Bill Graham MSC, honoured as distinguished Catholic educator.

Jim Littleton has written:

  Readers will be pleased to know that in a recently published book, "Not Forgotten", which is Volume One of the Bibliographical Dictionary of Australian Catholic Educators, 1820-2020, one MSC, Bill Graham, is among those so honoured.   The editors of the book are Anne Benjamin, who is an MSC Education Company Member, and Seamus O'Grady.    The book is published by Coventry Press.  

It contains short biographies of 30 people who have contributed in a significant way to Catholic Education in Australia in those two centuries.     The editors used the biography of Bill Graham that I had published in "Saints and Scholars" in 2016.

From Jim Littleton’s account in his book Brotherhood in Mission.

He was a great sportsman and when leaving to go to Kensington was told “when you get to Kensington, don’t let them take away your laugh”. Those who heard it resound across the lawns of Downlands know just how well he followed that advice. (His nickname among the boys was “Mini-ha-ha”.)

He was sent to Downlands thus beginning a career in the education of youth which is without comparison in the history of downland is.

(After postings as curate at Camp Hill, 1943 and in January, 1944, to Randwick,) he returned to Downlands, winning the hearts of all during the next 27 years. Sadly, his life was cut short by a car accident and Dalby where he was engaged on pastoral work.

Photo credit: Toowoomba MSC tombstones, Gerry Burke MSC