OLGC School
The Parish School
The School was opened on January 29th 1924 and at this time the close relationship between Our Lady of Good Counsel parish school and the Faithful Companions of Jesus was evident. The early parish masses had been celebrated at Genazzano and this relationship with the school gave the parish its patron saint. Genazzano is a town about 30 kilometres from Rome and it is here where the famous icon of Our Lady of Good Counsel is to be found. The first principal of the school was Mother Evangeline FCJ and there were 60 enrolments. At this time the school went up to Grade 8 and three FCJ sisters taught there and the sisters divided the classes between them. The FCJ sisters taught at OLGC Parish School from its opening until 1980 when the first lay Principal, Mrs Maureen Burke, was appointed. Over the history of the school, twenty FCJ sisters have taught in the school for a total of 113 years of teaching service.
The enrolment figures from the time between the opening of the school and the 1940s remained around 150. By 1965 there were 239 students enrolled and in 2009 there are 370 students at OLGC.
Principals of Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish School
1924 – 1928 Mother Evangeline
1925 – 1933 Mother Miriam
1933 – 1948 Mother Rosa
1949 – 1967 Mother Mary John
1968 – 1980 Sister Peter Wilson
1981 - 1993 Mrs Maureen Burke
1994 - 2000 Michael O’Reilly
2001 – 2009 Gilbert Keisler
2010 - Clare Hilbert