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Most Reverend J. R. Knox, 1).D., J.C.D,

"Father ancl Pastor ... standing in the midst of his people as one who serves ...a true fathet who excels in the spirit of love and solicitude for all,., -DECREE ON BISHOPS' PASTORAI. OFFICE IN TI·IE CI[URCH,

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Our New Alother General - Mother At. Agnes Walsh

"liNing her authority in the spirit of sertice for others, and manifesting therelm the charitv leith tchich God lotes them ... Such dedication glues rise and urgenct# to the lott of one s neighbout for the icorld'.9 saltation and the lip-bitilding of the Church. -DECREE ON RENEWAL OF RELIGIOUS LIFE.

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"Come ovei to me all you who desire me

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' The Virgin Mary m her own l:fe lit)ed an example of that maternal love by which all should be fittingly animated who co-operate in the apostolic mission of the Church on behalf Of the rebirth of men DOGMATIC C ONSTITUTION ON 1 liE CHURC H

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Editorial...

I IERE WE ARE"

So sing the ft,lk groups; and perhaps they give us a motif for this issue of the Mandeville Magazine: I lere we are! We - the eight hundred

and twenty pupils of 1968; our parents: our teachers; our friends - cooperating with God's grace, in the spirit of Alary Ward, to live in accord r

with the Loreto motto:'Cruci dum spiro. nao . Essentially Christian, alive, confident - despite current upheavals - to answer the challenge to Faith, to 10yalty; to stand firm and justify that the sacrifices made in the interests of Catholic Education have not been in rain: and to testifv our

readiness to adapt to the needs of our tillie. "Every scholar who becomes a disciple of the Kingdom of I leaven is like a householder who brings out from his storeroom things both new and old." (St. Matthew X111:52). \Ve are well conscious of our liinitations: but our aims call for

responsi|,ility in the realization that: "though the school does not constitute the only, or even the most important factor in education, it still remains the Common ground on which the family, Church and State meet in the field

of education. On the perfect functioning of the school depends in great part the complete formation of the person and, therefore, the progress of re tr()0

gression of civilization itself. (Papal 1-eachings on Education). So, "Here we are, Let us make the world an Alleluia.

Let us make the world a better place!" \Ve can - individually, corporately, under the guidance of Our Blessed Mother, Queen of Loreto.

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Mary Ward, Foundress of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1585-1640) . . .a woman beyond compare giten to the Church by English Catholicism in its most sombre and bloodstained hourf'.-Pius XII.

"born into a 'brave new fcorld'...an age of discoveru, of experiment, of delight in the arts ...an era of political and economic unrest...of religious persectition... a new type of looman. educated, enioying a greater freedom than hitherto... readw for noble enterprises it God so icilled ... believing that Women 'if thell loill be perfect might do creat matters' .

Mary Ward, a pioneer in the ecitication of Catholic girls in an age Dertj like mir own, surely points the way for its today .,.

"It is a greater grace to help to save solds than oneself to sulier niarturdom. -MARY WARI).

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"Education shottld pate the wag to brothertu association with

Other people, so that genttine unity and peace on earth mall be

promoted. For a true education aims at the formation of the

human per.Son icith respect to his tiltimate goal, and simul-

taneously icith respect to Ilie good of those societies of t,ohich,

as a man. he is a member, and in tchose res})011*ibilities as an

adult he trill share.

-DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

NOTE: The material in the magazine luis been (litided into 6 parts, the theme of each of the.se being indicated by a quotation from the Docitments of Vatican II. Aboue is the theme cotering the whole magazine.

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IRENE MiCARDEL

ADRIENNE SMITH

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Council CHRIVI'I\E GUEST

SALIA FYPIELD

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Presidents 1968

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HELENE MiGLOIN

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Social Seince

Matriculation Classes - Councillors 1968

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GOLI) Back Row (left to 1 ight) Angela Wiight, Penny Wood 4th Row Fiancis Pitt, Anne Maidling, Wendy Gerbei, Sue Walkei, Maiie Ryan, Meiiin Pacini, Michele Cox, Cathy Monison 3id Row Helen Sheahan, Rose Ryan. Angela Smith, Mandia Knapp, Jenny Vaughan, Noella Schaip, Gay Mansoui, Anne Callanan, Rosemaiv Johnson, Maigaiet Molloy 2nd Row Andi ea England, Elizabeth Ryan,

Jann Ryland, Maiv-Anne Maizorini, Anne Reid, Gillian Ciook, Maigety MeEncroe, Nano Nagle, Joan Fethei stonhaugh, Sally Walkei Fi ont Row Jane Fyfield, Mary O'Dwyer, Claiie Keenan, Jenny Douglas, Jane Hamilton, Louise Clayton, Catherine Clark, Adi ienne Smith, Marita Wilcox

1-OR 1 Vl BLUE Back Row (left to i ight) Elecia O'Brien, Johanna Wellsted, Rosemai y Lechte 2nd Back Row Genevieve Douez, Jane Galbally, Jane Hadlev, Madeline Kift, Baibaia Biistow 3rd Row Sally Breheny, Mai v Lou Connaughton, Helen Tiernan, Mandy McClelland, Mother M Bi igid, Pati icia

Coleman 2nd Row Maree O'Connor, Margaret MoCann, Nuala MeDonald, Katherine Kelly Anne Best, Anna Cahill Fiont Row Elizabeth Peppaid, Anne Kevin, Judy Meeann, Jan Chambeilain, Diane St Ellen, Anita Barri Pag, \ine

The Council System During the recent years we have witnessed

filled iii by non-Councillors, chosen by random selec-

many changes in the role Matriculation students play in the general upholding of order throughout the school. The authorities believe that a large body of

tion. At the end of the next eight weeks, and again at the end of sixteen weeks, the voting took place in the same manner, and the vacancies were filled as

girls, as Councillors with equal Powers, overcome

before. In this way every girl had had an opportzinity

any disadvantages of the Prefeet System, which had become a status symbol to the persons concerned.

mained to ensure the efficient running of the council.

In the beginning of the first term 1968. the Matriculants and members of the staff elected 45 Coun-

cillors from the 72 eligible students. However, in consideration of the disappointment suffered by the non-Councillors, who were in a minority, certain adjustments were agreed upon for the year.

to act as Councillor, while sufficient members re-

When 32 weeks had been covered in this way, the Head of the School, the Vice-Captain and Council Presidents and Vice-Presidents retained their offices while all other members retired. These racancies

were filled by Leaving girls in turn, who thus had an opportunity to prepare for their duties as Matriculation students.

At tile end of eight weeks of school, the 45 Coun-

In 1968. six committees of the General Council

cillors voted for the retention of 36 of their members.

were formed. They are Music·, Drama. Social Services. Librant Debating and Sport.

thus 1(·aving nine vacalicies. These vacancies were

The Library Council Many people find it hard to get worked tip over anything to do with libraries and literature, and it is for this reason that our council decided to work firstly

towards efficient ninning of the school librarv and secondly towards creating some sort of genuine interest in related activities.

We realised that a school library with such ex-

cellent facilities as ours should be kept orderly, efficient and be allowed to function to its maximum.

With this end in view and with the invaluable guid-

ance and enthusiasm offered by the librarian, Mrs. Mac·Donagh, we spent a great deal of time rearranging the books on the shelves SO that ther could be referred to more easily. More importantly, how-

ever, and of greater immediate benefit to the students. we introduced a system of borrowing linder certain

conditions, a step which has proved immensely populai- and satisfactory in most aspects,

Although it was of primary importance to create

an atmosphere of order in the library and one therefore conducive to study, we decided to extend our

activities beyond this rather limited sphere and to provide enjoyment and helpful services to different bodies in the school.

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In first term we had a display of modern teaching

aids which naturally was directed towards the staff. but was also of interest to many students. Altliough the equipment was very expensive, some items were bought later on in the year when money was not so hard to come by

While we continued to provide the service of a

fiction library to First Division, we took on the completely new task of beginning a book club in Form L

Run through our members by an American company, the aim of the Arrow Book Club was to provide young students with the opportunity of building up a class library at a minimum of cost. Each month we selected mir books from a new range of interesting and attraetive paper-backs which dealt with topics ranging from

nature stories to pop stars and hair-styles. Needless to say, our efforts were well rewarded.

Throughout the year, then, we have been kept busy with tliese activities within the school and hope to have built up at least a remote interest in librar> affairs.

-ANNE CALLANAN.

The Music Council This year, the Music Council has attempted to "

bring music to the masses .

In first term, in addition to arranging for a hymn

On August 18th, about three hundred people enjoyed the singing of groups and sole,ists from many different schools. it was a very successful evening.

at Monday morning's assembly, we rounded lip a few Folk singing groups and put on a concert. Dierdre

will he continued on to bigger and better things in

Coleman was the star on this occasion and we were

1969 by next year's Matrics.

We hope that the little we have done this year

all amazed at the proficiency of her singing and play-

Good luck!

ing.

Our highlight in second term was a Folk Night.

-SAI.I.Y FYFIELD.

The Drama Council After the first Council meeting of the year, it was decided to follow in the fc,c,tsteps of last year's Council and continue the Class Drama Clubs. The

Forin I Club was taken by Nano Nagle and Margery

MLEncroe, Form II by Wendy Gerber and Tenny

\'arighan, Form III by Marita Wilcox, Form N by

The producer of the school play was Miss Aileen Drennan who, with the six members of the cast-Sue

Evans. Jane Galbally, Mary Ann I Iarris, Jacqueline Jensen, Marita Wilcox and \/larita Sakacs - and numerous back-stage helpers, put much work into

Anne Reid and Patricia Coleman, and Form V by

this production and were rewarded hy the fact that

Catherine Clarke.

"Aria 111 Capo was awarded second place in the

1)111·ing the year, besides other llc·tivitics, tlic embs

produced plays which were presented to the school

Festival.

in first term. All the clubs participated to display

Besides organising the Clubs, the Drama Council was able to give the Leaving and Matriculation

their talents and the proce.ccls trom the afternoon went towards the expenses of the production of "Aria

which pertained to their respective co,irses.

on such occasions as the ])raina Afternoon held late

students the opportunity of attending plays, many of

Da Capo, Loreto's contribution to the Catholic Schools' Drama Festival.

-MICI IELE COX.

The Social Service Council Let me introduce you to the Social Service Coun-

I lollywood for her enthlisiasm in promoting this cause.

oil. This is a group which, this year, ran activities within the school and participated in inter-school activities to help other people. One of our tasks is to make things run more smoothly in the school by

undertook to organise stamp collecting among the

taking over little jobs like selling the tickets for the drama festival, and helping in the Tuck Shop. Our main activities during the year were con-

cerned with raising money for worthy causes, For instance, in first term a cake auction was held to aid

the Arc·lil,ishop's Lenten Appeal. With Marita Wilcox as a splendid alictioneer, we managed to raise $40.

A further $20 was raised on the day of the swimining sports, when most girls contributed their train fares and walked back to school instead.

In April, Loreto took part iii the Secondary

Schools' At)original Affairs Fund ( SSAAF) Walk, along with about 45 other schools. Money raised from our schoo] alone was $1,150. Many thanks go to Adele

Later in the year Frances Pitt and Anne Kevin 3rd Division to aid the missions.

Another successful project was "Operation Gratihide", ably organised by Jane I Iamilton and Mary Low Connaughton. They collected 300 paper-back hooks to be distributed among servicemen in Vietnam. Again Jane Hamilton proved a great help in the rtinning of a highly successful Plioto Competition in July, which raised $18 for the missions. There were

mally amusing entries, The most popular ones were of a horse and M. J. Berchmans ( as a child! ), Finally, thank you to all our faithful Council members who helped to make these projects successful!

-IIELENE MeGLOIN.

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The Sports Council Christine Guest was the capable President of

came down to Mandeville for the day. Instead of

this Council, which assists those responsible for the

the tennis and volley ball which had been planned.

organisation of Sport in the school.

we played shuttle-cock and table tennis in the hall. Even though it was crowded this forced all to mix

The Council supervised the senior sport each day; two seniors assisted Mrs. Schaeffer every day. This considerably lessened her worries as it is difficult

for one or two people to supervise our scattered

sporting areas. In the future, this may also be arranged for Second Division.

The Swimming Sports, on the 1st March, were a great success, enjoyed by both spectators and participants on a beautiful sunny day. Mulhall, led by Mandy McClelland, won the Sports.

and so enjoy themselves.

The Council has also planned a change from the present style of sports tunic. Buckleys obliged by lending various styles from other schools, and a Mannequin Parade was conducted for the school to arouse interest in the proposed change. Our thanks go to Mother Josephine, Mother Berchmans and Mrs. Schaeffer for the organisation of sport, especially basketball, during 1968.

Later in first term. about 30 Mary's Mount girls

-ANGELA WRIGHT, Form VI.

Debating Without speech there could be no civilisation,

for civilisation depends on co-operation between people, and co-operation depends upon the ability of people to talk purposefully with each other. Debating

plays an important role in teaching people how to communicate purposefully, distinctly and logically. Therefore, this year the school entered a debating

two and the second "C grade team lost only one. This team reached the finals but lost to Sienna.

A special mention must go to Jane Hadley, without whom there would have been no chairman or

supper. Jane chaired most of the debates held at school and made sure that supper was ready after

competition planned and run by the C.Y.M.S. Debat-

them; and also to Mother Xaveria, who has been

ing Association.

patient with me and who arranged the adjudicators and thus took an indispensable part.

The competition is run on an inter-school basis in several grades, each team debating several times, followed by finals. About twenty girls from Forms V and

Our deep gratitude is extended to the kind fathers-Mr. R. J. Davern Wright, Q.C., Mr. Justice

VI participated in these debates, forming three teams,

Sweeney, Q.C., and Mr. D. Whelan-who gave their

these debates was held in April and the last in July.

portant field of education.

olle "B" grade and two "C" grade teams. The first of We were moderately successful. "B" grade won three, the other two were lost. The first "C" grade team lost

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time and valuable advice to help in this most im-

-JANE FYFIELD. Form VI.

. . Be ready for dialogue with others and be icilling to act energeticallij on beltalf of the common good." i 1\-JNJNJJN-nJ·--1JUN-r··UN·J,-J\JN-AJ·JJ···-A-/UNJ··J'a.NJ·J·J\JNJN·-y-tJ\··J\J\J\--J-J··-t·tU

The Catholic Evidence Group This year the Catholic Evidence Group. fortunate in having Mr. Niall Brennan as an intelligent and experienced guide, continued to explore horizons beyond its own Catholic sphere of thought, and to examine common attitudes of non-Catholics towards

the Church, in a fascinating weekly period. Discussions were based on notes prepared by Mr. Brennan - "Points of Contact: exercises in ecumenical dialogue for schools". These included studies of the divisions

of Christian religion, the mystery of religion, and points of difference between Catholics and nonCatholics. Topics of concern in discussion were:

church unity, marriage, and current related issues. war and violence, the question of immortality, social evils, the problem of pain and suffering. and the extent of liberty within the Church. By examining our

achieve a deeper understanding of common objections to Catholicism.

A successful symposium was held at Loreto in second term, attended by students from Brighton Grammar, Carey Grammar, Scotch College, Fintona. Xavier College and Genazzano. A fairly broad topic -"What is Religion?" - was chosen as a basis for discussion and, as expected, a wide range of faith.

opinion and understanding was subsequently revealed! Continual efforts to understand non-Catholic

viewpoints and constructive dialogue with people of other faiths being the aims of the Catholic Evidence Group, we hope to continue our activities next year in similar accord with the spirit of ecuinenism and goodwill of the post-conciliar era. ELIZABETH GALLAG1 IER.

own attitudes to these difficult subjects, we tried to

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Back Row: P. Magree, J. Donnan, J. Boui·ke, E. Webb, F. Murphy, J. O'Brien, P. Wood, A. Wright. 2nd Row: J. Jensen, K. Connellan, M. Ryan, J. Vaughan, M. O'Connor, S. Gunnis. Front Row: S. Fyfield, E. Gallagher, J. Hamilton, G. Douglas, C. Keennn. M. Westmorp. Standing·: A. England. E. T,arhal.

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AN AFTERNOON OF FRIENDSITIP

On a cold and rainy Sunday afternoon in Jzlly,

a special Mass was celebrated in the chapel at Loreto, Toorak-a Mass which seemed, to those who attended, a real manifestation of the current spirit of Christian ecumenism. A group of senior girls from Fintona - a

Gleeson, S.J., celebrated tile Mass, and 1 think its simplicity and dignity struck us as being all the more

precious for being shared. The discussion held after-

wards was characterised by a continued spirit of

Anglicans and Presbyterians - asked tls it they could

mutual interest and goodwill; we realised that only from such small beginnings as this can true Christian

attend a Catholic service in our chapel. Father

unity develop and succeed.

non-denominational school, attended though by man>·

TWO DAYS CLOSER TO GOD

On Thursday morning, 3rd October, Mother Magdalen and a group of Intermediates boarded a bus at Clendon Road to attend an optional Retreat at Ave

Maria, Retreat House, Essendon. After the many mere formalities, such as "If there is anyone here who has a transistor or any type of food ( this included confectionery of any sort, naturally) wozild they "

please remove it, we were on our way.

On arriving, we were met by the charming Superior Sister Magdalen, who showed us to our verv

ing and afternoon teas. During meals we had taped music about the life of Our Lord. Many agreed that

this idea was a most beneficial one, as it stopped the temptation to talk, but others thought that they would rather have eaten in silence.

On Thursday evening, Sister Magdalen very

kindly showed us slides on the Franciscan sisters in Burma. The slides were very interesting and I think that seeing people live in stich poverty and sickness made everyone aware of the need for Christian love

comfortable dormitories. This was followed by a talk and outline of the retreat, and then Father Gregory gave ils a lecture in the chapel about i he Church in Modern Times , after which he celebrated Mass

and iinderstanding in the world.

( amazingly enough, we attempted to sing during Mass, but although out of practice, with the help of Mother Magdalen and the other nuns, we were able

At six o'clock, all were awakened by the nuns chanting their office. It wasn't necessary to be zip before seven-thirty but most were up, anyway, after

to keep in tune).

After showers, all were ( promptly?) in bed by nine-twenty and lights went out at nine-thirty.

a restful night's sleep.

During the course of the afternoon we were given

On Friday, the main topics of Father's discussion

free time to say either silent prayers in the chapel,

were the Mystical Body and the Encharist, after which an open forum was held; included in this was a question box. Such topics as Teenage Behaviour

read a book from the very select library or have a private interview with Father. This, I feel, gave the individual time to think about her religion and any problems she had and discuss them with Father. On Thursday afternoon, we had an open discussion

and Problems were discussed.

Because of Father's frankness, this was most helpful to all.

on Confession and Penance, what it means to us

As a conclusion to the Retreat, our parents joined

and how to make a better confession each time we

us at Benediction. This was followed by a most de-

go. Father's talk was very informal and this helped

licious supper, where Father met our parents and

lis to become more at ease in expressing our opinions and views on the matter.

Each afternoon we had recreation for about an

hour. This was spent in either an exhatisting game of "poison ball" or keepings off . May I be permitted to say at this stage that Mother Magdalen plays an .

excellent game of "keepings off . The meals were far better than we had antici-

pated and we managed to consume with great relish the magnificent food and the most-appreciated morn-

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discussed the Retreat with them.

I think everyone will agree with mc that t] iis was a most inspiring and beneficial Retreat. It not

only helped us spiritually, but also helped llS to become more aware of each other,

Our sincere thanks must go to not only the Sisters of Ave Maria Retreat House and Father Gregory, but also to Mother Magdalen, who helped us to come two days nearer to God. -VERONICA BROWN, Intermediate.

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Back Row (left b.· right): Elizabeth Gallagher, Elizabeth Ryan. 2nd Back Row: Jacqueline Jensen, Catherine Sweeney. Sally Gunnis, Jane Hadley, Adrienne Smith, Patricia Coleman, Angela Smith, Virginia Tiernan. 2,:d Front Row: Genevieve Douglas, Mary-Anne Harris, Mary O'Dwyer (President), Virginia Brown, Reverend Father J. Dynon, S.J., Penelope Wood, Michele Cox (Secretary), Front Row: Claire Keenan, Joan Fetherstonhaugh, Anita Barri.

The Sodality Group, consisting of about 25 Seniors, is a somewhat elect and unobtrusive gathering! Although Sodality has an "official" set-up with President and Secretary ( Mary O'Dwyer and Michele Cox respectively), its action or success is not easily seen in

tangible form - because Sodalitv exists solely for the spiritual welfare of its members.

nal and personal subjects. I Iowever, it is up to each individual to follow the simple Sodality rule of life; finally, the sincerity of each one's personal commitment is measured by the effectiveness of the group as a whole..."A lamp is not lighted to be put away under a bushel measure; it is put on a lampstand to give light to all who are in the house" (Matt., 5.15).

The weekly meetings iii the parlour. with the

Our thanks to Father Smith, Father Gleeson and

priest's guidance, enable members to help each other

Father Dynon for the help and guidance given to the

by means of disciission on various theological doctri-

Sodality this year.

Time for God? God occupies in our esteem the same place he

our life, it looks like a jungle so dense we can't see

occupies in our schedule. \Ve find time for everv-

or reach God any more. The oppressive atmosphere drugs us to the ground, where our hands and feet

thing we deem important. No matter how busy we are, we never leave the house without grooming ourselves, or work all day without eating and drinking. we rest und even indulge in occasional entertainment; we may be late with our chores, but the minute a

never be able to move ahead. But if we continue

friend asks to see us, we drop everything and urlcome

to pray, if we pei severe in exposing our interior

him. In short. we make time for whatever seems

worthwhile; and if we don't make time for God. it's

swamp to the rays of the divine Sun, then, little by little, right there before tls, God becomes real, God

because we don't think lie rates it.

becomes alive and close, God becomes tender and

We must give God time to speak, and ourselves tinte to listen. Since lie requires that, we need

wise and just and powerful and active, God becomes

are inextricably caught in a tangled undergrowth of self-love. weariness, heartache, disgust and resentment. We'll never break loose, humanly speaking,

God.

enougli patience to wait till we've learned how to

listen to him. When we begin to pray and examine

-Extract from 'Teach Us Ilow to Praw - Lottis Euely, Page Fifteen

Y.C.S. Report This year Y.C.S. has been an active, agitating force

As well as this. Form U. W,L' --..M..by ':

in the school. Our aim has been to foster tlie spirit

IIIs had a talent quest and

of Christianity throughout the school. In the first

tliere

term, the school was engaged in making stuffed ani-

cake auctions. The Form

mals and toys for the Xavier Fair. In second term. the Y.C.S., in co-operation with the Mission Groui)

[ls played records and organised raffles.

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innumerable

The .iM

and Social Services Council. raised money to help all missions - and especially the Biafra appeal.

5 cents for 5 minutes.

throughout one whole This appeal was held during one week in which over $300 were raised. And where did all this money come from? Each class was responsible for a different

day. Although these events afforded a

MARGARET MOLLOY Y.C.S. Presilent

tremendous

amount of entertainment, they were not the main

activity. The Matrics and Leavings arranged a rice

successes of Y.C.S. Throughout the year, we have

meal. A vast quantity of unHaroured rice was prepared in the Domestic Science Room, and sold at three counters for 10 cents per bowl. It certainly made us appreciate our normal appetising and varied foods, and we realised that it was our responsibility

lield meetings every week to discuss problems and

to help remedy the plight of many Asian peoples.

find solutions to them, to foster friendship among all the girls in the school. We have also had speakers from Y.C.S. I Ieadquarters who helped ils understand the purpose of Y.C.S. and we have had several interschool meetings of students in Y.C.S.

Intermediate Y.C.S. Report Y.C.S. began unofficially this year with several of our members attending the Y.C.S. Summer Schools

for a morning at the Junior School. We played with the children for most of the morning, chasing them

at Sacrd Coeur and Presentation Convent, Windsor.

around the 11:111, throwing balls and bursting balloons. Afterwards we gave a sinall party in the lunch room,

Three Summer Schools are held each vear and are

aimed at training Y.C.S. members to be leaders of their groups. There are lectures by senior members and discussion groups amongst those attending. The fruits of these schools can be seen in the good work done by our leaders this year; and br the obvious

advantage of meeting girls from school; all over Victoria, who had one common interest - being truly

The children gratefullv accepted all the attention we

could give them and everyone was sad to see them go when tile morning was over.

Later in the year we held a Y.C.S. meeting with some Y.C.S. members of Genazzano. The subject of the meeting u-as 'racial intolerance". We found this

"Young Christian Students". As u,eli as the knowledge

ineeting very profitable, since we seldom go beyond

they gained, the girls who attended the Summer Schools enjoyed tliemselves immensely and highly re-

other schools think of world situations. We hope that

commend these schools to all Y.C.S. members.

In February and March this year Y.C.S, members, budding with enthusiasm, sold drinks to raise money for Y.C.S. The opening of a savings account was the result of this. Early iiit first term, many new members

joined; groups and meetings were arranged and suggestions for Y.C.S. activities showed a growing interest. Most of first term was then spent in familiaris-

ing ourselves with the procedures of Y.C.S. meetings and encouraging more girls to join Y.C.S.

In the first week of the May holidays, Intermediate Y.C.S. members entertained twenty children, under the age of five, from a home for neglected children.

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the bounds of the school and find out what girls from we will have more meetings like this one in the future because our meetings are more successful when we have varied opinions, and mixing with other people is part of belonging to Y.C.S.

With the arrival of third term and approaching exams, Y.C.S. activities lessened. but the spirit of Y.C.S. remains. The Sub-Intermediates have shown

by their zeal that they u-ill continue the good work next year and ur hope that they will encourage more and more people to join. Everyone h·as gained from

belonging to Y.C.S. and we feel that this year has been a very successful one. -LUCILLE BROWN and SALLY TAYLOR.

Mandeville Mission Dance The Matriculation Mission Dance proved successful as both an enjoyable social evening and a notable effort in raising money for the Loreto JI issions. Held on May 9th, in the undercroft of our school building, it was the result of

much organisation and generous co-operation on the part of many of oilr Matric students.

In order to distribute evenly the responsibility of arrangements. we elected

several committees, which incliided supper, decoration, invitations and general arrangements.

The decoration committee created the artistic effect of the final ddcor. The

colour scheme was predominantly red and gold, outstanding features being large wheel-like discs placed on the main wall, and the pillars were decorated with cellophane, crepe and silver foil, to give a colourful and artistic overall appearance. The invitations were designed and painted in a similar colour

scheme by the Matrics, thus eliminating excessive printing costs. "Down-Under" , the title given to tlie dance, proved to be a great success.

Mother M. Kevin, I.B.V.M., a visitor

from I joreto, Calcutta

-ROSEMARY LECIITE, Form VI.

S.S.A.A.F. Walk OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS

It was a Saturday of cold skies and grey

walked to help the Secondary Schools' Aboriginal Fund and $40,000 was the result of the effort.

OF A WALKER

clouds

and a strong wind blowing off the sea. Five thousand people struggled with the elements along nine bitter miles of rough grassy paths, deep valleys of sand and barren stretches of concrete. Five thousand

people left the comforts of home and study to take part in a gruelling marathon along the freezing beaches from Hampton to Port Melbourne. Five thousand realised ruefully that they were not as physically fit as they had imagined from their arm-

Of the 180 girls from Loreto who took part, I think none would deny that it was an enjoyable way to

help people. Even if one was stricken with blisters, I frozen by the wind or afflicted with sandy 1light along tlie beaches, the diversity of the crowd was still fascinating. There was the tall young man in the yellow waistcoat and rollerskates; the Mexican hippies

with capes and bells; the fast gentleman walker in 1930 shorts and climbing boots; the deluded young man in his starched whites and bow tie; and thousands

chairs. What had motivated this mass exodus to the

upon thousands of callow youths in pants and pullovers, and footsore young ladies in jeans and jumpers

beaches? The seagulls flying in from the grey sea

( not to mention skirts and skivvies).

seemed to remain superior to this further manifestation of human madness.

All of these people had a common interest for the

day - they were walking to help others. Probably most of them were not conscious of the motives and

meanings of what they were doing, for the occasion generated an atmosphere of sociable hilarity, and even apart from that, the business of lasting the dis-

tance kept most minds fully occupied. Nevertheless, it was an unusual and gratifying sight to see so many people co-operating to raise money from an entirely unselfish motive. And in the end. the statistics must

have satisfied the organisers; over five thousand people

Undoubtedly the focal point of the walk, as far as

Loreto girls were concerned, was Checkpoint Footrot, bravely manned by our own school representatives. Certainly their efficiency was dazzling! After the final count, it appeared Loreto made $1,150 - a magnificent effort, though we say it ourselves.

Perhaps the S.S.A.A.F. walk will allow us to claim that there are some of our generation who are not as lethargic and out of condition as we are continually being led to believe! ELIZABETH GALLAGHER.

Page

Seventeen

Intermediate Debating It is quite a novel idea to have twenty-four debates, which involve all the members of two forms, going on at the one time, and it is not often carried out

1. High ideals are a handicap.

2. Better a bee in the bonnet than a tongue in the cheek!

u-ith a great deal of success. IIowever, on the 15th October, it was arranged with De la Salie that their

3. Nationalism makes world peace impossible.

Intermediates would challenge our Intermediates at

4. Freedom is a myth.

debating. The originators of the scheme were Mrs. McDonell

Three Loreto Matric girls - Jane Fyiield, Penny Wood and Margaret Westmore - kindly gave up the

and Mother Xaveria and the idea was very well con-

whole afternoon to act as adjudicators, as did three

ceived. Four debating topics, which brought both

De la Salle Matric boys.

delight and disbelief, were selected, and each debating group was given one. It was a complex arrange-

Loreto and De la Salle had won about the same

ment, but in the end there were four debating groups occupying one room; and thus six rooms were used (twenty-four teams). The topics which catised such mixed emotions

When all was said and done, the result was that number of debates. And after all that work, afternoon

tea was served, which I assure you was greatly appreciated by all. The afternoon was a great success and thanks must go to all teachers involved. -ANNE WESTMORE, Form IV.

were:

Boarders' Grooming Course It was decided this year to hold a Grooming Course,

the course were Deportment, Etiquette, Skin Care.

consisting of 10 lessons, for the First and Second

I lair Care, Basic Diet, Hand, Foot and Nail Care; IIygiene and Cleanliness, Foundation Garments, Dress Sense, and the Art ot Conversation. It is in.eresting to note that the most popular lesson (a consensus o. boarders' opinion was taken) was the one on Deportment, and this is also the lesson which the nuns think

Division boarders. Airs. Dobros, from the Bambi

Smith Model College, proved a charming teacher;

some have variously described her as calm, capable, interesting and friendly! On Friday evenings we would adjourn to the parlour where, seated in an elegant, attentive circle, with

hands demurely clasped before us, we were expertly instructed in the Art of Becoming Young Ladies. Mrs. Dobros pointed out that we needed to be trained in these basic social graces iIi order to become fully developed persons, worthy of our Christian vocation,

but she sensibly advised us to keep all these things in their proper perspective.

Among the wide range of topics covered during

Page Eighteen

seems to have liad most effect!

Finally, we all appreciate the thoughtfulness of the

nuns in arranging the Course for us, and are confident that everyone ( even the reluctant ones ) benefited greatly from tliese ten lessons. -ANGELA FARLEY, ELIZABETH GALLAGHER.

The Teacher Auction ! To such a one as I, an insignificant bystander on that sunny day, the Teacher Auction in retrospect

evokes memories of gleeful, somewhat malicious, delight! The hall, filled as it was with the uproar of

frantic, cheering hordes of girls, is still the scene foI

And Mrs. MacDonell's gallant rendering of "Waltzing Matilda"? And Mother Mark cleaning the shoes of 15 boarders?

me of the teachers' demise and the Heeting triumph

And N/Irs. Turnbull cleaning the tennis court with

of the rioting "student body".

a toothbrush?

I Iowever, we can only admire the intrepid ones who surrendered themselves to the mercy of the

to St. Kilda?

And Mother Mai-ie's enforced and public conversion

rabble - they had to endure not only the tortures of slaving for their captors for a nightmarish half-

hour, but also the possibility that the indifferent buying might leave them as surplus stock"! ( However, this did not happen and top price fetched was a

And Mother J. Berchmans' rounds of the Junior School as a "mendicant religious"? That day should go down in the history of Loreto,

magnificent $17 for M. J. Berchmans).

Toorak, as the one brief, shining moment of absolute freedom from authority!

Do you remember the diabolical frenzy with which we tortured those long-suffering teachers?

money the painless way!

It also affords a valuable lesson in the art of raising

Do you remember M. J. Xaveria's excruciating violin solo at the top of the stairs?

-ELIZABETII GALLAGHER.

Financial Affairs THE DAY SCHOLARS' BANK

At right-This year's State Savings Student Operated Bank was efficiently run by Nuala McDonald (Bank Manager) and Genevidve Douez (Clerk). The response from First Division lacked the enthusiasm of Second and Third Divisions. However,

all in all, the bank was highly successful.

THE BOARDERS' BANK

In the eyes of the boarders, there is no organisation in the school more efficiently run than their own pi·ivate bank. Begun in 1963, this bank has fostei·ed the development of genei·ations of Leaving and Intermediate boai·ders as incompar-

able managers, accountants, tellers and cler·ks; and has sensibly controlled unstable boarders' budgets ! This year, under the 1%

watchful care of Chief Financier M. F. Anthony, Sabina %*

Lynch and Mai'y Hill filled the onei·ous position of accountant.

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Page Nineteen

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". . . Bu creating friendly contacts beticeen students of (literse lemperament and background, the school fosterN uniong them a willingness to understand one (inotlier."

Kew Cottages Early in the second term, a Social Worker from Ken' Cottages talked to First Division. Her discussion covered very interesting matter, including her work

there at the Cottages, the daily life there and the recent and proposed improvements in regard to the care of adults and children and the buildings.

The suggestion of our participation in this work u-as readily accepted. Each Sunday afternoon. over a period of three months, groups of tive girls from Leaving and Matriculation visited the Cottages. Their work dealt entirely with children, mostly under the age of turhe. The younger children were fed, while

the older ones were taken for walks in the grounds, or were played with on the swings and slides, After about two hours of active entertainment the children

three-thirty. Already the clatter of cutlery could be heard, as the older children had their tea.

For them, daily life begins early in the morning and concludes with their bedding, between five and six o'clock. After one visit to the Cottages, it is easy to see just how happy these children are. It is no

wonder. for they are always surrounded by love and understanding from all with whom they come in contact, be they priests, ministers, doctors, nurses, social workers.

Therefore, as you return the little boy or girl to his ward, despite the fact that he mav never remember you again on the outing, this experience has left an indelible mark on you, urging you to return and give again this small amount of yourself to those less fortzinate.

were taken back to their various wards, usnally around

-ANNE KEVIN, Form VI.

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2nd Back Row: Back Row: C. Sweeney, E. Lachal, S, Stewart, C. Bryce, V, Brown, V. Tiernan. S. Gunnis, J. Connaughton, M. Dynon (sitting), F. Quinn, J. Daly, M. A. Harris. 3rd Row: J. Galbally,

R. Johnson (sitting), D. Dale (seated), D. Parkinson (seated), V. Curtis, S. Evans. Front Row (seated) : J. Hughes, A. England, H. Tiernan. Standing: M. L. Connaughton.

Page Twenty

Turana -- A meeting place any cigarettes given to them by visitors. However,

Our first view of Turana showed buildings sprawled across the three-acre site intermittently broken by

they are only given a few matches. Between them and the warders there is usually a friendly spirit. During the dances the boys remarked that they had spent the afternoon fighting with each other to use

sports fields. Except for one section surrounded by a high barbed wire fence, the place was open. By request of Father Mogg, the girls from Loreto, Intermediate mainly, arrived at the Quamby division pZinc-

the mirrors, preparing themselves for the dance. They greatly appreciated our being with them that evening.

tually at eight o'clock.

They are lonely boys, missing their families, home-life,

We walked down a corridor lined with sleeping quarters, with barred glass doors, to the cloak room. The dance was held in the boys' gym. room, with

hobbies...

At ten o'clock the music ended and Father Mogg thanked all the girls for coming and the boys for decorating the room for the dance. The boys then

seats and barred windows. All the boys were sitting down casually smoking. They were rather shy at

scaled the walls and let loose all the balloons. A

first till the band started.

lovely supper was served in the boys' T.V. and radio

Then they told us about themselves and their lives

at Turana. They are studying for their Intermediate; play several different sports, including soccer, football, cricket, indoor basketball and swimming ( Turana has

room.

a small swimming pool.) During the evenings they

The supervisors then called out for the boys to line up in their divisions, such as Sunnyside and "Blue Cables", and then their retired to their sleeping

watch T.V. and play table tennis in the lower gym.

quarters.

It was a worthwhile evening for those of us who

When the boys arrive at Turana, they are issued with clothing. Their watches are taken away from them; otherwise they could use the springs in their watches to open doors. ( It is compulsory for the boys to have their hair cut oil Stinday unless they are in remand. ) The boys are given a ration of cigarettes a week - about one pac:ket - but they can also have

went!

( * Turana - A State Training Centre for Boys admitted or committed to the care of the Social Wel-

fare Branch as wards of State.) GABRIELLE ENGLAND

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Page Twenty-one

The Catechist Course 1968 This year, about 20 girls from Leaving and five Matrics undertook to attend a ten-week catechist

course being run by the brothers at De la Salle College, Malvern. This involved attending the Iectures and discussions each Friday after school, and observing classes in progress.

In the beginning, of course, none of us knew what

to expect. However, we soon accustomed ourselves to the general pattern of tuition. Each week the whole group (consisting of over 100 students from De a Salle, Kildara, Sacr6 Coeur and Loreto) assembled endure in the large school hall at De la Salle to hea ·

- or experience a lecture given by the dynamic, straightforward, down-to-earth, somewhat ·evolut'on

of us should be perpetrating any heresies yet. After this lecture, we broke up into various groups - those intending to teach Forms I and II in one group, Grades V and VI in another, and so on - and with our patient tutors (Brother Callixtus, Brother

Sixtus and Mother Hilda among them) we entered into heated and fruitful discussions.

At the end of the Course, a special Mass for the Catechists was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral and

Archbishop Knox distributed the diplomas. Although all of us from Loreto qualified, only Angela Wright, Clarinda Molyneux, Fran Murphy and Patricia Tho npson did any actual teaching in State Schools

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For most of ils, this was ou - first expe ·ience of the "new theology", which seems to bc ·im'ng at the truth througli simplicity, cutting through thi i · ·cle-

IIowever, we others are all willing to help if and when we a ·e needed, and consider the ten weeks' coi ·se i ivali ·ible experience notwithstanding.

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Visit by Mary's Mount Girls On one rainy March afternoon, we entertained

iii chatting and playing the games, even though per-

forty-five Mary's Mount visitors with table tennis and

haps not with full concentration. After the champions

shuttlecock in the Mary Ward Hall. It was a bit different from the proposed softball and tennis, but

of each sport were decided, we had afternoon tea

the dismal weather soon made it necessary to cancel

in the refectory and then it was, at the back gate, a

these more orthodox games.

sorry-to-see-you-go crowd that waved farewell to the

The afternoon was, however, spent most enjoyably

visitors, whom we hope to see again very soon.

Matric Effort - a family helped At the beginning of the year, the Matric class was

funds throughout the year. We decided the most efficient means would be for each member of the

informed of the plight of a French family. Arriving in Australia practically penniless, the

class to donate a nominal sum each term.

mother had little command of English but was eager

Towards the end of the year, their teacher wrote:

that her two young daughters should benefit in our

"... the little girl is now getting used to the idea of

country. Lacking finance, she was distressed that

speaking English and seems quite happy at school

these two bright girls would be unable to receive a

here."

Catholic education at the nearby parish school. The

Her mother has now been working for some months

and we are proud to have had a part in making their

fee is $1 per family per week. When we heard of her situation, we wanted to

future look brighter. -GILLIAN CROOK, Form VI.

help her and discussed plans for raising the necessary

Symposium On the first day of the May holidays, a group of Matric students attended a symposium at Mel-

heated discussions took place. From each group the

bourne Grammar for a discussion titled Living in a meaningless world - life is meaningless. A crosssection of Melbourne private Schools was present to

The majority agreed that, for the individual, life had

leader presented a final summary of our thoughts.

hear Dr. MacCaughey, Professor of Theology at Ormond College, Melbourne University.

some meaning, but one difficulty all seemed to face was a satisfactory definition of "meaningless", upon which the argument hinged.

After a brief introduction by the Chaplain of Mel-

The Grammar boys excelled themselves in present-

bourne Grammar, Dr. MacCaughey proceeded to

ing an appetising dinner for all present. An open

enlighten us on both the meaning and lack of it in

floor discussion on "senescence" rounded off an enjoy-

our lives.

The participants were divided into groups and

able day, for which we must thank Michael Birch and his fellow organisers at Melbourne Grammar.

Page Twenty-three

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Page Twenty-four

The Drama Festival All the actors in the 1968 Catholic Drama Festival

is theatre ... 'Aria da Capo' seems to me to be such a

need to be heartily congratulated. A second place

play... where an audience and actor come together

iii a highly competitive exhibition of drama cannot

and magic is created.

go unnoticed. But of course with such an appealing piece of work as "Aria da Capo", and a line-up of

actresses who were able to take any hardship that came along, the honour was easily won! To bring us such a polished performance was not easy and it entailed hours of practice. Miss Drennan is to be commended for keeping the cast alive and interested in their play. After all this preparation, the night of the Drama

Festival itself promised something really marvellous and I am sure that the whole school will agree that the play lived up to our highest expectations. And

afterwards, the adjudicator's comments were very pleasing. I quote: "In each festival there are a number of plays

"Tonight, Loreto Convent gave the play a most interesting and colourful setting ... Columbine of N/larita Wilcox was beautifully over-played demonstrating all the excesses and triviality of clich6 that we have come to expect from the saccharine appeal of Columbine. Both Columbine and Pierrot, played

by Xlarita Sakacs, showed an understanding of the styles that they were delicately satirising ... Sue Evans and Jane Galbally managed their difficult roles with attack and directness of approach that was commendable...

To sum up: a play that uses all the elements of theatre and by using them points a message that is a severe condemnation of the behaviour of humanity ...A most worthwhile production."

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Page Twenty-seven

Broadening Our Horizons LEAVING GEOGRAPHY EXCURSION

At 9 a.m. on 15th August, the Leaving Geography Class with M.M. Brigid and M,XI. Reparatrice left for Drouin to increase their knowledge of dairy farming.

After a picnic lunch in a reserve in the company of a ferocious goat, we went to the dairy farm which was situated at Jindaire, and belonged to Mr. Powell. I-Ie told us that he had come to the farm in 1960

and that he now owns over 84 acres. He has a herd

of 45 milkers and 20 calves and yearlings, of which

Soon after 11 a.iii. we reached the Drouin Co-

operative and Milk Products Factory, where we were

met by Mr. Gunnis, who had organised the excursion.

We were then taken on a conducted tour of the factory.

I think everyone found that the butter-wrapping machine was one of the most interesting inventioiis that we had ever seen, but apart from seeing butter being wrapped, we also saw how cream and cheese were made and how milk pasteurisation was carried

he breeds Jerseys for quality and Friesians for quantity. Mr. Powell milks his cows twice a day-morning

and evening-in a herringbone type milking shed,

which accommodates ten cows at one time. The milk

is then taken by tankers to the Drouin Co-operative and Milk Products Factory, where it is either pro-

cessed or sent to 1Melbourne.

With Mr. Gunnis' organisation, Mr. Robert's guidance, and under Mother Brigid's watchful eye, we

had a most interesting and enjoyable day.

out.

-ELIZABETH WEBB.

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Class went for an excursion to Studley Park. There we were greeted by a Research Worker in Geology

OUl own.

background of Studley Park and showed us many of

structures and afterwards some were able to take

from Melbourne University, who told us the historic

the points he had talked about.

Our aim has been to study different rock types at Studley Park, to find the age of each rock type by examining the ways in which it was formed and to make a summary of the geological history of the area. We had previously been given an outline of the Page Twenty-eight

A few eager girls took photos of various rock

class pictures.

Our thanks go to Mother Genevieve and Mother

Magdalen for arranging this very interesting outing. -Written by Sally Lodge, Marea McCoy and Ann Barden. Photograph by Marea McCoy.

Science Talent Quest work done on this subject last year, and proceeded

ALUMINIUM AND COLOUR

from there.

Our project, for which we won a bursary in the

Of the tests we carried out perhaps the most interesting was using the Selby Kit to examine organ-

Science Talent Search, was entitled: Aluminium-

Colour-Advertising". We decided to study this topic and we had observed just how many advertisements are done on aluminium and how many goods, for instance margarine, are wrapped in aluminium foil. The reactions and opinions of many people were investigated, concerning the colours which they con-

isms in soil.

Our project won for us a bursary of $20, which we found both surprising and gratifying. -JENNY HANDLES, Intermediate.

sidered to be most distinctive on the foil.

In this way, with the right colours, advertisements would be seen and noticed by far more people. Manufacturers of products which are wrapped in foil and sold in supermarkets, would decorate their food so that the shopper buys the one that attracts

SUDS VERSUS FLAKES

This year I won a bursary in the Science Talent Search. The project I entered was entitled: -Suds versus Flakes , meaning Soap Powders versus Soap Flakes.

his eye.

I became interested in this subject during the

We took into account the three types of lights that are most likely to effect the distinctiveness of the printed words. These lights are: (1) daytime light, (2) electric light,(3) sodium or neon light. We succeeded to a certain degree in finding the colours that would be the most suitable for printing

drought last January. Many people were complaining that soapy water killed the plants in their gardens. I also wondered which soap product was the most effective.

My investigation was carried out under the following headings-

advertisements on aluminium.

( i) The effect of soap powders and soap flakes

Our $10 bursary was donated by Conialco Indust-

on the growing of plants. ( ii) The effect of the fumes from both on plants and small living creatures. ( iii) Are the soap jellies similiar?

ries Pty. Ltd. -GABRIELLE ENGLAND and KATRINA O'SULLIVAN.

( iv) Are the soap powders and soap flakes effec-

SOILS

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In a series of studies and experiments ranging over

a period of several weeks, Mary Hill, Angela Dwyer and I made a fairly intensive study of soil and its properties. We initiated this with a resume of the

other qualities? -MARYANNE MOLOMBY, Form III.

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Creative Writing

JUDY HILL MEMORIAL PRIZE Judy (left) was the -first editor of Toorakanrooin". Malia Stal·r, tne talented and

generous editor of 1968, has carried on the tradition begun in 1951, To her is amarded the Judy Hill Memorial Prize for creative writing, in this the first year of its award. Here loe print one of her most recent articles-"Student Protest". ---Vul,2*4@)-0,0

Biafra. It seems that two million men and women

and children must be exterminated there before, in Protest! All across the globe - in France, Germany,

the United States, England, Australia - students are protesting. This heated and sometimes violent move-

ment is universal. Suddenly a usually impecunious and often voteless minority are making themselves heard.

tion. Though the base lies in a false premise, the very

existence of this group is a sad commentary on the state of the world.

Why?

Because there is something radically wrong with this world. It is torn asunder by injustice, strife and corruption. It is sick. And any attempt to right the wrong is crushed by the iron fists of fear, ignorance, habit and greed. This generation protests. We have been labelled "aware" and so we are. How

can we help it when the horrors of the battlefield

are brought into living rooms in daily instalments via the mass media? America's apostles of hate, StokIey Carmichael and Rap Brown urge their fellows to "burn, baby, burn" Washington before our very

eyes. For unlike the oppressed of Dickens' time, the

underprivileged have a voice and we cannot but hear

them.

Much has been said about the evils of our world

and familiarity has minimised the impact of words.

But the fact remains that though we have, for the

first time in history, the power to combat many of the age-old problems of man, we may be further

from their solution than ever before.

In Vietnam a war rages, the morality of which

must at least be termed questionable. Though it is apparently recognised by both sides as unwinnable

retrospect, the world forcefully voices its indignation. It is easy to see from where the Hippy movement derived its impetus. A group of people decided to "opt" out of the society they said was not worth salva-

no diplomatic conclusion is yet in sight. And sadder yet, perhaps, is the easy unconcern with which we greet word of accidental napalm bombing of civilians or systematic defoliation of the countryside.

Racial strife tears at the very fibre of our so-called "civilised" society. Britons, it seems, cannot co-exist with their fellow man but object to Mr. Ian Smith's

Student power is born of frustration. Social injustices, existent for centuries, have been laid bare and

where there was a glimmer there is now a torch blazing in the slums and ghettos, in the universities and factories. The result is chaos - because it grew too fast. It glowed in the youth and not iiil those in

positions of authority.

Old systems can no longer cope. We need brilliant

young men and women with a vision of how the

world ought to be, to grasp the reins of power. Grass and cynical politicians must be forced to move. Unfortunately exasperation and youthful vigour have led to violence. And this no government can tolerate for they have been duly elected and have a duty to protect the rights and property of citizens. Presumably they rep-

resent the will of the

people. It is the people;

then, who must be

to taught 1*CCOglliS¢ 4 f:*€**¢3 wrong and right by it.

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By violent rebellion stu- ?tfilt dents usually, however, %94?&*0

only Iose sympathy for .7,103g* their cause. They must I move c arefully.

Even those who seek ..

a "better world" are sometimes silenced. Tc

whom should we pass Kennedy's

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blatant refusal to try. The United States must determine its foreign policy in future by reference to its

John F.

issue for it has its "White Australia" policy.

interest is broad. In a world of such material progress, poverty and hunger should not still be preva-

the unequal distribution, of wealth. Starvation,

lent - and they need not be. Perhaps with this new spirit we may move forward with them to inspire the community to blot out the injustices which can

domestic crisis. Australia has thus far evaded the

At the base of many world problems is, of course,

poverty and ignorance are widespread. And to all of this we find attitudes of crass indifference and cynicism.

A screaming attestation to this is the plight of Page Thirty

MARIA STARR

"torch ?

The depth of feeling is profound. The sphere of

and must be rectified.

-M. STARR, Form VI.

THE BIAFRAN TRAGEDY

SNAKE

I walked amongst the ghosts of the once stately silver-

"In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers."

grass;

the day was hot.

Through the wonders of the mass media, the peoples

The dry twigs cracked under my feet.

of the world have finally become aware that "somewhere

To the water hole,

in Africa," thousands of people are dying of starvation and malnutrition. And thus Biafra, an Ibo state now

the cool, clear water.

seceded from Nigeria, has become, in the space of a few

I sat on the bank, drinking in the sweet nectar;

listening to the calls of female birds searching for a mate. Silence! Oh what a wonderful silence. And then I heard it:

the nearby twigs crackling. There it was the dreaded rattling was drawing nearer, the sound that brings death was just a spit.

short months, the object of the world's charity. Say "Biafra" and the word is synonymous with photographs of children whose faces and bodies have turned thousands

of people from the path of apathy to that of action. Yet one can only conjecture at the number of people who have bothered to search for the story behind the tragedy that is Biafra today.

How many are interested enough to discover the facts

and, what is even more important, how many will act I froze,

once they have the facts?

kill, kill, my only thoughts.

to see it glide by without hesitation.

In 1966, up to 30,000 men, women and children were murdered in Northern Nigeria, simply because they were Ibos. Some two million refugees fied to their ancestral

And then I turned

It, too, sought the revival of the water-hole,

home-Biafra. In the civil war that followed, thousands

the brown and yellow tail trailing over stones and twigs.

were murdered, even butchered.

And finally resting on a moss-covered stone,

With every sip life returned into his tired body,

population was completely wiped out. The present state of the war is, in effect, a stalemate. Despite the occupation of some towns around the fringes of Biafra by the 80,000 soldiers of the Nigerian army, the heart remains

and lifting his head he looked at me,

intact.

it, too, drank.

vaguely flicking his forked tongue. Who would think of death ?

What is it they said at home;

break its back with a stick; but how could I? I who for the first time had discovered what a noble creature was.

He too was satisfied.

He moved slowly coming towards me.

His lithe body eurving with every move, and still towards me he came.

In Benin, the Ibo

However, it is this heart that is now dying. The Ibos, hemmed into a small area are, in fact, starving. It is with revulsion that one realizes that Britain is furnishing bombs, aircraft and other war materials to the Nigerians. All in all, 30 tons of arms a week, a major proportion of the arms and ammunition used in the civil war, is supplied by Britain. America has refused help to the Nigerians, while the Russians, in order to keep the situation interesting, are sending arms to both sides. The war has certainly not lacked peace talks. Terms of agreement, however, have not been arranged and this

Again my fears returned.

situation seems likely to continue.

I rose.

And picking up the stick

The Nigerians insist, basically, that Biafra should

I raised my arm and prepared to strike.

It was then his dark pitiful eyes caught mine. I didn't want to kill him, and just as he drew himself up to claim yet another victim,

return to the Federation.

The Biafrans, however, will never again allow the

Lagos government to be responsible for their security. They do not intend to run the risk of further slaughter of the Ibo civilians.

I struck.

If the talks break down, everything points to a final

convulsing in an ugly way.

invasion of Biafra, accompanied by frightful bloodshed. Guerrilla fighting would continue indefinitely, with slaughter which would reduce the Ibos to an enslaved and

I stared fascinated.

wretched remnant.

His long graceful body

* was now writhing and thrashing,

As it is, a reported 3,000 people are dying each day.

And there he lay before me,

The number will grow as the war continues, with the

his body, slack and lifeless.

impossibility of bringing relief to anything like the extent

Once again it was peaceful.

required.

-Julie Coglin, Form IV.

-Margaret Westmore, Form VI, September, 1968. Page Thirty-one

ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA

Compare this with Egypt, where intensity and vitality arise from the very decadence: "the o'er flowing Nilus."

Anthony and Cleopatra is an account of things in terms of the World and the Flesh, Rome and Egypt. Anthony and Cleopatra is a very complex play which is made up of paradoxes from beginning to end. Many points of view can be derived from it.

This intensity, as Mrs. Tomlinson says, "bites through the apparently substantial reality of the political scenes" and we remember Rome and Caesar as "icily regular, splendidly null." Midway between these two extremities of character

On a large scale, and as a setting for the drama and

stands Anthony-an open-hearted, courageous soldier of Philo tells of his magnificent

the characters, Rome is set against Egypt. On the more

enormous magnanimity.

personal level, Caesar, representing Rome and the

drive and energy in battle: " . . . those his goodly eyesl

"world" is opposed to Cleopatra representing Egypt and

that o'er the files and musters of the war/have glowed

the "flesh."

like plated Mars." The heroism in the verse presents an

The Egyptian court is dominated by superficialities and love of the flesh. Its essence of sensuality, opulence and luxuriousness is shown in the merry, lustful scene with the Soothsayer ... here infidelity means nothing and

image of forceful strength.

From the same speech,

Anthony emerges as having a curious kind of vitality passing through him.

He has, in fact, become "the

bellows and fan to cool a gypsy's lust."

love is but a joke. Charmian says: "Nay, if an oily palm

Thus, Anthony must choose between Rome and Egypt.

be not a fruitful prognostication, I cannot scratch mine

He cannot retain both, conducting an efficient army while

ear.

Prithee tell her but a workaday fortune." The

crude, bawdy humour in these words is indicative of the

In this

pressure, Anthony's weakness for women makes his

pleasure-loving court in general. Cleopatra herself represents these qualities of Egyptsensuality, voluptuousness, seductiveness.

"running after Cleopatra" on the battlefield.

choice, lies the tragedy. Faced with Caesar's relentless

She speaks

choice inevitable.

Generosity does not win politically

over level-headed cold reasoning.

constantly in superlatives., bringing out the extravagance

Yet, even in his political downfall, Anthony retains the

of her people. Speaking to the messenger, she goes from

greatness which Caesar has never experienced. Anthony's

the extreme of: "The gold I give thee will I melt and

statement: "0 my fortunes have corrupted honest men!

pour down thy ill-uttering throat" to: "Yet, if thou say

Dispatch, Enobarbus!" reveals his tremendous generosity.

Anthony lives ... I'll set thee in a shower of gold and

He says this when he discovers Enobarbus has changed

hail rich pearls upon thee."

sides and does not even comment on the desertion of the

In the small intense world of Egypt, all Cleopatra's time and energy are devoted to holding Anthony, keeping

supposed "friend." Instead, he places all blame on himself, and sends Enobarbus' treasure after him.

him from returning to Rome. When he is away, she is

Immediately after this, we are faced with the callous-

languid and bored: "Give me to drink mandragora...

ness of Caesar: "Go change Agrippa/Plant those that

that I may sleep out this great gap of time my Anthony

have revolted in rant/That Anthony may seem to spend

is away."

his fury upon himself."

The quality of the poetry brings out the luxury and opulence of Egypt.

"The barge she sat on, like a burnished throne, Burned in the water: the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them."

In complete contrast to Egypt and Cleopatra stand Rome and Caesar. Caesar, hard and calculating, absorbed in the prestige, progress and defence of Rome, lays "charge after charge at Anthony's door." Thus "Anthony, leave thy lascivious wassails."

Caesar is not a great man. He uses Anthony when it suits him to gain popular support, but when Anthony's back is turned, arouses public dislike against him. Hard and cruel, Caesar calls Anthony "old ruffian"-despite

Throughout the play, Rome and Egypt are opposed. On the one hand, the hard and rational Caesar, and Anthony who portrays the "cynical irresponsibility" towards human values.

On the other hand, Cleopatra-

"cunning past man's thought," "serpent of old Nile." one whom "age cannot wither, nor custom stale her infinite variety," always remains a queen and never quite loses her dignity. To this "lass unparalleled" comes Anthony, "the demi-

atlas of the earth." Together they represent the "flesh" against Caesar's "world." Yet their love has a transcendence which defies "our dungy earth" and carries them forward beyond the limits of time. Beside Caesar, who "with thin-lipped fastidiousness condemns Anthony's debauchery, we see a truly great pair, who know the real meaning of love:

the aptness of this phrase, we see the steel-like edge of Caesar's remark.

Notice the extreme contrast between Egypt and Rome

when Anthony dies. This is a pathetic and moving scene. Cleopatra utters : "come away . . . this case of that huge spirit now is cold." The tremendous poignancy of the event

is immediately opposed by Anthony's businesslike attitude: "Go to him, Dolebella, bid him yield/Being so frustrate, tell him he mocks/The pause that he makes."

"Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space, Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life

Is to do thus: when such a mutual pair And such a twain can do't, in which I bind On pain of punishment, the world to weet We stand up peerless."

Thus, in Rome, where everything looks large and impressive, there are, in fact "world-cracking· tensions." Page Thirty-two

-Louise Clayton, Form VI.

MY MOST MOVING EXPERIENCE

For want of anything better to do, I had turned the television to watch in desultory fashion a rather dull show.

Suddenly a printed newsfiash penetrated my

consciousness-"Senator Robert Kennedy shot, critically

THE DEATH OF THE LIVING

It was a day, a day like this

when all happy life and joyous bliss came to a rapid standstill. StandstilI, perhaps false, but rapid true, it shook the earth through and through.

ill."

My lazy security was shattered and shock and grief had taken the place of boredom. For Robert Kennedy was only the latest victim of a modern world that had turned loose greater forces than it could control. Where

The wind was cold. Sun could not shine; that awful moment, that dreaded time, had come. The end was near.

All lives precious, all lives dear,

does it stand now ?

Why are those who refuse to conform and accept in-

equalities and who fight against injustice to the oppressed marked for death ? Why do we strike out and kill the

none were saved-at least not here.

For God had thought the time was right to take away from each, his life.

good in us ? But someone was coming. I had to be

Seven days and seven nights

alone to sort out the confused thoughts in my mind and

was all it took to end our plight.

bi·ing my own woi·ld back into perspective.

Light of day was the first that went,

Walking along the creek, I thought long and deeply about the state of the world.

The shock of Kennedy's

(our remaining days in darkness spent). Birds, animals and the like,

death was subsiding in the dawning realisation of the

soon left us

potent forces today's world was unleashing.

to live alone in the endless night. Warmth and cold left us too.

In my first hard look at life which Kennedy prompted, I saw that the struggles between the races, between the

Now only humans with nothing to do.

rich and the poor and between the nations, have produced

Each man grew weaker, day by day,

a plague of lawlessness and violence which is now sweep-

death had come in its own strange way. Everyone faded out, but I

ing the globe. The assassin of Kennedy may merely be a deranged man tormented by frustrations and intoxicated by fear or revenge.

But there is something more to it than

had I been spared from the will to die. I ani the only one savedThe only one-and when I look back

that. For he was the product of our society; the first

on my days bad and good

person to crack under the strain of competition.

I think what I might have done.

There is something in the air of modern society-a defiance of authority, a contagious irresponsibility, a

Could I have saved the world from this ?

Could I restore it, to its precious bliss ?

kind of moral deliquency no longer restrained by religious

The answers to questions I'll never know

and ethical faith. And so collapse is threatening. Would

For, day by day, I weaker grow;

man, blinded by his new power and wealth follow the

minute by minute, my heart beat slows;

path of his predecessors of the twenties and blunder

I know my end is here.

into depression and another war ? I looked across the creek at a small boy playing at

But what will happen when I am gone ? Will the earth sleep on and on

the water's edge. In wonder and in joy he picked up

or will God, through His love of all things good,

stones, turned them over and threw them away. A

i·aise man lip again to live as he should?

brightly coloured flower attracted him and he moved out to touch it. But the ground on which he stood crumbled and at any moment he would fall. If only he would realise his danger, he could step back and be safe, but the allure of discovery made him oblivious to his peril. Suddenly a strong hand reached out and grasped him.

Peaceful ways and warless days

(things I've never known). Will they be a part of life to come, an everyday thing for everyone ? I doubt it, but then I do not knowI hope for their sake, it will be so.

His father had helped him. How can I tell them to beware, My depression and pessimism vanished. For I realised

that Our Father would make us, His children, aware of

to go through their days with the greatest of care or the same will befall them as did us ?

its danger. Oh, what does it matter ? People must mature if they want to avoid a head-on collision with conflicting ideals which are now being

Things might workof their destiny-I cannot tell.

strongly expressed in today's new freedom. God would make us aware.

God would make us confront perils

without wavering and He would help us right our world.

All I know is, that my world is dead

(and that I am the last remaining thread). Why was I chosen to live this long

I had to be sure of this, for a recurrenee of the Kennedy tragedy could mean man's annihilation.

-Linda Gunn, Form V.

(for I have done my share of wrong) ? I will never, never know.

-Elizabeth Curtain, Form III.

Page Thirty-three

ANOTHER DAY

The orchestra played Serenade No. 6 by Mozart. This piece consisted of instrumental combinations followed by

Another day of hopes;

no set-form and holding any number of movements. It

Another day of fears;

is a score for two groups of instruments-a concertino

Another day of joys;

consisting of two violins, viola and double bass, and a

Another day of tears-

concerto gtosso of string orchestra and tympani.

Another day.

It conisted of a majestic march, a minuet with a trio

Another day of thanks.

for the concertino alone, and a rondo which contained

I hear the new babe cry

two intermezzi, the first of which is a short adagio which

But not far off.

has the effect of an introduction to the second-a lively

Someone else will probably die-

allegro.

Another day.

The next event on the programme was the "Illusionist," written by a Melbourne playwright Brian Faull, and

Another day of war;

composed by George Dreyfus. It was a very modern

Another day of strife

Ballet Suite consisting of various sombre chords, sighing

Where a man will be killed

By someone's sharpened knifeAnother day.

passages, wisps of bird calls and bells.

It was very

dynamic, probably owing to its dramatic story; it deals with the fate of a young woman whose feelings for reality are seduced by the charms and sinister actions

Another day of poverty; Waifs, with nowhere to go;

of the illusionist until finally she renounces all desire

But today I'll have enough,

to return to everyday life.

That I surely know-

I am looking forwai·d to future concerts, as every

Another day.

performance is just as good as the last. It is a night well spent.

Another day at home

-Marita Sakacs, Form V.

With parents I thank God for, But today people will starve Because they are so poorAnother day.

CHILDHOOD IN RETROSPECT

Another day has gone by

As we grow older we lose sight of our childhood. Only

With the world so "hay wire."

in picking up a book are we stirred to distant childhood

What can I do, Lord,

memoi·ies and we relive some of our childhood games.

To stop this eternal fire ?-

There remains always an irremovable childlikeness within

Another day.

ourselves, emotions from the past which survive and show -Angela Clark, Form IV.

themselves through the pages of one particular book, "A Child's Gai·den of Verse", by Robert Louis Stevenson. Here, in one small rhyming volume, Stevenson has left

THE A.B.C. YOUTH CONCERTS

This year the A.B.C. Youth Concerts have been most

enjoyable, and appreciated by all. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Willem van Otterloo, who has recently returned from overseas. The first Youth Concert presented Ladislav Slovak and Beryl Kimber (violin). Ladislav Slovak is the Czech conductor. This was his

third visit to Australia. Since 1961, he has been chief conductor and artistic director of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra in Czechoslovakia.

behind him the key to that locked door which lies between most men and the impenetrable "garden of their childhood."

Our bodies age, by the calendar years, and although our minds mature, they do not grow physically old. When

does childhood end ? Perhaps never, because there remains alive in many of us an indestruetible child which will, at times, "play pranks or burst into song," whose memory is so keen that we in certain moods recall our childhood's

very self. As we read carefully Stevenson's little poems we feel that some notes, common to all children, have been struck;

The orchestra played excerpts from Suites 1 and 2 from the ballet of Romeo and Juliet. They were most enjoyable.

and we recognize our own distant emotions and experiences and the undying child within us responds. We find ourselves bending tenderly over one "frail yet strong,

We then had a concert in A Minor for Violin and

Orchestra by Glazaunov; the soloist was Beryl Kimber, who played with great strength and feeling. She won a Diploma of First Distinction at the Tchaikovsky competitions in Moscow as one of eight finalists in 1958. Lastly, we listened to Symphony No. 4 in F Minor by

timorous yet valiant," solitary child-a little boy. This child whom we love is the "memory of the man he became"-Robert Louis Stevenson, who has brought our childhood back to life.

When first we enter the garden, we i·oam about in a detached mood, picking out by preference the verses that

The chief thought of this symphony is

bring before us the visions of oui· own childhood: "The

fate, the fatal power which denies one of the fulfilment

land of Counterpane"-our stay in hospital while our

of one's aims and ambitions, and against which there is

tonsils are removed: "The Swing"-peeping over the

nothing one can do but submit and complain.

neighbour's wall and flying down again: "The Unseen

Tchaikovsky.

The second Youth Concert presented Willem van Otterloo and Raymond McDonald, tenor. Page Thirty-four

Playmate" who at night "takes care of your playthings himself" and looks over the cut·ly, golden-haired doll

lying beside you on the pillow; the sand pits at the

leg in our eagerness to clean out its cage; lie for hours

bottom of the garden and "The Gardener" who gives you

watching goldfish swimming in a pond or rainwater

rides on his old horse.

splashing down a window ?

If we are critical, the verses do not seem remarkable as poems; they lack variety in metre and are devoid of the lyrical quality we see in verse concerning childhood. They seem monotonous in tune broken here and there by the tramp of "My Shadow" or "The Lamplighter," but here we are "waylaid by memory." Did we not rush often to a certain cupboard for jelly-beans; thrill too at

Unfortunately, there is no life without pain; we know that we hide our sorrows as little Rorus does and try not to recall suffering when it has passed away. As we close the book we sigh for the child who "... has grown up and gone away and it is but a child of air

That lingers in the garden there."

the sight and spectacle of a circus; nearly cut off a bird's

-Andi·ea England, Form VI.

Message of Vatican lI to Youth It is to Uou, !/Dung men and women of the toorld, that the Council icishes to address its #nal message. For it is you who are to receice the torch from the hands Of Uour elders and to live in the world at the period of the most gigantic transformations eter realised in its history. It is Uou 10110,

receiving the best of the example of the teaching oi your parents and Vour teachers, are to form the societtl of tomorrow. Yoit

[cill

either sate tiourseltes or you will perish with it...

It is for you, Vouth, especiallu for Joll that the Church now comes through her Council to enkindle uour light, the light tchich illuminates the future, Uour ftiture. The Church is anxious that this society that you are going to build up should respect the dignity, the liberty, and the rights of inditicluals. These individuals are you. The Church is particularly anxious that this society should allow free expansion to her treasure euer ancient and ever new, namelu faith, and that gom· souls mag be

able to bask freelu in its helpful light. She has con#dence that Uou trill /ind such strength and such iou that you icill not be tempted, as icere some of your elders, to Vield to the seductions of egoistic or hedonistic philosophies or to those Of despair and annihilation, and that in the face of atheism, a phenomenon of lassitit€le and old age, WoW icill knoic hoic to affirm Vour faith in life and in what gives meaning to life, that is to sau, the certitude of the existence of a iust and good God.

It is in the name of this God and of ilis Son, Jesus, that loe exhort Vou to open Uour hearts to the

dimensions of the world, to heed the appeal of Uour brothers, to place uour jouthful energies at their service. Fight againd all egoism. Refuse to give free course to the instincts of violence and hatred tchic/1 beget tears and all their train of miseries. Be generous, pure, respectful, and sincere, and build in entlmsiasm. a better icorld than Wour elders had.

The Church looks to uoit with confidence and with love. Rich with a long past ever living in

her, and marching on totcard human perfection in time and the ultimate destinies of history and of life, the Church is the real youth of the tcorld. She possesses what constitutes the strength and charm of youth, that is to say, the abilitg to rejoice icith tchat is beginning, to gice oneself unreseruedly, to renee oneself and to set out again for neic conquests. Look upon the Church and Vou icill find in

her the face of Christ, the genuine, humble, and luise Hero, the Prophet of truth and love, the Companion and Friend Of youth, It is in the name of Christ that tre salute you, that we exhort and bless VOU,

Page Thirty-five

SPORT

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Sports Captains-M. O'Dwyer, M. McClelland, A. Hollywood, S. Walker THE SWIMMING SPORTS

On Friday, 1st March, Loreto held its Swimming Sports at the Prahran Baths. It was sunny and warm as the contestants arrived at the pool and changed into track suits and swimming costumes. The Sports progressed smoothly due to the hard work by officials,

both sides and the matches were thoroughly enjoyed. This term the School Championships, A" and "B

Grades, are the most important tennis events. The

winner of "A" will be School Champion, 1968, and the winner of a will be the best player among those who have represented the school in a team.

including Sports Mistresses and the Swimming Cap-

Trophies donated by Mr. Guiney will be presented

tain, Adele Hollywood. Alr. Molyneux kindly acted

to the winner on the last day of term.

as commentator, and Mrs. Feery, President of the Parents' Association, presented the sashes and shie]ds.

Our thanks to Air. Guiney for his encouragement, help and interest, and Alother Josephine for her orga-

There was a close struggle between 1!ornane and Mulhall but the winning of the Open Relay clinched the shield for Mulhall. It was pleasing to see the shield change hands, as Barry had won it for several years.

A few enthusiastic old girls were amongst the

spectators, which were composed mainly of loving mothers, interested staff and girls whose abilities Iay

nisation and enthusiastic support.

We are happy with our measure of success in 1968,

but we hope that much more time for inter-school matches - a higher standard of play - will be allowed throughout the school and more general enthusiasm. Best of luck to the players of 1969. ANNE REID, Form VI.

in areas besides swimming.

For the last few years, the school has designed its own programme and this year the cover was drawn by Katherine Kevin and screen printed by various art students who had time to spare.

BASKETBALL

The season has ended with a fair measure of

inaugural success. Two teams, "A" and "E", reached

It has been decided that in following years Loreto

the finals in their respective grades, while most teams

will submit a squad to the Inter-School Swimming Sports and by the performance of Adele Hollywood

reached the semi-finals. Thanks to all for valiant team efforts.

and Elizabeth Erick, it would not be surprising if Loreto did extraordinarily well. -JANN RYLAND. Form VI. TENNIS

During the year, our Mandeville teams have played

FENCING

Fencing was opened to day girls in 1967, with Maitre Michael O'Brien as Fencing Master. We have played matches against Merton Hall, P.L.C. and St. Kevin's, with victories for Loreto all the way.

a number of schools, including Sacrd Coeur, C.L.C.

Our thanks go to Air. Michael O'Brien for all he

and Windsor, with moderate success. Whether the

has done in establishing this wonderful sport at

teams won or lost, there was excellent team spirit on

\Iandeville.

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"A"

GRADE BASKETBALL-ZONE WINNERS

At left-Back Row (left to right): Sue Walker, Angela Farley, Madeline Kift. Middle Row: Rosemary Johnson, Front Row: Adrienne Smith, Mary

Sally Walker.

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Above-Back Row: M. Wilden, A. Barden, W. Makepeace; M. Hill, J. Randles, E. Crick, A. Dwyer. d

BASKETBALL UMPIRES

At left-Back Row: S. Chalmers, E. Skehill, 1 I. Deane, R. Bowyer, K. Allen. Front Row: J. Sullivan, ] ;. Halpin. G. England.

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SOFTBALL TEAM (above)

Fiom Back R Bowyei, S Chalmeis, D Coleman, E. Halpin, J Biophy, V Wiay, H O'Neill, S Biennan,

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Back Row M Bouike, A O'Shaughnessy, J Lachal, K Kevin, M Deane Fi ont Row D Naughton, G

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Back Rou S Coghlan, E Crick,

J Coghlan, W, Makepeace, J Dynon, K Alessio, J Randles, M Rennie, A Dwyei

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FORM I VOLLEY BALL TEAM

At Left: J. Skene, M. Haddon, R. Chapman, P. Ferrari, M. L. Partington, E. Mosimann, A. Cameron (Captain).

FENCING TEAM Below - Back

Row: K.

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Smith, J. Clareborough, J. Moon, S. Chalmers, C. Pleasance. Front Row: A. Dwyer, N. Rodroguez, J. Wellsted, K. Cori·y, D. Copley.

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At right-Back Row: Cathy Sweeney, Fiona Quinn, Joan Bourke, Sallyanne Walker. Front Row: Libby Collie, Anne Reid, Adrienne Smith, Penny Ahern.

LORETO CONVEN

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FORM [ (;OLD

Top Left P Maginn, J F O'Regan, M Buxton, E Spillane, B Buins, P Chapnian, A Scally,

G Mosimann, R Paisons 2nd Back Row J Ryan, S Schlegel, J McIntyi e, I King, C Pleasance, K McDougall, J Symmons, E Rvan, L Wellqted lid Back Row C Maliaffa, C Whelan, J Feeiv, R O'Halloian, R Dale, E Antonie, J Lupon, E O'Sullivan, A Maitin Fiont Row G O'Rvan, K Kelly, G Kieinan, M Hadden, K M(Goldlick, C Byine, V Lynch, A Alundell Absent B Bild, D Williams, A Cameion. P Pennefathei

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Back Row Left: E. Doyle, D. Burke, L. MeNamara, D. Holschier, M. Owen, J. Collie, E. Blake, N. Cordier, V. Farley, H. Roach. 2nd Back Row: M. Murphy, J. Heath, E. MeGee, F. Doyle, J. Coates, L. Krejus, K, Willis, M. Brennan, M. A. MeNaii·. M. Skehan. 32·d Back Row: S. Hadley, P. Ferrari, M. Ward, M, Byrne, V. Skene, E. Scharp, J. Terrill, J. Fitzgerald. Front Row: V. Mansour, C. Carroll, K. White, P. McCann, P, Peppard, R. Brennan, C. Lory, J. MeKinnon, M. L. Partington, Absent: S. Sterling, S. Marron. Page Forty

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FORN 1 11 GOLI) Top Rou Left L Iii itt D Coplev, C Mitchell, E Gaynoi, N Rodiiquez, F McDougall, G McColl-Jones, E Zetzmann 2nd Back Row Mis L Revnoldh, S A Buike, C Fxfield, K Fianciq, S Schlicht, M J Camet on, P Ione K G Smith, D Phipp- did Back Rou C Quinn, J Scallv, L Beiyoun,

M Rennie, S Ciook, V IT i ar, II O'Neill, D Randles, C Dicoll Fiont Rou S Gliffith R Reid, S Gaidini. A Bkine, J lavenei, M A Moonev Alhent P Nolan. L Butlei, A Pembeiton

FORM II

Back Row Left M Haiiis, R Bowyei, M Peppaid, G Lewis, S Chalmet>, M Ailowbmith, S Hipgiave,

J Biid 2nd Back Row D Coleman, J Kellv, E Call 011, S Moian, J O'Bivan, S Bowden, E Halpin.

J Costello 31 d Back Row P Rennie, E Paiket, J Casev, J Gleeson, M Bioun, M Wateiwoith, J Biophy, A Cazey 4th Back Row S Biennan, R Ca, G O'Connoi, B Wilson, J Reynolds. J Lachal Fiont Row J Quinn, M Westmoze, M Sleeman, Mothei M Josephine

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Top Rol, Cleft to light) Mothei Genevieve, Mardi Cooke, Judith Watt, Jenny Lachal, Maigaret Dwyei,

Anne-Maile Boulke, Margaret Boulke, Elizabeth Cultain, Sylvie Melchlor Old Row Gendvieve Byine, Helen Smith, Geialdine Mitchell, Phillipa Buxton, Maigaiet Deane, Anne Mal ie MacDonagh, Marian

Walkel, Gablielle Feiguson 2nd Row Julie Spehi, Jenny Sullivan, Sandia Plzel, Beinadette Hosle, Judy Clazeboiough, Pauhne Noel, Fianya Knuan, Debia Chipp Flist Rou Raibaia O'Loughlan,

Anne Coleman, Maiee Fakhiy, Maiv Canoil, Mai v LT nn Giace, Joan McCann, Megan Jones, Toni Smith, Sally Kennon

FORM III BLUE

Back Row (left to light) Julle Height, Maryanne Molomby, Anne O'Shaughnessy, Kalen Hogan,

Veionica Spillane, Felicity Claike, Geraldine Stewai t, Anne Hennessy, Fiona Kiely 3i d Back Row Louise Lechte, Maigaiet Bell, Joanne Slatteiy, Katie Keenan, Sue Leahy, Katheiine Kevin, Maiina O'Hallaion, Pam Evans, Jane Schlesingei, Miss Bell (teachei) 2nd Fiont Row Bernadette Starr,

Kaileen Quinn, Jenny McCombe, Helen Wlight, Julie Brid, Joanne Mansoui, Cathy Sinn, Mauteen Carroll

Fiont Ron Jill Ryland, Caiol Tiegonning, Vii ginia Giigsby, Gabrielle Walker, Anne Cantwell, Debbie Naughton, Pia MeNamai a, Mai y Boileau, Alita Caneqti a

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Back Row (left to light) S Stewait, J Matthews, J Wellsted, F Muiphy, A Hollywood, L Mahon, O'Connoi, M Henshall,

J Hoopei, S Kennedy, C Hill, J O'Biien 2nd Back Row M O'Connoi, C

E Salacz, M Tiernan, M Poitei, J Moon, E Lachal M Magdalen 2nd Fiont Row S Lewis, 11 Molloy, M Sakaes, D Pai kinson, C Molyneux, D Jones, J Jensen, P Magiee, J Hughes,

M L MeGlade, E Webb Fiont Row E O'Dwyel, P Thomi,son. P IIci\Ianus, C Sueenev, F Quinn, B Tai anto, C Ti acy, J. Noel.

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Back Row (left to zight) L Coughlin, M Flynn, J Gaffy, A Failey, J Bouike, D Gill, J Bouike, H Bourke, K Connellan 2nd Back Row P Ahein, C Biyce, K Allen, J Donnan, S Gunnis, J Daly,

O Bryce, M Blake, 2nd Row A Junokas, M DT non, L Gloigi, A Colendge, J Connaughton, S Evans, E Collie Fiont Row V Cuitis, E Gallaghei, M Coleman, J Davine, D Dale, L Gunn

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SOME MEMBERS OF FORM IV

Back Row (left to light) Julie Holschiei, Chiis Byine, Ruth Coffey, Chiistine McIntyie, Cathy MeEnioe, Anne Peppaid, Mary Rose Sinn, Diane Biistowe 2nd Back Row Maigaiet Hennessv, Susan Coghlan, Bernadette O'Connor, Wendy Makepeace, Sally Aiendsen Eleanor Biscoe, Karen Alessio, Brigid Calanchini, Eileen Cahill 3rd Row Angela MeGlade, Jenny Randles, Joan Coghlan, Jacinta Dynon, Geialdine McColl-Jones, Mother John Beichmans, Jane Whelan, Jenny Lombaid, Anne Flanagan, Lauia Nicholls 2nd Row Alexandia McCinty, Angela Dwyei Angela Caller, Chris Carroll, Janet Clancy,

Cathaiine Hill, Marea McCoy, Mary Best, Rebecca Myer Front Row Julie Coglin, Christine Troup, Elizabeth Fletchei, Alexanclia McKenzie, Helen McCardle, Marcella Nash, Joan Mortensen, Ann Westnioi e

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"Beautful, therefore, and truly solemn is the vocation of all those who assist parents in fulfilling their task and tcho represent human societu as well, by undertaking the role of school teacher.

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Back Row: Mother Marie Reparatrice, Mrs. Turnbull, Mrs. McDonough, Mother Xaveria, Mrs. Reynolds, Miss Bell, Mother Magdalen, Mrs. Flynn, Mrs. McDonald. Middle Row: Mother Mark, Mrs. Schaefer, Miss Drennan, Mrs. Haas, Mother Brigid, Mother Borgia, Mother Margaret, Mother Josephine, Mother Loyola. Front Row: Mother Gen&vieve, Miss Fei·guson, Mother Berchmans, Mother Seraphina, Mother Sylvester, Mrs. Szotyory, Mr. Pei·ezuk, Miss Peters, Mrs. Teague. Absent: Mrs. Linton, Miss Streich, Mr. Fullard, Mrs. O'Donoghue. Inset: M. M. Inez.

Parent-Teacher Meetings The general aim of Parent-Teacher Meetings is to foster a closer relationship between home and school so that parents and teachers may co-operate intelligently in the training of children. The role of parents in education is becoming increasingly vital. They are instrumental in uniting the forces of home, school and

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Superior on the formation of Christian Youth in the light of Vatican II, short talks were given by the subject teachers outlining any changes in the teaching and examining of their particular subject and offering positive suggestions for parents to encourage their daughters' interest.

community. Parents can interpret the school to the

These meetings gave parents and teachers a valu-

community and the community to the school and the resulting integration of effort can help secure for every child the highest advantages in spiritual, physical,

able opportunity to exchange views and several mat-

mental and social education.

This year a series of Parent-Te·acher meetings was held at Loreto, Toorak. Two were held each term

starting with First Division in first term. Parents were invited to submit topics for discussion before the meetings and these were placed on the agenda. The meetings were chaired by the Mistress of

Schools and following an introductory talk by Mother

ters came up for discussion: the councillor system, social activities, homework and sport, to mention just a few. At the conclusion of the meetings supper was served in the Undercroft, during which parents discussed with teachers the individual progress of their children.

This year's Parent-Teacher meetings were enthusi-

astically supported by Parents and Staff and it is hoped that they will continue to be a regular feature of school life at Loreto.

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Motllei M Nuala and Mother M Bernardine

PIONEERS OF MANDEVILLE

More members of staff

Mother Roch witli Tere%a

Mother Vincent and Mother Laurence prepare a boarder'% meal

Mother Fidelma with Louise

Mother M Martin

Mother Padua in the Conservatory Page Forty-six

Why Teach Science ? This article is an abridged version of a talk given

staking work of Kepler over 16 years analysing the

as a panel member at a Catholic Science Teachers'

tables of planetary positions left him by Tycho Brahe; such was his own integrity, and his respect for the exactness of Tycho Brahe's records, that he abandoned

Association Meeting. Its bias is quite deliberate and it should be remembered that no attempt has been made to give a comprehensive survey of all aspects of the question. There are many legitimate and/or valuable reasons to which no further reference is

macie: e.g., because the modern world needs scientists, because some children in the school are in-

terested in the subject and want to be taught it. because of the mental growth associated with having to think things out, because it helps demythologise

nature and produce more accurate ideas about time and space, etc., etc.

I have interpreted the question "1 Teach Science Why?" to mean: What are sonic human and religious values associated with science, which make me think it is worthwhile teaching? I have chosen five1. That science is part of the search for trilth.

the results of years of labour on discovering that his calculations failed to agree with Tycho Brahe's data by about 1/8 min., i.e. 1/480 degree.

And Newton, who could well be the greatest scientist the world has ever produced. once said: "I do not know how I appear to the world, but I see myself as a cliild playing by the seaside, who is glad because every now and again he finds a pebble smoother than the rest, or a shell more fascinating,

while the mighty ocean of truth rolls zinexplored before him."

I lowevcr, it is important for children to realise that

it is not just these particular inen who were honest and persevering, but that any true science necessarily has these qualities. This has immediate application

2. That real science is necessarily honest, persevering and humble.

in their own practical work. in which one has to insist that to change experimental results to ft a pre-

3. That an understanding of the methods and limi-

conceived idea of what should have happened, is not

tations of science is very desirable in today's world.

4. That from an understanding of the nature of science, it shozild be apparent that gennine science and genuine religion cannot conHict. 5. That there is a link between science and Chris-

tianity.

Firstly, it is part of man's nature to seek truth, and science is one aspect of truth. The intense desire to understand the universe, which is characterstic of

many great scientific minds, is shown remarkably in these words of Einstein:

"Only those who realise the immense efforts, and above all the devotion which pioneer work in theoretical science demands, can grasp the strength of emotion out of which alone such work, remote as it is from the immediate realities of life, can issue. What

a deep conviction of the rationality of the universe and what a yearning to linderstand . . .Kepler and Newton must have had to enable them to spend years of solitary labour in disentangling the principles of celestial mechanics? '

It seems to me that this same unquenchable thirst

in man for greater knowledge is shown in modern space research, and that therefore efforts to curtail it seriously are misplaced. Man is denying part of his humanity if he gives up his efforts to penetrate more deeply into the mystery of the universe. As Pope Pius XII told the 7th Congress of the International Astronautical Federation: "The Lord had no

intention of setting a limit to enquiry when He said: '... let man have dominicm over the whole earth'. It is all creation which he has entrusted to man.

Secondly, I think that science is worth teaching,

only dishonest but is shockingly bad science. Kepler's great discoveries would never have been made if he had done this.

Thirdly, to live as an informed citizen in today's

world, one should know something of the nature of science, and in particular its methods and its limita-

tions. This is important in view of many pseudoscientific statements which are made, and which a scientifically illiterate population cannot adequately

judge. Ilence, if science is seen as dealing with matter and discovering truth by experiment, and since obviously one cannot experiment with anything nonmaterial, it should be apparent that the man who says "I do not believe in God because of science", or

something equivalent to this, is talking through his hat! No matter how many scientific experiments one performs, it is impossible to tonie to any conclusions regarding anything non-material. One just cannot conclude at the end of a scientific experiment: "this is beautiftil", "that is ugly",OR "there is no God". Such a conclusion shows a basic misunderstanding of the nature of science.

These issues are implicitly raised in school science continually, but could be dealt with explicitly when discussing the scientific method: e.g., one could pose the question: Show how you could go about investigating these two hypotheses: ( a) all objects fall to the ground at the same rate; (b) all green objects are beatitiful. It should soon be obvious that only one is a genuinely scientific question, involving ideas which can

be tested and measured expertly. Science has nothing to say about the other.

because genuine science is necessarily honest, per-

Fourthly, from an understanding of the nature of

severing and humble. Many illustrations could be

science, it should be apparent that genuine science and genuine religion cannot conflict. The Pastoral

given of these qualities in the work of great scientists;

a superb instance of them is provided by the pain-

Constitution on the Church states: "If methodical inPage Forty-seven

branch of learning is carried out in a genuinely scientific manner and in accord with moral norms, it never

truly conHicts with faith. For earthly matters and the concerns of faith derive from the same God ...

Consequently we cannot but deplore certain habits of mind, sometimes found too among Christians, which do not sufficiently attend to the rightful independence of science. The arguments and controversies which tliey spark lead many minds to conclude that faith and science are mutually opposed, ( Section 36, p. 234).

The study of evolution in Biology is probably the most obvious context in which to raise this issue,

though whether it is best clone in the science cIAss itself is, no doubt, a debutable point. I lowever, it must be raised somewhere and preferably by someone who has knowledge in both fields, Moreover, the more science that children have actually done, the mc)re readily they shozild be able to appreciate that

the apparent conflicts which have arisen are due to insufficient knowledge on one side or the other, but not because of any intrinsic opposition. Lastly, there is a definite link between science and Christianity.

This is illustrated again by the Pastoral Constitution

self to... science...he can do very much to elevate

the human family to a more sublime understanding of truth, goodness and beauty. Thus mankind can be

clearly enlightened by that marvellous Wisdom which was with God for all eternitv.... Moreover, under

the impulse of grace, man is disposed to acknowledge the Word of God". And again, the Constitution says, a little later, that the positive values fostered by science "can provide some preparation for the acceptalice of the gospel inessage - a preparation which can be animated with divine love by Him who came to save the World." (Sect, 57, pp. 263-4).

On a more personal level, one can readily find instances of great scientists whose Christian faith Howed over into their work to the enrichment of both.

By introducing our pupils to some of their writings, perhaps we wotild communicate to them a feeling for the synthesis achieved by tliese men. I suppose the most obvious modern example is Teilhard de Chardin, so 1 shall conclude on this note by quoting a sentence

from a letter written by him from off the coast of

Sinai Peninsula: "I should have liked to land on these

rocky coasts, not only to test them with my hammer, but to listen also for the voice from the Burning Bush."

on the Church: it says that "when a man applies him-

-M. MAGDALEN, 1.B.V.M.

Come Follow Me The following are sonic thoughts from a talk given to a group of parents on religious life - 1968.

"Come follow me : three simple words with an appeal so strong that hearts have responded through"

out 1900 years. Response to the call is unique in

every case and is. in the last analysis, inexplicable. Yet the inquiring human mind seeks explanations. In the past, men have tended to see religious life as a

means to an end; in the present, we lean tou,ards

explanations in psychological terms - needs. personalit> type, etc. Both are wrong. In essence, religious life is a mystery, a mystery of faith, the source of which is Christian baptism. God acts in the individual life in baptism and He acts similarly when He calls the soul into religious community. It is well to remember that the acceptance of a call to lead the celibate life does NOT mean the renunciation of

something that was necessary for the fulfilment of a

certain person; rather it may be seen as fulfilling and satisfying for the one called to it, as niarriage is

for another,

Its characteristics are twofold - prayer, shot through with periods of work. This prayer must be seen in terms of the life of the Church. Religious

are a group whose joyful task it is to praq. Mass, the Divine Office, and meditation are the focus of the

prayer life - and all this because the religious has in her heart the constant refrain of the Canticle of Can-

ticles: "mv Beloved t() me and 1 to Him till the day

break and the shadows retire."

Consecration by now, then, means being made sacred. It is a straight line of development from the initial consecration at Baptism; a consecration to

God, for God, to be used in His service.

Two final points should be noted. The evangelical Page Forty-eight

counsels imply a counsellor. one to whom we make response. Religious life then is not a commitment to do some THING; it is a loving embrace of some ONE, precious, desirable, utterly satisfying.

Since the response is from man to God, many parents may fear a future of loneliness for a son or daughter. It is well to remember that the response is made in community, and this is no chance gathering of individuals, with a structure to keep things

going. It is a family given to the Church by God,

The community eleinent is vastly important and

grossly misrepresented. In community tile religious

finds and makes for others, a true home, warm, beautiful, lovable.

Vows, lived out in community, are then, a flowering of the virtue of faith. Poverty announces an acceptance of the risk of being led by God on a path which I do not plan. Obedience lived. brings my life into a central harmony with God's will. Chastitv. with its

undividedness, allows for the flowering of charity. 1

ani available always tc) exercise maternal love and care over miniy

Having established that vocation is a call. by Someove, Tve have finally to admit that I-Ie comes not as King, Priest or Prophet, but as Christ the Bridegroom, a crucified Bridegroom. Who having given all in love, asks for all in love. So each religious returns constantly to the u'ords of the Canticle: "I have found Him whom iny soul loveth, I have found Him and I will not let Him go." The idea is echoed by a

modern poet, Gerard Manley IIopkins:

"I have found the dominant of my range and state Love, O my God, to call Thee love and love."

May it re-echo in manv more hearts in the years

ahead!

2-M, XATERIA, 1.B.V.M.

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Creative Writing

The precious sea in its non-stop waves;

The streams in their blue dresses hurrying past; The potiring rain from the grey clouds above; The firm earth which has never dropped us; The flesh of human people liz·ing; Without my eyes. I would never know these. -GRAINNE MURPHY, Grade IV.

SOUNDS

Sounds are beautiful. We are lucky we can hear them. We forget sometimes to stop and listen to them.

Earlv outside you hear the birds singing and the leaves swaying. When everyone wakes there is a lot of noise; we forget about birds that sing. When we get to school you hear girls chattering, boys fighting,

teachers laughing. When the bell rings and everyone stands in line quietly. Then you hear the birds singing again, papers rustling and the wind howling. Everyone goes into school. They work till the bell rings. The boys and girls then chatter on their way home.

-PRUDENCE FRANCIS, Grade IV,

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Pink blossom,

Like balls of cotton wool,

IIanging on the trees.

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Beautiful when the sun shines. When it rains on the blossoms

They glitter as if they were dianionds. Blossom, so beautiful in the Spring. Blossom !

-MARIA KELLY, Grade 1V.

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THE LITTLE STAR

I diddle-le-de, I diddle-le-do,

Little Star was always talking.

One fairy sat on a flower;

He talked about

He talked about his books and stories. One

I diddle-le-de, I diddle-le-do,

school.

Nine more fairies came out too,

day he could count up to one hundred, starting from

I diddle-le-de, I diddle-le-do,

nought.

Fairies!

His nium and dad did not like Little Star talking at all, -Ale:andi·a Schall.Riacour, Grade Il.

He talked about that too, and other things.

so he ran away many miles across the sky to a new

world called "Chatter-Box" where he lived happily ever

(With apologies to the author of "Hail-stones and

after.

-Anne MeDermott, Grade II.

Hallibut bones.") Orange is an orange,

Pretty little flowers, standing in a row.

Orange is paint,

Pretty little flowers upon a tree.

Orange is a flower,

Pretty little flowers in a bowl.

Orange is a band for your hair.

Aren't they pretty in a posy ?

That's what orange is!

-Christine Vella, Grade I. Paola Vernengo, Grade II. AN ELF

Once I went for a walk

I like the little elf that lives in a wooden box. He gets

And I had a little talk with Mr. Stork.

into the jam jar and gets all sticky.

His cousin was a hawk,

drinks so much that he gets drunk. When the holidays

His favourite meal was pork.

come and I go away, he goes with me and nobody knows.

He had a bottle of wine,

His name is Slampy. He is a very funny little elf.

So pop went the cork!

Sometimes he

One day he was picking cherries for his dinner and a Elizabeth Carolan, Grade II.

dog came along. The dog's name was Tinny, and Tinny chased Slampy up a tree. Slampy ran up the tree. Then

I went to the football to see my brother play in the grand final between Newman and Ormond. My brothei·

he picked up a broken stick and said to the dog, "Fetch

got sixteen kicks, but we lost.

back to his wooden box, and he was so puffed out that

--Francis Xavier Costello, Gracie II.

the stick." Tinny ran after the stick while Slamp ran he fell asleep.

-Margaret Hepworth, Grade I.

On my birthday I was given as a present a magnifying

glass. I took it outside and looked at insects. I looked at a fly. It was big. By the time the day was over I knew all about flies.

You cannot see much about flies

when they are small. The next morning I woke up and got dressed and took my magnifying glass outside to

look at more things. I looked at a ladybird. It had little

MY SCHOOL

My school is Loreta I come on the bus. My school is in Toorak.

There is a Junior School and a Senior

School. The big girls have a test to go into another

grade. I am in Grade I. When I go to play I play with Susan and Margaret. The game we play is Oranges and Lemons.

-Catherine Sheehan, Grade I.

black dots all over it. I found out that ladybirds could fly.

-Susan Heath, Grade II.

I found a frog in our back garden. He's very good, but he's only a baby. We put him in a pond at my grand-

Under our house I have a secret hide-a-way where I go to make plans on the others. Under our house it is dark and quiet so nobody can disturb me. Sometimes I feel scared of spiders or snakes, but I am not in there very long. When I come out they say where have you been but I do not tell them because it is a secret. -Mary Jane Rogers.

mother's.

He swims well. He's a green frog.

There

is wire on top of the pond. He will still be there when I go to grandmother's next time. -Robin-Anne Liddy, Grade I.

A fi·og went hop, hop, hop. A dog went jump, jump, jump. A cat went skip, skip, skip,

THE CIRCUS

And a little puppy went with his mother, the dog. When they carne to the lake,

I wish I could go to the circus with lions rearing, eleThen phants trumpeting, monkeys doing their tricks. would come the horses prancing with glee, and the

the dog took two jumps,

clown, don't forget. And please don't forget that every-

but the little puppy took two jumps.

thing I said you will see at a circus. -Matthew Bickley, Grade II.

He could not jump very well so

the frog took two hops, the cat took two skips,

he called to his mother and his mother

took him across the water and safely to the other side. -Mary Kennedy, Grade I.

MY DOLL

I love my doll. She is very big and I talk to her. When it is time for bed, I take her with me. I draw sometimes while she sits down and watches television, and when I do not want to draw, I watch television, too. -Michelle Guisti, Grade II.

Fish live in the sea.

Some fish jump out of the water. Some men catch fish. Some men like fish to eat.

-Andrew Combes, Grade I. Page Fifty-one

Living Things in the Classroom

In our classroom we have a turtle named IIenrietta.

She has a hard sort of shell and she is coloured brown and

yellow. We feed her lettice and minee meat, but she

doesn't eat it. We have six fish and we feed them once a

week. The names of the fish are Silver, George, Mercury, Joseph, Speckle and Sandy. We have some water snails and we keep them in a bottle. They are a red colour. We

also have a case moth called "Uncle". He lives on the window sill.

-I.ISA BERGIN, Grade III.

We have told you of many living things in our classroom, but the main living things are us! There are twenty-three of us. We are large and small and Mother Rita calls us her Princesses. There are also

our eight sea snails which are u,obbly und small and

you don't know if they're alive or not because they

are so slow. They swim about like fish. Today we are

having a special visitor, a tiny white rabbit. We have also some beautiful flowers and pot plants. -KATE TIERNAN, Grade 111,

17{E SIIELVES IN OUR CLASSROOM

In the corner of our classroom we have five shelves.

On the very top one there are three fish. They are called Mercury, Speckle and Joseph. Beside the fish

there is a sea snail.

On the second shelf there is some coloured sand.

Some is patterned and son- isn't. There are also lots

of different rocks. Some of these have been polished. On the middle shelf there are many shells. There

is a piece of coral at the back of all the shelves. Reside the she]Is there are a lot of different pebbles. On the next shelf there are dolls from different

FROM OUR CLASSROOM WINDOWS

From our classroom windows we can see the

blossom in the spring and the cherries in the summer, the dried leaves in the autumn and the snow in the

CY)untrics.

On the last shelf there is a number of books.

You would be very interested in the shelves in our

classroom!

winter, all on the same tree. Aren't we lucky? Underneath the windows is a lovely garden with

-MARGARET B \RTLEY, Grade III.

pink, purple, yellow and red flowers. There are daffodils, primroses, wallHowers and freesias,

At the side of the path there is a square green

lawn u'liere we play.

-KIM ])UNPLIY, Grade III.

TIIE TURTLE

There once was a turtle so fat and so slow,

He lived in a bathtub and had nowhere to go.

The children fed him on letttice and meat,

But nothing on earth would tempt him to eat. MY PET

We raffled the rabbit on Friday. His name is Sam, and he lives in a pen. He has some black and white patches. Sam's eyes are blue and he can jump over a box. Bill and my sister and I saw Sam licking his paws. We asked my sister if we could pat him and she said "yes" to all of us. One day when we came home from school we found Sam had dug a hole that led to next door. Mum

put some bricks there. We could not keep Sam. So we raffled him.

MY PET

I have a pet. It is a puppy. When we are at school

she sometimes chews shoes. The puppy is black. She has a red Iead and collar.

Her name is Tippy. We

call her Tippy because she has a white tip on the end of her tail.

-Jenny McCarthy, Grade I. Page Fifty-two

VIVIENNE REEL), Grade III.

-Helen O'Dea, Grade I.

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THE CHERRY BLOSSOM COMES TO LIFE

The grade was preparing a project on Japan. Mrs.

Gorton had placed tree twigs on the blackboard ledge. We were going to make cherry blossom to put on the twigs. That morning, as we were doing Mathematics, we heard a noise and when we looked up the twigs had burst into beautiful blossom. It was so fantastic we could hardly believe our eyes.

Then we saw some Japanese people standing and

smiling at us. They were dressed iii kimonos with obis round their waists and getas on their feet. One of them

spoke: "Taste the cherry blossom, she said. We did taste it. It was like delicious fairy floss.

Suddenly a bell rang! Oh! It was the lunch bell. Maths was over and I had wakened from a beautiful day dream!

-CATHERINE SELF, Grade III.

Our class is learning about American Indians. The Killamook tribe has totem poles. We made some paper ones, too. This is how it is done:

1. Fold your paper in half into a rectangle about fifteen inches long and five inches wide.

2. Now write your first, second or third name in wide letters the width of the fold.

3. Next cut around your name but don't cut along the folded edge.

4. Open out your totem pole and colour it in.

and see the seals moving about. I think we were all sorry to leave.

We all helped pack up and we left after lunch. We came home through Dandenong after we had stopped at Tooradin for afternoon tea, Passing through Dandenong we saw something unexpected - two camels which were part of a circus. When we arrived home, our friends were

pleased to see us and hear about our holiday. -JENNIFER NEWMAN, Grade III.

-Jane Purcell, Joanne O'Connor, Grade III.

ANSWER THESE

Our class has been finding out about Australia, New

JAPANESE DOLLS

Zealand, Japan and the U.S.A. We have discovered

I am a little Japanese doll and I go for many trips

the answers to these questions. Can you? 1. Who found and sailed along the east coast of

to the city. When the children go to the city they buy me clothes. Girls in Japan even have a special day for dolls. On the third of March they put their favourite dolls on shelves for everyone to see. People from all over the world come to see us. We are all shapes and sizes.

The boys don't have dolls. They have kites. -ELIZABETH JOHNSON, Grade III.

Australia?

2. Did Columbus find New Zealand?

3. From what country do the Pueblo Indians come?

4. In what year did Columbus set sail for India? 5. Was one of Columbus's ships the Princess of Tasmania"?

6. What were the names of Columbus' ships? 7. From what are the traditional Japanese houses made?

THE SEPTEMBER HOLIDAYS

In the September holidays we went to Phillip

Island. We had a flat near the beach and the days were warm an

d sunny.

One day we were on a drive when we had to stop our ear whilst a big pIump koala crossed the road. At night the penguins come out from the sea and go to find their own burrows. We saw may of them one night. Sometimes we climbed around the rocks, gathered shells and played in the sand. Many of the shells were interesting so we brought them home with us. My father took us up to a cave which people can enter when the tide is out.

At the Nobbies there is a good view of Seal Rock.

For five cents visitors can look through a telescope

8. Do the Eskirno tribes live in Igloos?

9. What country traditionally does Origami? 10. What is the capital of New Zealand?

11. What is the Japanese ladies' traditional costume? 12. Who found America?

13. What is the largest Kingfisher? 14. Who discovered New Zealand? 15. Are rabbits native to Australia? 16. Are horses native to America?

17. What is the capital of Australia?

18. What New Zealand bird can't fly? 19. Did Columbus find India?

20. From what part of America do the Sioux tribe of Indians come?

Check your answers on Page 55. Page Fifty-three

A DAY AT THE I-IUNT

It was the day we had looked forward to. the day of the children's hunt. We sprang out of bed quickly. Then we ran downstairs and caught the ponies. brotight theni lip to the yard and gave them a feed. We then hurricd inside to breakfast We gave the ponies a grooming which made thrin look sleek and shiny. We then oiled their hoofs and bandaged them

up for the float trip.

When we arrived, we mounted and walked the horses around, Then

the horn blew and we were off. Over the first fence we flew. Over ditches

und stone walls we leapt. We galloped over two stone walls and then came a tricky fence. 1 nearly fell but just saved myself. We went back to the hoinestead. Then it was time fur home. The end of the day wore on, we were tired, but we were :1]so proud of our well beliaved horses.

-MARY FORREST, Grade V. A WEDDING

The second wedding in our family was that of my sister Bernadette to Michael Boyd Turner at St.

A GRAND FINAL

Skilfully, the foothaller guided the hall thi'ozigh the goal posts. Cheirs mid shouts were heard, streamers and pendants were wared, the first goal was on the

board. 1 was trying desperately to keep myself stand-

ing iii) but it was almost impossible with all the

bustling and bustling and jolting and pushing going on. Well, I suppose it was worth it all to watch a

Grand Final.

Suddenly a mark was taken. The crowd was hushed for the footballer was trying for a goal. We stood in

James's, Gardenvale. My brother was married in the

same church in December and they were both married

by my uncle, Father Conquest. My sister Marg and Patricia Dowling were Bernadette's bridesmaids and Michael had his brother Richard and my brother Simon as groomsmen.

We had a wonderful wedding reception at home for 180 people. We hired a marquee. Some of our relatives helped to decorate the marquee, which incorporated the garden trees. The blossom was not out so we tied

suspense as he lined up an kicked it. We watched

fresh blossom to the trees and also green leaves and artificial flowers to the branches. My cousins made

When the teams came out for the last quarter the

tissues. These looked beautiful with the yellow lining and the crystal chandeliers in the marquee, plus a

as it spun through the air and right between the goal posts. It was a goal! The scores were now equal. excitement was intense. Kick for kick, goal for goal, the ball was kicked out of bounds and had to be

thrown in again until at last, when the siren sounded my team had lost. I was sad, but pleased also that it was only three points they were beaten by - not

three goals!

-KRISTINE HILL, Grade V.

hundreds of yellow and white carnations from Kleenex

white candie on each table surrounded by yellow

tulle and white carnations with yellow centres.

As one of our very old friends said, it looked like fairyland. Bernadette looked very beautiful in white velvet and the bridesmaids wore antique gold velvet. As Michael comes from South Australia we had many guests fi·om interstate. It was a very wonderful and happy day and one we and all our friends will

remember always.

-CAROLE CONQUEST, Gracie VI. VISIT TO THE SIIOW

The moment we alighted from the crowded bits a gay atmosphere surrounded us. We joined different groups and crowded into the cow stalls, where you could view the different types of cows. After we had seen thein we went to see the horses but, unfortunately, it was raining so we had to find cover in the pig stand. ln there we were lucky enough to view an auction, and one of the biggest pigs sold for two hundred dollars! The next display was of sheep, and while we were there we saw how the sheep were shorn. On the ,vay out, we gazed at the amaziilg ,irraiigements of Howers. There were different colours for all of the anniversuries.

Then we came to the place where milk was bottled and they gave us a

free bottle of milk. After that we saw the dogs. In the arena we had our lunch and viewed the horses that were

jumping. When we came out of the pavilion we went to the place where they displayed bees.

After that we met the bus and drove back to school after a very

interesting trip to the Show.

-ANNE WITITTY, Grade V. Page Fifty-four

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THE MOUNTAIN LION

EVENTS LEADING UP TO AND AFTER SHEARING

Many a city girl has not experienced the thrill of

A yellowy brown was the cat, Deep red eyes, spiky claws,

shearing. It is a most exciting time. There are many jobs to do if the shearers will let you help. First of all

Teeth, teeth such as you had never seen before.

you have to round up the sheep; this is fun although it

A yellowy brown was the cat,

is tiring. Drafting comes next, drafting them just means

A colour like mustard;

separating them and putting them with their own kind

It burnt you when you looked.

and breed-for example, ewes with ewes, and rams with

Deep, red eyes and spiky claws,

rams. Then you put them in the shed. The men com-

Eyes the colour of death,

mence shearing. Then comes another good part. Once

Claws that took bark off trees in a single swipe.

a shearer has shorn the sheep, we collect the wool and spread it on the sorting table. When this time comes the tired shearers can have a rest, for we have taken

Teeth, teeth such as you had never seen before, They could tear a man to pieces, Eyes, claws, teeth.

-Mary Lou Scally, Grade IV.

their jobs. Next comes the branding. When the shearers' pen is full you let them out into the race (a narrow yard) and brand them with the branding oil, which is a coloured, thick liquid. You place a branding iron in

the oil and brand them on the back (quite unlike cattle). When all your yards are full you put the sheep back into their respective paddocks. Shearing is a time for work, but it can also be fun!

THE BIRD

The feathered wings And the bright little eye,

The chirping it makes, The flying it does

All around the cage -Jenny Chalmers, Grade VI.

To keep itself happy All the days long.

MY TREASURES

-Julia Moore, Grade IV.

Treasures are things you like. Treasures are things you treasure.

A HOME IN A NEW LAND

Treasures are some of these things:

My family and I left the United States to make our

A big bride doll I had when I was six,

new home in Melbourne, Victoria. We arrived in July

Old and rather battered now;

to find that Melbourne was different from what we had

A shell with a purplish back;

expected. Since we were arriving during the winter sea-

An old pair of shoes I had when I was two.

son, I was surprised not to find dead grass and bare trees.

They seem rather odd.

There were lovely green gardens with blooming flowers

But, as I said before,

The weather

Treasures are treasures,

of all kinds, parks and beautiful trees.

And treasures are things you like.

was rather warm considering that it was still winter.

-Ruth Jones, Grade IV.

I was even more surprised to see palm trees sprouting out in the parks and along the side of the streets. The Australians seemed so nice and friendly and helped us

CLOUDS

in so many ways. We had trouble understanding their

The clouds are very white;

accent, but I suppose they were occupied, too, in under-

They were very quiet

standing my family and me.

When they moved;

-Martha Burja, Grade VI.

It looks like they're puffing, Then thunder comes,

Then lightning,

Then people snuggle in their beds. -Carolyn Pitt, Gracie IV.

ANSWERS FROM PAGE 53

1. Captain Cook. 2. No. 3. America. 4. 1492. 5. No.

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6. Pinta, Nina, Santa Mai·ia. 7. Bamboo and Paper. 8. Yes.

9. Japan. 10. Wellington. 11. Kimono, Obi, Geta. 12. Columbus. 13. Kookabui·ra.

14. Captain Cook in H.M.A.S. "Endeavour". 15. No.

18. Kiwi.

16. No.

19. No.

17. Canberra.

20. Prairies.

-Mai·garet Tange and Anne Mortensen, Grade III.

MILK FOR INDIA

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flowers there. This we did with much enthusiasm.

MRS. GANDHI VISITS AUSTRALIA

During the May holidays, my family read in the daily newspaper that Mrs. Gandhi, India's first woman Prime Minister, would be shortly visiting Australia. This was of particular interest to us as my mother was born in Bombay. We decided to give her a warm welcome by presenting her with a bouquet of flowers. Mother wore

her best golden sari which had been sent to her by my grandmother. When we arrived at the airport, we found many Indian people already gathered there. The ladies looked beautiful iii their gaily-coloured saris and there was much excitement.

Soon the aeroplane came into sight. People began pushing forward to catch a closer glimpse of this

Mrs. Gandhi gave us a beautiful smile and said, "

"Thank you, dears , We were thrilled.

Then we watched her drive away preceded by a

motoreade. The many newspaper reporters who had gathered at the airport vere anxious to know who we were and what Mrs. Gandhi had said. This had been

a most memorable day for ils. -ROWENA FRANCIS, Grade VI. BIAFRA, THE STATE OF NEED

Biafra, in South Africa, is in great need. It has other states around it, They are not willing to give. Thousands die every day, mostly children. In this year of 1968, we are doing much to help them. There

linique woman. 11'e inanaged to m.111(,euvie ()111' 1,-ay

have been walks for this cause, Students and nuns

to the barricade, but to oin· disappointment Mrs,

from various schools, including Loreto. have gone on these. Sponsors pay money to them for every mile they walk. Some people donate to these through the Red Cross. Many things have been donated to them.

Gandhi went to the other side to receive some Howers

from people waiting there. Desperately, we tried to reach her but all in vain, It wasn't until she was in the Car that one of the

omcials noticed that we had not presented our flowers to her. 1 Ie told us to squeeze through the barricade

It really shows how lucky we are to live in such a

wealthy country as Australia, and it makes tls think of our responsibility to help others in need.

and to go to Mrs. Gandhi's car and give her the

-LOUISE TAYLOR, Oracle V,

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Back Row (left to right): S. Moy, R. Fetherstonhaugh, P. Lewis, J. O'Connor, A. Mortensen,

S. McCarthy, F. Vale, K. Hurley, L. Naut, J. Newman, E. Galbally, C. Self, J. Purcell. Middle Row:

E. Poynton, C. Mooney, J. Cuttler. Front Row: G. Kennedy, M. A. Bickley, S. Forrest, E. Johnson, M. Midgley, F. Wilkinson, T. Hannigan, S. Ryan, M. Tange.

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Book Reviews Books are wonderful. You can go all over the world

with them. A long time ago only the rich could buy books and no wonder. These books had the most

beautiful covers on them. The covers had precious stones in them such as rubies, opals, emeralds, even gold or silver. The binding was sometimes silk imported from Japan. The first letter on every page or

paragraph was engraved in beautiful colours. Before this, books were marble slabs bound in tough rope so that they would not break away. Why don't you read books? You will have fun.

-T. QUIN, Grade V. REVIEW OF A BOOK

A book that I recommend to all children from the

age of 10 to 13 is "Anne of Green Cables", written by a well-known author, L. M. Montgomery. I've read many of her "Anne" books and enjoyed them all. The adorable qualities of Anne and her foster parents, kind dear hearted Marilla and her hard working husband, Matthew. Anne's best friend, Diana, and her enemy, Gilbert, until ...

The red-headed Anne who always wanted her name spelt with an e on the end and who secretly got a dress with puffed sleeves. We follow her adven"

tures at school, on the river and as a reseller.

This is a story which has a heart-breaking ending

and happy, exciting and mischievous times, making hours of wonderful reading for girls.

The story actually begins on a small island, not far from Specks' island home. This island, unlike all the other Caribbean islands, has huge, sheer stone cliffs.

It is like a boulder that was dropped into the sea. The only vegetation is a sandy spit, on which a few scrawny horses graze. Sure that there are other horses. Steve persuades Specks to go there. Here they find, after careful searching, foot-holds in the rocks. Sure that this leads somewhere, they follow them. They

find a hole, down which they drop. At the bottom, thy find a maze of tunnels. They search the tunnels

for another opening and in doing this, lose their way. How they get out and what they find make the story very interesting and exciting.

This story will have a special appeal to horselovers, young and old. It is worthy of being added to any horse-lover's shelf. -CATHERINE HANKS, Grade VI. "TO THE WILD SKY"

Adventure lovers! Here is an exciting book which you will enjoy thoroughly. Ivan Southall tells you this story in a fascinating way you will love. The characters in this book sow love, hatred, under-

standing. We come with them from the bustling city to the wild parts of Australia for Gerald's party.

You will read about the plane crash and the fight for survival; how Carol found the emus and the deso-

late huts; how they needed water, food and matches.

-JULIANNE BLAKE-Oracle VI, "FLAME"

It is a thrilling part when they save each other's lives. This is an outstanding story voted Best Children's Book of the Year, 1968; a champion book for every-

For children who love horses, plus adventure, I

one to read and enjoy.

recommend "Flame by the distinguished writer. Walter Farley.

-ANNE HIPGRAVE, Gracie VI.

The story is set in the Carribean Sea on a small

"THE SILVER BRUMBY"

island. Young Steve Duncan, fresh from the city, is here to visit an old friend, Specks. Specks is a man about 50, who loves archaeology, especially old Spanish relies. Togetlier, they have many dangerous

writer, E. Mitchell. The atmosphere has been well

and interesting exploits.

caught in exquisite ink sketches by Grace Huxtable.

A breath-taking book which will entertain any horse-lover is the "Silver Brumby" by that well-known

04,

The spell-binding tale of a creamycoloured brumby foal, his silver-coloured dam and chestnut sire, the herd and secrets

of the bush will soon capture the attention of any reader. This story tells of a small foal as he &* 4.11 'V

grows up and meets the problems of remaining free from ever-invading man. When at last he defeats another stallion

and wins himself a herd, he is confronted

by the problem of evading capture. The wav iii which he solves this and keeps his .>29 43>i

herd from danger will interest any reader. This tale should have strong appeal to bush- or horse-lovers. It gallops along to an exciting climax, telling of famine and hardship which is endured and overcome. -MARGIE GAYNOR, Grade VI.

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Jennifer Bickley, Edward Borghesi, Sarah Boston, Cathei·ine Burke, Charlene Carroll, Merran Cheong, Penelope Clunies-Ross, Jane Cosgriff, Michael Deany, Anna Doyle, Elizabeth Fetherstonhaugh, Sally Fetherstonhaugh, Michael Francis, Corinne Gressly, Simon Griffiths-Smith, Simone Hannigan, Margaret Mary Hurley, David Johnstone, Belinda Jones, Ellen Kennedy, Michele Leber, Michelle Lewis, Fiona MacDonald, Mary-Louise MeCracken, ThOresa MeGee, Jennifer Mountain, Deirdre Moy, Caroline Muldoon, Susan Murphy, Julie Nederveen, Catherine Need, Bernadette O'Bryan, Michael Maureen O'Shaughnessy, Cai·oline Lindy O'Halloran, O'Bryan, Parsons, Adrienne Roche, Maria Roche, Alan Ryan, Marcelle Ryan,

Melanie Schwarz, Genevieve Seabrook, Elizabeth Skehan, Anthony Tiernan, Marie-Louise Walker, Elizabeth Wraith.

WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

October 8, being our 16th Wedding Anniversary, we invited a few families to call in at 6 p.m. to celebrate the occasion by assisting at Mass in our home. Reverend Father Ebsworth said the Xlass of the

Bride and Bridegroom on a small dining table in the middle of our lounge room surrounded by about twenty-five children and their parents. During the Mass, we received the Kiss of Peace. which we passed to the children. We received Holy Communion under both species. Although it was the first time that Father El)sworth

had celebrated Mass on such an occasion in a home, we doubt if it will be the last.

During the refreshments which followed the Mass,

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it was obvious that this family Mass in the home had made a strong impression. There seemed to be a feel-

ing that everyone had participated in a very special way, for a very special occasion. -DES and MARY SKEHAN.

( Parents of Elizabeth. Des is himself a past pupil of the kindergarten.) Page

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Loreto Parents' Association 1968 1-

A message trom the President 1

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Mrs. Feery with Mother Superior

Dear Loreto Parents,

My congratulations and thanks! 1968 has been a wonderful year for the Loreto Parents' Association.

The General Meetings each term have been well

attended, the functions each term filled to capacity,

moment the nuns are caring for more than 600 children there. Our Morning Coffee Party for this appea] resulted in $240 being sent through the bank to the nuns at Entally

the: generosity and support of all members of the

Our final function for 1968 is the Annual Dinner

Parents' Association given, and your Committee at all times has worked ceaselessly to help in any way possible. This has enabled llS to give Mother Superior a cheque for $1000 each term and has resulted in the

Dance for parents, held near the end of term. Already this night has been fully booked, and, 1 am sure, will

levelling and re-sowing of the front lawn, a water

bore to combat any water restrictions we may have in the future, lights on the front drive, additional books for the library and some basic gym equipment for the Senior School.

In addition to helping our own children this term, we decided to help other Loreto children not as fortunate as our own, namely, the Entally Orphanage iii Calcutta, India. This orphanage is run by Loreto nuns for unwanted children of all creeds, and at the

be both financially and socially successful.

Thank you, Mother Superior, for your help, guidance and interest in our meetings, and for telling us of school achievements and aims; to the rest of the

community for their interest in and help to our children; to the mothers who so generouslv lent their homes for functions; to you the parents who so wholeheartedly supported all our functions; and lastly to your Committee members who made the functions possible and enjoyable for those who attended, -JUDITH A. FEERY,

A sincere thank you to you, Mrs. Feery, to the members of the Committee and all the men-1-

bers of the Association who have worked so selflessly anct generously on our behalf in 1968. May God bless you all abundantly, The community and staff unite with me in this expression of thanks. -M.S.

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OUR PARISH PRIEST

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Reverend W. Elisworth

Father Ebsioorth has been Parish Priest of Toorak since 1928. He has baptised, ministered to, married ... successive generations of our children, and has been a steadfast friend to Loreto

in all these years. We sincerely congratulate him on the attainment of his Golden Jubilee as a priest and wish him every hal,piness on this great occasion - 1st December.

Only a num of prayer is cal)able of faith, tchich is grace, tchich is God Hiniself anct the activity of the whole nian, tuith nothing otitside itself that could build it up or influence it.

For only in prayer is the whole Dian there in God's immediate presence. The faith of today's

priest is the faith of a man of prager and mustical content/)lation or it is nothing. Such prayer certainly cannot mean the pricate luxurg of cultioating a beautiful sold. It must be turung

from the cruelty of life by the deeds and the anguish Of faith." Servants of the Lord - KARI, HAHNER.

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"Euen after students haue graduated, their teachers should continue to assist them with advice and friendship and also by establishing special groups genuinely inspired bu the Spirit of the Church."

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Loreto Old Girls Association

President: 1967-68: Mrs. R. Burton. 1968-69: AIrs. C. Dore.

Airs. Dc,re and Mother Siiperior with the ea

presented to the commimity by the Old Girls Mrs. R. Buxton

PAST PRESIDENTS OF LORETO OLD GIRLS' ASSOCIATION 1929-31 Dame Mary Daly.

1938

Mrs. P. O'Carrol.

1945-46 Mrs, L. McCauley.

1932

Mrs. B. Willis.

1939

Mrs. R. Healey.

1947

1933

Mrs. J. MeKenna.

1940

Mrs. H. Sinn (half-year),

1948-49 Mrs. J. Conquest.

1934

Mrs. R. Norton. 1941

Mrs. V. Cahill.

1935 Mrs. J. King.

Mrs. V. Cahill.

1986

Mrs. V. Adami.

1942 Mrs. H. Worthington.

1937

Mrs. J. Corby.

1943-44 Mrs. C. Parker.

1950

Mrs. T. Knowles.

Mrs. J. Dwyer.

1951-52 Mrs. J. O'Sullivan.

In 1953 it was decided that the Association would be re-named the LORETO TOORAK OLD GIRLS

ASSOCIATION and the following have held office since that year, 1953-54 Mrs. A. Kelly.

1959-60 Mrs. A. England.

1955

1961

Mrs. J. Dwyer.

Mrs. H. McCardel.

1956-57 Mrs. J. Dynon.

1962-63 Mrs. A. Wright.

1958

1964-65 Mrs. H. Mckenzie.

Mrs. L. Smith.

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1966

Mrs. J. Pacini.

1967

Mrs. J. Best.

1968

Mrs. R. Buxton.

Past Pupils of Toorak - Professed 1968

M.M. Frances Therese

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"I will give Him what 1 have, and all that I kieed 1 u,ill find in Ilim:'-Mari; Ward.

Reflections of a Parent It is obviously the plan of Our Lord to summon

certain people to serve Him in the religious life. To attempt to interfere with the Divine plan is not likely to lead to anyone's happiness. A parent whose daugh-

as entering a convent is not, a completely irrevocable step.

Many parents seem to imagine that every marriage is made in Heaven, but that no religious vocation is.

ter wishes to enter a convent should in my opinion ask

I see no evidence that the proportion of happiness

himself the questions which should be asked if a

in the life of a nun is less than the proportion of

daughter wishes to become engaged to marry, namely:

happiness in :1 marriage.

Has she seen enoiigh of the world? Is this a mere

This is hardly surprising, since to a Catholic or,

passing romantic fancy? Does she fully understand

indeed, to any Christian, a life completely devoted to

what this step involves?

the service of God must be at least as happy and

blessed as any other. It is also to be remembered that marriage is, where-

-1). WRIGHT.

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Loreto Toorak Association -- 1968 This year, 1968, as with any other year, has been

a very busy one for the Loreto Toorak Association. Under the Presidencies of Mrs. Richard Buxton

and Mrs. Graeme Dore, the executive and the thirty

general committee members have met five times to

parish priest of St. Peter's, Toorak. Father will celebrate his golden jubilee to the priesthood this year, and a garden party in his honour will be given at Mandeville early iii December.

Socially the last opportunity for a get-together for

organise and appoint sub-committees for the various

1968 will be a luncheon, held in the Great Hall of the

functions that the Association holds.

National Gallery of Victoria on November 20th. This will be the first function of its type held at the Gallery. Following lunch, guests will make private

The year started, as it traditionally does for the ' Old Girls", with the re-union on February 17th, held at the school. As guests of the nuns and of the Association, about three hundred members attended Mass

at midday. This was followed by a buffet luncheon, and ample opportunity was provided to meet our new

Mother Superior, Mother Sylvester, from Adelaide. It was an extremely successful day and also very heartening to see the ever-increasing attendance of

"new" old girls, who will perpetuate the Association.

The next function oil the year's agenda was the annual Loreto Ball. Forty-three debutantes and their partners were presented to the President ( Mrs. Richard Buxton) and Mr. Buxton. Attended by one

thousand two hundred guests at the Palais, it too was an outstanding success. The proceeds of the ball were directed to the purchase of a much-needed car for the nuns at Mandeville. Functions such as this and

I the re-union have the pleasant effect of bringing the members together once again. The interests of the sport-minded iii the Association

are also attended to. This year a Loreto golf team took part in the Sun Challenge Cup. Competition and a golf day were also arranged. The latter took place at Peninsular Country Golf Club at Frankston. Thirty members participated in what we hope will become an annual event.

In June of this year our annual General Meeting was held. An executive change occurred and we welcomed NIrs. Graeme Dore as our new President.

At the meeting, Mother Francis Anthony spoke of

her work at Winlaton. Apropos to this, it is hoped that the Association will be able to help a charity of this nature in the near future.

A one-day Retreat was held at the Convent on October 6th, guided by Father J. Reilly, S.J., recently

returned from India, and at present assistant chaplain to Newman College. The Retreat took on a new

format. The lectures, around the theme "My Christian Living", were held in he Mary Ward Library. Mass was also celebrated there. We were privileged to receive Holy Communion under both species, and hymns at the Mass were sung to a guitar accompaniment. An atmosphere inducive to reflection, created by the nuns, was aided by the co-incidence of the Matriculation Girls' Retreat on the same weekend.

Our next spiritual function was a Mass on November 13th for the deceased members of the Association.

The Mass was celebrated by Father W. Ebsworth, Page Seventy

tours of the Gallery.

Naturally, one of the main aims of the Association is to be of assistance to the nuns, and in November, some of our members kindly offered their services

in presiding at the end-of-year examinations. However, there are other facets in which the Association attempts to take part in wider community affairs. We are represented on the National Council

of Women - a group representing women from all

walks of life in Australia - by Mrs. H. MeKenzie and Mrs. G. Molyneux. The Association is also affiliated with the Federated Catholic Mothers' Clubs.

1967 was the year in which we were the hostess State for the Seventh Biennial Loreto Federation Conference. The President of the Federation Committee

was a Toorak representative - Mrs. Adrian Wright. The Conference was very

well attended by our Asso-

ciation, and as a direct result of the resolutions of

this Conference, a study group under the enthusiastic directorship of Mrs. Julian Doyle, was inaugurated

The group has since met five times. On the first

occasion, Mother Veronica, I.B.V.M., a tutor from

St. Mary's College, Melbourne University, spoke. Her subject was "The Great Australian Ugliness , in which

she spoke of her special interest - the novels of Patrick White. Under the guidance of Father J. Gleeson, S.J., the next two discussions revolved around "The Status of Women iii the Church". Some

very practical conclusions were reached. Next a small discussion on abortion was held. For our fifth meeting

the same topic of "abortion" was dealt with. Public

policy aspects of the proposed changes iii the abortion law, and the role that Catholics should play at citizens, were discussed by Father P. Duffy, S.J., M.A., Department of Government, University of Sydney,

N.S.W., in an address to members and friends of the Association on 16tli September.

Yet another sub-group formed within the Association is the Loreto Younger Set. This year Mary Elizabeth Coleman was our President. After many meetings and much organisation, it was decided to hold a Masquerade Ball at Nine Darling Street. The President of the Association, Mrs. Graeme Dore, and Mr.

Dore were guests of the Younger Set. The function was a great success and the masks worn were highly

colourful and decorative.

We look forward to another successful year in 1969. -ANNE SWEENEY, November, 1968.

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Loreto Federation 1967

President:

Airs. A. Wright

Mrs. A. Wright

The Loreto Federation of Australia was first suggested in 1953 by Mother Provincial as a means of encouraging inore awareness of Loreto as a nationwide Association.

The Headquarters of the Federation move interstate every two years and, iii 1966-67, Loreto Toorak was privileged to be the I Ieadquarters. From October Gth - 9th, 1967, the Seventh Biennial Conference was held at Toorak.

The Committee responsible for this Conference

The Constituent inembers of the Federation are

Mary's Mount, Ballarat; Loreto, Ballarati Lorito, Normanhurst; Lorito, Kirribilli. Lorcto. Perth; Loreto,

Marryatville; Lot-eto, Brisbane, Loreto. Toorak. The first Federation Conference was held in Melbourne iii 1955. The wheel has now turned full circle

and this has been appropriately niarked by the new format of the Conference.

was:

President, Mrs. Adrian Wright. Vice-President, Mrs. H. McKenzie.

Past President, Mrs. J. Dynan. Hon. Secretary, Mrs. M. Reynolds. lion. Treasurer, Mrs. J. O'Rorke. Mesdames G. Dore, P. J. Doyle, J. Dwyer, C. G. Molyneux, II. McCardel, J. Pacini. P. Sleeman. P. Smith, D. Wright, Miss F. Sinn. Representing Loreto Convents:

Mary's Mount: Miss E. Ryan ( Ballarat ), Mrs. T. Gully, S.A.; Mrs. II. B. O'Keeffe, Kirribilli; Mrs. J. Hennessy ( R.I.P. ), Perth; Mrs. R. Buxton, Normanhurst; Mrs. G. Nossal, Toorak; Mrs. J. Best.

I am sure that past pupils of Loreto Toorak would like to publicly express their gratitude to the members of the Committee who devoted so much time over

the two years to organising and making a great success of the Seventh Biennial Conference.

Many people have asked: "What is Loreto Federa-

tion?" Perhaps if I give you the aims and objects of the Federation" it will help:

To give service to God by acting for the welfare of and in the interests of the citizens of Australia;

To pray for and work for the success of the

For the first time the Federation invited guest speakers, each u,orld-famous in their respective fields. The theme of the Seventh Biennial Conference was:

" G. c xl's People on Alan's Journey"-a title which reHects the spirit of ecumenism present in the Church today. Fr, Eric D'Arcy, M.A., Ph.1),, D.Phil. (Oxon.), Senior Lecturer in philosophy at Melbourne Univer-

sity, spoke on "Our Developing Vision of God's Plan as foreshadowed under the Old Covenant and as ful-

filled in the New Covenant. He spoke in his address of being terrified because "Jesus is passing and 1 might miss Ilim." What a thought! Dr. Percy Jones, Ph.D., Mus.Sac.Doe., M.A., a world authority on Liturgy, spoke on "Prayer in Liturgical and Non-Liturgical devotions. 1 Ie spoke of Our Lady

and the Rosary. IIave we ever thought of asking Our Lady to stand beside us at Mass and help us offer Mass to God? When we say the Rosary, do we still gabble it or have we thought of relating one mystery

to the family and saying just one decade concentrating on this mystery? This attitude proves beyond doubt that the Rosary is not outinoded, but rather a stimulus to mental prayer. Mr. B. A. Santamaria, M.A., LL.B., the president of the National Civic Council, spoke on "The

Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary throughout the

Christian's Role in the Modern World", in our own

world;

society and among the peoples of Asia. He said that

To pray for and work for the canonisation of the foundress of the Institute-Mary Ward; "

To foster the spirit and unity of Loreto through-

out Australia; "

To take an active Christian part in national and

international affairs.

in Asia there is a constant breakdown of central

government and administration with continual misery and poverty. Mr. Santamaria said it was in this environment that Communism Hourishes.

Individual

charity can no longer cope with this condition-it is only by help on a national level-not only of food but of teachers to train these people to eventually Page

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produce technicians and professional personnel. Mean· while, by lending our own doctors, dentists, engineers,

then newly-appointed Archbishop of Melbourne, His

architects and the numerous other skilled workers,

Grace, the Most Reverend James Knox, celebrated

It was very fortunate indeed for Loreto that the

this would enable each of these countries to be welded

Mass in the Chapel and officially opened the Con-

into unified nations and not a series of individual

ference.

self-centred regions incapable of progress and incapable of defending themselves.

display of the life and work of Mary Ward was held.

For the duration of the Conference, a magnificent

In our own society, we can help this end by taking

This was created and prepared by Miss Mary

our place in community actvities and so placing before the policy makers the Christian viewpoint on such

McC]elland acl Miss Sandra Synman. The theme of the display was constancy, as represented by the sym-

matters.

bol of a hyacinth. Mrs. H. B. O'Keeffe and Miss Ruth

Loreto Toorak presented to tile Conference an Assessment of Federation, where it has been and where is it going.

Following each lecture, one Loreto Convent was

Trait did an enormous amount of research into Mary Ward's life and Loreto in the world.

The headquarters for 1968-69 was moved to Adelaide, South Australia, under the Presidency of Mrs,

given the task of leading discussion. This led to many

B. Rofe. We wish them every success with the Con-

stimulating exchanges of ideas.

ference and assure them of oar prayers.

In Memoriam Mrs. Mary Hennessy was an old girl of Loreto,

We wei·e gi·eatly shocked and saddened to hear of the

Kirribilli, Sydney, and was the Kirribilli representative

tragic end to the Loreto Ball on Friday, 19th April, when

at the Loreto Federation last year.

Jo-anne Caller died in a car accident.

She had, however,

lived in Melbourne all her married life and we, of course, knew her as the mother of Frances, Mary-Jo, Margaret and Ann. She was also the mother of Michael, John, Mark and Bill. A number of Mandeville girls met her and were immediately charmed by her friendly manner and interest in thern.

Joanne left Mandeville fifteen months ago and was happily settled into her job at Melbourne University Bookshop. Her sunny personality will be remembered by all who knew her. A Mass was celebrated for the repose of her

We were all saddened to hear of her illness and

tragically-early death on the 25th Api·il. Ten nuns and

soul in the school Chapel on Friday, 26th April, and was attended by her friends.

seventy children attended her requiem at St. John's Church, Heidelberg, on the 29th. All at Mandeville offer

We offer our sincere sympathy and prayers to her family in their sorrow. May she rest in peace.

the family theii· deepest sympathy.

MAY THEY REST IN PEACE

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Our Luncheon in the Great Hall of the National

the Loreto Toorak Association on the occasion of his

Gallery proved to be a great success, and we were delighted that so many members and friends of our

Golden Jubilee we are presenting a set of Altar Linen

Association ( approximately 350) were able to be present. Mr. Brian Finemore, Curator of Australian

I am grateful to have this opportunity to express my appreciation to all the members of the present Loreto Committee for this co-operation and loyalty over the past six months. On their behalf, and my own, I wish to thank Mother Sylvester and the Community for •the interest shown to each of us individually and for their unfailing support for all the

Art at the Gallery, was our entertaining guest speaker. Those who attended the Garden Party held in the

School grounds all agreed it was an extremely pleasant occasion. The sun shone in a cloudless sky and tea was served linder the shade of the pine trees to the excellent musical accompaniment of the Hawthorn Brass Band. It was a fitting tribute to Father Ebs-

to Father Ebsworth for his new Altar.

activities of our Association. -HELEN DORE.

-vorth, who has not only been School Chaplain for

All the Mandeville community join in a fervent

many years but has endeared himself to the parishioners of Toorak ( not the least being the very small ones who so love to chat with him and sample his "Rat Poison"). Many of the successful functions organised over the last few weeks were arranged by

"thank you" to Mrs. R. Buxton, Mrs. G. Dore and our loyal past pupils who have worked so generously on our behalf and presented us with that magnificent car, affectionately known to us all as "Kae" C number plate KAE752). It is doing tremendous apostolic work and we daily bless the donors.

Toorak members of our Association, under the leader-

ship of Mrs. Henry Sinn. As a personal gift from Page Seventy-two

-M.S,

The Making of an Exhibition - Loreto Style Probably all who viewed the "Sixteen Episodes in

Froin the first, our artists wanted modern art-forms

the Life of Mary Ward" at the 1967 Melbourne

and a symbol. They began to work on the idea of a wild hyacinth - for we had SOmc? inkling of an old tradition that the Elector of Bavaria, when granting Mary Ward the right of opening a school in the Paradeiser Haus, said he wanted the pupils to wear

Conference of the Loreto Federation thought the exhibition was the creation of Ieisured ladies who knew

all about Mary Ward, Let me dispel that notion! The idea originated with Biddy O'Keeffe, former

President of the Federation. She suggested it to me

the blue of the wild livacinth of the woods around

and, together, we set about becoming acquainted with

Munich. So the hyacinth was made symbolic of Mary Ward and was incorporated in each art-piece. It stands for constancy!

the basic facts of the life and work of the Foundress

of the I.B.V.M. That meant interviewing Mother Superior, and resulted in M.M. Emilian's giving lis complete freedom to go ahead. But we needed artists - were there any we could approach? It was arranged we should meet Mary

McClelland and Sandra Synman. It wasn't easy to

Biddy and I had little idea of what the artists would produce ( March to October! ). When we saw the

-Journey to Rome, for example, those feet looked „

so stark, so odd; but when we saw that piece erected, the same feet had a tremendous impact,

explain what form the exhibition-to-be should take.

making one realise what the words: "Mary Ward

The astonishing thing was that the girls instinctively

walked to Rome really meant.

understood what we wanted and devised a series of

paintings, collage and bead mosaic which-together with the written episodes, maxims, current events, programmes, and music-formed a wonderful unity in depicting the life of Mary Ward. Of course the episodes had to be written! This en-

The British Museum had been very slow in getting us a photostat copy of the Bull of Suppression. It arrived only a few days before the Exhibition. Seem-

ingly, it has not been regarded as an important Bull except to the I.B.V.M., but even the community at Toorak had never before seen it.

tailed much research. We decided to correlate current

historical events - breaking through the 17th Century

atmosphere of the "lives" to present her as a living person involved in the events of her days. At last, out of chaos, I managed to produce the

episodes, but then they had to be set out in script. as also the maxims. Mary and Sandra took infinite pains finding out the initial to the first word of each, then painting an exquisite illuminated letter. Ideas

We had intended to show statistics of the Institute

and Biddy had written to many houses abroad for information, but we simply hadn't time to collate all the material, yet we knew we had the nucleus of a history of the I.B.V.M. and asked M.XI. Emilian if a

booklet could be ptiblished later. I had the title ready: "Chronicles of the Institute of the Blessed \7irgill

Mary". This will be available, we hope, by the end of 1968.

flowered out of the four of us and developed gradu-

ally until we were ourselves amazed-you cannot imagine the immense joy and surprise it was to the

The Exhibition taught us two lessons: one - the life of Mary Ward; and the other - realisation of

four of us when we saw the culmination of all our

gratitude that we were educated by the daughters of Mary Ward.

research, work and weariness gracing the walls of the corridor. It was a revelation. It had acquired an existence of its own!

-RUTII TRAIT.

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Choosing a Career MELBOURNE

From the moment you enter Melbourne University, your life is changed. You are beset by vociferous, persuasive folk bent on convincing you that black is black, white or any colour in between. You will be forced into

Catholicism is not just "cobwebs and mysticism." This is why the Religious Centre at Monash is so good. All

denominations learn from each other. Direct simplicity is wholesome.

There is a lot of fresh air out at Monash!

questioning: Why ? It seems to me that is what it means -Elizabeth O'Brien, Arts. I

to be a student at University.

But perhaps the first impression of Melbourne University is the swirling population. It has been called a

provincial town. It has the same population as Mildura, but there the similarity ends-some 20,000 people cramnied into 300 acres! But at least three-quai·ters of the number manage to squeeze into the Union at lunch hour

-in cafe, or buff, or coffee lounge. And there they talk! There is tradition behind the University motto; but traditional, dignified buildings, some dating from 1855,

are outnumbered in the conglomeration of more recent architectural trends; and never has there been such rapid building projects on the Campus as we see in progress today. There is more tradition at the Colleges. But once you get there-and it isn't so difficult-you

find your balance between work and "play." There are years ahead when you can make up for the parties missed, if you want to! But First Year failures are not given a second chance.

Once over the hurdle of First

Year, you find you are "in" and you find the faculty and senior students ready to help-even in recreational adjuncts-from ballet to the motor-cycle club.

HOME ECONOMICS

The Home Economies Course at Larnook (Orrong

Road, Armadale), is planned to cover a wide range of knowledge. Until this year, the emphasis has been on training teachers in the domestic skills with the view of making their pupils competent in the home or in specialised industry. It is now recognized that the training is towards assisting the individual to achieve self-development rather than mere skills.

So the course is under

revision and extends to four years.

The first two at

Lai·nook are to equip the teacher-to-be with the background knowledge: home-management, clothing, foods, household management, English literature, sociology,

psychology. Third year is mainly practical teaching with one month each term to be spent in a country or metro-

politan High School. There are lectures on education, comparative methods, child psychology, history, and English III-comprising literature, theory of speech and history of language.

I have found my course at Larnook a rewarding experi-Elizabeth O'Keeffe, Law.

ence. It has provided a challenge, especially as I am to be one of the pioneers in the new era of thinking in Home Economics. I may continue fourth year or take a twelve

months Sociology course at Latrobe University, after which I hope to be a competent trainer in this sphere of

UNIVERSITY LIFE

education.

Monash I

-Julienne Blake.

Everyone knows the adage: "Don't believe what you

read in the papers." This is to be borne in the reader's mind when confronted with a newspaper tale of Melbourne's radical University.

At any University there are voluble discussions on questions concerning the

nature and relationships of man in society; and this is good. But it is not the only activity in the Campus! We have clubs-dramatic and political. We have an active Newman Society. There are plenty of common-

sense people in all these. Students who put on airs about money or the suburb in which they live soon find out how superficial that attitude is. Monash, apart from being labelled "radical," has also been classed the "Working Class University," and this is true. It helps to make

the folk there very much alike, despite the frenetic fringe of First Years who pose as beatnik and go without shoes! Monash has a Religious Centre-a circular building symbolising unity.

All

denominations have

services

therein. There is Mass every day; two "Folk Masses"

week; and frequent Bible Readings in which anyone can I have found this yeai· that non-Catholics con-

join.

sider us a rather suspicious bunch of people. It is up to us, with Vatican II behind us, to show them that Page Seventy-four

LATROBE

It is hard to say which aspect of Latrobe University's recent development is most important.

Some would choose to emphasise the way the faculties are organised. Students in the School of Social Sciences, for example, may graduate as B.A. or B.Eco., depending on whether their interest is in history, mathematics,

philosophy, politics, sociology or economics. This puts the study of say, history, in new perspective, as students

acquire basiZ knowledge of the sciences which are now part of the analysis and reconstruction of the past, and they are more likely to be aware of developments in important related disciplines.

An average of 30% of the final aggregate of marks in each subject depends on the student's performance in tutorials during the year.

This encourages consistent

effort and stops people from covering only some of a course in a last-minute effort at exam time.

Design and planning are more in evidence at Latrobe

than at Melbourne's other universities. Architects such as

invited the students who had gone on the Sydney trip

Robin Boyd and Roy Grounds, were commissioned to design the colleges, and co-ordinated development of the

to his home at Mount Helen foi· a barbecue and slide night.

whole site has been the aim of the University Council.

The library is in the centre of a ring of faculty buildings, none of which is more than five minutes away from the library, and approximately 10,000 native Australian trees have been planted ai·ound the perimeter, between faculty buildings and colleges, and along the banks of the stream and lake system which pass through the site. Though numbers have increased from 400 to 2,000, informality and friendliness make for good staff-student relations at Latrobe, and this is perhaps the most important point of all. A university is supposed to be a community of people who are searching out the truth, and if the student looks upon his teacher as a remote, inaccessible oracle, treating his lecture notes as the last

testament from the source of all knowledge, then he cannot realise that learning is taking part in a common pursuit. Just the same way, the teacher who does not take a personal interest in his students misses the opportunity to re-think and refine his ideas he would have

if he encouraged his students to express themselves freely, and contribute to an honest exchange of ideas. -Sara Barrett, Arts B.

Then on Friday our hostel, which is four miles from Teachers' College, but happens to be just down the street from the Catholic Training College, Patrician House, was invited down by the girls for a get-together. We spent the evening exchanging experiences, touring' the college and singing. There must be about 30 boarders at Patrician House, so you can imagine the rumpus when they and the 25 girls from our hostel tried to fit into their parlour, which is quite tiny.

Then we are continually alternating time spent in training schools and college. I have spent a total of six weeks in two schools so far this year, and at the moment am in a composite Grade IV and V, where I will stay for the next four weeks.

I was at the first Younger Set meeting at Mary's

Mount and again at the Retreat eai·lier in the year. I thoroughly enjoyed the Retreat (whether that is a favourable or unfavourable sign I'm not sure!) and it was wonderful to see old classmates again. Joan Buxton was the life of the Retreat, and we were very sorry to hear about her accident. I hope that she is improving. I haven't heard anything for months.

TEACHER-TRAINING

I went home to Hoi·shani last weekend - there are

It was a wonderful surprise to receive a letter from Loreto Convent, Toorak, and catch up on some news. It amazes me how quickly it is possible to lose contact, especially in my case, in which I have very few opportunities of meeting old school friends.

Hei·e at Ballarat, the year has flown seemingly overnight-a reflection of our industry at Teachers' College! Well, if not academic industry, social industry at least. This is possible because there is always something

happening - rehabilitation, social evenings with the psychiatric patients, sports afternoons, meetings and

visiting speakers-as well as sport on Wednesdays;

always some cai's going that way and, for anyone willing

to contribute towards petrol costs, there is usually a i·ide home.

There is a jungle of green by the roadside and a quite substantial growth in the paddocks and, providing that the rest of the year is wetter than last month-which

was an exceptionally dry September, the year should be prosperous.

Please accept my apologies for not writing sooner. Perhaps this letter supplies some of the reasons. Assignments are calling for attention, so I must go.

trips to other colleges; section parties; hostel parties;

Janice Coffey.

college dances; a ball each term and, of course, that glorious Thursday once a fortnight, when we all eagerly

line up for our pay cheque! SECRETARIAL WORK

Then there were the college tours which occupied the week prior to the September holidays.

We had the

In June this year, I decided to do a course in Typing

choice of a trip to the Australian Alps, Tasmania, Central

and Shorthand at Taylor's Commercial College. I had

Australia and Sydney. I went with a group to Sydney,

never heard of Taylor's in that capacity before, but I

whei·e we spent a very interesting and enjoyable week.

recommend this course to anyone who wants to take up

It was well worth the mere $70 it cost.

active service in the business world. I thoroughly enjoy it. Of course, far from home, I had to find suitable

Last week may serve as a little of the year's activities.

board.

Monday-saw our section down in Melbourne on an

decided to apply there and was accepted. "Tay Creggan"

outing.

After hearing a lot about "Tay Creggan," I

is a lovely old Tudor home in Hawthorn, a hostel for girls after leaving school, who are doing work in the city.

On Tuesday Dianne Merritt, a past pupil from Mary's

It is run by "The Grail." You must surely know of that

Mount, and I attended a discussion at Dawson Street-

wonderful movement in Catholic Adult Education-a

appropriately on the subject of the Church and Freedom

world-wide Apostolate doing great work for the Church.

of Conscience.

It is vet·y pleasant to live with the Grail Ladies.

On Wednesday Mr. Gilbert, one of the art lectui·ers,

-Teri·y Keily. Page Seventy-five

Scholastic Distinctions of Past Pupils

PAM FETHERSTONHAUGII

Pam Fetherstonhaugh was educated at Loreto

Toorak. She passed Matriculation with a first and

second place and sec{)nd class honours in Virology, first place and second class honours in Micro Biology.

two second class honours and won a Commonwealth

In 1968 she went on to a B.Se. honours course at

Scholarship.

the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Re-

search. Next year she will go to Canberra on a ComIn 1967 she completed her B.Sc. degree. obtaining first class honours and Exhibition in Bio Chemistry,

monwealth post graduate award, to Stlldy for her Ph.11 at the John Curtin School of Medical Research.

MOTHER M. ANNUNCIATA, I.B.V.M.

The Archbishop Mannix Travelling Scholarship for

awarded the Jewish Women's Prize for the best

1968 ( valued at $2,000) has been awarded to Mother Mary Annzinciata, I.B.V.M. ( Jocelyn Dunphy),

woman graduate in Arts. She obtained a Diploma of

has a very distinguished record. In her last year at

Education with several first class honours. Finally, she graduated as Master of Arts with first class honours for her Thesis ( written in French) on the French Catholic existential philosopher, Emmanuel

jschool she obtained L.Mus.A. and passed Matricula-

\Iounier.

Jocelyn was educated at Loreto Convent, Claremc,nt, W.A., and at Loreto Convent, Toorak. She

tion with first class honours in every subject. For this she was awarded the Julia Flynn Prize for the best pass in a Catholic School. She won also a Newman Scholarship in French and Latin and a Com-

age and Literature to enter this Thesis in a triennia]

monwealth Scholarship.

on the work of Mounier. She was awarded this

Jocelyn then entered the Loreto Novitiate and, after

First Profession, went to St. Mary's College to study

She was advised by the Professor of French Languinternational competition for the best contribution

much-coveted prize. Mother Annunciata is the first woman to be awarded and to accept the Archbishop

for an Arts Degree at Melbourne University. She

Mannix Scholarship. She will leave next year for

graduated as Bachelor of Arts with first class honours. She shared with Mr. Rowan Ireland the prize for the most distinguished student of the vear and was

Paris to begin a study of 20th Century French Literature between the two World Wars. She hopes to obtain the Ph.D. degree.

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