This is a listing of notifications the Parramatta Marist Old Boys Union has received of the passing of Old Boys. “Vale” is latin for farewell and “Fortior Ito” means go forward with strength.
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Graduate High School: 14 November 1962 Graduate High School – John Cassidy 1962 19621114000000
Deceased: 28 August 2019 Deceased – John Cassidy 1962 20190828000000
Updated 3 years ago.
Graduate High School: 11 November 1964 Graduate High School – Anthony (Tony) Cheeseman 1964 19641111000000
Deceased: 10 August 2014 Deceased – Anthony (Tony) Cheeseman 1964 20140810000000
Updated 3 years ago.
![Photo of Cardinal Edward Clancy 1940]( "Photo of Cardinal Edward Clancy 1940")
Seventh Catholic Archbishop of Sydney from 1983 to 2001.
Graduate High School: 13 November 1940 Graduate High School – Cardinal Edward Clancy 1940 19401113000000
Deceased: 3 August 2014 Deceased – Cardinal Edward Clancy 1940 20140803000000
Updated 3 years ago.
Graduate High School: 16 November 1960 Graduate High School – Gary Clancy 1960 19601116000000
Deceased: 24 August 2017 Deceased – Gary Clancy 1960 20170824000000
Updated 3 years ago.
Graduate High School: 15 November 1955 Graduate High School – Sydney Cooke 1955 19551115000000
Deceased: 15 June 2017 Deceased – Sydney Cooke 1955 20170615000000
Updated 3 years ago.
Graduate High School: 11 November 1993 Graduate High School – Anthony Coy 1993 19931111000000
Deceased: 3 June 2017 Deceased – Anthony Coy 1993 20170603000000
Updated 3 years ago.
Chris was a good friend when I attended parramatta Marist. I used to run into him around the courts, he never seemed to change always a gentleman.
I’ve got Vale John Cassidy’s picture but how do I email it to you ????
Frank O’Sullivan
Vale John Cassidy LC 1962 Died 28th August 2019
John Cassidy and I worked on a religious organisation in our days at Marist Brothers Parramatta. It was to spread the message of Our Lady of Fatima that is, world peace through prayer, the Blue Army. It was a very strange coincidence that it was one of Cardinal Gilroy’s pet projects, but we didn’t know that at the time. The cardinal had set the organisation up in Sydney under Professor F G Coleman Sydney University and Father Cameron head of the Augustinian order in Sydney.
From 1959 – 1962 I did latin classes at St Mary’s Cathedral, late on Friday afternoon in preparation to enter, my studies for the priesthood. I ran into Cardinal Gilroy on many occasions as he did confessions 5pm to 6pm and I trapped him either going/coming in the presbytery grounds. So the long and short of it all is, that I dragged our John C along with me to say Hi and explain the difficulties we were having with Monsignor McGovern in conducting our Blue Army prayer meetings in St Pats at Parramatta. He smiled at us both & said would we from time to time give him a progress report on our work with the Blue Army. John and I had a few brief encounters with the cardinal & strangely we never had any further problems with the cranky old monsignor.
John Cassidy was a very humble man and would never have repeated this story but having been befriended by a cardinal, lived in a village named after the cardinal and being buried from the chapel on Friday 6th September 2019 that bears the cardinal’s name, I felt it appropriate to tell the story.
Frank O’Sullivan