De La Salle College, Orange

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.^[1] Fourteen ex-students died in World War I.^[2][3]

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.^[4]

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^[5] with glass bricks "incorporating the most modern ideas in natural lighting,"^[6] and a handball court in 1939.^[7] New classrooms were built in 1953.^[8]

In 1977 the school was absorbed into the co-educational James Sheahan Catholic High School.^[9]

Notable alumni

• James Franklin, philosopher and historian
• John Ranch, Olympic rower
• Jack Renshaw, premier of New South Wales (attended Patrician Brothers)

References

1. Patrician locations: Australia
2. "Orange: Unveiling roll of honour". Freeman's Journal. 28 April 1921. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
3. "Orange Patrician Brothers' Old Boys Union Great War Roll of Honor". Virtual War Memorial Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
4. 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.
5. "Catholic progress: De La Salle College additions". Freeman's Journal. 14 October 1937. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
6. "New College at Orange". Mudgee Guardian. 5 July 1937. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
7. "Handball court opened". Sydney Morning Herald. 6 March 1939. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
8. "New block at Catholic college: £8,250 job begins". Central Western Daily. 31 July 1953. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
9. 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.