OUR STORIES

• WOMEN COMMIT TO FLEDGLING FOOTBALL TEAM

  ​In 2019, for the first time in its 90-year history, the Old Paradians’ Association Amateur Football Club is to field a women’s team . . . and at the Garvey Oval recently, two prospective female recruits Danielle Curcio (left) and Makayla Paraskevas posed for the camera in traditional club guernseys on what was an information day convened by the club.
  
  A former CLC student, Makayla’s connection with the Old Paradians is through his brother-in-law Ross Licciardi, who currently represents the men’s senior team.
  
  “I was interested from the moment the women’s team was announced,” Makayla said. “I was going to play for another team, but Ross said to me ‘The Old Paradians are going to establish a women’s team, just hold back’.

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• ASSOCIATION ESTABLISHES CAREER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

  ​The Old Paradians’ Association (OPA) has established a Career Assistance Program designed to facilitate vocational opportunities for individuals and businesses aligned with the Parade College community.
  
  The program will initially involve the Old Paradians’ Association Amateur Football Club (OPAAFC), whose senior team recently earned promotion to Division 1, in assisting both players and support staff on their career pathways. It will draw on the support of the many hundreds of Old Paradians and friends of Parade within the OPA’s extensive business network.
  
  The benefits of the Career Assistance Program are already on show at Secon Freight Logistics – the Considine family company of which Old Paradian Steve Nailer (1987) is the CEO.
  
  In June this year, Secon employed Beau Calow (pictured) and James Healy (2018), both of whom represented the Old Paradians as players at Under 19 level, on a full-time basis.

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• HERE’S TO 50 YEARS! BUNDOORA REUNION BECKONS

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• PREMIERSHIP PLAYER JACK O’REILLY REMEMBERED

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• OPs ADVANCE TO D1, EARN PREMIERSHIP TILT

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• OPs TAKE OVER THE ATH IN ENCORE21

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UPCOMING EVENTS

• OPA Monthly Luncheon

  The RACV Club on Bourke Street provides the idyllic forum for the time-honoured Association Luncheon. Cost is $42 with Guest Speaker, plus drinks at bar prices.

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• 2018-10-12 Reunion Celebrating 50 Years at Bundoora 1968-2018

  In this the 50th anniversary of the opening of Parade College Bundoora, students and teachers past and present are invited back to the College to take in a view of the ever-changing campus and raise a glass to the days of old.
  
  This is the reunion to end all reunions, in celebration of the first 50 years of the Bundoora Campus.

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• OPA Monthly Luncheon

  As is normal practice for the November Luncheon, Parade Principal Dr Denis Moore will report the school’s 2018 activities through what is the Bundoora campus’ 50th year and its plans for 2019.

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ABOUT

The Old Paradians' Association seeks to foster links with all past students, whose formative years were shaped by the Christian Brothers of Parade College.

Formally established in 1914, the Association’s inaugural 13-man committee included the President James Kennedy (who completed his Matriculation class at Parade in 1890), Reverend Brother JM Dwyer and the Rush brothers Robert and William, all of whom maintained a continuing interest in the Association for the rest of their lives.