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Meet the hermit who is watchman for the world • Page 7
Education plan worries Catholics • Page 2
Mr Horgan
Ballooning waste of money • Page 4
chairman.
Franciscan Fr Kilgannon . . . former Midland friar.
Re focus on Ufli
A 1992 opening date require significant sums was to generate the for the University of of money and the Bond enthusiasm both morally Nore Dame Australia is University experience in and financially for that "not cast in solid both capital cost and the support. c oncrete", the chair- availability of students He said: "It has always been man of the planning has caused a re-focus on our intention not to make board said this week. t hose areas." this an exclusive university "It would be nice to The next decision, he for people of wealth but to open on target but if that said, was up to the attract students with date has to be deferred to meeting of the full board appropriate qualifications a later date while we which will assemble in no matter what socioassess financial support Perth in the first week of economic group they come and student demand, July. from. then that has to be Mr Horgan said the "That is very much the seriously looked at," Mr proposed university Catholic ethos and we will Horgan said. would have to attract have to find the funds to He was following up community support both support these people." press reports arising out in its capital funding and He saw legacies from wills of briefings given earlier in assistance for students. and active support for a this week by himself and He believed that this particular student's educaDr Peter Tannock. support is well within tion as possibilities. One "We always realised the means available in person had already offered that the university would Australia but the task the proceeds from their
home and another nonCatholic couple with no children of their own had expressed interest in annually assisting a student. Mr Horgan cited the $6 million bequest received by Brisbane Catholic hospitals from the estate of two persons who were not Catholics (see Page 2).
wider experience than they would otherwise receive. "It would add a great deal to the environment of Fremantle," he continued, "however the concept of the university without can exist Fremantle.
"Although Fremantle has always been envisaged for the university, the project must be able to afford to go there and needs to be complementary to the aims and objectives of the university and to the citizens of Fremantle."
In every country where Catholic universities have operated successfully they have gained the goodwill and strong financial support of the community, he said. "I would like to think that Australia, and not just WA, and the Catholic communities of South East Asia would get behind this project."
Universities have gained support from sources that have not supported other areas of Catholic education. This was because universities can shape an ethos in the country, he said. A Catholic university was a new type of institution for Australia, he noted. It was but part of the great teaching work encouraged by the Church over many years. Mr Horgan cited the strong support the religious orders had received in their early establishment of Catholic primary and secondary education in Australia. He said he would be surprised if the support given so far in the secondary areas were not forthcoming in the tertiary field.
Dr Tannock . . . deputy chairman.
'Fremantle is only a preferred location'
Fremantle is only the said. "It is a unique town preferred location for the and can offer students proposed Notre Dame excellent environment University and he is not and the opportunity to with the only one involved in inter-relate the final decision, Mr community. Horgan said. "It can give them the "Fremantle is consi- possibility of gaining dered by the board to work to cover their fees offer a great deal," he and can offer them a
Mr Horgan said the decision about the university did not rest on him but on what he called a "formidable" board of which he was only the chairman and Dr Peter Tannock, chairman of the Catholic Education Commission,
is deputy chairman. Other members are Archbishop Foley, Dr Michael Quinlan, Sister Columba Howard of St John of God Hospital, Mr John Ralph, chief executive of CRA, Mr Daniel Cardon, an international banker based in Brussels,
and from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana both the president, Father Edward Malloy, and the provost Professor Timothy O'Meara. The board meets in Perth in the first week of July to study the feasibility proposal to date.