De La Salle College, Orange was a Catholic boys school in Summer Street, Orange, New South Wales, Australia.
Patrician Brothers
The Patrician Brothers, an Irish order of Catholic teaching brothers, established a boys' school in Orange in 1890. Fourteen ex-students died in World War I.
The Patrician Brothers left Orange in 1927, when Bishop O'Farrell expelled the order from all schools in the Bathurst diocese following a dispute over syllabuses.
De La Salle Brothers
The De La Salle Brothers arrived in 1928 to take over the school. Additions to the Summer Street site opened in 1937 with glass bricks "incorporating the most modern ideas in natural lighting," and a handball court in 1939. New classrooms were built in 1953.
In 1977 the school was absorbed into the co-educational James Sheahan Catholic High School.
Notable alumni
- James Franklin, philosopher and historian
- John Ranch, Olympic rower
- Jack Renshaw, premier of New South Wales (attended Patrician Brothers)
References
- Patrician locations: Australia
- "Orange: Unveiling roll of honour". Freeman's Journal. 28 April 1921. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
- "Orange Patrician Brothers' Old Boys Union Great War Roll of Honor". Virtual War Memorial Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
- O'Connell, Paul (1980). "The Expulsion of the Patrician Brothers from the Diocese of Bathurst, 1924–1927". Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society. 6 (3): 6–11.
- "Catholic progress: De La Salle College additions". Freeman's Journal. 14 October 1937. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
- "New College at Orange". Mudgee Guardian. 5 July 1937. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
- "Handball court opened". Sydney Morning Herald. 6 March 1939. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
- "New block at Catholic college: £8,250 job begins". Central Western Daily. 31 July 1953. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
- Bastick, M. (2015). "A brief history of the Parish of Orange, NSW". Catholic Diocese of Bathurst. Archived from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
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