Newman College has last week celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the beginning of the Newman System of Schools.
The date marks the day when the Brigidine, Marist and Siena Colleges were amalgamated to compose a Catholic Secondary College dedicated to the Christian Education of young people.
Brother Timothy McDonald was the Founding Headmaster of Newman Senior College when it was established in 1977.
The configuration at that time was to create a co-educational school for Year 11 and 12, a boys only school for Years 8, 9 and 10 and a girls only school for Years 8, 9 and 10.
A new College crest was designed and Cardinal John Henry Newman’s personal motto was adopted by the College: Through Shadows and Images to Truth
The name of Newman was chosen in recognition of the great religious thinker and leader of the Nineteenth Century, John Henry Newman, who was a Cardinal of the Catholic Church.
The cause for the Canonisation of Cardinal Newman is now well underway and he is officially known by the title of Blessed John Henry Newman.
After several more changes, the Primary and Secondary schools were amalgamated in 2005 to form the Newman College we know today.
This involved the relocation of Years 8 and 9 students from Doubleview to the Churchlands Campus.
A special Family Mass will be held on Wednesday 22 February to celebrate the 200 year bicentenary of Marist Education, with Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton as Principal celebrant. The Newman College inaugural Family Mass will celebrate the Catholic and Marist identity of Western Australia’s largest Catholic school.