Ex-Students' News HAPPY BIRTHDAY CENTENARIANS
BARBARA ‘BOBBIE’ REILLY
MARGARET YOUNG (Jenkins ‘39)
(Baker-Becket ’39)
Happy 100th Birthday also to exstudent Margaret Young. Margaret graduated from Loreto Kirribilli in 1939 and her connection with Loreto spans generations.
In August 2021 Barbara ‘Bobbie’ Reilly (Baker-Becket ’39) celebrated her 100th birthday.
DR MONICA BULLEN (’38)
Happy 100th Birthday to Dr Monica Mary Teresa Bullen, MBBS, DCP (Syd)(’38), pictured here with her nephew Bernard. In retirement, Monica spent many years as the Volunteer Archivist at Loreto Kirribilli, and has written a vivid memoir of her life at school in the 1930s. Congratulations Monica!
Her daughter Linda writes: The photo of four generations of Loreto women in our family was taken on 29 January 2017. L-R: my sister, Barbara Anderson (Reilly ’62); my granddaughter, Maya Rengaswamy, now in Year 11 at Normanhurst; myself, Linda Newcomb (Reilly '67); my daughter, Kate Rengaswamy (Newcomb ’92) and my mother, Mrs Barbara (Bobbie) Reilly (Baker-Becket ’39). Mum also attended Loreto Kirribilli and Loreto Mandeville Hall, Toorak.
Margaret’s sisters, daughters, nieces and great nieces have all attended Loreto Kirribilli or Loreto Normanhurst, and she has two great-nieces who are current students at Loreto Kirribilli. Over the years she has been a great supporter of Loreto Kirribilli and the Ex-Students’ Union. Congratulations Margaret.
2021 QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY honours
Sr Deirdre Browne ibvm (’52) Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her service to community as a religious sister and through music, education and the liturgical arts Francoise Gilroy (Droulers ’43) Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to the community of North Sydney
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