6 JANE BARKER LUNCHEON
Years ago, Susan Mattey (Nutt, STC1970) was walking with her brother when they passed a boy from his school. JANE BARKER LUNCHEON
“I asked him why he didn’t say hello and he said that he didn’t know him. It was strange to me because I knew everyone at St Cath’s. I could have gone up to any one of them and said hello,” Susan said. This was certainly true at our 2025 Jane Barker Luncheon as alumni excitedly greeted one another with huge hugs and smiles. The event is a wonderful opportunity for alumni who graduated 50 years ago or more to catch up, share stories and see how the school has changed. As our alumni converged on the Performing Arts & Aquatic Centre on Tuesday 4 March, it didn’t seem to matter that they had been in different year groups — with Old Girls joining us from the Class of 1948 all the way up to the Class of 1975. Everyone was eager to see each other again and celebrate the time they spent together at St Cath’s. Dianne Keniry (Cooper, STC1962) reminisced about Miss Hind getting her
in trouble after her hair lightened from spending the summer holidays at the beach, while Jacqueline Warnock (Asher, STC1968) fondly remembered having picnics under the Magnolia Tree on Sunday afternoons with the boarders. “It’s so nice being together again after all this time. Even if we were in different years, we all still remember each other,” she added. “It’s so lovely to see how beautiful the school still is and all the little ones learning here. It’s been such a long time in the making. St Cath’s really had such a big impact on what my life became, which I hadn’t really realised until coming back here.” Susan also felt the same, noting that St Cath’s had been the main constant of her childhood after she became a boarder at age nine following the tragic loss of her mum. “The school became my home. The fact that there were the same teachers and the same girls gave me a place to belong.”
“ St Cath’s really had such a big impact on what my life became, which I hadn’t really realised until coming back here.
Jacqueline Warnock (Asher, STC1968)
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