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Sister Berchmans Grade 4<br />
The last mentioned is of course the most famous. One could fill a hundred pages and<br />
that would only scratch the surface so I will try a few.<br />
“Nigs” claim that no-one from <strong>St</strong> Anthony’s ever failed to get their merit certificate was,<br />
I reckon, true. We were too frightened not to remember on those hot summer<br />
days..……..I know that she was cruel and hard but she got results and we were better<br />
off for it. All in all my memories of <strong>St</strong> Anthony’s are great.<br />
I remember the one penny a lesson for singing with Eddie Drill and threepence for<br />
physical culture with Jock <strong>St</strong>anley. Another good thought was when the school<br />
inspector was due to arrive and “Nigs” would put the fear of the Lord into you. Then on<br />
the given day Mr O’Lauchlin arrived and you would never meet a nicer kinder man. So<br />
“Nigs” tricked us again.<br />
Nancy & Margaret O’Meara:<br />
The O’Meara family arrived in Glen Huntly in 1926. The school building was two stories<br />
with four classrooms upstairs and down. The playground was bigger then, and there<br />
was room for two tennis courts behind the buildings, a shelter shed, and another<br />
building called the clubrooms. The present tennis courts were just a paddock and the<br />
fathers attended working bees to clear the land for playground space.<br />
Miss Doherty taught grade 2, Miss Taylor grades 3 & 4, Sister Berchmans grade 5,<br />
Sister Aidan grade 6, whilst Sister Benignus taught grades 7 & 8. Sister Magnise<br />
managed a composite prep and grade 1. Mr Drill came in to teach singing and Miss<br />
Raynor coached in dancing. The highlights of the school year were the end of year<br />
concert and the ball.<br />
Les Foran:<br />
I came to live at <strong>St</strong> Anthony’s Parish aged 10 months in 1929. I went to school aged<br />
around 5 and my first teacher was Sister Kevin and then in grade 2 Miss Doherty. She<br />
was very good at teaching elocution. Elocution was always a specialty of the house at<br />
<strong>St</strong> Anthony’s in those days. Mr Drill came every week to teach singing. Other elocution<br />
teachers were Ms Allen and Ms Sarah Mercovitch. Ms Taylor taught 4th grade but Ms<br />
Bertram taught me in the 4th grade. Sister Benignus of course was head of the school<br />
and taught grades 7 & 8 whilst Mother Francis taught grade 6.
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