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I remember a tennis event – not sure when, but we won a school<br />
team tournament and arrived back at the College feeling pretty<br />
pleased with ourselves and ready for congratulations, but Mother<br />
Bonaventure spoiled it all by declaring our tennis dresses were too<br />
short! She surely popped our bubble!!<br />
As SHC ladies we enjoyed dancing lessons with Mrs<br />
Challingsworth, movie afternoons, relaxation time on weekend<br />
afternoons, treats like jam fancies and jam roly-polies, sleeping<br />
in a dormitory, the meals in the refectory, and the thrill of Sunday<br />
afternoon visitors from St Pat’s.<br />
Journeying into Ballarat at the start of Form 5 to be a boarder at<br />
SHC was a bit daunting, but so many of us were from “the farm”<br />
that pretty soon you realised that you were not alone. I was blessed<br />
to have my life-long friend and cousin, Marie Harrison nee Curran,<br />
at school with me. We grew up across the paddock from each<br />
other.<br />
At Sacred Heart I met other great friends such as Tricia van Lint<br />
nee O’Donnell, Barbara Ford nee Meich, Helen Morgan, Denise<br />
Roache, Anne Tellefson, and Moira Moore nee Matthews.<br />
I think most boarders were part of a big group, especially since we<br />
lived together. At that time, 1965 and 1966, the school year had<br />
three terms, each about three months long, so we spent a lot of time<br />
together. Having said that, there were definitely smaller groups that<br />
formed within the larger group<br />
Truly, as I look back now, more than 50 years since I last attended<br />
Sacred Heart, it is the friendships, communal living, and being<br />
taught by dedicated and independent women that I still treasure.<br />
Noela Steinfort nee Curran, Class of 1966<br />
Marie Harrison nee Curran and Noela Steinfort nee Curran, 2017<br />
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