x July 2016 y Dan McErlean Bryan McSweeney 12 Werona Street email: [email protected] Sunnybank Qld 4109 Dear Old Boys Our next luncheon of the Brisbane Sub-branch of the T.B.O.B.A. will be held at ‘The Public Service Club’, Level 1 Function Room, 84 William Street (cnr Stephens Lane), Brisbane on Friday 15th July 2016, from 12 noon through until about 2.00 pm; but feel free to drop in anytime from 11.00 am on, as your commitments dictate and join Old Boy mates in convivial fellowship. Future claimer dates are 16th September, & 18th November for Brisbane lunches, and 22nd July 2016 for the Buderim lunch at the Headland Golf Club. Congratulations to Rev Fr John Quinlan who celebrated the Golden Jubilee of his Ordination to the Priesthood at a Special Mass and Function at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Church, Newtown, on the 3rd July 2016. An Old Boy of St Mary’s College (1949 – 1958), Fr John is Vicar General of the Toowoomba Diocese and member of the St Mary’s College Board. Our thanks to the following Old Boys who have taken up Life Membership recently: Michael Garrett (1961- 1969), Samuel John Greer (1947/48 & 1953/54), Timothy Charles McSweeney (1968/69), Darel Sterling (1948-1951), Pat Stringer (1953-1960). Please remember in your prayers a number of Old Boys and Friends of the College recently deceased: Life Members Mick Moloney and Noel Hannant OAM , Joe Mulhall , Kenneth Peter “Ken”Iseppi , aged 88 years, husband of Lorna and father of Peter & Paul who ran the “Newtown Towing & Service Station” for many years, and Doug Mendoza , father of Peter and John, and Jude Lysaght (1942-46) who we understand passed away in May 2015. There are a number unwell or recovering from surgery including, Doug and Tim Coonan, Kevin Killoran, Pat Seymour, John Keightley, Colin Green, Trevor Muller, John & Tom Hutchinson, Bill McErlean, Reg Taylor, Greg Keen, David Wilkinson, Greg Flynn, Joe Short, Brian Benson, Philip Stephens, Andrew O’Dwyer, and Mrs Pat Peut . “Coming Events” 27/6/2016- 1/7/2016 Annual Confraternity Rugby League Carnival in Rockhampton 15 th July 2016 - Brisbane TBOBA Sub Branch Meeting – 1 st Floor, Function Room, ‘The Public Service Club’, 11.00am – 2.00pm 84 William Street (cnr Stephens Lane), Brisbane TBOBA Sunshine Coast meeting at the Headland Golf Club on Golf Links Road, Buderim. 22 nd July 2016 Contacts: Bernie Murphy (54780742), Terry Murphy (54564340), or Redmond Byrne (54776705) 1945 – 1954 Class Reunion – Contacts: Justin McErlean (46343625) and John Bagget 27 th – 28 th August 2016 (33579349) Bryan McSweeney Dan McErlean Dan Reilly President Secretary Co-Ordinator (07) 3278 9682 (07) 3345 4404 (07) 3395 1813 1 T.B.O.B.A. (Brisbane‘Coming Sub-Branch) Events’ Meeting – 13/05/16 Present Apologies Bryan McSweeney Jim Long Fr Paul Chandler Justin McErlean (Brisbane Sub-branch Dick Lynch Fr Tyrone Deere Greg McErlean President) Pat Mullins Brother Barry Buckley (AM) John O’Neill Laurie Atzeni (Hon.) Mick Murphy Bro Kevin Dwyer John Noonan John Bagget Dan McErlean Frank Adamson Keith Pickels Nev Card Paul McErlean Carl Betros Alan Roney Nat Chandler Rod McDonald Greg Butler Reg Taylor Bernie Collins Peter McMahon Noel Cronin Greg Wiedman Frank Deighton Jack Parker Jack Davis (Hon) Maurie Drew Pat Stringer Alan Duncan John Drew Martin O’Sullivan Brian Fagan Les Duncan Errol Ryan Des Franklin Brien Dunne Graham Swenson John Hagan Brian Gagen Kerry Taylor Tim Hagan Terry Gesh Merv Henson Barry Gordon John Hutchinson Rolly Griffin Tom Hutchinson Peter Kennedy Merv Johnstone Barry Kuhnemann Jim Mullins Doug Lee Bernie Murphy Fred Lincoln Terry Murphy Annual Membership Fee ($10.00) for Calendar Year 201 6 is now due / or Life Memberships are available (Fee $100.00) Cheques for Membership should be made payable to the “Toowoomba Brothers Old Boy’s Association” * * * Cheques as donations towards the Indoor Sports Complex should be made payable to ‘Br. Baptiste O’Sullivan Building Fund ’. They are fully Tax Deductible and will be receipted. Brother Patrick Coman McCarthy cfc passed to Eternal Life on 9/06/2016 aged 94 years. He served as Principal at Warwick from 1959 -1964 and taught at St Mary’s Toowoomba from (1972 -74). In 1980/81 he was at St Joseph’s Toowoomba as a member of the Catholic Education Office. Congratulations to Ethan Lowe (Yr 12 2008) named 18th man in the State of Origin Team for game two against New South wales. Johnathon Thurston will play his 35th consecutive Origin game. 2 Vale Arthur E (Mick) Moloney (22/4/32 – 5/5/16) Company business in Papua/New Guinea. He was already visiting properties in the Kimberley, around Esperance, in New South Wales, Western Queensland, Mick and his sister Pat the Gulf Country and Cape York. (Mrs Ron Peut) were He was responsible for the sale and installation of children of Ted and Ethel irrigation equipment to water a new polo field for the May (Teys) Moloney. He Sultan of Brunei and because of its success the Sultan was born in Goondiwindi nd ordered a complete fire-fighting scheme to protect his on the 22 April 1932 and new Palace. The pressure on this scheme was so good it received his early blew the tiles off the outside of the Palace. education from the Sisters of Mercy at the local When he retired from Southern Cross in 1992, Mick convent school. took up a consultancy arrangement to sell the company’s products and so he continued to supply When his sister Pat passed products to the rural sector until it changed ownership. Scholarship in 1943 the family moved to Mick Moloney’s steel troughs were a speciality, and Toowoomba so Pat could because of his immense knowledge of Southern Cross attend St Ursula’s and Mick, St Mary’s College. Here windmills, pumps, engines and water reticulation Mick he made lifelong friends with Ian “Ripper” Doyle , was known from Hobart to Darwin, from Perth to Cape Frank Paterson , Frank Murphy and Fred Lincoln , York and in P.N.G and all places in between. It was in just to name a few, between 1944 – 1946. recognition of his long service to the Pastoral Industry, without ever owning a cow, that the Northern Territory When Mick was enrolled at St Mary’s College as an Cattleman’s Association presented Mick with a Life eleven year old from a country school, he had never had Membership Award at their Annual General Meeting in a cricket bat or football in his hands, so it was a big March 2012. learning curve sports-wise and academically. He also learnt on the first day that it wasn’t fun to be disciplined In retirement Edna and Mick had more chances to for fighting in the schoolyard. follow Rugby League and Rugby Union matches and enjoy overseas Wallabies tours and trips to New In 1948 Mick was a member of the All Whites Zealand and the Holy Land. As Old Boy, Joe O’Neill . a Undefeated Junior Minor Rugby League side and went Racing Syndicator can attest, Mick had a lot of fun on to be part of the Club’s 1954 Premiership winning A following horses in his racing syndicates. He loved Grade squad and their 1955 Reserve Grade Premiers gatherings of family and friends and for one T.B.O.B.A. captained by Old Boy, Jim Mullins . function at the Irish Club, he arranged for the presence Mick commenced work as a mail boy and office boy at of all but one of the living members of the famous 1924 Toowoomba Foundry Sales Pty Ltd in January 1947, Toowoomba Rugby League side that defeated England, but left after 3 months to start an apprenticeship in as well as a number of other former Toowoomba rugby plumbing with Vince O’Neill in Russell Street, league players after a Rugby League Test match. Toowoomba. It was a real lesson – building galvanised Mick and his wife Edna (Jackson) married in the early iron tanks in the middle of a cold and wet Toowoomba 1950’s and have lived at Robertson in Brisbane for winter where his job was to hold the steel “dolly” on the some years. They were blessed with three sons and two inside of the tanks to press against the rivets as they daughters: Peter (retired Principal of Assumption were belted in. Taking parts to tradesmen all over College, Warwick), Gregory , Lyn (Krebs), Julie Toowoomba on a push bike in cold and blustery (Watt), and Michael , 17 grandchildren and 12 great conditions was no fun either, so Mick left and was grandchildren. The three lads were educated at St fortunate to be re-employed by the Foundry in August Lawrence’s College, Peter becoming a teacher, and 1947 under Gordon Chalk, later Sir Gordon Chalk . Gregory and Michael Chartered Accountants. Gregory Early in 1948 he was placed in the Company’s Purchase was a Queensland Rugby Union Representative. & Stock Control Department before being trained in the Mick was a Life Member (No 73) of our Toowoomba Sales Department under Frank Bowdler , as mentor for Brothers Old Boys’ Association and after being 10 formative years. He was transferred as Southern President of our Brisbane Sub Branch, remained a loyal Cross representative to Warwick in 1956 where in 1957 and active stalwart of our Association and the Christian he was the player coach for the East Collegian Rugby Brothers. He was admitted to Greenslopes Hospital at League Club. 1958 saw Mick working the Northern Easter and despite the best efforts of doctors and the Rivers Region of New South Wales and captain/coach nursing staff passed to Eternal Life on the 5 th May 2016.