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The Current Building Fund
$1 MILLION
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It is vital that current Building Fund contributions continue to flow at their present rate. The $1 million Appeal to provide the funds for these necessary improvements to the school is quite separate from the current
1990 -92 APPEAL
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Building Fund. As Mr. Michael Tilley, fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, finance
director of a public company and chairman of In February 1990, the Loreto Advisory
the Finance Sub-Committee of the Loreto
Certainly, former students of [_oreto,
Board williaunch a $1 million Appeal for funds
Mandeville Hall have an impressive record of
to upgrade the structural and support facilities
achievement in fields as diverse as medicine,
of Loreto, Mandeville Hall so that the school is
three years and will be designated solely for
law, social work, veterinary science, education pharmacy, physiotherapy, optometry, engineering, the diplomatic service, computers music, the arts and science. Our future students must be equally well prepared for
the purposes of implementing the school
their futures.
adequately equipped to meet the educational challenges it faces in the 1990s. This appeal will be conducted over the next
Advisory Board has said, the Building Fund has
been a very significant factor in maintaining our
school fees at a manageable level for parents. Its great value to parents has been its tax deductibility. Having been well supported by parents over the years, the extraordinary success of the Building Fund has enabled the
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school to maintain its fees at the lower end of
the private school scale. The current Building
master plan.
Fund needs to continue to be supported at
A fundamental principle of the Appeal is
Mr. Michael Tilley
current levels, if fees increases are to be
that all members of the Loreto Mandeville Hall
minimised in the future.
school community, past and present, will be
invited to participate, according to their ability
Given tlie success of the building Fund, the Advisory Board is confident that all within the school community will participate in the Fund Raising Appeal with the same generous spirit
Iii 1990, tuition fees will range froni $2,230 in
and desire to do so. The Board is conscious
the lower primary levels to $3,080 in the senior
that a modest gift from some may well be a
secondary levels. This represents ati eight per
far greater sacrifice than a substantial amount
cent increase on the 1989 fees, an increase
from others, and is confident that all within
based on the Consumer Price Index. Parents
the school community will participate in the same spirit with which such a large percentage
would certainly realise that these fees compare
have continued to contribute to the current
comparable private schools. The
Building Fund.
recommended donation to the building Fund
The Advisory Board has been most concerned to secure professional advice in the
for 1990 has been set at $380 per student, or
order to determine and specify the school's
$640 for parents with two or more children
immediate resource needs.
academic and personal, necessarily requires
The teaching of humanities and the arts has
- attending the school.
Philip Roff, former headmaster of Scotch
Colleges in Adelaide and Melbourne and highly
Over the years, the Building Fund has been
the provision of adequate facilities and
always been a strength in the education offered
resources in the school. Facilities that have
used to finance the acquisition of properties
at Loreto. In her vision for the future of the
adjacent to the school on Mandeville Crescent
arts and humanities as vital and precious
served us well in the past need to be refurbished, extended, and in some cases, demolished and replaced. The introduction of
elements that must be preserved. But of critical
the new VCE, the provision of better learning
construction of the gymnasium complex in the
concern for her in the immediate future of the
spaces, the consolidation and expansion of the
senior school and the niulti-purpose hall in the
school will be the fields of Mathematics,
curruculum all place new burdens on existing
junior school. Contributions iii 1990 are
Science - in particular the physical sciences,
resources.
expected to total $300,000.
school, the Principal, Anne Hunt, regards the
The Master Plan
very favourably with the fee scales for other
This commitment to excellence, both - ._
Striving for Excellence
and concern for the school's needs.
respected educational management consultant, set the project on its present course when he determined, as part of his Master Plan commission for the school, that given its obvious space needs and limitations, the school's only development options involved the
and Orrong Road. It has also provided the funds to reduce the debts incurred in the
restructuring of existing facilities. (continued page 2)
Chemistry and Physics - and Information Technology. For, as she states in her Annual
Report for 1989, one of the challenges we presently face in girls' schools is that subtle attitudes still pervade our society, undermining girls' confidence in their abi[ity to excel in these
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subject areas. Part of the Appeal funds, then, will be used for the construction of two new computer
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laboratories, the provision of which is vital for the introduction of Information Technology that is planned for Year 11 in 1990. The building program also includes the refurbishment of
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