Skip to content
The Catholic Leader
  • Home
  • News
    • QLD
    • Australia
    • Regional
    • Education
    • World
    • Vatican
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Life
    • Family
    • Relationships
    • Faith
  • Culture
  • People
  • Subscribe
  • Jobs
  • Contribute
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • QLD
    • Australia
    • Regional
    • Education
    • World
    • Vatican
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Life
    • Family
    • Relationships
    • Faith
  • Culture
  • People
  • Subscribe
  • Jobs
  • Contribute
No Result
View All Result
The Catholic Leader
No Result
View All Result
Home News Education

Time capsule brings back memories of last 50 years

byZenit
9 June 2014 - Updated on 1 April 2021
Reading Time: 2 mins read
AA

Jubilee celebrations: Bishop Brian Finnigan, Brisbane Catholic Education executive director Pam Betts, Fiona King, Cathy Jackson, St Kevin’s parish priest Marist Father Aidan Carvill, principal Helen Mackay, Wayne Swan, Peter Gordon and Marist Father John Gillen at St Kevin’s Golden Jubilee Fun Day on May 24.

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
Jubilee celebrations: Bishop Brian Finnigan, Brisbane Catholic Education executive director Pam Betts, Fiona King, Cathy Jackson, St Kevin’s parish priest Marist Father Aidan Carvill, principal Helen Mackay, Wayne Swan, Peter Gordon and Marist Father John Gillen at St Kevin’s Golden Jubilee Fun Day on May 24.
Jubilee celebrations: Bishop Brian Finnigan, Brisbane Catholic Education executive director Pam Betts, Fiona King, Cathy Jackson, St Kevin’s parish priest Marist Father Aidan Carvill, principal Helen Mackay, Wayne Swan, Peter Gordon and Marist Father John Gillen at St Kevin’s Golden Jubilee Fun Day on May 24.

By Emilie Ng

A FORMER student from St Kevin’s Primary School, Geebung, returned 25 years later to a “breathtaking” scene when he opened a time capsule he helped bury back in 1989.

Nick Wood was 10 years old when he and two other students buried a case filled with uniforms, a tape recording of the official school song written in 1989, handwritten letters, homework, and newspaper clippings about the school.

The capsule was buried to commemorate the school’s silver jubilee with plans for it to be opened in 2014 for the golden jubilee.

Mr Wood and fellow former student Michael Mukauskas, one of the two who originally helped to bury the capsule, retrieved it in February this year as part of the school’s golden jubilee celebrations.

He said he barely remembered the event, let alone that he was one of the original students who buried the capsule.

One former student who did remember the event in 1989 was the school’s first enrolled student Lorraine Caesar, nee Tierney.

Her name was first on the school’s register on January 28, 1964, the official opening day.

Mrs Caesar enrolled her children in Year 1 in 1989 and one of her daughters added a drawing to the time capsule.

The Tierney family was one of the first parishioners in Geebung, long before the area had a church.

Related Stories

Abdallah family deliver powerful Vatican speech

Look to the future, not the past, pope tells families

US states start banning abortion following historic Supreme Court ruling

Mrs Caesar’s father helped build St Kevin’s Church, which opened in 1962. She returned to the school in February for the capsule reveal.

“It was a real thrill and a real honour to be there, and see just how beautiful the school has become,” Mrs Caesar said.

Her grandson will be enrolled next year.

The school has continued celebrating 50 years of Catholic education in Geebung throughout the year, most recently inviting Bishop Brian Finnigan to celebrate Mass on May 24.

The Mass coincided with a family day of live entertainment, food and rides.

Principal Helen Mackay, who was a student in the late ’60s and now the school’s sixth principal, said for 50 years St Kevin’s had “provided robust and comprehensive primary education”.

“Inevitably there have been many changes over the decades … but amongst all this change St Kevin’s has remained constant in the most important aspect of all, its vision for a Catholic education based on Gospel values and a commitment to the traditional school motto – To Work Is To Pray,” Mrs Mackay said.

The school plans to bury a second time capsule at the end of the year but is yet to decide if it would remain buried for 25 or 50 years.

Photo gallery: former students Nick Wood and Michael Mukauskas (left) helped bury a time capsule with artifacts from the school in 1989; and returned this year to retrieve it (right). Click to enlarge.

 

1 of 2
- +

1.

2.

 

 

ShareTweet
Previous Post

A heart open in faith and hope will hear God

Next Post

More sex but less happiness

Zenit

Related Posts

Abdallah family deliver powerful Vatican speech
Family

Abdallah family deliver powerful Vatican speech

27 June 2022
Look to the future, not the past, pope tells families
News

Look to the future, not the past, pope tells families

27 June 2022
US states start banning abortion following historic Supreme Court ruling

US states start banning abortion following historic Supreme Court ruling

27 June 2022
Next Post

More sex but less happiness

Holy Land presidents

Pope gathers Holy Land leaders in name of peace

Pope Francis

Pope says being Christian demands concrete actions

Popular News

  • Celebration marks Sister Angela Mary’s 75 years’ service to Mater and Queensland

    Celebration marks Sister Angela Mary’s 75 years’ service to Mater and Queensland

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Confraternity Carnival ready for a full return in Mackay next week

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Three Queensland deacons preparing for priestly ordinations in the next week

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • US states start banning abortion following historic Supreme Court ruling

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Parents of young mother considered for sainthood share powerful testimony at World Meeting of Families

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
Search our job finder
No Result
View All Result

Latest News

Abdallah family deliver powerful Vatican speech
Family

Abdallah family deliver powerful Vatican speech

by Guest Contributor
27 June 2022
0

By Agencies including CNS, Vatican News and staff writers Danny and Leila Abdallah used a speech during...

Look to the future, not the past, pope tells families

Look to the future, not the past, pope tells families

27 June 2022
US states start banning abortion following historic Supreme Court ruling

US states start banning abortion following historic Supreme Court ruling

27 June 2022

Why you should go on a pilgrimage — more than once

25 June 2022
Celebration marks Sister Angela Mary’s 75 years’ service to Mater and Queensland

Celebration marks Sister Angela Mary’s 75 years’ service to Mater and Queensland

25 June 2022

Never miss a story. Sign up to the Weekly Round-Up
eNewsletter now to receive headlines directly in your email.

Sign up to eNews
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Contribute
  • Jobs
  • Subscribe

The Catholic Leader is an Australian award-winning Catholic newspaper that has been published by the Archdiocese of Brisbane since 1929. Our journalism seeks to provide a full, accurate and balanced Catholic perspective of local, national and international news while upholding the dignity of the human person.

Copyright © All Rights Reserved The Catholic Leader
Accessibility Information | Privacy Policy | Archdiocese of Brisbane

The Catholic Leader acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the First Peoples of this country and especially acknowledge the traditional owners on whose lands we live and work throughout the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • QLD
    • Australia
    • Regional
    • Education
    • World
    • Vatican
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Life
    • Family
    • Relationships
    • Faith
  • Culture
  • People
  • Subscribe
  • Jobs
  • Contribute

Copyright © All Rights Reserved The Catholic Leader

0
    0
    Your Cart
    Your cart is emptyChoose another Subscription
    Continue Shopping