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I can remember many of the parishioners of the time including, Caylocks, O’Hallorans,<br />
Maisie Owens, Mr & Mrs Robinson, Mullalys etc.<br />
During my years at Primary level, teachers were: Prep/1 - Miss Doherty; Gr 2 - Miss<br />
Lehane, Gr 3 - Sr Gertrude, Gr 4 & 5 - Sr Mark; Gr 6 - Mother Anthony, Gr 7 - Sr<br />
Alphonsus (Diocesan Scholarship Year).<br />
Priests I remember include: Father Joyce, Father Murphy, Father Murray, Father<br />
Kennelly, Father Gannon, Father Gleeson.<br />
Outstanding events include:<br />
I. School balls & concerts, First Communion<br />
II. Rebuilding of church<br />
III. Building of stone fence - two men cut huge blocks of Mt Gambier <strong>St</strong>one on site<br />
for months on end<br />
IV. Fetes<br />
V. Fund-raising - house parties etc<br />
School memories include our wonderful “extras”<br />
Dancing with Miss Hunt<br />
Phys Ed - Mr McDonald<br />
Cooking - Miss Cottrell<br />
Elocution - Miss Mercovich<br />
Singing - Miss Mornement<br />
Saturday morning school during our scholarship year<br />
Another wonderful memory is of the performances of the “Padua Light Opera<br />
Company” - presenting Gilbert and Sullivan Operattas (Producer Cyril Holden) This<br />
went for many years.<br />
Nuns:<br />
Gertrude, Canico, Anthony, Alphonsus, Ignatius, Benignus, Mark, Philomena, Justin<br />
Music: Killian, André, Bernadette, Bridget<br />
Roch Kennedy – memories of <strong>St</strong> Anthony’s Glenhuntly 2012<br />
(From conversations between Roch and one of his great nieces, Kathryn Hannan,<br />
recorded in mid-2012 for the purpose of providing information to John O’Callaghan for<br />
a history of <strong>St</strong> Anthony’s and the Glen Eira Historical Society.)<br />
Re School
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