Our Lady of Mercy College
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Our Lady of Mercy College, Heidelberg, is a Catholic Girls' secondary school situated in Melbourne, Australia and conducted by the Sisters of Mercy, a congregation of religious Sisters founded in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley.
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[edit] History
On the 24th January, 1910, three Sisters of Mercy came to "Roma", a private house in Cape Street. Two Sisters took charge of St. Monica's (now St. John's) Primary School and a secondary school was commenced at "Roma" with a nucleus of six pupils. It became known as Our Lady of Mercy College.
The convent of Mercy was built in 1911 and was blessed and opened on the feast of Our Lady of Mercy, September 24th, 1911. OLMC still celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Mercy each year during term 3. A new wooden school house was built in 1911 and the school had an enrolment of 14 pupils. The school was named Our Lady of Mercy College in 1927. Two brick classrooms which today are part of the administration block were built in 1928. By this time the enrolment had risen to about 70. The school buildings were further extended in the 1950s and, in 1959, the area opposite the college in Yarra Street was bought for sports and playing space. A gymnasium was built on this area and initially completed in early 1985. This original building was incorporated into the theatre/gymnasium complex in 1997-8.
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Emma Alberici - finance editor and reporter for ABC TV's The 7.30 Report
[edit] Sources
Our Lady of Mercy College, 2000.
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