Tink...that looks like the photo from the alumni site or do you have a private collection. I met Joe Houston in the middle of China last year and lived with him for a year. He was a couple of years ahead of us ...I am in contact with a small group via skype, Michael Clarke( Dessi), Patrick Mc Dade,( seamus) Ciaran Mc Namara,Barney Mc Laverty,( not yet) and several others. Joe and I CELEBRATED the 175th anniversary of the college IN THE MIDDLE OF CHINA by him saying Mass but we received no acknowledgement from the college.
I enjoyed my stay as I came from St Patrick's in 1959. I remember Walter Larkin meeting Peter Doherty and myself . We had to get permission from him to be absent from college so that we could play basketball for Ireland . Peter was o.k. but Walter made me sweat whilst he decided. .but before we left he said that I could go.....whoo.