THE CATENIAN ASSOCIATION - PROVINCE 1

The Catenian New Year
Please bear with us while we update the site to include the incoming Circle officers. Of course, if anyone has photographs available, we would be very grateful for them.
Our email addresses are on the ‘Contact Us’ page

 The National Catenian Golf Championships- 2010
This is an annual week long event with serious competition over the final 2 days. Thanks to the superb work of Brother Tony Delahunt of Purley Circle, it is always a magnificently well organised and extremely enjoyable mixture of golf on championship courses and of social events for both brothers and their wives and guests at top quality hotels.

The 2010 competition was held at the De Vere Hotel and Golf resort at Carden Park in Cheshire and was blessed with great weather which was a complete turnaround after the bleak winter and the cold spring weeks, which preceded it.

Province 1 golfers were well represented and, thanks to Dave Parkinson of Rochdale Circle brought home silverware.

Dave is pictured (Left) receiving the Uniroyal Salver for the Best Gross Score in the main competition from the incoming Grand President, Vernon De Cruz with Graham Magee, Captain of the Catenian National Golf Association

Dave was also presented with the AIB Trophy for Best Medal round for low handicappers (Right)

Close but no cigar was the verdict on the rest of the Province 1 golfers. However, Brian Lillis, current Captain of Province 1 Golf Society managed to have his picture taken receiving a pullover from Grand President Joe McNally for his 3rd place in a much lower profile category.

Province 1 outgoing Circle Presidents presented a statue of the Holy Family to Provincial President Frank Rafferty to mark their thanks for the exceptional work undertaken by Frank in spite of very serious illness during his year of office.

During the year members of the 92nd St Boniface’s Salford Scouts in 1960 had a recent reunion.

The occasion was the presentation of a 40 year scroll to Jim Gallagher of City of Salford Circle, when (L to R) Vincent Gillibrand (Oldham), Dennis Miles, John McLellan (both City of Salford Circle) and Mike Gilleen (Davyhulme) met once again after almost 50 years.

The North West Public Speaking Competition
The North West qualifier for the Catenian National Public Speaking Championships was held at The Alma Lodge Hotel, Stockport. Once again, this prestigious annual event hosted competitors from many of The Catholic Colleges within Provinces 1 and 17 such as Xaverian, Aquinas, Bolton Sixth Form, St. Bede’s, St Cuthbert’s High School, All Hallows, St Nicholas, St. Ambrose and Loreto Convent.
In choosing Chris Page of Xaverian College as the winner the adjudicators also commented on the exceptionally high quality of speeches across the board.
Chris, who went forward to the National Championships, is pictured left with Brothers Paul Mainon, Director Province 1 and Philip Gidman, Grand President of the Catenian Association

The Centenary Year 2008
Our celebrations of the first 100 years of the Association started appropriately in Manchester with The Centenary Conference on the weekend of 16th to 18th of May 2008. It was attended by thousands of visitors and guests (many from overseas) and from the initial feedback was a very successful event enjoyed by all.

Click on the Centenary Logo to transfer to the Conference web site, which also includes details of the celebrations organised by Manchester (1), the first Circle of the Association. Although the celebrations were 2 years ago, we have left the website in position for the present to show the celebration of a major milestone in the history of Manchester Circle and of the Catenian Association

There are a number of video clips of the highlights on You Tube

Welcome to the Association by the Lord Mayor of Manchester

Keynote speech by Fr. Timothy Radcliffe

Conference Mass Homily by His Eminence Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor

Clip from the Manchester Experience Dinner Dance

The 168 Singers sing Welcome Now at the Conference.
 

The Catenian Association Official Website is at http://www.thecatenians.com/ and it has a considerable amount of information and further contact addresses. It also has a members area for the mundane parts of the administration of the Association. A welcome addition is the chat area, which is open to all Catenians. The Association’s monthly magazine, Catena, is also available to download in pdf format.
 

Newsgroup
Due to the difficulties of managing the dissemination of announcements and messages throughout Province 1 via this site, we have set up a separate Newsgroup on Yahoo.
The Newsgroup gives all members the facility to add / amend information regarding Provincial events, send out reminders, add photos and upload files, to make them available to all. We have limited the membership initially to Province 1 Catenian Association Brothers although, if any brothers are interested in joining with a view to seeing how it operates and possibly introducing the newsgroup approach elsewhere, please follow the link below. .
We would hope to incorporate the features of the Newsgroup into this site in the future. In the meantime, to read the latest Province1 messages or to apply to join the Newsgroup, please Click Here.