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St Vincent's College
St Vincent's College
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	St Vincent's College
Location
	Potts Point, Sydney, New South Wales; Australia
Coordinates	33°52′9″S 151°13′26″E / 33.86917°S 151.22389°E
Information
Former name	Victoria Street Roman Catholic School
Type	Independent single-sex secondary day and boarding school
Motto	Template:Lang-la; (Religion and Knowledge united)
Religious affiliation(s)	Sisters of Charity
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Patron saint(s)	Saint Vincent de Paul; Saint Ignatius of Loyola;
Established	1858; 166 years ago
Educational authority	New South Wales Department of Education
Principal	Anne Fry
Staff	~63
Years	7-12
Gender	Girls
Enrolment	c. 680 (2006)
Campus type	Urban
Colour(s)	Blue, gold and white
Nickname	Vinnies
Affiliations	Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia; Australian Boarding Schools' Association; Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia; Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools;
Website	www.stvincents.nsw.edu.au

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St Vincent's College (colloquially known as Vinnies), is an independent Roman Catholic single-sex secondary day and boarding school for girls, located in Victoria Street, Potts Point, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

The college is the oldest registered Catholic girls' school in Australia, founded by the Sisters of Charity as a co-educational primary school in 1858.^[3] St Vincent's College follows the spirituality of Ignatius of Loyola. The college has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 710 girls in Years 7 to 12, including approximately 60 boarders.

St Vincent's is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA),^[4] the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA),^[1] the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA),^[5] and is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS).^[6]

History

St Vincent's College was founded as the Victoria Street Roman Catholic School, by the Sisters of Charity in 1858, a year after the sisters established St Vincent's Hospital at the same site.

The school reopened as St Vincent's College, a secondary, fee-paying, private, independent school in May 1882, after the hospital's relocation to the neighbouring suburb of Darlinghurst. In 2009 Mary Aikenhead Ministries (MAM) was established by the Holy See at the request of the Congregation of the Religious Sisters of Charity of Australia and the St Vincent's College was transferred to MAM. In 2018 St Vincent's College celebrated its 160th anniversary^[7] and in 2019 its 135th year of Boarding.

Principals

Period	Details^[6]
1858 – 1864	Aloysius Raymond
1865 – 1881	Frances McGuigan
1882 – 1896	Ursula Brutin
1897 – 1912	Gerard Ryan
1912 – 1920	Kevin Purtell
1921 – 1922	Benedicta Martin
1923 – 1925	Joachim Burns
1926 – 1936	Dympna Bruton
1937	Carmella Kissane
1938 – 1943	Francis Jerome Donovan
1944	Maria Joseph hegarty
1945 – 1948	Marion Corless
1949	Peter Fenessy
1950	Laurence Young
1951 – 1955	Isabel Waldron
1956 – 1959	Joan Jurd
1960	Amadeus Paine
1961	Genevieve Campbell
1962 – 1969	Marion Corless
1970 – 1976	Mildred Carroll
1977 – 1983	Maria Wheeler
1984 – 1994	Margaret Beirne
1995 – 2001	Caroline Duhigg
2002 – 2008	Michelle Huggonet
2009 – 2014	Fay Gurr
2015–Present	Anne Fry

Notable alumnae

Lyn Ashley - Actress
Natarsha Belling – Channel 10 newsreader
Grace Boelke – One of the first female graduates in medicine from the University of Sydney
Kerry Bray^[8] - awarded OAM in 2020 for 40 years of organising community running.
Kathleen Commins (1909 - 2003) was an Australian journalist, the first female editor of Australia's oldest literary journal, Hermes (in 1931). Kathleen joined the Sydney Morning Herald in 1934 and became the first female sports writer in Australia, then became the first female executive at the Sydney Morning Herald, as Assistant to the Chief of Staff from 1948 - 1969.^[9]^[10]^[11]
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor – Australian athlete and Olympian
Alexandra Hargreaves – rugby player
Deni Hines – singer and actress
Winnie Kiap - Papua New Guinea High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Karen Krantzcke (deceased) – tennis player - ranked seventh in women's tennis singles in 1970. The WTA named an award - The Karen Krantzke Sportsmanship Award in her honour.
Marjorie O'Neill - Member of the New South Wales Parliament for Coogee
Colleen Pyne^[12] - Awarded OAM in 1999 for service to education, and to the establishment of the North Australia Research Unit
Patricia Rolfe^[13] - Trailblazing Journalist and foreign correspondant for the Women's Weekly
Gemma Sisia – Humanitarian. Gemma established the School of St Jude in Tanzania in 2002, which "provides free, high-quality education to over 1,800 of the poorest Tanzanian children while boarding more than 1,400 students."
Kate Wild^[14] - investigative journalist and author, Walkley Award and Logie Award winner
Lara Worthington – Philanthropist and Business Woman

References

^ ^a ^b "St Vincent's College". Schools - New South Wales. Australian Boarding Schools' Association. 2007. Archived from the original on 17 November 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
^ ^a ^b St Vincents College Annual Report 2006 Archived 29 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:15-08-2007)
^ About St Vincent's College Archived 6 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:14-05-2007)
^ "New South Wales". School Directory. Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia. 2008. Archived from the original on 19 October 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
^ Butler, Jan (2006). "Member Schools". Members. The Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia. Archived from the original on 19 May 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
^ ^a ^b "Heads of New South Wales Independent Girls' Schools". AHIGS. The Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools. 2007. Retrieved 11 December 2007.
^ St Vincent's College - History Archived 18 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:14-05-2007)
^ Trembath, Murray (8 June 2020). "Kerry was always in the running for an award". St George & Sutherland Shire Leader. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
^ Lawson, Valerie (15 February 2003). "Most of the power, little of the glory". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
^ "Hermes 1931 Volume 37 Michaelmas Term". University of Sydney Library. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
^ "Women in the World". The Australian Women's Mirror. 16 June 1931. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
^ "1999 Australia Day Honours", Wikipedia, 27 October 2019, retrieved 25 June 2020
^ "Journalist and mentor to many". The Sydney Morning Herald. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
^ jadeb@schwartzmedia.com.au1529903604 (20 December 2019). "Kate Wild". The Monthly. Retrieved 25 June 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

External links

[ABSA-1] "St Vincent's College". Schools - New South Wales. Australian Boarding Schools' Association. 2007. Archived from the original on 17 November 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2008.

[AnnualReport-2] St Vincents College Annual Report 2006 Archived 29 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:15-08-2007)

[About-3] About St Vincent's College Archived 6 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:14-05-2007)

[AHISA-4] "New South Wales". School Directory. Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia. 2008. Archived from the original on 19 October 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2008.

[AGSA-5] Butler, Jan (2006). "Member Schools". Members. The Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia. Archived from the original on 19 May 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2008.

[AHIGS-6] "Heads of New South Wales Independent Girls' Schools". AHIGS. The Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools. 2007. Retrieved 11 December 2007.

[History-7] St Vincent's College - History Archived 18 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:14-05-2007)

[8] Trembath, Murray (8 June 2020). "Kerry was always in the running for an award". St George & Sutherland Shire Leader. Retrieved 17 June 2020.

[:0-9] Lawson, Valerie (15 February 2003). "Most of the power, little of the glory". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 May 2019.

[10] "Hermes 1931 Volume 37 Michaelmas Term". University of Sydney Library. Retrieved 1 May 2019.

[:2-11] "Women in the World". The Australian Women's Mirror. 16 June 1931. Retrieved 1 May 2019.

[12] "1999 Australia Day Honours", Wikipedia, 27 October 2019, retrieved 25 June 2020

[13] "Journalist and mentor to many". The Sydney Morning Herald. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 25 June 2020.

[14] @schwartzmedia.com.au1529903604 (20 December 2019). "Kate Wild". The Monthly. Retrieved 25 June 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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-*Kathleen Mary Commins (1909 - 2003) was an Australian journalist, the first female editor of Australia's oldest literary journal, [[Hermes (publication)|Hermes]] (in 1931). Kathleen joined the [[The Sydney Morning Herald|Sydney Morning Herald]] in 1934 and became the first female sports writer in Australia, then became the first female executive at the [[The Sydney Morning Herald|Sydney Morning Herald]], as Assistant to the Chief of Staff from 1948 - 1969.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Lawson|first=Valerie|date=2003-02-15|title=Most of the power, little of the glory|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/most-of-the-power-little-of-the-glory-20030215-gdg9x6.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-05-01|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Hermes 1931 Volume 37 Michaelmas Term|url=https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/6760|access-date=2019-05-01|website=University of Sydney Library}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=16 June 1931|title=Women in the World|work=The Australian Women's Mirror|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-407807977/view?sectionId=nla.obj-418867608&searchTerm=%22kathleen+commins%22&partId=nla.obj-407819293#page/n0/mode/1up|access-date=2019-05-01}}</ref>
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 * [[Melinda Gainsford-Taylor]] &ndash; Australian athlete and Olympian
 * [[Alexandra Hargreaves]] &ndash; rugby player