St Mary's Thanks to You Donor Newsletter 2018

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MARCH 2018

FOR DONOR S A ND SUPPORT ER S OF ST M A RY’S

"Voice of the Pool" Honoured WITH SWIMMING TROPHY “Schools need passionate parents to make the community richer. Our mother was one of those people.” When Old Girl Belinda Ryall (Bennett ’84) presented the inaugural Pamela Bennett Interhouse Swimming Trophy on 9 February, she paid an emotional tribute to her mother, Pamela Bennett. Pamela Bennett (White ’51) had enormous affection for St Mary’s. Now her memory will live on through the annual presentation of the Pamela Bennett Interhouse Swimming Trophy. Pam was an Old Girl of the School in West Perth. She served on the Old Girls’ Committee and the Board of Governors and was also a Life Member of both the Parents’ Society and the St Mary’s Auxiliary. She was tremendously supportive of all areas of school life, particularly swimming, where she was the ‘voice on the microphone’ at interschool swimming carnivals.

The inaugural trophy was presented to 2018 Interhouse swimming champions, Hackett, by Belinda on behalf of her mother and her sisters (Lisa ’83, Peta ’88 and Kate ’88). Each of Pam's four daughters was either captain or vice-captain of the school swim team. When Pam passed away in 2016, her daughters contacted the Principal, Mrs Thomson, to say that she had kindly left a gift to the School in her will. It was her passion for swimming that resulted in her bequest being chosen to support the swimming programme at St Mary’s. “If mum was here right now, she would say “Go Riley!” Belinda said, before handing the inaugural trophy over to Hackett Prefect and Sport Captain, Lucy Macnaughtan and Jorjia Lewis. ABOVE | BELINDA RYALL PRESENTS THE PAMELA BENNETT INTERHOUSE SWIMMING TROPHY TO LUCY MACNAUGHTAN AND JORJIA LEWIS


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