St Patricks Christian Brothers College Grade 4 1960
November 1960
Shane Stone and a number of other students from Grade 4 1959 were held back and repeated a year in 1960. Reflecting back on this decision it is not clear why this occurred. Shane Stone is fifth from the left, front row. in 1958 Shane Stone attended St Pat's from what was then Ariel Street State School in Wodonga (later known as Wodonga Primary SS). St Pats commenced at Grade 3 at that time hence Shane's first three years of schooling were undertaken in Wodonga. His father Les Stone (a former Christian Brother), was a senior teacher at Ariel Street, Wodonga. Shane caught the Mylons bus near the Wodonga water tower to Albury each day alighting in Dean Street, Albury a short walk to the school on the corner of Smollett & Olive streets. A number of students ordinarily resident in Wodonga, Victoria traveled to Albury, NSW for their education. A class of 58 students was nothing out of the ordinary at that time, student teacher ratios were not the focus of schools and teachers in that era. Shane Stone returned to St. Pat's briefly in the early 1970s as a teacher before accepting a senior position at the newly established Institute of Catholic Education in Melbourne. A special acknowledgment to Greg Ryan, a former student at St Pat's and former President of Albury & District Historical Society who has painstakingly researched St Patrick's archives, and former student and teacher St Pat's Roy Thompson who assisted in identifying photographs held at the school. Roy's brother George Thompson was in the same class as Shane Stone.
- Document type: Photo
- Time period: Childhood & Schooling
- People: Zbysko BACZYNSKI, Paul BALSARINI, Dietmar BECKER, Ross BOCKMAN, Wayne CAMERON, Richard CHAPMAN, Phillip COSTIGAN, Martin CURTIS, Terry DARE, Neil DICK, Barclay DOWLING, ROBERT DRAGE, Peter DUTKOWSKI, P. FEIGL, Peter FELSTEAD, A. GIBBS, Paul GITTINGS, Michael GOONAN, Graeme HALEY, Robert HAMILTON, Ken HANLON, Denis HAYES, Richard HICKEY, Gerard HUNTER, Greg JACKSON, Greg JESS, Phillip JOSS, Graeme KEEN, Ian KOTTHOFF, Alan KRAUTZ, Leon LIVERMORE, Anthony MALONEY, Kevin McCORMACK, Alan. J McDONALD, Alan. K McDONALD, Ray McLEES, Denis McLEOD, Phillip MORTON, Brian MURPHY, Paul O'CONNELL, Anthony OGILVIE, Lenny PARKER, Michael PHIBBS, Michael PLUMMER, Greg RYAN, Phillip SHADDOCK, Gerard SHELLEY, Michael SLATTERY (RAN), John SPINELLI, Roy THOMPSON, Stephen TRACEY, Harry de VREEZE, Lindsay WARREN, Paul WHELAN, John WILLIAMS (St Pats), Daryl WYBROW
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