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Class of 1973 reunion

The Year 10 Class of 1973 celebrated their 50th anniversary at É«ÇéÖ±²¥ and Guilford Young College on Saturday 14 October.

In 1972, before the formal amalgamation of Savio College, Holy Name, St John's Primary School and Savio Primary School, there had been some co-educational classes in the Senior matriculation classes. But for most students it was not till 1973 that they enjoyed co-ed classes. The Class of 1973 were together in the Senior School in Bowden Street, in the former Holy Name classrooms where the girls had been attending. The boys had been up at the Tolosa Street campus of Savio College since Year 7 in 1970 but began their Year 10 classes with the girls at the É«ÇéÖ±²¥ Senior School, whose head was the former Holy Name Principal, Sr Pam Davis OP.

The Class was also welcomed by DOSA committee members, Michael Webb and Diane Cerritelli, who had been in Year 12 when this group was in Year 12, who assisted with the program. We enjoyed some refreshments, plenty of photos and memorabilia and the lovely company of Sr Pam Davis in the White House and then most of the boys joined a tour of Savio College including the playgrounds, Rat Hole, the classrooms, the dormitories (now Bosco classrooms) the boarders kitchen, the Little Theatre (now the Fr John Brennan Theatre) and the Chapel.

We then moved down to Guilford Young College - used as a polling place that afternoon for the referendum - and although the organisation was not quite what was requested, we did manage to visit the outside of the convent and the classrooms of Holy Names as well as the outside of the classrooms of St John's Primary School and Savio Primary School. Most of the group progressed to Amici's Restaurant for a lovely meal in the evening.

Thank you very much to Tom Jarvis and Anne Pigden and their friends who made it all happen and supported the Class of 1973 in their reunion.

The old scholars enjoyed the afternoon very much and agreed they might have to meet next for 55 years rather than 60!