Prizes Presented At Xavier College

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31231, 1 December 1966, Page 11

Prizes Presented At Xavier College

The first and most necessary aim of education and the most essential equipment to give the pupil was a sound philosophical goal for living, said the director of Xavier College (the Rev. Brother Maurice) at the prize-giving cermony on Tuesday. What other motives for living than the great Christian-

based goals offered a morality for a secular age? he asked. The frustration of modern living was to exist without adequate aims. Young people must be taught to think as well as to work. In this boys needed to learn humility as well as the humanities: self-knowledge as well as scientific knowledge. Creative, bold, and imaginative thinking was needed to meet the challenges of the times, said Brother Maurice. Prizes were presented by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch (the Most Rev. B. P. Ashby) as follows:

SPECIAL PRIZES Good conduct, J. Sullivan; school leadership, W. Brown; general excellence In form VI, N. Langenberg: excellence in the son of an old boy, B. O’Byrne; religious knowledge, C. McGrath; dux, B. Brekelmans; excellence in mathematics and science in form VI, B. Brekelmans; excellence in English in form VI, C. McGrath: excellence in history in forms V or VI; P. O’Connell: general excellence in form V, P. McGllnchey; excellence in mathematics and science in form V, J. Polaschek; dux in intermediate department, Michael Byan; religious knowledge in form 11, G. O’Malley; general excellence in the intermediate department:—Monsignor Hanrahan Cup—P. Stapleton; excellence in sport in the intermediate department, G. Consedine. CLASS PRIZES Form VI B: A. Warta I, I. Griffiths 2 and excellence in English. Form V A: A. Pyke 1. W. Carroll 2; excellence in English, M. Lawley. Form V G: P. H. Brown, general excellence; K. Moesbergen 1, P. Walmsley 2.

Form V R: M. Martin, general excellence; A. Gray 1, E. Freeman 2. i Form IV A: C. Chrtotofferson, general excellence; J. O’Donnelj 1, J. Hundleby 2. Form IV G: F. Boyles, general ’ excellence; D. Duncan 1, D. • O’Connell 2. , Form 111 A: R. Groufsky, 1 general excellence; K. Tranter 1, A. King-Turner 2. Form 111 G: P. Hannah, general excellence; J. Payne 1, K. McFall 2.

Form 111 R: K. Stevenson, general excellence; P. Arlov 1. T. Heketa 2. Form II A: P. Stapleton, general excellence: M. Ryan 1. Form II B: W. Goossens, general excellence; M. Trowland Form I A: M. Ny, general excellence; A. Shaw 1. Form I B: S. Cogle, general excellence; M. McCormick 1.