29 September 2009 No. 16 F R O M T H E P R I N C I P A L : Dear Parents and Friends of Holy Cross College

Earlier this year, composer Amanda McKenna was commissioned to write a College Anthem. While ‘loan songs’ (in word or music) have been a part of Holy Cross’s history, the College has not had an Anthem of its own, befitting its long and proud history. As the composer of the Delany Song commissioned for the Bicentenary of the Patrician Brothers—a song sung by all Patrician students with great gusto and pas-sion—Ms McKenna was a highly appropriate choice of songwriters. At various points in Term 2, Ms McKenna visited the College to seek the views of staff, students and the Brothers on what being a part of the Holy Cross College community meant to them. The stirring Anthem that she has composed as a result of these consultations bespeaks our values well.

The College Anthem

From the day the first Patricians staked their claim upon the hill

the light of Christ would shine across the land where today those rich traditions

are proudly practised still Under the Holy Cross we stand

and shoulder to shoulder meet the challenge of each day

with justice and compassion “In cruce, salus!” we proclaim “In the Holy Cross, salvation!”

We will make the sacrifices be the best that we can be

and do our best to lend a helping hand And with all our friends beside us

take our place in history in the maroon and gold we stand Through team-work and courage

together hold the line with strong determination

“In cruce, salus!” we proclaim “In the Holy Cross, salvation!”

Shoulder to shoulder meet the

challenge of each day with pride and dedication

“In cruce, salus!” we proclaim “In the Holy Cross, salvation!”

All students of the College have been practising the Anthem in preparation for the Year 12 Graduation Ceremony this Friday, where the Anthem will have its public debut. It is a rousing chant and the students have done a fantastic job learn-ing it and singing it with great pride and enthusiasm. It will stand as a gift to honour the Class of 2009 at their graduation and will be a calling cry of generations of Holy Cross boys to come.

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From the Principal continued. After nine successful years at the College, Mrs Anna Giuliani will conclude her Holy Cross College appointment at the end of this term. Mrs Giuliani has been an outstanding and enthusiastic supporter of the College, involving herself in many committees and activities in support of the education of the sons of Holy Cross. She has been a teacher of qual-ity and a good leader of the Maths Department. We wish her well in her new position. Mr Paul Hajjar has been appointed as the new Coordinator of Mathematics to replace Mrs Giuliani. Mr Hajjar is cur-rently Curriculum Coordinator and member of the College Executive at Christian Brothers’ College, Burwood. Prior to his Burwood appointment, Mr Hajjar was the founding Mathematics Coordinator at another Patrician Brothers school, Delany College, Granville. The closing of Burwood has provided a rare opportunity to bring someone of Mr Hajjar’s experience ‘into the market’ and we are very fortunate to have won his services. Mr Hajjar brings to Holy Cross a rich store of pastoral and curriculum experience and will be an asset to the College community. In the four weeks of Term 4 prior to Mr Hajjar taking up his appointment, Mr George Kisrwani (Current Year 12 Coor-dinator) will take on the Acting Mathematics Coordinator position.

******** In this final Crossroads of the term, I take the opportunity to wish our Year 12 students our prayers and very best wishes in the lead-up to their graduation this Friday and their HSC exams immediately following the term vacation. As I have said to them many times, continued effort right to the finish line will make a difference, if even by a mark or two. A mark or two, across the board, makes a big difference indeed. The challenge which was put to young people by the Australian Bishops last Sunday in the Social Justice Sunday Statement is a fitting challenge for our graduands as they prepare to make their way in the world beyond the life of school. It was a repetition of the key challenge made by Pope Benedict XVI at the World Youth Day in Sydney:

What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure? Are you living your lives in a way that opens up space for the Spirit in the midst of a world that wants to forget God, or even rejects him in the name of a falsely-conceived freedom? How are you using the gifts you have been given, the ‘power’ which the Holy Spirit is even now prepared to release within you? What legacy will you leave to young people yet to come? What difference will you make?

Adam Taylor Principal

From the Assistant Principal On Monday night the Creative Arts Department along with the support of the P&F hosted a wonderful showcase of musical talent at the Holy Cross “Big Night Out”. The night was designed to exhibit the magnificent talents of our students across Years 7 – 12. There were twenty performances in total with an amazing cross section of ability and variety. The likes of Guns n Roses, ACDC, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica were performed alongside Beethoven, Yoko Shimomura and the Jackson five! Many boys were involved in not only performing in these genres but also on different instruments. Credit must be given to Ms Tripodi and Ms Gamma for turning out such professional and tal-ented performances. Thank you to everyone involved in making the night the success as it was and many thanks to the parents, Patrician Brothers, ex students and teachers who attended the evening. On Tuesday October 27th there will be an evening at Holy Cross, designed to keep parents in touch with a few issues in society and in your sons’ lives. Police officer Brad Taylor will present to you information surrounding the Cyber world in which we live. He will be talking about how the youth of today like to use the internet, what they tend to do and some of the concerns and dangers associated with this. The night is for parents only and will not only be in-formative but a talk parents should not miss. The P&F will supply supper following the presentation and Brad will be available for questions during this time. A note will be sent home with further details this week. Have a restful break and please remember that students return on Monday October 19th in summer uniform. The clothing pool will be open on Wednesday September 30th from 8.30 – 9.30am here at school. Mr. Peter Buxton Assistant Principal Pastoral

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Pe t e r Lee Ye ar 1 2 re ce ive s h i s AD F A E duca t ion Awa r d a t a s s e m b l y 1 8 / 9 / 0 9 .

The ADFA Education Award is presented annually to Year 12 students in recognition of outstanding achievement exhibited during the recruiting process for entry to ADFA. The award comprises a laptop computer and certificate for you along with a plaque in recognition of your school. It is presented on behalf of the Navy, Army or Air Force to the 120 most suitable applicants who have applied for entry to ADFA.

FEE REMINDER All fee payers are reminded that Term 3 Fee Statements should now be finalised. People who are unable to finalise their account by Week 1 Term 4 are asked to contact Mr Michael McCormack to discuss a payment plan. For whole College events such as the School Athletic and Swimming Carnivals and Feast of the Holy Cross the Col-lege determines the cost to each family by the number of students who are expected to attend. On the day of such events some students do not attend. In consideration of the afore mentioned absent students will be required to produce a doctors certificate. A number of students have still not paid their $20 fee for the Feast of the Holy Cross. Considering that the College has had to pay the costs associated with this day it is expected that all students will pay their fee to the accounts office by the end of this term. If you have any questions regarding fee statements or costs please contact the Bursar’s office. Also please see the CEO Government funding for NSW Catholic schools pamphlet enclosed. Mr Michael McCormack Assistant Principal Administration

WALKATHON PRIZES 2009

1st Liam Brundle Yr 9 - MP3 Player

2nd Leo Catelli Yr 7 - Mountain Bike

3rd Aaron Leone yr 7 - 6 Movie Tickets

4th Robert Tuhetoka Yr 8 - IPOD Docking Station

5th Charles Towers Yr 8 - 4 Movie Tickets

Thank you to all boys who returned their money on time. The afternoon off for those who raised $50 or more will be organised for early Term 4.

Pictured from left: Mr McCormack, Mr Lee, Peter Lee, Mrs Lee and Flight Lieutenant Sandra Monk from the Australian Defence Force.

HCC Coming Events - 2009 1 Oct Finals RU, 10’s & AFL

2 Oct Yr 12 Farewell Assembly 11.35am in the Centenary Hall Parents & Guests to be seated by 11.15am

Graduation Mass & Prize Giving Night 6.30pm in the school Chapel Parents & Guests to be seated by 6.15pm

Term 3 Concludes

19 Oct Term 4 Commences (Summer Uniform) Yr12, 2010 Senior Retreat to 21st

20 Oct HSC Commences Trial School Certificate to 21st

22 Oct Rd 1 Cricket/BBall/Touch

23 Oct College Swimming Carnival

27 Oct P&F Meeting 7.30pm

28 Oct Yr 7 2010 TEC Information Night 7.30pm

29 Oct Rd Cricket/BBall/Touch

30 Oct Assembly Presentation from Swimming Carnival & Inaugural of new leaders

HCC Star of the Week—Regan Walsh Year 7

This week Regan Walsh is to be com-mended for his academic and social progress to date. Regan is always pleasant and polite with staff and peers and fulfils any task asked of him with goodwill and maturity - a real Patrician student. He wears his uniform with pride and demonstrates great leader-ship qualities. Well done on being this edition's Star of the Week Regan. Regan comes to us from Ryde East Public School, Ryde. Ms Patrizia Tripodi Year 7 Coordinator

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2008 Bicentenary Photo Booklet The Patrician Brothers’ Archives have printed a 48

page photo booklet of the bicentenary.

These booklets are available at HCC front desk for the cost of $10.00

Receive the Power—

one of the most beautiful mementoes of WYD08. The Catholic Weekly has limited quantities of the official com-memorative book of World Youth Day for sale for just $35—that’s a saving of almost 50% on the rrp of $59.95. an the price includes the cost of postage of the the1.2kg volume. To order copies phone Susan Sullivan at the Catholic Weekly office on 02 9390 5400.

Holy Spirit Parish, North Ryde

Students of Holy Spirit Parish, North Ryde and their families are invited to join with the par-

ish community of Holy Spirit to celebrate a special HSC Mass and barbeque of Sunday 18th Oct at 6pm.

HSC & YOUTH MASS Students studying for their Higher School Certificate in

2009 are invited to St Mark’s Catholic Church,

33 Tranmere Street, Drummoyne for the special HSC and Youth Mass.

6pm—Sunday 18th October 2009

Followed by supper (pizza and drinks) All Welcome.

Further details contact Debra Wing via St Mark’s Presbytery 9181 1795

CLASS OF 2009—HSC MASS The parish of St Charles Borromeo would like to extend an invitation to students, parents, families and friends to at-tend the annual HSC Mass. Place: St Charles Borromeo Church 582 Victoria Road Ryde Date: Sunday 18 October 2009 Time: 6pm Following Mass we will be hosting a bbq which everyone is welcome to attend. Could you please RSVP by Friday 9 October to the Parish Office—9807 2966 or email Judith youth@stcharlesryde.org.au for catering purposes.

SPORTS REPORTS

CCC Athletics Carnival The CCC Athletics Carnival was on Friday 18th September at Olympic Park, Homebush. Our students recorded the following results Mason Farrell - 15’s 100m – 13th – 12.39sec Giuliano Fonte – 18’s 200m – 15th – 24.64sec Brad Plug – 15’s High Jump – 3rd – 1.70m

Benjamin Cox – Open Triple Jump – 1st – 13.28m Kevin Li – 14’s Javelin – 4th – 28.75m Benjamin Cox, Mason Farrell, Luke Brooks and Maxwell Dimarco ran in the 15’s Relay and won with a time of 45.99 but were later disqualified. Congratulations to these students for an excellent effort. Benjamin Cox and the 15’s Relay team will now compete at the NSW All Schools Track and Field Championships early next term. MCS Touch Football Congratulations to the Under 15’s Touch Football who won the MCS Touch Football Competition for the third year in a row. They have not lost a game three seasons. This is an excellent effort. MCS Cricket and Basketball MCS Cricket and Basketball starts week 1 next term. We will be competing in the following divisions during the sea-son. I would like to thank the coaches for taking the following teams next season. MCS Cricket: Year 7 – Mr Barrett, Year 9 – Mr. Cheriachan, A Grade – Mr. Graziani MCS Basketball Year 8 – Mr. Walker, Year 9 – Miss. Sheahan, Year 10 – Mr. Trost, B and A Grade – Mr. Acosta. Students who made teams will need to have the correct equipment, which will be available in the uniform shop on Tuesday 20th October. Students must be available for training on a day nominated by the coach (usually Tuesday or Wednesday from 3.30 to 4.30pm.) If students don’t attend training they will not play on Thursday. If your son is sick or injured a note, email or phone call needs to go to your son’s coach. We wish the students and coaches all the best for the season. Recreation Sport All sports have been selected for next term. Year 7 students will be playing in a new house competition. They will be in a team for the term and play a number of different sports throughout the term to gain experience in different sports, teamwork and sportsmanship. Swimming Carnival The 2010 Swimming Carnival is on Week 1, Friday 23rd October at Ryde Pool. The carnival is designed for maximum participation. Students will be competing for house points in a number of different swimming activities. Some activi-ties are across the pool races, water soccer and 25m races. A note was given to all students on Tuesday 29th September explaining the carnival. Please read the note with your son and all money and permission slips are due to the front office by Friday 2nd October. If you have any enquiries about sport please don’t hesitate to email damian.chase@hccryde.catholic.edu.au or ring on 98081033. Mr Damian Chase PDHPE Coordinator

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MCS AFL - Under 14’s It was great to coach such an enthusiastic group of players in this year’s MCS AFL season. Our results were strong and we went close to a semi-finals berth. Round 1 saw us having to forfeit our match to Parramatta Marist due to the HCC Athletics Carnival being held at the same time. Round 2 saw us defeating Trinity College Auburn by 61-33. Round 3 had us defeating St Pats Dundas by 33-25. Round 4 saw us playing the competition leaders Marist Eastwood. It was a difficult game with the field size being reduced due to the weather (heavy rain). We unfortunately lost 57-39. Our final game had us against St Greg’s Campbelltown. On a very hot day with no reserves, the players played their best game of the season and were leading with minutes to go. Two behinds in the final minutes saw St Greg’s snatch victory by one point, 28-27. I would like to congratulate all of the players for their spirit and willingness to work as a team in such a short space of time. Thank you also to those dedicated students who came to Wednesday morning training each week. I look for-ward to building on this year’s successes next year. Here is our squad : Nicholas BELL – Captain - Centre Matt WOODS – Vice Captain – Centre Half Forward Dylan TIRTABUDI – Left Forward Pocket Nathan SKRIVANIC – Full Forward Liam GIBLIN – Right Forward Pocket Ben PLUG – Left Half Forward Jake DUIGNAN – Right Half Forward Jayden WHEELHOUSE – Left Centre Wing Josh CAMROUX – Left Half Back Alex SGHABE – Right Centre Wing Sam EVANS – Right Half Back Pierre LATTOUF – Left Back Pocket Hayden TAYLOR – Fullback Kale BARTON-BISSAKER – Right Back Pocket Patrick ANUSRIDEACHA – Reserve Jack HEARN – Reserve Josh SKELLY – Reserve Declan BOLLER – Reserve Well done boys. You did yourselves and Holy Cross College proud! Mr. Graziani Under 14’s Coach

This year St Charles Primary School and Holy Cross College are jointly holding a Christmas Fair in the grounds

of Holy Cross College on Saturday 5th December 2009.

The planning has started and just some of the attractions will be:

BBQ, Food Stalls, Chocolate Wheel, Monster Raffle,

Entertainment, Craft Stalls, Games, Rides and much more… The next Christmas Fair meeting will be held in the

Holy Cross College Library at 7.30 on Wednesday 30th September 2009.

There is still a lot to be done so your HELP is needed to make this great community event a success.

If you can help out on the stalls, Running a Stall, Making Art and Craft Items, Have new ideas for stalls

Please contact: Terry Towers (m): 0414995097 email: ttowers@scentral.com.au

Christmas Fair Saturday 5th December 2009

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Touch Football Finals 17-9-09

The Under 15s won the First Division Shield for the 3rd year straight.

And the Under 13s took out the Pennant for

2nd division.

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Opens AFL team—final round at Macquarie University.

Photography by Liam Brundle

Up the School Tower—

16 September.

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A VERY SUCCESSFUL EVENING

HCC ‘BIG NIGHT OUT’

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Photography by Ms Danos

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Holy Cross College UNIFORM SHOP

Located next to the Chapel.

Opening Times

Tuesdays: 8.00am—9.30am Fridays: 8.00am—9.30am Enquiries: 9449 9777 Email: andrew@cowanlewis.com.au Fax: 9440 8931

CANTEEN ROSTER 2009

Group 4

19—23 Oct 2009

Group 1

26—30 Oct 2009

M O N

Josephine Co-lasuonno Cathy Nardo Norma Sciara

Lesley Saunders Leonie Munce Margaret Elliott

T U E S

Sandy Walters Judy Kenny Tracey Henwood

Connie Warren Dorina Tomasello Veronica Anthony

W E D

Alison Coombs Helen Burton

Carolyn Cecere Paula Quiley

T H U R

Nicole Mather Jo-anne Plug

Claudia Cimilio Wafaa Abi-Saab Margaret Boutros

F R I

Marion Cornish Sharon Towers Michelle Skrivanic

Sharyn Boyle Sylvia Georgakopoulos Helen Williams

Volunteers also needed for casuals days .

A full day at canteen is 11am until 2pm.

With a free lunch!!

Please call Lorraine in the Can-

teen 9808-1033 ext 120.

Please phone if unavailable on

your rostered day.

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Letter Box Letter Date Contents 25/9/09 Trial School Certificate

Further details are available on our Website

www.holycrosscollege.org/newsandevents/letterbox.php

HCC BRONZE AWARDS Congratulations to the following

students who have recently received Bronze Awards

Canteen Special Ham & Salad Wrap

Must be ordered. $3.00

HCC SILVER AWARDS Congratulations to the following

student who have recently received Silver Award

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Jason Ryan 7 Alexander Zervos 7 Liam Brundle 9 Calvin Siu 10

Student Yr David Buffin 7

Daniel Cecere 7

Arshi Dehsabzi 7

Joseph Gough 7

Benjamin Hesse 7

Sabastian Isaac 7

Kurt McIntosh x 2 7

Anthony Overton 7

Joshua Perugini 7

Dean Pollicina 7

Jacob Ranieri 7

Nathan Skrivanic 7

Jacob Swan-Mearns 7

Regan Walsh 7

Aaron Wilkinson 7

Patrick Zarour 7

Alexander Zervos 7

Anton Abi-Saab x 2 8

Taysun Ahmet 8

Jake Antouny x 2 8

Alessandro Blasonato x 2 8

Jarah Crook 8

Adam Cusumano 8

James Kabourakis 8

Nicholas Khzouz 8

Daniel Mastroserio 8

Jon-Luka Mustica 8

Joshua Spina x 2 8

Ashley Ward 8

Nicholas Bell 9

Liam Brundle 9

Joshua Hall 9

Thomas Hedl 9

Joshua Spinnato 9 Calvin Siu x 3 10

Emilio Pipio 9