Houses
There are currently four houses at St. Charles College, with equal numbers of students in each. O'Meara House was disbanded by former Principal, Mr Ronnie Kuhn, in 1991 due to small numbers at the College in the early years of his Principalship. Kuhn's reasoning for disbanding O'Meara House was that the numbers at the Senior School were at about 180 which meant four Houses had approximately 45 boys each - three Houses meant 60 boys per House.
- O'Meara House (green) - O'Meara House was named after arguably the most prominent benefactor of the School - after founder, Charles Jolivet. Thomas Patrick O'Meara was a very successful timber merchant in the city with three sons at the School: G O'Meara, James Justin O'Meara and Michael Henry O'Meara. The last two were killed in the First World War - and are duly recorded on the Roll Of Honour in the Chapel. TP O'Meara was a great benefactor of the College and a good friend of founder Bishop Charles Constant Jolivet. He was still going strong in an officiating role at the College in the late 1920s - he died on 19 February 1929 at age 90.
- Conway House (red) - was named after Miss Mary Conway - the singing and music teacher who arranged the concerts in the Old Scott’s Theatre. Mary Conway, daughter of James Patrick Conway (1885 – 1914) had her sister, Ellen Hunter (nee Conway) a music teacher at St Charles College as well.
- Delalle House (yellow) - was named after Fr Henri Delalle, Principal of the School in 1896 - he later became Bishop. He was instrumental in getting the Marist Brothers to take over the School in 1913.
- Smith House (blue) - was named after Mr John Leslie Smith, a model pupil at the School in the early to late teens of the 20th century - and a great benefactor of St Charles College - as have his family members over the years subsequently - Mr Patrick Leslie Smith and Mark Leslie Smith.
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“And the Harvard students in the brick
hallowed houses studied Sappho in cement rooms.
And this Sappho danced on the grass
and danced and danced and danced.
It was a death dance.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, then do not exalt yourself, forgetting the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery...”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 8:12-14.