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LORETO CONVENT

INSTITUTE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

MANDEVILLE HALL, TOORAK

UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF MELBOURNE

RESIDENTIAL AND DAY COLLEGE FOR GIRLS

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Electric and Buses passinclose the healthiest gates.

--HEThe Convent isTram beautifully situated one ofbythe suburbs of Melbourne, within two minutes' walk of Toorak Railway Station.

Special importance is attached to religious training. The Cath olic Action Group has become a centre of earnest activity, and its

influence fosters in the School a spirit of initiative and responsibility in religious matters.

The aim of the school is to provide a sound education on mod ern lines, to develop to the full the capacity of every girl, and help

her to become a useful and gracious woman in whatever position she may have to fill. Particular attention is paid 10 Manners and

Deportment.

Speech training is an important part of the Course of Studies.

Ample provision is made for recreation and sports, under the direct supervision of the nuns and trained games mistresses,

The individual attention which is paid to health and character formation is likely to ensure the best use of the educational advan-

tages offered.

The course of studies includes the various branches of a first-class English education, with Modern Languages and Classics, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Art, Cooking and Housewifery, Commercial Course, Dramatic Art, Plain and Fancy Needlework, Physical Culture, Sport, Riding and Dancing.

Pupils are prepared for the Intermediate, Leaving Certificate, and Leaving Honours Examinations of the University of Melbourne.

There are special facilities for Music, vocal and instrumental. Pupils are prepared for the various grades of the University of Melbourne, of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy, and of Trinity College, London.

Orchestral and Choral classes are held weekly.

Drawing is taught throughout the school. But Special Classes are formed for girls showing an aplitude for the subject. The more advanced pupils work at studies from natural objects in Oils or Water Colours. Outdoor sketching is encouraged.

Clubs are formed for girls specially interested in Literature, Music and French, and meetings for study or discussion are held.

Equipment has been provided, making possible frequent use of a Moving Picture Projector, and an Epidiascope for illustration of

Travel Talks and Lectures.

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A Kindergarten, fully equipped and under trained direction, is successfully carried on as a preparation for entrance into the Junior The school year consists of three terms of thirteen weeks each, beginning the second week in February, the first week in June, and

the third week in September.

References are required before the admission of a pupil, also testimonials of good conduct from the last school attended.

A prize known as "The Loreto Spirit Prize"--Senior and Junior-presented by the "Loreta Old Girls' Association," is annually awarded to the girl who, by influence and example, in work and play, has contributed most to upholding the traditions of Lcreto.

Pros**dlus may be had on application to MOTHER SUPERIOR, Loreto Convent,

Mandeville Hall, Toorak, S.E.2, Victoria.

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FIRST TENNIS TEAM, 1942

Back Row: Veronica Linehan, Margery Manly, Shirley Burne, Margaret Linehan, Katherine Starr.

Inse!: MISS MARY REYNOLDS, Sports Captain.

Sitting: Mary Fowler, Mary Reynolds, June Shelton.

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Children from Melville Island Mission, who, with their devoted Nuns, Missionaries of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, were ou guests in the Preparatory School for some eight weeks early this year, when war conditions had driven them from their Island

JUNE SHELTON

MARIE LYONES

ROMA FOWLER (Head of the School, 1941)

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BERYL YOUNG

PATRICIA O'CONNELL

LEONORE JORGENSEN

JUNE SHELTON (Head of School, 1942)

JOAN SHIRLEY, 1st Prefect

JANICE GIBSON, 2nd Prefec.

MARIE MAHON

MARGERY MANLY

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WILMA JORGENSEN

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The grief of the Nuns

and girls at her death last February was proof of their deep affection for her.

May she rest in peace.

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RIDING SCHOOL.

CLASS HONOURS.

Shirley J ones

Wendy Dempsey

Shelagh Doyle

Betty Buckley

Letty King

Dympna Gooch

Elizabeth Eskdale

TheIry Absjorsen

Joan Connell

Elizabeth McKenzie

Elizabeth Healy

Dawn Fassnacht

.Billy Barwcod

GRADE I.

Janice Gibson

Ann McLaurin

Corinne Keegan

Jacqueline Gleeson

Francoise Depuche

Jeanne Hearne

Judith Montague

Yulha Lodge

Lucille Green

John Hancox

Pat Leonard

Anne Nolan

Margare· McKenzie

Caitlin Nolan

Robert Griffiths

Margery Manly

Lorne O'Brien

Aileen Marston

Nanette O'Bryan

Deidre Myer

Bernar Rowan

Beverley O'Connel]

Pam O'Connor

Judith Roberts

Denise O'Day

june Shelton

Margaret O'Keeffe

Margaret O'Grady

Vera Russell

Cecilie Parkes

Pamela Shillito

Judith O'Grady

Margaret Parkes

Margot Schieblich

Vanessa Schneider

Kathleen Pike

Helen Plunkett

Denise Turner

Nonie Simpson

Paddy Simpson

% joan Shirley LEAVING PASS. Elaine Betheras

Fay Carter

Elizabeth Sprigg

Mary Sweetman

Judith Stewart

Wendy Ward

Pauline Weichard FORM II.

Jean Chisholm

GRADE IV.

janice Brew

KINDERGARTEN.

Timothy Barwood

Sonia Booth

Betty Berkowitz

Marie Clausen

Pamela Berkowitz

Michael Booth

Patricia Collins

SUB-INTERMEDIATE.

Fiona Byrne

Francoise Christean

Veronica Crowe

Barbara Atchison

Janet Burke

Mary E. Fitzgerald

Charles Cayless

loan D'Arcy

Pat Brady

Rosemary Donovan

Anne Flynn

Judith Cor

joan Doyle

Lesley Brown

Mary Rita Dougal]

Diane Holmberg

Ann D'Arcy

Ann Foley

Margot Burke

Margaret Ley

Myfawny McLean

Julie D'Arcy

Mary Fowler

Judith Chisholm

Betty Joan McCarthy

Patsy O'Halloran

Billie Dougall

joan Gaffney

Margaret Cosgrave

Diana Rawson

Ellen Sullivan

Bertrand Dupuche

Pamela Gorman

Mary Cox

Anne Skehan

Honoria Sweetman

Rene Dupuche

Helen Healy

Joan Gleeson

Winsome Swaine

Wilma Jorgensen

Ingrid Kapper

Nuala Sweetman

Sylvia Burke

Margaret Linehan

Pamela Knox

Patricia Troy

Bernadette D'Arcy

Marie Mahon

Anne Ley

Jane, Watson

Sheila Mahon

judy McCooey

Carmel Lynch FORM I.

GRADE II1.

Mary Meehan

Wilma Eddy Ann Knappett Jillian Lambert

Lynnette Lefebre Judith McPherson Maureen Malone

Bette Need

Veronica Linehan

Pat Noonan

loan Mahon

Patricia Cahill

Bernadette O'Bryan

Doretta McDonald

Anne Doyle

Carmel O'Connor

Sebylla Moorrees

Canne! Dunn

Janette O'Sullivan

Winnie Penn

Diana Fogarty

Natalie O'Sullevan

Judith Poynton

Catherine Hayes

Ann Blaikie

Brian Neale

Marie Parer

Lucille Roberts

Patricia Holmes

Pamela Blakeborough

Ted O'Bryan

Mary Plunkett

Catherine Sawers

Frances McGrath

Julia Burke

Janet Powell

Domini Redvers-Bate

Judith Silk

Maxine McKenzie

Mary Byrne

Roberto. Ramon

Mary Reynolds

Vere Skehan

Judith Naughton

Serita Fredrico

Charles Schiezel

joan Silk

Anne Wilton

Dawn Noonan

Mary Gleeson

Billie Sinn

Cathie Starr

Patricia Ziebarth

Cecile Grosby

Barbara Stewart

Jacqueline Hayden

Michael Stewart

Geraldine Barclay

Helen Jorgensen

Dawn Weatherall

Louise Bourke

Astrid Meier

Jimmy Williams

ELEMENTARY.

Colleen Thompson FORM IIL INTERMEDIATE.

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Jill Barclay

Christine McKenzie

Justine O'Day Rosemmy O'Grady GRADE H.

Patsy Meehan Lynette McCarthy

Margaret Naughton Delia Naughton

Shirley Burne

Ann Brenan

Marie Brady

Denise Molloy

Janet Wimpole

Beverley Buxion

Judith Cahill

Patricia Campbell

Mary Niall

Damien Wimpole

Elizabeth. Cahill

Denise Collins

Mary Jo Dalglish

Anne Phillips

Dorothy Foley

Pat Collins

Marie D'Arcy

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