28th Feb 2009

Friends of Mercy Campus, a former Melbourne campus of Australian Catholic University, will gather at the Laurel Hotel at 298 Mt Alexander Rd, Ascot Vale from 2pm to 6pm on Saturday 28  February.

It will be the 100th anniversary of the blessing of the three-storey “scholastic gothic” building at Ascot Vale which opened as a central training college for teachers in Catholic schools and Novitiate for Melbourne Sisters of Mercy in 1909.

All former staff and students are invited to attend. A tour of the building, which is about to be restored and renovated, is expected to take place between 3.30pm and 4.30pm.

For more information and to book, please contact Sister Marie Kehoe RSM at mariek@mercy.org.au or (03) 9331 4894.