Page 8 - 2016 Yearbook

A Reflection from the College Captains

T hroughout its long history, Assumption College has changed us to get the most out of our schooling. To the senior leadership
and adapted to meet the needs of its students. However,
team, thank you for the support and guidance you gave us and
its incredible sense of community has remained constant, as the trust you placed in us as student leaders. We are grateful for
has the college’s capacity to help its students become the best the enormous contribution the parents and guardians of all year
version of themselves. Attending ACK for the past six years has 12 students have made towards our education, shaping us not
offered us challenges and opportunities to grow and allowed us only as students, but as young adults.
to develop new passions and immerse ourselves in our chosen To the graduating class of 2016, it has been a pleasure spending
areas of interest. Through involvement in sporting teams, cultural the past six years with you, and while it’s hard to imagine no
activities and classroom work, we’ve come to know students of longer seeing one another nearly every day, we are sure that the
all ages and share in some incredible friendships. We have learnt, friendships we have formed will endure. It has been a privilege
first hand, that being a student here means being part of a family to be at school with the current students. We wish you the very
so that when things seem most difficult, there will always be best for the years ahead. Congratulations to our successors Edan
someone willing to help. Boyd and Eleanor Barry and the other student leaders of 2017.
While given the honour of being college captains pushed us We know that you’ll find your own way of being leaders of ACK
outside our comfort zones during the busy times of studying just as each group of leaders has before you, and we hope you
for year 12, it was incredibly rewarding, allowing us to better enjoy your last year at ACK as much as we have.
understand the true nature of leadership and what we could It’s been a pleasure to be part of the college community - it’s
offer our school. We also gained a deeper appreciation of the a part of our lives we’ll never forget. Although it is incredibly
Marist legacy at ACK and had the chance to try to make positive difficult to farewell a school that has given us so much, we are
changes in the school community while working alongside a confident that our ties to ACK, like all family bonds, are within
fantastic team of dedicated student leaders and staff. us. On that note, as a great man, leader and opening batsman
We have been lucky enough to learn from a group of incredibly Jayden Carroll once said… “Assumption forever baby”.
dedicated teachers. We thank them on behalf of our fellow year Connor Leslie and Monica Kelly
12 graduates for their constant encouragement and for pushing

Student Leaders

Back row: Mitchell Lewis (Damian captain), Joel Brennan (Hilary captain), Sam Moretto (boarding captain), Nicholas Bayne (La Valla captain),
Zack Pizzingrilli (mission captain), Bridget Kelly (mission captain), Keenan Gorski (Marcellin captain)
Middle row: Chloe Molloy (Hilary captain), Claudia Cook (Frayne captain), Alicia Cannizzaro (McAuley captain), Alisa Urokohara (academic captain),
Elana Atherden (Austin captain), Georgina Smith (La Valla captain), Kiara Brincat (applied learning captain), Kara Tessari (Austin captain),
Emily Bugeja (Marian captain), Sophie Atherden (sports captain), Florence McKay (academic captain), Rhodesia Saykao (cultural captain),
Jai Cameron (cultural captain)
Front row: Jayden Carroll (boarding vice-captain), Jaydan Turner (boarding vice-captain), Connor Leslie (college captain), Erin Gough (Marian captain),
Jacinta Harris (Frayne captain), Tara Kennedy (Marcellin captain), Monica Kelly (college captain)
Not featured: Brooke Arthurson (McAuley captain), Stephen O’Brien (sports captain), Michael Parkinson (Damian captain), Jess Smits (boarding vice-captain)

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