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Onslow College victorious By Laura Kavanagh Onslow College knocked out the competition last week winning the ASB 2014 Stage Challenge. T he st udents competed against 17 other schools from across the Wellington region at the TSB Bank Arena to take out first place. Student creative director Rosie Murdoch of the Onslow team says they were amazed to have won, and did not expect to take it out. “We are very proud.” The title of their production was ‘Behind the Scenes’, which explored the idea of media manipulation and how people are affected by what they see in the media. The students endured many
late nights practising their dances, and creating costumes and sets. “There was lots of work to do but it was an amazing experience,” Rosie says. Some of the Onslow students have described participating in Stage Challenge as the best experience of their life. Rosie says the group has become a massive family and they have learnt things they could never learn in a classroom. WINNING COMBINATION: The Onslow College stage challenge “It brings everyone together, team with their first place award. and teaches leadership to the older students.” backstage crew, there were Planning has already started The students feel the produc- 120 people involved in On- for next year’s Stage Chaltion represented their school slow’s production. lenge entry at Onslow College. spirit. Teacher James Gannon says Stage Challenge is now in its “It is very Onslow,” Rosie Stage Challenge is one of the 22nd year and held 18 shows says. biggest learning experiences over the country this year. Including support staff and of the year at the school.
war books are descriptive, but her father’s personal accounts of being loaded onto cattle cars and leaky boats are what made Jo Elworthy’s father Jack left his memo- his story different. ries of service in World War Two on a “Dad was a very good observer. bookshelf, but she has decided it’s a story “Talking about how did it all worth telling. feel – it’s what brings it home Local Karori woman Jo Elworthy to you.” has spent five years on a project to Elworthy says as she was transcribe her father’s diary, written putting the book together, she nearly 80 years ago during the war, thought it could be more than a family story. to make it an easier read for the She says her father wrote family. about his experiences “I’ve been nibbling at it for several for h is fa m ily in years, but it’s taken about two years of solid work to put it case they might be together,” she says. interested and her The book, published under siblings have also Jack Elworthy’s name, was been involved in launched on May 20 by Awa the making of the Press and gives his account book. UNITED CONTAINERS PROOF TIME 2/09/2013 7:42:28 a.m. of serving inLASTCrete and “I kept asking, C06 RUN: 11/27/13 9358141AA Greece, becoming a1/4 PGpris‘is this still dad SIZE: IS oner of war in Germany speaking?’ and and fighting alongside US they would say it troops at the end of World definitely sounds War Two. like dad,” she says. Elworthy says a lot of “It’s very much
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Congratulations, Laura!
Transcribing Dad’s Story By Hannah Lee Massey Journalism Student
his story.” Elworthy says her family has benefitted from her father’s account, as he didn’t open up about the war after he returned. “The good thing for us is that he did write about it, so you could actually know what it was like.” Elworthy is a Select Committee clerk and edits the Karori Historical Society journal. DAD’S STORY: Karori woman Jo Elworthy holds up her father’s memories, now told as a story for all to read.
“It’s an achievement I am proud of,” says Independent Herald journalist Laura Kavanagh, after graduating from Massey University last week. The 25-year-old completed a one year post-graduate diploma in journalism, finishing with a merit recommendation for her studies. “I’m very happy and am pleased with the result…My parents are also very proud,” Laura says. Prior to the completion of her postgraduate qualification, Laura studied teaching.
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