School Annual of the J.B. V .M. in Australia

Registered at the G.P.O., Melbourne, for transmission by Post as a periodical. December, 1957

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Looking towa rds t he Harbour from a balcony. The Bridge is in the ba ckground on the left. [Kindly photogra phed by R ev. R. Nolan.

The Novitiate of the 1.8.V.M. (Loreto), Australia, at Loreto Convent, Normanhurst, Sydney.

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MARY W ARD Foundress of the I B.V.M. I

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Editorial ...

The Loreto Federation of Australia is to hold its second

annual conference in Adelaide in November. Reference to its

programme is made on another page of this magazine, which

goes to our readers under the patronage of Our Lady and of the Venerable Mother Mary Ward.

The theme of the conference is THE LORETO GIRL IN THE

WORLD TO-DAY-a theme that should appeal not only to Loreto

Old, and present, Girls, but also to the parents of all our pupils.

In its wider implication the theme means, of course, THE

CATHOLIC WOMAN IN THE WORLD TO-DAY .

W e shall be pardoned if we1 give our attention to cultivating,

with care, our own plot so that we may contribute a valuable crop to the general harvest of good works in Australia. We

should often bring back our minds to the fundamental truth,

that we DO good by BEING good. At least .we shall make a cell of good liv ing in a materialistic world.

In every State in Australia Loreto Old Girls are an encour­aging in fluence in civic life. That is one of the reasons why

the Loreto Federation should be a rallying point for all our past pupils. The forthcoming conference in Adelaide, with its

promise of a thoughtful interchange of ideas, will touch not only

women educated at Loreto, but the whole community of Catholic women in Australia.

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i THE LORETO FEDERATION OF AUSTRALIA 5 I i PICTURES: MARY'S MOUNT, BALLARAT 6 i I SCHOOL VIGNETTES 8

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O' r Lad y of Altoetting. The Fathers' Club, Marryatville. A Garland of History (celebrating Kirribilli's Jubilee ). School Diaries.

PICTURES : LORETO, DAWSON STREET, BALLARAT THIS AUSTRALfA:

The Salvado Saga, by M. lVI. Aiden, l.B.V.M. I Speak for Australia. (Address given at the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce) . Other School Contributions.

PICTURE: LORETO, PORTLAND THE HOME CIRCLE . . PICTURES: LORETO, NORMANHURST TRAVELLERS' TALES PICTURES: LORETO, KIRRIBILLI MEMORY PICTURES PICTURES: LORETO, CLAREMONT .. VIEWS AND OPINIONS .. FROM THE EDITOR'S ANTHOLOGY:

Horses on the Camargue (illustrated by Mary Nathan) PICTURES: LORETO, NEDLANDS INTERESTING PEOPLE:

Cinema Report from Madrid. My Missionary Brother (the Rev. H. Hendricks, S.J.). Group-Captain Cheshire, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C. Letter from David Wilson Fletcher (English author in India) School Contributions.

Loreto's Interes t in the Dalai Lama of Tibet. Greeting from Princess Shanti of Nepal.

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The Loreto Federation of Allstralia REPORT FOR 1957

Upon r eading the Third Annual R e port of the Federation ea rly this yea1· His Excellency the Apos­tolic D elega te to Australia , Dr. Romolo Carboni, wrote to u s in flattering term . In hi s le tter h e said "The firm link be tween the past students of Loreto Convents throughout Australia is an exampl e and an inspiration." Thi s statem e nt is a great compli­ment lo such a young bod y, and it al so sp eaks hi ghl y for the manne 1· in which the Federation was es tab­lished and illustrates the ready co-o pe ration and lively interes t on aJl s ides which have assiste d u s in Adelaide.

During 1956 the Federation ask ed its m e mbe rs and aJl present pupils to pray for Lore to in India. A spec ial da y- August 15th- was se t a side for thi s pur­po e and the i·esponse to our r eques t was most gra ti­fying- 1850 past pupils and 14.75 present pupils offered prayers for our s pecial inte ntion. Of thi s effort His ExceJlency said in hi s le tte r, " I was delight­ed to note that spec ial efforts for the Miss ions in India were made during the past yea r. The mi s­sionary duties, obligations and privileges of Austra­lian Catholics towards the countri es to the near North and towards Asia arc becoming b ette r known and appreciated. Congratulations are therefore deserved by the Loreto Federation in spreading the awareness of the essential mi ssionary c harac te r of the Church." This year the spiritual aim of the Federation is to pray for aJl peoples oppressed by Communi sm and again August 15th has been se t asid e for tha t pmpose.

The appeal for the n ew Novitiate at Norman­hurst which the Federation sponso re d among the constituent A ssociations brought in a total of £2,636-0-2 , the individual donations being:

\Vcste n1 Au£tralia ..

Dawson Stree t, Ballarat

Brisbane ..

Marryatville . .

Toorak . ...

Normanhurst ..

Kirribilli . . . . . . . . . .

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The code for the b ehaviour and entertainment of young p eople drawn up at the Melbourne Confer­ence was circulated to all Pas t Pupil Associations and Parents and Friends' Associations connec ted with our Convents with suggestions for spreading its message as widely as possible. W e hope that the combin ed influence of all our m embers and the pare nts of present pupils themselves wiJl in due course be fell in society.

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THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE LORETO FEDERATION

BACK ROW: Mrs. Bryan Rofe (W .A.), Mrs. An sell Britten J ones (Mary' s Mount), Mrs. V. A. Hart (Kirrib illi) , Miss M. Murray (Bri sba ne), Mrs. J . Pia n to (Marryatv ill e) , Mrs. F . K elly (Normanhurst), Mrs. RI. Harma n (Dawso n St.) .

FRONT ROW : M iss J . H oll a nd (E xec uti ve Offi cer ), Miss R. B. Rice North (Pres ident ), Mrs. K. M. O gglesby (Treas urer), Mrs. D . R. Coles (Toorak) .

The second conference of the Federation will be h eld in Adelaid e in November of thi s year. The the m e of the Confere nce whi ch will be dealt with in a series of talks and di scussions will be "Th e Lore to Girl in the World Today." The various talks unde r this h eading will be " H er Place in the Home., to be given by a d elega te from Brisbane. " Her Place in Church Activities- h er public and private activ­ities" (Dawson St.). " H er Role in Community and Civic Affairs" (Weste rn A ustralia ) . " The Creative Arts in Her Life" (Mary's Mount ) . "Th e Catholic Student" (Normanhurst ) . "Th e Career \Voman .. (Kirrihilli ) . "Th e Catholic Woman in PoliticE-·· (Toorak ) . " Her Apprec ia tion and Participation in the Liberal Arts" (Marryatvillc ).

The sugges tion that a section b e se t aside in the magazine for reports from the past pupil associa tions came from the F ederation. The ed itor r eceived thi ~

ide a with graciousn ess and enthusias111 and thi s is the first edition of the ma gazine to have thi s section . W e hope that the magazine will nov,r find its w~v into the homes of those past pupils throughout Australia and even be yond our shores who have not the interest of sons and daughters at Lore to.

North Adelaide, South Australia.

RITA B. RICE NORTH,

President.

LORETO ABBEY, MARY'S MOUNT, BALLARAT, VICTORIA

MATRICULATION, LEAVING AND INTERMEDIATE CLASSES

BACK ROW (left to right) : J. Tweddle, ] . M cAlpine, ] . Knight, A. Limbert, S. Mackenzie, M . Baker, J. Faulkner, G. Willis, T. Lechte, C. McSwiney.

THIRD ROW : A. Saunders, J. Willis, G. Gourlay, N. Fay, E. Fraser, H. OBrien, C. Rice, M . Burchell, M . Savenije, M. R eynolds, J. O 'Loghlen.

SECOND R OW : J. Carroll, N . J ess, J. Gurry, J . Hurley, A. Doney, M . Coburn, M. O 'Loghlen, F. Joy ce, R. Fulton, ]. O'Callaghan, W . Pritchard, V . Sheehan.

FR ONT ROW: M. Halliga n, ] . Oliphant, M. Thomas, M. Shanaha n, C. Burchell, S. Hayes, G. Rice (Head of School), M . Hayes, M . McCormack, C. Reidy, H. Powell, ] . M cGilp, P . Puli.

BOTTOM: SUB-INTERMEDIATE, SECOND AND F1RST YEARS (See Names Page 2'0)

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PREFECTS Left to right : G. Rice ( H ead), M. O 'Loghlen, T . Lechte, H. O 'Brien, C. M cSwiney.

LORETO ABBEY, MARY'S MOUNT, BALLARAT, VICTORIA

TOP: 5th & 6th CLASSES & JUNIOR SCHOOL (See Names Page 20 ) BOTTOM: KINDERGARTEN

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School Vignettes OUR LADY OF ALTOETTING

The greatest glory of Altoetting in Bavaria is certainly the shrine of Our Lady. The little town is about sixty miles east of Munich, and has a long history, reaching back even to the Roman Empire. Its Christian history may be traced back to the year 700 when St. Rupert erec ted on the site of a h eathen temple, the little seven-sided chapel which to-day is the seat of Our Lady's greatest sanctuary in Bavaria. The ancient statue of the Mother and Christ child was said to have been a gift of St. Rupert himself.

The shrine has b een through many vicissitudes during the centuries; but even the devas tation of the Thirty Years War seemed to pass it by. Mary Ward's nuns (the English Ladi es as they are called in Ger­many) opened a school there in 1721; they still occupy the same house. (Several nuns of the l.B.V.M. in Austra lia have been educa ted there, in­cluding M.M. Perpetua of Normanhurst, and M.M. Consiglio of Ballarat ) . After the expulsion of the J esuits in the 18th century, the nuns of the l.B.V.M. were, for a few weeks, the only religious Order left in the town. As a writer r emarks: "That they survived is a tribute to the value of thei1· work." The shrine which adjoins the convent remains what it has been during the centuries: "a place clearly chosen by God to be a source of consolation, and by His Mother to be a fountain of graces." For several years now it has been in the care of Capuchin Fathers. The town received added lustre when one of their number, St. Conrad, was canonized.

The nuns of Loreto Convent (l.B.V.M.), Nor­manhurst, are now the happy possessor s of a copy, twenty inches high, of the famous statue. It is not a "black Madonna" : the present dark colour of both Mother and Babe is due entirely to age, and to cen­turies of candle-smoke. The actual statue in Altoet­ting is twenty-six inches tall; the original one must have been stolen in the early centuries, for the onP. there now is of 13th century design. The donors of the statue to Loreto, Normanhurst, are Mr. and Mrs. Streber, of Sydney, who brought it back with them after a recent trip to Europe, as a graciou!' tribute of friendship to the nuns with whom thei::­two daughters are being educated.

Sydney. 1.B.V.M.

SONGS I LIKE I like the song of the kettle

As it lazily sings on the hob I like the song of a bird

As it circles the sky above I like the lap of water

As it washes the golden sand But only the song of my mother

Fills my heart with love.

JUDITH LEY (12), Toorak.

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OUR LADY OF ALTOETTING

Centuries have passed, dear Mother, Since your image first found rest In Altoetting's loving keeping-You-her dear and honoured guest. People thronged to give you welcome, Kings and peasants, sick and well-All received your queenly blessing All were drawn within your spell. Our dear Foundress prayed before you And that we might do the same, You have sought Australia's shore line­Oh, how lovingly you came! You have followed us dear Mother; Can a mother leave her child?-You have crossed the trackless ocean, Yo11 have braved the storm winds wild, Nnw at last you're home among us, Oh. what welcome shall we give? How rejoice to have you with us? LP.t us cry "Oh, Mary live!" In those far off olden countries, Kings and Emperors vied in zeal To b estow on you fair jewels­Symbols of the love they feel. We have nought of golden treasure, But our hearts' love we resign, You in turn will give us J esus, Jesus, Jesus, Thou art mine!

Normanhurst, M.D. l.V.B.M.

LORETO

THE FATHERS CLUB IN ACTION AT MARRYATVILLE * (To commemorate the "creation" of the new Playing Field-lawns and terraces with landscaped

background)

On Sports' Day in 1955, the Committee of the Fathers' Club made an instantaneous decision : THE GIRLS MUST HA VE A NEW OVAL. The long sti·etch of asphalt had se1·ved its te rm; but numbers had inc reased very rapidly, so the re must be lovely lawns, whe re the girl s need not " fca1· the spills."

The months passed and we knew little of the planning behind the scenes; but the fathe rs went into ac tion in November. Trees ca me out, and the old orange grove was soon an unsightly scene. Even when the work was at an advanced stage, comments were still spicy. After heavy rain, the usual ques tion was : " Have you seen the swimming pool? "

Ah , but wait! On the fourteen th of April , in brilliant sunshine,

our guests ga thered for the formal openin g of t he Playing Field. There wa a brea thless hush when , as the firs t chords of " God Save the Queen" we re struck , the National F la g was slowly raised, followed by the Lore to banner (cent re) and the gaily-coloured House p ennants float ed from the te rraces.

Owing to his r ecent illness, our beloved Arch­bishop was unable to be present; but, in the presence of the Mayor and Mayoress of Burnside, and ove r one thousand guests, the R everend T. Barden , S.J ., declared the Pla ying Field open.

After the sp eeches m ade by the Pres ident anrl other m embers of the Committee, the p eople watch ed an enthusiastic displa y of rythmic movements a nd dance . Congratulations were offered to Miss Hogarth who has r ecently re turned from abroad, and whose new ideas were we lcom ed . Middle School and Junior Schow ] events were kilfulJ y prepared Ly Mrs. Tilly; and a very interesting feature was the High­land Fling danced to the accompaniment of the Bag­pipes- these were played by Miss Grecnh,1111.

The Mothers Club, with helpers, saw to table decorations and prepared and served afte rnoon tea to all. T hose who ·watched the endless washin g up , the procession of trays, packing of crocke ry, e tc., know why the Mothers have decid ed to wear a "comfo1·tablc pair of shoes nex t ti me."

H ere we descend- o r ascend- from prose to verse : it would indeed be ill-fitting if the Fathers of thi s er a were left " Unhonourcd and unsun g." From the verse yo u will l earn ju t how things were done durin g those two yea rs- May, 1955- April , 1957. There wa excitement at Loreto for the word had

passed around That the Fathers' Club had made a MIGHTY PLAN, I t would take the i1· time and la bour, and their bank­

notes by the score ; But the Fathers all were in it to a man.

They began IT in November when the days wer e getting warm,

While noisy lamentations rent the air­* See photo on page 70.

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"No more oranges and lemons, no more mandarins and plums!"

But th e Fathers somehow didn ' t seem to care.

As they worked with pick and sh ovel , as they plied the need y axe

They had VISIONS, and they were no idle dream, They were left unmoved by comments, as they viewed

the awful wreck That once h ad been an orange grove serene. But the climax ca me weeks later, wh en it came to

burn in g off, A task they had to tackle in the heat, You should h ave seen those Fa the rs facing flames

and heat and soo t But th ey worked on with a sp irit h a rd to beat. Though the da y was a Good Friday, when they

needed to be tid y, Th ey were black from boots to eye-brows from th e

smoke, They were FASTING, they we re thirsty, but they

would not take rcfre~hment For th ey trea ted their di scomfort as a joke.

A new hack gate! A roadway! A bull-dozer on the scene !

And a m an who knew just how things ought to he, H e began before th e dawning, and h e needed

frequent warning For h e would not stop for breakfast, lunch or tea!

When we saw the eal'lh in ridges piling up against the fence,

T he re we re Q UESTIO ERS who murmured "Why is th a t? "

But the m an who bore the BURDEN did not stop to answer why

But alone and unassisted m ade i t flat.

All th e gradin g, and the seeding and the sanding we re hi s care

Then teams went into action once again , For non-stop groups of workers there were odd-jobs

by the score, And the President was the re to lead hi s men. An I C INERATOR blocked them. Why not move

it further down To a corne r wher e it rea lly can ' t be seen?

ow I clo not care a penny, wh en I say that Mr. K - ­So lved the question when he whi spered "Paint IT

green! " Oh the hammers and the sawing and the mixing of

cem ent As the trelli sses and wall s appeared in sight. All the sprinkle 1·s were in ac tion from the dusk until

the dawn, And fathers worked on far into the night. But one thing damped the ir ardour as they worked

away with zest, For illness claimed a tried and trusty FRIEND But in spite of weeks of anguish , when their hopes

fell very low Continued at foot of next page.

LORETO

MARRYATVILLE MEMORIES 1956-1957 JULY 1956:

We were disturbed and stirred by Father O'Collins' talk on China. Seniors startled their Cahra hostesses by appearing in Bombays, hat s, foot· ba11 socks and boots al a "crazy" basketball match. Their opponents' early-Vi ctoria~ s, bonnets and high heeled wedding shoes provided the feminin e Louch . Pipe burst in Honours room at 3.00 a.m. Carola and Helen h eroines of the Flood , and won us a genera] sleep. Vivid parodies of Jane Eyre and Macbeth brought tears Lo our T eacher's eyes . Sweets from St. Ann. Y.C.S. Day of R ecollection at Rostrevor.

AUGUST: Mr. Rofe adjudicated Debate " War with

Russ ia is highly probable in thi s Generation." The ayes had it- hope they arc wrong. R ewarded for staying in on 15th August, b y th e " Winslowe Boy." Mr. Hossick from U.S.A. looked us over and found us a "Full-bt·ight lot of Scholars !" Beauty and humour combined Lo make the "Ma<I Hatters' Ball '" soc ially and financially successful. Rm-rah for lVlcGrath"s champion baske tball team. Saddened by Mother Lawrence's sudden illness.

SEPTEMBER : Som eone is see ing Black Swans in h e r

dream s and li stening for Vi scounts. We filled in examination and bursary and sch olarship fot·m s with rash optimism. OCTOBER:

T hree lovely surprises ! Fathe r Barden's senes of talks to seniors; Great Expectations; and premiere of Koola-Poles.

NOVEMBER: Mr. Rofe discussed modern Physics with our two

Mighty Atoms. The Apostolic Delegate's v1s1t brought us closer in spirit to the Holy Father , Our Sister New Australians and the Pacific Missions. \Ve listened to Macbeth records. Father Bachelor con­secrated the Children of Mary. Jubilarians thi s year were : Jill, Deidre, Pauline, Helena, Tess and the two Annes. Intermediates fortified them selves before and after examinations Norwood Delicatessens' cash registers worn out. At home, Elected Silence, s tud y !

DECEMBER: I ntermedia te French students at exam. g iven

Leaving dictation in e rror, and find it quite good! We lined the drive to say our sad and final farewell to Mother M. Lawrence R.l.P.

They hoped to have him with them at the end. And we know it added greatly to the joy of Opening

Day, When they saw him take his place among the rest, And the word ran round like magic, " Do you know

that George is here? " And it seemed to give each man an added zest.

You should have seen the bunting and banners and balloons!

You should have seen the crowd on Opening Day,

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FEBRUARY, 1957 : We rejoiced to find new faces, new shower

cm·tains, a face-lift to the Leaving Classroom, a ph ysical culture mistress, and warning notices in elegant print. W e pick up Koola-pole s ticks.

MARCH: Art Exhibition in town rushed by boat·d e rs.

Practices for opening of new Oval proceed apace. Six ty Four IDollar question, " Who broke that Club?" Polio injections! Hydrogen P eroxide preparation in Science Laboratory resulted in twelve Blondes, twelve disintegrated pinafores and possibly, twelve Yul Brynners. Wendy, Al ison, Jud y, Mary Liz, Rose­mary, two Pa ms, and three Sues consecrated Chi ldren of Mary.

APRIL: Congratu lat ions to Caroline our new Head­

and all Prefec ts. Customary rolls missing from tea. Gone rocking? Oval declared opened by Father Barden S.J. in the unavoidable absence of Fath e r Costelloe S.J ., and in the presence of many notables ;!11d over a thousand people. Oh, inexhaustibl e scones! Farewell our two ex-heads, Margaret and Ca rola. Famous last word s (work hard girls) .

MAY: Procession lo Our Lady despite wind and rain .

Oval unde r water. Will 5th May bring sports' day -::1r swimming carn ival ? Debutantes less numerou but bea utiful as ever. This time next year! Superb weather for Sports' Day. W e were honoured b y Dr. Glceson's first vi sit Lo us as Bishop- though we rem ember him well in other roles. Home for holidays .... and back to " Hamlet."

J UNE: Mission Day- a record . Notable fl eecings­

Bea utiful Babies; Bowler Hat; Horror House; Table Tennis Tournament. Memorable Pontifical High Mass at Memorial Drive. \Ve n ever knew 9,000 children to be so good. Exploratory search for ices in late afternoon Exodus of Prefects to Rostrevor Dance. P erfect weather for basketball Carnival on Mother Superior's Feast. Congratulations Mary Hannan A.Mus.A. Leavings and Inter s attend even­ing Mass at St. Ignatius. Why not more often ? The Hol y Father, Mother General, and lVI. M. Pauline's Feasts combined Lo ecure us " Riding High."

SUE PARISH (15), Marryatville.

And the House T eams with th e ir colours, as they faced with hearts aglow

Eve1-y item in that wonderful display.

ow the world ma y have its WONDERS, and we hear that they are seven!

But those who make this cla im are out of date ! For once they see the OVAL they will say without a

doubt, That the number must be raised at last to EIGHT.

A. (Marryatville) .

LORETO

LORETO, PORTLAND: SCHOOL DIARY JULY:

26th-Mother Superior's feast-day! We performed "The Roses of St. Dorothy" in her honour.

AUGUST: 6th.-Father Brennan C.SS.R. gave us a memorable

retreat. He developed our devotion to St. Gerard. lOth.-A pleasant surprise-The film of St. John

Bosco as a welcome out of retreat. 15th.- F east of the Assumption-We had Exposition

of the Blessed Sacrament. The altar was beautifully decorated with pink blossom.

22nd.-The mayor, Cr. Frost , in his robes and wear­ing the n ewly-acqu ired mayoral chain, addressed us and presented a copy of "The Land of the Southern Cross" to the school. Lois, our Head, received it (and wished she had sat nearer the front when called upon.)

29th-"Pride and Prejudice" was enjoyed by all. 30th.-Class places, marks and the Holiday Hymn! 3lst.-Those travelling by train set out at 6.40 a.m.

No tickets cou ld be found and the diesel made a special halt at our crossing. SEPTEMBER:

26th.-Theory Exams.

OCTOBER: 2nd.-Violin Exams-Of greater interest to 1st and

2nd Year was the ir long awaited reward, a picnic and barbecue on the beach. Noela tested the s incerity of her friends' affection by offering them "damper."

6th. and 7th.-The Annual Flower Show was held in All Saints' . Most of the boarders entered exhibits in the posy section, some won prizes. During the after­noon, th e town band played on our lawn ; later it was the setting for the final of the Princess Com petition. Helen Cunningham came first.

12th.-Music exams-We met the entrants in various states of composure.

20th.-The r esults came to hand and all felt rewarded for their labours during the previous months.

25th.-Father Shelley p aid us a surprise visit. As the day wore on, h e sensed the tension in the air and hurried us off to the Parish Fete, a function where children can have Afternoon Tea!

NOVEMBER: lOth.- L eonie Mulcahy made her First Holy Com­

munion in our chapel. We sang suitable hymns. 17th.-The F e te! after a busy morning, we took up

our places at the various stalls. Those selling the Lucky Envelopes were the firs t to be free.

22nd.-Thanks to the wireless, we were able to fo llow the Olympic Games. The most exciting events were the swimming ch ampionships.

DECEMBER: 4th.-Beginning of the exams. lOth.-As usual, a full programnie for Loreto Day.

"Gypsy Colt" was a film w hich appealed to all; though the day was cool, we enj oyed a swim. Five were received as Aspirants to the Sodality of the Children of Mary.

We entered Hie poster competitions h eld locally t o "Put Christ back into Christmas." Several of the posters and essays won prizes.

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19th.-Why did the Diesel take an hour to climb our hill? And even then it h ad to be pulled by an engine.

FEBRUARY: llth.-Returned to school; a few new children ;

regrets to find that Mother J . Carmel had gone to Ballarat and that Mother Gabriel was very ill.

15th.-During the holidays the Harbour works had progressed greatly; the main breakwater had lengthened and widened.

23rd.-We were all very sad to hear that Mother Gabriel had died early on Saturday morning; we remembered how she had always taught us to wear the Brown Scapular. Our Mass was offered for the repose of her soul.

27th.-The film of "The Tale of Two Cities" pro­duced varied re-actions it set the Middle School to playing French R evolution and it provided the Inters . with a valuable background for their study.

MARCH: 17th.-After Mass the boarders walked to Far

Rocks. As Mother Edmund had arranged for a Shell Collecting Comp etition, we hunted busily for exhibits . That afternoon Mother Carmel judged Elizabeth McCabe's collection to be the best and most artistically arranged.

18th.-We sang a t Mass today in honour of St. Patr'ick. A spec ial filming of "Richard III" was attended by the local school-children; we admired, and shuddered at, Sir Laurence Olivier's realistic performance.

20th.-Beverley Lovell elected Sports Captain, Josephine Fitzgerald her assistant.

24th.-The Parish Picnic at Narrawong Beach. Each boarder was adopted by a family. What an exchanging of experiences that evening.

26th.-We have enjoyed a plague of house-crickets. They jump through the Chapel window, sing at in­opportune times, and infest the Intermediate Room!

APRIL : lst.-Great disappointment this morning to fin d

that Mother Catherine had returned t o Toorak. Who will render First Aid to those stung by bull ants? Who will encourage the Young Explorers?

3rd.-A pleasant surprise! Mother Superior r e ­turned, accompanied by Mother Berchmans.

17th.-Barbara Baxter won the Goal-throwing Con­t est .

18th.-Home for a few days. 25th.-Attended a Requiem Mass for the soldiers at

All Saints'. Late r the Inters. made a wreath and took it down to the Triangle where the town pays honour to the fallen . Still later, we went to· the Far Rocks where we boiled the billy and toasted sandwiches.

MAY: lst.-Our May altar was decorated with Easter

Daisies, tawny dahlias and autumn leaves. No proces­sion on account of the wet weather.

7th.-The photograph for the magazine was taken today. We expect good r esults as there was no sun, no wind, no rain!

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LORETO

1956 JULY:

LORETO, TOORAK: THROUGH THE MISTS OF TIME WE RECALL MARCH:

A fitting opening to our year's activities was a Gala Film Preview in aid of the new Novitiate. Was it built for anyone here present?

Mary's Mount paid us a visit. We spent a lovely day and had some en joyable basketball matches.

The Dog Show! They were everywhere, tall small, fuzzy, wuzzy, sweet-tempered .... ! ? Never have one unless it is for the Missions. AUGUST:

Mother Superior's feast day occurred on the feast or the Assumption. We had Mass and Com­munion followed by a most enjoyable buffet breakfast. Everyone presented Mother with a handknitted article of clothing for the P oor and then our entertainments.

Xavier Social. We sent representa tives. Y.C.S. Night. A great night graciously presided

over by Reverend M. Chamberla in. It was good to meet formally as Y.C.S. and remind ourselves that tha t is what we really are. After looking at our lives seriously in papers and discussion, and hearing an address from Father Chamberlain, we had an enjoyable Social. SEPTEMBER:

Vacation begins. Oh joy! Third term. OCTOBER:

Culmination of the year's sporting activities was Sport's Day. The honours were carried off by St. Theresa's for the fifth year in succession, followed by St. Gertrude's and St. Michael's respectively. NOVEMBER :

A Television Set arrived . A gift to the School­BUT its use is strictly limited. The Olympic Games distracted us a little from our work. Result of the Shakespeare Society Competition-second place in the State awarded to Felicity Wakefield-Kent. DECEMBER:

Work! Work! Work! Public Examinations . Felicity again! This time she won the Irish History Prize.

Retreat for those leaving school. Dancing display on the F ront Lawn. Grecian

Dancers, P easan t Girls, such grace and beauty! Jubilarians Concert: final tribute to those leaving

school who have been at a Lore to School for seven years or more.

Prize giving completed another year. Once again several young ladies with tear-s tained faces and red eyes bade farewell to the place so full of pleasant memories, and thus faced the second phase of their life. What does the future hold?

1957 FEBRUARY:

Returned to school for a rest after an invigorating vacation. E veryone returned looking charming in her blue poplin frock. Looking about the school we found several rooms painted, fluorescent lighting in the class­rooms and passages: as for St. Cecilia's Hall-shining new floor and royal blue chairs.

Everyone enjoyed "Conquest of Everest." Thirty lovely debutantes visited the school before

going on to the Loreto Ball. This time next year!

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Father Norbert, C.P., conducted the Retreat for the Middle School and Seniors. Owing to the expansion of the school fourteen prefects were elected this year: Diana Bow en, Ann Curtis, Edwyna Fitzgerald, Suzanne Loftus-Hills, Gabrielle Adams, Margaret Reid, Mary Doyle, Cynthia Dethridge, Elizabeth Wimpole, Norma Daley, Pat Warry, Sandra Robinson, Lisbeth Clowes, Philippa McClelland. Also House Captains: Diana King, Diana Lord and Diana Bowen. Tennis Captain Diana Lord and Sports Captain Norma Daley.

On St. Patrick's Day the seniors joined Genezzano• and C.L.C. to sing Mass at the Cathedral.

Matrics. spent a delightful day at Mary's Mount~ .

We travelled by bus but found ourselves "horse! " APRIL:

The Paschal Moon shone down on an inspiring pre­sentation on the front lawn of the "Way of the Cross" by the Matrics. The large crowd looking on were deeply moved.

Intermediates gave several performances of their Passion Play. Excellent acting for s uch young aspirants to the stage . .. . Easter Holidays.

The famous "special choir" sang at the Easter Ceremonies at St. Peter's Church , Toorak. Children's P arty.-and much else. Mixed doubles Tennis Tourna­ment! Miniature train which mostly overflowed with passengers-our Umbrella tree in the centre of the lawn must have been dizzy at the end of the day! Merry-go-round! Lucky Dips! etc., etc. and the raffle of a T.V. Set combined to raise £1 ,100. G.T.V. 9 sent a t elevisor to capture the gay scene.

Members of the Marian Sodality took part in a general meeting at Xavier College. MAY :

Reception of Children into the six sodalities com­menced the May Day celebrations. The annual pro­cession and crowning of Our Lady's statue in the Grotto foll owed . The day was perfect.

Youth Sunday. One hundred Loreto girls marched with other school children through the city to St. Patrick's Cathedral where w e said the Rosary, listened to a sermon by Y.C.S. chaplain Father Chamberlain, and were given Benediction . Exams.!

Singing at Quarant 'Ore was the best ever during this year's ceremonies. "Gilbert and Sullivan" was shown to finish the term on a bright note. JUNE :

Second term. Prefects and House Captains show off their newly decorated blazer pockets. The pride and joy of the school are the new craft and dressmaking rooms. They are painted pink and grey with teal blue lino on the floor . Bright curtains decorate the windows. Our new coach Mrs. Schaeffer, is very enthusiastic.

Basketballers bade a fond farewell to the old en-tous-cas court, the whole playground has been asphalted.

Picture night at School raises £100 for the Missions. Mountains of marshmallows, fudge and adhesive toffee sold and stuck extremely w ell.

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LORETO

DEBATING AND WAITING A n ew experience for the pupils of Loreto,

Cavendish Road , was the recent debate against the boys of ViJlanova College, run by the Augustinian Fathers. We had, of course, had various inter-class debates before, but this was the first public appear­ance of th e eu rprisingly successful t eam.

The subject in ques tion was the controversial statem ent, "A \Voma n's place is in the home." And as if to di sprove thi s the numerous mothers, aunts and sisters present, comprised about half the audi­ence, a fact later turned to advantage by both sides. Each team boasted of three speaker s, who were each given eight minutes to se t forth their points, (a rather gruelling test for inexperienced debaters, though the boys were b y no means inexperien ced! ) At the con­clusion, the firs t speakers were allowed three minutes to sum-up ; and th en all that was lacking was the rlecision of the adjudicator, an English master of a leading Public High School.

It might h ave been hard to imagine of what our three representatives were thinking, while they awaited the all important decision, but from reliable resources it has been gath ered that, surprisingly, their thoughts were centred around what had taken place durin g the past hour, not around what would inevitably b e decided within the next few minutes.

Three slightly stunned and crestfallen girls thought over carefully prepared addresses they had deliver ed. They really had built a convincing argu­ment for themselves. Their speak ers had expounded forcefully, and fulJ y, the evils incurred by working wives, the moral and soc ial obligations of women, and the marked economic di sadvantages resulting from their a bsence in the home, but now they had been brought suddenly to hard reality.

The cutting rema rks of their merciless oppon­ents (the boys) had r eally done thei r duty, tearing at firmly-cem ented argu ments and tumbling seemingly fool-proof examples. The cunnin g thrusts of the hitter, cynical male tongue h ad finall y left not even the remotest shreds of confidence fluttel'ing. All that remained was r esignation and the pleasurable warmth which remains after a hard. haule, even if only of tongues and wil s. Then came the adjudi­cator's voice:

"A vic tory for Lore to by two points." JUDITH HAUPT (17) , Brisbane.

Senior Debators, Denise Hart, Elizabeth O'Neill, Kerry Bates, and Intermediate Wendy Gunson, Leonie McKernan, Elizabeth Finlay, were victorious over St. Patrick's College. A most enj oyable night.

Gala preview of "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" at Metro Theatre, in aid of the building fund, caused much excitement, especially for those who glided up the red carpet before hundreds of spectators. Very successful evening.

The "special Choir's" services were required at St. Peter's for Quarant 'Ore. And so to the rest of the year that lies before us.

DIANA BOWEN, Toorak.

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INDIAN DANCING IS A HIGHLY DEVELOPED ART

"Wh e n the world. was very youn g, Brahma, the Creator, invented the art and. science of the dance. Then he taught it to the sage Bharata, and Bharata taught it to the Divine B eings who taught it to man."

So says the ancient legend, and. indeed ancient treatises reveal that classical dancing in India was a highly developed art with its technical rules some 2,000 years ago. I was fortunate enough to see two of the greatest dancers of India, the man "Shivaram," and the girl "Ilbotam bi," at school last May.

It was a wonderful experience, one of sincerity and complete devotion to a classical art. It is said that Indian culture and indeed India h erself cannot he properly understood and apprecia ted without an adequate acquaintance with Indian Dance, through which the artistic genius of the Indian p eople has expressed itself in a manner which is as effective as it is rich and varied.

The hands of the dancer, and his body and face, expreios every shade of emotion, and every idea h e wishes to convey to his audience. The whole verse­drama of the dance is recited in music, to the accom­paniment of native drums and various musical ini,truments, whil e the actor-dancers, who never move their lips, vividly interpre t the play through amazing movements of the body, facial expression s and eloquent hand gestures. All this m e ticulou s tech­nique is k ept in perfect rhythm with the music. The result? - beautiful, simple and touching.

In order to b ecome a proficient and "finish ed" Indian dancer, the boy or girl has to go through at least ten , and sometimes twelve years of training. When they em erge at last, they are complete masters of self-control , and can move any part of their body by a singular effortless movement.

" Ibotomi," a striking} y b eautiful girl, with the dark skin and hair of an Indian, comes from Mani­pur, and ther efore specializes in the dancing of that Sta te. H e r dancing has an air of unsophistication about it, and a graceful serenity which evok es the sublime and the romantic. In one dance Ibotomi ti es n early two hundred b ells at h er ankles, and throughou't the dance, moves either all the bells or only certain ones as she wishes.

Although it might appear to u s, · as a weird and u seless art, it is al so one of fa scination, educa tion and b eautiful sentiment.

WENDY ANNE GUNSON, Toorak.

(Continued from P age 11)

lOth.-"A h orse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!" This could have been the cry of Ann Maling today as she awaited the arrival of Binkie, per goods train.

13th.-Fine weather so we honoured Our Lady of Fatima with an outdoor procession.

16th.-Volunteers' names soon filled up the spaces and we had a grand tidying-up·. Holiday hymn and farewells n ext. Then homeward-ho!

MARGARET CUMMINS AND JOSEPHINE FITZGERALD, Intermediate.

LORETO

SCHOOL DIARY, NEDLANDS 1956 JUNE :

5th-Back at school with admirable resolutions for the new term!

9th.-Leavings and Subs went on a geography excursion along the Swan River.

13th.-Seniors began their Retreat, and were im­pressed by Father Murtagh's forceful talks.

16th.-Breakfast at school to end the Retreat. 24th.-The Pet Show had to be cancelled because

of heavy rain. 30th.-We lost our first Basketball match of the

season to Osborne.

JULY: Sth.-Our first debate against Aquinas College-on

Automation and Hire Purchase! To our amazement we won.

llth.-We were liberated for half a day to hear an Orchestral Concert.

14th.-Congratulations to Forms I and II for their victory in Basketball. It was energetically played!

15th.-The long postponed Pet Show at last took place, and was the usual "howling" success.

16th.-We were visited by Mr. Rourke, the school Inspector.

17th.-The Seniors were moved by "Heaven Over the Marshes," the film story of St. Maria Goretti.

21st.-The Prefects ' Dance. Despite some last minute worries it was a success.

22nd.-We heard "Osborne" win a hard-fought debate against St. Louis College.

25th.-The Diocesan Inspector, Father Bourke visited us.

27th.-Seniors went to a Cadet Dance held in the new hall at Aquinas College.

AUGUST: Sth.-Exams! llth.-The Mission and School Fete was a success

thanks to the nuns, parents and "old girls." 22nd.-We saw the film "Julius Ceasar," and gained

a clearer idea of the Play. 23rd.-Holidays! Another term is over.

SEPTEMBER: 11 th.-Back to school. 14th.-First P olio Injection. 15th.-Sports Day was as much of a success as

ever, thanks to the help of the nuns and parents. 17th.-Junior Domestic Science exam. Had the

smell of food ever made anyone so hungry before? 25th.-Perception Results. Fortunate musicians

have one less subject to get for Leaving or Junior.

OCTOBER: 5th.-Rose early to sing at a 6.30 a.m. Mass for the

beginning of the Forty Hours Exposition. 6th.-Not quite so early this morning! "Les

Francaises" had breakfast at school and then gloomily departed for the Alliance Francaise Exam.

7th.-Sang at the 9.30 Mass on the last morning of Quarant' Ore.

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12th.-Second Polio Injection. We were veterans in this field and had no cause for fear.

13th.-Divfsion I faced the ordeal of French Orals. However we were cheered up in the afternoon by "The Rivals" at the Playhouse.

17th.-The Leavings saw "King Lear" well acted by the University Dramatic Society.

25th. and 26th.-Leaving French Orals . . . No com­ment!

30th.-Leaving German Orals ... Still no comment!

NOVEMBER: lst.-Leavings and Juniors spent a day in Retreat

with Father Nugent of the Carmelite Order as Director. 9th.-Loreto Day and crowning of Jubilarians. We

admired ourselves and others in the Loreto film; also saw an interesting film of the New Guinea Missions.

llth.-We sang at the First Holy Communion. 18th.-N.C.G.M. and Y.C.S. Conference at Vic.

Square for those leaving school. We received several helpful talks about the N.C.G.M. and Catholic Action.

19th.-Alliance Results! On the whole not too bad! 25th.-We were privileged to sing at the opening of

the new chapel at the Sunset Home for Old Men. The Mass was celebrated by His Grace the Archbishop.

26th.-Leaving and Junior Examinations begin.

DECEMBER: 5th.-Prizegiving by Monsignor Moss. Congratula­

tions to all who received prizes. 6th.-Holiday Hymn and Holiday for eight weeks.

1957 JANUARY:

9th.-Exam. results were good. Congratulations to the L eavings on their hundred per cent. pass.

FEBRUARY: 12th.-Back to school. Is it really eight weeks since

we were here last! 25th.-First Softball lesson. Discover it's harder

than it looks.

MARCH: 6th.-Monsignor Moss re-erects the Stations in our

beautiful newly painted and furnished chapel.

APRIL: 6th.-Excitement is running high. Our tennis team

has been successful in the School's Tournament and the Mursell Shield graces the Hall.

Sth.-Father Dynon S .J. , gave us an interesting lecture on the J esuit Indian Missions.

26th.-Leaving Geography _class enjoy themselves, and take pages of interesting looking notes on a Geography excursion with C.B.C. Highgate.

29th.-Prefects : Jill Clune, Head of the School. Barbara Cranfield, Kathleen Dwyer, Patsy Miller, Margaret Rintoul, Bernice Coffey, Rosemary Carroll.

MAY: lst.-The altar looks as beautiful as ever to-day. 2nd.-Girls enjoyed themselves at Aquinas Dance.

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LORETO

A GARLAND OF HISTORY This year is very special to us for it is the

Jubilee Year for Loreto Convent, Kirribilli. There­fore it naturally calls forth some account of the background, the beginnings and all the troubles that went with the foundation of Kirribilli, which, inci­dentally, is an aboriginal word for the Spanish word Carabella, meaning a bask et of flowers.

The Loreto nuns first arrived in Sydney in 1892 and went into residence at Randwick. After securing a property for a boarding school at Normanhurst in 1896, the nuns wished to obtain land in order to establish a good day school. The nuns' prayers were rewarded by a magnificent site for the foundation of a convent and school, now known as Kirribilli.

Kirribilli was only one of the many schools founded by Mother Mary Gonzaga Barry who not only figured in the foundations in Australia but represented Australia at an international meeting of the I.B.V.M. at Rome in 1900. The new location made an admirable position for a day school. The house itself had been owned by generations of Milsons, one of Sydney's old colonial families; but when the Loreto nuns moved from Fern Hill to Carabella Street both the house and the property passed into the hands of the Heaton family. To-day at Kirribilli, we still have with us Mother Philomena Heaton, who has been the heart and inspiration of our school during the past fifty years. It was Mother who figured prominently in the constructions and exten­sions of Kirribilli. On to the small but solid build­ing, erected by the Milsons, a verandah was added in 1922 and the hall in 1923, and the chapel in 1929.

The Grotto of Our Lady at the end of the drive, was donated by the ex-students of 1926. In 1951 the nuns acquired a large and spacious home owned hyt the Thom family; it has been renamed Saint Mary's and provides a comfortable domicile for the small family of boarders.

From all angles the Kirribilli Loreto has pro­vided for many girls an excellent education, despite the woes and doubts that have beset them at times. Not only in education, but in the field of sport Kirribilli has been outstanding producing many a champion especially in tennis. Kirribilli is sur­rounded with beauty, and from its tower many his­torical points can be seen: Sydney Cove where Gover-

5th.-We join the ranks of young people of the British Commonwealth Sunday March and sing at the Confirmation ceremony in Holy Rosary Church.

9th.-The Holiday Hymn echoes again.

JUNE: 4th.-Second Term-An aroma of fresh paint! The

Leaving room is practically unrecognisable-we are thrilled with its lovely pastel shades.

12th.-Seniors go into Retreat conducted by Father Crispin. O.F.M.

BARBARA CRANFIELD, MARGARET RINTOUL and ROSEMARY CARROLL

Loreto, Nedlands.

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nor Phillip landed, the Ships' Dock of Kareening Cove, Blue's Point from whence the first ferry service was run and Miller's Point where the first flour mill was erected in the early days. SALLY BELAIR and VERONA GREENWAY (5th. Yr.),

Kirribilli.

LORETO CONVENT, CLAREMONT: SODALITY ACTIVITIES

The Sodality of Our Lady is the prime movement in the school. The council for 1956 was: June Hunt, President, Mary O'Hara, vice-president, Susan Watkins, secretary, Christina Magee, treasurer and librarian.

During the year the Sodality visited several Catholic Institutions. The visit to St. John of God's Hospital was of great interest. We were shown over every section of the Hospital, including the operating rooms; the nursery, the wards, the laboratories and x-ray rooms. A most en joyable after-noon tea was provided by the nuns, to whom we were grateful for the pleasant visit.

The afternoon at St. Joseph's Girls' Orphanage was another success. A large supply of sweets soon attracted many eager friends. We were shown the dormitories, classrooms and domesti c science room which were all most beautifully kept. The children then entertained us with dancing and songs. W e were all deeply impressed with what we had seen.

The Annual picnic this year was to Garden Island. We went by launch and sang most of the way partly to pass the time, but mostly to keep our minds off the persistent rocking of the launch. The islarl"d was disfigured by the bush fires, but it still provided plenty of fun. We tried our hand at steering the launch, on the return trip, but, pot being apt pupils, we soon surrendered the whe!il nack to the skipper.

This year the Sodality wilr .visit the Old People at Glendalough, as well as other institutions.

To belong to the Sodality of Our Lady, and to take p"art in its activities, has· been the aim of every girl in the past, ·and we hope that this tradition will live forever in "Osborne."

Message for Ann Shanahan, Claremont: Please pardon the omission last year, Ann. Yet our inten­tions were good : witness, your name in the Index! (Ed.)

1956 CHILDREN OF MARY (Consecrated on December 2nd.)

Rosemary Carroll, Bernice Coffey, Kathleen Dwyer, Challis Connell, Jennie Healy, Marcia Holman, Erica Johnson, Margaret Rintoul, Adrienne Shea, Laine Novell. JUBILARIANS-

Barbara Allen, Barbara Cranfield, Patsy Miller, Adrienne Shea. FIRST COMMUNICANTS-

Kathie Ahern, Maureen Adams, Pam Beaton, Mary Jane, Hamilton Brown, Maria Brown, Jennifer Beaton, Jo Mary Cullity.

TOP: SENIORS

LORETO, DAWSON STREET, BALLARAT, VICTORIA

A GRADE TENNIS TEAM

( LEFT): M . B erg in, A. S uthe rl and ( B alla r at Schoolgirl Cham pion 1957), N . D onnelly, L . Gemmola.

(See Names Page 20)

16 BOTTOM: SECOND & FIRST YEARS

LORETO, DAWSON Sl'REE'l', BALLARAT, VICTOii°IA

PREFECTS (LEFT): J. Kerr ins , N. Donnell y, K. Hayes ( H ead Prefect), A. Sutherland, M. Bergin.

GRADES 3, 4, 5, 6 FRONT: M. Torpy, D. D ' Arcy, R. Williams, M . Bedford, E. Flynn, C. Ward, M ..

Panarello, M . Duffy, C. Birch, G. D ' Arcy. SECOND ROW: H. Brooks, P. H arm an, P. Cook, C. Callaghan, S . Ni ch oll s, M . Quinlan,

M . Lore n s ini , L. Raine, G. W ard, A. Rice, A . Hulett, C. James, R. O 'Nei l, J. Lynch: THIRD ROW: C. D ow ney, ] . Diamond, L. Hay, J. Morrison, D. D ohlie, J. Bryant, L.

Hanrahan, E. Kennedy, S. Howard, C. Evans, D. Mark , C. Hogan, R . Barry. FOURTH ROW: J. Fulton, A. Tobin, M. M. Flynn, S. Morris, ] . Braybrook, M. Pittard,

R . Adamson s, S. Upma1i s, M. Diamond, M . Ni c holl s, B. Porter, R. Birch. BACK ROW: M. Bong1orno, E. Cooke, ]. Walsc hots, G. Brooks, J. O 'Loughlin, G. Muir

LJ. S k inn er , G. L c rcn s: ni. F. Cook, H. P ittard, M. Ha.:ntz.

TOP: GRADES 3, 4, 5, 6. (See Names Page 20 )

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LORETO

OLYMPIC GAMES, 1957: Some Memories THE OLYMPIC FLAME

(As seen by a Queenslander)

The air of expectancy over the assembled crowd was broken by a ch eet·, for a white-clad figure had entered the arena, bearing the symbol of all that the Olympic Games stands for, the Olympic Torch. And what fin er example of manhood could be found than Ron Clarke, who represents the Olympic ideal. The feelings of all the world were voiced in the cheers that accompanied the torch as it made the last lap of its long journey from the birthplace of the Games : Olympia, Greece. What a long history thi s torch has. It was used as early as 1495 B.C. at the Panathenean games in Athens when m en on foot and later horse­back competed in a torch race on the evening of the first day of the Games. However its modern counter­part was not run until 1936 at the B erlin Games. But the Games of those da ys did not have the same significance as the Games of today ; the relay from Olympia to Melbourne, a distance of 12,741 miles, aroused world-wide interest. . The flame was kindled with due ceremony by Greek maidens at the Temple of H era on ~he Pelo­ponnesian Peninsula from the rays of the sun with a burning gla£s and wood shavings. Then the flame was carried to Olympia on November 2nd, 1956 and from there through Corinth to Athens. From there the flame was transferred to an amphibian aircraft and transported 8,500 miles to Darwin and then to Cairns where a relay of the finest athletes was ready to carry it to its destination- Melbourne, 2,831 miles away. Every runner was to complete his run, a mile, in less than seven minutes and although adverse weather conditions were encountered this schedule was strictly adhered to throughout the relay.

Through the tropical foliage of the north, th e wooded terrain of southern Queen sland, the rich dairying lands of the Northern Rivers, the industrial area of the Hunter Valley, the bustling metropolis of Sydney, the Olympic Torch was carried to its goal.

While the torch was borne by runners for nearly 3,000 miles from the East coast of Australia, it had an escort of soldiers. It was all a fitting and exciting preparation for the Olympic Games in Melbourne.

KAYE BARRY (14), Brisbane.

OLYMPIC ONLOOKER

The large bus bearing the brightly coloured sign '.'Olympic Special" grinds its way to a halt outside ,one of the boatsheds, and this acts as the signal for many onlookers to mob the emerging rowers and canoeists in the hope of obtaining their autographs. O~e or two who are anxious to begin training force their way through the eager crowd, while the re­mainder good-naturedly accept their fate- the fate of .the famous- and are delayed many minutes sign­ing au~_ograph ppon autograph.

, This is the scene before me, only three days to the beginning of the Olympic Games, and four till the actual rowing events take place here on Lake W endouree. I am sitting on one of the huge ,packing

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THE KINDLING OF THE OLYMPIC FLAME The early morning. rays of the sun strike a concave mirror in the ancient Olympic stadium and light the torch held by the kneeling Greek m aiden . The other girls a re in the brown tunics of Spartan girl a thletes.

cases which have brought racing shells and canoes from all parts of the world and which are piled high around the boatsheds and on the lawns opposite. These cases are spattered with directions in foreign languages and some are addressed simply: " To the Olympic Games, Melbourne." Just across the path is a smaller, smartly painted grey case, and stamped across the top in red is " John B. K elly, U.S.A."

All around there is a hive of activity as rowers unpack their boats or prepare to go out training. It is an amazing sight to see the differ ent nationalities intermingling, their brilliantly coloured track-suits outstanding in the sunlight. There are groups of people clustered around the few rower s 'who have ventured outside, whilst others, thinking perhaps that they have signed enough autographs for one day, talk to the onlookers from the refuge of the boat­sheds.

Huge, bear-like Maurice from Italy who attracts children like the Pied Piper, has his usual gathering as h e sketches and signs autographs, delighting everyone with his infectious smile and the smatter­ing of English he has learnt since his arrival.

The Japanese Eight has just arrived, the majority in one of the "Olympic Specials," two on small, shiny bicycles, and the coxswain and coach on a motor scoo ter with the "Rising Sun" painted on both sides. This crew is from Keio University, Tokio, and each member is at least able to speak a

LORETO

little English and write his own After the Italians these Japanese their restrained good humour nlannc rs.

name in English. arc favourites for and impeccable

Lake \Venrlourcc is dressed for the occasion. Stre tching along the south e rn bank at the fini sh of the course is a se t of stan<l s built to seat two thousand , four hundred sp ectators. Ther e arc al so nume rous press-boxes, judges' s tand s, and a pontoon stre tching out: over th e wate r where the winnc 1·s will receive the ir gold m edal s. At inte rval s, stre tched ove r the two thousand m e tre course, arc differe nt coloured sight-board s whic h he lp the coxwain to s teer a straight course. Eve rywhere the re is an air of expectancy. Who knows who will rece ive those cove ted gold mrdal s and the fam e which accompanies them?

The buses come and 1:-(0, and every fe w minut es a crew sets off for training. AlJ arc h elping to make thi s s ixteenth Olympia!] thr most rnccr ssfu] in the history of th e Garnes. Successful not only the high standard of the e ve nt s the mselves, hut because inter­national good-will is the predominant ft.ature.

ANN DONEY (Matr ic.), Mary 's Mount.

THE OLYMPIC GAMES AND LARE WENDOUREE

Ballarat weathe r did no t live up to it s tru e name when the Olympic rowing e vents we re he ld on Lak e Wendouree last year. ExePpt for one da y, glorious sunshine chee red the many compe titors- no t to mention the sp r clators- ri1.d1t through to the fini sh.

F or m onth s heforehand , th e Ballaral B oard of \Vorks had IJP en pre paring- clraring th e Lake of weed , in which eve ryone was e ncouraged to help; building stands for the spectators. and morr e laborate

ones for the officials and jud ges ; e r ec ti ng t he fla g­poles from which the flags of seve nt y-e ight nations were lo flutte r in the breeze ; markin g out the course for the rowers and clearin g and 1evc l1 in g the shores of the Lake. A small j e tt~' or pontoon was bu ilt from which the winne rs would rece ive the ir med als- add lo all thi s the building of a post-offi ce, ref reshment stal1s and the Olympic Village ( which we vi sit ed one day be fore the games ), and yo u w ill reali se that Ballarat had been husy.

So the da y of the Olympi cs arrived ! From our stand, erecte d in the grounds, we Mary's Mou nt g irl s had an unobstruc te d vi ew of th e proceedin gs. lt was magnificent watchin g the cre ws, o nl y specks on the waler at first and then comin g into ran ge, rowing with powerful smooth , clearcut strokes- to hear the roar of the crowd as the winning c re w sh o t pa st the fini shing post. Then follow ed the dramati c mo m e nt of the award fro m the pontoon , when the Nation al Anth em of th e winning nation was pla yed an d th e fla gs of first, second and third we re unfu rled.

W e had becom e fa mili a r w ith the ma n v t eam~ and their colours durin g the fo rtni ght prccf' cling the games, when we sat on the guin <'a sca ts tlu r ing practices- for nothin g ! Of cour se the grea t eve nts we re the " Rowin g Eight s"--onc reall y felt they re­presented N ations.

The Ol ympi c Gam es we re a n occas ion we wi ll alwa ys rc mc mhc r, for the col our, dra m a and good sportsmanship ; and the people of B all arat will , l think re m e mber with pride th e great h onour they rece ived in having the Olympi c Row in g event ~ 0 11

the ir Lake W e ndouree- o r rathe r, OU R Lak e W endouree !

NOLA FAY, (16 ), Mary's Mount.

EVENING

Jn a p eaceful verdant valley the re nrstlrs a qui e t billahong. A ge ntl e c vPning breeze softly animates the s lee ping wate rs cau sing an ove rhanging hough to dip in a graceful c urt sy. Around it s <'dgcs the foliage reaches out to touch th e ripp.ling wat e rs.

.It is evening and thi s, th e hush wat e rhol e, is a permane nt re ndezvous for tlw hush dwe llers. Look carefull y amongst the und e r-growth anrl yon will discove r numbers of hu sh cn·al urc~ who have come down lo the billahong for their eve ning drink. A slight move me nt in tlw und e rgro wth sudd e nl y rcveah a solitary wallaby. lfrad poi sed , he sniffs the air and cautiousl y looks about. him. Finallv convinced that he is safe he advan ces and after one. more quick sur­vey of the su rronnd in g bush bend ~ hi s head and drinks.

With a noi sy splash the platypus ente rs hi s natural habitat , th e water, for an eve nin g swim . Heads. are raised ne rvousl y and the n lowrrcd again as their several own e rs d ecid e that. all .is wcl I. Ove r yonder by a tall c ucal ypt trrc I Sf'{' a famil y o r kangaro<:>s, the bi~ old fath e r kangaroo peering around mtc ntl y belore leading hi s family down to the wate r 's e dge .

Following the c urve of tlw lef t hank of the wate r-hol e we com e across a stre tc h of swa m p wh r rr can be seen some of the hirrl-lifc of the hush. al so taking the ir e venin g re fres hnwnt. Cock a t oo~ arc to be ~een by th e doze n am o ng I h e hranche~ of t lw trees surroundin g the swamp; and on i t ~ edges arc m yriad s of the pink-brea sted gal a hs, nal i ve ~ of th e warme r parts of Australia . The y str u t aho ul ch eekil y, shakin g th e ir h ead s and pass in g on th e ir rlaily goss ip. A fli ght of the long-legged but extre mel y graceful Burgund y- birds comes g lid ing a nd ~wee p · ing down through th e dusk. Swee pin g in effort lessl y and majesti call y 011 the ir broad win gs and grace full y skimming th e surface of the s ilent wat e rs they eomc to r es t. at la st.

A bove the m all , bird s, r e ptiles, and an imals, the kookaburra s it s, a brown snake dang ling grot esquel y from the branch besid e him , arHI la ughs a t th e bush , its creatures and th r whole wo rlrl in ge ne ral. Du sk deep ens into N ight.

ANNETTE DAVID SON (16) ,

Dawson St reet.

LORETO

A SKIT ON THE MATRICS Coburn, Mary: This year Mary's budding genius

for Literature burst-she transformed Milton's "Para­dise Lost" into "Melton-Paradise's Boast." (Mary is a keen inhabitant of a small country town-Melton!)

Doney, Annette: Annette, a day-scholar, and one of our two intelligentsia, is a light 'midst darkness to us boarders, especially concerning foreign affairs (i.e. "affairs" generally "foreign" to boarders).

Lechte, Therese: Being one of the soloists in "The Pied Piper," Therese is very keen on singing-so much so in fact , that the effects of the Retreat showed themselves in song.

McAlpine, Joan: Joan, our other intelligentsia, is lean and lanky ; she lacks only one thing-the pince-nez!

O'Brien, Helen: Helen is our dutiful day-scholar prefect, always making sure that the younger children, bring and wear their outdoor shoes!

O'Loghlen, Margaret: How well does this "Dream­lady" fulfil her obligations! Each spare (or are they spare!) minute is spent dreaming of the tropical sun of New Guinea.

Rice, Gabrielle: Gabrielle, as our Head of the School and enterprising Sports Captain, combines strategy with pleasure when she marches the A and B teams on to the court! "Rise up," she says, "and play! "

Tweddle, Julienne: Julienne's wide ·variety of interests rarely fail to cheer our Matric. room; whether it is Rameses II in "The Ten Commandments," or Speed car racing in America, Julienne is an expert.

Willis, Gabrielle: Last by Alphabet, certainly not least-Gay is continually garbed in a green cloth of hope for this or that.

MARGARET O'LOGHLEN (16) , MARY COBURN (16),.

Mary's Mount.

MARY'S MOUNT, BALLARAT (See Photos Pages 6 and 7)

SUB-INTERMEDIATE-SECOND AND FIRST YEARS

BACK ROW (left to ri ght ): C. Faucus, J . Auer, M. Fay, V. Dicken so n, H . Monkivitch, M. L. Crowley, H . Hughes, A. Ke ating, M. Jenkins, B . A. Purdie.

FOURTH ROW: J. Bolleman, D . Raper, M . Keating, K. Wilson, E . Ryan, A. Buckley, M . Troy, D. Shanahan, D. K ea ting, H . L echte, G. M c Genni ss.

THIRD ROW: J. O 'Calla ghan, B. Carlyon, J . :(;>ale, K. Timmins, E . Besemere s, K . Pickett, M . Tudor, S. Peel, J. Griffiths, L. Holmes, M. Frawley, A . Faulkner.

SECOND ROW: G. Barker, L. Podger, K. O'Callagh a n, A. Sparks, J. Bennett, S. Lubransky, M. Creati, L . Latus, M . O ' Connor, K . Dibdin, P. Hayden, L. Jenkins, A. Mountjoy.

FRONT ROW : H. Bilson, S. Bateson, A. Smurthwai t e, P. Meerbach, M. Dunn, J . Buckley, M . Nunn, J . Gurry, M. Carter, F. Freeman, M. A . Geraghty.

FIFTH AND SIXTH CLASSES AND JUNIOR SCHOOL

BACK ROW (left to right): J. Coghlan, M . Jenkins, H . Kearney, F. F aulkner, N . Hug hes, R. O 'Grady J. Powell, P. Hayes. THIRD ROW: M. Smith, J . Hunter, A. Bell, D. Ramsden, M . Row ands, G. Landy, H. Hager, A. Co;,lan, K. Jackman. SECOND ROW: A. Hardy, A . Rowlands, M . Briody, G. Duffy, J. Chatha m , B. Hayden, S . Joshua, M . Holmes, P. Summons, F . Jones. FIRST ROW : J . Bilson, M. Hollins , E. Briody, S. Garvey, S. Martin, G. Hayes, J. O 'Grady, M. Creati, B. Chatham, L . Mize, J . Rinaldi. SITTING : B. Hayden, H . de Graaf, P. Hunter.

KINDERGARTEN

S. Dickenson, P . Favoloro, L . McNamara, D . Hanrahan, M . Trelevan, J. Byrne, M . L. M cCarron, J. Hutchison, A. de Graafe, L . Hoopmans, I. Szamar, C. Lewis, M . Garvey.

IN FRONT OF SWING : J . Faulkner, P. Elliott, M. Koopmans.

DAWSON STREET, BALLARAT (See Photos Pages 16 and 17)

SENIORS

FRONT LEFT: F. Kincade, M. Fransen, M . Donovan, M. Bergin, K . Vinecombe, M. Ridsdale, B. Goodwin, C. Ridsdale, M. Darsy, K . Strachan, H. White, B. Matthews, A. Re, B . Adamsons.

SECOND ROW: A. Hynes, C. Callaghan, C. Kennedy, F . McLeod, D . Paddle, M. O'Sullivan, R. Wilson, M. Morrison, R. Pittard, V. Kincade, ]. K'errins, L . Gemmola, J. Ritchie.

THIRD ROW: M. Barry, N . Leyden, A. Davies, M . Tuppen, K. Hayes , M. Hynes, G. Sherritt, V. Bogner, R. Allan, M . Taffe, S. Nicholso n, M . Cooke.

BACK ROW : D. Keogh, B. Reidy, N . Donnelly, M. Reidy, A. Sutherland, A. Davison, P . Grace, A. Bradley. ABSENT : M . Cooke, M. Butler.

SECOND AND FIRST YEARS

FRONT LEFT : C. Doyle, M . Cooper, P. Salter, D . Wilkie, K . Coughlan, J. Findlay, E. Brisbane, C. Strachan, N . Morgan, D. Gemmola, D . Taylor.

SECOND ROW: J . Underwood, M . Matthews, D . Corbett, P. Stapleton , U . Raine, A. Nester, J. Hanrahan, E. Nolan, S. O'Neil. THIRD ROW: M . Schaper, J . Johnson, F . Keating, P . Conroy, M. Wood, M. van Haandel, P . Webster, H. Bryans. BACK ROW : M . Scott, C. Ryan, M. Barry, I. Upmalis, P . Webster, P . Callaghan, M. van Haandel, B. Chan, L. Duggan.

JUNIOR SCHOOL

FRONT ROW (left to right): B . Hulett, G. Torpy, G. Jones, G. Keating, S. Butler, R. Boyd, B. Ratcliffe, K . Halliburton, A. Birch, T. Porter.

SECOND ROW: P. Kearney, J. Cook, J. Taylor, M. Winckins, S. Heintz , H . Sprini:, I. Gulbis, M. Stahl, M. Lorensini, M . Cann, M. Egan, R. D'Arcy, D. McDermott, N. Tierney, P. Tobin.

THIRD ROW: A. Panarello, E . Condon, B . O ' Loughlin, C. Prunty, H . Harman, J. Morrison, D. Jackson, H . Murray, A. Bongiorno, T . Calnin, M . Ratcliffe, B . Flynn, C. Hay.

FOURTH ROW: D. McCulloch, N. Gavin, P. Callaghan, B . Duffy, B. O'Loughlin, C. Beecham, M. Porter, M . Webster, D. Gallagher, J . Matthews, M . Ward, M . Sherritt.

BACK ROW : P . Woodford, F . Bongiorno, B . Scott, B. Smith, S . Strachan, G. Carrigg, G. Cann, J . Bryant, M . Kearney, M . Powell.

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This Australia THE SALVADO SAGA

(By Mother M. Aidan Parker, I.B.V.M., Loreto Convent, Claremont)

Last vear I was ask ed to translate Dom Salvado's Memoirs, 'written by him in Italian and presented to Cardinal Franzon i, Prefect of the S.C. for the Pro­pagation of the Faith. They we re then translated into French and wid ely circulated in France. It seem" however that onl y one, or p erhaps two, copies of the French edition are to b e found in Australia. Mv imagination and enthusiasm were so stirred by thi.s gifted , saintly and h eroic B enedictine, that I wrote to His Grace Dr. Prendivill e, express ing surprise that a work of such interest should n ever have reached the Australian publi c. His Grace ask ed to see the tran s­lation, was pleased with it and r ecommended it to the Editor of the R ecord for publication as a serial, expressing the hope that later it would b e publish ed in book form.

ARRIVAL OF DOM SALVADO IN AUSTRALIA On January 6, 1846, Dom Salva do with a com­

panion, Dom Serra, arrived in Australia in a party of 28 missioner s whom Dr. Brady (first Bishop of P erth ) had gathe red in Europe. Six Sis ter s of Mercy for the convent at Vic toria Square, P erth , were also on board. In Salvado's Memoirs the past comes to life in a panorama: th e arrival of the frigate, the ch eers of the cre w as the missioners were taken ashore in the ship 's boats. " Ther e, in the presen ce of a crowd who had assembled on the shore, we chanted an Ambrosian hymn as an ac t of thanksgivin g for our safe arrival." Then the trip up the Swan River to Perth, and the mee ting with more ch eerful, joyful crowds, after which Dom Salvado's fine voice intoned the T e Deum.

The town of P erih wa s chiefly native forest where frogs c roaked loudly in the trees and cloud.,; of mosquitoes wer e a ve ry r eal inconve nience. Black s roamed the stree ts and looked su spiciousl y at the whites "whose vices they had alread y begun to learn."

THE MISSIONS Shortly after their arrival of the missioners in

P erth, it was decided Lo follow the blacks out into the parts whern the y wern most nume rous. The Benedic tines, including Dom Serra as Superior, three Brothers and Dom Salvado were assigned the Central Mission towards the North-wes t. It was well-known that the blacks in that r egion were hostile to whites, and there was the further diffi culty of getting pro­visions through the d ense bush. A certain Captain Scully, whose settlement was on the outposts about 60 miles from P erth, suggested to DT. Brady that the locality round this settlement would make a go•od mission. H e also offered to take their belongings in his wagons that were returning from Perth. So that was their first mission journey.

The send-off is described by Dom Salvado : "Each of u s having made all preparations : crucifix on breast, breviary under one arm, staff in hand, we set off towards evening for the Church where the Bishop awai ted u s. It was with difficulty that we

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npproached the altar owing to the crowd of Catho­lics and Prptestants who had come to hid u s a Jong farewell, which they thought would be ou r last. There, kneeling before the picture of the Mother of God, exposed fol" veneration, we intoned the Litany of Lore to, the Salve Regina and the commem ora­tion of our glorious Patriarch, St. Benedic t. After an inspiring sermon , His Lordship blessed u s an d gave u s the ki ss of peace. As we went from th e church we saw that bright moonlight had taken th e place of day. The Bishop and a numerous crowd accompanied u s for some distance with the driver s of the h eavily pack ed wagons which Captain Scully put at our disposal."

FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH THE BLACKS After a difficult journey through sandy soil

they finally arrived at a r eservoir about six miles away from th e Scully se ttl em ent. Next day they b egan to build a hut. In the evening a few black s appear ed , approached the r eservoir, li ghted a fi re and stre tched them selves out to sleep. They looked su s­piciously at the monks who put on a semblance of gaiety; when it was too dark to work they sang a5 they were accustomed to sing in their monaster .ies. Th en they lay down on a b ed of dry leaves, but the thought of their n eighbours banished sleep. Next morning the black s di sappeared bu t r e turned in t h e evening in far greater numbers, thi s Lime armed from h ead to foot, and camped closer to the hut. An­othe 1· sleepless night; but s till nothing happen ed, and in the morning the missioners continued build­ing. Suddenly a troop of black s appeared, carrying wooden javelins. The monks approach ed them smil­ing and offered tea and sugar. The black s p aid no t the slightest att ention, but went and sat round the r eser· voir. " \Ve consulted among ourselves the best way Lo mee t them , and decided to prepare cak es and t ea in abundance ; and with some plates filled with su gar to approach them eating from the plates and offer­ing the black s some of what we were ea ting. W c knelt down and begged the Most High to bless our endeavour, and then advanced al l toge ther wi th t h e food. At once they took up their arms, while t he women and children began to yell and tak e to fl igh t. But we, continuing to eat, made a sign to them t o put down their arms. Again, we b egged th em to accept our food . . .. In a few minutes there was a scramble for the smallest particle .... " This was t h e first of many bloodless victories gained b y the mis­sioner s, who soon had them working with them.

DOM SALVADO'S CONCERT l N PER T H Before two months had passed the monks cam e

to the end of their provisions ; a trip to P erth was the only solution of their plight. So Dom Salvado set out on foot with a fri endly native. B y the time they r eached Perth, the priest 's shoes wer e so broken that h e was almost hare foot. Dr. Brady could make only one suggestion: that h e should give up the Mission. But this was some thing that the missioner

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shrank from doing. After asking alms for the mission from both Catholics and Protestants, the thought suddenly came to him of giving a piano recital, for h e was a gifted and trained musician. The p eople vied with each other in h elping: Governor Clarke lent the Courthouse hall; a Protestant printer did the poster s and programmes free of cost; the Angli­can clergyman (without being ask ed ) sent lights from his church and his sacristan to look after them; a J ew distt·ibuted the tickets and invited all the prin­cipal families. Then: "On the 21st May I presented myself before a packed house in the ordinary dress of a Benedictine. My tunic reached only to my knees, and from that down fell in fringe of rags. My black trouser s were patched with pieces and thread of different colours; m y shoes had parted company with their soles so that my toes were touching the floor. Added to that a beard of three months' growth and unkempt, the skin of my face and hands copper colour, almost like the blacks .... My performance was gree ted with loud acclamations and repeated clapping .... But my heart had no share in these demonstrations, for I thought only after my four bre­thren who were dying of starvation. After three whole hours of music and applause, by which I was confused, l made my bow to the audience. 0 God , I thought within myself, that I should ever have dreamt of giving a concert in public."

BENEDICTINE MISSION ESTABLISHED AT NEW NORCIA

Dom Salvado explains in hi s memoirs: " Experi­ence has shown u s that it would be much b etter to found an es tablishment or mission to accommodate the natives who wished to se ttle and he instructed." A suitable place was found on the bank of a river some miles away. The Government granted them

twenty acres, which they cleared; they then la id the foundations of th e Mission which they named New Norcia , thinking of the birth-place of St. B ene­dict.

Stories about Dom Salvado, hi s Hom eric deed ~ and hardships, were the pride of a gene ration of Australians. On one of his j'ourneys Lo P erth in midwinter h e had to cro~s the Avon. Its waters wen• swollen and had spread over th e flats for over a mile from its channel, concealing the bush track , so that he compl e tely lost hi s way as h e d1•ove his bullock wagon. One of the oxen turned, fixed hi s eye on him and shook hi s head. Dom Salvado, as if addressing human beings, said: " My friend s, if yo11 don' t know the way, neither do I." Then h e loused the rein; shortly after, the same ox turned his h ead and eyed him. With a swift prayer to the Most Hol y Trinity for guidance he turned hi s oxen to retrace their steps. After five miles of uncertain going, during which h e walked p eering into the water s for a sight of the track , he found hi s way and comple ted hi s journey without further mishap. But every journey to Perth had its hazards ; and at thi s di stance of time we can only marvel at the courage of this valiant Benedictine.

Born Lo a life of affluence, endowed with gifts and graces beyond the 01·dinary, a scholar and a scientist who sat in Council with leaders of the British Empire as they de bated the Native Question Dom Salvado was instrumental in bringing many people round Lo see the essential dignity and possi­l::ilities of the Na tives. H e sp ent aJl hi s life from early manhood in their service, working, living anc: ofte n starvin g with them. He lifted their h earts to God , and all the black s who came under hi$ influe111.,e were happi er becau se of him.

What a subjec t for an Australian film!

AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY I suppose I have always known about Limber, as

I was born thirteen years ago in the very h eart of one of New Sou th Wales largest State Forests. It is called Unumgar, and lies around the foot of Mount Lindsay on the Queensland border. My father came there lo r ecover from the turmoil of the War, and we lived with my grandparents, in the peaceful sur­roundings of a timber camp.

Everyone who knows about timber, knows of my grandfa< her L es Mcintosh, for timber was his very life. It gave him his livelihood, and it provided his leisure. H e loved every tree in the forest- the many e ucalypts : grey gums, red gums, blue gums, spotted gums- the stringy barks and turpentine, the brush box, colonial pines, mahogany and the beauti­ful wood of the red cedar so prized by lovers of good furniture. Whenever I think of timber, I think of him for his whole life was devoted to it. H e worked with it, and h e made it his sport.

As a young man h e was apprenticed Lo a master builder and h e learned how to build houses, which -must always depend on timbe r for a g1·eat part of their construc tion. In his desire to explore all forests, he travelled to Wes te rn Australia and worked

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among the giant jarrah and karri trees in the rain fores ts there. In the Gippsland District of Victoria, h e became an expert at heaving the Lower ing gums which produce our fin est hardwoods. He has told me of the many indigenous timbers of all classes which A ustralia possesses- hardwoods and woods suitable for furniture and fine work. How h e r esent­P.O the widespread , indiscriminate clearing, which had so drasticall y deple ted the forests, but h e pointed out the vast changes which have been brought about by the Forestry Commi Esion; it protects the fores ts, and en sures the future supply of timber for u s, for it sp ecifies which trees may be cut, and which ones must be left; it appoints patrols Lo protect the fores ts from fire, and arranges for the constant re­planting of young trees. The Forestry Office1· also asrnsses the amount of royalty to be paid on aU the Limber that is cut, and thi s revenue provides for the services of the Commission. The Commonwealth Government also has a Fores tr y Department, which conducts research , and trains foresters.

While we lived at Unumgar, huge trucks passed almost continuously taking loads of sleepers for the

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LORETO

I SPEAK FOR AUSTRALIA (Address given by Ann Curtis, Loreto Convent, Toorak, at the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce, July 1957)

I speak., for Au stralia , of a IJ lands the las t and ye t the firs t: last in point of di scover y, first, in point of ex iste nce. I sp eak for a land that is prodiga l in it s wealth of resources, ye t hard , gra sping and cruel in drought s, flood s and the vas t fli s tanccs themselves . I sp eak for a land that is unique in its stone-age animals and vegetation and yet, in advance of the rest of the world in it s condition s of Jivin g, not jus t for the pri vi lcged fe w but for Eve r yman. Australia ... th e m ys te r y and th e chall en ge ... What shall l say of h er?

I shall sa y first how she la v unknown, undis­covered , as if . forgott e 11 h y th e jrnwe rs that d es ign history. Dutch , Spanish and Portu gese naviga tors must have sighted h er in the 8ix tcenth , seventeenth and e ight eenth cc11turies. But the land k ept h er secret and it was no t until 1770 when Jam es Cook landed at: Botany Ba y and explored the ea stern coast­line that hi s favourabl e re port of conditions the re led to the first se ttl em e nt at Sydn e ~' in 1788.

SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT But, the paradox agt1i11 , th e l a nd of d e moc racy

began as a priso n for En g land 's nnwa ntefl m en. A nd the land nearl y d es tro yed the m. Precariousl y sclllcd be tween th e Blue Mountains a11d th e sea, they founfl the soil poor and barre n- the c rops di ed , drou ght arA unfarniliar sca >' ons puzzl ed th e men from the Northe rn H e m i ~ phcrc . Y r t our la11d was horn of thi s strugg le. From th ese ead y diffi c ultirs come~ the inflomit a ble spirit of the Australian.

For they crossed th e Blue Mountains and hard on the step s of the co 11vic ts, th e frcr-sc ttl c rs, squatte rs opened th f' land. Free-hooter s th ey were, se ttin g out with the ir floc k of shee p a nd th r ir lad en hulloc k­wagons for tlw new vas t expandin g horizons be fore th em. J speak for these m e n wh o h e lped to make Australia wh a t she is- the proud achi evem ent: by men and women wh o have dai·ed all dange rs, h a nl­ships, lone liness. Th ey ope ned up the inte rior, wes t­wards even o ut to Bo urke a nd the Weste rn Plains, south to Port Phillip, north to th e D a rlin g Down~ .

Eve n toda y, our wealth mainl y comes from the land. Our stations produce thirt y pe r cent of th e world's wool. R cfri ge ra t ion o n ships as we ! I as ne w processin g methods nwa n that A ustralian beef, lamb and mutton appears on tabl es throu ghout th e world , and our wh ea l and dairy producr, too , h elps feed the people of Europe . lnd et:d due to th e va ri e ty of our climate, the range of agricultural products is ve r y wide. A hard so il , hut ri c h soil, thi ~ it was that wa~ conque red by our pionee rs.

GOLD But in th e 1850's a m~w note was heard, th e cry

of the co mmon man. Gold hro11 ght adve nture rs from all over the world , thou sand s of thc 111 , and they bega n to challenge the old ari s toc rati c world of squatte r, Governor and convi c t. Men who mi ght pick up a fortun e at the hlow of a pick , d e mande d now a right to share in th e govcrnn1 e nt . Thi s was th e m eaning of Eureka ; th e common man showed h e was pre-

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pared to fight to end the lice nce tyranny and to win a vote to win the right of equal c itize nship for all me n , that A ustralia, the gold en-land , might not have first and second-class citizen s but tha t all sh ould he one. So the ' fifties' saw a vote for every man- by secre t-ballot- and soon a vote for wom en . And th e next decade brought the Selec tion Ac ts, the atte mpt to give equal opportunity to a ll. The l a nd was not to b e the preserve of the few wealthy squatte rs, but the small m en , too, we re to have the ch a nce of a small farm and hi s own firm hold o n the land. P e rhaps this move ment failed: perhaps it was the hard land itself defeated the small farm e r anrl maybe except in ve r y fertil e areas like the Murray Valley the small farmer cannot surv ive as a t ype in Austra lia, but who sh all say that th e idea l- equal economic opportunity for all whoever h e be- is dead in thi s land of om·s ? Only to-day it is translated into twe nti e th centm·y te rms: Soldier Settl em e nt, partly, hut more esp ec ially, in free T echnical Schools, Uni­\"f'rs iti cs , Scholarships to train even the poores t boy ~o th a t, given only th e ability, he may ri se Lo the top of hi s profession. This is the A us tralia 1 speak for­a land wh ere more than half th e h omes are occupied by th eir owners or p e rsons bu ying them h y instal­m e nts. Where else in th e world , except perhaps in U.S.A. , has the son of th e poo1· fa mily suc h oppor­tunity open befo1·e him , even to the hi ghes t office~ 111 th e l a nd .

NATION HOOD And then, I speak for the Austra li a that is proud

of he r nationhood: I sp eak for th e nation that, in a way, made h e rself. No t for h er to r e main as sh e had d eve lope d , seve n separate, pelly States, d e pende nt on the Crown . As the twe nti e th cen tury approach ed , th e sons of the pioneers fired to the vision of a united Australia , laboured to build a free, stron g, d emo­crati c nation in the south. Of course, there were difficulties, of course the le ad e rs knew some little of th e dange rs that la y ah ea d of the n ew nation in the new wodd of South East As ia . But they accepted th e chall enge and they rlared to build .

Ind eefl , the first Act s of the n e w Common wealth inspired th e world. It was Jud ge Higgin s, architect of th e new Arbitration Cou1·t, wh o declared to the world our d e te rmination to h uild , in the sphere of wo rke r-employer relationship , ·'a ne w province for bw and order.'' And so i I is: 111 Aus tra li a, as in few other nations in the world , eve r y worker is guar­anteed a ba sic wage be low which he may not he paid. Holidays, sick leave, hours of wo rk , overtime pa y. compensation for accide nts, all of these are sure for him. N owhere e lse in the wo rld ma y it h e claimed that the ordinary worker s' inte1cs ts are so well served with Child Endowment , Baby Bonuses, Free Hos­pital, Medical and D e nta l Servi ces and elaborate Social Services. More im portant , pe rhaps, nowh ere e lse in the world has there b een so littl e violence and hatred b etween employer a nd wo1·k er. Trad e U nion r e presentati ves and employers mret to!!."e ther as

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equals, fundamentally are all working towards the same goal. Even strikes are rather evidence of the workers' power than angry protests against their inferiority.

It is for this Australia that I sp eak, a young country, still underpopulated and undeveloped. With our wonderful and largely untapped r esources, em­ployment is assured for all prepared to work- New hydro-electric and irrigation sch em es (like the gigantic Snowy River project), the great Northern Territory Rice Growing venture, hundred s of enter­prises from hunting for Uranium to pioneering the centre, all call to the young people of vision and energy, all promise them the reward of h elping to build this great south land, all h elp them to raise even higher what is already p erhaps the highest standard of living in the world.

Even our triumphs in the field of sport seem to reflect the spirit of achievem ent, of sheer physical courage. Our nation has a mere nine or ten million yet our tennis players conque r those of U.S.A. (with its one hundred and f ifty millions) . Our golfers carry off the British Open Championships, our swimmers aro acknowled ged the world' best. I sp eak for Aus­tralia, the land of the great outdoors.

WARS AND THEIR AFTERMATH But I speak , too, of a nation that has known

World Wars, known the m and me t the ir challenge with h eroism. The n am e Anzac has passed into legend since that dawn at Gallipoli n early fifty years ago, and the sons of the first Anzacs fought and died in ever y theatre of the last world war- Greece, Crete, Tobruk, E l Alamein, the Kokoda Trail, all of these names resound with the fame won there b y t11 c dauntless valour of our m en.

But the last War h as ca t a long shadow on this Australia. In the last ten years the world we know h¥ gon e. T h e Asia we once knew is d ead : trange aid frightening powers begin to move in the lands so near to u s, old and violent a pirations to nationhood among our Asian neighbours stir and wak e anrl move uneasily. Ten million m en and women of the E uropean civilization, we live amongst two hundred million Chinese, Indians, Japanese, Indonesians, newly conscious of them selves and their destiny.

W hat is the future to b e? I sp eak for the Australia that lives unde1· the challene;e to h er very existence, that dares to look ahead and plan to m eet the challenge.

First, we will continue to b e, to de fend our proud h eritage, our standards of living, our democratic way of life. Faced with the challen ge of our vast, undeveloped land, Australia was the first British country to announce a full policy of planned migra­tion in the post-war p eriod. In the p eak year 1950, total of 174,500 migrants were received and to date over a million have com e to Australia since the war. H er e, helping to d evelop gr ea t national projects­such as the Snowy River Sch e me-and providing much needed labour, these men and women, in building Australia have rebuilt too their own live shatter ed in the ruined c ities, the prison camps of war-Lorn Europe.

Until the present almo t one hundred per cent A n glo-Saxon , Au stralia is g rowing increasingl y cos­mopolitan, gaining as U .S.A. gained in the nine teenth century. The n e w skills, cultures and abilities of the many r aces sh e admits into her way of life.

AUSTRALTA AND ASIA ' ·A way of li fe" that is what Australi a mainly

s land for- a way of liberty, of equality for every­man of plenty and of peace. This, we believe, is o ur best defen ce. So, while we a1·e not n eglecting con­ventional defen ce (witness our deep commitments to S.E.A.T.0.- £190,000,000 was our rlefence budget for this year) it seem s that our best defe nce is this, our way of life. For p e rha p it is our task to bring this way of liberty, of equality, of plenty and of peace, to an Asia which has fo1· o long known only oppres­sion, tyranny, famine and war.

It is a task de manding vision, courage and a measure, p erha ps of h eroism. But already we have sh own that we are prepared to give, to share our riches with our Asian n e ighbours. Under the Colombo Plan we have alread y trained over a million students, and the Bankok Conferen ce made it clear that Asian powe rs accept Australia as the one European-style power wh o m they can trust, b e ing of the ir world, imme rsed in it.

I stand , ther efore, for Australia, which is pe r­h a ps, the k ey nation in this grea t crisis of our day, the reawakening of rhe East and the retreat of the West. Is a new synthesis to at·ise, a n ew world culture made of the mingling of the best in both worlds? And shall Au tralia not be the ground on which Ea t and West shall m eet and find new unde rstanding.

I speak for the l a n d at the centre of the destinies of the world, Australia.

THE NARROWS BRIDGE A year ago, our lovely Swan

Flowed blue beneath the sun; But things are very d ifferent

Since the new bridge was begun. They planned and they plotted,

They enlisted foreign aid; The surveyors mapped the foreshore,

And dredging pipes were laid. Mound upon mound of squelching mud

Was laid upon the bank ; And rotting piles of algae grew

So slimy, green and rank.

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The Narrows are more narrow now, And huts are strewn around;

And the graceful swimming pelicans Are no longer to b e fo und.

They tell us, when it's finished, 'Twill be a beauty spot;

But the lovely swan of yesteryear Will never be forgot.

JACQUELINE BIDDLES (Junior Public) , Claremont. Note: A bridge is being built over the narrowest

part of the Swan River, entailing much reclamation and dredging of t he river.

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SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE: "White Sails"

SYDNEY'S NEW OPERA HOUSE. - Drawn by Ann-Marie Bakew.21! (Kirribilli)

The unsightly, old, i·ed-brick pri son, now a tram­shelter on the h eadland of Benelong Point, looking towards Fort Denison is soon to be replaced by its much younger, more modern and daring sister -Sydney's n ew Opera House. The results of the Inter­national compe tition for designs have caused inevit­able controversy.

The assessors' opinion runs thus " We have been impressed by the beauty and the exceptional possi­bilities of th e site in relation to the Harbour and we are convinced that the silhoue tte of any proposed building is of the greatest importance. We feel strongly that a large and massive s tructure, however practical, would be entire ly unsuitable on this parti­cular si te."

The design of the now world famou s architect, Joern Utzon is something quite original. It is unique and gives the impression of " a wonde rful piece of sculpture, deliberately placed, to be seen from all points of view."

It is worth reite rating how fortunate we are in having a suitable site. Fine, ready-made sites are virtually unobtainable in most capital cities; and invariably have to be created with much effort and exp en se over a long period. The popularity of the Opera House des ign rises and falls. Many di slike,

it, because of its unusual and outstanding shape; while many like it just because of this. One of its many merits is great simplicity of arrangement.

The winning design has been kep t low, the outer walls will b e of s tone to blend with the site­atmosphere, and it is roofed by three shell roofs, one over the main auditorium, one ove1· the smaller auditorium and one over the public refreshment and office areas. The shells are parabolic in shape; in 1·his form the construction is light and strong; a number of minor shell roofs cut into the major sh ell , thus keeping the overall h eight reduced, producing a vaulted appearance.

Externally the shells will be fini sh ed white, whilst the sandstone walls will b e natural. The concourses enclosing the auditorium will provide for full. enjoyment of the beauties of the harbour, an d the lights of the city, whilst internally the sh ells will be accoustically treated and so also the walls. As for colours . . . the ceilings of the shells will be trea ted in colours to develop the feel in g of r ecrea­tion: the foyers may have gold ceilings and possibly cherry-red walls, and the main cei lin gs will have colours, such as deep blue, to enhance h e ights.

MARY BASELER (4th. Yr. ). Kirribilli.

CENTRE OF THE COMMUNITY "A simp le th !ng of knotted pine

And corrugated tin; "

John O 'B rie n.

The Shoreham Church stands on a hill aboul a mile from the sea sh e lte red by pine and cypress trees. Its knotted pine walls have only a simpl e beauty, but to the Shoreham people they hold a wealth of hi story.

Many Irish p eople settled at Shoreham in the J880's. The town was included in those days in the parish of Bri!!hton, a m e re seventy miles away. The

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small Catholic Community soon built a church at Shoreham and it is the one that stands the re to-day.

One of the oldest families of land-owners, the Harns, can remember their grandparents describing the ir drive to church by horse and huggy when Mass was said every two months.

But the Sunday morning muster has not changed since the early days buggies ; traps and jinker s have given place to fla shing automobiles and utilities. The priest still has a long way to travel and although

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A WORLD RECORD Yes, the world's greatest wire-mesh fen ce is

nearing comple tion in dingo-plagued Queen sland . A 3,500 miles long cage, it will hold back the dingo hordes which cos t the State about £3,000,000 a year in sh eep and ca ttle. Inside the banie r will b e about 300,000 of Queensland 's 670,500 square miles. It wiJl enclose some 18 million sh eep and more than 640,000 ca ttle.

The giant project will cost n eady half a million pounds- m e re pin money compared with the State's es timated annual loss b y dingo killing of almost 500,000 sh eep plus ca ttle in uncounted thousands.

Next to droughts, dingoes are the greatest menace to sh eep and ca ttle rai sing in Au stralia . One lone dingo can cr eate losses of thousands of pounds to farmers and grazie rs. Our dingo population runs into many ten s of thousands purebred and cross­bred. H e infests all States except Tasmania. Scienti sts say that the dingo is th e world's most perfect dog. He does not kill just for food , h e kiJls just for the sake of killing. He may attack a flock of sheep at night killing only one for food , but tearing down 20 to 30 othe rs that eventuaJly die of Llood-poisoning.

A pack h as been known to dri ve a flock to some spot where esca pe is impossible and then turn on a wholesale slaughter. Of aH our strange animals, dingoes are the only native Australians which li ve solely on flesh.

The dingo is about two feet tall , and five feet from muzzle to tail. H e possesses the wolf's tooth formation, and has its habit of hunting silently. The dingo va r ies widely in colour, the fawn and black dingoes of the Never-Never country are called warrigals. The brindle dingo is known to the aborigines as a marri, and is suitable to train as a hunting dog. The white din go is called a biJl-baroo. The Victorian dingo is a little larger than his cousins in the north.

T he dingo chooses only one mate, sta yi n g with her all his life. Their den is a cave or hollow log. The dingo is intelligent, shrewd , courageous and is just about the toughest fellow in the A u stralian bush.

Queen sland has suffer ed mostly from dingoes. The government b egan aerial baiting in 1948, but the dingoes soon learnt quickly, and the bait was lef t to the birds and ants.

A sly, h ard-to-wa tch dingo may carry a high

Mass officially commences at nine thirt y a.m., yo u can arrive a good half hour la ter and still be in plenty of time for a yarn before Mass begins.

T h e con gregation stands afterwards and talks of stock and crops as it h as done for yea rs. In Summer it mention s drought , in winte r the topic of conver ­sa tion is floods.

An added interest in the Community are the Italian se ttler s who make excellent farmers (and also good parishioners).

M. FREDERICO, Toorak.

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reward on his h ead. In New South Wales a farmer collected £300 for shooting a lone kill er. '

Thin ~ew cage gives great confidence to many an Australian farmer. Starting six inches below the ground, it contains three feet six inch es of rabbit mesh topped with three feet of " marsupial" n et. A similar fence is proposed for weste rn New South Wales be tween twenty and thirty miles long. But the task to hring the diniio numbers down inside the barrie r won't be easy. However , we shall hold the World's R ecord for a long fence.

MARY ANITA EDGERTON, Toorak .

BRANDING When I was little, branding was a great event

to us children. It still is. We lived on a Cattle Station in the North West. My fath er u sed to get his. team of horses and m en r ead y, about half white and half black , sometimes mainly black. T_h~ m en used to pack the saddle-bags with pro­v1 s10ns, food and ropes and whatever else they needed. Whe n all was read y, they went on their way, usually for weeks at a time, muste1·ing ca ttl e. Moth er n eve1· knew whe n m y fathe 1· was goi ng to com e h om e. Then , one <la y we would h ea r an<l :;ee the pack-horses coming home and m y father would be fo1lowin~ with th e cattl e. The stock ya rds were about a mile away from the house. Nex t day, we would be up ea rl y. W e u sed to g/O to the yards with the m e n. \Ve were all verv exci ted . The re would h e a bi g fire lit and th~ branding irons put in. Then my father a nd th e men used to separa te the ca ttl e .

When all was read y and irons red hot the branding started. The beast was roped with two or three leg-ropes and a h ead-rope. First they lassoed the rope on to his head and then the horse and the m an who had the other end of the rope, pulled the beast up to the fe nce. The leg­ropes were put on him and he was tossed on to his side. H e was branded and ea r-marked; some­times hi s horns were sawn off with a special saw. This process ovc1·, the ropes would be taken off the beast. \Vhen this was being done, we were ready to run , or climb the fe nce, as some of the ca ttl e became infuriated.

We used to be allowed to h elp with the calves. Wh en their m others died or left them, we used to bring them up on a bottle at home.

. We all looked_ forward to this time of Branding. lt 1s one of the thrills of s tation life that city children do not have.* *Do the calves enjoy the thrill, too, Maureen?

(Ed.) MAUREEN MEEHAN (15) , Claremont.

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railways, girders for bridges, poles to carry elec tricity and wedges to hold the k eels of ships in dock yards. Turpentine piles with sh aggy bark stiJJ clinging, wei-e carri ed off to build wharves and my grand­father was proud to say that the transoms for the Sydney Harbour Bridge came from this forest.

LAURIE JOHNSTON (13 ), Kirribilli.

LORETO CONVENT, PORTLAND, VIC.

FIFT H ROW: L . Lyons, K. Klifford, A. Carroll, B. Cunningham, E. M annes, B. Lovell, M. Cummins, C. Uebergang, N . Holmes, N. Hudson, B. B axter , D . Lyons, M. Holmes. F OURTH ROW: ]. Kearney, J. Joosen, ]. W oolcock, A. Mating, J. Allwood, T. Dennett, W. Wilson, M. O 'Hallor an , M . Carr, D. Fredericks, L . H udson, A. Carden, P . Milgate, S.

Blake, S. Galvin. THIRD ROW: F.. M cCabe, D. Preece, K . Walsh, F. Luehman, ]. FitzGerald, C. Fahey, C. Mosing, M. Connell , G. Purcell. M. Na nsen, H. Cunningham, E. Connellan, A. M. O'Brien,

I. Broderick. SECOND ROW: A. Sutton, J. Condo n, ]. Oborn, T. Bostock, E. Pogony, M. King, G. Sutton, M . Connellan, ] . Deane, C. Kearney, M. M cCabe, L. Deane, C. Campbell, ]. Loftus, M.

Tierney, V . Fredericks. FRONT R OW : G. M iller, R. Condon, ]. Miller, G . Smith. H. M c Nair, M . Stewart, M . Hadinich, E. Broderick, G. Price, M. Bennett, J. Preece, L. Parker, M. Hallam. ABS E NT : J. Cannon. L . D yson, C. Oliver, T. Caffrey.

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The Hoine Circle THE CATTLE MUSTER

(What might h ave been)*

r awoke a t daybreak and immediately reali sed that something exciting was to happe n. Oh yes! to-day we were to have a general cattle muster out in far paddocks and cut o ut eve ry beast that was to be branded. What a wonderful da y was ahead of me ! Sp rin ging out of bed I qu;ckly dressed and went down to the kitch en. A lready the whole hoi:se was as tir and the m en were saddling 1heir mounts. In about fiv e minutes I. was with them a nd we were ready to starl.

The sun was just rising over the di stant hills. and a c i·isp breeze bl ew the smell of dry, parch ed grass into our fa ces. We gave our horses their h ead 8 as we ga lloped over the dusty ground , l eaving the homenead far b ehind u s. In about an hour's tim e we reached the gate leading into the ca ttle paddock and the horses were just as excited as ourselves.

"Now boys," directed Bill , our tall lanky over­seer, "we'll split up , There a re seven of u s h er e. AU right Jim, you, Noel and Anne ride along this boundary fence until you reach BulJagreen Dam ; th en cut across to meet the r es t of us. \Ve'll sca tte r across towa rds Munnell b oundary. If you have an y trouble coo-ee. You should b e all right though , as they are pretty quiet ca ttl e. Right-oh the n !- we should be back at this ga te by one o'clock for lunch."

\Ve started off while Bill gave directions to the others. We each rode in different direc tions, 1. assuring the m I would b e allright by myself. "We'll show them we're not ba bies," I whispered to Shannon, my ch es tnut pon y, and patted his neck. At this Shat; non gave a hoarse whinny in reply and we se t out on our ta sk. I, who was only ten, did not rea lise what was in store for m e.

A scattered mob of Herefords lay under th•' wilgas, and as we rode up they moved out.

"I'll take them over to the corn er and cut out the calves we want from ther e," I thought, urgin g Shannon into a canter to tail off a couple of stragglei·s. Soon I had them all jammed into a corner at our mercy. Moving quiet ly between them , I had every ca lf separated just under an hour. Suddenly a steer broke from the mob and careered past m e towards the cal ves. A t the ame time I galloped after him, rousing every muscle my horse had. I caught up to him and shouldered him around finally heading him back to the mob.

"I'll soon be as good as D ad ," I thought feeling very pro ud of myself.

Then- oh horrors! Another steer had broken from the o ther side and was making straight for that thick scrub. I spurred m y horse and again we shot off on a mad chase. Through the timber we galloped, the b east k eeping well ahead. I was gaining on him. A little fa ster Shannon- please boy- we were shoulder to shoulde r at las t and I was waiting for a moment Lo turn him- now .. ...

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" Oh, where am I." T had a terrific pam m my leg which shot through m e like a knife .

"My h ead- what has happe ned? " A nurse \Va~ ben d in g over me, a11d my parent ~

were th e re with very anxiou ~ fa ces. "You'r e in h ospital , Anne. You'll be all ri ght in a

coup le of weeks. It was that fall you had yes te rda )'.: You ought to thank God you ' re alive at all , when .. ,

" Thank God ," T muttered. " Dad did yo u ge t that steer ?"

The eyes of th e three people b ending over :rm., me t. and smil ed.

" Thank God," rh cy sa id. ANNE WALSH (4th. Yr. ),

N ormanh urst. *Anne admits that none ~f her mustering experiences has been so dramatic .

SHEARING TIME Shearing tim e is the busiest, most nerve-racking,

but also the most enjoya bl e time of the yea r for ever y man on the land , but it is even more inte res ting and fa scinating from the point of v iew of a city p er­son. B eing a city p er son m yself, who has b een caught up in the wave of excitem ent tha t sweeps over a s ta tion at sh earing tim e, I can full y appreciate it, even more than the aver age country pe i·son , hecause the process is so entirel y n ew and breath-taking if vo u are not u sed to it. . First of all there .is the preparation which entails a.s much work from th e wo men as it does from the men, for the re are beds to make up for the sheare rs, and extra provisions to be procured , while the m en arc yardin g and muste rin g the sh eep, and separating the sick sh eep from the r est of the :flock.

When all i s r ead y, the shearer s arrive, s trong, rough m en , who do not care for much but the money they are goin g to ea rn , and who in Queensland are s till rather rebellious. The grazier has to b e extremel y ca refnl of what he says in their presence, beca use they can be treacherous, if they think they have a grievance.

For a spec tator , the process of shearing is ve ry interes ting, although it may b e strenuous for th e sh earer ; but h e u sually works well, as h e is paid for the number of sheep h e sh ears (except if it looks like rain ). Then h e loiters with his work, because the sh eep cannot be shorn when they arc we t, as the wool is highly inflammable. In such cases the sh ea rer is paid b y th e da y until the rain ceases.

After the sh eep are horn and drafted , many property owner s think it wise to dip and drench their sheep, and immunise their lambs while they are close at hand. After sh earing, there begins another rush, and visitors, such as I , feel in the way, but there is alwa ys work to be done. In the afternoons, everyone goes down to the sh eds to see what stage the men 's ac tiviti es have r each ed , and although the men are ra th er rough , when one of them sees a woman

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com in g, he quickly warns the others, to re fine their speech . B y the time the women arrive, the re is not a mention of a harsh word , but I always think what a relief it must be when we go.

And so at supper , in the evening everyone i s happy and discusses th e da y's doings, over a very appetizing m eal , for it seems to me that the more work the p eople out \Ves t do, the more they enjoy it, even though th ey know that " m e n may come, and men may go" but the work goes on for ever.

CHRISTINE CLEARY (15) ,

Brisbane.

THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY HOLIDAYS

Holidays provide a very welcom e break from work for all- esp ecially boarde rs for whom holidays mean " home" ! My las t holidays had many high­lights that added to the usual joy ; for instance, there was the ride to Dromana.

As the train dre w in alongside the Frankston tation , m y sistei·, Gay, and l clambered out and

collec ted our bicycles. With great spirit we started off for Droma na with twenty mil es of " ups and downs" ahead of us. For a sh ort while it seem ed to be easy but soon the p edals went around with less vim and I s tarted to puff and pant- the road appear­ed to be endless . Then the ca r , with the rest of the family, passed us and pulled up , and Father asked, ' IDo you want to get in? " That e tLl ed it- we would never " give in", le t alone "get in" ! Afte i· two, long, hot hours, we g lided through the front ga te and were given a hear ty welcom e by everyon e.

A few da ys late i· we d ecid ed to climb "Arthur's Seat" up the " tel egraph track," which is fairly diffi­cult, be in g s trewn with boulde rs and sli ppery gravel. After a l eng th y walk, we arrived at the foot of the Mounta in- and the n we bega n. Ca utiously we climbed over the first bould e r- then on hand s and knees we scrambled up the next gravel-covered slop e. It was no easy matter, for every step towards the top, we seemed to slid e down two! Eventually th e summit was reach ed and th e view of th e ba y left us speech­less-but not for long. Lookin g through the tele­scope the " Rip" could be clea rly di stinguish ed and a faint out line of Queen scliffe was discernable. or course, refreshments had some place, while we sa t down and tried to di stin gui sh our hou c among the blur of buildin gs at th e foot of the mount. The downward trek was somewhat fa ste r and with tumbles laughte r and no brea th , we finally arrived at the bottom.

Other memories are of drives; one to Cap e Schank, a steep cliff, on whose n1 gged sid es the picnic bask e t was gravely e nrl an gercd, another to the Ocean b each at Rye and Sorrento, and so the days went by. But th e re was a da y even more looked to and more enjoyed th an any of these - John 's day home.

John is the eld es t of the famil y but h e has been missing from the famil y circle since he entered the Novitiate at Strathficld, anrl now, this was to be his first day hom e. The " Spirit of Progress" glided into

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the station, and John, accompanied by the other students, all clad in their " decent black," stepped on to the Melbourne platform for the first time in three years. From the station to our home it was not difficult to find a topic for conversation and on arrival h e was taken on a tour of inspection. After th e house cam e the garden- then we all gathered to try and ca tch up on his three years' absence.

.JOCELYN WILLIS (15), Mary's Mount.

MEMORIES OF MY HOLIDAYS The first memories of my holidays are of going

away. Mummy calling from the verandah "Judith ! Have you packed that ming-blue jumper? Roger! Where is your yellow wind-cheater? Sue ! Put that silly skirt away and help me." On this happy note we set out for the b each.

When we had arrived and the rush was over, I slipped down to the beach and saw a sight I shall never forget. The sun had sunk below the horizon, but the pink clouds were still suspended above, as if waiting in anticipation of a n ew day to come. But the large clouds above were already half grey as if in mourning for a day gone by. As I watched, the last of the sun's rays had filtered through the clouds to rest soft and pink on the water, making it a purplish pink, and on the other side a dark blue. Then the moon came out, and while the sea near the horizon retained its rosy tint, the sea near the shore became silver-a scene of the utmost peace.

.JUDITH LEY (12), Toorak.

LEARNING TO DRIVE One hot Decemher day, m y brother and I were

returning from our block in the bush. We were in a tractor to which was attached a trailer, load erl with posts. As we drove along the main r oad to Merino, we saw smok e clouds some seven or eight miles away. A car pulled up b eside u s and the driver b egged my brother to join in fighting the distant bushfire. Quickly h e jumped into the car a nd I was l eft in charge of the tractor. After pushing thi s, pulling that and movin g everything moveable, I st ill could not m ake it s tart. Finally I thought of the brake. I le t it co me up slowl y and the tractor advanced.

I am sure that I could have walked quicker th an we were goi n g but I wa frighten ed to touch a nythin g el se in case I was unable to stop it. Many car s passed me and they must have wondered why I was creeping along. I was grateful to b e moving at all.

Finally I saw our lane ahead and thankfu1ly I turned off the main road. Now that I was out of the continuous line of traffic I felt tempted to go a little fa ster. I b egan to touch the various leve rs again anfl.. after pressing some thing down and moving the gear to three, our speed increased. At last, to m y great amazement and relief, tractor, trailer and self arrived home safel y.

FAY LUEHMAN (14) , Portland .

LORETO CONVENT, NORMA HURST, .s.w.

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(Top Left) THE "A" TENNIS TEAM: ( L eft to Ri gh t) : Anne H arti ga n, D eni se Hall , Barbara Roche.

Stephanie Tilbrook . Sue H arti ga n.

(Top Right) PREFECTS: FRONT ROW ( L eft to Right ) : J. Partridge, M . O"Keeffe, S .

H a rtig an ( H ead ), S . Tilbrook . BAC K ROW : G. H ill, M . M cEvoy, L . Purcell, S. Cunningham, D .

H all.

LEAVING CLASS: FRONT ROW ( L eft to Right): J. J asprizza. S. Cunning h am, .J.

P a rtrid ge, D . H a ll , S. Harti gan, J. Cunning ham, l\ll. O ' K ecfe, A. H a rt igan.

BACK ROW : J. Passm or e, M . M c E voy, L. Chan, B . Roche, M . B eerworth , P . Quinn , L . Purce ll, G. Hill , S. Tilbrook, M. Webb.

ABSENT : E. K . Green.

Inset: The School Refectory.

LORETO CONVENT, NORMANHORST, N.S.W.

THIRD YEAR CLASS: FR ON T R OW (Left to Ri ght) : C. Ryan, M. Burch, G. Partridge,

] . Gates. SEC OND R OW : E. Beerwo rth . C. Mill er, M. O 'Connor. L .

Do neley, C. Streber, L . Curran, D. O 'Br ie n, P. Conduit, P . Crimm ins , ] . Ireland .

THIRD R OW: P. Goodwi n, K. Mc Neill, J. Morley, R . Doherty, ]. Harri s, M . Dalga rno, B. M cPhee, M. Ha nse l, L. Ward, J . Laing, D . Prince.

BACK RO W : A. Vitou, K . R icha rdso n, S . Le nehan. P . Ja spri zza. M . Jago, K! . Na sh, P . Co nn ell, S. Seigworth , D. Owens, F . O'Neill.

ABSENT: G. K ea rney, D. Stevens.

FOU RTH YEAH CLASS: FRONT ROW ( L eft to Ri gh t ) : M. L. Meacle, K. M ille r. A. Cha n.

C. Gla ss, P. Felton. SEC ON D ROW : P . Basha. K. Cheeseman, A. Keatin g, A. Crim·

mins, A . H anse l. THIRD R OW : A. Dynon, J. K. Green, D. Poir rie r , P. Reardon,

W . Hi ll. BACK ROW: M. Do nnelly, C. Taylor, P . M cDermott, A. Walsh ,

R. Monta gu, N. O 'Brien. ABSENT: H . English, D. Prendergast, M . C. Streber, G. Pirola .

LORETO CONVE T, ORMA Il RST, .s.w.

SECOND YEAR CLASS: FRONT ROW ( L eft to Right ) : A. Dunstan, L . Ferrier, B. Chan B . Rohan, J . McDonnell , R. Partridge. SECOND R OW : J . Rudd, K . Moroney, J . Flanaga n, A. W ebb , M. Dan, H . O ' Neill, H . Cutcliffe, K . Ireland, A. H aJJ , S. Al saker, M. Meaney. THIRD ROW : L . Stephens, J . Cohen, A. Dureau, M. E . P riebe, E . W ilds, R . Stracha n, C. Stevens, R. W a tte!, J . Hick ey , M. Reilly, J .

Noo nan, M. W ernard. B ACK ROW : M. Mulhearn, S. Jasprizza, W . Rowe, B . Connell, K . Kni ght, M. Ca nno n, D. B err im an, U . Meynink, M. Clifford, D . Byrnes,

M. Lochrin, C. Peterson. \ ABSENT : J . Brand t , J . Marshall , A. Mawson.

FIFTH & SIXTH CLASSES: F RONT ROW ( L eft to R ight): C. Abbot t, K. Morton, F . Tully, K. Ashbolt , S. Myerson, J . W ernard. S E COND R OW : C. Gear in, A. T ome, E . Mc Namara, D. Dureau, J . Megna, C. Gardiner, S. H a nsel, L . Schroder, M. Huxley, B . Carter. THIRD ROW : S. Turner, K . H arti ga n, M. Jones, M. Crowley, E . Well ens, M. Carter, M. Shepherd , P . Merkelba ch, K. Cobby,

H ende rson, C. Locke. BACK ROW : J. P owell, B . Kev in, D. Darke, G. Stevens, R. Burch, M. Meynink, J. Loneraga n, M. Brady, P . Haseler, C. Noonan. ABS E NT : G. Brady. B . Black.

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c.

FIRST YEAR CLASS:

FRONT ROW (Left to Ri gh t ): L . Curtis, M . Sal­va t, D . M c Mill a n, J . Spil -lane, E. L e nehan, E . Chan, A. Nelso n, H. Archer , A . Stern, F . Cohen, J. Clarke.

SECO ND ROW : K. K eat­ing, M . William s, J. Pea r­so n, P. Poirrier, J. Carter, A. Lyons, E. Stalley, K . H ore, R. Stevens, E . O xe nham , P. Wal sh, A . Drake-B rockma n.

BACK ROW : S. Clifford , E. Rogerson, C. Turner. S. N eylson. C. Gooden, S . Forg ham, P. Brennan.

Recorder

Players:

M. Parsons, A . Par­sons, A. Burns, R. Robinson, M . Burl it t , C. Schadel, V . Hill, G. Berriman, C. Brown, L . Bren­nan. M. Gamble, C. F orgha m .

KNEELING JN FR 0 NT : L . Gamble, P . Con­duit, A. Gamb le. P. Wheele r .

ABSENT: B. Z i eh Ike, D . Stuart, M. Bath­urst .

LORETO CONVE T, NOJtMA HURST, N.S.W.

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JUNIOR

SCHOOL:

Percu ssion Band :

BACK ROW : B. Burns, V . Abbott, M. Parsons, R . Dutriez, M. O'Con­nell.

SEAT ED: V . Mar­shall , A. M adde n, B. Richardson, V . Rubensohn, B. Tif. fin, L. Kevin, K. M c Ke n z i e, G. Ryan, K. McNa ­mara, C. Brown, J. Green .

Kt N E E L I N G : L. Brennan, J. Boul­ton, M . Spiers, S. Petter.

ABSENT : M . Gearin, M. Mc-Quellan.

LORETO

Travellers' Tales FLIGHT INTERLUDE

A. TO BROOME

My sister Robin and I left Perth Airport at S.30 a.m. bound for Broome via Geraldton, Carnar­von , Lcarmouth, Onslow, Coo1awanyah, Roebourne and Port H ed]and.

After one and a half hours we landed at Geraldton, then on we went to Carnarvon, whei·e we stripped off our cardigans and folded up the rugs. Off again- the soil below b egins to take on a hot Lurnt-sienna-red tin ge, and tropical rain clouds are banking up on the north ern horizon. Learmonth is sizzling, 115 degrees. No t a tree in sight, a few ]ow hills to the wes t, the worke rs' buildings anrl the oil rigs in th e di stance. Nex t stop: Onslows- a banen spot with its air-s trip of hard cora] , (once the bed of th e sea) . Passen gers squat under the shade of the wing or Jean again st the corrugated iron sh ed which h ouses the refueling plant. We do not get out at Coolawan yah (a Station ) . When the air­craft door is · opened we are sti·uck b y a blast of hot air. The hostess stands at the door tryi n g Lo k eep out t h e swarm ing fli es. The mail is unloaded and sh e thro,vs a handful of badey sugar to a group of children standing b y the plane; in return one presents her with an armful of glorious Sturt P ea.

Ove r Roebourn e the star-board engine suddenlv lets out three te rrific h an gs a nd vibrates horribly Ro bin and 1 grin hopefull y at one anoth er. This was some thing we had alwa~ longed for. The passenger beside m e clutch ed his safety belt and sank lower into hi s seat. T he Hostess announced that we would not land at Roc bou rne but fl y direc t to H eadland. The starboard prop had slowed right down, and now the port e ngine b egan to feel the strain as the plane sw ayed Lo k eep course. W e landed at H ea dland while ambulance, fire-truck and manned-extin­guish e rs stood b y; but we cam e down without further trouble.

In the H eadland waiting-room passenger s who had not said a word during the whole trip started a nimated conversations. \Ve awaited the diagnosis of the trouble . After a bout an hour the Captain walked over to u s, lookin g as if h e was going to break some awful n ews. "Well Kids, it looks like we'll b e here for the night." h e announced. Robin and I exchan ged pleased looks- groans from the other passengers.

We r ummage about in the cock-p it to find our cases and manage to drag out a few odd garments through the securing rop es, stuff them into an alrea dy full travelling bag, and proceed in the M.lVI.A. bus over the seven miles of marsh to the town .... . and the Hotel where we were shown into a room about 6 x 9 ft., into which two b eds and a wardrobe we re cramm ed. It was just 5 p .m. so we t.alkcd wit h some of the Hostesses who were stationed there until tea.

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The "Tea" was a classic. Admittedly it must h ave been very difficult to cop e with all the extra p eople. After tea we decid ed to see the Town (of which we had form erly seen quite suffi cient ) . Nea r the pi er we m e t other fellow passenger s "Seeing the Sights" and di ~mally considering the approachin g storm which may hold u s up furth er. We were forced back to the hotel b y great streaks of fork ed ]ightning and heavy drops of rain. \Ve seated our­selves at a table in the lounge and played canls and , the Hotel's ' pride and joy,' a home-m acle m e tal r adio·· gramme amid h earty protes ts from the pilots who ge t it da y and night. It was late but we could not think of going to bed b ecause of the noise and h eat. Then the electricity blacked out- ten minutes of it went on-off-on-off. Som eon e l i t a match and we made our way upstairs to our room . In th e pitch blackness we fumbled our wa y to the bathroom, wher e by some miracle we managed to find the taps and have a shower without breaking our n eck s . .. fumbled back to our room and so to bed. The noise from the bar was terrific- the elec tricity came on and with it the radio-gramme, which some kind soul had tuned in upstairs. A light from the verandah shone straight into the room, so we got a few papers and books from m y bag and started to r ead. Off went the light ... we lay back, two minutes pass and on go the lights, out come the books, off go the lights. The crowd in the bar started to sing; the Proprietor broke up the party and we slept.

At 3.15 a.m. we wer e awakened. \Ve dressed quickly and went downstairs- Robin chose to go h ead-firs t, but on insp ection we found h er to be on]y slightly damaged. Passenger s gree ted one another with c roaky "Good mornings." The pilots anived and we settled ourselves in th~ bus and proceeded to the air port. In haH an hour we were in the aircraft, settled into our sea ts. NO SMOKING. FA STEN SEAT BELTS ... The props whirl and we taxi to the end of the strip ... we are off. The plane slowl y rises into the northern stars. It is something that 1 have experienced often , hut it n ever ceases to impress m e with its magnificence and beauty- which each time seem s to be more stupendous th an b efor e ...

B. FROM MALAYA

JULIE MILLER (Junior Class) ,

N edlands.

1. At last it came, that da y which h ad hung over our h eads like a black cloud ever since we had arrived home eight weeks ago- the da y we had to leave our loved ones and travel back to school in Australia.

How we arrived at the airport, we n ever knew . We only had a dim recoll ec tion of saying goodbye to the maids, the dogs, the cats-to everything. The actual drive wa~ just a hazy m emory. At the airport

LORETO

we moved a s if in a trance- tryin g pathetically to appear happy, and inwardly prayin g that the awful mome nt mi ght be put off.

Soon we we re told to embark b y the offic ial unfeeling voice which cam e through the loud sp eaker - " Would all pa ssenge rs for the 10.30 plane to Singa­pore, F li ght 10, p1case board the plan e immediately ." We said our last goodbyes. Bi g lumps came into our throat ~ anrl it was almost imposs ible to sp eak. Indeed , we didn ' t want to. The tears would p er sist in pri ckin g th e back s of our eyelids and we had t o blink furiou sly to k eep them hack.

Once on the plan e, we tri ed to get wi ndo w-seats so th a t we could have last glimpse of o ur p arents a nd fri end s. Th e s te warrl ess ca me around smilin " ch eer­full y, with a bask e t of harleysu gar. W e felt~ almo~t an gr y. Wh y shoulrl sh e ~ mile? This was not the time to srnih•. WP don ' t have much time to follow up thi s train of thou ght, for at that moment the engines wer e r evved up. Th ey ra n for a few 1ninutes and then we taxie d slowly ac rnss the tarmac for quit e a di stance. \V c turn ed a nd b egan the journey hack again- ga therin g speed and more sp eed- until , sud ­denly we we re airborne.

B elow u s we could see the hu ge airport, a nd in front of it a spla sh of colour that indicated whe n • our parents were. Our h eart s fe lt like breakin g.

2. lL wa s 8.30 p.m. and th e re were about six ty of us left on boa rd the " Charon" as sh e la y quie tl y along­side the fl ese rt e d dock at S in gapore. W e had arrive d from A ustralia on the school ship. The S inga pore children had b een m e t, but we Kua la Lumpur, Penang, and lpoh-it.cs had to wait till mornin g b e­fore we wo uld arrive h om e .

\Ve were up a l a bout fiv e a.m. th e n ext morning fini shing off o ur packing. W e w er e too excited for breakfast. A t 6.30 a .m. we struggled off the ship with our cases which weighe d two tons (o r so it seemed ). The morning was g rey, cold and drizzl y, but our spirit s wPre not in th e l east dampen ed . The airwa ys bu s was waiting, so we clambe re d on and settled down to a on e-ho ur drive to the airport.

Soon the li ghts flas he d o n : " Fasten seat ­belts." Then te nsion gre w and we pressed our noses Lo the windows calling out with d eli ght as we sighted the racecourse, the swimmin g-pool , and th en our own homes. The top s of the p alm trees came nearer. So on we cou lei see the little wooden huts and the workers in th e padd y fi eld s.

At long last th e airport was sighte d. It was a new one- we'd ne ver seen it b efore- and it lived up to our ever y expec tation. \Ve could see our parents waiting n ear the tarmac. The poor s te wardess had to use force to k eep u s seate d. As soon as we felt the jolt that told u s we we re on Le na firma once more, we dash ed to the door a nd almost jumped out before the step s were brought. W e tore across the tarmac, some falling in the ir has te, and thre w our­selves into waitin g arms. W e were Home.

PATTY BROCKER (Sub-Leaving) ,

Claremon t, W.A.

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GREEN FIELDS IN A BROWN LAND The road from D erby runs past som e of the

s tranges t shaped Boab trees and ant hills you could ever imagine. They k e pt u s int eres te d a nd amused all the way to a rather obscured fork .in th e road. We turned left and saw quite sudde nl y, str aigh t in f1~ont of u s, a sight that would ca use an yone not Pxp ec tin g it to rub his eyes.

" Wher e a re we, in Australia or Greece? .. Some­one ask ed th is ques ti on w h en he saw before him thi $ big stone build ing wi th a tri angular roof a nd m any majes ti c pi Il a r s like the P a rthe non. My uncle d esign ed thi s place for hi s h ouse a t the F it :troy r ic<' farm whe re h e has been ex pe ri menting fo r the past five years. Some nuns who were r ecently passing through told him it would makf' a wonderful monas te r y !

About seven miles from the " Parthe non ,. ove r a flat, thi ckl y grassed flood plain, lies SNAKE CREEK. It is on the banks of this c reek tha t 80 acres of sturd y, dark green ri ce stalks crackle and hi ss a ~ t lw hot Northern sun encourages the sway ing h ead s to swell and turn to gold as they ripen.

The rice fi e ld is divided up into pl o ts of severa l acres, around whi ch li e wat e r chan ne ls tha t fl ood or drain the rice. Three t yp es are grown: ZENITH, COLORO, MAGN OLIA, which h ave so far produced ver y hi gh yields. Las t year's Coloro p a tch gave 100 hush ells to the acre- and that was in d rought con­ditions. This year 's y ield is exp ec ted to lw h igher .

So far our Kimberley di stric t h as been purely pastoral , for which r e ason close1· selt le ru e n t has not been possible th e re. lt has lon g IJef' n known that rice would grow in the N orth , hut it was n ecessary to prove that a ri ce industry could he esta blish e d . Thi s it is now believed , has been d one ; and we hopp that ri ce as a pioneer crop will set a solid fou nda t ion for othe r agri c ultural progress in tlw Nor th.

The State Government has shown it s faith in th e projec t b y carrying out su c h important work as the e rection of a we ir at the junction of Snak e C re{'k an d the Fitzroy Rive r, and huJJdozing obstacles fr om the creek be d so that water can flow freely in to the channel for pumping ove r the padd y fi e lds.

Ther e have b een many diffic ulti es to overcome. such as learning lo cope with the diffe re nt p es ts that gather and play havoc with the g reen fc{'d ; so me of these are kangaroos, grasshoppers and w i Id hi rd s. F e ncing can more or less k eep out the kanga roos, and an automatic cannon whic h boo ms at r ep: ul a r in ter­val s helps Lo scare away the bird s.

Marke ts are n o trouble, as the grea te r part of the human race s till lives on a basically r ice di e t. The quality of the Kimberley i·i ce has already been tried out on oriental p eople in Darwin and Broome. They pronounce it as Lop quality , and so far as rice is concerned , the orientals are hard to please.

ROBIN MILLER (Sub-Leaving), Nedlands.

L6RETO

ESPERANCE Along the Gr eat Australian Bi ght, sh elter ed b y

numerous isl ands, lies the natural heart-shaped harbour which is the port of E sperance. The name has a link with the p as t, for it was in 1792 that two French sh ips sailed into the bay, after one of which the bay was named.

Esperance, although the natural port of the goldfields, was known to comparatively few people until widely publicised r ecently, owmg to an American Syndicate. The Ch ase Syndicate has arranged with the State Government to take over and cultivate a vast area of land in the distric t. A few years ago, because of a d eficiency in zinc and copper , the land was u seless, but by the addition of these m e tals it h as become suitable for farming.

Esperance has had h er share of fal se starts since the Dempster brother s first settled ther e in 1863. With the gold rush es in Kalgoorlie h er population rapidly increased , but sh e had no railway, and the completion of the line be tween Kalgoorli e and Free­mantle put an end to the good times.

In 1920 l and was cultivated for farming in the Mallee district, between Norseman and E sperance, and the link up of the railway between Norseman and Salmon Gums enabled wheat to be exported from Esperance. Unfortunately the depr ession in 1930 made it difficult for the majority of farmer s to r e­main on the land.

During the last few years the population of Esperance has increased immen sely. People are attracted to it not only as a commercial venture, but also as a p leasure and holiday r esort. The scener y is of great beauty and the clim a te is soft and mild.

JANET HOGAN, (Junior Public ), Claremont.

LAKE CAVE B efore us a gaping hole about a hundred and

twenty yards in diameter, surrounded by rock and shrubbery- this was the entrance to Lake Cave. Tall karri trees, so numerous in the South W est of our State, swayed grandly in the breeze. Down the steps to the bottom of the hole we walked along a well­beaten path. F erns and small light trees hung limply over it, brushing against us as we passed.

Around the sides of the main opening other dark caves were to be seen. Into one of these, Lake Cave, we were to go. Down into the clammy darkness we descended, then on till we came to a brightly lit cave, almost in the centre of which was a large pool, f ed by an underground stream. Many interesting rock for­mations surround the cave. Ther e are tiny pools too and a popular " Wishing W eB," which is difficult to reach.

Later the guide turned off all the switches and we marveJled at the orange glow like the colours of the sunset with which the Cave was ilJumined. The artificial lighting seemed commonplace when the switches were on again to light our way from the Caves.

WANDA HARRIGAN (Junior Class), Nedlands.

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NORTHAM AND A STORY We were driving slowly along the main road of

Northam looking for our brother , Paul. H e had gone to the army camp with his school a week earlier. It was now Saturday and, as soon as we had picked him up we were going for a drive through Northam. I saw him beside a shop and father stopped the car and h e got in.

First we had a look at the Avon River which flows through Northam. It had rained during the last month so that the river had risen high. There was sand banked up on both sides. Then we had a look at the football field. It has lovely gr een grass with trees around it.

AH my fath er 's brothers and sister s were born at Northam and, as we went over the main bridge, my father told u s this story : One stormy night, when the river was about a foot from the banks, my Auntie was born. My Grandfather went for the doctor. He had to go over the river and , as he went, h e was walking in a few inch es of waler which was flowing over the bridge. H e reached the doctor and told him about the bridge and so the doctor went by another bridge. When m y grandfather went back to the bridge, it was not ther e- it had b een swept away since h e had crossed it.

SUSANNE SOMERS (Grade VI) , Nedlands.

K\VINANA I was surprised one day when a friend

ask ed m e, " What are the oil wells like at Kwinana, do they drill much oil? " Before proceeding I must reveal that m y fri end is from the Eastern States. I was amused at h er question , but remembered in time that politeness forbad e m e to show what I felt .

I proceeded to explain to this " other-sider" that Kwinana is not an Oilfield. It is an Oil Refinery. The oil is brought from the Middle East. The R e­fin ery distiJls and processes more than three million tons of this crude oil a year. When it has been pro­cessed to b ecome refined oil, it is di stributed to dif­ferent industries in Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. The R efiner y produces also motor­spirit, k erosene, gas-oil and fuel-oil for the u se of Australia and New Zealand. These products are taken by ship to the Australia Ports.

The Kwinana R efiner y is tremendous. Over a vast expanse of flat land one sees large tanks of various sizes and huge pipes looming up. The actual R efin ery is surrounded b y a towering fence, and a p erpetual flame leaps from one of the furnaces, which can be seen night and day for miles around.

The di stric t of Kwinana covers a large area. It consists of three towns-Medina , Calista and Kwinana, all gay, colourful and modern. The district is named after the wrecked ship "Kwinana", which has lain ther e for years, and has given the area its name. " Kwinana" is an aboriginal word meaning "pretty maiden " .

GILLIAN EVANS (Leaving), Claremont,

LORETO

FIRE The day of the big fire is still indelibly imprinted

on my mind as clearl y as though it were yesterday. A wave of sympathy whe n we r ead a n ewspaper report of a bush fire is the str011:r.ce t emotion most people will expe rience; but th e ll' ;rible tragedy and stark terror it in spires; can only be felt by one who has experienced il s te rrifying impact.

This day of the big fire began as any other ordinary day in the wheat country. Th e silence hangs heavily in the languid air until a gentl e wind from the south sets the ripening ears of wheat nodding; through it. run s the broad ribbon of th .~ main road .

I was on the verandah of m y host's h om e, con­templating the peaceful scene, whc11 a low. purring sound disturbed my reverie. A hig saloon car fla sh ed by and di sappeared into the di stance. But ins ide the neares t field li es a glowing c igar butt. The brcczC' freshens for a moment, the butt glows red and a bl.i.~k spot appears on the nearest stalk .. Anothe r gust of wind, and the scorched whca•. bur~ l ; into Ha me.

The n ext ten hours are a grim nightmare. Within a quarter of an hour the count1·y-side was a scem.' of orderly confusion as m en flocked from their occu pa­tion& Lo combat the eve r increasing menace. ln thi s vast and unreal panorama, fire fight e rs try to stem the advance of the flames. Tired relays of swea tin g. grimy men r e turn to th e house for a bri ef refresh­ment and then r e turn to the raging inferno.

By this time, night has fall e n and the now harm­less fire became a thing of beauty. The leaping dark red flames sent showe rs of sparks cascading into lh e air. A solitary gum tree, ablaze from top to bottom, towered like a beacon over the scene ; r ed-hot bits of ash floated over the fir e like so many thousand fir e­flies and over all lay a thick pall of grey smoke.

ROSEMARY CARROLL (Leaving), Nedlan.ds.

AN ISLAND PARADISE Cockatoo I sland is in the Buccaneer Archipelago,

about 1500 rn ilcs north-cast of P e1·th. It is steep and rugged , ris ing 400 fe e t above Yampi Sound.

Everyone of the thirty-five tropical-styl e homes has glorious views of deep blue water, dotted with the reds and purples of o th e r small islands. A community garden in the centre of the township is a bright splash of colour, with it s creepers flanked by coconut pa lm s, bananas and paw-paws.

The main event in the lives of the 150 p eople who live on the island is the sailing of the motor­vessel, "Yampi Lass," the only m eans of transport, to Derby, nine ty miles to the south. Veteran islanders do not talk of weeks or dates, but "it is so many 'Lassies' ago."

The Cockatoo I sland house wife has plenty of leisure and many wome n have become expert s at fashioning delicately-tinted coral into lamps and other ornaments. The children are a fin e advertise­ment for the island, for these young mountaineers can scramble barefoot up the steepes t cliffs.

MAUREEN RYAN, (Sub-Junior) , Claremont,

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AN EARLY SETTLER'S COTTAGE \Vhile s taying at Augusta we mad e m a ny excur­

sions. On e of these was ve ry inte restin g : On t he other side of the Blackwood R ivcr was an old h ouse. Until a few months pre viousl y an old lad y had l ived there all her life, but now wa s forcf'd to li ve on t he mainland on account of old age. We hired a hoal and rowed to th e oth e r s ide of th e rive r. We moored our boat at the j e tty and walked up to th e old h ouse.

It stood amongs t large gum trees. The fl ooring of the ve randah surrounding th e house was ro tten , man y window panes wer e broken . The doo r of the main house was Jocked but we peered in a t the win­dows. In the centre of the li vin g room was a l arge table on which we re broken glasses a nd u sed cups and saucers. By the fire place was a rock ing chair. and on the 111anlle-pi ece we r C' a can dk st ick allfl family portraits.

The room for th e hired man was c lo!'e lo lhl' house; the wall s of it were so deca ye il th a t o ne had only to lean on th em to make them g ive way. T hey we re mad e of chaff, cardboanl and wood, a nd we rf' lined with n e wspape r. Some of the ne wspapf' rs were years old and we had fun reading hi s to rica l it(• ms.

Outside ther e was a wate r pump an d a n earth c n1 ove n for making bread . Th e o the r buil dings sur­rounding th e house we re a harn , pi g-sty and machiner y shed containing a buggy and h a nd pl o ugh .

The desert ed home had a ce rt a in m ysteri o us a ir about it. One felt that at an y mom ent a gh ost of an early se ttl er might appear, pe rh a ps th e sh ade of Mrs. Molloy or e ve n Fanny Bussell.

ANNA CHRISTINE HEALY (Sub-Junior ), Nedi ands.

THE UNUSUAL CATCH \Ve have a beach cottage a fe w miles to th e rnuth

of P erth, at Long Point. \Ve alwa ys h avt' a wonder ­ful time ther e b ecause of th e good swimm ing and fishing. The collage is only ahout a hun d red ya rd s from the b each so we prac ti call y li ve in the wa ter.

On e morning m y young sis ter, Patri c ia a nd l ra n do wn to the beach for a qui ck swim . Th e wat e r was a beautiful blue-grce11 and was as c lf' ar as gl as~ . Splashing around we noticed a b ro wn o hjel'l , fl oati ng just below the sur face in the shallow wa ter. 11 looked Jike a rusty piece of ti11- u11til 1 saw that i t was swimming. l sent Patric ia 10 the ho use to ge t the gidgie, with which J thought I would spear the fi sh . A few minutes later Patricia appea red with D ad and the gidgie. Dad r ecogni rnd the fi sh as a s tingray.

H e cautiously followed it al ong the d1ore for a few hundred yards, because if Dad spea red it from the wrong position it would ~ \vi sh its lo ng, sp iky, poisonous tail and could c ut off Dad 's legs. T hen Dad threw the gid gie al the stin g ra y. Lt was st unned for a few minut es. so we we re a ble to drag it from the wate r. A few spear-fi she rm en wer e standing about watching th e ope ration , hecause i t was quite unusual for stin gra ys lo he in so close to th e shore. Dad was justl y proud of him self as he h anded out pieces of the stingra y for bait lo th e spea r-fish er­m e n ; but we ate the edible parts ourselves.

LESLEY LOGAN (J unior Class) . Ned lands.

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PENGUIN ISLAND D uring lhc M ay holid ays whi ch I spent al Safe ty

Bay 1 went ac ross to P en guin I sland with a ~ew f r iends. We took lunch wilh us. Instead of gomg over in a launch , as we exp ec ted , \Ve we re supri se rl to ec a large "Arm y Duck " comin g for us.

lt was quite a chill y and wind y cl ay; lhe sea w_as choppy b ul lhat m ade liule differ e nce to the big. st rong " Duck." A kind fri end had to]~ u s th e bes t places to swim and lh c pl aces to look I OL

Soon afle r a rri vi ng we went for a swim in a lovely spot sh elte1·ed from th t> wind. The n we had lunch an d starlecl lo explor e.

T he lo tal le n rr th of th e island is only a mile and it~ width is onl v l~alf that. \Ve set off for th e caves, En route lhe ~if ana ge r of the i land called to _u s to look at a b a by p en guin whi ch h e had found. H e was keep in .,. it to show visitors b ecause lhe p en guins do no t co1~1e out durin g lhe da y! fn the evening the y emerire and ca lch fi sh for tea.

O ne side of the isl and i s e ntirel y diffe rent from the o the r . Th e one on which the :Manage r and hi s wife li ve is well sh eltered from the w ind , and the sea if. ca lm , wh er eas on the o th er s ide the re is much wind.

After admiring the p e nguin we proceeded to the caves at the f ar end of the isl and. \Ve found one cave which c u t throu gh Lo th e oppos ite sid e of the iblanrl. Alon g the b each we found many sh ell s and other thin gs Lo inler es t u s. \Ve scal ed th e steep cliff and i n th e l i ttle cr ev ices we could sec that hundreds of sea-gulls h ad avail ed th em selves of the sh elte r.

We rcl u rned to the Seul em ent for afternoon tea a 11 d af ter h avi n g sp enl a most enjoyabl e afte rnoon prepared to r e turn Lo the "Army Duck .' '

ESME STEPHENSON (Junior Class), Nedlands.

TWO TRAVELLERS " ll was a drea dful journey. Their salt m eat

was nearly gone; they had onl y flour and what they could sh oo t ; and they had Lo r ow against the slrong curren t tha t had borne the m d own-stream .'' In 1829, th is was Sturt's r eward for followin g the Murray to its mo uth , b ecause the mudflats and sud a l the outle t of Lak e A lexandrina prevented hi s re turn to Sydney arou nd the coast.

I closed P orlus' "Au stralia Since 1606" and gazed ou l of the slud y window smiling as I thought of m y recent exp erien ce on the shore of thi s same lake.

O ur ca ttl e, on a fi ve mile p eninsu la jutting into the lak e, had become resll ess in the cold , windy weather and , b y wa y of compe nsati on , th ey b egan to t reat them sel ves to a p recious g t·een pasture not design ed fo r them. The fe nces which would norm­ally h ave prcvenled thi s banque l had been wash er! away in l as t year's fl oods, so I dec ided to int errup~ the firsl course, if possible .

Secure in a wind-proof jacke t and mitten s, 1 was soon mounled on m y horse Trixie. The cattle moved qui le well a t fi r s t, lhinkin g p erhaps that even daintier far e was in sto re. The bull, n ever co-opera-

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ti ve, insisted on many pauses and r eceived as many prod s. However as they came to the r eed they assumed the immobility of sphinxes. The rush es he re reach ed to my n eck and from them hundred s of cobwe bs laced lhem se lves in my hair, ove r m y face and even down m y hack!

Thanks chi efly lo the dog, lhe cattle again moved off at a steady pace. It wa now dark. 1 despaired of k eepin g the bull with the othe rs ; besides, be ing black , h e could no longer he di stinguished from the e ncroaching night.

The h e rd sedately plodd ed on but refu sed to huny. I began to think that the famil y might h e worried. I could see the silve ry lake on eithe1· side and hear lhe lake-bird s' cri es. Suddenly, a whol e mass of smalJ green di scs appeared on m y right. F ear eized m e until I r ealized they we re the e yes of a

111,ob of wethers. B y thi s tim e J was not quite sure where l was.

so I le t Trixie follow h er own way home hut I was nol sorry lo see the h eadlights of the family car approach­ing. I unsaddled Trixie and let h e r go ; sh e was rubbing noses with th e othe r horses when we· stopped outside the h-uness-room.

JANET McANANEY (16 ), Marryatvill e.

A SING SING ON NEW GUINEA Last year I sp ent m y Christmas holidays in

Kainanlu , in lhe Eastern Highlands of Ne w Guinea. and had a wonderful time. One of the most inter es t­ing events of m y stay was the Christmas Sing-Sing, which was attended b y natives from miles around.

The preparations for the " Sing-Sing" began several da ys in advance. It was to h e h e ld on the airstrip, this b eing the most suitable area in the di slrict. It seem ed a s trange mixture of primitive and modern to have this cele bration in such a place! Care was taken to arrange the " Sing-Sing" during th e time when th e re would b e few planes expected.

As most of the p eople came from di slant villages, a long row of bamboo and grass hut-type sh elter s was e rected along one ide of the airstrip to give prolec tion in case of h eavy rain , and to provide a place for r es t. As the time for the " Sing-Sing" g1·e w near, excitement mounted, and the coming festivilies were the main topic of conve rsation. From lime to time, groups of n a tives would arrive, singing loudly as they came, and bringing with them pigs intended for the feast. It was not unusual at this time to find at the door a native in magnificent ceremonial dress, who had come up to the house hoping to be admired and lo have his photograph taken.

Early in the afternoon , we went down to the airstrip in a Landrover to watch the proceedings. We were surprised lo see the many hundreds of natives who had assembled in so short a time. It was amusing lo see the widely differing styles of clothing. Some wer e dressed in full ceremonial attire, with Bird-of-Paradi e plumes in the ir h ead-dresses, and wearing shell and hone orna­m ents ; while other s wore their usual mixture of

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European and native dress. The ir bdght clothes made gay splash es of colour against the green grass of the aii·strip. As we drove along th e side of the strip , han<ls of natives brandishing spears and givinl! vent to loud war cri es came running towards us, and 5urrounde d the vehicle. It was comforting to think that they we re not in earnest, for th ey looked most ferociou s !

Near th e airstrip, preparations were be in g mad e for the cooking of pigs in the usual nati.ve fa shion . which is to place them, wrapped in leaves, into pits lined with stones which had been prev ious ly heat ed. Sweet potatoes and other native vegetables are put in also, and th ey are then cove red and left to cook for several hours. Wh en uncove red, this food looke d rather un savoury to us, hut the natives ate it with great enjoyme nt.

Prior to the fe ast and dancing, sports events werl' held. Winners in the events received prizes suc h as mirrors, soap, and bright clothing, and other articles from the local store. Th e usual e vent s we re h eJd ­foot races, a greasy pole with prizes nail e d to th e top , and such like. These events ca used great exc item e nt.

As we drove along, we were followed h y scores of laughing small boys, vying with one anoth er lo keep up with us, and we observed that some of th e m were r emai·kably flee t of foot.

After th e sports came- the feas ting and danc ing, which continue d throughout the night, in spite of showers of rain , durin g which the natlves would scurry to the ir she lt e rs, only to e m erge and begin singing with increa sed vigor after a short tim e. The only ones who did not e njoy the s in gin g we re the European reside nts, who were k e pt awake b y th e noise, whic h incre ased in volume as th e hours we nt by!

The s inging continue d throughout. the next da y, and by nightfall all we re tire d out, and g lad to re turn home. I notice d the house se rvants we re very sub­dued and hoarse afte r all the ir s inging!

ANNE-MARIE BAKEWELL (5 th . Yr .), Kirribilli.

WHAT LARKS! This amusing incid ent. was witnessed b y rn y

father whe n h e was travelling in Queensland to Mount Isa- about s ix hunch·ed miles due west of Townsvill e. The country here is monotonousl y fl at, and at Hughcndcn on th e Flind e rs Rive r and where the incident took place, the view is treel ess as far as the eye can see.

At thi s time- in 1946- Hugh enden wa" populated b y about nin e hundred pe rsons as well as an unlimited numbe r of goats. These goa ts were sociable fellows- not. 111 the lea st afraid o f the inhabitants.

On thi s partic ular evening, parked i11 the main street- the only s tree t- were about e ight cars. The owners of these vehicles were enjoying an evening drink in the local hote l. As in most parts of north Queensland this conclusion to a day's work is most important.

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Th e ca rs we re a IL age,;. Some were- modern stee·I :sedans and oth er s dated back to 1930 with canvai' hood ~. Out on the d Pse rl ed stn' cl lwo goals (one. white th e other blac k ) wc rf' hegi nni ng to enjov the mselves in th e coo l of th e eve nin g. The hlack. which was the- rin1.dea d e r, jumped on to the bonnet of a ca r anrl pranced around , in vitin g the whit e onf' to j o in the fun. Th e cars we re parked at an angle with tlw ir front !' to tl1 P ke rh so that th e kid :; wc-rc­abl e to carry o u t a livc-l y chase- from hon net to bonnet , th e hlac-k one always in th e lead.

Tiring of this lame sport the- misehievou ~ young goat sprang hi gher on to 1he hood of a c-ar, quite unco nce rrwd about !he dama ge h e was cau sing to the duco, a nd p e rforme d a sc rit •s of anti cs, throwin g hi s h ead thi s wav a nd that : eve r v now and then utte ring peculiar .bleats to c- nti ee l~i s eompanion to pla y but. th e latt e r wa~ a liltk cautiou s and wonlcl lJOl hurlgl' from hi s lowc-r pos i I ion.

By thi s tirnc lw was havin g a thoro ughly [!:Ood tim e and bega n showin l:(" off hi s agilil~' li y sprin[!:ing front hood lo hood sPc rning lo rPvl'I in 1he arlrniring gaze of hi s fri e nd .

But th e s ill y kid nradt• om· le ap too rna ny and th e old canvas .hood split lwrwath hi s hooves and held him su,;pe nd c d for a secon d with an a ln1 0'5 I human look of amaze1ne nl on hi s funn v face, ti ll he di sappeared falling h eadlon g into lh c hack sca t. Fro111 thi s pos ition h e ~ee 11lt'd to n ·alize 1l w e no rmit y of rl1 e dc~ tructi o n h l' h ad cau~c- d , so galhcring h i' wils toge th l'r be se ra111hfrd from the car anrl scurried up th e s lreet a ~ fa sl a R hi,. lt' gs eould <'arrv hi111 . tlw oth e r kiri foll ow in g.

One can 11n aguw the owner . .; "urpr isc and anno yance on re l.urnin g lo hi ~ car lo find ii so 111 ys te rious ly damagl' d and quir e unable lo find an explanation.

PRISCILLA FELTON (4th . Yr.) Norman h urst.

DEFINITIONS Melod y Is like a swee t, Sweet emotio n. Pl easing, ca lming, Exciting; It sweeps Over the soul , Filling it

With awe, wo nder, J oy. A fl ower Is an image Of God, so lovely Yet so a wesome. Think Of its creation , Gi ve thanks For its presence.

MARGARET ROSE DUNPHY (13 ), Loreto, Claremont.

LORETO CONVENT, KIRRIBILLI, N.S.W.

INSET: PREFECTS (SEE NAMES P AGE 88 ) TOP: FIFTH YEAR BOTTOM: FOURTH YEAR

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LORETO CONVENT, KIRRIBILLI, N.S.W.

THIRD YEAR CLASS: FRONT ROW : A. M . Johns tone, G. L eac h, P. Pre ndergast, A. Rear don, L. Wangma n, A. Fitzgerald , J. Mo uld er, M. Burn et t, M . Laws,

A . M. Madden. SECOND R OW : C. Holt, J . M c Coll , J . Hind, R. Barrett, G. Shel ton, L . Ea rl , J. Cashmore, H . Smith , C. Smith, J. D!air, R. Dateman, M.

Dura ck. THIRD ROW: K(. Barlow, J . Hardima n , P. Hardyman, K. Forrest, C.M cDonagh, C. H ayes, M. M oo n ey, J. Guig n ;, T . Shiels, M. Walsh,

H. Mornane. BACK ROW : J . Byrne, R . Rowla nd, R. H enry, A. Willi am s, C. Burke, C. Davidson , D . M c Caffrey, A. Devine, J. Al d io, V . S a r!c, I.I. Scholf:eld,

J. Rowley. SECOND YEAR CLASS:

F RONT ROW : J. Day, V . McEvoy, L . Mu rphy, J. O ' Hanlon , M . O 'Ha nlon, L . Clap in, J . O'Ne ill , P. Re illy, S. Kni ght, M . O'Mara, I. P alotas, J. W yndham.

SECOND ROW : M. W a red, W . Travers, E. W a lsh, V. O'Gorman, J. Burton, G. Demeulem eeste r , A . Borthwick , A. Kelly, P . Flynn, E. Bartl ett, H . Crampton, C. Mazza, P. Earngey.

THIRD ROW : H. Ma g uire, G. M cGr ath, T . Mc Caff rey, M . Scott, D. Cleary, B . Minogue, S. Ri ch, B . Batema!1, D. Burke, P. Papallo, R. Bellair, C. Morath, H . Lowery, M. Power.

BACK ROW : T . Ro!£e, J. Southen, S . Dickson, M. Hon ner, E. Sheerin, A. Loughland, C. Allen, A. M. Dwyer, B. DeMe ur, L . Regan, K. Wilson, C. Inglis, L . J oh nstone, E. Sullivan.

LORETO CONVENT, KIRRIBILLI, . s .~ .

FIRST YEAR:

FR O NT R OW : S. D unca n. P. L eonard, H . Diver, A. Devine, G. Ryan, V . Bagot, C. Earl , E. Galle ry. SECOND ROW: M. Denn ett. S. Durant, P . Sherlock, R. Rowe, E. Simpso n, M. Redding ton, H . Beaton, P . Shelton, T. Prendergast, M. Gannon.

THIRD R OW : M . Fea ly, N. Byrne, D . Johnston, M . C. Beckman, K. Tracy. C. M agney, C. Burke, G. Hickey. J . S t inson. M . Donoghoe, P. W atso n, V. Sarks.

BACK R OW : A. Donnelly, M. Nelson, R. Creagh, L . Shiels, M . Mc Ginty, G. M cKinstry. ] . M cDonag h , A. Boland, H . V er non , C. Ehre n bu rg.

6th CLASS:

FRO NT ROW : M. M. Kidman, R. Yewdall, G . H ellmrich , J . Walsh, E . Buckley, C. Maloney. M. Willi s, V. Paris. SEC OND R OW : P. Scott-Young, E . Skippen, E. Shaw, M. Owen, P . Holmes, C. Cahill, R. Murphy, E . Shannon, M. Allen , S. Parmenti er,

P. Murray. THIRD ROW : D . O ' Donnell, J . Thompson, C. Scott, G . Sutherland, A. B ow ne, J . Ford, M. O 'Re illy, C. Hadden, A. Fileman, E . S pies. E.

Matthews. BACK R OW : D . Hewitson, L . Clinch, C. Strong, M . Courtenay, C. Flynn. C. Nagy, C. Campey, S . Mula lly, J . M . Fowell.

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TRAN SITION, GRADE I. AND

GRADE II.

FR ONT ROW : B. Swift, N. Caesar, B. Malloy, P. Sidaway, B. H ickey, M. Hu nt, S. Manchoulas, L. Maclurcan, S. Skellern.

SEC O ND R OW : K. Nagy, C. Byrom, S. Murray, K. Limerick, A . Golden, A. Fi nlay­

son, ] . Hawke, A. M essa ra, M. Bates, P. Buckley, ] . Ha rper, A. Callige ros.

T HI RD R OW : H . Mc Mani s, C. Seymour, A. Kidman, T . Perry, M. Armstrong, H. Slat­tery, S. Cahill, M. Dick, C. Cahill , D. Vander­vae re, M. A. Newton, C. Kennedy.

BAC K RO W : S. J oh nson, A. Punch, E . Cor­rig an, N . Lieute nant, C. Parmentier, A . L . Malo ney, ] . de Tihanyi, S. I ng li s, G. Miller, S. Corrigan, L. Buckley, S. Fahy, A. Bye.

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5th CLA SS:

FR O NT ROW : J . Barrett, C. N yse n, D. Morrow, C. Colli ns, M. Campey, G. O ' Don­nell, T . Clarke, P . Harkins.

SEC OND ROW : V. Emerso n, D. W hittey, S. Doyle, H . M cDonald, ]. Burkitt, M. H ickey, C. Seagoe, T . Comrie-Thomson, S. Callen, M. Hawke , S. Stokes.

TH IR D ROW : L . Rich, L. Fraser, S. You ng, G. T racey, N. Loughland, A. M. McLuckie, S. Bradley, S. Rowe, K . Mac Naught, D. Magui re, P . L eonhard.

BAC K R OW : G. Amer io, K. Colli ns, D. Plasto, P . Buckley, R. K night, E. O 'Brien, S. H olt, D. L ieutenant, C. McC!eery.

LORETO CONVENT, KIRRIBILLI,

BOYS. TRANSITION, GRADE I ., GRADE II. BACK ROW: D. Burke, W. Dusseldorp, C. Ball, P. Golden, P .

Bruce, T . Purcell, B. Courtenay, D. Hall. SEC OND ROW: A. Church ill, P. Fleming, J . Snelgrove, G.

Marton, M. Cafarella, R. Chisholm, J . Pelletier, S. Kennedy, C. Maclurcan, j. Scott.

FR ONT ROW: J. H all, G. Bateman, A. Kennedy, P. Koeni g, C. W alsh, D. Skellern, R. Morrow, D. Merkel, R. Ingli s.

ABSENT: P. Watson, M. Caesar, J . Goddard, C. Talbot-Blaker, K. Regan, B. Buckley, D. Newton.

ABS ENT, GR. III. & IV. : M. J ones, ~. Dusseldorp , J. Fay, J . Merkel, M . L . Pelletier , M. Hall.

ABSENT, GR. II., I. a nd TRANSITION: M. Bowyer, C. Haw­k ins, E. Palotcos, M . Snell, S. Murray, A. Hawkins, S . Lloyd , P . Elms.

GRADES 111 & IV. FRO NT ROW: j. Kelly, j . Caesar, C. Prendergast. H . Sidaway,

P. Gibson, M. T . Molloy, j. Fay, A. Neumann, M . A. Perry, A. H olden, P. Horan, C. Lieutenant, S. Hind.

SECOND ROW : E. Homa n, S. Sk ippe n, A. Co ur te nay, M. Willi s, J. Ga in, P. Chaplin, E. Standen, T . O'Reill y, M. Burke, B . Brown, E. Slocum, M . Salteri, M. K ennedy, C. Long, M. M. Flynn.

THIRD ROW : M . De Fina, M. Purcell, L . Galiungi, F. Sidaway, M . Murphy, M. Burke, B. H olmes, R. Plasto, S. Cayley, K. Goddard, R. Za nell i, H. Lubra no, S. Emerson, B . Scott.

BACK ROW: C. Dusseldorp, P. Donnelly, B. Neuma nn, A. Fay, C. H olmes, C. Slattery , C. Armstrong, M. A. Buckley, K. Ryan, M. Hard ima n, K. M cDonagh, K. Sheil, L. Malo ney.

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Memory Pictures PONTIFICAL HIGH MASS

The appointment of Father James \V. Gleeson D.D., as Auxiliary Bishop of Arle laide to his Grace the Archbi5hop, Most Reve rend Dr. Beovich , D.D., Pt. D., brought great jov to tlw Cat ho lie Communitv of Adelaide, parlicularlv to th<' children, hecaus~ Fathe r , as Director of E ducation in the Archdiocese for sevl"'ral vea rs, had bccom C' tlwir revered fr iend.

His Lo.rd ~hip's <'Ons<'c ration was solemnised on May 2ht. during the first te rm vacation , when man y of the childre n had re turned to th <' country homes. Therefor<' an opportunity wag iriven to .thPm to honour His Lonlship by allending his first Pontifical High Mass. on June 7th .

The l\frmorial Drive Tf'nnis Courl s were ch osen as the s it e for the <'f' re rn on y. This proved an ideal choice, for the a<"corn111odatio11 of the chilrlrcn in three laq.~e stands fac ing a m a in eourl , r esult ed in an impr·e,-~ ive cornpac lrwss : 1his thre w into re li ef the irregular blocks of colour for111 ed by the va rious uniforms.

The altar, placed al 1lw far e nd of the court , was clearl y vis ilile to all in th<' stands. The strul"' turc erected ove r it was adorned wi I h white and go lei satin , il s effec t be ing he ighte11<'d hy 1he surrounding green ve lve t of llw lawn.

The choir of one 1hou:;and , seven hundred children, togelher with tlw slude n ls of St. Francis Xavier 's Scm inary, sang the Votive .Mass of 1 he Sacred H eart, as it was the F irst Friday of June.

Long before te n o'clol"' k , th1· time scheduled for the beginning of the Mass, t be nine I ho usand c h il<lrcn and the two hunlhed priests, l.irotlwrs, and nuns had assembled. A few minut<·s hcfo re Len, Archbish o p Beovich , attended by the V c ry R everend Mich ael

Scott, S.J., who pres ided at the Ma~s, approached thP Altar, a nd the Very Reve rend .I. Go ldfinch, C.M. and acoly tes. .

In the procession down the l en!!lh of the court, Hevl"'renrl Fathers T . B a rden, S .I ., E. i\Tulvihill. and L. Fa ulkne r, preceded His Lordship , who was vcsled for Mass w ith crozier , mi t re, p:l ove~, sandals and buskim.

Befor<' the appearance of the Bishops. thP the childrPn we re requcslNl lo rC'mai n s ilent in pre· paration for Mass, and immed iately His Lonl~hip appea red the " Hymn lo t he Church" was sung. Through out the Mass tlw revcn' tll s il ence of so many thousands of chi Id re n was most im prPssive. IndP('d. it was a tre mendo us experience to I)(' in that great a ,.,:pmhly of Catholic Youth . partic ipa ting in Chri~t\ Eternal Sacrifice.

A bout a quarlc·r of an hour· after Mass, tlw Head Pr·d°<'c t of St. Jgnatius' Co llege p resP11tcd His Lord­ship wi th a Spi ritual Bo ut[ltCI, for whi <" h ~ach child had offered three J\lassc,;, thrcp Hosarics, three visits to the Blcss1' d Saeramenl , and a s pecial Daily Prnycr. F0Jlo wi11 g thi s, a pup il of St. J oseph"s Highe r Pri111ary School, handed His Lol'flf'hip a gif t of L700 con t ribut ed li y all the children. In tha11ki11g the rn Bishop Gleeson mcntioncll th a t a great part of <his m oney had purc ha<.ed h is episcopal rol.ies. A stirring exhortation followed, i11 which we were r(•minded of the great pri vileg1·s that Baptism harl licstowerl upon us, and His Lordshi p urgPrl that we correspond gene ro usl y, so that one day we might mPe t •q~a in - in our Father's House.

J ULIE BROOKS (14) , E. CULSHAW (15 ) , Marryatville.

THE BALLET A. DAME MARGOT FONTEYN

Early in the year new came lo us tha t Dame Margot Fonteyn was to vis it Sydney a nd Melhourne on a month's season. The compan y sh e was dancing with in Sydney was begun not many yea rs ago by Mr. Borovansky who has done great things for us in helping to develop a Ballet company. H e has no t only created a great inte rest in Ba llet but has also trained several leading Australian balle t dancers. The late Miss Frances Scull y was another of the pioneers of Australian Balle t. Elaine Fifield and several othe rs who arc now a l Sa<lle rs Wells have been trained by h e r .

A Saturday afternoon that has b ecom e a shining memory came at last. M y excitem ent was really unbelievable. And l dreaded tha t something would happen to prevent m y goin g. Everythin g went according to plan and I found m y elf catcd in the Empire Theatre b y 1.45 p.m., anxious ly waiting.

Les Sylphides, perhaps on<' of Chopin's loveliest works, was firs t on the program me. All through this composition Chopin has as a the me the prelude

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in D majo r that gi.vcs it such a lovely effect. I think I cnjoy<'d the nrusic <'Vl'n morp tit an the daneing. The corps de balle t look NI very graecf u I in their long fl owing frock s.

T h e 11cxt was a Vt> ry bright and fa st moving hall<'t- Don Qu ixote. T1rn tradi1io11a l red costumes wrre worn by Brian Ashbr idgc a11d Rowena Ja<'kson wh o danced th is rl clightfnl Ballet.

Then at last the curtain went u p once more for Swan L a ke. As Margot Fonl<'y11 rlarwe<l on lo the centre of the s tage she h ad the whole audience con­centrated on h er. It is a kind of gen tle arrogance that sh e possesses; from the time sh e appears on the stage the amlicnce is well awa re that she is in full command. H er technica l kill is r eally wonderful: ever y little rle tail is correct a n d this has only been achieved from hours of h er practising.

In the second da11ce of Swan Lake sh e and Mich ael Somes rlanced the pas de dcux. Margot as Queen of the Swans and Michael Somes as the Prince. T sch a ikowski h as \ i·itte n ma ny lovel y compositions, but I think Swan L ake is pNhaps th<' 011c with the

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r: :ost emotional appea l. in Margot Fonteyn 's inter­pre tation of the classical roles ther e are certain epi : odes that lend a ri ch humanity to the Balle t.

A colourful little dance now cam e on to brighten I he atmospher e. T his is a balle t of broad and very B ritish humour. Ch a rles Mackerras* who has rearranged this h as accomplish ed a real tour de force in makin g excerpts of ten Sullivan Operas into a musical whole. While it is a very m erry dance it is the id ea l balle t to show off the disciplined exuber­ance of the young company.

It was a wonderful afternoon : all I could do when it was over was sit and just think of what I had seen . An yone wi th any knowled ge of B allet at all would have enjoyed it, for Ballet i s one of the 111ost perfec t m eans of expressing one's emotions.

JOY KENNEDY GREEN (4th. Yr.) , Normanhurst.

* Conductor of the B.B.C. Orchestra in London, and eldest son of Mr. and Mrs . Alan Mackerras of Syd­ney.

B . BALLET IN BRISBANE Bri sbane has amateur opera, theatre and musical

comed y group s, and now through the efforts of Cyr il Johns, of inte rna tional fam e, a balle t compan y has been form ed.

At a gene ral m eeting in March 1953, the mem­bers adopted a p r oposal for the formation of a Theatre Group. In Apri l , classes began, attended hy girl s who worked in Brisb an e offices, classroom s. fa ~ hion salons, a nd science laboratories. As early as Oc tober , the Theatre Group held its first pe1·formance just ten months aft er Mr. Cyi-il J ohns had returned from his six years of study overseas.

The T h ea tre Group is proud and honoured to have as its patron , Mi-. Edou ard Borovansky. Som e­day it hopes to r each the goal of compan ies similarly formed, such as Sadle r's WeUs, which began with I he struggling student.

The B1·isbane Balle t T heatre Group was found­t> d with th e view of pro motin g local inte rest in balle t an d as a medium for advanced dancer s, who have passed thci1· majo1· exam s. U ntil now, the re was no future for such talented students, who did not want Lo go ove rseas and con tinue their studies. The aims of th e group arc to form a link be tween the student of dancing and the professional ; to enable the stmlents lo gain a knowledge and unders tanding of es tabl i:- hed classical balle ts, by trained productions, wh ich in turn broaden their technical knowledge in the executio n of the more difficult ste p s.

So the Group hopes that regular performances will help to develop the sensitivity of ea1· and eye, n eeded for the full enjoyment of ballet's entrancing music, its drama and its constantly changin g pictures and pattern s.

MADONNA McAULIFFE (17) , Brisbane.

C. BALLET IN MELBOURNE

It was nearly the time now, Lhe great orchesLra was se ttling down, the theat1·e light had been dimmed a nd all round there we re hush ed whisp ers. Then from behind the curtains the conduc tor ap-

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p ear ed. There was thunder of applause, and then once again, silen ce crept ove r the theatre as the people se ttled back in their seats. The conduc tor raised hi s hands as a s ign for the first bar of music, from the ballet 'Swan Lake' to begin.

As I glanced about m e, I noticed the thought­ful expressions on the faces of the p eople finding peace, away from the turmoil of life. Within minutes it seem ed , the ove rture had ended , and now we we re waiting for the curtain to ri se on the Ballet.

From th e first bar to the last chord of the masterpi ece, we were h eld spellbound at the grace of each dancer. It was as if a brea th of wind h ad passed across the stage and gentl y wafted the fi gures into movem ent. Although no words were spoken , a tale of rndness and of bea uty passed be tween actor and audie nce, a tal e told by ph ysical movement and facial expression.

It was so peaceful within that theatre whilst the orch es tra and the dance1·s mingled together a s one, so that as the curtain fin ally fell a sense of something lost cam e over m e. It was as if the satin drapes,, so graceful them sel ves, were c losin g some­thing from m y life, closing a world unknown to m e and not to b e r evealed, until the curtains are raised aga in and anothe r story is told through B allet.

ELAINE BAILEY, Toorak .

D. FINAL NIGH1T AT THE BALLET

The audience was tense, with that air of expect­a ncy whic h is onl y present o n last nights at the theatre. There was a murmur whe n the li ghts went out ; the rustle of programmes s topped and not a sound was to be h e a1·d. The conduc tor raised hi s baton and stood poised. Then the music b ega n and the th eatre was filled with th e deli gh tful strains of Chopin's " Les Sylphides." Slowl y the curtain rose, and the very fa miliar pi cture of the moonlit gl e n unfolded itself. Man y tim es I had seen this halle t, but never had I tired of it. In each p erformance there was w m e thing n ew; each dancer gave a dif­ferent interpre tation of h e r role. The short balle t e nded and th e crowd clapped tirel essl y.

Durin g the interval I thou ght how familiar was this scene . How m a n y l ast nights I had watched! Tow;uds the end of " The Tamin g of the Shre w" boxes were passed along the rows. Each p erson took several streame rs and passed the box along again. T h e play concluded and the v arious m embe rs of the cast took their bows. When the two principals appeared, hundreds of streame1·s fluttered to the stage. Then we all s tood for the national anthem and the curtain was lowe red fo1· the last time.

My mind fl ash ed back to the present as again the thea tre darken ed for the n ext ball e t "Nut­crack er." . This ballet was ver y lovel y with the most magnificent part comin g at the end, the difficult and brilliant Pas de D eux of the Sugar Plum fairy and the Prince. The .flas hin g turns, foue ttes, and the lifts, enrap tured everyone. Again the las t night of a season was crowned with streamer s.

ANNE MclNERNEY (15) , Marryatville.

LORET O

THE PEARL EAR-RINGS IL is a fa r cr y from Al ice to Po rt Noarl unga h y

th e sea . P e rhaps [ was s till 11naccuslomcd to the li ght strca111in g throug h windows onto m y bed , heca usf' r awokf' Wf' ll h!!fon~ ~ ix . Tired of ]yin g the re, I ho prwd o ut a nrl dec ided to take for a walk th e s ixth 111 e111lwr o f our famil y, o ur Pek e, C hang­fhort for th e Gene ral.

PaJrlin g s tealthily ar o und , to avoirl wa kin g the still slcep in !! ho usP ho lrl , I se ized rlrowsy C ha ng and nrnd f' m y ex i I. At th e c rcs l of the hill , a voice accos ted 111 c frorn th e s ide of th e road. S ittin g und e r a large hu sh was a middl e-aged woman wearing an old hlack hat a nd a shabby h rown coa t gapi ng bet ween th e butto ns. There was a kind look abo ut her eyes, ~o L we nt ovf'r to lwr wo nd er ing, however, why sh1: sat in such a p lace at suf'h an ea rl y ho ur. She ex plai1wd in a f' uri o us ly r es ignc rl m ann er.

A fri end had dri ven h e r down to vis it a relative. She had p; ive n no wa rning of lw r co min g an d found the ho use e mpt y a nd sPcurcl y locked. " J"m irood at climbing thro ugh windows;· I su gges ted. But it ~eem ed sh f' h ad tri f'd rh em a ll. " \Vould yo u like some brea kfast ?" S l1 f' ref usr,d, hut admi tt ed that she wou ld Jove a c up of tea.

My a tt ention was here di strac ted by Ch an g, wh o was sniffing eagerl y at hrT la rg<' w it case, and jump­ing abo ut f'Xc it c rll y. Th en I saw the rea son why! Through th e slit in h e r ga pin g batt e rPd case, I glimpsed something swa y in g to and fro " Oh , what"s that? " l c rif'd in ho rror. ·· It 's o nl y a ca t;' she sa irl.

She to ld me ~ h e 111 a d1· e;ir-rinµ: ;; for sornf! merchandi se firm and produced from th e sm al lf' r case seve ral d wap lml cleve rl y wroughr pairs. "Would yon like a pair?" she said. Ver v to nched , I thanked her and too k her g ift.

\V c se t off lo o ur ho use fo r a e n p of le a, J carrying th e c nca;wd 1·a t ! On arrival , J sa t her in our car which was o utsid f', r ead y lo take ns off t o Mass la te r. I we nl ins ide to l1rea k tlw n e w,., pro­ducing the pearl f'a r-rings as ev id ence. 1Vh1111111 y hegan to make the te a telling 111 e to find o ut the bus limes. On th e wa y I c ha sf'd a small ho y. wh o told m e thref' buses left for town o n Sunda ys.

R eturning, I found my fri Pml still sittin g in th e car, sippin g tl'a , w ith a plat e of bre ad a nd hutt e r 0 11 her lap . J sa t wirh lwr and li ~ t en cd to a not he r chapter of he r li fe sto r y. Her f a thn, a co111forta hlc fa rm er, lent £2,000 Lo a ce rtain ne ighLo ur, who for some reason would not rt ~ pa y it. H e r familv met with furth e r misforlum·s and had bee;, fo rced to se ll lh l' fann. Th l' makin g of t·a r-rin gs was her sole m ea ns of support , and now, she could i10

longer afford to ket' p he r eat. The main purpose of her visit he re, was to give thf' ani111al to he r relati ve.

Suddenl y, .l re n1 e 111bcn·d that time waf: marching on. I showed hc 1· lo the bus ~ t o p , wavPtl good bye a nd hurri ed ho me to breakfas t. H owcvn. I could no t stop thinkin g about m y poo r fri cn ;I, wonde rin g whether she had 111anagcd to catt'h that hus. F in al ly, l ran dow n to see. The re she was still waiting patiently. ·'Lt hasn ' t eomc ve r," sh e call e d to m e. A man came 0111 of a h o use c lo~e Ly but he knew noth-

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inl'( ahout Sunda y b uses. A large milk van drew 11p o uts ide a shop. The dr ive r was di s inl1Tf':<l1·d and unsympalhe t.ic. Hi s w ife was wirh him . I hqq!cd her lo give the poor woman a ]ifr back lo town. She stutte red and stumble d a nd finall y gave as an PXl'u,;c_ the furth er call s th ey would ha vp to 111ak1· 011 1111· r oute. l turned awa y di sgusted. I felt rh al thi " \\a,o not the rea l r e ason.

My fri end decid ed lo wa lk d ow n lo a 1-(araf!I' on the corner to make furlh e r e 11qniri c~. I waircd. There were sounds of a shop doo r hPin g unbo lt Pd. •\ girl emerged. 1 ly ques tion at la:;; I mel with tht> answer. "A hus IPaves here in fi ve m innl l's:·

I tore after m y unfo1·1unalP fripn d and ro ld her th e joyful news. We h eard a no ise. I t was 1h1· Im~. r seized the suitcase, avoifli n p: the tail now wavilll-( wildl y I hrough the gap, an d hn sl I Pd hN a long a I a great rate- th e cat protes tin g vio l1•n1ly fro111 ·11 i1hi11 . We r each ed the stop , sh e mount f'd rh e ste p,-. I handed up h e r fe line fri end a nd waved rh c h11 s 0111 of ~ i l-(ht.

Looking back o n ii now, it st'l' m ~ a dn·a111 ; bur I still h ave the ear-rings lo conv inn · nu· 1ha1 111\ stran g<' ad venture was a rea lit y.

SANDRA POWER (15) , Marryatvill c

HOLLYWOOD IN MAREE \Vh e n one cons id e rs tlw g lamou r as,,ocialed wilh

the producti on o f a Holl ywood fi lm, ii is ralhl'r amusing to see one of these film s in a ll lh P Pl1·µ:a1we of a tin-sh e d at Maree, som e fo n r hnndrl'd and fifty miles directl y north of Ade la ide, wherf' l ~ p(•nl my May h ol id ays thi s year.

Th e thea tre is s itu a te d in the mi dst of broken down tin h o uses; the "s treets"" arc mere sa nd !rack;; . The pictures a t Mar ee are sh ovm every Sa tu rday ni ght, at 7.30 p.m. A bout h alf an hour l1efo rc thi,- . the aud ie nce, con sis tin g of A ustral ians. Afghans and A bori g ines, congregate at th e one and only slort·. the n p roceed to th e " th eatrP." The admi ss ion is fiv c d1illin gs, which is qu it e cx pr·ns ive 1 · on~ id Pring no seating accommod a ti o n is provide d . D11ri111! 11 1\ s lay, the re was but one fi lm cvl'ni n µ:, ~o when ('0 111-forlabl y scal f' rl o n m y hox. l rPvc lled in 1h 1· 11ovf' ll\ of the occasion .

Aft e r much ado, the film ·'A nn e of 1h1 · lndit>,.;· began . Sudd e nl y a grr·al rippin g ~0 1111d \1· a~ hea rd : many pre pared to a tt ack a sna ke. l1ut rhr li ght,. rn e n ·ly reve aled that o ne of th e o ld d 1airs had collapsed. That was the only t!i slurha nee durin g th e first half of tlw p rogram 111 e, excf'p t of eo11 1·,-e. for a five minnl c inte1·val f'very tim e a rf'el had lo lw changed. Durin g rh e se~ond pict11rt'. .. \Ir. S1·011t­mastcr," we had three !t•chni nil hrt ·a kdow n ~. aparl f.-0111 the chan g in g of the reek Durin g 1h1 ·,o('. I th oroughl y examin ed the inte rior decora 1io11 of llH· thea tn· ; co lo m·ed c re pe-pape1· h ad o net' lwlpcd 10 camouflage the seve rit y of th e lin cei li ng an d rafters. liut th e re is n o known colour which could adC'q11at1·h d esc ribe its present hue .

\Ve .left th e thea tre a l a quarl cr lo one 011 Sunda\-mornin g: thi s was hy n o m eans a rf'cord. as on;. se reening did not conclud e until two I hi n y !

VERONICA CURTIN (15), Marryatville.

LORETO

A TRIP TO ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL

One day our school was ask ed to send a small contingent of pupils, not too deeply in the world of stud y., to attend sole mn High Mass at the Cathedra1. The Mass was to cel ebrate the opening of the third annual convention of the Catholic Press Association of A ustralia and New Zealand.

Soon we were in the fe rry steamer chugging across the beautiful waters of Sydney Harbour. We were far too thrilled with the beautiful scenery around us to feel sea-sick. The blue wate rs sparkled like fair y lights as the beaming sun played upon them. The lawns and parks we re green and brown; with Admiralty house to th e le ft , the Harbour Bridge overhead and " The H ea ds" clea rl y visible in th e faint mist of th e morning. The breeze was cool and re­freshing as it whipped the sea -spra y into our fa ces.

Soon af te r nine o'clock we reached Circular Quay and the re, after collec tin g our bearings, we overworked the turnstylc, until we wer e all on the other side. From Circular Quay we caught a tram Lo St. Jam es' Station. We crossed Macquarie Street via the underground subwa y and then proceed ed in threes to the front steps of the Cathedral.

I felt once aga in , the majesty of St. Mary's Cathedral as we entered through the Western doors. The Altar was almost shinin g in its white beauty compared with the subdued splendour and magni­ficence, of the high vaulted ceilings. The Cathedral seemed vast, sil ent and holy, but we knew it was little compar ed to the One Who dwelt within.

We were ush ered lo the front scats and we stood as the procession of Clergy began to walk towards the Altar. Firstly walked His Eminence Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney; the n followed Bishops, Archbishops, Pdors, Priests and altar boys all looking very splendid in the ir silks. But I could not repress a smile, at the familiar sight of cade t trousers, p eeping from under the altar boys' lace.

Solemn Mass began with its lovely p salms and prayers sung by the priest and answer ed by the choir. The priest incen sed the altar, and his Deacon and Sub-Deacon; then Hi s Eminence; las tly the altar boys turned and incensed the people. The Mass moved on to its climax at the Consecration. The priest rai sed the Rost; and silence fill ed the whole Ca thedral , a peaceful, restful, sil ence in a very busy world . T h e occasional se rmon was preached by Bi shop John Freeman (Auxiliary to His Eminence Cardinal Gilroy).

Aft er the Mass we noted in a group- Cardinal Gilroy (Archbishop of Sydney), Father J. G . Mur­tagh, M.A. (associate Editor of " The Advocate), Archbishop Carboni (Apos tolic Delega te), Mgr. R. Collender, P.P. V.G., Prior G. P. Clery, 0. Cann (Editor of "Th e Scapular"), Bishop Freeman, Father D. O'Connor, S.J. (Editor of " The Messenger"), Mr. ]. Kelleher (Editor of " The Catholic W eekly," Sydney).

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Twelve o'clock however , saw us boarding the " Lady F er guson" ferry, and five minutes la ter , regret­full y we reach ed Kirribilli wharf.

ROSALIND BATEMAN (3rd. Yr.), Kirribilli.

EARLIEST MEMORIES At times my earliest m emories seem clear,

numerous, fa scinating and exciting; at othe rs my m emory is a blank and it seems that th em is only the present.

Memories come Lo me in fragm ents like a collec­tion of jumbled p hotograp h s thrown at random into a box. I can r emembe 1· how imm ense things around m e seem ed sometimes.

At one tim e l ca n sec (or feel ) myself running down a big s loping green lawn ; around the edge of it among rocks are huge masses of h ydrangeas. This

is Sydney when I was a ve ry little girl, but Sydney itself is not a connected p.icture to m e.

Fragments of trave ls come to m e. In a train, I threw a silver spoon out of the window into the open d esert n ea r Ooodnadatta. My mothe r thinks I could hardly r em embe1· thi s as I was barely two, but I feel myself that I can. At any rate I recall some faint stirring of conscience over this, as the spoon for some reason or other was precious to m y mother.

A pair of tin y r ed shoes, a pink bath, a soft toy lamb, a broke n string of bea ds- such things are hardly m emories b ecau se, like the broken b eads, I cannot thread them upon any string but they lie somewh ere impresesd on m y babyhood.

Boarding school at a very early age- I was five when I firs t went to Lore to, Toorak, yet this seems to m e in the r ecent past. Melbourne on \Vinter days with bare trees and long, long tram lines will n ever fade from m y mind.

Once I rem ember sitting in a hotel dining room con sidering a m enu as though I could read p erfectly, and ordering ' fri ed sole.' l thought I was going to see on the plate what I had h ea rd about the day before at a Christian Doctrine lesson. I was disap­pointed. It looked like a fi sh .

PERPETUA CLANCY (Sub-Leaving) , Nedlands.

THE CALL OF THE GHOSTLY GUMS With a whirl of hoofs and a ringing neigh,

The fill y was out of the yard-and away To the ghostly gums, that fringed the side

Of the treacherous waters no boat could ride.

The rocks stood out in the gathering gloom As the filly drank, where the wattles bloom

Her thirst soon quenched, the filly grazed 'Neath the ghostly gums, as the s unset blazed.

When the moon crept high , a beam of light Caught her resting. It was night!

The possums swung through the silvery trees That rustled gently with every breeze.

DIANE WILSON (12) , Toorak.

LORETO

POINT OF DEPARTURE The train left th e s tation Bearing the people in rows, not neat , but of different

shapes and colours; Tired people wrapped in hazy s moke and packed into

lighted boxes Disinterested and uninterestin g . I looked throug h the only open window into the clear

evening air: The sky was lemon, w ith a pencil of dark cloud shooting

upwa rd. We skimmed through a field so wn with shiny steel

planted in parallel r ows. Suddenly it was cut off by a wall, pushin g i tself up to

my window, its advertisements blurring past. Then, just as quickly, there was the misty rive r. Lights s hone into it from the banks And dark littl e beetl es with bright eyes hurried past

by its s ide. The atmosphere inside the box g re w heavier. My eyes watered and I looked outside again. There was nothing there. We we re in a blank, dark void. A train went past, Almost hurting with its s peed , its light, its noise. Thoughts passed through my mind lik <e L'1e cars pa~sing

along b eside. We halted , in our rush . at some li g ht.~ and s igns, Then left th e m be hind .

There were little houses, w ith s teep roofs , hudrlling and jumbling b elow.

Above and beyond th e m was th e sky, Blood red and black, pink and gold, yellow and blue. I didn't want to think anymore . I up-e nded my mind and e mptied it , and just sat, l ike

everyone else. Hands, pink-tipped , fine . Hands blotched, coarse. The black and whi te papers were not cha n ged by these

borders . A pipe, a cigarette, a tuft of hair in the wrong place. A coat, a shoe with no ma te, a rasping cough from some

sore throat. Are these really people, with thoughts like mine? Or just packages going from point to point, With nowhere to go when they reach the last point, The point where there is no return. Poor people! Stop and think . Wake up and think. Clear your minds and think. For what does anything, e verything m ean, What good does it do, if you cannot think? Where will you go when the present is no more? A stree t, a car, a house .... . . . Everything has s lipped past, Everything has gone to was te.

KERRY BATES, Toorak.

MALLEE TOWN You know when you an· in th e Mallec, the air is

different- warmer, swee te r and quie te r . The re is no wind to speak of, it is warm and still ; and a frag­rance of sc rub and mu]~a , all hot in the sun, comes up out of the sandy soil. You take your first breath of it as you turn along the channel. The narrow strip of waler is blue-gree n, and runnin g fa st. There is a pump working near the bank .

No u se lookin g al the hou ses yet; these arc th e suburbs, modern, ramshackle, co rnm e rcial. The olfl home, th e old homestead s arc furth e r on, in the bend of the rive r. And now the road goes north , through th e flat paddock s of Milgwa past Sandy Hill. You are n early there 11ow, in home waters; the Golf Club is just down tir e road , with its sandy little holes. On the bank, the river below is blue, the afternoon sun shin es in yo ur eyes, and ahead of you on th e cl iffs hi gh are the pumps of Billabong. The road goes down aga in , hack to the trees again .

There are only three miles of Billabong running along the rive r and te n miles hack to a little sandy creek, nearly always dry.

The B e nd is a land for children. Th ey crowd the sand bar " beaches," they play on the creeks, they sail in th e billabongs. Th ey grow up strai ght and brown a nd happy the re; th ey learn lo love th e water. The best childre n wea r th e oldest clothes. Their faces am clea n and tlwir kn ees are dirty. They can do any thing.

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rive r are th e vmes, dott ed with dark patches of the orange groves, all bound ed and woven with the shinin g water in the channels th e red soil is h eavy and dark now with wale r, th e ga rden s are flooded, making the most of the wate r af tn the long dry summer.

In the town, the main stree t divides into two, the dusty, sandy road turning into clean bitumen and a t rec-borde red ave nue. J usl before the road changes is a little house with sun burnt shin gles, always full of life, with children using .it as a large scale doll 's house.

At the othe r e nd , the road goes on followi n g the course of the river, back into th e trees. Life goes on , the river goes on, but it is quie t h e re . The re is som e­thing they miss else whe re , in thi s country town.

MARY DUCK, Toorak.

(Continued from P age 50) * [ S haken by influ enza . the ed it o r co uld n ot decide where to

p ut thi s ferocious little tal e:

This A ustraha ' School V ignet tes :' Th e H om e Circle ?

SUBU RBA N PAST IM ES T H E DOG SHOW

OU R PETS Travellers· Tales ' HOLD-UP AT HAWTHO RN BRIDGE In terestin g People ' GA BRI ELLE AND HER FRIENDS Among Our O ld Girls ' PO ISE AT A DOG FIGHT

Then a sudden tho ught came: Isn ' t that o ld Rab? Surely

no t sti ll ali ve and in Hawth orn ! - Ed . l

LORETO

SATURDAYS About two doors down from the Princess Theatrn

in Spring Street there is a funny little door jammed into the old wall, on which there is a dull brass plate acclaiming a something-ologist within. It is in this door at ten to four on a Saturday afternoon, go several people, among whom is myself.

The first room is a modernized reception for the - ologists; I pass that and then down dingy corridors with terrifying rooms on ei ther side that can only be classed under one word- slum. It is like climbing up a ladd er or rather, I should say climbing down a ladder, each one degree worse. There is no longer tattered linoleum on the floor as I reach several dilapidated outhouses and weave m y way around them and their rubbish bins. Eventually, I reach my destination, ano ther outhouse, this time, but much bigger than the others.

There is a sound of cas tanets and heels within. Obviously I am late again. I push open the old yellow door, and promptly put my foot down a crack in the boards on the other side. What I see would he a strange sight for any newcomer. Pushed down one end of the room is one of the greatest assortments of ' junk' I have ever seen. Old sofas stacked one on the other and cupboards and basins rusting. In the cleared bay of the room are several people in differ ent atti tudes. Two girls in tights, with black skirts over them, stand fa ce to face and practice com­plicated turns. One is a pretty little English girl, the other a striking Czeck. A dark Spanish boy in black h eeled hoots practises his castan ets. A tall frail girl concentrates on her 'pas de houree, jetez's'; and two other Spanish girls are lacing up their high heeled shoes.

Having prepared myself, I join the practising squad, until Carymina, our teach er , call s order and class begins ....

Thus, my Saturdays. PHILIPP A McCLELLAND,

Toorak.

CANTERELLA (After a Country Race Meeting)

Do you remember the day, Miranda? Do you remember the day? And the rushing and the fretting Of the punters and the betting, And the clerk of the course on his lovely white h orse, And the crowds that gathered from afar? And the cheers and the jeers of the would-be profiteers Under the threat of an omin ous star? Do you r emember the day, Miranda? Do you r e member the day? And the cheers and the jeers of the would-be profiteers Who haven't got a penny, And who aren't winning any, And the opening gates and the din? And the thunder as they wh irl and the swirl Of the field interlacing, Pacing, Chasing. Vtatch them as they're racing, Cracking of the whips as they spin Out and in-And the fatal win of Rising Star! Do you r emember the day , Miranda? Do you remember the day?

Never more; Miranda, Never more. My pockets are now too poor: And the litter of cards on the floor. No sound In the walls of the stalls where palls Defeat Of the fleet Burumbeet on the ground. No sound: But the boom Of the judges' decision like Doom.

LEAVING CLASS, Dawson Street. (With apologies to Hilaire Belloc)

A DOG FIGHT * There, under the arch of Hawthorn Bridge, is a

huge mastiff, sauntering down the middle of the causeway as if with his hands in his pockets: he is old, grey, brindled, as big as a fully grown merino sheep.

The other, a small thoroughbred white bull terrier , with already one victory to his name, makes straight at him and fastens on his throat. To my astonishment, the great cr eature does nothing hut stand still, hold himself erect, and roar- yes roar, a long serious, remonstrative roar. He is muzzle_d ! His master, studying strength and economy mainly, had encompasEed his huge jaws in a home-made apparatus constructed out of leather of some ancient sort. His mouth was open, his lips curled up in rage- a sort of terrible grin- his teeth gleaming ready from out of the darkness; the trap across his mouth as t en se as a how-string; his whole frame stiff with indignation and surprise; his roar

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asking us all around, "Did you ever see the like of this?"

A crowd soon gathered: the terrier held on . "A knife! " cried Bob and a small hoy gave him one. H e put its edge to the tense leather; it ran before it; and then- one sudden j erk of the enormous head, a sort of dirty mist about his mouth, no noise- and the bright and fierce little fellow is dropped, limp and dead. A solemn pause ; this was more than any­one had bargained for. I turned the little fellow over, and saw h e was quite dead; the mastiff had taken him by the small of the back like a rat, and broken it.

He looked down at his victim appeased, ashamed and amazed, sniffed him all over, stared at him, and, taking a sudden thought, turned round and trotted off.

GABRIELLE ADAMS, Toorak.

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SENIOR SCHOOL Prefects

FRONT ROW: D. Mc Phee, G. White, S. Meagher (Head), M. O 'Connor, E. Calder.

SECOND ROW : M . Dodd, A. J ones, A. Holbrook , G. Hors­fall, S. Routled ge, I. Goerke, D. Ollivier.

LEAVINGS AND SUB­LEA VINGS (Centre)

FRONT ROW : C. Dunphy, S. Routled ge, E. Calder, D . Bateman, D . Mc Phee, S . Meaghe r, G. White, J . Gads­don, D . Olli v ie r, P. Brocken.

SECOND ROW: S. Noble, G. Grieve, j . Petterson, A . Meehan, T. Fitzpatrick , S. C r a n s t o n, M. Dodd, M. O'Connor.

THIRD R OW : G. Evans, M. Barden, J . Durack, K . Valen­tine, I. Goerke, E. O'Neil, M. Hayes, B. Burgin.

FOURTH ROW: M. O'Neil, H. L oc kyer, A. J ones, E. O 'Connor, G. Horsfall, J. Hopkins, K', Lavan.

F I FTH ROW : L . Ryan, D. Hurst, A. Castenelle, D . Clarke, C. Cunningham, A. Stanley, A. Holbrook.

THE RYAN FAMILY (Bottom Left)

LORETO CONVE T, CLAREMONT, W.A .

(Bottom Right)

JUNIOR SCHOOL

FRONT ROW : J. Stokes, D. Orr, P . F lynn, P. Murphy, P. Orr, M. Bahen, D. Farrelly , J. O 'Halloran, M. Winship, T. Hawke, J. Hulsewe, A . M ahoney, P. Mahoney, J. Lawrie.

SECOND ROW: G. Baker, P. Farrell, P. Dunphy, M. Hawke.

THIRD ROW : P . Stokes, S. H op kins, S. MacNeill, P . Delfs, J. Delfs, E. Joh nston, J. Micheilides, E. Clarke. N. Bellmore, M. Kelly, R. N ettleton, J. Tilley.

(Continued Below)

FOURTH ROW : P. Baker, P. H opkins. A. H awke, J. Cullity, P. M orga n, E . K eely, S. Farrell, E. Hopkins, M. Farrelly, G. Ryan, M. Hicks. FIFTH ROW : J. Hadfield, C. Cocks, P . Adams, M. Farrell, E. Willi am s, S. Mar shall, V. Lumsde n, A. M cB ride, P. Orr, M. Gardiner, S. Farrar. SIXTH ROW:' K. Dobso n, L. Robi nson, M . Adams, S. Hogan, J . Stokes, L . Ryan, J. Harrold, S. Stewart, V . Stewart, J. Meeha n,

M. Holbrool\, l)J;:VEN').'H ROW : J . Nj~IJti ngaJI, S. Meyer, M. Wright, S. Gallagher, C. Daly, D. Hughes, N. Teag ue, J. Monk .

LORETO CONVENT, CLAREMONT, W.A.

TOP: JUNIORS & SUB-JUNIORS FR ONT ROW : G. O'Loughlin, D . O 'Donnell, P . Drake-Brockman, M . Quinla n, R. W antli ng, J . Connell, J. Carmichael, C. O 'Hallora n, M .

Slattery, L. M c Namara, P. Canny, S. Dodd. SECOND ROW: A. Ventouras, M . Z ilko, B. Besse n, J. Agnew, L. Hamilton, M. Connell, P. Shanahan, J. Barden, B. Inde rmaur. THIRD ROW : ]. Hartigan, J . Piggford, F . Ryan, C. Wish art, K. Turner, C. Noble, P. O 'Connor, T . Les lie, S. Ryan, A. F itzgera ld, A.

Shanahan. FOURTH ROW: V. Meehan, M. Payne, P. Jones, C. Dobson, ]. Bid dies, R. Watkins, N . M cMaho n, M . Dimond, J. B ull. FIFTH ROW: E. Dymond, J. Hogan, V. Leeso n, F . Ven tou ras, C. Flynr., E. Prendergast, J. Hanso n , B. Ni cholls, A. M . Lennon. SIXTH ROW: R . Lorrimar, H. Devane, J . Atki nson, M . Singleton, H. Humphr ies, J. Davi s, S. All en, L . Brennan, A. M . McAuliffe. SEVENTH R OW : G. Fitzge ra ld, M. M eeha n, H. Downes, M. R. Dun phy, A . Ahern, M . W iese, M. Ryan, S. Tomlinso n.

BOTTOM: MIDDLE SCHOOL FRONT ROW (left to right): P. Wrig ht, T. Logue, E. Clarke, R. O'Halloran, C. Wilkinson, M. Curran, T. Beckett, N . Collier, L . Hackett,

Y. Antoine, S. Wood, S. Connelly, M. O 'Halloran, C. Clarke, S. Bridgwood, K . O ' Loughlin. SECOND ROW : R. Garnett, E. Ahern, K. Lumsden, B. Hynes, B . Drake-Brockman, A. Farrell , T . Atki nson , M. Ladner, M . Ladner, M .

Boddy, A. M. Baker, A. Harrold, M . O 'Halloran. THIRD ROW: L. Nettleton, R. Gannon, K. Parnell, C. Bridgwood, A. Rossite r , A. Wheeler, E. Ryan, D. Sulliva n, L . M cM aho n, R. M a rshall,

B. Stewart. FOURTH ROW: R. Winship, M. McM aho n, N. Ryan,] . Lavan, J . Keena n, S. Glynn, J. Flynn, M . Lanagan, S. Vallantine, T. E ngelbrecht,

F. Curtis. FIFTH ROW: T. Hughes, L. Miles, V. Skeet, J . Keeling, J. de Rooy, ]. Ridley, N . Clarke, C. Pozzi, M. B rennan. SIXTH ROW: L. J. Crommelen, L. Evangelisti, J. Beckett, M. Barrett, C. Ma cdougall, N. Co nnell, J . Cuming, j . Clark e. BACK ROW : E. Collins, D. Co cks, A. Davis, M . Maunsell, B . Weise, S. W eise, A. Hindley, J. Byron , L. Logue. i\BSENT : B . Page, M . A. Demarte , J . Hagan, J . Lloyd .

Views and Opinions I <li<l not appreciate m y Sub-Senior English

course until we he gan to stn<ly thf' e ighteenth cen ­tury. A s we read Pope's " Jla pc of I h e L ock ," w e became wor~hippe rs at hi s shrine; and we n·vdlc d in the sparkling wit , mordant satire, th<' gracf'fnl , e asy elegance of the cightPenlh cPntury ptH'tic s tyle . So vivid an impre~sion did Pope make that we founcl ourselves (like Olive r Twist) asking for more- mot·<' knowl cclg1•- more d1·tail of thi s fasc inating ecnlury.

Fortunate ly one has only to go Lo the " Illus trat e d English Social His tory" h y G . M. Tn•ve lyan to fin<l the desired infonnation, and togclher our c lass wa~ able to form a co1npl1·tc pic tur1· of the Soc ial life o f the times. Unfortunate ly J can onl y set down three aspects h e t·e .

The peoplr., !wing vny politicall y miml1·d , the main part of the pape r was an account of political sessions and m eetings. Tlw re mainde r of the pape r was given ove r to fa shions, hook~, art s, tlwalr1· and social life in gt•nc ral , flavoure d lwre, and there with the spice of gos:sip ! Tlw peopk h1·camf' 1·xtre 111el y intereste cl in lit e rature of all kinds. This literary e ra was enhancc1l b y the lit e rature of ~crious, lovable Dr. Samuel Johnson , who wrot e hi s famous dictionary.

As a 201h C1·ntury Aus tralian it was natural that my inte rest in oport made uu· c urio us to sec how the eighteenth century sport lover indulged in this pleasure. 1t was during the Stuart period that the sport of crickf't originated. It was o nl y a county game, most popular in K ent and Hampshire , until the sicle with Lo rd .I. SackvillP as lwwlt·r , and hi s gardene r a~ Captain won a clo~· (' victory ove r another county ; the n the game was adopt ed as a country sport! H e re the n · was no de tes table c lass dis tinetion­here all mixe d tog:t:the r in thc fun atHI jollit y pro­vided- indee d " if the Frenc h ' nohle"s1·' had played cricke t with the ir pt:asant s, th<·ir c hat eaux woul<l he standing toda y !" sa ys Tre ve lyan.

And finall y, as a Boardn, J found much to interest me in .tlw suhject of Food. The ge ntry of England, in acconlance with the ir wa y of living, paid much attention to their tahle. They are extre m el y well , and mon· full y than do we of the twl'ntieth century. They partook of very littll' m eat , hut ·te a , however, was coming into its own as a drink , hav ing been introcluc1·d h y the East lndia Company.

A typical example of what would cons titute the main m eal of the da y for a famil y of the nohilit y is as follows :- Lo quot e Treve lyan " a couplt· of rabbit s, boiled mutton , boiled goose, currant a nd plain pud­ding, followe d b y le a" ! This eompar·ed to o ur modified English cus tom •· , is verg ing on the disgust­ing- but not so in " these go lde n years !'' Of course, red and white wines w1•n · favoure d hy the nobility­thus supplying tlw orig in of the express ion- " drunk as a lord:' 1.n con tras t to thi ~ luxury, the lowe r classes for the ir princ ipal m<'al had " half ho iled meat, coupled with a fe w boiled cabl1age le avl's . .,_

SANDRA SHAW ( 17 ) , Brisba ne.

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BELINDA AT HOME (With apologies to P ope)

Through narrow streets deserted 'er e 't was night, The dazzling Sol emits a ring of light, Which hover ing in its wild exuberant play R eveals a sight to riva l Sol by day. Befor e the portal of her proud abode Aglow with thoughts of greet ings unbestowed As yet : the rival of his war mest r ays Awakes the muse to sing her sweetest praise, And Sol works magic w ith h er spun gold hair, (F air tresses man 's im peria l race ensnare.)

Her thoughts escape and travel o'er th e day, The sha ttered heirloom-the furrier's bill to pay, 'T was this evoked the unfam iliar frown '.Vhy precious cupid should come tumbling down, A weddin g gift (one her spouse admired) Could 'st not thou choose a cup id less desired? What day goes by that m ishap unforeseen Neglects to court the r ise of latent spleen.

Apart from t his, the day'd not been denied The s light success that cour ts the flush of pride, P erfected tasks bespeak unusual skill Fulfilmen t doth the cup of p leasure fill; So thought she- but let the reader k now Tha t o'er every task the aer ial guard doth go A band of sprites for perfection , credit claims O'e r domestic life their leader Aerial reigns Who wafts the br eeze, w here smoking liquids fa ll'? 'Tis not your wife ! the sylphs contrive it a ll. 'Tis they w ho hold the olive branch to str ife, Con ceal th e wr on gs tha t wreck domestic life . And Tho' sh e may clean with conscientious care To perfect the task, the sylphs always t here. And even this! an invincible band bedecks T he plumed harvester of microscopic specs From neath whose plumes the aerial g leaner glides For dust must not r e main, wha te 'er betides.

And w hen your w ife your m emory doth stir Remem ber that the sylphs r eminded he r , Tak e care that you should err w ith l iber al praise Recall the sylphs and henceforth m end your ways.

ROSEMARY WILLETT (16 ), Brisbane.

CONCERNING TEACHERS: Li ttle Convent girl whose broth er had just gone to the Jesuit ColLegc, St. Louis,' Claremont : At St. Louis' they have men for nuns!

GHOSTS AT WORK: An autobiograph y is the writ­ing on a pe rson's tombston e.

ID ARRIVED: The University book-buyer had ord­er ed copies of a text-book in psychology, The Ego and the ID. A parcel a rrived and on being opened disclosed a full order of The Egg and I.

[ W hat a preca rio us ex istence poor ID lives ! A t ypist's

fin ger - ti p can reduce him to Id . - Ed. ]

LORETO

THE CAUSES OF DELINQUENCY The problem of J uve n i]e Delinquency Joo m s

l arge in the public n ews to-day, becau se of the alarm­ing number of teenage children who appear before our courts on charges of dishones ty. In ever y age ~here have b een problem children, but why is it that m the 20th century, with all its wonderful illveulions and its rapid progress in ever y sphe re of ]earning, we are so affJicted with juvenil e d elinquents.

. Perhaps we arc justified in saying that the Umtcd States, with its T elevision and modern enter­tainments, is suffering more from its enoi·mous num­b ers of Juvenile Delinquents than an y other nation. It is worthy of note that the first Juvenile Criminal Court was es tablish ed there in 1901, with Benjamin Lind say as the first judge. The principle of this court was that d elinquent children should h e treated not as criminals, but as wards of the state n eeding aid and en couragem ent.

.Many events and happenings are blamed for th e causes of J uve niJ.e Delinque ncy. The£e m ay h e true, hut at the root o{ all the trouble is the modern home. Bishop Fulton Sh een, one of today's most popular speakers, suggests that most of the unres t in socie ty to-day, ~aused b y juvenile crime, is owing to three types ot parents, who can be classifiefl a s the three D 's.

There is the doting parent, whom we have often met. T eachers know only too well what to exp ect from the doting parent, the first da y the child is c.nrolled at sc~.ool . There must be no training on little Johnny, 1{ Mummy is the doting parent. The child who is brought up in such a home, learns to get anything h e wants from his parents. So the early training in self di scipline is Jackin g; and when it comes to a really serious c rime in th e teens, the chil<l is deterred by n o moral conside ration.

The second type, the parents given to excessive drinking, se t a bad example for their impressionable children , who, when they reach the age of seventeen or eighteen , are beginning to feel bored with life. Then they take up the example of the ir parents in drinking and regar<l it as a n ecessity to get some jov out of life. ·

The third typ e of parents, the divorced or di s­cordant parents, are frequently r esponsible for their children's losing all respec t for authority. How can they exp ect their ch i]dre n to r egard the laws of the land with any r espect, when they only see in their homes bickering and fighting , or worse, one parent leaving the other. This lack of concord produces in children a feeling of being unwanted .

Th~n th.ere are the parents, who through n o fault of their own, are forced to live with their famili es in bad social conditions. Just take the slum s of any big city of Australia for example, where parents and children of both sexes are fr equently h erded together in one room, without the normal amenities for civilised living. The natural r eaction of parents to such conditions is to send their children out on to the stree ts in their free time, to make their own friends without any supervi sion. These children often join the local ga ngs, who terrori se the suburbs,

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commitling p e tty crimes just for the excitement of it.

. But of all the causes of Juvenile Delinquency, I Lhmk the most important is the widespread drift from God and religion in a great majority of homes to-day. ·

SUZANNE CHAPPLE (16 ) Brisbane.

ANTIQUE SHOPS Ove r the ages, man ha s for ever been imbued

with the urge to acquire r elics and art pieces of ~ygone eras. Unfortunately, the modern collector is able to realise few of his dreams. But although he may n ever hope to enrich his home with the rare works of art, assembled by such a man as Rothschild hi~ desire may ~e s?mewhat appeased, by the plea sur~ gamed from v1 e w111g these treasures in the public museum. Many of the museums have assimilated ov~ r the pa?t hundred years, the huge colJection~ bmlt up during the R enaissance and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

A casual observer, while s trolling through the crowded byways and arcades of the city, will invari­abl y come across d ecrepit looking antique shops. F e w people are able to resist the lure of the faded sign, " W e sell genuine antiques."

On a dark Victorian table, amidst one hundred odds and ends, such as thimbles, pincushions and snuffboxes, _you are just as likely to find a partic11-larly beautiful sea-sh ell. Shells especially lend them selves to decorative purposes. In the eighteenth century, they were a ?ource of inspiration for designs for 1~1rrors and ~hair backs. They also provided ~natenal for the nmeteenth-century cameo carver. It 1s from nature, which supplies u s with such beauties as the butte rfly, that we get some of our most delightful treasures. . ?th~r art works which would appeal to the 1mag111at1ve collec tor are, pottery, porcelain and deli­cate glassware on which exqui sitely precise scenes are oft~n depicte.d . . There . are often magnificent por­traits and pamtmgs which great artists have left to perpetuate th~ m.em~ry of their names. Antiques are not only a fa scmatmg study, but they also provide uo. with a link with the p eople of the past.

CARMEL RYAN (17), Brisbane.

THE CHASE My pony when she joined the school

Was nervous and aloof She ranged the paddock far and wide

Arched neck and flying hoof. The chase was then a splendid thinjl

And sh e a joy to see. But now my p ony's joined the mob

And, as tricky as can be, She doesn't dash-she dodges now­

And just outpaces me. The chase is now a tricky thing Exasperatingly.

GAIL BRENNAN Toorak.

LORETO

TWO CHILDREN'S BOOKS REVIEWED

(From a Review given by Eve over the air for A.B.C.)

" Fairy Tales," by Charles P e rrault, translated b y Geoffrey Brere ton and publish ed by Penguin is ~ P enguin Classic indeed. It is a collection of the real old-fashioned fairy tal es, written 250 years ago. The translate r has writte n an introduction which includes a history of the fair y tale and a short biography of P errault. All th e old favourites are there : " Cin­derella ," " The Sleeping B eauty," " Hop-0 '-my­Thumb" as well as others Jess well-known like "Patient G1·i~elda." M y ten-year-old broth er read and enjoyed th em , although h e drew the line at " Little Red Riding Hood" and " Cinder e lla." But several o f the stori es such as " Blu e B ea rd" and " Hop-0 '-my­Thumb" are quite grim and bloodthirs ty, and even "The Sleeping B ea uty" has a rathe 1· unpleasant sequel, not usuall y given . Fo1· thi s reason , the book is not rnitabJe for yo unge r children. Each stor y is illustrated with a quaint woodcut and what parti­cularly appealed to ru e were the two 1·hymin g morals at the e nd of every tal e. This amusing verse follows "Puss-in-Boots":

" Inhe rited wealth is all very fin e As it passes on down the famil y line, But young m en who reall y want to ge t on Could lea rn from the ca t of the mill e rs' son That smartn ess pa ys Better nowada ys."

Another moral that is worth mu sing rs attached to " CinderelJa":

Beauty in a girl i ~ a priceless treasure; Simply to admire it gives endless pleasure. But one quality is even more precious : It's th e gift that is known as being gracious.

Girls, this gift is be tte r than the latest hairst yle; To capture a h eart, be yond ques tion win it, Graciousness is th e gift with true ma g ic in it ...

The re is ce rtainly food for thought in that , written as it was in 1690! And th e " R ed Riding Hood" moral is a caution against wolves ... in th e most mode rn sen se !

"Men \Vho Served Africa " by Josephine Kamm , is the bes t children 's book I have read fo1· a long time. Miss Kamm has collected h ere the stori es of eightee n m e n who have contributed in some out­standing wa y to the de velopment of tropical Africa. Togethe r they make an absorhing hi story. Th e authoress includes explorer s, miss ionaries, admini­strators, naturali sts and doctors, beginnin g with James Bruce in 1763 and ending with the great A lbert Schweitze1· of the present day. Some are Briti sh , ~ome French and German, and one- James Agge1·y-1s a full-blood ed negro, who did great work for hi s people in the educational fi eld. Som e, like William Wilberforce who dedicated hi s life to the abolition of slavery, neve 1· se t foot in Africa, but all we re m en who se rved the country in the true sense of th e

(Continued on P age 56)

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ROBERT FROST AND HIS POETRY Robert Frost, who was an Ame ri can , was greatly

inte res ted in both farming and poe try, and during his life-time h e combined the two in a fa scin atin g mann er. Many of hi s poem s deal with farming, and one ca n visualise him , as h e mowed the l awn or m ended a wan, s topping for a few minutes to think up a line, or ponde r on some thing h e h ad noticed.

No farmer is a romantic- not about nature at an y rate. This fact gave Frost a practi cal quality not alwa ys found in a poe t. H e had his fli gh ts of fancy, but he neve r reach ed the realms of the fan­ta stic. His style was s impl e and strai ght-forward. Th e poe t Edward Thomas, speaking of Frost's poetry, said : " .... Many, if not most, of the separate lines and separate sente nces are plain and in themselves nothing. But the y are bound toget he r and m ade elem ents of beauty by a calm eagerne . s of e m otion."

This apparent s implic ity be li es the wisdom to be found in his verses. Robe rt Frost himse lf said a poe m " begin s in delight and e nd s in wi sdom."' ln his poe m s he has given wisdom varied forms. There <:: re little passages of s trai ght-out wisd om , e.g. :

"A small bird fl e w befo re m e . .. H e thought that l was after him fo1: a fea the r­The white one in his tail; like one who takes Everything said as pe rsonal to him se lf. "

The n again , there are poem s like " The Road not Taken " whe re the m eanin g and wi sdom a re slightl y hidde n unde 1· a cloak of s implicity.

But the cloak cannot hide the beauty in Frost's poe try. H e had a remarkable gift for finding the right words to desc rihe something. For example, in a poe m in which he was address in g th e wind , he wrote:

" Burst into m y narrow stall ; Swin g th e pi cture on the wall; Run the rattling pages o'e r ; Sea lle r poe m s on the floor; Turn the poe t out of door."

Bu t more actual beauty of words is to be fo und i11. a desc ription of a "youn g birch" :

" lt will stand forth , entire ly white in bark, A nd nothin g but the top a leaf y grcen­The onl y na tive tree that dares to lean , R el ying on it's beauty, to th e air."

I think the charm of Fros t's poe try la y in hi s love of writing and of nature, an d thP o bvious e njo ym e nt h e found in both. On reading his poetry, one fee ls that h e dedica ted him self and h is work to hi s Creator. Thi s is well-expressed in hi s poem, " Two Tramps in Mud-Time":

"My object in livin g is to unite My avocation and m y vocati on A s my two eyes make one in s ight. Only whe re love and need are one, A nd th e work is pla y for mortal s takes, l s the deed eve r reall y done For H eaven and the future's sakes."

MARGARET RINTOUL, Nedlands.

LORETO

HOMEWORK "HOMEWORK" ! " Why? " is the question I

u sually ask as I limp wearily homeward, one arm stretched to twice the Je.!1gth of the other owing to the weight of m y school case. Sea ted on the table I drop the books one by one into three piles on the floor. Pile A: What I must do tonight whether I like it or not. Pile B: What I ou ght to do to­night but ca n " forget" if there is no time. Pile C: Those books which I put in by mistake and need not use a t all.

While doing this I generally watch pile numbe r one grow to a larmin g propor tions while pile C remains very insignificant. The n, the sorting accom­p lished I settle down to the h ours of study, correc­tions, guesswork, and brilliant reasoning (which with ers when eyed by the Maths. teach e r ) from which ever y load of homework seem s to be composed.

T he forego in g is a descr iption of m y present method of do in g hom ewot·k . There are two othe r methods which man y o the r s tudents use (eith er from choice or n ecessity) .

At one ex treme the re is the studious me thod wh ich, if alw~ys used can produce ve ry good academic results, but is bes t taken in small doses as it is apt to pl ace dark circles be neath the eyes and r educe the weigh t of the pupil noticeabl y. This un­fo rtunate being does all home_work on the ni ght it is given- even the lea rning, comes lo echool with case fu ll of nea tl y wr itte n exercises and scores full marks !

The o thet· ex t r:e me is the h appy-go-luck y type who rushes home from school and sp ends her tim e doing nothin g-in-particular all the early p art of the evening. About 8 p.m. the thought suddenly strikes her " Homework!" On dashing to he r room the ~tartling discovery is made that at least half h e r books have been left at school. After h aving telephoned everyo ne wh o could possibly have the homework written down a nd trying to understand rapidly di c­tated French !,Ind Latin through buzzin g wires, the conclusion is r eached that the only thing to do i s to try to arrive at school early enough Lo borrow the books in the morning and do it while precariousl y seated on top of the cloakroom shoe holes.

Scholars of th is c lass always arrive at school with a strained expression on the ir faces, make a dive for the quietest co rne r of the shoe-room and stay the re. They can always be recognised when the homework exercises a re being collec ted , by the hurried last­minute touches b eing given .

T here are three ways of doing homework. In spite of the va ri ed wa ys adopted b y schoolgirls to escape it no one has yet succeeded comple tely so I am afraid it wi 11 r emain with us . .. a n ecessa ry evil.

PAMELA ROBINS (Junior Class), Nedlands .

word. They endured suffe rings and h a rdships, ill­trea tment at th e hands of the natives, fevers, thirst and hun ger and yet, they p e rsevered.

EVE CALDER (Sub-Leaving), Claremont,

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AN OLYMPIC SWIMMING POOL IN KING'S PARK

(An imaginary A.B.C. Session giving the opinions of Wordsworth, Mussolini and Marie Antoinette).

Mr. William \Vordsworth, what is your v iew on the proposed Olympic swimming P ool in King's Park?

"Wordsworth": Firmly I say, NO POOL for King's Park. Think of the homeless magpie and lark .. . I know ther e are no larks in Au stra lia but it rhymed with " Park" so nicel y .. . No th ere must be no Olympic Sw imming Pool .. . Why pick King's P a rk for the dreadful thing? There are other less beautiful sites round P e rth whe re a Pool could be built, but you have to pick a central spot- and one of great beauty which you are about to Desecr a te. Just dwell a moment on the willy-wag-tails and Kangaroos and platypus coming to find thc: r home!' . only to see sh outing hum ans wallowing in water.

Think of the gay kan garoo paw sleeping quie tl y in th e ea rth, waiting to send forth its shoots when the sun call s; think of that flowe t·'s surprise and horror to find itself bangin g into the concrete pool-base.

The dainty gum and e ucal ypt, waving so bravel y in the breeze- what have they done to deserve be ing cut down crueJJ y Lo make room for a pool? What inspiration for a poe t in the na tive bush! But where does h e find inspiration in a lot of half-clad creatmcs makin g a bi g noi se in water.

A be tter idea , if you h ave all the money to build this pool , would be to put down little paths wande r­ing hither and thither through the park, wher e one could walk freely without ge ttin g lost, and m editate on na ture's beauty- " Lonel y as a cloud" as it were.

T his grea t anxie ty to have an Olympic Pool sh ows the te rribl e mod ern trend towards too much ph ysical exe rcise. A ustralia is producing grea t lumps of men without a s ingle thought in th eir h ea ds above ' foot y' or ' ru gger'. It's just too awful. I myself was quite a health y specimen although I took n o other exercise than walking at a slow pace throu gh damp woods. Pay more attention to the development of the mind- to the observance of beauty, and leave your muscles alone for a f ew centuries. K eep your eyes on the c louds, and your fee t on the p a th of wisdom. If you must wallow in wa ter , be content in your bath at home."

"Mr. Mussolini, what is your opinion of the matter in question ? "

" Yes, have a swimming Pool or whatever you want to build . If it will satisfy the p eople for two minutes do it- but make it a really good p ool. Make it the best pool in Australia- no, the b est in the wo rld. I h ear the Russians are building a pool five miles square, the refore yours will have to be ten miles square. No, don' t worry about the city; that can go. It will only take about five hundred big bull­dozers. If the p eople ask for a pool-give it to them properl y, so that they will r egret it when they have it.

LORETO

Of course it will be a little difficult to level the ground; Mount Eliza will take quite a bit of gelignit e t~ re n~ovf' it , and some p eopl e will probably be killed 111 the operation. But <lon ' t let that worry you - afte r all , what 's a few hundre d peop le to the world? Liquidate an y inte rfere rs- don ' ! both e r Lo frat e rnize with !hos<' who objec t? If you ha vf' mone y and the gc lignil e you are th e le a rlcr:'

'Thank you J\'lr. M ussol in i ; now coul<l we have your ideas on !he Ol ympi c Pool in Kin g's Park, Mari e Antoine lt c ?'

" Well fan cy asking me- really can' t b e bothe red with suc h trifl es. Whe re in the world is P cr lh- and what 's the name of that othe r place ? - Australia , dirl you sa y ? I've neve r heard of it. W ell, I snppo~e J could qrnre a mom e nt. l don ' t know much about pools- we nohilil y neve r did go in for washing ; it 's really ve r y bad for you. What is it for anywa y? L mean m en or wonwn ? Me n a.nd wome n! We ll. how le rrihl y naught y, suc h a 1hing was unheard of in m y lim e.

o w !he ladies' pool. That must be very feminine of course. l suppose the pool itself mu~t h(' marhlP- pink marhl e . A pink sa tin frill around th e oul s idc would look deli c ious. The re must h e mirrors all around , wil h gold 1eroll s and things .in 1he se llin g.

fn 1lw cc11lre of 1hc pool put a fe w little gold chc rnhs blowing the waLPr inlo th e air. The wate r must he h.-a1 cd lo jus t the ri ght tempe rature anrl th e ~e rvant s sho uld sprinkl e scented salts ove1· the pool constant I y. Inf latf' d en sh ions would be vc rv com­fort ah le, !he n you wouldn"t ha ve to acluall v ge t into th e wate r. · . Th e c.arpct all around th e pool must be deep and !urry- 1 like th e sort !hat vou s ink to your ankl es in. The ques t ion is, how do .yon ge t. yo~1rself int o th e pool wilhoul getting we t ?

.. Oh I kr~ow, have a little c hair han g ing from the ceil111g. BuilJ a s taircase, and von could climb up , get into th e chair anrl he lowPre ;I care full y on to th e cushions. That would he fun .

. Yes thi s Ol ympi c Poo l docs sound quite amusi11 g. I wish 1 had thought of ii wlwn I was alive . Of course you don ' t want to he too lavi sh. 'K eep your head on your should e rs' is m y ad vice; but a t the same tim e e njoy yourself. '"

PATSY MILLER (Leaving Class) Nedla nds.

JANE AND HER THOUGHTS Mummy, may I sell the milk ,

For jus t a little piece of s ilk. So down town little Janie went,

Gloating on wealth soon to be spent . She thought of dolls, r ich things to ea t,

A brand new dress, so fres h and neat . But alas! our se lfish J ane did fa ll

And the re was no milk left a t' a ll. ELIZABETH RUDWICK (12),

MORAL : Don 't Cou nt You r Chickens Before They're Hatched.

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'VHAT THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR MEAN

I would like to te ll you about t welve old friends of mine who vi sit m e cvci·y year withou t fail. They always arrive in the same ord e r and each stays for about thirt y da ys.

The first to come is January; while h e is here I am on holiday and h e brings lots of fun for me. He is fond of warm , wnn y da ys at the beach and picnics.

With F e bruary I go back to school. He too is warm and hi s da ys are Long hut h e onl y stays for twenty-e ight da ys. The next lo com e is March­inclined to be a littl e wild. H e brings sh owers a nd wind ; he chakcs down the rose pe tal s in the ga r den. It: is not altogether March 's fault because he is accompani ed by Autumn, who is r a the r boisterous.

R e luctantly, we put away our bathe rs anrl t enn is ra cque ts. "Oh d ear," I sa y with a s iµ:h , "Summer is over." Now, h ere is A pril. A fte r L Pnte n p r ayers and ac t$ comes Easte r. A pril is a h a p py m ont h although swimmin g weath e r has passed. April loarl s the old tree in the gard en with pea rs an d the h1 $t of the flowe rs come out in bloom. May belon µ:s to Our Lad y and so, of course, it must be bea uti fu l. The mornings are cold , som etimes fros ty, but are follow ed by mild cool da ys with pale hlue ski es.

But who are these three, cold mournful p ersons yo u ask ? The y a re June, Jul y and August. No one likes th e m ve r y much bul they do important work by giving wate r to the gard e ns and farm s. I sh ut th e m outs id e most of the time a11d they how l dole­full y arou11d the chimney. These th~·ee seem to ~, p end a lon g time with me hut finall y they go and i we lcome Septembe r. Flo we rs bloom , ba by an imah a re horn and the sun shines warmly again . Septcm­he r brings m y birthda y, too. Then com e Oc tober and Nove m he r. Th e da ys grow lo nge r and the sunsh inc is Ii righte r. J could go to the beach a ga in but I mu s! s tudy for the final examinations.

H e re is m y h est fr iend al last ! D ecember b rin g'' holidays and Christmas. Ever yo ne Loves m erry, rnnn y Decembe r with its beautiful fea stda y of joy, wh e11 Chri st came into the worlrl.

WENDY WILSON (13) , Portland.

THE HORRIBLE FATE OF A GREEDY CAT

Once a little cat wed a wee, little mouse, And they lived together in a fine little house;

He would go to the church to steal what he could And cake and cheese were his fa vorite food.

He said , 'I will eat them all alone And my wife may go a nd fi nd h er own !

So he a te and he a te t iil he got so fat That he could not move from where he sat!

And as he expired in pain he sighed " If I hadn't been greedy I wo uldn't have died !!"

FELICITY PARER (1 2) , MORAL: Share and share alike.

LORETO

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HORSES ON THE CAMARGUE *

Drawn by Mary Nath an , P as t Pupil Normanhu rst

In the grey wastes of drea.d , Th<' haunt of shattered gulls w hPre nothing moves But in a shroud of silence likP the dead, l heard a sudden harmony of hooves, A nd, turning, saw a/cir A hundred snowy horses unconfined, The silver runaways of Neptune' s car Racing, spray -curled , like waves be for e the wind.

Sons of th<' Mistral, fl eet As him w ith w hose strong gusts they love to fl ee, Who shod the flying thundPrs on their feet A nd plumed the m with the snort.ings of the sea; T heirs is no earthly breed Who only Tumnt the verges of the earth A nd only on th<' sea's salt herbage feed -Surely the great w hite breakers gave them birth.

For when for years ci slave, A horse o f the Canwrgue, in alien lands, Should catch some far-off fragrance of the wcwe Carried far inland from his 1uitive sands, Man y have told the tale Of how in fury, foaming at the rein, H e hurls his rider ; and with Zif ted tail, W ith coal-red eyes and cataracting mane,

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H eading his course for home, Though sixty for eign leagues be fore him sweep, Will never rest until he breathes the foam A nd hPars the native thunder of the deep.

But w hen the great gusts rise A nd fosh their ang<'r on these arid coasts, W hen th<' scared gulls career with mournful cries A nd w hirl a.cross the waste like driven ghosts: When hciil and fir e converge, The only souls to w hich they strike no pain A re the w hite-crested filli es of the surge And the w hite horses o f the windy plain.

T hen in their strength cind pride The stallions of the wilderness rejoice; T hey feel their Master's trident in their side, A nd high and shrill they answer to his voice. With w hite tciils smoking free, Long streaming manes, and arching necks, they show Their kinship to their sisters of the sea -A nd forward hurl their thunderbolts of snow.

Still out of hardship bred , S pirits of power and beauty and delight Have ever on such frugal pastures fed A nd loved to course with tempests through the night.

ROY CAMPBELL. * Marsh near the m outh of the Rhone, France.

LORETO CONVENT, N EDLANDS, W.A.

(Ab()ve)

LEAVING & SUR-LEAV ING

BACK ROW : R. Ca rroll . J. Clune (Head of t h e School), B . Cran­field.

ECOND ROW: P. Mill er, K. Dwye r, B. Coffey, M. Rintoul, J . H ealy. RONT ROW : J . Quirke, R. Mi ller, A. Edgar, P. Clancy, M. Joyce, K. R.ley.

CENTRF: PREFECTS BACK ROW: K . Dwyer, ]. Clune ( H ea d of the S chool) , B. Coffey. FRO NT ROW : P . Mill er , R. Carroll, B. Cranfield, M. Ri n toul.

TOP RIGHT: SUB-JUNIOR CLASS

WINNERS O F THE MURSELL S HIELD D. Whiteley, A. Edgar, ] . Clune, B. Coffey.

(Coach: Mr. S. Edwards ) .

BOTTOM LEFT: BACK ROW: M. Dona ldson, K. Wilmink, L. Du rac k, A . M c Mullen, S. Rowe . SE COND ROW: S. W a llwork , P. M arkey, D. O'Donohue, A . Sheridan, D. Ral s ton. FRONT ROW: M . Furlon g, P . L:thgo, A. W orner, A. C. Healy, T. Elliott. J. Quinn, H. Smith. ABSENT: C. Fountai n.

THE CHAPEL

LORETO CONVENT, NEDLANDS, W.A.

JUNIOR PUBLIC CLASS (Top Left) . GRADES IV and V (Bottom Left) FORM III (Top Right). FORMS I and II (Bottom Right> (SEE NA1"1"E S PAGE 88 )

GRADES II. & IU.

BACK RO W : R. N icho las, M. Adam s, M. T . J e nse n, J . Beaton, J . Ryan.

SECOND ROW: R. Moore, J . Seward, D. Barke r, M. Brown , C. Ah ern, J. J ohnso n, J . Cha1>pl e, B. E lli ot t .

FRONT ROW : ] . Quinlan, H . W al sh, M. J . H a m ilton-Brown, J . Mo ntefiore, E. Triverios , C. M c­Carth y, L . Fuller, Y . K urz, M . R. Miller.

INSET : P . Bea ton, D. Cole.

LORETO CO VENT, NEDLANDS, W.A.

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GRADE I.

BACK ROW : M. L. Treve n cn, C. M cComish, G . H art ley, C. Ande rson, M . L . McCarte1.

SECOND ROW : M. Snowball , R. Anderson , V . Hanso n, D. Brown, P. W orner, H . Cherry, J. Ellis, M. L. Baker, G. Beaton.

FRONT R OW : M. Hitchman, B . Colbert, G Pinakis, P. Fuller.

ABSENT : P. J oh nso n.

CONFIRMATION GROUP

BACK ROW: J . M cDonald, S. Somers, E . Palandri, S. Edwards, P. Wright, M . Ad am s, C. Brophy, E. Donnan, H . Ralston, M . Wil m ink.

THIRD R OW : C. Keog h, J. Castanelle, K . Elliott, D. Smith , P. Adam, S. Franetovich, P. D aly-S mith, J. Bonser, P. F e rg uson, D . Ralston , D. Colvin, J. Baker, S. Boyd.

SEC ON D ROW : L. O 'Hara, B. Ireland, W . B aker, A . Ni chola s, A. D o nnan, L. Brophy, P. Wal sh, J . Loga n, M. Burnett, C. Wri gh~, D. Ri ley, j. Slade, J. M. Seward , D. Sheri­dan, K . Kee.

FRO NT R OW : C. Fuller, J. Byrne, P. Healy, R . E lliott, K. Durkin, M. Lithgo, C. Bonser, G. Adams, M . O'Keefe, G. Stewart, J. Brown, R. Hitchman, M. Grieve, M. Colbert.

Interesting People CINEMA REPORT FROM MADRID

Overseas secular papers tell us that U.S. film producer s are making at least ten major pictures in Spain this year, representing an investment of 25 million dollars. The r eport adds that Madrid has supplanted Rome as the cinema capital of Europe. This cinema boom in Spain is public knowledge in the secular world. Less publicised is the remarkable fact that for over two years several of Hollywood's top script-writers have been preparing texts for Father P eyton's fifteen new film s - half-hour film s in gloriou colour - on the Mysterie3 of the Rosary.

The actual filming is taking place in Madrid, so ideally situated for Biblical land scape scenes and with sunny skies for colour photography. The finest talent in Spain has zealously joined forces with their American associates. The studio in Madrid has an atmosphere, that sets it apart from an ordinary Hollywood studio. Each day begin with Holy Mass so that all - technicians, actors and directors - will have the spiritual help they need.

One hundred and eighty acto1·s and actresses, represen ting some of the fines t talent in Spain, are taking part. The role of Our Lady in the Joyful Mysteries will be portrayed by Dolores Cantavella , a humble Spanish girl from th e mountains of south­eas tern Spain. She was chosen from among five hun­dred Spanish girls ; and it was a tremendous risk Joseph Breen took, in view ·of h er complete lack of experience ; but it was one that has paid dividends.

Dolores photographed beautiful1y and was the essence of sweetness and gentleness, taking direction and trying to compreh end this new world in which she suddenly found h erself. Through the weeks, Dolores has g1·eatly changed without losing any of h er lovely simplicity. From the speechless little girl ~he has blossomed into a creature full of vivacity and fun . She is beginning to r ealise she is becoming famous ; her pictures have appeared in n ewspapers and maga­zines all over the world .

Dolores lives in a little house, typical of that area of Spain, with her mother, father and two sisters. At first the family were not at all pleased to see Dolores suddenly launching into the film world; at one point they even came to Madrid to bring h er home. But wh en they saw that sh e wa being guided and pro­tected, and saw the work of the filming they r e turned home, satisfied that Dolores would com e to no harm. She is sta ying with the Loreto nuns at the Colegio of th e I.B.V.M., and she begins every day with Mass and Holy Com munion in the convent chapel. We need ha1·dly add that sh e says her rosary. P eople who have seen h er acting on the screen in the Joyful Mysteries say that she is a director's casting dream come true.

In the Sorrowful and the Glorious Mysteries Our Lad will be played by the Spanish actress, Maruchi Fresno. The important part of St. Peter will be played by Antonio Vilar, celebrated Spanish

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actor. Like the hundred of Hollywood stars who have been co-operative in the world-wid e effort to r estore famil y prayer in every home, Senor Vilar and other prominent actors and actt·esses of Spain and Portugal have backed Father P ey ton's pro­gramme with their professional talents. Virgilio T eixeria , celebrated Portuguese actor, will he seen as John, the beloved di sciple.

The face of Christ will never be seen in these films ; the part is being played by two different men. The spirit of all the actors and actresses is exempli­fied in the following incid ent which occurred on thP film se t: w ·hen the scourging was taking place it was impossible to fake 01· camouflage the blows, and the actor who was takin g the part of Christ accepted the tenible beating without once wincing. At the end of the da y when the direc tor sympathised with him over th e man y painful welts on hi s back , his ~imple reply was : " J e us had more" . . . When the soldier was to hit Christ on the fa ce during the crow11ing with thorns, the director showed how to take a blow so as not to feel its full impact; but the acto1· simply said , "Wh y not just le t. them hit m e ?" Those who know him intimately say that this man has a missionary outlook on the part he is playing. He hopes that out of his own suffering during the scene of Christ's Passion, the world will come to love Christ more.

(Compiled in Syd ney, p artly from an article in the American Loretto Rainbow signed by "IBVM, Spain.")

LORETO

MY MISSION ARY BROTHER

1 I h o u1.d1 L a ;; I n ·adwd t h f' !'ml of m y ;; ix teen-m ii !' trip uphill from Ran<'hi , th <' rc must be happi e r ways of vi s it in/! a h o$pital than h v l!e ttin g sick. The bright new bri cks of tht' i\landar Ho;; pital ros!' lw fore me in striking contras t to it s rlra li surro undin gs. I was mounting tlw ste ps, w lwn a ri ch Ar nc ri can accent 111arl e m e ;; tart: ''S un· is hut around he r.-! ' " Lt was follow ed h~- the unexpec l!'d a ppar111 o n of S ister Fra nc is, who a l that mom l" nt ro und ed tlw co rn e r 10 we lco nw m e lo the Hol v Fa mil v l-lospital.

The two-s to rey buildin g in wh ich I was lo sta y is so lid and ccon o mi .. a l. w ith pl 1" 11l y of w ind ows and vera nd a hs fur coo lness.

A ll around , yo u notice the 11u111l1c rs of A dihas i lllll'Sf' S, makin g li ~ d s, allt'nding lo the pati e nt ~, ass is t­ing the S iste r ,- in 1·ve r y wa y. Thi s i;; o ne of th e greal e£ t 11·iu1nph ,- of thl" Anwrica11 i\ l cdi .. al iVI i s~ i o n­

a ry S iste rs. Th cs1· gi rl s 1·o nw from tlw villages, arc trained b v th e S iqe rs, and work 111 0:;1 dfic i e ntl~' with th em. They art ' sh o rt , plu111p, n t"a l in th e ir frc;; h uniforms, bu sy, and pe rp!' l11all v dwf' rfnl.

On tlw aft e rn oo n o f th e first da y. S isler F ranc is visit s yo u to inquire a bo ut yo ur 1 ·~ 111for1 , and yo u ge t the fir·s t ~an1pl1 · o f dw e xe1· il e 11t Ho,- pit a l Library. ' l ' h e~ 1 · vi,; il i' of S is lt' r· F rancis happPn tw ice <'ve ry day, and confirm yo ur impression tha t yo u n111 s l be th1· 011lv palit •nl. But af11 ·r a few da y;; , yo u notice that thi ,; i,- happe nin g al so tu o tlwr patie nt ;; .

And :iO , day lry da v, yo u 1· o nli11uc lo J,c lrt'a te tl royall y, 1111til 0111· 11ror11i11 g S is lt'r it'll,- yo u lo hurr~· up and fini sh th e hook yo u are n ·a din g, s in 1·c ~· u u arc lo leave on th e 111 0 1-ro w.

H . HEN DRIKS, S.J.

Mr. HENDRIKS, ful ly recovered, has happy memor ies of his stay in Mand a r Hospital.

(Copied from HAZAiU BAGH, Nev.is le tter of th e Australian J esuits in Northe rn I ndia.)

M r. H a n,; H1 · ndrik ~ . . h-~ uil 111i :',- io nary ~c h ola s ti c

in lndia , lre lu ng,- lu a Dut c h famil y, H'llled in Sydn e ~· , where Haus was edu cat ed . 1-1 is fatlwr is w1· ll kn ow n the re and hi " ,- i:' lcrs lrn vc lie1·n 1·du(·alt'd al Lore to. Hans himself began hi s sch oo lin g al the Juni o r School , Lo n ·lu Kirril1illi , wl11 ·rt · hi ,- yo un g1·~ 1 s is ter. Therese, i ~ now a I :'.druu l. H i8 fa I h('r ('a 11w to A u ~: ­

tralia to re present hi s firu1 in 1937, and 1h11 ~ hi ,­famil y can he 1·;rlled A u,; tralian:', tho ugh he luld ll ~ recentl y that IH' a 11d H ans U:' t1 a lly 1·t11Tt ':' pon d in

APAWl'HEID lN SOUTH AFRICA

lt is no t 011 ly a n un-C h ri s tia11 pol icy: i I louks very much lik e a d eadl y v c ril to the W hile nice in South Afri ca . lt s appli cation to th (' scl111ol ,- i ~ h av in g a deplorable 1·ffcc l. A lread y it is es timat ed that over a milli on nati ve childre n ha ve nu sd1oo l lo

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Dut ch. This missiona ry son seems to h ave b Pen d estined for the Soci e ty ~ f J esus, as hi s moth er (who 1Ee d a few years ag~ in Spiney) hoped that he would be bo rn on the 31st Jul y, the fra st of St. lgnatius. His hirthclay is the 28th Jul y. His saintl y a nd loving moth e r mu st now re j o ice ove r hi s dedi ('a l­e d a nd gene ro us life .

HanR m a tri c ul at ed at S t. ll!natius' Colkgc, River­vit'W (Sy <lncy) and joirwd the SociPty of .l esn R in th e followin g yea r (1950 ) . Two years lat C'r h e was knee lin g to r ece ive hi s miss ion c ro ;;s, h avin!! volun-1.ec red for the Lnrlian Miss io n. A 111 0 11 g our p ic ture:' o n page 64 is o ne 8how in g Hans and hi s compan­io ns rece iv in g th e c ross in the churc h of the Immac­ulat e Concepio n , H aw tho rn (iVlel hou rne )- a .J ('suit l'ari sh church . The year that int e rve ned t.cfo r C' hi s d (' pa rture fo r Indi a was spe nt in stud y ing Enl!li .;h at the MC' l11011rnc Unive rs it y.

The n came the d ay in D ecf'mbe r 1952 when the yo ung miss ionaries board ed th e :Vloo lt a n al Port Melbourne. The whol e famil y was t lwre to say goodb ye lo Hans, and our pi c ture sh owR hi m in an unfr C' que nt ed but wind y co rner as he stand s wi th hiR fath er for a las t snap h y o ne of hi s brotht'r:' .. . On hi s ar ri va l in India thi s nine tf'e n-y!'a r o ld mi ss ioner set to work a t once at Ma nresa H 'ouse, B.ant'hi , 10 stud y th e Hindi la n guage. H e 1·e he stayed for a yea r 1.re fore goin g lo the 'De No bili House of Stud ies at Poona . A pho togra ph of Hans with th ree Spanish ~c ho la s l ics (an .Indian read s in the back groun<l ) ~ hows the inte rn a ti o nal c h arac te r of De No biJi . w her e the sc h olas ti cs s tud y P hilosop h y.

La ~ t year when M r. H e ndrik s, Senr. , vi,.;it cd hi s so n in Poona , h e ga ve him a present of f l() lo u se as h e like d. The J esuit sch o last ic spe nt it in taking a g ro up of Indian boys for a wcck "s holid ay. On e of o ur pic tures shows the boys e njoyi n g tlw mst'lves.

Hans wi ll be leaving P oon a jus t as th at c it y 1s e nte ring a ne w educational era , a s it i" to lw the ce ntre of g re at aposto lic ac ti v it y. A ll the 111i :'sion ar~' ( l rd Prs for m e n in India are establi shing the ir col­le ges in Poona a ro und the new Ap osto li c Sem inary. But Han s will he continuing his s tudi es in Hindi at o ne of the ln<li a n U nive rsiti es until h e is ordaine <l a priest. We wish him a h ap p y apostolat e.

*The other sisters and brothers are: Maria , Sis ter M. Sarto I.B.V.M., J ohn and Harry .

l .V.B.M., Sydney .

att e nd. Tlw Catholi c M ission schoo ls arc tho,:e that arc f<'d i11 g it 1110:'1. Indeed , the Church in South A fri ca need s all yo ur pra ye rs a11d sacr ifices.

Lo re to Con vent , Pre tori a . (fo rme rl y

M. d e S. (lBVM ) in the community of Nlary"s Mount, Ballarat. A ust ralia )

AUSTRALIAN MISSIO ER IN I DIA

Top Left: The Rev. H

Hendricks, S.J.

Top Right: Missionary

Pupils.

Centre: At De Nobili Col­

lege (Poona).

Bottom Left: F a ther and Son.

Bottom Right: Receiving the Mission Cross.

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LORETO

Group - Captain Cheshire,

with Loreto Nuns of the

Darjeeling community,

two of whom are Austra·

lians. The two children,

boarders at the convent,

are the daughters of

Group-Captain Cheshire's

friends, Mr. and Mrs. D.

Fletcher.*

*See letter below.

GROUP-CAPTAIN CHESHIRE. V.C .. D.S.0.o D.F.C. We had Britain'e wonderful V.C. airman h e re

in ea rl y March. HP mad e' a fonr davs' retreat with the J e~ uit Fath e r8, µ;ivinµ; an hour . to prayer anJ meditation four times a d ay. ThC're i;; n o thin µ; of thi s world ahoul him . l-TC' is wrapt in God and con se­crated to Hirn in th e se rvice of the poor and af­fli cted. He h as founded 11i11 e C h eshire Hornes in Eng­land , s ix in India a nd one in Maiava. One of the Indian Hornes is for e rippl c d chi.ldre n, and our pupil s prc;;enlt'd hi111 with 300 rupee,; towards it.

When h e l1oarded th e train at Ca lcutta o n hi s way up h e re, th e new d ec lare d that they woulJ uot fl y th e mac hinf' with the lik f' o f him on hoarJ; so the pilo t walked toward s him an d said: "S ir,

My Dear Pam Byrne,

Nagr i Tea Estate, Darjeeling,

14th March , 1957.

You will b e surpri sed to ge t this letter I exp2ct, but it comes to yo u for a very special r eason. A copy of "Loreto" was lent to me by Mother Mari e Antoinett:; of Loreto Convent, Darjeeling; it conta ined yo ur im­agined int2rview with Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, V.C. . . . Mother Antoinette* had a particular reason for lending it to me at t hat time. You see Group Captain Cheshire himself had arrived to stay with me for a very s hort v isit , th at day , and she knew that he would like to see what you had written.**

It is a wonderfu l thing to meet anyone like Leonard Cheshire. I hope that one day you may have the chance to meet h im yourself, Pam. Yesterday I took him in my Land Rover down from the great foothills of the Himalayas to see him set off for Singapore. Now that he is gone and I have had time to realise the impact of his extraordinary personality, I feel that I s hould let you know that you have summed up his background and aims with remarkable accuracy. He is a truly great

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would you ple ase take over?" Cheshire smiled, rose <ind walked to the controls; and, though he had n eve r ~ecn these Himalayas b efore, he gave a perfect flight , with a graml view of Eve res t, and th e smooth e~ t of landings al th c ii· base. Friends met him the re, two Lea-planter s, and in their land-rover they drove him up , stopping in a for es t for a picnic on the way, till they se t him down at the J esu it Seminary h ere to begin hi s re trea t at once. ·

He m ea ns to go to Aw tral ia som e da y: l do hope you will m ee t him.

Loreto Convent, Darjee lin g, Indi a. .:\'Jay 4, 1957.

M.A. J.B.V.M.

man. Since your article appeared, his work has widened and progressed. He now has nineteen Homes, seven oi them in India . I am not a Catholic, Pam, although I have two little daughters at Loreto, Darjeeling ; but s ince meeting Leonard Cheshire I shall gladly do everything in my power to further his cause.

I wonder what yo u are planning to do after you leave L oreto? Leonard Cheshire has a great need for dedicated nurses who would be prepared to join him in this great work of relieving s uffering all over the earth. l have been privileged in being able to write to some of the fine people who have offered him help , and on his behalf advising them what they can do to best serve. It is a pleasure to write also to you, and tell you that h e feels yo urs is the sort of art icle wh ich will help people to understand a little better, the reasons and the hopes which now lie behind his motives .

Yours sincerely ,

DAVID WILSON FLETCHER. * Mr. Fle tcher's eulogy of M. M. Antoinette Hughes

is omitted. ** See Loreto magazine, 1956.

LORETO

THROUGH JOURNALISTIC EYES DOWDEN BACK :

Antarct ic Scientist r e turn s. I ntrepid, stable Dick Dowd en stud ied Scien ce 1951-4. Made hi s m ark as S.R.C. represen tative 1952-3. W as radiophysicist with th e Au stral ian N a tional Antarcti c R esearch E x­p ed i tion to Macquar ie I sland, 1955-6.

Honi Soit (Journal of the Stud ents' R epresentative Council , Uni ver sity of Sydney) A pril 4, 1957.

The n followed Di ck 's article from which we cull one p arag rap h : Desp ite the weather , Macquar ie is a p h o tograp he r 's p ar adi se. Ap art from the ru gged beauty of the island itself, firs t-class pho tos of birds are remarkably easy to get. The alba trosses are b oth b eautifu l an rl huge ( the W andedng Alba tross has a wing span of 17 feet ) , ye t on e can walk (or rathe1· clim b ) r igh t u p to them and even pick them up and arrange th em like fl owe rs i n a vase. Move him out for a be u er back ground, have him look a little more to the r igh t , and so on ...

See Loreto m agazine, 1956, p . 26.

DALAi LAMA IN D E LHI: BIG WELCOME AT ATRPORT

CHEERING CROWDS ALONG ROUTE

Never b efo re h as Delhi witnessed such a l arge gath er in g of saffron-robed B uddhist m onks as crowded th e airport. T h er e wer e Buddhists from Nepal , T ib e t, Sikkim, Burma, Malaya, Ceylon , and even some fro m U.S.A.

As the D ala i L ama ligh ted from the pl an e the cr owd shou ted " D alai Lama ki jai." The V ice­Presiden t, D r . R ad h akri shn an , and M r . Nehru were the firs t to r eceive h im b y offer ing the t raditional scarves. Gentl y holdin g him b y the arm, Mr. N ehru an d D r. Rad h akrishn an escorted him to a sh amiana ,

wh e re, afte r a bri ef p au se, h e insp ec ted a Guard of H on our p rovid ed by the three Services. Central Min­isters and m embers of the diplomati c corps were th en introduced to him . This formalit y over the Dalai Lama m oved towards the Buddhist monks. They bowed to him . Then h e ascended a rostrum whe re h e was introduced to the assembled p eople. T h e D alai Lam a said that h e was happy to be in India and grateful to the Government and the p eople of India for the r eception they had given him . . . .

The S tatesnuin (Calcutta d ail y paper ) 25th Novembe r , 1955

See page 76 of this issue of Loreto.

A P ARTHEID I N SOUTH AFRICA :

A rchbish op McCa nn of Ca p e Town was one of the fi rs t to cond emn the governmen t's proposal to force a colour b ar on m any churches. H e was fol­lowed by A rchbishop Hurley of Durban and A r ch­bish op Garne r of Pre tori a . They stated that all Ca tholic church es in South A frica would remain op en to all races. Said A r chbishop Garner : " W e have n o N ative or E uropean church es : they are a11 Ca tholic church es." A ll the Protestant church es h ave ranged them selves beside the Catholic leaders.

(Universe, March 15, 1957)

Concerning the government proposed to prevent N atives from aUending W hite Universities : If Mr. Strijd om did not intend to convey a n ew threat to the univer sities in his sp eech at Pre tori a, h e should h ave said so; fo r the speech as delivered implied a ver y obvious threat.

(Rand Daily Mail, J ohannesburg, A pril 9 , 1957 )

See page 63 of this issu e of L oreto.

VINNY D'CRUZ

Last year , our Y .C.S. week ended on a good :no te , whe n the R eligious Assistant invited an Asian unive rsi ty s tud ent, Vinny d 'Cruz, to come to sp eak to us on L ead e rship in Ca tholic Action. Neve r h as an y p e rson m ade su ch an impress ion on m e, b ecause his sim ple bu t li vely manner of sp eaking conveyed to hi s au d ien ce what h e wanted to say.

V inny r eminded u s that we are leader s of Cath olic Action, which is a " particip a tion by the laity in th e h eir archical ap ostol a te" (Pius X I ) . Livin g as we do in groups and communities, we sim pl y cann o t h elp influe ncing one ano the r all the tim e. W ha t we say about the nuns, sports, exam s, girls or f il ms, h as its eff ect on o the rs who ar e listen­ing.

Y.C.S. leader s, h e said , must be the true l eaders among the studen ts. T h ey should not b e chosen from th e p refects or the Senio r Class only ; and no t from th ese group s a t all , unless they are r eal l eade rs. E ach leader sh ould h ave a vision, which , as it is the Christian vis ion, is three dimen sional , extending over space, ti m e and e ternity. In time and sp ace, we ar e workin g out our e ter nal d estin y. Christ i s God

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and Man. T h e Church is Christ and m en, embody­ing the unity of E ternity, space and time. Such is the splendour of the Church , and our vi sion of it.

As opposed to the Christian vision, ther e is the vision of the Communists, extending only over space and time. The degree of fervour it can produce in its adher ents, gives u s Christians much food for thought, and ought to spur u s on to k eep always before u s our e ternal d es tin y, since Communists are striving after an earthly paradise, an impossible dream.

Since we had Vinny's talk , there has b een a r e­awak ening of enthusiasm for Y.C.S. in the school, which we attribute largel y to the inEpiring ideals which h e put before us in his talk on Leader ship.

JOSEPHINE SIMMONDS (18) , Brisbane.

NEWS FOR THE AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: The Emancipists were the sheep and goats led over the Blue Mountains by Governor Macquarie.

RUM MARRIAGES: The nobles became wealthy by piracy, marriage and other fraudulent means.

LORETO

ARCHAEOLOGISTS A.

As we11 as the many arti sts, poets and composers, who~e nam es have gonl' down in the vast ho1oks of hi~tory, then• is a group of people ahout whom we hear not nearl y enough. Without courageou s archaeo­logists we would know very littl e of the early race~ . Th e archaeologis ts have spent years of toil , probing into the m ysteriou s writings on precious arti cles, so painstakingly r e l ri c ve tl from t hPir r es tin g places in the earth. From thi s research they have achieved notable s ucccs~ and we arc now ahle to make an accurat e picture of the very earlies t civi li zations.

The most f ahulous d iscovcrv of the Twentieth Century was that of th e tomh o(Tutankame n. Thi s young Pharaoh was believed to have been buried in the Valley of the Kings; but aftet· many years digging it was thought to be a mi stake . An Englishman. Lord Carnarvon , vi sited Egypt, an1l , full of enthusi­asm , in 1917, ol1tained a charter to dig in the Vall ey. He emp loyed a young archaeo]ogist, Howard Carte r. to excava te for him. Togc thc t· th ey ma<l c a de tail ed map of the Valle y, dividing it into small s11uarcs. Carter was then left the tre m endous I a ~k of sys tem­atically digging over the entire Valle y by th e N ile.

For five years h e work ed with little success. At the end of the last year h e sent a de tail ed r eport to Lord Carnarvon: aJl th e Va ll ey, exce pt orw small section in front of the tomb of Ramesses VL had been r ecovered. Carte r rece ived orde rs to <lig th e remammg spot. Afte r nine da ys of excavat ion Howard Cartl'r unearthed the find of the century. For a detai led account of thi s out standing di ~covery . I advi se you Lo r ead Leonard Cottrell's book, The Lost Pharaohs.

In the book, Go1ls, Graves and Scholars, by C. W. Ceram, there arc extrem e ly inter es ting s tori es of archaeologists an<l their di scoveries in Egypt, Grcer· e, Rome, Babylon and the ancient Mexican tribes. Jn the latter arc some extraordinary accounts of find s in the tropical jungles. Unlike tl;e other early people there are very few small r e lics, mostly evidence of large settJeme nts with little knowledge of beauty or balance.

I think archaeology is a fa scinating subject. Mar­vellous books have b een written about the joy archaeologists felt when they unearthed the ir most longed for dream ; though, unfortunately, they wer e often disappoint ed . But. archaeologists arc not: easilv discouraged.

B. ROMAN REMAINS IN ENGLAND

It was large ly roads that made rrnsl' ible and bound togethe r the mighty Roman Empire. ln England, Watling Street may still be followl'd

through the K enti sh hopfields to London and beyond , from Canterbury where four roads from the coast meet it. On and on it goes after emerging from north­west London, where it forms a busy s t.reel. "Straight

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as a Legionary's spear" it goes northwardR. Wat lin g Street wa s a lmost certa inl y the route which Julius Caegar took in 54 B.C. , ·and which the Emperor Claudius look nearly a century later. W e have to I hank L eonard Cot I rell an<l ol her p eople inte rested in archa eo logy for a revival of inte res t in R om an Britain. The old Roman roads in England have lasted hccause of their wonderful constructi on : lnye rs of large and small rocks, coarse and fine con­cre te, an<l surfaced by beautifully-jointed block s of hard ston e. \Vhcn we see these roads toda y we fin d it hard to h elieve that once they r esounded t o the march of Roman legionaries, a s .they trudged alon g weary aft e r the ir long march es. The n, groups of the m wou.ld have to 111an the forts that we re dotted here and there.

A s the Romans we re ove r four hun<l red vcars in Britain, towns and villages grew up. A ll the things that seem ed necessary in Rome we re in tro­ducetl into Britain. Bombing in the Second World \Var reveal ed remarkabl e Roman r e mains in Can­Lcrhury. \V e have studi ed a picture of a pavem ent of Roman mosaic in geometrical fa shion , found ther e in the bombed floor of a cellar. Many of such-like remains will have Lo be covered ove r aga in b y buildings; and in some cases excavation is prevented by th e need to leave undisturbed suc h mod ern things as drainpipes and foundation s. English arch ae­oJogists are still patiently working to di scover R oman remains. A ver y inte t·es ting di scove ry was made i n 1954 when the foundation s of a substantial Roman gatehouse we re unearthed on th e out skirt s of London.

The Roman theatre at Verulamium near St. Albans .is the onl y one in Britain lo have been com­pletely excavated. lt staml s bes id e the line of Watling Street, with a temple behind it , and the forum close Ly. H er e one may see part of the sta ge, and even the pavem ent of the actors' dressing-rooms. The girl s of Loreto al S t. A lbans are able to see these wonde rs ; and indeed it rnusl be an impressive sight.

C. DEAD SEA SCROLLS

It was 68 A.D.: the eld e rs of the Qumran eom111unity took council, for the Romans were o nl y seven miles to the north at Jericho, and it seemed to them that the end o[ the world was n ear. The re was much to be <lone, for the all important scrolls had to b e hidd en in caves nearby from the eyes o[ the impious en e my. The Romans. came, a nd , for centuries, only a grave-yard has been left of what was once a thriving community. To-day scholars, through the findin g of those hidde n scrolJs, are be ing linked close r to the gosp els.

Since the finding of the sc roll s by a Bedouin 8he phcrd boy in a cave by the D ead Sea in 1947, the sc roll s have stirred up p e rhaps the most vigorous de bate in Christianity s ince the days of Darwin.

The scrolls however do not shake the foundations of Christianity ; on the contrary, they greatly contribute

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to the understanding of those foundations. As an Old Testament scholar Frank Cross, a Presbyterian, puts it: T he writers of the scrolls and the writers of the New Testament draw on common resources of language and theological them es, with the r esult that "the st range world of the New Testament becomes less baffling, less exotic."

Ten more caves have been discovered since the finding of the fir st cave. Most notable are the contents of cave four. H ere the remains of more than 400 m anuscripts have been uncovered in tens of thousands of tiny fragments of parchment.

The Suez crisis was a serious block to the work of the scholars, for everything had to be stopped and the fragmen ts were put into a vault at Amman in Jordan.

In March came news of the finding of a new cave; but on account of the political difficulti es the contents h ave been k ept under lock and k ey. Mean­while the search for new caves and new scrolls is being carried on by an extraordinary crew of amateur archaeologists- the Bedouins.

The Bedouins sift with timeless patience spoonful by spoonful through layers of sand to find the tiny fragments, often smalle r than a postage stamp. These they carry in their soiled cigare tte boxes to a cobble r 's shop at Bethlehem near where Our Lord was born. H ere they hand them over to "Kando, a seam faced Syrian in r ed tarboosh" who in turn takes them to the "scrollery" in J erusalem where h e receives payment for his Bedouin clients.

Here scholars of all nations, all creeds, work together fitting the fragments into som e form of manuscript.

Chief of the scholars are P er e Roland d e Vaux a French Dominican, Frank Cross a U.S. Presbyterian and Fath er Joseph Milik a Polish priest.

The work these men do is unique ; often frag­ments are brought to them with well known phrases from the Old Testament, but then ther e are the single words which also have to be pieced into the ever enlar ging jigsaw puzzle.

The work is done in a long light, white-pannelled room with twenty trestled tables; on these lie the fragments pressed flat between plates of glass. Often fragmen ts bear signs Don' t Touch or occasionally Don't Breathe. The scholars of the scrollery suffer recurren t nightmares that the Bedouins may stop bringing them the fragm ents and put them on the black market. However only three or four pieces have turned up for private sale by antique dealers.

*Compiled from an article in Time, 15th April, 1957

D. THE GREAT DEATH PIT AT UR

During the seasons 1027-28 and 1928-29, Sir Leonard Woolley, famous English archaeo,logist, and his team of workers began excavations at Ur, for centuries no more than a large mound, which is believed to have been built up from the debris brought down by the Great Flood mentioned in the Bible.

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At first Sir Leonard and his digger s dug up cemeteries, but the private graves yielded little of interest, and more than haJf of them had been plundered centuries ago when Ur was still inhabited. Then cam e a m emorable day in their excavations when they found five bodies of men, lying side by side in a shallow sloping trench . Tracing a layer of matting which lay ben eath them, the workers came upon another row of bodies- this time of ten women carefully arranged in two rows; they wore headdresses of gold and elaborate n ecklaces. By this time the diggers had found the earth sides of the pit in which the women's bodies lay, and could see that the bodies of the five men wer e on the ramp leading down to it. A little way inside the entrance to the pit stood a wooden sledge - chariot, beautifully decorated with red , blue and white mosaic and ornamented with golden h eads of lions. In front of the chariot lay the crushed skeletons of two asses with the bodies of the grooms by their h eads.

Close to the chariot was a collection of tools and weapons and masses of gold, silver and copp er vessels. But to whom were all these gifts dedicated? This is what puzzled Sir Leonard. Further digging r evealed a tomb which was certainly that of a king. At its entrance lay six soldiers, orderly in two ranks with copper spears and h elmets; just inside, having evidently been hacked down the ramp, were two wooden four-wheeled wagons each drawn by three oxen; the grooms lay beside their heads. Against the end wall of the chamber lay the bodies of nine women wearing the gala h eaddress (as described of other women in previous paragraph ) .

Continuing the search , Sir Leonard found a second stone chamber nea r by. H er e lay the body of the Queen. Unlike the King's tomb, this one was intac t. A marvellous " find" for an archaeologist! So it was for royalty that all the treasures had been gathered. But the chariots and the men and women? There was still a mystery to be solved. Beside the hand of the long-dead queen, was a gold cup. (Many gold cups wer e discovered by the bodies of men and women. ) She was sumptuously adorned with strings of beads of gold, silver and lapis lazuli. The bodies of two women attendants were crouched against the bier; and all about the chamber lay offerings of all oorts: gold and silver vessels. What more fitting name than Sir Leonard's for this grim discovery underground: The Great Death Pit !

Prudently h e puts forward the theory that when a royal person of Ur died h e or she was accompanied to the grave by all the m ember s of the Court. It is probable that the victims walked to their places, took some kind of sleeping drug, and lay down in order. When they were unconscious the pit was filled in.

M. C. STREBER, A. KEATING AND K. CH~ESEMAN,

A . DYNON AND P. BASHA, P. REARDON

(For the Fourth Year Class)

Normanhurst.

LORETO

E. LECTURE ON UR OF THE CHALDEES

F ew of us had the opportunity to study Archae­ology, but since an inter est ing lec ture we had on the subject, man y of us would like to study it. B eautiful slides showed u s wonders of pre-historic civilisations, chiefly of ancient Mesopotamia. They threw a n ew light on the Old T es tament.

From the slid es we l earnt that uninteresting looking mounds we re found to conceal as many as fort y differ ent buried cities. Only archaeologists can di scover from pieces of jutting masonry and broken potte ry sec re ts hidden for thousands of years. Before excavations can begin sp eciali sts in Archae­ological History, Potter y, Draftsmanship , and Photograph y are need ed. The modern technique is to divid e the site into squares with ridges for walk­ing be tween these squa res. The two men allotted to each square have to make the excavations by hand lest damage be done to any ruin that may be there.

W e arc inclined lo belit1l e the Stone-age Man but is h e r eally as primitive as we think? \Ve we re astonieh ed Lo find that pillars seventy-nine fee l high , beautifully carved and decorated, have been dis­covered. Many of his drawings which have been uncove red show that h e was quite c ivilized , for his writing which con sists of separate signs for words or syllabics is a complex procedure. Accurate Mathe­matical tables and even P ytha gorous' Theorem have been found on the clay table ts which were used at this time.

On similar ta blets were written their laws which were accorded a place of special h onou r and prom­inence in the cultural structure of Mesopotamia. The Legal Code placed all p eople equal before the eyes of the Law, and taught them respect for private propert y, literature and science.

\Ve felt ourselves on more familiar ground when Ur, the royal city of A braham was mentioned. In it ther e was a temple dedicated Lo the Moon-god. It was because the p eople of Ur were so intent on wor­shipping thi s god that God ordered Abraham to leave the city. Ur itself was by np means a small city. Its houses, which had flat roofs, had between fourteen and twenty rooms. W e all thought that bathrooms wer e modern additions to the home until we saw that each house had it s own.

It would be impossible to tell all the interest­mg things that we learnt during that hour. W e spent some time aft erwards gazing at some of the treasures that have been recovered. Many were the questions that we asked as wc examined such household articles as the tin y oil lamps an d wonder­ed how they could give suffi c ient li ght. And we tried to dec ipher the strange signs on the writing tablets. P e1·haps one da y we may h ave the opportunity of making som e discoveri es for our­selves as there is still a huge mound that has not been touched.

KATHLEEN HAYES (15),

Dawson Street.

THE MUSIC CAMP, FRENSHAM, 1957 During January this year, 1 sp ent a fortnight

with one hundred and forty girls and boys at the National Music Camp, which, for the fir st time, was held in New South Wales. The association had rented "Fren sham" at Mittagong, where the beauti­ful surroundings increased the joys of a fortnight 's music-making.

The atmosphere is very friendly and informal at camp and everyone is made feel "at home." The campers were divided into three orchestras- West, Bryant and K enned y, and the students gave two orchestral concerts and two chamber music recitals for the public. The tutors gave two chamber music programmes which we re very much appreciated as the tutors comprised twenty of Australia's first class musicians- m en such as Lindley Evans, Ernest Llewellyn, Lloyd Davies, Stan Roberts, Gladstone Bell, and of course, Australia's conductor, Professor John Bishop. The ladies were very well represented at camp too, to m ention a few: Otti Veit, Audrey W alklate and Sybil Copeland.

The pivot around which each day revolved was music- music for all- but n ever at any time was it boring. The morning was devoted to orch estral practice and tutorials ; but after two o'clock, one was free to sp end the afternoon ad lib. Some formed chamber music groups, others went for hikes or a swim, while the rest went down the street, wrote

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le LLers, sunbaked or talked. At five iu the evening, there was a cocktail concert given b y the campers and usually chamber music of various types filled the programme. It was amazing how the different groups formed and produced really delightful music. One due t which particularly attracted my interest was a composition for bassoon and double bass. It was really fa scinating, being quite out of the ordinary way of chamber music.

It is very interesting to meet a ll the tutors and a really wonderful opportunity for an y young people, for even among your fellow campers you meet some amazing p eople. The first p erson who comes to my mind at this point is Ian Cooper, one of the boys at camp. Ian is only nineteen , yet h as his diploma of piano and organ, plays the trombone in the first orches tra- yet he is stone blind, and has been from birth.

My stay in Mittagong was one of the most enjoyable holidays I h ave spent and I was very sorry to leave at the end of the fortnight.

THERESE LECHTE (17) ,

Mary's Mount.

TOO, TOO ACCURATE: Four-year-old (managing

her decade at the fami ly rosary during a bakers' strike):

Give us this day our staley bread.

THE NOVITIATE, LORETO CONVENT, NORMANHURST

As seen from the fron t lawn : Novitiate in the middle ba ckground.

Looking towa rds Sydney a long a

western balcony.

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Looking f rom western ba lcony over the farm, tow a rd s the Blue

Mounta ins.

View f rom a ba lcony sh owing a g roup of N ovices in the g rounds. They ca n

see the Sydney H a rbour Bridge.

TOP: PREFECTS Left to right:

LORETO CONVENT, MARRYATVILLE, S.A.

PREFECTS: LORETO, MARRY ATVILLE, 1957: FRONT ROW: Therese Jungfer, Caroline Harris (Head of School), Jill Brady. SECOND ROW : Mary Hannan, Anne. Kennare, Sue Scantlebury, Judy Phelan, Janet Stott. BACK ROW: Helen M cCarthy, Anne Halloran, Deirdre O'Loghlin, Judy Sykes.

BOTTOM: FATHERS' CLUB

MEMBERS OF LORETO FATHERS' COMMITTEE, MARRYATVILLE. FRONT ROW : Messrs. J. Kerin, H . McEwen, J. Tennyson-Woods, D . Kenny, G. Scantlebury, G. W alters, J. Walsh, R. Ward , 0 . Atkinso n. BACK ROW: Messrs. J . Kelly, R. Burden, G. Gregerson, P . Heysen, G. Tunbridge, L. Doyle, N . Springbctt, R. Naulty , W . Riche s. ABSENT : W . Buchanan, K. James.

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LORETO CONVENT, MARRYATVILLE, S.A.

The Assembled School (433 pupils) on Sports Day.

LORETO CONVENT, MARRYATVILLE, S.A.

HIS LORDSHIP, MOST REVERE ND J. W . GLEESON, D.D., Titular Bishop of Sesta and Auxiliary to the Archbishop of Adela ide, immediately after his consecration.

VIEW OF CONVENT FROM NEW PLAYING FIELD, LORETO, MARRYATVILLE.

Below: Sports Day.

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Scenes on the New

Playing Field.

(cont. from page 75) P . CORNWELL S. DARWENT D. EVANS M. GOUGH J . GUNSON A. HOEY K. JAMES L. JORDAN M. KEENE C. KENIHAN R. KENNE DY C. McNAMARA P. MULHEARN H . O'LOGHLIN

LORETO CONVENT, MARRYATVILLE, S.A.

S. RANDALL J. SCOLLlN J . TOBIN

(Boys) M. BOYLAN N. BROWN J. BYRNE M. KELLY G. FUSSJN J . JOSEPH R. PANIZZA 1\L RICE P. WALSH C. WINCHESTER

PREPARATORY (Girls) llf. ATKINSON J. BAKER C. CASTLE M. CONNER M. CRAY L . EDWARDS J . FIELDER S. FUSSIN M. KLEMICH A. McINTOSH P. REGAN S. SPRINGBETT L. STRUTHERS S. UNI ACKE

C. WILSON J. CLANCHY

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. ... .a.. ~· ~ • . - ; ~ T-, t 1 .. .;. w.-~ "" ...... -

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PREPARATORY (Boys) S. CLAVER J. FOUNTAIN P. FRIED C. GLAETZER R. HEYSEN G. HORNE C. HORVAT l. KELLY S. POWE R A. ROLLER

LEAVING HONOURS J. BRADY M. HA NNAN C. llARRT S If. McCART H Y J. STOTT

LEAVING A. ANGOVE P . CAUG HT If. DOHERTY C. DOYLE J. Fl SJ-IER R. GREE N A. HALLORAN M . llARlllSON R. l S ENSTE I N W. JONES T. JUNGFER J. McKI::NZ l E A. KELLY A. KENNARE A. LAWRIE D. O'LOG l lLI N S. l'ARIS ll J . PHELA N P. l'RIDlf A~ r M . REILLY S. SCA T l. E IH ' R\' W. S PRl NG llETT J . SYKES S. WIITTE

INTERMEDIATE J. AR~1 STR01\G E. flAR N' ETT M . DEN N ETT M. BLA C KS llA\\' J . BROOK S B. BROW N A. HURLEY G. CAMERON Y. CHENE E. CULSllA \\' V. CURTAI N R. DORA T

ll . DORIA N E. DOYLE I.. FIELDER J . GLYN N J . GREE N L. HA NNA D. H ENDERSON' H . JOSEPH D. KEATS R. KEATS B. KE NNE D\' J. LAWTO N P. T.O NERAGA :\' J . l'vfARTl N J . McANA NEY S. McEWE N A. ~ l cTNERNEY L. MOORE R. ~IOORE C. MORIARTY E. NEAGl .E R. POWER S. POWER M . PRITCH ARD M . SHANAHAN M. STRATMA NN G. TRELOAR 0. TURSKY V. TURSKY P. VAIL V. WALSll E. WEBB J. W E IR E. WOODS M . ZADA

SECOND YEAR J . ANDERSON A. BAN KS D. BARRY M. BAU LDERSTONE M . BYR N ES M . CLANCT-TY V. CLANCJIY H . CROU C H N. CUN?'\ I NG ll A~f C. DAGT.E ISH E . DEMPSEY M. DOlfERTY M. DOYLE J . DUNN A. DUPU Y M. EDWA RDS G. FITZGERALD R. GLY NN

LORETO

ROLL CALL, LORETO, MARRYATVILLE, 1957 J. HAYES R. HlGGINS M. A. HON NE R M. JOLLEY H . KEN NE DY J. KEARNS E. LAMBERT C. LU NN C. MATHEWS P . McANANEY A. McCARTHY A. McNABB I'. .\ll C l! ALAN I::Y M. ~ I ORTARTY C. ~ 1 U RP l-fY M. o·co N ELL S. l'lERCE B. l'RES\OT'I' T. QUINN I'. R IC ll A RDS E. RI C l! ARDS D. ROVE S. RO Y A l. II . S HANNON ~I. M . S~11Tlf M. STOTT I.. T ll Oi\'IPSON J . TTl YER S. T UNBR IDGE A . lJTIAl.Dl P . U PTO N A. \\' AI.SH J . v\llLLI AMS n. WOOD

FIRST YEAR C. ABBOTT R. ARNOLD I' . BARNErr C. BRAZEL I '. BRO\\' N l. CO NN OLLY D . CROTTl S. DOHERTY J . E D\\/ ARDS L. GEORGE I. GLASS M. GLYNN C. \.OLDIE A. GR IGUOL S. ll Ai\11 LTON M. KEEN A. KE N TH AN D. KO C l f S. LEN NON R. LUMB A. ~ l cCUSKER P. Mc LA UG HLI N M . McNAM ARA A. MOR CO M M. M U l':I .LER M . NI C ll OLAS L. VON N TEDERM UE LLER K. PRESCOTT M . PRETSS M. ROT.T. ISON R. RO SE C. RYDER J.. SECK l-:R A. SEXTON S. SMTTll P . STACEY C. SULL IVAN P. U PTON C. WALS H A. WEB STER

GRADE VII B. BART ELS Y. BAZZICA B. BO N D ] . BROWN L. CLAl\' CHY 1-1. CO ,\ TES A. DALY J. DORAN J. DORT AN J. FT.ATIERTY '1.1 . FOR SYTH P. FRIED M . FRY M. GORDON R . HALL M. JOH NSON C. KING P . KLUG M. MADI GAN P. :MAY NARD J . McCLU RE C. Mc E WEN R. MTCl 1ALANNEY J. M ONKS

H . NAUTLY H . NOLAN E. O'BRIEN JJ . QUINLAN A. REGAN P. REILLY R. RICHARDS A. RICHES P. ROWELL Y . SPEl'llCER 1-1. TAYLOR R. THOMP!::ON E. VIDOVIC ~ 1. TEXLER

GRADE VI V. AN \.OVF. M . BAKER M . BEACH II. B E RTRAllI N. BURDEN L DO H ERTY 111. T. D UP U Y J . FRIED A. GRAY I '. GRE ;ERSON J. HAMlLTO N R. HART S. KENNY R . KERIN M. KI N G I '. LANE I '. MADIGAN M . MALAG J. MARSHALL E. MAT! U KA S M. A. McCLURE ~I. J . McCLURE K. MOO R E P. ~v1 0RC0 11t J . O ' KELLY F. O'LOGl!LlN S. PRINCE P . RYAN C. SHANNON C. SHEA S. SMITH S. SPRTNGBETT I'. T U R NBULL R. TYLE R S. WARD D . \V E Bll

GRADE V A. AN DERSO N K. ANTALFFY C. 11 AKbR A. BAULDERSTONE M. BRAZZALE Y . HUC KT.E Y S. BYRNE lf. CAMPBELL H. CAPPELLUTTI M. DALLE NOGA R E A. DlTPUY I. FARKAS J. FREE MAN P . GLUYAS K. HAKENDORF L. JONES T. JORDAN A. KELLY C. KIT,EY C. MARSHAL L C. McDONALD B. MclNNES B. MEAD M . MURRAY E . P E RD E LWITZ J . PROPERJOI-IN C. SMITH J . THOMPSON D. VILIUNAS C. WHITFORD

GRADE IV K. BARRY-MURPHY E. BEACH A. M. BLACK M. NEL SON-BRADY M. BRADY J. BROWN \! . BU RDEN ]. CO NNER S. DALZIEL L. Dr GUTSTO R. EVANS I'. GlllBONS L GIESECKE M. TTAKENDORF S. I-TOLD CR OFT

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1\L JASIAK J . JOHNSON P . JOHNSON S. K EELY f. KRUMINS A. LAFFAN C. McCARTHY F. 1\ITNARELLI C. MUELLER G. NAULTY E. O'CONNOR A. P ACKI-IAM A. PARTRIDGE M . PlERCE lll. REGAN A. R E CLLY J. SINCLAIR J. SKERRITT E . TOLLODAY M . T URNER J. U HDANOFF J. WALSH GRADE III G. BOYLAN i\ f. BRANDON 1\l. T. FOUNTAIN A. HAY ES J. HIGGI NS I. l fUSSTN S. JAMES M. J01 ES C. JORDAN K. JOSE PH S. KELLY B. KOJ.DOWSKI E. MADIGA N M. MUNRO-FORD B. :MU RRAY P . NEAGLE J . O'LOGl-ILl N T. PANIZZA S. PERDELWITZ J . PROPERJOlll\ E. Sll-fU llfA N M . SHEEHAN P. S H E RI DA 1

M . STEB E RT B. WHEELER GRADE II (Girls) C. ANDER SON E. BAULDERSTONE G. BREW B. NET.SO N -BRADY P. BU RDEN J. DAVEY S. D ITTY P. DOHERTY C. HAMLIN U. JTA J\'COC K R. J-I EYSEN R. H OCKI NG D. H OR NE M. JAMES S. JAM ES D. JOH 1SO N M . JO SEPH J. KF.LLY R. KNOWLES L. MARSHALL V. Pl-IILLTPS L. RODlGHIERO J . RYAN J. SPRlNGBETT M. WALSH C. WALTERS G. WINCHESTER (Boys)

M . ABBS A. BAILEY B. CORNWELL 1\f. FRIED 1\L GREGERSON P. LAFFAN R. RICHARDS I '. RICHES J . SCOLLIN J. SCROOP G. S ll ERIDAN S. WALSH J . WHITFORD

GRADE I (Girls) C. A N DERSON J. BREHENS G. BRADY S. JJUCKLEY A. CA MPBELL C. COOMBE

(Concluded on Page 74)

LORETO

The I.B.V.M. Overseas LORETO'S INTEREST IN THE DALAi LAMA OF TIBET

When I wrote to our good friend, Mother M. An­toinette Hughes, of Darjeeling, for some items for our magazine, I did not expect the two personal letters which you are about to read. One is from the sister of the Dalai Lama of Tibet, the other from his niece; both girls are pupils of our nuns, and the letters are from Loreto Convent, Darjeeling, with the date, April 17, 1957. Like Loreto children all over the world, they begin: Dear Mother. The Dalai Lama's sister (aged 16) writes as follows:

You may like to know something about our family: I have' five brothers and one sister. My eldest brother is a Lama in Co-Co-Nor (Sanking); the second brother stays with us in Darjeeling and his wife and children are also here. The third is the Lord Chamberlain to my fourth brother, the Dalai Lama; and the youngest is only ten. He is the Nagri Rimpoche, the head Lama of Lathak; the title means the re-incarnation of the last Lama bearing this name. My sister stays at home in Lhasa and helps my mother.

When I came from Lhasa to Darjeeling about 1950, I rode a horse for about sixteen days along very rough mountainous roads. My sister with her two children was with me, and we had ten servants. We spent the nights in little mountain villages till we reached Gangtok which is the capital of Sikkim, and we left the next day for Kalimpong. We remained there from October 1 till January, and we attended the school where lovely nuns taught us. This was our first meeting with Europeans as our country was closed to all except Tibetans. In 1951 we came by car to Darjeeling and the road over the rivers and up the high mountains was beautiful. We did not understand English then; but in seven years Khando (who is my sister's daughter and almost as big as me) and I can both talk and read Eng­lish well, and we like our school very much. Some time later I shall write to you more.

Your little Tibetan friend PEMA YAPSHI.

Pema's niece, Khando, tells of a unique trip she had recently:*

This is a small account of my journey around India with my uncle the Dalai Lama of Tibet. From Bag­dagra, the airport at the base of the mountain, my grandmother, my mother and Aunt started for Delhi­a journey which took six hours. In Delhi we met the Dalai Lama; we first paid our homage to him, and then had a good day's rest. The next day a man brought us a programme to follow for the day. It began with a luncheon party at the house of Mr. Nehru, the Indian President. The President sat beside the Dalai Lama. It was a perfect Indian meal with all kinds of curry and sweets in little silver bowls and we all enjoyed it very much. After the luncheon party we went to look at the presents from the Indian Government to the Dalai Lama. They were beautiful but the one I thought the best was a yellow motor car specially made for him.

The Dalal Lama of Tibet (seated) with his mother, brothers and two sisters, and his niece (extreme left) photographed at Government House Delhi, during a visit to Mr. Nehru. (See accompanying article and

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letters).

The next day the Dalai Lama's mother (who is my grandmother) and her family paid a special visit to Mr. Nehru and his daughter. We had tea and we left some presents for them. Then some photographers wanted to take some snaps so we went out into the garden and were photographed.** On the following day we set out for Agra in Mr. Nehru's train. This train was very comfortable and had thirty compart­ments, each consisting of five rooms and three dining­cars. The train was pulled by two engines both in the front. The Dalai Lama stayed in the compartment in the centre of the train.

The day we arrived at Agra we did not go anywhere, but stayed in the train. Next morning we went shopping and in the evening we went to see the Taj Mahal. Then we went to see the Red Fort at Agra. The next day we set out in the same train for Benares; when we arrived there we went to see the relics of Lord Buddha, and had a boat trip down th~ river Ganges. We also went to Madras, Mysore, Bangalore, Poona, Bombay, Mussoorie, Naini Tal, Darjeeling ... and Calcutta. In my next letter to you I shall tell you about all these places.

Yours sincerely, KHANDO (age 14 years)

[As our readers know, Buddhists revere the Dalai Lama as a re-incarnation of Buddha. He is the supreme ruler in Tibet and is worshipped as a god. In spite of the extraordinary conditions of his life, now, at the age of twenty, he is an interesting personality, friendly and well-educated. The German explorer, Heinrich Harrer, who was his tutor for a few y.ears in Lhasa, gives an endearing portrait of his ch aracter in the book, Seven Years in Tibet. - Ed.]

* See page 66. **Photograph on this page.

Loreto, Sydney. Mother M . . . . . . I.B.V.M.

LORETO

GREETING FROM PRINCESS SHANTI OF NEPAL

Dear Mother,

Loreto Convent, Darjeeling

27th April, 1957.

I think you would like our country. It is Nepal, and there are great mountains with snow all over them between us and Tibet.

This year my sisters, brothers and I were late coming back to school in Darjeeling as our father was touring East Nepal and having some tiger and bear shoots. Sometimes we have gone hunting on elephants, and we three girls have been on the same animal on a fine, large padded box which is tightly strapped on. We have seen many tigers; and Biren­dra , Sharada and I have each shot a tiger.

In May of 1956 when my father was crowned King in Kathmandu we children were sent for, and our secretaries and attendants took us home, first by car to Badogra, and then in our own plane to Nepal. The journey down the mountains took three hours, and the plane took one hour. All those days at home were full of rejoicing. Many p eople from England and America were there. We children had a part in everything and enjoyed ourselves for two weeks. Then we came back to school. My three brothers are in the Jesuit College, St. Joseph's, in Darjeeling, and my two sisters are here with me.

The daughters of King Mahrendra of Nepal. (See accom­panying letter from Princess Shanti). They are boarders at Loreto Convent, Darjeeling. Photo taken in the

convent garden.

Some day, dear Mother, I shall write to you from

my home in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Your little friend ,

SHANTI SHAH.

GOODBYE TO THE CEDARS There is always a deep sense of sadness in the

passing of old friend s. The three magnificent trees, Cryptomeria J aponica*, that for eighty-seven years towered high on the front terrace of Loreto Convent, Darjeeling, are gone. They had caught the admiring eyes of every visitor since they were ten feet high. They had kept guard - though eventually a threat - over the building and the changing population of children and grown-ups, during years of calm or storm. In the good old days when transport con­sisted chiefly of ponies - and unpredictable Bhutia ones at that - their sheltering branches gave a tie­up as good as any stable. But every March in the high winds they used to fling tons of loosened foliage into every available drain. Then, in the Monsoons, the choked-up waters seeped through the walls of both church and convent; and in those windy times they had given to the whole brigade of sweepers hours of toil in clearing up the withered rubbish. But the school children must often have been grate­ful to the barrier they provided as these little blue­clad marauders slid down the garden banks, to re­appear with fists of scarlet rambler and golden broom. ... Under the spreading cedar shade humbler life found a home: mosses, ferns, orchids, vacciniums -not one of them paying rent in any way, but just

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feeling assured of high life and hospitality. The thick, green branches above them were full of bird families that paid their rent in song: mynahs, black­birds, tits of all kinds, honey ea ters waiting to sip nectar in cherry blossoms and rhododendron.

THE WOODMEN ARRIVE

The fate of the cedars was often discussed among us, and most of u s knew in our h earts that they were a danger to the convent and all in the vicinity. ~'hen engineers and foresters inspected them, we knew by their report that the woodmen would soon arrive. The experts said: "Too top-heavy! Too old! Too near the house! Chop them down b efore they chop through that pile of stone! " And though there was much to be said for their Gothic beauty and summer shade, a party of woodmen arrived under the direction of Brother Drohnic, S.J ., with ladders~ ropes, axes, saws. They began, on the central tower of old "Green Glory." Within a few hours the terrace was piled high with massive foliage; and the strip­ped trunk, more than half severed, was roped high up and drawn in tug-of-war fashion by a team of ser­vants, in the exact direction of Kanchenjunga. Just at 3 o'clock it crashed: one green mountain spire saluting a high white comrade.

LORETO

A NEPALI ROBIN HOOD On the following day the woodmen drew a tape

round the girth of the North Monarch, and declared it over five yards. The head woodman stood near the base, a Nepali Robin Hood, with furrowed face and deep-set eyes, well used to gauging h eights and lengths of spreading boughs. One end of a rope coil he wound round his waist over a broad maroon banJ of cloth, which held at easy reach a hatchet and a sharp sickle-shaped blade. His blue trousers taper­ing to his bare feet tightened round his ankles in concertina folds; and, though he earned his living by the hacking and crashing of Himalayan trees, hib voice, even in giving orders, and his manner were as gentle as a child'11.

THE SECOND CEDAR FALLS The Nepali mounted the ladder and stepped

warily from one mossy limb to another; then with the free end of the rope he tied himself to the main stem. Every stroke of his blade severed a branch, right, left and below him, till he reached the blunted top that had several times, in hurricane and cyclone, been ruthlessly struck off and flung near the portico. When all was cleared, a cable, stout enough to draw any Atlantic liner, was fa stened round the bole, while a reinforced team of pullers at their station drove an enormous iron rod deep into the ground. The order was, that the pull was to be southwards towards the plain, not towards the snowy and majestic Kan­chenjunga and Everest. Something sentient in the cedar must have revolted against a pull towards the plain; because, no sooner was the order given, when an unearthly grinding and explosive noise from the roots was accompanied by a wild leap into the air by the cedar. Flinging itself skyward it dragged with it the tug-of-war team, bewildered and yelling with terror. They hurtled through the air in the angered monarch's wake, for fifty yards, as it thundered to destruction down the hillside towards the North­W est in one tremendous salute to Everest.

THE FALL OF THE QUEEN As yesterday's post-mortem on the North Mon­

arch had revealed a cavern eight feet deep into the roots, we felt we had been protected by a watchful Providence. With a narrow rim of bark and wood which did work as a trunk the whole contents ~ere like white paper pulp. What indeed had saved lis on those wild cyclonic nights? But the woodmen cared not about this. What really shook them was that wild journey through the air. The Kitmagars ran away ne>L to reappear. Exhausted with fear they probably thought that their absence there and then, as well as on the morrow, could reasonably be ascribed to a funeral of some near and dear ancestor. Fresh woodmen were commandeered for the Crypto­meria, called the Queen. This morning she could have stood for Mary Queen of Scots or Marie An­toinette of France. High up, seventy-eight feet, her sunlit diadem, where till yesterday the radio aerial had caught the world's news, swayed above her flounces of gleaming emerald, making her a picture of readiness, not for disaster, but for a minuet, ·per-

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haps the noblest cedar in all the woods around .... But fear and mystery filled the air since yesterday's strange experience; and a firm conviction prevailed that n ever any more should a tree he felled without the presence of a J esuit. Messengers and urgent phone calls brought Brother Drobnic to the scene -with Father W es t, for good measure. The axe-work over, our dhobies and cook s were enticed into the pulling team. Remembering yesterday's affair, ever y face was stamped with agony. Two bearers repeatedly made the sign of the cross; but the front man, un­nerved at last, jerked his grip from the rope and bolted for hi s life. Did anyone h ear Brother's ex­clamation? (It was not in English. ) Then came his firm order: " Towards the snows! PULL!" With magnificent grace the lofty spire bent and came gently down with just the faintest murmur of an anthem as if curtsying to the noble company of white friends farther north.

- M.A.

* Native of North China.

Lore to Convent, Darjeeling.

THE KOALA BEAR I saw a koala bear And he had very grey hair. I saw him climb a gum tree And I could see him clearly. But as it was growing dim I could barely see him. The mother koala took him away on her back, And the little koala bear looked like a sack. I hope I see him again, that little koala bear, The one with th e black nose and all the grey hair.

MARIE THERESE JENSEN (7) , Nedlands.

A GEM OF WISDOM There is a street, A busy city Street Of lanes and alleyways Of fire-hydrants, parking meters And red letter boxes. Here is a street. A grey, straight street Of trucks and vans Of trams and trolleys Of clanging bells Of whistles Sirens, car horns And in the midst ..... A horse and cart. A chinaman and cabbages. A wrinkled, wizened face Of a man. Plodding hooves Of a horse. A Gem of Wisdom In this uncertain world.

MARGARET REID, Toorak.

LORETO CONVENT (I.B.V.M. ), MAURITIUS

1. Mauritius.

2 and 3. Ordina tion of Priests.

4. Baptism of Chinese.

5. Mother Provincia l with Refugees.

LORETO

LORETO (I.B.V.M.) MAURITIUS T h e Loreto Convents in Mauritius are among

the oldest Loreto missionary enterprises, dating as they do from 1844 when eight nuns arrived there from R athfarnham to make a foundation. As thev stepped from the boat, tired and bewildered afte.r their long voyage, they must have cared little that the beautiful island was known as the " p earl of the Indian Ocean." But they soon learned to love and apprecia te its beauty. There are now six flourishing Houses of which the chief are at Curepipe, St. Louis, Quatre-Bornes and St. Pierre.

It is not an easy mission field as there are so many races in the island. Some parts are almost wholly French-sp eaking. Then there are the English , Indians, Chinese and the coloured natives. Our n uns ar e doing good work in all their centres, entering fully into the Catholic life of Mauritius. The present Mother Provincial (M. M. Dominica ) kindly sent u s the photographs which we have re­produced. We shall devote this article to a descrip­tion of the pictures :

MAURITIUS, FROM THE SEA

We cannot h ere see the brilliant blue of the Mauri tian sky; but the branch of flame tree in the foreground is a familiar sight in Sydney and Bris­bane and other sub-tropical parts of Australia. Flame trees ar e the glory of Mauritian flora , and the Route Royale, lined with them, is a magnificent sight in a dry sum mer. In the middle right of the picture can be seen a small figure; that must surely be Pieter Both- the n am e given to a p eak which resembles a boy, book on knee, slouch hat ·on head ; there are some who say that h e looks like a king, brooding over the islan d .

ORDINATION OF PRIESTS AT THE SHRINE OF MARIE, REINE DE LA PAIX

Mar y Queen of Peace ! ... Under this title the Mauritian s er ected a statue and shrine at their largest p or t, P ort Louis, during the Second World War. Mgr. J am es Leen , then Bishop of Mauritius, promised Our Lady to make this shrine if the island was saved from Japanese invasion, then imminent. Maurit ius was saved, and there stands this lovely statue gu arding the port. Since its er ection sixteen years ago i t h as become the focal point of Catholic life in Mauritius; a place of pilgrimage for: Workers on Labour Day, the Sick on the Feast of Pentecost, children on the Feast of the Sacred Heart- and for many other Catholic gatherings. The statue is of Our Lady h olding a globe in h er hand, and appearing as described by St. Catherine Laboure: "Her feet were restin g on a ball . .. sh e had h er hands r aised to the level of the waist in an easy fa shion, and her eyes were r aised towards heaven . ... "

On the feas t of the Assumption last year five young Mauritians were ordained priests at the shrine where they co-celebrated and co-consecrated with Mgr. Langavant, Bishop of R eunion. Wheaten bread and wine of the grapes are needed for the Sacrifice of the Mass; hut neither wheat nor grapes grow in

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Mauritius. The French Airways courteously pro­vided, so that golden wheat and purple grapes were laid on the Mission altar before the ceremony.

Among the congregation wer e several Loreto nuns who were particularly happy as three of the young priests were their past pupils and one of them a nephew of one of the nuns. Later in the week the priests said Mass in the various Loreto convents. One of them , the R ev. Michael Bouille, of Curepipe, wrote in an article for the Loreto Missions : " Inexpressible joy wells up in the h eart of the newly ordained priest as he goes up for the first time to the altar of God who giveth joy to his youth. The joy is p eculiarly poignant when the priest says his first Mass in the convent chapel where h e made his first Holy Com­munion."

BAPTISM OF CHINESE

Recently Mgr. Liston, Bishop of Port Louis, b aptised fifty Chinese at Loreto, Port Louis. Our picture shows only a few of the newly baptised, photographed with a Chinese priest and some of the nuns. The priest was ordained in Rome ; h e looks h appy to he with his fri ends. At every convent there are enthusiastic centres for the Propagation of the Faith. From Loreto, Quartre-Bornes, a nun writes to say that as sh e looked from her window one day at the school children playing, sh e was surprised to see a Muslim child doing the collecting and r eceiving a contribution from a Hindu Boy !

CUREPIPE AND REFUGEES

Curepipe is the Head House of Loreto in Mauritius, and the nuns are well known for their hospitality. W e show a group of r efugee novices and postulants fleeing from the Communists in Vietnam and are on their way to Madagascar. They belong to the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. Let us hope that they have found a happy home. Their sweet, serious faces show that they possess a spiritual strength which they receive from God's love.

I.V.B.M . Australia -M.

THE LITTLE LOST PUP H e crept in from the street to shelter on the

wide verandah. His bedraggled tail hung down between his legs as if it was ashamed to be seen out. He was little more than ten inches high, with a black and white coat, his soft brown puppy eyes looked al us so pleadingly, appealing to us not to send him out into the cold, )Vet, rain again, that we le t him stay there, huddled down in the driest part of the verandah. He was a little cocker, and looked well fed and groomed. H e was definitely not any old stray, but someone's cared-for pet.

This was confirmed the n ext day when we proudly returned him to his owner , a very anxious small boy who had passed a sleepless and lonely night without his much loyed " Pal."

JILL HEENAN (J,unior Class ), Nedlands.

LORETO CONVENT, TOORAK, VIC.

TOP: PREFECTS (See Names on Page 12) BOTTOM: MATRICULATION

MATRICULATION: A. Acton, A. Adams, D. Bowen, J. Cashmore, E . Clowes, L. Currie, A. Curtis, N. Daley, C. Cynthridge, M . Doyle, M. Duck, G. Ermacora, V . Feely, E. Fitzgerald, P. Goodchild, D. Hart, B . Hill, D. King, S. Loftus-Hills, M. Lynch, P. McGuiness, M. Reid, S. Robinson, P . Warry, E . Wimpole.

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LEAVING A.: E. Bailey, K. Bates, L . Brenna n, L . Broderick, R . Calder, P. Curtis, M. Ditchburn, M. Doyle, H. Dwyer, L. Frederico, T. Furphy, J . Gilbertso n, J. Gould ing , B. Graham, M. Holt, P . Mc Clell a nd, P. M cDermott, M. May, J. P a lmer, J. P etty, S. Spring, M. Serong, M. Warry, D. Deloffre.

LEAVING B.: S. Brew, Y. Ca lli!, J. Everitt, P. Flynn, S. Goode n, A. Patterson, D . L ord, J. Mc N amara, J. Montague, F . Moore, E . O ' Neill , C. Russo, J. Wright, V. Wakefield-K ent, J. Whi tehead.

INTERMEDIATE: G. A cton, G. Brennan, J. Doyle, M. A. Doyle, A. Dugga n, M. D evine, M. A. Edgerton, L . F erguso n, M. Frederico, E . Finlay, H . Grimes, W. Gunso n, S . ]aquinot, K . Jens, C. K elly, S. Keenan, C. Kuhlmann , E. Lee, ]. Leonard , E. Lewis, A . Lynch, P . Maggia, K . Murphy, G. Mc!-larg , K . Mcinerney, P . Mclnerney, J. M c Namara, L . M cKernan, P. O gge, D . O 'Brien, C. Melville, R. Robin son, A. Ryan, H . Stokes.

S U B - INTER M ED­IATE: J. Anderson, D. Bar rett , S . Bar­rett, J. Altsc hwage r, A. B urns, M . Bryce, M. Byrne, M. Clancy, A. Corbe n, M. Duck, A. Ega n, J . Fakh ry, G. Fa rley, j . Feely, M . F under, K . Gil­christ, V . Gl over, S. Guest, M . Gurry, S. H oppe, M . Ha n ly, T . J ens, M . K ing, S . K nowles, J. L arkins, M. L ewis - W ill iams, M . Li g h tfoot, M . A. Lynch, J. M arsh , S . Mornement, B. Mc­Guiness, S . Maggia, H . M u r p h y, B . M c K e c h n i c, A . O 'R orke, M . Palfy, L . P itt, S . Resc h, C. Roc he, A. Sinn, J . Sulliva n, S . Arm-s tro ng, Y . V on H artel.

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SECO ND YEAR : A. Brogan, M . Bush­wa ller, I. Calli I, R. Corby, J . Coleman, E. Curtis, B . Duck, S . Gorey, W . Green, M. Hill, P . H oppe, F . Jens, J . Ley, H . Lynch, C. Manning, I. O 'Brien, H . M. O 'Doherty, J. O 'Rorke, B. Pinnuck , C. Russo, A. Slat tery, D. Wells tcd, M. W right, P. Lewis­W ill iam s, D. Wilson, K. Gorman, S. For­syth, D . Alessio.

TRANSITION : P . Boileau, R. Calli!, M. Cos tigan, A. Dia­mond , C. Everitt, M. Graham, E. Ireland , M. O cclcshaw, B. Pearson, M. Ro che, B. Stevenso n, M. A . W allace.

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FIRST YEAR : S. Acton, C. Anderson, F . Burrell, E. Daly, P. Dwyer, M. Flynn, A. Galba ll y, S. Glover, G . Taylor, Y . Tomlinson, M. Jaquinot, K . Johns ton, J. Kelly, E. Kuhlmann, L . Keiran, M. Lyons, L . Lynch, P . McClell and, C. Mc Namara, ] . McDavitt, S. Nixon, S. Perry, M. A. Norman, H. Mort, R. Pitt, A. Radcliffe, K. Scarff, P . Simpson, M. St. Ellen, M. V irgona, S. H empe l, A. Goyder, E. Burns.

PREPARATORY : J . Adams, R. Ahern, R. Binning, J. Bowden, S. Burke, M. Carol an, D. Clancy, G. Clayton, L . Crosbie, E. Edgerton, S. Flanagan, P. Galbally, D. Gardini, D. Gay, P. Gilbertso n. J. Gue st, E. Hamilton, E. Hirsch, A. Ireland, A. J ens, S. Kelly , J . M aggs, M . McClelland, A. M cCoy, M . Morrison, A. Mid dlet on, P. O 'Day, C. Simpso n , F . Sinn, E. Stewart, M . T . Sweeney, S. Synma n, G. Virgona, C. Woodward, J. W alsh, M . Mort , A. Filcock , C. Callil, C. Zsizsmann.

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GRAD E V .: B. Anderson, P. Astley, M . Coleman, B. Conquest, C. Curti s, M. Daly, P . Dowli ng, N. Edgerto n, P . Fethersto nh augh, D. Gillon, S. Godfrey, F. Hayden, S. H ore, A. M. Hughes, M. Jens, K . Johnson, A. Johnsto n, K . Koch, A. Lees, C. Mann, M . Mann, M. McDonald , A. M iklos, J. Molo ney, A. Morriso n, A. M ulvaney, B . Nola n, J . Oldfield, P . O 'Shaughnessy, M . T. Q uigg, J. Robertson, K . Smith, J . Starr, J. Timewell, C. Toner, C. Virgo na, C. W impole.

GRAD E IV.: J . Ada m s, P. Anstee, S. Barrett, M . Brogan, F. Bryce, L. Burrell, J. Buxton, G. Byrne, B. Cahill, D. A. Coleman, L. Edgerton. M . Jaq uinot, M . J ones, J. Junokas, C. L echte, S. Ley, L. Lyn ch , N . M . Lynch , E. M cCann, G. McCauley, S. M cEncroe, C. M iklos. M. L . Morriso n, S . Mort, C. N icholls, M. O 'B rien, G. O 'Collin s, M. Peter s, V . Robson, C. Ru sso, A. M. S carff, P . Schaeffer, J. Smith, A. Sweeney, J. T iernan, A . Tierney, C. W alker, M. W arry .

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GRADE III.: J. B ell, A. Bleechmore , S. Buxton, E. Calder, J. Chapman, E . Doy le, V . Ell is, H. Fetherstonh au gh , S. Funder, V . Gerber, C. H all, C. J ohn ston, P. Knowles, M. M. McCaffry, M. E. M c Ca rdel, J. Mc Coy, F . McEncroe, Y. Ni choll s, E. O 'Brien, A. A. Penn e· father . J. Simpso n, E . Skene, H. Vale, C. W ilki nson . M. J. Als ton , M . L. Ebstein, J. Hodki nson, M . M cCardle, A. Bushwall cr.

GRAD E II. : S. Ahern, S. Arendsen, S. Bryce, M . Cahill, S. Callanan, T . Callea, J . Cook, M. Cox, P . Devine, D. Doyle, C. Fakhry, J. Fi nk , J . F lanagan, R. Hill, A. Jones, A. Knowles, B. Mid gley, S . Mighell, H. Mooney, C. Morrison, J . O 'Collins, M . R o che, J . Starr, M . L . Tier nan, A. Ward . J . W illis . S. Bird , C. Craig, M. Conqest , M. Foley, T . Harford, E . O ' Keefe.

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GRADE II. , BOYS: J . Anstee, J. Bowden, D. Codognetto, M. Craig, G. Dwyer, R. Gard ini, R. Hoppe, P . J e n:;, R. K ::owies, J. O'Brien , J . Peters, E. Sinn, S. Chapman, T. H ousto n, P. Meeha n, F . Villi ers.

GRADE IA: A . Best, S. A. Breheny, B. Bristow, A. Calla nan. L. Clayton, P. Coleman, G. Douez, W. Gerber, C. G uest, R. Johnson, B. Lea, R. L ech te, J. M cCa nn, M. McCann. I. McCardel , M. McEncroe, F. Pitt, A . Reid, J . Ryland, J. Skene, A . Smith, A. Smith, D. St. Ellen, S. Stewart, K . Timar, S. A. Walker, S. W alker.

GRADE I., BOYS: B. Bushwaller, R. Doyle , P. M. Dwyer, P. Dwyer, D. Galbally, A. M cCauley, G. M c Kechnie, J . M 'd gley, J. Nolan, M . O 'Shaugh n essy.

GRADE IB: A . Cahill, M. L. Connaugh ton, M . Fajdiga. J. Galbally, C. H atters, A. Hollywood, A. Junokas, C. Kelly, E. McQueen Thomso n, C. Moly neux, A. Mort, M. Pa cini, E. Ryan, M. Ryan, H. Tiernan, M Wi lcox, E . O 'Brien

GRADE IB .. BOYS: P. Al sto n, M. Barrett, A. Crosbie, L . Coleman, P. Ga rdi ni , J. Ire la n d, L. Lynch, A. Mighell, C. Sinn, B. Smith, P. Stewart, F . Stirling.

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KINDERGARTEN D . Marks, A. Devlin, G. Moly ne ux , G. W alk er , E . J ose ph , T . B ell, D. J ones, P . Cra ig, ~- Al essio, J . H amilton , P . Ahern, V . Cu rti s , A. Foley, S . A re nd sen, P. M. Buxto n, P . J aquinot, J . D owlin g , B . K iern a n , M. Dwyer, B. M cCard el, N. Hoppe, M. R . S inn, M. Best, T. J. R esch , J. Little, A . Flan ag an, M . Sakacs, C. Klopp en borg, D. Dale, A . E n g la nd , J. F or res t , T. Starr, G. O ' Keefe , A . K ev in, J. P eters, J . Hu gh es, J . F eth ers ton­haugh , J. A. Co nnaugh to n , R . H odgkinson, M . V a le, M. R e nnie , L . Ma ho n , G. P it t , P. F. R eid, J. K ea rney, S . L ewi s, A. Ca ntwell , N. Coleman, C. Lethr id ge, M. Best, S . McCa uley , R . B urke, H . M c Card le, B. Tierney, M . D y no n , G. H y de, A . Codogno tto, A. D wyer, J. Dy non, H.

M cKechni e, M . T ierna n.

LORETO CONVENT, KIRRIBILLI, N.S.W. (See Photos Page 40) PREFECTS (Left to right) :

V . Greenaway, A. B ra nna n, A . H ellmri ch , A . M . B a k ewell, L . Dusse l dorp ( H ead ) , M. Bond, J. B ergi n, E. S h eil.

FIFTH YEAR CLASS (Left to Right): F RONT ROW: M . L . W ales, A . Hellmri ch, G. P age, A . M. B a k ewell, M. Coll in g rid ge, H . M cGow a n, F . Mull er . B A CK ROW : A. Brannan, E. Sheil , M. Bond, B . Collet, L. D usseldor p ( H ead of S choo l), V. Gree naway, S. Bellair , P . K elly , J. B er g in.

FOURTH YEAR CLASS: F RONT R OW : H . Crei g hton, M . Pe rrot t et, J . Henry, T. Hendri cks, P . Sherwood, H . Ga nnon, A. Stubbs, S. Burke, G. H ogan. SEC OND ROW. A. Ma rshall , M . Bradley , K . Tate, S . Clapin, J. Sea goe, D . M c D ona ld, L. Brown, M . Fitzpa tric k , H . Ritchard. TH IR D R OW : M. And erson, M . P ren der gast, M. B ellhouse, R. Casey , M. D o nnelly , J. B a ld in g, J. Hamilton, M . Hasel er , M. A. B orthwick. B A CK ROW : G. Stack, A . H oc k ey, B. B ray, M. Cla rk , J. King, S . Chad w ick , M. Ritchard, M. Tracy , N . M adden, D . R och e .

LORETO CONVENT, NEDLANDS, W.A. (See Photos Page 60) JUNIOR PUBLIC CLASS

BACK ROW: R. F ogar ty, E . Stephe nso n, C. O ' Hara, J. Boy d. THIRD ROW: T . Tully , L. H a nson, M . M ayho, J . M cD onnell. C. Bodek er, E . Cogan. SECOND ROW : S. R idge, G. Sl a ter , W . H arrig an, M. Durack, J. Mille r. F RON T R OW : R. F er g uson, D. Whi teley, P . Robins, L . Logan, J. Heenan, D . Healy , G. Fuller, V . Colbert.

FORM III. B A CK R OW: H . Stephe nson, Y . Wilm ink, M . Adams, J . Brophy, S . Edward s. SEC ON D ROW : A. Colber t, M . Leahy, J . Randell, P. Wri gh t, C. Brophy, S. Gould, M. Russell, V . Morri s. FRONT R OW: P . Adam, E . Donna n, J. B onser, W . Hanson, J. Mayho, P . F er guson, M . M c Carte r .

GRADES IV. & V. BACK R OW : M . O ' Klecfe, C. B o nser, C. Wri ght, A . Ward, M. Coffey. THIRD R OW : S . She rid a n, J. R ehn, R. E lliott, S. Baker, S. B eaton , M. S ulliva n . R. Moore, J. Byrne. SEC ON D R OW : C. F ulle r , C. Bonse r, J. Freem a n, W. B a k er , L . Broph y, G. Stewart, M . Colbert, F . George . FRO NT R O W : D . Ellio tt, P . Hea ly, D . Sherida n , L . O ' H ara, J. M. Sewa r d , C. Keogh, N. Mo ntefi ore, S . Elli s .

FORMS I. & II. B A CK R OW : M . W ilmink, J. S lad e, J. Baker, D. Col vin, R. R a y nor, E. Palandri, P . Daly-Smit h , S . Franetovich, J. Durkin, S . M cMullen,

G. A dams. SEC ON D R OW: K. K ee, A . W alser, R. Hi t ch ma n, K . E lli ott. H. R al s to n , D . Smith , S . Treve nen , S . Som ers, J. Casta nell e, J. L ogan, B .

I re la n d, M. L ithgo. FRONT R OW : M . Grieve, T . Sumner , A . N ich olas, S . O" Do noghue , M . B urnett, A . D o nna n, K . Durkin, E . K east, S. B oyd, D . Riley, J .

Brown, J. M cD onald, P . W alsh .

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Among Our Old Girls

Weekly Luncheon of the Executive of Past Pu­

pils' Association.

BOTTOM LEFT: O ffice-B earers: L eft to right: Miss E. Smith, T reasurer; Mrs. B. J. L ewis, Preside nt; Miss Geral­di ne Fitzgerald, Secretary.

LORETO CONVENT, BRISBANE

New Library at Loreto, Cavendish Road, Bris­bane. Furnished by the Past Pupils at a cost of

£ 1,400.

BELOW : Debutantes presen­ted to His Grace Archbishop Duhig at Annual BaU, 1957.

BACK (left to right). Roslyn Rhode s, Helen Tur-nock, Elizabeth Nowotny, Sheilah Fa rrer, Nathalie Stuart, J an M cDonneU.

FR ONT: Judith Rowe, Pamela HempenstaU, Monica Moore, Zoe Gallagher, Desley Kelly , Marga ret Else n-Gree n.

LORETO

BRISBANE Dear Member s,

Your Committee was d elighted when their su ggestion that a portion of the Magazine b e made available to the Past Pupil s was endorsed b y the Federa tion and accepted b y the Editor. As sp ace is l im ited it is impossible to give an y p ersonal items of n ews th is year, but if you all signify your desir e to b e k ept in touch with your Alma Mater and your old sch ool friends b y orderin g a copy of the Magazine, it m ay be p ossible in future yeat·s to expand this section of the Publication.

A record number of our girls 'came out' a t our Debutante Ball thi s yea r. (See p ic ture on page 88. ) T h e young p eopl e and their parents and friends had had a m os t enjoya ble evening. The function for the more m ature m embe 1·s- our R eunion Dinner- is still in the future at the tim e of wt·iting this l e tter , b u t we are a ll looking for ward lo a pleasant evening ren ewing old friendships and comolida ting n ew.

1956/ 7 has seen the es tablishment of a Life Membersh ip Sch em e. To d a te nine m embers h ave becom e Life Members and the Association is now the proud owner of 120 S.E.A. Variable Inte rest Stock , thus laying the foundation of a p ermanent in come for the Association. When the income h as assumed sizable p ro portions th ere is no doubt that the th en Committee will h ave some worthy cau se to esp ou se.

In accordance with the wish of the F ederation we h ave endeavoured to promote inter es t among our m embe rs in the stud y of international affairs partic­ularly in r ela tion lo th e s tudents h er e under the Colombo Plan. A t our Annual Meeting in N ovem­ber we were addressed b y the President of the Overseas Students' Assoc iation, Mr. Zinel A bidin of Malaya, who told us of his country and its n eed s. Senator Condon B yrne gave us a most enlightening instruc tion on the 'White A ustralia Policy' at our March Meeting. Several of our m ember s have entertained Eastern Students, the largest ga therin g bein g a t the home of Mrs. J. Rosenber g, when Miss Mary Stewart showed pictures of h er trip to E ngl and an d the Continent.

\Ve are pleased to report an ever-growing interes t by P ast P upils in ever ything Lore to. W e have a r e­cord nmn.ber of financial m embers this year. You will n ote from the li st that quite a l ar ge p er­centage of financial m ember s a re 'foreigner s.' W e are givin g m aiden names of our married m embers as we think this will e n able r eaders, both in this State and other parts of A uslralia, to identify 'mis­laid' fr iends.

ADA l R, ROB J N ANDERSON, Mrs. IV. (LEONA S L ATER) BROAD, Mrs. E. (ELAlNE O'MARA) BRLDGE, Mrs. R. L. (NOREEN RUNDLET ; Calcutta, Jndia) BROWNE. Mrs. 1-l. V. ( MARY HERBERT) BRYAN, Mrs. A. (SYB I L DOUGLAS) CARRlCK, Mrs. S. (ANN KENNEDY) CASPANEY, COLLEl':N CLAXTON, JENN IFER COTTEE, Mrs. T. (BARBARA MURP HY)

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CRADDOCK, Mrs. J. (B ET l-I GORR lNG) DALY, Mrs. M. C. (EI LEEN GREEN; Ma rryatvi ll e) DILLON, Mrs. P . (DENISE McAULIFFE) ])X)NELEY, Mrs. E. (LY N CHALLANDS) DOOLEY, Mrs. D. J. (MARIE COLLOPY; Melbourne) DRUERY, Mrs. L. (JOAN KENEALLY) FITZGERALD, GERALDINE FITZGERALD, KATHLEEN FORDE, CLARE (Toronto, Canada) FR TSTIY, HELEN ( Nonnanhurst) FULLAGAR, J OYCE GALLAGHER, Mrs. C. ( l\I ADELEJ NI': WE iil . Claremont) GOODWIN, JANICE GREEN, ELIN GREEN, MARGARET GREY, Mrs. J. (MARGARET CONNOLLY ; Norma nhu rst) GUNNIS, Mrs. L. (J I LL lfA NMAN) HAvVKINS, Mrs. J. (W I N I FRED LESLIE) H AYES, D. H AYNES, MARGOT HICKEY, Mrs. W. J . (MOYA DOYLE ; T oo rak) KENNEDY, BARBARA KENNEDY, KAT H LEEN KIRBY, P ATRICIA LA J STER, JOAN LEW IS, M rs. B. (MOYA \VELLER) LOVE, Mrs. P . ( J' AULA WEBB) MON.-\GbJAN, NELL MOO R E, MONI CA MURRAY, M rs. T. JJ. (DOR IS DORAN; Normanhurs t) McDONNELL, JAN Mc l NNES, MARGARET McKINNON, M rs. A. (BETTY \V l':B ll) O'MAHONEY, ELIZABET H O'SULLIVAN, MARGARET O'ROURKE, MAY OWEN, Mrs. H. (DOREEN PARER ) PARER, CAROLYN PARER, SllEJ LA PEARMAN, .Mrs. L. ( BJ L L Y B I NN I NGTON) POWNALL, ~ ! r s . A. (MARY McCORMACK) QU I LTY, Mrs. R. QUINN, DEN ISE RILEY, Mrs. H. (HELEN HOLMES) RHODES, ELIZABET ll ROESSLER, Mrs. L. ( MARY P I GOTT) R OSENBERG, Mrs. J. (BETTY H OUSTON) ROWE, JUDITH R UTLEDGE, RUTH SALMON, Mrs. B. (UNA AFFLECK) SM l TH, Mrs. E. J. (ALMA ANDREWS; Ade laide Te l. , Pert h ) SMI TH , Mrs. G. 0. S. (JEAN DESH ON) SMITH , PHILI P PA STEW ART, Mrs. A. (ERICA BINNI NGTON) STEWART, Mrs. E . J . (SHiRLEY HOLMES) STEWART , MARY STUAR T, Natha lie SvVEENEY, Mrs. B. (LAN'.\'A H MACROSSAN) SYDES, l\frs. (MARGARET HOLMES) TERRY, l\Jrs. D. (TH OMASI NA TERRY) T I E RNAN, Mrs. R. H . ( DIANE BURKE; Kirr ibilli ) TULLY, Mrs. F. D. (ANN MACROSSAN) TULLY, Mrs. H. (MARY ROSS) TURNOCK, HELEN WEBB, JILL WILLIS, Mrs. R. L. (MARY S M IT l-I ; Mary 's Mount) W I LSON, JEANETTE ZEMEK , MAUREEN

Committee : President Mrs. B. Lewis, Secr e tary Geraldine Fitzger ald , Treasurer Mrs. E. J. Smit I~ , Members : Mecdames C. G allagher, D. McFarlane, G. Wilkinson, J. Rosenber g, Misses J. Fullagar, P . O' Sul­livan , J. Emerson, E. Nowotny.

Trustees Mrs. C. Gallagh er and Miss Mary Stewart.

W e send gr eetings and congratulations to the South Au stralian Association for their able handling of the F ederation 's affairs during the past two years and our b est wish es to their successors.

LORETO PAST PUPILS ASSOCIATION, Brisbane.

LORETO

LORETO PAST PUPILS, MARRYATVILLE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

A corner of the Garden Party held by Old Scholars' Association in the grounds of Loreto Convent, Marryatville.

DEBUTANTES M eredith Sykes, Colleen Mahar, Rosemary K enny, Marie Jones, Anne I se nstein, Mary N aulty. Josephine James, Isobel Laing, Anne M cEwen,

Janice Mulquee n, Patricia Shanahan, Margaret Foster.

l\'IARRY ATVILLE The Garden Party: On Sunday 28th April, 1957,

the annual reunion of the Old Scholars Association was held, taking the form of a garden party. The girls were received on arrival by Mother Superior, Mother Rosario and the President, Mrs. John Pianto. Presidents of Dominican Convents, Mercy Convents, St. Dominic's Priory and St. Joseph 's Convents Old Scholars' Association were invited guests. Afternoon tea was served on the lawns, and a happy time was spent amongst the nuns and their past pupils. Bene­diction of The Blessed Sacrament in the Convent Chapel brought to a close a pleasant 1·eunion.

At the Burnside Town Hall on May 2, Loreto Old Scholars held thei1· annual ball. The hall was beautifully decorated, large urns of autumn-tinted foliage, gladioli, dahlias, etc., being used for the stage and foye1·, blue and gold cellophane bows (the school colours) adorned the pilJars and flat bowls of flowers centred the party tables.

The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress (Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Philps) received the debs and their partners, who were announced by the president of the Old Scholars' Association, Mrs. John Pianto.

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In the official party were : The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress (Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Philps) ; Rt. R ev. Mgr. J. A. Gatzerneyer, V.G. ; V. Rev. T. CosteJJoe, S.J.; V. Rev. Michael Scott, S.J.; Rev. J. Batch elor, S.J. ; the president of the Old Scholars' Association, Mrs. John Pianto, and Mr. Pianto, Miss R. Brigid Rice North, president of Loreto F ederation, Mrs. K. lVI. Ogglesby; Miss Helen Devi tt ; Misses Winifred Lang and Natalie Hurne Phillips; Mr. and Mrs. John Kelly; Mr. and Mrs. D. A. E. Kenny; Dr. and Mrs. John D. Rice ; Messrs. Ian Hannan, Phillip Walters, R. MacMahon and Bruce Cook.

Hostesses were Mesdames J .M. Glynn, P. Brooks, A. Anderson, Misses P. Green, P. Bermingham, and E. Malone.

Decoration conveners and helpers included Mes­dames Henry Kennedy, H ector Pick, Afton Walsh. P. Brooks, J. Glynn, W . H. Nicholas, J. V. O'Loghlin,

B. Rofe, L. J. Reilly, G. Mattie, A. Anderson, E. Hume Phillips, and Misses D. Pick and P. Green. The debutantes were trained by Miss Dorothy Slane.

LORETO

DAWSON STREET, BALLARAT This year has been a very successful one, both

socially and financially for the Past Pupils Associa­tion of Dawson Street.

Our R e-Union was very well attended- many memories were revived of the year s spent at the Convent. After the m eeting, Miss Maureen Bruty showed moving pictures of her seven months trip overseas with h e r mother. Her comm entar y was extremely interesting and sh e had a refreshing way of telling the story of what had impressed her most. The R e-Union concluded with B en e dic tion in the School Chapel.

The Annual Dance was again a great success. This year the supper was catered for by the Com­mittee, who were also responsible for the artistic decoration of the Hall.

Our Retreat this year was given b y Father Dunphy C.SS.R. It was a wonderful day and I think young and old alike, received much h elp in their own spher e of life from Father's talks.

This year has been saddened somewhat b y the d eath of our dea rly loved Mother M . Rose. She will be greatly missed at Daw1i0n St., but we hope to make h er memory live forever in the minds of all pupils, b y erecting a School Hall in h er honour. A t the moment our activities are centred on launching a "£1 a Brick Appeal."

M. PIERCE, Hon. Sec.

TOO RAK One of the first things that met the

editor's eye in the report from Toorak was the unobtrusive m ention of their contribution to the Novitiate Building appeal: They gave the proceeds of the Film Premie r at the Metro Theatre, Malvern, h eld in July, 1956, under the distinguish ed patronage o.f His Excellency, the Governor of Vic­toria. The r e port states : "Socially and finan ciall y the evening was an outstanding success. It se1·ved not only to raise fund s for the Novitiate, but also to bring to the attention of representative members of the community the work of the Loreto Nuns, who dedicate their lives to the service of God and to education."

The 1957 Loreto Ball was h eld at the Palais d e Dance, St. Kilda on the 1st March, and was attended by His Excellency General Sir Dallas Brooks K.C.B., K.C.M. G., D.S.O. , Governor of Victoria and Ladv Brooks. Thirty d ebutantes, including twe nty fr01~ Toorak and ten from Ma ry's Mount were presented to His Excellency and Lady Brooks. The official guests were r eceived by the Preside nt of the Associ­ation , Mrs. J ohn F. Dynon, assi sted by the Vice­President, Mrs. Adrian Wright. These inc1uded th e President of the Loreto Federation, Miss Rita Rice North; the President of Mary's Mount Past Pupils' Assoc iation, Mrs. K. Byrne a nd the President Past Pupils of Loreto Convent, Dawson Street, Mrs. Gurrie. The proceeds (£655) were donated to the Loreto Free Kindergarten.

The Building Fund at Loreto, Toorak, is to b enefit by the co-operation of the Old Girls' A ssoci­ation and the Loreto Parents' Association, this year . Already more than £1130 has been raised. Western Australia. In April of this year, Louise Arndt was married to Harold D elany of Melbourne in the St. Thomas More College Chapel. It was the first wedding in the n ew chapel.

Last May, Janet McComish was married to Henry Wall work, neph ew of Mother M. Michael and Mother M. Anne.

. Early in the year a recital was given by twlo

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students from the Melbourne Conservatoriurn, Susan Tilley and Louise Arndt, with Josephine Dunphy, in aid of the 'Osborne' Building Fund.

During the year Marie Albrecht left for the Eastern States to meet Augustine K eenan. They are going to the United States, where Marie will continue h er nursing career at the New Deaconess Hospital in Boston.

Another two of our past pupils le ft Australia this year with their husbands. They are Valerie Jackson nee Johnson who has gone to South Africa, and Mary Thyssen n ee B endon, who is living in South America.

One of our past pupils who is doing very well at the University is Mary Dwyer. So far she has obtained a distinction in eight units. This is Mary's final year.

Visiting A ustrali a at the moment with h e r family i:> Pat O ' B yrne (nee O'Hara) who for some years has been living in Ireland.

NORMANHURST Normanhurst ex-students are proud to share in

the contributions to the Loreto Magazin e. We take the stage a little sh yly, as there is so much to tell, yet our activities follow a regular pattern from year to year.

The Novitiate building is now an established part of the school, and we no longer look with wonder at the long, modern exten sion to the main school, as we hasten up the Drive for our R e-union or Annual R etreat.

This year, our Association gained thirty-three n ew m embers, perhaps a record. Many country girls, as always, from far-away country towns and country properties with unpronouncable names.

In July we installed an amplifying system in the school grounds for sports and outdoor activities. We expect at least 100 girls to attend our Annual Retreat on Sunday, 1st September, and on that day we shall present Mother Superior with a cheque.

We look forward to the Loreto Federation meet­ing in Adelaide and pledge our loyal support to our school and all activities of the Lore to Federation. As last year, we shall send a donation towards the Novitiate Fund. We Lender our sincere appreciation to Mother Superior, Mother P erpetua and the Com­munity for their never failing interest and support in all our activities both personal and within th e ex-S tudents' Union.

P. R. CAHILL, President.

LORETO

THE LORETO FREE LIBRARY AND THE THERESIAN CLUB The Loreto Free Library is one of our good

works that goes its way in compara tive obscurity. Since 1947 it has bee n incorporated in the Theresian Club which has its Sydney headquarters at St. Vincent's Hospital.

When the War obliged the Old Girl s of Loreto (Normanhurst and Kirribilli) to close the doors of their Children 's Free Library in Woo11oomooloo, it was a happy thought of Mother Provincial (Mother M. Colombiere) to hand the books over to the Theresian Club. The Loreto committee gladly agreed; they felt that the ir work would thus not have been in vain. The one interest of the Theresian s is the welfare of needy children- chiefly Catholic children in broken homes or attending state schools.

So that Loreto might still share in the work they attempted to do for those child1·en , Mother Provincia·t ask ed the Superiors of Normanhurst and Kirribilli to donate £25 each as an annual gift to charity. The Superiors gladly agreed, and the Theresians write with much gratitud e each year to thank for the £50 they receive *. For t h e interest of our readers we print a sample state m ent of expenditure. It is for the year endin g March 1957, and reads:

1956 March Films on Mass and

Sacraments* £27 11 0 April May

Books for Instruction Class 7 0 0 From Annals (MSC) Office:

Copies of Annals and cards for preparation of table in sick room 12 9

July From Catholic Central Library , Melbourne : Books for Children 2 0

August Books, explaining the Mass Books, explaining the Gospels

(Knox trans.) Books explaining the Bible

(Bible Today) 10 4 December Books for Children 1 2

Medals, Beads and Books 4 3 1957

February Books about St. Therese Books for Instruction Class

2 4 4 11

*A 16 mm Projector had already been bought from Loreto donations. It is taken to the various centres of Theresians in Sydney industrial suburbs.

0

0

0 6 6

2 2

Theresians be­ginning the Sun­day l\'lorning

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No t only do these girls ca11 at the careless homes to take the children to Mass, but they often have to go in and dress the children. They have wonder­ful and con soling s tori es to tell about these children whose parents rarely go to l\'[ass; in most cases, one partner is a non-Catholic.

One incident centres round a boy who is now stud ying in Sydney to be a priest. When h e was a boy at the state school in the city, a Theresian ca techis t had him in h e 1· instruct ion class once a week. He was a Catholic with a Protestant father and a ca reless mother. After hi s primary education h e moved on to a State High School, all the time k eeping in touch with the Theresians. One day as h e knelt in a church praying, the parish priest noticed him and ask ed him quietly if h e could do anything for him. The boy looked surprised, and stammered out: " O Y es, Father , I want to be a priest."

SEWING CIRCLE, NORl\'lANH'URST PAST PUPILS

The Sewing Circle celebrated its Silver Jubilee in 1956. For the past year or so it has been meeting at St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, through the kindness of the Teresian Club* in loaning their rooms on the First Friday afternoons. These meetings are pleasant re-unions - attended mostly by grandmothers and grand-aunts. How gladly would we welcome any in­ter.ested sewer or knitter! Parcels of clothing are sent to : Foundling Home, Waitara; St. Anthony's In­fant Home· Old Ladies (garments sent for distribution to the Da~ghters of Charity); Blind Boys at St. Ed-

mund 's Home, Wahroonga.

In the accompa nying photograph are som e of the members at work: B. Butler, D. Tully , M. W atkins, B. M cAlary, K . Rod gers, P. Clarke, A . Fehon, E. Hugh es, C. Sears, C. Curtin: Ab se nt members are: E . Burfitt, M . Carter, M. Kelly, E. Goldri ck, E. Lord, K .

Parle, M. Polin, E . Steabben, R. Stratton.

AN AUSTRALIAN ARTIST AND HIS WIFE IN SPAIN

... While we were in Spain we went to Avila -birthplace and home of St. Teresa . It is a fa scina t­ing, old walled city, fu]] of hi storical treasures. We also stayed in Toledo which attracted us in every way; the whole littl e city on its rocky hill is still full of the atmosphe re of the Middle Age3, and the ca thedral is magnificent. When we were in Seville, aga in and again we vi ewed that marvellous Gothic cathedral. In Cordoba, I was glad to find that thP.

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LORETO

A WORLD OF BOOKS By PII'ILIPPA O'LEARY, B.A.

When I first becam e interested in librarianship and began to attend classes at the library school of the Public Library of New South Wales, I looked on this institution and its staff with revernntial awe.

I hardly da1·ed to hope that with no pi·evious experience and a scanty knowledge of library tech­niques, I would be admitted immediately to the staff.

My tentative application was accepted at once, however, and even before the results of my prelimin­ary library examinations were known I began work as a library assistant. Three years of working at the Public Library has r emoved some of m y exaggerated veneration of it, but has only increased the affection and interest I began to develop as a Library School student.

T he Public Library of New South Wales had a beginning that must surel y be unique in library histor y. In the early settlement of New South Wales the sca rcity of books caused the officials and public men of Sydney considerable inconvenience. lri 1821 a group of leading citizens decided to pool their library r esources. Each drew up a list of the books in his possession, the lists were consolidated into one and the initials of the owner placed opposite the title of each book.

This inventory served as a catalogue and enabled prosp ective readers to borrow the books they required before a public library existed in Australia.

Five years later the collections of some of the men who had taken part in this scheme were brought together to form the Australian Subscription Library - a very exclusive private l ending library to which members wer e admitted by ballot. Fines were exact­ed from tardy borrower s according to the size of the hook overdue, and many of the volumes in the Public Library today still hear the bookplate of the Australian Subscription Library.

The book collec tion was purchased by the Government of New South Wales in 1869 and b ecame the Free Public Library of Sydney, later r enamed the Public Library of New South Wales. It has grown steadily by purchase and bequest to its present size of over half a million books. The library i s deeply indebted to two great benefactors, David Scott Mitchell and Sir William Dixson whose collections of

huge Moorish Mosque (now a Christian cathedral ) looked exactly as I expected from photographs : i recognised at once the hundreds of striped columns. We sta yed at Granada too, and spent days wandering through the Alhambra and the gardens of the Gene­riffe. We looked with interest at the very windows wh er e the Catholic sover eigns proclaimed their con­quest of the Moor~ . Spain is really lovely and full of romance and history.

In the Prado at Madrid we had a veritable feast of art: there are some glorious Murillo's ther e ; and as for the room with the forty-nine pictures of Velas-

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(Past Pupil, Norm anhurst ).

books, phamphlets, pictures and maps of Australia and the surrounding areas make up a library of Australiana unique in the world.

In accordance with the terms of the wills of th ese two donors access to these collections is restricted to scholars with a definite need for th em. The main sec tion of the Public Library, the Gene ral Refer­ence Department, however , is open at all times to an y member of the public who enters the Reading Room. P eople living too far away to visit the ]ibrnry are cate red for by the Country Circulation Depart­ment, which sends boxes of selected books on loan to depots in country areas and deals with referencP questions and r equests for specified books from country hon-owers. Occasionally our services go even further afi eld. A Chinese r ead er who has just com­pleted hi s studies for a Maste r of Architecture's Degree noted down m y address the other day, so that on his return to Singapore, where library work is relatively undeveloped, h e could still have access to information from the books in the Public Library of N ew South Wales.

Like most large general reference libraries, the Public Library se ts itself the now impossible goal of maintaining a collection covering all impurtant development in every fi eld of knowledge.

This ideal, which man y libraries could r ealize some hundred years ago is now unattainable to even the largest libraries owing to the huge volume of printed mate rials being produced today.

However, though all important mate rial on every subject cannot be acquired , up-to-date informatio~ can be found in the library on almost any topic. One of our readern, a Sikh, once told me that h e had learned more about his religion from books in the Public Library than he could find in India .

I am often asked whether library work becomes less inte res ting as time goes on and the novelty wears off. But I can trnthfully say that in three years of working in a library and studying librarianship there have been few dull moments. Dealing with reader s' queries is full of inter est and variety, and the spirit of teamwork among the staff lightens routine.

I find that helping reader s to get the greatest u : e out of the resources available makes librarianship a worthwhile and sa tisfying profession.

quez - it was almost unbelievable. The Prado is a huge and magnificent gall ery - the pride of Madrid and all Spain.

. The Spanish people arn very friendly and help-ful - and what courtly manners ; no Rock 'n ' Roll or Bodgies there ! A r efr eshing place altogether.

Dorothy Griffiths, .. . . * Harley Griffiths, son of the late Lexie Griffiths, , and nephew of M. M. Loreto, Normanhurst. One· of hi s recent paintings was bought by the Sydney Art Gallery. H e has also held a successful exhibition: in Brisbane of paintings done during his recent trip.

LORETO CONVENT, BRISBANE, QLD.

Top: Sub-Senior, Junior. Bottom: Form III. and Sub-Junior.

INSET : PREFECTS : STANDING: Mary Josephso n, llladonna M cAulliffe, Judith Haupt , Judith Ahern, Marie Price, Patricia Hickey.

SITTING: J osephine S'mmonds (Head of Day School ), Carmel Ryan (H ead of Boarding School).

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LORETO CONVENT, BRISBANE, QLD.

Top: Forms 1 and 2. Bottom: Grades III. & IV.

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LORETO CONVENT, BRISBANE, QLD.

INSET: The Willi s Family - Kath leen, Ann e. Mary and Judy. Family tree as follows: Margaret (B rophy) M ongovan-Mary's Mount ; Kathleen (Mongovan) Smith-Dawso n Street: Mary ( Smith ) Willis - Toorak.

On the right are Ange la and Bette Bridge. Family tree as follows: Mrs. Cones-Rathfarnham; Mrs. Danzen-Calcutta : Mrs. Rundlett-Calcutta ; Mrs. Bridg, - Simla. (ALL AR E LORETO HOUSES.)

LORETO

LORETO, BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND SENIOR CLASS J. HAUPT Al. McAuLl FFE C. RYAN J . SHntONDS

SUB-SENIOR J. AHERN J. CLEARY J. DRUM r. HAM ILTON P. HICKEY P. HOLMES A. JEFFR1ESS 11!. JOSEPHSO N S. )°OYCE P. KELLY P. MlCHELL 1-1. McC.\ USLAND A. l\fcCORM.\CK JIL McANULTY A. !lfcDONNALD E. NO WELL M . PRI CE 1\I. ROACHE M . ROTIERTS S. SHAW R. WILLETT

Absent G. RUDW1 CK S. CHAPPLE ~L lllURDOCK

JUNIOR K. TIARRY J. CATIP M . CHRTSTOPHERS B. CLAXTON C. CLEARY S. COOPER M. CRAWFORD L. DUKC AN 0. FEGAN 11!. HICKEY M. HITZKE J . J EFFRJESS M. KENT C. KERLIN B. LeBROCQ L. McCOSKE R C. MILEY P. MOLLER M. lltURPHY K. NOUD D. OWEN M. OWEN D. REDMOND S. RUSHTIROOK P. SI1\f;\!ONDS D. STUART C. TAYLOR T. W.-\LLACE J. ZACKA

Absent M., FOGARTY

SUB-JUNIOR M. DIEUDONl'\E M. EDi\IONDSON F. CLEARY A. CT.ANCHY M. FlNNIMORE M. FOOTE \V. GREENUP P. llEALY C. JOl'\ES

R. KELLY M. LUDDY M. E . :McCO RMACK R. MI SSEN S. MORROW A. OWEN H. PARER S. PARER C. SKEHAN B. STtIN M. RANKIN J. WALSH A. WINSHIP

Absent C. BOWES B. PENDERGAST M . BElRNE

FORM III T. ARNOLD S. BALDlE P. BROWN G. CASEY M. CIOTTI K. CONDON S. COOPER M. ELDRIDGE A. GARDNER L. HANCOCK P . HI CKEY ~. GEJTZ E. KEARNS R. LAMB M. O'BR IEN K. POULTON D. R OACH E. SPRINGER IJ. TAYLOR Y. T H OMAS A. T I ERNAN J. W H ITE

FORM II P. ANDREWS L. BRAITLING A. BRIDGE J. BR OAD P. CONNOLLEY J. COFFEY S. DOUGLAS i\ T. GUTH RIE C. HOOKE J. KELLY A. MONAGHAN P. MORROW V. JOHNSON T. NEYLON R. O'SULLIVAN F . PARER T. PARER 111. ROACHE E . RlJDWICK M. STEWART P. SHEPHERD W. WILSON R. JOSEPHSON

Absent M. BOWES C. KELLY J. GOODWIN D. GODDARD

FORM I C. BROWNE J. BOYLE C. CARTER

;\f. CASHEL N. CONDON F. DRAKE J. FANNI NG P. GANN E. GRIFFEN JIL GRIFFEN A. HEALY A. HEGARTY IL HEALY K. HODGES N. JOSEPHSON K. McCALLUM J . McCORMACK R. McCULL AGH L. Mc W ALTERS M. O'SULLIVAN M . PARER P. QUI NN n. SI M PSON R. TIERNAN M. OWEN ll . WILLIAMS

Absent GIOVANNA KOWA LCZYUK

JUNIOR P. ALLEN D. BRI DGE B. BEIRNE ). CARROLL K. CUM MING C. DOUGLAS A. ELDRIDGE M. KELLY L. KURTS S. McDONALD V. MATTHEWS M. NOWWILL C. PRESTON K. WILLIS P. CORBETT A. WHITE B. McMASTER

GRADE IV L COUCH MAN I' . BALDIE S. CHRTSTO P HERS A. HARBURG M. McNUL TY S. McNULTY P. McCO R MACK M. STIRLING A. NELSON C. TESSIER M. MURRAY A. W ILL IS A. WILLIS M. MONAGHAN

GRADE III C. ALLEN V. CLEEVE G. CONDON M. BAKHASH J. DELA:'.\'EY D. J OSEPHSON K. MONAGH AN K. ROAC H K. HOGES B. KEI.LEGH ER S. HEGARTY T. KENWAY C. HALL ll. SYDES

Y. O'MARA M. W I LLI S K. HANCOCK R. GUTH RIE C. MURRAY F. STE WART K. PRESTON

GRADE II R. CORBETT D. ELDRIDGE M. ANDER SON C. MURRAY C. HANDASYDES 11!. WI L LIS P. NORT ON-.W ILLSON G. HARDY ll. H ARRI S JI. O'SULLIVAN B. TAYLOR

PREPARATORY 111. BRASSIL L. GRACE R GERECK f E. MO:'.\'AG H AN N. M URRAY A. i\!cNULT Y P . F l T T ON J. MUR PH Y M. OUANE I'. STUART C. 'vVE Bli S. KELLY K. llOT OS M I '. H AN DASYDES L. RODGERS T. KEN\\'AY D. CLARKE-RYAN M. McCO RMACK T. HONE A. NELSON J . HI GG I NS D. POWNALL D. i\IcCALLUM

GRADE I A. BEH AN K. CONNOR D. :FOLEY A. H ICKEY P . SYDES C. CARRI CK C. NO WI LL L. STEWART C. PANEK G. HONE H . MURRAY

KINDERGARTEN J. CARRI CK M. CROFT C. STEARM AN I'. \\.'EB B L. HARRIS D. NORTON-WI LLSON E. WILLIS J. W iLLIS C. LOVE K. H IGGI NS R. FOLEY P. ROB I NSON J. CONNOR C. CROUC H R. DESHON J. llkCAFFER'I Y

LITTLE GREEN WA VE Little green Wave with lace on its edges F lits in and out of gay se·aweed hedges , Peeping so slyly through white coral ledges.

L ittle green Wave does just as it wishes, Splashes and slithers all over the fishes, Filling the rock pools as if they w ere dishes.

Little green Wave with r ibbons and laces, Sometimes it loiter s and sometimes it races, Sometimes it's chased and sometimes it chases.

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Little gr een Wave with gay sunbeams dancing, With the White Horses playfully prancing, Up at the seagull laughing and glancing.

Little green Wave soon n ow you'll be sleeping, Off to your deep ocean bed you'll be creeping, While the great Mother Sea has you safe in her keeping

LEXIE GRIFFITHS

(See P age 94 )

ST. MARY'S HALL, MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY, PARKVILLE, VIC.

BACK ROW : Mary Collins. Margaret Coleman, Rita Deveny, Sue Tilley, Marie Drew, Loretta Diviny, Deidre Moriarty, Mary Calwell, Margaret Riggall, Judith Walsh, Felicity Wakefield-Kent, Deni se Flaherty.

M IDDLE ROW: Mary Conroy, Betty Lenaghan, Patricia Joyce , Margaret Smith, Jo celyn Gorman, Marie Loui se Uhr, Barbara Benson, Jeanne Gorman, Judith Hill, Jennifer Hoy, Marga ret Biviano, Patricia Coutts, Helene Wood.

FRO NT ROW: Annette M cSwiney, Mary Morrissy, Gwenda Miller, Betty Mulcahy, Mai garet Murphy, Janet Byrne, Colette Christie, Betty Hoy, Ro semary Gorman, Christine White­head, Jane Ahern, Faye Fallon.