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Up to Six Day Trips (travelling
Public Transport) for Class of
'69 attendees 'et al' to render visiting Sydney this late October
the more
pleasurable.
Up to Three Day Trips before our 55th Class Reunion on Thurs 24 October 2024
at The
Chapel, and
up to Three (other) Day Trips after our
55th Class Reunion.
At least one day's rest between
each below proposed Day Trip
i) NSW's transport
ferry
ride from Circular Quay to Parramatta Wharf / Rydalmere Wharf.
Initially up Sydney Harbour, then left up Parramatta River to view some of
Parramatta's Top Ten Attractions and enjoy a light
'dry' lunch. Train or ferry back to the CBD.
ii) Train from Central station to
Katoomba station (1 hr
57 min trip seeing lots of historic western Sydney)
whilst Chin Wagging with folk that now look so much older.
Then
catch #686 bus (2.4km south via Lurline St) to Echo Point Rd Lookout to
view
The Three Sisters.
Then catch same bus back to Katoomba station for same train route back to Central
station.
iii) Ferry ride from Circular Quay Wharf to
Manly Wharf to walk 1.5km north to Queenscliff Beach for a light on-the-go
(dry) lunch. Then walk back to Manly to catch the bus to Cnr.
Falcon St at Miller St, North Sydney. Then walk 17 min to North Sydney station.
iv) Catch train to Milsons Point station and
walk back (south) over the Sydney Harbour Bridge (on the east side with views of the
Sydney Opera House), then short meander down to Circular
Quay and Sydney Opera House. Then commence the
Sydney Harbour Foreshore Walk c/w around
Mrs Macquarie's Chair in
The Botanic Gardens
with
Sydney Art Gallery over on LHS. Then walk thru the
verdant The Domain to pass through
Sydney Hospital and descend
along Martin Place to Wynyard
train station.
Reduce above
walk distance by skipping the walk past
The Opera House along Mrs Macquarie Chair and Martin Place, and rather catching train
from Circular Quay station. (You will
still see the Sydney Opera House from our
flat,
free walk over the Sydney Harbour Bridge.)
v) Ferry boat ride from Circular Quay Wharf
to Taronga Park Zoo Wharf. Then short Govt bus ride up to
Taronga Park
Zoo. Two hours later after viewing a welter of animals, and partaking a light feed, retrace route back to Circular Quay station.
Seniors admission (with a Seniors Card) is $35.10 when booked and paid on-line.
vi)
John Waters & Phil Johnston were still disrupting classes at Leo's 40 years on -
Wed, 18 Nov '09.
A 30 min 'walk through' the St Leo's College school grounds and
sporting ovals - a journalist from the
Hornsby
Advocate to attend and -
1. chat with inaugural school students from any of the three classes that
formed St Leo's in 1956; and
2.
view old Kodak photos, incl. the first Leaving Certificate class in St Leo's school
uniform in 1962.
St Leo's opened in 1956 with a 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Class that compromised up to 15 students in each class.
My eldest brother, Gerard, was in the original 5th Class, having moved north
from St Pius College, Chatswood. His life long
friend, Clive Powe_l, was also in the original 5th Class. The small class
ahead of Gerard and Clive, being the original 6th Class, progressed to complete the Intermediate
Certificate in 1959, but did not advance to attempt the Leaving Certificate
at St. Leo's in 1961.
An article in the Hornsby Advocate
featuring six or seven of the original school students that had attended St Leo's in
its inaugural year of 1956 (3rd, 4th, 5th
and 6th Class) at a former student's 'school grounds walk through', accompanied by old Kodak photos and old school boaters or
ruminants of school uniforms, would evidence marvellous public relations between a burgeoning co-ed
St Leo's College, Wahroonga
of today, and the school that first taught boys (initially limited to four
primary school
classes) almost 70 years ago.
Phil Johnston retains two old school
boaters that still display/exhibit the old St Leo's cloth purple and gold head band
sown together in fine cotton.
(Over recent years approaching Christmas there has been a school reunion at
the Hornsby RSL for older SLOBs.
This writer understands that three students from when St. Leo's opened in
1956 (or shortly after) attended the most recent lunchtime get-together on
Thurs, 16 Nov 2023. It would be beneficial for the six
or seven original students that started in 1956 to meet with the journalist at the
Hornsby Advocate, and a
representative of St Leo's, at least three weeks before
an approved 'school grounds walk through'. Some attendees may wish to catch the
once all too familiar
Red Rattler to Waitara station and walk down Yardley Ave to the lower end of
the college. Others could park their jalopy in Woolcott Ave for a short
walk to the main
College gates.
The actual visit at the school grounds would
not exceed 35 mins in toto and hopefully be partially attended by the
College Principal, Anthony Gleeson
(or delegate) who attended our Nov 2014 class reunion at
The Blue Gum Hotel, Waitara.
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