Page 55 - The Gonzaga Record 1994
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As part of the organisation we had
played down our advertising campaign for
fear of over-crowding, but our lack of
experience let us down and attendance
was not phenomenal. The Notre Dame
girls held their ‘Race Night’ a few weeks
later and crossed the £5,000 mark easily
thanks to a ‘no holds barred’ advertising
campaign’. ‘Good judgement comes from
experience, experience comes from bad
judgement’. What the girls did not realise
was that they were supposed to use their
own bad judgement, not ours!
And so a new school year crept up on us
and before resuming our fund-raising
obligations the issue of the trip to New
York had to be resolved. A vote by Fifth
Year saw myself and Bryan McCarthy
flying across the Atlantic with a troop of
others consisting of Mr Potts, Gonzaga’s
staff representative, two girls from Notre
Dame, a member of their school staff and
UNICEF’s Marion Ryan. However, the
actual happenings in New York have Finghin Collins plays for UNICEF
proved to be the bane of my Gonzaga
Record ‘career’ - prior accounts have
proven too controversial for publication.
The editor, although liberal, told me it was not worth his career to include the hard
hitting accounts of life on the streets of the Big Apple with our venerable headmaster.
By early ’94 we were therefore pondering the conclusive chapter in our UNICEF
project. Eventually we decided on a piano recital by Finghin Collins, the recent winner
of the RTE Musician of the Future competition. Again after much organisation by many,
our grande finale took place on Wednesday 2 March at 8 pm when a large congregation
filled the chapel to listen to Finghin play on the school’s new Weinbach grand piano.
Afterwards there was a wine and cheese reception in the hall with the help of the
Ladies’ Committee - a suitably auspicious conclusion to a very successful night and
indeed project as a whole. Between the two schools, Gonzaga College SJ and Notre
Dame des Missions, we had raised over £18,000, a considerable achievement.
Gary Hannify {Senior 5 A)
47
played down our advertising campaign for
fear of over-crowding, but our lack of
experience let us down and attendance
was not phenomenal. The Notre Dame
girls held their ‘Race Night’ a few weeks
later and crossed the £5,000 mark easily
thanks to a ‘no holds barred’ advertising
campaign’. ‘Good judgement comes from
experience, experience comes from bad
judgement’. What the girls did not realise
was that they were supposed to use their
own bad judgement, not ours!
And so a new school year crept up on us
and before resuming our fund-raising
obligations the issue of the trip to New
York had to be resolved. A vote by Fifth
Year saw myself and Bryan McCarthy
flying across the Atlantic with a troop of
others consisting of Mr Potts, Gonzaga’s
staff representative, two girls from Notre
Dame, a member of their school staff and
UNICEF’s Marion Ryan. However, the
actual happenings in New York have Finghin Collins plays for UNICEF
proved to be the bane of my Gonzaga
Record ‘career’ - prior accounts have
proven too controversial for publication.
The editor, although liberal, told me it was not worth his career to include the hard
hitting accounts of life on the streets of the Big Apple with our venerable headmaster.
By early ’94 we were therefore pondering the conclusive chapter in our UNICEF
project. Eventually we decided on a piano recital by Finghin Collins, the recent winner
of the RTE Musician of the Future competition. Again after much organisation by many,
our grande finale took place on Wednesday 2 March at 8 pm when a large congregation
filled the chapel to listen to Finghin play on the school’s new Weinbach grand piano.
Afterwards there was a wine and cheese reception in the hall with the help of the
Ladies’ Committee - a suitably auspicious conclusion to a very successful night and
indeed project as a whole. Between the two schools, Gonzaga College SJ and Notre
Dame des Missions, we had raised over £18,000, a considerable achievement.
Gary Hannify {Senior 5 A)
47
