Rev Dom Carrigan CSSR, Chaplain, University of Newcastle, Callaghan. NSW 2308 sent this response to a letter to the Editor in Signum Fidei No. 64 Supplement 3
The letter which was from Neville Raffin stated ‘A tennis friend has asked me the whereabouts of John Sturgeon who was of our vintage’. Dom Carrigan has provided the answer to this question, together with additional information regarding old boys of that era in this email.
Fr John Sturgeon CSSR is a Redemptorist priest who was ordained in Ballarat, Victoria. I think this was in 1963. He now lives at the Redemptorist Community, PO Box 370, 24 Garden Street, Kogarah, NSW 2217. His contact is Ph (02) 9553 3777 Fax (02) 9553 3759/
John was about 9 years ahead of me. I am also a Redemptorist priest and a Nudgee Old Boy from 1956 Nudgee Junior - 1961 Nudgee. He was a noted sportsman/athlete in his younger days. I believe he was a classmate of one of my older brothers, David Carrigan, (1950-54) and Pat Thurbon (1950-54) among others. He is now a chaplain at the Calvary Hospital, Kogarah, and lives right alongside Jubilee Oval, Kogarah - one of the home grounds of the St George-Illawarra Rugby League team.
I contacted him to ask if he minded me giving his details to NCOBA and Signum Fidei. He did not mind. You might like to pass this information to Neville Raffin.
Kind regards
Ed Note:
I have done this, but so many other old boys also sought similar information following the publication of Neville’s letter that I felt it was worth printing Dom’s information in this, our first publication for 2008. Dom makes reference to one of his older brothers, David with whom I was at Nudgee from 1949-52, as was another of his older brothers Cedric who died in 1969. Many old boys particularly from the Class of ’52 have asked about Cedric and the Carrigan family generally, hence my inclusion of this information in response to Dom’s letter. |
