Marist Brothers High School Darlinghurst
Blue & Blue
25th. March 2016
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darlo@6mins.com
Gentlemen,
Happy Easter
to
each of you and to your respective families. Let’s hope that 2016 brings
health and happiness to you all, in abundance.
Peter McMaugh [LC 1952]
kindly advised in 2013, of the Queens Birthday Honours conferred on
Vince Hallinan [LC 1945] however, due to a technical error,
the notice didn’t reach the B&B. In the list was:
Lieutenant Colonel Vincent Edward HALLINAN RFD ED (Ret’d), Narwee, NSW. For service to veterans and their families, and to the community.
Summer saw John Gallagher [HSC 1967] renovating his
home at Cronulla and in reach of the RSL sub branch where Warren
Thomas [LC 1965] also spends considerable time as President.
John Pass [LC
1954]
updates us on the Passing Parade of those now filling our old
classrooms. “I was recently at a ‘Cauliflower Club’ sports luncheon and
met a gentleman, about my vintage, who was extolling the virtues of
living close to the city.
Fame was always to engulf Darlo more and more, as the years rolled on.
The portrait of Reg Richardson
[LC 1953] by Mitch Cairns, which was runner-up in the 2014 Archibald
Prize, has now been acquired by the
National Portrait Gallery in
Canberra.
RIP:
Bill Halcro wishes to advise of the passing of his
beloved wife, Gaye, on 3rd March 2016 at Scalabrini Village
Nursing Home. Gaye was a devoted mother to their nine children. Bill
remained by her side until her final breath.
Ellen Smeal advises that her husband , JOHN SMEAL
passed away in September 2015 . John did his LC in 1945 and was a
brilliant student at Darlo. He went on to become an accountant in
Kempsey. They lived in the Cardinal Gilroy Village in Merrylands. John
died of dementia, aged 87yrs.
TECH ADVANCES:
1944 becomes 2014.
Left click and hold on each photo, and then drag your mouse gently
from left to right on the original photograph and it will be become a
photo of the exact same location and view in 2014.
http://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2014/apr/image-opacity-slider-master/index.html?ww2-dday
REFLECTIONS:
Karam Ramrakha [LC’49] wishes to ascribe a quote,
well-worth repeating, which appeared in the last edition of Blue & Blue,
to a Darlo Old Boy of 1933,
Hon. Mr Justice John
Henry McClemens, KCSG, QC, BA, LLB. Karam recalls him
addressing an accused young man, who had stolen and frittered away his
loot at the races. The Judge said in effect, "
There are hundreds of people,
owners, trainers, jockeys and other people in the racing industry who
make a living out of the Game but they do not make it off each other but
from mugs like you and me."
OBU Luncheon: Tuesday July 12th at the
Rugby Club. Please pencil this in your diary. Final arrangements are
still being made and a formal advice will be forthcoming.
A special thanks to
Peter Clarke [LC 1965] for ensuring that humour is in abundant
supply at the OBU.
HUMOUR: -
Obviously the warning about the woman
who had an exorcism at Christmas and couldn’t afford to pay for it, so
she was repossessed, didn’t fall on deaf ears. John Tozer [LC 1949]
writes, “Thanks for the warning. I have been saving up to have one but
now I will avoid both the embarrassment and cost of my proposed
abjuration.”
-
When I was younger I decided I wanted to
be a doctor so I took the entrance exam to go to Medical School. One of
the questions asked was to rearrange the letters PNEIS into the name of
an important human body part which is most useful when erect. Those who
answered 'spine' are doctors today. The rest of us are sending jokes by
email. Anonymous.
-a belated
St. Patrick’s Day joke:
Paddy's wife was ready to give birth so
he rushes her to hospital.
On arrival, the nurse asks, "How
dilated is she?" to which Paddy replies,
"Oh absolutely. We're both over
the bloody moon."
Waterbeds:
The clip is in German but its language is irrelevant beyond noting that
a sign saying “Don’t …” is so often the catalyst for people to “DO !”
# Be sure to keep your anecdotes and reflections rolling in
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Marist Brothers Darlinghurst Old Boys’ Union
I think the article under "Reflections" has wrongly described Hon. Mr Justice John Henry McClemens, KCSG, QC, BA, LLB.
Jock , as he was known, was never a student at
a Catholic school, let alone Darlo. He was a convert to Catholicism and
a most outspoken lay Catholic
You will see from the ADB entry that he left
school way before 1933-he would have been an ancient student then,
having been born in 1905
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcclemens-john-henry-10912
Some time prior to his retirement he was highly
critical of the then Askin Government for not having appointed a
Catholic as a Supreme Court
in the 5 years they had then been in power;
The only old Boy to achieve high Judicial
office was Eddie (Sir Edward Aloyisius) Mc Tiernan, who was NSW Attorney
General in the mid-twenties
I refer you to the Wikipedia entry rather than
the ADB entry.
" In total, McTiernan was a member of the High Court for 46 years,
making him the longest-serving judge in its history. This is a record
unlikely to be broken, as a constitutional change in 1977, perhaps
sparked by McTiernan's extremely long term, introduced compulsory
retirement ages for federal judges; a justice of the High Court must now
retire at 70.[3] McTiernan had no intention of
resigning from the bench even into the 1970s, but, after breaking a hip
at the age of 84 in 1976 while chasing a cricket in his hotel *with a
rolled up newspaper, Chief Justice Barwick's
refusal to include a wheelchair ramp in the design of the new High Court
building prompted his retirement.[4] He died in 1990, at the age of 97.
He was the last surviving MP who served when James Scullin was Prime Minister."
*LC Year refers to those who sat the LC or HSC in that year and also to their classmates who left school in earlier years.
President, OBU
Kym Derriman
9311 3344
Vice President
Tony Morrissey
9311 4598
Secretary/Treasurer
Bill Halcro
9661 7710
Marist Executive
Br. Paul Murphy
0449 640540
Tony Smith
Board Member
John Barclay
Board Member
Sports Portfolio
Jay Robertson
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