Tasmanian Storyline

Date	Event
1887	Foundation sisters arrive in Tasmania from Perthville
1887	First Josephite school, Holy Trinity School, opened at Westbury for eight students.
1889	Sisters of St Joseph open school at Forth.
1889	Opening of Sacred Heart School at Ulverstone.
1891	Opening of Our Lady of Lourdes School at Devonport.
1891	Opening of school at Tunnack
1894	Josephites open school at Colebrook
1893	Convent opened at Oatlands. This became the Mother House and the Novitiate.
1894	Sister M. Ambrose Joseph, foundress of the first convent at Lochinvar, opened the convent school, St Fursaeus School, at Zeehan. Zeehan was also the site of the Mother House.
1896	Opening of school at St James School, Cygnet
1899	Josephites move to Richmond to St John’s School, following the Presentation Sisters
1900	School opened at Franklin
1900	School at Lymington opened.
1908	Sacred Heart Convent, New Town, opened by Sister M. Hyacinth, former Sister Guardian at Bathurst and later at Whanganui, New Zealand. Mother House established at New Town.
1932	Josephites take charge of St Therese’s School, Moonah.
1937	Sacred Heart Convent building extended to include a Novitiate.
1937	New property, now the site of Sacred Heart School, purchased for the Novitiate.
1938	Josephites open a convent and school at Geeveston.
1938	Sisters of St Joseph take responsibility for St Thomas More’s School at Newstead.
1938	St Joseph’s Juniorate opened and attached to the community at Newstead.
1947	Waterton Hall, junior boarding school, opened to celebrate Diamond Jubilee of Sisters of St Joseph in Tasmania.
1950	Sisters of St Joseph vacate St Therese’s Convent, Moonah and the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart assume responsibility for St Therese’s School.
1951	Convent and school opened at Smithton.
1958	St Joseph’s Convent school opened at Rosebery
1960	Josephites open a school at Lenah Valley
1960	Archbishop Guilford Young blesses and opens the new senior school at Sacred Heart.
1961	Sisters of St Joseph open Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Lenah Valley
1968	St Joseph’s Nursing Home opened.
1968	Secondary school at St Attracta’s School, Smithton, closes.
1968	Secondary school at St Joseph’s School, Rosebery, closes.
1968	St Joseph’s, Thirza Street
1969	New Guinea
1969	Sisters of St Joseph open and administer Shaw College at Devonport.
1971	Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart withdrew from Moonah and the Sisters of St Joseph returned.
1971	Secondary school at Geeveston closed.
1972	Sisters of St Joseph took over responsibility for St Brigid’s School, Wynyard when the Missionaries of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart were withdrawn.
1980	Formation House opened at Box Hill, Melbourne.
1981	Shaw College and St Brendan’s College amalgamated to become St Brendan-Shaw College.
1984	St Thomas More’s boarding school closed.
1986	Sisters of St Joseph assume responsibility for the parishes of Penguin and Campbell Town.
1987	Centenary year of the Sisters of St Joseph in Tasmania.
1990	St Brendan-Shaw College extends to Senior Secondary, with Years 11 and 12.
1992	“Bethany” House, Devonport
1994	Sacred Heart College extends co-education through to secondary in the light of the Southern Tasmanian Schools Secondary Restructuring.
1995	Years 11 and 12 cease at Sacred Heart College.
1995	Guilford Young College opens on two campuses as Catholic Senior Secondary College for Hobart
1998	Sr. Helen Hickey assumes the role of Pastoral leader in the parish of Beaconsfield on the Tamar River.
1999	Sister Marlene Binns assumes the role of Pastoral Leader on King Island
2001	Following a chapter decision to open a house in a lower socio-economic area, a Housing Commission house is rented at Clarendon Vale. Two sisters form a community in this area.
2005	Sr Mechtilde beings a “full-time” Josephite presence on Bruny Island.
2006	Sister Helen Hickey is commissioned as Pastoral leader of the parish of St Mary’s on the East Coast. The parish consists of St Mary’s, St Helen’s, Fingal, Bicheno and Mangana. Helen is joined in community by Sr Gwen Dooley.
2007	Decision taken to open Josephite Mission and History Centre at New Town. Sacred Heart Convent is refurbished for this purpose. The administration centre is relocated.