House System
As with most Australian schools, Fairholme utilises a house system. The houses of the College are:
- Black House (Black) – Named after benefactor W.R Black.
- Cameron House (Gold) – Named after the original owner of the property "Fairholme", Mrs Anne Cameron.
- Powell House (Green) – Named after benefactor Ray Powell.
- Stephens House (Blue) – Named after benefactor, S.G Stephens.
Read more about this topic: Fairholme College
Famous quotes containing the words house and/or system:
“Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us—that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions—they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate ...”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)