School News - St. Andrew's College, Dublin

Past Pupils’ Memories
Ben Mitchell
Andrew Flynn
Past pupil Stuart Hamilton recently spoke to Grapevine Magazine.
“Memories of St Andrew’s at Clyde Road are still to the
forefront of my mind. A couple of years ago, I digitised a photograph
of the 1948 Rugby Team that was captained by Tom
Buchannan and many other old photographs. Those photos
keep appearing on my laptop.
After leaving school, I got the bug for motorcycles and got involved
with Dublin and District M.C.C. In 1956, I responded
to an advertisement for draughtsmen and engineers for the Department
of Highways in Ontario. Hugh Adcock, a Canadian
Civil Engineer from T.C.D. interviewed me. We talked about his
motorcycle days at Trinity College and he hired me for a new I.T.
department in Toronto.
I was engaged to Vera Monck and after a few months spent arranging
our marriage, we left for Toronto, by ship, on our honeymoon.
In a way, our honeymoon has never ended.
With the huge influx of European immigrants to Canada,
Toronto was growing at a tremendous rate and many new opportunities
arose. I worked for a new civil engineering company,
met a number of Italian contractors and one very
successful company hired me as their engineer and translator.
We grew and worked all over Ontario. Some jobs were nearly
2,000 miles apart. We enjoyed a wonderful way of life and I
decided to retire at sixty years of age. This did not happen: I
spent time working on a golf course, then I managed a marina
( I had been sailing for thirty years by then), and I spent a few
years as a representative for an American Engineering company
who had a few projects in Toronto. Finally, at seventy-
Dr Aoife McLysaght
School News
Stuart Hamilton (right) and Family
four years of age, I decided to finally retire.
Vera and I decided to move west to Vancouver, to join our
daughter and grandchildren. When the 2010 Olympic Winter
Games arrived, I applied and became one of 25,000 volunteers
to host the athletes at the newly constructed Olympic
Village on False Creek. It has been another wonderful experience
to meet athletes from 180 countries and also other
volunteers from as far away as Ireland and Australia.
I would like to wish good luck to all the graduates of today.”
Trinity College Dublin’s corporate structure comprises the
Provost, the Fellows and the Scholars. Scholars are elected
annually in various subjects on the results of an examination
held in Trinity term. Scholarship or research achievement of a
high order is the primary qualification for Fellowship, coupled
with evidence of the candidates’ contribution to the academic
life of the College and an effective record in teaching.
Traditionally, the election of new Fellows and Scholars is announced
by the Provost on Trinity Monday (April 12th this
year) at 10.00 a.m. from the steps of the Examination Hall.
Five professorial Fellows, three honorary Fellows, twelve new
Fellows and eighty Scholars were elected this year.
Dr Aoife McLysaght, who graduated from St Andrew’s in
1994, was elected a new Fellow. Andrew Flynn, Ben Mitchell
and Nicola Sandys who all graduated from the College in
2008 were elected Scholars St Andrew’s College is very
proud of the achievments of these past pupilsand would like
to wish them continued success in their respective fields
Ms Chapman
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