This last week has been a series of events for Joe’s school. It is St. Pats 125th anniversary. There are not too many out there that have been around for that long, so something of an event.
Proceeedings started on Monday evening with “Jubilation” at the Michael Fowler centre. It was a celebration of the school’s cultural achievements, and was great to watch. The performers included current and past pupils, with Maori and Pacific events, barber shop singing groups and the school choir. One performance was ballet dance by a current pupil. This lad is obviuosly good, but I thought it was positive that he was on the bill-not the sort of thing all boys schools celebrate typically.
There were plenty of old boys who came back to perform-a testament in itself. They produced beautiful singing, the pick being the professional opera singer.
The rest of the celebration has involved cocktail event (rammed), all day sport on Saturday at the school, and a dinner on Saturday for a few hundred. Hundreds of old boys have turned up, so I suppose the place must have done something right along the way. Our friend’s brother came from Bermuda with his own sons for the weekend.
The sport on Saturday was predominantly against the brother school -St. Pats Silcverstream. We went to watch the 1st XV game. A fast aggresive and skilful game-just likeGunnersbury used to play?
