On Monday, the College celebrated its annual Athletics Carnival, with students vying for House points in track and field events as well as other games and activities. Recently I discovered a book that was very unassuming. On opening the book, I found a wonderful piece of our College’s history — very detailed Mount Lilydale College sports records from 1965.
The book has great detail, telling us the Sports Captain and House Sports Captain of the time. It was also very interesting to note that the Houses then were called Coolock, Goretti, McAuley (pictured above) and Loretto. On further inspection, I found the 1965 Inter House Sports Program. The 1965 event was held on Sunday 26 September at the Croydon Monastery Oval. The program has the listed events that students participated in, many of which are ones our students participated in on Monday. Another discovery was the measurements of the races. They used the British Imperial System, as the metric system was only introduced at the beginning of 1965 (see images in the gallery below).
In the spirit of Catherine McAuley, who said “God does not look at the action but at the spirit motivating it,” the students had a great day of participation.
The Sports Record book and cup are displayed in our Archives. Members of our community are invited to visit us and view our Archives on a Wednesday. Contact us via email to archives@mlmc.vic.edu.au in advance to take up this opportunity.
