAISY : shall live, sleep and eat with them. They are m y the work I must do - l know, becau se I fee l it in my heart friends, rhey are my life. feel it in m y hea rt." MlCHAEL : Be prac tical, Daisy. Look at things sensibly. tell c r-.tu sic st op s a s her voice fad e~ .) you, you're just remembering the last tou ching scen e - you EDlTOR: i\frs. Bates, I see n o reason why you should not take know, when the natives farewelled u s a s we le ft for Perth. on this assignme nt. Y o u f' ay you enjoy good health, you have \Veil , it's only a f. entimental obsession , tha t 's all. It's not a a frank, pleasing m anner, a nd plenty o f experience. 1 think n oble calling li ke a nurst: o r a doctor. No, it's ju st a senti· you will do. (He pau ses a moment) . [ a lso feel sure that me ntal ob session, ·which will soon wear o ff. You see, you d on't with interesting d ispatc hes coming from Australia, the circ ula· remember the o ther side now -- but wait till yo u get bac k tio11 of the " Times " will increase. Interest in A u stralia jg there. very h igh. 1 personally am most interested. (Stands up.) Bu t DAISY : l know it's bleak. if you will come here on Thursday afternoon n ext , all the final ' MICHAEL: \\"e ll n ow p u're b eginning to see sense - to think arrangements will be made for you. a fter all, it is a crazy idea. L ook, I can get you a job o n ~ DAISY: Thank you. Y ou have been most kind to me. newspaper here as a reporter, and there's not a bad social life E DITOR: Not at a ll, ~[r s. Bates. Good afternoon . in Perth. I know you love a good time. How about that ? DAISY : Gocd a fternoo n. DAIS Y : \\"ell, it sounds attractive. 66 L 0 R ET 0

MICHAEL : The n: you ci re. It's all se ttled. c hosen t his life ? I hadn't seen a white face for mo nths, ye:1r .... DAJSY: But the feeling is sti ll there, Michael, the convic tion. it seemed - a nd what had become of my old ambitions? All l MICHAEL : L ook, I :old you before what your ''conviction" is. did was wander n ow with the native tribes around the destn, It's a sentimental obsession. Yo u 're rn akinJ,r a mis take and :;o

0 catch huld o f 1t. I le wil1 take care of you till I come. NARRATOR : T o wa rds the e nd o f \\·orld \\ ar 11 a permanent camp was established at Ooldea, o n the rim of the Nullabar llANYADA : Your Father, Kabbarli ? Then I ,-ha ll be ,afe. [Soft Desert and D a isy Bates still co11 ti11ued t o do her wo rk amon g mu ~ ic begin s to go through speech in background.] the 113ti ves. ( Music e nds.) DAISY: A few minutes later felt Ilanyabarli , Jingarrio been here all day. All day [ he never leave the natives again, a 11 d that n o matter what h ap- here. peued, or h ow isolated L fe lt, 1 would stay with the n a ti,•e:-., DAISY: T ake this food a nd ;·ed m edicine. Kal>barli will call and be their K abbarli always. LM u3ic pauses a m oment.] ~00 11 to Jingaroo again. I n the m o rning I started out with the tribe un the journey 111 the 11 cxt waterho le. l~I u sic ag-ai11.J JlNGAROO : Kabbarli, Jing-aroo thank Y''U. I get we ll so1)Jl.

DAI S Y : Thi ~ happe n ed cve1·y day called 0 11 Jingaroo's camp, iJut I kne w that durin,:.r the m o rning when I was at other S C E N E 4. camp s, she ran over to play cards o r gossip with the o ther wo111 e 11 . \\" hen she sa w me coming-, she returned t o her camp NARR .-\TO R : I n 1933, Daisy Bates wa s created a Commander of pretending s he had been there a ll day. Tricks like these the Order of the Ilritish Empire, and i11 1936 her book "The we re !-"O transparent that e njoyed bein i.r a victim n f their Pa ssing o f the Aborigines", was first published. Then in 1 94~ , humour. ill health forced her to return to Adela ide, a 11d the next years o f her life were spent in suburban res1 homes and private (Soft music continues 0 11 thro ugh next Scen e i11 t he background , sli ghtly i11creasing in ,·o lume and i11t e 11 sity towards eud o f speech, hospitals. (Music st ops.) with dista nt ::- ingi ng uf t he black !- weaving i11termittent ly through NCRSE: J was the nurse in the private hospita l in which ~\1r !) . Scene in background.) Bates was s taying. One evening I we11t into her room and DAISY : Hut life with the b lacb "''" no t a lway< happy. There found her a sleep. I looked at her small, wrinkled face and were some days and night s when the sense of my loneliness wondered just what her life had been, wha t she had experi· overwhelmed me, when my mind was ful1 of misgivings and e uced, what was t he cause of the wrinkles? I only knew fears. I would wander into the darkness away from the native somewhere she had been wo rking with native tribes. Quite camp, so that when 1 looked back, ] could only see the Aickering suddenly she awoke, and I a sked her a ques(ion. red glow o f their fire, and faintly hear the murmuring of t heir ~URSE : ~1 [r s . Dates, what made you t ake up work with the song. The n I would think - \\.hy was J here ? \\.hy had l natives? 67 LORETO

DAISY ( i11 tired o ld voice): O h, N urse, that is hard to say. J I HAD SEEN ANTIGONE rem ember when 1 was you ng I h ad a dream. (She pauses. S ma ll piece of clr~am from beginning faintl y becoming louder, then It was a glorious Spring day. I looked at the fad ing ct \ \ ay again.) T hat must ha ve sta rted it, I think. From then on J had a n idea which g radua ll y unfo lded itself into the sky and marvelled at its clear cobalt d epths. The stron g convi ction J a lways t alked a b out. The n I did n e t look air was warm and still - a drowsy Spring morning. back, though o f course, sometimes I did ha ve doubt s and t em ptatio n s. But bestir m yself I must, for it happened l\"U RSE: A nd have yon had a happ y li fe? that two friends of mine, merchants from Corinth D AI SY: A hap py life? O h, yes, a wo nde rfull y happy one. Why, and Sparta, were h ere in Athens on business. l could tell ~' O tt stori es that would sadden you, shock you and make you la u g h. Yes, I could te ll you storie s. . After our bargaining was done I offered to take them NUR SE : VVould you tell them to me some day? on a tour of the temples and to a play. They DAIS Y: Oh, no, m y clear. They would p robably bo re you. Y ou accepted though not very willingly, and we began see, they ;:; re all m _v own mem o ries. H ow well I remember m y interview with the E d itor o f t he dTimes" a nd what he said the short but steep ascent of the Acropolis. At the (bring in t he d ista nce the fara way ech o o f his voice from top we saw the graceful columns of that m atchless 1st Scene. " Y ou h a ve som e special reason for wanting the Doric T emple - The Parthenon. Clustered round it assignme nt, ha ve n ' t you ?" " Y ou'll soon fin d out". ) I wonde r were smaller temples perfect in design and symmetry. did he ever imagine wha t I would eventually do? And wha t m y frie nd, Mic hae l, said to me i11 Perth ( E ch oes a s b e fore ) , Proudly I showed the wonders of our great archi­ " \Vhere wi ll you live? \V here will you sleep ? \ \iho will be tects, sculptors and painters - the inner frieze of you r fri end ?" H e d idn' t unde rs ta n.TA RRA T O R : 1Te r passin g- w ill be m ourned whe reve r abo rig ines "Convicted of reverence- I shall be content roam , from no rthernmost Northe rn T e rrito ry to O oldea in the a rid, heartless N ulla bo r Pla ins. F o r D aisy Rates was n o t on ly To lie beside a brother whom I love. t he g reatest aut ho r ity e ve r o n the Australia n n a tives, sh e was We have only a little time to please the h is frien d, h is p rotec to r , his b lood -brothe r. DAI S Y : l n e ver madt! serva nts or atte nda nts of them. I waited living, u pon t he sick a nd o ld, carried their burdens, fed the blind But all e ternity to love the dead." a nd the b abies, sewed fo r the wom en, buried the dea d. The y were m y fri ends - T w a~ t h eir K a bba rli . I sighed as the sisters parted. JI !\G A R OO: She was ot:r fri end. S he was our Kabbarli. (:Music continues loudly a ft e r climax a nd the n ends without The chorus of Theban Elders moved forward. softening. ) The familiar, well-loved lines thrilled m e as alway~; THE END. but, to-day, I was more inter ested in the r eactions EDWINA PLANT (16) , of m y friends. Would they be held by the lovely Toorak. lines of Sophocles lines, which, even when [This P lay tied w ith o ne on " Ca roline Chish olm" by L o retta simplest, were ever " pregnant with thought"? W oul

W he n A ntigon e braved the wrath of the Kin g PAUL CLAU DE L a11rl we nt by night to bury h e r bro the r, T surpriser! a look of arlmiration a nd pit y on the face of the On the F east of St. A loysius, Momicur Hue t. a leclure r in Fren ch a t the Perth University. kindly Corinthian ; was it but fl eeting, and the counte na nce came to the sch ool a nd gave 11 ;: a n inspiring talk of the Sp arta n i·e m a ine rl unmoved . The musical on Pa ul C lau rlcl as a Catho li l'. lines of the play fl owed on, weavin g their m agic spell on all but lwo of the audienf'C. But wait , wh e 11 A lthough he h ad beQn rlankerl among· the Antigone went lo h f' r terrible rl oom - to he scaler! greatest drama ti c poet;: of the \Ve,.,tl'rn world with Ae,.eh y lus and Sh a kespeare, and al'<· laimerl hy T. S. ali ve in a rock lo mh - lhc pa rl a n·s fa ee registe red E liot as '·the greatest

" Think if the re e1111n ot he some othe r way. " In one m ome nt 111\· lr carl was moved and l Surely to think your own the only w isdom . be l ievcd ." And yours the only word, 1hc onl y will, However, it was fou r yea rs hcforc h i~ !'vii hahit;: B etrays a sh allow spirit, an e m p ty h eart. lost thcir gri p a nd he began to lead a Catholic life. rt is no weakness for the w isest m a n H e Fa id " the sp iritua l fig ht is a,; hrutal as the fight of m a n: · Tn 1890 he nia

Creon. Triumph of triumphs! sa w a fl eeting A no the r great j o ~ · wa ,., Iri s a udie nee with the shadow of pit y on tlw face of lhe Spa rtan - a H o ly Fa1h e r in 1951. when he wa" pre:"e nted with triumph for A ntiiro ne! I was just ahoul to bid a R osary. " ow I ean d ie," hr ,; a id. These rosary them fa re we ll. we ll plea;:e d with m y aftc rnoon·s heads were enl w incd in hi" fi nger,., when h<· rli<·d wo rk whe n - rn~ - hook dro pped . I awoke w ith a on As h Wed nesd ay of th is \'Car. \J ay he rf',.;t i11 start. Someone wa;: saying, " T always rl o tw ice a;: Peace. * much wo rk whe n J sludy in the sunshine. rlo n·t ELIZABETH FOLEY (Leaving). you ?" I a nswere r! truthfully. '·Yes·-_ fo r J had sf'cn Nedlands. Antigone! I * Because of the article on P. 96 we have omitted MEREDYTH SYKES (16) , Monsieur Huet's mention of Claudel's books. as quoted Ma rry at ville. by Elizabeth.-Ed.] 69 LORETO

HELL FIRE JACK

"Page forty-seven , - 'Hellfire Jack' b y Dal came over and asked him if he wanted them rounded Stivens" said our teacher, taking out the book of up: but " Hellfire J ack", mumbled some thing about short stories of "Action and Adventure", which we not liking to waste time (which was, of course, are studying for our Junior exam. So began another perfectly obvious) . English lesson, which, at the time, to all appearances, When he next re turned for a job, the boss told was like every other English lesson. But that was him that he was thinking of starting shearing. A t before we knew how amusing was the story we these words he snatch ed a pair of shears from his were about to read, and how we would laugh at the swag and like lightning was out of sight in the queer, preposterous feats of " H ellfire Jack". paddock which was, Stivens says, "so big that twenty They were working short handed on a sheep fresh horses could gallop round it in a day, and it station anrl with sh earing approaching, were natur­ had more sh eep than you could sec people on Easter ally very busy, when suddenly "a leathery-looking Monday at the Royal Sydney Show." In no time cove with a swag and a fi erce looking kelpie bitch ", the cove had gathered the sh eep and the wool from came up to the boss, and asked abruptly for a job. their backs formed a huge pile which in no time The boss thinking this was too good to be true, at at all grew to twice the h e ight of the Harbour Bridge. once began impressing on him, the fact that he was The shears ran hot and the cove had to keep running a very good boss to work for, etc. But the n ew­ down to the rlam to wet them and in time the whole comer merely interrupted asking when he could dam dried up from the sizzling shears, " hut the begin. The boss stopped short and said that there bloke k ept on clipping away." was some wood that need ed cutting. Before the The bloke was about lo begin on the second words were out of his mouth the " leathery cove" paddock, when the hoss caught up with him, saying. whipped off his coat and started on the run for the " Don't you think you've done enough for one day." wood-heap. H e picked up the axe and began to With ti.ese words, this unusual man pul1ed on his make the chips fl y and in no time he was back coat and started walking towards the house, the boss asking for another job. The boss m erely insinuated asked him what he was doing ; he did not stop but that there was a dam that needed cleaning out. called back over his shoulder, that he wasn' t work­ and in a moment he was head ed for the wrong ing for any boss who interfered. With this the boss dam and had to be set right. In the twinkling of handed him half a note for the few h ours' work an eye h e had hitched forty horses on to three and " H ellfire Jack" was off. scoops, and was scooping out large hunks from the dam. Then back h e came asking for another job Everywhere it was the same that season, there as if nothing remarkable had happened. was no work available for the m en who usually made their living as sh earers. For this cove had come The boss told him that there were a few lambs and gone with much the same results, leaving the that needed marking, and immediately this most sheep running round, with bare backs and still unusual "cove" ran down to the paddock, jumped getting back their breath. the fence and, before his feet had even touched the ground, he had whipped out his knife and grabbed JENIFER-JAY HEALY (15) , a lamb by the leg and started marking. The boss Nedlands.

ORIGIN AL FICTION

1.-A SCHOOLGIRL'S LETTER IN 2555 gave me a big fancy-dress party, and I went as Loreto Convent, a 21st century schoolgirl, wearing a uniform made Kirribilli. of strange material calJed " n ylon". Fancy wearing 3rd June, 2555. it every day! I am so glad that schoolgirls no longer wear uniform! Dear Mary, After m y birthday we went away for a week 's Thank you so much for the beautiful birthday holiday to Jupiter. I really wanted to go further present you sent me. I had a lovely day for m y away, but we did not have the time, allowing for birthday, and r eceived many gifts. Mother and several days' trave lling either way, b y a trans-space Father decided I was old enough to have a jet liner. 'plane of m y own, just for travelling around, and they gave m e one on the condition that I did not We have just returned to school and have just exceed 600 miles per hom-. Father has d ecided, as started work again. To-day we had to do a map I am now fifteen, to increase m y pocke t-money to of Pluto showing winds and ocean currents; it was £600 a week, instead of only £450. After I had paid very hard to do! The more history I learn, the my fares daily to and from school, I had only £200 happier I feel that I'm living now, instead of 500 left, and that goes nowhere these days. Mummy years ago. Imagine learning from books and charts, 70 LORETO

imtead of from films ! They used to learn about The horsemen, riding after the band of horses, world famous paintings from prints in books, came upon a small 1Jlack colt lyin g prostrate in whereas we can see the originals after a ten-minute their path. One of them dismounted and bent over jet trip! They even had " homework!" the body. \Ve are looking forward lo an exciting term. " This must be the poor little devil whose dam with sport all day each Monday and W ednesdr.y, we shot. We'd better take him back to the stables and plenty of outside sporting fixtures. W e are play· and look after him." The two men ti ed ropes round ing a tennis tournament against Loreto Convent, the colt's kicking legs. Then, between them, they carried him struggling back to the stables. One of :Mary's Mount, in Pluto, next week, but I do not the men went aw av ; then returned with an exciterl think I shall be able to go as I have a bad attack boy. . of influenza. I wish someone would invent a cure for the common cold! " There he is - a real beaut y. You hring him up instead of his mother. Later on you can rirlc ANN-MARIE BAKEWELL (Third Year), him." Kirribilli. One dav. two years later, the sam e boy was riding after ~•. h ee p. H e was mounted on a fine black two-year-old, that had once been a frightened , 2. THE BLACK COLT. motherless colt. The black colt reared up, let out a shrill whinny, KATHARINE MILLER (Second Year) , and, on his long, stilt-like legs, galloped bucking and N ormanh urst. prancing, down the gra!'sy slope, to where his dam * The original title was quite stylish; it was stood grazing calmly with the othe 1· horses. She The Risling Colt. Katharine explained that risling nickered to him, and, in answer, he turned on h er meant "brought up by hand". But the Editor, though and pounded her on the belly with his small, baby not usually timid, balked at the responsibility of using hoofs. a word that could be found in no dictionary. Suddenly, through the trees came two horsemen. They quietly approached the band of grazing horses. 3. FIVE CHINA FIGURES. but these horses had never com e in contact with men before, so this was an occasion for great alarm. I pulled m y chair close to the fire. It was begin­ They wheeled and, uttering shrill whinnies, galloped ning to snow and night was slowly taking the place panic-stricken in the direction of the hills. Bewil­ of day. As uwal I stared at the five China figures dered foals galloped at their mothers' sides, jumping on the mantlepiece. There was a beautiful lady creeks when their mothers did, and squealing with in a gorgeous ball-dress, with golden curls piled on joy at this chance of a run. top of her head. One delicate hand clutched the The mothe r of the black colt galloped along pearls at her neck and the other her pale blue cloak. with the r est, h er colt beside h er. She was excited I named her Milady. Beside her sat two mournful and frightened, so that when a rabbit burrow lay cocker spaniel dogs, white with black spots. in her path, she did not see it. H er off foreleg landed There was also Sir Roger, a dashing young man in it and her body was carried on by it s speed so with a scarlet-lined coat anrl silver buckles on hiF that with a groan of pain she tumbled on to her black ~ hoe s. H e bowed slightly towards M il ady and side. Her leg was broken, and she could go no she seemed to smile at him. further. · Then there was a jug. This jug puzzled me H er colt sniffed at the prostrate form, puzzled. because in the light he seem ed to smile but in the He nickered, and when she still did not rise, he shadows h e looked cruel and wicked. The onlv name drummed with his anxious hoofs on her side. She that seem ed to suit him was Ralph. . uttered a pain-filled nicker and struggled to rise, As I sat here I felt weary and I closed my eyes. but her leg was u seless. When I opened them again I found I was standing in the snow near a cop se of fir trees. I didn't feel Suddenly the colt lifted his small head and cold ; I felt excited in the da1·k. squealed. H.e could see the horsemen approaching at a hand gallop. R earing up, he galloped off, call­ Suddenly I heard on the crisp, icy air the clip­ ing to his mother. She did not com e. H e re turned clop of hoofs, and a coach clrawn by four well and nipped her impatiently on the rump. The horse­ matched greys topper] the rise. men came closer, and the colt gave a shrill, despair­ When the coach drew level with the fir copse. ing whinny and galloped after the distant band of a horse and rider stepped from the sh adows. I tried horses. There was a loud bang from behind him, to scream but no sound came. The harsh voice of and it drove him faster and faster, on and on, until, the highwayman rang out: "Stand hy ! Stand hy ! exhausted, his pace slackened gradually to a walk. And you - down from that seat.'" He was addre·3 s­ At last h e Ja y down on the soft grass, tired, hungry, ing the coach driver who slid from h is seat into a lonely and hunted. nearby hedge. 71 LORETO

'·Com e out, Milady, I have no time to waste"". Mounted on a black steed came Sir Roger, his He opened the door of the carriage and, as h e did scarlet-lined coat billowing out behind him on the so, he pulled the mask from his face. I gave a start. crisp, cutting wind. The Highwayman spran g to the It was Ralph. Out stepped Milady clutching the saddle and galloped away into the night. pearls at her throa t. "Ah, I see you know what I Sir Roger dismounted and bowed to Milady: want"', he mocked. " Make haste now or I shall have and the lit.tie dogs who had been growling and to take them by force, am! I can be very rough, you snapping at the intrude r ran joyfully to welcome know." this unexpected arrival. The coachman came ·'Would you not take som e thing else? A brooch. bravely from the hedge and climbed into his seal two rings, perhaps? I value these greatly; they arc once more and the coach rumbled off with Sir Roger a fami ly hierloom." on his black steed riding behind. I closed m y eyes and when I opened I hem ] '"I am a gentleman of the Highway, not of your found myself sitting in the armchair. It was dark degree. Now will you give m e the pearls? As .1 as the fire was very low. So I put more wood on it. ~aid before, I have no time to waste."' As he said A slight shadow fell across Ralph"s face and l this he came a step nearer and pressed a pistol into noticed how his eyes seem ed lo covet the pearls her si de. around Milady's neck. Sh e still clutch ed them bv She lifted her hand to unclasp the pearls when. one beautiful hand. for a second time that night the sound of approach· PRISCILLA FELTON (Second Year) , ing hoofs rang out. Normanhurst. T,..,_ ,, _ ,,_ ., _ ,,_ ,,_ ,,_ ,,_ ,,_ ,,_ ,,_ ., • .,_.,_,,_ .,_ ,,_ ,,_ ,,_,,_ ,,_ ,,_ ,,_ .,_ ,,_ ., _ ,,_ ,,_ ,,_ ,,_ ,,_ ,,_ ,,_ ,, _ ,, _ ,, _ ,, _ ,,_ ,,_,,_ ,, _ ,t I Fron1 the Editor's Anthology I I TIME TRANSFIGURED I I By MONSIGNOR R. A. KNOX I i i I AB through the year, the Gospels of the missal open with the words "At this time"', aR if to I I explain that they are beginning in the middle of a story, and apologisr for the fact. A splendid I - exception, that for the fourth Sunday in Advent, starts straight away with a long list of names, 10 - I date the appearance of St. John Baptist. It begins with the fifteenth year of Tiberius (wh enever I I that was) and goes down to the fact that Lysanias (whoever h e was ) was tetrarch of Abilene I I (wherever that is) . I I The run of the words has the effect of a blare of triumpe ts, and makes you see the herald I I crying aloud in the country round Jordan, crying so loud that lhe echoes of it volley along between I I the river banks, right up to Trachonitis, right up to A beline. But what is so gloriously appropriate I I to the Sunday before Christmas, with its atmosphere of breathleQs expectation, is the mere fact of I i_ dating, the mere fact that Our Lord's coming can be so pinned down in time. The real thing, after ,- - so many false alarms! " Prophets and kings desired it long, and died before the sight", and there ,- is Lysanias (whoever h e was) privileged to catch the first echoes of it, because h e h ap pened to be 'l tetrarch in the fifteenth year of Tiberius. l f Christianity was not to be, like the my s t e ry-reli~ion s it displaced , a thing cradled in the I I unrecorded past. It was not to be a vague philosophical movement which was somehow in thr I i air and gradua11 y took shape. It was to have its point of departure at a definite moment in time; i I it was to fit in somewhere in the confused jig-saw of history. And al that moment, time was I i invaded by e ternity; it was no less a condescen sion that Our Lord should be born fcven hundrl'rl -_ - and fifty years after Romulus, than that h e should be born at B ethleh em . Time, no l es ~ than 1 I space, is transfigured when h eaven comes to earth. Lysanias wi]] never he forgotten. I i - A cutting from The Sunday Times, London. i i i •!••- - ~ l - • > 4rl:.

HEAVENLY ENCOUNTER. TOTAL ABSTINENCE In a car when the driver ran perilously near the Sham is one of the boys in the Quecn5fa11rl statue of St. Michael on the lawn, a four-year-old Primers. Susan suggested he mi~ht have earne r! tlw called out in confusion and alarm: "O ... don't run name because of his liking for Champagne. into the Lord!" "What is Champagne?" asked the teacher 10 WELL-CHOSEN WORDS. the rest of the class. Junior Boarder, reading at random out of a journal: One sma11 man was amazed al the ignorance of "'This man had literary aspirations." Pause for cogita­ his school fel1ows. tion; then J .B. explained: "I suppose that was how he ·' [ know what it is'·, h e said. ·'You w-w-w-wa ~ h said his prayers." vonr hair with it .'' 72 LORETO CONVENT, NEDLANDS, W.A.

LEAVING, SUB-LEAVING AND JUNIOR PUBLIC Fron' Row: J. Healy, M. Holman, K . Dwyer , ] . Clune, H . Cogan, M. Rintoul, C. Lowe, B. Coffey. (Continued

PREFECTS ]. M cComish, E . Foley ( Head of the School), R. Hanrahan, B. Allen, E. Co nnor, V. Guthrie.

LEAVING, SUB-LEAVING AND JUNIOR PUBLIC Second Row : P. Miller, M. F els , C. Connell, B. Cranfie ld, R. Carroll, E . Johnson, B. Allen, A. Briggs. Back Row : J . M c Comish, V. Guthrie, E. Foley, E. O'Connor. R . H a nrahan.

View of the Convent grounds, showing the new stone fence. ------LORETO CONVENT, NEDLANDS, W.A.

SUB-JUNIOR AND FORM III. (Top.) Front Row : J . Heenan, D. Whitely, S. Ryan, R. Ferguson, P . Membery, M Joyce, G. Angell, R. Fogarty, J . Howson, K. Riley, E . Cogan, J. Edwards, V. Colbert. Second Row: D. Healy, C. Bedeker, B. Magi, A. Grave, W. Harrigan, A. Shea, J. Boyd, J . Mc Donnell, E. Novelle, J . Johns, J. Miller, M. Furlong, G. Fuller. Back Row: M. Durack, P . Robins, C. O 'Hara, R. Miller, L . Logan, D. Perman, P. Cla ncy, A. Edgar, E. Stevenson, L. Hanson, L . Durack, S. Ridge, G. Slater. FORMS I & II. (Centre.) Front Row : A. Colbert, S. Wells, E . Membery, P . Membery, M. McCarter, P . Daly Smith, M . Adams, P . Wright, A. Sheridan, P . Adam, J. Randell. C. Fountain, P. Carrigg. Second Row : D. Ralston, P. Markey, H . Stephenson, H . Briggs, J . H ennessy, A. McMullen, J . Quin, D. M cCarthy, J. Br.ophy, Y. W ilmink, T . Elliott, P . Grave, E. Donnan, S. Wallwork. Back Row: J. Bonser, P . L ithgo, P. Melville, C. Brophy, D. O'Donoghu<, J. Briggs, H . Smith, C. Wilmink, E. Collins, A. C. Healy. T . Jury, M. Donaldson. GRADES III & IV. (Bottom.) F ront Row : C. Keogh, L. O 'Hara, A. Nicholas, M. Wilmink, P. Walsh, J. W ells, S. Boyd, L. Hackett, M. Burnett, K. Elliott, G. Adams. Second Row : W . Baker, C. Rodl!ers, A. Donnan, W . Lillis, S. Somers, E. Pilandri, R. Rainer, J. Castanelle, C. Wril!ht, J. Slade. Back Row : N. Montcfiore, J . Logan, H . Ralston, D. Smith, S. Franetovitch, D. RHey, J. Baker, J. Brown, R. Elliott. 74 LORETO CONVENT, NEDLANDS, W.A.

GRADES I & II. Front Row: M. T. Jensen, S. Summons, D. Elliott, C. Bonser, J. Johns, M. f:ulliva n, P. Healey. Second Row : G. Stewart, J . M . Seward, R. Moore, S. Beaton, J . Olmo, L. Brophy, D. f:heridan, f:. Baker, K. Golding. Back Row : P . Beaton, S. Sheridan, M. Colbert, J. Byrne, C. Fuller. ]. M. H. Brown.

Front Row: C. Co gan, ] . Rodgers, H. Walsh, D. Cole, P. Summons, D. Barker, B. Elliott, L. Fuller, ] . M. Cullity, R. Moore. Second Row: D. Davis, J. Ryan, K. Ahern, N. Montefiorc, M. R. Miller, R. Nicholas, M. Adams, J. Beeton, R. Ireland, C. K eogh, J . Chapel, S. Felton, S. Maitland. Back Row: A. Montefiore. D. Tate, G. Cole, P. Shea, P. Baker, M. Birming ham, M. L avan, A. Horgan. G. Bodeker, B. M2sters, M. Ireland. G. Beaton. C. Barnet, G. Pace.

75 LORETO Hours of Leisure LILAC TIME IN THE GARDENS THOUGHTS FOR A MISSION To begin with it was the boarders' first outing RECREATION for the school year, so naturally we felt ready to enjoy everything. At Loreto, Mary's Mount About two o'clock we left M~r y's Mount with Wednesday : W e think it 1s time the Y.C.S. our chaperone, Miss Gleeson, to attend " Music for Miss ion Group did some thing. the P eople" conducted by H ector Crawford. J en­ Thursday, 8.30 a.m. : Fire in the study helps nifer E ddy and Ronald Austron were singing the thought. This evening we shall have a recreation leading parts in "Lilac Time" . to crown all recreations - for the Missions. On our way we walked through the picturesque Botanical Gardens. They looked beautiful with 8.35: Therese has a list of remarkable dances. their velvety green lawns, big lazy begonias, cool, i·efreshing rockeries and neat, sober avenues. 8.37: Passed by censor. There were many people walking or strolling 8.40: If we were to make cocoa for supper?!! down the broad, shady paths ; happy people gayly 8.41: It's a11 for the Missions, after all. dressed in bright warm reds, quiet, sedate green3 8.45: Assembly. School begins, and still no plans ! and h ectic blues and yellows. Everyone seemed to 10.20: Emergency planning. Programme drawn up. have the same intention to see and admire the 10.30-Noon: T emptations and distractions at Class. gardens and then to attend " Music for the People". (Who will provide those prizes? ) We soon arrived at the lawn set apart for 12.30: More plans. W e are ge tting under way - " Lilac Time". Ever yone seemed to be in a happy, classical phrase! peaceful frame of mind r eady to enjoy Franz Schubert's light-hearted but rich, sweet melodies. 4.30: Decoration of the hall. W e like Finola 's We even saw the Begonia Queen of 1955 wearing a colour scheme : purple, red and gold! red taffeta frock with a small black hat and black Aspidistras on prize table look reckless and acceswries. Most of the people were sitting on the gay. grass, but some had brought deck-chairs. p.m. Ver y soon after our arrival, the orchestra began 8.00: Doorkeepers resist onrush. Can no one tuning up. Over the microphone we h eard m elodious change a ten-shilling note ? waterfalls, tuneful growls and harmonious scamper­ 8.05: Dancing in full swing. Is the music too soft ings and patterings from the various instruments. or are our voices too loud? W c h eard the silver soprano voices and the golden, 8.10: Passing the broom. No serious injuries. me11ow baritones, too. 8.15: Monte Ca rlo. Restrained frenzy. · After an introductory speech by Compere 8.20: Therese is realizing how ineffectual can be Roland Strong, we stood, as the proud notes of our one's calls for silence. National Anthem rose and fell. Then "Lilac Time" 8.25: Some people succeed in throwing ping-pong began! balls into a basin. Many do not. As the crisp notes fell on our ears, we watched 8.30: The Slippe r Dance. You must match the the strict time and accurate bowing of the orchestra slipper you hold with _the one your partner under the baton of Hector Crawford. The sweet wears. Such shoe styles on a cold Ba11arat voice of Jennifer Eddy blended beautifully with evening. Ronald Austron's musical tenor. The p eople of Ballarat applauded as they recognised the talent 8.35 : A simple fox-trot. of the musicians. • 8.40: Presen ta ti on of Prizes. W e are pleased Roland Strong told the story well and we found that Jan Barker receives a prize for good parts of it amusing. The quality of the music did behaviom. She has improved greatly of not change, although the mood was different in many late. parts. Sometimes the music was free and happy, 8.45: The best part of it: Supper. sometimes sweet and sorrowful. 8.50: Bed. The Miss ion Group are left washing We could have listened to the music forever, up. but as the shadows lengthened, "Lilac Time" ended, and a proud, happy Ballarat crowd went home after May God bless all the generous h e lpe1· ! yet · another day of the Begonia Festival of 1955. ANNETTE McSWINEY (15), Mary's Mount. A little boy asked hi mother for cigarettes for the leopards in Ireland. T each er's talk on St. Pat­ Suffragette Miss, objecting to the use of " h e" rick had been fo11owefl by an appeal for Fr. Roch's and " him" for Angels, "Wouldn' t little girls have lepers on Fant.Orne Island! But who can explain l ady angels?" away Leopardstown? 76 LORETO FISHING ADVENTURE moored ). This hindered our progress for about ten minutes. We finally succeeded in dropping The first thing that met my eye that morning anchor at the spot where the man had told us to was my fi shing rod, which was balancing precari­ leave the boat. \Ve were now presented with another ously against the wall. Thinking hard, I remembered difficulty - that of getting to shore. that it was the day on which H elen and I wer e As we were uncertain as to the depth of wate1· going fi shing. round the boat, n either of us felt inclined to get Having previously induced ~u y father to dr~ve out and pull the boat in fa1· enough for us to get us to Rockingham, I arranged for Helen to arrive our gear out. At last H elen , brave to the last, and at my place at 8.30 a.m. Bundling all our gear into upon m y insistence jumped into the water and the car, we set off at 9.30 a.111 . Driving through Cot­ promptly was soaked to the waist. Amid much tesloe, we suddenly r em embered that we had no bait, mirth we finally arrived back at the shop to return so we stopped and brought a cray tail. the oars and pay for the hire of the boat. When we arrived at Rockingham, we joyfully Then we went for a walk to dry Helen's clothes watched the car heading back towards P erth. We and buy some thing to eat. \Vhen we got back, we looked around and saw a shop, with a notice " Boats found that we had missed our bus, and had to wait to Hire", and we went in to enquire. After assuring almost an hour for the next. the man that we knew everything about rowing At last we alighted in Fremantle where we boats, he agreed to let us hire one. H e shmved us the caught the bus for home. On our arrival our parents boat, moored near the shore, gave us our oars and greeted us with cries tinged with irony of "Whe1·e's left us to fend for ourselves. the fi sh?" We replied very haughtily that we Thinking h e might change his mind, we hastily " couldn' t afford a taxi in which to bring them home." put our things into the boat and cast off, getting BARBARA ALLEN, HELEN COGAN, saturated in the process. After rowing furiously for (Sub-Leaving), several minutes, we suddenly saw that we were Nedlands. not moving. We soon discovered why. The anchor was still reposing on the ocean bed!! We remedied this and set out once more for our objec­ OUR FIRST DANCING LESSON tive, which was a place about a hundred anrl fifty It was on Friday, 10th June, 1955, that the news yards further on. was broken to us - dancing lessons were to be We took out our lines, baited them and threw held at a neighbouring Catholic Boys' College, and them out, anticipating that soon we would have we the Sub-Leavings together with some of the a bagful of herring. W e soon had half a dozen - Juniors and pupils from Lore to, Osborne, could Blowfish! We stood up in the boat to see if we attend if they wish ed. could see any be tter place, and nearly capsized. The news was received with mixed feelings. Rowing further on (not forgetting the anchor this Hitherto most of us (Subs.) had been proud of our time), we arrived at a likely spot and began again. dancing, which we delighted in, and which I must After catching six " Blowies" we had dinner, confess we regarded as an accomplishment - and during which we were surrounded by eagulls, and now dancing lessons were suggested! two albatrosses. After this, as it wa H elen's first However, we had lo make a quick decision, time out, [ d ecided to le t her take the rod and catch would we join or not? Naturally our tongues the fi sh , whilst I baited the hook, and removed anv worked overtime, discussing the many important fi sh which happened to stray on to the line. . facts which had to be taken into consideration, e.g., I was lying back in the boat, gazing peacefully the safety of our shoes, stockings and feet. at the sky, when alJ at once a piercing scream After discussing the subject from ever y angle shattered the stillness of the day - it was H elen. I our curiosity triumphed, the decision was r eached, started up, expecting to see her with at least a and the next day founfl us lau ghing, smiling, talking shark on h er rod. It turned out to be an insignificant - at the Dancing Class ! little stonefish. She was sitting ther e, dangling it While our teacher gracefull y showed us the over the water, completely ignoring my pleas to basic steps, the boys laughed and exclaimed, "Easy". "Bring it in! Bring it in!" At last sh e obeyed my Everything was just perfect. In fact, all went demands, and swung it with a mighty swipe, prac­ r, moothly, until we began to dance ! tically into my face, and nearly pushing me back­ Apologies which were at the beginning uttered wards into the Indian Ocean. Finally we succeeded in male voices, slowly but surely gave way to female in getting it off the hook - by cutting the line. tones patiently sa ying - " 1,2,3 1,2,3, No, No, not In all we cciught; twenty " Blowies", three quite right." "Stonies", and we lost. fifteen hooks. We had no Every now and again low moans and sighs were more hooks so we decided to call it a day and pull rnppre sed, by the girls, as once again the boys' for the shore. It was now about half past two. memories failed to function and their feet became The trip back to shore was uneventful except entangled with their partner's feet, or any one else's that we collided with another boat (which was that happened to be in the vicinity. 77 LORETO

However, the fact that they were pleasant, The first pho to was that of Our Lady's Mass co-operative and willing to acknowledge, in nine a t the grotto. lt was a beautiful morning, and the cases out of ten, our superiority over them (in altar in its lovely setting of natural bush and palms. dancing, that is) made the hour a success, and made a truly impressive scene. Everyone knelt, try­ although we came out of the hall, tired, wiser and ing to look extraordinarily angelic, while, at the with several grey hairs, we had a 101 of fun with ~ am c time, ed ging into vi e w of the camera. the boys, and we all enjoyed our first dancing The next shot was the Sahara (our sports fi eld I . lesson. We are now looking forward to the next but as it was only the Middle School who were with some degr ee of hope, secure in the knowled ge " looking natural" '!'. hile play ing cricke t, softball and that our " pUj)ih" could never disimprove ! ! tennis, the seniors pre pared to walk up and down JILL CLUNE (Sub-Leaving), our wide Avcn•J e ( looking natured, of course !) I Nedlands. have never seen so many girls who suddenly need ed Pxercise before, some were even - STUDYING!! TALLY-HO! (or rn they would have us believe! I The came ra moved up the Avenue to where the April is h ere! Y.C.S. Missions Group and work we re artistically The huntsm an has anxiously been awa1t111g the arranged unde1· a lovely gum (very naturaJly) ; on fint rains, so that he can take his hounds out of to the Pioneer Club Group (also very natural) and the kennels, and into the bush for exercise and tlwn over lo I h e Junior School. training. Joyousl y they leave their yards for they know the Hunting Season has com e around once Meanwhile, the seniors were preparing for the more. T he air r c~ ound s with their glad baying, as Y. C.S. lead ers' shot, that was to be taken in one of with their tails helcl hi gh, and their noses sniffing our new modern classrooms. We were to h ave a low, they cast for the scent of the gam e. Gospel Discussion, but, when the came ra began to Owino- to the nature of our hunting country take the shot, no one could think of anything to and gam e: Bt>a glc Hounds are used instead of the cliscusc- , so we all looked very intelligent and talked traditional Foxhounds. They are very game little a lot about nothing, but, it served the purpose. animals, and give us good fast nms when they pick A De bate by the Club sta i·s was next, and, as up the scent. the audien ce was Lo be seen in this sh ot, the rf' was How exciting it can be to hear the hound ~ a wild scramble for front seals. give tongue, see the horses prick their ears and The last, and most spectacular shots we re Lw o stamp the ir h oofs impatiently, waiting for the signal 'lCe nes from the play, " Our Lady of Guadaloupe", to take off helte r-sk elte r through the bush , around which was being producecl by the Leavings at His trees and over logs, sometimes missing tumbles by Majesty's Theatre. Never had Hollywood producecl the sh eer est miracles. Ther e are usually many falls, such scenes. but someone will always stand by you while anothe r Then the photographer disappeared as quickly catch es vour horse. as h e had com e, leaving behind him a bevy of I think in no other sport is there so much com­ stars and hopeful expectations. B y the next day, panionship as in a hunting fi e ld ; perhaps because this atmosphere had given way to the routine of it is not competitive, but m ainly hecause all horse­ school life. Our moments of glory had ended. WPll lovers have a common boncl that wonde rful - 1 hope we looked natural! animal, the horse. SONYA CRANSTON (Junior Public), MARY O'HARA (Sub-Leaving), Claremont. Claremont.

STARDOM PICTURES OLD AND NEW One bright sunny Wednesday morning in March, Have you ever pondered over Modem A rt? there was an unusual amount of bustle at " Osborne·· Have you ever made an effort lo unde rstand it? as boarder s rose and dressed. Tunics were unnatur­ Or are you one of those who carefully study a blob nlly well ironed, shoes were u.nnat urally well shine1l on a canvas, and exclaim: " Yes, how wonderful it and everyone was carefull y arranging unnaturally is" ? Or do you on the other hand, sav '·Have the well-groornecl hair; fo1· to-day we were having what painters had a mishap here? "" . practiccilly arnounte cl to a "screen-test". Who knew where to-day's doings might lead? - London - I had not any decided attitude towards Modern The Old Vic - Hollywood!! To-day, a movie photo Art before going to the Blake Prize Exhibition in was being tak en - a movie of the school and the P erth A rt Gallery. grounds, and, as w e are parl of school equipment, These pictures were startingly cliff e i·ent from the we were to b e included. usual religious pictures to which we have grown Everyone ran around in a slate of suppressed accustomed. No pious an gels playing on harps were excitement, till finally the news leak ed out - " H e found h er e; nor were any sweet faced Virgins has arrived". de picted. The painter s seem to h ave been inspired 78 L 0 R E T 0 by a different world, and to have aimed at entirely A HOLIDAY AT SOUTH MOLLE different effects. Some of the pictures were quite comprehensible, Bound for the Barrier R eef! Never shall I even pleasing. Others were riddles; others simply forget my trip to the R eef. I was tingling with ugly. A fantasy in purple and green held us. It was subdued excitem ent, fired with keen anticipation of a representation of Christ after the Crucifixion the natural wonders I had so often h eard about surrounded by His Mother and the other holy - palm-fringed coral islands; sh eltered lagoon with women. The faces wern all similar, all e longated water clear as crystal, sparkling, glittering in the and distorted, all focussed on the prostrate body sunlight ; animal life infinite in its variety, absorbing, of Christ. This was the artist's effort to express grief. thrilling in its interest ; coral gardens of great Grief we could see; but why this stark, repelling beauty; fi shes gaudily coloured, amazingly patterned; rep res en ta ti on? sunsets peaceful, majestic, awe-inspiring. Adam and Eve were popular themes. They Leaving Mackay, about 10 o'clock in the morn­ appeared in settings of lurid and glaring colours, ing we h ead ed for South Molle. At five o'clock we hideou s snakes and luscious apples. All were unreal, r eached the island; comfortable huts awaited our crude, a fantastic world! * arrival and we quickly unpack ed our belongings, Not one of these modern paintings could stand for a big day awaited u s. comparison with an old master. It was with r elief Pat and myself awoke in the dim light before that I turned to the lovely figures of Raphael, dawn to find p erfect stillness and a cloudless sky. Botticelli, Murillo. The Sistine Madonna is not only Making for the beach we watched the sun, a beautiful, but it inspires us with devotion and love. red sphere seemingly rise out of the water, reflecting The tender Virgins, the lovely Bebes, the youthful a ruddy glow which trailed to the water's edge. angels, all raise our thoughts to God. Who could Dressed in swimming costumes we plunged into the say this of most of our modern religious pictures? ~ hallow lagoon. When at last we had to leave the The work of these great Old Masters was really water we felt completely r efreshed. expressive - of their faith, their ideas, and their At breakfast we were told that there would be appreciation of beauty. Are we to believe that the a trip to the reef. So we decided to join with the pictures in the Blake Prize Exhibition are true others who were going to explore the deeper expressions of our times? water beyond the r eef in a glass-bottomed boat. As MARY PATON (Leaving), we gazed into the cool green light of the liquid * Perhaps an art student from another Loreto depths we werp . transported into a new world, and would like to refute these charges.-Ed. we gasped with wonder at the magnificence of the scene below us. Delicate, finely branch ed coral CHRISTMAS trees and shrubs, corals arranged in tiers like a Buddhist Temple, corals myriad in their variety The sky was dark, save one bright star, passed by as we slowly and quietly moved over the The air was breathless, still, surface. Their colours were restful rather than While three wise men came from afar, brilliant. Wherever we looked, fishes, unaware of And shepherds trudged the hill. our presence, swam lazily about the maze of coral growth. A cave there was, near Bethlehem, Going to bed that night we realized what a Secluded, lonely, poor, wonderful two weeks were before us. Within its walls away from men, JO SIMMONDS (16), A little child was born. Brisbane. A gentle virgin, young and fair, Knelt near her loving spouse, WORD-AND-MEANING SESSION: Her radiant eyes cast down in prayer After Father Carroll went we all took the For those long, sacred hours. Mortgages. * * * * Watchful shepherds left their sheep A SLEIGH RIDE And by the crib they knelt Outside it was snowing, Adoring, too enthralled to speak And a cold, bleak wind was blowing, The wonders which they felt. And I could see a group of children JILLIAN LAMBERT (Matriculation). Making a snowman out of snow. Toorak. Sleigh rides were a penny a go, And I was wishing for a sleigh ride in the snow. THE TYRANT When all the children went away to play, The doctor's wife was making the little Loreto I found the sleigh. patient at home in the Surgery. But alas the snow had melted, Lady: " There you are, dear. Take off your So I didn't have a sleigh ride in the snow. gloves; Mother Superior won't see you." JULIE HENNESSY (12). Child: "Are you frightened of her, too? " Nedlands. 79 LORETO CONVENT, TOOR AK, VIC.

The Convent in Springtime, 1955

Two members of the Intermediate Class at their weaving. On s unny days looms are ta ken outside.

Patricia McCormack (right) Tennis Captain 1955, and Runner·up Under 19 Singles V.C.L.T.A. Tournament. Moya McCormack, winner Under 16 Singles V.C.L .T.A. Tournament, Easter, 1955.

INFORMAL SCENES 80 LORETO CONVENT, TOORAK, VIC.

Jillian Lambert (right) , Captain of St. Teresa's, the winning House in the 1954 Sports; with Joanna McClelland, Vice-Captain.

The Front Door.

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Lti LORETO CONVENT, TOORAK, VIC.

A happy group of Jubilarians after the Crowning Ceremony, December, 1954

Some members of the Kindergarten preparing for their Sports Afternoon.

Some Mission Supporters en route to the X avier College May-time Fair, 1955.

ROLL CALL. (Continued from Page 83.)

C H AP MA N, JOA '.\/N E Tl ER N A '\/ , ~ ! AR\' LOU DOYL E, E D\\"I N A VALE, H ELEN FET H ER STO N ll Al' G H, \\"I L KI NSO N , CE CE LI A H ELEN SKEN E, E LI ZABETH F UN DER, SUSA N ll OURKE, H U GH GE RBER, VI CKY CA I-II LL, JOH:\ ll ALL , CATH E RI N E D W Y E R, JOH N JAQU J N OT, MO N IQ UE GARDTN I, R O BE RT J O H NSTON, CATH E RI NE JENS, J O ll '.\/ K NO W LES, PENNY L YNCH , ST EP llJ.: \"" McCAFFREY, Marg-a ret .\ la ry ~ l c A U L EY , PATRI CK McARDLE, l\I ARGARET O GGE , N EIL O'BR IEN, ELlZAHE T ll S M IT H, ST l·: P ll E.\' S l:lf P SO !\', J O ANNA T lER:\'EY, PAU L McCOY, J U LfA TOM S, CH R TSTOPllE H ST E LLEN, E LIZAH ET l l T R ENCH ARD , J O H N

82 LORETO CONVENT, TOORAK, Vic. MATRICULATION CALLIL, YOLA S I NN, ANNA SYNMANN, SANDRA CURTIS, PAULINE VON HARTE ~ YVONNE WOODWARD ANNE CALDER, CATHERI NE BUR ' S, ANGELA ZSIZSMAN, CHRlSTI .'\'10: CALLIL, CA RME N DlTCHBURN, MARGARET DOYL~ MARGARET ANNE HIRSCH, ELEANOR CASH, FRA NCESCA GAY, D IA 'A DAVIS, MARG £ R ITE DWYER, H ELEN PREPARATORY EVERITT, JULIE ALLESIO, D l ANE DITCHBURN, PAULA BO ILEAU, PATRI CI A GRADE III D'A RCY, ANN FlNLAY, ELIZABETH ANDERSON, BARBAR.'\ FI NLAY, MARGARET FREDERICO, LOLITA BROGAN, ANNE CALLIL, I NGR ID ASHLEY, PRUDENCE GOULDING, CA ROLY N G ILBERTSON, JANICE COLEMAN, MARY ELIZABETll GOODEN, SUSAN CALLIL, RETTA JILL, JUDIT ll CO RBY, ROSE MARY CONQUEST, BER.'\'ADETT E KOSKY, CLAUDETTE GOUGH, LEONORE DALY, MARY HARDY, SUSAN DUCK, BERNADETT I·: LATTAl\ Z I, G RA'I I.\ EVERITT, CLARE EDGERTON, NINA LITTLE •\ J\N 1-1OL T, MARGOT FETHERSTONHAUG ll, ~kCAUSLAND, HELEN FORSYTH, SUNNY McDONALD, . J OY PA~IEL ,\ MEEHAN, PATRIC IA ~ l c CLELLAND, PHILLIPA GOREY, SUSAN llOPPE , DANETTE GODFREY, SUSA!\ .MEEHAN TON I McDERM OT, PATRICIA ll AMlLTON-SMITH KERR\' McNAMARA, JACQUELINE HOPPE, PATR IClA NEED, CORAL! E fRELAND, ELIZABET H ll O RE, SANDRA ' POvVER, MARGA R ET MONTAGUE, JEN NY JENS, MAR l A PLANT, ED\VYNA MOORE, FRANKIE JENS, FRANCES LEY, JUD ITH JOHNSON, KAREN WHITEH EAD, C HR ISTI NE O'NElL, ELl ZABETH JOH NSTON, A NNE WILKINSON, ANN !'ATTERSON, ANNE LYNCH, HELEN MANNING, C HJUSTl NE LEES, ATENA WAKEFI ELD-KENT, FE LI C ITY PETTY, JOCELYN McDONALD, MI Cl-IELl.E RUSSO, CECI LIA O'BRIEN, IM ELDA \\' AKEFl ELD-KENT VI RGl '> I -\ OCCLES J-1 A \V, J\JA RGARET MANN, KAT llR\'X LEAVING \Vl'l lTEHEAD, JANE - . O'RORKE, JOAN MANN, M IRELLE IJOWE. '. D IANA PEARSON, ROMALA MIKL O~ ALEXANDRA ,\DAM S, J U LIANA DELOFFRE, DANI ELLE MOLONE\', JULIENJ'\E GODBY, SUSAN ROCHE, MARGARET BERGIN, MARGARET RUSSO, CONN I E MORRISON, Al\GELA BERKOWITZ, DORE l'N EZARD, NO i.A MUL\IANY, ANGELA LORD, D IAi\'A SULLIVAN, MARY JANE DOYLE, MO IRA S LATTER \', ANGELA NOLAN, BARBARA FLYNN, PATR IC IA STENSON, ANNE O'DONOGllUE, SUZAXNE G ILCHR IST, A ' GEi.A SECOND YEAR OSHAUG H NESSY PETc\ ACTO ', GAY 1.E STEVENSON, BARBARA GORE\', JANET \\' ALLAC~ MARGARET AXNE PARKER, l\IARG.A'.RET ~!ARY GRAHAM, Jl'DITll UREN NAN, GA i L QUIGG, MAR I E T H ERESE IJ U RNS, ANGELA \\' ELLSTEAD, DA LE GREV I S- JA~ 1 ES, D IANE \\' EST, EL IZABETH ROBERTSON, JILL HART, DEN ISE DEV I NE, MARGARET STARR, JANE DOYLE, JUD IT IL MARY LEWIS-\V ll.L IAMS, l'enclope HAYDEN, MARGOT DIAMOND, ALEX IS TONER, CATll ER l ;-IE HOUSTON, ANN EDGERTON, MAR\' ANITA \\'ARE, GERALD I NE FEELY, JULIA CURTIS, ELlZABETl l KEARNEY, SUSAN COSTIGAN, ~ I ADELEINE \\' l M POLE, CATHER I l\ E T.OFTUS-llll.1.S, SUZANNE FREDERICO, ~1ARGARITA OLDFIELD, J UDITll LOUGHNAN, CLARE GR I J\!ES, 1-IC:LE:--1 MARSLAND, DIANA JENS, KATRINA GRADE V GRADE II JAQU I OT, S IMO:-.IE _. \ CTO ' , STJSA ,'\ ,\DAM S, JOAi\' McCORMACK, MOY A Ai\DERSON, CA ROL ~ I ONTAGUE , ANNE l\.ELLY, CAROLINE Ai\'STEE, PA~IEL\ NORTHAM , ANN KUHLMANN, Cl lRI ST I X I·: BINN I NG, ROBYN BARRETT, SARA O ' CONNOR, PATR ICIA LE\\'TS, ELIZABETH BURRELL, FAYNE IJROGAN, MEGAN McCORMACK, PATRTCL\ LY NC H, ANNE CALLlI,, CELINE IJR\' CE, F I ONA O'DAY, DEIRDRE LY NC ll, MAR\' ANKE CONNELL, MARGARET HURRELL, LYNNE PEARSON, JUD ITH LEL\', ELIZABETH DALY, ELIZABET H CAH I LL, BERNADETTE RY AN, COLETTE LEO NARD, JAN U\\' YER, PATRIC IA CALLAG l-IA:\, Al\NE FLY NN, MARY RYAN, MARY ~IAGGLA, l'Rl,;E COLE~JA .'\', DEBLEY A:>INE S PENCER, CA MILLE ~IAGGLA.. SUE GALBALL \', ANNE IO: DGERTO:\, LOUISE \\'ARRY PATRICIA McKERNAN, LEON IE GLOVER, SUSA.\/ JONES, MARGOT \\1 11.LIA.l'l'!S, ADR I EN'.'IE .\lclNERNE\', l'ATR ICIA HOGAN-TAYLOR, GA I L LECHTE, CHRISTI NA KUH LMANN, MARGARET ~l clNERNEY, KATH LEE:-< JAQUINOT, \f!Cl-CELJ.£ LEY, SUZAN:-.IE O'FARRET.T., DA\\'N \ fAR I E ~1 c HARG, GENEV IEVE JOHNSTON, KR ISTEN LY NCJI , N I NA MARY O'ilRl EN, DEIRDRE KELLY, JANE McCANN, ELIZABETH OGGE, PATRIC IA KUHLMANN, ELSA McCAULEY, GENEV I E\'E INTERMEDIATE LITTLE, KE! RAK ROB I NSON, ROIJ l l\ ~ll KLOS, C l-I RISTlNE ADAMS, GABRIELLE LYNCH, LEVEDA BATLEY, ELAINE RYAN, ADRJENKE .\fORRLSON, MARY LO ISE STOKES, HELEK McCLELLAND, PATRIC IA flARRY, ~1AREE O 'BR!El\, MAR\' \\' ll ITEHEAD, HEl.EN ~ l cDAV J TT, JANE O'COLL I NS, GERALDINE flAXTER, PATRIC IA PERRY, SUZANNE BURKE, JILT.TAN DUGGAN, APRIL PARKER, J OSEPHlKE CASHMORE, JOSEPHI N I·'. PITT, ROSAL! ND ROBSON, VIRGINA CLOW ES, ELTZAHET ll FIRST YEAR SCARFF, KRISTEN \L\R\' SCARFF, ANNE MAl:REEN ANDERSON, JILLIAN SlMPSON, l'HILJPPA SCHAFER, PENELOPE CURRIE, LESLIE ST. E L LEN, MARGARET CURTI S, ANN BARRETT, DENISE S W EENE\', ANNE ()ETHR IDGE, CYNT ll J..\ BARRETT, SUSAN \\' EGMAN, CH RIST! .'\'E T I ERNAN, JANET DALEY, NOR1'1A J.lR'l.. CE, MAR IA \\' fLSON, DIANE TfERi\'E\', ANNE DEVINE, JACQU ET.I NE JJYRNE, MARY RATCLIFFE, ALEX.-\XDRA \\' ALKER, CA ROL! XE DOYLE, ~!ARY CLANCY, MAR I L\':'\ \\'ARRY, ~\ ! ARIE DUCK, 11 1AR Y COREEN, ANNE GRADE IV RUSSO, CHR IST I NE HTZGERALD, ED\\' YN ..\ DUCK, MARGARET ADAMS, J U I.I A If A.\! I LTOl\'-SM 1 T l I, FEELEY, VIRGINTA FAKHRY, JANETTE .-\ HE R N, ROSALl'>IJ JACQL' l·'. Ll:>IE FLYNN, PEGG \' F UNDER, MARY BOWDEN, JANE KEARNEY, JANE GOODCHILD, P ATRIC IA GUEST, SUSAN BURKE, SUSAN L\' '.liC I-1 , LAURETTE GODSET.L, JENNI FER G ILCHR IST, KATHERI NE CAROLAN, ANNE GOUT.DING, JOAN GLOVER, V lRGINl A CLAYTON, GENEVIE\'E GRADE II (cont.) HA\'\\' A RD, AXNE GURRY, MARGARET CROSBY , LORRAI NE llEST, JAMES JOl\ES, CA ROL ll ANLEY, MAR\' EDGE RTO N, ELlZABETll BOURKE, PETER KING, D IANA ll OPPS, SUSAN F l.ANAGAN, SUSAN FLYNN, ADRIAi\' LYNCH, 1'1AR\' JENS, TERESA GALBALLY, PATRI C IA GAY, i\ 11 CHA EL 'MA NNI NG, GA il. JOHNSTON, BARBARA GARDI NA, D IANA HOLLYWOOD, MICHAEi. REl D, MARGARET KI NG, MARY GILB E RTSON, PAULI NE H OPPE, ANTON\' ROBINSON, SANDRA S l ' E KNOWLES, SUSAN GUEST, JILLI AN .\kGUI NESS, PETER McGUINESS, PATRTCI.·\ LARKI NS, JILLIAN HAMILTON, ELIZABET ll O'BRIEN, JOHN ROCHE, HELEN LlGHTFOOT, MARIA IRELAND, ADRIENNE O'DOl\OGHUE, SfMON SER ONG, SUSAN L EW I S-W l LLIA~ I S, l\1AR\' JENS, ANNA S MITH, DONAT \\'ARRY, MARGA RET l\fARSH, JENNY KEARNEY, CHR ISTI:\..\ VACCARI FRANCO \Vfi\fPOLE, ELIZABETll 1\ l cKECHNE, BARBARA KELLY, SUSAN \\' I LK f NSO:\/, KINGSLEY \\'lHGHT, JOSPEl-IINE AicGUINESS, BRENDA MAGGS, J I LL ZA HARA, ROBERT OCCLESHA\\', JOA'.\/ M ORNEMENT, SUSA!\ McCOY, ANNE SPRING, SUSAN O'DONOGHUE, HELEN .\I A fl\' MIDDLETON, ANGEi..·\ GRADE I O'RORKE, ANNE MORRISON, MARGARET ANDERSOi\', FRA.'\'CES SUB-INTERMEDIATE PlTT, LORNA NOONE, ANNE BELL. JOANXA BRENNAN, LIZA PALFEY, MARY O 'DAY, PRUDENCE BRYCE, SAlHNA BREW', SUZANNE PRENDERGAST, ELIZABET ll STMPSON, CATHE Rl i\'E BUXTON, SUSAN BRODERICK, L CILLE RESCH, SUSAK S fNN, FELICITY CAHIL L, MARY CALDER, ROS EMARY ROCHE, CARMEL SWEENEY, l\IARIE THERESE CALDER, ELIZABETll 83 LORETO The Hoine Front WESTWARD IS HOME out before us. The sun has sunk below the horizon of distant mountains, and the sky is rich in crimson On the morning of break-up day each term, and gold. With a feeling of joyous excitem ent I ~o m e of the country boa r

T h e curve of the bridge look ed tragic in the A t last the moon conquered and seemed to moonlight rem indin g one of the man who committed shine out so much more clearly and bea utifully than suicide w h ile buildin g it. W e m oved under it quietly. before. T he thin white clouds seem ed like a ver y Under its sh adows, every tiny sound was magnified thin piece of ti ssue pa pn stretched across the f ront and echoes ran g back as we sat there in silence. of a very powerful torch. We could h ear the others in the big canoe H aving wa tch ed a ll this time, I began to fee l approach ing and now they were also under the drowsy and wanted lo sleep. But the moon seem ed bridge. All was ver y quiet except for them. to draw me to the window and keep me fastened W e turned for h om e but this time we sped on the re, h er p r isoner. the mirrored surface as if we scarcely toucher! it, Then my mother came up to me anrl broke the into the path of the m oon. great stillness by !' a ring in h er soft, gentle vo ice. The clear nigh t made the sk y a li ve with stars. " Com e on, Levina, if F time for bed. You w ill be T h ey were m ade pa le by the full moon. Its li ght very tirerl in the morning." glittered before us, d azing us with its bri ghtn es~ The spe ll was brok en so I said goodnight to the and beauty. As we slowly moved to the shore, it moon anrl crept into m y bed still thinking of the seemed we h ad been gone a brief mom ent. Slowl y greatness of the moon and its Mak er . we draw back to the willows and the others. our friends waiting ther e ; back to the world of r ea lity LEVINA JANE HICKS (15) , and people. Behin d us we left the lake anrl Mary's Mount. the moon, to sleep anrl live with only God to watch . MARGARET SULLIVAN ( 15 ) . NIGHT RIDE Mary's Mount, Ballarat. The trees a rc sh rourl crl in mist, W hile the lamp tha t shines on the we l r oarl THE MOON Leans sli ghtly. I usuallv look at the sk y each night anrl imagine The winds whistle through the tall tree•, wh a t the moon is seeing 0;1 the earth a t this time. The we t grasF stre tches unendingly into the shadows. So many rliffcrent people are on the way to the Night h as wrappe r! h er inky cloak over all, m o vi e~, .others just goin g for a drive, some go in ~ Hurriedly I cycle through the park, dancing, o th e r ~ visiting friends anrl rela tions. The Not stopping or wa iting to h ea r if moon sees a 11 thi ~ from her high p lace in I h e Anyone follows close behind. h eavens. At · last, I see the street li ght. The other night as I leant out of my window Horne is close at hand, the clouds were in three layers. Nearest to earth W hen a t our gale m y praye rs cease, the clouds were blown alo;1 g at a stead y speed. [ b rea the a sigh of utter and content relief, Into •ny father·s h ouse. The next layer was m oving in the opposite directi on N. going slower , anrl the last layer was hardly m ovinir Loreto Abbey, Mary's Mount. at all. The rap; of the full moon were ver y bright and this made everything seem so quiet, still anrl BUYING A HAT peaceful. It would have ~e e m e d out of place for an yone to speak. Every few months, .Mother says, '·I must buy a new hat.'" Some Moth er s have a de finite idea in T h e clouds flitted to and fro across the moon 's mind when buy ing a hat, but m y Mother neve1· face as if they were little children playing in a 0 has. She goes into the shop, and pounces instantly garden under the eyes of their mo ther or father . on wha t sh e gleefull y calls " a ba rgain", which Sudrlenly from the south-east there came h eavy usu ally consists of a small piece of felt in an unin­ black clouds like a thief coming to steal som ething spiring brown. This, the sh op girl informs her, very dear to us. T hey grew darker as they came must be fitted on to the h ead. My Mother, after a closer anrl bega n lo blot out the light which the few vain attempts to bend " the bargain" into a moon wa ~ sending down to us. "shape" discards it, to the secret delight of the shop I grew afraid; the dark clouds h ad conquer t> d girl, for a slightly mor e ex pensive model in p ale the moon"s rays it seem ed, when a faint glimmer green straw. This is the variety known as a "cart­ of light, l ike a torch shining in a smok y room, began wheel h at" , which d escr ibes it p erfectl y. This par­ to find its way throu gh the u gly black m ass, what ticula r numbe1·, being of the less expensive kind, h ad seemed like an endless len gth of black ma terial balances on th e h ead, like a plate on a ball. During being stretch ed from a gigantic roll. this effort to k eep the h at on, Mum's h air falls d own, I wanted to ch eer and sh out out to the moon and several minutes pass whilst sh e r e-d oes it, and to k eep up her fi ght that sh e was beginning to find casts h er eye around at the same time for further the weak spot in the black sea of w ilderness. There insp ec ti on. Now co mes a sm all pink affair, known was a strange feeling of joy and ho pe ringing in as a " mushroom " . This is supposed to fit the back my h eart. of the hearl , but having been fitted nothing can he 86 LORETO

~ ee n of it from the front. The salesgirl suggests a T entatively, we produce the graduation gown large bow on top, which when tried , borders on the {made from an old black petticoat ). With rapid ridiculous. It is at this time that the reckless gleam movem ents we slip it on to him. Ah ! Success ! No, in the buyer's eye is detected by the salesgirl; h ence not quite. It stayed tied round his neck all right, she produces an expensive number in red , with a but it slid snake-like off his back . With a sudden whole bird over one ear. The girl informs us it is inspiration we dabbed " T arzan's G rip '" on h im, and a bird of P ar adise, and the ta il feathers are m eant then attach ed the gown. It gave a squelching sound: to curve under the chin. The feathers are curved then stuck. W e turned our atten t ion lo the spec­ under Mum's chin, and reach the vicinity of h er tacles and gradua tion cap which we h ad joinc

THE NEW BUILDING, Cavendish Road, Brisbane, Blessed and Opened in May, 1955. The school block, connected with it, is on the other side.

SENIOR SCHOOL Front Row: G. M cPherson, A. Jeffreiss, E. Nowotny, M. Moo rt , C. Ryan, P . Mac2" roarty, C. Parer, N. Stuart, R. Rhodes, J. Goodwin, E. O ' Mahony, D. Quinn, H . Salter. 2nd R ow: M. Hitzke, M. Kent, E. Healy, M. Hickey, ] . Tassell, B. Stein, M. Murphy, M. Elson-Green, M. Mclnneo, S. Chappie, R. Willett, L. Midgley, P. Holmes, P. Seymour, ] . Haupt, R. Adair, D. Kelly. 3rd Row : P. Hickey, R. Martin, M. Roache, M. Bradley, P. McCormack, A. M c Donald, P . Smith, A. McCor­ mack, S. Parer, P . Hempenstall, B. Eisler, M. Mc­ Anulty, G. Rudwick, H . Turnock, E. Nowill, C. Coorey. 4 th Row: S. Shaw, M. McAuliffe, ] . Ahern, M. Roberts, F. Kelly, J. Zacka, C. Cleary, ]. M c Donnell, J . Drum, Z. Gallagher, P. Hamilton, E. Thomas. Bae!< Row: M. Price, B. L e Broq, S. Cooper, ] . Clax­ ton, B Cooney, ] . Rowe, M. Eldrige, M. J osephson. A bsent : J . Simmonds, M. Crawford, M. Ra nkin. N. Tilorook, M. Murdock. LORETO CONVENT, BRISBANE, qLD.

Infants, Grades I and II Front Row: S. McNulty, C. Roach, B. Kellegher, C. Murphy, G. Condon, M. Willis, K . Hodges, C. Handasyde, C. Hall, C. Murray, B. Sydes, D. Josephson, M. Andersen. Second Row : B. Bugden, B. O 'Sullivan, D. Steele, F . Stewart, M. Monaghan, K. Hancock, T. Stewart, R. Guthrie, M. Herbert, B. T aylor, C. Murray, K. Preston, S. Cleary, D . Cuddidy. Thir d Row: C. Tessier, D. Eldrige, P. Nash, S. Samson, D. Hornick, C. Allen, P . Hurst, S. McDonald, M. Nowill, R. Corbett, T . Kenway, K. Monaghan, E . Leahy. Back Row : A. Nelson, P. Mc Cormack, S. Heearty, D. Waller. M. Kelly, M. Murray, A. Willis, L . Couchman, A. H arburg, M . McNulty. Absent : C. Preston.

PREFECTS (Inset) Back Row : Patricia Macgroarty, Carolin Parer, N athalie Stuart. Front Row : Glenda McPherson. Denise Q uinn, Helen Salter. LORETO CONVENT, BRISBANE, QLD.

JUNIOR SCHOOL Grades III and IV Front Row: B. Williams, K . Hodges, M. Parer, M. Owen, G. Sampson, C. Browne, K . Cum­ mings, K. Bue-den, N . Josephson, C. Douglas, M . O 'Sullivan. Second Row: M. Cassidy, N. Co ndon, B. Healy, P . Gann, B. Simpson, E. Atkinson, M. Portley, M. Griffin, J. Boyle, J. Fanning, A. Hegarty, P . Corbett. Third Row: E. McNamee, K. McNamee, K. M c­ Callum, J. M c Cormack, A. Ward, E. Griffin, L . Mc Waters, L . Kurts, A. Eldrige, C. Cav­ allaro, A. Healy. Back Row : F . Drake, G. Guthrie, C. Carter, N. Hauke, P. Stewart, M. Eisler; K. Willis, A. Browne, P. Allen. Q uinn. M. Cashel, V. Cleave.

MIDDLE SCHOOL First Row: R. McCullagh, P. Brown, C. Hook, R. Josephson, A. Gardener, E. Rudwick, W . Wilson, J. Kelly, A. Monaghan, T . Parer, P. Connolly, L . Williams. Second Row: A. O wen, F . Parer, S. Dougla s, P. Morrov., T. Arnold, M . Guthrie, M. Bowes, J. Broad, D. Owers, V. Barwick, D. Roache, M. E. McCormack, M. Stewart, P. Andrews, G. Casey. E. Dillo n, M. Roche. Third Row: H. Parer, R. Kelly, H. Kiley, T. Neylon, Y . Thomas, M. Hurst, P . Healy, S. Mirrow, P. Hickey, M. O wen, K. Poulton, S. Parer, B. Prendergast, A. Steindl, M. Howley, C. Kelly. Fourth Row: E. Atkinson, M. Finnimore, R. Lamb, C. Cassidy, J. Walshe, L. M cCosker, D. Red­ mond, M. Luddy, H. Sumner, R. Creagh, E. Parkinson, C. Bowes, P. Cosgrove, M. Edmond­ son, 8. Cooper. Back Row : M. Beirne, K. Nash, K. Noud, M. Fogarty, S. Rushbrook, C. Kerlin, F . Cleary, K. Barry, P. Simmonds, A. Clanchy. LORETO Among Our Old Girls MY MISSION ARY BROTHER * with an egg. I lit the primus which is a small spirit one and very fascinating to the Natives. I Last week I went on a five-day walkabout admit it intrigues m e a bit, too. All you do is to " antap", which is the pidgin word meaning literally tip some m e tho. into a sort of cup and light it. " on top", and in this instance : the highlands. The billv sits above the flame , and little holes in I spent Thursday afternoon packing. The Mass I he top "of the cup make the flame go like a gas kit stowed away neatly in a special pack I had jet. ln ten minutes the billy was boiled. I took the made bv Paddv Pall in (the bush walkers' supplier ), opportunity of d elivering a lecture to the boys on two bh;nke ts ~nd an air mattress with odrls and the making of tea " belong A ustralia'' anrl not ends in another, a Parldy-marlc frame-ruck sac, that American style. has seen m e through many hikes and camps down A t 1.30 we packed up anrl mover! on. It came south; a prim us, lantern, shoes and foorl and changes as a surprise to me that we were so close to Pare· of clothing. Friday morning saw m e setting out rnnno (only another twenty minutes) . We were to at 10 o·clock with a line of five carriers stringing spend the night there. W e stopped outside the out behind. My m ain man was Kubai, a large village at the patrol centre, the " Haus Kiap" . Such schoolboy of about 16 years. H e carried the big huts are built throughout the territory for the pack. Then cam e Nai with the Mass kit, followed convenience of Patrol Office rs. The Missionaries use by the others. The frame-rucksac was carried by them , too, just as the patrol o ffi cers ofLen spend a Morakana Josepho of Omitaro - to give him his night at a Mission. They are not furnish ed in any full title; and if you stood the name up on end, way but are always clean and, best of all, private. vou would just about get his h eight. H e ask ed to I thought I might sleep ther e that night, but the ~ome as he would be able lo see his home town catechist was insistent that I accept the hospitality and re lations. I was a bit sceptical about taking him of the village - all prepared for me. It turned out as h e is only ten, and it was a long walk. He could to be quite a good native house, and a room was set carry a small pack, I thought, so I said " O.K." aside for me in one corne r. There was a long When I looked them over I found I hat he had the stretcher, a table and a long sh elf along one wall. frame-rucksac. The band which is supposed to fit My carriers busied them selves unpacking <'V<'r ything, across your back was almost down to the backs whether wanted or not. A crowd of natives stood of his legs, and the top was poking over his ears. round watching; Nai, with the a ir of doing some­ He grinned from ear to ear and adjusted the cross thing really magnificent, blew up m y air mattress; and chain I had given him to make it hang d ea~l he thoroughly enjoyed the silent wondf' r of the centre. \'\fell, he wanted to come .. . b ystander s. -My attention was distracted by the A few yards from the house the track crosses arrival of the elder s of the village, and p eople k ept a deep creek and then climbs up the other bank to coming in to shake and kiss my hand. Som e who plunge into the jungle. In a few minutes the station h ad been to school aired their knowledge by sayin g is out of sight, and the sunlight is filtering greenly " good afternoon". Babies we re in it, too, their tiny through the tangle of trees anrl vines. After twenty little black hands being held out by mother or father minutes we met a " main" road, which is a cleared for me to shake, while the owner of the little h and pathway a bout 12 feet wide, grass surface usua)]y watched unblinking to see if I was going to eat ii. the other. Quite pleasant walking and a motor They let m e r est for a few h ours when they bike can be ridrlen along it. At 11 o"clock we were heard I was going on to Okomo; and I lay reading at the Silibai River, whe re we r ested a bit and had or praying while the rain came down in torrents. a smoke. (Th e kids start smoking here soon after At least I was glad I had beaten it to sh elte!·. As they walk.) the sun was going down and darkness seep ed in I felt like taking Morokan 's pack from him, from the jungle, Nai anrl Morokana sel up the but h e looked happy enough so I left him with it. table in their usual noiseless way, holding their W c were able to wade across the river and soon breath each time they handled a cup. It is uncanny started on the steady climb to the " antap" villages. the way they can move silently when they want to. Near Kikimogu we met a vrnage1· and gave him some Dinner was a bowl of kaukau (native potato) and mai I for his people. I told him I woulrl soon be a bowl of pork. This, with the bread and butter. back to say Mass in the village. So on we climbed, tea .and j am I had brought with m e, made quite a and reached the village of Piarino at 12.30. The good meal. I had just finished wh en l h earrl the chief and catechist, Mage, was not in ; but a man karamaut, the wooden drum, announcing night made us we1come on hif' behalf and presented m e prayers for the village. The " haus lotu" (Chapel)

[Under this heading we hope to publish each year news of the Missionary Brothers of some of our Nuns. Fr. Dowden, a Marist Missioner in the Pacific Islands, is brother to M.M. Ignatius of Loreto, Dawson Street, Ballarat.- Ed. I

91 LORETO was quite close, and I listened to the Rosary being " Many of these result from mass migration and said in Buin, followed by a hymn sung to a fox­ wartime marriages." trot tune. When I h eard the Angelus I got up and In 1945, as a graduate of the University of West went over for Confessions. This took about an hour. Australia, Constance went to Germany with the Back in my " room" I sat up for a while, smoking, UNRAA. In 1948 she transferred to IRO and thinking, and looking at the stars, and turned in remained there until 1951. about IO p.m. " During those years," sh e said to-day, " I saw Next morning was sparkling and cool. I said from the other end the problems which I shall Mass after hearing about 90 Confessions - people now try to solve on the Australian side. from other villages had come in. " I will do all in my power to help, because I [Some pages of Father Dowden's letter then have seen at first hand the tragedies which on describe further stages of the journey, pursued with paper might lose some of their sharpness." cheerful perseverance, a cheerfulness that cloaks an Through the International Social Service there ardent apostolate.-Ed.] is new hope for families that have been separated It would be hard to give you an idea of just during and after the war. This, Constance says, is what tlw jungle is like. The track winds in and the most harrowing problem of all. out bet ween great trees with moss and creepers The new offices of the ISS are in the Family matted on their trunks; vines hang down like long Welfare Bureau, Martin Place, Sydney. pencil lines from the lofty branches; ferns (some little but some as big as a wattle tree) fight for In 1928 Constance Moffit went to the Catholic air with all manners of grasses and bushes. University of America, Washington, D.C., on a two years' scholarship secured by the Rt. Rev. Though th~ sun blazed from a near-cloudless Mgr. J. T. McMahon, then a post-graduate student r, ky outside the tree-tops, down underneath it was at that University. twilight. You have heard of scenes "bathed in sun­ light'', well, ~ e r e it was as though sunlight had She won the Master of Arts degree in social been tipped on the tree canopy and here and there science and worked for several years as an almoner leaked through to splash on mossy log, or fern or in U.S.A. R eturning to Australia she became broad leaf of the jungle bush - little splashes of almoner at Lewisham Hospital, Sydney, and has ~rellow-green in the silent world of green. And all been associated with Miss Norma Parker, M.A., in so still. I, in my canvas gym. shoes, the boys with the School of Social Sciences at Sydney University. the ir bare feet glided silently over the damp mouldy H er family lived for many years at Leonora, leaves. At times grasses shouder high closed in W.A., and she and h er sisters* were pupils of over our arm2, or we found ourselves passing along Loreto, Claremol1t. a corridor be tween giant ferns arran ged yards apart * Sheila (Lady Coates Cross) and Margaret. on a carpe t of dead leaves. Then we would be cross­ in1~ a razor-back saddle, just a foot-print wide, and A GREAT VIOLIN FOR A GREAT sc ~ambli n g down muddy banks, clutching vines or VIOLINIST mossy roots to steady the drop. Butterflies of all sizes flutte red by - they, too, k eeping silence. Some All Loreto children will be interested to hear were je t black and a good five inches across; others that once again a Loreto past pupil is thrilling royal blue with black borders like the old Norman­ audiences by wonderful musical performances. Mr. hurst uniform; others again in the grey of Kirribilli. Neil Nilsson, Carmel Hakendorf's husband, very I half expected one to go by bouncing a basketball .. kindly contributed this account of the Guadagnini Bougainville. LEON DOWDEN, S.M. violin and wh at it m eans to his talented wife :- 23rd June, 1955. Recently in Adelaide it was suggested by a group of mmic lovers led by Lady Bonython and Mrs. Villeneuve Smith, that a violin be bought for CONSTANCE MOFFIT: IMPORTANT Carmel Hakendorf. Carmel has just been invited APPOINTMENT to England for the second time to perform the (From the W.A. Record.) Sibelius violin Concerto with Sir John Barbirolli and the Halle Orchestra in the " Sibelius Birthday A new link in the chain of international welfare Concert" to be given in Manchester on December 4, work was forged when social worker Constance 1955, and it was the desire of these ladies that she Moffit. of Darling Point, Sydney, took over a new go overseas equipped with a violin worthy of her appointment recently. Constance is the first Director talents. of the Inte rnational Social Service's Australian Carmel had previously visited England in 1952 branch which began officially when she took up h er to play with the Halle Orchestra at the invitation appointment recently. She explained that he1· work of Sir John Barbirolli, and although she had been will concern welfare problems which overlap inter­ advised that the violin sh e was playing on was inade­ national frontiers. quate, she was not able to afford a better one. Her "In this post-war world there are innumerable musical artistry was such, however, that her perform­ cases which a local agency can' t handle," she added. ances in England were greeted by the most sceptical 92 LORETO

highest hopes. Carmel h as not been parted from the instrument from th at moment. Mr. Smith kindly allowed h er a two-month op tion and a fund was launch ed in " The Advertiser" to buy it for South Australia and to give Carmel th e u se of it for h er lifetime. The money was raised within six weeks almost entirely from small d ona tions sent in by music lover s from all over the Sta te. Ad elaide music lover s wer e given an opportunity of h earing this ver y beautiful viol in in two p ack ed recitals in the Adelaide Town Hall. Lady Bonython r emarked on this occasion wh at a n h onour it was that, of all the violinists in the world, Carm el sh ould have been chosen to play in the Sibelius birth day celebrations, and Carmel thanked the public from the stage for their gener osity an d fo r th eir faith in h er talents. Sh e offered, as h er own way of express­ ing her gratitude, a ver y beau tiful and, Lo judge from the audiences' reaction , a ver y m oving performance of Schubert's " Ave Maria" .

HOPKINS - AND THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD Gerard Manley J!opkins h ad a d ual vocation: to poetry and to the priesthood. H is life was a fusion of these two elem ents in to perfect unity; but the process entailed suffering an d difficulty unknown to ordinar y m ortals. T h e a rtist in him was a ttracted to the sensuous beauty of the world around him ; the priest in h im h a rl to tread a lonely road of asceticism before he could take the beauty of the world to his h eart. As h e set out on his spiritual adventure h e saw tha t all beauty CARMEL HAKENDORF could he either an attraction to th e lower level of life - life of the senses, or an incentive to the critics with n othing but praise. "Sceptics stayed to higher life of the spirit. The sensuous element is m arvel and applaud" ran the h eadline in one Man­ uppermost in the early poem, K ea tsian in imager y, ch ester newspaper when Carmel made h er English A Vision of Mermaids, written before his conversion : debut. Playing enormously difficult works like the "Plum-purple was the west ; but spokes of Brahms Concerto, sh e gained the high est praise from light London critics and musicians d espite the fact that Spear'd open lustrous gashes, crimson-white." sh e was playing in Halls like the Royal F estival Hall, and describing the m erm aids : London, where international artists were playing "Careless of me they sported ; some would plash nightly on instruments worth anything up to The languent smooth with dimpling drops, £30,000. and splash While these people in Adelaide were discussing Their fil my tails adown whose length there ways and m eans of obtaining a suitable instrument, showed there actually came into the p ossession of the Sydney An azure ridge; or clouds of violet glowed violin dealer, Mr. A. E. Smith, a famous old Italian On pranked scale ; or threats of carmine, shot violin m ade by Guad agnini in 1751. Mr. Smith Through silver, gloomed to a blood-vivid clot." immedia tel y thou ght of Carmel as a worthy owner Then cam e the con ver sion of Hopkins to of su ch a treasure and sent her a telegram asking Catholicism and his entry into th e J esuit Order , if sh e would be interested in purchasing it for where his religious asceticism led him to r eject the £1,750, a price far below its value over seas. Only senses as luring him away from God. T his r ejection half an hour after this a gentleman in Sydney rang is perfectly expressed in T he Hcibit of Perfection : Mr. Smith on beh alf of the Adelaide Group. Both gentlem en were somewhat taken aback by this "Shape nothing, lips; be lovely-dumb: r emarkable coincidence. Mr . Smith fl ew to Adelaide It is the shut, the curfew sent per sonally so that Carmel could try the violin, and From there where all surrenders come in beauty and strength of tone it exceeded h er Which only make you eloquent." 93 LORE T O

T h e sen ses must a II be d irected to God : festa tion of the Divine P resence is no t co ntinuou s, 0 feel-of-pr imrose hands, 0 feet or easily seen, but com es in Hashes like the light That want the yield of plushy s ward, fl ashing f rom tinfoil when it is sh a ken, o r like the But you shall walk the golden street, minute "ex plosio n" whe n a d rop of oil is c rush ed And you unhouse and house the Lord. into a to m-like fragm ents. But, b e ing a poe t w ith a highly developed Transcending his awareness of beauty was H o p· p o we r of perception, he co uld no t shut o u t the kins' anx ie ty at it s transie nce. \Vas the re no m ea n ,; world com ple tel y; and his mind was no do ubt eased of capturing it, or transfi x ing a nd giving it pc rma n· by the words of St. l gna tius in the " Exercises·· : e nce? I n The Lea.den Echo an d the Golden E cho '·Things on the face of the ea rth we re c rea ted fo r he exp r c~ses th is a nx ie ty. The words seem to rush m a n's sa ke, a nd in o rder to a id him in the prosecu · o ut uncheck ed f rom the a nguish ed 111ind of the Li o n of the en d fo r which he was c rea te d . W h ence 111an ; a nd the e m o ti on is vividly tra n fc rre d to the it foll o ws that me n o ught to m a ke use of the m just listene i· - for H opkins" poe try sh o uld be heard so fa r as they he lp him to attain his e nd, and o ught as well as read . H ea r the c ry of the poe t : to with draw him ~e lf fro m the m , just so fa r as the y "How to keep - is there any, is t here none hinder him.'· " such nowhe re known some, bow or brooch \Ve can unde rsta nd how, as H o pkins beca me or braid or brace, lace, latch or catch strengthe ned in the spiritua l life, he began to asrnci· or key to keep a te expe rie nce of na tu ral beau ty with r e li g i o u ~ Back beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty experience, being d rawn th rough N ature to God the . . . . from vanishing away? C reato r. lL was a de finite co nvic tio n, no t a vague, Sea rching th rough the wild e rn e~s of ex pe rience panthe istic th e o r~ · such as Word sworth reache d. h e can find no solutio n : St. Ign a tius· was no t the o nly influe nce which "Oh there's none ; no, no, no. there's none: h elped to m ould H o pkins' co nceptio n of bea uty. Be beginning to despair, P erha ps an e ve n grea te r influe nce was tha t of tht• Despa ir, despair, despair ... rn edicval p hilm•o phe r, D un ;; Sco tus. call ed by The re is no escape fro m it s lcadc 11 ech o as h e H opkins. t ra ils o ff i11 an agony of h o pe lessness. The n, uncx· "He . . . who of all men most sways my spirits pectedly, a tho ugh t com es to him ; a rea li zation to peace." grasps him. Years befoi·e, he had c ri ed in a doration '{he p oet-priest h ad arrived al a conceptio n of and gratitude to God : " Ove r again l feel T h y fin ger beauty which was intima te ly bo und up with his and find T h ee." T h e ,; ame li ght consoles him now : theory of " inscapc". B y this h e generall y mea ns the lf bea uty we re d edicated to God with W hom time i,; individuality of an o bjec t as it is expressed in the no thing, it wo uld be arrested and endo wed with ou ter form or patte rn. O n reading Sco tus, Hopkins immortalit y: found that hf' (Duns Sco t us) h ad a lso arrived a t ··Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, the sam e p rinciple, na ming it haecceitas o r thisness. back to God, beauty's self a nd beauty's So the m ed ieva l p hilosophe r gave the V ic toria n poet giver." ··a san c tio n fo r do ing, as a Christian poe t, what as a BRENDA HEAGNEY J esuit priest he co uld not poss ibly do: tha t is, assert (P ast Pupil, Nedla nds, W .A. ) his ind ivid uality". Arts III, After this me ntal co nflic t h ad been resolve d Sydney University. Hopkins could write : ·'J do no t think that l h ave • P oe ms and Prose of G. M. Hopkins, by W. H. ever ~cc n a nything m o re b ea utiful than the blue bell Ga rdne1·, p. x xiv. (P enguin Poets.) l h ave been looking at. l know the beauty of Oui· Lo rd by i1.··• T hiE, then, became the prevailing the me of his la te r poe try: the bea u ty of the world giving the be ho lde r a glimpse of the infinite bea uty of Goel. MESSAGE TO LORETO, GIBRALTAR ln the l·ll' reck of the Deutchland we find : Inte resting photogra phs and articles arrived I kiss my hand fro m this H o use, but we re too late fo r inclusio n. To the stars, lovely-asunder \Ve look fo r wa rd to m a king a big feature of the 111 Starlight, wafting him out of it. in the 1956 m agazine. Good wid1 es a nd th a nk ~, G ibralta r! L a te r 0 11 , h e wro te : The world is cha rged with the g rande ur of G ;:i d ; It will fl ame out, like shin ing shook foil; DONATJO NS T O T H E MAGAZIN E It gathers to a greatness like the ooze of oil We arc grateful to firms and friends wh o h ave Crushed .... give 11 ge ne ro us do na tio ns (£3/ 3/ 0 each) . T he y a re : In th ese two sta rtling images, Hopkins p oints S. A hearn, E sq., R. J. Hick ey, E sq ., B rownbuiit Ltd. out to us how the grea tness, the powe r, the presen ce. (aJl of Sydney) , a nd L ine h a n & Shri m pto n, Moran of Goel shi nes o ut f rom the C rf' atio n. T his m an i- & Cato (both Me lbo urne firms) . 94 ST. MARY'S HALL, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Front Row: Freddie W orch, Sue Til1ey, Carleen Kenny, Margaret Murphy, Mary Hughes. Second Row : Anne Keightley, Helene W ood, Jud ith B egent, Betty Lenaghan, Flora Lloyd, Jocelyn Gorman, Mrtria Favaloro, Frances Byrne, Rosemary Tehan, Marie Keightley, Penelope Mag ee, L ou i ~e Arndt. T hird Row : Patricia J oyce, Nanette Crameri, M ary Conroy, Mary Aughterson. Janet Byrne. M arie Drew, Mary Colli ns, Judith Mu rray, H elen Lombard, Jill Shepherd, Joan Dwyet , Loretta Diviny. Fourth Row : M ary E. Calwell, Patricia Caine, Jill Co nnoll y, M a rgar et Biviano, Colette Christie, Barbara Stokes, M ar g;i. r et O ' Donnell, J anet Campbell, Patricia Coutts, Margaret Fow ler, Moira Thomson. LORETO

PAUL CLAUDEL

Poetry - the very word holds a fascination for follow the same pattern. Mesa is a man of great most of us - but how many can define that fascin­ ability, with an enormous capacity for love; this ation? Paul Claudel, great figure in 20th century could h ave proved his undoing. Viola ine is naturally French Literature, has said of poetry:- spiritual. For h er there is no real conflict between "It is the universe of visible things to which Faith evil and good- it is rather a conflict be tween medioc­ adds that of invisible things - one of the essentials of rity and perfection. Sh e wants the normal things of great poetry is its Catholicity . .. I mean to say that life- to be a good wife and mother for the man sh e the foremost poets have received from God such vast loves. It is a pure, natural desire. Sanctity, for h er, things to express that the whole world is necessary is achieved b y r elinquishing these natural rights. to their task." * The Saint at the end of the play is on a high er To a Catholic this must surely seem an adequate plane than the Violaine of the prologue, pure and and satisfying answer. And by his own definition gentle though she be. of a poet this must give Paul Claudel a position Claude} makes full play of the images h e loves of honour among " the foremost poets". Yet this so well. The enchan ting m edieval atmosphere of same " poetic apostle" of Christ began, like St. Paul, " L'Annonce faite a Marie" gives him plenty of if not actively hating Christ, at least ignoring Him! scope for this. We see Cain and Abe l symbolized A study of Claudel's early work provides the k ey by the dark, evil Mara and the innocent Violaine. to his ardent Damascus. Anne Vercours, setting off for the Holy Land " Partage de Midi", a poetic drama written in becom es a venerable " Old Testament" figure. And, his early life, but not produced until after he throughout the play there is the lovely, symbolic had been acclaimed, is largely biographical. H ere, presence of the Blessed Virgin, represented b y for the first time, the young Claudel sets forth the Violaine. theme that is to be developed in his later writing, Of " Le Soulie1· d e Satin" Claudel says, " it is a reaching its climax in the epic, " Le Soulier de resume of my whole work" . In this gigantic play Satin" - the them e of God's love, found through all three facets of the author unite - poet, dramatist human suffering. and prose-writer. T he setting encompasses the M.Csa, the h ero of the play Partage de Midi, is a universe, transcends time. Rodrigue and Dona character marked out for great spiritual progress. Prouheze, the ill-fated lovers, are the consummation When we are first introduced to him h e shows signs of Claudel's them e of human suffering. The final of bitterness and dissatisfaction with the world, yet denouement is neater than those of his early plays he loves it too much to surrender himself to God. - as though h e, himself, were more sure of his His personal struggle with God, his illicit love for ideas. H e sees Woman as ~la n 's salvation. H e y se, his disillusionment and final triumph when all believes that in the fires of suffering a soul is seem s lost - these things Claude! develops into a moulded to greatness, and that only b y losing ever y· powerful drama. In Yse Mesa finds a h eroine of thing can he gain the knowledge of love - both his own worth. They are destined to love, each find­ human and Divine. ing in the other a temporary solace for the lone­ " Le Soulier de Satin", though perfectly con­ liness of their lives. structed, and brilliantly conceived, has not the Separately they try to find fulfilment in each warm, living passion of "Partage de Midi", or the other. Only after final degradation and disenchant­ beauty of "L'Annonce faite a Marie" . The characters ment do they learn that, without the peace and do not breathe; they are puppets guided by the security of Go·d, human love is m eaningless. strong personality of the author. The symbolism , Gerard Manley Hopkins speaks somewhere of in parts beautiful (as the opening scene of the the " dearest freshness deep down things". This dying J esuit shows) is, on the whole, too formal p h rase seem s to capture an essential quality of and too obvious. Claudel's best work. Claude! believes that Faith is Still, whatever our personal preferences, necessary for a clearer vision . . . that it enables Clau

The West front and main entrance of Loreto, Seapoint. Lion Mountain (see pic­ ture below) is on one side, the sea on the other.

The Preparatory School at the foot of Lion's Head, which shelters the Convent from the south-east winds. Simon's Town, base of the South African Navy, is twenty-two miles from Capetown.

Loreto, Seapoint, is a boarding school. There must be some competition for beds on this sleeping-out balcony that overlooks the sea.

LORETO CONVENT (l.B.V.M.) SEAPO~NT, CAPETffWN, SOUTH AFRICA

L7 LORETO

AN AUSTRALIAN CELEBRATES HER INDIAN JUBILEE A ustralia n,. do no t need lo be told that wherever tlw C hurc h is plante d , the Sisters will h ave played a majo r part in the ente rprise. Two of u,. Australians the refore we re glad to join the c rew uf St. Mary" s Lanfl R ove r, when it travelled north to Darjeeling, to join the cele bration of }fotlwr Ma rv Ant o ine tte's Golde n Jubilee at Lore to. Mother Mary A ntoine tle is a daughte r of whom A ustralia must l ~e justl y pro ud. Sh e is known and love d throughout a great part of northern India, and i,- fa nwd e>' pccia ll y for he r great influe nce 0 11 the so ldie rs ca111p ed rn the Darjeeling area during the \\! ar. One of he r priority questions to soldier visitors wa ~ ··Would you like to go to Confession "? .. . 011 one ofte n quoted occasio n, he r victim replied " Yes, .\Iothe r, l happe n to be a Catho li c C haplain'·. She tells with de li ght of a card she received from a fo rme r non-Cat ho lie A 111 e rican so ldie r: afte r hi ~ GROUP OF TIBETANS IN NATIONAL COSTUME: nam e a ppeared the le tte rs " S.J ." ' Day Pupils at Loreto, Darjeeling, they are Buddhists. A few years ago, one of our Fathe rs, who teaches at St. X avie r's, Calcutta, and stiJJ sings in the choir, so l am told, became iJJ. The Docto e A MEMORY OF FRANK SMYTHE asked, ·'Fathe r, how long have you worke d in our That intrepid, bea utiful c harac te r, F rank trying climate?" " Forty-five years". " Father , you Smythe, comes to mind whenever the re is talk of ~hou]d neve r have done that.'. " l promise no t to climbing expeditions in the Hima layas. A s you do it again'·, ca me the quie t reply. But Mothe r know a British party is pre paring now for a climb­ Antoine tte wiH do it again, oi· al least a fair pa rt ing attack 0 11 Mt. Kanch e njunga," a nd there a re of it, so she assures us. many eager Sh e rpas a bo ut Darjeeling ready to jo in lt was significant tha t the H eadmaste r of St. in. Adventure is in the vci·y ve ins of these m oun­ Paul's Church of E ngland College was ch osen to tain races, and Kanche njunga, tho ugh 11 0 1 as loft y make a presentation on be half of the people of as Everest, is far more diffic ult to c limb, with it8 the district. He said tha t it was fitting tha t this sh eer ice cliffs, than was N u. l of Himalava's snow celebration should take place at Christmas, because peaks. . Mothe r A ntoine tte had a lways radiated charity and From Darjeeling, al a dis ta nee of ove r one the love of Christ so ch aracte ristic of the season. hundred miles, Eve rest looks like a me re triangul ar He assure