In this edition…

Past Pupil News …..Read about Imogen Doel, James Callaghan, and many more

St Andrew's College Dublin Alumni

St Andrew’s College, Booterstown Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin T: (01) 288 2785 - Email: alumni@st-andrews.ie - Website: www.sac.ie

R E M I N D E R S

SACA Annual Dinner - Friday 12 October 2012 - Westbury Hotel

Incorporating Reunions for the Classes of 1962, 1972, 1982

Booking form here

10 and 20 year reunions for the Classes of 1992 and 2002

Saturday 10 November 2012

Booking form here

September 2012 Newsletter

SACA

David McHugh ( 1991) and Giovanni Trapattoni

at the pre Euros training camp in Italy

IMOGEN DOEL

Imogen Doel (2001)

who now lives in London spoke to the Irish

Times about her recent appearance in the hit

E4 comedy drama Misfits. “I’ll never forget

stepping on to set for the first time. It was

such a rush”. The show, which has garnered critical and popular

acclaim, is about a group of young offenders who acquire superpowers.

Now based in London, this was

Imogen’s first TV show, having worked previously with a number of theatre

companies, including the Royal Court and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

“I was really excited as it’s one of my

favourite things to watch on TV, and a little nervous, as I know how popular

the programme is” she said.

The experience has clearly made her

hungry for more work in this area. “I am keen to learn more and if my

experience on Misfits is anything to go by, I just can’t wait.” Series 4 of Misfits

will air on E4 later in the year.

Irish Times August 2012

Past Pupil News

CRICKET

ALUMNI APPEAR AT THE GATE THEATRE Clare O’Malley (2006) and Sam McGovern (2009) are appearing in a new

play, The Last Summer, by Declan Hughes at The Gate Theatre. With a sound-track of 70’s rock classics, the play is a bittersweet comedy of love and loss. The

play runs until 3 November. www.gatetheatre.ie

Congratulations to Andrew

Balbirnie’ (2009) who scored an unbeaten century on the final

afternoon of Ireland A’s three-day game against Gloucestershire

seconds in Bath early in the s u m m e r - a f a n t a s t i c

achievement.

It was a herculean effort from the former St Andrew’s pupil who

went on to make his senior debut against Afghanistan later in the

summer.

James O’Callaghan (1992) who is Performance Director with the Irish Sailing

Association was also Manager of Irish Sailing’s Olympic programme.

Such was the strength of the Irish Olympic sailors that at one stage three of the four

campaigns were lying in top 10 positions. This was fantastic for Irish sailing as a

whole and in fact Annalise Murphy was only pipped at the post for a medal in the

Laser Radial Class.

Again in sailing David McHugh (1991) played a big part in RTE’s coverage of the

sailing in Weymouth.

St Andrew’s College had the distinction of having 3 past pupils participating in

various ways in the 2012 Olympic Games.

Mark Kyle (1992) helped Ireland

take fifth place in the Equestrian team compet i t ion w i th some so l id

performances in London, not least in the cross country at Greenwich Park.

Having already lost Camilla Speirs and Michael Ryan, any mistake from Kyle

would have spelled disaster for the Irish team with three scores counting

towards the overall score.

But the veteran kept his nerve to

complete the course and ensure his place in the final show jumping

discipline with his horse, Coolio.

Mark, who started riding at the age of three, has been a regular member of

Irish teams since his days as a junior and rode at the 2004 Athens Olympics

where he finished best of the Irish in 21st place on Drunken Disorderly. He

has also competed twice at the World

Equestrian Games (1998 and 2010) and in senior European championships

(1997 and 2011).

UNSUNG HEROES The Irish Independent recently ran a competition to find Ireland’s most influential

women and, while the winners came from various aspects of Irish life including business, publishing, show business etc., there were other women who were

nominated as “Unsung Heroes”. Professor Aoife McLysaght (1994) came second as one of several women who made a hugely positive contribution to Irish

life this year. She is considered one of the country's foremost scientists and is conducting significant research at the School of Genetics and Micro-biology at

Trinity College Dublin.

In recognition of her work, Aoife was awarded a €1.3m research grant from the European Research Council.

On 6th June Percy Lovegrove (Class of 1938) opened his beautiful seaside garden

in Sutton to the public in aid of the St Francis Hospice in Raheny and invited Dr Frewin and Sally Walker to attend. It was a lovely summer’s day and Percy’s

colourful garden looked at its very best. Percy, from Mountmellick, first entered St Andrew’s College as a boarder on 9th October 1933 when the College was located at

No 21 St Stephen’s Green. Coming from the country, looking down from his dormitory on the top floor was a totally new experience. From the written

memories Percy has given to us we get a sense of what it was like to be a boarder in the early days. The No. 10 tram passed before the school, having come up

Dawson Street, on its way to the terminus at Donnybrook. Percy recalls a camaraderie amongst the boarders which was lacking elsewhere throughout the

school. They were, he said, like a large family and the elders adopted a parental role of protection to the younger boys. Sundays, apart from Church attendance,

were largely unsupervised. There was free admission to the National Museum and

the National History Museum in the immediate vicinity. The more adventurous, provided sixpence had been saved from the weekly pocket money allowance of one

shilling, headed for the Stella Cinema in Rathmines. Nearing the end of term, each dormitory usually held a midnight feast. Someone’s mother would send a cooked

chicken, saved pocket money bought pork pies, delicacies from the Dublin Bread Company in Merrion Row and copious quantities of lemonade and ginger beer. At

midnight the food was laid out on a clean towel on the linoleum-covered floor and the feast began!

Sports Day ended the summer term with an air of jollity and celebration. The

break-up for the final summer holidays was sad in that colleagues who had built up very close friendships over the previous years now went their separate ways.

Some pupils sat for matriculation, others followed a commercial route. Whatever their decision, Percy says the years they spent at No. 21 St Stephen’s Green gave

the boys a good liberal education and prepared them well for whatever paths they

chose to follow.

Percy Lovegrove & Dr Nick Frewin

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Congratulations to the following on the birth of their babies:

Damaris (née Noble, 2000) and Alan, a son Charlie

David Mahon (1997) and Máire, a daughter Chloe Melanie Kinmonth-Cronin (2002) and Ross, a son Carter

Brian Nolan (1994) and Helen, a daughter Rachel Sharon Ellison (1992) and partner, a son David

Correction: In our March Newsletter we stated that Claetus Woodroofe and Sharon

O’Rourke had had a baby boy Charlie – actually it was twins – so welcome also to Harry, now six months old!

Engagements Congratulations to:

William Teversham (1989) and Lia Hegarty (1989) - another love story from St Andrew’s!

Grace Covitz (2001) to Geoff Ryan

Marriages

Love is most definitely in the air as there were lots of weddings this year - we may

need to open a photograph album! Congratulations to the following on tying the knot!

Sebastian White (2002) to Sophie Linehan (2003)

(Yet another love story from SAC!)

Rory Goodbody (2001) to Kim Roberts

Robbie McFarlane (2000) to Rebecca Robinson Alanna Fry (2000) to Scott MacKay

Jessica Arnold (2002) to Zach Doody David Jones (1992) to Gillian Wallace

Sibeal Kiely (2000) to Paul Drew

Sarah Jermyn (2000) to Ross O’Colmain Ian Dumbleton (1999) to Emma Browne

Rachel Morrogh (1999) to Conor Foley John Spotswood (1989) to Marion Eisert

Jonathan Eadie (2000) to Laura McDougall

Nader Fares was from the Class

of 1991. Many expressions of s y m p a t h y f r o m h i s

contemporaries have been received by the Alumni Office, all

reflecting the great sense of loss felt by all who knew him.

OBITUARIES

Sadly, we lost three of our past pupils in the recent past, Nader Fares, Alkiviadis

Goulandris and Cecil Colter. Our sympathies go to their families and friends.

We were saddened to hear that Cecil Colter passed away on Wednesday 19

September 2012. He was our oldest surviving past pupil, having left St Andrew’s

College in 1933 when it was located in St Stephen’s Green. Latterly Cecil attended the Clyde Road & St Stephen’s Green Lunch held annually in March/April. In 2010

the Lunch coincided with his 95th birthday. He came to the College that morning to look around the new building and we celebrated with coffee and cake and presented

him with a pair of SAC cufflinks. Six months later he attended the Official Opening of the building on 29 September 2010 with his wife Doris. Cecil wore his OBU

blazer at all school events and was very proud of the fact that he could still fit into

it! He is wearing it in this photo. We will miss him and our thoughts are with Doris, his daughter Linda and their extended family at this time.

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Alkiviadis Goulandris who was from the Class of 1960. He

joined the rest of his year for their 50 year reunion at the

Annual PPU Dinner in 2010.

Cecil and his wife Doris pictured at the official opening

of the new building in September 2010.