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no further apart than five feet, but they apart.
enjoyed it anyway!). Since the Club was a Towards the end of the year we had our
bit more autonomous this year, the traditional falling-off of membership. This
Treasurer was able to set aside funds for year, however, we had a brain-wave and
the purchase of a CD-ROM. This was a introduced the Friday Computer Games
venture that had failed miserably the year Competition, as a way to increase
before. We were also able to purchase a membership. Players would pay 50p to
cable to transfer data between non enter and prizes would be awarded from
networked computers, and the remaining the entrance fees collected, with a
money will be passed on to next year’s minimum of five players to ensure decent
Committee. prizes. The first (and last!) competition
Father Christmas was good to the Club was a massive success as we scraped
this year, and after we came back from together five people to play. Diagnosing
Christmas holidays, there was a laser the problem was not hard. People had
printer in the Computer Room. This, when asked if “Street Fighter II” would be one
connected to one of the new computers of the games; they were let down to hear
running Windows, brought up the standard the computers we would be using couldn’t
of output tremendously. Indeed, CV- possibly run anything that good. The only
printing became a popular activity in the way to attract members at the end of the
Computer Room. A large portion of the year was with the CD-ROM we had
membership consisted of First Years, and bought.
playing games remained an important part Special thanks to Mr Barber for his ever
of the Computer Club. Members who were present support, Fr Dunne, the Committee
well versed in the various arts of (listed earlier), and of course, the
computing undertook to teach the others members!
on a voluntary basis. But when one
voluntary student asked ‘Can we play Brian Jones (Senior 5A)
games now?’ the classes started to fall
THE BURREN TRIP
The first eight months that a boy spends in Gonzaga have, according to Ian Brennan, no
significance except as a period spent in anticipation of this, the only event in the First
Year calendar. Could it be that Ian couldn’t sing and was ejected from the Opera?
Suffice it to say that once again First Years had an exciting and educational trip to
Clare in ‘94, thanks as ever to the generous effort of Ms MacConville and Mr Byrne,
and this year to Fr Dunne and Ms Keogh, who accompanied them to the brink.
Following Paul Brady’s article in Record ‘93, however, we felt in a dilemma: Paul
had written, it seemed, what must be the definitive geological, geographical,
topographical and historical account of the region (if not, perhaps, the ultimate Hot
Press social article), leaving this year’s annalist not a lot to add. We have therefore
restricted our coverage to a photo feature.
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enjoyed it anyway!). Since the Club was a Towards the end of the year we had our
bit more autonomous this year, the traditional falling-off of membership. This
Treasurer was able to set aside funds for year, however, we had a brain-wave and
the purchase of a CD-ROM. This was a introduced the Friday Computer Games
venture that had failed miserably the year Competition, as a way to increase
before. We were also able to purchase a membership. Players would pay 50p to
cable to transfer data between non enter and prizes would be awarded from
networked computers, and the remaining the entrance fees collected, with a
money will be passed on to next year’s minimum of five players to ensure decent
Committee. prizes. The first (and last!) competition
Father Christmas was good to the Club was a massive success as we scraped
this year, and after we came back from together five people to play. Diagnosing
Christmas holidays, there was a laser the problem was not hard. People had
printer in the Computer Room. This, when asked if “Street Fighter II” would be one
connected to one of the new computers of the games; they were let down to hear
running Windows, brought up the standard the computers we would be using couldn’t
of output tremendously. Indeed, CV- possibly run anything that good. The only
printing became a popular activity in the way to attract members at the end of the
Computer Room. A large portion of the year was with the CD-ROM we had
membership consisted of First Years, and bought.
playing games remained an important part Special thanks to Mr Barber for his ever
of the Computer Club. Members who were present support, Fr Dunne, the Committee
well versed in the various arts of (listed earlier), and of course, the
computing undertook to teach the others members!
on a voluntary basis. But when one
voluntary student asked ‘Can we play Brian Jones (Senior 5A)
games now?’ the classes started to fall
THE BURREN TRIP
The first eight months that a boy spends in Gonzaga have, according to Ian Brennan, no
significance except as a period spent in anticipation of this, the only event in the First
Year calendar. Could it be that Ian couldn’t sing and was ejected from the Opera?
Suffice it to say that once again First Years had an exciting and educational trip to
Clare in ‘94, thanks as ever to the generous effort of Ms MacConville and Mr Byrne,
and this year to Fr Dunne and Ms Keogh, who accompanied them to the brink.
Following Paul Brady’s article in Record ‘93, however, we felt in a dilemma: Paul
had written, it seemed, what must be the definitive geological, geographical,
topographical and historical account of the region (if not, perhaps, the ultimate Hot
Press social article), leaving this year’s annalist not a lot to add. We have therefore
restricted our coverage to a photo feature.
71
