PHOTO MEMORIES FROM MAUREEN

Today we continue with our little walk through the years of St Patrick's Convent Schools.  Our evocative photos today come to us through the kindness of Maureen Martin Tobin who has sent two pictures from the 1960s.

Maureen's Grade 4 Class is the subject of the first photo.  The year was 1964/65 and the teacher was Miss Doreen Walsh.  Maureen is in the first row, fifth left.  

Grade 4, 1964/65 (Teacher, Miss Doreen Walsh)

The second photo is of Maureen's Grade 7 Class, circa 1968.  Maureen is the first girl on the left of the first row. The teacher at that time was Miss Fagan/Austin. I am happy to see that the teacher is in the photo.  It is always nice to be able to put a face to the name.

Grade 7, circa 1968 (Teacher Miss Fagan/Austin)

Maureen, any names you can give us would be appreciated.  Thanks again and please keep the great material coming.  Happy Easter to you and your family.

THIRTY YEARS BETWEEN

As I promised yesterday, here are more photos from St Patrick's Convent School's past. These lovely photos, submitted by Rosalita Bambrick, span thirty years.  Well done Rosalita for remembering so many names!

The first one is Rosalita's Graduation Class, circa 1957, and the other was taken at  the School Reunion held in 1987.

Graduation Class of 1957/58

ROW 1: 

Rosalita Bambrick, ??, ??,Mary Colbert, Patricia Ann Roche, Mary Power, Sharon Horan, Mary Fagan, Carmelita Burke, ? King, Clare Ann Connolly

Row 2: 

Marie Harvey, Frances Nugent, Phyllis Silver, ? Hall, Josephine Cook, Kathleen Ryan, Yvonne Snow, Catherine Parsons, Betty Baird

ROW 3: 

Rita Luby, Margaret Birmingham, Anna Hamlyn, Regina Galway, ??, Kathleen Power, ??

The next photo was taken 30 years later.

Thirty years later and still looking good!

ROW 1: 

Barbara Parsons, Peggy Mercer, Regina Galway, Anna Hamlyn, Polly Kelly,  Catherine Parsons, Phyllis Silver

ROW 2:

Madonna Healey, Rosalita Bambrick, Mary Power, Patricia Ann Roche, Catherine O'Reilly, ??, Babby Finney

Rosalita, I am really grateful for all your help and support.  You have shared some lovely photos with us and thereby given us a great deal of pleasure travelling down 'Memory Lane'.

GRADE 7, 1959/60

This year, 2019, marks the twentieth anniversary of the closing of St Patrick's Convent Schools.  That day in 1999 St Patrick's students walked the well kept floors of the "new school" on Patrick St for the last time.  It was a sad day indeed.  Today, I will begin posting photos from different years and submitted by girls from those years.  

The first photos were sent to us by Pat Hurley McDonald.  It is Pat's Grade 7 Class and the year was about 1959/60.  Pat informed us that her teacher that year was Miss Catherine Kennedy. 

A very big "THANK YOU" to Pat who has been a loyal supporter of this blog since its beginning.

Grade 7, 1959/60

The names written on the back of Pat's photo