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AC TIN G PRIN CIPAL \ JOHN HICKEY

Marcellin College is a leading Catholic Marist school for boys established by the Marist Brothers, first at Camberwell in 1950 and later at Bulleen in 1963. We are a College founded on the spiritual and educational philosophy of Saint Marcellin Champagnat who believed that to educate young people we must love them and love them all equally.

Marcellin College is an inclusive faith learning community where encounter with self, place, God, and the other, creates opportunities for every young man to unlock his inherent possibility. Our focus is on developing young men who can one day take their place in society as active contributors, empowering them to be agents of social change and human advancement.

Our College has built an outstanding reputation for excellence in learning, life, and faith, enabling students to develop with character, confidence and competence. Stateof-the-art facilities and extensive Christian service, academic, sport and arts curricular and co-curricular programs inspire each young man to simply be more and achieve their personal best in the classroom and beyond. We seek to equip each young man with the context they need to comprehend the world they live in and help them build the necessary critical and creative thinking to better understand and positively contribute to society.

YEARS 7 – 12

DENOMINATION Catholic

GENDER Male

FEES Available on the College website

BOARDING \ No SCHOLARSHIPS \ No

ABOUT THE ACTING PRINCIPAL John is a highly experienced Catholic educator, who has worked in senior leadership roles in five Catholic schools over the past 30 years. In 2019, John was a member of the Marist Mission and Life Formation Team.

SOCIAL JUSTICE

Catholic Social Teaching plays a great role in the Marcellin community. Seen through our Cambodia and South Africa immersions and connections with The Exodus Community, the Youth Juvenile Centre and Marist Solidarity.

LEADERSHIP SPORTS THE ARTS

A variety of opportunities for leadership are available at College, House, academic, faith and sporting levels. These roles enable students to gain leadership experience, grow in confidence, and become responsible citizens and role models. Marcellin is blessed with extensive fields, an awardwinning gymnasium and the equipment necessary for students to strive for their best. The College’s membership of the AGSV and the VSRU are integral parts of the College’s life. The College places a high value on the arts, encouraging all students to develop their creative thinking capacities. Studies are offered in art, drama, music, studio arts, theatre studies and visual communication design.

THE LEGACY ISSUE

A former student reflects on her time at Melbourne Girls Grammar.

BY PETER HANLON

HINDSIGHT: CAMILLA BACHET

When she’s in Melbourne, Camilla Bachet often finds herself drawn back to her old school. One minute she’ll be walking the Tan Track, the next she’s sneaking through the Melbourne Girls Grammar gates to see how the latest renovations are coming along.

Almost two decades have passed since she graduated, but it’s always nice to be back in a place that holds so many cherished memories.

“I loved my time there,” she says. “All of my best friends now are still my old school friends. It was a fantastic learning environment – I found it was very inclusive, all the teachers were very supportive.”

Bachet knows the professional path she took – engineering – is uncommon for a young woman. “We’re still struggling to get female engineers at work.” But in her time at the Merton Hall campus, she remembers only support and encouragement for all students to pursue subjects that interested and inspired them.

A school trip to Papua New Guinea in year 11 planted the seed for the other enduring arm of her working life – humanitarianism. The visiting students slept in the local school, went trekking and were billeted out to families in villages where they were the only non-natives.

“You saw different challenges in each household, each village, the difficulties that were faced in those environments. It made me think, ‘How can I actually do work that combines travel and helping people?’”

She’s managed to sate those joint

passions exceptionally well. For the past three years, Bachet has worked for GHD on The Connections Project, modernising century-old irrigation systems in the Murray River region to provide farmers with more water for

international, engineering-centred organisation that rebuilds lives in the wake of disaster through training, supporting and providing aid workers. Amid the Rohingya refugee crisis, with water stocks down to five litres per person per day, she designed a new reservoir to help 20,000 desperate people.

their crops and land, and also ensure there’s more feeding the ecosystems downstream.

She’s happy with the outcomes, yet more proud of her work in Nepal and Bangladesh with RedR, an

“I n Australia you work for months and months on a project, you see it get built and that’s great, but you don’t see the impact on the individuals’ day-to-day lives,” she says. “You design something in a refugee camp to be built in the next few weeks; you see that impact immediately.”

She feels fortunate to be described as a humanitarian engineer, having met many aid workers who move only from one emergency to the next. “That’s a tough lifestyle, I’m lucky to be able to do both.”

In March 2019, Bachet’s old school declared her the inaugural recipient of the Emily Hensley Award, named after MGGS’s first principal, to honour alumnae who embody the school’s values through their contribution to society and professional success. It’s hard to imagine a more worthy first name for the honour board.

“I didn’t realise people were that impressed by it – you know when you just do the work and it is what it is. I was really chuffed to have been awarded that. I saw the old principal and vice principal at the awards, it was like nothing had changed. I still have very fond memories of my time there.”

“You design

something in a

refugee camp to

be built in the

next few weeks;

you see that impact

immediately.”

CAMILLA BACHET