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Where Are They Now? John Arnold (Loyola College Teacher 82-88) I was at Loyola from 1982 – 1988 teaching Science, Mathematics, Biology, Religious Education, as well as year level coordinating over that time. The College only went up to Year 10 when I commenced. Back then there was nothing much to do at lunch time for the students so teachers ran many staff versus student matches – male staff wearing netball skirts was not a pretty sight! Some might remember the plastic embedding class (and the smell) and the aquariums in the Biology laboratories. In choosing a school for our own children, Loyola was an obvious choice. We wanted a co-educational school which would allow our children to develop their areas of strength. Justin (L: 95-00) and Karen (L: 97-02) both have fond memories and forged wonderful friendships from Loyola. Steven is currently doing the same in Year 9. I still run into ex-students (Amato’s Deli, Greensborough is the place to be) and they ask about teachers (often the ones that actually corrected the homework they set!) Six years ago I decided to refocus my goals in education and began tutoring students as Aldon Tutoring Centres, Greensborough. I have had the pleasure of now tutoring children of ex-students, staff and present students. 9 LEXSA is seeking ex-students interested in organising and/or participating in a local netball team, cricket team, theatre group or any other interest group. Please contact Nicole Scott, LEXSA Secretary on 9433 0297 or scottn@loyola.vic.edu.au you can also contact LEXSA via facebook.com/lexsa.info Anne Musgrove (Loyola College Teacher 86-Currently Admin. Assistant) In my first year at Loyola College, L-Block was opened as a classroom base for Year 11 & 12 students (as well as Music, Drama and Typing), and its official opening in late August marked the college’s first Open Day. I was housed in the Year 10 workroom in upstairs B-Block, right next door to the Home Economics Room, along with the other four Year 10 Homeroom teachers. How things have changed in a mere 25 years! L-Block has seen several transformations between opening and its current incarnation as the Library (which used to be in downstairs B-block, where you can now find Science laboratories). Music and Drama have a dedicated area in the north wing of Old Loyola (which was being used by the Department of Corrections as a training facility in my early years here). The typing room in L-Block became a computer room, and still serves that function within the new Library. We no longer teach a subject called Home Economics, we have Food Technology and Hospitality subjects, using two kitchens in the south wing of Old Loyola, where the student restaurant, Iggy’s, is also located. Loyola changed from a horizontal Homeroom structure to a vertical Mentor structure, and teachers no longer work in an area shared by teachers who have a focus in a particular year level, but in faculty areas. And the College’s growth means that there are more Base Learning Groups than the mere 5 per year level we had then. Open Day rolls on, and continues to be an opportunity for staff and students to show the community what we do and achieve here. And those are only the changes that arise from the first two sentences of my reminiscences. Life is never dull around here! You may have noticed some advertisements in this issue of ‘The Companion’. If you are an ex-student and wish to take up one of our limited advertising spaces please contact Nicole Scott, Lexsa Secretary on 9433 0297 or email scottn@loyola.vic.edu.au for further information.
School Emblem and Motto: Loyola College Archives Justice Mercy Faith remains the school motto which was formally adopted in October 1984 following many submissions from students and the wider community during Loyola’s early years. In 1984 Mr J.O. Kennedy along with the School Board had decided that the community would develop ideas for a motto and emblem to present to the Board for consideration. It was decided that the motto should be scriptural and so the Year 10 students were asked to work towards finding a motto for the College during their Religious Education classes. After consideration of all proposals Mr Kennedy made his recommendations to the Board and conducted an extensive survey of parents, staff and students. Justice Mercy Faith became the official motto of Loyola College on October 22, 1984 which was later included on the official school emblem. The scriptural basis for the Motto is found in Matthew’s Gospel 23:23. Jesus called these three virtues “The weightier matters of the law”. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.” (Matthew 23:23) Here Jesus is saying that the details of law (what agricultural products should be given as tithes to the priests and sanctuaries) are important but not as important as these three social virtues of justice, mercy and faith. We can further examine the meaning of our motto: Justice (Krisis in Greek) We are called to defend the rights of others, exercise “right judgment”. Mercy (Eleos in Greek) Eleos is our readiness to do good and to forgive. Faith (Pistis in Greek) The word is used here to express “fidelity” (not belief as such). Some copies of the Bible (eg. Good News edition) translate it as meaning “honesty”. Further consideration was to be given to the emblem for Loyola College. Many ideas and drafts were submitted for consideration from as early as 1983. Students contributed with enthusiasm towards what they believed were important decisions for Loyola College. By the end of 1984 Mr Kennedy was confident that Loyola had established a sense of identity as a school community through the events of the school’s early history and so during 1985 efforts at achieving a school emblem were accelerated. Submissions had been sought and were continually received from students, families and the wider school community. Mr Kennedy had provided background history about the Loyola family to assist in the designs. This was to be the link with Ignatius Loyola and the fact that from 1934 to 1974 on this property Loyola College was conducted by the order he founded, the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) as a house of formation and studies for its members. The actual Coat of Arms of the Loyola family in Spain was displayed and conditions of its use were provided. It was permissible to use a portion of this Coat of Arms in our new emblem; however Mr Kennedy did not feel it appropriate to use it in a changed form. In the document outlining the history of the Loyola family, the following was presented: The coat of arms displays two grey wolves with a kettle between them on a white background. Local tradition says that the Spanish word for “wolf” is “lobo” and “olla” is a pot; so a wolf and a pot is “lobo-y-olla”, which is contracted into “Loyola”. This is a likely explanation of Mr Kennedy’s opinion. The Loyola community was surveyed in regard to the most favoured concept, with one hundred responses received. Voting forms were distributed to students on July 31, 1985 and separate voting forms were made available to parents and members of the parish clergy and distributed with the Ignation on August 1. By November two preferences remained and were presented to Mr Sam Triglia who continued to modify the designs and by the end of the school year the School Emblem had been finalised and adopted. The final design incorporated the wolves and the kettle - the link to Ignatius Loyola and the five bars which represent the five parishes responsible for the foundation of Loyola: St. Damian’s, Bundoora; Sacred Heart, Diamond Creek; Our Lady of the Way, Kingsbury; St. Martin of Tours, Macleod along with St. Francis of Assisi, Mill Park and St. Thomas, North Greensborough which were later welcomed. Monica Baron Loyola College Archivist 10
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