EX-STUDENTS' NEWS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CENTENARIANS

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!

BARBARA ‘BOBBIE’ REILLY

(Baker-Becket ’39)

In August 2021 Barbara ‘Bobbie’ Reilly (Baker-Becket ’39) celebrated her 100th birthday.

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 YOUNG (Jenkins ‘39)

Happy 100th Birthday also to exstudent Margaret Young. Margaret graduated from Loreto Kirribilli in 1939 and her connection with Loreto spans generations.

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.

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

2021 QuEEn's bIrTHday honours

Ex-Students’ News

ENGAGEMENTS

Sophie May (‘09) Isabella Russo (’15) | Jessica O’Sullivan (Werro ’09) | Sophia Roche-West ('11) | Ashleigh-Blaise Webb (’12)

BIRTHS: DAUGHTERS

Allegra Francesca to Elise Crothers (’98) | Emilia to Luisa Mockler (’98) | Mabel Margo to Emilie Williams (’02)

BIRTHS: SONS

Elijah Akau to Darcie Chan (’08) | James Aden to Ellen Marlow (McFarlane ’03) Corvin Langley to Christina Bullivant (’97) | Cruz Abadam to Jodie Abadam (Chan ’06)

DEATHS: EX-STUDENTS

Doreen Cannon (Breslin ’46), sister of Tony Breslin (LK’ 47) Gigliola (Jill) Cantarella (Quaglia ’45), sister of Angelo Quaglia (LK’45), mother of Clelia Winton (Cantarella ’68), Luisa Schirato (Cantarella ’70), grandmother of Gabriella Schirato (’97), Chiara Cantarella (’99), Michaela Winton (’01) Mary Cleary (Donnelly ’67), mother of Annelise Tregoning (Cleary ’01) Beatrice Cooper (Felton ’54), sister of Gabrielle Breslin (Felton ’51) and Priscilla Felton (’58) Pip Gormly (’75), mother of Olivia Robertson (’99) and Felicity Watson (Robertson ’04), sister of Jenny Hill (Gormly ’72) and Penny Gormly (’73), aunt to Lucy Hastings (’02) and Julia Helmke (Gormly ’04) Joan Graeme (’46), sister of Margot Davies (Graeme ’51) Pip Grant (’74), sister of Robyn Martin-Weber (Grant ’72), Helen Grant (’76) and Charlie Grant (LK’ 66) Ann Hagan (Treweek ’67), mother of Claire Fensome (’02) Diana Lipscomb (Roche ’58), sister of Margaret Bentley (Roche ’54) and Patricia Roche (’56) Joan McCreanor (Ford ’56) daughter of Gwendolin Ford (Hartigan ’25) (dec), sister of Dr Judy Ford (’62), Peter Ford (LK ’46), Robert Ford (LK ’50), grandmother of Katherine McCreanor (’92) Carline Miller (Bird ’48), mother of Lisa Laird (Miller ’83), grandmother of Catherine Whitehead (Oxley ’06) Sr Noni Mitchell ibvm AM (’43), sister of Gaynor Mitchell (’43) Anne Louise Molony (’67) Jeanette “Nettie” Williams (Thomas ‘55), sister of Sally McNally (Thomas ‘51), aunt of Jane Andrew (McNally ’77), Susan Cali (McNally ‘78) and Margot Huckstepp (Thomas ’81) and great aunt of Meghan Andrew (’05), Claire McNally (Year 11) and Josephine McNally (Year 1) Grace Tesoriero (Donato ’39) Margaret Kitching (Morris ’47), mother of Genelle Paulin (Kitching ’78) (dec), Lisa Salgo (Kitching ’81) and Christopher Kitching (LK ’71) Patty Morton (Perrottet ‘55), grandmother of Molly Thompson (’18) Jane Raper (’54) Sr Benedicta Stratton OCD (Robyn Stratton ’48) Joan Bull OAM (King ’35), sister of Sheila King (’38) (dec), mother of Jennifer Monie (Bull ’55), Angela McCormack (Bull ’57), grandmother of Rebecca Kingston (Hallman ’91)

DEATHS: EX-STUDENTS’ RELATIVES

Rhonda Boyd, mother of Felicity Crothers (Boyd ’72), Gabrielle O’Kane (Boyd ’75), grandmother of Elise Crothers (’98), Madeleine Conroy (’02), Jacqueline Crothers (’04) Frank Breslin, husband of Gabrielle Breslin (Felton ’51), father of Maureen O’Brien (Breslin ’76) and Libby Filiatrault (Breslin ’78) Dr Hubert Desmond “Des” O’Brien, father of Louise O’Brien (’72), Christina Clancy (O’Brien ’73), Annette Turner (O’Brien ’77), grandfather of Alanna Clancy (’05), Georgia Clancy (’07), Madeleine Clancy (’14) and Elly Speer (’08) Victoria Finnane, niece and God-daughter of Barbara Dodds (O’Hare ’70) and cousin of Naomi Dodds (’03) John Gillespie, father of Carla Gillespie (’05) and father-inlaw of Charlotte Young (’05), brother of Karen Debenham (Gillespie ’67) and Susan O’Keefe (Gillespie ’74) Paul Hunter, husband of Anne Hunter (Borthwick ’51), father of Julie Levins (Hunter ’76), Angela Smith (Hunter ’85), Jacqueline Garment (Hunter ’90), Mathew Hunter (LK’ 72) David Miller, husband of Carline Miller (Bird ’48) (dec), father of Lisa Laird (Miller ’83) and grandfather of Catherine Whitehead (Oxley ’06) Patricia Noonan, mother of Margaret Loomes (Noonan ’71) Mary Rossi, mother of Virginia Fay (Rossi ’65) (dec), Catherine Rossi Harris (Rossi ’67), Claudia Rossi Hudson (Rossi ’70), Mary Anne Rossi (’73), Sally Rossi Ford (Rossi ’75), Danielle Helms (Rossi ’82), Emma Rossi (’84), Alexandra Tiffin (Rossi ’85), Phillip Rossi (LK ’69), grandmother and greatgrandmother of Kate Hudson (’96), Jessica Rossi Grosmann (’06), Daisy Ford (’03), Laura Ford (’05), Mary Anne Nolan (’14), Lucia Nolan (’15), Harriet Nolan (’18), Charlotte Tiffin (’20), Giorgia Rossi (’05) and great-grandmother of Isabel Morton (Year 6) and Zara White (Year 7) Edward Brown, husband of Elizabeth Brown (Kearney ’46) (dec) and father of Louise Brown (’72), Denise Brown (’75), Julie Paddock (Brown ’78) and Janine Anderson (Brown ’79) Vivian Truman, former Loreto Kirribilli teacher, mother of George Truman (LK’ 78)