No. 2684. PERTH, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1974
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Kalgoorlie C.B.C. to get new school After 68 years of spectacular service to the gold-mining communities of the Eastern Goldfields, Christion Brothers College is to take a new lease of life in brand new premises to be built with a grant of $480,000 made available by the Australian Schools Commission this week. Brother Murphy said that Ryan who arriv ed in 1924. The new college will be built on an eight-acre site this new step would be conSingle-handed, this gentle next to Prendiville College ducive to better educational academic steered hundreds for Girls which was opened standards and would be a of boys through Leaving extwo years ago and with marked contrast to the gal- aminations, garnering exhiwhich C.B.C. has been vanised iron and asphalt and bitions, bursaries and first tlaring co-instruction in up the congestion of the orig- places that could be matchto 14 subjects at Leaving inal school . ed in few other places in and Matriculation level, re- . The school opened in the State. sulting in a doubling of 1906 "in a tin shed and deAnother teaching identity lumbers of boys remaining spite the flies and heat", ac- of Kalgoorlie C.B.C. was cording to the local histor- Brother Smith who spent for fourth and fifth years. thirty years in that college. The land was vested in ian of the time. In 1962 with the contrithe trustees of the Christian ENROLMENT butions of parents. old boys Brothers after a delegation Brother Duggan was the and Brothers the "Brother bad been well received by the manager of the State first headmaster and direct- Smith Memorial Hall" was Housing Commission. Mr. ed the college until his sud- built to his memory. Looking back over his hisMcKenzie, who appreciated den death in 1915. The college to this stage torical record. Brother the possibilities implied in being able to site the new had survived on a single lot Murphy said: college next to Prendiville of land and in 1915 its EMINENT stocks soared with the be- College. "There is a job here for quest of three more lots An earlier visit by mem- by the late Mrs Catherine an historian to research the bers of the Karmel Com- Hayes. contribution of families like mittee had advised against The old Bulong post the Boylens. the Robinsons. developing the present office was bought and put the Millers, the Dolans. the school by extending the Wil- on a block adjacent to the Waddells. the Colgans. the ion Street frontage through College. Ryans, the English and the purchase of adjoining There had been 184 boys numerous others." ' 'souses; the committee rec- attending the school At the golden jubilee dinat its -ommended a search else- opening in 1906 and by ner of 1956 the toast of where for a site. 1918, when it became a -Alma Mater" was given by recognised secondary school, the eminent old boy. GregCONTRAST the enrolment had reached ory Gowans. Q.C. a Justice of the Supreme Court of The present headmaster 320. of C.B.C., Brother Bernard But the boom-and-bust Victoria who was knighted Murphy, explained that the conditions of the goldfields in this year's honours list. The earliest old boys asapplication for the grant hit C.B.C. as well; in 1928 bad been made with the as- the enrolment had fallen to sociation was formed under sistance and advice of the 158 'and some of the school Mr Ben Leslie. J.P. a mayor former parish jriest of Kal- property had to be sold to of Kalgoorlie in 1919. Brother Murphy pays pargoorlie now of Scarborough, stave off the financial deFather F. J. Dillon, who pression of those years. ticular thanks to the work steered the final decision on But in those intervening done by the Parents and The newly elected Abbot of New Norcia, the building of Prendiville years the college had begun Friends under the presidenMost Rev. Bernard Rooney, 0.S.B., received a College at a time when the to leave its mark under the cy of Mr Peter McGinty future of the gold industry remarkable teaching career and the Mothers Auxiliary Solemn Blessing from and was welcomed into Was very much in question. of Brother M. A. ("Tiger") who have been responsible the Australian Hierarchy by Archbishop Goody, for effecting improvements Metropolitan of the Province of Western Austrato the school. lia, in the New Norcia Abbey church last „
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• Pictured at the distribution of Communion at the Mass, in the New Norcia Cathedral, of his solemn Blessing is Abbot Rooney O.S.B. and other principal concelebrants, Archbishop Goody, and the Abbot's brother-priests, Father Don Rooney ( left) and Father Brian Rooney (right).
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"So many who have In the course of the Other principal conce passed through this college ceremony, the Abbot was lebrants were Abbot have contributed to the handed in turn by Arch- Rooney's two brothers, priestly. Religious life and bishop Goody the Rule both priests — Father to every section of the pro- of St. Benedict, the ring; Don Rooney, the younfessional and primary in- mitre and pastoral staff. est of the Rooney famdustry levels of the GoldAbbot Rooney is en ily and at present assisfields," Brother Murphy titled to wear a bishop's tant priest at Mona Vale, said "and countless others insignia since he has N.S.W., and Father Brian have given marvellous pastoral jurisdiction Rooney, an elder broproof of the very goodness over the Abbey Nullius ther who is a priest of David & Wilma Drew, BYE Singers, of their lives, through the extending over 1,200 the arehdiocese of SydUnderwood Trio, Sandy Palmer sacrifices they have made. square miles surround- ney and is at. present on "The task of this new ing the Abbey, as well loan as parish priest of And introducing Perth's own gospel group Catholic _High School Cen- as the mission territory Mount Tom Price. tre will be to give clarity of Kalurnburu. "The Living Sounds of Love" Other members of Other bishops concele- Abbot Rooney's family and vigour to faith, to nourish lives according to the brating the Mass of present included a broSpirit of Christ. and to in- Blessing were Bishop ther, Dr. John Rooney, spire apostolic and charit- Thomas of Geraldton, of Midland W.A. and his Bishop Quinn of Perth, family, a sister, able action. Mrs Bishop Gallagher of Margaret Minette of SydSPIR!T Pine (an ex-stud- ney, and the children of "It will promote a spirit Port brother, of prayer through the ac- ent of St. Ildephonsus') another Mr Bishop Stewart of Ben- Maurice Rooney, of Sydtive encouragement of litdigo, assisted by the re ney. urgical life and on the other tired former head of New hand it will promote a sense Music at the Mass was Norcia, abbot Gregory of moral and cultural provided by the Double Gomez. O.S.B. values. view parish choir, led "In short, it is hoped to by Brian Mee.gan and INSIDE ON 25 3545 BOOK NOW PAGES promote the full developaugmented with local ment of the human person". Calendar 4 voices from Salvado The snirits of the pion- Classified College. 411111110111111111110r4OV. eers who watched the Advertising 10 Abbot Rooney is the Church grow from nothing Education File 4 fifth in that office in the to one of the strongest cen- News In Pars 8 128 years of the history tres of Catholic Faith in Letters 8 of the New Norcia AbAustralia at the turn of the ey and the first AustraOur Historic Link 9 century would not fail to t it ..opy is noon On MOD[`he deaftime tog lian to be so elected: Sister Philomena note the tone of stiff-jawed He was Prior and Ap- tay. The rtilt.i? hi '!tr ii .itivised if it is anticiEarle 5 ostilic courage with which Brother Administrator pated thai material ‘‘iti 'Niue after that time: 10, 12 after the retirement of ttherwise the hulk's:ism it ..00v cannot be cuarMurphy uttered those hopes Sport for his new college. Theatre 7 Abbot Gregory Gomez inteed. ( SEE PAGE 7.) TV, Radio 11 in 1971
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