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Old Collegians
125th Anniversary Celebration – St Patrick’s Day,
The entire St Patrick’s College community is encouraged to join us on St Patrick’s Day, Saturday, March 17 for a day of activities to mark our 125th anniversary celebrations. An afternoon of free activities is being planned and we’d love to have you involved. Among the highlights on the day are: Free family portrait sessions…
Launch of our Great Man video
As St Patrick’s College celebrates its 125th anniversary in 2018, we felt it was a crucial time to revisit and redefine our mission to -raise fine boys to the status of great men-. We asked ourselves, what is a great man? How do we define greatness? To answer these challenging questions the College embarked upon…
Jack Bannister – swapping Schoolies for Sri Lanka
Class of 2017 Year 12 student Jack Bannister, pictured above, chose to forego Schoolies celebrations to head to Sri Lanka for an incredible trip of a lifetime instead. Here, Jack shares his trip with us and encourages other school leavers to consider a similar amazing overseas experience: – -I first heard about my trip to…
JOBS FILE – December 2017
JOB OPPORTUNITIES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR SPC OLD COLLEGIANS: – TRAINEE COURT REGISTRARS: The Magistrates’ Court of Victoria (MCV) has started recruiting for Trainee Court Registrar positions. Applications are currently open with MCV accepting applications on an ongoing basis, with the assessing process scheduled to start in February 2018. The position is advertised at https://jobs.careers.vic.gov.au/jobs/VG-TCR2017 and…
Where are they now – Ash Collins (SPC 2000-05)
The College reconnects with Ash Collins (SPC 2000-05) who is working as the game intelligence manager at the Collingwood Football Club. Where has life taken you since leaving SPC? After finishing at SPC in 2005 I first started to study Occupational Therapy at Deakin university but after a semester there I realised that it…
Engagements, Marriages and Births – December 2017
Our SPC community has plenty of exciting news to share: – MARRIAGES Congratulations to Miles Hingston (SPC 1994-95, PY 1999) who married Claire Moroney last Friday, December 8 and returned to St Patrick’s for their wedding reception in the OCA Pavilion. Congratulations to Kane Tolliday (SPC 1997-2002) who married Rochelle Goldsmith on December 2. Peter…
Old Boys in the News – December 2017
Our Old Boys have been in the news, including: Congratulations to Joel Parnis (SPC 2004-06) who is making big waves in the world of opera and has just signed as a soloist tenor the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s upcoming Christmas performances! After a successful season in the musical My Fair Lady in Sydney this year, Joel…
A reunion 40 years in the making
The College was recently delighted to reconnect, for the first time in 40 years, with Old Collegian John Mildren (SPC 1971-75). It was a poignant moment of reflection for John and for the College and we are fortunate that John has provided permission for us to publish below his thoughts on why it took so…
Thanking our Boarding Precinct Appeal donors
The College would like to sincerely thank our generous supporters of the Boarding Precinct Appeal. So far, we are well over a third of the way towards raising $1 million in a fundraising appeal, raising- over $400,000, towards the overall $7m build cost. While the build is moving rapidly and we look forward to opening…
Statement regarding Archbishop Frank Little
St Patrick’s College, Ballarat will today remove the name of Old Collegian and former Archbishop of Melbourne Sir Thomas Francis (Frank) Little from a building which had been named in his honour and revoke his status as an inducted Legend of the College. These actions have been taken in response to yesterday’s findings into Case…