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New Structures - lay involvement

A significant feature of the development programmes
of the ˋseventies and ˋeighties is the involvement of
parents and lay staff in the consultative and
management process – a consequence of Fr
McGarry’s decision in 1971. Interim Boards of
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Management also had a finance sub-committee.
While the Board chairman Fr Cormac Gallagher
applied the momentum, the Finance Committee
(which had responsibility for overseeing the general
financial management of the school) advised on the
necessary fund-raising. The committee members who
played an indispensible roll in the two phases of
construction were:-

For the new classrooms – the ‘Block of Eight’:
Chairman Mr Niall Crowley
Mr Cathal O’Gara
Mrs Eithne Blake
Mrs Sheila Geoghegan
Mr Joe McCullough
Mr Donal O’Buachalla
Fr Dermot Murray SJ

For the Science building Development Committee:
Development Director Mr John O’Brien
Chairman Mr Liam Connellan
Mrs Margaret Carney
Mrs Darinda Hickey
Mr John Cooke
Mr Joe McCullough
Mr John Mulgrew

6 A Board of Governors took the place of the Interim Board in
September 1981. Jesuits alone had made up the Interim Boards;
now, for the first time, the laity were included.

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