Brother Clarence Cunningham FMS, AM, MEd

Since November 1991 The Brother Clarence Foundation for Education has distributed over $111,000 to more than 275 families in the Macarthur area. Each year one of our families has been fortunate to have benefited from this generosity.

An outstanding feature of Brother Clarence's life as a teacher was the number and variety of places he had been Principal. He was first appointed Principal in 1950 at the age of 26, when, for three years, he led the secondary school at Bondi Junction. In 1953 (and continuing to 1956) he was the founding Principal of the school at Ayr in northern Queensland. This was followed by principalships at Villa Maria, Hunters Hill (1958-59), Kieta in Papua-New Guinea (1960-65), Maitland (1967-71), Honiara in the Solomon Islands (1972), following which he came to the Macarthur area. Br Clarence Cunningham, a Marist brother, had been the Principal of St Gregory’s College, John Therry Catholic High School and Mount Carmel Catholic College.

In 1990, Brother Clarence was honoured with the Order of Australia (AM) in recognition of his services to religion and education. Brother Clarence sadly passed away on 18 August 2011.