Subject: australasia #402
Date: Friday, 11 August 2000 4:58 PM
MURDERERS, DRUGGIES, THIEVES AND THUGS: NO MATCH FOR ST JOHN BOSCO IN
OLYMPIC CITY
Chris Ford
SYDNEY: 10th August -- The St John Bosco (College, Engadine) Mock Trial
Team has been competing throughout the year in the state competition and
have just successfully advanced to the final sixteen schools in New South
Wales. The talented Year 11 students are working under the tutelage of
their Legal Studies teacher, Mrs Rhonda Thompson and parent, Mr John Hart.
The team has prosecuted and defended murderers, drug cultivators, thieves
and thugs. They now lead all of Eastern Sydney as the only remaining team
from the area.
That's not all that St. John Bosco's has been achieving. Staff and students
from St John Bosco College are celebrating an Olympic victory even before
the Games have begun. A song sung by the students has been selected to be
included in the Opening Ceremony of the Games. Early last year a combined
Bosco College and Bosco Primary choir recorded a demonstration tape of a
song called Under Southern Skies. The song was written and composed by
Mrs Maria Millward, a former Bosco teacher, and her brother, Mr Damien
Halloran, a former Bosco student. It was one of thousands of songs
submitted in a competition for inclusion in the Olympic celebrations. The
song has been chosen as one of four songs to be included in the Opening
Ceremony.
