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Welcome to the 3rd edition of Entre Nous eNews. I can’t believe it is May 2012 already! We have been very busy running reun- ions since the beginning of the year. So far we have meet up with the Class of 2011, who graduated last year. It was a pleasure to welcome them all back to PCW as Alumnae and we hope that you continue to stay connected with the Col- lege and your school friends. We have also held 10, 20 and 30 year reunions for the Classes of 2002, 1992 and 1982. There are some great photos later in the newsletter. May and June we also welcome back the Class of 1972 and Class of 1962 for their 40 and 50 year reunions. ALUMNAE DINNER & CELEBRATIONS Lots of organisation is going into the Alumnae Dinner and Celebrations planned for the end of the year. Cele- brating 100 years since the first meeting of the Past Pupils Association in 1912 and celebrating all the Alumnae from PCW. As you may be aware , we have a big dinner booked for Friday 30 No- vember and then Mass, College Tours and Afternoon tea on Sunday 2 Decem- ber. All alumnae are invite and we would encourage you to get together a group of friends and form a table for the dinner. Invites will be sent out in mid Au- gust. The Archives Team and myself are also working on a commemorative book, which will be released in November and avail- able for order with your dinner invita- tions. It will be a really lovely pictorial reflection from Windsor over the last 138 years. SEND ME YOUR NEWS I would encourage you help me by send- ing in information for Alumnae publica- tions. With your help our publications can grow and contain a lot more detail. What can you send? Community Information: births, deaths, marriages, weddings, career moves. Reunions: Info on upcoming reunions and photos/stories about reunions held. Memories and Photos of PCW: We would love to hear about your days at PCW. What are you doing now? Tell us what you have been doing since leaving PCW. We look forward to your contributions and comments. Please send information/stories/photos to either: Lynaire Falkenstein E: [email protected] or Pauline Wilson from the PPA committee E: [email protected]. Welcome to Entre Nous eNews Special points of interest: Alumnae office update Date for 2012 Alumnae Celebration Dinner Reunions Stories about our past pupils! Become a PCW Alumnae Life Member Entre Nous eNews PCW Alumnae Newsletter May 2012 PCW Alumnae Office Lynaire Falkenstein 187 Dandenong Road Windsor VIC 3181 Ph 03 8517 2734 E: [email protected] PCW has new Summer Dress Uniform. Above is one of our Year 7 classes from 2012...proudly wearing their new uniform and now apart of our Presentation Community

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Welcome to the 3rd edition of Entre Nous eNews.

I can’t believe it is May 2012 already! We have been very busy running reun-ions since the beginning of the year. So far we have meet up with the Class of 2011, who graduated last year. It was a pleasure to welcome them all back to PCW as Alumnae and we hope that you continue to stay connected with the Col-lege and your school friends.

We have also held 10, 20 and 30 year reunions for the Classes of 2002, 1992 and 1982. There are some great photos later in the newsletter.

May and June we also welcome back the Class of 1972 and Class of 1962 for their 40 and 50 year reunions.

ALUMNAE DINNER & CELEBRATIONS

Lots of organisation is going into the Alumnae Dinner and Celebrations planned for the end of the year. Cele-brating 100 years since the first meeting of the Past Pupils Association in 1912 and celebrating all the Alumnae from

PCW. As you may be aware , we have a big dinner booked for Friday 30 No-vember and then Mass, College Tours and Afternoon tea on Sunday 2 Decem-ber. All alumnae are invite and we would encourage you to get together a group of friends and form a table for the dinner. Invites will be sent out in mid Au-gust.

The Archives Team and myself are also working on a commemorative book, which will be released in November and avail-able for order with your dinner invita-tions. It will be a really lovely pictorial reflection from Windsor over the last 138 years.

SEND ME YOUR NEWS

I would encourage you help me by send-ing in information for Alumnae publica-tions. With your help our publications can grow and contain a lot more detail.

What can you send?

Community Information: births, deaths, marriages, weddings, career moves.

Reunions: Info on upcoming reunions and photos/stories about reunions held.

Memories and Photos of PCW: We would love to hear about your days at PCW.

What are you doing now? Tell us what you have been doing since leaving PCW.

We look forward to your contributions and comments.

Please send information/stories/photos to either:

Lynaire Falkenstein

E: [email protected] or

Pauline Wilson from the PPA committee

E: [email protected].

Welcome to Entre Nous eNews

Special points of interest: • Alumnae office update

• Date for 2012 Alumnae Celebration

Dinner

• Reunions

• Stories about our past pupils!

• Become a PCW Alumnae Life Member

Entre Nous eNews PCW Alumnae Newsletter

May 2012

PCW Alumnae Office Lynaire Falkenstein 187 Dandenong Road Windsor VIC 3181 Ph 03 8517 2734 E: [email protected]

PCW has new Summer Dress Uniform. Above is one of our Year 7 classes from 2012...proudly wearing their new uniform and now

apart of our Presentation Community

Entre Nous eNews PCW Alumnae Newsletter May 2012

The Past Pupils Committee meets regularly and works behind the scenes to support the work of the new PCW Alumnae Office. As a voluntary group they look to: • Maintain Connections—with Alumnae

and the College. • Support mentoring at PCW • Develop the Archives • Support Reunions & Events. • Support Social Justice at PCW All alumnae are welcome to join the commit-tee. They meet every second month. Please contact Maureen Pontin, President, for details. E: [email protected]

Past Pupils Committee

Do you know a past pupil who would like to receive Entre Nous? Please email me their contact details (including their email and leaving class details if you know them) and I will add them to the distribution list.

Lynaire Falkenstein PCW Alumnae Office

Lynaire Falkenstein 187 Dandenong Road

Windsor VIC 3181 Ph 03 8517 2734

Entre Nous eNews PCW Alumnae Newsletter May 2012

Judy Morrison (Larkins)1/6/1924 - 24/3/2012 Judy has left a strong impression on several generations, dat-ing back to her classmates of the 1930’s. She was closely in-voled with the past Pupils’ Association at the height of the ‘Debutante Era’. Groups from the 40’s and 50’s into the early 60’s have vivid memories of the exacting rehearsals and the excitement of the night when they finally arrived and made their bow. Thanks to the formidable team effort of Miss Carre, Judy, Sisters Bertrand, Concepta and Lucy, the protocol of a more formal age was fully observed. There was a clear policy on the general fitness of things! Judy also strove valiantly to maintain rounded vowel sounds in the face of what she consid-ered deteriorating public standards. Her children and many descendants have been indoctrinated in correct pronunciation and voice projection. All are familiar with the frequent repeti-tion of such exercises as “How now brown cow?” As there is so much more to Judy’s long and full life than eti-quette and high standards of speech, we expect an article in a later edition. Meanwhile, Gen Y readers can obtain a glimpse of Judt via CDs and videos of Missy Higgins. Judy is her mater-nal grandmother, and there are some physical and personality family resemblances. Vlae, Judy! You will be greatly missed. Sincere sympathy to her family and to her younger sisters, Caroline and Rosemary. Diana, and her brothers and her husband, George, have pre-deceased her. Sr Mary Kavanagh pbvm

2012 ALUMNAE CELEBRATION WEEKEND Celebrating100 years of the past pupils association at PCW, this weekend event will be an opportunity for Alumnae to meet up with Windsor friends, to get a table of friends together at our function at The Promenade Room, Caulfield Race Course and to come back and tour Presentation College Windsor today. Invitations will be sent mid August, but keep the weekend free!

Dinner - Friday 30 November Mass, School Tours & Afternoon Tea - Sunday 2 December

Many of our Alumnae have their contact details on the Alumnae database and they will receive notifica-tion about their year level reunions and the Alumnae Celebration weekend. Reunion details will also be published in the Windsor News, Entre Nous E-News and on the college website www.pcw.vic.edu.au/pcwcommunity/alumnae . We would ask you to help spread the word and encourage those of you who are in contact with other PCW girls to make sure that they are aware of upcoming reunions. Thank You.

Entre Nous eNews PCW Alumnae Newsletter May 2012

Mrs Alice Naughtin - Is she Windsor’s oldest Alumnae? Alice Naughtin (nee Coyne) turns 96 this year in April and is probably one of the oldest living past students of Presentation College Windsor. She was born in 1916 and grew up in Campbellfield and Kew and attended school at Sacred Heart Kew up to Grade Eight. Her parents strongly believed in the importance of education for their daughters and Alice was sent by her parents to Pres-entation Convent Windsor in 1928 and completed her Leaving Honours in 1931. Her sister, Mary also attended Presentation Convent in the mid 1920’s. Alice often recalled the good edu-cation she was given at Presentation Convent. She thought the nuns were strict and very good teachers. She remembered her Botany classes in particular and they gave her a life long inter-est in gardening and plants. Alice had a school photo of herself with a group of girls that is shown with this profile. It shows quite well the uniform of the period that the girls wore. On leaving Presentation Convent, Alice did a secretarial course and went on to work in the Public Service in the Mines Depart-ment. During WWII she held a position as the Secretary to the Principal Research Officer in the Department of Aeronautics, CSIRO in Port Melbourne. She became an excellent typist and short hand writer, skills that stayed with her all her life. In 1946 she married Peter Naughtin and had five sons who

attended secondary school at CBC St Kilda in the 1960’s and

1970’s. Alice’s interest in education led her to encourage her

sons to go to university and all her five sons graduated from

university. In 2008, she was very proud to see her son, Gerry

graduate Ph.D from Melbourne University and her grand-

daughter, Monica graduate Ph.D from Monash University.

Alice returned to work as a part-time secretary in the 1960’s

and enjoyed using her skills again as a typist. She was very

active in the Glen Iris Parish, teaching catechism classes in the

local State School for 10 years. She kept close contact with the

Presentation Sisters through the nuns living at the Glen Iris Con-

vent. Alice’s husband retired in 1973 and both enjoyed an

active retirement, with travel, bowls and helping out with grand

children. Her husband died in 1988. Alice continued her life in

Camberwell and was still driving her car at age 90. She cur-

rently lives in St Catherine’s Nursing Home in Balwyn and is

struggling with a range of health problems.

Alice with girls from Presentation Convent ( back row, 4th

from left)

Alice attending the Ph.D graduations of her son Gerry and

granddaughter Monica in 2008.

Entre Nous eNews PCW Alumnae Newsletter May 2012

PCW Alumnae Rebecca Saunders. Class of 2002. Rebecca recently attended the 10 year reunion at PCW. I came across this article in another magazine and wanted to share it. Great to see our Alumnae working, involved in exciting projects and making a difference in their communities!

Entre Nous eNews PCW Alumnae Newsletter May 2012

Letter from Bernece Delany, O.A.M Class of 1947

I have enclosed a photo of the 3 Naughton sisters taken with our Nana. Mary was born in 1927, I was born in 1930 and Joanne in 1937. Our uniforms are very different from this era. Velour (green) hats, woollen gloves, big wide starched collars on our blouses, gold and green stripes on our tunics. I really liked our uni-forms. There used to be an inspection at the entrance gate every morning to see you were wearing the correct attire. Those woollen gloves were rather a trial. When we were boarders we had to line up every Saturday morning for head inspection (head lice) and tunic inspec-tion. It was done on the bridge leading into our dormitory where Mary and I slept.

Warmest wishes to you all Bernece

MEMORIES Do you have a story about your time at PCW? Or maybe some older photos? We are compiling an archive photo book of Windsor memories....please get in touch with me if you have anything to share. We would to hear from you. Lynaire PCW Alumnae office EMAIL: [email protected] Phone: 03 8517 2734

Entre Nous eNews PCW Alumnae Newsletter May 2012

Class of 1976 Reunion In November 1976, Abba, Ted Mulray Gang, Queen and Sherbet were playing on the radio as we studied for our HSC final school exams. Thirteen years of schooling depended on your performance in a series of three hour exams. We were on the verge of leaving our childhood behind and venturing beyond the safety of the glass topped walls of PCW. We were ready to discard our bottle green uniforms, don our wrap skirts, peasant blouses, spray on our Charlie perfume and take on the world. Fast forward to 2012, we are now in our early fifties and many of us are meeting again after an absence of thirty six years. Of the seventy girls who made up the Class of 1976, twenty two made it to the impromptu reunion in South Melbourne in April 2012. Name tags were on offer but hardly needed as it became apparent that although time had passed we could still recog-nize each other. Pity the unfortunate patrons of the Emerald Hotel that night as the noise levels were so high we had to be ush-ered into a private room. For hours we talked, reminisced and laughed about how our lives had turned out. Most of us had chosen careers in education and health, some entered into what was then the strange new world of computing, many eventually reaching to the top of medical and academic careers. Most of us had married and had children, and as the night progressed we spoke of our children and their achievements. Several girls from 1976 had married CBC boys met at the Thursday afternoon ballroom dancing classes, and a couple had already become grandmothers. What amazed me on the night was the sense of connection between the girls of 1976, though the years had passed, we still had a great affection for the time we had spent together at the school. We concluded the evening with the school song, a group photograph and a vow to meet up for our fortieth year reunion in 2016. If you are interested in catching up with anyone from the class of 1976 or wish to attend the fortieth reunion, you can contact either Lynaire in the College office, Felicity Sist or myself via Facebook. Gabrielle Carrigg (McLean).

Back after 36 years...Felicity, Ann, Gabrielle L to R; Sue,Veronica,Sally,Joanne,Margaret,Libby,Felicity,Mary,Anne,Pauline,Francine,Toni,Debbie,Ann-Marie, Kim, Gabrielle, Ann, Debbie, Mary, Cathy, Wendy, Karen

Back after 36 years...Felicity, Ann, Gabrielle

Sue, Ann-Marie, Karen.

Cathy, Joanne, Debbie, Margaret, Ann-Marie, Sue.

Francine, Toni, Libby.

Debbie, Ann, Mary.

Pauline, Veronica, Wendy, Patrice, Kim, Debbie.

Class of 1976

Entre Nous eNews PCW Alumnae Newsletter May 2012

Reunions

Entre Nous eNews PCW Alumnae Newsletter May 2012

Reunions

Entre Nous eNews PCW Alumnae Newsletter May 2012