Threat of Split
During the school year in 1999, concern had spread amongst the college community that the school was to be split up on the basis that the school could prove more economical to run in a different fashion. This caused some concern and angst amongst the school community given the fairly recent amalgamation of several schools on the Peninsula. Indeed, only four years had passed since the school had come into being. Some had concerns that the college was to be split back into the initial schools which had been amalgamated to form the college; whilst others saw that a split between the High School and Primary School as more likely. The entire episode escalated to a stage that it engulfed the local Parish Priest at the time, Father John McKeon, who was seen as the protagonist in the threat to have the college de-amalgamated. However, as is common practice within the Catholic Church hierarchy, such a decision was never within the remit of the Parish Priest and any decision to split the college would thus have emanated from much a much higher authority within the Brisbane Catholic Archodiocese.
As it transpired, several students, teachers and parents supported the college in its current form and opposed any moves to destabilise the college and to consider de-amalgamation for purely financial objectives. With active support from the college principal at the time, Mr Paul Woodcock, it was decided by authorities that the college would remain in its amalgamated form.
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