Page 77 - Gonzaga Record 1950-59

There is an appropriate addendum to references to An
Comhdháil in its early days – readers should consult
Gonzaga at Sixty, pp. 52/3, for Charles Lysaght’s details
of early debates: Macdara Woods’ (’58) show stealing
contribution to the motion ‘That the works of Enid Blyton
are pernicious’ in the society’s very first debate; John
(later Fr John) Feighery (’59) contesting that corporal
punishment was an admission of failure on the part of the
teacher; and George Kildare Miley (’59) being one of
only two debaters with the courage to oppose from the
floor the philosophy that was basic to the Gonzaga
experiment.

If only the Minute Books could be rediscovered!

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Fr Tim Hamilton SJ

Sadly, this grainy inset from
the first school photograph is
the only certain image of Fr
Hamilton, unless he could
possibly be identified as the
priest painting the lines for the
sports day track on a later
page.

He survives, however,
in the college library, by virtue
of his signature on the fly-leaf
of the library’s copy of Liddell and Scott’s Greek lexicon.

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