Sue Meehan (nee Woolley) relates stories of the balls she attended at the Wollongong Town Hall when she was a president and committee member of Wollongong Catholic Youth in the late 1960’s.
Catholic Women’s League of Illawarra – Wollongong Catholic Youth – Debutante Balls – Hi-Lites Band – Mick Berghuis – Bishop McCabe – Margaret Hamilton (nee Schubert) – St Mary’s Star of the Sea College – John Driscoll – Reginald Warlow (photographer) – Parkinson’s Cordial Bottles – CYO – Catholic Youth Organization – YCW – Young Christian Workers Association
CYO Ball or YCW Ball – Sue standing in receiving line with Bishop McCabe and Father Ryan – L to R: Maria Barrett, Maurice McEwan, Mrs. Squires, Mayor Squires, Ros Hetherington, Mick Barrett, Bishop Thomas McCabe, Sue Meehan, Father Ryan – 17 August 1965
Formal portrait of Sue – CYO Ball, 12 August 1966. Photographer: Reginald Warlow
CYO Ball – Sue Meehan sitting with John Roach and Reverend Thomas McCabe, Bishop of Wollongong – 12 August 1966
Sue sitting in receiving line with Reverend T McCabe, Bishop of Wollongong – CYO Ball, 12 August 1966. Photographer: Reginald Warlow
Sue’s sister Jill Woolley makes her debut at CYO or YCW Ball – August 1965. From left: Wally Pritchard, Jill Meehan, Sue’s Father, Sue’s Mother, Sue Meehan, Ian
Group of Debutantes on their way to the debutante ball at the Wollongong Town Hall. Taken at St Mary’s School Hall, 1967, Photographer: Reginald Warlow
Program of 10th Annual Y.C.W. Ball, 11 August 1967
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