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Saltwater hearts / Jeff McGill.

Saltwater hearts / Jeff McGill.
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ISBN 9781761069024
Author McGill, Jeff (author)
Title Saltwater hearts / Jeff McGill.
Cover title Saltwater hearts : :150 years of St Mary Star of the Sea College, Wollongong.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Cammeraygal Country ; Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2023.
©2023.
Description xviii, 286 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations,maps,plates ; 26 cm.
Note Includes appendix and notes.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 247) and index.
Summary Some nuns hid behind convent walls but not Good Sams. In 1873, Mother de Sales Maloney started teaching at the small timber hut by St. Xavier's Church on South Beach. To start with, the sisters had some trouble taming the barefoot colonial girls of Wollongong, but a decade later St. Mary Star of the Sea girls were regularly passing the annual university entrance exams.Over the decades the school grew and added buildings, the curriculum expanded and the skirt hems rose and fell. Through world wars, strikes and depressions, St Mary's encouraged young women to challenge the social constraints of their time while championing compassion and social justice. The magnificent frangipani that adorned the entrance of the college has toppled over, and the last of the nuns has retired. But the Benedictine spirit lives on in a school community that changes with the times, nurturing girls of all backgrounds and helping them to grow into women of faith and integrity. This is the story of one of the finest and oldest schools in Australia.
Subjects St Mary Star of the Sea College
Wollongong (N.S.W.)
Call number 2023.148
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