ST. PATRICK’S COLLEGE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 64, 27 February 1935, Page 5

ST. PATRICK’S COLLEGE

Jubilee Celebrations The golden jubilee of St. Patrick’s College will be celebrated in April next. For months past a committee of the Old Boy’s’ Association of the college, has been organising so that this great event in the history of one of the leading educational institutions of the Dominion may be fittingly celebrated. A full outline of the programme, with details of the special jubilee record to be published for the occasion, will be given later. The foundation stone of St. Patrick’s College was laid by His Grace, the late Archbishop Redwood, on March 16, 1884, and the college was opened by His Grace on June 1, 1885. Under the constitution of the Society of Mary, the most important work of the Marist Fathers is that of education and from its foundation the college has been staffed by members of that society. For 50 years the college has been drawing to its roll, boys not only from Wellington but also from all parts of the Dominion. At its foundation, the college was the first Catholic secondary school in New Zealand and for many years it was the only one. To-day its ex-students are to be found in every city, town and village throughout New Zealand, Australia, the Pacific Islands and further afield, their attachment to the Alma Mater, undimmed by the passage of years.