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We have just heard news that St Mary’s College Old Boy, Lincoln Walk (2014-2019) has just returned home from Argentina where he played in the Australian U23 Men’s Softball team.

The team won gold and became World Champions! Congratulations to Lincoln, and all the best for your future.

A St Mary’s College Old Boy and UniSQ graduate is on the track to success, having won two national awards for his rail-based honours thesis.

Thomas Murphy attended Melbourne for the Conference on Railway Excellence to receive the Railway Technical Society of Australasia Undergraduate Thesis Award for his work on railway sleeps.

This comes after Mr Murphy was awarded the winner of the Futures Challenge by the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia, after presenting his thesis at the annual Queensland conference in October 2022.

During his time at UniSQ completing a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Honours), Mr Murphy said it had been a natural decision to pursue a railway-related topic for his honours thesis project. Well done, Thomas!

Old Boy, Dan McErlean visited the Opens Rugby League team at the Confraternity Shield in Brisbane in June.

Dan was a student at St Mary’s College from 1939 to 1947. He extended words of encouragement to the team and shared a few stories of times gone by.

Thank you for attending the competition, Dan. We appreciate all your support and knowledge, that you so willing offer.

Pictured from left to right: James Peter Gilbert, Huey Geran, Peter Gilbert, Sidney Geran, Xander Gilbert Johnston, Ethan Gilbert Johnson and Zane Gilbert Johnson.

Peter is the grandson of Les Gilbert, who was a first day student at St Mary’s College. The second generation was John Peter Gilbert.

The third generation to attend St Mary’s College, was Peter and his brothers Mickael, Raymond, Burnard and Thomas.

Fourth generation was James (Peter’s son) and Mark Mahony. Mark is the son of Elizabeth (Peter’s sister) and Barry Mahoney, also a student of St Mary’s College.

Peter’s grandsons are the fifth generation to attend St Mary’s College: Zane Gilbert Johnston, Xander Gilbert Johnson, Ethan Gilbert Johnston, Huey Geran and Sidney Geran. Huey and Sidney are present day students, and their younger brother Archie will join them next year.

Earlier this year, a group of St Mary’s College Old Boys reunited in Toowoomba.

Pictured from left to right: Barry McErlean (‘87), Matthew Clinton (‘86), John Card (‘87), Chris McMahon (‘87), Sunil Pillay (‘87), Brendan Hohn (‘87), Craig Hobbins (‘87) and Ross Hobbins (‘90).

St Mary’s College was established in 1899. In 2024, we celebrate 125 years as a College.

We have started to make plans for our 125 year celebrations. Stay tuned over the coming months to find out more information.