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That Gonzaga students did not surrender
entirely to exam pressures is a source of obvious
satisfaction to Fr Murray in his letter of November
1979:-
Not, by any means, the first example of this
kind of action by Gonzaga students involving them in
the service of others; but it became a Fifth Year
tradition for a number of years, backed by the
fundraising activities of the remainder of the Year not
7
chosen to participate in the main event.
7 These ‘charity pushes’ were later replaced by the more
structured Social Outreach progamme initiated (and still
maintained in 2014) by Mr David Keenahan
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entirely to exam pressures is a source of obvious
satisfaction to Fr Murray in his letter of November
1979:-
Not, by any means, the first example of this
kind of action by Gonzaga students involving them in
the service of others; but it became a Fifth Year
tradition for a number of years, backed by the
fundraising activities of the remainder of the Year not
7
chosen to participate in the main event.
7 These ‘charity pushes’ were later replaced by the more
structured Social Outreach progamme initiated (and still
maintained in 2014) by Mr David Keenahan
20
