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Michael Fitzgerald seems to have enjoyed the evening!

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+ Chris Powell

+ Guy Heery

+ Michael Jude
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1973

1975

!!BREAKING NEWS!!

At the dinner we learned that Peter McCulloch,
Steve Wiblin, Paul Tumminello, Tony Melrose
have not smoked in close on 40 years or was that 35!
I imagine it is the same story for the other Miami Smoko members

The Miami Smoko

Finally the College now has the evidence needed to prosecute these infamous culprits!
Please put names to these faces and a reward will be offered for information that leads to a conviction:

Saturday penals and off to Mr Hart for:
"both hands double them under!!"

As Mr Geoff Deegan would have said:

'Just look at them,
look at them, let me at them!'

James Kearney has generously offered
his services gratis as legal counsel.

Thank you Jim

Jesuit Legends

from l-r: Fr Emmett Costello SJ, Fr Pat 'Boris' McEvoy SJ, Fr Vincent Conway SJ Rector
Fr Patrick 'Toddy' Morgan SJ, Fr Geoffery 'Fritz' Schneider SJ

Fr McEvoy was also called 'Goldfinger' - because of those huge nicotine stains on his fingers -
by boys in the early 60s and at the height of the James Bond movie era.

I remember Fr Morgan receiving an enormous standing ovation at the 1979 Centennary Dinner.

Fr Schneider, now 98 years of age is simply an inspiration and
a legend in his own life time. He is still quite active at the college and concelebrated
and distributed Holy Communion at
the Father & Son Mass on Friday August 27th 2010.
He told me at the mass that he still takes the ferry for a day out in Manly.

Damian 'Tiny' O'Donnell with Chris Flannery in the Aloysian 1971

"We sail the ocean blue and our saucy ship's a beauty.
we're sober men and true and attentive to our duty!"
HMS Pinafore

Tim Hayman preparing for his many years
as an excellent performer and director of G&S operas
in community theatre, here on the
Manly Ferry Baragoola (1922-1983)
circa 1968

Our generation was somehow a touch lost in all the uproar of those days:
There was the pill, pot and the Vietnam war.
Outrageous scenes on Australian TV in Channel 10's Number 96.
Movies that shocked the world such as "Midnight Cowboy".

Maybe Geoff Deegan was right after all.
What a wonderful human being he is
and he would be thrilled to meet his former louts and larrikins!

from Tim Hayman: photos from RK Class 1970 with Geoff Deegan.

Tim said:

All I remember of the photos was the one I took of Geoffrey Deegan in RE class 'righteous anger...let me at him!'

I believe this shot was taken after Richard Cartwright threw the Mons Ronald Knox New Testament
into the garbage bin and Mr Deegan lost it totally and "flayed him alive!"

Yes we were too young for the Hippies and too old for the Punks.
Damian Macey SAC 74 said of the 70-75 era:
"We were Post Peace and Pre Punk!"

Poor Kev Davis is no longer with us.
He is in Heaven and still giving everyone "5 lines in ink!"

How about our beloved Fr "Boris" McEvoy SJ, his golden thumb and Norton 500 single:
what a great man he was and our Prefect of Studies.

Fr Pat "Boris" McEvoy SJ

Don Hardman

who will ever forget his
"Don't look at me like a stunned mullet!"
or
"jography filerms!"
"son have you been watching Gilligan's Island again instead of doing your homework!"
and of course
"Curtis continue the reading!"
as Don would sit and correct the bundle of papers he always
had under his arm as we can see above. The late Michael Jude is also in this picture.

just in from Martin Curtis:

"These pix are so good !
Look at that Don Hardman one....what a beauty ...." Fay, you are king of the geographic garden."

Don Hardman classic quote just in from Pat Donnelly:

"Son do it my way and you will succeed, do it your way and you will fail!"

Apart from a small reunion I organised in 1979 there has never been
an official reunion for the 1972 HSC Year.
There were several SAC 73 lads there as well: Rene Leveaux, Randall Churchill.

Paul Tumminello has just informed me that Tony Firth organised a reunion in 1997 for our 25th anniversary.

In 2012 it will be our 40th annivearsary
and some of our class would like to get together

If you are interested in a reunion, have memorabilia we can upload or would like to get in touch for further information
please contact Martin Cooke.

On the 772

Martin Cooke, Tim Hayman and Peter Mahoney circa 1968

Off to Singleton Cadet Camp "D Block" 1968

Form VI-I

Form VI-II

1971

1970

1968

1967

Please note Greg Stanford doing rabbitts ears behind Martin Cooke.
Who remembers Stanford's loutish behaviour during Fr "Moose" O'Brien's sex education talks in Form I in 1967?
What did Stanford do as poor Fr O'Brien turned to draw diagrams on the blackboard?

Please send your answers per email!

Harry Power "Ah Boy you've got 25!"

Fr O'Donovan at his favourite spot after school:
"Hey Fella! Do that coat up and straighten that boater!"

Maurice Mahady and the late Fr Geoff "Jessie" James SJ.
4B History Class 1970

Tim remembers Jessie's classic:

'Hayman!...Get out!'
"is all I remember...sad to hear he is gone, though"

The late Geoff James SJ talking to some of the SAC73 class near the remains of the original school building
and what was known as the "covered play area",
I recognised Rene Leveaux talking to Mr James SJ

Pat Donnelly as Giuseppe in the 1973 SAC
production of The Gondoliers

The Mikado of 1971:
a decisive milestone for the career paths of
Pat Donnelly and Martin Cooke

standing: Nick Lush far left, Huon Snelgrove, Pierre Romano, Martin Cooke, Pat Donnelly, John Grinter.
seated: John Faassen, Jim L'Estrange and Paul Dyer

1971

In 1972 Tim Hayman and Pat Donnelly starred in
Ruddigore

Tim Hayman Dancing the Hornpipe
Act I Ruddigore

Talking with senior school music students in 2004