Marist College Eastwood

The first Marist School in Australia, St Patrick's, was established in 1872 by four Marist Brothers (Brothers Ludovic Laboureyras, Jarlath Finand, Augustinus MacDonald and Peter Tennyson), at The Rocks in Sydney.

On 2 February 1937, Brother Leopold Smith and three other Marist brothers (Brothers Ervan McDonough, Loyola Sullivan and Kenneth Harris) came to Eastwood and opened St Kevin's Boys' School, with 100 students. The school was established on the site of Eastwood House, the home built by William Rutledge and purchased by Edward Terry in 1863. Terry became the first mayor of Eastwood and later a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, and Eastwood House, with its extensive gardens, orchards and sporting grounds, was the location of many hunts.[1] The house, built in 1840 and extended in 1863, forms the central administration block for the College today.

In the 1960s the school was known as Marist Brothers' High School, Eastwood, and on 2 April 1993 the name of the school was changed to Marist College Eastwood.

In April 1999, teacher and student representatives of the school, were sent to Rome, to join with other teachers and students from Marist Schools around the world, to celebrate the canonisation of Marcellin Champagnat.

There are four houses, all of which are named after people who have contributed to the development of the school:

• Maloney – Sky blue, dark blue – named after Jim Maloney, first student to be enrolled.
• Elliott – Gold, green – named after J. W. Elliott, the local chemist who donated 3386 pounds to enable a school to be built behind Eastwood House.
• Cusack – Dark green, black – named after Fr. Cusack, first parish priest of St. Kevin's.
• Leopold – Burgundy, yellow – named after Br Leopold, first principal.

The school is a member of the Metropolitan Catholic Colleges Sports Association (MCS) competition, where they play against schools in Sydney's metropolitan region. MCS sports include football, Rugby 7's, cricket, swimming, Australian rules football, tennis, basketball, athletics, triathlon, and rugby league.

• Victor Dominello – politician
• Philip Esler FRSE (HSC 1970) – lawyer, academic administrator and academic; tenured as the Portland Chair in New Testament Studies at the University of Gloucestershire
• John Filan – former Sydney FC football player; Sydney FC goalkeeping coach
• Dave Gilbert – former Australian cricketer, CEO NSW cricket association
• Nick Lah (former staff member) – Northern Suburbs Rugby Club player
• Paul Newton – artist
• Mark O'Neill – rugby league player with Wests Tigers
• Gavin Robertson – former Australian cricketer
• Peter Ryan – ABC business journalist and former Washington bureau chief[2]
• Aziz Shavershian – bodybuilder and Internet celebrity otherwise known as Zyzz
• Richard Gill – conductor and music educator, advocate for the music education of children

• List of Catholic schools in New South Wales
• Catholic education in Australia

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