Teacher Paul O’Brien receives his 40-year membership compendium (on the table in the background) from long-standing IEU Rep Margaret O’Donnell. A founding teacher at CathWest Innovation College, where he teaches at the Emu Plains campus, Paul was also a founding teacher at McCarthy Catholic College (now Penola Catholic College) also at Emu Plains. He played first grade rugby league for South Sydney in his younger days.