Wayne Curran

After leaving the Schol I had three years in Casino. Then four years at Ayr. Ayr was great1 Great fellows in the community. Absurdly, I was made TIC P after only three years. Then, when we went co-ed with the Convent School, I was the Deputy Principal.!

After four years in Ayr, six in Daceyville, the last couple as Principal, I left the monksat the end of 1981. I secured a job as Principal of a delightful school at Tarro in the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese. I had upgraded my qualifications to Dip Teach at Bathurst, so I began to study for a Dip. ED at Armidale. In August ’82 I married the light of my life, Theresa (Alvos).
In 1984, I started as Principal at Mt. St. Patrick Primary School in Murwillumbah. I finished the Armidale study and began a Masters in Education in RE with ACU. In 1986 we adopted Thomas Kim Wayne Curran from South Korea. In 1992, we adopted Philip Andrew Kim, also from South Korea.

Murwillumbah was great! Theresa had a number of piano students, we were both involved in the music ministry in the Parish Church, I was in Rotary and I was generally enjoying school. Overall I was fairly well.

In my tenth year I finished the Masters and the Parish Priest told me he thought it was time to “move on”! He wasn’t dissatisfied with my work; he “just thought that it was time to move on!”
We went to Casino where I was Principal of an Infants School. That was a really interesting time. I taught half days Year Two! It required a whole range of skills that I didn’t know I had! In the third year I started to get really sick with my chest. At the end of that year I resigned. After 8 years in Casino we moved to this delightful corner of South East Queensland! Three minutes by car to the beaches!

In June 2005, I was diagnosed with Cirrhosis of the Liver (all those years of heavy drinking!). They still don’t know what caused it.
So, since that June, I have been in and out of hospital, well and truly using our hospital insurance with MBF!

Therese works part-time as a Child Care Assistant in South Tweed Heads. Thomas is working at the Marriott in Surfers Paradise.
Between us, Therese and I are educating Philip (Philip has Tourette Syndrome) at home using the Brisbane School of Distance Education materials.

That’s it. I take each day as the gift it is and carpe diem.

Best wishes to all for a great reunion, I’m sorry I can’t make it. Wayne