Blue and Gold 2014

Blue and Gold 2014 2 College Principal’s Report 3 College Principal’s Investiture 4 Pastoral Care 5 Learning and Teaching 6 Academic Award Winners 8 Libraries 9 Centenary of War Exhibition 10 A Word from the Chaplain 12 Religious Education and Moral Development 13 The Social Justice Mass 14 St Vincent de Paul 15 College Captain’s Report 16 Year 12 22 Mission Action Day 24 Coolies’ Visit to India 2013 25 Papua New Guinea 26 La Salle Green Hills Cultural Exchange 27 Lasallian Service 28 “Footloose” 31 The Primary Showcase 32 Media

33 Music at De La Salle 34 Music in Performance 36 Music Ensembles 38 Visual Communication and Design 40 Studio Arts Photography 42 Visual Arts 44 Founder’s Day 46 Primaries 52 Year 7 60 Mother’s Day Breakfast 61 Father’s Day Breakfast 62 Year 7 Music 63 Year 8 72 Year 9 80 Kinnoull Campus 81 United Nations 82 Systems Engineering / Science Week 83 Mathematics 84 Year 10 87 Work Experience / Blood Bank 88 Year 10 Dance

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90 Humanities 92 Debating 94 Languages 96 Year 11 99 Lasallian Speaking Challenge 100 Student Wellbeing 101 Mary MacKillop Enhancement Centre 102 The Blue and Gold Ball 104 Year 12 Homerooms 106 The Year 12 Formal 109 The Year 12 Breakfast 110 Year 12 Final Assembly 112 The Valedictory Dinner 114 VCAL / Careers / VET 116 Sport at De La Salle 117 Cross Country Carnival 118 Years 7–11 Swimming Sports 120 House Athletics Carnival 124 De La Sport Teams 149 De La Salle Parents’ Network 150 College Staff 152 Rest In Peace

College Principal’s Report It hardly seems credible that I am already writing the end of year report for Blue and Gold – my first year in the new role has flown by and so much has happened in our wonderful school. First and foremost I would like to thank all in the De La Salle College community for the warm welcome and the ongoing support and cooperation I have been given in all areas. In their approach to me and in their daily interactions, staff, students and parents have all confirmed my memory from my time here in the late ’90s that De La Salle College is a special place.

My decision to apply for the role was in part based on my recollection of that intangible, difficult to describe ‘De La school spirit’; the identity which any Old Collegian will tell you is part of the fabric of the College. I am thrilled to report after one year in the position that spirit certainly lives on and is embraced by the graduating Class of 2014 as strongly as ever.

This is a fine school, where the inherent dignity of each student is paramount and where teachers work in traditional Lasallian fashion; together and by association. I am delighted after one year in

to confirm that, aligned with many positive and progressive changes, our Catholic identity and Lasallian virtues remain our defining characteristics.

Firstly, I must thank the entire staff – teaching and non-teaching – who contribute so much to the daily life of the College. The relationships between staff and students at De La Salle are healthy, strong and positive; demonstrating key elements of our Lasallian ethos through their individual care and attention to all, regardless of their role.

In particular I would like to acknowledge the College Executive for their dedication, countless hours of work and their adaptability and flexibility to deal with all that comes with running a school of 1,140 boys – and all done with good grace and humour! Deputy Principals Tom Ryan and Mark Gustincic, Heads of Campus Luke Kenealy (Kinnoull) and John McAlroy (Tiverton) and Business Manager Ann Corcoran have provided immeasurable support, advice and wisdom, borne of many years’ experience. While perhaps not technically a member of Executive, Principal’s

College Executive

College Board

Standing: Mark Parker, Br Peter Smyth, Michael Skerrett, Seated: Anne Arbon, Peter Houlihan, Tony Morwood, Maureen Salter, Inset top: Br Chris Gorringe, Inset bottom: Damien Nolan

PA Sandy Wreford’s tireless efficiency and attention to detail keeps us all on track, for which we owe her a great debt.

Working with our College Board has been uplifting and educational. The various Directors all bring unique gifts to the group; they are astute, strategic and operate with a clear focus on improving the College and, of critical importance, its outcomes for our young men. I must thank Chair, Tony Morwood for his encouragement and confidence in the new Principal, Deputy Chair, Damien Nolan, Anne Arbon, Maureen Salter, Br Chris Gorringe, Br Peter Smyth, Mark Parker and Michael Skerrett. They all operate with vision, decisiveness and clarity for the betterment of our College and I am very grateful for their time and expertise.

Anne Corcoran, John McAlroy, Luke Kenealy, Peter Houlihan, Mark Gustincic, Tom Ryan

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Principal’s Investiture The Parent Network has thrived this year under the new Co-Presidency of Cate Robertson and Louisa Salmon with their dedicated and enthusiastic committee. Social evenings for parents, a Gala day at Caulfield Racecourse and running the very successful Mother’s, Father’s and Year 12 Breakfasts have been typical of a range of terrific events for the College community.

While schools can be traditional environments, I have been very pleased with the community’s willingness to contribute to, make recommendations for, and then embrace a range of innovations this year. It is important to acknowledge that 2014 has in fact seen a good deal of positive change at our College. In interviewing almost every staff member in Semester 1 common themes emerged in relation to what we should strive to improve. A more robust and contemporary ICT infrastructure and system to support learning (supported by the implementation of a comprehensive ICT Strategic Plan), improved curriculum design at Years 4–10, increased academic rigour, and more contemporary pedagogical approaches to build students’ skills and accountability are all critical aspects we are working on for 2015 and beyond. There exists a tremendous climate of collegiality and optimism around the College’s future growth, which is very promising.

Among the most significant achievements and innovations for 2014 in relation to learning and teaching are a new curriculum leadership structure, introduction of a creative and contemporary Year 10 curriculum, a Year 9 Curriculum Review, the Assessment and Reporting Committee changing policy and practice in this critical area, literacy, numeracy and languages working in conjunction with various external bodies on exciting initiatives, and a formal arrangement with the University of Melbourne around improving learning outcomes. We have also entered into a partnership with Our Lady of Sacred Heart in Bentleigh to increase opportunities in the Performing Arts.

To support student wellbeing and community involvement the introduction of the Year 7 and 8 Time and Space Program for parents and sons, a formal review of the pastoral system, the introduction and outstanding support of the Mother’s and Father’s Day Breakfasts and our inaugural community Mass at St Michael’s have all been beneficial additions to the College this year.

The direction of De La Salle College for 2015–18 is being formalised in a Strategic Plan, being drafted as I write. Building on our 2014 formal school review and recommendations from the School Improvement Framework, the Strategic Plan will establish key priorities. This will inform a range of growth areas in the College, with particular reference to faith, learning, wellbeing, community and leadership, in turn feeding into a Master Plan to prioritise building and renovation works at Tiverton.

I thank all in our De La Salle College community for their contribution in 2014 and wish everyone a happy, holy and safe Christmas.

Mr Peter Houlihan Principal

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The College Board, members of the De La Salle Brothers, College Leaders and members of the De La Salle community gathered at St Joseph’s Church on Wednesday, 26th March for the commissioning of the new Principal, Mr Peter Houilihan.

Fr John Sherman OMI, celebrated the Mass before a congregation of invited guests, including members of Mr Houlihan’s family. During the Mass, the official commissioning took the shape of a symbolic handing over ceremony in which, The Acting Provincial of the De La Salle Brothers for the District of Australia, PNG, New Zealand and Pakistan, Br Christopher Gorringe and student leaders Brock Augustynski, James Biviano and the 2014 College Captain, James Benton sought Mr Houlihan’s commitment to the position of Principal.

Pastoral Care This year has been a wonderful year at De La Salle College. In the tradition of St John Baptist de La Salle pastoral care at the College places emphasis on the development of the whole person. This includes the physical, spiritual, emotional, social and academic needs of each student in our care. In Lasallian tradition it also emphasises participation in the life of the College and service to others as key elements of being part of a community.

In the area of Pastoral Care, a key goal for the staff was to further develop the strong, supportive relationships with the students. From the student management point of view we further refined our class management procedures, with emphasis on courtesy and respect, to foster a spirit of brotherhood and maximise learning outcomes for each student.

The College year commenced very smoothly and we welcomed our new Principal, Mr Peter Houlihan. As a College we were proud to induct our College Student Leaders and acknowledge the fine achievements by the Class of 2013 at the Investiture Ceremony in February.

The College Leaders chose the motto “Men of Action; Men of Prayer” to guide their activities and be a source of inspiration to the entire student body.

The highly successful Mission Action Day whole College fundraising event in March raised over $100,000 and was a tangible example of the College community actively working towards a common goal. These monies raised through the outstanding generosity of the De La Salle community assisted the Lasallian Foundation and directly supported the College’s involvement in the Coolies program in India and Lasallian communities in PNG and the Philippines.

Involvement by all students in the co-curricular life of the College is a key element of developing a sense of belonging and identity as young men. In 2014 the

College continued to create as many opportunities as possible for students to participate in a wide range of activities, including sport, such as the large number of ACC teams; the performing arts, such as the beautifully presented College Production Footloose; music events like ACCent on Music or the many College music bands and ensembles; and social justice initiatives such as fundraisers, community service activities and trips. These events this year gave so many of our young men the opportunity to develop their talents and skills not only for themselves by for others as well.

Wonderful College spirit was demonstrated at our major sporting events; the Athletics, Cross-Country and Swimming Carnivals. A feature of these events was the terrific leadership by College Student Leaders and the enthusiastic involvement of students across all year levels. Our Founders Day celebration in May was a significant event; as a College we stopped to reflect on the legacy of St John Baptist de La Salle and our College patrons. Fr Michael Twigg OMI celebrated Mass for us and this was followed by a spectacular afternoon of fun activities and celebrations at Kinnoull, organised by the College Student Leaders.

In October each year the College farewells the Graduating Class. This was another example of the Lasallian spirit alive at the College. A day of celebrations included the Year 12 Breakfast, complimented by a very moving Farewell Assembly, and prayerful Graduation Mass. The day was one of many emotions for staff, students and families and culminated in the spectacular Valedictory Dinner at the MCG. Preparations are well underway for 2015. The Pastoral Care Review Committee chaired by Mr John McAlroy and The Uniform Review Committee chaired

by Mr Luke Kenealy commenced work in Term 3 and

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will make recommendations to the College Executive in Term 1, 2015. These committees involved many hours of collaborative work by a representative group of staff, students and parents working together. The recommendations will assist with restructuring of pastoral care systems and structures in 2015.

This year the College was also able to initiate many family oriented activities. The Year 7 Mother and Son Night and Year 8 Father and Son Night as well as the Mother’s Day and Father’s Day Breakfasts, complemented the many year level based personal development programs, including our Retreat programs for Years 9 to 11.

In reflecting on this year at the College, the foundation has been laid to further enhance our pastoral care and co-curricular opportunities for all students. On behalf of all the staff, thank-you to all members of the De La Salle College community for their support and involvement throughout 2014.

Mr Tom Ryan Deputy Principal – Pastoral Care and Organisation

Learning and Teaching The College’s Learning and Teaching program is described in the Curriculum Handbook. The Handbook contains an overview of the organisation of the curriculum, including time allocations, along with subject descriptions. In 2013 a formal process was introduced for the consideration of variation of the curriculum described in the Handbook. The process included formulation of proposals within College Departments or Key Learning Areas.

These proposals were presented to the Curriculum Standing Committee, then, following consideration, a number of recommendations emerged. The recommendations were put to a staff meeting for consultation, before being presented to the College Executive. This process took place again in 2014.

As a product of this process the following variations for 2015 have been confirmed: Recommendation: That the College implement three double periods per cycle for all Year 7 to 9 Physical Education classes from 2015.

Year 10 An extensive reworking of the Year 10 curriculum was endorsed. Details are available in the 2015 Curriculum Handbook.

Both proposals involved careful consideration, time, thought and debate. There is collective optimism about the benefits of the initiatives, with work underway already in developing ideas for 2016.

In addition to the work of these program-level change initiatives, three sub-committees of the Curriculum Standing Committee were convened this year. They were formed with a view to providing recommendations about the way forward in relation to the Year 10 program, assessment and reporting and a committee convened in Term 4 to examine the Year 9 curriculum. The members of these groups have ably supported Mr Stephen Young, Mr Shaun Buckley and Mr David Alexander, who respectively have chaired these groups.

I would like to acknowledge all of the staff with responsibilities related to the Learning and Teaching area in 2014: The Curriculum Standing Committee David Happ, Key Learning Area Coordinator – Arts Steve Young, Key Learning Area Coordinator – Business Rose Roe, Key Learning Area Coordinator – English Chris Fleming, Key Learning Area Coordinator – Humanities Paul Maxted, ICT & Infrastructure Coordinator Kath Marino, Key Learning Area Coordinator – Languages Kathie Holmes, MMEC Coordinator Cindy Frost, Director of Music Lucy Russell, Key Learning Area Coordinator – Mathematics

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David Alexander, Key Learning Area Coordinator – Physical Education & Health Graeme Pender, Director of Religious & Moral Education Peppe Di Ciccio, Key Learning Area Coordinator – Science Warren Walker, Key Learning Area Coordinator – Technology Frank Goricanec, VCE Coordinator Other Positions of Leadership Carmel Smart, Pathways/Careers Coordinator Gemma Austin, Primary Coordinator Caroline Fitzpatrick, VET Coordinator Kerry Martin, VCAL Coordinator Administrative Support – Tania Allars and Sandy Wreford Leadership in 2015 In 2015, a brand new arrangement of leadership positions will take place in the Learning and Teaching area. The work in compiling research, designing a model and finally a selection process for filling positions was extensive, spanning Terms 1 to 3.

Appointments have been made to 21 new positions, including four new director-level positions and a number of Learning Area Team Leader roles.

Digital Learning Included in the major projects of 2014 has been the first year of implementation of the College’s ICT Strategic Plan 2015–18. This has included work in redesigning the College’s infrastructure and capacity to deliver reliable and effective digital learning.

Significant work has taken place in planning and delivery of sequenced components of the plan, leading to provision over the coming three years for all students and staff with technology to support contemporary learning.

Mr Mark Gustincic Deputy Principal – Learning and Teaching Warren Walker, David Alexander, David Happ, Peppe Di Ciccio, Chris Fleming, Rose Roe, Mark Gustincic, Cindy Frost, Graeme Pender, Steve Young, Kathie Holmes, Paul Maxted, Lucy Russell

Award Winners Semester 1 Primary Awards Year Year Year Year Year Year Year Year Year

4 Academic Excellence 4 Academic Excellence 4 Award for Endeavour 5 Academic Excellence 5 Academic Excellence 5 Award for Endeavour 6 Academic Excellence 6 Academic Excellence 6 Award for Endeavour

Year 8 Academic Awards Joshua Mac Clay Devlin Ethan Sanders Luke Richardson Cooper Johnstone Adam Car Brock Augustynski Sean Gatt Noah Wooldridge

Art Daniel Edwards Drama Lachlan Joseph English Brandon Luu Geography Zachary Cobucci Literacy Enhancement Luke Side LOTE French Joel Fernando LOTE Italian William Canning Mathematics Xavier Rhoden Physical Education Hamish Sutherland

Year 7 Academic Awards

Year 8 Awards For Endeavour

English Terence Leong Geography Michael Ermacora History Benjamin Coonan Literacy Enhancement Jeremy Ng Kwik Tung LOTE French Dominic Gehrig Mathematics Dong Ye Music Lorenzo Borje Physical Education Jonathan Avgeridis Religious Education Harvey Sparks Science Jason Kim Technology Joel Thompson

Art Max Moolman Drama Fletcher Bird English Harrison Cook Geography Nathan Crouch Literacy Enhancement Andrew Galgani LOTE French Benjamin Richter LOTE Italian Christian Vanas Mathematics Cameron Janka Physical Education Angus McLean Religious Education Alexander Digby Science Calvin Vo

Year 7 Awards For Endeavour

Multiple Winners

English Daniel Venturoni Geography Steven Christodoulakis History James Giuliani LOTE French Nathan Barrow Music Matthew Catalfamo Physical Education Joseph Lloyd Religious Education Thomas Williamson Science Stephen Maglis Technology Nicholas Nicolaou

History (Academic) Robert Ranzolin Religious Education (Academic) Robert Ranzolin Science (Academic) Romolo Persi History (Endeavour) Romolo Persi

Multiple Winners Literacy Enhancement (Endeavour) Alby Hart Mathematics (Endeavour) Alby Hart

Media Studies Christopher Ovens Music: Songwriting Charlie Langkau Photography Theo Syrros Physical Education Leon Lymbouris Year 9 Awards For Endeavour Art David Honeybone English Charles McGaw Geography Max Doherty History Ulysses Urban Literature Louis Osborne Literacy Enhancement Oliver Smith LOTE French Nicholas Williams LOTE Italian Adam Crestani Media Studies Nicholas Chatgoglou Music: Songwriting James Howat Physical Education Liam O’Brien Photography Nicholas Byrden Religious Education Czar Khan Science Andre Salemi Multiple Winners Geography (Academic) Harrison Gill Religious Education (Academic) Harrison Gill Science (Academic) James Biviano Technology (Academic) James Biviano Art (Academic) Andrew Eracleous Technology (Endeavour) Andrew Eracleous Drama (Endeavour) Henry Prendergast-Kruger Mathematics (Endeavour) Henry Prendergast-Kruger

Year 9 Academic Awards Drama Mark O’Connor English Moses Russ History Jordan Brasher Literature Harrison Barr Literacy Enhancement Jacob Georgaklis LOTE French Paul Wasiewicz LOTE Italian Cameron Monaco Mathematics Aaron Trusler

Year 10 Academic Awards Drama Harris Maglis Geography Timothy Fierenzi History Sricharan Kumar Literacy Enhancement Aaron D’Arcy Literature Matthew Sidji LOTE French Liam Ramirez Mathematics Further Benedict O’Shea

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Mathematics Methods Lucas Perri Media Harrison Burt Photography Nicholas Doukelis Physical Education Zac Hawker Visual Communication & Design Samuel De Stefanis Systems Technology Anthony Palumbo Year 10 Awards For Endeavour Drama Rhys Nicolaou Geography Nathan Grooby History Charles Joseph Literature Isaac Zheng-Renner LOTE Italian Jake Oliva Mathematics Oscar Condello Multimedia James Bailey Photography Nicholas Payne Religious Education Gene Condello Science Christopher Northey Systems Technology James Emery Multiple Winners English (Academic) Thomas Ponissi Religious Education (Academic) Thomas Ponissi Multimedia (Academic) James Rassias Media (Endeavour) James Rassias LOTE Italian (Academic) Kyle Williams Materials Technology (Academic) Kyle Williams Physical Education (Endeavour) Kyle Williams Science (Academic) Tanis Van Laake LOTE French (Endeavour) Tanis Van Laake English (Endeavour) Anthony Bufalo Visual Communication & Design (Endeavour) Anthony Bufalo Literacy Enhancement (Endeavour) Peter Haines Materials Technology (Endeavour) Peter Haines

VCE Unit 1 Academic Awards Accounting William Wright Building & Construction Certificate II Jordan Costa Business Management Karan Vasudevan Economics Samuel De Stefanis Geography Liam Ramirez Legal Studies Samuel Boyle Media Studies Stefan Di Medio Psychology Stefan Tsagaris Sport & Recreation Certificate III Liam McCluskey Studio Arts – Photography Joshua Bainbridge Studio Arts – Drawing, Painting & Sculpture Luke Goy Visual Communication & Design Justin Lack VCAL Intermediate Samuel Holzer VCE Unit 1 Awards For Endeavour Building & Construction Certificate II Eden Smith Business Management Michael Canny English Liam Forrest Geography Sam Connell General Maths (Further) Costa Batziakas General Maths (Methods) Isaac Vanderwerf General Maths (Specialist) Lachlan Kafer History (20th Century) Liam Gava Interactive Digital Media Certificate II Lachlan Walsh Legal Studies Joshua Benton Media Studies Zac Hellyer Physical Education Benjamin Spackman Physics Henry Brown Psychology Jack Cook Sport & Recreation Certificate III James Tavitian Studio Arts – Photography Jarrod Dousa Studio Arts – Drawing, Painting & Sculpture Ryan Cosgrave Systems Engineering Lucas Brzeski Visual Communication & Design Jeffrey Su VCAL Intermediate Conor Cosgrave

Multiple Winners General Maths (Methods) (Academic) Marcus Karam Biology (Academic) Marcus Karam Religion & Society (Academic) Marcus Karam History (20th Century) (Academic) Connor Byrne Physical Education (Academic) Connor Byrne General Maths (Specialist) (Academic) Connor Rate Chemistry (Academic) Connor Rate Physics (Academic) Connor Rate LOTE Italian (Academic) Raphael Canty Music Performance (Academic) Raphael Canty Information Technology Systems (Academic) Jack Boek Systems Engineering (Academic) Jack Boek English (Academic) Karl Maul Music Performance (Endeavour) Karl Maul General Maths (Further) (Academic) Nigel Menezes Chemistry (Endeavour) Nigel Menezes Biology (Endeavour) Holden Sayers LOTE Italian (Endeavour) Holden Sayers Religion & Society (Endeavour) Holden Sayers Accounting (Endeavour) Jarryd Grooby Economics (Endeavour) Jarryd Grooby Interactive Digital Media Certificate II (Academic) John Argyros Information Technology Systems (Endeavour) John Argyros

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VCE Unit 3 Academic Awards

Multiple Winners

Accounting Athan Giuliani Biology Dominic Symes Business Management Jackson Morgan Maths Methods Cameron Roberts Geography Connor Rate LOTE French Remy Cadman Media Studies Alec Young Music Performance Joshua Subramaniam Physical Education David Kelly Religion & Society Liam Oldfield Software Development Raphael Canty Sport & Recreation Certificate III James Benton Studio Arts – Drawing, Painting & Sculpture Markus Spindler Systems Engineering James Delaney VCAL Intermediate Samuel Deed

English (Academic) John Buchanan History (Revolutions) (Academic) John Buchanan Chemistry (Academic) Thomas Brasher Specialist Maths (Academic) Thomas Brasher Economics (Academic) Peter Pepes Legal Studies (Academic) Peter Pepes Politics (Academic) Peter Pepes LOTE Italian (Academic) Christian Di Donato Visual Communication & Design (Academic) Christian Di Donato Legal Studies (Endeavour) Christian Di Donato Psychology (Academic) Michael Hoareau Further Maths (Endeavour) Michael Hoareau LOTE Italian (Endeavour) Michael Hoareau Further Maths (Academic) Noah Hulme Visual Communication & Design (Endeavour) Noah Hulme Physics (Academic) Jordan Mitropoulos Specialist Maths (Endeavour) Jordan Mitropoulos Studio Arts – Photography (Academic) Kavanagh O’Dowd Music Performance (Endeavour) Kavanagh O’Dowd Building & Construction Certificate II (Academic) Thomas Robinson VCAL Intermediate (Endeavour) Thomas Robinson Chemistry (Endeavour) Ali Abid Maths Methods (Endeavour) Ali Abid Business Management (Endeavour) Jonathan Pertile Politics (Endeavour) Jonathan Pertile Accounting (Endeavour) John Zanca English (Endeavour) John Zanca Psychology (Endeavour) John Zanca

VCE Unit 3 Awards For Endeavour Biology Samuel Lo Presti Building & Construction Certificate II Rory Sheehy Economics Jonathon Dent Geography Wyatt Bicknell History (Revolutions) Steven Lau LOTE French Nigel Menezes Media Studies Maxime Renaudin Physical Education Nicholas Papamiltiades Physics Jack-Henry Attard Religion & Society Richard Alexander Software Development Jonathan Aretos Sport & Recreation Certificate III Brayden Hawkins Studio Arts – Photography Joshua Doolan Studio Arts – Drawing, Painting & Sculpture Aleksander Nirenovic Systems Engineering Edward Hirst

Award Winners Semester 2 Primary Awards For Endeavour Year 4 Academic Excellence Benjamin Selkirk Year 4 Academic Excellence

Daniel Van den Berg Year 4 Award for Endeavour Daniel Orso Year 5 Academic Excellence Joshua Fernando Year 5 Academic Excellence Mitchell Barnett Year 5 Award for Endeavour James Suffolk Year 6 Academic Excellence William Martin Year 6 Academic Excellence Angus Lewis Year 6 Award for Endeavour Jovan Stefanoski Year 7 Academic Awards English Anthony Ryan Geography Nathan Salmon History Steven Christodoulakis LOTE Italian Anthony Ryan Literacy Enhancement Nicholas Bufalo Mathematics Zhi Dong Ye Music Nathan Barrow Physical Education Jaxon Stuart Religious Education Liam Jenkins Science Joshua Hu Technology Jacob Mundy Year 7 Awards For Endeavour English Angus Digby Geography Amadeo Perri History Kristoff Soliven LOTE Italian Bryce Loughnan Literacy Enhancement Michael Skehan Mathematics Michael Ermacora Music Joel Thompson Physical Education Arki Konstandakopoulos Religious Education Michael Skehan Science Joshua Webb Technology Nicholas Caruso Year 8 Academic Awards Art Angus McLean Drama Jordan Burns English Thomas Pagonis Geography Brandon Luu History Daniel Papalia LOTE French Nathan Crouch LOTE Italian Maxwell Harvey Literacy Enhancement Mitchell Rogers Mathematics Joel Fernando Physical Education Bailey Joyce Religious Education Angus McLean Science Romolo Persi Year 8 Awards For Endeavour Art Cameron Janka Drama Daniel Papalia English Ethan Boyd Geography Romolo Persi

History Angus McLean LOTE French Alex Camm LOTE Italian Charles Vandergriff Literacy Enhancement Joel Van Echteld Mathematics Max Moolman Physical Education Zachary Raymond Religious Education

Jesse Wiedemann Science Jesse Wiedemann Year 9 Academic Awards Art Luke Barron Drama Jonathan Green English Samuel Callaghan Geography Charlie Langkau History Luke Rogan LOTE French Paul Wasiewicz LOTE Italian Adam Crestani Literacy Enhancement Nicholas Byrden Mathematics James Biviano Media Studies Alex Powell Music Henry Prendergast Kruger Photography Andrew Eracleous Physical Education Harrison Gill Religious Education Harry Gustin Science Harrison Gill Science Cameron Monaco Technology Luke Barron Year 9 Awards For Endeavour Art Tristan Moloney Drama Thomas Roberts English Nicholas Byrden Geography Benjamin Paine History Cameron Monaco LOTE French Nathan Soh LOTE Italian Ryan Kinsella Literacy Enhancement James Bruce-Smith Mathematics Ruben Beeby Media Studies Christian Leuzzi Music Cameron Monaco Religious Education Andrew Eracleous Photography Benjamin McDonell Physical Education Charlie Aitken Science Nathan Soh Technology Nicholas Chatgoglou

Media Studies Liam Gava Music Performance Raphael Canty Physical Education Connor Byrne Physics Jayden Lee Psychology Tanis Van Laake Religion & Society Nicholas Sinclair Sport & Recreation Cert III James Tavitian Studio Arts – Photography Joshua Bainbridge Studio Arts – Mixed Media Samuel Powell Systems Engineering Jack Boek VET: External Luke Goy VCAL Intermediate Adrian Orso Visual Communication Design Enzo Hamilton

Year 10 Awards For Endeavour

Vce Unit 2 Awards For Endeavour

Art Rory Hulme English Timothy Fierenzi Geography Thomas Ponissi History Daniel Aiello LOTE French Jack Worcester LOTE Italian Thomas Ponissi Literacy Enhancement Jay Marandos Materials Technology Rhys Nicolaou Mathematics Ambrose Berlin Media Timothy Fierenzi Multimedia Mackenzie Fletcher Music Performance William Jones Photography Ryan Taranto Physical Education Billy Tokatlidis Religious Education Mackenzie Fletcher Science Nathan Grooby Systems Technology Peter Haines Visual Communication Design Cooper Morris

Accounting Jackson Morgan Biology Holden Sayers Building & Construction Cert III Jordan Villani Business Management Jarryd Grooby Chemistry Marcus Calleja Economics Nicholas Supple English Nicholas Supple General Maths (Further) Wyatt Bicknell General Maths (Methods) Joshua Benton General Maths (Specialist) Connor Rate Geography Nicholas Amon History (20th Century) Noah Korkolos Information Technology Lucas Brzeski Interactive Digital Media Cert III Mitchell Carracher Legal Studies Benjamin McGaw Literature N/A LOTE Italian Liam Gava Media Studies Costa Haritos Music Performance Luciano Murray Religion & Society Raphael Canty Physical Education Stefan Tsagaris Physics Benjamin McGaw Psychology Anthony Cupic Sport & Recreation Cert III Daniel Thorson Studio Arts – Photography Nicholas Amon Studio Arts – Mixed Media Ryan Cosgrave Systems Engineering Nicholas Joseph VET: External Shamus Haigney VCAL Intermediate Shamus Haigney Visual Communication Design

Mitchell Thomas

Vce Unit 2 Academic Awards

Year 10 Academic Awards Art Mackenzie Fletcher English Thomas Ponissi Geography Nicholas Doukelis History Karan Vasudevan LOTE French Tanis Van Laake LOTE Italian Kyle Williams

Literacy Enhancement Liam O’Neill Materials Technology Jonathan O’Connor Mathematics Further Christopher Northey Mathematics Methods Tanis Van Laake Media Michael Giannatilio Multimedia Shiroy Fernando Music Performance Jarrod Hambleton Photography Jarrod Hambleton Physical Education Liam Murphy Religious Education Xavier-Joseph de la Masse-Homsy Science William Wright Systems Technology Alexander Kokkas Visual Communication Design Christian Grant

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Accounting William Wright Biology Marcus Karam Building & Construction Cert III Will O’Shannessy Business Management Karan Vasudevan Chemistry Raphael Canty Economics Jackson Morgan English Marcus Karam General Maths (Further) Nigel Menezes General Maths (Methods) Connor Rate General Maths (Specialist) Marcus Karam Geography Declan Griffith History (20th Century) Connor Byrne Information Technology Lucas Perri Interactive Digital Media Cert III John Argyros Legal Studies Joshua Benton LOTE Italian Raphael Canty

Many are familiar with the College War Memorial, just inside the Dalny St gates, on the end of the Year 6 classroom.

The original version was commissioned by the Old Collegians Association, then blessed and dedicated in 1948 to commemorate past students from De La Salle who made the ultimate sacrifice in war.

Plaques were added to commemorate Old Collegians who died in later conflicts. The refurbishment of the War Memorial is a fitting tribute to the 52 Old Collegians named on the original tablets and plaques and the formal blessing and dedication is another significant chapter in the history of the College.

Centenary of War The Centenary of War display was opened in Term 3 by Dr Rosalie Triolo, Lecturer in History Education at Monash University. Dr Triolo spoke of the need to engage in our wartime history so we can learn to appreciate peace.

More than 150 images were submitted by families along with a number of significant artefacts.

The exhibition showed our families’ involvement in conflict over the last 100 years and was a unique opportunity for students to engage in their own history and understand that all our histories are important in telling the story of modern Australia. There were many unique and engaging stories, demonstrating the resilience of people during wartime. Many thanks to Mary Finn and the primary students for their efforts. The images will be scanned and will provide a unique resource for teaching history at De La Salle.

Principal Peter Houlihan with the war portrait of his father Francis James Houlihan, 4A Lighthorse Regiment, based in Geelong 1941.

Ben Gibson Year 7 with his Grandfather’s RAAF flying jacket and War medals. Athol Gibson flew Spitfires in Papua New Guinea and Darwin during WW2.

Remembrance Day

Mr Andrew Wozencroft with Old Collegian Kevin Murray who joined the RAAF in 1969 and retired this year after 35 years of service, reaching the rank of Wing Commander.

Mr Ted Baillieu, Chair of the ANZAC committee, came to speak to the boys about getting involved in the Centenary of War project. He asked them all to consider their own histories and look for links to the early ANZACS. Chris Ovens of Year 9 presented Mr Baillieu with a gift in appreciation of his visit.

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We were very pleased to welcome a range of special guests to participate in the ceremony. Federal Member for Higgins Kelly O’Dwyer; State Member for Malvern and Treasurer of Victoria, The Honourable Michael O’Brien; East Malvern RSL representatives Brigadier Geoff Christopherson and Mrs Leonie Christopherson; Mayor of the City of Stonnington, Counsellor Adrian Stubbs; Vice Chair of the College Board Mr Damien Nolan and Parish Priest of St Michael’s Ashburton Fr Hien Vu, who conducted the dedication.

A word from the Chaplain Our year began with Mass to mark the start of the academic year, at which time we welcomed back our high achievers to recognize the fulfilment of their hard work and also invested the College Leaders for 2014.

Ash Wednesday took a new turn this year with individual Homeroom liturgies. It is a major event in the liturgical year and an opportunity at the beginning of the year to establish a spiritual presence in the College, especially for the new cohort.

Student Special Ministers Once again we invited a group of students to undertake a training program to serve the DLS community as Special Ministers of the Eucharist.

These impressive young men offered their peer group a special example of faith in action.

The Year 7 Spiritual Initiation Program “Celebrating Catholic Life” has spanned the year, taking in all Year 7 students in small groups. The program serves to welcome and initiate students into both the Catholicity of the College and an understanding of the Lasallian ethos; which involves them in reflection, discussion and searching to discover their own beliefs, creeds, spiritual celebration and determination in the road ahead. We aim in this initiation program to help the boys tap into their own inner strength and goodness and consider ways in which they can use their gifts to make a difference during their years at De La Salle and in the wider world.

Easter Season Following a whole school memorial of the Easter Feasts, our primary classes gathered for their own pageant.

Year 6 students had prepared Stations of the Cross in sculptured wire and to the music of Avici’s Hey Brother portrayed the Gospel accounts in cameo performances. The Year 4 students, under the creative eye of Mrs Finn, wove together a tapestry of the Easter story in an art work created in an Australian indigenous representation. The Year 5 students highlighted the message by leading us all in a festival of light as each student added their lit taper to the sand, we were reminded in song that Jesus asked us to “Do this in Memory of Me”.

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Reconciliation, First Eucharist and Confirmation 36 students from Years 4 to 8 participated in the Sacrament program and we remain grateful to St Anthony’s Glen Huntly for the support they generously offer our students.

As Lent commenced, so too did eleven students launch into preparation for the Sacrament of first Reconciliation. The Chapel filled with excited chatter as families gathered to celebrate the Second Rite of Reconciliation for the first time. Father Dillon, an old boy of the College, administered the Sacrament on Tuesday 29 April in the Tiverton Chapel, in the presence of family and friends.

Father Dillon spoke to the boys and their families about being true to themselves and standing up for what they believe in. Mr Houlihan, Principal, presented the students with a gift and congratulated them on taking this step towards a deeper relationship with the Lord.

Confirmation Eighteen students from Year 6 to Year 8 participated; Brock Augustynski, Owen Davies, Thomas Easton, William Martin, Liam McCaffrey, Andrew McGaw, Julian Ober, James Pavlou, Thomas Richards, Tom Robinson, Thomas Simpson, Byron Gelagin, Harvey Sparks, Gabriel Strain-King, Nathan Barrow, Michael Skehan, Kai Bloomfield and Mitchell Rogers were Confirmed on Sunday 10 August

by Bishop Elliott. Five students also received the Eucharist for the first time.

The Bishop took great delight in this latter group as they came to Eucharist in the ancient apostolic tradition.

First Communion Sunday 26 October saw twelve of our students from Year 4 to Year 6 receive Eucharist for the first time.

Congratulations to Alex Basile, Samuel Herdman, Harry King, Max Kolpin, Peter Pearse, William Richards, Benjamin Selkirk, James Simpson, Jasper Sparks, William Skehan, Harrison Barber and Isaac Ford. Their families engaged in a Sunday Retreat Day, a Home Mass and the boys in a wonderful Reconciliation Service in the process of their preparation.

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Religion Education and Faith Development This year the College celebrated three major liturgies: Founder’s Day Mass, Social Justice Mass and the Year 12 Valedictory Mass.

Ash Wednesday, the ANZAC and Remembrance Day Memorial Liturgy and our Lenten Liturgy once again reminded us of the fragility of human life and the love of a forgiving God. The end-of-year Masses for each year level and the Staff Mass marked the beginning of Advent; the time in the Church year when Christians worldwide prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus the Christ.

The Year 9, 10 and 11 students attended retreats at the Syndal Baptist Conference Centre. The Lasallian ministry team facilitated each retreat and provided a context for the boys to reflect on their faith journey and the ministry of our Founder, St John Baptist de La Salle.

Today we live in a world where we often meet indifference towards God. It is unfortunate, but realistic nonetheless, to understand this is true with some of our students. I think that in the depths of those students who are distant from God for whatever reason, there is a grappling for a deeper truth; a kind of longing for the infinite. Why are we here, and what is our purpose in life? Our hope in providing the students and staff with a greater access to the mystery of the Eucharist will help offer them a sense of wonder; an experience where our temporal world intersects with the divine.

Whilst Australia is still considered a ‘Christian’ country, I think it is fair to say: gone are the days where our religious faith was the context where

adherence to God was part of everyday life. It wasn’t that long ago when it was the unbeliever who had to justify their disbelief. Now, it is the believer who must give account of their faith, especially since Christians are faced with the onset of a new atheism, indifference, the past sins of our Church and a deeply ingrained secularism. Pope Francis calls for a “pastoral and missionary conversion which cannot leave things as they presently are” (Evangelii Gaudium). As teachers and parents, we are called to evangelise our students so that they can be radical in their practise of the Gospel message. This means actively showing love, forgiveness, compassion and tolerance to others.

Our Church is still coming to terms with the vision and teachings of the Second Vatican Council, so I think it valuable to reflect on the Councils’ thoughts about what our relationship with God should be.

They wrote: “The root reason for human dignity lies in man's call to communion with God. From the very circumstance of his origin man is already invited to converse with God. For man would not exist were he not created by God's love and constantly preserved by it; and he cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknowledges that love and devotes himself to his Creator” (Gaudium et spes, 19).

As teachers of your sons, we need to be constantly trying to foster a more realistic understanding of what God is like. God should not be seen as ‘a bully in

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the sky’; rather, our students should regard the essence of God as the condition for the possibility for human flourishing. Therefore when we reflect on the God of the ‘burning bush’ who appeared to Moses in the Old Testament story, we should see this revelation as the development of a divine relationship that becomes more radiant and beautiful as one gets closer to God. When we evangelise our students, their experience of the ‘Kingdom of God’ ought to become more alive.

I want to take this opportunity to sincerely thank and acknowledge those who take on the challenge of teaching Religious Education. The vast majority of the teachers do so because they want too. If they taught the subject without the gift of faith and mission, they would not be teaching the subject very long at all. Theirs is a ministry of great necessity and courage and warrants our admiration and gratitude. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the work of our College Chaplain, Mrs Joan Ferguson; especially her guidance, advice and assistance in the planning of our Liturgies, Masses and particularly her coordination of the College’s Sacramental Program.

Mr Graeme Pender Director of Religious and Moral Education

The Social Justice Mass In the lead-up to this major celebration, each Year 8 Homeroom gathered in the Chapel for a paraliturgy. Students reflected on their research into the various aid agencies in Australia and those that operate internationally. They were invited to consider how many of these were started by one person and

the power they too possess to make an impact in society. The whole school collected for Sacred Heart Mission and the Refugee Centre. Students from each Homeroom brought forward gifts during the Offertory Procession on behalf of the whole school.

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St Vincent de Paul The College’s St Vincent de Paul Society has been operating on the Kinnoull campus for over 20 years. This year, students from Years 10 to 12 met weekly in Room 212 at lunchtime to discuss events, charities and fundraising to make a difference to the less fortunate. Their efforts were inspired by Fred Ozanam, who started the Society in 1833 in Paris. It was been another successful year for the College’s group, with over 22 members attending meetings at different times of the year.

During 2013 the position of chair was first rotated among members without the election of a committee and this continued in 2014. Eight members had the experience of managing discussions of proposals which proved, at times, to be both competitive and stimulating. As well as practical discussions, there were also opportunities for consciousness raising. In one open forum on refugees, Tom Ponissi and Liam Bisognin spoke eloquently about the current plight of refugees after attending a seminar on the topic for young leaders.

In Term 2, the Society organised the second annual ‘Sausage Fest’ at Kinnoull with 16 members helping to cook and serve. The sausage sizzle raised more than $300 in just a single lunch time. These funds were sent to the Vinnie’s ‘Assist a Student’ program, which funded the education of four children living in an impoverished area of Sri Lanka.

Perhaps the most recognised initiative brought to the Society in Term 3 by Matthew Mottola was the introduction of microwaves for the canteen. These were purchased by Mr Kenealy. For a minimal donation of $2 per term, students were given access to the microwave every lunch time with all proceeds going to the Food Collection Appeal coordinated by the College Leaders.

Students have been attending the Collingwood Soup Van for more than twelve years. Each Sunday night, volunteers from De La Salle and the wider community assisted by making sandwiches, rolls and soup. Students, accompanied by adult volunteers, travelled to highrise and low-rise apartments, as well as to Smith Street, handed out food and struck up conversations with the underprivileged. It is certainly an eye-opening experience and puts into perspective just how much we take for granted.

Also in Term 3, a group of De La Salle students Top Row. E. Fabris, M. Mottola, L. Chai, R. Canty Middle Row: J. Doree, J. Henry Attard, E. Hirst, J. Dent, L. Torrisi, J. Loo Yong Kee attended the inaugural Front: Mr G. Lawler, T. Ponissi, J. Halliday, L. Bisognin, J. Segal Vinnie’s Winter Sleep Out at St John’s College, Dandenong. In solidarity with the homeless of the city, students ate a small meal were all engaged on the task at hand. Mr Lawler has out of cups and slept on the floors of the classrooms. been the coordinator of the Society for a number of The night was an incredibly insightful experience years, and his devotion to this cause must not go for those involved and further emphasised the unrecognised. discrepancies between the homeless and those with All students are encouraged to join the St Vincent a comfortable bed. de Paul Society. It is a fantastic opportunity to Thanks to all members of this year’s group, who demonstrate initiative through improving the lives of brought enthusiasm and awareness to every others. It truly is a rewarding experience. meeting. Their dedication is greatly appreciated. A Edward Hirst very special thanks must also be given to Mr Lawler, Year 12 who attended every meeting and ensured that we

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College Leaders

Back Row: Ms Olivia Wenczel, Stephen Athaide, David Kelly, Edward Cheesman, Luke Brownhill, Liam O’Callaghan, Thomas Brasher, John Buchanan Front Row: Michael Hoareau, James Yosiffidis, Ben Stafford, Mr Peter Houlihan, James Benton, Christian Di Donato, Matthew Swinnerton

Leaders 2014 From day one, the leadership group took to the challenge of leadership, knowing the responsibilities associated and the time they would have to put into the year. On the camp at Safety Beach, before school or lunch time meetings, over at Sydney or Brisbane for the Leadership Seminar, or the Lasallian Youth Gathering, and at other various events, they put in 110% — of their effort, ideas, and everything else they had at their disposal, to organize, plan and coordinate the events that help to create the strong community we have at De La Salle today.

We have had such a fulfilling time as a group, experiencing our last year of school a little differently, but at the same time embracing the experience.

Without a doubt, it has been a challenging year, but I believe De La Salle College’s 13 leaders measured up.

The participation and spirit displayed by the Year 12 students, indeed from all of the year levels, was gratifying to see.

It was worth the time and efforts taken and really gave the leaders a sense of accomplishment.

We were proud to have had the chance to give back to the

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community that gave us all so much in our years of schooling.

Despite the nerves before speeches or readings at Masses, or sometimes having to be a ‘bridge’ between student and teacher, and coming up against the classic line, ‘but you’re a leader’, every single minute has been worth it.

I will miss Stephen Athaide’s indefatiguable optimism, Luke Brownhill’s humour, and even James Yosiffidis’ endless nicknames. I will miss all the leaders, and always cherish the memories I had with each one of them and as a group.

I hope, with their talents and incredible attributes, they can do even greater things in the outside world and really make a difference.

To the Year 11s students, I know you will all become ‘leaders’ in 2015, and continue to set the example that makes us proud to be Lasallians. Community, social justice and camaraderie are the ingredients of a great College — at De La Salle we have this spirit in spades.

James Benton College Captain

The Year 12 Class of 2014 Ali Abid

Wesley Agar

Michael Agatic

Mitchell AinsworthGriffiths

Richard Alexander

Marcelo Arapis

Stephen Athaide

Jack-Henry Attard

Shannon Balthazaar

Samuel Beckman

James Benton

Karl Bianco

Lorenzo Boccabella

Morgan Borley

Thomas Brasher

Mathew Brooks

Matthew Brown

Luke Brownhill

John Buchanan

Adam Burt

Nicholas Bury

Oliver Carson

Edward Cheesman

Anthony Chiodo

Conor Clarke

James Colquhoun

Nicholas Contin

James Cooke

Jayden Cooper

Andrew Cowan

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The Year 12 Class of 2014 Marcus Cozzi

Anthony De Luca

Quinn De Luca

Samuel Deed

James Delaney

Jonathon Dent

Christian Di Donato

Jack Dillon

Christopher Dingas

Joshua Doolan

James Doree

James Driscoll

Rohan D’Souza

Mitchell Eager

Julian Esposito

Travis Fidock

Blake Fletcher

Joshua Galbraith

Dimitri Ganotis

Adrian Genobile

Callum Gibson

James Halliday

Charles Hammond

Jacob Harris

Richard Hart

Benjamin Harvey

Brayden Hawkins

Nikolaus Hema

Marcus

Edward Hirst

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The Year 12 Class of 2014 Michael Hoareau

Thomas Horan

Matthew Horrigan

Noah Hulme

Thomas Hyland

Kristian Iezzi

Daniel IncretolliRodrigues

Benjamin Jacka

Frederick Jenkins

Victor Jenkins

Marcus Johns

Tristan Johnstone

David Kelly

Paul Kony

Jonathan Kouch

Dean Krelle

George Ktenas

Cameron Lack

Steven Lau

Daniel Leone

Evan Lianos

Samuel Lo Presti

Julian Loo Yong Kee

Braydn Mancal

Christopher Marinis

Benjamin Marshall

Matthew Maunick

Brayden Maynard

Thomas McCausland

Jacob McGaw

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The Year 12 Class of 2014 Joshua McGivern

Nicholas McGonigal

Jack McGraw

Jack McLoughlin

Thomas McNeilly

Alessandro Metaxas

Oliver Milner

Jordan Mitropoulos

Michael Monger

Harrison Morris

Xavier Nathan

Aleksandar Nirenovic

Campbell Norton

William O’Brien

Robert O’Brien

Liam O’Callaghan

Kavanagh O’Dowd

Patrick O’Grady

Liam Oldfield

Liam O’Malley

Riley Otto

Michael Paczkowski

Nicholas Papamiltiades

Peter Pepes

Jonathan Pertile

Nicholas Ponissi

Xavier Purcell

Maxime Renaudin

William Rennie

Arion Reuter

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The Year 12 Class of 2014 Cameron Roberts

Darcy Roberts

Liam Robinson

Max Robinson

Thomas Robinson

Flynn Roddy Kortus

Jayden Rowe

Joshua Runatay

Jason Sadek

Jordi Sahely

John San Jose

Brendan Schmidt

Nicholas Scott

Henry Secomb

Aidan Shallue

Jack Sharry

Rory Sheehy

Zhiwei Sheng

Carlo Sinay

Alexander Siriopoulos

Stefan Spanopoulos

Markus Spindler

Ben Stafford

Joshua Subramaniam

Matthew Swinnerton

Dominic Symes

Joshua Talbot

Patrick Tanner

Stefan Taranto

Jacob Taylor

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The Year 12 Class of 2014 Nicholas Taylor

Luke Tikellis

Laurence Tiong

Luke Torrisi

Dale Tralongo

Joshua Trenerry

Max Tutty

Joshua Tyquin

Jack Vance

Scott Vawser

Thomas Walkear

Timothy Walsh

John Walters

Hamish Wardlaw

Bradley Wildoer

Ryan Wilson

Aidan Wood

James Yosiffidis

Alec Young

John Zanca

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Year 12 It’s amazing to think that less than a year ago, the world farewelled Nelson Mandela. One of his great motivating phrases to the hugely divided South Africans was to “Exceed Your Expectations”. As a result we implored Year 12 students of 2014 to do exactly that. They did.

The College Leaders, ably led by Ms Wenczel, were an inspiring bunch who jumped into all their duties with great gusto. College Captain James Benton challenged himself by participating in and orchestrating as much as he was physically able.

Sergeant Ben Stafford (or vice-captain to us) also dedicated his year to the College before he now applies himself to the Defence Force.

Arts and Music impresarios were magnificent in their performances and willingness to belt out their lines for the school. John Buchanan, Ed Hirst, Josh Subramaniam and Jack-Henry Attard are just some of this special group. World class weightlifter, James Delaney spearheaded a sportingly enthusiastic cohort that included prolific competitors like Liam O’Callaghan and Tom Brasher as well as unsung exponents in their fields, Jayden Cooper (cycling) and Matthew Horrigan (Tae kwon do).

Congratulations to all the young men of 2014 for their enthusiasm, spirit and undoubted love of De La Salle.

Hopefully their academic exploits will indeed make them feel that they could exceed their expectations.

Big thanks must also go to the conscientious and deeply caring Homeroom teachers: Warren Walker, Trish Burke, Kerry Martin, Tim Hogan, Margaret McPhee, Christine Thompson, Emily Ryan and Adrian Matarazzo. Their unselfish and extra efforts behind the scenes may go unnoticed but never unappreciated.

We look forward now to hearing about all the wonderful future exploits of this group, hoping that they will always treasure their time in the blue and gold.

Mr Michael Petrie Year 12 Coordinator

Mission Action Day Thank you to the College community for an unprecedented commitment of $103,660 for the College’s annual Mission Action Day walkathon held in March. This is a phenomenal achievement and one that will make a difference to hundreds, if not thousands, of peoples’ lives around the world where the De La Salle Brothers are carrying out their mission to serve.

This is the first time that MAD has raised in excess of $100,000 once again illustrating the strength and generosity of the De La Salle community.

Of particular note are some of the Homerooms which achieved staggering results. Congratulations must go to the Year 7 boys who topped the Year level tally with $20,721. Similarly at other year levels there were a number of records broken with several Homerooms raising more than $3,000 including: 8 Hegarty $4,050, 9 Miguel $3,643 followed closely by 9 Dunstan with $3,384 and 12 Solomon raising the highest amount for senior campus with $3,093. What a MAD achievement De La Salle Malvern.

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Coolies Visit to India 2013–2014 The Coolies experience is pretty full-on! Talk about the deep end. Assaults on your comprehension and your senses come in fast and furious. India delivers its first punch very early. Stepping from Chennai airport, in the middle of the night, there is little chance to appreciate the hot, humid environment, before we are assailed by dozens of touts, drivers and porters all eager to ‘help’. Our driver finds us and leads us to a distant car park, and our path through the many sleeping families along the various walkways delivers another punch. The 15 new arrivals, each with backpacks, have to squeeze into a minibus designed for far fewer. But such is India.

We adopt pretzel-like configurations and manage to fit. The transit through the busy streets with headlight illuminated smog provided an eerie, hazy atmosphere through which to experience your first dose of the craziness of Indian road travel. Road work, diversions and hoardings add to the chaos of it all. Cars, scooters, auto rickshaws, bicycles, buses, trucks, pedestrians, just don’t seem to realise it’s really late at night! Can you believe it? We were only a couple of hours in!

Surprises, contradictions and new experiences continue apace, but you do learn to roll with the punches. It’s not as if we weren’t prepared. We’d signed up for this months ago, been to heaps of meetings; convinced sponsors of the worth of this project; sold chocolates and sizzled sausages. We’d been briefed on the subject of Indian life and culture.

Yet, when you are in the thick of it, it is just so different! What an experience.

We were headed for the Lasalle Secondary School in the fishing town of Tuticorin, where we would spend the next month. The Brothers gave up their house to accommodate some of us and the rest bunked in together in shared rooms of three or four. The cooks ‘blanded’ down the food for us, cutting back on curry and chillies. Still, there were a few of us nursing stomachs that often threatened to misbehave. Time went quickly as we ‘manned up’, to compensate for the lack of tools or machinery, and carted bricks, stones, sand and concrete during our three shifts of one and a half hours each weekday. We thought we were pretty good too, until, on a couple of the really busy days, some local women coolies were brought in – they showed us what wimps we were in comparison. Nonetheless, we took great solace from the knowledge that we brought forward the completion date of that floor of classrooms we were working on by several months. We had the opportunity to mix with hundreds of students, many of whom were orphan boarders. We were like celebrities ‘on tour’ to the many interested students.

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these lower caste people look to God and education to raise them from their lot. Nevertheless, the surprising acceptance, optimism and good-humour displayed amongst the students, and locals, is palpable.

Our last fortnight in India gave us the chance for a little more train travel and to visit another couple of south Indian cities. The placid backwaters are the antithesis of what one usually experiences in this chaotic country. Many of us adopted the local garb, with one or two taking on a Gandhi-like appearance with shaved heads and dhotis. Goa’s beaches, a Cochin Christmas, and a Hampi New Year, all provided rich memories and a greater appreciation of what India is all about.

The Coolies of 2013–14 returned home enriched, tired from the work, uplifted by the experience, appreciative of what we have here, and delighted to feel we’d done some folk some good.

Mr Larry Evans Coolies Group Coordinator

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea had a recent dry spell, but when we touched down, the heavens fell in. Nine days of the twelve day tour consisted of rain. However this didn’t dampen our spirit and our desire to get the job done. None of us had been to PNG, and we didn’t know what was in store for us. What we saw was a country full of people with gratitude and overwhelming happiness. As we drove through the busy roads on the first night, we got an endless number of waves and smiles, and we felt like celebrities.

On day two, we were introduced to our work site for the next eleven days, an old dormitory which was to be converted into three classrooms. We were also introduced to the local boys, who were always happy to lend a hand and brought much happiness to the group throughout the stay. By day three, we commenced work, and this was the story for the following nine days. We saw the best in each other, always persevering when a new challenge faced us, and we were proud to say that we had finished our intended job, and a bit extra.

The highlight of the trip was getting stuck at Owers’ Corner at the start of the Kokoda Trail.

Heavy rain prevented us from getting the truck up the hill, and we decided we’d have to try and push it. With fourteen boys and four teachers, alongside a few local boys and men, we spent two and a half hours in the pouring rain pushing the truck, ankle deep in Kokoda mud, making only 30 metres of ground. It was getting late, and with little reception and no knowledge if help was coming, we thought we would have to stay the night. To our amazement, we got hold of a few locals and they were able to bring a convoy of helpers to transport us home.

It reignited the spirit of the Papua New Guineans’ helping out the Aussies seventy years ago, also at the Kokoda Trail. It was something that we were very grateful for. It really amazed us that people with so little would go to such lengths to help us out.

Papua New Guinea is a trip that will stay with all of us for the rest of our lives. It was an eye-opener seeing how these people lived and how they went about their lives.

Their generosity and compassion for those in need, when they themselves were less than fortunate, showed how great the human spirit can be.

Liam Bisognin Year 11

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La Salle Green Hills Cultural Exchange 2014 The 2014 Philippines Cultural Exchange to La Salle Green Hills in Manila proved to be a humbling and empowering experience. The detailed itinerary provided by La Salle Green Hills ensured that the boys were immersed in Filipino culture and were able to witness the importance and impact of the work done to assist the poor by our Lasallian communities. Poverty is ‘in your face’ but my second visit to Jamie Hilario School in Bagac renewed my faith that we can make a difference. The substantial building construction at the school, as well as the growth of the housing village attached to the school, demonstrated the impact of the contributions that De La Salle as well as other Lasallian communities.

We also had the opportunity to work with ANCOP, (Answering the Cry of the Poor). We spent the day working with the residents of a housing project as they constructed low cost housing for the homeless, directly underneath the fight path of the international airport.

We also spent a day with the ‘Integrated learning Program’ where volunteers and retired teachers run classes for those who have left school without any qualifications. We had the chance to meet some of

these students and even made some home visits. There is something very real about sitting in a room, smaller than my bathroom at home, which sleeps five people, listening to a 35 year old taxi driver explain why he left school at grade three and how getting his diploma will open up so many more opportunities for him.

The support and assistance of Maria Hawley and Andrew Wozencroft on the exchange proved to be invaluable, as too was the presence of Peter Houlihan for the first five days of the trip.

Mr David Happ Philippines Exchange Coordinator

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The Philippines was an experience I’ll never forget.

Seeing the way that some people live really makes you realise how easy we have it here in Australia.

There were kids as young as four who were running around on the streets wearing next to nothing. It made me realize the great disparity in wealth that exists in the world.

Visiting villages in places like Bagac was an eye opener. It was hard to believe how people could survive in the primitive conditions. It was a far cry from the comforts of Melbourne. Yet what struck us was that they were all so happy, no matter what their hardships. Every person we met had a smile on their face, and in turn we felt good, as Lasallians, giving them a helping hand.

I will now never take things for granted. I now know there are millions in the world, people like these Filipinos, who have little material wealth but are happy and grateful for the gift of life.

Jacson Lalande Year 10

Lasallian Service “Overall it was great to do something different that I have no relationship to…as the days continued I was feeling stronger and more confident.”

Jacob Georgaklis “I feel that during this week we learnt a lot from them and they learnt a lot from us. We met a man who contracted polio 60 years ago but still follows his passion of photography and even taught us a bit about it. He helped me realise that I should follow my passions, no matter what.”

Lachlan Flatley “I felt like the week was very interesting and a bit of an eye-opener, because all of my grandparents are healthy and I hadn’t really thought about things like that before.”

Jack Fitzharris “I was very confident talking, playing games, and doing problem solving with the residents…Their problem solving skills amazed me.”

Jack Bruce-Smith “It was fun and definitely a new experience. I was interested in interacting, and listening to the stories of the residents…The best guy was Fred. He was funny and always told jokes.”

Michael Dickson

“Doing Lasallian Service was scary and unnerving at first, but after thirty minutes of starting I felt very comfortable and happy to help…Martin had an interesting career in engineering…He showed me that working harder and trying to commit to things helps in the long term.”

Nathan Soh “A certain person had an impact on me because he had special needs and was quite disruptive at times.

When he was quiet, he was a very good person to work with.”

Charlie Langkau “I met a lady named Valerie who had an impact on me. I got an idea of dementia and what it would be like to work with such clients. I felt compassion for Valerie and got to know her as a person who has a family, is part of the community and has dignity.”

Haydn Dunstone “I found it very interesting to hear the people’s stories. The people loved our company and we loved theirs.”

Jordan Brasher

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“I spent four days community service at Warrawee Aged Care in Bentleigh. I had an interesting time there meeting and talking with a man who worked in a wool mill, a man who was in the paratroopers in World War II and who played the bag-pipe in an official band, and a man who escaped an internment camp in World War II. I found their stories fascinating because they were so diverse. The Warrawee staff were really kind and caring. I learnt a lot over the course of the week.”

Rory Fenech

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Behind a big event like a school musical there is an army of talent, expertise and sheer determination which makes it all come together on opening night and this production has been no exception. I would like to thank those people as a group and, here, individually.

Footloose

Firstly, I would like to thank the Principals of De La Salle College and Sacré Coeur, Mr Peter Houlihan and Mrs Maureen Ryan, for their ongoing support and commitment. As Arts educators we are fortunate to be able to work in places of learning where the Arts, and in this case the Performing Arts, are strongly nurtured and supported.

Next, my thanks go to my partners in crime from the outset: Cindy Frost, Olivia Wenczel, David Happ and Marg McPhee.

Cindy brings a professional level of experience and knowledge to her work as Musical Director. Her flexibility and calm working manner are magnificent. She has created a vibrant, thrilling sound from the various elements in Footloose which we are all privileged to enjoy. Olivia is new to us as a choreographer this year and has created strong dance pieces that reflect the period, the youth of our cast and the drive of the music brilliantly. Organised and energetic with a ready smile at hand, we hope to have Olivia’s excellent input many times in the future.

The creative look of the play is thanks to our energetic Artistic Director David Happ, whose flair has once again changed materials into works of art through his innovative and imaginative set.

His tireless efforts backstage with the crew are essential for our performances and his patience and kindness with Director and Crew are legendary. Our Stage Manager, Marg McPhee, has been unstinting in her efforts to coach the actors during rehearsals, generous in her time and support for the students and staff and resourceful in finding those bits of scenery and props that we could not get from school. Her technical expertise behind the scenes during performances makes it all look so easy.

Front of house we have been fortunate to have the publicity skills of Kerry Martin and Jonathan Hewett, the dynamic duo of all things visual and communications at De La Salle, firing up the publicity machine once again. They produced all the promotional materials for the play. I would also like to thank Dave Murray for his generosity in devoting time to build the sets and Adam Jacobs for supervising the VCAL boys while they worked. I would like to thank the office staff at both Colleges for their administrative support and words of encouragement. While all of the rehearsals have been located at De La, at Sacré Coeur we have also had people assisting with the organisation and managing of a cast and crew of more than 70 students. In particular I would like to thank Kate Dillon who was always available and generous in her time when we needed help with Sacré Couer students.

And last but never the least I would like to thank the families of our wonderful cast and crew who have supported their sons and daughters throughout the last six months of rehearsals. In many ways they are the unsung heroes of the production, and for that I am truly grateful.

Mr Andrew Murrell Director

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Primary Showcase

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Media

“Spectrum” Alec Young

“Tangled” Daniel Incretolli-Rodrigues

“Think Tank” Charlie Hammond

“Melbourne’s Vinyl Scene” Flynn Roddy Kortus

Jessie’s Tribute by Jack Dillon

“Ireland’s Greatest” Export by Tom Horan

On the set of “Family Feud”

“Lovebirds” Max Renaudin

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This year’s Media Awards were a huge success, featuring more than 20 short film and radio projects produced by students from Years 9 to 12. Once again the Awards showcased the artistic and technical talents of our students. A highlight of the evening was the Year 12 films, which are produced as part of Units 3 and 4 Media Studies.

The Principal, Mr Peter Houlihan, who presented this year’s Awards, said the films were of a very high standard and congratulated the students for their efforts. The Award for Best Film went to Alec Young for Spectrum. His winning film, which explored the issues of identity and family violence, was an enlightening piece of film making. One of this year’s awards was for Best Original Soundtrack, which went to Max Renoudin for his film Lovebirds. Well known Melbourne musician and front man for the band Dallas Crane, Dave Larkin, who was in the audience, wrote and performed the soundtrack to the film.

Interspersed throughout the film program, the Year 9 Media students’ radio ads drew from a range of stylistic and persuasive techniques. Another feature of the night was the nominations for best of the Year 10 Horror films, Abandoned Melbourne and Paranoia. The Year 11 mash-up nominations included 27 Dresses, Mary Choppins, Titanic and Toy Horror Story.

A special thank you the students, families and staff who attended the Awards.

Awardees were as follows: Year 10 Best Film – Harrison Burt, Stephen Hatzikourtis, Frank McCormack and Rhys Cavallin.

Best Year 11 Film – Liam Gava Year 12 Awards Best Film – Alec Young Best Original Screenplay – Xavier Nathan Best Director – Daniel IncretolliRodrigues Best Production Plan – Luke Brownhill Best Visual Composition – Jason Sadek Best Original Soundtrack – Max Renaudin (by Dave Larkin) Best Editor – Jack Sharry Ms Kerry Martin Year 12 Media

Music at De La Salle It’s very satisfying as a music teacher when you hear your students arguing over minims and quavers or which player bought the latest accessory for their instrument. You think to yourself “my job here is done!”

When students are taking “selfies” with James Morrison at Hamer Hall during rehearsals for the inspiring ACCent combined schools concert in September, or simply staring at him in awe, you know they are immersed in the world of music.

Simply put, they have found their tribe.

The many experiences and performance opportunities at De La Salle are only possible when our musicians turn up to early morning rehearsals, lunch times, and after school to develop their skills and polish up the latest repertoire. In these rehearsals, witnessing the bond between the saxophone section or the guitarists, for example, is amazing to watch.

Even more so is the bond in Choir across all age groups, from Year 4 up to Year 12.

Music Tour this year was based in Neerim in Gippsland. Sixty students demonstrated what they love about music to appreciative primary school students, even inspiring a conga line and some spectacular singing. The art of giving back was also demonstrated in the Year 10 Event Management class through their Zodiac gig where the bands raised money for the Cancer Council.

The generosity of Music students at De La Salle College constantly amazes me.

When a beginning player has their first day in an ensemble, an older musician will automatically take them under their wing to make sure they are ok and feel welcome. Our students also know that every gig ends in a pack up and just start helping without being asked. That’s the sign of a true musician! So congratulations goes to all the musicians who have performed in Choir, Concert Band, Intermediate Band, Guitar Ensemble, Stage Band, Flute and Saxophone Ensembles, our new Brass Ensemble, String Ensemble, Rock Bands and soloists.

Ms Cindy Frost Director of Music

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Intermediate Band

Back: J. Howat, L. Kelliher, M. Treleaven, E. Hirst, J. Attard, B. McDonell Centre: K. O’Dowd, S. Spackman, D. Van den Berg, M. Fodera, H. Attard, G. Intemerato, R. Canty Front: W. Wright, H. Prendergast-Kruger, C. Chant, L. Robinson Director: Ms. C. Frost Absent: M. Chant, N. Paspaliaris

Back: J. Hu, T. Pagonis, C. Vo, W. Cretella, A. Eracleous, R. Ranzolin, J. Hunter Middle: N. Barrow, B. Loughnan, A. Pearce, P. Pearse, K. Halloran, S. Spackman, J. Arnold Front R. Garrido, R. Persi, A. Loo Yong Kee, S. Butler, A. Ryan, B. Coonan

Stage Band

Guitar Ensemble

Back: T. Van Laake, N. Menezes, M. Robinson, J. Hambleton, D. Yee, M. Sidji, C. Rate, A. D’Arcy, C. Morrison, Z. Kovacevic, J. Subramaniam, R. Nicolaou Front: L. Tiong, W. Wright, A. Lindeman, D. Poloni Director: Mr J. Lee 36

Back: J. Hambleton, M. Giannattilio, D. Tompa, Front: M. Fodera, H. Prendergast–Kruger, A. Hofer, S. Hussain Director: Mr M. Lewin Absent: Addison Rowland

Concert Band

Senior Saxophone Ensemble

Back Row: H. Green, A. Bufalo, D. Yee, J. Lack, O. Smith, A. Lindeman, B. O’Shea, C. Groves Middle Row : E. Tambimuttu, M. Harvey, S. Gardiner, B. Northey, Z. D. Ye, F. Bird, C. Langkau Front Row: J. Burns, D. Poloni, W. Wright, L. Tiong, T. Van Laake, R. Canty, N. Menezes Director: Ms K. Williams Absent: L. Borje, W. Cretella, A. D’Arcy, E. Konstantas, L. Ramirez

L. Tiong, W. Wright, N. Menezes, T. Van Laake, D. Poloni Director: Mr A. Verco

String Ensemble

Flute Ensemble

Junior Saxophone Ensemble

Back: J. Pavlou, B. Gibson, R. Canty, G. Intemerato, N. Paspaliaris Front: B. Augustynski, J. Howat, M. Borely, Mr A. Murrell Director: Mr D. Reichman Absent: U. Urban

D. Yee, B. Northey, J. Lack, R. Canty Director: Ms K. Williams

M. Harvey, J. Burns, C. Groves, H. Stanhope Director: Mr A. Verco

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Markus Spindler

Jackie Le

Visual Arts Maxwell Harvey

Ryan O’Meara

David Hart

Rory Kortus

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Tom Care-Parisi

Ethan Wong

Gabriel Makris

Year 9 Animal Studies

Rory Hulme, Jake Oliver, James O’Dwyer and Liam Kelliher

Tristan Moloney

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Cameron Janka

Julien Khoury

Steven Athiade

Braydn Mancal

Nicholas Amon

Nik Hema

Nik Hema

Tom McNeilly

Flynn Roddy-Kortus

Nikolaus Hema

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Studio Arts Photography

Alec Young

Matthew Foster

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Kavenagh O’Dowd

Nik Hema

Christian Di Donato

Anthony Bufalo

Visual Communication Design Nick Cooper

Alex Kokkas

Anthony Bufalo

Khy Horsnell Jordan Costa

Young Sohn

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Mitchell Thomas

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Will Tidy

Daniel Leone

Jeffrey Su

Jordan Stavrevski

Jonathan Oey

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Libraries This year saw a number of advancements, starting with a significant boost to our staffing and skill-set with the employment of Rebecca Egan, Library Technician, and Hermione Gilchrist, Library Assistant. They each bring a wealth of experience from schools, the arts, technology and other work environments. Welcome to them both, and we are looking forward to their valuable input to the continuous improvement of our Library service. The retirement of our long-serving and hard-working Leanne Ickeringill took place at the end of 2013.

Thanks to Leanne for her outstanding service, and I know she is enjoying her well-earned retirement.

The Library was fortunate to have a major upgrade to its software, from our trusty AIMS to Infiniti, a cloudbased catalogue. This is available to all students and staff, at https://delasalle.concord.net.au using their network username and password. First-time users will need to use the password <changeme> before changing it to their network password. Infiniti is also available through Moodle, as is the Echo newspaper index for senior students. Plans are also afoot to advance our video access to a digital video management system. Watch this space!

Our libraries continue to be well-used by the students to complete homework, conduct research and use the Internet. Reading continues to be the most popular activity at recess and lunchtime in the Tiverton Library. During classtime, teachers regularly book in classes to use the libraries for research, to access the

Internet, and to print. Reading classes are also popular amongst the English Faculty at Tiverton, with several classes making use of the excellent fiction collection fortnightly. Year 12 study periods are also regularly located in the Kinnoull Library, as well as meetings.

Displays of student work at Tiverton are always popular with the students, particularly the models of aspects of Ancient Rome.

The Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2014 was completed by just about every primary student at the College, with 76 successful students.

Congratulations to every one of you Ms Rebecca Egan, Ms Hermione Gilchrist, Ms Clare Kennedy and Ms Susan Jost who completed this difficult challenge.

Reading 15-plus books over the year Mottola, Year 11, and videotaped by Hermione would be a challenge for even the most dedicated Gilchrist. This is available for viewing on the College reader. Thanks again to Mrs Finn for her outstanding website and Facebook sites, and Moodle. efforts to achieve this result. Mrs Finn has also continued to work diligently and creatively with the As usual, the College acquired a selected range of primary boys in the areas of reading, writing and copies of prize-winning and short-listed books for performing arts. younger and older readers. These supplemented our acquisitions for the year of around 120 new titles Book Week 2014 for the Kinnoull collection, and around 350 for the “Connect to Reading” Tiverton Library. All acquisitions are carefully and was held in August. To thoughtfully selected, with merit as well as appeal celebrate this important considered. encouragement for Australian authors All students are encouraged to apply for membership and readers, the of the Stonnington Library, handily located over the Library hosted a visit road from the Tiverton Campus. They will be made by leading Australian most welcome there, and it provides a wonderfully author Michael Gerard accessible adjunct to our own collections.

Bauer. To mark the Ms Susan Jost occasion, an interview College Librarian was conducted with him by Matthew

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Primary 2014

Year 4

Year 5

The primary students have had a very busy year throughout 2014 with lots of special happenings, due to the efforts of Primary Teachers Mr Tim Curran, Mr Ray Leetham and Mr Terry Atkins.

The aim of the teachers is assisting students to become confident communicators and imaginative thinkers and develop skills, knowledge, key understandings and attitudes about the world in which they live.

One of the exciting times this year was our Grandparents, Parents and Special Friends morning, where our guests had the opportunity to participate in a variety of classroom activities and share with the students’ details about how life at school has changed over the years. There were many memorable moments and it was a very enjoyable event.

Another event was the Primary Showcase where the talents of the primary students were demonstrated in such varied ways.

Thanks to the creative talents of Mrs Mary Finn who each year produces an exciting and entertaining show.

Primary students always look forward to Friday afternoon sport when they have the opportunity to learn the skills and be involved in various team games of tee ball, cricket and netball.

Students have also had the opportunity to be selected for various competition days with other schools in swimming, football, netball, hoop time and cross country.

Each November the Year 6 students attend the East Malvern RSL Remembrance Day service with other local schools which is always a significant event and this year De La Salle was invited to provide the trumpeter for the service. Cooper Morrison, Year 10, played the “Last Post” and “The Rouse”, which Paul Coyle his teacher prepared with him.

As Primary Coordinator I am most grateful for the care and commitment demonstrated by the primary teachers to the primary students, and for the support given to the primary school from Mr Peter Houlihan (Principal), Mr Tom Ryan and Mr Mark Gustincic (Deputy Principals) and Mr John McAlroy (Head of Tiverton Campus) and the De La Salle staff.

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Primary Class Captains

Year 6

L. Wasiewicz, P. Clarke, I. Ford, J. Oh, J. Coplestone B. Augustynski

Year 6 Graduation Class 2014 Back Row: Owen Davies, James Windsor, Tom Richards, Patrick Clarke, Justin Oh, Julian Ober,Oscar Wood, Noah Wooldridge, Harry Barber Middle Row: Ms Melanie Livera, Mrs Gemma Austin, Thomas Easton, Mason Fodera, Liam McCaffrey, Will Martin, Josh Coplestone, Texas Watterston, Andrew McGaw, Angus Lewis, Thomas Simpson, Mr Terry Atkins Seated: Jovan Stefanoski, Isaac Ford, Tom Robinson, Leon Wasiewicz, Brock Augustynski, Harrison Zendarski, Harrison Langkau, James Pavlou, Lukas Galanopoulos, Sean Gatt

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Primary Camps

The Year 4 class went to Phillip Island to visit the penguins, and participated in Ranger Session, learning about the rugged coastline from the Park Educators. It was off to Jan Juc for the Year 5 class — a crash course in body boarding, mini-golf, rock climbing and fun on the beach. Year 6 went to Wilsons Promontory for bush walking, kayaking, and camping out in the wild. They tried their hand at camp cooking with mixed results!

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Year 7 Camps Jan Juc

Year 7 students travelled to Jan Juc for our first De La Salle camp. We participated in lots of different activities. First we had a snorkelling lesson at Queenscliff beach. We saw various sea creatures including a stingray, crabs, fish and even a small shark! At the campsite we played beach cricket which was really fun and we got to have a swim after the game which was even more fun. We also had a surfing lesson at Torquay beach. A lot of boys got the hang of standing up and catching a wave. We had a great time and this was definitely our best activity during the camp. Beach Olympics was also great and we all had to rely on our team mates during the various activities. The point of the Year 7 camp was to get to know one another and not only did we do that but we have already made a whole lot of new friendships. I’m sure we will always remember our time at Jan Juc camp. It was a great start to our first year at secondary school.

Tom Williamson Year 7

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Year 7 At the end of Year 7 I think every student in the year level is more than ready for the Christmas break. I often wonder how many of the students reflect on their year and acknowledge the changes that have taken place and the achievements accomplished.

Many of the boys look to the trophies and more tangible objects to recognise or associate thoughts of success.

But in many cases it’s the ‘intangibles’ that are a crucial in their development and growth. Watching boys develop new friendships, sort out their differences, manage their lockers and build on the skills taught in classes in my mind are more meaningful through their Year 7 journey.

Of course most will remember camp. Camp is a great ‘ice-breaker’ of the year and allows students to familiarise themselves with their classmates while being involved in a range of outdoor pursuits. The family BBQ at the end of the week is a great opportunity for staff to see families mix and introduce themselves to one another. In addition to meeting parents in a more relaxed environment, the Surf Coast setting provides a wonderful bookend to the week.

Students get their first taste of school sport when the football and soccer competitions kick off in Term 2. With almost two-thirds of the year level trying out for team positions, it made for an exciting and enthusiastic start to their ACC careers. All participants were quickly introduced to the competitive nature of the league. Our hockey team was the stand out for 2014, taking the flag.

A highlight for me is the music during the year. The class bands are a tremendous initiative and the concerts at the end of each semester make for an entertaining and enjoyable evening.

The events and experiences are many and varied but at the end of each semester the exams bring everyone back to the core experience of school – learning. Students made a great effort to conduct themselves in the right manner and work hard to achieve their best during the exam period.

Congratulations to Year 7, 2014. I thank all the boys for their efforts and in supporting me to ensure the aims and goals of the year level are achieved during the year. It has proven to be a great beginning for the boys and I look forward to following their progress in years to come.

Mr Shaun Buckley Year 7 Coordinator

Ms Laura McCann Term 2

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Year 7 Class Captains

Top Row: D. Ye, T. Williamson, S. Spackman Standing: H. Sparks, J. Devine, D. Venturoni, S. Christodoulakis, T. Martin, Mr S. Buckley Seated: J. Tutty, H. Do, L. Borje, C. Bruce, D. Henriques-Gomes, S. Paine

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Year 7 Lightning Premiership

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Mother’s Day Breakfast This year saw the inaugural Mother’s and Father’s Day Breakfasts. The gym was packed out for both occasions and speeches by Principal Peter Houlihan and College Leaders James Benton and Ben Stafford set the tone of honour and celebration at each event. Special thanks to the Parent Network for their huge effort putting this event on. It was a great way to start the day and a wonderful opportunity for our students to celebrate and appreciate the role of their parents in their lives.

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Year 7 Music

The 2014 Year 7 Band nights this year were a wonderful mix of talent, hard work, nervous energy and terrific sounds. Classes showed incredible focus as they presented their warm up and repertoire for the concert. It was probably the first time for many that they had to play live to an audience and they did the College proud.

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Year 8 Camp

The Year 8 boys went down to Cowes on Westernport Bay for a week full of adventure. The boys turned their hand to surfing, kayaking and were treated to a day on a chartered fishing tour, where they hauled in trevally, flathead, and the occasional shark. The Initiative Course challenged the boys to work together to create a raft made from ‘discovered’ items around the campsite.

Some rafts could float them back to sea, some didn’t make it to the water! The Maze, minigolf and a game of Spotlight rounded off an exciting week.

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Emma D’Angelo

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Year 8 The students of Year 8, 2014 have made great strides in acquitting themselves to be the best that they can be.

Students participated in a variety of personal development programs throughout the year which provided students with an array of new skills and knowledge: anti-graffiti and bullying workshops, Rock and Water, identity, friendships workshops and the participation in the REACH program provided students with valuable and practical life skills.

As always, competition to make an ACC sport team and represent the College was fierce this year. It was really encouraging to see such numbers of students tryout each term for a chance to represent the college. Our success this year in these sports should not just be evaluated on our final placings, but also for the new friendships formed on the journey.

Congratulations to the Year 8 A basketball team who finished their season premiers. The Homeroom Lightning Premiership Carnival proved to be a very enjoyable day with many highlights.

The annual Year 8 Bush Dance was held at Presentation College Windsor in Term 4. After some initial nerves, the boys danced enthusiastically displaying some fancy bush dance moves.

For many, the long wait to attend the outdoor education camp held at Phillip Island during Term 3 and 4 was a real highlight.

Raft making, surfing, beach soccer, coastal walks and fishing were just some of the activities in which the boys participated.

I would like to thank the students of Year 8 for their efforts this year. Your time at De La Salle will pass quickly – just continue to make the most of every opportunity made available to you.

Finally, I would also like to sincerely thank the Year 8 homeroom teachers who have provided each student much support and guidance throughout the year. To Mr Murrell, Mr Happ, Ms Ryan, Mr Stokes, Mr Barns, Ms D’Angelo and Mr Hayward, a huge thank you for the dedication and efforts you’ve made this year. To the many teachers and staff who contributed to the Year 8 cohort this year – thank you.

Mr Shane Mackintosh Year 8 Coordinator

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Year 8 Class Captains

Standing: R. Ranzolin, J. Fernando, J. Paul, T. Marshall, P. Menidis, J. Burns, Mr S. Mackintosh Seated: D. Edwards, J. Ellul, B. Luu, Z. Cobucci, S. Arbid, L. Saldanha Absent: Angus McLean

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The Year 8 Lightning Premiership

On another glorious day for football at TH King Oval, the competition in the Round Robin stage was very even with only 8 Vincent undefeated. They cruised into the grand final to meet Year 8 Jerome who seemed to have found form at the right time of the day. With a strong breeze blowing towards the East Malvern end, Year 8 Vincent was unable to take advantage and scores were level at half time. Year 8 Jerome certainly made good use of the scoring end to quickly assert their superiority and recorded an emphatic victory by 35 points to claim the premiership.

The Andrew Carrazzo Medal for Best Player on the Ground was awarded to Sean MacDonald of Year 8 Jerome.

Congratulations to Year 8 Jerome and Mr Ken Stokes the 2014 Year 8 Lightning Premiership Football Champions!

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Year 9

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Year 9 Class Captains

Top Row: T. Moloney, Z. Patrick, C. Gerny Standing: T Howell, L. Lymbouris, J. Roberts, J. Brasher, M. Lauriola Seated: C. Day, J. Biviano, J. Epifanidis, N. Soh, N. Buccheri Absent: K. Ovens, A. Martin, L. Reeve

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The beginning of the year saw a group of boys, including four new students, gather to await news of where their new ‘home’ for 2014 would be, no doubt wondering what might lay ahead over the coming months. It did not take long before the direction of the year became clear. A spirit of friendliness, co-operation, enthusiasm and unity emerged, characteristics which were to be the mark of the year level throughout the year.

One of the major strengths of De La Salle is extending to students numerous opportunities to become involved in the life of the school. A wide variety of academic, cultural, artistic, sporting and community service activities were offered to enable students to explore their talents, build friendships, gain a sense of identity and belonging and to challenge themselves during a key period of their growth. These opportunities have been grasped head-on by the vast majority of Year 9 boys this year. They have contributed widely and whole-heartedly to school life and the level and spirit of their involvement has been impressive.

Such an atmosphere of goodwill is a credit to the students themselves, but this must be nurtured and encouraged to develop.

The boys have been fortunate to have staff who have endeavoured to draw out the talents and potential of their students and I would like to acknowledge and thank all Year 9 staff for their hard work, support and enthusiasm. Particular mention needs to be made of the care, competence and commitment of the seven homeroom teachers, Mr Shane Slavin, Mr Chris Fleming, Mr David Ellul, Mr Joseph ‘Peppe’ Di Ciccio, Mr David Alexander, Ms Kate McIlroy and Ms Lucy Russell, whose outstanding efforts throughout the year cannot be highlighted enough.

To the students of Year 9, I thank you for your efforts throughout the year, both in and out of class. As you move forward to a new and exciting program in Year 10 and embark on the senior phase of your education, I wish you every success. I encourage you to give your best and maintain the same spirit you have displayed thus far.

I would also like to thank and pay tribute to our Year 9 parents.

The concern for your sons and support for the College’s philosophy and endeavours has moulded your boys into young Lasallian men of whom you can be justifiably proud. May there be many more enjoyable, fulfilling and successful associations with De La Salle in the years ahead.

Mr Chris Martin Year 9 Coordinator

Year 9 Lightning Premiership

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Year 9 set off for Howqua, a stone’s throw from Lake Eildon, so it was a chilly affair in June.

With archery, horse riding, the high ropes, the ice-cold super slide and the ‘surviver course’ the boys were kept pretty busy.

We even had a visit form Mr Houlihan who showed he was quite the horseman. The boys are certainly taken out of their comfort zone but participated with great gusto.

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In March Year 9 students experienced their annual retreat. It was held at the Baptist Conference Centre in Syndal. It gave the boys the opportunity to experience and reflect on our Lasallian charism in a relaxed atmosphere of community. Similar retreats were held during the year for Year 10 and Year 11 on topics that ranged from leadership, prayer, Lasallian charism and the ministry of Jesus Christ.

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United Nations Friday 10 October heralded the inaugural De La Salle Model United Nations Conference. The day was born from the idea of John Buchanan, a College Leader who desired to promote internationalism and highlight the increasing need to act as a global citizen. The topic addressed on the day was ‘Responsibility to Protect (R2P): Towards an end to mass atrocity crimes’. Preparation began in August Term 3, as students needed to know their allocated country inside and out in order to outline their country’s stance and history regarding the topic, propose amendments to the R2P resolution, and debate their relevance or potential impact given whom they were representing or aligned with.

With the assistance of the United Nations Association of Australia (Victoria Division), De La Salle hosted the full day event, which involved the participation of 82 students and 8 schools from within the region. To begin the day, student delegates heard from guest speaker Rebecca Barber, Humanitarian Policy and Advocacy Advisor at Save the Children Australia. The acting Secretary General for the day was Adjunct Professor Ian Howie from RMIT University – a former UN official.

Once the General Assembly came to order and proceedings began, there was no doubt that preparation amongst each school had been thorough and a high calibre of discussion and debate followed.

Supervising staff watching on the sidelines were impressed with the sophistication and maturity with which delegates engaged each other.

Indeed, their ability to apply depth of knowledge and critical thinking skills was also commented on by Professor Ian Howie in his closing statement.

The Model United Nations experience pushed students to think with greater insight and complexity. The Conference also emphasised the weight of responsibility on the shoulders of country delegates in trying to balance domestic and foreign interests in an international diplomatic setting. De La Salle looks forward to making the event an annual one.

Ms Olivia Wenczel College Leader Coordinator

United Nations Teams Team 1 Sricharan Kumar 10M Xavier-Joseph de La Masse-Homsy 10M Sam De Stefanis 10M Team 2 Luke Torrisi 12R Joshua McGivern 12V James Halliday 12V Team 3 Alec Young 12R Joshua Talbot 11V Ed Hirst 12V Team 4 John Buchanan 12V Ali Abid 12J

Jack-Henry Attard 12V John Dent 12V Team 5 Karl Maul 11D Liam Gava 11D Matthew Mottola 11D Team 6 Thomas Ponissi 10M Liam Ramirez 10M Tanis Van Laake 10M Team 7 Matthew Wegmuller 11S Costa Haritos 11V Daniel Byrden 11R

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Systems Engineering Sir, I ate my assessment!

One of the key topics in VCE Interactive Digital Media is a module called ‘critical thinking’. The module is designed to help students think laterally or ‘outside the square’. Creative thinking involves looking at things differently, musing, testing, experimenting and challenging existing thought patterns. Interactive Digital Media students are encouraged to exercise creative thinking everywhere – at home, at work, lying in bed at night, in the shower, or on the bus.

They are taught that it can be applied to any type of issue or situation. When used effectively it can assist with the improvement of existing, or the development of entirely new or innovative services, products or processes. Students discover that creative thinking may pay off in a seemingly unconnected way at a future time and in an apparently unrelated context.

Science Week And so it was that the final challenge for Interactive Digital Media students this year consisted of building a bridge between two classroom desks to hold a container with 250ml of water using only marshmallows and uncooked spaghetti. Students soon realised that while the marshmallows made connecting the spaghetti very easy the result had very little tensile strength. While working in pairs, the other aspect they encountered was that if they ate the marshmallows there was even less chance of completing the challenge! At the end of the lesson the winners, Year 11 students Liam Ryan and Adrien Stefanoski, solved the challenge with a brute force effort of sticking the marshmallows to the desk and laminating the spaghetti to form a crude X between the desks. It easily held the weight of the water container.

It was an enjoyable and challenging experience for the class which provided an opportunity to think outside the square and have the unique experience of eating their own assessment.

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During Science Week 2014, I participated in numerous activities that required deftness and teamwork. I accepted the challenge of creating the most aerodynamic paper aeroplane I could to land in a bucket. Unfortunately ailerons and a fancy empennage will not always help you, but seeing the grin on the faces of Mrs Webster, Mr Evans, Mr Fleming and Mr Murrell overcome with acute nostalgia of their youth was priceless.

Shortly afterwards, I participated in a building competition hosted by Mr Church, that required you to create a structure made from four potato shards and ten spaghetti sticks that could support fifty grams or more of steel discs. My friend Zac Cobucci and I discussed how we could strengthen the frame’s structural integrity. We underestimated the spaghetti’s frequent ability to snap in crucial moments, so we got frustrated and moved on, even though we had a lot of fun.

Mathematics The next day, my friends and I returned to see if we could make a comeback in the new challenge. The challenge required us to construct a paper tower with a styrofoam cup on top, that could hold fifty millimetres of water and stand the tallest amongst the other group’s towers. We created our tower that we believed would be stronger than our city’s magnificent infrastructure. We soon realised this stuff was best left to engineers, but we remained ambitious.

We migrated to the lab next door and studied marine wildlife from a lake, under instruction from the extravagant-suit-wearing Mr Bourke. I can certainly say my friends and I truly enjoyed these activities. I would like to thank the teachers and staff who made these activities possible.

Daniel Papalia Year 8

The Mathematics Department at De La Salle has been promoting problem solving in 2014; 8 Benilde, Hegarty and Jerome participated in a Maths problem solving competition where students worked as groups of six on a variety of problems. Twenty-four Year 7, 8 and 9 students have taken part in a Mathematics Challenge which poses students with extended challenging problems, facilitated by Mr Larry Evans. Some of our high performing Year 7, 8 and 10 Mathematics students took part in the statewide Maths Games days organised by the Mathematical Association of Victoria. Thank you to Mr Larry Evans, Ms Aoife Bermingham and Ms Janet Holden for accompanying students to the Games Days. We also had a large number of students competing in the Australian Mathematics Competition in August with some excellent results including 94 credits, 27 distinctions and 3 High Distinctions. Special mention goes to Jason Kim (7 Roland), Liam Jenkins (7 Hegarty) and Jordan Burns (8 Solomon) who all achieved High Distinctions placing them in the top 1% of the state. Well done to all who took part.

In addition to scheduled Mathematics classes, after school Mathematics help for students has run all year at Kinnoull on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays with the help of senior students, and at Tiverton on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Thanks to staff and students who have been helping at these sessions.

Ms Lucy Russell Mathematics Coordinator

(An aileron is a hinged surface in the trailing edge of an aeroplane wing, used to control the roll of the aeroplane.

The empennage is the tail assembly of an aeroplane, consisting of vertical and horizontal stabilisers, including the fin, rudder and elevator.)

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Year 10 Class Captains Top Row: D. Yee, C. O’Shannessy, S. Michael, T. Fierenzi,.

Row 3: A. Berlin, l. Holmstrom, J. La Grua, K. Gordon.

Row 2: T. Roberts, L. Ramirez Front: Mr L. Kenealy, S. Kamoutsis, S. Fernando, Mr P. Harrup.

Absent: A. Arceri, H. Bowen.

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The Year 10 2014 cohort have progressed well through the academic rigours and co-curricular endeavours, and have shown adaptability through their transition from Tiverton to Kinnoull campus. The students have engaged in faith development through their involvement in Founder’s Day, liturgies and retreats. Their service to the community was evident through their engagement in the Philippines cultural exchange, MAD Day, Social justice mass and Class captaincy. Students embarked on cultural exchanges to the Philippines and some travelled to France and Italy – including Rome, Florence, Milan, Assisi and Sienna as well as a home stay in Orvieto.

The year level performed well in the classrooms, laboratories and studios. They have involved themselves in the many activities and various learning environments that our College provides; both on-site and off-site applied learning venues.

ACC participation and eight weeks of formal dance with their Star of the Sea counterparts were further evidence of their willingness to engage in social events.

Our College looks forward to a continued partnership with families in our collective endeavour to ensure students transition into their VCE, VCAL and VET pathways and are best placed for a bright future. Best wishes to our brilliant boys in their final years of secondary education.

Mr Paul Harrup Year 10 Coordinator

Work Experience Year 10 students explored a wide range of industries in work experience week this year – veterinary practices, graphic design studios, architects, legal practices, real estate, building companies, engineering firms and many more.

Three placements stood out. The first was with two students who went to Holmesglen TAFE and completed a week of training in bricklaying, not a traditional work experience placement but an industry where employers are desperate for suitable workers.

These two boys were able to make an accurate assessment of their interest and suitability for this industry after one week. Staff at Holmesglen were very impressed with their work.

The second was a group of six students who explored the industry of engineering. In conjunction with Engineers Australia and NHP Industries in Richmond, these students worked on a problem of energy conservation and the installation of solar power in this workplace. The students were given the problem, assigned particular staff at NHP to advise them, access to technology to research the issue and guidelines on how to present their findings. At the end of the week the students made a presentation to school staff, their parents and key people at NHP about their findings and then presented a formal report to the Managing Director. The boys learnt much about teamwork, about technology, about deadlines and about what is required in an engineering work place. All the adults present where very impressed with their findings.

The third was about Kieran Walsh who organised his own work placement in Perth with Hockey Australia.

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As a keen hockey player himself it was his dream to train and work alongside the Hockeyroos and the Kookaburras. He made contact with the High Performance Director of the Hockeyroos, who was very impressed with his initiative, and then made all the arrangements to go to Perth with his dad.

Here are some excerpts from his work experience diary.

“We went on a tour of Perth Stadium. I used SportsCode, a program which enables the coach and players to see certain plays. After I had finished the office part of the job I was lucky enough to be able to stay on and be involved in the Kookaburra’s training. On day 2 I went across to Curtain gym at 7am to begin a strength training session with the Hockeyroos. On day 4 I was fortunate enough to have a photo taken with the Kookaburras.

My week ended by attending the Glasgow 2014 farewell lunch where the squad for the Commonwealth Games was presented. I do not have one highlight, the whole week was incredible.

Thanks to all the staff and players. Not everyone who does work experience gets to sit with a world cup behind their desk.”

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Since the Mobile unit of the Red Cross Blood service began collecting at De La Salle College 1100 donations have been made. This year there were only two visits to the College due to changes in rules that ensure under 18 year olds donate only once in a 12 month cycle.

I am very proud of the fact that so many students volunteer, to the extent that we have to turn some away due to allocated beds being so quickly filled.

We have booked two visits in 2015, in March and September.

Mr Kevin Hunter Blood Bank Coordinator

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The Year 10 Formal Dance in March concluded seven weeks of complete joy. We learnt a number of formal dances with Year 10 girls from Star of the Sea, and displayed our talents to our families, friends and teachers at the Year 10 Dance We all made new friendships and enjoyed the novelty of learning the various dances. After six weeks of lessons, we put it all into action in the seventh week. Dressing up in the best clothes we had, we accompanied 80 girls from Star of the Sea to show off our newly learnt formal moves. It was a night to remember.

We thank all the instructors, and DJs for their patience and the hard work they put in. We will carry fond memories of our time at dance.

A special thanks to Joy Bew for organising the event and making it possible for us to have an extremely enjoyable time learning formal dancing (as well as socialising).

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Humanities Holocaust Museum Visit As part of the Year 10 History course at De La Salle, students visit the Holocaust museum in Elsternwick.

It is a unique opportunity for students to visit the museum and see first hand what life was like for Jewish people living under the Nazi regime.

After viewing the exhibits boys got to hear first hand from one of the survivors. George was a young boy who survived Auschwitz concentration camp, to be found hiding in the snow by the US forces. He spoke to boys about how lucky he feels to now live in Australia. It is a great opportunity for students to engage first hand in this period in history and they all leave touched by the experience.

Mr Andrew Wozencroft History

Australian History Competition A number of our Year 9 students have extended their study of the Great War through their participation in this essay competition. An indication of the quality of their critical thinking skills responding to the topic: To What Extent did Australians Enlist in 1914 to defend the ‘Mother Country?’

“The escalating events that triggered what was to become known as “The Great War” (World War I 1914–1918) seem almost trivial in retrospect when we consider the tragic losses of life suffered over four years. Small quarrels between countries, and imperialistic and nationalistic views spread across the globe. Who could have imagined that the murder of the Austrian Archduke by a Serbian Nationalist could have set off such a devastating chain of events?”

Declan Martin “Each year Australia recognises this special event in our history by celebrating ANZAC Day, and the growing numbers of people attending the Dawn Services throughout Australia each year, emphasises how important it is to Australians. Defending the ‘mother country’ was not necessarily the primary reason for men to enlist in World War I. Though defending the mother country would have been an obvious reason for enlisting, other major factors included peer pressure, social pressures and the idea of adventure.”

Harry Gustin As part of their studies of Ancient History Year 7 boys research, design and construct models reflecting an aspect of Roman society. From a gladiator’s helmet to the Colosseum in which he fought, to aqueducts and weapons, the boys create a diverse range of artefacts.

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“The Great War, ‘the war to end all wars’; was an inevitable spiral into desolation for each of the parties involved. Ideals of Nationalism, Imperialism and Militarism provoked the downfall of the powers of the world and their men ‘the brightest hope of that generation’. Australia, as a young nation needed to assert itself and prove its worth to Britain, the ‘mother country’. However, to defend Great Britain was not the primary reason for Australians to enlist.

Australian culture, financial instability, and proving manliness are all pivotal reasons why young men signed up, all of which were more important to the soldiers than defending a country they had not even stepped foot in.”

Cameron Monaco Ray Weston from the Vietnam Veterans Education Team shares his experiences and knowledge with Year 11 History students. Ray brings in a range of artefacts from his own tour of duty including his original backpack and invites students to reflect on the day to day logistics of being ‘in country’ and the psychological impact that many veterans and their families have had to live with.

Humanities The “Mock” Election Mark 2 In August, the Year 12 Politics class conducted another mock election after last year’s attempt to preview the Federal Election. There were seven candidates: Ed Cheesman – returning for the Palmer United Party to defend the title he still held from last year, David Kelly of the Australian Labor Party, Luke Torrisi advocating for the Greens, John Buchanan for the Chinese Communist Party representing the Year 12 History class, Peter Pepes as the National Party representative, Ben Stafford as the spruiker of all things Shooters and Fishers party and finally myself as the Liberal candidate. The election was conducted in good spirits with fantastic support from students and staff; it also presented as a great opportunity to provide an insight for future prospective Politics students.

All seven candidates presented illuminating speeches as to why they should be elected, using the knowledge gained from the areas studied across the year. Students could vote as many times as they liked (highly corrupt!!) increasing their chances to win prizes. Anthony De Luca took home the major prize of two finals tickets of his choice. After some intense preferential vote tallying, the winner was John Buchanan of the Chinese Communist Party with Luke Torrisi for the Greens in a close second place. A total of $280 was raised for the Coolies project at the end of 2014. A fantastic experience. Get on board next year!

Karl Bianco Year 12 Politics

De La Geography ‘out in the field’ This year our geographers have embraced fieldwork on a scale that has not been experienced in previous years. All students were given the opportunity to experience in the real world, what they had been learning in the classroom. The issues have been wide and varied. Year 7 students have investigated waterways at Gardiner’s Creek; Year 8s the coast as a natural environment, with fieldwork to some of our beaches; the Year 9 geographers assessed the management of traffic flow in the Malvern area; Year 10 students evaluated a range of strategies used at Brighton Beach to combat beach erosion; Year 11 VCE students spent a day at the Docklands, investigating the urban renewal of this environment; and our Year 12 student studied Chapel Street as a resource. The boys have learned many new skills. They have photographed, sketched, surveyed, collected fieldwork information and generally attempted to understand the world in which they live. Back in the classroom, they have completed follow-up tasks that have enabled them to describe, graph, explain, assess, analyse, evaluate and communicate their findings from their fieldwork. We live in a wonderful world and one that is constantly changing due to the influences of nature and of humans. As geographers, it is hoped that from these fieldwork experiences our students will have a greater understanding of the world that we live in and the role that they play in looking after our home.

Mrs Georgina Dwyer Geography

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Debating Senior Debaters

Standing: E. Hirst, J. Talbot, J. Buchanan, Ms C. Thompson Seated: J. Dent, B. Stafford, J. Henry-Attard, A. Young, S. Lau

Year 8 and 9 Debaters At the end of the five rounds the boys had won four of their five debates and were equal second on the ladder. In addition to this, Sri, Thomas and Liam were identified as the Best Speaker in three of the five debates.

This same team competed in the ACC Debating Competition and are now the 2014 Division 2 champions.

The Year 12 team consisting of Ben Stafford, Alec Young, John Buchanan, Josh Talbot, Jonathon Dent, Ed Hirst, Jack Henry-Attard and Steven Lau competed in the A Grade division which had 16 teams vying for top place.

Of the five debates during the season, one was prepared and four were secret topics which had to be prepared in an hour on the night of the debate.

Up until the final round, the team were equal first with three other schools. Unfortunately, in the last debate, we met our match – the competition was fierce and the arguments of the highest quality.

These eight young men thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of debating in A Grade and presented themselves as disciplined, Debaters intelligent and talented speakers.

I would like to thank Ms Roe for her interest in and support of the debating teams at Kinnoull during the year. We hope to build on the success of 2014 in next year’s debating competition.

Mrs Christine Thompson Years 10–12 Debating

Senior Debating 2014 has also been a great year for debating at Kinnoull.

We had both a Year 10 and Year 12 team entered in the DAV competition in A and C Grade respectively.

All participants joined in enthusiastically during the season, took advice, prepared well and spoke eloquently and with conviction at Year 10 each debate.

The Year 10 team consisted of Shiroy Fernando, Sri Kumar, Xavier Joseph de la MasseHomsy, Thomas Ponissi, Liam Ramirez and Keelan Tambimuttu.

This team came into C Grade with excellent skills as they had been expertly trained by Ms McIlroy at Tiverton.

There were 24 teams in C Grade this year and each was required to take part in three prepared, one Standing: S. Kumar, T. Ponissi, Ms C. Thompson advised and one secret topic.

Seated: J. De La Masse-Homsy, S. Fernando, K. Tambimuttu, L. Ramirez

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Standing: P. Medis, A. Crestani, J. Burns, Ms K. McIlroy Seated: J. Ellul, R. Garrido, G. Intemerato, M. Harvey, E. Tambimutu Absent: N. Blizzard

Junior Debating A number of our Year 8/9 students participated in the D Grade section of the Debating Association of Victoria’s (DAV) competition. The boys were required to research and then formulate debates on a number of topical and contentious issues throughout Terms 2 and 3. Participating in this competition meant heading out on often a cold winter’s night to Caulfield Grammar. The boys also gave up many lunch times to prepare for each competition. The students have become very competent in structuring argumentative texts and have greatly honed their public speaking skills. The students involved were Gianluca Intemerato, Jacob Ellul, Nathan Blizzard, Rodney Garrido, Ethan Tambimuttu, Panos Menidis, Jordan Burns, Max Harvey and Adam Crestani.

Congratulations to all of these boys who showed great dedication in their attention to improving and developing their skills of debating.

Ms Kate McIlroy Years 7–9 Debating

Public Speaking Lasallian Public Speaking Challenge

Standing; T. Crough, J. Hunter, A. Crestani, J. Talbot, T. Ponissi, M. Mottola, Ms K. McIlroy Seated: D. Ye, T. Puddy, W. Sidji, J. Burns, M. Harvey, L. Sadanha

Public Speaking: Tiverton Every year the DAV runs a state-wide Junior Public Speaking Competition for students in Years 7–9. The program aims to give young speakers the opportunity to put their ideas forward in front of an audience whilst expanding their knowledge of current affairs.

The students develop the “building blocks” of public presentation — confidence, clarity, and the development of arguments — which are very important skills both in and out of school. Dong Ye, Taine Crough, Trent Puddy, Joseph Hunter, Luke Saldanha, Jordan Burns and Max Harvey represented the school brilliantly in this competiton held at St Bede’s College in August. We congratulate these boys and welcome any students from Years 7–9 interested in Public Speaking to sign up in 2015.

Ms Kate McIlroy Years 7–9 Public Speaking

The Lasallian Speaking Competition is an annual event hosted in honour of Brother Quentin O’Halloran, a former teacher of senior English at De La Salle. The event sees the best orators from St Bede’s, St James and De La Salle compete against one another through the delivery of a prepared speech and an impromptu speech on an unseen topic. 2014 was De La Salle’s turn to host the event and the St Miguel Theatre was the venue for some hotly-contested September action.

The boys representing De La Salle were outstanding. William Sidji of Year 7 began the evening by educating the audience about deforestation. Jordan Burns, of Year 8, followed shortly, urging the audience to question Australia’s national identity, whilst Year 9’s Adam Crestani called for society to recognise the talent of rappers. As the evening progressed, Thomas Ponissi of Year 10 passionately argued that it is time for gender equality before Matthew Mottola vehemently contended that technology is not killing conversations, bad manners are. Joshua Talbot rounded off the evening by presenting the idea that a change in consumer choices can have a positive impact on society.

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Our students were very competitive amongst a strong field from St James and St Bede’s, winning the competition at three of the six year levels. Congratulations to Jordan Burns (Year 8), Thomas Ponissi (Year 10) and Matthew Mottola (Year 11) on their success.

I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the staff who assisted in the organisation and running of the night and the preparation of students. The night would not have been possible without the humour of our MCs, Enzo Hamilton (Year 11) and John Buchanan (Year 12), our student ambassadors (Year 9 and 12 students) who assisted with ushering, and our enthusiastic judges, Lindy Woodburn and Harry Lew of Toastmasters Bayside, all of whom kindly volunteered their time for the event.

We look forward to building upon this success when St James host the competition in 2015.

Ms Rose Roe Years 10–12 Public Speaking

Languages What a fulfilling year for the College’s languages students.

In April 15 students of Italian and 7 students of French along with six staff members took off for a language and culture tour of Italy and France. They were able to undertake some intensive language study and experience first hand the culture of the country; not to mention to put into practice what they have learnt in the classroom!

From all accounts it was an invaluable and memorable experience for them all and it has certainly made a positive difference to their engagement in the classroom.

The Years 10 and 11 Italian classes took part in the Dante Alighieri Poetry Reading Competition again with some outstanding results. This time, two of our Year 11 students, Stefan Tsagaris and Raphael

Canty, succeeded to the finals, and for the first time ever De La Salle College was placed second overall at Year 11 level with Raphael winning the prize for the non-Italian category.

Not to be outdone by students of Italian, the French students participated in the Berthe Mouchette Competition run by the Alliançe Française, also achieving great results with Charles Hammond and Liam O’Callaghan of Year 12 gaining a place in the finals.

Mrs Kath Marino KLAC – Languages Italian Language and Culture Trip This was an extraordinary trip. We were 15 lucky students who experienced so much more than a holiday to Italy. We had so many different and amazing experiences during our time there.

We were a group of turisti wandering around the bustling streets of Milano, Firenze and Roma and some of the smaller medieval towns of San Gemignano and Siena. We saw the passing countryside of Italy from our bus and ordered food and bought items from Italian shopkeepers. Some of us even had a ride in a Ferrari when we visited the Ferrari Museum.

In the medieval town of Orvieto, we lived with an Italian family, and we were able to get to know this lovely town with our friends. Our host families were very welcoming and helped us understand the Italian culture. We were able to see Italy through their eyes. The group attended Italian classes in the morning and in the afternoons we were able to live in the town as locals. We would play soccer and basketball with the local kids and play Italian card games like Scoppa and Briscola.

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Italy is steeped in art and history and the medieval Tuscan town of Firenze and the ruins of ancient Rome brought this to life for us.

In Firenze we saw the Palazzo Vecchio and visited the Galleria degli Uffizzi where many well known paintings by Botticelli, Michelangelo and others are exhibited.

In Rome we saw the Colosseum and the Forum but by far our most memorable experience was being in St Peter’s Square for a Papal Audience. When Pope Francis in his ‘pope mobile’ came within two metres of our group, we were so excited, and a few of us were even able to take ‘selfies’ with the Pope.

The diversity of experiences made this trip so memorable. Every day has been different and special, every day our Italian improved as we challenged ourselves to speak the language and test our comprehension skills. None of us wanted to leave.

A huge thanks from all of us students to Mrs Russo, Miss D’Angelo and Mr Mackintosh for organising this trip. Thanks to everyone at De La Salle for supporting the Languages Department and making this happen. We were given a special opportunity and we hope that many more students will experience this in years to come.

Raphael Canty Year 12

French Language and Culture Trip Prior to this event, we had heard again and again of the beauty of France. But when we arrived in Paris, we discovered that it was so much more than we could ever have imagined.

We spent two nights in Paris in the FIAP Jean Monnet. This was an opportunity for all of us to use the language which we had been studying for years and to get a taste of the French way of life. We attended some of the worlds most famous landmarks. We climbed the 301 metres to the very top of the Eiffel Tower, we viewed the Mona Lisa – shocked by the fact that it is about the size of a textbook – strolled around the gardens of Versailles and cruised along the Seine.

After our stay in Paris, we stopped in Tours for a night. This was a completely different lifestyle from the hustle and bustle of Paris. Tours was much more relaxed, but equally charming.

Our next destination was Rennes where we would be staying the longest. Here we would stay with our assigned families and attend school. We went on tours of the city, and became aware of its long history. We watched French films, and went to the famous Rennes museum.

Over the course of our stay in Rennes, we formed many close friendships. It was a trip we will never forget.

Lachlan Bulman Year 10

Alliance Française de Melbourne Memorising and reciting a fifteen line poem is not an easy task – but even worse when it's in a different language! After weeks of perfecting our poems and French accents, the Year 9 and 10 students travelled to St Kilda to participate in the annual Berthe Mouchette Speaking Competition. The French colonial inspired building stuck out like a thumb amongst the many pizzerias and cafes on Lygon Street. We entered the illustrious building and waited in the lounge; it was time to recite our poems. One by one, we walked the winding stairs up to the adjudicator. Finally, after a long wait, it was my turn to deliver my poem. I walked up the stairs and opened the door to see the judge sitting in a chair opposite. Reciting that poem was like pleading for your innocence – the adjudicator was totally expressionless.

After I finished the last line, he just said ‘Très Bien’ and I left the room. We ended the day by eating pizza (well, it was Lygon Street).

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In August our Year 11 and 12 French students went to the Alliance française in St Kilda for the Berthe Mouchette Competition.

Understandably they were very nervous. The task was good preparation for their end of year oral examination, which consists of a short conversation on personal themes and a discussion of an issue related to the theme of the Second World War. They all approached the task in a very positive manner and were able to display their skills. It was pleasing to see how excited all the students were at the end of the session. The boys did magnificently well, with Remy Cadman and Nigel Menzies achieving a score of 18 and 19 out of 20 respectively, and Charles Hammond and Liam O’Callaghan scoring 20 out of 20.

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Upon reflection I can honestly say that the Year 11 students of 2014 were a group of wonderful young men who achieved many great things, particularly as they navigated their way through their first year of VCE studies.

With this in mind each and every student was encouraged to achieve some form of excellence. It was evident in many different forms, including academic, sporting, theatre production, music, public speaking or social justice initiatives, to name a few. Whilst the ‘gains’ may at times be well hidden, they certainly occur and are a great source of satisfaction.

To bear witness to this is ‘pure gift’ and I thank you as parents for allowing us to share this with your sons.

This year all students participated in the Year 11 retreat program, which was a great opportunity to assist students in their personal development and preparation for the challenges Year 12 brings. I would like to thank all of the leaders who have volunteered their service and assistance in ensuring the Homerooms and the year level activities run smoothly. Of course this would not happen without the support of the Homeroom teachers who have been exceptional, often going ‘above and beyond’ the call of duty for our young men. To Homeroom teachers Mr Chris Windley, Ms Kath Marino, Mrs Rose Roe, Mr Adam Jacobs, Ms Claire Kennedy, Mr Rob Hoich, Ms Cathy Loft, Mr Mark Sweeney and Mr Graeme Lawler, your dedication, professionalism and outstanding talent in responding to the needs of our young men was truly amazing. I have enjoyed working alongside you. To our teaching staff, thank you for all you did for Year 11 this year.

We have been blessed by the cooperation and support our Year 11 staff has shared with parents; for your support, many thanks. I have enjoyed my time this year as coordinator and wish our students all success in their final year in 2015.

Mr Rob Bonnici Year 11 Coordinator

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The muscles flexed on this fine summer’s day at lunchtime. The staff hit home more than once in the first quarter and looked to be taking a win easily. After the half-time break with some subs for aching knees and backs, the students were able to finally find their feet.

They came back with gusto and strutted the field with more energy.

Before long it was neck and neck.

The students couldn’t win over experience though, and ended up going down to the staff team by one point.

Special comments by “De La Man” Darcy Roberts throughout the match made sure it was an entertaining spectacle.

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Student Wellbeing Individual Counselling skills group which included some of my friends. Both types The counselling service is a well-used one of sessions assisted me with and counsellors at both campuses have had sorting out conflicts and getting the greater part of their time spent speaking things off my chest without with students one-to-one about issues that being penalised for it. In my are important to them. Common presenting junior years, the sessions were issues include anxiety, mood disorder, full-on counselling sessions... family disharmony, friendships/relationships, and in my senior years, the motivation, anger, grief, social skill difficulties sessions were less to do and a variety of others. with counselling and were Have you ever wondered what it is like to more casual sessions – less attend counselling sessions? Well here, a junior Mr Pascal Rohan and Ms Maree Keel focussed and problem-based and a senior student give you an insight into and more along the lines of what is has been like for them. personal development. Counselling has been a place Junior – Year 7 to let off steam, to give over information, to seek My mum asked me whether I wanted to go to advice and to even establish a good relationship counselling as an experience, to deal with what was with the counsellor as someone who knows and troubling me. I said I wanted to think about it. Once understands me...which is really why I have kept things got worse, I told mum I’d give it a shot and coming back. see how it works. For the first session, I thought Parent Evening it was really weird telling all the things that had Four of our student members (representing years happened to me to a person I had just met. I even 8, 10 and 12) spoke on the topic of mental health, missed some sessions after the first one, because from ‘the inside-out’ to a group of parents early in it felt so weird. But as things got worse for me, I the year. These students had an intimate association went back. When I decided to tell the counsellor with issues relating to weight, anxiety, depression everything, I felt more and more comfortable. and autism spectrum disorder. Whilst it would be We spoke about things that could help me in my advantageous to attend such a gathering and to situation. We even had my parents be part of the listen to an ‘expert’ speak on these topics – it is quite sessions, twice. I continue to see the counsellor another thing to hear about an insider’s experience because what we are speaking about is working and and to come to appreciate just what life is like for is helping me. I keep attending counselling because some of our young people. My thanks to these boys even though there are issues that still affect me that and to the parents who support them. are beyond my control, I am getting more confidence Farewell and thanks and am moving forward.

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the goodness and strength of the many boys and young men who have availed of counselling over the years and who have made efforts to advance their psychological, social, and intellectual wellbeing.

It is not always easy to do the work of change that needs to be done on oneself – it can be hard...and sometimes, very hard – and so I applaud the many who have challenged themselves to ‘be, well’. Thank you – it has been my pleasure to have known you.

Mr Pascal Rohan Director of Student Wellbeing Counselling at Kinnoull The counselling service at Kinnoull has been very busy over the course of the year, with many students and parents availing of the opportunity to seek support. A significant number of individual students have accessed the service in order to deal with challenges presented by their academic studies, work on personal issues or address mental health concerns. Emphasis has been placed on students adopting stress management strategies such as meditation and relaxation techniques to alleviate some of the pressures associated with the rigours of VCE. A number of groups have been operating in 2014: including a Comedy Club and a Year 12 Social Skills group. Next year the College will welcome a new member to the counselling team, however it is important to acknowledge and thank Pascal for his hard work and the dedication shown over his tenure at the College. He has made a significant contribution to the counselling service and to the life of the College; particularly in his role as the Director of Student Wellbeing. All the best Pascal, we wish you well in your future endeavours.

Ms Maree Keel Kinnoull Counsellor

Mary MacKillop Enhancement Centre “De La Salle College is a Catholic College in the Lasallian tradition, enabling students in a community of faith and excellence to achieve their full potential with integrity and distinction.” (Mission Statement) In 2014, the dedicated staff of the Mary MacKillop Enhancement Centre have worked consistently with students with special learning needs to assist them in accessing the curriculum. St John Baptist de La Salle said, “Know your students individually and be able to understand them.” (Med 33.1) We believe that all students can experience success when learning outcomes are based on realistic and achievable goals. The words of our patron, St Mary of the Cross, echo the attitude and reflect the commitment of the MMEC staff, “We must teach more by example than by word”. (1867) This year, the staff included specialist teachers Mrs Gemma Austin, Mrs Eve McLellan, Mrs Jacinta Ryan, Mrs Carmel Dwyer, Mrs Christine Thompson, Mrs Catherine Loft (Semester 1), and Mrs Courtney Walton/Ms Haylene Peipert (Semester 2) and Learning Support Officers Ms Michele O’Mahoney, Mrs Jackie McKinnon, Ms Muriel West, Mrs Freda Siomos, Mrs Gabrielle Windley, Mrs Melanie Livera and Ms Kerrie Harman. This team of dedicated educators worked with students who have special learning needs, across all year levels from Year 4 to Year 12.

This year, 59 students were funded under the CEO LNSLN program, and received in class support from our LSOs. They collaborated with teaching staff and parents to facilitate and support the individual learning needs of these students. Regular Program Support Group (PSG) meetings occur for students where issues of academic planning and pastoral care are discussed with parents. Decisions from these meetings are implemented by MMEC staff, parents and teachers, to enhance student learning and

maximise effective teaching.

Many other PSG meetings also occur for other students with additional needs (SWANs) whose conditions are not funded e.g.

Dyslexia. Overall some students have modified programs, whilst others qualify for special provisions in class time, during assessment tasks, and in exams. The MMEC facilitate Standing: Eve McLellan, Melanie Livera, Freda Siomos, Muriel West, Jacinta Ryan, Carmel Dwyer, Jackie these throughout McKinnon the year, especially Seated: Michele O’Mahoney, Kerrie Harman, Kathie Holmes, Gemma Austin, Gabrielle Windley, Courtney Walton Absent: Christine Thompson, Catherine Loft, Haylene Peipert at exam time.

The Literacy and Mr Luke Kenealy, and all members of the Support classes continued again this year, with four Curriculum Standing Committee. groups at Years 7 and 8, four groups at Year 9 and two groups at Year 10, with a total enrolment of 120 “To touch the hearts of your students is the greatest students. These students have experienced the miracle you can perform.” (Med 139.3—feast of St expertise of the MMEC teaching staff in assisting Peter). them to improve their literacy skills and, in Years 9 Mrs Kathie Holmes and 10, developing knowledge and skills in some MMEC Coordinator Humanities areas.

I wish to thank my wonderful team for their caring dedication, perseverance and professionalism as they work to enhance the lives of our students. I also acknowledge the support from our Principal, Mr Peter Houlihan, Deputy Principals, Mr Tom Ryan and Mr Mark Gustincic, Heads of Campus, Mr John McAlroy

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The Blue& Gold Ball The annual Blue and Gold Ball was held at Springvale Town Hall in June before a capacity crowd of families and friends. As always the De La Salle boys looked the part in their three piece suits with a touch of blue, and the girls were elegantly matched in beautiful gowns. Every year the couples undertake months of practice to perfect their dances.

And once again the hard work paid off with everyone proudly showing off their dancing skills. Principal Peter Houlihan and his wife Cate were very pleased to receive the 61 couples, who showed maturity and grace throughout the night.

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The Year 12 Formal

This year’s Year 12 Formal was one for the ages. With James Yosifidis and Mr Adam Jacobs at the helm, the night was full of laughs. Everyone was dressed to the nines when we were dropped by assorted limos, buses and mum’s taxis (we have yet to receive confirmation of the helicopter drops).

Expectations were higher than hemlines (again) as the gals danced to the Mark Arana (or was that the Marcarina?)

Everyone had a memorable night and we owe a debt of thanks to Ms Wenczel and the College leaders for putting in such hard work to ensure the success of the evening.

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Back Row: Joshua McGivern, Victor Jenkins, Anthony De Luca, Jackson Harrington, Lachlan Pola, Frederick Jenkins Second Row: Patrick O’Grady, Kane Wilson, Brayden Maynard, Nicholas Edwards, Jordi Sahely Seated: Samuel Beckman, Daniel Leone, Henry Smith, Peter Manaveris, Joseph McClelland, Marcus Johns 108 Absent: Wesley Agar, Evan Lianos Teachers: Mr Terry Atkins, Mrs Mary Thomas

Back Row: Joshua McGivern, Victor Jenkins, Anthony De Luca, Frederick Jenkins, Michael Monger Second Row: Patrick O’Grady, Brayden Maynard, Wesley Agar, Jordi Sahely Seated: Samuel Beckman, Daniel Leone, Evan Lianos, Marcus Johns Teachers: Mr Terry Atkins, Mrs Mary Thomas

The Year 12 Farewell Breakfast

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The Final Assembly — Year 12 Br Damien Harvey Award College Captain 2014 James Benton

Hilary Hayes Outstanding Student Award 2014 Thomas Brasher

College Vice Captain 2014 Ben Stafford College Vice Captain 2014 Christian Di Donato Fr Les Troy Award 2014 Edward Hirst

The Anthony Molan Athlete of the Year Award 2014 James Delaney Australian Defence Force Award for Leadership 2014 Ben Stafford Old Collegians Football Club Sportsman of the Year 2014 Liam O’Callaghan

Outstanding Contribution to the life of the College through his involvement in the Performing Arts 2014 Jack-Henry Attard John Lloyd Trophy Outstanding Contribution to the life of the College through his involvement in Music 2014 Joshua Subramaniam

Sport Awards ACC Basketball ACC Cross Country ACC Football ACC Soccer ACC Hockey ACC Tennis ACC Golf ACC Volleyball ACC Athletics ACC Cricket ACC Swimming ACC Chess ACC Weightlifting ACC Table Tennis

James Benton Liam O’Callaghan Edward Cheesman Brayden Hawkins Mitchell Eager Timothy Walsh Shannon Balthazaar James Benton Liam O’Callaghan Joshua Tyquin William Rennie Arion Reuter James Delaney Arion Reuter

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Outstanding Contribution to the life of the College through his involvement in Visual Arts 2014 Markus Spindler Senior Lasallian Award 2014 James Benton Caltex Best All-Rounder Award 2014 John Buchanan

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The Year 12 Mass and Valedictory Dinner

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Careers Careers and Pathway Planning 2014 Pathway planning has never been more important for each of our boys, especially students in Years 10–12.

With the review of the Year 9 program in 2015 we hope that more career services will be open to boys in Year 9 to enable them to begin the process of pathway planning. We have worked on making our boys more responsible for making decisions in the subject selection process and used the Morrisby Report to inform our students and their parents about the talents and abilities of each participant. 2014 saw every student in Year 10 complete this program to give them a good start in choosing a pathway that matches their interests and learning more about themselves in the process.

It is a concern for those of us working in this field that the Commonwealth Government continues to cut funding to education. Resources to assist students, such as the ‘myfuture’ website and the Job Guide have been cut back more while costs to the individual have grown. As youth unemployment and ‘under’ employment grows in Australia, the need for young people to be well informed so that they can ensure a smooth transition from school to further education, training or work, has never been greater.

Our goal is to continue to develop the partnership between school, students and parents by offering other opportunities for us to work together. Parents occupy a unique and critical place in the transition networks of young people, something that is often unrecognised by parents themselves, but also policy makers, schools and others. Research reflects the importance of parental awareness regarding the formative and supportive role that they play in the transition process.

Ultimately, we all want our young people to make decisions that are right for them, which means having all the right information beforehand. PACTS

VCAL workshops have been developed as an effective way to inform parents about the landscape of career transition so they can discuss these issues with their young people in a knowledgeable way, and support them with finding all the information they need.

Parents at De La Salle have really embraced the opportunities to attend these workshops and we plan on continuing them into 2015.

De La Salle parents are not only interested and involved in their son’s education, but they are also modelling several key attitudes that young people need to successfully manoeuvre through life and work roles such as being interested and curious, being open to experimentation and innovation, and being able to think ‘outside the box’. We as adults, and more particularly our teenagers, face a rapidly changing world of work. The careers message used to be: find where the growth sectors are and get in; but now it is: the job is not hot if the spirit is not. In other words, follow your heart or follow your passion.

Previously, it was expected that people knew exactly what they wanted to do and where their career was going. Nowadays we want young people to be open to change and be able to identify what they want to do, yet also be flexible and adaptable.

Mrs Carmel Smart Careers Coordinator

Year 12 VCAL student Sam Deed won the LLEN South Eastern Region Student of the Year Award

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Happy 10th Birthday VCAL This year the College celebrated the 10th anniversary of its VCAL program. With only several graduates in its first year in 2005, the program has gone from strength to strength and has gained considerable notoriety amongst other schools as a leader in the field. Since it commenced, 127 students have graduated with a VCAL Certificate from the College.

This year the senior VCAL class has been hard at work on a new recreation and seating area for the Tiverton Campus. In the initial stages of the project, the class presented a proposal including a final design and budget to Principal Peter Houlihan for approval. Once they were given the green light they sourced materials, cleared the site and constructed seating and planter boxes for the area which will provide enough seating for a full class. Located between the Year 7 Building and the Brother’s flats on the corner of Stanhope and High Streets, the boys laid Astro Turf on the site in readiness for the wooden seating. After the construction phase, the seating and planter boxes were put in place and the area was ready for use.

In Year 11 VCAL this year the students have developed a communications strategy for men’s health with funding through Foundation 49. The class designed and implemented a questionnaire around health issues affecting young men and based on the findings developed a series of fact sheets and posters to promote the issues which will be distributed around inner city schools.

This year 20 students completed a VCAL program at the College and 10 graduated with the Senior VCAL Certificate. Some members of the senior class will go on to apprenticeships in building, plumbing and electrics while others will go on to further study at TAFE.

VET Throughout the year the VCAL students have participated in a range of industry focused events including site visits to Melbourne Water, The Port of Melbourne and Lowe Constructions. As well as their VCAL qualifications and their VET Studies, the boys have also completed a Barista Course White Card Training, First Aid, scaffolding, Safe Driver Program, the Tritactics Program and Ready Set Work Program. It has been another productive and successful year for the VCAL program.

As this is my last year as VCAL Coordinator, I would like to thank all the people both inside the College and in the College community for their support and dedication to the program. Thank you to the other members of the Pathways Team, Mrs Camel Smart and Mrs Caroline Fitzpatrick for their friendship and support. I would also like to thank our hard working VCAL teachers, including Mr Charles Thompson, Mrs Catherine Loft, Mr Ian Gibson, Mr Tim Hogan, Mr Warren Walker, Mr Adam Jacobs and Mr Peter Harte who have taught in the program this year. Finally congratulations to the graduating VCAL class and the best of luck for your future career pathway.

Ms Kerry Martin VCAL Coordinator

You never know where the path may lead you…

De La Salle College students throughout 2014 have shown a real commitment to incorporating a VET study into their VCE and VCAL programs. This study allows them to experience lots of wonderful applied learning experiences like officiating sports carnivals with neighbouring primary schools, pulling a car engine apart (and hopefully putting it back together again!), playing in a band and working towards a performance assessment, building ‘small houses’ from the bottom up and working for couture designers, as well as creating imaginative 3D media designs. An added incentive is receiving a nationally recognised industry qualification at the completion of their two year VET study.

To support the subject selection process ten of our Year 10 students participated in a 10 week pathway program where they attended Holmesglen each Wednesday completing a Building Services Unit.

They finished the course with their hands full of their mastered projects, a cheese board in one hand and a table in the other. The boys had a great experience which allowed them to experience life at TAFE as well as confirming (or not!) that they wanted to do a VET study next year.

A number of the VET subjects have a compulsory SWL (Structured Work Placement) incorporated into the course. Two of our students, Luke Goy and Liam Robinson, completed

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this requirement during Term 3 holidays. Luke worked at Mathieu Salem’s Couture Design House in Malvern. He had a great week and they were so impressed with Luke that they didn’t want to let him go, so he is now working there on Saturdays.

Liam worked at a busy educational facility and they left messages on my telephone to tell me how impressive he was in the office. Well done. These two boys are examples of the types of things that can happen when you have the courage to try something different.

This year we had boys enrolled in Media, Justice, Animal Studies Technical Production, Outdoor Education, Electro Technology, Business, Automotive Studies, Plumbing, Building and Construction, Community Sport and Recreation, Digital Multi Media, Applied Fashion, Music, Engineering and Horticulture. I would like to congratulate these students who have been able to study a course off campus and successfully manage the transport and demands that these courses require of them.

I would also like to thank the members of the Pathways Team, Mrs Carmel Smart and Mrs Kerry Martin who have supported the students and me throughout the year.

Ms Caroline Fitzpatrick VET Coordinator

Sport at De La Salle As is the case at the beginning of every year, we hoped that 2014 would be an exciting and successful time in sport for De La Salle.

The year began with a ‘Big Splash’ as we demolished all other schools in Division 2 of the ACC Swimming Carnival. Our emphatic victory returns us to Division 1 at the 2015 ACC Swimming Carnival.

Under the expert guidance of Team Windley, the DLS swimming team continues to train hard and regularly to prepare for a genuine tilt at the 2015 ACC Division 1 Championship.

Having won promotion back into Division 1 ACC Athletics last year, a huge challenge faced the 2014 team to ensure that we remained in the Premier Division. Despite some nervous moments throughout the Carnival, we managed to not only avoid relegation but to finish 4th in Division 1 and show that we are certainly heading in the right direction.

The other highlight in Term 1 this year was the 1st XI Cricket premiership. After disappointing results in 2012 and 2013, it is great that De La has returned to being the premier senior ACC cricket team in 2014.

Despite a number of our football and soccer teams being competitive in ACC competition in Term 2, our best results came from our 3rd placed Year 7 Division 1 football and soccer teams. This is the first time since 2010 that De La Salle hasn’t won an ACC football premiership in Term 2. The challenge for all DLS football and soccer teams is to make sure that they strive hard for the ultimate success in 2015.

Term 3 proved to be clearly our most successful term of ACC sport with a triple treat.

The Year 9A basketball

and Year 7 hockey teams not only won the Premiership but were both undefeated on their way to the ACC Title. Despite losing the final match of the season, the Year 8A basketball team bounced back the next week against the same opposition to win the premiership by a whopping 23 points.

2014 marked the 40th anniversary of weightlifting at De La Salle. Friday 24 October was a massive day for weightlifting at De La Salle. The 2014 Sport and Recreation Cup was held in the College gym and we continued our dominance in Victorian Schools weightlifting by winning the title once again. Following the competition, a ceremony was held to officially open the Damian Brown/Harvey Goodman Weights Room on Tiverton Campus. The opening was attended by many great DLS weightlifters from the past 40 years and this facility continues to be used by our current weightlifting team who have had a very successful year.

As we approach the end of the year, we have three of our DLS cricket teams still in contention for ACC premierships. Our Year 8 cricket team is undefeated and is on track for ‘back to back’ Premierships.

With a total of 46 DLS Teams competing in the ACC competition this year, there have certainly been plenty of opportunities for boys to represent

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the College in ACC sport. The willingness of so many boys to strive to make ACC teams has been very impressive. These numerous and varied opportunities would not be possible without the tremendous goodwill from so many staff members to coach and manage our DLS Teams.

I sincerely thank all of these committed and loyal coaches along with my two sports assistants this year, Andrew Brown and Brendan Close, for their constant hard work, diligence and genuine De La passion.

2015 will be an even Sport assistants, Mr Brendan Close and bigger year in sport Mr Andrew Brown at De La Salle, with the introduction of another eight DLS Teams. Having won five ACC premierships this year, let’s hope that the extra teams will bring both more opportunities for students to represent the College in ACC sport as well as more De La Salle College success.

Mr Peter Harte Director of Sport

The De La Salle Cross Country Carnival

Sports Awards Year 7 ACC Sports Awards ACC Athletics Joel Clark ACC Basketball Michael Skehan ACC Cricket Declan Foley ACC Cross Country Liam Jenkins ACC Football Jaxon Stuart ACC Hockey Elias Fernandez ACC Soccer Kosta Emmanuel ACC Swimming Campbell Freeman ACC Table Tennis Jack Bruce-Smith ACC Tennis Jack Bruce-Smith ACC Volleyball Curtis Sayers Sportsman of the Year Liam Jenkins Year 8 ACC Sports Awards ACC Athletics Lachlan Menara ACC Basketball Sean MacDonald ACC Cricket Rory Drummond ACC Cross Country Benjamin Richter ACC Football Patrick Bohan ACC Hockey Elliot Yeates ACC Soccer Jonathan Dawod ACC Swimming Angus McLean ACC Table Tennis Jordan D’Arcy ACC Tennis Christopher Iramiyan ACC Volleyball Sean MacDonald Sportsman of the Year Sean MacDonald Year 9 ACC Sports Awards ACC Athletics Leon Lymbouris ACC Basketball Ulysses Urban ACC Cricket Samuel Field ACC Cross Country Harrison Gill ACC Football Aaron Trusler ACC Hockey Nathan McFarlane ACC Soccer Jordan Vlahogiannis ACC Swimming Harrison Gill ACC Table Tennis Cameron Monaco ACC Tennis James Bruce-Smith ACC Volleyball Leon Lymbouris Sportsman of the Year Leon Lymbouris

Year 10 ACC Sports Awards ACC Athletics Christopher Ghersi ACC Basketball Harrison Burt ACC Cross Country Chris Northey ACC Cricket Zachariah Grundmann- Perera ACC Football Harrison Burt ACC Hockey Kieran Walsh ACC Soccer Matthew Mercuri ACC Swimming Sean O’Callaghan ACC Table Tennis Mitchell Riley ACC Tennis Riley Watson ACC Volleyball Sam Michael Sportsman of the Year Harrison Burt Year 11 ACC Sports Awards ACC Athletics Liam Chai ACC Cross Country Daniel Byrden ACC Basketball Joshua Benton ACC Cricket Elliot Fabris ACC Football Nicholas Catrice ACC Hockey Cian Hutter ACC Soccer Julian De Thomasis ACC Swimming Brodie Muller ACC Table Tennis Liam Chai ACC Tennis Lachlan Kafer ACC Volleyball Mitchell Wildoer Sportsman of the Year Liam Chai

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Our annual Homeroom Athletics Carnival was held in March at Duncan Mackinnon Athletics Track. On an overcast day, the conditions proved to be ideal as the temperature was conducive to high participation rates amongst the wide variety of events offered at the carnival.

With impressive student attendance and strong Home room enthusiasm, the atmosphere at the Carnival all day was one of fun combined with friendly rivalry between students to earn maximum points towards their Homeroom success.

In what has now become a great tradition at our Athletics Carnival, Mr Hogan and his Homeroom class provided a sausage sizzle and drinks for everyone and all money raised went towards our MAD fund and the Coolies trip to India. As well as this significant amount of money being raised for these charities, the BBQ stall really adds to the collegial atmosphere of the carnival. Thank you to Mr Hogan and his Year 12 Hegarty students for all of their preparation to organise the stall and then to provide food and drinks for over 1000 hungry and thirsty customers!

By the end of the carnival, after 182 events, the 2014 Homeroom Champions were as follows: Year Year Year Year Year Year

7 Hegarty and Mr Paul Fegan 8 Jerome and Mr Ken Stokes 9 Miguel and Mr Peppe DiCiccio 10 Vincent and Mr Michael Watty 11 Roland and Mr Rob Hoich 12 Hegarty and Mr Tim Hogan

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ACC Athletics The ACC Athletics Carnival was held on Wednesday 2 April at Lakeside Stadium, Albert Park. We had 54 students selected to represent De La Salle on this day from a training squad of well over 100 members.

After winning the Division 2 carnival last year, we returned to face five other ACC Schools in Division 1 and our main objective was to remain in the Premier Division.

We fully expected a fierce struggle with Whitefriars and St Joseph’s, Geelong to avoid a swift return to Division 2.

At the half way point of the carnival, there was less than ten points separating the three schools and the tension was building.

Soon after this stage, our boys really surged in the latter part of the meeting and our 4 x 100m Relay Teams ensured that we had well and truly survived in Division 1 for another year.

This determined and spirited team effort put us in 4th place by the end of the carnival with St Bernard’s winning their 11th straight Division 1 athletics title.

There were some fine individual performances from our De La Salle team members and congratulations to the following students for winning their respective events at the ACC carnival: Harrison Gill – Under 14 high jump Zach Patrick – Under 15 shot put Lachlan Menara – Under 14 long jump and triple jump. Lachlan is undefeated in ACC athletics long jump and triple jump.

Harrison Burt – Under 16 400m Tomas Smith – Under 13 4 x 100m relay Terry Potiris – Under 13 4 x 100m relay Jaxon Stuart – Under 13 4 x 100m relay Byron Gelagin – Under 13 4 x 100m relay The team was superbly led by Liam O’Callaghan (Captain) both on and off the track and I thank him for his proactive and inspiring leadership.

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and I sincerely thank the following members of the athletics coaching Staff for their time and effort and unconditional good will: Chris Martin, Tim Hogan, Jeff Locke, Warren Walker, Chris Church, Peter Larsen, Janet Holden, Gerard Barns, Lucy Russell, Andrew Brown, Michael Bohan, Brendan Close and Clare Kennedy.

Special thanks to Damien O’Shea (ex-student and current parent of Ben in 10B) for his voluntary and valuable assistance with our sprinters and great athletics knowledge and expertise. His guidance and tutelage with our relay teams was very evident at the pointy end of the carnival when every aggregate point became so critical.

We were also very fortunate to have the assistance and expertise at training from two very talented Old Boys, Alex Di Medio (2013 College Vice Captain and ACC Athletics Captain) and Will Johns (Year 9 2010). As well as providing high quality coaching for our 2014 Team, they are both fine role models for our boys as they continue to forge very successful careers in athletics beyond their school years. We can be pleased with our significant improvement in

ACC athletics overall standing in the past two years but can’t be satisfied that we’ve done enough. We are certainly heading in the right direction and only continued commitment and effort next year will bring about a further climb towards the top of ACC athletics in 2015!

Mr Peter Harte Director of Sport

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ACC Swimming Champions 2014

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After suffering the disappointment of relegation in 2013, the De La Salle swimming team was determined to bounce straight back in 2014.

While the team was confident they had improved sufficiently to re-enter Division 1 in 2015, no overconfidence was evident on ACC night. If anything, there were a few signs of ‘butterflies’ given the expectations of success.

The team was challenged by the coaches to win every relay at the carnival given the emphasis on teamwork throughout the season. This goal was achieved on the night, and then some!

– Of the ten relays on the programme, De La Salle was victorious in all ten, – Of the 32 events contested, De La Salle won 28, – In the remaining four events, De La Salle was runners-up.

– The final winning margin was an ACC record 160 points.

– De La Salle won the Junior, Intermediate and Senior cups.

– De La Salle was crowned Age Group Champions in all age groups from U/13 to Senior.

Congratulations to all boys who won events on the night (too many to mention!). We are all extremely proud of your efforts.

A result such as this does not happen just by turning up on the night and swimming. A lot of training and dedication goes into many sports, particularly swimming. More than a dozen members of the team train virtually all year round with squads outside of school. The rest of the squad started training for the ACC carnival way back in July 2013 in the middle of winter.

I’d like to congratulate all of the squad for the way in which they’ve conducted themselves throughout this campaign. They have willingly completed every set task all with the aim of being ready on the night.

Congratulations must also go to our 2014 leadership team of Max Tutty, Nick Ponissi and Aiden Shallue, and our co-captains Liam O’Callaghan and Will Rennie who all ensured a spirit and camaraderie amongst the whole team that was unprecedented.

Congratulations boys.

At the other end of the school, congratulations to two Year 6 boys who swam on the night, Angus Lewis and Sean Gatt. Both boys swam above their age groups to compete and performed admirably. The future of De La swimming is certainly bright when we have boys of this calibre coming through the ranks in coming years.

Finally, thank you to all staff and parents who supported the coaches throughout the year. A big effort by everybody has seen the team return to Division 1. Now the real hard work starts as we climb to the top.

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Senior Tennis

Standing: E. Cheeseman, J. Trenerry, J. McLoughlin, E. Hirst, C. Lack, J. Sharry, T. Walsh (Captain), N. Papamiltiades, A. Shallue, Mr L. Kenealy (Coach) Seated: E. Hamilton, L. Phillips, G. Ktenas, N. Supple, A. Chiodo, N. Catrice, L. Kafer

The tennis competition was very strong this year in the ACC and the senior students came up against quality opposition each week. We were defeated in the first round by our bayside brothers in what was probably our worst performance for the season and our most under-prepared game right at the start of the year. Despite this loss the players continued to turn up on Tuesday mornings at 7.30 am for practice

at the Station Street courts week in week out. The Year 12 players tried their best each week and were well supported by a number of up and coming Year 11 players, who will hopefully form the nucleus of the team for 2015.

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one win his matches were always keenly contested and of a very high quality against very strong players. Some of the better players for the year were Jack McLoughlin who performed admirably, as did Lachlan Kafer, Nic Catrice, Nick Supple and Enzo Hamilton.

Although the team did not achieve the success it was hoping for, our players can be very proud of the way they played, the way they presented themselves each week and the manner in which they represented the College. All of the students representing the College are to be commended for their commitment to the ACC tennis team and for their performance across the season.

Mr Luke Kenealy Coach

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Year 9 Tennis

Standing: J. Worcester, M. Marguglio, S. Kokkas, N. Grooby, K. Gordon, J. Lalande, Ms J. Holden Seated: A. D’Arcy, L. Ramirez, P. Haines, R. Watson, T. McDonald, M. Riley

L. Armstrong, Z. Patrick, W. Barnes, J. Bruce-Smith, C. Monaco, C. Groves, W. Callaghan, Ms L. Phibbs Seated: A. Ticinovic, B. Northey, C. Day, A. Martuccio, F. Parton, M. Petit

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Year 7 Tennis

Top Row: B. Crameri, R. Glass, E. Boyd Standing: A. Pavlou, R. O’Meara,T. Buzza, A. Hofer, F. Carey, Mr N. Yates Seated: J. Reed, A. Pierias, C. Iramiyan, J. Clark, Z. Mulholland

Standing: J. Hartson, J. Adamopoulos, B. Gelagin, J. Hopkins, J. Bruce-Smith, Mr S. Kaneria Seated: T. McIntyre, C. Misquitta, M. Powell, J. Tutty, S. Synnott

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1st Cricket XI Our first ACC game was against rivals St Bede’s. We won the season opener, passing St Bede’s total of 70 in the 22nd over without losing a wicket. Noah Korkolis and Elliot Fabris showed their professionalism and class at the top of the order, backing up the performance of Danny Melissinos with the ball. The next game mirrored the first, our boys proving that game one was no fluke, passing Parade’s total of 104 with the loss of one wicket. However, with the highs must come the lows. We drew to St Joseph’s, Geelong and suffered our first loss at the hands of Whitefriars Standing: M. Rhoden, J. Tyquin, D. Krelle, E. Bradley, J. McGaw College. Another loss and our Seated: J. Bartholomeusz, O. Milner, S. Vawser, W. Agar, J. Cooke, E. Fabris premiership hopes were lost.

The De La Salle 1st XI cricket team’s season With battles ahead against Salesian College, Dean commenced on the 8th of December 2013, when we Krelle and Jacob McGaw were included in the departed to Adelaide for a three game clash against team through their hard work and determination in our South Australian brothers, St Michael’s. With a the 2nd XI. The decision to include Jacob McGaw strong team we felt confident that we could come immediately bore fruit, after the debutante claimed home with all three wins under our belt leading into two wickets off his six overs, guiding the boys to their the ACC season. After a washout in game one we third victory of the season. went on to win the next two clashes, a feat no touring side has achieved, with strong performances from With the help of Scott Vawser, who claimed figures of Josh Tyquin, Scott Vawser, Elliot Fabris and Elliot 3 for 1, we marched our way into the ‘qualifying final’, Bradley. It was clear that the De La Salle 1st XI as Mr Rhoden referred to it. The team slammed cricket team were going to be strong contenders in a mammoth total of 4/242 off 35 overs, with Scott the 2014 ACC season.

Vawser stepping up with a dashing 88. Elliot Fabris nursing six stitches in his eye hit 55. Securing our

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third straight win, we sealed our position at the top of the ACC ladder.

The big day arrived and the De La Salle boys went into their final battle – 60 overs of cricket that would determine season 2014.

Salesian won the toss and batted first and were restricted to 96 runs from 35 overs after a very disciplined and relentless bowling and fielding performance by De La Salle.

Josh Tyquin was the best of the bowlers with 2/12 from 6 overs, however, all De La Salle bowlers were both economical and accurate.

With a steady start to our run chase from Josh Tyquin and Noah Korkolis at 0/15, we quickly slumped to 4/40 and all of a sudden the winning target of 97 had faded. Our premiership hopes began to fade at 6/60 with Salesian full of confidence; the momentum had definitely swung their way. We were faced with a huge challenge. With Dean Krelle and Elliot Bradley at the crease, we were in desperate need of a strong partnership and these boys delivered. Dean was dismissed for 17 runs from 24 balls and had successfully put De La Salle back into a winning position in a short time.

James Cooke strode to the middle to join Elliot with De La Salle needing 17 runs from the remaining 36 balls. This might sound rather easy but with the ebbs

2nd Cricket XI and flows of this match, the pressure was high and great patience and poise was required for a De La Salle victory.

Fifteen balls later, after some fine stroke play and sensible batting from both Elliot and James, De La Salle reached 7/97 and a sweet victory against a talented and gritty opposition who ensured that our boys had to fight hard to win the match.

Elliot Bradley finished unbeaten on 18 and this match highlighted the value of having a team that had so much batting depth. Congratulations to Mr Marty Rhoden as coach of the 1st XI and Mr Peter Larsen (2nd XI coach) for the passion and enthusiasm they bring to the cricket program at De La Salle.

The win is a credit to the effort and determination of every player in the squad, and one which would not have happened without the skill and expertise of our coach, Mr Rhoden. We applaud him for his commitment to cricket at De La Salle College.

Congratulations to the De La Salle 1st XI cricket side – ACC Premiers 2014!

Wesley Agar Captain

2nd XI The 2nd XI cricket team started their year with a close and gutsy win against Whitefriars out at Whitefriars College, and a huge win against an inconsistent Mazenod side.

Unfortunately we suffered close losses to St Bede’s, eventual grand finalists Emmanuel College and CBC St Kilda. Twelve runs in total was the difference in the three losses. The Stannding: B. Mancal, T. Harkin, C. Bianco, J. Colquhoun, D. Kelly, Mr P. Larson result was a third place Seated: T. Fidock, X. Wigg, J. Galbraith, S. Athaide, M. Simons, C. Byrne, T. Brasher finish, and so we narrowly missed out on a place in the student Xavier Wigg for consistent performances all grand final. Even though we missed out on a final season. berth our players should be proud of their efforts and commitment to senior cricket this year. Many of Mr Peter Larson them were involved in the touring party to Adelaide Coach last year. Special mentions go to Josh Galbraith for 1st XI Kneeling: J. Bartholomeusz, N. Korkolis, C. Byrne, E. Fabris, W. captaining the boys so well this season and Year 11 Agar, J. Tyquin, E. Bradley, S. Vawser, J. Cooke, Mr M. Rhoden Recumbent: D. Melissinos, O. Milner Absent: D. Krelle, J. McGaw

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Year 9 Cricket

Year 10 Cricket

Back Row: K. Horsnell, T. Deftereos, L. Cummins Standing: Mr T. Hogan, H. Bowen, J. Bailey, L. Manakis, H. Burt, Mr W. Walker Seated: J. Bardsley, T. Bruce, T. Fierenzi, Z. Grundmann-Perera, S. Hatzikourtis, W. Trewella

Standing: O. Smith, S. Field, O. Hart, T. Roberts, J. Brasher, T. Cairnes, C. Gerny, Mr T. Ryan Seated: A. Trusler, J. Fisher-English, B. Paine, J. Fitzharris, H. Swift, A. Salemi

Year 8 Cricket

Year 7 Cricket – Blues

Year 7 Cricket – Golds

Top Row: H. Hyslop, R. Drummond, J. Williams, S. Maher, A. Cam, O. Bradley, Standing: Z. Raymond, C. Roberts, H. Thompson, B. Cook , N. Priddle, Mr M. Wilson Seated: A. Grey, C. Quit, D. Edwards, L. Saldanha, M. Walker, J. Fernando

Top Row: J. Devine, D. Venturoni, S. Fernandez, T. Dean-Johns Standing: N. Barrow, A. Feola, J. Lloyd, E. Fernandez, T. Leong Seated: L. Jenkins, J. Webb, T. Kelly, D. Foley, J. Still

Top Row: N. Leow, J. Thompson, N. Bufalo Standing: T. Lyngberg, A. Jose, J. Arnold, H. Sparks, W. Mendes, Mr G. Barns Seated: L. Comeadow, M. Gerny, B. Coonan, A. Ryan, B. Loughnan

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Weightlifting points. Our champion lifter, James Delaney (in his final year) represented Australia at both the Oceanic Games (New Caledonia) and World Championships (Russia) where he finished fifth.

Four of our lifters competed with distinction at National U/15 and Youth Championships in Launceston. Jayden Dakdouk and Sam Gardiner collected Top Row: B. Gibson, S. Christodoulakis, N. Byrden, F. McCormack, R. Fenech silver, while Bryce Standing: Mr D Hale (Coach), M. Fabian, B. Morgan, J. Saddington, Mr S. Francazio (Coach), N. Chatgoglou Morgan and Jay Seated: D. Henriques-Gomes, X. Clarke, J. Delaney (Captain), J. Dakdouk, M. Catalano, S. Gardiner Saddington received bronze.

2014 is the 40th year of weightlifting at De La Salle, Most pleasing was the fact that each boy was able having been introduced by former student Adrian to achieve a personal best under the pressure of Kebbe. The event was celebrated in October on strong competition. These achievements are directly the day we won the Sport and Recreation Cup, linked to our outstanding young coach, Old Collegian opened our new Damian Brown/Harvey Goodman Simon Francazio, who has coached and motivated Weightlifting Centre (in honour of two of our our young lifters to reach their full potential.

Olympian Weightlifters) and had a reunion dinner.

Mr David Hale In keeping with our rich history in the sport we Weightlifting Coordinator retained the School League Trophy by a wide margin, and the Sport and Recreation Cup by 5

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Our School League Trophy Winners. The individual efforts of the team included: Jay Saddington lifted a total of 148kg for a narrow second place. Bryce Morgan totalled 177kg for a win and three Victorian youth records. Samuel Gardiner (2nd in the M56 Class), Jayden Dakdouk (1st in the M62 class), Nick Chatgoglou (3rd in the M69 class). Honourable mentions for participation in their first major competitions go to Xavier Clarke, Dillon Henriques-Gomes, Steven Christodoulakis, Rory Fenech and Michael Fabian.

James Delaney (pictured right) represented Australia in the Junior World Weightlifting Championships in Russia where he came 5th. Delaney, who is the De La Salle College Weightlifting Captain, achieved six out of six successful lifts in the 62kg Junior Men’s section (snatch – 83kg, Clean and Jerk – 106kg).

Senior Volleyball

Year 10 Volleyball

Standing: B. Spackman, C. Morris, J. Squires, A. Nyanjok, S. Michael, A. Arceri, Mr K. Stokes Seated: F. McCormack, B. Tokatlidis, S. O’Callaghan, M. Canny, J. Ingram, B. Slamet

Top Row: W. Rennie, J. Walters, J. Benton, B. Wildoer, P. Kony Middle Row: Mr K. Stokes, B. Stafford, L. O’Callaghan, B. Muller, M. Wildoer, S. Powell Bottom Row: D. Leone, J. Khoury, M. Arapis, B. Hawkins, B. McGaw, L. Chai, L. Bisognin

Year 9 Volleyball

Back Row: H. Prendergast-Kruger, C. McGaw, T. Shannon, L. Lymbouris, Standing: C. Aitken, R. Beeby, U. Urban, W. Clarke, B. Wardle, J. Vlahogiannis, Mr P. Harte Seated: P. Nikitis, H. Soden, J. Robinson, O. Cramp, J. Squire, C. Bird

Year 8 Volleyball

Top Row: B. Joyce, T. Marshall, P. Bohan, J. Beaton, J. Nyanjok Standing: J. McCormack, B. Robinson, S. Macdonald, L. Hawker, D. Trewarn, M. Moolman Seated: F. Bird C. Janka, C. Joyce, W. Canning, J. Shearer

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Year 7 Volleyball

Top Row: N. Caruso , A. Konstandakopoulos, D. Gehrig, W. Moloney-Morton, N. Tsihrintzis Standing: C. Sayers, J. Stewart, C. Freeman, T. Coyle, W. Hogan, Mr A. Brown Seated: N. Giorlando, L. Borje, T. Tymms, S. McDonough, S. Paine, P. Stanhope

ACC Skiing Over the years we have experienced all weather conditions at Mt Buller for the Victorian Interschool Skiing Competition.

This year we had perfect weather with clear skies, light winds and warm temperatures for our entire stay. Morning skiing was great on the groomed runs and in the afternoons we had to contend with softening snow in most areas. We had to be content with the Blue, Green and only a few Black runs as the marginal cover in most of the more challenging Black runs made them off limits to our students for safety reasons.

This year we entered all students into the SkierX or BoarderX events and this change from the Alpine Giant Slalom proved popular with the boys. We will most likely continue this in 2015 and will endeavour to gain some practice time on the course with an instructor on the day prior to competition. Our students did their individual best in their respective divisions to complete the demanding course. Our aim next year will be to get some members of our group into a top 24 final.

The following students made up the DLS Ski team for 2014: Anthony Ryan 7S, Tom Martin 7H, William Cavey 8H, Trent Puddy 8J, Ben Richter 8D, Elijah Kingsley 9M, Spencer Embrey 9V, Kasey Entwistle 9S, Tom O'Kane 10R, Riley Watson 10R, Connor Norris 10S, Will Jones 10R, Liam O’Neill 10S, Nick Amon 11V, Callum Brace 11S Many thanks to Mr Tom Ryan and Mr Shane Slavin who assisted me with the running of this trip and we look forward to putting together a team next year to representing the College in 2015 at Mt Buller.

Mr Ken Stokes Ski Team Leader

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Top Row: L. Bisognin, N. Catrice, B. Schmidt, D. Roberts, J. Benton, L. Brownhill, T. Walsh, T. Brasher, J. Cooke Middle Row: K. Stokes, J. Yosiffidis, N. Taylor, J. Tyquin, D. Krelle, R. Cadman, M. Wildoer, O. Milner, A. Cowan, M. Simmons, P. Larsen Bottom Row: J. Sahely, Q. De Luca, M. Brown, J. McLoughlin, B. Maynard, E. Cheeseman, S. Vawser, T. Hyland, J. McGaw, W. Mackie

This season’s ACC Competition was very strong and each game was challenging. Each week the team improved on their previous match. Although our on-field success was not good, the off field efforts were the real highlight for the 2014 First XVIII football team.

The obvious highlight for the season was our only win early in the term against St Bernard’s and a narrow defeat later in the campaign against Parade.

There was a strong sense of ‘De La spirit’ amongst the team this season. Their passion was the equal of any other team in the competition. This positive attitude was

displayed by the number of boys who wished to represent the College. The squad was the biggest it had been for three years. We always had very high numbers at training; committed men, rain, hail or shine. This positive mindset set by the senior players of the team was a good example for future players to follow. Thank you to Mr Peter Larsen and Mr Ken Stokes for coaching the team for the 2014 ACC Season.

Edward Cheesman Captain

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Year 10 XVIII

Year 9 XVIII

Top Row: T. Deftereos, H. Bowen, C. Ferris-McDonald, M. Canny, Z. Hawker, A. Nyanjok, D. Brasher, C. Whitehead, L. Murphy, L. O’Neil Standing: Mr T. Hogan, B. Spackman, C. Ghersi, S. Michaels, H. Burt, R. Watson, S. O’Callaghan, J. Bailey, J. Ingram, J. O’Connor, J. Mullaly, T. Fierenzi, Mr B. Close Seated: R. Rando, J. Wagland, N. Leontaritis, C. Northey, B. Tokatlidis, S. Leary, A. Arceri, M. Riley

Top Row: O. Cramp, Z. Patrick, L. Lymbouris, T. Roberts, N. Jarvis, B. Wardle, M. O’Connor, R. Beeby Standing: J. Robinson, C. Aitken, C. McGaw, U. Urban, J. Brasher, C. Monaco, M. Doherty, T. Shannon Seated: C. Day, H. Gustin, B. Melissinos, J. Squires, L. Armstrong, J. Caruso, A. Trusler, J. Croagh

Year 9 Football The Year 9 XVIII team finished in 5th place with three wins and three losses, losing the first three but winning the next three, knocking Parade out of the grand final match with a 40 point victory in the final round. The most consistent players were Aaron Trusler, Zach Patrick, Harry Gustin and Charlie McGaw. Thank you to our coaches Mr Alexander and Mr Mackintosh.

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Year 8 XVIII Year 8 Football The Year 8 team finished in 4th place after losing in the 3rd vs 4th play-off to Mazenod. Prior to this, the team won four matches and lost only one by eight points to the eventual Premiers, St Bernard’s. The highlight of the season was overcoming the previously undefeated Whitefriars by four points in the final round of the season, and they only missed the grand final on percentage. The most consistent players were Sean MacDonald, Pat Bohan, Tom Fogarty and Jared Williams. Thank you to the coaches, Mr Edgar and Mr Houlihan.

Year 7 Division 1 Football The team finished in 3rd place after defeating St Bernard’s by four points in the 3rd vs 4th Play Off match. They won three and lost three matches for the season. The highlight of the season was first round away vs Mazenod. After not scoring a goal in the first half, the boys charged back in the second half to win convincingly by 16 points. The most consistent players were Hunter Pace, Jaxon Stuart, Kai Bloomfield and Tom Coyle. Thank you to Mr Buckley Top Row: D. Trewarn, A. Dentesano, L. Eldering, J. Paul, P. Bohan, R. O’Meara, C. Moohan, C. Joyce, L. Side for coaching the team.

Standing: J. Edgar (Coach), C. Quitt, D. Tompa, T. Fogarty, L. Hawker (Co-captain), J. Williams(Co-Captain), T. Buzza, S. Macdonald, B. Cooke, A. Pinna Year 7 Division 2 Football Seated: A. Gray, N. Robertson, K. Morgenthaler, C. Roberts, N. Priddle, B. Joyce, Z. Raymond, J. Horrigan, B. Fierenzi The team finished in 8th place after losing the 7th vs 8th play-off match to Parade Preston. We weren’t able to win a match but came agonisingly close in Round 4, losing to Parade Preston by three points.

It is a great credit to the boys who tried so hard each match, despite being soundly beaten in all but one game. The most consistent players were Cooper Bruce, Joel Thompson and Tom Kelly.

Thank you to Mr Barns and Mr Brown for coaching the team.

Top Row: N. Buffalo, C. Sayers, H. Pace, K. Bloomfield, D. Venturoni, J. Hartson Top Row: T. Shannon, A. Ryan, M. Powell, T. Kelly, J. Clark, J. Thompson, C. Bruce, A. Feola Mr Peter Harte Standing: D. Edwards, O. Ryan, J. Stuart, T. Coyle, S. Fernandez, T. Lyngberg, Standing: W. Brooks, K. Casanova, D. Foley, J. Scott, D. Gehrig, B. Nason, A. Earle, M. Wardlaw, Mr S. Buckley Director of Sport J. Still, Mr P. Harte

Year 7 XVIII Division 1

Year 7 XVIII Division 2

Seated: J. May, J. Webb, B. Holden, J. Devine, J. Lloyd, E. Fernandez, J. Tutty, L. Jenkins

Seated: L. Comeadow, T. Loughnan, J. Quinn, P. Muling, A. Digby, B. Herdman, M. Skehan, C. Dib

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ACC Senior Golf

ACC Junior Golf

mention to Kristoff Soliven, our youngest player, who was the Best DLS Golfer at the ACC tournament.

Kristoff is in Year 7 Dunstan with a Handicap of 4.5 and he scored 81.

He also won the De La Salle Open Golf Championship at Malvern Valley Golf Course in Term 1 with a score of 71.

The seven other boys who competed were Oliver Smith (score of 83), Shannon Balthazaar score of 85, Nick Leontaritis Mr K. Stokes, K. Soliven, B. Paine, N. Leontaritis, O. Smith, L. Brownhill, D. Incretolli-Rodrigues, S. Balthazaar, (score of 86), Ben P. Hounihan Pain score of 88, Pat Hounihan (score 2014 ACC Open Golf Championship of 94), Luke Brownhill (score of 95) and Daniel Our ACC open golf team finished in 4th place in Incretolli-Rodrigues (score of 107).

Division 1 behind Parade, St Bede’s and the 2014 Thank you to Mr Ken Stokes who has filled the void Champions, St Bernard’s. as senior golf coach following the retirement of Norm With only one Year Stewart. Ken ensured that 12 student in our we assembled our best team this year (there possible ACC golf team were four Year 12 and we hope that 2015 players in 2013) the will see us return back to future looks bright as the top in the ACC open we rebuild our senior golf ranks. golf team with our Mr Peter Harte younger students, Director of Sport proving to be very competitive.

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Standing: O. Wood B. Paine, J. Brasher, O. Smith, Z. Raymond Seated: K. Soliven, N. Leontaridis (Captain), P. Hounihan, Z. Mulholland

The junior golf team, open to any Year 4 to Year 10 student, competed at Werribee Golf Course in October. We finished a very close third. St Bernard’s (318 shots), St Bede’s College (321) and De La Salle (330).

We were well led by our captain Nick Leontaritis who had the best De La Salle round of the day with a 78.

Scores were as following: N. Leontaritis 78 B. Paine 82 K. Soliven 84 O. Smith 86 P. Hounihan 87 Z. Mulholland 96 J. Brasher 100 Z. Raymond 115 Congratulations to the boys who made the ACC golf team. With more boys joining local golf clubs, we should come back bigger and better skilled next year.

Mr Peter Crellin Junior Golf Coach

Senior Basketball

Senior Basketball

Mr P. Harte, J. Benton, J. Benton (Captain), R. Wilson, B. Wildoer, M. Perry, J. Lugo (Coach) Kneeling: M. Hoareau, B. Maynard, W. Rennie

Mr P. Harte, J. Villani, J. Colquhoun, C. Lack, E. Cheesman, C. Rate, J. Lugo (Coach) Kneeling: L. Walsh, J. San Jose, N. Monaco

Year 10 Basketball – A Team

Mr B. Close, H. Bowen, T. Christianson, D. Brasher, J. Squires, Ms J. Holden Kneeling: H. Burt, B. Spackman, N. Leontaritis, C. Northey

Year 10 Basketball – B Team

Ms J. Holden, J. O’Dwyer, B. Regan, E. Clarke, Z. Penzes, C. Norris, Mr B. Close Kneeling: J. Greaves, J. Lalande, B. Tokatlidis, H. Maglis, K. Gordon, J. Rassias Absent: A. Berlin

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Year 9 Basketball – A Team

Year 9 Basketball – B Team Salle players, coaches and spectators right up until the final buzzer.

Despite this serious late challenge from St Bernard’s, our boys proved that they were the deserved champion team as they steadied to win their 7th consecutive victory and the title of Year 9A ACC Basketball Premiers.

When the final buzzer sounded, there was a very relieved and proud coach of this premiership team. David Alexander has coached many ACC teams since he began teaching at De La Salle and he was finally rewarded for his time, effort and enthusiasm over a long period with his first premiership as an ACC Coach.

Standing: Mr D. Alexander, N. Jarvis, B. Wardle, U. Urban, J. Green, Z. Patrick, Mr T. Mahoney Kneeling: A Trusler, B. Crowe, L. Lymbouris

Standing: Mr D. Alexander, J. Brasher, M. Doherty, T. Gojak, W. Clarke, T. Roberts, T. Whitelaw, Mr T. Mahoney Kneeling: D. Tesoriero, L. Yaksich, L. Rogan, A. Martuccio

Year 9 Basketball B Team Our B team finished in 4th place with three wins, a draw and two losses.

They were undefeated until Round 4 when they were well beaten by the eventual premiers Parade.

Year 9 Basketball A Team Premiers Going into the grand final undefeated, the Year 9 boys clinched the premiership in a high scoring and top quality display of basketball defeating St Bernard’s by 5 points (57–52) at MSAC. After leading by as much as 20 points early in the 2nd half, the Bernard’s boys refused to give in and caused some anxious moments for the De La

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Year 8 Basketball – B Team

Year 8 Basketball – A Team Premiers Our Year 8A basketball team had only lost one match going into their grand final.

The only loss was against our grand final opponent, Whitefriars, by 22 points. It was almost a total score reversal in the decider as our Year 8A team defeated Whitefriars comprehensively by 23 points to win De La Salle’s first ever Year 8 basketball title since the competition began in 1997.

Congratulations to our Year 8 basketball team for being the Year 8 ACC Basketball Champions, particularly as last year the 7A basketball team managed to win just one match for the season. What an incredible improvement.

Mr Peter Harte Director of Sport

Standing: Mr P. Harte (Coach), X. O’Meara, D. Tompa, J. McCormack, J. Nyanjok Seated: N. Robertson, E. Powell, D. Trewarn

Standing: J. Beaton, T. Marshall, P. Bohan Seated: C. Janka, A. Galgani, S. Macdonald (Captain), T. Fogarty, L. Hawker Absent: Mr P. Harte

Year 7 Basketball Both the A and B teams finished in 6th place after their minor play off finals. Our A team defeated Mazenod in Round 2 by 4 points to notch their only win. Our B team had their only win in Round 6 against Salesian. Both teams were competitive in most matches but our ‘shortage’ (pardon the pun) of tall players made scoring and rebounding a constant challenge.

Thank you to the Coach Mr Del Porto for his great energy and passion.

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ACC Chess

M. Henriques-Gomes, T. Brasher, C. Roberts, Arion Reuter

Standing: Mr C. Del Porto, S. O’Connor, E. Te Moni, H. Pace, J. Stuart, N. Tsihrintzis Kneeling: M. Skehan, M. Powell, L. Bainbridge Absent: J Thompson

Year 7 Basketball – B Team

Senior Chess ACC chess this year has involved the coming together of students to form strong partnerships when they were needed.

Although chess training was not prominent throughout the year, all members participated to the best of their ability in the one tournament we were involved with. The ACC chess tournament was held at Simonds College, where we faced the chess team of our former principal Mr Riordan. Although we were unsuccessful in achieving a podium finish, the team performed admirably and strongly, our two top players enjoying five wins and two losses. Special thanks to coach Evans, for mentoring the team, organising transport and coordinating other chess related activities.

Arion Reuter

Mr C. Del Porto, M. Gerny, A. Perri, D. Venturoni, C. Bruce Kneeling: D. Henriques-Gomes, J. May, J. Webb

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Gold Silver Bronze

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

In October the Tiverton Chess club attended the annual ACC Junior Chess tournament. It was an outstanding day, with De La Salle coming second overall, losing by only two and a half points. We had three boys qualify for best player, Will Cavey (Year 8) Dominic Gehrig (Year 7) and Terence Leong (Year 7) winning five games out of 7. De La Salle has a great future in chess, as the Year 7 play students amazingly well. The whole chess team played good chess and came so near to victory.

Ethan Tambimuttu

Team Name St Bernard’s Catholic Boys — A De La Salle College — B St Joseph’s College (Newtown) — B St Bede’s — B Whitefriars College — B CBC St Kilda — B Emmanuel College (St Paul’s) — B

Top Player Hunter Thorpe Will Cavey Jack Sadler Malcolm Liddell Alex Long Peter Vo Andrew Toce

Score 22 19½ 18½ 18 17½ 14½ 12½

Players 10 8 7 8 7 11 6

Senior Soccer

Year 10 Soccer

Standing: Mr P. Harte, B. Eddy, L. Chai, A. Siriopoulos, M. Henriques-Gomes, T. Horan, D. Leone, L. O’Callaghan, T. McCausland, M. Hoareau, B. Jacka, C. Di Donato, J. Rowe, H. Wardlaw, Mr N. Thomas Kneeling: S. Karydis, D. Rodriguez, B. Hawkins, R. D’Souza, C. Marinis, M. Arapis, J. De Thomasis

Senior Soccer Participation rates in soccer at De La Salle have been increasing each year and this year was no exception. Fifty Year 11 and Year 12 boys attended trials on a blustery afternoon, and through holiday training and team trials we established our core squad. Our first game against St Bede’s saw us win 3–2, a good beginning to the season. During the term there were injuries, changes in player positions and variations of field formations. All the boys played

Standing: N. Armocida, J. Blanas, H. Maglis, M. Mercuri, J. Dziubinski, S. Kokkas, L. Manakis, S. Hatzikourtis, C. Grant Seated: S. Kumar, L. Moore, A. Palumbo, Ms M. Hawley, M. Donnarumma, L. Cummins, S. Kamoutsis

with spirit, and everyone was given a chance to add to the team’s success. We won two games, lost two games and drew the final game against Emmanuel in a nail-biting finish, the final score 4-4.

Congratulations to all the boys who participated in this year’s senior soccer team and a big thank you to Mr Harte for his organisational work, his continual support, and his enthusiasm. The boys did the school proud and can be pleased with their efforts.

Mr Neil Thomas Coach

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Year 10 Soccer Year 10 finished in 7th place with one win and three losses. The obvious highlight of the season was the 3–1 win. It was a ‘special win’ as it was against Mr Riordan’s Simonds College. The most consistent players were Matt Mercuri, George Kouzoumis and Steve Hatzikourtis. Thank you to our very committed and organised coaches, Ms Hawley and Josh Pulvirenti (Year 12 Leader from the Class of 2013) Mr Peter Harte

Year 9 Soccer

Year 8 Soccer

Standing: R. Clarke, H. Stanhope, B. Campbell, M. Pettit, S. Field, W. Callaghan, L. O’Brien, D. Pascal, A. Indovino Seated: M. Rossitto, H. Swift, H. Soden, S. Callaghan, Mr M. Wilson T. Ciancio-Knauer, J. Biviano, A. Cosgriff

Year 9 Soccer Year 9 soccer finished in 7th place with two wins and five losses. The most consistent players were: David Pascal, Liam O’Brien, Jordan Vlahogiannis and Sam Callaghan. Thank you to coaches Mr Wilson and Mr Del Porto.

Year 8 Soccer Year 8 finished in 8th place after losing 7th vs 8th play-off to Emmanuel. Prior to this, the team had one win and three losses. The highlight of the season was defeating CBC St Kilda 2–0. The most consistent players were Jon Dawod, Matt Pulvirenti and Daniel Casula. Thank you to Mr Yates for his wisdom and calm as the Year 8 Soccer Coach.

Year 7 Soccer Year 7 soccer finished in 3rd place after defeating St Bede’s 3–0 in 3rd vs 4th play off match. The team won three and lost three matches for the season. The highlight of the season was winning the play-off match as well as finishing 3rd on the ladder, which is the highest finish by a De La Salle Year 7 soccer team. The most consistent players were Kosta Emmanuel, Arki Konstandakopoulos and Aloshy the goal keeper.

Thank you to Mr Hale and Mr Del Porto for coaching and managing the Year 7 soccer team.

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Top Row: F. Bird, R. Ranzolin, J. Dal Broi, P. Menidis, D. Casula Standing: B. Caruso, M. Moolman, C. Vanas, M. Lema, G. Vlahos, S. Beehre, N. Paspaliaris Seated: M. Mackie, C. Iramiyan, N. Warren, Mr N. Yates, R. Garrido, J. Dawod, M. Pulvirenti

Year 7 Soccer

Top Row: J. Avgeridis, J. Catalano, T. Potiris, A. Konstandakopoulos, M. Ciavarella, Standing: Mr D. Hale, J. Foden, P. Stanhope, W. Moloney-Morton, A. Costa, T. Milopteris, D. Henriques-Gomes, Seated: N. Girandole, N. Holden, E. Alexopoulos, G. Mihailidis, A. Jose, G. Strain-King, B. Loughnan, H. Sparks

Senior Cross Country

Under 17 Cross Country

Under 16 Cross Country

Standing: T. Brasher, M. Robinson, L. O’Callaghan, J. Benton, M. Arapis, J. Tyquin, Mr T. Curran Kneeling: T. McCausland, Q. De Luca, M. Hoareau, B. Hawkins

Standing: L. O’Callaghan (Coach), N. Stamboultgis, A. Sheppard, N. Catrice, C. Brace, D. Byrden, R. Cadman, B. Muller, Mr T. Curran (Coach) Kneeling: D. Thorson, B. Philpott, C. Northey, M. Thomas, W. Mackie

Standing: L. O’Callaghan (Coach), J. O’Connor, T. Christiansen, T. Fierenzi, Z. Hawker, B. Tokatlidis, Mr T. Curran Kneeling: M. Riley, J. Stavrevski, K. Walsh, M. Fletcher, H. Burt

ACC Cross Country 2014 Our team of 60 runners bravely and proudly represented the College at the ACC Carnival in September at Bundoora. It was one of the more pleasant days that we have had at Bundoora for a number of years.

After finishing third for five consecutive years, we managed to break our ‘run’ of bronze medal finishes.

Unfortunately though, we slipped to 4th place in the overall placings in Division 1.

ACC CROSS COUNTRY FINAL DIVISION 1 STANDINGS 1st – St Bernard’s 2nd – St Bede’s 3rd – St Joseph’s Geelong 4th – De La Salle 5th – Whitefriars 6th – Mazenod Despite this slight fall, we did have many of our DLS competitors achieve ‘personal best’ times and nobody could doubt the effort and courage shown from every blue and gold representative.

Six of our DLS runners finished in the top 10 (at least 100 competitors per race) in their respective events,

Special congratulations to: Ben Richter (8D) 1st in Under 13 in a time of 9.59 minutes for 3km Harrison Gill (9M) 3rd in Under 14 in a time of 10.02 minutes for 3km Angus McLean (8B) 10th in Under 14 in a time of 10.15 minutes for 3km Cooper Joyce (8J) 7th in Under 15 in a time of 10.08 minutes for 3km Daniel Byrden (11R) 7th in Under 17 in a time of 17.19 for 5km Liam O’Callaghan (12H) 6th in Senior in a time of 17.30 minutes for 5km.

The preparation for the carnival began way back in June for our 2014 cross country team and sincere thanks to the staff involved for their energy, commitment and goodwill with our training campaign.

Our challenge for 2015 is obviously to return to the top three schools in Division 1 ACC cross country and our boys are already very keen to prove that is where we truly belong!

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Under 15 Cross Country

Under 14 Cross Country

Under 13 Cross Country

L. O’Callaghan (Coach), D. Tesoriero, J. Coughlan-Stevenson, C. Aitken, L. Lymbouris, A. Trusler, Mr T. Curran (Coach) Kneeling: F. Parton, J. Caruso, B. Northey, B. Joyce, C. Joyce,

R. Ranzolin, A. McLean H. Gill, L. Halloran, R. O’Meara, A. Digby, S. Mannix, L. Bonato Kneeling: H. Swift, D. Trewarn, T. Moloney-Morton, B. Sciberras M. Lema

Standing: L. O’Callaghan (Coach),J. Lloyd, J. Avgeridis, T. Lyngberg, B. Richter, B. Gallagher, T. Potiris, Mr T. Curran (Coach) Kneeling: J. Stewart, J. Hartson, L. Jenkins, E. McMahon

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Senior Hockey meant we were to play St Bernard’s at home.

But again lapses of concentration led to a disappointing 3-2 loss.

The highlight of the match for us was a goal

by Steve Athaide, who scored off a deflection at an impossible angle.

A big thank you to Mrs Phibbs who coached us throughout the year. I don’t believe we would have been as successful Standing: M. Monger, X. Wigg, X. Purcell, M. Horrigan, S. Attard, B. Douglas, N. Byrden, P. Kony, without her dedication.

L. O’Callaghan, L. Hume, Ms L. Phibbs A big thank you to Mitch Kneeling: C. Hutter, L. Bisognin, M, Eager (Captain), S. Athaide (Vice-Captain), J. Bartholomeusz, Eager, who was our N. McGonigal Absent: B. Hawkins captain for the year.

We started off the season on a high, snatching His consistent top-class two impressive wins to see us on top of the ladder performances and his leadership during training after the 2nd round. However in the 3rd, we lost to games were much appreciated. A special mention Whitefriars and this gave us an idea of where we to Steve Athaide, Cian Hutter and Mitch Eager, who stood within the competition. This loss made us were all nominated in the ACC Team of the Year. realise that we weren’t just able to play casually and Their inclusion in the team was a true reflection of expect to come out with a win. their great performances throughout the season.

Two more wins against Salesian and Mazenod Well done to our boys. I commend you for the made it a step closer to securing a home semi-final. determination with which you played and trained.

However our last game was against St Bede’s, with Let’s hope we can make next year a better one! neither the Year 11 or 12 students recording a win Liam Bisognin against them in the previous year. It was a close game against St Bede’s, but we lost concentration at crucial times and went down 3–1. This now

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Standing Row: T. Roberts, B. Morgan, M. Donnarumma, W. Trewella, Mr P. Harte Seated Row: A. Arceri, L. Kelliher, K. Williams, S. Kumar, K. Walsh, C. Joseph, F. McCormack

Year 10 Hockey The Year 10 team finished in 7th place with one win and four losses. The obvious highlight was their only win in the Lasallian Derby vs St Bede's. Thank you to Coach Ms Phibbs and Captain Kieran Walsh. As well as being the most consistent player, Kieran did a lot to assist Ms Phibbs organising the team each week and trying to make sure that we had enough players. This situation needs to improve next year.

Year 10 players need to fully commit and be part of a successful 2015 Senior hockey team.

Mr Peter Harte Director of Sport

Year 7 Hockey — ACC Premiers

Year 9 Hockey

Standing: Mr N. Yates, J. Lloyd, A. Konstandakopoulos, S. Fernandez, J. Arnold, J. Barnard, K. Farrell, J. Devine, S. Andrews, Seated: S. Paine, J. Tutty, B. Holden, E. Fernandez, D. Edwards, T. Crough, B. Loughnan, L. Jenkins

Standing: Ms M. Hawley, H. Soden, S. Young, B. Campbell, L. Osborne, S. Howells, C. Kahn, O. Cramp, N. McFarlane, S. Doree Seated: R. Clarke, C. Bird, J. Robertson, T. Shannon, L. Baron, J. Squires, N. Soh, L. Panozzo

Our Year 7 hockey team went into the grand final undefeated during the regular season.

They defeated St Bernard’s 3–0 in the grand final to claim the ACC title with their 7th consecutive victory. This is a historic moment for De La in ACC hockey as this is our first ever Junior (Year 7 or 8) ACC hockey premiership since the competition began in 1999. It is also the first DLS hockey flag in ACC competition since our senior hockey team won in 1998. Well done to Coach Yates and his team for being the Year 7 ACC Hockey Champions!

Mr Peter Harte Director of Sport

Our Year 9 hockey team finished in 5th place with three wins and four losses. They were competitive in all losing matches. Their biggest defeat was against the eventual premiers St Bernard’s 1–5. Thank you to Coach Ms Hawley.

Our Year 8 hockey team finished 3rd with 5 wins and 3 losses. After defeating St Bede’s in the 3rd Vs 4th play off, it meant that we defeated all other ACC teams except the grand finalists, St Bernard’s and Whitefriars.

Thank you to Coach Mr Barns, for his great hockey expertise combined with his raw De La Passion.

Year 8 Hockey Year 8 Hockey Top Row: B. Richter, A. McCulloch, A. Mclean, H. Sutherland, S. Mahon, P. Menidis, O. Bradley, Standing: B. Brownhill, H. Rideg, H. Hyslop, E. Yeates, A. Mascarin, J. Wiedemann, L. Side, L. Saldanha, Mr G. Barnes (Coach), Seated: Z. Mulholland, S. Hall, J. White, W. Cavey, Z. Alexandropoulos, J. Reid, M. Bonollo, B. Fierenzi

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Senior Table Tennis

Year 10 Table Tennis

After losing convincingly to Whitefriars in the final round, the Year 8 boys came so close to exacting revenge in the play-off final to miss narrowly by just one match. This certainly shows that there is plenty of improvement to come next year. Thank you to Mr Wilson for coaching the Year 8 table tennis team.

Top Row: R. Watson, C. Whitehead, S. Kokkas, B. O’Shea, Z. Demkiw Top Row: Mr L. Kenealy, S. Tsagaris, F. Macri, E. Fabris, L. Phillips, B. Muller, B. Schmidt, M. Year 7 Table Tennis Standing: Mr T. Hogan, K. Tambimuttu, K. Vasudevan, M. Wilson, A. Pavlou, C. Grant, Arapis, C. Batziakas Clearly our best team in E. Nguyen Bottom Row: S. Vawser, A. Shallue, L. Chai, T. Walsh, F. Jenkins, J. Khoury, our 2014 return to ACC Seated: D. McCarthy, J. Dziubinski, C. Ferris-McDonald, S. O’Callaghan, T. Deftereos, J. McLoughlin, N. Supple M. Marguglio, M. Riley, L. Perri table tennis, the team Year 9 Table Tennis finished in 3rd place with five wins and a comfortable 9–6 victory. This successful end to Year 9 finished in 6th place with two wins and five just two losses. Both losses were to the grand final the season came almost as a direct response to losses. The season highlight was the Round 4 win in teams. This proved without much doubt that we were an inspirational speech from Mr Kaneria at half the Lasallian Derby against St Bede's. Thank you to the third best team, with a stirring come-from-behind time. Thank you to Mr Kaneria for coaching the Mr Ryan and Mr Thompson for coaching the Year 9 victory against Mazenod in the 3rd vs 4th play-off Year 7 table tennis team and let’s hope that they table tennis team. match. Despite falling behind three matches to five can continue to improve, as an ACC Premiership Year 8 Table Tennis mid-way into the clash, the boys ‘rallied’ strongly beckons! to win six out of the next seven matches to record Year 8 finished in 8th place with two wins and six Mr Peter Harte losses.

Year 9 Table Tennis

Year 8 Table Tennis

Year 7 Table Tennis

Top Row: L. Armstrong, B. McDonell, W. Callaghan, W. Barns, C. Monaco, C. McGaw, A. Ticinovic, L. O’Brien Standing: B. Northey, J. Epifanidis, O. Hart, C. Aitken, C. Groves, J. Lea, M. Pettit, Mr T. Ryan Seated: J. Fitzharris, J. Biviano, C. Entwistle, T. M. Tyquin, T. Ciancio-Knauer, J. Caruso, H. Swift, P. Wasiewicz

Standing: M. Wilson, J. Clarke, R. Glass, J. Fernando, J. Paul, H. Wolstenholme, J. Darcy, A. Pierias Seated: M. Mackie, S. Arbid, M. Pulvirenti, F. Carey, E. Boyd, M. Walker, C. Iramiyan, S. Beehre,

N. Caruso, C. Sullivan, S. Synnott, T. Coyle, J. Bruce-Smith, S. Kaneria Seated: N. Giorlando, W. Moloney-Morton, T. Williamson, J. Hartson, D. Foley, C. Sayers, A. Ryan, D. Ye

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De La Salle Parents Network The Parent Network had a busy year, with the introduction of a new Executive Committee: Co-Presidents Cate Robertson and Louisa Salmon, Vice President Julie Car, Treasurer Anest Nicolaou and Secretary Jenni O’Grady.

In Term 1 we ran the Welcome to 2014 Pizza Night which was well attended. Everyone enjoyed mingling and either catching up with old friends or meeting new parents. At the end of March the primary school parents had an evening together in the PAC where they had the opportunity to meet Principal Peter Houlihan and his wife Cate.

The Homeroom Representative program continued to grow, with morning teas and a large variety of events for Homerooms and year levels being organised over the year; one event being a ‘Dads and Sons’ Go-Karting day.

In Term 2 we held the inaugural De La Salle Mother's Day Breakfast on Friday 2 May, attended by 350 people. Mums enjoyed the time with their sons at breakfast and heard from a guest speaker from the McGrath Foundation. It was a fantastic way to start the day.

August was a busy month for the Parent Network, with Bring On The Spring – a day at the races held on Saturday 16 August at Caulfield Racecourse.

It was a fantastic day, with racing industry guest speakers, a fashion show supported by Sharon Herdman and Simeon Sparks (Class of 1986) and plenty of horse racing. The day raised approximately $5,000.

Also in August we ran our first Father’s Day Breakfast, which was sold out. The dads and sons enjoyed breakfast and heard Principal Peter Houlihan speak fondly of his own father.

Thanks to the committee members, year level representatives and volunteers for all their help with the running of events this year. The Parent Network has a lot planned for 2015 and we hope the De La Salle College community continues to support our events.

Cate Robertson and Louisa Salmon Parent Network Co-Presidents

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Staff Principal: Mr Peter Houlihan Deputy Principal – Pastoral Care & Organisation: Mr Tom Ryan Deputy Principal – Teaching & Learning: Mr Mark Gustincic Business Manager: Ms Ann Corcoran Head of Campus – Kinnoull: Mr Luke Kenealy Head of Campus – Tiverton: Mr John McAlroy PA to the Principal: Mrs Sandy Wreford Administration Services Manager: Ms Robyn Miller Registrar: Ms Rachel Cicala Marketing & Communications Manager: Ms Leah Hartmann Assistant Business Manager: Mrs Elaine Tyrrell Executive Support – Teaching & Learning: Mrs Tania Allars Executive Support – Pastoral Care & Organisation: Mrs Patricia D’Arcy Student Services – Tiverton: Miss Lucy Carne Student Services – Tiverton: Ms Rachelle St Ledger Student Services – Kinnoull: Mrs Anne Lawler Student Services – Tiverton/Kinnoull: Mrs Sandy Glazebrook Accounts Officer: Mrs Ellenor Harris Payroll Officer: Ms Mary Kiernan Community Liason Officer: Mrs Trish Woodman Archivist: Ms Luisa Moscato First Aid Officer: Ms Kylie Upton Timetabler: Mr Marty Rhoden Director of Student Wellbeing: Mr Pascal Rohan Kinnoull Counsellor: Ms Maree Keel Director of Staff Development: Mrs Christine Thompson Daily Organiser – Kinnoull: Mr Neil Thomas Daily Organiser – Tiverton: Mr Chas Thompson VCE Coordinator: Mr Frank Goricanec Student Pathways & Careers Coordinator: Ms Carmel Smart School Officer: Mr Murray Enniss Coordinator of College Leaders: Ms Olivia Wenczel Chaplain: Mrs Joan Ferguson Music Secretary: Ms Kelly Williams

Materials Technician: Mr Dave Murray Property Manager: Mr Michael Bohan Maintenance: Mr Steven Broughill, Mr Tom Buick, Mr Clinton Harris, Mr Rob Oldershaw Digital Learning Services Manager: Mr Luke Georgiou Operations Lead Technician: Mr Anthony Prescott IT Technicians: Mr Milhem Nassour, Mr Raj Rathinam, Mr Peter Whittenbury College Librarian: Ms Susan Jost

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Teacher Librarian: Mrs Clare Kennedy Library Technician: Ms Rebecca Egan Library Assistant: Ms Hermione Gilchrist Sport Assistants: Mr Andrew Brown, Mr Brendan Close Laboratory Manager: Ms Jill Edwards Laboratory Technician: Mrs Danka Orlowski MMEC: Mrs Melanie Livera, Ms Jackie McKinnon, Ms Michele O’Mahoney, Mrs Freda Siomos Ms Muriel West, Mrs Gabrielle Windley, Ms Kerrie Harman

Staff

Key Learning Area Coordinator – English Ms Rose Roe Key Learning Area Coordinator – Mathematics Ms Lucy Russell Key Learning Area Coordinator – Science Mr Peppe Di Ciccio Key Learning Area Coordinator – Humanities Mr Chris Fleming Key Learning Area Coordinator – Business Mr Steve Young Key Learning Area Coordinator – Arts Mr David Happ Key Learning Area Coordinator – LOTE Ms Kath Marino Key Learning Area Coordinator – ICT & Infrastructure Mr Paul Maxted Key Learning Area Coordinator – Health & Physical Education Mr David Alexander Key Learning Area Coordinator – Drama Mr Andrew Murrell Key Learning Area – Music Ms Cindy Frost Director of Religious & Moral Education Mr Graeme Pender VET & Vocational Learning Coordinator Ms Caroline Fitzpatrick

VCAL Coordinator Ms Kerry Martin Director of Sport Mr Peter Harte MMEC Coordinator Ms Kathie Holmes Camps Coordinator Mr Andrew Clements Personal Development Coordinator Ms Kate McIlroy Primary Coordinator Mrs Gemma Austin Year 7 Coordinator Mr Shaun Buckley Year 8 Coordinator Mr Shane Mackintosh Year 9 Coordinator Mr Chris Martin Year 10 Coordinator Mr Paul Harrup Year 11 Coordinator Mr Rob Bonnici Year 12 Coordinator Mr Michael Petrie

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Year 4 Homeroom Teacher Year 5 Homeroom Teacher Year 6 Homeroom Teacher 7 Benilde Homeroom Teacher 7 Dunstan Homeroom Teacher 7 Hegarty Homeroom Teacher 7 Jerome Homeroom Teacher 7 Roland Homeroom Teacher 7 Solomon Homeroom Teacher 7 Vincent Homeroom Teacher 8 Benilde Homeroom Teacher 8 Dunstan Homeroom Teacher 8 Hegarty Homeroom Teacher 8 Jerome Homeroom Teacher 8 Roland Homeroom Teacher 8 Solomon Homeroom Teacher 8 Vincent Homeroom Teacher 9 Benilde Homeroom Teacher 9 Dunstan Homeroom Teacher 9 Hegarty Homeroom Teacher 9 Miguel Homeroom Teacher 9 Roland Homeroom Teacher 9 Solomon Homeroom Teacher 9 Vincent Homeroom Teacher 10 Benilde Homeroom Teacher 10 Dunstan Homeroom Teacher 10 Hegarty Homeroom Teacher 10 Miguel Homeroom Teacher 10 Roland Homeroom Teacher 10 Solomon Homeroom Teacher 10 Vincent Homeroom Teacher 11 Benilde Homeroom Teacher 11 Dunstan Homeroom Teacher 11 Foley Homeroom Teacher 11 Hegarty Homeroom Teacher 11 Jerome Homeroom Teacher 11 Roland Homeroom Teacher

Mr Tim Curran Mr Ray Leetham Mr Terry Atkins Mr Jeff Locke Mr Andrew Wozencroft Mr Paul Fegan Mr Shardul Kaneria Ms Joanna Dickson Mr Chris Church Mr Larry Evans Mr Andrew Murrell Mr David Happ Mrs Jacinta Ryan Mr Ken Stokes Miss Emma D’Angelo Mr Gerard Barns Mr Ryan Hayward Mr Shane Slavin Mr Chris Fleming Mr David Ellul Mr Peppe Di Ciccio Mr David Alexander Ms Kate McIlroy Ms Lucy Russell Mr Peter Larsen Ms Olivia Wenczel Mr Tim Brodrick Mr Graeme Pender Ms Janet Holden Mr Brian Coulthard Mr Michael Watty Mr Chris Windley Ms Kath Marino Ms Rose Roe Mr Adam Jacobs Mrs Clare Kennedy Mr Rob Hoich

Administration 11 Solomon Homeroom Teacher 11 Vincent Homeroom Teacher 12 Benilde Homeroom Teacher 12 Dunstan Homeroom Teacher 12 Gehrig Homeroom Teacher 12 Hegarty Homeroom Teacher 12 Jerome Homeroom Teacher 12 Roland Homeroom Teacher 12 Solomon Homeroom Teacher 12 Vincent Homeroom Teacher

Mrs Catherine Loft Mr Graeme Lawler Mr Warren Walker Ms Trish Bourke Ms Kerry Martin Mr Tim Hogan Ms Marg McPhee Mrs Christine Thompson Ms Emily Ryan Mr Adrian Matarazzo

Mrs Trish Woodman, Mrs Sandy Glazebrook, Mrs Elaine Tyrrell, Mrs Patricia D’Arcy, Ms Mary Kiernan, Miss Lucy Carne, Ms Rachelle St Ledger, Mrs Tania Allars, Mrs Anne Lawler Seated: Ms Leah Hartmann, Mrs Sandy Wreford, Mr Mark Gustincic, Mr Peter Houlihan, Mr Tom Ryan, Mrs Anne Corcoran, Ms Robyn Miller, Ms Rachel Cicala

Teachers: Ms Aoife Bermingham, Mr Justin Bourke, Ms Christine Cooper, Ms Monica Costa, Mr Peter Crellin, Ms Marisa Di Giacomo, Ms Georgina Dwyer, Mrs Carmel Dwyer, Mr Jon Edgar, Mrs Mary Finn, Mr Ian Gibson, Mr Dennis Grace, Ms Joanne Graham, Ms Maria Hawley, Mr Brian Hayes, Mr Jonathan Hewett, Mr Kevin Hunter, Ms Kate Johnston, Mrs Vanessa Marolda, Ms Eve McLellan, Ms Lynette McLennan, Mr Thierry Moran, Mr Ian Oliver, Ms Haylene Peipert, Ms Liz Phibbs, Mrs Lil Russo, Mr Michael Ryan, Ms Linda Samuel, Mr Mark Sweeney, Ms Courtney Walton, Mrs Marta Webster, Mr Michael Wilson, Mr Nigel Yates Music Staff Trumpet – Mr Paul Coyle, Voice – Mr Francesco Fabris, Percussion – Ms Sarah Galdes, Bass – Mr Evan Harris, Saxophone – Ms Penny Karahalios, Bass – Mr Jaymee Lee, Guitar – Mr Matt Lewin, Strings – Mr David Reichman, Clarinet – Ms Jane Robertson, Clarinet – Ms Serena Thean, Trombone – Mr Daniel van Bergen, Saxophone – Mr Andrew Verco, Drums – Mr Adrian Violi

From the Editor

Inset: Ms Ellenor Harris

I would like to thank all who contributed to this production. It makes the job so much easier when so many are willing to give of their time and expertise. Thanks to Leah Hartmann for proofing, and Kerry Martin for layout advice. Thanks to Peter Harte for his report writing on all matters sporting and for his help in arranging team photos. A special thanks to my intrepid sports photographer Dale Tralongo who provided the inspiring images in the sports section of the annual. Thanks to Andrew Clements, Shane Mackintosh, David Alexander, Graeme Pender, Larry Evans, Ryan Hayward, Ken Stokes, Nick Ponissi, Kavanagh O’Dowd, Andrew Wozencroft, Maria Hawley, Andrew Wozencroft, David Happ, Kelly Williams and Cate McIlroy for photographs. I hope you enjoy Blue and Gold 2014.

Jon Hewett

Information Technology Staff

Rest in Peace Noeline Harris – Sister-in-law of Ellenor Harris (Staff Member) Ken Brodrick – Father of Tim Brodrick (Staff member) Margaret McDermott – Sister to Mary Kiernan (Staff Member) Marguerite Bourke – Grandmother of Justin Bourke (Staff Member), and sister to William Barrie Edwards (1948) and Michael Edwards (1965).

Brother Brendan Crowe FSC Norm Hobson – Teacher at De La Salle from 1979 to 1990.

Josephine Gaylor – Former librarian at De La Salle College.

Bert (Barney) Oliver – Father of Ian Oliver (Staff Member) Jean Margaret McKinnon – Mother-in-law of Mary McKinnon.

Maintenance Staff

Canteen Staff, Annita Michaelides, Sonny Michaelides and Jessica Wat

Mr Anthony Prescott, Mr Milhem Nassour, Mr Luke Georgiou, Mr Raj Rathinam and Mr Peter Whittenbury

Mr Michael Bohan, Mr Rob Oldershaw, Mr Steven Broughill, Mr Clinton Harris and Mr Tom Buick