Prescott Hall was again buzzing this year with over 65 Mothers of Old Newingtonians (MOONs) gathering for their annual lunch. The lunch welcomes NEW MOONs to regroup after their first year out. 2017 MOONs were the largest group to attend the lunch and caught up on all the news of their sons and peers. Many familiar faces such as MOONs founder -Joy Christian (MOON 1981/1982), Ruth Enderby (MOON 1984/1985/1988) and Robyn McGaw (MOON 1998) continue to attend each year adding to the tradition of the lunch.

A unique occurrence for the MOONs lunch, a mother and daughter attending, Maureen Kelleher (MOON 1978) and Jodie Kelleher (MOON 2017) attended the lunch both sharing news of their sons with their friends. 

After a heartfelt speech given by Elaine Budd (MOONs 2004/2009) on Tracey Markos’s behalf, Dr Mulford gave his last MOONs update speech signing off that, the mothers are the backbone of Newington College.

Another year of stories, beautiful flowers from our own Catherine Sharmaine (MOON 2014) and lasting memories, until next year.

The MOONs lunch is held in Prescott Hall each year on Back to Newington Day. All MOONs are welcome to attend. If you would like to keep up to date with the MOONs you can join the M.O.O.N.S unofficial Facebook page. We would love to see more attend.