Stories from around our MSC Colleges, Downlands, Chevalier, Monivae, Daramalan
And not forgetting his one year at Daramalan doing his final secondary school year in2012! He's still hitting.
From Monivae
Congratulations Aaron Pederson (Class of 1988) on winning the peer judged AACTA Best Actor in a Series Award from a finalist list including international actors Hugh Grant, Daniel Levy, Jason Bateman and Paul Mescal.
From Chevalier College Alumni
We received the sad news today that Brother John Gibson OH from the class of 1948 had passed away on Sunday 14 March at 88 years of age.
Br Gibson was one of our founding students here at Chev and was a student here from 1946 to 1948. In fact, as you can see in the photo from our big book below, he was the 23rd student to be enrolled here at Chev.
From Santa Sabina
It is with deep sadness that we announce that our beloved Father John Gibson OH passed away on Sunday. He was the College Chaplain for 20 years of loving and loyal service to the Santa Sabina community. Father John will be greatly missed by all who knew him. We extend our condolences to his family, friends and the St John of God community.
From Daramalan
You really can’t go wrong if you have Kitty Flanagan writing a comedy show for TV. So her latest offering called “Fisk”, starting at 9.00pm tonight (Wednesday) on the ABC, looks really clever. Especially when you realise Kitty’s co-star is ex-Dara boy Marty Sheargold (1989) a true comedy professional who’s been performing on radio, TV and stand-up for over 30 years. Check it out.
Prickly Problem at Press Club
Last Wednesday, the lunchtime address at the National Press Club had to be cancelled due to the no-show of the Defence Minister. Which posed a prickly crustacean problem for Chief Executive and ex-Dara boy Maurice Reilly (1978).
With not wanting to chuck out 200 thawed – and delicious - WA crayfish (Western Rock lobster) Maurice hastily organised a special members-only $10 champagne-poached lobster lunch. Now you’d think that was a great idea, especially as 220 crays sold out in 72 mins. But, in this age when offence is found everywhere, Maurice was bombarded with criticism of “being out of touch”, “being part of the Canberra bubble” (whatever that means), and generally showing bad taste when JobSeeker only went up by $3.57 (?).
Maurice explained that they couldn’t be donated and apologised if anyone was offended. Crisis averted. All that Dara education certainly came in handy!
From Downlands
Congratulations to Downlands Past Student, Trevor Magei (91-93), who has been selected as ORO Provincial Administrator, Papua New Guinea. Magei had never worked for any other organisations other than the Oro provincial administration. He joined the public service on July 12, 1994. On Nov 23, 2020 he was selected as the provincial administrator. He was only 20 when he entered the public service. Now at 45, he is one of the youngest to become a provincial administrator.
What do you do when you can't visit our Japanese exchange school?
We teleconference!
This week a range of our Japanese classes have been conferencing with students from Fukuyama High School who are studying English. It was an opportunity for students use their second language in an authentic setting. Students from both schools gained language and cultural insights that were not otherwise possible.
And this week
