Old Collegians

COVID-19

Aaron Lampe (SKC '13) is one of the many faces fighting on the coronavirus frontline. Aaron is a nurse at The Alfred Hospital and was one of the first to confront the virus in Victoria. He works on the specialist COVID-19 infectious diseases ward now. You may have seen him featured on 60 Minutes and in the Herald Sun. Congratulations and thank you to Aaron and all the frontline workers who are associated with St Kevin's – there are many.

SKAAC

What a year we saw on the track this season with 151 SKAAC club records broken. A huge congratulations to the large number of SKAAC athletes that have set records. Many athletes did it multiple times in the same event or across multiple events! The large number of records being broken is greatly due to our high quality junior membership base and the coaching that we provide during the track and field season. For anyone who would be interested in joining SKAAC for either cross country during the winter or track and field during the summer or anyone who would like to receive the SKAAC newsletter, please get in contact with Tristan Mioni (mionit@stkevins. vic.edu.au). All abilities, ages (12+) and genders are welcome!

RIP BR DON MURRAY CFC (ST KEVIN'S COLLEGE, OAMARU)

Br Murray was a special friend of St Kevin's College Toorak's rugby, especially during development in the 1990s.

Br Murray greatly assisted the 1993 team win the first winter sport premiership for the school. He remained a specialist visiting coach for 1994 and 1995 teams.

In later SKC tours to NZ he provided valuable support. After the 1993 and 1995 premierships, St Kevin's has gone on to be very successful in rugby. Many suggest Br Murray laid the foundation for such a record. There is a trophy named in his honour (Murray-McCarthy Shield) for matches played between the two St Kevin’s Colleges.

He would occasionally visit Melbourne and always made a point of watching a St Kevin's rugby match. He attended the 2015 20th Anniversary of the 1995 Premiership. His last visit, two years ago in 2018, coincided with the Sevens competition which, fortunately, St Kevin's won for him on the day.

KEVKONNECT

During the COVID-19 lockdown, SKOCA instituted KevKonnect where Old Collegians could log in on a digital video call and chat to other Kevinians all over the world. Old and young joined in with the Executive Officer moderating the sessions. This new engagement was such a success it is planned to hold them on a semi-regular basis. One of the sessions was on a specific theme where David Knoff (SKC '02), who is at David Station in Antarctica, spoke and had a Q&A session with many interested Kevinians.

SKOBFC

Like all sports codes and leagues, COVID-19 has delayed the start of the Victorian Amateur Football season in 2020. At the time of writing, players have returned to training preparing for a start sometime in the future. Potentially, it may start on 1 August and run until October before some finals. Numbers are strong at SKOBFC and (with no AFL to attend) we look forward to seeing plenty of supporters at games...all spaced 1.5m apart, sanitised and obeying ALL the rules!

SKOBSC

After a several-month delay, St Kevin's Old Boys Soccer Club is excited to be returning to training and competition in a COVID-safe way. The club is still welcoming players, so if you are interested in a community atmosphere and regaining fitness post-lockdown please contact committee@skobsc.com.au.

As all reunions are now either cancelled or on hold it is important that everyone keeps their non-work email address valid here at SKOCA. It is also not too early to start planning for 2021. BAQUIE, John Daniel (Jack) (SKC '44) RIP 18/05/2020

DAVEY, Stephen Gerard (SKC '71) RIP 15/04/2020

O’CONNOR, Desmond Michael (SKC '53) RIP 14/03/2020 SOWERSBY, Bernard Vincent (SKC '48) RIP 20/03/2020

WOODRUFF, Br Kevin Patrick cfc (SKC '66) RIP 23/05/2020

OLD COLLEGIAN AFFILIATE CLUBS

The COVID-19 crisis has forced many people indoors for several months. As we venture out of lockdown and consider activity, it will eventually be possible to enjoy team sports/activities and the socialising with being in a club.

SKOCA is always interesting in expanding the number of clubs and interest groups.

Kevinians are reminded here that there are many activities offered in our affiliate, well-operated clubs. Here are their contact details:

ST KEVIN’S AMATEUR ATHLETICS CLUB

Sam Doble www.skaac.com

OLD COLLEGIANS BASKETBALL CLUB

Curtis Lo skocbasketball@gmail.com

OLD COLLEGIANS BIG BAND

James Appleyard old-collegians@stkevins.vic.edu.au

OLD COLLEGIANS BOWLS CLUB

Peter Macdonald old-collegians@stkevins.vic.edu.au

OLD BOYS CRICKET CLUB

Josh Willett skobcricketclub@gmail.com

OLD BOYS FOOTBALL CLUB

Simon Olsen www.skobfc.com

OLD COLLEGIANS GOLF

TBC old-collegians@stkevins.vic.edu.au

OLD BOYS HOCKEY CLUB

Leo Lambers old-collegians@stkevins.vic.edu.au

OLD BOYS SOCCER CLUB

Andrew Fehervari www.skobsc.com.au

OLD COLLEGIANS SOCIAL JUSTICE GROUP

Tuong Tran old-collegians@stkevins.vic.edu.au OLD BOYS TABLE TENNIS CLUB

Wendel Zhang old-collegians@stkevins.vic.edu.au

OLD COLLEGIANS TENNIS

Luke Camilleri old-collegians@stkevins.vic.edu.au

ARCHIVES

We are always on the lookout for items of historical interest and Max Tomlinson (SKC '65) of Townsville found this picture of his Form 2 (Year 8) class with Br Vin Monagle in 1960 on some kind of excursion. Can anyone tell us where it is?

Any items are welcome, contact old-collegians@stkevins.vic.edu.au.

Junior boys circa 1940s but do you know what group, when it was taken or anyone in the picture?