St Vincent's College, Potts Point

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.

St Vincent's College
St Vincent's College
Location
St Vincent's College
Potts Point, Sydney, New South Wales

Australia
Coordinates33°52′9″S 151°13′26″E
Information
Former nameVictoria Street Roman Catholic School
TypeIndependent single-sex secondary day and boarding school
MottoLatin: Scientia cum Religione
(Religion and Knowledge united)
Religious affiliation(s)Sisters of Charity
DenominationRoman Catholic
Patron saint(s)
Established1858 (1858)[1]
Educational authorityNew South Wales Department of Education
PrincipalAnne Fry
Staff~63[2]
Years7-12
GenderGirls
Enrolmentc. 680 (2006[2])
Campus typeUrban
Colour(s)Blue, gold and white             
NicknameVinnies
Affiliations
Websitewww.stvincents.nsw.edu.au

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.
  • 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[9] - Awarded OAM in 1999 for service to education, and to the establishment of the North Australia Research Unit
  • Patricia Rolfe[10] - 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[11] - investigative journalist and author, Walkley Award and Logie Award winner
  • Lara Worthington – Philanthropist and Business Woman

See also

References
  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.
  2. St Vincents College Annual Report 2006 Archived 29 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:15-08-2007)
  3. About St Vincent's College Archived 6 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:14-05-2007)
  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.
  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.
  6. "Heads of New South Wales Independent Girls' Schools". AHIGS. The Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools. 2007. Retrieved 11 December 2007.
  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.
  9. "1999 Australia Day Honours", Wikipedia, 27 October 2019, retrieved 25 June 2020
  10. "Journalist and mentor to many". The Sydney Morning Herald. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  11. jadeb@schwartzmedia.com.au1529903604 (20 December 2019). "Kate Wild". The Monthly. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
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