Principal's Message

 

Founders' Day Mass-

Message Stick Blessing

At St Bede's College, we acknowledge the original custodians of the land on which we stand, the Boon wurunng People and their elders past and present.

At our Founders' Day Mass we will present before our Community a Message Stick.  For thousands of years the Aboriginal People used a message stick as a way of communicating across the country.  Symbols and markings have been made on the stick which represents the permission that is sought to cross the country of another tribe with different totems and lores.

We have been given the privilege of this sacred symbol to reflect our unity while respecting cultural differences when spreading the God News of Jesus Christ.

The message stick will be permently placed in the College Chapel.

Hall of Fame

On Thursday 5 May, the St Bede’s Old Collegian Hall of Fame dinner was held at the Savoy in Brighton.

The evening recognises, honours and celebrates the outstanding achievements of St Bede’s Old Collegians. This year seven members were inducted.  They include:

• Bill Armstrong (Class of 1950) - Order of Australia recipient and past CEO of Australian Volunteers International.
• Stephen McBurney (Class of 1985 )– Chief Examiner of Victoria and AFL umpire (over 400 games including 4 Premierships).
• Kieran Ault-Connell (Class of 1974)- two time Paralympian, two gold medals  at Sydney 2000 and a silver medal in Athens 2004. In 2001, Kieran was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to sport. He is very involved in the Australian Scouting movement and helping others succeed in life.
• Michael Hirst (Class of 1975) – Career banking and is the Managing Director of Bendigo Bank.
• Neil Young QC (class of 1969) – Appointed judge of the Federal Court in 2005 but has since retired from the bench.  Appointed Queens Counsel in 1990 and is known in legal circles for his “wide breath of experience…extraordinarily talented”.
• Michael McCarthy (Class of 1974) – past AFL footballer with 99 games for Hawthorn including 2 Premierships and 28 games for Brisbane Bears.
• Nathan Holman (Class of 2009) – Professional golfer and winner of 2015 PGA. Nathan was the recipient of the inaugural Rising Star Award as part of the Hall of Fame recognising Old Collegians under the age of 30 years.

Our current College Leaders Michael Hurst, Joel Harriss and Bradley Shea attended the evening, presenting the awards to the recipients and providing them with the opportunity to see how the Lasallian values and lessons received at the College translate into life after St Bede’s. The Old Collegians spoke highly of the relationships they had with their teachers while at the College and all had very fond memories of their time attending St Bede’s College.