Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Set of Pictures

I would like to get together a set of pictures showing the various aspects of life at the Juniorate and the Noviatiate. Things like:

The Juniorate
The Boiler
The Steam Driven Laundry
  • The Mangle
  • Steam Ironingboards
The wood fired oven
The Kitchen Steamer
The old black Mercury parked near the woodheap
The woodheap
  • Block Buster
  • Cross cut saw
  • Chain saw

Farm Tractor

Chook Pen

Vegetable Garden

Petrol driven garden cultivator

The Chapel

The Refrectory

Games Room

Large Snooker Table

Classroom

Dormitory

Spiral staircase

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Monks

Juniorate 1964/65

Teachers
Br Claudius (Oliver Mason) - Master of Juniors 61-67; Master of Novices 67- ; Latin after Br Gerard retired; Ancient History
Br Valerius (Les Brogan) - Enlish, Modern History & Geography; work rosters & wood drives; boiler expert; Gregorian Chant Master and music; last Master of Juniors (replaced Claude in 67 when Claude became Master of Novices)
Br Bede (Yates) - Maths; Sports Master ?; Supervised the farm gardens
Br Gerard (O'Donoghue) Latin & French, 1958 to 1965
Br Victor (Ron Perry) English 1958 to mid 1964, Physics and History
Br Alfred (Dolahenty) Maths & Physics
Br Conan (Frank Rogers) Maths; RIP 2004
Br Benedict (Peter Codd) from 1965 - Science and excursions

Economics?

Farm Gardens
Br James (Thrift) plus range golfer extraordinaire; one of the 3 Brothers who was saved from execution by the Japanese during WW2 when an American plane strafed them.

Retired
Br Eusebius Murray

Chaplain
Dom Paul David (Chaplain for 50 years from 1950 - 2000)

Cook
Frank Young

Novitiate 1966
Br Fergus McCann
Br Ambrose Brady
Br Colgan Taylor

Farm
Br Alan Elliot

Fr Peter Galavan

1965 LC Names

These are the names published for Mittagong for the 1965 Leaving Certificate. I have added in pupils AA where known. The lits was kindly supplied by M. Mullany.

Boorman I. (Ian) J.
Borg F. (FRank) G.
Britton A. (Tony) P.
Burns M. (Michael) J.
Burrows A. (Tony) J.
Cannon B. (Bernie)
Cochran M. (Michael) A.
Ellis P. (Paul) D.
Evesson M. (Michael) G
Fitzpatrick R. (Richard) A.
Fogarty T. (Terry) P.
Fraser G. (Greg) J.
Galvin M. (Mick) R.
Garofano R. (Bob now Raff) M.\
Goodwin G. (Garry) J.
Hanley J. (Jim) J.
Holmes R. (Ron) J.
Hyam J. (John) C.
Kachel T. (Terry) J.
Last J. R.
Maclaine I. (Ian) C.
Macnamara T.M.
McLeod P. (Paul) R.
Moraghan A. (Patrick now Andrew) T.
Mullany M. (Michael) P.
Nesbitt K. (Kelvin?) W.
Patterson J. (John) C.
Renshaw P. (Peter) D.
Slater D. (Daryl) J.
Smith R.D.
Stewart P. (Peter) R.
Waddell W. (Billy) W.
Wagner A. (Tony) J.
Total 34

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