To honour and celebrate the life of Santo Costanzo the College and the new Board of Directors wish to extend an open invitation to the Greek Australian and wider public including the many thousands of former and current St John’s students, teachers and parents to attend the Santo Costanzo Inaugural Annual Memorial Oration that will be delivered by Julian Burnside AO QC.
The Late Santo Costanzo was a legendary educator who was pivotal in helping shape the lives and futures of many thousands of Greek-Australian students that graduated from St John’s Greek Orthodox College.
He was born in Melbourne on 4 February 1959 and passed away, at the age of 50, on 10 September 2009. The deceased was a teacher at St John’s Greek Orthodox College for more than 25 years, from the school’s early beginning in Carlton, right through to the school’s relocation in 1983 to its current site in Preston.
Event: Santo Costanzo Inaugural Annual Memorial Oration
Speaker: Julian Burnside AO QC
Topic: Human Rights in Australia: Is this really who we are?
Date: Monday, 31 March 2014
Time: 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start
Venue: St John’s College Preston – Blanch Street entrance (off Bell Street).
Julian Burnside is a Barrister (appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1989), a human rights and refugee advocate and author. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2009, “for service as a human rights advocate, particularly for refugees and asylum seekers, to the arts as a patron and fundraiser, and to the law”. In 2004, he was elected and named an Australian National Living Treasure.
