SPOSA PRESIDENT

What was the most important thing for you about your time at school?

What was the most memorable thing you did at school?

Was it something you did on a school trip or at Ironbark? Something on the playing field or the concert stage? Or perhaps, some high jinks in the Boarding house?

This was something I reflected on recently when asked to speak with the Boarders at their Four Colours Dinner during National Boarding Week. A few tall tales were recounted. But all true, I swear!

Crazy April Fools’ pranks, Boarding house feasts and awfully bad film nights in Luther House. Who could forget the time the Boarders had to lay the first turf on the new Stolz Oval, known at the time as “Oval No. 2” (circa 1978)? We, the amateur landscapers, laid the surface so poorly it had to be torn up and laid again, though not by the Boarders this time. That story did not make it into The Review back then, so naturally, I had to share that tale. It is a ‘spoken history’ thing.

Whether a Boarder or a Day Bug, it is easy to forget the rich range of experiences we have had at school. The good and the bad, they all go into the melting pot of who we are today and hopefully make us better people, considerate citizens, caring neighbours. There is much to be grateful for. We should thank our parents for sending us to St Peters and pay tribute to the College’s Lutheran founders – those who banded together to