24th Sept (Wed) – Wim Valckx has recorded for us this valuable piece of history:
“From our temporary home with the Passionists in Templestowe, Vic., we moved to our new house in Box Hill on 5th May 1988. Daryl Millard, a man of good taste and a great organizer, was our first Rector. Tony Broderick was formator; Jim Knight dean of studies; George Miller vocation director. I was given Room no. 201 in which Br. George K. is now. We had a few students: Greg Hughes (Aus), Albert Kim (Korea), Joe Dang (Vietnamese), Steve Marshall (Aus), Ryo Nishiwaki (Japan), while Tim Norton and Paul Kelly were doing their OTP in Mexico.
Daryl encouraged us to find a name for our new house. Suggestions would be listed and voted on by the house council. One morning that week I woke up and said some prayers and I asked the Lord, “What name (should we give) for our new house?” In a flash the answer came: “Dorish Maru,” (the Japanese ship that was strafed and many priests, brothers, sisters
and missionary helpers perished near Wewak, PNG, in February 1944). The house council voted that name in. Ryo Nishiwaki designed then a vignette, a slender sailing boat, which is still in the letterhead of our stationary and on the big sign outside the parking lot.
On 15th November that same year, Archbishop Thomas Francis Little blessed the little chapel - and that was 20 years ago. ~ Wim
“From our temporary home with the Passionists in Templestowe, Vic., we moved to our new house in Box Hill on 5th May 1988. Daryl Millard, a man of good taste and a great organizer, was our first Rector. Tony Broderick was formator; Jim Knight dean of studies; George Miller vocation director. I was given Room no. 201 in which Br. George K. is now. We had a few students: Greg Hughes (Aus), Albert Kim (Korea), Joe Dang (Vietnamese), Steve Marshall (Aus), Ryo Nishiwaki (Japan), while Tim Norton and Paul Kelly were doing their OTP in Mexico.
Daryl encouraged us to find a name for our new house. Suggestions would be listed and voted on by the house council. One morning that week I woke up and said some prayers and I asked the Lord, “What name (should we give) for our new house?” In a flash the answer came: “Dorish Maru,” (the Japanese ship that was strafed and many priests, brothers, sisters
and missionary helpers perished near Wewak, PNG, in February 1944). The house council voted that name in. Ryo Nishiwaki designed then a vignette, a slender sailing boat, which is still in the letterhead of our stationary and on the big sign outside the parking lot.On 15th November that same year, Archbishop Thomas Francis Little blessed the little chapel - and that was 20 years ago. ~ Wim
