These boys, from Wembley, are photographed in March 1964 with the peg marking the corner of what will be the foundations of the new Marist (now Newman) Senior College, Churchlands.
Designs were drawn up in 1962 and, from 1964, the 24-acre site was cleared and construction began in earnest.
At the start of the 1965 school year the Marist Senior College opened with 215 students in Years 10-12, bolstered by 70 boarders from St Ildephonsus College, New Norcia, which the Marist Brothers handed back to the Benedictine Monks at the end of 1964.
On the new Churchlands campus, playing fields had been graded and were ready for planting, and work was beginning on construction of the laboratories.
Brother Cletus, first Headmaster of Marist College, wrote in the 1965 yearbook, "the transition from bush to campus is almost complete.” An amazing feat!
Junior students attended the Marist Junior College campus in Salvado Road, Subiaco. Headed by Br Gordon Heinrich, it had been operating for 11 years, since 1954, as St Joseph’s College.
By 1965, when St Joseph's transitioned to become Marist Junior College, it was a thriving school which catered to 502 boys in Years 4-9.
Are you one of the Marist Junior or Senior College’s Old Boys from this era, or do you know who these three boys are?
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Photos below from 'Marist College in Building' album, in Newman College Archives and 1965 Marist College yearbook.
