Parade College

Parade College
Location
Bundoora & Preston, Victoria Australia
Coordinates	37°41′30″S 145°4′11″E / 37.69167°S 145.06972°E / -37.69167; 145.06972Coordinates: 37°41′30″S 145°4′11″E / 37.69167°S 145.06972°E / -37.69167; 145.06972
Information
Type	Independent, single-sex (male)
Motto	Latin: Tenetes Traditiones (Hold fast the traditions)
Denomination	Roman Catholic, Christian Brothers
Established	1871
Principal	Dr. Denis J Moore CFC
Years	7-12
Enrolment	1,863
Campus	Bundoora (years 7-12) Preston (years 7-12)
Colour(s)	Purple, green and blue
Website	www.parade.vic.edu.au

Parade College is a Catholic all-boys multi-campus secondary school, run under the auspices of the Congregation of Christian Brothers and Edmund Rice Education Australia. The school has two campuses in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria; one at Bundoora; the other, eight kilometres away at Preston.

The school was founded by four Christian Brothers in January 1871. They had taught for two years in a small school behind St Francis’ Church in Lonsdale Street before moving into the bluestone building in Victoria Parade, East Melbourne. The school's official name was CBC East Melbourne but it was generally known as Parade College. About one hundred boys enrolled on the first day and this number grew steadily over the years. This building was affectionately known as the "Old Bluestone Pile" and the school song takes its name from this building.

Eventually in 1953 it became necessary to move the junior classes to a site newly acquired by the Old Paradians Association at Alphington. In 1968 further expansion was necessary and the college moved to a site of 80 acres (32 ha) on Plenty Road, Bundoora. The old school premises in East Melbourne were taken over by Cathedral College (this school closed in 1995). In 1988, the junior classes at Alphington were moved to Bundoora and all three campuses occupied the spacious grounds large enough to give each campus its own recreational areas. In 2009 Parade opened a second campus in Preston. This had formerly been a long-established school, Marist College Preston which had been renamed Redden College before becoming Samaritan Catholic College. This new campus of Parade Years offers 7–9 classes as well as the Year 10 Edmund Rice Pathways Program and Year 11 VCAL studies.

Today, the college has almost 1900 students in Years 7–12 across both the Bundoora and the Preston campuses. The four houses of the school are named after the founding Brothers: Treacy (Yellow), Hughes (Blue), Bodkin (Red) and Lynch (Green). The school is a member of the Associated Catholic Colleges. Its "old boy" association is the Old Paradians. The school's sporting colours are purple, green and blue, which also feature in the lyrics of the school war-cry.

Notable alumni

• Gavan McCormack, Asian languages and affairs academic
• Walter De Backer (Gotye), singer and musician
• Richard Di Natale, Leader of the Australian Greens and Senator for Victoria
• Terry Moran AC, Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
• Andrew Robb AO MP, Commonwealth Shadow Minister for Finance and Debt Reduction, and former Howard Government Minister
• General John Stuart Baker, AC, DSM, Australian army general; Chief of the Australian Defence Force 1995-1998; and Director of the Defence Intelligence Organisation 1990-92
• Sir Bernard Callinan CBE, DSO, MC, Commanding Officer, 20th Australian Infantry Battalion, the Pacific
• Vice-Admiral Sir John Augustine Collins KBE, CB, Captain, HMAS Sydney; Commodore, HMA China Fleet
• Major General Andrew James (Jim) Molan AO, DSC, Australian Defence College, 1st Division, 1st Brigade, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
• Michael Kenneth Pratt, George Cross recipient for bravery (and Australia's only living Medal recipient)
• Adam Dale, Australian Cricketer
• Gary Honey, Silver Medalist, long jump, 1984 Los Angeles Olympiad, dual Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist
• Jarrod Molloy, Australian Rules Football player, Collingwood/Brisbane
• Massimo Murdocca, Association Football player, Brisbane Roar/Melbourne City
• Tony Sneazwell, Australian high-jumper, 1964 Tokyo Olympiad, 1968 Mexico Olympiad
• Jade Gresham, Australian Rules Football player, St Kilda

Facilities

External links

• Parade College, Bundoora
• Old Paradians