When he recently fronted up to the 40^th anniversary reunion of his old schoolmates of 1979, Mark Lawson came armed with an item of clothing for the College Archive.

The item in question was Mark’s 1^st XVIII guernsey (No.25 on the back) which the nuggety on-baller wore for the Parade team under the late Br. John O’Neill’s watch in '78 – the same year he represented Collingwood Under 19s as a 16 year-old.

Mark graciously donated the guernsey to Parade. “I thought it best to hand the guernsey over to the College. Perhaps it will find a good home there,” he said.

Mark represented the Magpies in 11 senior appearances from 1982-1984, and thesedays serves as Secretary of Collingwood’s Past Players Association of which he is a Life Member.