St Laurence's College

St Laurence's College (known colloquially as Lauries) is a private Catholic school for boys located in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was founded by the Christian Brothers in 1915.[2] The school currently has an enrolment of over 1900 students from Year 5 to Year 12. St Laurence's is a College in the Edmund Rice Tradition. St Laurence's is currently associated with the Associated Independent Colleges sporting association.

St Laurence's College
Address
82 Stephens Road, South Brisbane

4101
Information
MottoLatin: Facere et Docere
(to do and to teach)
Established1915
PrincipalChris Leadbetter[1]
CampusSouth Brisbane
Colour(s)Black and Gold          
Websitewww.slc.qld.edu.au

Some of the college's historic buildings are listed on the Brisbane Heritage Register.[3]

Gair Field, St Laurence's College, July 2010

History

The college was officially opened and blessed on Sunday 11 July 1915 by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane James Duhig. The school was operated by the Christian Brothers.[4][5][6] On the first day there were 270 students and a staff of five teachers. The monastery for the Brothers was built in 1917.[5]

Since 1961, the school has also operated sporting fields in the southern Brisbane suburb of Runcorn, which contains 8 playing fields and a function centre.[2]

In 1977 the school established an outdoor educational facility, Camp Laurence, at Lake Moogerah, to the west of Brisbane.[2]

In 1994 a College Board was established as an advisory group for the principal. In 1996 the first lay principal, Mr D Frederiksen, was appointed with the Christian Brothers retaining ownership and control of the College.[2] The last of the brothers left the monastery in 2009, and the building was converted in 2010 into tge school's administration building.[2]

In 2010, as part of an agreement with the adjacent Mater Hospital Brisbane, the school's land was leased for 25 years to build a six-storey car park, which now houses the college's synthetic oval on top along with a new 1500 seat auditorium.[2]


Notable alumni

Alumni of St Laurence's College are known as "Old Boys" and may elect to join the school's alumni association, the St Laurence's College Old Boys Association. Notable alumni include:

Business
Entertainment, arts and the media
Politics, law and public service
Science and medicine
  • Joseph King OBE, sugar technologist and administrator[7]
  • Robert John Walsh OBE, founder of the NSW Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service and former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales[8]
Sports

See also

References
  1. "Principal's Welcome". St Laurence's College.
  2. "History". St Laurence's College. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  3. "St Laurence's College". Brisbane Heritage Register. Brisbane City Council. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  4. Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0
  5. "History". St Laurence's College. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  6. "ST. LAURENCE'S SCHOOL, SOUTH BRISBANE". The Catholic Advocate. IV, (201). Queensland, Australia. 15 April 1915. p. 16. Retrieved 21 July 2020 – via National Library of Australia.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  7. Kerr, John D. King, Norman Joseph (1905–1981). Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  8. Crane, Helen Bashir. Walsh, Robert John (1917–1983). Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
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