NEWTOWN REVIEW

2011-2012

Contents
Editorial ............................................................2 Newtown Review Team 2012 ..............................3 Remembering Roger...........................................4 Diary ............................................................ 5-8 Quotable Quotes ................................................6 Interview with Anne Curran ..................................9 Gapper Interviews ............................................10 Foreign Friends ................................................11 1st Form .........................................................12 2nd Form ........................................................14 Second Form Ski Trip .......................................16 3rd Form.........................................................18 Life on a Boat..................................................20 The Student Council .........................................21 Drama ............................................................21 Short Story and Poety Competition ....................22 An Gaisce .......................................................25 Old Scholar Interview with Kalle Ryan .................26 4th Form.........................................................28 Heart of TY ......................................................30 Junk Kouture ...................................................31 Killary .............................................................32 Walk for Water .................................................33 Mini Med School..............................................33 Enterprise .......................................................34 Healthy Heads YSI team .................................35 Compass Schools Workshop ...........................35 All About Older Young Social Innovator Project...........................36 Our time in Kolkata ..........................................38 TY Archaeology Trip ..........................................40 Transition Year trip to Spain and France ..............41 5th Form.........................................................42 6th Form.........................................................44 Sixth Form Photos ............................................46 Senior Art Trip ..................................................48 Girls Fashion ...................................................49 Boys Fashion ...................................................50 Senior Art Trip ..................................................50 Waterford LIONS Club Young Ambassador Awards 51 Newtown through the ages ...............................52 Boarding Through the Ages ...............................53
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Newtown in the 1950s ....................................55 Interview with Philip JacobNewtown in the 2nd World War .........................57 Music .............................................................59 Music Review ..................................................60 Chamber Choir Report ......................................61 WLR FM Christmas appeal ................................61 Newtowns Annual Christmas Concert ................62 Vladimir Review ...............................................63 New Ross Piano Festival ...................................63 Orchestra ........................................................64 Fifth and Sixth Form music class concert trips ....................................................64 RTE String Quartet from UCC .............................64 Sport ..............................................................65 Clan Cross Country...........................................66 Clan Results ....................................................67 Winners 2012 .................................................68 Winners 2011 ................................................69 Hockey ...........................................................70 Senior Girls Hockey Tour to Belfast.....................72 Senior Boys Hockey Tour...................................73 Staff v 6th Yr Hockey match ..............................75 Rugby .............................................................76 Orienteering ....................................................76 Interview with Jacqui Freyne (nee Stokes) ..........77 Interview with Christopher Pim ...........................77 The Irish Water Safety Swim and Lifesaving Club @ Newtown ..............................78 Equestrian.......................................................79 6th Year 2011 - where are they now? ................80 Old Scholars Section ........................................81 Old Scholars President s Report ........................82 Interview with Alan & Nigel Pim..........................83 Tribute to Roger Garbett....................................86 DeCourcy Scholarship and NMFOSA Fund ..........89 Minutes of 2011 AGM ......................................90 Accounts for Year End 2011..............................91 From the Archives ............................................94 Reunion 2011 Gallery ......................................96 Obituaries .....................................................100 Old Scholar News ..........................................105
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Staff Editorial
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success
Henry Ford We have enjoyed another year being involved with this publication. The team has worked well together under the guidance of our diligent student editors. Thank you to all who have contributed to this years edition and to our colleagues for all of their help and support. Best wishes to the team as they move forward into Sixth Form.

Tara Coady and Sinead Maher

Student Editorial
When Phoebe and I became student editors of the Newtown Review this year, we didnt really know what to expect. We knew that the highest standard of work is expected so its fair to say we felt a bit under pressure. The year started off a bit slow but once we got going, the whole team pulled together and has been working non-stop to complete the 2012 Newtown Review. This year we have tried to put our own flair on things with lots of thought given to layout and design, and weve brought back the fashion pages which everyone used to love (well, the girls anyway!). The team has worked fantastically together with great camaraderie and team spirit. Everyone has done their part and more, and the quality of work received has been super. Congratulations to all for a great effort. I would like to say a big thank you to all the students who wrote articles or supplied material to the review, a massive thank you to Ms. Coady and Mrs. Maher who have helped us so much through the process and finally, thank you so much to the team, especially my partner in crime, Phoebe, together we have made it come to life. It has been an exciting and rewarding journey, at times a little bit hectic, with lots of challenges along the way. Weve stuck with it though, and Im very proud of what weve achieved. I hope everyone enjoys the result as much as weve enjoyed bringing it to you.

Cathy McGrory Student editor

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The Newtown Review; easily the most anticipated item to arrive through the letter box every summer and certainly the most wellread. Every year I wait with such excitement for the arrival of the large brown packet and every year I fail to realise just how much work has gone into each and every page-that is until this year. Being editor of the Newtown Review has been a stress, an insane amount of work, a lesson in timekeeping yet dare I say it enjoyable, rewarding and an invaluable experience. Finally beginning to see the first signs of a real Newtown Review emerging, the memory stick slowly but surely fill up with more and more articles and knowing that this year it will be your Newtown review arriving through the letter boxes of hundreds of people. This makes it sound as if it is the work of just one person but this (luckily) is not the case. Instead it is the work of a whole team and in our case, our small team under the guidance of Ms. Coady and Mrs Maher produced with hard work, dedication and (lets be honest) a few panics along the way, this Review which I hope is going to be enjoyed by everybody and goes at least some way to reporting and reflecting the school year that was 2011/12. It has been a year that for me seemed to be all about change. A school changing and evolving; the proposal of vision 2020 a very obvious one and the more subtle changes like the new T.Y coordinator Ms.Keogh and the welcoming of Mrs.OConnor as head of the music department in place of Ms.Barry. Sadly also the departure of Ms.Curran who has had a firm place in this school for so many years. Not surprisingly this Review seems to have adopted this theme, however unintentionally. Within these pages there are of course the old and well know sections however there are also new ideas and features, including the Newtown through the ages section which for me has been an interesting piece to write and be involved in. It has also made me aware of many aspects of the history of this school which I would not otherwise have been aware of. Happy reading and to next years editors, good luck but most importantly ENJOY !

Phoebe Moore Student editor

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Newtown Review Team 2012

EDITORS: CREATIVE DIRECTOR: SPORTS EDITOR: INTERVIEWERS: PHOTOGRAPHY: DIARY: EVERYTHING ELSE: Cathy McGrory & Phoebe Moore Kaine de la Haye Rebecca Hoban Joshua Kenny & April Allen Amy Kelly & Holly Wells Hannah & Jane Murray Elena Kutay, Olivia Power & Rosaleen Traynor

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Remembering Roger
Roger Garbett retired from teaching in the summer of 2009. At that time he declined an invitation from the Newtown Review to be interviewed for the traditional profile of a retiring teacher. He was never an establishment person. Not for him the trappings of position nor the traditional formulas of convention, yet he always retained an absolute loyalty to his students and a total commitment to art in education. When he died on March 1, 2012 so early in his retirement current and former students and colleagues, friends and neighbours of long standing thronged into and around Thompsons Funeral Home to pay tribute to him at a memorial ceremony on the eve of his cremation in Dublin the next day. That so many came together there that night is ample testimony to the enduring influence Roger Garbett has had, and will continue to have, in our lives as father, husband, artist, teacher, colleague and friend. At that ceremony Roger Garbett was described as a man of firm and definite opinion, a man of principle, a man who stood by what he believed, scorning pretence and pomposity, having no patience with posturing. His friends and those who knew him best remember him with affection for his wholehearted generosity of spirit and deep personal loyalty, abiding personal qualities we all experienced of him. The pursuit of the highest standards in work and the application of strict procedure in his business and professional dealings were vital to him. If ever Roger Garbett thought a policy was wrong or a measure was being misapplied or a colleague or a student was unfairly treated he would be unhesitatingly forthright and direct in expressing his view and in standing up for what he believed to be right. Roger Garbett reigned supreme in the Art Room. His classes were active and lively. His classroom resonated with chat and laughter. Essentially empathetic and always respectful of students integrity Roger Garbett was an inspirational teacher. He identified talent. He fostered and nourished that talent and readily gave his all in bringing talent to fruition. His students loved his teaching. In art class confidences were exchanged, advice was given and plans were made. Whenever one visited the classroom, opening the door one had to be prepared to be put on the spot once inside and to be ready for the roar of laughter that would follow whatever pertinent observation Roger Garbett would make, all in the kindliest way possible. When Roger Garbett went on job-share to pursue his personal career as an artist he missed that social interaction. He was glad to return to full time teaching. It is not just the classwork he conducted and the artists he inspired, it is also the generations of students who have come out of that classroom content in their abilities and at ease in themselves who form part of Roger Garbetts legacy as a teacher. Remembering Roger Garbett, we extend our sympathy to his family and especially to his wife Anne who complemented and supported him so well. When he was on career break it was Anne who organised the exhibition of his work. She attended to all the things that needed to be done, the very things Roger himself would eschew. She ensured he got the recognition his work deserved. Most recently during his illness she was to be his constant mainstay and support. Gorwedd mewn hedd (Edited for publication in the Newtown Review with the permission of Anne Garbett.)

Cullen, Anne Garbett Roger Garbett, Martin These photographs were taken at Rogers last Art Exhibition that was held in The Granary in Waterford and officially opened by Martin Cullen
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Past pupils of Roger, Anemone Von Blomberg, Maria (Masha) Yanova, Ekaterina (Katia) Kalinichenko

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Diary
August
30th - School begins

OctOber
3rd - Amanda Knox is released from prison after four years. 5th - Steve Jobs, the American computer engineer, dies in California at the age of fifty six 8th - Ireland lose to Wales 10 - 22 20th - Gadaffi is killed near his hometown of Sirte by rebels.

NOvember
7th - Dr. Conrad Murray is found guilty of the manslaughter of Michael Jackson 11th Michael D. Higgins is inaugurated as President of Ireland 16th - Two bullets are fired at the White House. No damage is done as the windows are bullet proof. 28th - Gary Speed dies in tragic circumstances. Exams start.

september
11th -The Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 14th - The Fourth Form receive their Junior Cert results. 21st - First and Second Form Under 14 Boys Hockey Bandon Blitz Two of the teams win all their pool matches, the others win 3 out of 4 all Progress to semi-finals 22nd - Ploughing Championships. Get your wellies on!

23rd - New Zealand win the World Cup France losing out. Score: 8-7

December
2nd - The Toy Show. Thousands watch the show and it becomes the most viewed show on Irish television in seventeen years.

5th - Congratulations to Jane Murray, Hannah Murray, Cathy McGrory and Phoebe Moore on their nomination for The Lions Club Young Ambassador Award

7th - First Form Boys Hockey Blitz, played 6, won 3, drew 2, lost 1 JCT rugby match v Abbeyfeale (Cork) 24-28 Senior Girls v Kilkenny College 3-1 hockey Senior Boys rugby to Bandon 30-5 Junior and First Form girls travel to Carlow. Both draw.

10th - X Factor Final; Little Mix win Flash Mob in aid of The Waterford Lions Club 12th - U.14 rugby team played Wycliffe 29-27 15th - USA declares end to Iraq War Christmas School Concert Christmas Lunch 16th - Christmas Concert 20th - Cross Country 22nd - Holidays begin

9th - Well done to Chamber Choir for their performance in the Christchurch Concert

JANuAry
8th - Boarders return 9th- School begins
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11th Fifth and Six Form visit Art Gallery Senior rugby team take on Clonmel First year Girls hockey team draw 1-1 with Kilkenny College, Minor Girls 4-0

12th Third Form Parent Teacher meetings 13th - Work on the buildings start Well done to Beth Rochford, grade 7 piano and Lydia Thorpe grade 8 cello
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JANuAry
15th - Golden Globes, so awkward with Ricky Gervais. 16th - Congratulations to Hannah Murray, Jane Murray, Georgia Battell and Phoebe Moore on achieving their Bronze Award in The Presidents Award and Caroline Fitzgerald and Anna Hickey for their Silver Awards 17th - Back gate closed Leaving Cert forms have to be in for the Sixth Form 19th - South East Schools Orienteering Competition at Faithlegg Woods Junior Girls hockey win league match 3-1 against Kilkenny College. Minor boys hockey lose 3-1, Juniors lose 5-2 to Villiers 20th - Junior Boys Hockey team lose cup match against Ashton - Well done to Senior Boys Rugby team who play a fantastic cup match against Bandon Grammar but are very unfortunate to lose. 25th - More fire drills Junior girls hockey team win 5-0 to St. Declans 26th - Gala Movie Night for The Hope Foundation in Garter Lane East Munster School Cross Country in WIT Rugby U14 lose 10-7 at Midleton

23rd - Senior and Junior Girls travel to Loretto Kilkenny for hockey matches 24th - Senior girls lose the Cup match against Loretto Kilkenny 2-0 Junior girls win 2-1 24th - Fire drills 27th - Fourth Form go on a trip to Cleaboy Business Park

FebruAry
1st - Facebook files for an initial public offering 2nd - Torential floods in Queensland Australia forces many people out of their homes. Prince William arrives in the Falkland Islands for a tour of duty as a Royal Air Force Search and Rescue Pilot 3rd - Jazz concert John Terry is removed as captain of the England national football team over allegations of racial abuse against Anton Ferdinand. 4th - Tens of thousands of people in Australia trapped due to floods 6th - Pool is filled up The Queen marks her sixty year reign as monarch.

FebruAry
10th - The Guard wins The Guardians annual First Film Award 11th - Whitney Houston is found dead in her hotel room in L.A. at the age of forth eight. 12th - France and Ireland match cancelled due to freezing weather. Announced two minutes before the game was supposed to start. 13th - David Kelly dies. He is best known for his seven minutes as OReilly in Fawlty Towers and as the Grandfather in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - BAFTAS - Grammys 20TH - Second Form return back from ski trip in Switzerland Senior Boys hockey tour to Aberdeen

Quotable Quotes
Mr OCuinn - There is an English word proviso. Lucy Walsh - My dad was on the radio talking about Blaas. Killian Kelly - What was he saying? Blah, blah, blah, blah? Hannah O Shea - Wait so are we in the 21st century?

(in English) Caroline K - Hey look its Martin Luther King Elishka B - No, hes dead Caroline K- No hes not, he visited Ireland last year Isabel A- That was Barack Obama. Ciaran Finnegan - My hands hurt. Daniel Morris - Thats because they are bleeding Ciaran. Ciaran Finnegan - Oh yeah.

Sam Butler - Do you want to come to my Debs? Caroline K - Will you buy my dress? Freya Little- I wish the vegetarian option had chicken in it. Emma H - How was your weekend Mr. Ashmore? Mr Ashmore - All the better for not seeing you.
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FebruAry
21st - Well done to Jack Hannifan for raising 660 for The South East Simon Community with Connemara Dreams

mArch
1st - Senior Boys Rugby match, Newtown v De La Salle - Congratulations to Shane Fitzgerald and Gillian Bond on their Winning Enterprise Business Tidy Tails in The Waterford City Final. Junior girls hockey team lose their Cup match 5-1 Unemployment in the Eurozone rises to 10.7%, the highest level in history. 6th - Congratulations to the Lifesaving team for passing their exams Robert B. Sherman creator of Disneys most loved songs dies at the age of 86 in London. 7th - Good luck to the Senior rugby team who take on Waterpark in the Daunt Cup at Ballinakill. CPR assessments take place 8th - Senior boys draw in the Daunt Cup. First Form girls hockey draw 1-1 with the Abbey 9th - Elemental the COFI Youth Group host a youth caf. 12th - Senior boys hockey team travel to Middleton for cup match, win 3-2 Chamber choir sing in collect Seven billion people live in the world 13th - Chamber choir come second in The Finton O Carroll Feis 14th - Bus crash in Switzerland Fire alarm goes off 15th - French Theatre First form girls play Loreto. 7-1 to Loreto Senior girls win 5-0 U 16 Boys tennis -win first round match in the Munster school tennis tournament. 16th - George Clooney is arrested outside the Embassy of Sudan in Washington DC. 17th - Happy St. Patricks Day 19th - Bank Holiday 20th - John Carter records one of the biggest losses in cinema history 20th - Swimming Gala Equestrian team come tenth in the All Ireland Hunter Trial Championship on Sunday. 21st - Leigh Marsh Horgan cuts his hair

- Mock orals for Sixth Formers - Senior Girls Orienteering Shield goes missing 22nd - Senior boys hockey cup match against Bandon. Lose 4-1 23th - Amazing Talk on the human brain by Professor Billy O Connor 24th - Lollipop Day in aid of Oesophageal Cancer. 26th - Christopher Plummer becomes the oldest person ever to win an Oscar. The Artist wins Best Picture-- Silence is golden! 27th - Second Form Parent Teacher Meeting. Senior Girls Hockey return from trip to Belfast and Dublin. Win main match against Friends School Lisburn 1-0 for the Swain Challenge Cup 28th - TY groups reach regional finals of Junk Kouture design competition 29th - Tidy Tails, Social Steps Ahh Glow on compete in the Waterford City Enterprise Finals. -Leap Day! Tornadoes hit the mid western United States

22nd - YSI Speakouts, best wishes to the All About Older and Healthy Heads World Water Day, Walk for Water in support of Aidlink Irish School Orienteering Championships Senior boys hockey beat High School, Dublin 5-3 U15 rugby team lose 29-10 to Midleton U16 tennis team beat Clonmel 3-2 in Munster Shield 23rd- Junk Kouture teams from Fourth Form compete in the regional finals in Athlone on Sunday Sixth Form musicians perform in Sunday evening meeting. Fintan O Carroll Feis Ireland officially falls back into recession 26th - Senior Boys hockey team beat Villiers and retain the Munster Schoolboys Cup 29th - Third Form CSPE report Senior Girls Development Squad beat Newpark 3-2 Minor boys hockey team win 4-1 over Newpark Poet Adrienne Rich dies 30th - End of school
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Ms. Glasheen - Emma Hannon, what is baking blind? Emma H - Is it when you bake while wearing a blindfold? Mr. Green - Stop walking off like a snake. George Morgan Busher - But snakes dont have legs.

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April
16th Back to school Leaving Cert Irish orals Music practicals Fourth Form depart for Killary 17th Athletics begin 18th HE practical examinations Good luck to Shane Fitzgerald and Gillian Bond whose Enterprise group Tidy Tails represent Newtown and Waterford in the National Student Enterprise finals in Croke Park. 19th - Tidy Tails is awarded a special merit prize YSI All about Older present at The National Showcase in City West Healthy Heads Post It competition HE Practical Examinations Senior soccer match 20th Congratulations to Diarmuid Wingfeild on achieving third place in The Irish Linguistics Olympiad, becomes part of Irish team to travel to Slovenia 21st- Incoming First Form Scholarship Day 23rd Leaving Certificate French orals 25th Leaving Certificate Spanish orals 30th Leaving Cert Construction Studies practical examinations

mAy
1st- 1500m cancelled due to terrible weather Sailing Team come third in Interschool sailing event Members: Ciaran Finnegan, Robbie Harvey, Rauiri Finnegan, Jamie Round, Connor Vogelar, Michael Daly and DeanWhelan - East Munster Schools Athletics Competition; competing are: Isabelle Auld, Emma Swift, Anna Boyd and Hannah Pim 3rd- Art exam for Third Form - 1500m run 4th Fifth Form Geography Field Trip - Last long weekend 8th Fourth Form perform in their Best Foot Forward show. 9th - Leaving Cert Art exams TY assessments Congratulations to boys in East Munster Athletics Competition Good luck to U16s Boys Tennis who take part in the Quarter Final for the Munster Shield today. 11th - Congratulations to the Boys U16 Tennis Team who beat St. John the Baptist School in Limerick. They play St. Flannans next for the Munster Shield semi-finals. 13th- Manchester City win the English Premier League beating Manchester United for the first time by one goal 14th - Congratulations to the U16 Boys Tennis team who beat St. Flannans to reach the final of The Munster Shield Good luck to athletes going to Cork to compete in The Inter-schools Athletics Competition

mAy
16th- Jean-Marc Ayrault is sworn in as President of France 17th- Staff v Student Hockey Match, the students take the win! Pop singer Donna Summer dies of lung cancer at the age of sixty three 19th Chelsea defeat Bayern Munich Leinster win the Heineken Cup by beating Ulster 18th Akelya hullahoops in collect!

20th Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb dies at the age of sixty two 22nd Jeward get through to the Final of the Eurovision Song Contest Trial for the murder of Michaela Harte who was murdered on her honeymoon in Mauritius last year begins. 23rd Summer exams start 24th- Fourth Form finish up 26th Swedish singer Loreen wins the Eurovision, unfortunately Jeward come nineteenth

28th While Tony Blair is giving information on his working relationship with Rupert Murdoch, he is accused of being a war criminal. An egg is thrown at his car. 29th- 5.8 magnitude earthquake northern Italy near Bolonga, at least twenty four killed 29th- 5.8 magnitude earthquake northern Italy near Bolonga, at least twenty four killed 31st-Referendum European Fiscal Treaty Well done to Jane Murray, Hannah Murray, Phoebe Moore, Thea Johnson, Cathy McGrory and Caroline Fitzgerald on passing their Irish Water Safety Examinations and their Basic Life Support Examinations
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1st- last day of school Sports Day and Country market
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Auf Wiedersehen Ann Curran und Die besten Wnsche fr die Zukunft
How long have you been in Newtown?
I arrived in the autumn of 1984 so that is 28 years.

Who has been here for all your time in Newtown?

When I arrived Mrs. Glasheen and Ms. Graham were here. Also Mr. Sexton, Mr. Denniston and Mrs. Peters, although she was away for many years. My closest colleagues have retired recently including Ms. OByrne and Ms. Whitley, and I was so sad for the death of Mr. Garbett.

Have you always taught German?

Initially I taught German. For two years I taught Latin in Third Form, and over the years I have taught French to all levels. This year, apart from German, I taught First Form French. I have also done a bit of Spanish but only as a back-up for orals as my Spanish is a bit rusty.

What do you think of the food?

I think the food is healthy and filling. I went to boarding school myself and was always hungry. We would get one fish finger for tea sometimes and there was no such thing as ordering pizzas. The kitchen staff always do wonderful Christmas dinners and Leavers teas. Sometimes it is hard to teach in the afternoon after Betty has piled your plate up with so much food. The pupils here all look well-nourished and not overweight.

What is your fondest memory of Newtown?

I love the grounds. The way the pond is full of cherry blossoms in the spring and the beautiful trees. I have some great memories of exchange trips to Germany and welcoming the German pupils over here.

What is your plan for when you retire?

I also do translation, mainly of legal documents so I hope to keep on doing that and also to travel more. My niece is getting married in Nairobi in November so I will go to Kenya for that.

Has Newtown changed since you were here?

There have been a lot of changes especially in the last few years with retirees being replaced by younger staff. I think change is a good thing. It prevents stagnation. When I think back to the days of Saturday school and teaching in a prefab building I think the school is much improved.

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Gapper Interviews

Name: Colin Ashmore

Where are you from: Waterford city Favourite pastime: Rugby, football, surfing and golf How has Newtown changed since you left? Nothing much, uniform has changed thats about it Who was your favourite teacher? Bernie McGettigan. She is a miracle worker. She could teach maths to a chimp. Declan Sexton Id hilarious & of course Mrs Maher is my favourite. Is it weird working with your Dad and Sister? Not at all. He has taught me since I came to Newtown and has embarrassed me in every sense so its fine. But we get on very well. What do you have to do around school? I work in dorms and help around the staff room when needed. I coach rugby and work in the gym Funniest memory of Newtown. Convincing my friend James Jackman when we were in school that the please do not break glass alarm was a switch to turn on the showers Any gossip from ye staff room? Loads but I couldnt tell you that Where do you see yourself in 10 years time? Working abroad somewhere hot where I can surf

Name: Felix Ratering

Where are you from? Im from Germany As a country do you think Irish people speak German well? There are such a large proportion of people in the world who speak English and there is a comparatively small amount of Irish who speak German, however the students here who are learning German are doing very well. How does Newtown compare to schools in Germany and which do you prefer? I never went to a boarding school before so it is hard to compare. In Germany I liked being able to leave school to go home every day but here there is a much stronger sense of community. Favourite pastime? I really enjoyed the surfin in Ireland. Whats your favourite dinner in Newtown? I cant remember all the names but I really enjoyed a good few of the meals, especially spicy vegetarian ones and the lovely fruit salad.

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Foreign Friends
As a school that prides itself on adhering to the Quaker ethos and traditions we have always welcomed people from different nationalities, cultures and religions. It is what creates the open, friendly atmosphere that Newtown is renowned for. Today we are a flourishing community of students and teachers from a huge variety of backgrounds, with everyone representing something unique. We asked some of our international friends to share their thoughts with us.
Carol Manso Gimeno Spain Beltran Gomez - Seville, Spain

Newtown people are really friendly and I enjoyed its great facilities, especially the swimming pool

Im really going to miss it here. I love the way everyone is really friendly and nice
Felicitas Fendel Munich, Germany

Charlotte Ebert Trier, Germany

Compared to my old school, Newtown is definitely a lot more welcoming. Everyone is so nice. There are also lots of opportunities to try new things and I really like the way the school is so orientated towards music and sport

I love how the teachers and students are so relaxed. Im really going to miss Newtown and all my friends.
Joshua Thiele Munich, Germany

Marina Berez Gallardo Spain

I think it is a great school community; it is so nice, relaxed and is a friendly place to be

The people from Newtown have been really nice to me and this year I have done so many different activities. Ill be so sad to have to leave.

Sara Ramos Gomez Spain

I love Newtown

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Anna Kent

Emma Walsh

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Elishka Barnes
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Helen Cruise

Caroline Kelly

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George Maclaen

Most Likely To
Win a Nobel Peace Prize Form a Boy Band Win Miss World Win the X Factor Go on Big Brother Become the Next Steve Jobs Marry (Current Couple) Compete in the Olympics Climb Mt. Everest Teach in Newtown Travel the World Star in a Movie Marry a Super Model Become an Artist Write a Novel Daniel Owens & Robert Pim Mark Morris Lucinda Marden-Wasteneys & Emma Walsh Rachael Fenton Caroline Kelly Eoin ODonnell George Maclean & Caroline Kelly Isabel Auld Robert Pim Robert Pim Liam Sutherland Daniel Owens Bobby Tweedy Lucinda Marden-Wasteneys Leona Quigley

Win a Strongest Man Competition Robert Ryan

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Cathy Teevan

Holly Moore Sophie Lee

Cory Cooke

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Katie Ahearne

Johnathan Pim

Paula Herrara Pettit

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Sophie Lee Lily Rose Fitzmaurice

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Emily Luff

Most Likely To
Win a Nobel Peace Prize Form a Boy Band Win Miss World Win the X Factor Go on Big Brother Become the Next Steve Jobs Marry (Current Couple) Compete in the Olympics Climb Mt. Everest Teach in Newtown Travel the World Star in a Movie Marry a Super Model Become an Artist Write a Novel Cathy Teevan or Lily Fitzmaurice Bill Madigan Hannah Pim Emma Crotty Daryl Hemmingway Daniel Morris John Jephson and Lily Fitzmaurice Aaron Vogelaar Aaron Vogelaar Abby English Tom Greene or Shalto OBrien Lily Fitzmaurice Robert Kent/ Stuart Bell/ Tom Greene Sophie Lee Alex Collins

Win a Strongest Man Competition Cory Cooke

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Second Form Ski Trip

The Second Form seven day ski trip to Switzerland began on the twenty eighth of January, a grey drizzly afternoon. A group of thirty seven students, plus staff, gathered at Cork airport for our departure to Geneva that evening. Everyone was so excited. By ten o clock that evening, we were stepping out into, what was for many of us, our first experience of snow covered surroundings and sub-zero temperatures. We had arrived at Haut Lac an international ski centre overlooking the tiny village of Les Sciernes. The next morning, panoramic views of the thick sugary snow that coated every surface just about managed to tempt the troops from their beds. On the slopes, we ascended the Swiss Alps to heights of 3000m by a combination of train, gondola, chair lift and T-bar. As the week progressed, so did everyones confidence and technique. By the weeks end it wasnt just the advanced groups tackling black slopes. The snow we experienced was fantastic and heavy, but with good snow comes perishing temperatures: -20 degrees Celsius was recorded during our stay! We were fortunate in that injuries were minimal and minor, except for Robert Harvey and Juliet Phelan. They both came away with the same injury - fractured thumbs as a result of jumping the exact same ominous jump!

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During our stay Mrs. Glasheen organised a shopping trip to the neighbouring village of Gstaad, renowned for its expensive merchandise and list of celebrity residents! Surprisingly none of us bought in the Rolex shop but did enjoy, probably in hindsight, too much Swiss chocolate! Our stay in Switzerland was brilliant and would not have been possible without our parents and of course the dedicated teachers - Mr. Hanlon, Ms. Keogh, Mrs. Glasheen and Mr. O Cuinn. We would all like to thank the teachers for making our trip so successful and enjoyable.

By Holly Moore

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Christian Sumstaad

Ciara Doodey

Kate Cafferkey

Henry Dickenson

Hugh McEvoy

Lucy Latta

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Laura McDaid

Rebecca Auld

Rosalina Madden Roberta Doorley

Rosie Brown

Sarah Anne Bakker

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Sophie Crotty
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Rosie Brown

Conor Buckley

Most Likely To
Win a Nobel Peace Prize
Peter Murphy

Bobbi Doorley Christian Sumstad Rowan Keane Harron Jungawalla Harron Jungawalla Henry Dickinson Ella Chapman & Peter Joyce Connor Buckley Luis Petit Harron Jungawalla Junior Konate & Sarah Bakker & George Morgan Busher Sean Whelan Evan Jacob Rosey Brown Emer Foley

Form a Boy Band Win Miss World Win the X Factor Go on Big Brother Become the Next Steve Jobs Marry (Current Couple) Compete in the Olympics Climb Mt. Everest

Win a Strongest Man Competition Harry Sheridan

Peter Murphy

Teach in Newtown Travel the World Star in a Movie Marry a Super Model Become an Artist Write a Novel

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Life on a Boat
When I was eight, my parents decided to take my sister, two brothers and me on a boat called Petrel to sail the South Pacific for two years. It would probably take me a full book or two to accurately describe what went on over on the other side of the world, so I will merely touch on a few of the feelings and memories I have that you may find interesting. In short, the trip went like this. Mom, Loic and I flew from Ireland to Nuku Hiva via Los Angeles and Tahiti Airports. We then met up with Dad and Sam by flying to Hiva Oa during a storm- which is another story entirely! We sailed around the Marquises for a while then we sailed into the Tuamotus to Rangiroa and Tikehau. Next we sailed on to Tahiti, Bora Bora and Moorea in the Society Islands. After this, we left Polynsie Franaise and sailed to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. Then we sailed from Tonga, down to New Zealand (North Island), back up to Figi, across to Vanuatu, then to Thursday Island and spent the remainder of the trip going from the northern coast of Australia down to the east coast. We finished in Cardwell and then flew up to Thailand and back across to Ireland via France. During my two years on Petrel I went to school in New Zealand for three weeks. I really enjoyed the difference from the primary school I had been attending in Galway. It was strange in a good way. For example, you would go to school in bare feet most days and if they wanted you to bring in shoes they would send a letter home with you. It was also very nice to have a place where I could be with people my own age as I had been spending most of my time with my family, older and younger than me, on the trip. One thing I can particularly remember is a day when a local burger shop came and we ate fantastic burgers for our break and lunchtime. I also learned a version of the Hakka when I was at school which I have since forgotten. Other than that, my schooling consisted of doing exercises from various school books that we had on the boat. I had an assigned three or so pages from each book a day. I used to get up earlier than everyone else on the boat and do it all before breakfast so that Id have a free day ahead of me. Mom and Dad served as teachers if I needed the help but I never really did. The only downside when compared to normal school was that there were no other people, other than my family, to have the craic with when I was in school. I spent a lot of my time in my bunk while we were sailing because I had a tendency to get sick all the
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time when we were making a voyage. The swell would rock the boat so much that Id actively have to hold my stomach in and Id always have to have a bucket close. Before I made this trip I had always thought that there was one type of seasick, but there are thousands of different kinds and none of them in anyway pleasant. On top of this when youre an eight or nine year old below deck on the edges of a cyclone, waves breaking over the boat and the sails fully reefed, and all you can hear is thunder, pounding water and people yelling their lungs out it makes you feel very uneasy. I always thought that there was an argument going on but shouting was simply the only way you could be heard over a storm. It wasnt only the stormy oceans that could be off-putting. There were a few nasty people we encountered as well. One man we met seemed very nice until he stole a lot of money off a friend of ours and got another man in the crew fired through lies. He had built up trust through our group of boat friends over a matter of months and as soon as he convinced our friend to loan him some money he ran off with it in another boat. As a nine year old I just found this extremely unfair having no real idea of the damage he had really done to all the people I knew. The entire trip was absolutely amazing, and there are so many things I remember and so many I forget. Little things I liked for example, Cairns in Australia had a huge water park and barbeques on the quays that you could use and was all free of charge. Also the volcanic activity in New Zealand which caused pools heated naturally from underground and bubbling mud pools that you could slide into and magnificently colourful sulphur pools. Then there was Fiji, which was by far my favourite because of the amazing beach parties, chilling and generally a great vibe. Leaving such an experience takes a bit of getting used to. We moved to Waterford a few months after we came back from the trip. The change from Galway and Petrel really caught me unprepared. Everything was completely different. I had grown up in Galway and had just spent two years on a boat with my family. Back then I thought they were probably the best two years of my life. Now I was going to have to deal with something entirely new and different and move on. I would like to conclude by saying just what an amazing experience it was and it is something that will remain with me all my life.

By: Cillian Jacob

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The Student Council

Throughout the academic year of 2010/11 a group of students met with Mr. Lemon to discuss the possibility of establishing a Student Council in Newtown. The group comprised Brenna Traynor, Sarah Keogh, James Corcoran-Hodgins, Jack Power and Georgia Doorley. We wanted to start a Student Council in our school that would act as a channel of communication between the staff and scholars and so would strive to strengthen the mutual respect between all members of the school community. The process was slow but careful. We didnt want to set up a Council which would simply be a passing fad; we wanted it to live on for as long as the school does. However, sometimes we did wonder if we would ever manage to realise our aspiration! Finally, in the winter of 2011 the nominations were taken and in the New Year we eventually managed to hold our first meeting as the first Student Council of Newtown School. One day boy, day girl, boarder boy and boarder girl had been selected from each year group to represent their constituencies on the council. Also, the Head Girl and Head Boy became ex officio members and representatives of the Prefect Council. As had been planned in the meetings with Mr. Lemon the previous year, we use the Quaker Business Method in our meetings. Each meeting is started and finished with a Quaker silence to focus our minds upon the tasks at hand and to encourage a sense of peace and co-operation between members. We seek unity in decision-making. We feel that the minority has just as much of a right to be listened to as the majority. Luckily we dont seem to have had any disagreements yet! At the first meeting Georgia Doorley was chosen as Chairperson of the Council, James Corcoran-Hodgins as Deputy Chairperson, Amy OLoughlin as Secretary, and Liam Landy as Deputy Secretary. Our Liaison Teachers are Ms. Coady and Mrs. Maher. Our initial meetings were tentative but are now growing more and more thought-provoking and productive. We have discussed many issues from toilets to having photographs of more contemporary sports teams put up around the school. And although we have not agreed upon a coup dtat or any more momentous decisions were hoping that this years Council will have set a path on which future Councils will follow and improve. Many thanks in particular to Mr. Lemon, Mrs. Maher, Ms. Coady, Mr. Denniston and Mr. Cox for supporting and encouraging the setting up of the Student Council. And thanks as well to all of our Councillors for being so patient and co-operative.

By Georgia Doorley

Drama
Liam Maher, a drama teacher, collaborated with twelve students from First to Sixth Form to write and produce a play. The play remained nameless but was about students who received a note to go to detention, not knowing how they had been found out. They fall asleep and when they wake up they are locked in and everything goes downhill from there. There was panic, a knife, a possible vampire and a time loop. However, the end takes a twist when almost everyone returns back to normal time, not remembering anything. Only one person remembers what happened The first few weeks we played games that improved our concentration and helped build teamwork. The work went on for many weeks and it was a lot of fun. This resulted in a mesmerising performance to an invited audience in the Foy Hall. We would like to thank Liam Maher for his wonderful help (as well as a few stage whispersshhh!!). Also to The Newtown Association for their assistance.

By: Alex Collins

Members: Cathy McGrory, Phoebe Moore, Elena Kutay, Alex Collins, Daniel Owens, Robert Pim, Helen Cruise, Jack Staunton, Georgia Doorley, Sarah Anne-Bakker, Bobbi Doorley and Emer Foley
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Short Story and Poety Competition

Kevin ODonnell - 1st place

That Conversation
I fidgeted with my hands and focused on looking down. You talked and I listened. What you had to say was well intentioned but not well worded, Awkward words of wisdom. Did you follow your advice the way you expect me to? Or is that why you impart this advice? All I know is you feel you have to tell me Because youre worried Maybe youre worried for you as much as for me. But I know its something a good parent has to say And a good child has to heed. But as I shift my stare out of the car window And answer in monosyllables, I know Its awkward advice thats the most important.

By: Kevin ODonnell

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Cathy Teevan - 2nd place

If there was one thing Id love, its a good cup of tea. Mary muttered under her breath. She was not accustomed to sarcasm and the words rolled off her tongue in an awkward manner. Her whole body was awkwardly placed; hands tied behind her back and her legs tied to the legs of the rather dishevelled chair she had been forced to sit on. She did not like to sit down without crossing her legs, she felt exposed and open for attack. I would love to offer you a cup of tea, Mary. In fact I would like to offer you a whole lot more than a cup of tea; if you would only help me out, then I would be very happy to help you. This came from the overweight middle-aged man who had been assigned the position of body guard. He sat in the corner on a blue plastic crate. Occasionally he would repeat the line about helping Mary or giving her something, but for the most part he just sat on his crate continuously smoking cheap Spanish cigarettes. I was not speaking to you Mary now snarling at the body guard. all right love, just thought you might be, seein as there is no one else here. He chuckled slightly to himself. You cant stay here forever you know, you will eventually tell us what we want to know. Maybe, but not for now I plan on not saying anything to anyone , especially not you. She had been in the room for three days now. If you really could call it a room. It had no windows, only a single bare light bulb hanging from the mildew ridden ceiling. The concrete floor had once been patterned with blue and red tiles, but after the second batch had all been cracked, it proved to be too expensive to replace them. Food had been offered to her on several occasions which she declined in an unkind manner, unsurprisingly, Mary could hear the gentle rattling of the key in the lock behind her. The door groaned as it swung forward into the room. She could not see who it was, but assumed it was the man who had interrogated her on her first night in the room. He moved further into the room and into her vision. He smiled at her you still here? He raised an eyebrow.
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What do you want from me? She was half pleading, half enquiring. She knew what the wanted, she knew exactly what they wanted. They wanted her memory of the night that man went missing, the man shed killed. Of course killing him was a last resort, but after all he had done something terrible to someone she clearly loved and for that, in her mind, he deserved to die. But now it would appear that he had his own loved ones who were willing to kidnap a perfect stranger to find out what happened to him. Look I dont know anything, so can I please go? Silence! He screamed and struck her hard on the cheek. It took every muscle in her aching body to keep a straight face. She concentrated on her hands, this was something her mother taught her as a child, whenever she was in danger of showing her emotions she was to concentrate really hard on her hands, until the feeling passed. She concentrated. She concentrated on her fingertips, her knuckled, her thumbs, her palms and her wrists. She concentrated on the thick rope securing her wrists; it was quite loose actually, very loose. When she wriggled her thumbs under the loops she could free one hand and then the other. She held her hands together behind her back, petrified. Im sorry I didnt mean to hurt you. He smiled and dismissed the body guard. Leave the door unlocked Roy, Ill only be a minute. The so called Roy left the room, his seat replaced by the man. He dripped his head into his hands, for a moment Mary thought he might be weeping, but when he eventually raised his head it was apparent he had not been crying, he was laughing. You really dont understand do you? I have friends, powerful friends. People who could really hurt you. In fact, I think I might call one right now. He grinned and removed a shiny black phone from his pocket. He swiped it quickly and brought it to his ear. It only took a few seconds before his friend answered the phone. Rick, yes hello, I have a favour to ask, do you want to pay me a little visit? Rick responded on the other end although Mary could not hear. The man nodded and turned to the wall, listening to Ricks clearly superior opinion on the matter. This
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was it, Mary thought, she wrenched her hands from behind her back and untied her feet hurriedly. She launched herself across the room and with all her might she punched the man in the side of the head. Stunned he fell to the floor. She stood on his mouth and kicked his temple. She pulled open his jacket, revealing a gun tucked inside. She removed it as well as his keys and wallet. Before she knew it she had run out into the hallway, searching blindly for a door, a window, anything that might reveal an exit. She rounded a corner, finding the most beautiful sight

she had ever seen, a glowing green exit sign. She rushed into it, slamming down hard on the handle, she hurtled through, finding herself on a wide empty road, it took her a few seconds to realise the box above the door she had just opened was screeching a high pitched siren, which could easily deafen someone. Her legs began moving, her mind was not aware anymore of her actions. She just kept running and running and running.

Cathy Teevan

Egg Sandwiches
Full skies meant picnics, Egg sandwiches. Summers as good as my dreams, Days spent floating. Time was abundant. I walked my childhood with meaning, But I surfaced too early from heaven, And now I look back. The clock, overvalued, dictates me now. I relive my paradise in memories, The meticulous details are treasured. The old child never grows up.

3rd Place
The Cannon
Oh, Tom Halleys life, As thin as a soul, And when he played with the cannon, His house gave a mighty glow. With a kaboom, shock went throughout the city After the kaboom, everyone took pity Oh, Tom Halleys body was as plump As a chocolate eclaire And when he played with the cannon, His bits lay everywhere With a kaboom, shock went throughout the city After the kaboom, everyone took pity.

By: Holly Moore

Rory van Dokkum

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An Gaisce
After successfully completing our Bronze Gaisce Award, Anna and I decided to take on the challenge of the silver award the following year (our 5th year). This award is much longer than the previous bronze and requires an increased amount of dedication to the physical, skill and community work which must be done in order to complete it. The physical challenge is twenty six weeks in length. Anna is a keen horse rider and decided to use this as her physical activity. As I am a swimmer, I chose to do endurance swimming as mine. An Gaisce or The Presidents Award is an award given at different levels to mark a personal achievement in four different areas; Community Involvement, Personal Skill, Physical Recreation, and Adventure Journey. The individual must do the required amount of time for each of the different areas depending on the award taken by him/ her (Bronze, Silver or Gold). The award was designed as an incentive by the President of Ireland for young people aged 15-25 to take part and to get involved! This award has gone from strength to strength now claiming to be the most prestigious and respected of Irelands award programmes. Last year Phoebe Moore, Hannah Murray, Jane Murray and Georgia Batell decided to do the bronze award during their Transition Year. Anna Hickey and Caroline Fitzgerald had a similar idea, however they were going to be doing the silver award, and in their 5th yearheres how they did it: I play the guitar, with lessons once a week, and this was my skill. Anna sings in the choir and so this was perfect for her skill. Both Anna and I did our community hours within the school. Anna was in charge of Bank twice a week and I was in charge of organising chairs for collect on the weekends in school. We also had to complete an adventure activity which was probably the most interesting and challenging aspect of the overall award. Anna walked from Carlow to St.Mullins along the river. The walk was 50km (talk about blisters!). I was in France during the summer and decided to do my adventure there. I cycled 200km through the Alps with my dad and camped for the night. Overall we both genuinely enjoyed completing the Silver Gaisce award. Although challenging, it helped us to try new things and to help out around the school. We were delighted when we achieved it. It is something we would recommend anyone to do it as it is a great experience. Next year will mark our first year in college and maybe even the Gold AwardWatch this space..!

Phoebe Moore

Caroline Fitzgerald

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Old Scholar Interview with Kalle Ryan

Did you enjoy your years at Newtown?
I enjoyed my time at Newtown very much and I have extremely fond memories of the whole experience. This year it will be twenty years since I was at Newtown, which hardly seems real, as it feels just like yesterday in many ways. My enduring memory of the school is how inclusive it was. I always felt that I was treated with respect and fairness during my time as a student there. Generally the atmosphere in all of my classes was very good and I made lovely friendships that have endured. Im happy to say I also managed to avoid detention for the most part during my time and I participated actively in all of the many sports and activities on offer. I loved rugby but alas I put an end to any type of sporting dreams as I broke my knee playing rugby for the Newtown Senior team on an away trip to Midleton College. I will never forget the bizarre experience of being stretchered off and then carried through a small housing estate back towards the school, where we suddenly halted and I was set down, and the cheeky young lads carrying me decided to avail of this window of opportunity to smoke a sneaky cigarette! The good news is my knee has since made a full recovery. There are other nice things that stick in my mind like the Irish Times being pinned up every day for us all to peruse and I often think back to collect in the mornings and wish that more often I had taken the time to truly be at peace and reflect. What a great way to start the day. The other thing that meant a great deal to me, to this day, was seeing Henry Collins and several other teachers and students at my mothers funeral just a few months after I had left Newtown. And again, only three years ago, when my father passed away, it was very touching to see Henry Collins there again. In some ways it really exemplified the almost familial bond that exists at the school and the student-centred focus of it.
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Do you think there is a connection between working for Google and having been at Newtown?
Im not sure that there is a direct correlation between the two, but I certainly think that Newtown was the first place where my creativity and innovation was really encouraged (two qualities that Google value very highly). I was lucky enough to grow up in a home with a father who was a painter & theatre director and a mother who was a weaver, so creativity was always present, but Newtown had a great staff who were interested in fostering your interests. There were always theatrical or musical productions on the go and I have particularly happy memories of singing in the school choir and playing in the school orchestra under Anne Barrys terrific guidance. I wish I could say I developed a flair for computer programming and digital doodling of any description during my time there, but I didnt. Although I still remember the computer lab and being given the freedom to spend time there. I do recall vividly the excitement around the school when we received a shipment of then state-of-the-art Macintosh computers, which would probably be considered dinosaurs now, but back then it was the height of cool. But to answer your question, I think the most direct and obvious connection between working at Google and my time at Newtown is the fantastic education I received there. Without it I wouldnt have gone on to college in Trinity (to study Germanic Languages) and then on to do a Masters in Utah in the United States, followed by almost seven years working in New York City at the Modern Language Association; all of which ultimately led me on my journey back to Ireland to work for Google. My work at Google is mostly concerned with conducting online analysis in Swedish, German and English speaking countries, as well as managing other international projects. I still consider myself very lucky to work for such an interesting company.
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What is the Brownbread Mix Tape and how did it come about?
The Brownbread Mix Tape is a monthly old fashioned type of variety show featuring poetry, music and sketch comedy that I run and host in Dublin. Each show has a specific theme and all of the performers do a set centred around the theme of the night. Myself and my sketch troupe, The Brownbread Players, (featuring television, film and radio actors Sean McDonagh, Gus McDonagh and Eva Bartley) perform a series of radiostyle sketches on the theme as well. I keep the whole thing ticking along with the occasional poem or a silly song with my sidekick and friend Enda Roche. The show came about after myself and Enda had been to a really awful open mic and got chatting about the kind of live show we would like to see. Endas background is as a session musician and producer so he is passionate about local independent music and my interests revolve mainly around sketch comedy and performance poetry. So, we decided to just put on a night that combined all of those things in a fun way. We knew that a mix, or should I say a mix tape, of acts and artists would be a great way to showcase all of these cool performers in Dublin and expose people to things they might not necessarily seek out on a night out. Poetry , for example, is a hard sell at the best of times, so by putting it on a bill with some comedy and music, we felt we were giving all of those art forms an equal billing and a cool, receptive forum to perform in. The main thing we agreed on before we even started was that the event should be free. We wanted to show the public that art should be accessible and, that, just because it was free didnt mean it was of a lower standard. In fact, we knew the opposite could be true. So, we found a venue that had an opening on a Wednesday night and put together a line-up of performers we liked and the rest is history in many ways. It is now three years since that first show and we now regularly draw over a hundred people to our monthly show in The Stags Head. We have also toured The Brownbread Mix Tape with different acts to several festivals around the country like Electric Picnic, Flat Lake Festival and even to Waterford on two occasions as part of Imagine Arts Festival. My sketch troupe The Brownbread Players has also performed on RTE Radio several times and our blog has been nominated for an Irish Web Award (http:// brownbreadmixtape.wordpress.com). It is incredibly humbling and exciting to see how far we have come in such a short space of time.

Is there any way in which Newtown influenced what you wanted to do at college and after?
There is no question that Newtown had an influence on my life, especially when it comes to writing and theatre. My English classes with Edward Denniston were hugely formative and definitely developed my appreciation for poetry (Yeats and Keats are still firm favourites to this day) and my love for creative writing. Even though I actually only received a C in Honours English in the Leaving Cert, I believe I learnt far more in that class than an exam could ever ask of me. I learnt how to think critically, creatively and constructively. Additionally, the annual theatrical and musical productions at school were wonderful, magical experiences and undoubtedly stepping stones to the work I later did with Red Kettle Theatre Company, RTE Radio, Culture Ireland and even my most recent spoken word show Three Men Talking About Things They Kinda Know About. There were many other classes and teachers that still resonate with me too. As I was brought up bilingually with Swedish, I always had a deep passion for languages and so the German classes with Anne Curran were always really enjoyable and it was a classroom I always felt comfortable in. While I wasnt much of a history student, I still recall the classes with Gerard Hanlon as being among the best I had. I could always tell that he cared deeply about his subject. I also recall a time when Henry Collins taught me history prior to his tenure as Principal and he was a great teacher too, with the best handwriting I had ever seen! There were, of course, other classes and other teachers that made an impact on me but those are the ones that spring to mind first. Overall I think Newtown was quite important in my development and I am thankful for it. I hope to make it back for an Old Scholars event to see the school again. Perhaps I should come this year. After all, 20 years is a good round number!
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4th Year Collaborative Project

T.Y. Art Exhibition

T.Y. Art 4th Year Collaborative Project

Will Troy

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Isabela Campion

Kelsey Cunningham

Emily Hermon

Katie Gurnee

Emily Hermon

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Kyra Burrell

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T.Y. Art Exhibition

Most Likely To
Win a Nobel Peace Prize Form a Boy Band Win Miss World Win the X Factor Go on Big Brother
UnaMaya Kennedy

Anna Galway Peter Stewart Raoul OBrien Clara French-Davis Will Troy Barry OSullivan Kyra Burrell and Ben ONeill Nigel Kennington Liam Landy Sarah Murray Kyra Burell Molly Fitzmaurice Raoul OBrien Anna Galway Mark Laherty

Become the Next Steve Jobs Marry (Current Couple) Compete in the Olympics Climb Mt. Everest Teach in Newtown Travel the World Star in a Movie Marry a Super Model Become an Artist Write a Novel

Win a Strongest Man Competition George Morris

Anna Gallwey

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Heart of TY
Ms Keogh was asked to share her opinions and thoughts on putting together her first TY programme in her new role as TY Co-ordinator What made you want to become the Transition year co-ordinator? I have always been really involved with teaching in TY anyway so it kind of seemed like a natural progression. I live the fact that TY students dont have to follow a strict and defined curriculum and they can learn things that are relevant to their lives. I thought I could be creative in planning the programme and was excited by the possibilities so I went for the job and was appointed. Mr Cox was the co-ordinator for TY before you, how does it feel to fully take over from him? In a word, tiring! A lot of the work done by the TY co-ordinator goes unnoticed! The amount of lists needed and making sure that everyone knows what is happening takes a lot of time. Mr Cox did a fantastic job for 21 years and was key to establishing a credible TY programme in Newtown. He was also able to pass on lots of information so this made the transition (pardon the pun) smoother! When you took over did you have a head full of ideas of what was going to happen of the year? Yes, I did have lots of ideas and some will take longer than others to implement. The difficult part is picking the bits that students will most benefit from. A lot of businesses and organisations wrongly think that TY is a free for all and students can be dragged out of class for any reason but it is really important to try to balance the more academic subjects with activities suck as charity work etc. I tried to get as many of these slotted into the programme from the beginning of the year if possible so that we could plan what was happening. Inevitable, some good opportunities also present during the year too and I had to pick which ones were worth including. At the start of the school year did you have everything already planned out? Planning the year from start to finish completely is impossible but yes, the more that is slotted in from the beginning the better. I think some organisations or charities were surprised to find out that they could not be accommodated last minute! Do you get stressed over the planning of TY as well as teaching other years? It is difficult to get all the administration done in free classes when I still have a full timetable of classes. I wish there were 48 hours a day and obviously that the powers that be (Dept) would recognise that allocation of time for planning is essential. The more time available the better the programme! Where do you get all the great ideas for the activities from? Some were already up a running and if I notice seething in media that might be useful I follow it up. Lots of letters arrive every day and often people call with proposals. What was your favourite thing that you have seen theTYers have done? Go home!!! No seriously, I think that TY is a success when students finally get the concept that they are not independent little workers out for their own goals. The important thing is that they grasp the idea that what they do think and say influences others! What was the hardest thing that you had to plan has been? My free time! Is there anything you dont like about being the TY coordinator? The mountains of individual pieces of paper that need to be filed and organised. I used to bring one school bag... Now I have three! Do you get a great feeling of euphoria when the TY students accomplish their goals? I think it is more important that the students get that. I cant live their lives for them but it is nice to see kids becoming more confident and able to stand on their own two feet! As a teacher it is as important to let students not succeed and realise why as it is to support them to succeed. Essentially we have to try to get young people to take responsibility for themselves because thats what it is all about!

By Shane Fitzgerald
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Junk Kouture
Junk Kouture is an art and design competition where you must design and make clothing from recycled materials. The art class in Fourth Form took place in the national Junk Kouture competition. The class of twenty four divided into groups and started on the projects mid-October. Each group had to design and make an outfit entirely from recycled materials. The collecting of these materials started when we had decided what our outfits would be made of. We brainstormed a variety of materials like rubber, metal, paper etc. So many objects were collected for each team like CDs, DVDs, computer keys, drink cans, shopping bags, Capri suns, coal bags and crisp packets. Katie Gurnee, Shannon Cox and I formed one group; our outfit Sweet Tooth was made from laminated sweet wrappers and crisp packets. It consisted of a skirt and corset. All eight teams made it to the regionals and so we all headed up to the Hudson Bay Hotel, Athlone on Sunday the twenty fifth of March. Having left school at ten oclock we arrived at the hotel at around two thirty. Shortly after arriving the dress-rehearsals were held, this allowed us all to practice our routine in front of an audience. We also enjoyed getting our hair and makeup done. Being backstage and hearing the presenters call your name and describe your dress is scary. However once the music started you began to get into it and enjoy yourself. Being on stage is nerve-wracking. It had been a great experience and everyone enjoyed themselves. A big thank you to Ms. Hehir and to Ms. Cosgrove for accompanying us to Athlone, and to Ms.Hehir for all her help throughout the year.

By Sinad Doody

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Killary
We left Newtown at about 7.45 on the morning of the 16th of April. We were all quite optimistic; despite the early start. We all packed into the bus and got comfy for the six hour drive ahead of us. Once we saw the iconic rocky walls of the west, we knew we didnt have long more to go (only about four hours). We arrived into Killary Harbour at about 2.30pm. The fjord looked quite impressive in the afternoon sun. We were assigned to our rooms, met the instructors and were then immediately split into groups to start the first activity. Our first activity was the giant swing and rock climbing. The giant swing was great fun and probably one of the highlights of the week. That evening we all sat down to begin the evening activities, one of which was that you had to put as many clothes as you could on a member of your team. Another activity was that you had to stand on one leg for as long as you could. William Hickey was victorious. We were awoken the next morning at abut 8.30 which was quite a lie in compared to what we were used to on a school day. We threw on layers and jackets in preparation for the day long hill walk ahead of us. It rained for the first two kilometres but after a while it cleared up and we could enjoy the beautiful scenery of Killary Harbour. We chatted and laughed along the way, and we also exchanged some of our scariest scary stories! Mr. Lester was kind enough to share his knowledge of edible weeds to us which kept us going through the day. We got back home after about five hours and enjoyed the luxury of a nice warm shower. Our groups activities for Wednesday were The Killary Challenge, kayaking and gorge walking. We began the challenge at The Centre. The team was given a map with the coordinates of different
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challenges. We squelched through the bog to complete each challenge. Then we met up with the other group who were also doing the Killary Challenge. One by one we went down a slide into muck! We washed ourselves off in the freezing cold water of the fjord. Due to bad weather conditions we only did kayaking for about a half an hour. The brave ones then jumped into the icy water from a raised platform. It was soooooo cold! We were all very grateful for the warm showers after that too. That night we took part in the infamous Ms. Killary competition. The competition required willing boys to be dressed up and made up by the girls. They would then demonstrate a talent and be interviewed by the host. The title went to Raul and William. Thursday was a relatively dry day, if you dont count running around in a bog shooting each other with laser guns! In the afternoon we had high ropes, That night we had a bonfire. A few people sang and played guitar and then the instructor told us a ghost story that apparently happened to him! Our last activity was the zip line and archery. We did archery first Ms. Hehir surprised us all by hitting the apple right thought the centre after all of us trying about a million times! The zip line was so much fun, but we were all a bit sad once it was over because it was our last session. The bus journey home was still six hours long, and we were all glad to be back home again in the sunny Southeast! Overall we all had a great time on the trip. Thanks to Mr. Lester, Ms. Heir and Felix for making it so enjoyable and to Ms. Keogh for organising it for us.

Sarah Murray
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Walk for Water

In February a guest speaker came into Newtown and talked to all of TY about Aidlink. Aidlink is a charity which focuses on improving the lives of people in the developing world. They focus on basic development needs of communities such as water, education, food, security and health. The organisation caught my attention because the work that they do is simple but makes a big change to peoples lives. The representative mentioned that we could do some fundraising and I thought it was a good cause so Clara and I decided to help to organise the event. International World Water Day is held annually on March twenty second. The day aims to focus peoples attention on the importance of fresh water. Walk for water is carried out in solidarity to the girls and women in Africa that walk up to six hours a day carrying up to twenty litres of water in containers on their heads. We wanted to carry five litres of water each, without spilling any and to walk a six kilometre walk in the park. I thought this was a worthwhile experience and provided us with the opportunity to feel a little of what it is like to live in the Developing World with all the struggles that exist around getting the basic everyday necessities. It is one thing to know and understand what the people in these poorer regions have to do but it is more of a reality when you can experience it in some small way. Well done to everyone who took part on the day and to staff and students who helped to organise the event.

by Anna OConnor

Mini Med School

The Royal College of Surgeons runs a special program for Transition Year students called Mini Med School. They run this programme in Dublin and Waterford to get students thinking about a career in medicine and to provide an insight into the different areas of medicine and the working life of a doctor. On Tuesday the twenty first of February Sarah Murray, Clara Ffrench-Davis, Gillian Richardson, Antony Padinjarathala and I travelled to Waterford Regional Hospital for the first day of the programme. We were all really looking forward to it as were the other one hundred and eighty students taking part. Throughout the week we had various talks as well as practical sessions. Some of the highlights included a talk from Dr. Marie Cassidy, the State Pathologist, talks on neurology, vascular surgery and emergency medicine. On Wednesday morning we were lucky enough to see a live surgery, which was video linked from Beaumont Hospital in Dublin. The surgery was an operation to remove a gall bladder and was really interesting. There were also practical sessions which were really fun. The practical sessions included CPR, Clinical Skills, First Aid, Simulation Surgical Discipline Research/Clinical Scenarios and Communication. These were probably my favourite parts of the programme as I enjoyed the hands on experience, especially the Simulation Surgical Discipline. Here we practised surgical techniques using sugar cubes; it was harder than it looked! Overall we had a great week and I would really recommend it to everyone, especially if you are thinking of a career in medicine.

by Ruth Cusack
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Enterprise
At the beginning of Fourth Form an enterprise class was set up for those who wanted to participate. The aim of the class was to help develop the ideas and products created by the students. From the beginning of the year some of our ideas seemed very promising. With the help of the teachers we were able to pursue them. In late January a school final took place to determine which groups would go through to the city final. Each group displayed their work. There were three places available in the final. It was a close call and the judges had a difficult decision to make. The three companies that went through were: The Facebooklet, Tidy Tails and Ahh Glow on. The night was a success and gave us an idea of what to expect for the city final. The city final was held on Wednesday the twenty ninth of February. Each school in Waterford was represented. We set up our presentations and prepared for the arrival of the judges. Each group was then questioned by three judges about our products, this lasted about two hours. After lunch there was an awards ceremony. Tidy Tails won. Shane Fitzgerald and Gillian Bond created an excellent product. Their product targets horse lovers. Their invention allows tail bandages to be wrapped up quickly. They went on to represent Newtown in the national final in Croke Park. Throughout the year enterprising groups have been putting in hard work and effort, both in and out of school. They are now realising its rewards. We are glad to say that each company enjoyed a profit. Our company Ahh Glow on makes glow in the dark light switch covers and has done pretty well so far. We have approached many hotels, nursing homes and B&Bs throughout the process and we even have our own website. Google us for more information! Congratulations to the group Tidy Tails set up by Gillian Bond and Shane Fitzgerald on their win in the Waterford City Enterprise Competition. They received a special merit in the National Finals. Well done. Thank you to our teachers for all of their hard work and input throughout the year.

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Healthy Heads YSI Team

Our Young Social Innovators group chose the topic of Mental Health for our project. There were eleven in our team, facilitated by our YSI Guide, Mr. Lester. We began by researching mental health, the facts and statistics, particularly amongst teenagers. We brainstormed what we were going to do to raise awareness of our issue and what we were going to do about it. Body image and talking about your problems were the two main aspects of positive mental health that we tackled. We called our project Healthy Heads and designed a logo. We created surveys to gain an understanding of how people see themselves in our school. The response was mainly positive which was great. We also created a short play to raise awareness of the importance of giving a voice to your problems and sharing them with others. Mr. Denniston helped us with this. We also created Facebook and Twitter pages to promote our work. The YSI Speak Out was held on the twenty seventh of March. Our group performed a short scene from our play as well as displaying our logos. We were chosen to create and display a poster highlighting our project and its message in the Post-It section of the YSI Annual Showcase. We all enjoyed a great day at the final. Overall it has been a very enriching experience and project. I feel that we have all learnt an enormous amount about positive mental health in teenagers as well as engaging people in talking about it, which is fantastic.

By: Molly Fitzmaurice

Compass Schools Workshop

The Compass/Glencree Workshop took place on the sixth to the eight of October. Clara Ffrench Davis, Katie Gurnee and I, from Fourth Form, travelled to Wicklow to complete a three day course on peace reconciliation and how to deal with conflict. We left school very early on Monday morning and travelled up to Dublin. When we arrived, there were already students from other schools and we spent some time becoming acquainted. We attended two, three hour, workshops each day and enjoyed the entertainment in the evening. In the workshops we explored identity, how to resolve issues within peers and issues on a much larger scale. One of the co-ordinators was born and grew up in the Gaza Strip. We spent one workshop learning about his life and what he had been through growing up in such a challenging and hostile environment. It was a really enjoyable experience. There were thirty students from different schools all around Ireland and we all became good friends. Its a really great course and Id recommend it to anyone.

By: Molly Fitzmaurice

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All About Older Young Social Innovator Project

Our main focus was to help the older people in Waterford by raising awareness of their needs and rights and making them feel like valued members of our community and of every community. Since the projects origin, we have been dedicated to improving the lives of the older people in our community, and researching the underlying social problems only bolstered our enthusiasm. We decided on a set of principles that would drive our project and decide what direction we took; 1. 2. 3. 4. To tackle ageism and dismissive attitudes towards the elderly. To raise awareness of the existing problems. To help the older person and those who help them to cope with these difficulties. To build on the good things that our society has provided for the older people in our community while tackling the shortcomings. us to speak with the residents about their lives. It was a super day and we really enjoyed chatting to the people. Two residents even sang us songs! The handmade Thank You card that they made us was so thoughtful and made us realise just how much of a difference that we can all make to the lives of others. One man enjoyed the day so much that he asked, Why cant Christmas be every day. It was a lovely thing to say but it made us sad to think that some people do not have visitors every day, week or even month. It was a happy and a sad day. We held an information evening,All About Older, in a local hotel. Our aim was to educate those who attended about the social problems that we were trying to tackle. We invited a wide range of guest speakers to inform us about topics that affect older people, their families and carers. Through organising our Information Evening, we made many links within our community; we worked with St. Patricks Hospital, The Health Service Executive, Waterford Sports Partnership, The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, The Citizens Information Center, Meals on Wheels, Killure Bridge Nursing Home, Best Foot Forward and Active Retirement Ireland and Beat FM. Looking back we think that weve achieved our goals of raising awareness of the issues that affect older people in our community and we have also helped the older people in Waterford, concretely, the people in St. Patricks Hospital. We have taught others and raised awareness, improved the lives of the local older community and pushed ourselves outside our own comfort zone.

Our first innovative task was to organise a Christmas Shoebox Appeal - Suitable for the Older Person, we wanted to give the residents of St. Patricks Hospital a gift but also wanted to spend some time with them and make the older people feel cared for. Unfortunately, not every older person has someone to care for them. This was a very popular appeal and one which, we hope, will become an annual event. Organising the Shoebox Appeal - Suitable for the Older Person and visiting the residents of St. Patricks Hospital gave us an insight into the running of a residential home for the older person and allowed

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Taking part in the Young Social Innovators project has had lots of positive effects on us. It has made us more aware of what goes on in our community and has taught us how to be better members of the community. We have become more socially aware, more mature as people and more responsible.

issues that need attention, issues can be discussed, action can be taken and issues can be solved. We have seen that even the smallest of actions that can make someone happy After performing at the Regional Speakouts, we were offered a place in the National Final in Dublin. Our project was in the top five in the category Making Our Community Better. On the day, President Michael D. Higgins spoke to the young social innovators and praised their spirit and involvement in our community, in our country and in the world around us. Mundy then performed some of his hit songs for the audience. It was a superb day. We are thrilled that we took part in this project and would encourage others to get involved next year. Thank you to our YSI Guide, Ms. Coady, for all of her help and support throughout the year. Thanks also to everyone who helped us to make our project the success that it was.

What we have learned about social innovation

We have learned that social innovation is about coming up with new ways and ideas that could bring about positive change, in our community and in the lives of people around us. We learned that it is about tackling social issues that deserve to be addressed and improved. It is about taking action to solve the social issues that concern us and the community around us Social innovation is about working with others and as a team to respond to the needs of others. It is important for our society to work in the best interest of all its members. By highlighting

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Our time in Kolkata

Finally, after six months of hard work we arrived to the overcrowded and underprivileged city of Kolkata. Getting off the plane we didnt know what to expect. We certainly didnt expect to be struck by the poverty as soon as we left the airport. Nothing could have prepared us for the total contrast of Kolkata to Ireland. We got straight into what we had come for and visited a girls home run by HOPE on the first day. One thing we can say is that we didnt realise until we got to India just how much work HOPE does in Kolkata. We visited many new projects and they were all really well run. The homes are really great. They are clean and spacious and the children learn so much there. What makes them special is seeing how much they improve peoples lives, because the poverty is everywhere you go. The children in the homes were so happy and seeing where our money had gone made the fundraising all worthwhile. We didnt know there were so many homes either. They have two boys and two girls homes, homes for the disabled and homes for ex-solvent abusers. So many children in Kolkata are helped by HOPE. As well as homes, HOPE has coaching centres in the slums. It is hard enough walking through a slum, so we can only imagine what its like to live in one. Yet, there is such a sense of community and people would rush out of there huts just to wave at us. Slums are far worse in real life than on a documentary, because when you are there it isnt just visual, it is also emotional. On a DVD you dont get the terrible stench, the lack of fresh air or the flies on your face.

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The coaching centres are like homework clubs. They are small rooms where kids can go to learn or, if they are already attending school, they go for help with their homework. This is because their parents may not be educated enough to help them. These coaching centres didnt just start up over night. HOPE had to work really hard to convince parents that their children need an education, and that it is possible to give them a better future. HOPE also has one hospital and part sponsor another one. They treat all sorts of patients, from a child with polio to someone who has been abused at home. We visited the hospitals and played with the children. The life skills centre is another great project for women. Downstairs is a working cafe where women are taught waitressing and cooking. Upstairs they have sewing machines and craft making. They also run computer courses. This is all to give women a skill so that they can get a job. The city itself is the same size as Dublin but while Dublin has a population of one million, Calcutta has fifteen to twenty two million people. It is difficult to put an exact figure on the population. There are no gardens and traffic is crazy. There is no such thing as cars indicating, and beeping the horn is as common as grass in Ireland! At night time, the pathways are filled with sleeping bodies. India is so incredible that its impossible to see everything in a week, but I think we got a pretty good insight. Hopefully we will all go back in the future and make that bit more of a difference. As HOPE says, it shouldnt hurt to be a child. Thank you to everyone that helped us throughout the year, those who helped us plan and organise our fundraising and who contributed and supported us. Special thanks to Theresa Sullivan for taking us on this amazing journey. We will never forget it.

By Isabela Campion and Clara ffrench Davis.

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TY Archaeology Trip
As part of our archaeology class this year we were given the opportunity to visit an archaeological site at Cloghhammon near Enniscorthy, kindly organised by Mr. Lester, Mr. Kieran OConnor and Mr. James Littleton. We werent really sure what to expect when we got there, because we didnt know if the dig had been successful. As it turned out, the excavation was nearing completion. The archaeologist had excavated three trenches and had found some interesting features. The archaeologists had uncovered some artefacts and Mr. Littleton led us around the site explaining the features and the excavation procedure. While walking around the site one of the archaeologists uncovered a clay pipe and watching how this was recorded and uncovered was very interesting. The site was part of research into seventeenth and eighteenth century plantations in Ireland. What they had found in this spot was the floor of a Malt house, where they made beer in the olden days. Beer was very important back then because most water was contaminated, and the beer was safer to drink than water. Even children drank this Small Beer regularly!

They had found a stone floor and furnaces of what would have once been a wooden building used for beer production. It was interesting because it was quite deep underground so the field had formed on top of it. The floor was cobbled stone and we learnt that an archaeologists job is difficult because they have to record everything before moving on. Some poor archaeologist had to sketch a detailed map of the floor, showing which stones went where, before they could dig up the stones to see if there was anything beneath. After taking some photos and seeing all the equipment used, we visited the 1798 visitors centre in Enniscorthy where we walked around and learnt a lot about Wexford heritage and especially The Battle of Vinegar Hill. Some of us got to try on an old military uniform which was a laugh. What was also good fun was when the tour guide handed some of us weapons from the era. After this we went back to school and trudged into tea in our wellies. It was a really enjoyable trip Thank you to Mr. Lester and Mr. Ronan for bringing us.

By: Clara Ffrench Davis

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Transition Year trip to Spain and France

On November fifth, thirty four TY students and four teachers headed up to Dublin Airport. We were divided into four groups for checking in, each with one of the four teachers - Ms Cosgrove, Ms Guyon, Mr Ronan and Mr Greene. While waiting to board a few of us met Matt Cardle, last years X-Factor winner. After a slight delay we were in the air and on our way to Toulouse. We landed in Toulouse at twelve thirty, collected our luggage and were off on a three hour bus journey to Meze. We arrived at the Taurus Centre, our accommodation for the next three days. After dinner we unpacked and had some free time before lights out. The next morning we arose at seven thirty and went straight for breakfast. Our adventure for the morning was zip lining. When we got there we all got fitted with the zip lining gear, and were instructed how to use them in the small practice area. We all had great fun. We returned to the hostel for lunch. Our afternoon trip was to an oyster farm and later to a vineyard. We returned to the hostel and had some free time before lights out. Next morning after breakfast we went sailing, after which we travelled to Montpellier. There we were met by a guide who showed us the city. Then we went to a disco ice skating rink. We finished a great day by going to McDonalds. After breakfast the next morning we visited a horse riding centre. There we were split into three groups: advanced, some experience and no experience. Some people went on a carriage ride, some groomed the horses and everyone rode. The advanced group went on a trek. After lunch we visited a secondary school where we shared our English. Then we were off to Spain on a long bus journey. Our hotel, Hotel Acacias, was an amazing hotel. The rooms were huge, each with a kitchen, living room, balcony, laundry room, and bedrooms. The food was extremely nice, and served in buffet style. The next day we head into Barcelona for the first time. As we drove in we could see our first destination, La Sagrada Familia. We got dropped just across the road from it, and wow, it is humongous! We got a guided tour of one of Gaudis finest accomplishments, La Sagrada Familia. After lunch, we got a bus to Guell Park and then onto Nou Camp Stadium, Barcelonas home ground. Later, we returned to the hotel for dinner after which we enjoyed a flamenco show. A highlight of the night was when Niamh was called up on stage to perform with the dancers. The next morning we headed to the Salvador Dal museum. It is one of the most famous art galleries in Spain. Later in the day we went orienteering in a woods, it was very good fun except, number three was missing and Cilian and I got lost. That evening we watched a movie in the hotel. The next morning we travelled to Barcelona and arrived at eleven oclock. We enjoyed a walking tour led by Ms Cosgrove there. Our walking tour ended at the pier, where Christopher Columbus first set sail. After a group photo we were given some free time in a shopping centre. Then we went into the aquarium next door. It was very interesting and we saw a large variety of fish. After the tour, we went back to the bus and it brought us to the hotel. We all had to pack then, as we unfortunately had to leave in the morning. When we had finished packing we had some free time before lights out. We were awoken at six thirty, as we had to be down beside the pool at seven oclock. We then had breakfast and departed for the airport. We checked in and we had half an hour to look around the shops. Then it was time to board and to say good bye to Barcelona. Thank you to all of the staff involved for organising a great trip.

Shane Fitzgerald

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Mizuki Hirikawa

Felictas Fendel Cathy McGrory

Georgia Battell

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Most Likely To
Win a Nobel Peace Prize Form a Boy Band Win Miss World Win the X Factor Go on Big Brother Become the Next Steve Jobs Marry (Current Couple) Compete in the Olympics Climb Mt. Everest Teach in Newtown Travel the World Star in a Movie Marry a Super Model Become an Artist Write a Novel Jane Murray Ronan Sharpe Holly Wells Elena Kutay Becky Casey & Aaron Daly Simon Quigley Cathy McGrory & Kaine de la Haye Jamie Cross Aaron Daly Becky Casey Mizuki Hirikawa Charlie Kelly & Phoebe Moore Holly Wells Rory VanDokkem Rory VanDokkem

Win a Strongest Man Competition Max OBrien

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James Corcoran Hodgins

Andrea Harvey

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Lydia Thorpe

Jamie Smyth

Tessa de Blank

Sara Leslie

Sara Leslie
Sara Leslie

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Jamie Smyth

Most Likely To
Win a Nobel Peace Prize Form a Boy Band Win Miss World Win the X Factor Go on Big Brother Become the Next Steve Jobs Marry (Current Couple) Compete in the Olympics Climb Mt. Everest Teach in Newtown Travel the World Star in a Movie Marry a Super Model Become an Artist Write a Novel Sophia Egan & Harry Milne Sam Butler Lydia Thorpe Sophia Egan Lisa Chan Ivan Ryan Andrew Davis & Alan Jephson Alex Hackett Stephen Scallan Sliabh Wells Kevin ODonnell James Corcoran Hodgins Kevin ODonnell Jamie Smyth Georgia Doorley

Win a Strongest Man Competition Killian Kelly

Georgia Doorley
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sixth Form

Abi Wilkinson + Andrea Harvey

Alan Jephson + Andrew Davis

Alex Clarke

Becky Barr + Lydia Thorpe

Alex Hackett + Luke Fitzherbert

Amy OLoughlin

Andrew Walsh

Beth Rochford + Maya Von Bruehl

Hannah OShea + Ruth Harrison

Harry Milne

Freya Little + Morwenna Maclean

Isabel English

Georgia Doorly + Sophia Egan + Alice Fortune

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Jamie Petch + Wilco Von Schaeffer + Ben Kavanagh

Jason Murphy + Fionn Doherty Brophy

Kate Moore + Megan Byrne

Lucy Walsh + Zenya Henry Madison Keane

Lisa Chan + Emilyrose ODonovan

Michael OGorman

Ciara Butler

Lorna ONeill
Sam Butler

Nichola Fennell + Anna Hickey + Olivia Chambers

Kevin ODonnell + Sliabh Wells + Stephen Scallan +-carrying- Jack Joyce

Sarah Murphy

Ruah Berney Pearson + Hilary Greene + Caroline Fitzgerald

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Tessa de Blank + Sara Leslie

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Senior Art Trip

On January 11th, 5th and 6th form art students visited The National Gallery in Dublin and The National Museum. Divided into two groups, we enjoyed works by both Irish and European artists in the Gallery. To see these paintings, up close, was fantastic as we had only seen them before in our text books. One of the paintings, we were shown was The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio. We were all very interested to learn about the history of this painting as it is an important piece of European art on our course. The tour guide was excellent and he told us everything that you could possibly want to know about the piece. The vastness of detail in the painting really impressed us and we were all truly inspired. Our tour lasted one hour, after which we had time to sketch a few works. The Sixth Form were shown two pieces by Gabriel Metsu - Man Writing a Letter and Lady Reading A Letter. These paintings are both very detailed and had an interesting narrative behind them. Little details that you would never really notice were pointed out, for example in Lady reading a letter the artist put his own name on one of the letters. Another piece they were shown was a slightly more modern piece by Picasso called, Still Life with Mandolin. This was a unique and abstract painting, completely different to the other ones they had shown. After a brief browse around the January sales, we went to The National Museum (via the protesters outside the Dil). Here we got to see pieces that we have studied in class including The Tara Brooch, The Petrie Crown, The Loughnashade Trumpet and The Glensheene Gorget. Each piece was even more impressive than the pictures in our text books. A picture tells a thousand words but the trip made art so much more interesting. The preserved dead bodies in one of the exhibitions were a little disturbing for some though! We would like to thank Mrs Dillon, Ms Hehir and Felix for organising and accompanying us on the trip. It was most enjoyed by all and it definitely has encouraged us to go to both the National Museum and Gallery again.

Jane Murray

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Girls Fashion Autumn/Winter Whats Hot?

-Woollen headbands -Chelsea boots -Snoods -Parkas -Vintage satchels -Baggy Jumpers -Nerd glasses
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Spring/Summer

Whats Hot?
-Baggy, colourful tees -Patterned scarves -Keds -Tea dresses -Gladiator Sandals -Trilbys -Denim short shorts

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Boys Fashion Autumn/Winter

Whats Hot?
-Check shirts -Hoodies -Cardigans -High top trainers -Jack & Jones -Chinos

Spring/Summer

Whats Hot?
-Plimsolls -Desert shoes -Logo tees -Baggy shorts -Shades -Colourful jackets -Colour!! -Surfer bracelets

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Included in the photo are Karen Keogh, Phoebe Moore, Hannah Murray, Jane Murray, Holly Wells and Tara Coady. Also present Mayor of Waterford and chairperson of Waterford Lions Club

Waterford LIONS Club Young Ambassador Awards

In late November Ms. Coady and Ms. Keogh nominated a group of students to take part in the Waterford LIONS Club Young Ambassador Youth Award. The award is given to a young person who has shown commitment to work in the community. Jane Murray, Sarah Jameson and I were nominated for our work The Simon Community and Focus Ireland during Transition Year, and Holly Wells and Phoebe Moore for their hard work and huge effort in encouraging organ donation. On November twenty first, the five of us went to the Tower Hotel for our interviews. We were all nervous as we didnt know what to expect. The interviews turned out to be very relaxed and informal, quite different from what I had imagined. Everyone had a good interview and we were all left feeling pleased with how it had gone. After a few days, we found out that Jane, Phoebe and I had been invited to go through to the second round of interviews the following week. They had chosen eight people out of thirty nominees. Three interviewers were present this time for a more formal interview than the first. In December, all thirty people who had been nominated were invited to a lunch at the Tower Hotel. During the lunch, the winner was announced. Although no one from Newtown received the award, the whole experience was wonderful and we are all very proud of the work that we have done in our community. We would encourage everyone to make an effort in their community as we have enjoyed every part of giving our best to ours.

-Hannah Murray

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Newtown through the ages

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Boarding Through the Ages

A snapshot of change from the present back to the year 1912 and then finally focusing on the fabulous 50s!
has on the older students and muses that it seems to unite school and family life in a very natural way. It would seem that this is another similarity to the friendly atmosphere and buzz of Newtown as we know it today. So now onto the buildings and yes, boys and girls did sleep in different buildings. The boys slept in the upstairs of the now glass fronted hang out area, known as Legoland, then a two storey austere concrete building with classrooms on the first floor. The girls slept in Mountmellick house which is now the music building used by so many students and soon to be renovated once more into an exciting and modern music centre complete with practise rooms and performance area come 2020. It seems change is on the horizon once more. Skip on some thirty eight years to the 1950s and this is what you will find, a school recovering from the tumult of World War II. Class sizes are gradually increasing and the dreaded ration cards are finally gone. The majority of Newtowns population are boarders with girls sleeping in a mixture of Mountmellick House and Selbourne House. Boys dorms were in Link and as juniors they were looked after by prefects before their transition to the senior dorms (above Legoland). Alan Pim, speaking for the boys, remembers fondly his time as a boarder. Apple pie beds, slippering and cold water. Apple pie beds describes the uncomfortable experience of sliding your feet down your bed only to find that suddenly they cant reach the whole way!The bottom sheet has been sneakily folded over your top sheet leaving a confused First Former and much

Newtown; a successful mixed boarding school of the day, home to over three hundred students and counting, operating on the Quaker ethos and tradition. 8.15 am; a loud bell rings- breakfast time! The large dining room is starting to fill up with sleepy students sitting at tables amongst their peers chatting and eating, soon their day will begin. After school we return to houses Annamour for the girls and Arnold Marsh for the boys where we are looked after by heads of household Ms. Peters and Mr. Hanlon. Skip back one hundred years to 1912 and everything seems quite different in the world of Newtown. Like today it is still a prosperous school set up on the Quaker ethos, but unlike today it is home to only fourteen pupils, six of which were day students. The eight boarders were looked after by the mistress of the household , Ms. Wilhelmina Fulton Clark, who was in overall charge of both the boys and girls of the time assisted by the two resident masters and mistresses. Students could come to Newtown as young as ten years of age and attend what was known as kindergarten until they were considered big enough to join the older ones. However all seemed to play and live happily together. This was observed by one old scholar of Newtown who writes fondly of his visit in 1912: There were also some children of quite tender years, who played about fearlessly and seemed on friendly terms with the older children. This same old scholar recognises the humanising effect this

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Other happy memories from boarders would be the `hop held every third Saturday, and films shown on some other Saturdays. In those days the boarders never got home during term time. There were two School Committees during each term and those lucky enough to have parents on the committee would be taken out for a meal or even to the cinema. The Savoy (an impressive cinema and restaurant) was a firm favourite for meals. On special days like St. Patricks Day there would be a day off, a lot of people took the opportunity to go roller skating in a dance hall in Parnell St. no dancing was aloud during Lent in those days so roller skating was a good alternative. On those rare sunny mornings there would be great excitement in the hope that the headmaster would suggest a school walk, class would be abandoned for the morning and everyone would take to the great outdoors. Last but not least are the school excursions which meant a whole day off during the Summer Term. Sue remembers one such excursion where the then Third Form got the train to Kilmacthomas, then cycled to Coumshingaun, climbed up to the lake for a swim and picnic. She recalls leading a few of the class cheerfully around the very top of the hill, something that would certainly not suit Health and Safety today. Now finally onto the miscreants of the fiftieswhats boarding without a bit of harmless fun after all? Alan Pim remembers a small wooden hut in Cooley woods that was great for doing things illegal without getting caught..! Strangely Alan was a bit vague about what actually went on..... What a place! Hops, excursions, movies and sheds Well it was certainly thought so by Zolton Zinn Collins. Zolton Zinn Collins was a Jewish boy sent to Newtown after World War II after surviving, along with his sister, the infamous concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. In his book Final Witness, his gratitude to Newtown and genuine love for the place shines through his words. He writes with great tenderness about the place that helped him so greatly, Thanks to the influence of Newtown School, I have accepted what happened to me and moved on with my life. That is no small achievement. That is indeed no small achievement, but it is something that I have no difficulty in believing. Newtown has always been a unique place, a place with a strong sense of community and a place where it is easy to feel a sense of belonging. This is something that will never change in this school and will make

laughter for his friends. The term slippering harks back to a time of corporal punishment. Newtown as a rule did not use or for that matter believe in corporal punishment. However a certain Mr. Boggs and others were not averse to the use of the dreaded slipper on an unfortunates bottom from time to time to punish certain misdemeanours in the dorms. Boys in the fifties were a smelly lot as baths were only allowed once a term, lets just say I wouldnt have liked to have been sitting down wind-but I hasten to add that showers were available after games, and boys did have a shower night once a week. The girls were allowed to bath once a week and showers were always available (phew!) And now to move onto the girls side of things. Sue Pim (coincidently member of the biggest Leaving Certificate class- a whopping eleven people!) remembers Mrs. Smith (Ma Smeggs) who was in charge of the First Form girls, telling stories while darning and mending clothes once a week, she also gave them juice and biscuits while they worked! She also remembers (not so fondly) the dreaded leeks, her least favourite food which was dealt with by dropping it silently onto the floor when she thought no one was looking, until one day she was caught when the teacher of the table bent down to pick up her bag and saw the leeks littered all over the floor her master plan had failed! It seems that although the homesickness was tough and the food tougher, fond memories are still to be had and knowing the tricks of the trade vital. An example of this would be during Old Scholars weekend when a bucket would be dangled down on a string outside the dining room window, from the first form dorm above. The boys would then wait to reap the rewards when they pulled up the bucket filled with food from the kindly Old Scholars. The Old Scholars dinner was always held in the school dining room in those days.
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Girls Playroom

it recognisable through all the inevitable physical changes that will happen to a school changing with the times. We would like to extend a huge thank you to Joan Johnson for all her help in the archives and for the many meetings we had before this article was

finished. Also to Sue and Alan Pim for their first-hand knowledge of the 50s and for coming along and answering our questions, telling stories and giving us the necessary information we needed to write this.

By Phoebe Moore & Holly Wells

Newtown in the 1950s

Times in Ireland are tough to say the least. The economy is in tatters, and the country is doing all the worse for it - ironically students in 50 years time might be writing something very similar about Newtown in 2012. Back to the past however, and Ireland, under the leadership of John Costello, was struggling in terms of export and industry with Agriculture being the main income. As well as this, the tension between South and North added to a general depression which hung over Ireland. At the same time, Newtown was also fighting for survival, with the rationing of food being an everyday occurrence and the completion of secondary school, unusual. Remembering her days in Newtown School, Sue Pim says Out of a total of twenty four students, only eleven did their Intermediate Certificate and the rest left after one or two years of senior school. Change comes for Newtown in the form of a new head master. Liam Glynn takes over Newtown School in 1949 and through slow and steady progress he achieves major renovations of the junior boys classrooms as well as the science lab. This plus the attention to detail with which, by example, he led Newtown were a big stepping stone toward achieving the school as we know it today.
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One particular incident with Mr. Glynn seems to suggest that teachers really do have eyes in the back of their heads. Student X, who wishes to remain anonymous, was playing a round of spin the bottle with their friends in their classroom. The game was in full swing and everybody was focused on it when, all of a sudden, the room fell silent. Looking up, student x saw Mr.Glynn himself looking in the window, to this day nobody is quite clear on what he may have seen or heard .. The stories we heard from Sue and Alan Pim were dumbfounding. Alan remembers his early boarding years where he only saw his parents three times a year, during the holidays or at school committee; at ten years of age this is quite unimaginable. Sue assures us that school food now is quite godly compared to what they had to eat. During the meals a teacher sat at each table with six students. After each day the students would move one seat in order to take turns clearing the plates. Alan and Sue agree that breakfast was the nicest meal of the day because you got porridge and, once a week or twice a term you got to sit at Billy Bogs table, who despite being absolutely terrifying, ensured that the whole table got toast!

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While pondering on the issue of food, Alan and Sue remember how awful dinner on Friday was. Not only did they always serve fish, which smelled strongly, it was also the day on which towels where washed and hung to dry in the kitchen. Like now, a lot of emphasis was put on extracurricular activities, especially sports. The girls played hockey whereas the boys played rugby and cricket as well. Before the late 60s hockey was played on grass, and as Alan recalls, playing on the old pitch was a great struggle as the cows that they shared the field with left not only holes but also pats behind them Another tradition followed annually for quite some time was the production of a play or musical. It always involved both staff and students, whether as an actor, a director or as a costume designer and was always thoroughly enjoyed by all. The chosen number would also mark the end of term for everyone as parents would come to watch the play before taking their children home for the Winter break. One particular year, Alan remembers that, following the play, a snow ball fight took place between Newtowns students and their neighbours from Waterpark. In contrast to this, when it was sunny, Mr. Glynn would sometimes propose a school walk. This meant that the entire student and teacher population would embark on a morning excursion. Sometimes they would walk the old Tramore road or catch a train to Tramore beach. Sue swears that on a lovely morning she still thinks it a glorious day for a school walk! Maybe the weather during Sues time was far better suited to these school walks as we never seem to have the right weather for them. There were also school excursions Sue remembers one when they went to the Comeragh Mountains they caught the train to Kilmacthomas with their bikes, then cycled to the Comeraghs, left their bikes and walked up to the Lake Coumshingaun. She then remembers taking a small group up to the top and around the ridge, looking down on the lake (not something a teenager would be aloud do nowadays!)

They then cycled all the way back to Newtown a good days exercise! Another very influential person at this time was Mr. Foster who, due to his initials, was called Fef by everyone. Fef was the Irish teacher of the time, his influence and character however, going far beyond the classroom. It has been said by many that while you may not have liked him, you loved him all the same. While reading the sad Irish stories during class he would now and again get emotional and have to wipe away a tear. His love for nature and agriculture ensured that a Forestry Club was started. It also meant that sometimes, while teaching he would glance out the window to inspect the grounds. If he then noticed an idle worker or a wrong doer, he would rip open the window and shout at them - much to the amusement of the class. As with a lot of teachers little went unnoticed. Alan tells us of the forestry club hut which was an excellent place for doing illegal things. Whatever the circumstance however, Fef somehow managed to stay informed, little escaped him! Legend says that one St. Patricks Day, for a dare a student, her friend and friends boyfriend went on an adventure and hitch-hiked to Dunmore East for a swim- unnoticed. Or so they thought. Years later that same girl asked Fef, after his retirement, had he heard about this, he replied: I knew someone had gone but I didnt know it was you! In keeping with the article, we undertook research in the archives. It is quite extraordinary to see just how far our school has come but also to be able to appreciate how lucky we are today. Essentially no matter what lies ahead, the essence of the school will never change. We would like to thank Joan Johnson for all of her time and help in the archives, also to Sue and Alan Pim for kindly coming in and answering our many questions and telling us their many stories, all of which were vital to this piece.

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Interview with Philip JacobNewtown in the 2nd World War

Where did you grow up?
I grew up in Tramore. I went Waterford -Tramore railway when I was eight or nine. I travelled to school by train until I became a boarder later on to save the hassle.

Why did you choose Newtown as a secondary school?

I didnt chose it, my parents did. They chose it because in 1891 my grandfather became a teacher here in Newtown and my father was a pupil here then and he went on to be a member of a committee. My step-father was a music and sport teacher in the 1930s. Where else could I go?
Philip Jacob age 12 in Newtown workshop

What was it like growing up in Ireland during World War II?

Well there were no cars, shortages of everything, rations on everything- butter, clothes, tea, and meat and there was no coal. Flour was made if Irish Wheat meaning the bread would mould within a couple of days and we would have to make do with eating mouldy bread. We didnt have as many hot baths as we would have liked but there was little we could about it. We had no alternative other than to accept it. There was very little griping about it.

What was the atmosphere like here in Newtown during World War II?
One word to describe it would be cold. I remember the main classroom boiler had no coal or fuel to run on so they had to make do with timber and wet turf. We were sent outside to do rounds around the Bows field in between lessons to keep warm. The war also meant the school decided to drill us all in Air Raid Precaution. We were all fitted for our own gas masks. There is a well, I dont know if its still there on the front gravel, and a pump was set up there, and in case the school went on fire the well water could be pumped up from the well.

What was your favourite aspect of Newtown when you were here?
The diversity of opportunities at leisure time, particularly the school plans and the woodwork rooms, I loved woodwork. The reading room, practising kicking the rugby ball and tennis courts were all aspects of Newtown I really enjoyed. In retrospect my favourite aspect was the excellent staff, they were very friendly, helpful, loving and a great bunch of people.

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What was your most memorable experience of Newtown?

My most memorable experience in Newtown was blowing myself up in the lab. When I was about thirteen or so a farmers son came as a pupil here and smuggled in a shotgun. One day he concealed it down his trouser leg and he and I walked to the far end of the hockey pitches to a little wood called Cops (now Coolie Woods). He fired off the gun just for fun to show what it sounded like. When we walked back across the fields, Mr. Burke, who was the grounds keeper at the time, cocked his eye at my friend and said that was a hell of a fine report, in other words he had heard the bang and he knew jolly well what it was, but he didnt say anything about it to anybody. That led me to decide to make up some gunpowder a few evenings later, but it Philip JAcob age 21 at the top of exploded in my face and burnt off much of my hair. That was in the lab Galtee Mountain and of course in those days the lab was beside one of my classrooms and there was a window in between. The master on duty saw the flash, he came and found out that there I was with my face burnt off. He got hold of the nurse and the nurse plastered a yellowish sort of paste over my face. I was popped into nest for a few days. The science master was very understanding. He decided that my injuries were punishment enough. That would be a time I am half proud of, half ashamed of.

What do you remember most about Newtown, the physical place?

I remember it all as if it were yesterday, particularly things like the swimming baths we had. It was where the Foy Hall is. It was not a particularly large swimming bath but it was whitewash inside, without filters it was kept sanitary by pouring in chlorine so it smelled like pea soup. But we swam in it, had Galas in it. I also remember an amusing thing in the boys wash lobby, a long row of wash hand basins beside each other and what you could do was if you had a wet bar of soap you could fire it down one side of the wash basin and it would shoot up the other side and down into the next basin and if it fell in the right spot it would do a tour of the bottom and go on to the next wash basin. The competition was to see how many wash hand basins you could get the bar of soap into. It was stopped in due course when the found the bars of soap were all getting mutilated! We also fired butter up onto the roof of the dining room, you take a fork and get a pad of butter on the handle, then you bang down on the prongs of the fork, the butter pad shoots up into the air; the aim was to try and get it to stick on the ceiling. Some years there were quite a few greasy patches to be seen on the ceiling. This was not recommended when butter was scarce

Did you ever return to Newtown, had it changed?

Yes, I have returned to it many times, for all sorts of reasons but first of all because I was living in Tramore until I was twenty. Then, in due course, I joined the Committee and so I have been backwards and forwards a lot. I am now a member of the Old Scholars Association.

Philip Jacob in the Dublin Stock Exchange in the 1970s

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Music Review
Ive spent a busy and enjoyable year covering Ms. Barrys career break. Its wonderful to work as part of a team of dedicated music teachers and students in Mt. Mellick. The building is a hive of activity any time of day with individual instrumental and vocal classes, to students practising and music making, to choir and orchestra rehearsals. As we settled into September the first outing of the year happened. Five pianists, Roisin Sutherland, Alice Lee, Hilary Greene, Lydia Thorpe and Ruah Bearney Pearson performed at the New Ross piano festival. While the students enjoyed taking the opportunity to perform on a Steinway grand piano, the audience enjoyed hearing great talent and skill. During October, the fifth and sixth form Music students attended a concert/workshop given by the RTE Vanburg String Quartet. Lydia Thorpe and Ruah Bearney Pearson, this time as Cellists, performed at this workshop. December was a busy month with the Fourth Form group enjoying a very successful Jembe Drums workshop on December the second. The Chamber Choir, directed by Roisin O Grady, performed at a concert in Christ Church Cathedral on December eight, while members of Senior Choir, Chamber Choir and Fourth Form amalgamated to take part in a flash mob choir in Waterford City to launch the Lions Club/WLR Christmas Appeal. This event was great fun, with the students particularly enjoying the rehearsal and recording with Brass and Co. The Christmas Concert was held on December sixteenth, fortunately this year the snow stayed away! Junior Choir, Senior Choir, Chamber Choir and Orchestra all took to the stage along with some very talented individual performers who very ably represented the great musical talent that exists in Newtown School. Spring term saw students preparing for practical Junior and Leaving Certificate Examinations, Associated Board Exams, Third level auditions and Feiseanna. Well done to the Chamber Choir who won the Conor Feeney Cup at the Fintan OCarroll Feis. The main focus for the Junior and Senior Choirs from January onwards was the Department of Education and Skills choir exams. These exams were held in late March and each choir performed a program of three contrasting pieces. Well done to all students for performing to a very high standard. Congratulations must go to Ruah Bearney-Pearson, Alice Fortune and Ciara Butler, Sixth Form students who auditioned, and were accepted, into the National Youth Choir. Finally, best wishes to all those Sixth Form Senior Choir, Chamber Choir and Orchestra members who will leave Newtown this year. Thank you for your dedication, we wish you well and hope you keep on performing wherever your path takes you.

By Mary O Connor
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Newtown School Chamber Choir had a very enjoyable and successful year in both concert and competition. Conducted by Roisin OGrady, choir rehearsals commenced in October in preparation for Christmas concerts. The choir performed a selection of Christmas choral favourites to a packed audience at Christchurch Cathedral on the eight of December as part of the Christchurch Primary school fundraising evening. On the sixteenth of December the choir performed in the Newtown School annual Christmas concert. They began their performance with a beautiful arrangement of Away in a Manger by English composer John Rutter. This was followed by an upbeat performance of the very popular I Got Rhythm by American composer George Gershwin. The choir ended the musical evening with a fast moving choral arrangement of the sixteenth century Christmas carol Gaudete by Irish composer Michael McGlynn. In January, the choir began preparations for the WIT Music School Fintan OCarroll Feis. On the thirteenth of March the choir took part in Schools Choir Day at WIT competing against other secondary school choirs in Waterford. Three pieces were performed, the first was a modern piece by American composer Joseph Martin called Come to The Music. This was followed by a haunting Irish piece Sauntra , a five part choral arrangement by Michael McGlynn which was commissioned for Newtown School Chamber Choir in 2004.The choir finished with the gospel spiritual Michael Row That Gospel Boat! The performance was excellent and very enjoyable. They delivered each genre with beautiful tone and understanding of the music. They placed second overall and won the Conor Feeney Memorial Cup, awarded for the best performance of an Irish traditional choral arrangement. On the twenty seventh of March the choir performed the same pieces as part of the Department of Education and Skills Music Examination held in Newtown School. Well done to all students who performed many different styles of choral over the course of the academic year. Also a special word of thanks goes to the choirs amazing accompanist, Siobhan Keappock who accompanied us at all the above concerts throughout the year.

Roisin OGrady

WLRfm Christmas appeal

Flash mob: A large group of people mobilized by social
media to meet in a public place for the purpose of doing an unusual or entertaining activity of short duration. For the last number of years, the local radio station, WLR FM have hosted a Christmas Appeal in order to raise money for local charities in Waterford. Each year the appeal is launched officially with some form of event. This year a flash mob was organised which saw local choirs joining Brass and Co. The Newtown School Choir took part, comprising of twenty five students plus the ever supporting Mrs. Keappock and Mrs.OConnor. In preparation, a rehearsal was held in Christchurch Cathedral on December seventh. Despite the cold, we walked there and back singing loudly all the way! The rehearsal was great fun, and it really got us in the Christmas spirit. We sang lots of songs, including My favourite time of year and Fairytale of New York. The event took place on December tenth. Each choir was sent to a designated area to await the cue while Brass and Co. entertained the people. On cue, everyone joined in and it went out live on the radio. It was a really enjoyable event. It was great that money was raised for so many worthy causes. Thanks to our teachers for organising and accompanying us. Overall, an astonishing 114,000 was raised for the local charities of Waterford so a big well done to everyone that took part.

By Elena Kutay

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Newtowns Annual Christmas Concert

Newtowns annual Christmas concert took place on December sixteenth. This year it was a little different. This years concert saw lots of new talented performers take to the stage for their first time. Musicians from all forms took part, beginners to old hands, vocalists to musicians, all of whom were excellent. Interspersed between the many solo performers were the Senior and Junior Choirs; the former with Can you feel the Love Tonight and a seasonal number-Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas. The Junior Choir opened the concert with their songs The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy, Just another Star and The Saints Go Marching In. They were terrific. The orchestra, conducted by Stephen Mackey, provided a different flavour to the evening by playing a light hearted Pink Panther and One day Like This, featured brilliant vocals by Ruah BearneyPearson and Lydia Thorpe. It was a welcome return to have the boom-whackers back, played by the Transition Year music group. They played some light-hearted, cheerful ditties; Jingle Bells and We Wish you a Merry Christmas. However, what gave this years concert its unique twist was the addition of some unexpected performers.The Transition Years flash mob style dance performance was much enjoyed by all. All in all it was a very successful night and ended in great style by the Chamber Choirs Away in a Manger, I got Rhythm and Gaudete. Thank you to all the conductors and teachers for their help, support and encouragement. Thank you also to Mrs. Keappock and Mrs. OConnor for their commitment to music in Newtown. It continues to be a wonderful and integral part of school life.

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Vladimir Review
On Friday the twenty third of March, Mrs. OConnor and Mrs. Keappock surprised our music class with a concert by an amazing performer called Vladimir. He is a violin virtuoso from Slovakia. He played everything from Classical to Rock to Pop. He performed a classical twist, showcasing a modern twist on Slovakian and Irish music. He began with an interesting mash up of the James Bond theme song and Rondo Alla Turca by Mozart. He then told us that he began his career as an artist. His father was a university professor of violin and Vladimir started learning at the age of five. When he was nineteen, he came to Ireland and began busking. That lasted for five years but after the first year and a half he was already booking gigs in different places. He now practices up to six hours a day! After informing us about his life he began his second piece which was Moondance by Van Morrison. He played this piece beautifully. He continued on with The Rolling Stones Point of Black, then onto his own twist on the beautifully written Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky and finished the concert with a lively Beatles piece, All the lovely people. It was an excellent performance of very high standard and everyone enjoyed the concert immensely.

By Alex Collins, Lily Rose Fitzmaurice and Paula Petit

New Ross Piano Festival

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Orchestra
This year the orchestra has turned into a big band due to the fact we only have four string instruments, but we love the new sound. The year has been very enjoyable for us and all of us have really improved on our instruments and also in playing together as a group. For the Christmas concert, we played two pieces. The first one was One Day like This, by Elbow, sung by Lydia Thorpe, Ruah Berney-Pearson and also by the Fourth Form music students. We also played Watermelon Man by Herbie Hancock with a solo by Becky Barr on the saxophone. We would like to wish Sixth Form musicians luck in the future and hope they keep up with their love of music. Thank you also to Stephen Mackey for giving up his time to conduct and guide us through the year.

By Jane Murray

Fifth and Sixth Form music class concert trips

On the twenty sixth of October, the Fifth and Sixth Form music students were lucky enough to attend the concert and workshop of the RTE String Quartet from UCC. It was held in De La Salle College and started with a performance of a number of famous quartets from different styles, all played very well. They then invited string players to perform, including Ruah Berney-Pearson and Lydia Thorpe who both playing the cello. This was such a wonderful opportunity for them both. The outing was much enjoyed by all.
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RTE String Quartet from UCC

On the second of February, the Fifth Form music students attended another performance in De La Salle College. This time it was a jazz ensemble from New Park Music School in Dublin. They were promoting a degree in Jazz Performance which the college offers. There was a lot of interaction between the performers and the audience and we all learned a great deal from it. We would like to thank Mrs. Keappock and Mrs. OConnor for bringing us to these two enjoyable concerts.

By Hannah and Jane Murray

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CLAN RESULTS

846pts

4th

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1st

948pts

3rd

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Winners 2012
SWIMMING GAlA Minor Boys Champion: Bobby Tweedy Minor Girls Champion: Anna Kent Junior Boys Champion: Robbie Harvey Junior Girls Champion: Kate Aherne Inter Boys Champion: Inter Girls Champion: Jonathan Pim Stephanie Ebert/Grace Allen Senior Boys Singles: Champion: Runner Up: Senior Girls Singles: Champion: Runner Up: Sam Butler Alan Jeffson Olivia Chambers Caroline Fitzgerald

Senior Boys Champion: Jamie Petch Senior Girls Champion: Andrea Harvey/Thea Johnson PRESENTATION OF X-COuNTRY WINNERS Minor Boys Champion: George Maclean Minor Girls Champion: Anna Kent Junior Boys Champion: Aaron Vogelaar Junior Girls Champion: Holly Moore Inter Boys Champion: Inter Girls Champion: Kate Aherne Lucy Latta

Open Mixed Doubles: Alan Jeffson and Olivia Chambers Champions: Sam Butler and Anna Hickey Runners Up: PRESENTATION OF 1500M WINNERS Minor Boys Champion: George Maclean Minor Girls Champion: Junior Girls Champion: Inter Boys Champion: Inter Girls Champion: Isabelle Auld Holly Moore Nigel Kennington Trona Harvey Junior Boys Champion: Aaron Vogelaar

Senior Boys Champion: Jamie Cross Senior Girls Champion: Andrea Harvey PRESENTATION OF TENNIS WINNERS Minor Boys Single: Mark Morris Champion: George Maclean Runner Up: Minor Girls Singles: Champion: Runner Up: Junior Boys Singles: Champion: Runner Up: Junior Girls Singles: Champion: Runner Up: Inter Boys Singles: Champion: Runner Up: Inter Girls Singles: Champion: Runner Up: Aoife Treacy Emily Duffin Matthew Treacy John Jeffson Katie Aherne Holly Moore Tom Greene Conor Kenny Lucy Latta Hannah Brennan

Senior Boys Champion: Stephen Scallan Senior Girls Champion: Andrea Harvey ATHlETICS COMPETITION Presentation of Certificates of Excellence and Participation Minor Boys Champion: George Maclean Minor Girls Champion: Junior Girls Champion: Inter Boys Champion: Inter Girls Champion: Isabelle Auld Holly Moore Nigel Kennington Kate Cafferky Junior Boys Champion: Aaron Vogelaar

Senior Boys Champion: Alex Hackett Senior Girls Champion: Olivia Chambers George Fitzgerald Memorial Shield: Contribution to Girls Hockey: Clan Trophy:

Daire McBride Ruth Harrison Blue

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SWIMMING GAlA Minor Boys Champion: Daryl Hemmingway Minor Girls Champion: Katie Ahearn Junior Boys Champion: Jonathan Pim Junior Girls Champion: Lucy Latta/Sarah Ann Bakker Inter Boys Champion: Inter Girls Champion: Liam Landy Megan Fitzgerald Senior Boys Singles: Champion: Runner Up: Senior Girls Singles Champion: Runner Up: Jamie Cross Ben Cross Olivia Chambers Aifric Heffernan

Senior Boys Champion: Simon Major Senior Girls Champion: Heidi McIlvenny PRESENTATION OF X-COuNTRY WINNERS Minor Boys Champion: Aaron Vogelaar Minor Girls Champion: Holly Moore Junior Boys Champion: Conor Buckley Junior Girls Champion: Nicola Boyd Inter Boys Champion: Inter Girls Champion: Barg Kennedy Andrea Harvey

Open Mixed Doubles: Olivia Chambers and Alan Jephson Champions: Runners Up: Anna Hickey and Sam Butler PRESENTATION OF 1500M WINNERS Minor Boys Champion: Aaron Vogalaar Minor Girls Champion: Junior Girls Champion: Inter Boys Champion: Inter Girls Champion: Holly Moore Triona Harvey Barg Kennedy Andrea Harvey Junior Boys Champion: Conor Buckley

Senior Boys Champion: Stephen Scallan Senior Girls Champion: Olivia Chambers PRESENTATION OF TENNIS WINNERS Minor Boys Single: Champion: Conor Kenny Runner Up: John Jephson Minor Girls Singles: Champion: Runner Up: Junior Boys Singles: Champion: Runner Up: Junior Girls Singles: Champion: Runner Up: Inter Boys Singles: Champion: Runner Up: Inter Girls Singles: Champion: Runner Up: Katie Aherne Lucy Allen Raoul OBrien Tom Greene Lucy Latta Laura McDaid Sam Butler Barg Kennedy Kelsey cunningham Rebecca Hoban

Senior Boys Champion: Alex Hackett Senior Girls Champion: Isobel English ATHlETICS COMPETITION Presentation of Certificates of Excellence and ParticipationMinor Boys Champion: John Jephson Minor Girls Champion: Junior Girls Champion: Inter Boys Champion: Inter Girls Champion: Holly Moore Triona Harvey Brian Kennedy Una Maya Kennedy Junior Boys Champion: Ruairi Finnegan

Senior Boys Champion: Alex Hackett Senior Girls Champion: Olivia Chambers George Fitzgerald Memorial Shield: Contribution to Girls Hockey: Clan Trophy:

Nigel Kennington Heidi McIlvenny Blue

We are reprinting last years results (2011) due to an error in last years Review when the Athletic Competition winners were printed twice, in both the Athletics Section and the Swimming Gala. As a result the winners of the Swimming Gala were not acknowledged for their achievements. We apologise to all the 2011 Swimming Gala winners for this error.
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FIRST FORM GIRlS HOCkEY 2012
The Newtown First Form girls team had a challenging hockey season this year. We had some very narrow defeats, but we made a come-back with some good wins. We have been very fortunate with the amount of matches we have played this year. We would like to thank our coaches Mrs Hughes, Ms. Rellis and Ms. Hehir for coaching us throughout our ups and downs. We are disappointed that our hockey season is over, but we cant wait to come back fighting next year. shot by Sean Phelan the score was tied again. Newpark were on the attack when we got a free outside our D. Quick thinking from Robin Doyle, who passed to Alex Round who ran the wing, crossed the ball to Sean Phelan who then put me in position for a shot which put us a goal up. Minutes went by and then history repeated itself except it was Daryl Hemmingway who set me up for my second goal. Newpark soon got one back but it was not enough as Connor Kenny got one more goal to leave the result 4-2 in our favour. It was a great way to finish the Season. Our squad for the season was; Ben Flanagan, Daniel Morris, Robin Doyle, Jonathan Pim, David Thorpe, Alex Round, Cory Cooke, Matthew Treacy, Connor Kenny, Daryl Hemmingway, Sean Phelan, Cian Hogan, Sholto O Brien, George Mc Clean, Mark Morris and Matthew Kelly.

Caroline and Izzy

JuNIOR GIRlS HOCkEY 2012
The Junior girls had a great season this year. We were never short of players and were always enthusiastic. We trained well together and really played as a team. We started off in the B League and did very well to win it with ease. After the league we were entered into the A Cup, unfortunately we did not progress past the first match. We would like to thanks Mrs. Hughes for coaching us, along with Mr. Butler and Ms. Hehir who coached us at the start of the year.

Cian Hogan
SENIOR BOYS HOCkEY
Overall this has been one of our best hockey seasons in Newtown for quite some years. Aside from our tour to Aberdeen our performances in both competitive and friendly games have been something to be proud of. In previous years, Newtown was seen as an inferior side by teams such as Ashton, Bandon and Midleton, we were seen as a walk over but after this season we have proven that the Newtown Senior Boys Team is a force to be reckoned with. We lost to Ashton, Bandon and Midleton by only one goal, despite leading in all three games. It was heart breaking defeats like this that meant that we did not qualify for the All Ireland Schools Tournament. We lost out by a mere point in the qualifiers in September, a crushing blow for the team. However we kept our chins high and persevered, improving with every training session. The new sporting curriculum facilitates the participation of the rugby players, and this was an immense boost to the team, considering nearly half our players are Duel-Stars. We continued to play friendly matched in preparation for our tour winning the majority with some impressive score lines (4-0 vs. Wesley College, 4-1 vs. Robert Gordon) The tour was a great success and a form of preparation for our Munster A-Cup Semi Final vs. Bandon. We started the game well with some excellent play and after ten minutes our German Goal Machine had given us a 1-0 lead. Through stout resistance in defence, and some acrobatic saves from our captain, Sliabh Wells, we held our lead into half-time. The game ended 4-1, the score line in no way a true reflection on the closeness of the game. Despite our disappointment of not making it in the A Cup, we knew we still had the responsibility of retaining our B Cup title. Our B Cup semi-final was against a Midleton side that was far stronger than we expected. Although we under estimated them considerately, we still scraped a 3-2 victory, goals from Wilko, Jamie and Sam, the last few minutes of the game.
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MINOR BOYS HOCkEY 2012
This was our first year playing all our matches eleven aside. This year we received new arrivals in Mathew Treacy, Sean Phealan and Shalto O Brien. All of these players played a big part in our teams success throughout the season, especially Mathew, who is our teams unsung hero. His talent turned out to be so good, he was selected for the trophy winning senior boys squad. Our team picked up a lot of new skills this season in training, from our coaches David Quinn, Mr. Green and Mr. Butler. On behalf of the team, thank you for your time and effort with us. We began our season on a winning streak beating Villiers and Middleton. We then drew with Ashton A side when we were away in the Munster Minor Cup. Missing one of our top key players, our confidence was glum, as was the result. Due to this we made an early departure out of the cup. We had no games for a while after that due to the other sports commitments. We then played Villiers in our penultimate game of the season. The game ended in what would seem to be a massacre to look at the result, but it did not reflect the game which ended 5-1 to Villiers. Our only goal contributed by Robin Doyle from an excellent short corner move. Our final game was two days away against a team we had never played, Newpark, but we were told they were good. After our recent defeat nobody expected us to bring back a win. When the whistle blew for halftime our heads had dropped as we were losing by a single goal but we had all of the possession in the half. We came back in the second half and after a great
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Our final was against Villiers, our arch nemesis! With the haste of Shadowfax Samuel, Duke of Port-of-Law unleashed the sword of Brabo, slaying the Villiers tyrants once and for all. With Stuart, Lord of Green and his squire Quinnworth the Brave; looking over the valiant knights of Newtown, victory was inevitable. Lord Petchulance stuck a further three blows to the core of the barbarous Villiers, ending the game with a total number of goals greater than three, but less than five. At the end of the game Newtown was victorious 4-1. May the hundred suns of middle-earth shine fondly upon Stuart Lord of Green and Quinnworth the Brave for their steadfast honour and everlasting commitment through our earnest endeavours. Through their relentless devotion, the irrepressible has risen and claimed the chalice of the realms of Munster. Like Aragon, we have regained our honour and with a show of valour extinguished the foul beast, Villiers, and banished them to the shadow realm for all eternity, or at least till next year! Top Goal Scorer Jamie Petch (19) Best Player Sam Butler Most Improved Andrew Davis One for the Future- Mathew Tracey

MuNSTER u-18 HOCkEY

This year Sam Butler and I were chosen to attend trails for the Under 18 Munster Schools Hockey Team. The trial began in the latter half of August and continued until October when the squad was chosen. Sam and I were fortunate enough to be chosen for the squad of 18, following our performance in the trails. We trained with the team in preparation for the Interprovinsional Tournament. The training was a great opportunity to improve our hockey by playing against players of such a high standard. The Tournament took place on November nineteenth to the twenty first at St. Andrews College, Dublin. Unfortunately, despite our victory over Ulster, we finished third due to a weak performance against Leinster (the tournament winners). It must be said though, had it not been for Sam and his goal line saves, these performances could have been far worse. Despite the disappointing result, the weekend proved to be very enjoyable as we both got to play at a high level and witness some great hockey. It was quite an achievement this year to have two Newtown representatives on a Cork dominated Munster Team. The experience means that we are both now known within the hockey circle, which will be a great help next year when trying to make it on to acollege team, be it UCD of Trinity.

Jamie Petch
SENIOR GIRlS HOCkEY 2011/12
The Senior Girls Hockey team, full of enthusiasm and with a spring in their step, started off the season on an optimistic note by overcoming their first challenge, (albeit a friendly match) beating The Ursuline (3-0). Following on, we managed to defeat Kilkenny College in our second warm up game. Unfortunately though, we drew against these teams in our league matches. On the bright, brisk morning of January twenty third the senior girls journeyed to Loreto Kilkenny. Here we stepped onto the playing field to fight for the cup. We were a credit to ourselves that day but alas victory slipped through our fingers in extra time. The girls put in a terrific effort during the game and we came off the pitch disappointed but with our heads held high and our minds now set on our tour to Belfast. Through determination and further hard work we finally got our hands on a cup, bringing back to Newtown the Swain Cup from Friends School Lisburn. It is now standing tall in the trophy cabinet. We would like to say a massive thank you to Mrs. Hughes who has been a great coach all through the years. We would also like to thank Mr. Butler for his help this year. On a personal note I want to express my sincere gratitude to the Senior Girls hockey team who worked so hard all year with their commitment and hard work at all times and in all weathers.

Jamie Petch and Sam Butler

Ruth Harrison - Hockey Captain

Team members: Becky Barr, Beth Rochford, Nichloa Fennel, Abi Wilkinson, Hannah OShea, Olivia Chambers, Ruth Harrison, Anna Hickey, Rosaleen Traynor, Rebecca Hoban, Sarah Murray, Kelsey Cunningham, Ruth Bennett Coady, Emily Hermon, Jess Corrigan, Una Maya Kennedy, Isabella Campion

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Senior Girls Hockey Tour to Belfast

On February the twenty third, the Senior Girls hockey team ventured up North to enjoy a two day hockey tour. We travelled for five hours to reach Lisburn. After a quick pit stop for takeaway we sped up the M1. Our first stop was to the cinema. Some of us opted for the soppier option of The Vow, with the gorgeous Channing Tatum but, the braver girls decided to see Lady in Black. I was not one of them! On Friday morning, we woke up fresh and focused for our match against Friends School. This was a competitive game played for the pride of winning Boomer Memorial Cup. Newtown started slowly, with Friends breaking our line of defence, forcing Becky Barr (our trusty goalie) to save some super shots. Once we found our formation and settled into our usual fast paced play we dominated for most of the match. After some near misses from short corner attempts we went in at half time 0-0. The second half turned out much the same as the first; we dominated play and had some more near misses. Friends also upped the tempo and created many prime chances on which they failed to capitalise. Five minutes before the end of the match we finally scored, courtesy of Rosaleen Traynor. We proudly claimed the Cup. After lunch and a few hours of relaxation we headed to Lisnagarvey Hockey Club to play Wallace High School. For this match we started out looking like we meant business. We went one up early on in the game after Una Maya Kennedy put the ball past the Wallace keeper. However just before half time Wallace equalised with an unstoppable short corner. Unfortunately, after the break, we were beginning to feel fatigued from our earlier victory and Wallace took full advantage of this. The match finished 4-1 in their favour. We departed at five thirty the next morning to get to Wesley College in Dublin for a nine oclock tip-off. This match proved to be our best performance. However, we found it hard to convert our chances into goals. Wesley were also fired up, our back line saved us on numerous occasions. We went in at half time 0-0, after a half of narrow misses. Although feeling physically drained after our two matches and an early start we dominated play in the second half. Wesley however had one chance and took it. We did not let our heads fall and kept fighting until the final whistle. Unfortunately, even after two short corners, before the stroke of full time, we could not capitalise on our chances. We lost 1-0 to Wesley. Our tour finished nicely at Pembrooke Hockey Club where we watched UCD Firsts take on Pembrooke Ladies. It was a fascinating match. We were lucky enough to witness more than one goal being scored. That level of hockey is something which we all aspire to one day! The match finished UCD 3, Pembrooke 2. The Senior Girls Team would like to thanks Ms. Hehir and Ms. Rellis who accompanied us on the trip. We would also like to thank Mr. Butler, who through his commitment to the team and motivational encouragement, made us into the team we are today. The trip is something we will never forget.

By Olivia Chambers
Team: Olivia Chambers, Ruth Harrison, Hannah OShea, Beth Rochford, Anna Hickey, Nicola Fennell, Rebecca Hoben, Rosaleen Traynor, Jessica Corrigan, Emily Hermon, Isabella Campion, Sarah Murray, Una Maya Kennedy, Kelsey Cunningham, Ruth Cusack

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Senior Boys Hockey Tour

This October Newtowns Senior Boys hockey team played Robert Gordons Grammer School from Aberdeen as part of Robert Gordons hockey tour of Munster. Newtown won the game 4-1 with goals from Jamie Petch, Wilko Von Schaeffer and an excellent finish from Alex Hackett. The scoreline did not reflect the game of two evenly matched sides who got on well, both on and off the field. After their experience in Newtown, the Robert Gordons coach invited us to visit them in Aberdeen and to play each other once again. This years squad has been one of the strongest in years so our coaches, Mr Green and Mr Quinn thought that a hockey tour would not only be an excellent opportunity for the squad but also a perfect farewell to the Sixth Formers who make up the majority of the senior team. Through the hard work of both coaches, a trip was organised for the second weekend of the February mid-term to Aberdeen where we would play Robert Gordons, Aberdeen Grammer inn Gordonstown. Our trip began in Dublin Airport. Once we touched down in Aberdeen we were all rearing to go (that is after we waited for Andrew Davis to go back to the plane to get his passport.) We arrived at Robert Gordons to the warmest of welcomes and were shown around Aberdeen by the headboy and headgirl. We found the Granite City not nearly as cold as the name suggests and we all enjoyed our time browsing around the shops of the wonderful city. Our vice-captain, Sam Butler, had brought a present for the headmaster of the school to show the teams appreciation for their hospitality. However, upon opening his bag to take out the present, a bright blue pair of briefs were discovered and displayed on Alan Jephson earning Sam the name Vice-Captain Underpants. After a bit of shopping and a bite to eat we made our way to the hockey pitch for our first match of the tour. Dressed to impress in our new kit, we were eager to play. We started well with our German goal machine Wilko von Schaeffer netting our opening goal within a matter of minutes. Robert Gordons answered quickly equalising the game. Jamie Petch scored a second goal for Newtown but again Robert Gordon fought back leaving the score at 2-2 by half-time. In the second half however, Robert Gordons proved the better side. The journey and the unfamiliar pitch took its toll on us and the game ended 5-2. The score did not reflect the nature of the game but the aggregate score of 6-6, acquired from the first game we played against them in Newtown and this one, showed the closeness in standard between the schools. Sam butler was a dominant force in midfield and Andrew Davis pirouettes up the left hand side were a thing of beauty. After the match we were introduced to our host families. Then we headed back to our respective houses to shower and change for dinner. At dinner the players from both schools met in Pizza Hut. It was nice to mingle and get to know the players off the field. After our very enjoyable meal we all headed to a bowling alley nearby where we had a great time with our hosts. We then headed off for a well-deserved sleep.

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We were, by our host families, to Aberdeen Grammer Schools pitch for our second match of the tour. Despite being tired from the night before we started well and before we knew it we were 3-0 up with goals from Wilko Van Schaeffer and Jamie Petch. In the second half we conceded an unlucky goal but still pushed on. Luke Fitzherbert was unfortunate not to score on a number of occasions. Jamie Petch finally scored Newtowns fourth goal in the last stretch of the game leaving the score at 4-1. The whole team played very well, particularly Ben Doyle in midfield. After an impressive win we embarked on the long bus ride north to Gordonstown. Gordonstown was really in the middle of nowhere; in fact, it is so far from civilisation that it has to have its own fire station. Although Im sure a fire was the least of our worries considering it was snowing on arrival! The sub-zero temperature meant that we were all wrapped up well for our third and final match of the tour. The previous two matches and freezing temperatures took their toll on the team and this was evident by the score of 3-0 midway through the second half. However, a pass from Ben Doyle put Jamie Petch through to send a rocketing shot into the net. This was the kick start that the team needed. In my six years at Newtown I have never seen a Newtown team, in any sport, play with such dedication and conviction as we did towards the end of this match. Within minutes Jamie Petch had scored a second goal from a pass by Sam Butler. It looked as if the Newtown Boys were going to catch up. Unfortunately we were denied our third goal from

the umpires and the match ended 3-2. A bitterly depressing end to a fine game and a fine tour. We spent the night in Gordonstown and despite our fatigue and disappointment, had a great time with the Gordonstowners, their coaches, Mr. Quinn and Mr. Green. The next morning we were up bright and early and after a fantastic breakfast we headed to the airport to fly home. The team would like to thank Mr. Green and Mr. Quinn for all their hard work in organising a fantastic tour which all of us truly enjoyed. I would also like to thank the team for all their work in both training and the tour and it was unfortunate to not have our key defender, Stephen Scallan on the tour due to illness. Although it is difficult to pick out specific names from a team who all played so well, special mention must go to Sliabh Wells, Sam Butler, Ben Doyle, Wilko Van Schaeffer and Andrew Davis who all had an excellent tour.
Tour squad: Sliabh Wells, William Hickey, Andrew Davis, Alex Hackett, Geoff Graham, Alan Jephson, Luke Fitzgerald, Ben Doyle, Sam Butler, Jamie Petch, Wilko von Schaeffer, Barry OSullivan, Raoul OBrien, Max OBrien

Player of the tour: Ben Doyle Goal of the tour: Jamie petchs 1st vs Gordonstown Highpoint of the match: Beating Aberdeen Funniest moment: Vice-Captain Underpants by Jamie Petch

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Under 16 Rugby
This year the U-16 rugby team have had mixed result with strong performance throughout from all. Our first match saw us with a home fixture against New Ross. From the start of the match it was obvious that we were the stronger of the two sides. But at the same time it was good experience for all to start off the rugby season. We won comfortably. The second match was a tougher clash with local rivals De La Sale. We found it difficult to get into the game on the first half. But in the second half we made a tactical substitution by bringing on Hugh O Connor. We ended the match stronger by not conceding a point in the second half. It ended at 0-16 to the visitors. Our next match was against yet another local rival, Waterpark. This was a very physical match with big hits coming from Luis Pettit and Daniel O Driscoll. It ended at 24-20 to Newtown. The next match was a home fixture against an average Midleton team. For some reason things werent going right for us. We all were disappointed in our performance. Our first away match was to Bandon Grammar. This match was one of our closest matches to date. With bad conditions it was a test. From one minute being on their try line to next where we were in our own 22 defending a non stop attack. Overall it was a very good match with a final score of 27-25 to Newtown. Raoul OBrien made some try-saving tackles and Daire McBride scored a drop-goal to seal the deal. The next match was going to be a tricky one. We were to play Abbeyfeale in the A-cup qualifier semi final. This was a tough match and extremely close. But due to lack of communication they got a last minute try to win on a score line of 24-28 to them. Our final match was against a stronger Clements side in the Munster B cup. From the start they looked the stronger and better prepared. Unfortunately we ended our season on a negative. On behalf of the whole team we would like to thank both Mr. Ashmore and Mr. Keappock for there coaching all year

By Luis Pettit
Team panel: Ted Sanders, Jan Kutay, Devon Hartel, Peter Joyce, Conor Kenny, Dylan de la Haye, John Jephson, Hugh O Connor, James Kiersy, Daire McBride, Aaron Voglaer, Daniel O Driscoll, Luis Pettit, Raol O Brien, Ben Doyle, Evan Jacob, Junior Konate, Ben ONeill, Stuart Slevin, Darien Burrell, Harron Jungalwalla, Tom Greene, Micheal Daly.

Orienteering
The 2011-12 season was a most successful one for Newtown. It culminated in the Senior Girls retaining their Irish title and the First Form boys winning the title for the first time. In the lead up to the Irish Championships, held at Woodstock Gardens in County Kilkenny, the Senior Girls was confined to the Fourth and Fifth form pupils with Sinead Doody (46 pts), Gillian Richardson (40), Felicitas Fendel (33), Elena Kutay (31), Cathy McGrory (30), Phoebe Moore (28) and Katie Gurnee (27) contributing to second team place in both the Munster and SE Championships. The Sixth Formers who won the title last year returned for the Irish Champs to win Gold. Congratulations to Andrea Harvey, Anna Hickey, Nichola Fennel and Becky Barr on their success. The Senior boys made steady progress. They won the SE title, finished third in the Munsters but really scored well in the Irish Championships to finish in Silver medal position. Charlie Kelly (50 pts), Geoff Graham (45), Kaine de la Haye (44), Simon Quigley (35), Chris Wienecke (30), Diarmuid Wingfield (28) and Joshua Thiele (27) all from Fifth Form were the biggest contributors to the teams success. The Second and Third Form category has traditionally been our weakest category due to the fact that the events often coincide with Junior Certificate exams. Despite this, both the girls and the boys finished in Bronze medal position at the Irish Championships. For the boys, Jonathan Pim (60 pts) was the biggest single contributor with support from Sean Og Cafferky (43), Cian Hogan (46), Robert Harvey (37), John Jephson (32), Darryl Hemmingway (29), and Ciaran Finnegan (29). Numbers in the girls section were disappointing with the highlight being Holly Moores fifth individual placing in the Munster Championships. Katie Aherne (52), Kate Cafferky (41), Triona Harvey (38), Holly Moore (38), Ciara Doody (34) and Atlanta Doherty Brophy (24) were the only regulars. There was a very pleasing turn out from the First Form girls in, perhaps, the most competitive section of all. Leona Quigley (40) was consistently our top performer with support from Helen Crews (40), Isabel Auld (38), Emily Duffin (37), Anna Kent (35), Camilla Benevides (34), Eimear Kelly (33), Emma Galloway (33), Emma Swift (29), Emma Walsh (24) and Aoife Treacy (20). Pride of place must go to the First Form boys who won the Irish title for the first time. On an individual basis, Robert Pim won all three titles and has been training with the Irish Junior squad. Robert Pim (60 pts), George Maclean (52), Mark Morris (42), David Thorpe (42) and Philip Dwan (32) were the other team members. Thanks you to all the staff that travelled to events and to the school for supporting this worthwhile outdoor activity. Thank you to Transition Year students who helped run the Primary school events.

Andrew Cox (IOA Schools Development Officer)

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Old Scholars Sports Interviews

Jacqui Freyne (nee Stokes)
Who influenced you into athletics? My parents and the fact that the boys next door got to do athletics all the time but us girls in, the convent, did not so I had to join them. What Clan were you in? Yellow, of course! What advice would you give to a sports person in Newtown? Make the best of all the opportunities that Newtown provides and encourages. Things are not as easy when you leave. If you could meet any person, living or dead, who would it be and what would you ask them? Usain Bolt: What is the secret to your success? What is your favourite memory from Newtown? It would have to be the away trips you got to go on for sports, the laughs we had What is the best thing since sliced bread? My I-Phone What has been your biggest achievement? Sporting wise, there have been many National, International and European wins. Going on a double athletics and hockey scholarship to the US was an achievement also. I have recently recovered from a broken back and am back playing hockey and competing on horses. When I was in a body brace, I had my doubts that I would be able to do that again. If you could be a super-hero, who would you be and why? I would be Spiderwoman. That way I could fly, I hate wasting time in traffic. I hear that you came back to teach at Newtown, was that a weird experience? Definitely, at first, but then I really enjoyed it. What is your biggest fear? Failure

Christopher Pim
Who influenced you into Rugby? My Dad because he played the game and every little boy wants to be like their Daddy. What advice would you give to a sports person in Newtown? Set your goals high but if you do not achieve them, make sure that you enjoy trying. If you could meet any person, living or dead, who would it be and what would you ask them? Bertie Aherne, What were you thinking? What is your favourite memory from Newtown? The end of term supper dances.

What is the best thing since sliced bread? SKY + What has been your biggest achievement? Meeting and marrying my wife, Louise. Sporting wise it would have to be getting selected for a star studded Barbarians side (star studded except for me that is!) If you could be a super-hero, who would you be and why? Sean OBrien, the Irish No. 7 Who is your favourite leinster rugby player? That I played with, Mal OKelly or Denis Hickey. On the team now, Brian ODriscoll What is your biggest fear? I dont do fear

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The Irish Water Safety Swim and Lifesaving Club @ Newtown

The Irish Water Safety Motto: Every Person a Swimmer and Every Swimmer a Lifesaver. The lifesaving group 2011-2012 has had a great year of successes. We have all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and our skills and fitness levels have greatly improved as a result of our training. Unfortunately, the pool was closed for a while due to a leak and our training was slightly disrupted. Thankfully, Ms. Coady kindly brought us to a local pool during this period so that we could maintain our fitness levels. We would have been in deep water if she hadnt thought of this! The team is delighted to have passed our Rescue 3 exam and our Basic Life Support exam, a goal we have been striving towards this year. Our awards cover personal safety, rescues and contact rescues, injuries, endurance swimming, survival techniques, knowledge of anatomy, rescue breathing, cardio pulmonary resuscitation and more. Life saving has been great fun and a very rewarding sport to be involved in at school. We all hope to continue in the lifesaving group next year and see others join us. We wish all the best to our two Sixth Formers, Caroline Fitzgerald and Thea Johnson, who are leaving the group. Both have been great additions to the group and we will miss them next year. Well done also to the junior swim and lifesaving groups. We wish them continued success next year. We would like to thank Ms. Coady who has been a fantastic coach throughout our lifesaving careers and to thank her for sticking with us for the best part of three years. Her encouragement and energy has really kept us afloat during the challenges weve encountered during the years (especially when doing continuous laps of the pool!).
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All of our examinations have been examined by Mr. Sonny Condon since we began lifesaving in Newtown and we would like to thank him for his encouragement, stories and wise words. Mr. Sonny Condon Chairman of the Waterford Area Water Safety
Mr. Sonny Condon

Sonny Says: I enjoyed going to Newtown to assess the students. They made my work easy. There were never any corrections to be made as they are so well taught by their instructor. I was always made to feel most welcome. Congratulations to all on their achievements this year. Members pictured L-R: Cathy McGrory, Caroline Fitzgerald, Thea Johnson, Phoebe Moore, Hannah Murray and Jane Murray.

Coach: Ms. Coady Remember: 112 is the International Emergency Number within the EU

By Jane Murray and Cathy McGrory

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Congratulations to all on successes throughout the year and very best wishes for events in the future, Ms Coady.

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Front Row L - R: James OHalloran, Jessica Molloy, Camilla Driver, Abi Hurley Collins, Finn Troy, Robyn Mockler, Heidi McIlvenny, Sarah Galloway, Niall McEvoy, Naomi Warren, Fiona Carty, Erica Gurnee, Siobhn Glasheen. 2nd Row L - R: Ben Turner, Octavian Fitzherbert, Hannah Cantopher, Sena ONeill, Alice Bowring, Laura Power, Yuki Omi, Rachel Morris, Brenna Traynor, Joe Dixon, Ross Huet. 3rd Row L - R: Robert Galvin, Georgina Stapleton, Adam Torrie, Ben Cross, William OMorchoe, Charlotte McCormack, Simon Major, Hannah Hermon, Glenn Ruane, Brd McNamara, Aifric Heffernan, Andrea Hemingway, Alex Murray, John Boyd Back Row L - R: Kaija Kennedy, Christopher Falkenthal, Daniel Moloney, Kyran Wallace, Clive Kennington, Paul Porter, Olly Jay, Loic Jacob, Ruadhan Treacy, NIall Walsh, Theo Marden-Wasteneys, Daniel Bailey, Harrison Sharpe, Stephen Ennis, Briony Sommers.

6th Year 2011 - where are they now?

For those not listed below we apologise as the review team had great difficulty in trying to locate everyone and getting the correct information. Unless the information was directly from the scholar in question we would not use it. We hope we have not offended anyone by not including them and if you would like to be included in next years edition please email sinead.maher@newtownschool.ie luke Bailey Bar Management and Entrepreneurship Studies in D.I.T Rachel Morris Multi Media Journalism at the Centre for Media Excellence, Bournemouth University James OHalloran Music in W.I.T and gigging in Waterford and Dublin Daniel Bailey Having the craic Hannah Cantopher Biological Sciences with Biomedicine at Lancaster University Georgina Stapleton Film and Broadcasting with Irish in D.I.T Sena ONeill Working in Social Care (working with people with Aspergers Syndrome) at Nua Healthcare Aifric Heffernan Pharmacy in the Royal College of Surgeons Heidi McIlvenny Aquatic Biology in University of London Ruadhan Treacy Business and Japanese at University of Lancaster
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laura Power Music in U.C.C Glenn Ruane History and Economics in U.C.D Niall Walsh - Food Science in U.C.C Charlotte McCormack Business and Spanish in Trinity Fiona Carty Equine Studies in Aberystwyth, Wales Camilla Driver Business Economic Social Studies (BESS) with Spanish in Trinity Hannah Herman Veterinarian Nursing in the Applied Sciences Department, Dundalk IT Alice Bowring Certified Beauty and Body Therapist and going on to do a course in Theatrical and Media Make Up Erica Gurnee TSM History of Art and Architecture with Classical Civilisation at Trinity

Ross Huet Multimedia Application Development in W.I.T Stephen Ennis Engineering in Trinity, Also outside of school hockey, jui jitsu and going to the rifle range Jess Molloy Retail Management and Marketing in D.I.T Briony Sommers History and Politics in Trinity Alex Murray History of Art and Architecture in Trinity Niall McEvoy Business Economic Social Studies (BESS) loic Jacob Marine Engineering at Newcastle University kyran Wallace TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Christopher Falkenthal Human Health and Diseases in Trinity Yuki Omi Veterinary Medicine and Science at the University of Nottingham
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PRESIDENTS REPORT - OLD SCHOLARS

The annual review is a way for past pupils to stay in touch - and is a valuable connection between the Newtown of today, and of yesteryear.

reetings to all the Old Scholars who are reading this years Newtown Review. I hope that the pages that have proceeded this one will give you a good sense of whats happening amongst a vibrant school community, and the pages that follow will bring you a little bit up to date on what is happening amongst Old Scholars.

n New Old Scholars Association President Keith Cooke (right) accepts the It is a challenge to raise the funds that are necessary chain of office from his predecessor Nicky Johnson at last years AGM. to produce and mail-out this publication to you all every year, so we are extremely grateful to our advertisers, and to all who support the Old Scholars Association in and sons of people I was at school with - Johnsons, many different ways. Without your backing we could not Jephsons, Jameses, Davises, Pims, Crottys, Vogelaar exist. and OBiernes amongst them. It is nice to see the As I write this I find it difficult to believe that it is nearly generations follow each other; this has always been a 30 years since my own school years (29 to be precise). strong feature of the school. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since those It is fitting that I should take this opportunity to appeal teenage years however. to old scholars to consider For a quarter century I getting involved, both in our OS have served as a member Association, and/or in one of the of the Irish Army. Although many voluntary committees and Newtown, with its Quaker sub-committees whose behind the ethos of pacifism may not scenes work is vital to ensuring that have provided the most our school continues to flourish and natural preparations for a develop in the years to come. career in the military, I do Finally, I hope that you can find the believe that the role that I time to make it along to this years Annual General Meetplayed with UN global peace-keeping missions was in ing - which will take place prior to the reunion dinner, some way instructed by my schooling in Waterford. in the Study Hall at 5pm on Saturday, 29th September With the United Nations I have spent several years, next. on four separate tours of duty in Lebanon, while I also Again, do enjoy the read - and do stay in touch. With worked in Liberia for six months, as that country sought best wishes, to rebuild and recover following its bitter civil war. Keith Cooke, More than most schools Newtown School is a President community - and if evidence of this is needed I think Old Scholars Association it can be seen in the fact that several children who

It is nice to see the generations follow each other; this has always been a strong feature of the school

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O.S. INTERVIEW- ALAN & NIGEL PIM

Father and son backing organ donor drive

If Im travelling to Dublin on the train I will have cards with me. I dont force them on people of course, but I am more than happy to tell my story. If it inspires even a single person to carry a card it will have been worth it, says the 73 year old retired teacher and sports instructor, whose own life has been changed utterly by the kidney transplant operation he underwent at Dublins Beaumont Hospital in Spring of last year. The decision to donate an organ to his ailing father has brought dramatic change to his 40-year-old son Nigel also, as the IT company director recounts how he shed an incredible 20 kilos in a mere six-weeks to meet the weight requirement to be accepted to undergo the procedure. Fresh from completing his first ever marathon run when he spoke to Newtown Review, Nigel says that beforehand even a one-mile run would have been unthinkable for him. I was extremely overweight and took very little exercise. When this situation arose I had to have a complete rethink about what I was doing, and it has been of huge benefit to me. The account of how Alan Pim received a kidney transplant from his son was the subject of a fly on the wall documentary for RTE televisions Health of the Nation series last year too, and from the outset the

lan Pim confides that he rarely travels far without a number of donor cards in his pocket.

n Nigel and Alan Pim pictured following a Waterford Kidney Association event earlier this year.
former Newtown schoolmaster has been a committed and articulate advocate for organ donation. The idea for the documentary came from Nigels wife Jeni, but it was quickly embraced by both men as they set out on a road that both of them recognized from the

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outset was not without its risks. We were very worried of course, says Nigel, but my fathers health had started to deteriorate rapidly, and once I had undergone the necessary compatibility tests and was deemed a donor match, we just went with it, he recalls. any time. This was comforting up to a point, considering there was a chance that one or both of us might not survive, but my entire family was supportive, and although they were worried too, they also supported me in my decision, he adds. Alan Pim, who taught at Newtown for 31 years until his retirement in 1999 says that the path that ultimately took him to the surgeons table and a transplant kidney first arose during his final years as a teacher and swimming instructor at Newtown. I started to develop problems with my waterworks, was continually beset by urinary tract infections, and as the years passed I developed real problems going to the toilet. Because of this my kidneys were under enormous strain. By late 2009 the situation had deteriorated to such an extent that dialysis was necessary, and Alan recalls attending three times weekly for three hour sessions in the renal unit at Waterford Regional Hospital. It was a difficult time, and despite receiving treatment my condition continued to deteriorate - and a transplant became a matter of necessity. In Spring of last year the fateful date arrived for the transplant operation to take place, and although Nigel admits that he was relieved that months of tests, analysis, weighing, counseling and waiting were coming to an end, he admits candidly that he was terrified to at the prospect that awaited him. Former Dublin football star and ex-Waterpark RFC player Dr. David Hickey, the countrys top kidney specialist carried out the transplant proceedures with his team at Beaumont Hospital, and incredibly, within days both father and son were on the road to recovery. When I woke up after the operation the first thing that I wanted to do was get out of bed and see how Nigel was doing, recalls Alan. Within a day or two I was on my feet, and although things took a bit longer for Nigel, it was great to see him, and know that everything was okay. Getting an organ removed is far harder than getting

n Alan Pim pictured in the classroom at Newtown. In the foreground is David Sexton.
As well as embarking almost immediately on an intensive exercise and weight loss programme, Nigel recalls that he also underwent valuable counseling to ensure that he was psychologically prepared for the organ removal that would follow.

Although many people are born and live full and active lives with just a single kidney, many unaware of the fact, an organ removal is something that you dont commit to lightly - you have to be prepared mentally as well.

Although many people are born and live full and active lives with just a single kidney - an organ removal is something you must be well prepared for mentally too.

At every opportunity they made sure that I hadnt been coerced into giving, and told me that I could pull out at
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them both father and son profess to feeling better than they have done for years - albeit for different reasons. I am still susceptible to infections to have to be a bit careful, but other than that I am feeling fantastic, says Alan, while Nigel admits that the running bug has truly bitten him, and he enjoys exercise now more than he has done since his days as a schoolboy athlete. They are both happy to speak now about their experience too, and are active supporters of Waterford Kidney Association, and advocates for organ donation. We know at first hand how important the decision to carry a donor card can be- and we want to play our part in supporting it, Alan Pim says. Visit Irish Kidney Association at: www. ika.ie to find out more.

n Alan Pim at the top of Carrauntohill in 1992. Picture taken by Weston Allen.
one implanted, and Nigel did experience very considerable pain on the road to recovery, his proud father adds. Within the week both father and son were out of bed and on the mend however, pacing up and down

If our story inspires a single person to carry a donor card, it will have been worthwhile telling it.
the corridors at Beaumont, and up and down the hospitals four flights of stairs as they worked to build their strength up again. Dad was in much better shape than I was. He was beating me on the way up every time - it was great to see, and I was just so pleased that it had gone so well, Nigel recalls. With the operation now more than a year behind
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O.S. PAY TRIBUTE TO ROGER GARBETT

Tributes paid to an inspirational art master

nspirational, wonderful, caring, brilliant - just some of the words used by Newtown Old Scholars in personal tributes that were paid following the untimely death of the schools larger than life Art teacher, Roger Garbett, this Spring.

The affable Welshman, with his dry wit and keen eye was an important

Roger Garbett (right) is pictured with Amanda Jolly, June Ross and Debbie Hainbach in the artroom at Newtown - circa 1988. figure in the lives of many students who studied art at Newtown from the mid-70s until his retirement, and there are many who owe their successful art careers to the start that Roger Garbett gave them in the schools Arts Block during those school years.

His presence is still an important part of my memories growing up at Newtown

Welsh spirit, and said that his presence is still an important part of my memories of growing up in Newtown. Potter Mandy Parslow, who spoke at Roger Garbetts funeral described his art classes as colourful and never predictable, and said that the art room was a space where enthusiastic conversation was encouraged, and varying points of view were teased out.

Although I have not had contact with Roger since I left Newtown, I often think of him, wrote one former student in a message left on The Irish Times website, while another n Sima Rouholamins City of Madness. Sima attended Newtown talked of his wisdom and independent 1990-1996.
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She recounts tht following her years at Newtown she remained in contact with her former art teacher, and says that he remained always supportive, challenging and brutally honest; both towards work and life. Roger approached his own painting with integrity and thoroughness and expected the same level of commitment from those he respected.

The Roger Garbett era has produced its share of notable Irish artists too - painters such as John Hearne, Annabel Konig, Caroline Canning, Margaret Elmes, Dorian Van Braam and Andrea Jameson are but a handful of the great many who came through his classes, while figures like Sacha Whelan and Mandy Parslow are amongst many craftspeople who found their artistic expression while at Newtown. Art is always one of those subjects that can take people beyond the mere exercise of learning, and the personal growth and development of young adults that went on in the art room was clearly recognised by Roger Garbett as the tributes paid to him attest. Several past pupil tributes spoke warmly of a figure who was funny, kind and caring, elsewhere as a dear friend, and perhaps most succinctly by another, as a unique person who has had such a positive impact on so many lives.

A unique person who had such a positive impact on so many lives

Newtown School has produced its share of artists down the years, and the community of Irish artists features a procession of past pupils who came through as significant voices in their chosen artistic field.

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n SENIOR GIRLS CRICKET TEAM, 1987 - Back - Sheena Bailey, Jacqui Stokes, Gail Johnson, Phillipa Morck and Brendan Lawlor. Front: Alison Barden, Alannah OBierne, Sheena Leslie, Belinda Walshe and Sue Furlong.

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his year was the eighth year of the Old Scholars Pupils fund, and 1,750 was donated to five different projects during the school year.

The fund again supported Newtown to participate in the Model United Nations project, which provides a valuable experience for students who get involved. Photography Competition (100) A new competition which we had hoped would begin earlier in the funds life, we were delighted to lend backing to budding photographers at the school by supporting this competition. The Eric deCourcy Fund 200 was awarded under this fund to each of three pupils who were selected to represent Newtown at the Irish Youth Choir in Dublin back in 2011. No award was made in 2011, but the OS Association, school music department, in collaboration with the DeCourcy family are putting into place a strong and effective mechanism which will allow the fund to become a valuable mecanism to support music at the school - as was the wish of the late Eric deCourcy. Additional contributions from old scholars to this fund are welcome, and can be made to OSA treasurer Jonathan Fletcher, C/O Loughdeheen, Kilmeaden, Co. Waterford. Tel. 087.6476416,
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The Old Scholars Association regards the fund as a worthwhile and valuable means for past pupils to support various activities that students are involved with during their time at Newtown. This year the fund lent support to the following: School Poetry and Short Story Competition (200) We continued with funding the prize money for this competition as there is a great interest and a high level of participation in the event, each year. Sports Award (50) An award was made to hockey player Sam Butler, who was selected to play on the Munster U-18 hockey team. Choir Trip (1,000) The NMFOSA Fund contributed to the cost of Newtowns Choir travelling to England, where they took part in a number of performances. Model United Nations (400)

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Newtown Mountmellick and Foy Old Scholars Association. Held at Newtown School, Waterford on Saturday, 25th September, 2011

Minutes of Annual General Meeting

Present: Nicky Johnson, Bob Burns, Leslie Bowers, Richard De Courcy, Heather ONeill, Andre Thompson, Ken Murphy, Ruth Coad, Keith Cooke, Peter Pearce, Charles B Lamb, Alan Harrison, Charles Merdith, Ken Jackson, Lynda Jacob, Sandra Hatten, Rita Wiser, Debbie Bailey, Clare Miles, Lorraine Rosler, Joan Johnson, Roger Johnson, Cedric Bailey, Marina Harris, Jan Ann Merbe Maguire, Oriel Woodbyrne and Jonathon Fletcher. Apologies: Derek Dunne, David Harrison, Lorna & Keith Lemon, John Gardner and George Jacob. 1. Minutes The minutes of the previous meeting were read, passed and signed by the president. 2.Treasurers report. Jonathon Fletcher read his report for the year 2010. 3. New officers and committee The following officers were proposed by Debbie Bailey and seconded by Bob Burns for the year Sept 2010 to Sept 2011: President Vice-President Hon Treasurer Hon Secretary Hon Auditor Editor Keith Cooke David Harrison Jonathan Fletcher Oriel Woodbyrne Brian Little George Jacob

story competition. We also gave money towards a Munster Kit, the school chamber choir uk trip and a school photo competition. There was no change in our share portfolio. The last of the contribution towards the pond 6,000 has been paid to the school. Other monies went on the Newtown Review postage bills, while the review was a great quality the cost for postage to the old scholars soared this year because of the weight of the review. The total cost was 4,600 because the normal postage jumped from 1.90 to 3.00 per copy in Ireland and the rest of the world jumped to 10.50 per copy. So next year a subcommittee will be set up to deal with this and make sure it doesnt happen again as we simply cant afford it. 5. Facebook Our facebook page continues to gather fans and it is a good way of keeping in touch with the school. This year Facebook are planning on changing the system they use and our page will change, in order to keep it we need activity on the page, so get all your friends to join in please. 6. A.O.B. Last year Joan Johnson asked the committee for their help in updating the valuable archives for the schools name register, this was brought to the committee and was passed as a great idea and work will begin on it in the New Year. Nicky Johnson thanked all who had helped him as OS President through the year, and he looks forward to another great year for the Association. The handover of the chain of office to incoming President, Keith Cooke took place. There being no further business, the meeting closed. Newtown Review Old Scholars section edited by George Jacob.

The following committee members were proposed and seconded for the year from Sept 2011 to Sept 2012: Sara Lee OBrien, Peter Pearce and Bob Burns. People retiring from the committee this September are April Rellis and Ruth Coad. A huge thank you for all their work over the past few years. 4. The Year ahead The pupils fund has given money this year to several different projects, the school poetry and short
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Accounts for the year ended 31st December 2011

Newtown Mountmellick and Foy Old Scholars Association
Current Assets

Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended 31st December 2010
INCOME (All figures in ) 2011 2010
2,103 0 1,900 122 1,034 -------5,159 ==== 1,993 1 2,400 0 960 ------5,353 ====

2011
3,806 2,218 7,928 42,012 0 --------55,964 50 --------

2010
3,819 1,595 11,431 42,012 39 --------58,896 92 ---------

Stock Debtors B of I (Current Account) P TSB (Eric de Courcy) Cash on hands

Income from Investments Interest Receivable Advertising Revenue Profit (Loss) on sale of Ties Profit on annual reunion

Current Liabilities
Creditors Net Current Assets

EXPENDITURE

Activities/Awards Hope Foundation trip Interpro hockey contribution Poetry & Short Story Competition Choir Trip Model UN Mini company Film Dracula Photography Competition Printing and stationary Postage Bank interest and charges Sundry

Surplus (Deficit) for year on normal activities New School Pond Old Scholars Garden Surplus (Deficit) for year

400 50 200 1,000 400 0 100 ------2,150 1,221 4,809 32 33 ------8,245 ==== -3,086 6,000 -------9,086 ====

250 280 ------530 1,550 2,984 47 174 ------5,285 ==== 68 ------68 ====

Financed by Capital Account Balance at 1st Jan 2011 Deficit for year ended 31st December 2011 Loss on Investments

55,914 ______ 227,852 ======

58,804 ______ 251,911 ======

128,449 -9,086 -21,168

128,381 68 0

98,195

128,449

Life Membership Account Balance at 1st Jan 2010 80,870 Subs received during year 3,440 Eric de Courcy Fund Balance at 1st Jan 2011 Donations & Interest received during the year Student Music Grants

84,310

78,070 2,400

80,870

42,591 2,756 --------45,347 0 ---------

42,279 913 --------43,192 600 45,347 ----------------227,852 =====

42,592 -------251,911 =====

On behalf of the Committee: Jonathan Fletcher, Hon Treasurer

Balance sheet as at 31st December 2011

Investments (Note 1)

2011

2010

Note 1 to the Account Investments at 31/12/10 Bank of Ireland 5,480 Allied Irish Bank 4,139 Anglo Irish Bank Corp plc 4,000 Irish Life & Permanent plc 1,947 7.5% AIB Perpetual Floating 30,000 Grafton Group 2,540 Aviva 2,700 Greencore Group Ord E on Ag Npv 7,950 470

Sold during year

-30,000

31/12/11 5,480 4,139 4,000 1,947 0 2,540 2,700 7,950 470

Balance at 1st January 2010 190,932 Sales during the year -3,200 Losses transferred to capital account -21,168 ---------166,463 Lapsed proceeds B of I rights issue -3 Lapsed proceeds Greencore R.I. -785 ---------165,675 Goodbody Dealing Account 6,263 ---------- 171,938

192,463 ---------192,463 -1,632 ---------190,832 2,275 -------- 193,107

Market Value on 31\12\11 was 29,343 euro (31\12\10 51,889)Note. Market value of Anglo Irish Shares is zero. They cost 1,443. On behalf of the Committee: Jonathan Fletcher, Hon Treasurer

Auditors Report I have audited the financial statements and received all the information I found necessary. In my opinion the financial statements give a true and fair view of the associations affairs as at 31rst December 2011 and of its results for the year then ended.

Brian S. W. Little F.C.A., Hon Auditor. 5th May 2012

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The Annual Newtown Mountmellick & Foy

Old Scholars Reunion Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th September 2012
All Old Scholars welcome Programme of Events Saturday 29th September
All Afternoon Archival Photo Display & Tea/Coffee in Legoland 3pm Hockey Old Scholars v School Players of all ages and levels welcome. 5pm AGM of Newtown, Mountmellick & Foy Old Scholars Association. To take place in the Study Hall (old Lecture Room). 7.30pm for 8pm REUNION DINNER: Woodlands Hotel Ph: 051 304574 Tickets available through Class Organizer. Must be booked and paid for in advance.

Sunday 30th September

11am 12pm 1.30pm Archival Photo Display & Tea/Coffee in Legoland Tree Planting and Group Photos in the Old Scholars garden in school Lunch in School Available from Class Organiser. Must be booked and paid for in advance.

Those who are attending with Class year groups must book Dinner and Lunch with your class coordinator (Below). All others please book with Jonathan Fletcher (Tel) 087 6476416, (Email) jonfletch@eircom.net

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From the Archives

1987

n AMBUSHED - Henry Collins in the Ball Alley,

n NEWTOWN SENIOR GIRLS CRICKET TEAM - Circa 1932-3.

NEWTOWN TEACHERS, CIRCA 1978. From left are Tim Macey, Lesley Matson, FEF Foster, William Glynn and Maurice Wigham.

nGIRLS DORM AT NO. 55, 1987 - Frances Meade, Sheena Bailey, Fiona Jeffares, Vicky Ashmore and Georgina Johnston.

Maura Flahive, Deirdre Pim, Nigel Pim, Andrew Pim, Wendy Collier and Chris Pim - 1981.

n SWIMMING CHAMPIONS - Craig Johnson, Gail Johnson,

n SENIOR ATHLETICS 1981 - Back: Tim Macey, Charlotte Musgrave, Alan Hayden, Nick Popplewell, Ivan Harris, Philip Grant, Sheelyn Browne. Front: Ruth Pim, Ben Johnson, Sue Pope, Stephen Walker, Oonagh Coassidy, Dougie Kidd, Lyndsey Dunlop. Seated - Jacqui Stokes, Alan Dier.

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Reunion 2011

Old Scholars reunion gallery

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: 1. Hockey reunion - The Old Scholars and School X1 teams who played last years reunion weekend match. 3. Class of 1961, tree planting: Back: Charles Lamb and Allan McConnell. Front Row: Daphne Jeffers, Elizabeth Appleby (nee Kingston), Sue Pim, and Leslie Howard. 2. Class of 2001 - Back: Finton Purcell, Sara lee OBrien, Leo Even, Ciri ONeill, Karen OSullivan, Rory Fearon, Amy McLoughlin, Pat Quinn. Front: Gemma Coffey, Anarosa De Etzaguirre Butler, Paul Brazil, Roisin Burner, Davidde Dore, Sarah Blanc, Aaron Zaska. 4. Class of 1976 - Back : Geraldine Franklin (nee Pleass), Lynda Jacob, Sandra Hatton, Debbie Bailey, Laura Cuddihy (nee Leigh Doyle). Front: Graham Boyd, Robert Graham, Mark Flood.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: 1. Class of 1986 - Back: Colin Campbell, Willie Power, Barry Coad, Orm Kenny, Thomas Gergory Fewer, Tommy James, Norman Clancy, Philippa Morck, Harvey Porter. Middle: Christopher McKevitt, Karan Casey, Siobhan Klann, Stuart Purcell, Adam Johnson, Paul Crotty, Eoghan Kavanagh, Des Jeffares, Jenny Pim, John Moore, Edel Murphy, Melanie Johnson, John Tierney, Paddy Ormond. Front: Joanna Hill, Moira Flahive, Gerald Taylor, Brian Hayden, Sarah Manahan, Ruth Coad, Niamh Laverty, Yvonne Treacy.

2. Class of 1951 - Back: Jono Pim, Cedric Bailey, Chas Meredith, William Bell. Front: Jill Bailey (nee Barrett), Eveline St Leger (nee Barrett), Daphne Dukes (nee Tyrrell), Sylvia Torrie (nee Buchanan). 3. Old Scholars hockey team who played the school X1 in the reunion weekend match. 4. Old Scholars Reunion - group photograph. 5. Class of 1996 - Back: Will Devine, Susan Anderson , Barbara Johnson, Seb Orr, Bairbre Ryan, Scott Wade.Front : Cait Kinsella, Ruairi Hughes, Jill 97 Newtown Review 2012 - NMFOSA Section Blanc Mcdermott, Hilary Johnson.

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Old Scholars reunion gallery

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: 1. Class of 1981 - Back: Francis Jeffcock, Nicky Johnson, Roy Power, Andre Passberger, Alan Hayden, Paul Kenny, Mary Lou Fagan (nee Fitzgerald). Front: Caroline Canning, Camilla Jeffcock, Sue Nicholson (nee Pope), Ruth Hoban (nee Pim), Alex ONeill (nee Reynolds), Jane Enticknap, Gillian Boyd, Sarah McKenzie (nee Pearson), Charlotte Hanley (nee Musgrave), Lindsey Faber (nee Dunlop). 2. Class of 1971 - Back : Gareth Lamb, Elaine Lamb (nee Burke), Jameina Scarisbrick (nee Reid), Lorraine Rosler (nee Collier), Rosemary OMara (nee Magill), Valerie Duncan (nee Parkhill), Sarah Filhol (nee Casler), Sheelagh Rooney (nee Minchin-Clarke). Front: Claire Miles (nee Boyd), Tennyson Boyle, Hugh Lilburn, Ken Jackson, Peter Hanna, Christian Schaffalitzky. 4. Class of 1986, tree planting - Ruth Coad, Siobhan Klann, Edel Murphy. Front: Philippa Morck, Jenny Pim, Yvonne Treacy.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: 1. Class of 2001, tree planting - Roisin Allen, Karen OSullivan, Amy McLoughlin, Sarah Blanc. 2. Class of 1971 - Back: Ken Jackson, Christian Schaffalitzky, Peter Hanna. Front: Lorraine Rosler (nee Collier), Sheelagh Rooney (nee Minchin-Clarke), Claire Miles (nee Boyd), Rosemary OMara (nee Magill). 3.Hockey action - Headmaster Keith Lemon and Rachel Guest do battle in the Old Scholars Vs School match over the reunion weekend. 4.Class of 1981, tree planting - Caroline Canning, Nicky Johnson, Mary Lou Fagan, (nee Fitzgerald), Sarah McKenzie (nee Pearson). Front: Charlotte Hanley (nee Musgrave), Lindsey Faber (nee Dunlop), Alex ONeill (nee Reynolds), Ruth Hoban (nee Pim), Sue Nicholson (nee Pope). 5. Class of 1991, tree planting - Back: Fergus Lusby, Luke Ashmore, Paul Ashmore, Rebecca Hadden (nee Allen), Sarah White (nee Tierney) Zoe Dineen, Nick Henihan. Front row: Billy James, Colin Flahive, Tara ODonoghue (nee LLoyd), Lisa Fitzgerald, Shirley Trimble (nee Johnson), Rachel Guest (nee Fletcher).

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Obituaries
PADDY JOLLEY (1964-2012)
Drowning Room, made with frequent collaborator Reynold Reynolds, disconcertingly locates scenes from everyday life in an underwater room. It picked up an honourable mention at the Sundance Film Festival and a best experimental film award in Houston. In Burn, an interior with two figures is progressively engulfed by flames while the hapless protagonists carry on as if nothing unusual is happening. and dystopian urban settings feature large in his films. While gravitating towards northern climes notably Murmansk he was also drawn to the warmth and light of India. Those who knew him often contrasted his brightness of personality and the darkness of his work. Set in an abandoned Ballymun tower block, HereAfter, made with Rebecca Trost and animator Lise Inger Hansen in 2004, imagines the discarded furniture and fittings of the flats coming to life. More recently, The Door Ajar, an 84-minute feature documentary Jolley noted that he did not make documentaries, though acknowledged that the film is factually based premiered at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival last year. It is based on French writer Antonin Artauds visit to Ireland in 1937, during which he claimed to be carrying St Patricks staff with plans to return it. Paddy Jolley suffered a fatal heart attack while filming in New Delhi, experimenting with time-lapse exposures for a project relating to Finnegans Wake , a book he believed ideally suited him as it is made up of a prolonged sequence of words as images. He was married briefly to the artist Clea van der Grijn. He is survived by his partner Lu Thornely, their sons Edmund (Ned) and Thomas, his mother Dorothy, his sisters Clare and Kerry, his brother Chris and their families. A version of this obituary appeared in The Irish Times first

nown for his dark, visually powerful films, Paddy Jolley died suddenly in Delhi, India, aged 47 in January of this year.

His work, which ranged across photography, video, sculptural installation and fine art film, won considerable critical acclaim and several awards. Underlying all he did was a strong, distinctive personal vision, in which elements of the disturbing, the violent and the uncanny are tinged with absurdity and black humour. Within the space of a single photographic image or a five-minute film, he had the ability to conjure up an entire inner, subjective world, a world the writer Belinda McKeon described as deeply unsettling yet never entirely unfamiliar. He was born in Bangor, Co Down, one of four children. The family moved to Waterford when he was in his teens, and he attended Newtown. He studied fine art print at the NCAD in Dublin, graduating in 1989. He travelled and worked in North America, stayed for a time in London and, in 1991, moved to Prague, where he began to concentrate on photography. He completed an MA in photography at New York School of Fine Arts in 1995. From that point on, he worked constantly on a succession of projects, both short and long-term, and was often on the move. He travelled light and had friends everywhere.
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His sister Kerry points out that both their parents had prolonged experience of the second World War (their father Edmund served with the British army, and their mother Dorothy was a nurse, spending time in North Africa and Europe), and spoke about it often. He was also growing up in Northern Ireland as the Troubles entered a bloody phase. In his films, he resisted conventional narrative structure, preferring oblique, fragmentary sequences and striking vignettes in which isolated figures are entrapped in nightmarish predicaments. Significant landmarks include his 1996 photographic show Satellite at the Gallery of Photography, Dublin, His 2000 film,

Location was central to his creativity,

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Obituaries
DOROTHY (DORRIE) DONALDSON (1915-2011)
Returning to Ireland in 1938, she regained her position on the Munster Senior team, and also captained the South East Team in 1939. In 1941 Dorrie married Basil Donaldson, a banker, who was also a keen sportsman. They moved to Dublin where she joined the Pembroke Wanderers Club. She received full international honours in 1941 and continued to play for Ireland until 1947, with the exception of the 1942 season, when her first son was born. After the birth of her second son, in 1948, Dorrie retired from representative and won the mixed doubles again in 1934, this time partnered by Fred South. Over the following 15 years Dorrie concentrated on hockey, however, when she returned to competitive badminton in 1949 she won the Irish womens singles championship and mixed doubles championship. She was selected for the Irish international team to play against Scotland that year and held her place until 1957. Throughout this period she played competitively for the Ailesbury Badminton Club, who subsequently awarded her honorary life member. Dorries prowess as a sportswoman also included golf. In 1936, she was a member of the Waterford team. She took up golf again in the late 1950s, joining Grange GC, Dublin and in a relatively short time had a single figure handicap. Ever the keen competitor, she was soon a member of the Grange team, playing in the Irish Womens Senior Cup. Dorrie was involved in many memorable matches for Grange and won a plethora of club competitions. A memory she cherished was winning the Grange Golf Club Presidents Prize in June 1993 at the age of 78, with a net score of 67. She was very proud when, in 1997, Grange elected her an honorary associate member. She continued to play until 1999 when Basil became ill and she devoted herself to caring for him at home. With Dorrie Donaldsons death Ireland has lost a naturally gifted sportswoman who had an indomitable spirit and was a fierce competitor. She is survived by two sons, four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. A version of this obituary first appeared in The Irish Times
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uring the 1950s Dorothy (Dorrie) Donaldson was described by The Irish Times as among the best and most versatile of contemporary Irish sportswomen.

At that time she had announced her retirement from international badminton, having previously retired from international hockey. Born in Waterford in 1915, as Dorothy Cunningham Brown, her precocious sporting ability became evident as a pupil at Newtown School. She excelled at hockey, badminton, swimming and gymnastics. Her representative career in hockey began in 1928 when she was chosen to play in goal for the Munster Junior team. Two years later she joined the Munster Seniors and kept her position on that side for the seven years. In 1936 she went to Scarborough College, Yorkshire to study Physical Education (PE), following which she was employed as PE instructor at Oaklands Girls School, Yorkshire. She joined the local hockey club, was selected for the womens first team, and played for the Yorkshire County Womens team against Lancashire. She was outstanding in that game and impressed the English selectors so much that they invited her to take part in trials for the English Womens hockey team- being an Irish citizen, she had to decline.

A naturally gifted sportswoman with an indomitable spirit

hockey. A sportswriter commented, She will be remembered as one of the finest full-backs ever to have worn Irish colours. Dorrie was also an outstanding badminton player, making the final of the 1931 Munster Championships at aged 16, and winning the title in the following three years. In 1933 she also won the mixed doubles title with her brother Joe Brown, a golf international,

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GEORGE HOLLAND (1921-2012)
They realised he was destitute, and arranged for George to travel to Waterford to be educated at Newtown School. An enthusiastic student who excelled in languages, George loved Ireland and the opportunities it offered him. He completed his secondary education, went back to Paris to meet his sister, and was sponsored to travel to Australia, in 1938. During his first job as a farm labourer in Victoria George began to study accountancy, and then found a position with the accountancy firm Buckley and Hughes. In 1944 George enlisted in the Australian army while continuing his studies. While in the army he met and married Patricia Grome, and they had five children. Upon leaving the army George Holland set up his own practice, which was very successful. At one point he had the largest single-person practice in Victoria. He ran his business for over 50 years, eventually retiring in 2002 when he handed it over to his brother Michael. In retirement George kept himself incredibly busy. He played chess, a game that he had learnt at Newtown, and bowls, a game that he played to a high level. He loved to travel, and in 2012 had been planning a trip down the River Rhine in his native Germany, and a return to Newtown for an Old Scholars Reunion - which would have been his first. It was not to be. He had a fall while playing bowls and this led to his hospitalisation. Complications followed, and when George realised that his fierce independence had been taken away he lost his spark and enthusiasm for life. His dreams of a return to Europe had come to an abrupt end. He was aged 91. George often spoke to his family of his years at Newtown School. He believed that the school had given him a great start in life - it had. He loved Australia too - he had prospered there, and said that he was a lucky man in a lucky country. George was the last survivor of his own family. He left five children, eleven grandchildren, and four greatgrandchildren. George, our father, was one of a kind. He was a good man and we are proud to have had him as our father. Written by members of the Holland Family
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eorge Holland (Jurgen Hollaender) was born in the town of Naumberg in eastern Germany in 1921. His father was a solicitor and his mother a primary school teacher.

It was the events leading up to World War II that had the greatest impact on Georges life. His father, who was Jewish, had been actively involved in the struggle against Hitler and National Socialism, and as a result had to flee to Paris during the 1930s. George, the third born of five children, followed him. As an 11 year old boy selling newspapers on the Champs Elysees, George was spotted by two English people.

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ulian Rothwell, who died tragically last Spring, had completed a three years Game and Wildlife Management Course at Sparsholt College near Winchester, UK, after he completed school at Newtown.

Upon completion, he moved to Newton Stewart to work for Forestry Commission Scotland, which he enjoyed immensely. Sometime later, during the outbreak of footand-mouth disease, Julian took a job milking cows for a local dairy farmer in the area. He hated every second of it...at that point we decided he would never be a dairy farmer! In due course, Julian returned to live in Ireland. He was always ready (and very able) to help out family when needed - despite his agricultural aversion, this even included taking care of the farm and livestock any time his

dogs. Kite surfing was a new passion of his and, like everything, when he put his mind to it he thoroughly mastered it. Julian was also very proud of being physically fit and trim. Even if he worked a 12 hour day, hed still find time to get to the gym, meet with friends and squeeze in a workout. In recent years, he began to travel the world, including trips to Egypt and China. Perhaps his favourite trip was to Manhattan, where both his brothers (Mark & Kingsley) were then living. At the same time, Julian met the love of his life, Gillian. No, not in NYC, she only lived a few miles away..! From the start, they were a perfect match, and always able to rely on each other. They would go absolutely everywhere together. Julian even drove Gillian to and from work every day during the really bad snow some years back...accompanied by Chester, his adored Boxer, of course.Their time together seemed all too short Gillian suddenly fell ill at a local concert, and sadly passed away on February 25th, 2011. This was more than anyone could bear, and Julian was tragically lost from our lives, but never our memories, on March 2nd. The Rothwell family would again like to thank all those who were able to attend The Service of Thanksgiving for Julian at Killegney Church on March 4th, 2011, and to express their gratitude to all those who sent flowers, letters and cards afterwards. We all miss Julian greatly, and always will. And think of him as living in the hearts of those he touched... For nothing loved is ever lost and he was loved so much. Written by members of the Rothwell Family
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Like everything, when he put his mind to it he thoroughly mastered it

parents (Reg & Edna) were away! Julian was very proud of building (with Kingsley, his brother) a slatted cattle house and stables from the ground up to make life easier for Reg. Julian then decided to pursue an apprenticeship in carpentry, at which he excelled. He was certainly not work-shy, spending long days doing what he loved... His clientele were great fans, as Julian was (far too) straight with them, meticulous in his work, and always took great pride in the finished product. When the Celtic Tiger boom ended, he added woodworking as another string to his bow focusing particularly on childrens furniture. With this, Julian discovered an ideal way to merge his love for woodcraft with his long-standing love for art. Utilizing both sets of skills, he created stools, mirrors, castles and other projects to which he would add carvings and painted cartoon characters. He gave special attention to making some unique gifts for his little goddaughter Lexi, and his nephew Caine. Julian had a real zest for life his interests included photography, drawing, canoeing, hunting, jiu-jitsu and his

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Fiona Connell (30th

e remember and celebrate the life of Fiona, born in London, educated at Newtown from September 1973 - July 1976, together with her sister Siobhan and brother Sean.

able than herself, and the attendance at her memorial in London included many who attested to the assistance she had given them through her chairmanship of the Housing Residents Association. She was uncompromising in her belief in the need for social justice, especially for the less fortunate in society.

A music lover, she not only sang with several choirs but played the guitar well and also the piano, a talent shared by her son Ross. She loved talking and debate, had a very strong social conscience and enjoyed discussions with anyone who had differing opinions.

months, when, on a sit-down protest outside the Home Office with her family, she ended up in the back of a police wagon and was taken to West End Central in her push chair. No surprise she ended up so political! She was President of the Student Union at college and wrote frequently for the college magazine. She worked for the Citizens Advice Bureau before training to become a teacher, and was a good one before ongoing poor health forced her to give it up.

Fiona became a Buddhist a few years ago, making her think about many things in a different light. She also became a counsellor for Childline and a volunteer for Barnardos, both of which she enjoyed and was good at. She will be missed by all her extended family and friends. In the time since her death it has become obvious that despite her lack of material wealth, she was rich in the love, honour, kindness and esteem of so many people, a fact that has helped us all to deal with her untimely loss. Written by members of the Connell family.

Taken on political marches by her parents from an early age, her first arrest took place at the age of 6

Right to the end she retained a strong wish to help those less articulate and

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CLASS OF 1951
Cedric Bailey- has now retired from family business, enjoys golf and gardening and is still involved with Newtown on the Archives Committee. Jill Bailey (Barrett)- married Cedric 57 years ago, still going strong, main hobby is gardening and dabbles a bit with a paintbrush. William Bell Married to Florence and now both enjoying retirement. Very involved with Inter Aid and several Quaker committees. Daphne Dukes (Tyrrell) now living in Dalkey and active in local community, walking club, bowls club and sings with two choirs. Chas Meredith is a retired solicitor and still plays the clarinet as Rock Fox. He loved his OS weekend in Newtown. Jono Pim- is a retired sales executive and is involved in many charitable and social activities namely Rotary, Prison Committees and Quaker Committees. Eveline St Leger (Barrett)- lives a very busy life in Cork and is very involved with St Finbarrs Cathedral. Sylvia Torrie (Buchanan) was our hockey teacher in NSW. She is now retired and loves her garden. She lives next door to her son Andrew. With 3 granddaughters living next door he is kept busy with the odd child minding stint. His 2 older grandchildren are at Drogheda Grammar School. Other than being head gardner at home he just entertains Rosie or so he says! He had a Big Birthday in March! Graeme Allen- Made it back for the re-union last year from China where he lives with his wife Elizabeth Appleby (nee Kingston)-Lovely to see Elizabeth and her husband at the Re-union last year. They farm in West Cork and supply Aldi with their delicious Aberdeen Angus beef. Ken Coad- Unfortunately he was not well enough to join in the Reunion last year but he still lives in Dunmore East. Roger Elmes- Lives in Wellington New Zealand. Celia Hill (nee Smyth)- Living in Faithlegg in Waterford on the golf course. She and Robert enjoy golf, gardening and grandchildren all 15 of them! Retirement is busy and enjoyable. Ann Jackson (nee Jacob)- Ann is married to Julian and lives in Crosshaven, Co. Cork. They have 2 children and 5 grandchildren. Both Ann and Julian are retired and spend 3 months every year in Spain where they are very pleased to have met up again with Pat Young after many years. Denis Kelly- Lives near Sligo and has recently recovered from a serious illness. He is still interested in old cars and farms clams nearby. Charles B. Lamb- Just returned from Friends World Gathering in Kenya which was also attended by Jono Pim, Rachael Bewley Bateman and Sue Pim. I continue to live near Roscrea, with my wife Marjorie. I do a little engineering work for Bakery, Cheese and Cattle Slaughter Plants. Maeve Markey (nee Judge)- Lives in Hillsbroough Co. Down. Plays golf regularly and swims and walks. She is involved with family and grandchildren. She visits her son and family in California usually once a year and also spends a month each winter in South Africa. Allan McConnell- TCD Economics graduate (1966). Retired from sales and marketing career with Texaco. Living in Dublin with wife Jan. 3 children and 5 grandchildren. They live in Dublin, Cork and New York. Long time member of Guinness Choir and a regular golfer. Dedicated traveller. Sue Pim- Spends a lot of time gardening and enjoys orienteering - it must be one of the few sports where children, parents and grandparents can all compete together at their own level. Travels to New Zealand and Australia to visit grandchildren and of course their parents! Last autumn granddaughter Bree spent nearly 6 months with us, going to Newtown,and enjoyed spending time with her Irish cousins, uncles and aunts, and of course her grandparents! Pat Young-Has been living in Spain since 1966 on the Mediterranean coast 100 km north of Valencia. She is married (now widowed) and has a son Miguel who is a jewellery designer and a daughter Deborah who is a dealer in antique jewellery. Jean Wall Morris (nee Donald)Is at present living in Monkstown, Co. Dublin. She and her husband Robin are keen golfers who spend most weekends in Co. Wicklow where they are members of Coolatin Golf Club. Jean is looking
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Charlie Allen - Still living in Bettystown, enjoying retirement. He keeps his hand in helping a neighbouring farmer when he is not playing golf at Seapoint or in Spain.

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for lady golfers (Old Newtownians) who would be interested in playing in the Ladies Union of Irish Schools annual golf outing which is taking place this year on Monday 25th June at Edmonstown Golf Club. Jean can be contacted at 0872443742 and would be delighted to hear from you! circumstances prevented them though they were with us in spirit and we raised a glass in their honour. We look forward to all meeting up for our 40 years out in 2016 but in the meantime we meet in Dublin for a drink and a chat about once a month.

CLASS OF 1981
Sheelyn Brown - Living in and around Westport House. Caroline Canning - Working as an artist and living in Dublin. Chris du Plessis - Still living with Dee in Southampton and enjoying life as a parent/grandparent with 4 children and 3 grandchildren. Working as a Financial Controller for an Indian out sourcing company when not able to be on the golf course. Jane Enticknap - Teaching Art full time in St. Marks Community School, Tallaght. Nearly completed Masters in Art and Design Education and having first solo exhibition in the Helix in DCU in July. http://thehelix.

CLASS OF 1976
A small group of the class met up in Newtown last September. They included Laura Leigh-Doyle, Kika Wiser who flew in from Moscow, Lynda Jacob from Luxembourg, Gerri Pleass from the UK, Debbie Bailey, Rob Graham, Mark Flood and Graham Boyd. It was especially good to see Sandra Hatton and Michael Morris after an absence of far too long. Others would have liked to have joined us but

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ie/visualarts/future-exhibitions/jane-enticknap-textile-art/ Nicola Faull - Nicola is still living with her family in Co Wicklow and working in IT. David Ford - David is still living in Edinburgh when hes not spending time in Ecuador. He is weighing up options for the future. Alan Hayden - Director of Archaeological Projects Ltd., an archaeological consulting and contracting company in Dublin, although doing less work as the recession bites ever deeper. Publishing articles and books to beat the band. Nicky Johnson - Still working in Clare in the Cave. Father to Thea, Ariana and Cole all in Newtown or having just left. Annabel Konig - Currently undertaking an MFA in the National College of Art and Design. Still living in County Carlow and working as an artist as well as public art commissions and styling/designer on photo shoots/films In the chair of the parents committee in Newtown. Kristen Matson-Murphy (nee Matson) - Married to Kevin, two kids. In July and August can be spotted in Dunmore East on slip duty with lots of other Old Scholars! Siobhain Arnold (nee OConnell) - Has just moved down to Ballydehob with her family and is loving West Cork. Fenella Goldsworthy (nee Platts) - .In Devon now, kids have flown the coop, middle age looming! Roy Power - living in south Kilkenny, a Munster Rugby fan, still on the first wife, a little poorer year on year, still in agri business, kids growingfamily, sailing, shooting, and rugby keep me busy and sane in my spare time. Rachel Wilson (nee Mulligan) - Running business outside Manchester with husband Jonny. Mum of three. South Eastern Circuit. Colin Campbell owner of Campbell Plants wholesale supplier in Maynooth. More info please. Karen Casey still singing and was in great form at the 20 and 25 year reunions! Norman Clancy living in Dublin, 1 son. Finbarr Clarkson last heard from living in Dublin, running cafe more info please. Ruth Coad married to Owen, living in Fiddown, Waterford. Barry Coad married to Carol, two little girls (4 & 2, living in the Glenmalure, Co. Wicklow and working as deer and game Manager for Coillte. Yvonne Collins married to Tom, living in Naas with 2 kids (one of each 9 & 3) and Belle the daschund. Working as an agent for Welsh furniture design and manufacturing company Orangebox.

CLASS OF 1986
Tanya Baxter living in Putney, owns and runs her own art gallery, married to artist Pip and has three kids. David Bulbulia living in Kildare, married with 2 kids and numerous beasts!! Barrister on the
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Des Jeffares married, living in Wexford making a living farming soft fruits. Adam Johnson married, couple of kids, living in The Burren, running the Rock Shop. Paul Crotty married to Marcella, living in Dunmore East raising free range chooks on the family farm, 5 girls. Sarah Davis living in Miami, married with 1 little boy, taking a long break from corporate life to enjoy family life. Susannah De Bromhead married to Patrick, living in New York with three kids (10, 9 & 5) and a dog. Working for digital interactive agency. Gavin Dowdall working in Diageo in Key Accounts for 17 years, two kids (one of each) living in Co. Wexford. Barbara Enticknap living in Waterford, fundraiser for Deise Animal Sanctuary, always to be found at her stand in the Farmer Market, getting married to Wayne in August. Graham Farrell living in Waterford, working in family law firm. Thomas Fewer Equality officer in WIT, lectures in Archaeology and history, just moved into his new house in Tramore. Moira Flahive lives in Kilmainham with partner and Darby the dog. Barrister on the South East and Dublin Circuits. Hockey Umpire in her spare time (still shouting on the pitch so!!) Alan Fitzgerald living in Melbourne Australia with Jane, running marathons, founder of running club, working for Thompson Reuters selling specialist corporate internet tax software to accountancy firms. Martin Furey living in Kilkenny (Co.) with Jane and two teenagers (one of each) and I dont have to tell you hes singing up a storm all over the world!! A great night last year at a gig in Wexford with some of his class of 86 groupies!!! Julie Hatton married to Michael, living in Wexford, 3 girls (6, 8 & 11). Brian Hayden living in Kilmoganny, Co. Kilkenny last heard. More info please. Johanna Hill married to Paddy, 2 boys and a girl (12,9 & 6), living in Dublin. Lucy Hill married to Sculptor Rory Breslin, 5 kids, living in Westport where she works as an artist. Jonathan Hunt living in Dublin, married with twin toddler girls, works on Software Test. Tommy James living in Wexford, one daughter, working with horses (what a surprise), info please.
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Melanie Johnson living in Boyle with daughter Ruth and working as a Risk Analyst in MBNA. Eugene Jordan living in London with partner and 2 kids, working for the BBC. Eoin Kavanagh living in Birmingham since 1994, 4 kids and nursing in A&E. Susannah Kelly living in Dublin with husband Conor and 2 kids (13 & 7), working as conservator in UCD. Orm Kenny living in Tramore, married to Bri, twin boys (11) and currently retraining as a solicitor!! and aiming to qualify in 2013. Yvonne Kidd married and living in Wexford more info please. Siobhan Klann spends as much time playing golf as possible when not running catering franchise in Bray Golf Club with hubby Ian. Niamh Laverty living in Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny with daughter Isobel and has just qualified as a Tax Consultant. Sarah Manahan living in Co. Waterford, married with teenagers. Pamela Marnell living in USA, married with three boys currently on a trial break from corporate life over the summer to enjoy family life. Christopher McKevitt- married with two girls, living in Dublin and working for RTE. John Moore living in Belgium, married with one daughter. Working in the field of film, photography, etc. Philippa Morck married to Neill, 2 kids (one of each) lives in Co. Wicklow and runs homely dog kennels called Hounds Holiday House. Edel Murphy living in Italy with Italian hubby Michele, 2 boys (12 & 7), owns and runs MurphyCamper.it. Katie ODonnell living in the New Forest with hubby and 5 sons, 4 dogs, 4 horses and chickens. Teaching assistant and recently started horse rug washing business. Susan OFlaherty (Yaciuk) living in Waterford, married to Eamon, working in AIB and has two boys (11 & 8). Paddy Ormond living in Dublin, Micrographic and Dermatoligical Surgeon.

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Jenny Pim 2 kids, living in Dublin and currently working as PA/ Secretary. Harvey Porter living in Dunkitt Waterford running family poultry business. Willie Power married, living in Waterford, two teenagers (one of each), Manager in Dawn Meats. Stuart Purcell living in Delgany, married to Katie, 2 children (8 & 5), self employed Art Valuer. Pieter Reynolds recently moved back to live in Ireland, travelling the world earning a crust as a Tour Guide. Gerald Taylor married to Karin, 2 kids (one of each), living in Kenya and is a Property Developer. John Tierney living in Waterford, working in Waterford Regional Hospital Ambulance Corp and still to be met cycling all over the place. Helen Vesey married to Dale, 2 kids (one of each) living in Charlotte, North Carolina USA, stay at home mum who volunteers part-time in her kids school. Eric Volbers 2 kids (one of each) happy in a new relationship and working hard in The Netherlands. Judith Walsh living in Wexford, married to Nick, 2 girls & 1 boy (11, 9 & 6), Dairy farmers and producers of the yummy Kilowen Farm Yoghurt. Grania Williams married to John, 2 girls, living in England and working in hubbys Polo Business doing both PR and teaching.

CLASS OF 1991
Catherine Brown (nee Sweeney)living in Ludlow, married, 2 kids, music therapist, teacher and reflexologist! Liz Fisher (nee Lamb) - Living in Chantilly, VA with husband John and their three sons. Rachel Guest ( nee Fletcher) Married to Chris and mother of three. Teaches PE in Cheltenham Ladies College, and runs annual summer camp in Newtown. Robbie Hill - Lived in Greystones for the last 10 years. Married to Valerie, they have 4 kids, Jules (8), Abbie (7), Sam (5) and Eva (2). Robbie runs an international golf advisory and asset management firm. Fergus Lusby - living in west Cork working for Glenilen farm Mark Richards - Living in Mallorca, working in the Superyacht Industry. Anthony OShea - living in Kill Village, Waterford has two boys Noah 6 and Aaron 10 working for GlaxoSmithKline in Dungarvan Natasha Bergl - living in Chicago and work for an importing company. Sarah White (nee Tierney) married and living in Killiney with her 4 children and Peanut the poodle! Lisa Fitzgerald - married & living in Waterford with Poppy (daughter) and Heidi (dog)- working in family business Georges Court Shopping Centre and helping her husband Philip eat his supplies in Lily OBriens - The Chocolate Caf! Shirley Trimble (nee Johnson) married and living in Kilkenny with her 2 daughters and working as a chartered physiotherapist in St Lukes Hospital. Colin Flahive - currently living in Blessington with Tracey & Kayleigh

and preparing for a move to Dublin later in the year. Working in Cherrywood Billy James - is married and living in Wexford with his wife and children. Daryl Power - is living in Horsham in UK since December and about to start new job in June as head teacher of Portfield Community Primary School in Chichester! Daryl has been teaching for 8 years and was previously in investment management so a big change. Gillie Wachman - married and Living in North Island, New Zealand with 1 son Jake who is nearly 4. working for an international media company doing accounting and customer care. Karla Leahy - Loving life in London but tempted to move to New York, so lets see where the next year take her. Working in international marketing for American Express. Emma Hughes - has recently moved from Chicago to Manhattan - Emma is now Customer Marketing Director for Diageos North American Beer business and loving it!

CLASS OF 1996
Lydia Allen - Married to Rupert and living in Shanagarry with two children. Susan Anderson (nee Parslow) Office Manager in Kildare Outlet store, married. Yvonne Buckley -Living in Collaroy Beach, Sydney with her new dog Charlie! Jill Blanc McDermott- Mother of two girls, married to Brian, works in hand made paper products. Brenda Curran-Teaching in Kildare,
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living in Dublin, married Patrick Haughey Dec 2011. Chantelle Carroll- Living in the UK, running her own claims consultancy business Ruairi Carroll- Journalist with UTV radio news and own show as DJ on FM104 on Sunday nights; father of two, Married to Aileen, living in Dublin. Daron Goodbody- Married in 2010 and living in London working as a home care co-ordinator. Robert Grealy- Working as a doctor. Rachel Grubb- Working in HR in Dublin. Patrick Haughey- Married childhood sweetheart and school crush Brenda Curran Dec 2011, working in Today FM in production. Julie Grant- Living in Dunmore East with new baby, working in Keogh Practice. Barbara Johnson- Clonmel Hospital benefits from Barbaras dietician skills, heavily involved in Waterford hockey and lives on St Alphonsis Road. Hilary Johnson- Working as a chef in Kilkenny, misses Waterford and the sea but will be back! Cait Kinsella- Based in Koln, working in English lessons and translation privately and at the university. Great to see you at the 15 year reunion! Jenny Kellett- Jenny married Bob Copeland in 2003. They live in Drumree Co Meath and have 4 children Charlotte, Joshua, Harriett and Elliott. Jenny works as a Physiotherapist in Enable Ireland, Sandymount. Shermin Mustafa- Shermin lives in Ballycotton after moving into her dream house by the sea in 2011. Married to Matt Thompson and have two children, Lana and Rosie. Shermin still works as a chef and does a lot of freelance cooking. Jenny Mosse- Working in London in Interior Design. Liz Moloney- Working in London, has her own Interior design company! Nini Murphy- Based in Dunmore East, works in banking/ finance in Waterford. Sandra Mc Cormack- Married and living in Waterford with family. Seb Orr - Seb in often seen speeding to work in The Foundry, Waterford in his ever reliant Peugout 306. Chris ODonoghue- Married Emily Musgrave and living in London, recently had a baby.
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Grainne OMalley- Based in Clonmel, Co Tipperary and is married and has one child. Christa Brown(nee Pallas)- Lives in Luxembourg and is married with two children. Andrew Patterson- Living in Cambridgshire and is married. Evan Pearson-Working in finance in London Bairbre Ryan -Qualified as a Barrister of Law, she lives in Dunmore East and enjoys horseriding with Coadie. Jana Stevenson- Married in 2011 to Greg Ryan and they have a son named Elliott. They live in Dublin. Lee Statham- Lee lives in Perth, Western Australia running a company, married Lisa in 2011 in Dunmore East and now expect their first baby! Congrats guys! Sam Stack- Runs his own engineering company in Blessington, Co Wicklow Aubrey Storey- Lectures in Wit, married and enjoys triatholons in his spare time. Gillian Walsh- Gillian is Based in Dunmore East and got married to Richard Halley in May 2012!Huge congrats! Conan Watt- Conan is a Sales rep for Azzurri clothing and married Ciara, living in Butlerstown Castle! Nicola Whitney- Nicola is married living in London, married and has a baby girl.

CLASS OF 2001
Roisin Berner(Allen): Roisin married Ted Berner in 2008. They just had a little girl Ruby this year. Rosin is working in family business in Ballymaloe House. Sarah Blanc: Sarah is living and working in London as a contemporary dancer and choreographer. Chris Bradish: Chris is now living in Melbourne, along with about another 50,000 Irish. He is working as a Civil design Engineer for a company called Cardno and missing Newtown every day. John Brady: For the past two years John has been living and working in Berlin as the Sous Chef at Little Otik. He also keeps up appearances Djing at various bars and clubs around the city, including Loftus Hall (A fellow Newtown class mates venture in Berlin). He plans to start his own business in the food/entertainment sector. Paul Brazil: Paul lives in Innsbruck Austria. He is an Industrial Climber, Concert Rigger and Concert Stage Builder. He has been on the core planning team for a

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number of worlds biggest temporary structures such as Andre Rieus Castle, Moscow Alpine Ski Ramp 2008. He has been on tour with GreenDay, Pink and AC/DC. Darragh Carroll: I live in Blackrock Dublin and work in KBC in a Risk Control function. Richael Carroll: Richeal lives in Vancouver with her fianc and works for the University of BC. Eils Coakley: For the past two year Eils has been living in Australia, settled in Melbourne. Eils works as an insurance assessor and loves Melbourne life. She is unlikely to be moving home as her partner is an Aussie. Gemma Coffey: Is living and working in London and engaged to Dorian Van de Braam. Anarosa De Eizaguirre Butler: After living in the UK and working extensively as an actor and work shop leader touring Europe, Anarosa moved back to complete her MA in Drama and Theatre Studies. She currently lives in Dublin where she teaches, occasionally directs. Hannah Denniston: After doing her masters on breeding Curlew (bird conservation) last year she is currently working with BirdWatch Ireland. Hannah is now living in Duncormick, Co. Wexford with my partner. Davidde Dore: Davidde is working in Newtown School and lives in Waterford with her daughter Anisha. Michael Early: Completed engineering degree in TCD, now a process engineer in Kildare. Leo Evans: Lving in London and working in finance. Rory Fearon: Following TCD, Rory is now living and working in London. David Flynn: David trained as a pilot and over the last eight years he has flown for three different Airlines, one of which was Ryanair. He started with Emirates at the end of last year and is really enjoying long haul flying. Bridanna Fouhy: Brid is living between
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Dublin and Cork, working in Cappagh Orthopaedic Hospital and Central Remedial Clinic as a pediatric biomechanical engineer. Georgia Glover: Georgia has lived, studied and worked in Spain as part of her Degree of Spanish and Cultural Studies at Roehampton University in Purley. Georgia now lives in the Highlands of Scotland with her partner and works for Northern Constabulary Police force. Rose Glover: Attended drama School in New York for 2 years before living and working as an actress in Los Angeles. Now back in London, Rose is studying her B.Sc in Nutritional Medicine. Rozi Goodbody: Lived in Spain for 3 years and worked as a Scuba dive Master and Photographer. She then went to UK to study International Development and Masters in Development/ Environmental Economics. Rozi now lives in Norwich with her partner and is an

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Environmental consultant. Caroline Gotto: Caroline is living in Scotland and married for three years to Hugh. They have 7 month old twins Basil and Florence. Caroline is working as an accounts manager in a national supply soft fruit company. Per Gunnar Haga: Is living in Stavanger in West Norway, married in May last year, expecting first child (daughter) in June. Per studied maths and physics and is teaching now. Paul Hodder: Paul is living and working in Whistler, Canada training as a fireman and working for a company that runs Whistler Ski Resort. Adam Martin: After leaving school Adam went into the Financial Industry Working for A.I.B for a number of years and then went in to Personal and Commercial insurance. Last year Adam decided to take a different direction and now works as Sales Manager of The Kingfisher Gym and Spa in Waterford where he lives. Sarah McCollum (Hamilton): Sarah is married to Marcus and living in Limavady, Northern Ireland. She graduated from Queens University Belfast in 2005 with a degree in Modern History and Spanish, and is currently completing her studies in Counseling and therapeutic communication, with the hope of becoming a psychotherapist soon. Amy Rose McLaughlin: Living and working in London with her partner. Amy is studying fashion design and is moving back South Africa soon. Sara lee OBrien (Bullock): Sara lee is living and working in Newtown School with her husband and two boys Joshua and Daniel. Ciri ONeill: Living in Waterford and currently saving to emigrate.
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Daire ONeill: Living in Berlin with American girlfriend. He is the owner of two music venues here - a nightclub called Loftus Hall named after the haunted house in Wexford and a bar called Kleine Reise. He has just launched a record label with fellow old scholars Patrick Reddy and Peter Power. Karen OSullivan: Karen is living in Dublin and working as a physiotherapist specializing in stroke rehabilitation. Karen has just returned from a trip to India. Fintan Purcell: Is working as an accountant in Waterford. Patrick Reddy: Patrick is living and working in Berlin. He has just launched a record label with old scholars Daire ONeill and Peter Power. Anneliese Schnittger: Anneliese is currently living with her partner Paul in Dublin and studying veterinary nursing while working Cherrywood Veterinary Clinic. David Sexton: David is working in the family business and living in Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary. Cliona Tynan (ORiordain): Cliona is living in Kildare with her husband Adam. She is working in the drinks industry in Dublin Melody Watkin (Taylor): Melody has just moved to Australia after a year on the Pacific island nation of Kiribati (working in the environmental sector), with a brief interlude to Ireland to get married to Sam in 2011. Aaron Zaska: Aaron is living in Westport where he used to be an Adventure Sports Instructor. Aaron does some graphic designing and promotions for family photography company as well as Djing in London, Ibiza and in Berlin. Aaron snowboards in the winter and sails in

the summer and hopes to complete a transatlantic sail with his family in the next few years. Please get in touch; Finbar OMahony, Barry Ryan, Violet Wilson, Justin Walsh, Anil Godinho, Charlie Stewart-Liberty, Canice Grant, Eddie Lowney and Barry McSweeny.

With thanks also for their support:

Producing the Newtown Review each year has become a costly business. It is made possible each year thanks to the lifetime membership that is paid by Old Scholars, and also by the kindness and generosity of our advertisers. Together with the display advertising that is featured throughout the publication, the businesses that feature in the following pages are Old Scholar supporters who have contributed 50 towards the cost of ensuring that The Newtown Review remains a viable proposition for Newtowns Old Scholars network. If you are in business, or have an enterprise that you might wish to advertise in The Newtown Review. Or else merely would like to support this venture, please get in touch with us through your class leader and we will ensure that you feature, next year. We are grateful for all the support. Alternatively you can contact OS treasurer Jonathan Fletcher: jonfletch@eircom.net to advertise, and show your support.

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Online options and getting involved

ewtown Mountmellick and Foy Old Scholars Association continues to develop its online presence as a means of staying in touch with our past pupil network.

GETTING INVOLVED There are many ways that you can give back, and get involved with Newtown, as a past pupil. The school is always looking to past pupils for expertise, skill, knowhow and committment, with various committees and sub-committees in existence, and playing a vital role in the continuing running of Newtown. If you have time, expertise, and an interest and commitment in giving something back then drop a note to Roger Johnson at the mail address below, and find out how you can help. rogerjoan5@gmail.com

If youre on facebook and are interested in staying in touch, catching up, or reconnecting with others who spend their school years at Newtown you can do so now by logging in to our OS facebook page. To find this simply just type on a

facebook search for Newtown School Old Scholars and youill connect, or alternatively follow the link thats on the Old Scholars Association web-site at: www.newtownoldscholars.com

With thanks also for their support:

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Newtown Old Scholars Association is grateful also to the following for their support for this years review: Alan Johnson, Terence Smyth, Ann Raben (nee Delahunt) and Peter Johnson.

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Newtown Photography Competition

1st Place - Better Reflection in the pond - Bobbi Doorley 2nd Place - Kevin Keehan 3rd Place - Thea Johnson