Semper Fidelis was the name of an in-house production at St Patrick's for many years. An editorial committee of senior students produced a couple of newsletters each year with articles written by committee members or were sought from and written by other students and teachers. SPOCA has a set of these newsletters from 1958 until school closure in 1968 (carefully stored by Gavin!), and we have also heard from an Old Patrician (Grahame Murphy) who has at least one issue from 1952. The set already in Gavin's hands will be scanned and gradually added to this page of the website. Each issue can be read by clicking on the icon in the table below.

After mentioning the existence of this SF publication in a recent SPOCA newsletter, Michael Costigan was prompted to add his own 'two bob's worth' by informing us of a very old copy he has of what he thinks is probably the first edition of the publication in 1947. Scroll down to read the letter which Michael wrote and which contains more than just his passing on of information of that early Patrician venture into the newsletter business.