Northside 2011

EIGHTH ANNUAL ISSUE 2011/2012

The Annual Magazine of the North Harbour Club & Charitable Trust

Richard Stebbing Biomedical Engineer and Rhodes Scholar

AIMES Supreme Award Winner

Celebrating Excellence

AWARDS

The North Harbour Club & Charitable Trust acknowledges the ongoing support of our fantastic sponsors…

North Harbour Club AIMES Awards Sponsors

North Harbour Club “We’re Building North Harbour” Sponsors

civil & structural engineers

CHARITY LUNCHES

North Harbour Club Event & Support Sponsors

Northside is the annual magazine of the North Harbour Club & Charitable Trust.

This issue highlights and profiles the

Award Winner Updates

2011 North Harbour Club AIMES Awards Winners and catches up with previous Winners.

The 2011 North Harbour Club AIMES Awards Winners:Overall AIMES Award Winner: Richard Stebbing ASB AIMES ARTS Award Winner: Elliot Christensen-Yule MASSEY UNIVERSITY AIMES IT, INNOVATION & SCIENCE Award Winner: Richard Stebbing

2011 AIMES Awards Winners.

Editorial ................................................................................................................ 2 President’s Message............................................................................................. 5 Trustees 2011/2012 ............................................................................................. 7

ALBANY TOYOTA AIMES MUSIC Award Winner: Moses MacKay

GM's Report......................................................................................................... 9

KRISTIN SCHOOL AIMES EDUCATION Award Winner: Blake Hansen

AIMES SUPREME AWARD & IT, INNOVATION & SCIENCE AWARD WINNER 2011: Richard Stebbing ................................................................................................ 13

AUT/MILLENNIUM INSTITUTE AIMES SPORTS Award Winner: Thomas Abercrombie

AIMES ARTS AWARD WINNER 2011: Elliot Christensen-Yule ........................................................................................ 16

NORTH SHORE CITY AIMES SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY Award Winner: Amanda Judd NORTH HARBOUR CLUB AIMES Judges Special Award Winner: Alisha McLennan NORTH HARBOUR CLUB AIMES HAYES KNIGHT EMERGING TALENT Award Winners: Alexandra Foster, Adam Gerrett, Seok Jun Bing, Aine Kelly-Costello, Lydia Ko, Rebecca Dubber.

The Club/Members ............................................................................................. 11

AIMES MUSIC AWARD WINNER 2011: Moses MacKay................................................................................................... 18 AIMES EDUCATION AWARD WINNER 2011: Blake Hansen ..................................................................................................... 21 AUT Millennium .................................................................................................. 25 AIMES SPORTS AWARD WINNER 2011: Thomas Abercrombie ......................................................................................... 26 AIMES SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY AWARD WINNER 2011: Amanda Judd ..................................................................................................... 30 AIMES JUDGES SPECIAL AWARD WINNER 2011: Alisha McLennan ................................................................................................ 32 HAYES KNIGHT EMERGING TALENT AWARD WINNERS 2011: ........................ 35

North Harbour Club Management: Catherine Lidgard – General Manager (catherine@northharbourclub.co.nz) Telephone 09 419 0273 / 021 277 0699 PO Box 31-599, Milford, North Shore.

VISIT ONLINE: www.northharbourclub.co.nz

NORTHSIDE INTERVIEW: Matthew Bellingham .................................................. 38 THE AMBASSADORS: ....................................................................................... 42 MEMBER PROFILE: Dr Henry Duncan................................................................ 44 MEMBER/SPONSOR PROFILE: David Brook, ASB ............................................ 47 The Judging Process .......................................................................................... 49 AIMES AWARDS DINNER 2011 ......................................................................... 50

NorthSide is published annually for the club

by Benefitz DMA Limited.

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PO Box 33-1630, Takapuna.

VISIT ONLINE: www.benefitz.co.nz

EMERGING TALENT AWARDS PRESENTATION 2011 ....................................... 53 EMERGING TALENT AWARDS PRESENTATION 2010 ....................................... 55 AIMES AWARDS DINNER 2010 ......................................................................... 56

PUBLISHER/EDITOR: Aidan Bennett (aidan@benefitz.co.nz) Telephone 09-477-4701 or 021-500-997

AIMES SUPREME AWARD & SPORTS AWARD WINNER 2010: Jacko Gill............................................................................................................ 58

WRITERS: Aidan Bennett.

Catherine Murray.

Michael Campbell (michael@benefitz.co.nz).

AIMES AWARD WINNER UPDATES ................................................................... 62

ADVERTISING: Aidan Bennett.

DESIGN: Chelsea Johnston (chelsea@benefitz.co.nz).

Helen Boswell (helen@benefitz.co.nz).

PRINTING: Benefitz.

The opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily the views of the North Harbour Club or the publishers.

MEMBER/SPONSOR PROFILE: Richard Ede, BNZ ............................................ 90 North Harbour Club Lexus of North Shore Charity Lunches ................................ 93 Business Excellence Network Breakfasts ............................................................ 97 Westlake Boys High School ................................................................................ 99 EDUCATION SPOTLIGHT: Kristin School .......................................................... 101 MEMBER PROFILE: John Bishop ..................................................................... 102 THE LAST WORD: Kris MacCauley................................................................... 104 NORTHSIDE MAGAZINE 2011/2012 PAGE 1

AWARDS

Editorial

Eight years on...

It is my pleasure to present this eighth annual issue of Northside – the magazine of the North Harbour Club and Charitable Trust. As a trustee of this marvelous charitable organisation I get a real thrill out of putting together this magazine.

Back in early 2004 I suggested such a publication to the late Ross Finlayson, then the driving force behind the North Harbour Club. Ross was a real "doer" and gave me every assistance and encouragement to produce that first issue. I can still remember the look on his face when that first copy of Northside, issue one, was given to him. He loved it. For him it really captured what the club is all about and we had created a vehicle to inform the wider community. For the next five years, until his passing in August 2009, I know that Ross used to get the same thrill, every year, when he got the latest copy of Northside in his hands.

What Ross Finlayson would have been very proud of is that his legacy is being upheld with the continuing growth of the North Harbour Club and Charitable Trust. This is the third issue of Northside that we have produced since Ross left us, and as you will read in these pages the club continues to go from strength to strength.

So what is the North Harbour Club and Charitable Trust? My own answer would be very simple... "a group of successful people who share a strong desire to give back to the community". We put our hands in our pockets to organise, sponsor and attend very enjoyable functions during the year, with all profits and energy directed towards rewarding and encouraging excellence achieved by our young people.

Personally, I have achieved a great deal out of my involvement with the North Harbour Club and Charitable Trust. It

Aidan Bennett.

was around 14 years ago when I was first encouraged to join by founding members Bob Jago and Andrew Mackenzie. At that time they were really the only people I knew who were involved with the club. They introduced me to Ross and his enthusiasm was immediately infectious. I decided it was something that I really wanted to get into. I am proud that I am now helping to continue Ross' vision.

To new members, or those of you who are thinking about joining, or current members who are not overly active, I encourage you to really get involved. Don't just join and think that the club will make it all happen for you. It won't. But if you really get involved and make a bit of an investment in buying tickets to events, providing sponsorship and generally be active, I guarantee you will get heaps out of it. Being involved is very rewarding.

A big thanks to our North Harbour Club and Charitable Trust sponsors (as detailed on the inside front cover), and to all the advertisers who make publishing this magazine possible. Your support is really appreciated.

Well done also to all our outstanding AIMES Awards recipients. Thanks for all the contributions you have made to this magazine. Your achievements make us all extremely proud and thrilled that we are encouraging you.

So here it is. Northside 2011/2012. I hope you get as big a thrill out of reading it as I have out of putting it together.

Aidan Bennett Editor/Publisher Trustee – North Harbour Club and Charitable Trust Email: aidan@benefitz.co.nz Twitter: @AidanLBennett

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Our Club and Charitable Trust have experienced another very successful and rewarding year. Our Lexus North Shore lunches were exceptional and in keeping with our objectives of both delivering and promoting excellence.

The Boardroom functions were well attended and provided a great opportunity for networking and for our members who hosted the functions, to promote their business and services.

The Hayes Knight sponsored Emerging Talent evening is scheduled for late October 2011 and the Judges were delighted with the quality of applicants. We will be rewarding an outstanding group of young emerging talent winners, many of whom I have no doubt will go on to be future winners of the AIMES Awards.

Our flagship event for 2011 will be the AIMES Awards evening and presentation to be held at the Bruce Mason Centre on Saturday, 29 October. Once again we have a very special evening of entertainment with the recognition and rewarding of excellence bound to be the highlight. Our Judges, Chaired

by Simon Lamb, were excited and humbled by the numbers of high quality applicants and have again performed with superb judgment, to come up with amazing winners in each category.

We will be making cash grants in excess of $100,000 in the Emerging Talent and AIMES categories.

It is worth reflecting on the objectives of the North Harbour Club and to take a “rain check” on how we scored in achieving these objectives. Objective 1 is to promote the North Harbour region. I give ourselves a top pass mark here. We made submissions to the Auckland Plan both directly and through the Committee for Auckland on whose board I sit as a Club representative. We engaged in regular meetings with the Mayor of Auckland City, Len Brown, and were able to influence components of the Plan to the benefit of this region. It has been particularly pleasing to me, to see the draft Auckland Plan making provision for ferry services to both Takapuna and Browns Bay. Our promotion of North Harbour will continue through these forums and our Patron, Peter Menzies has personally funded some of this work. Thanks to you Peter for this and for all you do for the Club in your capacity as Patron.

Objective 2 is to provide the networking framework for North Shore businesses to prosper and we do this through all of our events and activities. A pass mark again.

Objective 3, and our primary objective, is to raise funds to present cash grants to reward the youth of this mighty region, who can demonstrate outstanding ability in their chosen areas of Art, IT, Innovation and Science, Music, Education, Sport and Service to the Community. We have had outstanding success here with our events all contributing good cash surpluses; our loyal sponsors continuing with their support; the donations from the Business Excellence Network breakfasts run by David Schnauer, Catherine and Malcolm Gray; our generously donated auction items proving something of a bonus, and the donations “in kind” which I will recognise in my thanks below.

We have been able to keep our cash grants to the winners at exceptionally high levels and our cash balances on deposit continue to grow. Despite the challenging economic conditions, the “business” of the Club continues to grow and prosper with our membership base expanding.

Such positive outcomes are not achieved without the commitment, substantial time input and skills of many and I wish to acknowledge some very special people and organisations who go beyond the calls of duty. Firstly my fellow Trustees and the Judges, Chairman Simon Lamb, Andrea

President's Message

Peter Wall.

Davies, Mike Stanley, Sue Stanaway and Henry Duncan.

Trustees John Bishop and Greg Ward retired during the year and we were pleased to welcome well-known North Shore solicitor, Gary Simpson. Henry Duncan has stepped down from the judging panel and his sporting knowledge “place” has been filled by Mike Stanley. My sincere thanks to you all. You make my job easy. I simply front up, and all the work is done!

John Bishop, along with our founding President the late Ross Finlayson, was the promoter of the Club and as a founding member and Trustee deserves our special thanks and recognition.

Thanks to all ongoing sponsors, detailed on the inside front cover with a special thanks for Lexus of North Shore, Bruce Mason Centre, Spencer on Byron and North Harbour Stadium whose combined contributions ensure we deliver excellent events. These events, together with our publications and printed material are the external “face” of the Club. The high standard and professional image we are able to present would not be possible without the work and skills of Aidan Bennett and his team at Benefitz. Outstanding; the Club is indebted to you Aidan, Michelle and all the Benefitz team. Aidan runs sidesaddle with fellow Trustee Gary Monk in delivering our major events and activities and all Trustees breathed a sigh of relief when Gary agreed to stand again for another year. Special thanks Gary.

Our General Manager, Catherine Lidgard, really has stepped up to the plate and delivered excellence. With the input and support from Vice President, Matthew Bellingham and his Hayes Knight team our systems, financial controls and presentation have been overhauled and greatly improved, greatly assisting Catherine in her management of the Club’s business.

What a year, what results and what a great Club we have!

I have been heard to say often that the Club, it’s membership base and related friendships, its status and reach, have helped me immensely in my business and private life here on the Shore. My term as President will conclude at next year’s AGM meaning this will be my last President’s Message for Northside.

It has been a great honour and privilege to serve and one of the most satisfying and rewarding roles I have been lucky enough to experience. Creation of excellence; that is what we have achieved and will continue to do and how good is that!!

Enjoy Northside and see you continue to support the objectives of this Club of excellence.

Peter Wall President North Harbour Club & Charitable Trust peter@mapgroup.co.nz NORTHSIDE MAGAZINE 2011/2012 PAGE 5

ASPIRING TO PERSONAL EXCELLENCE

Takapuna Grammar School, 210 Lake Rd, PO Box 33 1096 Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand Tel: 09 489 4167 Fax: 09 486 7118 Email: office@takapuna.school.nz Website: www.takapunagrammar.school.nz PAGE 6 NORTHSIDE MAGAZINE 2011/2012

Trustees North Harbour Club & Charitable Trust Trustees 2011/2012

Peter Wall (President) MAP Group Limited (peter@mapgroup.co.nz)

Matthew Bellingham (Vice President) CEO, Hayes Knight NZ Limited (matthew.bellingham @hayesknight.co.nz)

Andrew Hiskens

Sue Stanaway

Managing Director Colliers International North Shore (andrew.hiskens@colliers.com)

Director/Licensee Bayleys Residential North Shore Stanaway Real Estate Ltd (sues@bayleysnorthshore.co.nz)

Gary Monk

Kris MacCauley

Peter White

Managing Director Intersea Limited (gary@intersea.co.nz)

Managing Director Alliance Construction Limited (kris@allianceconstruction.co.nz)

General Manager Takapuna Beach Business Assoc. (peter@takapunabeach.co.nz)

Gary Simpson

Aidan Bennett

Phil Brosnan

Managing Partner Simpson Western Lawyers (garys@simpsonwestern.co.nz)

Managing Director BeneďŹ tz (aidan@beneďŹ tz.co.nz)

Managing Director Brosnan Construction (phil@brosnanconstruction.co.nz)

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GM's Report

GM’s report

Catherine Lidgard General Manager North Harbour Club As we draw towards the end of 2011, it’s a great opportunity to reflect on the past year. It’s certainly been a busy one, but I guess we say that every year and wonder at where the time has gone and how quickly Christmas seems to be here again – life certainly doesn’t get any less busy for us does it?

I can definitely say that this year has been a lot of fun! We have had some really exciting lunches starting with the Gordon Tietjens lunch, which was MC’d by the hilarious Eric Rush and didn’t they make quite the double-act? Then we tried something completely different and had our inaugural ‘fashion lunch’, one for the ladies and hosted by April Ieremia, which was fantastic and an enormous amount of fun to organise with Trustee Sue Stanaway (it was good to see some guys there too – thanks guys!). Previous AIMES winners Melissa Ingram and Joe Bergin were fabulous models for us too. Next up was the Prime Minister who impressed us all with his ability to speak for half an hour to over 400 people giving us an array of facts and figures with no notes at all – he was very entertaining as was Mike Hosking our MC and Murray McCully who spoke prior to the PM. We were also given a sneak preview of the menu designed especially for the Rugby World Cup at the Stadium. Lastly, we had another first in bringing you the live recording of Ian Jones’ Rugby Centre at the Bruce Mason Centre, just two days before the kick-off of the Rugby World Cup – this was incredibly entertaining and a lot of fun – the show went to air that evening and a number of you featured.

The Club is unashamedly about rewarding and celebrating excellence and in doing so we strive to host ‘excellent’ lunches with ‘excellent’ speakers – we are so fortunate to have such a range of interesting speakers and MC’s right here in our own backyard who are interested and supportive of what we are about and are happy to assist us.

Boardroom functions were held by both Massey University and the Millennium Institute of Sport and Health. These were a great opportunity to mix and mingle with fellow members in a relaxed environment and have a look at both of these

organisation’s wonderful facilities.

Our main focus, the AIMES Awards, have, again, been a privilege to be a part of. This year's winners were once again an outstanding group of young people whom I am fortunate to get to know as they go through the process. They are a credit to their region and their families and deserve all the support and encouragement we can give them in their pursuits. In the many years that I have been involved in the AIMES process it never ceases to amaze me, both the quality and number of applications we receive – each year there are new faces and names to add to our list of winners and each year they are incredible – what an amazing depth of talent this region fosters.

This year’s AIMES Awards dinner was particularly special as we showcased a number of our previous AIMES winners (dating back to 1998) to entertain us. It was great to see just how far these performers had come since their awards – they are all world-class. The dinner was MC’d by Club Ambassadors Shane Cortese and Cam Calkoen, which proved to be a fantastic combo and Mark Dennison did a wonderful job as Musical Director.

It was great to have the Mayor of Auckland City, Len Brown and his wife Shan at the AIMES Dinner, it’s been an interesting time of change for the Auckland region and we’ve been keen to ensure we contribute and are involved as much as we can be.

We have recently set up a Facebook page for our AIMES winners to communicate with each other and they are all very keen to do so. It’s been great to be in contact with them and watch as they all connect in with each other – this is something we’d like to foster going forward as they are our ‘Alumni’ and the best endorsement of what we do.

Our Membership is ever-growing. In fact there are applications from new members presented to the Trustees at each of their meetings. We currently sit at approximately 140 members and each of our members are integral to the continued growth and development of the North Harbour Club.

I’d also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the ongoing commitment and support of all of our sponsors.

Almost all of them have pledged their support again this year and many have been with us for a number of years. Given the rough ride the economy has provided over the past few years this is significant and very much appreciated. It is great to have such a stable foundation of support, which means that we can continue to support and foster the young people of our region.

Thank you.

I’m excitedly looking forward to 2012. We have a great team of Trustees who are passionate about the future of the club and its direction. They are incredibly supportive of me in this role and I thank them for this support, advice, time and energy, in all that we do it is a team effort.

We are busy putting together the events programme as I write and it’s shaping up to be as much fun as 2011! Do bring your guests along and support our events and your club. These are our major fundraising activities and of course you will be in good company with great food and wine!

The Club is in a great place – I’m sure you will join me in saying that I am proud of what we are and what we do – it’s a wonderful thing the North Harbour Club.

Catherine Lidgard General Manager North Harbour Club & Charitable Trust Email: catherine@northharbourclub.co.nz NORTHSIDE MAGAZINE 2011/2012 PAGE 9

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Members The North Harbour club was established on 18 May, 1995.

Originally, a group of North Shore business people met and established a constitution with the objectives below: 1. To promote the North Harbour region.

2. For business establishments of the region to meet and network for the good of the region.

3. To form a Charitable Trust to raise funds and present scholarships to the youth of the North Harbour region through the trusts annual AIMES Awards. To qualify for the AIMES Awards, recipients must have shown outstanding ability or potential in the areas of the Arts, IT, Innovation & Science, Music, Education, Sport and Service to the Community.

The North Harbour Club is an association of Auckland’s North Harbour/Shore leaders in local affairs, business, education, sport and social development.

Members of the club, who are all residents or have their businesses on the North Shore, have, among other stated aims, the desire to promote excellence by encouraging and providing financial assistance to the young people of the North Harbour region who have significant ability in their chosen field and display personal characteristics which make them worthy of our support.

The annual AIMES Awards are the highestprofile initiative of the North Harbour Club, but the objectives are five-fold: 1. To establish and maintain a club of non-political character for Members to meet through regular lunches and social activities 2. To establish a charitable trust, known as The North Harbour Club Charitable Trust, to promote and develop local talent in the fields covered by the AIMES Awards.

3. To support cultural, sporting and recreational activities in the region 4. To foster a spirit of pride in the region.

5. To foster a ‘good neighbour’ and ‘good citizen’ ethos in the region.

Membership of the North Harbour Club returns benefits to Members as well as the Youth the Club chooses to reward. A series of luncheons, functions and events throughout the year, each with a highquality guest speaker or entertainment, are calendar highlights, allowing Members to mix and mingle while enjoying good food and fine wine. In this way Members receive an opportunity to meet each other, entertain clients and help our outstanding young achievers advance their careers at the same time.

North Harbour Club & Charitable Trust Members 2011/2012

PATRON Peter Menzies LIFE MEMBERS Joan Finlayson Judge Barry Morris BOARD OF TRUSTEES Peter Wall (President) Matthew Bellingham (Secretary/ Treasurer/ Vice-President) Aidan Bennett Phil Brosnan Andrew Hiskens Kris MacCauley Gary Monk Gary Simpson Sue Stanaway Peter White MEMBERS Max Abbott Colin Abercrombie Paul Alexander John Algie Graeme Avery Peter Baker Alan Barr Greg Bateman Paul Bayer John Bishop Trish Blackmore Nicolette Bodewes John Broderick David Brook Scott Browne Ian Calderwood Cameron Calkoen Graham Catley David Charlesworth Peter Clague Graham Collie Glenn Corbett Shane Cortese Peter Crispin Peter Cutts Derek Dallow Alan Davies Andrea Davies Anson Davies Jan Dawson

Peter Dawson Kath Deady Bert Denee Daryl Devereux Stephen Dil Dave Donaldson Tony Dowse Henry Duncan Terry Dunleavy Richard Ede Rick Ede Eric Faesen Kloet David Ferguson Dean Flyger Don Galbraith David Gaze Alison Gernhoefer Tom Gerrard Colin Gibbons Bruno Goedeke Craig Goodall Malcolm T Gray Rob Greenwood Murray Greer Daniel Henderson Michelle Henderson Evan Henning Nick Hern Andrew Hill David Hodge Brett Hollister Nick Howe-Smith Jim Huse Murray Irwin Pip Irwin Bob Jago Mark Jago Heidi Johnston Ian Jones Steve Jurkovich Annette Kaan Chris Kennings Gail King John Kinley Lloyd Kirby Dave Knowles John Laidlaw Simon Lamb Dave Lane Adele Lendich Bob Leveloff Graham Lock

Liam Lyons Andrew MacKenzie Graham Mackinnon Steve Maharey Lynda Mann Jacqui Matthews-Harris Dave McAlpine Bob McGuigan Kevin McLean Forres McPheat Bob McRae Ngaio Merrick Chris Milicich Peter Montgomery Rebecca Morris Murray Nancekivell Ken Noble Gary Noland Jugdis Parbhu Donna Perreau Mark Porath Bob Quaid Duncan Reid Greg Remmington Ralph Roberts Brendan Robinson Brenden Rolston Colin Saltmarsh Andrew Schnauer Patricia Schnauer Kevin Schwass Andrew Scott Alexis Siermans Mike Single Rod Slater Bill Smale Greg Smale Bruce Spooner John Spooner Trevor Stanaway Mike Stanley Hugh Stedman Wendy Sutherland Ian Taylor Gerard van Tilborg Miles Wallace Greg Ward Ian Watson Brendon White Alan Wiltshire Dean Young

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winner profile

AWARDS

Richard Stebbing IT, Innovation & Science Award and AIMES Supreme Award Winner 2011

Richard Stebbing at Takapuna with his AIMES Award Trophy.

Winners 2011

Richard Stebbing Biomedical Engineer

AIMES Supreme Award and IT, Innovation & Science Award Winner 2011 Richard Stebbing believes it was his time at Northcote College that enabled him to get where he is today.

He’s currently at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, studying towards a DPhil (PhD) in Engineering Science.

“My time at Northcote College was one of the best periods of my life, both in terms of personal growth and academic growth. It is such a diverse school and this diversity was actively encouraged by both the staff and students. Complacency never seemed like a problem, because there were always more things that I could get involved with. I left Northcote College feeling so much more confident about what I wanted to do and I know that I wouldn’t be where I am today without the experience of all that it had to offer. My teachers at Northcote were also phenomenal and were always going above and beyond the call of duty to help me with my work. During my final year I was preparing for the 2006 International Chemistry Olympiad and the amount of academic support that I received from my teachers was huge.”

At Oxford, Richard is developing algorithms to automate

Richard Stebbing was presented with his award by North Harbour Club Patron Peter Menzies.

the analysis of ultrasound images of the heart. The motivation for this is to enable more quantitative and objective measures of the health of the cardiac system. The funds from the AIMES Award will go towards Richard’s University costs, as well as offering him additional opportunities to further his research. “I will use the AIMES Award to help fund the DPhil degree at Oxford and also to attend conferences and workshops over the next two to three years. While working towards my DPhil, I really want to ensure that I can improve my knowledge not just in my immediate area of research, but in related fields as well. I believe there is an enormous benefit to this, because often similar problems are tackled in quite different ways and focusing on only a single field can mean you miss out on some great ideas!”

Richard says so many people throw their energies into research without having the resources to go after associated opportunities. The AIMES Award will make it possible for Richard to take advantage of these valuable external opportunities. “I recently attended the International Computer Vision Summer School and it was one of the most productive weeks of my life. I learned an enormous amount about the state-of-the-art research in computer vision and I got the opportunity to talk through these ideas with some of the leading researchers from MIT, Yale, Stanford, Google, and Microsoft.

The AIMES Award will mean that I can attend events like this again and also have the opportunity to present my own work in the future.”

Prior to his Oxford entrance, Richard completed a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Auckland. His early schooling years were spent at Ponsonby Primary and Ponsonby Intermediate, before he attended Northcote College, where he was Dux and Head Boy. Richard acknowledges that he has a very supportive family who have always encouraged him to do the very best he can.

His mother Robyn is a freelance writer and his father Vaughan and uncle Robert run the family business, Stebbing Recording Centre. Richard’s grandfather, Eldred, originally started the business which has its roots in audio recording. Richard’s older sister Carolyn is an Account Director at Lowe Sydney and his younger brother James is currently completing his second to last year at Northcote College. “My parents both work very NORTHSIDE MAGAZINE 2011/2012 PAGE 13

AWARDS

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... you can do anything as long as you are prepared to put the work in! hard and I think their tenacity has rubbed off on me too,” says Richard. “My grandparents have instilled me with the idea that you can do anything as long as you are prepared to put the work in!”

There are numerous other people that have supported and inspired Richard to achieve his success. “Some of my teachers from intermediate and high school who have helped me enormously include Jeff Bonazzo, Peter Radonich, Robert Gratton, Richard Mackrory, John Macauley, and Vikki Barrie.

At The University of Auckland, I also owe a huge amount to Dr Mark Andrews, Dr Nitish Patel, and Professor John Boys!”

The next 12 months will see Richard building on the work he has done in his first year at Oxford. “This first year of my DPhil has been a fantastic learning curve for me as I’ve been able to get a handle on the state-of-the-art approaches to automated ultrasound image analysis. I’ve implemented most of these approaches this year, but for the next 12 months I will be developing and validating some new techniques that have been in the formative stages over the last few months. There is an enormous amount of work to do but it is looking pretty good so far!”

Richard’s ultimate goal is to see his research adopted into

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a commercial setting. “My goal is to complete my DPhil and eventually bring my research into a commercial setting. I think the true value of any product can only be fully appreciated when you can develop it into a full-scale commercial product. In my case, this means developing the image analysis software to a point where it is reliable and convenient for a physician to use.

My long-term ambition is to eventually get a product like this developed and deployed in as many places as possible. I would also like to teach at some point. I had the opportunity to run some tutorials and laboratories at The University of Auckland and I found it very enjoyable.”

In 10 years time, Richard hopes to be continuing his work in the development of biomedical electronics systems. “That would be fantastic. I would love to be back in New Zealand too.

But I think I just need to focus on the next 10 years first …”

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Elliot Christensen-Yule Actor

AIMES Arts Award Winner 2011 Elliot Christensen-Yule is an actor who has already made his entrance onto the New Zealand acting scene. His most recent work was in the Auckland Theatre Company’s production of Red, directed by Oliver Driver. Elliot played the role of ‘Ken’ alongside Michael Hurst’s portrayal of ‘Mark Rothko’.

It was his former principal at Northcote College who prompted him to apply for an AIMES Award. “Vicki Barrie encouraged me to apply because she knew I wanted to further my acting career. She has always been a strong supporter of mine. I was trying to find a way to finance my next career step, and the AIMES Awards seemed like a great opportunity.”

Northcote College provided a creative environment that Elliot relished, providing him with some well-earned accolades.

“I enjoyed performing in school plays, assessments, theatre sports teams, stage challenge productions and Sheilah Winn Shakespeare competitions. In 2006, I received both the Jan Fraser Award for ‘Student-Directed Ensemble Work’ and the Dymocks Award for ‘Special Individual Performance’ at the National Sheilah Winn Festival in Wellington.” The year 2006 also saw Elliot receive the New Zealand Top Scholarship award for Drama, and since then he has built a respectable

Elliot Christensen-Yule receiving the Arts Award at the 2011AIMES Awards Gala Dinner from North Harbour Club President Peter Wall (left) and David Brook of award sponsor ASB.

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resume comprising both stage and screen.

In 2009, Elliot was cast in the role of ‘Posner’ in the Peach Theatre Company production of The History Boys. “I was fortunate to work with, and learn from theatre great George Henare, Annie Whittle and Bruce Phillips.” Elliot is also a proud member of The Outfit Theatre Company, performing with them in their two productions of Little White Men at the Auckland Fringe Festival and The Basement Theatre. On screen, Elliot has played a range of diverse roles including ‘Young Wolf’ in Outrageous Fortune, ‘Jed’ in This is Not Your Life, Tourette’s Syndrome patient ‘Angus Phelps’ in Shortland Street, and roles in both Go Girls and The Insatiable Moon.

Elliot confesses that he’s not too sure exactly what leads him to be such a high achiever in his field. “I guess I don’t like to leave things half done and for some reason I usually strive further than the task requires. I like a challenge and I enjoy learning new things, both of which help motivate me to better myself.”

Elliot credits his family, including his grandfather ‘Big Dad’, with providing him with the inspiration to do what he loves. His mother Lesley is a chef and food writer, and his father Phil, a sound engineer. Younger brother Miller is pursuing a career as a musician in addition to studying audio engineering. Other important players in Elliot’s sphere include Vicki Barrie, his drama teachers from Northcote College, Richard Edge and Megan Peterson, and especially Kate Olliver who has played a key role in his life, influencing Elliot’s acting and personal development.

Elliot’s plans for the immediate future will see him well on the road to achieving his ten-year goal of acting internationally.

The funds from the AIMES Award will help to support him while he pursues professional acting work in Australia. “My one-year plan involves heading over to Sydney, getting an Australian-based agent, finding my way around the city, setting up camp someplace affordable, familiarising myself with the theatre and film industries, and hopefully getting some work.

My agent at Auckland Actors is already working to facilitate meetings with Australian agents for me.”

While acting remains his primary focus, one day Elliot would also like to try his hand at writing and directing, the perfect complement to an acting career.

I like a challenge and I enjoy learning new things, both of which help motivate me to better myself.

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Moses MacKay Singer

AIMES Music Award Winner 2011 Moses MacKay believes happiness is the key to success. “I think I am a high achiever because I love what I do. This is an important foundation for any success. Happiness is the key.”

This simple philosophy has served Moses well. At the age of 20, Moses made his operatic debut as part of the Chapman Tripp Opera Chorus in The NBR New Zealand Opera’s 2010 production of The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart). He has since appeared in the chorus of Xerxes (Handel) and Macbeth (Verdi) and performed the role of Assassin/Servant in the same opera with the Company. In 2010, Moses appeared in Dorothy Buchanan’s Woman at the Store (University of Auckland) and as soloist in Schumann's Mass in C minor (Bach Musica). A member of the New Zealand Youth Choir since 2008, Moses has also performed with the Auckland Chamber Choir in

Haydn’s Creation.

This year Moses was given a comprimario role in the recent opera Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci (NZ Opera) and was soloist in the Biber Mass (Bach Musica). He was invited to participate in a series of master classes run by the San Francisco Opera Centre, held at the Huntley Lodge in Christchurch, and received a scholarship to attend the NZ Opera School, held in Wanganui, in January. Moses recently sang in the backing group for Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at Vector Arena and has participated in various master classes with her.

Outside the world of opera, Moses has appeared touring with George Benson and Andrea Bocelli. He has received the prestigious University of Auckland Blues Award in 2008, 2009 and 2010, and is the 2011/2012 PWC Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artist. This year he can be found singing the anthems

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Winners 2011 in the Rugby World Cup games with the NZ Choral Foundation; performing the lead role in L'Enfance du Christ (Bach Musica); and preparing for the opera Hohepa by Jenny McLeod, premiering early next year!

Winning an AIMES Award affords Moses with the means to fund his vocal tuition and coaching for this year and the next.

Any remaining funds will go towards supporting him in his overseas studies, perhaps at the Julliard School of Music or the Cardiff Academy of Music. “The AIMES Awards are a brilliant foundation for young artists such as myself who are looking to top their game, and who are constantly looking to further their knowledge and understanding of their craft.”

Moses grew up with a ‘pretty normal’ childhood doing most things young lads do, including singing in the school choir, and being a North Harbour representative in rugby, athletics and lawn bowls. However, he says "injuries helped me realise my dreams at a young age, so in a way I am grateful."

He attended Rosmini College from 2001-2007 where he was a Head Prefect. His family has deep ties to the school with a great number of his family attending Rosmini, including his father Victor MacKay (1979 - 1983), all under the reins of Tom Gerrard.

“Our family blood line comes from a village in Samoa called Moa Moa. My parents are both Samoan and I am the second eldest of a family of 3 boys and 1 girl. Our baby sister Anasetasia is in Year 8 at Carmel College and younger brother Matthias is in Year 9 at Rosmini College, where Marley, the eldest of the pack, has been teaching for the last 2 years.

Marley, also Ex-Head Prefect of Rosmini College (1998 - 2004), has been a big support for me over the years. He has been a brother, a mentor, and more importantly, a friend.”

Another member of this talented family is Moses’ cousin who is in his ninth year studying classical piano at the Conservatory in Rovigo, Italy. One day Moses hopes to be able to perform with him.

Moses counts his family and friends as his constant source of inspiration and support, along with his current coach and mentor Francis Wilson, singing teachers, Christine Hallet and Dr Te Oti Rakena, and the inspirational Rosie Barnes.

Moses has a busy 12 months ahead of him, with some great opportunities to hone his craft.

“The Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artist program runs for 12 months within the NBR New Zealand Opera. It is considered to be one of their key roles to identify talented opera singers and give them a head start in the competitive world of professional music. Through this program I am given small comprimario roles and/or understudy roles. Vocal, stagecraft and language coaching is provided during the season, along with a range of other opportunities. In December I will be performing the lead role of Joseph in L'Enfance du Christ (Bach Musica), I will attend the NZ Opera school early next year and also start my Honours at the NZ School of Music. I am cast in the world premiere of Hohepa – a landmark new opera for New Zealand written by Jenny McLeod, set to premier at the International Arts Festival.

I am also understudying the lead role in the opera Rigoletto (NZ Opera) which is showing mid-next year.”

Looking forward to the future, Moses has some clear goals in sight - to perform, to inspire and to do his best – at all cost.

“In ten years time I want to be singing at the Met. In ten years time I want to be a respected name in Opera. In ten years, I would be looking for nothing more than what I look for now happiness.”

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Blake Hansen Scholar

AIMES Education Award Winner 2011 Blake Hansen is not a newcomer to the AIMES Awards. At the age of 18 he received an AIMES Emerging Talent Award and, having recently completed his University studies, his mum suggested he apply again.

While obviously a talented high achiever, Blake attributes little of his achievements to his own self. “One of my teachers early in year 9, well before I had understood the concept of putting effort in at school, expressed disappointment at a low mark I had achieved in a class Economics test, saying 'she expected I would do better'. It struck me that she, and many other people I have since been blessed to be taught and befriended by, thought I was capable of achieving something. And since I love encouragement - who doesn't? - it made it easy to want to do well. At the same time, the church I attended as a teenager helped me to grow up with the perspective of loving God, others and myself. Put those three together and one is motivated by the idea that to squander our talents is selfish, but to make the most of them is not only a responsibility but will mean a greater propensity in the future to bless others more fully.”

Blake Hansen.

Blake grew up on the North Shore, and attended Milford Primary, Takapuna Normal Intermediate School and Kristin School, where he was Head Boy in his final year. Throughout his secondary years at school he was involved at Windsor Park Baptist Church, where he was supported through all the challenges of growing up by an ‘incredible’ team of leaders and mentors.

Blake’s family is a huge source of his support and inspiration, alongside the support and encouragement he receives from his large circle of friends. Blake’s family consists of dad, a financial advisor, mum, a massage therapist, and older brothers, one in finance and the other in IT support for the Health Board. “My brothers relentlessly bullied me, followed by the most wholehearted cheering on of my successes. My parents somehow managed to raise me with everything I needed in life; and celebrated all my success, even when it meant giving me up, to be on the other side of the world away from them.”

Other notable mentions of Blake’s include his friends at Kristin School and Windsor Park Baptist Church, his youth leaders whom he credits with helping him to become a more well-balanced individual, and his teachers at Kristin, especially the principal and a particular Chemistry teacher who planted a love for science from a young age.

Currently Blake is committed to working as the Youth Worker for the Holy Trinity Church in Cambridge, England, before he returns to fulltime research. “Having volunteered with the youth group for four years and then after leaving University, I seized the opportunity to continue encouraging and growing a generation of well-adjusted young people through a community of fun, trust and faith. It was also the ideal opportunity for me to gain experience working with young people - the age range that I hope to be the focus of any future research work in developing nations that I carry out.”

Blake’s work as a Youth Worker provides mentoring and opportunities for the development of strong relationships, in addition to frequent socials and an annual Christian festival over the summer. “The youth programme further provides the opportunity to be mentored by a young adult in the next stage of life - much like that which I benefited from. The youths can discuss whatever may be happening in their lives, as well as being challenged on certain aspects of their development such NORTHSIDE MAGAZINE 2011/2012 PAGE 21

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as character, relationships and identity. Moving forward, I hope to continue growing this community, and establish strong links with schools to encourage the development of students in difficult situations. Whilst we work closely with parents already, I also hope to begin encouraging parents through parent nights, workshops and even whole-family events.”

Following his time at the Holy Trinity Church, Blake’s wish is to return to his studies, using his experiences to enrich his research. “I have a strong desire to return to science and use my degree, along with my experience and passion as a youth worker, to combine scientific endeavor with a social consciousness that seeks to benefit marginalised cohorts of adolescents with HIV. Having worked with the World Health Organisation, I have witnessed the benefit that technical expertise can provide to public health interventions, and vice versa, how public health needs can direct scientific research. A successful life to me, would not be one that ended with plenty

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of letters after my name, but one where what I do with my skills makes a positive and potentially freeing impact on individuals held captive by disease. Specifically, it would be a dream to carry out research in a rural hospital in Africa. I have spent a few summers observing various ministries who care for HIVpositive individuals in Southern Africa, and the place and people have really gotten under my skin. There is something so stark about hope in places of hardship. And with increasing numbers of adolescents acquiring HIV, for the time being, there is no shortage of ways for being involved.”

It’s this research that Blake plans to fund with his AIMES Award, along with more immediate opportunities surrounding his youth work. “I am hoping to attend a series of youth conferences and seminars offered by experienced youth networks, through organisations such as Youth for Christ and Soul Survivor. In the longer term (post-next 12 months, and by far the more substantial cost-wise) I hope to utilise the Award covering the costs involved in starting a PhD, when I return to basic scientific research.”

Looking even further into the future, Blake has a myriad of goals and objectives for the next ten years. “I want to be loving others and loving God even more than I am now. I want to be using my opportunities to bless others. I want to be less selfish and not afraid to have made big decisions at the right time. I hope to have started building upon the foundation of big dreams, to impact communities with young people throughout Africa. I hope to be working with, or starting my own effective public health interventions and research agendas. And I hope for a loving family of my own.”

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The $30 million redevelopment of the AUT Millennium Campus brings together the best of sports research, coaching and management expertise from AUT University, the Millennium Institute of Sport and Health and High Performance Sport New Zealand with the goal of producing more world-class sporting champions.

IOC President Jacques Rogge was full of praise for the facility and what it offers high performance and community sport.

“I’ve had the opportunity to visit around twenty centres that are based around your model. And I can tell you that you are definitely in the top three - don’t ask me for numbers one and two. But this is absolutely unique.

The first centre that I know where there is a university embedded in the building,

bringing of course all the possibilities of science. And this is also the first centre that I know that is not only open for elite sport, but it’s also for the community around, and for sport for all.”

With under a year to go until the start of the 2012 London Olympics the high performance training and sports science facilities at AUT Millennium will be used by a number of Olympic sporting codes such as athletics, swimming, hockey, BMX, football and sailing. The National Training Centre will provide athletes and coaches with world class facilities in the High Performance Centre, expanded sports science and medicine services - all of which will help New Zealand athletes perform in London and future international events.

“The National Training Centre has brought technology, science, medical support and world class facilities and people under one roof creating the best environment for me to prepare for and achieve at London 2012” says Commonwealth Games Silver Medalist Brent Newdick.

In addition to the services and facilities available to New Zealand’s elite sporting

athletes, AUT Millennium provides a link between elite and community sport through initiatives such as the Athlete Development Academy, learn to swim and school water safety programs.

“The National Training Centre at the AUT Millennium Campus will be a multidisciplinary centre of excellence committed to propelling our next generation of athletes onto the world stage” says AUT Millennium CEO Mike Stanley. These developments will also provide the community with more opportunities to participate in sport and recreation and improve health and well being.

The developments at the AUT Millennium Campus were made possible through the generosity of founders Graeme Avery and Stephen Tindall and subsequent support from the New Zealand Government, AUT Millennium Ownership Trust, ASB Community Trust and donors Sir David Levene and Owen Glenn.

To complete the National Training Centre, AUT Millennium has plans to build the National Aquatics Centre, additional accommodation and an indoor training centre on site.

Pictured left to right: Graeme Avery, Len Brown, Jacques Rogge, Honorable Murray McCully, Mike Stanley

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Thomas Abercrombie Basketballer

AIMES Sport Award Winner 2011 Tom Abercrombie can best be described as the boy that every mother would want their daughter to marry and, ladies, he is single. 24 year old Tom is just a real nice, friendly and humble young man who is very easy to talk to.

And the more you talk, the more you realise that he’s got his head firmly screwed on.

You could excuse Abercrombie if that head had become a little enlarged over the past year. He is now one of New Zealand’s leading sportsmen having played a big role in the Breakers ANBL premiership win during the 2010/2011 season (he was named the entire final series MVP - most valuable player) and is also now a key member of the over-achieving New Zealand Tall Blacks team. It has been a stellar year for the young ‘Swing Man’ (his position) who averaged 10.5 points per game and 5.4 rebounds last season in the ANBL. Tom Abercrombie went to Hauraki Primary, Belmont Intermediate and then on to Westlake Boys High School. He was brought up in Devonport by mum Judy and father Colin. He

has an older brother, Haydn (26), who is a rugby player of note, and a sister, Nicola (21), who is studying to be a journalist.

Tom Abercrombie credits his mum Judy for first getting him into Basketball. She was his first coach and he showed some early promise. Due to this promise, and also in his other sporting love – Volleyball, he went on to Westlake Boys High School.

During his third and fourth form years at Westlake Boys, Tom Abercrombie went through a growth spurt and this influenced his decision to put all his energy into Basketball. As well as representing Westlake Boys, he played in all the Harbour agegroup sides and progressed through the New Zealand agegroup teams as well. These teams included the under 16s, 18s and then the Junior Tall Blacks.

It was no coincidence that Westlake Boys won the national secondary schools basketball title in his senior year. The team was captained by Abercrombie, who averaged 20.5 points, 11 rebounds and 2.8 steals per game. He won the WBHS Trophy

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for Academic and Sporting Excellence in 2002 and 2004 and was a member of Andrej Lemanis’ first Breakers team which toured China in May 2005.

Tom Abercrombie then spent a character-building two years at Washington State University in the US. During this time he learnt a great deal about the tough environment that is professional basketball in the States. At Washington State he spent most of his time training and very little actually playing.

This was due to the competition he faced getting game-time.

You get the feeling that while he learnt a great deal, he was very happy to get back to New Zealand in 2008.

Three years on, this experience hasn’t diminished his ambition to play in the NBA in the US. “It certainly is a dream to one day play in the NBA, which is the highest level you can play but there are thousands in front of you, some amazing athletes, so it is very tough to break into.”

Tom’s favourite NBA team is Oklahoma City Thunder and, growing up, he loved watching Reggie Miller and the Indiana Pacers.

Over the last three years, he has mixed his blossoming Basketball career with studying Science and Commerce at Auckland University. In 2012 he plans to transfer to studying extramurally at Massey University Albany.

“Winning the ANBL is certainly the highlight of my career to date,” said Tom Abercrombie when quizzed on his career so far. “Being part of a team built around guys who were my idols growing up – Pauly (Paul Henare), Dillon (Boucher) and Kirk (Penney) – has been huge. I owe a great deal for my development to those guys and coaches Andrej (Lemanis), Dean (Vickerman) and Judd Flavell. They have been huge influences, by encouraging me when I came back from the US in 2008 a little deflated and undecided on my future. They had confidence in me to be part of the team they were building, to ultimately win the competition. Andrej has played a massive role and I have really enjoyed playing for Dean in his Waikato Pistons NZNBL team. He has helped considerably with lifting my intensity and aggression, very important parts of the game at the top level.”

“We are very fortunate to have great backing from the Breakers owners Paul and Liz Blackwell. Having a facility like this where everything we need is under one roof helps considerably. It has been a big factor in our success.”

Tom is referring to the Breakers very own headquarters in Mairangi Bay. The impressive facility includes two training courts, a gym, medical and massage rooms and administration

Tom Abercrombie receiving the Sport Award at the 2011 AIMES Awards Gala Dinner from North Harbour Club President Peter Wall (left) and Mike Stanley of award sponsor AUT Millennium.

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offices. The day we were there, it was school holidays and one of the Breakers very popular holiday programmes for young kids was in full swing. There would have been more than 50 kids training and mixing with their Breakers stars.

As this article was being put together, the Breakers had started the new 2011/2012 season well with three impressive away wins and Tom is excited about the prospects of back-toback titles. “I do believe we have a squad that’s good enough to do it again this season but every team has improved so it won’t be easy. But we are thrilled with the start.”

Paul and Liz Blackwell have got a great thrill out of Tom’s development under their watch. “It has been a privilege and delight to see Tom grow in both ability and confidence through his determination and hardwork,” said Paul Blackwell proudly when asked to comment for the purpose of this article in mid October. “Liz and I take great delight in the way he continues to grow in leadership, both through his play, and his commitment to the values of the Breakers.”

Tom is signed for the next two years with the Breakers and plans to sit down and assess his options at the end of each season. His contract includes the option to take up opportunities overseas if they come along.

2011 was also the third year that Tom Abercrombie has been part of the national Tall Blacks senior squad. He came of age for New Zealand as one of the stars at the 2010 FIBA World Championships in Turkey. He has now travelled the world as a Tall Black and says that he really enjoys measuring his progress against some of the world’s top players. He has played against many leading NBA players for the Tall Blacks over the past couple of years.

“Growing up watching the Tall Blacks with players like Pauly, Dillon, Kirk and Phil Jones, really inspired me to get to their level,” explains Tom. “There is a great culture in the team which has enabled me to learn from the senior guys and do all I can to reach and maintain the high levels of performance that they have set. I believe that’s why we have been able to play above our weight and beat some very good teams over the past couple of years.”

What made you apply for a North Harbour Club AIMES Award?

“My Mum and Dad have always attended the Awards so I know about them through them. Reading about the achievements of past winners, and the levels of excellence they have achieved, inspired me to enter this year. I had always hoped that one day I would be good enough to enter and be in a position to win, so it is a thrill to pick up an AIMES Award.

The money will help me fulfill my ambition of making it as a basketballer in the US.” So why does Tom Abercrombie think he has achieved the success he has?

“I am pretty lucky really, being blessed with some athletic gifts including the ability to jump high and run fast. I have a determination to make the most of these gifts and realise my potential. I am hardworking, focussed and very very competitive. All things you need to keep your spot and stay on top of your game at this level. For me, it is huge to be the best and to win.”

What will Tom Abercrombie be doing in 10 years time?

“Hopefully still playing, have my degree and still making the most of any opportunities that come along. At this stage I have no aspirations to coach. It is not something I am keen on.”

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Amanda Judd Community Worker

AIMES Service to the Community Award Winner 2011 It was a ‘great and inspirational’ friend and former AIMES Award winner who urged social entrepreneur Amanda Judd to apply for an AIMES Award. “I remember being so proud and inspired that I said, ‘wow, I wish I could be as amazing as you’. He told me I could be – and so here I am a few years later - thank you, Cam Calkoen.”

Amanda was living in Melbourne when she unearthed her inspiration for a new way of living. Her stint in Melbourne followed a childhood on the North Shore, training as an elite athlete in rhythmic gymnastics. “I studied Fashion Design at AUT and then after retiring from rhythmic gymnastics, I spent time exploring life living in Melbourne – bringing about

experiences that got me thinking about our environment, social justice, my own wellbeing and how I can help contribute to creating an awesome world and living life abundantly. Michael Jackson has always been awesome to me. ‘I’m starting with the man in the mirror’ was an inspiration and calling that I decided to respond to a few years back, and have since been dedicating my energy to making the world a wonderful place.”

Amanda’s passion led her to create her current project, Lovenotes. “Lovenotes is a low profit social enterprise helping companies and organisations to reuse their own waste paper, while quietly revitalising a positive, creative and innovative working culture”, explains Amanda. “The money [from the

Amanda Judd receiving the Service to the Community Award at the 2011 AIMES Awards Gala Dinner from North Harbour Club President Peter Wall (left) and Auckland Mayor Len Brown. Auckland Council is the sponsor of the AIMES Service to the Community Award.

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Winners 2011 AIMES Award] will enable me to dedicate more time and energy to bringing Lovenotes to profitability, and setting it up around New Zealand (currently we are exploring Wanaka and Wellington as next steps) and to explore setting up Lovenotes around the world. Once Lovenotes becomes fully financially sustainable, hopefully within a year, the money will be reclaimed and used for the next project in my life as a social entrepreneur – and there are many more projects, so watch this space!”

While Amanda has many ideas, her vision is clear. “My vision is a world where life is abundant, yet simple - a world that is socially just, environmentally harmonious and where everyone can live with wellness. My ambition is to make this real through “How I Be and What I Do” every living moment... this probably looks like a whole lot of projects and social enterprises, a minimalist lifestyle, and a whole lot of fun!”

Fun, is also a word that Amanda uses to describe her family’s ethos. Her parents are Rachel and Graham, who she describes as having ‘humility, love, fun and creativity’ and she has two ‘creative, fun and beautiful’ older brothers, Nathan and Greg – not to mention Nanna and Poppa, Gran and Grandad and extended family. In addition to the support she receives from her family, Amanda has many other important people in her life.

Standing alongside her is partner, best friend and soul mate, Reza ‘Habibi’ Fuard.

Amanda counts Andrew Cooper, Andy Hendrie, Dianne Hale, Rebecca Harrington, Stuart Goldsworthy and Billy Matheson among the people who have graced her with their presence and support. She also has a list of people whom she hasn’t met personally but who have still influenced her, including Michael Jackson, Almudena Cid, Eckhart Tolle, Richard Branson, and Paul Hawken.

Amanda’s success also stems from her days of rhythmic gymnastics, which taught her a lot about intention, dedication, focus and bringing her dreams to reality. Sports coaches Margaret Woolf, Asher Davidson, Kathy O'Meara, Liz Wheadon and Marnie Sterner provided her with inspiration and support.

“I was also fortunate to travel with my sport, which has helped me emerge into being a global citizen, and consider how others are living in the world. We are very blessed here in beautiful Aotearoa.”

Amanda says the next 12 months will see her working hard with Lovenotes, expecting Auckland businesses to reuse over two million pieces of paper, and that much again around the country. “My dream is to see Lovenotes flourish and become a solid, viable, working example of regenerative business, operating around the world – to see that every level of what we do and how we do it, contributes to the well-being of our people and our planet. We also hope to self-sustain and create jobs that have a genuine and authentic purpose and give to a bigger cause. I will also continue working with the ReGeneration Trust who are doing a lot of innovative projects and work in this space with hundreds of people across the country, while supporting peers, friends and colleagues to do their thing! I would love to go travelling to somewhere exciting, and continue to live life abundantly.”

Looking into the future, Amanda sees an amazing adventure, featuring elements aligned with her vision. “I want to be awesome, healthy, loving, on an amazing adventure, with beautiful people, in beautiful places, and doing/being so in a way that regenerates the world - for all people, species, communities, and the grandmother earth herself. And definitely with my man Rez, and maybe also with some ninos in tow.”

winner profile Amanda Judd.

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Winners 2011

Alisha McLennan Dancer

AIMES Judges Special Award for Excellence Winner 2011 Alisha McLennan’s ambition is to change society’s perception about disability, who can dance and what dance is. She aspires to be a professional aerial dancer, advocating for greater accessibility for disabled people and working with New Zealand’s dance community, to ensure existing and new dance classes are accessible to anyone who wants to dance.

“I applied for the AIMES Award because I have a passion for integrated dance,” explains Alisha. “I believe I have the potential to extend my skills and capability in this area, particularly in aerial dance.”

Alisha will use her AIMES Award funds to explore aerial dance both in New Zealand and overseas, gaining knowledge and building relationships with people experienced in integrated and aerial dance. She would like to work with Wired Aerial Dance and CandoCo Dance Company in the UK, and with the Australian aerial dancer, Argentine Alejandro Rolandi.

Alisha, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, grew up on the North Shore and attended Wilson School, Belmont Intermediate and Takapuna Grammar. Her parents – currently in the UK on their ‘big OE’ – are Kathe, an interior designer and Murray, an ex cabin crew member and builder. Twin brother Harry is at Police College, older brother Reuben is a Nelson police officer and older sister Sada is a photographer in Golden Bay. In addition to her family, Alisha has been inspired by those at Touch Compass, especially Catherine Chappell and Karen Fraser Payne. In 1999, at the age of ten, Alisha first performed with Touch Compass at the launch of the Trust, at the Auckland Art Gallery, going on to the youth aerial performance My Room in 2000. As a 14 year old Alisha toured with Lusi’s Eden (2002) to Taupo and Christchurch, and featured in Lighthouse later that year at the Aotea Centre.

Acquisitions (2003) and Nightswimmers with Splash Dance Company followed, then Flying Tales (2004) with Six and SLIP (2010), and she has just completed the Triple Bill tour (2011) to Hastings and Wellington.

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on a farm. Whilst in Christchurch she attended a non-disabled dance programme, and performed at the 2005 St Margaret’s College Dance Variety Night. She also went on to begin a degree in Political Science at Canterbury University.

At the beginning of 2010 Alisha returned to the North Shore. She is now at Touch Compass, being mentored, volunteering in the office, working as a dancer and support dance tutor, along with being seconded to the trust board.

Alisha has also worked with Takapuna Grammar dance teacher, Juliet Cryns and students, to produce an integrated dance performance. This was showcased on 16 June 2010 to much acclaim.

In addition to dancing, Alisha is a passionate skier, winning the Viv Martin Trophy in 2008 and 2009, for Most Outstanding Female Skier.

Over the next 12 months Alisha plans to investigate and practice aerial dance. She will explore its relationship to social change and disability and investigate how she can make performance more accessible for disabled artists.

“I will also be working alongside Touch Compass’ artistic director, Catherine Chappell, who received the 2011 Creative New Zealand Choreographic Fellowship. Catherine is also researching and developing a new aerial dance form combining bungee and contact improvisation, and I hope to be a performer in a new aerial bungee performance in 2013.”

In ten years’ time Alisha hopes to be continuing her involvement in the performing arts, ensuring that they are accessible to all performers and audience members. “I want the diversity of all abilities to be recognised in our society and social equity for all people.”

As for her achievements to date, Alisha says they come from exploring her boundaries, whilst testing society’s expectations of both dance and disability. “Life is a gift and an opportunity to experience any number of challenges, learnings and successes. I want to enjoy the journey and ensure my legacy is carried into the future.”

Alisha McLennan receiving the Judges Special Award at the 2011 AIMES Awards Gala Dinner from North Harbour Club President Peter Wall (left) and AIMES Award Judge and Trustee Sue Stanaway.

I believe I have the potential to extend my skills and capability in this area, particularly in aerial dance.

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Alexandra Foster (20) Dancer/Singer/Actress D Alexandra first found her love for music as a student at Takapuna Normal Intermediate School where she learnt the piano and guitar and joined the school’s rock band.

In 2003, she received the Vocal Cup at the school’s prizegiving and started private singing lessons before beginning at Rangitoto College.

In 2005, Alexandra moved to The Corelli School of the Arts where her main focus was acting. After graduating from the school at age 17, she auditioned in Australia for a place at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, one of the world’s most prestigious acting schools.

A short time later, she was accepted into Auckland’s Apollo Theatre School where she discovered a love for dancing and learnt the different dance styles of jazz, ballet, tap, hip-hop, funk and cabaret. Next, Alexandra pursued musical theatre and, through the Apollo Theatre School, received many professional opportunities. In her second year, she was cast as the lead in the show The Love Cruise, based on the famous 80s television series The Love Boat, and most recently has been starring as a lead in Anything Goes, receiving great reviews.

Her latest and most exciting project has been her girl pop group Sugarfix. Formed in late 2010, the group writes and

records its own music.

Alexandra intends to use her AIMES Awards funds to further her experiences in the world of musical theatre and recording professionally.

Adam Gerret (19) Actor/Musician Adam’s academic and performing career started at Northcote College in 2005, where initially he took drama solely out of interest and to compliment his heavy academic timetable.

Over the next few years, he became as involved as possible in drama both at the school and at various North Shore venues. He was involved in Northcote College’s Stage Challenge entry each year, the national Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Competition, the Northcote Talent Quest, various school plays, and productions at The Rose Theatre, The Pumphouse, Devonport Theatre Company and Titirangi Theatre.

Musically talented, Adam also played lead trumpet for the Northcote College Jazz Band for five years, and played The Last Post at the Northcote Anzac Memorial Service for the last three years of his school life.

During year 13 at Northcote College, he completed NCEA Level 3 Drama with Excellence and managed to secure an NZQA Drama Scholarship. He was also thrilled to receive the Northcote College Drama Prize.

Adam has recently been awarded a highly sought-after place at Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, an outstanding achievement given that he was one of more than

2300 candidates applying for just 26 places on the three-year acting course. Guildhall is also a School of Music and Adam hopes to have the opportunity to further develop his musical talents whilst there.

Ultimately, he looks forward to representing New Zealand and the North Shore on the stage.

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Seok Jun Bing (18) Scientist Seok Jun Bing is currently a student at Albany Senior High School. He topped his year level at years 11 and 12, and aims to graduate this year with the Dux Award.

Alongside his studies, Seok Jun has been working with a friend to develop a working prototype of a carbon dioxide filter for cars with internal combustion engines. This project was done under the Team Gold CREST programme run by the Royal Society of New Zealand and is a progression from a previous project that he completed for Team Silver CREST in which he successfully produced a filter capable of absorbing carbon dioxide production from the respiration of two people.

His project to produce a CO2 filter for cars has been entered in a global science fair called Google Science Fair 2011 and was selected as one of the top 60 semi-finalists from 7500 projects entered by more than 10,000 students from around the globe. Seok’s project was the only one to be chosen in Oceania and has subsequently received much recognition in New Zealand and internationally.

Seok Jun likes to innovate and embark on projects that have the potential to have big impact on a global scale. He would like to consider himself as a creative scientist and an innovator who has the desire to change the world.

His AIMES Award will help him with purchasing equipment and materials to further develop the filter.

Aine Kelly-Costello (16) Musician A current student at Pinehurst School, Aine has always regarded music as an indispensable part of her life. This passion started at age four when she was living in Ireland and showed a keen interest in the flute while visiting a friend. In later years, she moved to Canada and then to New Zealand.

Aine is blind. Initially, she could not read Braille music so

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she learned all of her music by ear. She started sitting piano exams at age seven.

Then, as a nine-year-old, she was extremely grateful to be given the opportunity to learn Braille music. This meant she could read music by herself which, in turn, allowed her to glean significantly more information about the music and more easily determine her own interpretations.

A dedicated flute player, Aine spends many hours memorising pieces and is currently working towards her ABRSM Diploma exam which she plans to sit at the end of 2011. Looking further ahead, she intends to take flute playing professionally and would like to study for a BMus, majoring in flute performance, as well as a BA majoring in Spanish and English literature.

In addition to Aine’s musical abilities, she also achieves incredible results at school and is an outstanding swimmer who has been selected for the Paralympics New Zealand team to compete at the Pan-Pacific Champs in Alberta, and unofficially ranked in the top five in the world for S11 400m freestyle and 100m backstroke and 8th for 100m freestyle.

Aine intends to spend her AIMES Award on a Piccolo, ABRSM Diploma costs and a new Flute.

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Lydia Ko (14) Golfer Pinehurst School student, Lydia Ko, is described as ‘a golfing phenomenon’.

After moving to New Zealand, she began playing golf as a five-year-old and, in May 2011, at the age of 14 years and 1 day, became the youngest person to be ranked Number 1 Female Amateur in the World.

At age 12, Lydia became the youngest-ever member of the New Zealand Srixon Academy, New Zealand’s national squad, and – in Christchurch – became the youngest person ever to make the cut in a Ladies European Tour event.

Early in 2011, she narrowly missed making history: on the last hole of the New South Wales Open in Sydney, she missed the title by just one putt. Winning would have seen her become the youngest winner in a professional event anywhere in the world.

As well as practicing golf at the Institute of Golf for 30 to 40 hours a week, Lydia manages to find balance between her golfing and academic life, and maintains great grades at school.

She says her most spectacular shot was in 2010 when she holed a 30-foot putt to win the New Zealand Interprovincials for North Harbour.

Lydia has travelled with the New Zealand team to Argentina, India and Australia on numerous occasions, always loving to wear the New Zealand silver fern and represent her country.

She hopes to turn professional in 2014.

Rebecca Dubber (18) Photo by Andrew Coffey

Swimmer Rebecca is a current student at Carmel College. A paralympic swimmer, she is a level 2 carded athlete with the Academy of Sport and a member of the Paralympics New Zealand High Performance Programme.

In March 2010, Rebecca achieved a world record in the Women’s s7 800m Freestyle. She holds New Zealand records in the Women’s s7 800m, 400m, 200m, 100m and 50m Freestyle and the Women’s s7 200m, 100m and 50m Backstroke. She also holds the Oceania record in the Women’s s7 100m Freestyle.

Her current dream is to represent New Zealand at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London where she aspires to achieve medals in the Women’s s7 400m Freestyle and the Women’s s7 100m Backstroke in which she also hopes to break the world record.

Rebecca would like to continue swimming after the 2012 Paralympics and compete in the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.

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Northside Interview

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Northside Interview Matthew Bellingham is the Vice President of the North Harbour Club. Like most people in the Club, he first became involved through the late Ross Finlayson. “Ross decided I would be a good person to be in the North Harbour Club,” Matthew recalls. “I remember meeting with him and indicating I wanted to join. He said ‘right boy, this is what you do’. From there Ross took me under his wing.”

Matthew, CEO and Business Improvement Director of accounting firm Hayes Knight, says it’s one of those organisations where the people that put more into it, will get a whole lot more back. After joining the club, Matthew says the next step was getting Hayes Knight involved with sponsoring the AIMES Emerging Talents Awards. “Ross was the first inspiration and once I got into the Club and understood what it was all about I found that its value set sits with my value set. The rewards from being involved in sponsoring the development of youth and some of the amazing things these kids achieve – it just makes your heart glow. I absolutely love it.”

While Matthew is now a devoted North Shore resident of 10 years, his early days were spent in West Auckland. “We had a lifestyle block out the back of Massey, 10 acres complete with cows, sheep, my sister’s horse and my string of motorbikes.

It was a great way to grow up. I guess that’s been a deciding factor in moving to where I am now in Coatesville. I love that lifestyle.”

It’s a lifestyle he shares with his wife Tarryn and his two young daughters, Sophie and Eva. “My next appointment is to go and pick up our latest animal for the property - a miniature pony for the kids, named Smokey.” Combined with Tarryn’s horse Ferrari and the two dogs, Smokey makes up the total “livestock” on their property. “Let’s just say it doesn’t exactly provide a financial return!” Even with a demanding role as CEO of Hayes Knight, Matthew considers himself lucky to have flexible hours and the weekends to devote to his girls. “I’m really happy I’ve been able to balance a hectic professional career with spending quite a lot of time with my kids.

I’m at the point now where they are young and they need quite a bit of input from their Dad. I’m able to do that, so that’s a big thing for me at the moment.”

Matthew’s interest in numbers began early on. “I was always better with numbers than I was with the arts – in fact, if you’ve even seen any of my art from back in school, you’d understand why I became an accountant!” Following University, Matthew had his first career break in 1992, with the very small Takapuna accounting firm Colson White, now known as Hayes Knight. He was appointed partner in 1997 at the age of 26, and is now a 20year veteran and the CEO of the company.

Matthew relishes his role with Hayes Knight and can genuinely say he loves his job. “It’s a really interesting career. There are a number of different areas you can go into, and pretty early on I managed to get through the ‘counting the beans’ phase and get to the advising stage. So, from my late 20s, I have been in a position where I am able to pull together strategic and business plans and be heavily involved in the direction of businesses,

investment and financing decisions, and acquisitions and mergers. It is actually really exciting. It’s challenging, it requires a lot of focus, and it requires a huge amount of patience and a lot of hours. But when you pull off a deal, there’s nothing better – it’s a massive adrenalin rush.”

Excellence is a word that follows Matthew through every element of his life. “Hayes Knight is all about excellence. That’s one of the other great fits with the North Harbour Club. In fact, our business strategic plan is ‘Good to Great’, based on the Jim Collins book. It’s all around excellence in your chosen field, being the best you can be, and we try to deliver that right across the board, for our clients, our team and the community – all the stakeholders. As long as we are striving for excellence, I know we will get it right. And of course there’s a bit of fun thrown in there as well.”

Matthew’s professional development over the past 20 years is an aspect of his life that he is incredibly proud of, although he considers his efforts still a ‘work in progress’. “I am really proud of being involved in taking the business from only half a dozen people back in 1991, to 120 staff now, and being one of the largest accounting firms in Auckland. That whole 20-year journey has been incredibly fulfilling for me personally. It’s my job now to lead the organisation through the next round of change. I’m proud of where we have got to, but I’m excited about where we can take the business.”

The ability to get along with people is an asset that Matthew says has formed the basis of his successful career. “I actually really enjoy people, and I think when that’s genuine, people respond back to you. So if you get that bit right – and I’ve also got the ability to interpret the numbers and bring their meaning into everyday language – then I think that has probably been the catalyst for my career.”

Outside his CEO role, Matthew has a raft of other responsibilities and interests.

In addition to his role at the North Harbour Club, Matthew is the Chairman of Judges for the Auckland North Business Excellence Awards, a trustee of North Harbour Stadium and an advisor on several boards.

His most recent appointments are to the judging panel of the Auckland wide Best of the Best Business Excellence Awards, and as Chairman of the National Public Practice Advisory Board, advising the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Matthew admits that ‘free’ time is a rare commodity in his world. He counts fishing and diving as some of his favourite pastimes, although he concedes he doesn’t get out on the water as much as he’d like to. When he does get away, one of his favourite spots is the Coromandel, and being a ‘mad, keen diver’ Matthew says there are some pretty good spots to explore.

For a ‘boys’ trip’ he recommends Great Barrier. “I’ve travelled extensively around the world, and Great Barrier would still be one of my favourite spots.”

And if Matthew needs a career change, he has one he’d like to try waiting in the wings – literally. “I was always going to be a pilot.

I’m not quite sure why I never did it, and I still hold dreams of it one day. It’s something I’d like to pursue in the next 5-10 years.”

I remember

meeting with him and indicating I

wanted to join. He said ‘right boy,

this is what you do’. From there

Ross took me under his wing.

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The Ambassadors During 2011 the trustees of the North Harbour Club invited four high profile supporters of the trust's initiatives to become club ambassadors. This recognised the efforts they had put into the club in the past and the ongoing contribution that they could make. The four North Harbour Club Ambassadors are Shane Cortese (Actor/Entertainer/Businessperson), Peter Montgomery (Broadcaster), Cameron Calkoen (Motivational/Inspirational Speaker) and Ian Jones (former All Black and Rugby Media Personality).

Four club ambassadors named

Shane Cortese and Cam Calkoen were joint MC's at the 2011 AIMES Awards Gala Dinner.

Shane Cortese (Actor/Entertainer/Business) Shane has been a massive contributor to the club over the past four or five years. He is a passionate North Shore resident, one of New Zealand's leading actors and entertainers, and he is also the Managing Consultant of Talking Heads ICMI, a business marketing speakers and entertainers that's based in Takapuna.

Shane's expertise in the entertainment world has added a great deal to North Harbour Club functions and events over the past few years. He is also an accomplished MC, a role he performs at many club functions.

Peter Montgomery (Broadcaster) Pete Montgomery is the "The Voice of New Zealand Yachting".

He is one of New Zealand's leading broadcasters, who is wellknown for his coverage of the America's Cup and yachting events all over the world on both radio and television.

Peter lives on the North Shore and has been a member and contributor to the North Harbour Club since its inception. This has included offering expertise in the organising of functions and events, with his knowledge and contacts in the sporting world being very valuable. Over the years he has been MC at many of our sporting orientated lunches and events.

Cameron Calkoen (Motivational/Inspirational Speaker) Cam Calkoen is a previous AIMES Award Winner. He has been involved with the North Harbour Club for many years and members have proudly watched him grow into a superb motivational/inspirational speaker. When Cam smiles he sets the world alight. It’s his smile and charisma that inspires others to be the best that they can be. He works inspiring PAGE 42 NORTHSIDE MAGAZINE 2011/2012

those in the area of disability, and says, "The terms disability and impairment don’t have to be the barrier people perceive them to be. Through the right support these barriers can be overcome, leading towards further inclusion and participation for people of all abilities within our community."

Cam performed a dual MC role with Shane Cortese at the 2011 AIMES Awards dinner and is an active worker and supporter of the North Harbour Club.

Peter Montgomery.

Ian Jones.

Ian Jones (former All Black and Rugby Media Personality) Kamo, as Ian is affectionately known by most, lives in Milford and is a regular contributor to the North Harbour Club as an MC and speaker. During 2011 he MC'd two club lunches and played a big role in organising the Rugby Lunch which coincided with the Rugby World Cup. Ian's Sky Television show 'Rugby Centre' was filmed at the lunch held at the Bruce Mason Centre in Takapuna.

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Member Profile

A chat with....

Dr Henry Duncan In this issue of NorthSide we salute the efforts of AIMES Awards judge Dr Henry Duncan – PhD (UCLA), MS, BSc, DipTchg. While he is firmly remaining as a North Harbour Club member, Henry is stepping down after five years as a very important member of the AIMES Awards judging panel. Aidan Bennett ventured to the AUT North Shore campus to provide this profile on Henry for NorthSide.

Henry Duncan is a Southlander by birth. He hails from the coastal township of Tuatapere to the west of Invercargill.

He studied chemistry and physical education, taught in high schools, and along the way, met his wife Marion while she was in Timaru on a working holiday. Marion, an Aucklander and dual international gymnast, shared Henry’s passion for exercise and sport.

The Duncans have three grown-up children. Daughter Lea, the eldest, has followed her dad to AUT where she works in Sport and Recreation, specialising in Dance administration. Son Richard works for World Vision in New Zealand and youngest, Scott, an academic, did a PhD at AUT where he now lectures.

Henry Duncan first came to Auckland – and the North side of the bridge – over 40 years ago, back in 1969 to be precise.

Henry and Marion Duncan then spent a decade in the United States. Henry undertook study and research in exercise physiology at UCLA, while Marion taught physical education and gymnastics at Cal State Long Beach Junior College.

While they enjoyed the decade overseas, it reinforced to Henry that there is “no better place in the world than New Zealand to live and bring up a family.”

He joined the airforce, where he specialised in physiology while stationed at the Hobsonville base for five years.

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overseen the growth of the Sport and Recreation side of the tertiary education institution. He is now the head of Sport and Recreation at AUT. He loves the role as there has always been a focus on young people and education, with sport the vehicle to capture the imagination.

Henry explains that he is very proud of the department he leads at AUT. “Sport and Recreation has grown to be its own School and I feel like I lead the best team at the University. Yes, they are all bolshy and strong-willed but work together as a great team and I get a kick out of leading them.”

Once sport was just part of some courses, but hand-in-hand with the general emergence of fitness, Sport and Recreation at AUT is now a School of around 70 staff, after starting out with a handful of people.

“We now have academics, professors, administrators and sports specialists and have formed strong links with high performance sport as well as other sport and health disciplines.

We are now the University at the forefront of Sport and Recreation in New Zealand.”

“I believe the strength of AUT is in its heritage. It started out as a polytech – training people for industry jobs – and to this day the research and teaching that AUT does has to relate to real situations. So what we do in the Sport and Recreation area is also closely interwoven with those involved in sport.

It is important that we work closely with others as well. As a

Member Profile country, we are too small to compete with one another so we are focussed on working with other organisations. This is the reason some years ago we formed partnerships with Graeme Avery and the Millennium, with the NZ Academy of Sport and this continues to grow with recent initiatives.”

One of these recent initiatives that Henry is alluding to is the new National Training Centre at the Millennium Institute of Sport & Health, which is now called the AUT Millennium Campus. This $30 million redevelopment of the Millennium brings together the best of sports research, coaching and management expertise from AUT University, the Millennium Institute of Sport and Health, and High Performance Sport New Zealand, with the goal of producing more world-class sporting champions. A similar model was first seen in Koln, Germany. In addition, AUT has also linked to the Bruce Pulman Park sports facility in South Auckland.

So how did Henry Duncan get involved in the North Harbour Club? I put that question to him.

“I happened to read about the club in one of the early issues of this very magazine a few years ago and it fitted with my own philosophy and that of AUT, being involved in the community,” said Henry. “I have a personal interest in the recognition of young people who make a positive contribution. I believe this is very important at a time when the media often gets distracted by the negative. We were also conscious that AUT is a significant industry itself in the North Harbour community and were quite taken with the concept of rewarding excellence achieved by our young people. I also happened to hit it off with (the late) Ross Finlayson. I liked the fact he was a straight shooter. All-in-all it was something that I believed AUT should be supportive of.”

“It wasn’t too long before the persuasive Mr Finlayson nudged me into becoming a judge and it is something that I remain very grateful for. I have really enjoyed it. It fitted and was not a chore. There is quite a bit of work to do – mainly reading – but I found it very rewarding, every year. These young people blow your mind with their abilities and dedication.”

So what is the judging process?

“Each year we receive 80-90 outstanding applications,” explained Henry. “Each of the five judges read through all of these applications and rate them. From this we establish a shortlist.

This is usually three to four in each category, around 25-30. Then we interview each of these applicants, viewpoints are considered and we reach a consensus. It is a great process.”

On the 2011 AIMES Awards judging panel with Henry Duncan was Mike Stanley (CEO, Millennium Institute of Sport & Health), Andrea Davies (Campus Registrar Albany, Massey University) and Sue Stanaway (Director/Licensee, Stanaway Real Estate, Bayleys North Shore). The panel was chaired by Simon Lamb (Principal, Takapuna Grammar School).

Henry Duncan loves being part of the North Shore and North Harbour community. He works on the Shore and lives on the Hibiscus Coast.

“We have a very blessed community because it has a defined environment. It has ample opportunity for education, employment and recreation. All the things that families need. Until recently it had its own identity but I don’t believe this has been eroded too much with the new Super City structure. It remains an important part of AUT as well. AUT was once a central Auckland institution but now reaches North, South, East and West with the Shore being the home to our schools of Health Care Practice, Public Health and Psychosocial Studies, Rehabilitation and Occupation Studies as well as Sport and Recreation.”

o k revolve e ol e around a o nd his Henry Duncan’s interests away from work family. He and Marion have eight grandchildren. They also enjoy travelling and get away as much as possible to their family bach at Okiato (across the ferry from Opua) in the Bay of Islands.

They do lots of walking and relaxing and Henry enjoys the fact that they have no phone and limited television.

I finished the chat by asking Henry about some of his favourites...

Favourite Food: Chinese.

Drink: Red wine.

TV: Sport.

Movie: All sorts [most recent ‘The Help’] – I’m a movie buff!

Reading: Light mystery.

Sports team: All Blacks.

Holiday in New Zealand: Bay of Islands.

Holiday overseas: Europe.

Favourite place in North Harbour area: Stanmore Bay (home) – relaxed and warmer!

If I wasn’t working at AUT I would be... a missionary at some place where I could encourage young people.

Dr Henry Duncan.

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Member/Sponsor Profile

10 Questions...

David Brook (ASB) David Brook is the new Regional Manager, Commercial Banking, for North Harbour Club's valued Arts Award sponsor ASB. He replaced Murray Smith who had been in the role, and an active member of the North Harbour Club, for many years.

David is a North Shore person through and through. He has lived on the Shore for most of his life but interestingly this is the first time he has worked on the Shore – and he's loving it. He happened to take on the job just as his ASB North Harbour Commercial Banking team was relocating to virtually brand spanking new premises just beside FarroFresh on Constellation Drive – great timing!

We thought that Northside readers – and North Harbour Club members – should know a little bit more about David Brook, so we put these 10 probing questions to him in mid-November.

NS: How good is your new set-up? You timed your move just perfectly David, didn't you!

DB: The new premises are amazing and offer something very new for our team. The regional centre comprises both business banking and personal banking together with a range of product specialists, who work together to provide the best service possible for our customers. We've also opened a full-service branch with a seven day drive through capability which is a great point of difference for the local area.

NS: Tell us a bit about your background. You have filled similar roles on the "dark side" we understand?

DB: I have been in business banking for more than 20 years.

For the past 10 years I held regional management roles for ASB looking after the south and east regions of Auckland, and more recently I spent five years in central Auckland. I have always lived on the Shore but never worked here so my new role is especially pleasing.

NS: And your family... three teenage boys must keep you on your toes?

DB: Yes, you could say that! Our boys are aged 13, 16 and 19 and they're full of the joys of life that all young men should have.

NS: You must love working on the sunny North Shore?

DB: My role extends to Northland and I have a number of commercial teams based at Whangarei. I am enjoying getting out and about regularly to Whangarei and beyond. Funnily enough, I am sure that the "sunny" North Shore is always a couple of degrees warmer than south of the bridge – so I will enjoy the summer no doubt.

David Brook.

NS: Are you missing Goldstein?

DB: Goldstein was an iconic advertising campaign that spanned a decade and we always had fabulous feedback from our customers. We will always remember Goldstein fondly, however it was time to move on...

NS: As well as replacing Murray (Smith) as Regional Manager, Commercial Banking, you have also replaced him as a North Harbour Club member. Aren't these young people that we reward and celebrate special?

DB: I was fortunate enough to attend the recent AIMES Awards Gala Dinner and met a number of award recipients. ASB proudly sponsored the Arts Award again and it was a pleasure to announce the 2011 winner, Elliot Christensen-Yule. A number of former winners were also back to wow the audience. Our guests, my wife Jacqui and I were almost speechless at the professionalism and quality of the young New Zealanders from the North Shore.

NS: Missing driving over the Harbour Bridge to work each day?

DB: In a word... No! NS: What are your favourite pastimes when you are not working?

DB: I enjoy a casual game of golf from time to time. We had a family bach at Mangawhai that we sold in 2010. We decided to buy a section at Mangawhai and build a new place. This project has just been completed so it is safe to say that we will be spending many weekends up there with family and friends who can help get the section sorted!

NS: What is your favourite spot on the North Shore?

DB: We live in Northcote Point which is also where I grew up.

Out of pure nostalgia we love nothing more than a simple dinner out somewhere and a movie at the Bridgeway Theatre.

NS: Complete the following; When I want to spoil my wife Jacqui...

DB: ... I will treat her by doing the movie evening thing and also agreeing to the next overseas holiday – most recently Croatia.

Perhaps we will go again in mid 2012 – but don't say anything to my wife please, she loves a surprise!

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The Judging Process

The interview process is extremely humbling.

I thought working on a University Campus was pretty special but to see these young people achieving excellence across all categories is something else.

Andrea Davies, Massey University's Campus Registrar at Albany, has been a judge of the North Harbour Club AIMES Awards for the past four years. It is a role that she finds very rewarding.

"I enjoy the realisation that we have so many incredibly

Andrea Davies.

Talent leaves judges gobsmacked talented young people on the Shore," explains Andrea.

"Every year I am truly gobsmacked. These kids come from all walks of life and from across all categories. It's so humbling."

The 2011 AIMES Awards judging panel was Simon Lamb (Principal, Takapuna Grammar School), Henry Duncan (Head of Sport & Recreation, AUT), Mike Stanley (CEO, Millennium Institute of Sport & Health), Sue Stanaway (Director/Licensee, Stanaway Real Estate, Bayleys North Shore) and Andrea Davies.

"Being on the judging panel is a lot of hard work," adds Andrea Davies. "In previous years it has involved reading through the contents of a large box that arrives in the office. The past couple of years the applications have been all electronic. While all the paperwork has gone there is still the same amount of reading. We have a great judging team with a variety of skills and strengths and after discussion we always unanimously agree on a shortlist of successful applicants who get through to the interview stage. It is not an easy task to whittle the number down from around 90 to around 25 to 30. There are some really talented people who miss out."

The overall quality of applicants is one of the reasons why an Emerging Talent Awards category was added to the annual AIMES programme a few years ago.

"The interview process is extremely humbling. I thought working on a University Campus was pretty special but to see these young people achieving excellence across all categories is something else.

"And I love watching them all at the gala dinner each year, celebrating with friends and family. It makes it all worthwhile."

Andrea Davies offers the following advice for those contemplating applying for an AIMES Award.

"The main bit of advice I would give is to totally believe in yourself. Don't be put off applying by what you have read or heard about the calibre of previous winners. You will learn so much going through the application process. It will be a valuable learning curve. Then, if you get an interview remember to sell yourself. Don't be humble. The judges are keen to really find out about you, your successes, your future aspirations, and how you manage to juggle so many balls to be so talented."

For more information visit: www.northharbourclub.co.nz.

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AIMES Awards Dinner 2011

The 2011 AIMES Awards Winners at the Bruce Mason Centre following their presentations. From left Amanda Judd (Service to the Community Award), Moses MacKay (Music), Alisha MacLennan (Judges Award), Tom Abercrombie (Sport), Richard Stebbing (Supreme Award and IT, Innovation & Science), Elliot Christenson-Yule (Arts). Education winner Blake Hansen was absent.

Richard Stebbing with the Sir Peter Blake Memorial Trophy which he received as the 2011 AIMES Supreme Award Winner. Sir Peter Blake was the founding patron of the North Harbour Club.

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AIMES Awards Dinner 2011

2011 North Harbour Club AIMES Awards The annual North Harbour Club AIMES Awards Gala Dinner for 2011was held at the Bruce Mason Centre in Takapuna on Saturday October 29th. The North Harbour Club rewards excellence achieved by the young people of the North Harbour region in the areas of the Arts; IT, Innovation & Science; Music; Education; Sport; Service to the Community. In 2011 $110,000 was awarded to 13 young people in the AIMES Awards and Emerging Talent Awards.

Janine and Steven Jurkovich.

Ken and Sue Noble.

Bryan and Cherie Perron, Bex and Krista, David and Delwyn Argar.

Joan Finlayson, Catherine Jenkins, Flip and Arlo Calkoen.

Darrel Kingham, Robert and Christine Gratton.

Richard Ede, Aidan Bennett, Kerry McLeod.

Ulla Bennett, Michelle Bennett, Tammy McLeod.

Kerry and Linda Dines, David and Michelle Abercombie.

Christine Maud, Robyn Spooner, Mary Delamare, Wendy Stedman, Barbara Collie.

Lesleigh and Robert Johnson.

Sharon Davis and Dean Flyger.

Penina Felise-Mackay, Shane and Nicola Manoa, Moses MacKay.

Moses MacKay and Joseph Bergin.

Penny Roberts, Duncan Reid, Evelyn Johnson, Ralph Roberts.

Peter and Jayne White with Maggie Barry.

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Len Brown, Shan Inglis and Nick Kearney.

Sue Stanaway, Peter Menzies.

Mark and Jennie Jago.

David and Patricia Schnauer, Don and Louise Galbraith, Trevor Stanaway.

Catherine Lidgard, Peter and Michelle Wall.

Jonathan and Sandra Coleman.

Lesley and Rod Slater.

Gary Monk, Sarah McCallum, Lynley and Malcolm McCallum.

Malcolm and Catherine Gray, Linda and Derek Dallow.

The crowd at the 2011 AIMES Awards Gala Dinner.

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Hayes Knight Emerging Talent Awards 2011

Emerging Talent Awards 2011 The North Harbour Club AIMES Emerging Talent Awards for 2011 – sponsored by Hayes Knight – were presented at a function at The Spencer on Byron Hotel in Takapuna on Wednesday October 26th. These awards are the forerunner to the annual AIMES Awards which were held on Saturday October 29th. The Hayes Knight Emerging Talent Awards recognise the high levels of achievement of ‘emerging’ talented individuals from our region. Six young people each received the award and $5000 to go towards their careers.

North Harbour Club Hayes Knight Emerging Talent Award Winners after their presentations at the Spencer on Byron Hotel. From left Lydia Ko, Peter Menzies (Patron), Aine Kelly-Costello, Peter Wall (President), Alexandra Foster, Adam Gerrett's Mother, Matthew Bellingham (Hayes Knight), Seok Jun Bing. In front Rebecca Dubber.

Seok Jun Bing (award recipient), Gi Myung Bing, Ijin Jeong.

Nola Real, Shelley-ann Brinkley, nkley, Barbara Wheadon.

Aine Kelly-Costello (award recipient), Katherine Kelly, Margaret McNie, Liam Kelly-Costello.

Boris Wilkitzki, Jana Korbasona, asona, eau.

Donna and Steven Perreau.

Sue Stanaway, Prudence Foster, Durham Foster.

Gary Simpson, Diane Simpson, Ken Paterson.

Matthew Bellingham, Kris MacCauley, Derek Powell.

Elizabeth Ogle, Emmersen Foster, Alexandra Foster (award recipient), Richard Light.

Peter Wall and Bob Jago.

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Hayes Knight Emerging Talent Awards 2010

Emerging Talent Awards 2010 The 2010 North Harbour Club Hayes Knight Emerging Talent Awards were presented on Thursday October 21st at Spencer on Byron Hotel, Takapuna.

Award winners: Michael MacDonald, Chloe Francis, Members of The Naked & Famous (Aaron Short, David Beadle, Jesse Wood, Thom Powers, Alisa Xayalith), Sarah Mitchell (collecting the award on behalf of her sister Stephanie), Joseph Bergin. Another winner, Maddie Dillon, was not in this photo.

Maddie Dillon receives her AIMES Emerging Talent Award from Matthew Bellingham (CEO, Hayes Knight and Vice President, North Harbour Club & Charitable Trust).

Andrew Hiskens, Sandi Hiskens, Henry Duncan, Trevor Stanaway.

The Naked & Famous accepting their award.

Kris MacCauley, Phil Brosnan, Michelle Brosnan.

Peter Menzies, Gary Monk.

Fleur Clough, Phil Barlow, Shelley-ann Brinkley.

Mathew Bellingham, Michael MacDonald, Joseph Bergin.

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2010 North Harbour Club AIMES Awards

Dallas Bennett, Jacko Gill, Terenzo Bozzone, Dean Flyger.

Cheriette and Richard Ede, Michael Buck, Lisa Jones, Shaun Quincey.

The crowd at the 2010 AIMES Awards Gala Dinner.

Caroline Gray, Julie White, Jo Robertson, Joan Pivac.

Michael Campbell, Rebecca Killick, Aidan Bennett.

Leslie Monk, Sue Brown, Alan Dickie.

Jane Donald, Cameron Calkoen, Dean Flyger.

Michael MacDonald received the AIMES IT, Innovation and Science Award on behalf of his brother David from Steve Maharey of sponsor Massey University (left) and North Harbour Club President Peter Wall.

Judges Special Award Winner Shaun Quincey received his award from North Harbour Club President Peter Wall.

Service to the Community Award Winner Anita Walbran received her award from Andrew Williams Mayor of North Shore City (left) and North Harbour Club President Peter Wall.

Joint Music Award Winner Sophie Bird received her award from Andrew Mackenzie of sponsor Albany Toyota (left) and North Harbour Club President Peter Wall.

Education Award Winner Andrew MacDonald received his award from Peter Clague of sponsor Kristin School (left) and North Harbour Club President Peter Wall.

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AIMES Awards Dinner 2010

The 2010 North Harbour Club AIMES Award Winners following the presentation at the Bruce Mason Centre. From left Michael MacDonald (accepted IT, Innovation & Science Award on behalf of his brother David), Will Martin's Mother accepted his Music Award on his behalf, Andrew MacDonald (Education), Jacko Gill (Supreme Award and Sport), Sophie Bird (Music), Shaun Quincey (Judges Award), Anita Walbran (Service to the Community), Verity Burgess Mother accepted the Arts Award on her behalf.

Jacko Gill with the Sir Peter Blake Memorial Trophy which he received as the 2010 AIMES Supreme Award Winner. He is pictured with his mother Nerida and father Walter.

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Jacko Gill They say that true champions are very single-minded.

You only have to spend a few minutes with 2010 Supreme AIMES Award Winner and World Champion shot putter Jacko Gill to understand why he is a champion and why many believe he will go all the way.

In October 2010, Jacko Gill received both the North Harbour Club AIMES Sport and Supreme Awards and $20,000 to help him achieve his lofty goals. These awards followed him winning gold at last year's World Junior (under-20) Championships in Canada at the age of 15, when he threw a 6kg shot 20.76m.

Jacko Gill cannot be accused of courting the limelight or publicity.

It is obvious that it is not high on his list of priorities. To organise this interview, I rang his home phone number and got hold of his mother Nerida and made the request. She said she would talk to Jacko and see if he was keen. I got the feeling that quite often he is not. I asked if I should ring him on his mobile. To which his mum replied that he never has it on. A couple of days later, Nerida called back and said that Jacko Gill in Lille, France.

Jacko would love to have a chat.

I ventured down to Jacko Gill's training base in Devonport on a Friday afternoon in mid-November. The base is actually the Gill family home at Devonport, which is elevated and overlooks central Devonport and East out to North Head. I knock on the front door of the large home and am welcomed in by Nerida Gill, who apologises that Jacko is having a bath and won't be too long. As you enter the front door, you can see that the large room on the right is PAGE 58 NORTHSIDE MAGAZINE 2011/2012

set up for weight training. It was obviously once a lounge or family room but is now a training room full of massive weights.

A short time later, Jacko enters the room and says a quiet hello. At ďŹ rst you would describe Jacko as shy and reserved, but you soon realise that he is very friendly and happy to chat.

It is easy, also, to lose sight of the fact that this lad is still only 16 years old (he turns 17 on December 20th). He also looked quite a bit bigger and bulkier than I remember him when he received his AIMES Awards a year ago.

At the end of 2010, Jacko decided to leave school and focus entirely on training to achieve his sporting goals.

This training, and the related diet, has resulted in him putting on 12kgs in bulk during 2011. The training revolves around him becoming bigger, stronger and faster. His strength has increased dramatically. He can now bench press 195kg, around 30-40kg more than he could at the start of the year.

The amazing aspect is that Jacko Gill is doing most of this on his own. It is clear that he doesn't mind his own company and is just totally focussed on doing the necessary hard work to achieve his end goals. Nothing's going to stand in his way of getting to where he wants to be â&#x20AC;&#x201C; number one in the world. This appears to be a common trait in champions who compete in 'individual sports'. They can quite often be a bit different in their approach which actually equates to the "singleminded dedication to success". Olympic gold medal board sailor and 2009 Supreme AIMES Award winner Tom Ashley is another example.

Jacko does virtually all of his weight training at home and

AIMES Supreme Winner 2010

There has really only been one option for me and that is to be the best. I have been very lucky that my parents have supported me by funding my trips, and others have helped considerably as well.

London's Calling

By Aidan Bennett sets his own training programme from advice he receives and the research he is constantly doing online. Once or twice a week, he will meet his coach Didier Poppe for a session at the Millennium. Otherwise he is on his own.

2011 has not been a year of lots of competing or travelling for Jacko Gill. It has been mainly training. But he has continued to break records.

In March, at the New Zealand National Championships in Dunedin, he reset world records for both the 6kg Shot Under 18 and Under 20 Men. Gill achieved 21.34 metres with the 6kg shot. During April, Gill threw 20.01 metres with the senior (7.26kg) shot. This throw broke the 44-year-old New Zealand national record set by Les Mills in 1967. It also meant he surpassed the standard for the 2011 Athletics World Championships. However the rules for that competition exclude anyone of Jacko's age competing in any throwing events. An appeal to the IAAF to allow Gill to compete was rejected. Jacko believes he'll be able to throw 21 metres with the 7.26kg shot before the end of the year. Jacko destroyed his older athletics peers again in winning Gold in Lille at the World Youth Championships in early July. He beat his own world age group record by nearly half a metre with his longest throw of 24.35 metres. Second place-getter Tyler Schultz of the United States was exactly four metres shorter with his best throw, as the 12-strong field trailed in the wake of the phenomenal North Shore athlete. Such was Jacko's dominance; the worst of his six throws was still 1.6 metres further than Schultz.

If Jacko Gill's plan all comes together, at 17 he will be the youngest thrower to ever compete at the Olympics in London next year. The world senior record is 23.12 metres but 21 metres should be good enough to make the final at London next year. But he has had to overcome some obstacles due to his age. The International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) rejected Gill's bid for dispensation to compete at the Senior World Championships in Korea during August – there are age restrictions on throwing events and Gill is too young to compete – but London is his main aim.

Jacko Gill training at his home base in Devonport.

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The week we talked to Jacko was during a "freshen up" period, but for eight to nine months of the year his training is full on. When he is in full training, an average day could be described as "a bit different". Jacko is inclined to sleep right through the morning and wake just before midday. After a meal he will lift weights for 2-3 hours while eating something every 30-40 minutes – protein shakes, snacks etc. There will be two of these intense weight training sessions a day. In between, he will do drill sessions, focusing on arms and footwork speed, in the training room that's set up in the large basement of the Gill residence. It's a big day, with Jacko finally getting to bed around three or four in the morning.

"It is not unusual for Walter and me to be woken in the wee hours of the morning by Jacko doing weights or undertaking a drill session," says Nerida Gill with a chuckle.

During these intense training periods, Jacko eats like a horse. He has been assisted with his diet by nutritionist Gavin Clerkin through Athletics New Zealand. Also included in the diet are protein shakes and supplements aimed at building muscle.

So what gives Jacko Gill his drive?

"From a very young age it is what I've wanted," says Jacko.

"There has really only been one option for me and that is to be the best. I have been very lucky that my parents have supported me by funding my trips, and others have helped considerably as well."

Jacko also mentions coach Didier Poppe and legendary weightlifter, the late Graham May, who wrote a weights programme for Jacko prior to his death. Others to play important parts, have been Nigel Avery, who taught him weight lifting techniques such as “the snatch” and “clean and jerk”, early coach Courtney Ireland and family friend Angus Cooper.

"Athletics New Zealand have been wonderful, with funding that enables me to compete around the world," adds Jacko Gill. "The AIMES Award money from the North Harbour Club has also been very helpful over the past 12 months, as has the support from local North Shore company Integria who provide

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me with most of my supplements."

The AIMES Award money, which Jacko says has not all been spent, has assisted with training equipment (including a leg press) and in enabling him to train full time during 2011.

To relax, Jacko Gill spends quite a bit of time on the internet.

He enjoys Facebook and communicating with athletes he has met all over the world. He is also known to go fishing from time to time and loves boxing training for a bit of variety.

While these days he concentrates on athletics, he was good enough at both soccer and basketball to be in Harbour rep teams and enjoys watching all sports.

So what does the future hold for Jacko Gill?

"The London Olympics next year are my main focus at the moment. In 2013, it will be the World Championships and then in 2014, the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Throwers can throw until they are 35-40 so I have quite a few years left and I am also keen to compete in the IAAF Diamond League regularly during my career. Coaching may also be an option one day."

The Diamond League is an annual series of lucrative professional track and field meetings organised by the IAAF. During 2011, there were 14 meetings held between May and September, in such locations as Qatar, China, Italy, United States, Norway, Switzerland, France, United Kingdom, Monaco, Sweden and Belgium.

I finished the chat by asking Jacko Gill about some of his favourites...

Favourite Food: Chips and dip.

Drink: Milkshakes and Juicies – I can't have any caffeine.

TV: Sport and Sky's Channel 71 (Crime Investigation).

Movie: I like older movies – Rocky, The Godfather etc.

Reading: Newspapers, magazines.

Sports team: All Blacks and Liverpool (football).

Holiday in New Zealand: Russell in the Bay of Islands.

Holiday overseas: Stockholm, Sweden – where athletics is like rugby is in New Zealand.

Favourite place in North Harbour area: Devonport – I love it!

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Award Winner Updates

As has been detailed in this issue of Northside, the North Harbour Club and Charitable Trust was formed in 1995. Since this time the club has awarded over $1.4 million to the youth of the North Harbour region through the annual AIMES Awards. The first grant was made in 1995. The inaugural AIMES Awards dinner was first held in 1996 and this hugely successful annual event has been the focus of the club's activities ever since. In these pages we have provided an update from award recipients from the past four years. It is a thrill for North Harbour Club members that these AIMES Award recipients continue to achieve at the highest levels.

the recipients...

2010

AIMES AWARD WINNERS AIMES ASB Arts Award ($10,000) – VERITY BURGESS (23) - Singer/ Dancer/Actress; AIMES Massey University IT, Innovation & Science Award ($10,000) – DAVID MACDONALD (24) - Computer Scientist; AIMES Albany Toyota International Music Award ($10,000 each - Joint Winners) – SOPHIE BIRD (25) - Violinist; WILL MARTIN (25) - Vocalist/Musician; AIMES Kristin School Education Award ($10,000) – ANDREW MACDONALD (21) - Scholar; AIMES Supreme Award ($20,000) & AUT/Millennium Institute of Sport & Health AIMES Sports Award ($10,000) – JACKO GILL (15) - Athlete. Jacko received a total of $20,000; AIMES

North Shore City Service to the Community Award ($10,000) – ANITA WALBRAN (24); Judges Special Award ($6,000) – SHAUN QUINCEY (25).

In addition there were six recipients of the Hayes Knight North Harbour Club Emerging Talent Awards in 2010. They were: Maddie Dillon, Chloe Francis, Stephanie Mitchell, The Naked & Famous, Michael Macdonald, Joseph Bergin. Each Emerging Talent Award Winner received $4,000.

Jacko Gill AIMES Sport Award & Supreme Award Winner 2010 2011 was a stellar year for me, beginning with winning the AIMES Award and ending with securing my second World Championship title. The competitions began in October in Noumea where I set a World Record for a 15 year old with the

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Olympic weight (7.26kg) shot, throwing 18.57 metres. This beat the old mark by 1.31 metres.

From there it was to the New Zealand Secondary School Champs, where I had a 7.00 metre victory and set a new Youth World Record, putting the 5kg shot 23.86 metres. It was also a new World mark for a 15 and 16 year old.

Late March saw me win the New Zealand Athletic Junior Title and a new World mark with the Junior shot for 16 and 17 year olds. In April I became the youngest ever athlete to throw the senior weight 7.26kg shot over the 20.0m line, at age 16. This bettered the previous best by two years and six months, set in 1982.

My throw of 20.01 metres broke former Olympic Gold Medallist Udo Beyer’s World 16 and 17 year old Records. It also broke the New Zealand Senior Shot Record set by Les Mills in 1967.

A few weeks later I set a New Zealand Youth Record for the Discus, achieving a throw of 62.05 metres, and a ranking of third in the World Under 18 Rankings. At the World Youth Championship in July I started as the favourite. My throw of 24.35 metres broke my own Youth World Record.

It also broke the Championship record by 2.79 metres, and I was the first athlete to ever break the 24.0 metre mark. I was 4.00 metres clear of the second place put.

I finish the year ranked first in the Under 18 and Under 20 World Shot Put Rankings, and third in the Under 18 Discus World Rankings. I set a total of ten new World Age Marks, more than any other athlete has ever held. Many of these performances and successes would not have happened without the AIMES Award win and the support of the people that make the event possible.

Thank you all so much.

Award Winner Updates Verity Burgess AIMES Arts Award Winner 2010

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Since receiving the AIMES Arts Award in 2010, I have completed my Masters in Musical Theatre from Guildford School of Acting in the United Kingdom. This intense year of full time training has been an unforgettable experience. After commencing the degree in September 2010, I have noticed a dramatic change, not only to my skills and understanding but also to my personality.

Relocating to London from New Zealand was a challenge in itself, however being welcomed into the GSA environment made the transition an exciting adventure. Meeting friends and contacts that would later become my family in the United Kingdom gave me the support that I needed to help me through the challenges of the year ahead.

The various classes and performances throughout the year have taught me valuable lessons that I will carry with me throughout my life.

Highlights of the year include being involved with GSA’s production of ‘The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas’ in the role of ‘Shy’ a country girl runaway, and ‘The Fiddler on the Roof’ where I played ‘The Fiddler’. Both performances were

put on in public theatres and gave us the opportunity to work with professional directors. It has been a huge honour to study under teachers and famous names at GSA. They have all been so willing to help by passing on their valuable knowledge and experience.

The acting training at GSA has had the biggest impact on me. The opportunity to express a wide range of emotions everyday has helped me discover a lot about myself as a person and has given me a greater sense of inner confidence.

We concluded the year at GSA with a final performance to showcase our skills and talent to industry contacts. This was held at the Criterion Theatre in London.

Alongside the excitement of being on a West End Stage, was the anticipation and nervous energy at the thought of possible agent interest. Being noticed and eventually invited to sign with a West End agency can help immensely in furthering your career.

Our showcase was a success, and along with many other performers in my year group I was lucky enough to gain representation from Lowy Hamilton Artists. Recently I have been attending auditions for up and coming West End musicals. This has shown me how important it is to be resilient and to keep a positive attitude. Within this industry a disappointment from an audition is often due to something out of your control.

I am extremely lucky and grateful to have been given this amazing opportunity and will continue to learn from the exciting experiences yet to come.

The funding from my AIMES Award

Scholarship has helped me to get to where I need to be and I will strive to work as hard as I possibly can to keep heading in the right direction. A big “Thank You” once again to The North Harbour Club and everyone involved in the AIMES Awards for helping to make this dream possible.

David Macdonald AIMES IT, Innovation & Science Award Winner 2010 For personal reasons I have deferred my studies at Berkeley after successfully completing one semester with an A average. I have resumed work at The University of Auckland as a technical architect in IT working on distributed messaging and networking systems.

In the IT field I contributed fixes to large open source projects, resolving long standing issues involving distributed systems and networking. I have been keeping up with developments in the IT field recently by attending the Kiwicon security conference in Wellington where I got to network with some of the biggest names in the field.

Sophie Bird AIMES Music Award Winner 2010 (No report provided)

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Will Martin AIMES Music Award Winner 2010 Since being selected as a finalist for last year’s AIMES Awards, my primary focus has been the creation and launch of my second CD, ‘Inspirations’. Having spent several weeks selecting the repertoire that would make up the album, the recording process began in London with Grammy Award winning producer Simon Franglen and a select group of the United Kingdom’s premiere studio musicians.

Rhythm tracks were laid down, after which we travelled to the Czech Republic to work with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra once again. To hear twelve of the worlds’ most beloved songs given the ‘Crossover’ treatment was a truly incredible experience - over 70 players, giving life and breadth to beautiful music in the most beautiful way.

My final vocal was captured at London’s ‘AIR Studios’, the record was mastered, and shortly thereafter I had the very first copy of ‘Inspirations’ ready for release in New Zealand for Christmas 2010. It is the stuff of dreams for me to have recorded pieces by some of the world’s greatest contemporary songwriters, but in a way that people may never have heard.

In addition to the production of Inspirations, I entertained on New Zealand stages throughout the summer months including my first ever South Island tour, before returning to the Northern Hemisphere to perform for audiences across the United Kingdom and Europe. The highlight of the last 12 months would be without question fulfilling the invitation to sing at this year’s Rugby World Cup final match in October;

an event with a global viewership of hundreds of millions. It was an honour to represent my country at what is without doubt my “biggest” ever performance, and one that I will look back on with pride for years to come.

Andrew McDonald AIMES Education Award Winner 2010 It is unbelievable that yet another year has passed in such quick succession!

Over the past year I have continued with my medical training, being on the wards of Middlemore Hospital for most of 2011.

This is my fifth year of Medicine and my final exams are approaching rapidly, which is currently where I am focusing most of my life. My medical training this year has been mostly in subspecialties of medicine rather than the fields of General Medicine and General Surgery.

I was introduced to the chaotic worlds of Obstetrics and Gynaecology as well as Paediatrics at the start of this year.

These disciplines entailed an invigorating mixture of personal reward, sheer terror and a healthy dose of adventure into some areas outside of my familiar comfort zone. I also spent 6 weeks on the Haematology team at Middlemore Hospital, which was particularly interesting as it combined both laboratory and clinical medicine.

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about my overseas elective next year. I have been accepted for an eight-week placement at a rural hospital in arctic Canada, in the Northwest Territories close to Alaska. Otherwise, I have been continuing my engagement in life outside of the hospital, with regular participation in the University of Auckland Debating Society and on-going commitment to Future Problem Solving (FPS) New Zealand. I will be attending the national finals for FPS this year, for the first time in several years as my university exams in the past have clashed with this important weekend.

I am proud to report that this year I have published another research paper in an International Medical Journal. I was a co author for this study, investigating the accuracy and fairness of priority access criteria for fertility treatment such as IVF for couples with unexplained infertility. Currently, couples without a definite cause for their infertility must wait at least 5 years before being eligible for publicly funded treatment, which can be distressing for many couples and prohibitive for older women. This study will hopefully go some way towards ensuring that our rationing of public healthcare services is as fair and transparent as it can be.

Now that my final year of medical school is approaching I am finally having to start planning my future career as a doctor. This almost feels unreal as it seems like only yesterday that I was just starting at university and was an unfathomable number of years away from actually working. I am hoping to work my first year as a junior doctor in 2013 at North Shore Hospital and I am looking forward to being back on the Shore!

Beyond that I am hoping to potentially do some overseas postgraduate study and then work towards specialist training in surgery.

Andrew McDonald.

Award Winner Updates Anita Walbran AIMES Service to the Community Award Winner 2010 Over the past year I’ve made progress on my PhD, while continuing to play an active role in volunteer work. The aim of my PhD is to find a way to detect hypoxia (a lack of oxygen to the brain) in pre-term infants and my initial efforts have been focused on the analysis of patterns in the electrical activity of the brain from fetal sheep. In December 2010 I presented my work on spike detection in fetal sheep at the EPSM-ABEC conference in Melbourne. This year I also submitted a paper for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology conference in Boston, which was accepted for publication.

I continue to be involved with Engineers Without Borders New Zealand (EWBNZ) with projects being my core area of input. This year I continued my role as Director on the national organisational committee for EWBNZ and in addition, took up a position on the legal board of directors. As a member of the projects committee, I have contributed to decisions regarding the acceptance of project proposals submitted to EWBNZ. Also pertaining to projects, I was involved in the remodelling of the ‘Projects’ section of the EWBNZ website. As a Director, I

was nominated to attend a capability development workshop on “Leading Projects and Innovation in Your Organisation or Community”. At present I am working on applying concepts from this workshop to advance EWBNZ. Beyond my role in the governance of EWBNZ, I put together a team to carry out follow-up work on a biogas project that I lead in 2008. The original project involved the design and implementation of two bio-digesters at a farm in Tonga.

Post-implementation, the farmers had experienced trouble with gas storage and wanted to expand their capacity, which formed the basis for the follow-up work commissioned this year. I performed an advisory role over this team, who prepared designs and a prototype for an appropriate gas collection system.

Instructional material was also prepared and sent to the farmers in Tonga, who will be implementing the design. In addition, I assembled and organized a team to travel to Tonga to carry out the monitoring and evaluation of a groundwater pumping scheme; this scheme was installed at Tonga College in 2009 by a team in which I played a leading role. Objectives of the follow-up team included carrying out maintenance on the system, as well as educating and training the school community to manage their energy and water resources. As on the biogas follow-up project, I was

involved in an advisory capacity on this team.

Recently, I have been involved in a design project open to submissions by undergraduate and postgraduate engineering students, which is focused on the needs of Carlson School for Cerebral Palsy. The goal of the project is to find ways to increase the students’ independence and control of their environment. Working in a small team, a training device has been developed to assist students currently equipped with manual wheelchairs in developing proficiency in operating powered wheelchairs. A system has also been devised for implementation within the school’s ‘Sensory Room’ that would enable students to independently control sensory devices in the room; at present devices within the room can only be switched on and off by a staff member.

Students who participate in this project are also vying for an opportunity to attend the 2011 Annual Conference hosted by Engineers Without Borders Australia.

Finally, earlier this year I volunteered at a special service held at Harbourside Church for the disabled. My passion for community service work is constantly growing, and the people that I work with continually inspire me. I really enjoy what I do and look forward to continuing my volunteer work in the years ahead.

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Emerging Talent Award: IT, Innovation & Science 2010

12 months ago I received my AIMES award and wondered how I was going to do the award justice. The award has allowed me to travel to the United Kingdom and work with some of the greatest adventurers I have ever met.

I am currently helping to plan the world’s first non stop circumnavigation

by Ocean Rower Olly Hicks, who will hopefully be departing from New Zealand shores within the next 18 months. The expedition is planned to take over a year and will be great to watch and be a part of from the shore.

About 5 months ago I was also privileged enough to lead an expedition to row from Ireland to Wales. This was a fantastic little trip taking 36 hours and we were greeted by a number of Basking Sharks along the way.

One of the greatest pleasures of being a part of the AIMES program has been watching other award winners achieve in their various areas and seeing what the community can achieve by supporting each other. The AIMES Award was a fantastic stepping-stone for me and it has been a pleasure being a part of the North Harbour Club, which I will continue to be.

Thanks again.

In June this year I completed a Master of Engineering at the California Institute of Technology and I am now beginning study towards a PhD. During the last year I have had some of the most challenging and rewarding experiences of my life.

Graduate studies in the United States has given me the opportunity to learn at one of the best universities in my field, experience living on my own in a foreign country and mature as both a student and a person. I am extremely grateful to the North Harbour Club for the generous support I received during the last year through an AIMES Emerging Talent Award, which was an immense help to my studies.

During the past year I studied in the United States on a Fulbright Ministry of Research, Science and Technology Graduate Award, combined with generous funding from the North Harbour Club and Caltech. In June I graduated with a Master of Science in Space Engineering, and I felt privileged to walk through campus in the Commencement ceremony to receive my degree. This year at Caltech has been the most academically challenging period of my studies so far. Not only was I changing fields to pursue my goal of studying in

the aerospace discipline but also the theoretical nature of the work required a very different approach and way of thinking. The course pushed me to learn beyond any level that I had experienced before. We covered everything from difficult problems involving complex variables and differential equations to shock waves, elasticity, and orbital dynamics. I feel this year of study has made me realise the strength I possess to push through even the most difficult of times, and I feel that I have learnt so much about myself and my abilities in the process.

I enjoy the Caltech environment immensely. It has given me the opportunity to meet amazing people from all over the world. Caltech offers leading research in aerospace and mechanical engineering, and going to seminars by the best scientists and engineers in my field has been an enriching experience.

Talks by the chief technologist from NASA and entrepreneurs in the space industry looking at manned missions to Mars were highlights. I also had the privilege of being instructed by two NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers for my yearlong Aerospace Engineering class. This was a great learning experience where we were able to work on a small spacecraft that will hopefully be launched in 2015. We were also lucky enough to get a personalized tour of the

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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, and were able to observe the next Mars Rover under construction.

Next week I will sit my PhD qualifying exams in solids mechanics, fluid mechanics and applied mathematics.

These oral exams are the final step before I begin research towards my PhD. I have the privilege of working with Professor Michael Ortiz for my PhD, in the area of computational solid mechanics. This research will be theory based, following in a similar manner to my Master of Engineering from The University of Auckland.

I hope that my PhD research will enable me to work in the area of solid mechanics, giving me the tools to become a specialist in this discipline. I wish to work on the technology of the future, whether it be involving space vehicles, racing cars, aircraft, or even civil engineering structures. When I complete my PhD I will return to New Zealand and I hope to bring back some of what I have learnt in the United States. Being away from home made me realise what a privilege it is to live in such a beautiful country. No matter where my career takes me, New Zealand and the North Shore will always be my home and my roots.

Michael Macdonald Emerging Talent Award: Education 2010 I am now in Part III of my Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree at the University of Auckland, specialising in Engineering Science. I am a currently in the Faculty of Engineering’s Accelerated Pathway programme, which means this is my second year of study at university, but I am studying at a third year level.

Part III Engineering has provided me with the opportunity to explore some specialised topics in Engineering Science. In particular, I am enjoying the papers in aerodynamics and fluid mechanics. This summer, I have been offered a summer research project where I will be researching optimal aerodynamic flow control.

This year I have taken papers in areas involving aero-hydrodynamics, computing, climate physics and wind turbine design. I have been working hard on maintaining my academic performance, as well as enjoying the subjects that I am studying. One of my favourite projects this year was constructing a prototype wind turbine

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that was tested in a wind tunnel. This was a fantastic experience in being able to work through the whole design process from start to finish and produce a functioning prototype at the end.

Winning an AIMES Emerging Talent Award has been a great help for University. It has helped to pay for tuition fees, as well as providing recognition for my hard work and performance. It has also aided in motivation to keep my grades up. Outside of academic study, I have joined the Management Consulting Club where I have competed in their Open Case and CMC Markets challenges. I also took part in the Odyssey Design Challenge organised

by Engineers Without Borders. This yearlong project involved designing an engineering-based solution to help students and staff at the Carlson School for Cerebral Palsy. If my team and I are successful in this challenge, we may go on to develop and construct our design idea into a working model that would benefit the school.

Maddie Dillon Emerging Talent Award: Sport 2010 I would like to again thank the North Harbour Club for its generous award to me as a 2010 “Emerging Talent” in the sport of Triathlon. For me last year was a long schedule of training camps in Europe, the Youth Olympics in Singapore and the World Championships in Budapest.

In addition to all the travel, training and racing, I had my Year 12 studies at Kristin. I returned home from Budapest with a few injuries and after consultation with my new Takapuna based coach Barry Larsen, we decided to consolidate my position and concentrate more on school in my Year 13 so that I could go on to University. I re-qualified for the New Zealand Under 19 Elite team to contest the World championships in Beijing in 2011. Unfortunately after an average swim I did not make the front bunch and finished mid field.

This year was my second year in the Under 19 Elite and I shall have 2012 in that age group. In 2012 the Triathlon World Championships are in Auckland.

My goals for 2012 are to remain a member of the Triathlon New Zealand High Performance Development Squad, be reselected for the Elite Under 19 team

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for the Auckland World Championships and to race in Europe in the Northern Summer. To achieve these goals I intend to take a “gap year” from studying.

Thanks again to the North Harbour Club for all its help.

Chloe Francis Emerging Talent Award: Sport 2010 (No report provided)

Joseph Bergin Emerging Talent Award: Service to the Community 2010 The North Harbour Club gave me much more than financial support when I was given the Hayes Knight Emerging Talent Award for Community Service, they gave me the encouragement I needed to take my passion for the community and turn it into more action. After receiving the Hayes Knight Award I completely invested myself into a campaign for the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board of the Auckland Council contesting for one of 6 positions against 18 other candidates.

Being the youngest candidate and one

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of the least experienced motivated me to work harder and longer to try and convince people to trust me to represent their hopes and aspirations for the community and city. Door knocking, placard waving, leaflet drops, speeches, meetings and all while attempting to study for final school exams was only made more difficult by holding up a part time job to finance the billboards, car stickers, website, leaflet, newspaper advertisements and such which come with election season.

By some miracle, and with an entire community behind me, there was a record voter turnout and by the narrowest of margins, I took one of the six seats on the new Local Board, which almost spreads over the area of an entire Parliamentary Electorate. With little time to celebrate, I immediately found myself surrounded with some of the greatest Local Government minds in Auckland who had all served as Councillors, Deputy Mayors, Mayors, Board and Committee Chairs, all of whom are well known and respected in the community.

For this last year, the first of my three-year term I have held the major portfolio allocations of Community and Social Wellbeing, Community Safety, and Libraries and Community Facilities.

These broad categories cover youth

engagement, neighbourhood funding, and elderly and disabled peoples, and have ensured that there is no shortage of meetings, hui, phone calls, emails, and letters for me to field, and all this on top of the numerous plans and policies that the Council has had to get through this first year. Adding a few university law papers on the side, because I seem to enjoy punishing myself, and retaining my obligations to the community and not-forprofit sectors, it’s safe to say these last 12 months have been the most chaotic and hectic ones of my life.

That’s not to say however, that they haven’t been the most incredible and rewarding 12 months. I have certainly been on one of my steepest learning curves and have been exposed to some of the most amazing community initiatives and local heroes. To be able to work alongside these kinds of people in the Council and in the Community at this stage of my life is more than I ever could have hoped for. This was only possible because of the North Harbour Club, who helped me break through into the political arena. Whenever I’m asked how I managed to pull it off I simply tell people none of this would have been even a consideration of mine if it weren’t for the support I received from the North Harbour Club through the AIMES Awards.

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2009

AIMES AWARD WINNERS AIMES ASB Arts Award ($10,000) – ANNA-LOUISE DILLON-HERZOG (21) - Dancer; AIMES Massey University IT, Innovation & Science Award ($10,000 each - Joint Winners) – DANIEL PLAYNE (21) - Computer Scientist; YVETTE PERROTT (23) - Scholar; AIMES EasyFactors International Music Award ($10,000 each - Joint Winners) – GRAYSON MASEFIELD (22) - Musician; AMALIA HALL (20) - Musician; AIMES Kristin School Education Award ($10,000) – ADRIENNE ANDERSON (25) - Scholar; AIMES Supreme Award ($20,000) & AUT/Millennium Institute of Sport & Health AIMES Sports Award ($10,000) – MELISSA INGRAM (25) - Swimmer.

Melissa received a total of $30,000; AIMES North Shore City Service to the Community Award ($10,000) – CAMERON CALKOEN (25).

In addition there were six recipients of the Hayes Knight North Harbour Club Emerging Talent Awards in 2009. They were: Sophie Corbidge, Chris Rahardja, Jenna Gallie, Jason Bae, Ellen Deverall, Arkesh Patel.

Each Emerging Talent Award Winner received $4,000, with the exception of Jason Bae, who received $2,000 and a recording session.

Melissa Ingram AIMES Sports Award & Supreme Award Winner 2009 The last year has flown by, with the London Olympics now only nine months away. I finished 2010 ranked 11th in the world for the 200 metre Backstroke. After the Commonwealth Games last October I travelled to Singapore to compete in the World Cup. I won gold in the 200 metres Backstroke and 400 metres Freestyle, silver in the 200 metres Freestyle, and bronze in the 100 metres Backstroke. I also broke my own New Zealand record in the 200 metres Backstroke, posting a time of 2.03.99 and giving me a 2010 short course world ranking of fifth.

January through to April was an intensive training phase where we prepared for the National Swimming Champs, which doubled as the qualifying

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meet for the World Champs. I won gold in the 100 metres and 200 metres Backstroke, securing my spot on the World Champs team. I also won a bronze medal in the 50 metres Backstroke. In the build up to the World Champs we went and competed at three meets in America. We started in Tucson, Arizona before moving to Santa Clara (Just outside of San Francisco) and then Mission Viejo, California. It was great race practice and as we moved from meet to meet I got faster and faster, finishing with a meet record and two gold medals in the 100 metres and 200 metres Backstroke in Mission Viejo.

It was then on to the World Champs in Shanghai. I finished 15th in the 200 metres Backstroke and 17th in the 100 metres Backstroke. My results were not as good as I would have liked, but they were solid performances that have set me up well for the London Olympics. I bettered the Olympic qualifying time in the 200m Backstroke in Shanghai.

After the World Champs I stayed on in China to compete at the World University

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Games (I finished my Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Auckland in June). I was very proud to be named Team Captain and Flag bearer for the New Zealand team of 80 athletes from various sports. The Chinese put on an amazing event and our team was very successful, bringing home the biggest medal haul to date. I won a silver medal in the 4 x 200 metres Freestyle Relay and finished 4th in the 200 metres Backstroke.

I am currently training in Brisbane for a month with a squad full of Olympic and World Champions. I’m learning a lot and the training is tough, but the experience will be incredibly beneficial to my build up towards London. After Brisbane I’m heading to Asia to compete in the World Cup Circuit, which provides an invaluable opportunity to work on my racing and my skills – starts, turns and underwater work. The first six months of 2012 will be the toughest training phase of my life, but I’m looking forward to it and it will all be worth it when I stand behind the blocks in London. I couldn’t have done it without the help of my AIMES Award.

Award Winner Updates Anna-Louise Dillon-Herzog AIMES Arts Award Winner 2009 Since receiving my AIMES award I have been working as a professional dancer in New York City. I have been rehearsing with contemporary choreographers Hee Ra Yoo, Alaine Handa and Erick Montes on various performances through out the U.S.A and Canada. These have included DanceNOW/NYC, White Wave: Wave Rising Series, E-MOVES at Harlem Stage, D.C Capital Fringe Festival, Toronto Fringe Festival and the New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival at Joyce SoHo. I have been signed to one of the best dance/performance agencies in the United States, McDonald Selznick Associates. I have been doing a lot of dancer-model commercial work such as the latest campaign for Equinox Gym; many look books; and fashion films. I find it exciting and interesting to combine the art and fashion worlds. In April this year I was a Top 100 Contestant in the USA Season 8 of So You Think You Can Dance. The audition process and Vegas week were a hugely challenging and motivating experience that made me grow and develop my skills as a performer.

My daily life is a mixture of rehearsing in the studio, rushing around Manhattan to castings and auditions, taking class to work on my technique and performing.

I am consistently trying to achieve more and learn from choreographers who inspire and motivate me. I would like to say a huge thank you to the North Harbour Club for being continually supportive throughout my career.

Daniel Playne AIMES IT, Innovation & Science Award Winner 2009 Well, 2011 has been a year of writing, stress and change. On the 30th of June I submitted my Ph.D. thesis entitled “Generative Programming Methods for Parallel Partial Differential Field Equation Solvers” for examination. The thesis represents three years of research and many months of writing. It was submitted one month before my three-year deadline, a rare feat among Ph.D. students.

While most of my year was spent writing, I have been fortunate enough

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to attend two scientific conferences this year to present my research – one in Innsbruck, Austria and the other in Anchorage, Alaska. I learnt a great deal at these conferences and needless to say travelling to these countries has been an amazing experience. However, there was one downside.

In February, while travelling to Innsbruck, I was hiking in Switzerland and slipped on ice injuring my knee. After returning to New Zealand I had a number of scans and discovered I had torn cartilage in my right knee. In the beginning of June I had surgery to remove the tear, it was certainly an unwelcome distraction while I was trying to finish writing.

After submitting, I applied for and was subsequently appointed as a Lecturer of Computer Science and Information Technology at Massey University. In this position I can continue my research with the Complex System and Simulations Group and I now have the chance to teach students as well. This semester I have taught a postgraduate paper on Advanced Programming for Simulations, an area that I am particularly enthusiastic about. Since starting at Massey University I have been elected as the new Deputy Director of the Centre for Parallel Computing. In this role I can help coordinate equipment and research into parallel computing, which has always been a major component of my personal research.

With only my Ph.D. oral defence left I am very close to the end of almost eight years of study. As I reflect on my time as a student I would once again like to thank the North Harbour Club and all of the members for their encouragement and support, without which I would not be where I am today.

Yvette Perrott AIMES IT, Innovation & Science Award Winner 2009 Twelve months ago, I packed up my life and moved to Cambridge, England (not Waikato) to take up a Rutherford Scholarship at Cambridge University and begin my PhD. It's been a year full of change and challenges. Cambridge is a beautiful city – small enough to walk and bike around easily but big enough to contain everything you need. I am a member of Trinity College, and have accommodation right in the centre of town. It's about a ten minute cycle out to work at the Cavendish Laboratory, which is a big change from my previous 45 minute commute from the North Shore in to Auckland University!

I am working with the Cavendish Astrophysics group, doing my PhD on the detection of galaxy clusters via their effect on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the left over radiation from the Big Bang. The hot gas that is attracted by the gravitational fields of the galaxies in a cluster acts like a lens for the photons of the CMB, changing the way they emit at different wavelengths.

This is called the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. By observing the changes in the CMB, properties of the cluster can be inferred. We are currently carrying out a blind survey for new galaxy clusters, as well as observing known clusters.

We have our own telescope, the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI), which is a short drive from Cambridge and is operated and maintained by members of the group. AMI is a radio interferometer, consisting of two arrays of telescopes and operating at 16 GHz. The

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signals from the individual telescopes are combined to synthesise the signal from a much larger dish with the diameter of the greatest distance between the telescopes.

AMI was designed for SZ observations, but is also useful for studies of galactic objects. Another part of my research is the detection of ultra-compact HII regions in our galaxy with AMI, which are tracers of massive star formation.

I've just completed my first year of PhD research so I still have another two to go.

I'm looking forward to the challenges that the next few years will bring.

Grayson Masefield AIMES Music Award Winner 2009 Since being awarded the AIMES award for music in 2009 I have travelled back to Europe and continued competing internationally representing New Zealand.

I won the Roland Digital Accordion Competition (becoming the first accordionist to win competitions in three different genres, classical, virtuoso and digital), and won other international competitions in France, Italy and China.

After winning another world title at the Trophee Mondiale held in Spain 2010, I retired from competition and a month later became the youngest person elected onto the prestigious Coupe Mondiale (Confederations Internationale de Accordeonistes) Music Committee voted in by delegations across the world.

This year I performed concerts in Italy, France (performing the world premiere of

a new composition by Finnish composer Petri Makkonen), Germany, America, China, Russia and Finland, and also performed back home in Christchurch and Auckland. I made my second appearance on the Good Morning show in Wellington and have appeared on other international TV shows. I am also now representing New Zealand as a delegate and jury member for many International Competitions.

I have just returned from China at this year’s World Competitions and was invited to perform three televised concerts of different repertoires including a Champion’s Concert of past winners of Coupe Mondiale. I also adjudicated the top two senior categories and made my debut as concertmaster of the World Hohner Accordion Orchestra.

Amalia Hall AIMES Music Award Winner 2009 Moving to Philadelphia at the age of 19 after completing my BMus at the University of Auckland was extremely exciting. When I entered the Curtis Institute of Music in August 2008, I didn’t fully realise how much it would benefit my musical development. For years I had heard about the amazing reputation Curtis upholds, and it was a dream realised when I was accepted into the Institute after my audition. After a master class with Pamela Frank, I decided that I wanted to study with her, as she has an inspirational and charismatic teaching style. She is one of the most sought after violin teachers in the world, as she

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has such rapport with students and a constantly innovative approach to music both as a performer and a teacher. My other teacher is Joseph Silverstein, a legendary concertmaster, conductor and soloist, who is still performing around the world at age 79. I am fortunate to have these two teachers, both of whom are Curtis alumni, as they are incredibly knowledgeable and provide many pearls of wisdom during my weekly lessons. I also receive chamber music coaching from a number of other Curtis staff that are eminent world-renowned musicians, and from visiting international artists.

It is a phenomenal experience to be absorbing the musical artistry these coaches share with us.

One of the most valuable ways of developing as a classical musician is to play alongside more experienced musicians, and here at Curtis the students are very fortunate to receive these opportunities, which exemplifies the Curtis motto ‘’Learn by doing’’. In April, I was selected to perform a piano trio with Jonathan Biss, an acclaimed young pianist who is on the faculty at Curtis, and currently I am playing a piano quartet with my renowned chamber music coach, Ida Kavafian, a former member of the Beaux Arts Trio. Last year Ida invited me to perform at her music festival in New Mexico, ‘Music From Angel Fire’, which was yet another wonderful opportunity to play alongside celebrated musicians. In May I was one of 5 students selected to participate in Curtis On Tour, playing chamber music throughout Europe with Pamela Frank and the President of Curtis, Roberto Diaz. We had two performances in

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Award Winner Updates Paris at Les Invalides, where Napoleon was buried; a performance in Weston, a quaint village just outside of London; a sold-out performance in a 600 seat theatre in the beautiful coastal town of Teulada-Moraira, Spain; a performance at a stunning theatre in Valencia; chamber music collaborations with members of the Berlin Philharmonic at Der Rosenhof estate and the American Academy in Berlin; and house concerts in Paris and Zurich. This was an extraordinary experience to be sharing music in these countries where rich musical traditions were first created. Following this, I took up an invitation to perform in Florida at the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, held in June this year. These performances involved chamber music collaborations with eminent musicians Roberto Diaz, Elissa Lee Koljonen, James Dunham and Christopher Rex. One of the exciting features of this coming year is that the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, recognised as being on a par with the world’s leading professional orchestras, is performing at the 2012 Dresden Festival in Germany, alongside the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic, two of the world’s top orchestras. In February we performed in Carnegie Hall in New York, one of the most famous concert halls for classical music performances. Visiting conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Charles Dutoit, Michael Stern and Christoph Eschenbach direct the orchestra, helping to maintain the mature, passionate and polished sound.

For this fourth year of study, I will continue to increase my musical knowledge and absorb as much as possible from the outstanding faculty, facilities and colleagues who surround me at Curtis. During my past three years of study, my musicianship has developed phenomenally from these extraordinary influences. The environment is remarkably motivating and inspiring, and the incredible opportunities I continue to receive and the number of performances in which I participate would not be available at other institutions, so I am very excited to have my studies extended over this next year. I truly appreciate the generosity of AIMES, which helped make my study at Curtis possible. No matter what musical path I take once I graduate in May, I know I am very lucky to be doing something I love so much, and it most certainly is profoundly rewarding to share my musical passion with people around the world.

Adrienne Anderson AIMES Education Award Winner 2009 Since I received the AIMES Award I have lived and worked overseas, an experience that was kick-started by the award at the end of 2009. Shortly afterwards, I was asked to move to Melbourne to work on a book on refugee law that was being written by an Australian and a Canadian academic.

I was able to relocate using my AIMES funding, and it also enabled me to win more scholarships for the postgraduate studies I wanted to undertake in the United States of America.

After six months in Melbourne, I travelled to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I was to do my Masters in Law. I chose the University of Michigan because unlike other universities, they have an entire program dedicated to refugee law, directed by one of the leading academics in the field. I spent a very full and fulfilling year learning alongside inspiring American students and fellow masters students from all over the world.

The highlights for me were the courses I took in gender crimes and human trafficking. The human trafficking course was a practical class, meaning that I represented four clients who had been trafficked into the United States. Other, less scholarly highlights, include living in snow for 5 months where the temperature was often below minus 20 degrees Celsius, the thanksgiving I spent with an American family, watching university football with 100,000 other fans all wearing school

Adrienne Anderson with her high court team.

colours, and the travel I did around the United States, Mexico, and Canada with friends I met during my studies.

After I graduated, I travelled back to Australia, this time to Canberra, because I had been awarded a Fellowship to work for the UNHCR office there. UNHCR is the United Nations refugee agency, which offered me the incredible chance to see refugee work through a very different perspective - that of an international agency. An invaluable insight, but my experiences over the last two years led me to decide that I preferred more direct contact with clients.

I have since taken up a permanent position at a non-profit organisation in Melbourne, the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre (RILC). We recently won a case in the High Court of Australia preventing the removal of 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia. I work at RILC as a solicitor and migration agent with clients and also in a policy role. I like the mix of legal and policy work because I hope and believe that positive legal advocacy can change many of the harmful policies towards refugees in Australia.

I look forward to coming back to New Zealand one day with all the knowledge and experiences I have gained. I’m very grateful for the assistance I received from the North Harbour Club through the AIMES Award, as it has enabled me to do the things I had wanted to do since high school.

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Cameron Calkoen.

Cameron Calkoen AIMES Service to the Community Award Winner 2009 Dream big and achieve more than you ever thought possible, this is my philosophy, as I have taken my motivational speaking to a new level over the past year.

In March 2010, I went on a dream trip to Japan, made possible by the talks I gave proceeding the holiday, where I discovered the thrill of stepping on the stage as an unknown, but sharing a story that others could connect with in order to be the best that they can be.

When I arrived back home I decided to link up with my inspiring role-model Billy Graham, a motivational speaker and the only New Zealander to speak at the Million Dollar Round Table (one of the highest speaking platforms in the world). Contacting my idol Billy gave me the guidance to see the development of www.camcalkoen.com and my very own Business Card.

With Billy’s encouragement and advice I took every opportunity to develop my speaking, sometimes speaking to receive nothing more than 4 litres of milk. Through being a part of the Voyager leadership program I maximized the opportunities presented to me, and I have learnt that at this stage in my life, opportunities will lead to exposure and references that will build a foundation for speaking to one day be a career.

My focus is on self development to become the best I can be and on becoming a truly sort after speaker. I have identified my weaknesses and have begun working on them with speech

coach and actor Mark Ferguson, who I contacted through fellow North Harbour Club Ambassador Shane Cortese.

In March 2011 I was in to Wellington to M.C an event for the Vodafone Foundation of New Zealand. At this event was my Mentor Billy Graham.

He was blown away by my growth as a speaker in the year that he’d known me. Following the event Billy passed on some real motivation and linked me to the team at Celebrity Speakers, suggesting that if they’re looking for new speakers for their books, they consider me.

Sling shot a few weeks from Billy and I meeting in Wellington and I was in my element, speaking at the Lexus Fashion Lunch at the Spencer on Byron Hotel. Among Karen Walker, Tina Cross, April Iramia and over 300 guests was the managing director of Celebrity Speakers Louise Ryburn. Louise heard me speak, and invited me back to the offices, where I am now on the books of Celebrity Speakers.

In the past year I have: Spoken in London, won an AMP regional scholarship to speak throughout the world, become one of two New Zealand finalists for an international world of difference program with Vodafone, become ambassador for Toyota New Zealands and Toyota North Shore’s ‘project mobility’, have regularly spoken around the country, and taken Carabiner Mentoring from a regional program and begun turning it into an international social enterprise.

Those who don’t know me see my opportunities as “lucky”, the man who succeeds at everything. The reality is

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that I am working hard to be the best that I can be. “Opportunities don’t come from luck, opportunities reflect output”.

Arkesh Patel AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2009 (No report provided)

Chris Rahardjia AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2009 After recovering from a broken jaw, I managed to make a successful come back to win my fourth consecutive Oceania Karate title in the Mens Open Kata (forms) division at the 2010 Oceania Karate Championships in Papeete, Tahiti. This ended what seemed to be an unlucky year on a good note. Having time off to due to my injury also meant that I was able to focus on my university studies where I was able to gain entry into the MBCHB Programme (Medicine) at the University of Auckland with a GPA of 8.7.

Carrying my momentum into 2011, I was able to win my fourth consecutive New Zealand Open Karate Championship title in Christchurch, winning three Gold medals in Senior Open Kata, Senior Team Kumite (free sparring) and U75kg Senior Kumite and a silver medal in Senior Open Kumite. The New Zealand team then travelled to Gallipoli, Turkey where we competed in the inaugural

Award Winner Updates ANZAC Gallipoli Friendship Cup involving NZ and Turkey in commemoration of ANZAC Day, where I was able to win the Open Kata. I then travelled back home to compete in the New Zealand University Games where I was able to win double gold in Senior Open Kata and Senior Open Kumite, helping the University of Auckland to win its first overall title in 9 years. I then closed off the New Zealand circuit with gold in the Senior Open Kata and silver in the Senior U75Kg Kumite at the NZ National Karate Championships, becoming the youngest ever person to win 4 consecutive senior titles at the NZ Nationals.

Entering the second half of the year, I started off the international season with a solid performance at the 2011 Commonwealth Karate Championships in Sydney, Australia, winning four gold medals in the Senior Open Kata, Senior Team Kata, Senior Team Kumite and U21 Open Kata, becoming the tournament’s leading medal winner and helping New Zealand to top the medal tally for the first time. Next up was the International Sugihara Cup back home in Auckland, where teams from Turkey, Australia, New Caledonia and South Africa competed.

Needing to back up my performance in Australia, I successfully won gold in the Senior Open Kata, beating Australia in the final. The last tournament of the year was the Junior World Kata Championships is Melaka, Malaysia, where I was honoured to captain the National Junior Team again. Unfortunately I was unable to replicate my silver medal winning performance from the last Junior World Championships and was beaten in a rematch of the last World’s semi-final against Montenegro.

Overall, 2011 was a mixed year. Next year is another big year, with the World University Championships in Slovakia and the World Senior Karate Championships in Paris, France. I am still in pursuit to become New Zealand’s first ever Karate World Champion and the support from AIMES and the North Harbour Club has been invaluable.

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Two months after I won the 2009 Hayes Knight North Harbour Club Emerging Talent Awards in Music, I had an opportunity to perform in Yamaha Concert Hall in New York City and I was very thankful to use the AIMES Award Scholarship to pay for my travels.

My performance in New York was published in 2010 Perrenoud Foundation International Music Competition website.

In May 2010, I won the University of Auckland Gala Concerto Competition, the biggest event in the University of Auckland Calender. I was featured in the TVNZ programme ‘Asia Downunder’ In August 2010, I was soloist for Bach Musica Chamber Symphony Orchestra and just one week later, I debuted as a soloist with New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s National Youth Sympony Orchestra. In October 2010, I was soloist for Auckland Youth Symphony Orchestra.

In November 2010, I gave a piano recital in Sydney Theme & Variations Showroom as the winner of 2010 Lewis Eady Emerging Artist Recital Series.

In September 2011, I had an honour of performing in front of the President of the European Union, Mr. Jose Manuel Barosso. A week later, I gave a piano recital in University of Auckland’s School of Music Theatre as University of Auckland’s Emerging Artist. The recital had a full-house audience.

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Jenna Gallie AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2009 (No report provided) Jason Bae.

Sophie Corbidge AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2009 Since receiving the AIMES award in 2009, it has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride for me! I reached some all time lows (including a broken elbow), but always bounced back up to experience some highs too!

Possibly the most interesting story of my sports career so far would be the story of my appendicitis and World Triathlon Championships experience in 2010. Towards the end of August, I was due to fly out to Europe to train in Germany for a few weeks and then travel to Hungary to compete in the World Championships in Budapest. However, just two days before my flight, I was diagnosed with an acute appendicitis, and rushed into hospital for surgery.

Once my appendix had been removed and I was able to regain consciousness, I felt crushed with disappointment. What had my body done to me? Why now?

Very bad timing.

However, I was visited the following day by a Triathlon New Zealand selector, who told me that my racing spot would not be given up, and if my Doctor allowed me to, I would be able to go over at a later date to join the team. Being my very stubborn self, I begged my parents and my Doctor to let me fly over a few weeks later. The Doctor who performed my surgery told me I wasn’t even allowed to start light exercise for at least eight weeks, but that didn’t go down too well with me. I needed to be on the start line in less than four weeks.

Luckily, my sports Doctor gave me the all clear, and I flew out two weeks later. A few complications later (scar infections and fatigue from anaesthetic) I was in Budapest, about to compete.

The race itself was the Elite Under 19 World Triathlon Champs: 750m swim, 20km bike, five kilometres run. I had a reasonable swim and good ride, coming off the bike in the front bunch, but as soon as I hit the run, I thought I was going to pass out! My coach described me as whiter than a ghost,

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and encouraged me to pull out if I was in too much pain, but I managed to struggle to the finish line. I finished in 32nd place, and was the second kiwi across the line.

Obviously this wasn’t the result I had been looking for (originally planned to come in the top five), but considering the circumstances I was in, I was incredibly proud to finish.

Since that race, I have moved into the Under 23 Elite racing category, so my distance has doubled to 1500m swim, 40km bike and 10km run. 2011 has been a bit of a transition year for me, and my training has been adapted to suit the longer distance. I have had some successful races recently, winning the Under 23 Contact National Series race in Wanaka earlier this year, coming second in the Under 23 Contact National Series race in Takapuna, finishing in fifth place in the North Island Cross Country Champs and winning the W20 Auckland Duathlon in August. My next race is the World Cup Triathlon race in Auckland on November 20th, and then into the triathlon season for 2011-12. I am looking forward to a successful year ahead!

I am very grateful for the help and support that I receive from my parents, family and friends, sponsors and coach, because an athlete would be nothing without a good support system. If there is one thing I have learnt over the past few years, it is that self belief and an ability to overcome adversity are very powerful tools, and essential to achieving highly in sport. Training hard, training smart, and having life balance are important.

The AIMES Award winners for 2008 were:- ASB ARTS AWARD – Sophie Henderson (23), Actor/Playwright ($10,000) MASSEY UNIVERSITY IT & SCIENCE AWARD – Daniel Playne (20), Computer Scientist ($10,000) EASY FACTORS INTERNATIONAL MUSIC AWARD – Not awarded in 2008. LION FOUNDATION EDUCATION AWARD – Naomi Jones (21), Scholar/ Chemical Engineering ($10,000) AUT/ MILLENNIUM INSTITUTE OF SPORT & HEALTH SPORT AWARD – Tom Ashley (24), Sailor AUT/Millennium Institute of Sport AIMES Sport Award ($10,000). Millennium Institute/AUT North Harbour Club AIMES Judges Special Sport Award ($7,000): Melissa Ingram (23), Swimmer. NORTH SHORE CITY SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY AWARD – Sean Yang (19), Community Ambassador ($10,000). The overall 2008 AIMES AWARDS Winner was Tom Ashley who received a further $20,000 (Tom received a total of $30,000).

North Harbour Club Hayes Knight Emerging Talent Award Winners 2008, who each received $4000 were:-Verity Burgess (21) - Arts/Music (Performing Arts); Brittany Carter (16) - Arts (Dancer); Andrew MacDonald (19) Education (Scholar); Andrew Maloney (18) - Sport (Sailor); Yvette Perrott (22) - Education (Scholar); Yousif Rassam (19) - Service to the Community; Chris Steele (15) - Sport (Sailor); Erin Taylor (21) - Sport (Kayaker); The Earlybirds (17-19) - Filip Kostovich, Jared Aisher, Michael Cannon, Sean Patterson and Kane ter Veer - Music (Musicians).

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Tom Ashley AIMES Sports Award Winner & Supreme Award Winner 2008 The last year has been great for me. I am still sailing full time and continuing to work towards the 2012 Olympics. Since this time last year I have been working very hard on getting my sailing back to the level necessary to win at the top level.

Results have been mostly very positive, placing second and fourth in the first two World Cup events of the year. I did, however, have one minor setback in June this year when I came down with a bad flu and sinus infection shortly before a very important competition in England, and only managed to finish ninth in the event.

Upon my return from England in June I had surgery to correct a problem with my hip. The hip had been bothering me for a few years and had become quite painful by late 2010 to the point that I often had trouble getting to sleep at night. The operation, performed by my good friend Mat Brick, was very successful and I’m now pain free which is a great relief.

After my surgery I spent a few weeks in the United Kingdom watching the Pre-Olympic regatta, trying to learn some more about the Olympic venue and observe my competitors. I learned a lot during this time and have been working hard to put those things into practice.

I had never watched racing before (I’m always in amongst it!) so it was a great opportunity to see from the outside how the races unfolded. In particular I took a lot from watching and photographing the techniques of a few of my competitors.

Right now I’m working towards the World Championship, which will take place in Perth this December. It’s very important for me to get a strong result there, both to secure Olympic selection and as confirmation that my campaign is on the right track heading towards next year’s Olympics.

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Sophie Henderson Naomi Jones AIMES Arts Award Winner 2008 This year I have been focusing on writing my first screenplay. In February this year a producer, a director and I got together to apply for the Escalator initiative through the NZ Film Commission.

Escalator was set up to give emerging filmmakers the opportunity to make a low budget movie. Over 130 teams applied and we were selected for the top 12.

After a week bootcamp in Wellington we were then given development funding and 3 months to write a script, budget, schedule and proposal showing how we would go about it. Our team also made a teaser for our film and had to pitch our idea to the ‘Greenlight panel’.

Last week our film was one of 3 to be Greenlit. We have been given $250,000 to make our film and we officially go into pre-production in November. So there’s lots of hard work ahead.

Acting-wise; this year I have worked on Underbelly Land of the Long Green Cloud, a NZ film called The Most Fun You Can have Dying and we toured I Heart Camping to Wellington, where we had another sell out season. I have just finished performing in ‘Yours Truly’ at The Basement Theatre and next week I open a modern version of Moliere’s ‘Tartuffe’ with Silo Theatre.

Daniel Playne AIMES IT, Innovation & Science Award Winner 2008 (See report in 2009 section)

AIMES Education Award Winner 2008 I have just begun my second year on the BP UK process engineering graduate scheme (a 3-4 year training programme designed to fill in the gaps between university and “real-world” engineering in preparation for professional chartership).

For the past 13 months I’ve been based in Hull, East Yorkshire working at a BP gas site comprising of 18 offshore platforms, 6 subsea installations and an onshore processing terminal. My role essentially involves helping to safely maintain and run the “topsides”, which is pretty much everything from when the gas first leaves the underground reservoirs to when we hand it over to the UK’s National Grid for distribution to customers. I’ve had some absolutely amazing experiences so far, including helicopter crash survival courses (involving getting tipped upside-down underwater inside a fake helicopter… great fun when you know it’s not the real thing!), working for a week on a platform out in the middle of the North Sea, and spending three weeks in Norway doing some of the final checks on a brand new state-of-the-art FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading vessel - basically an oil/gas processing plant on top of a giant container ship). I’ve learned so much already, but know that there’s a terrifically long way to go. At the end of the day, the primary role of any engineer in the energy industry is to keep people and the environment safe; a responsibility that must never be taken lightly.

The next major challenge I’ve set myself is to climb to the top of Mt

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Kilimanjaro (the tallest freestanding mountain in the world at 5,895m) in aid of Compassion (an international child sponsorship charity) in March 2012. My mum and I will both be taking part in this formidable challenge together. Over the coming months we’re hoping to raise as much money as possible, all of which will go directly to Compassion’s Leadership Development Programme, which funds university education for exceptional students in developing nations to enable them to become powerful agents of change in their communities and the world. It is a cause that I am extremely passionate about, and that I hope you may also share my enthusiasm for. I’d love to hear from you with any words of encouragement (or advice!), and hope that you may be willing to share with me in offering financial support for these truly outstanding young people.

For more information visit: http://www. justgiving.com/NaomiTreksKilimanjaro

Melissa Ingram AIMES Judges Special Sports Award Winner 2008 (See report in 2009 section)

Sean Yang AIMES Service to the Community Award Winner 2008 After a year away, it’s great to be back living on the North Shore again. My time in Sydney was both productive and enjoyable – no doubt a highlight of my life thus far. Whilst there, I completed a

Award Winner Updates Master of Commerce degree majoring in Accounting at the Australia School of Business (University of New South Wales).

Living away from the Shore made me really appreciate what a great life we have here – so great that I decided to go against the statistics and return home! The experience also gave me the opportunity to develop a broader perspective of the global economy.

Since returning from Sydney, I have re-joined PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Consultant in the Corporate Tax team.

My role has given me the great privilege of working with some of New Zealand’s leading businesses to solve problems and capitalise on opportunities. It is always rewarding to help clients achieve success.

My involvement with academia also continues, as I seek to complete a Master of Taxation degree from the University of Auckland by the end of this year. As a part of this, I have been undertaking further research on New Zealand’s tax policy, particularly in respect of avoidance and our unique relationship with Australia.

I continue to be extremely grateful for all the support I have received over the year. Thank you to the North Harbour Club once again, for the support you’ve given me, and to all of the other individuals who inspire me year on year.

Sean Yang.

Andrew McDonald AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2008 (See report in 2010 section)

Andrew Maloney AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2008 2011 has been a very busy year for my sailing, including three major overseas trips to this date, and the most important still to come in December. The year has been very successful so far, but it is all in preparation for the ISAF Sailing World Championships that are in Perth, Australia at the end of this year. This will be my first chance to be selected for the 2012 Olympics, and a lot is resting on our result at this World Championship in Perth.

During 2011 I have spent five months overseas, competing and training against the best sailors in the world. In Europe I competed in four major ISAF Sailing World Cup events, held in Spain, France, England, and Germany. In between events, training with many of the top sailors in the world was great practice and invaluable experience that is key to success at the highest level. It was also awesome to visit some new places along the way; I had never been to Germany before!

My results overseas were good improvements on the year before, making two medal races, including an eighth place finish at the toughest event of the 2011 ISAF Sailing World Cup, Sail for Gold which was held in Weymouth, the 2012 Olympic sailing venue. I was competing against 124 other Laser sailors, including past and

current Olympic and World Champions.

It was a great regatta with the majority of racing being held in strong wind making for very physical and exciting racing. Over the months of August and September I spent six weeks training and competing in North America. During that time I trained and travelled with many of the top Canadian and American Laser Sailors. I competed in the 2011 CORK Olympic Class Regatta, an ISAF Grade One event held in Kingston, Canada. I won the event and gained some crucial experience of leading the event and being the competitor that everyone is gunning for and trying to beat. While in the States, I also joined seven other laser sailors from around the world to do three weeks of training in San Francisco.

The conditions were similar to what is expected in Perth, with every day consisting of a 15-25 knot sea breeze. It was great training for the very physical, windy conditions we expect in Perth, and was good to mix it up and train with some foreigners while missing some of the New Zealand winter.

I have been back in New Zealand since the middle of September, and am currently training hard with the other four laser sailors in the New Zealand Sailing Team. Next week, on November 4th I head off to Melbourne for 10 days for Sail Melbourne, an ISAF Sailing World Cup event and essentially my lead up regatta for the 2011 Worlds in December.

I then return home for two more weeks of full on training with the NZL Team and some good home cooked meals, before heading off to Perth at the beginning of December for the 2011 ISAF World Championship, my pinnacle event of the year. I am excited about the big challenge that awaits me in December, and cannot wait to give it everything I’ve got!

Thanks to all of my supporters, and particularly to North Harbour Club for the continued support!

Andrew Maloney.

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Erin Taylor AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2008 The 2011 kayak season had its fair share of ups and downs for me! The winter season started off well and I spent the months from October to December clocking up the miles and getting fitter and stronger.

Unfortunately during my last week training in December I sustained a stress fracture in my rib. Initially, although an injury is never good, I hoped I would be back into training within a month. My rib proved a little more damaged and I was essentially out of the boat for the next three months. This meant that I missed our entire domestic racing season! It was a pretty trying time, as I knew that my selection and build up for the World Cup series, and potentially the World Championships would be compromised.

Fortunately I was still given the opportunity to race at the world cups and was able to build back into proper training by early April. I was also excited with being selected to race K2 with Lisa Carrington at the World Cups. I had predominantly raced K1 up until this point and it was really nice to embark on a campaign with someone else. Not to mention Lisa’s incredible talent, which made racing with her in the future a very exciting prospect. Our results together at the World Cups determined whether we would be the crew selected to race at the World Championships. The World Cups took place at the beginning of May. This did not leave much time for me to get back to full fitness and form. Despite not quite being at my best, Lisa and I had some encouraging results together and were selected for World Championships.

I am very pleased to say that the two and a half months between World

Cups and World Championships were the smoothest of a pretty trying year.

We spent a great three-week training stint in the Gold Coast, completing our final pre-worlds fitness phase. The winter training environment there was absolutely perfect! Shortly after, we headed off to the Czech Republic where we spent our final few weeks fine-tuning before continuing on to the World Championships in Hungary. Our biggest goal at the World Championships as a K2 was Olympic Qualification. As a very new crew and given the limited time we had spent together we knew this would be a challenge, but were also confident that we were capable of doing it. The competition started really well for us. We raced a good heat then a really strong semi-final to qualify for the A final. We were a little disappointed with our race in the final as we didn’t quite replicate our good form from the semi final and finished 9th. However it turned out that this was still a good enough result to qualify us for London next year!

Lisa also raced individually at the World Championships in the K1 200m.

She absolutely dominated her race and became the first New Zealand woman to win a World Championship title in kayaking! She will be a force to be reckoned with in the same event in London. Together we now embark on the most important 10 months of our paddling careers to date. We have a great opportunity in front of us and plan to do whatever it takes to arrive in London ready to win! Despite it being a bit of an up and down year, I feel like I have learnt so much and am just more determined to succeed! Thanks again to the North Harbour Club for the support. It has contributed greatly to enabling me to train full time and get closer to achieving my long term goal.

Erin Taylor (right) with Lisa Carrington.

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Verity Burgess AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2008 (See report in 2010 section)

Brittany Carter AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2008 (No report provided)

Yvette Perrott AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2008 (See report in 2009 section)

Yousif Rassam AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2008 (No report provided)

Chris Steele AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2008 (No report provided)

The Earlybirds AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2008 The Earlybirds have had an extensive touring schedule during May – September. During this period we performed more than 60 gigs up and down the East Coast of Australia.

We have played in Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, Port Macquarie and Brisbane.

During September The Earlybirds performed a showcase gig at the Big Sound Conference Week. We have continued to write new songs throughout this period and have circulated some of the new demo's to Australian producers and publishing companies. There has been a steady increase in awareness for our band and we will continue to build our profile in the coming months.

Award Winner Updates We returned to NZ to complete a series of Rugby World Cup gigs and are now focused on several months of intensive songwriting to prepare for our next recording.

The have now been confirmed to perform at this years Coca Cola in the Park in Auckland 9th December.

2007

AIMES AWARD WINNERS The AIMES Award winners for 2007 were:- ASB ARTS AWARD – Ananth Gopal (20), actor ($10,000) MASSEY UNIVERSITY IT & SCIENCE AWARD – Daniel Playne (19), Computer Scientist ($10,000) EASY FACTORS INTERNATIONAL MUSIC AWARD – Sarah McCallum (24), Musician/ Composer ($10,000), Tanya Cooling (25), Opera & Classical Vocalist ($10,000), Hollie Smith (24), Musician ($10,000) LION FOUNDATION EDUCATION AWARD – Matthew Flinn (21), Scholar ($10,000) AUT/MILLENNIUM INSTITUTE OF SPORT & HEALTH SPORT AWARD – Jo Aleh (21), Sailor ($10,000) NORTH SHORE CITY SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY AWARD – Loren O’Sullivan (18), Community Ambassador ($10,000). The overall 2007 AIMES AWARDS Winner was Matthew Flinn who received a further $15,000 (Matthew received a total of $25,000).

North Harbour Club Emerging Talent Award Winners 2007:- Samuel Coldicutt (18) – Scholar; Robert (Robbie) Ellis (22) – Musician/Composer; Mikhail (Misha) Koudinov (16) - Gymnast; Alexandra Maloney (15) – Yachtswoman; Stephen Smith (24) – Industrial Designer; Rob Tucker (20) - Artist.

Matthew Flinn AIMES Education Award & Overall Award Winner 2007 What an intense time it has been since my last update! So much has happened that it’s hard to know where to begin.

I suppose the most significant thing to report is that I have, at last, fully qualified as a barrister. Yes, I have worn the wig and argued in front of judges! I’m very grateful to reach this point after a long

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and challenging journey, although I have to say it doesn’t feel like much of an arrival. It became clear very quickly that it is a profession in which there is always a lot to learn!

Full qualification as a barrister follows completion of a “pupillage”, which is effectively the final stage of training on the job. I was fortunate to be offered a pupillage at One Crown Office Row Chambers. It is a Chambers with a broad range of practice areas, although it is particularly strong in the fields of clinical negligence and public law (including human rights). It has a fine reputation, aided in part by its alumni, including a former Lord Chief Justice, and Cherie Booth QC (otherwise known as Cherie Blair, wife of the former UK Prime Minister).

The pupillage year is notoriously arduous, and although I was very lucky to be in a Chambers where the people were very supportive, I was nevertheless acutely aware that I was being assessed and examined at all times. However, whilst there were frequently stressful times, this was offset by the fact that I was regularly preoccupied with extremely interesting cases, ranging from the legality of tax raids, to the propriety of deportation decisions made by the Home Secretary, to whether or not dentists could challenge a decision by their regulatory body banning them from using the title of “Dr”. During this time I was also regularly writing articles for the Chambers’ Human Rights blog (www. ukhumanrightsblog.com). It’s been a great way to keep up to date on topical human rights issues, and has also given me some great opportunities and exposure - several of my posts were picked up by the Guardian newspaper.

In June of this year, I was offered “tenancy”. This was a huge honour, as it

enables me to become a self-employed member of the Chambers and develop my Practice there for the foreseeable future. It’s a challenging career, but I hope that I can do justice to the faith that has been placed in me. I can also now start working (slowly) towards another dream of mine: buying a house by the sea in New Zealand!

I’ve also been continuing to sing with the London Bach Choir. We have made a number of recordings, and have continued to sing at some fantastic venues. Several weeks ago I sang a solo with the choir and the London Philharmonia Orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall. That was huge honour and a massive thrill.

My very best wishes to you all back in New Zealand! I hope to be back visiting very soon!

Matthew Flinn.

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Ananth Gopal.

Ananth Gopal AIMES Arts Award Winner 2007 Actors are chameleons. Changing the visible fabric of who they are is what they do for a living. I am an actor, yet also a Geographer. Last year I was awarded a Melbourne University Scholarship to study Geography at the University of Granada in Spain. It's a chance to study in another language, to place myself into the unknown and to have to survive and communicate through more than words was an opportunity that thrilled me. I knew all my acting skills would have to come in handy. This was my chance to not just change my visible fabric on a stage but to adapt and change my colours on a day-to-day basis.

After performing in 11 different productions in three years in Melbourne, it was a time to put those skills to use in a foreign land.

2010 was one of the most rewarding years of my life. It was a year where I was able to study Geography and Philosophy in Spanish with some of Europe’s leading academics. Every day I felt thrilled to walk up to university with the view of the world famous Sierra Nevada outstretched before. Over time, Granada came to feel like home. Language has always been my friend. The first two months of living in Spain proved I needed to make friends with Spanish, fast. What was initially humiliating, having to ask for help and not knowing how anything functioned, gave way to the most profound lesson in humility.

We who have had the privilege to live and grow up on the North Shore aren’t used to feeling disabled. Yet when placed in the vulnerable position where language and knowledge aren’t your strength you learn to open yourself up in different ways. Most importantly, you learn that the whole world can become a play, not just a platitude confined to Shakespeare.

As the European summer holidays rolled in, my partner and I also asked ourselves if we could see Europe in a different kind of way. We made a pledge and opened ourselves up to adventure: ‘No flying and no set plans, just us, our thumbs and a tent’.

That certainly was a trip of a lifetime.

In three months we visited twelve countries around Europe simply through hitchhiking and sailing. What a plethora of wonderful people we met! Their generosity, warmth and openness constantly amazed us. In response, we sang, performed, cooked and worked on organic farms to thank our hosts.

From Slovenia to Sligo, Morocco to Montmartre, one thread held true. Us primates, us humans all we really want to do is to connect and to feel connected to each other. On that trip, we opened ourselves up to adventure and as a result we were rewarded dearly. We said ‘yes’ to life and it smiled back at us.

After that trip I was ready to dive into my second semester of Spanish University. Fortunately, my marks at the University of Granada led to a second scholarship (from the University of Granada itself). The desire to understand

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the country and the people on a deeper level inspired me to study Spanish Philosophy and History. By the end of 2010 I had presented (in Spanish) an academic paper on the Anthropology of Religion and made an appearance on a Spanish current affairs show.

Along with the flamenco, the Sevillana and the Sangria I also got a taste of another side to Spain. Three times I was asked to show my I.D by police who suspected me of being an illegal immigrant. This was simply based on the different colour of my skin. This enabled me to empathise with the experiences of many newly arrived migrants in New Zealand and Australia, people who look different yet can’t communicate with ease. All those experiences in Spain and around Europe gave me a chance to reflect and think deeply about how I could come back to Australasia and use my skills to contribute in a meaningful way. This was the initial seed for an organisation my partner, Rachel, (also a performer) and I have now started called, ‘Polykala’.

In my first week I was cast in a new work called, ‘No Place Like’ by Chris Summers. This role gave me the chance to reflect on ‘sense of place’ and notions of home and helped instigate discussions which went into forming the vision for Polykala. For the past six months we have been collating our ideas and formulating the structure for Polykala. We have even been awarded an Australian government start up fund and been provided with a mentor for the first year. Rachel and I bring together our experience in theatre, community development and Human Geography.

We run leadership and public speaking courses for young people and newly arrived migrants and create site-specific theatre projects. We want to create a platform for dialogue and the exchange of cultural capital.

We are currently working on a project with the City of Darebin for their Racism Enquiry in Melbourne’s inner north devising and performing ‘invisible theatre’. A form of theatre conducted in public spaces where the actors know they are acting but no one else does: bars, shops, trams and the street. We explore the bystander reactions of the public to different scenarios. If you were on a bus and you saw someone abuse another person what would you do?

Would you stand up for them? It’s not how you respond to that question in

Award Winner Updates words but how you do so in real life that’s truly interesting.

Finally, my dreams of creating my own work and experimenting with the nature of theatre are starting to materialise.

Furthermore, we are combining Geography, Theatre and Community Cultural Development in an exciting new organisation that is quickly garnering interest and support.

Finally, I am currently living my quiet ambition of working as a professional actor. It is nice to be remunerated and acknowledged for the time, skill and experience you bring to a show. More importantly, I have the opportunity to work with the best talent of this city in an innovative work, called Taxi. If you are in Melbourne this November for the Big West Festival, I invite you to come along.

A cab in a rank becomes transformed into the most intimate theatre. Three audience members sit in my cab each night as four actors come in as passengers and share their stories in the ephemeral intimacy. I feel honoured to be part of an extremely talented cast of five professional actors (where I am the youngest) with one of the best directors in Australia, Susie Dee. We are moving of course, it’s a real cab. This is a special glimpse into a world where the entire Geography of the fare becomes the theatre.

Connection is the journey. I wish to thank AIMES and the North Harbour Club for their on-going support and belief. It has been a great launching pad to fulfil the dream I am living.

Daniel Playne AIMES IT, Innovation & Science Award Winner 2007 (See report in 2009 section)

Jo Aleh AIMES Sports Award Winner 2007 I have been rather busy since my AIMES award in 2007. I competed in the 2008 Olympic Games, sailing in the Laser Radial and finishing a disappointing 7th.

Since then I have switched to sailing a 470, with crew mate Polly Powrie.

After a rather steep learning curve – having to basically learn how to sail again (as sailing with someone else on the boat is rather a change to being on your own!), We have had a successful last three years, and I would now struggle to go back to sailing by myself. It is so much nicer to actually have some company out on the water! Especially on those miserable winter days in Auckland, where it just won’t stop raining…

As far as results go, we have moved through the ranks of the international fleet rather quickly, after a 6th at our first World Championships in 2009, we moved up the leader board to win the silver medal at the last World Championships in 2010. This year the World Champs are going to be held in Perth in December, so we are still in the build up phase.

As far as 2011 has gone for us so far, we started off the year with a bit of team

cross training, with myself winning the NZ Laser Radial Nationals, and with Polly steering, we won the NZ Women’s Match Racing Nationals, so along with the NZ 470 Nationals we started off with a bit of a clean sweep of women’s sailing in NZ! After that, we had a bit of a bumpy start to our European season: In March, four days before we were due to leave NZ for our first World Cup event, Polly had an accident on her road bike, and broke her collarbone, so she was out of action for about two months. I had to travel to Spain for the Princess Sofia World Cup event with a stand in crew (Bianca Barbarich-Bacher) where we had a rather short lead up, but somehow ended up winning the event.

Then it was back home to get back in the boat with Polly, who was all fixed up and rather keen to get back out on the water! With the team back together again we travelled to Great Britain for the Sail for Gold World Cup event, where we cleaned up to make it two from two so far.

Following on from that, we competed in the Pre Olympic regatta in Weymouth, UK (the venue for the 2012 Olympic Games), where we did not have such a good event. After some equipment issues, followed by a bit of brain fade, we ended the regatta in 4th overall, which was not exactly where we wanted to be.

So now, we are about to head off to Perth, with our World Championships starting on December the 12th, hopefully we will get a chance to put the Pre Olympics behind us, and finish up our 2011 season on a good note!!

Jo Aleh (right) with Polly Powrie.

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Sarah McCallum AIMES Music Award Winner 2007 Well it’s been a very busy year! I had a fantastic time performing at Ross Finlayson’s memorial concert last year and meeting up with other past AIMES winners. I think Ross would have really enjoyed it and I thank his family and the North Harbour club for organising the event. What struck me about the past winners I caught up with was how everybody is still achieving highly and still following their passion. It is a testament to the North Harbour Club and sponsors of the AIMES awards that the awards really do work!

The week after I returned to Sydney I found out that I had won the Crowded House International Lyric Writing Competition. How exciting!

The competition was run on the bands website and entailed finishing a song of theirs by providing lyrics and melody to their already written backing track. As if this wasn’t exciting enough, Neil Finn and the band liked my entry and voice so much that they asked me to get up on stage with them in Sydney and sing the song with them, which I did!

Meeting Crowded House and singing with them has now jumped to the top of my list of the amazing musical experiences I have been fortunate enough to have. What an incredible band and wonderful bunch of people. I felt so welcomed and looked after and it really reaffirmed that I am on the right track.

Two days after the show at the Hordern Pavillion I was asked to go into a local radio station for an interview and to play a couple of Neil Finn songs. The man interviewing me happened to be Stuart

Coupe, one of Australia’s leading music journalists, who is well known for his past management of the Hoodoo Gurus and Paul Kelly. Stuart also runs independent label Laughing Outlaw Records and I have just released my album with them.

It has been a challenging and educational as well as cathartic experience releasing “When Things Fall Apart And Into Place” which is the first full-length album I have released under my moniker “Miss Little”. I am receiving airplay and getting some wonderful reviews all over the country. More importantly people are saying that they are very much enjoying the listening experience, and I am gaining new fans and interest.

I am right in the middle of my first Australian national tour, which is making me feel solidified in my profession. The tour sees me supporting the amazing Lanie Lane, who just recorded a track with Jack White from the White Stripes in Nashville. The gigs have all been sold out and I am getting a great response to my music. I have also been lucky to travel to Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Coming up, I am heading to NZ to perform at the AIMES awards and then travel back to Sydney to perform to four sold out audiences at The Vanguard in Sydney. So I guess you could say things are good!

I love being able to play every night and meet new people. It makes me feel very connected to the world and to my songs.

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public is the best way to experience both of these things.

In other news I had the privilege of writing a piece for the Westlake Symphony Orchestra. Entitled “The Art Of Letting Go” The piece was performed at the KBB competition this year, where the orchestra won the top orchestra award and the award for best performance of a New Zealand work. It was so humbling to be able to give a piece of music back to the school I went to and particularly to the orchestra I spent a lot of time playing in!

Apart from that I have been teaching a lot of singing to pay my rent, produced a few recordings for local Australian talent and sung backing vocals on a couple of amazing upcoming albums.

I was flown back to NZ to perform at the Hayes Knight Gold Client event, who are supporters of the AIMES awards.

What a great evening! I sang some of my favourite songs and Cam Calkoen was the speaker. He is also a previous AIMES winner and is such an inspiration.

I am really looking forward to performing at the AIMES awards this year and I hope to see some of you there. I’m itchy and excited to start the process of recording another album next year and to getting out on the road more. I have a lot of songs waiting to be aired and I would love to bring my band to New Zealand for some shows next year.

I hope you are all well and I thank the AIMES awards again for the support over the years. It’s a lovely family to be a part of and I know I am a lucky girl to have been a winner.

Award Winner Updates Tanya Cooling AIMES Music Award Winner 2007 Since writing the last report my life in the arts has taken a strikingly different turn.

It all began with an invitation to Vietnam.

Gillian Humphreys, artistic director and founder of the Concordia Foundation and International soprano, invited me to come with her to Vietnam on a mission to present workshops for the Young Artists of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet, and a Gala at the Hanoi Opera House in celebration of the Lord Mayor of the City of London’s visit to Vietnam.

I had begun to feel that a career based purely on performance was no longer what challenged me and as I began liaising with Gillian on the aspects of the trip I realised that there was a lot more I could be doing with the skills I had learned from my career as a performance artist.

Travelling through Hanoi in the late evening and seeing for the first time this city of jostling extremes I started to realise just how lucky I was to be a part of this comprehensive project. Along with presenting a Gala performance to celebrate the 100-year Anniversary of the Hanoi Opera House, we were lucky to be involved in meetings and a reception with official delegates including the British Ambassador. These allowed us to assist in business and political diplomacy through the arts. Giving the workshops was a life-changing experience for me.

I was touched by the sincere and welcoming attitude of all the Young Artists we worked with. It was a delight for me to be able to pass on some of my knowledge to other young musicians.

I realised I have been exceptionally blessed in my own education. To be

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amongst such unblemished enthusiasm for the art of singing profoundly affected my own artistic personality.

It was during this time that Gillian asked me to undertake a formal mentorship with her for 2011 and beyond. I jumped at the chance and my feet haven’t yet hit the ground. This year Concordia has been working in collaboration with The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of the City of London Alderman Michael Bear and as the Lady Mayoress Mrs Barbara Bear’s official charity for 2011. It was a fantastic time for me to begin working with Concordia. I have been performing with the Foundation as part of the Concordia International Ensemble and have become a Concordia International Ambassador. In undertaking the mentorship I have been working as Gillian’s personal assistant, liaising on a day-to-day basis with the Mayoralty, and consulting with Gillian on the role of Artistic Director for an international arts charity.

To assist me further in developing these skills I have also been given the opportunity to create, write and direct the Seventh Concordia Young Audiences project. The projects were designed to provide education for primary school children in London in classical music and art. Every year a new project is designed to further this mission.

This year I will be presenting ‘The Pied Piper of Tower Hamlets’ adapted for the four schools participating which will include four classroom sessions and a live performance in the World’s oldest surviving Grand Music Hall; Wilton’s Music Hall. The project incorporates environmental awareness and conservation with the children’s participation including making drums and shakers from recycled objects and brainstorming London’s wildlife for the set piece “Walking through London’. The live performance will be a storybook telling from a 5 foot book with the characters coming alive and bursting from the pages with actors playing the role of ‘Ink men’ using props made from recycled paper products and a live soundtrack provided by classical musicians and the children’s participation.

In order to promote literacy I have created a new initiative for Concordia called ‘Little Critics’. In a fifth and final session in the classroom, I will be guiding the children through reflection on what they have seen and heard and writing their own review of the performance.

The final overseas mission undertaken

by Concordia this year was to Kenya.

Though I chose not to travel with the ensemble for this project I was able to make a contribution that is very important to me. I discovered LifeStraws, a portable water filter in the shape of a large straw, one evening while reading the National Geographic. Part of our initiative in Kenya was to donate 100 Fifes in the hope of leaving a legacy for the development of a children’s Fife band. I immediately came to Gillian with the idea of combining a Fife and LifeStraw for the project.

LifeStraws are portable water filters that can filter unsanitary water, effectively removing almost all harmful bacteria and parasites responsible for causing common diarrhoeal diseases.

They require no power source and are lightweight enough for children to carry, making them the most effective water filter available by 23%. Most of us would never consider the possibility of dying from diarrhoea yet diarrhoeal illness proves fatal for 1.8 million people every year.

Not only is it costing lives, most commonly children who have not had a chance to build up natural immunities, but it is also costing 443 million school days per year, significantly reducing the likelihood for those who survive of bettering their situation. We were able to donate 500 LifeStraws to children in slums and orphanages around Kenya.

Being a part of an initiative that combines an uplifting of the spirit through music and a healing of the body and seeing it through from beginning to end has been a fantastic experience. I would never have thought when I arrived in London five years ago that my singing career would be a gateway to making these kinds of differences in the world.

It has been an amazing year and the future includes some exciting performances at The Mansion House for The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress and at St Paul’s Cathedral and even more importantly, developing the skills to create my own projects to help young people in the future, which is something that is now the motivating force in my career.

I am so very grateful to the North Harbour Club and AIMES for their support in 2007, for allowing me to share my news with home again in Northside magazine and for the invitation to perform at the AIMES Awards Charity Dinner and Gala.

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Sam Coldicutt AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2007 Four years after the North Harbour Club so generously helped me with my expenses at Cambridge, I write from Oxford in my very own ivory tower—a small, white, peaceful attic absolutely stuffed with books and boasting views of more than one ‘dreaming spire’.

This is the start of my second and final year at St Antony’s College, Oxford. It’s quite a different experience from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge! A baby, only 61 years old, my new college has a very informal and democratic feel: the graduates mix freely with the professors, and because everyone studies international social science (and normally has some fascinating back-story), everyone has something interesting to say to everyone else. My course in International Relations has been fantastic so far. Last year our studies had a dual dimension: twentieth century international history on the one hand, and the leading theoretical perspectives within the discipline on the other. What made this so exciting was its interdisciplinary nature: although IR has its own literature, it draws upon many others in unexpected and fruitful ways.

This year, I have had to specialise, choosing two courses and my dissertation topic. My courses are ‘Global Institutional Design’ and ‘International Political Economy’—both extremely dynamic areas these days, requiring close daily attention to the Financial Times and The Economist as much as to academic monographs and articles.

My dissertation takes a rather different

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tack. I am comparing the Commonwealth with la Francophonie (on in a very loose sense, the French equivalent) and seeing what these highly anomalous international associations can tell us about the nature of international relations more generally. My research, involving interviews with officials and diplomats, has been proceeding well; I am hopeful that, when the academic year finishes, I will have both this dissertation and my undergraduate one published in journals.

(Here I feel obligated to make a plug for the Commonwealth, as my research has indicated to me that we have often woefully undervalued it. It provides many wonderful opportunities: projecting the voices of smaller countries like New Zealand and those of their civil societies, contributing towards the spread of democracy and state building, networking for trade and investment, and demonstrating that amicable and consensual relations between as diverse a group of countries as any in the world are not just possible but very real. We as Kiwis should recognise and avail ourselves of its latent power.)

When my courses and research have been completed, so too will have my university career. At closer range a PhD looks less attractive, requiring too rapid a narrowing of academic interests for my taste; this, combined with a growing desire to put my knowledge to use, means that I have begun applying for jobs here in the UK. I have been focusing on two areas: government and consultancy. In the former area, I am looking to work either with HM Treasury or with the European Union; in the latter, with one of the many firms that offer strategic advice to private

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and public sector alike. These two areas have attracted me because they potentially offer such a broad range of experience. Of course, and as you are no doubt aware, the labour market here does not look pretty: there are 83 applicants for every graduate position.

The government, in particular, is not in a hiring mood. A ‘plan B’ is therefore a real necessity. Mine involves further study—but towards a professional, not academic, qualification. The Graduate Diploma in Law would keep me occupied in London for a year and give me numerous additional employment opportunities. Given that the rest of my family are all lawyers, and my early interest in a legal career, perhaps being a barrister will prove inevitable! (Apologies to Sir Doug Myers who’s funding for my Cambridge degree prohibited my study of law there…)

Finally, I would like to give my thanks again to the extraordinary generosity of the North Harbour Club; I have not forgotten that many of the wonderful books surrounding me have been funded by philanthropists and I sincerely hope that the use I continue to have of them will prove a worthy investment in their eyes.

Robbie Ellis AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2007 Exciting news for me - I have been named the 2012 Mozart Fellow. The University of Otago offers four fullyear arts fellowships each year, awarding them to an artist, a writer, a

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Fellows receive the salary of a fulltime lecturer, without any of the tedious parts of the job such as marking, course administration and performance reviews.

All that’s expected of us is to live in Dunedin for a year and be productive.

It is incredibly liberating to know that very shortly (as of 1 February 2012) I will be essentially obligation-free and in a position to compose full-time. In midOctober I visited Dunedin for the first time since my childhood: I saw the university, met the staff, signed a lease on a sunny 1-bedroom unit in North East Valley, and had an amazing whirlwind 32 hours on the ground.

My big goal for 2012 is to break the back of a major music theatre piece.

I’m not sure whether you’ll be able to call it an “opera”, a “musical”, or just a “something”, but during my time in Dunedin I want to get it pretty close to performance-ready for seasons in both Auckland and Wellington.

This will be no small undertaking - I need to assemble a core team of superb people, probably a producer, a scriptwriter, some fantastic performers and perhaps a musical director too.

Watch this space.

Lastly, taking up the Fellowship means that I’ll be saying goodbye to Radio New Zealand Concert. It’s been a fantastic place to work for my first four years out of university; I’ve acquired some great skills complementary to those of composer and musician; and I’ll miss the place, the people and the culture. But I suspect it won’t be farewell - Concert uses freelancers a lot, and I’m sure I’ll continue to contribute from outside the tent.

Alexandra Maloney AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2007 The last year has been exciting.

Because the 2016 Women’s skiff class is unknown, Molly Meech and I have had the opportunity to sail numerous potential boats. A summary of this year is learning to love sailing fast.

After coming home from Youth World Championships in the 29er and finishing

2nd, Sam Bullock and I were missing going fast. In early December my love for skiffs grew when rigging up a make do double trapeze on the standard 29er rig. The effortless feeling of gliding over the water and hanging out on the wire instead of hiking out soon got me addicted. A trip to Sydney to try the 29erXX for the first time and compete in the Sydney International Regatta was organised a week out from going. With little experience we made friends with the small fleet, and without knowing what to expect we won the four-day regatta over the range of conditions.

It was a fun trip to get an idea of what was to come and conclude sailing with a good friend.

With the decision being made to incorporate a Women’s skiff into the Olympics a change of plan had been made; Molly and I decided to start a five-year campaign in a skiff. The lessons we have learned this year have been invaluable. We started the year winning the 29er nationals. We then stepped up the excitement level and put the bigger 29erXX rig on the hull. The thrills and spills, laughs and giggles that followed during the next few months are great memories.

Alexan Alexan Ale Alexandra a dra Maloney Malon Ma loney lon ey (left) ((le eft) wi w with th h Molly Mo M lly ll Me Meech. eech e .

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With the great support from Yachting NZ, PaknSave and The Outsider Trust, Molly and I had the opportunity to compete in the US 29erXX Nationals in July. This event gave us focus during training and also allowed us to keep gaining racing experience. Being held in the Gorge, Oregon we were racing in a â&#x20AC;&#x153;wind funnelâ&#x20AC;?. This famous wind mecca of the world attracting many windsurfers and kiters did not fail to disappoint and we saw above 15 knots every day. Training and racing against the US ďŹ&#x201A;eet we learnt a lot about breezy air sailing and how to set up the rig. At the end of the 3 day regatta ďŹ nishing off the awesome sailing week, Molly and I placed 2nd out of the 7 boats behind Charlie McKee, an ex Olympian, and helm Kristen Lane.

Returning home we happily agreed to trial a potential proposal from Mackays Boat of the 49er with a cut down rig.

This bigger boat has the attraction of wings so adds a whole new dimension to skiff sailing. We were soon in love with this concept. More recently a trip to England to trial 3 of the potential boats was an interesting trip. Our plans for the future are to gain racing experience in the skiff and hopefully take part in the trial events for the equipment in Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Early spring. The ďŹ rst 29erXX worlds are to be held in September next year where we hope to enter the scene with a bang!

So in the meantime we will continue to train in the 29erXX and 49er.

Getting the hours on the water together in a skiff will undoubtedly make the transition into the selected womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skiff easier and we look forward to the following years. Everything is good when you are going fast.

Mikhail (Misha) Koudinov AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2007 (No report provided)

Stephen Smith AIMES Emerging Talent Award Winner 2007 (No report provided)

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Some highlights from the fairs were Art Collector and White Rabbit Gallery owner Judith Nelson purchase a set of six art works on the Sydney opening night, and gaining representation with corporate gallery Art Equity based in Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CBD. I have been with them for a year now. Art Equityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is an amazing gallery for the longevity of my art career, mentoring my work and pushing my work to an international art market. I have been able to show at different galleries in Australia and abroad with them.

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$1.4 million awarded...

AS has been detailed elsewhere in NorthSide, the North Harbour Club and Charitable Trust was formed in 1995. As of October 29th, 2011 the Club will have awarded over $1.4 million to the young people of the North Harbour region through the annual AIMES Awards. We have featured reports from some recent winners in previous pages. These are the other AIMES Awards recipients dating back to 1996.

2006

The AIMES Award winners for 2006 were:- Rebecca Spence ($20,000 - Joint Sports and overall winner), Juliette Haigh ($20,000 - Joint Sports and overall winner), Dmitri (Dima) Ivanov ($8,000 - Arts), Hayley Reynolds ($8,000 - IT, Innovation & Science), Julia McCarthy (Joint Music - $8,000), Sarah McCracken (Joint Music - $8,000), Chye-Ching Huang ($8,000 - Education), Cameron Calkoen ($8,000 - Service to the Community). Emerging Talent Awards ($2000 each) Tom Ashley, Richard Chen, Caroline Grey, Blake Hansen. Violinist Richard Chen also received $5,000 from Corelli School for production of his own CD.

2005

The AIMES Award winners for 2005 were:- Nodira Khoussainova ($17,000 - IT and overall winner), Ananth Gopal ($7,000 - Arts), The Checks - Karel Chabera, Jacob Moore, Ed Knowles, Sven Petterson, Callum Martin (Music - $5,000 plus $5,000 from Corelli School for production of a CD), Elizabeth Duncan ($5,000 - Education), Hannah McLean ($5,000 - sport), Amalia Hall ($500 - Violinist, Judges Special Award).

2004

The AIMES Award winners for 2004 were:- Heather Brown ($17,000 - IT and overall winner), Kendra Oxley ($7,000 Arts), Simone Roggen (Music - $5,000 plus $5,000 from Corelli School for production of a CD), Vicki McCall ($5,000 Education), Nicole Roughan ($5,000 - Education), Juliette Haigh ($5,000 - Sport), Corney Swanepoel ($5,000 - Sport).

2003

The AIMES Award winners for 2003 were:- Kristen Darragh ($27,000 - Music), Karen Lindsay ($8,000 - Education), James Cressey ($8,000 - Sport), Felicity Rogers ($8,000 - Arts), Nodira Khoussainova ($8,000 - IT), Matthew Flinn ($5,000 - Music).

2002

The AIMES Award winners for 2002 were:- Terenzo Bozzone ($18,000 - Sport), James Russell ($8,000 - Education), Sarah McCallum ($8,000 - Music), Anna-Louise Herzog ($8,000 Arts), Michael Brown ($8,000 - IT), Robbie Ellis ($5,000 - Music).

2001

The AIMES Award winners for 2001 were:- Mark Robinson ($13,000 - Education), Helen Candy ($8,000 - Arts), Emma Buckton ($4,000 - Music), Vanessa McGowan ($4,000 - Music),

Sarah McCallum ($9,000 - Music), Michael Bullot ($8,000 Sport), Terenzo Bozzone ($7,000 - Sport), Paul Bracewell ($5,000 - Education), Ian Munro ($3,000 -Education) Dean Kent ($2000 Sport), Jennifer Dryburgh ($2,000 - Sport), Jordan Barnes ($500 Arts), Jonathan Coulam ($500 - IT), Fleur Ritchie ($1,000 - Music).

2000

The AIMES Award winners for 2000 were:- Clarissa Dunn ($13,000 - Education), Lara Hall ($8,000 - Music), Andrea Proud ($8,000 - Arts), Monique Robins ($8,000 - Sport), Scott TalbotCameron ($5000 - Sport), Steven Ferguson ($5000 - Sport), Michael Bassett ($3000 - Sport), Terenzo Bozzone ($3000 Sport), Simon Rea ($2000 - Sport).

1999

The AIMES Award winners for 1999 were:- Rainer Gibbons ($8,000 - Music), Benjamin Pilley ($5,000 - Sport), Jennifer Dryburg ($5,000 - Sport), Nikolozi Meladze ($3,000 Education), Slavik Shorinov ($2,500 - Sport), Jamie Voss ($2,000 - Education & Sport), Mark Wells ($1,500 - Arts), Jon Gorrie ($1,000), Helen Candy ($1,000 - Arts), Elaine Dowsett ($1,000), Felicity Rogers ($1,000 - Arts), Bradley Fagan ($500 Art), Ji-Hyun Kim ($500 - Music), Teresa Davis (Presented with a Picolo Clarinet - Music).

1998

The AIMES Award winners for 1998 were:- Nathan Handley ($8,000 - Sport), Neil Watson ($3,750 - Music), Justin Bird (Piano - Music), Amanda Rubick ($2,500 - Education), Jemima Smeadley ($2,000 - Sport), Alister Gair ($2,000 - Sport), Felicity Gould-Hope ($2,000 - Sport), Jennifer Dryburgh ($2,000 Sport), Jayson Herbert ($2,000 - Sport).

1997

The AIMES Award winners for 1997 were:- Philip Misur ($6,000 - Education), Lara Hall ($3,000 - Music), Claire Speedy ($2,000 - Education), Sarah Macky ($2,000 - Sport), Jayson Herbert ($2,000 - sport), Alastair Gair ($2,000 - Sport), Julie Worth ($2,000 - Sport), Craig Harper ($2,000 - Sport), Matthew Davies ($2,000 - Sport), Nathan Handley ($2,000 - Sport).

1996

The AIMES Award winners for 1996 were:- Patricia Bolton ($10,000), Daniel Slater ($5,000), Matt Brown ($2,500), Simon Cooke ($2,500), A. Ottingon ($1,500), J. Ashworth ($1000), A. Lye ($1,000), E. Tepavac ($1,000).

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BNZ Partners North Shore Centre in Constellation Drive.

The impressive customer lounge at BNZ Partners North Shore.

Richard Ede Loving Life If any residents of the North Shore need reinforcement about how special our part of the world is to live in, they only need to talk to North Harbour Club member Richard Ede of BNZ Partners. Richard moved over the bridge two and a half years ago and just loves life on the North side.

Richard is the Managing Partner (North Shore) for BNZ Partners, which is also one of the family of North Harbour Club sponsors. His move over the bridge, to the new position, coincided with the opening of the BNZ Partners Centre North Shore on Constellation Drive. This was the first Partners Centre launched in New Zealand, and has been the blueprint for refining the Partners Centre proposition, and getting customer feedback, as the concept has been rolled out throughout New Zealand.

If you haven't been to take a look at this facility, you should do. It is impressive. It is on the third floor of one of the Candida Office Park buildings on Constellation Drive. As well as being the home of Richard's team of 36 people, with expertise across business and corporate banking, property finance, private banking, asset finance, trade finance and commercial insurance, it is also a facility that hosts many business networking events and is happily shared with BNZ Partners’ customers. Described as ‘an office away from the office’ with boardroom and office facilities available for all BNZ Partners’ customers, each Centre will also have its own chairman to oversee the relationships of those involved. Long-time North Harbour Club member and trustee Gary Monk was appointed the Chairman of BNZ Partners North Shore during 2011 (see adjacent article).

"The BNZ Partners concept is a great one because our customers really feel part of it," explains Richard Ede. "We host many business events here ourselves and our customers often use one of the four meeting and function spaces for their own events. We have had North Harbour Club and North Harbour Business Association events here; it is also great for hosting workshops and networking functions."

BNZ Partners takes up the entire top floor of the building.

Half of the floor is office space, while the other half is a big area, including three meeting rooms of varying sizes, which is totally dedicated to making BNZ Partners’ customers feel right at home. Regular functions held at the BNZ Partners North Shore Centre include Exporters Lunches (quarterly), the BNZ Business Customers Forum and the Icehouse Alumni (both bi-monthly).

Richard Ede and his wife Cheriette are both from Hawkes Bay. Richard's early years were spent on the lush soils of Twyford, on the Heretaunga Plains, west of Hastings. Wikipedia tells us that this is an agricultural area with orchards, vineyards and cropping as the main source of income. In fact Richard Ede grew up on an orchard. He attended Lindisfarne College and Hastings Boys High school before completing a degree in Banking and Finance at Massey University. Richard started in banking in Hastings.

Banking eventually brought the Ede's to Auckland and Richard joined BNZ in 2003. Richard, Cheriette and their three children Oliver (14), Stella (12) and Harry (4) moved to Murrays Bay from St Heliers in 2009. They love it.

"What is there not to like about it," said Richard, when asked the question. "The beaches are stunning. They are real beaches that are clean, picturesque and not too tidal. The people are friendly, there is a family atmosphere, and we love the fact that we have everything we need very close to where we live and work. Great schools, great sporting facilities, malls, little villages.

At times it really does feel like we are on holiday for most of the year. At the same time, we are still so close to Auckland City. I often use the Busway to get to the city, it is very quick."

Richard is a member of the Millennium Gym and is looking forward to the opening of their exciting new facility in the very near future. He is also a keen runner, plays tennis and even plays a bit of guitar as well.

Richard Ede became a member of the North Harbour Club in 2009. BNZ Partners signed on as a "We're Building North

BNZ Partners Business Centres are located around the country, with 27 of the 31 planned centres completed and operational.

BNZ Partners delivers a more personalised and customised relationship. Your dedicated BNZ Partner works directly with

you to really understand you and your business.

But crucially, he or she can connect you to an extended range of financial specialists, products and services including: Agribusiness; Private Banking; Property; Merchant services; Insurance; Investments; Cash flow finance; Franchising; Asset

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Meeting rooms are available for BNZ Partners customers to use.

on the north side Richard Ede.

Harbour" club sponsor in 2010.

"It is a great organisation to be involved with," says Richard.

"We enjoy being part of something that's recognising excellence in our young people and we also enjoy the high quality events.

The regular lunches are great, with some excellent speakers,

and the AIMES Awards Dinner is always a highlight. It is amazing the standards that these young people are achieving."

For more information contact:Richard Ede, Managing Partner - North Shore, BNZ Partners.

Email: Richard_Ede@bnz.co.nz or visit www.bnzpartners.co.nz.

BNZ hooks North Shore’s big fish A man well versed in frozen seafood is the chairman of BNZ Partners North Shore Business Centre.

North Harbour Club Trustee and Businessman Gary Monk, the 2010 Enterprise North Shore Hall of Fame Laureate and managing director of frozen seafood export company, Intersea Limited, was selected for the role earlier this year, which gets BNZ and its business customers working closer together.

The chairman is a new role within BNZ and is unique to the New Zealand banking industry. It is offered to industry leaders who are passionate about business in the region and can provide mentoring to BNZ Partners’ clients.

Monk has successfully run a business for almost 30 years and is lending his knowledge and experience to others in this role as chairman.

“This role gives me an opportunity to assist the bank to connect with its customers, to help the business community, and focus on improving these companies and the North Shore economy,” says Monk.

BNZ Partners Managing Partner - North Shore, Richard Ede says Gary Monk was a logical choice, given his prominence in the North Shore business community.

Gary Monk (right) received the North Shore Business Hall of Fame Laureate from Prof. Ian Watson, “Gary has a proven track record and has been hugely successful in Chairman of Enterprise North Shore in 2010. his chosen field. On top of this, he is heavily involved in the North Shore community, supporting a number of not-for-profit groups.

“He has an understanding of the local business landscape which is invaluable, and brings a fresh perspective to BNZ that ensures we are adding value to our client’s businesses, as well as the services we provide,” says Ede. “Business on the North Shore is a lot more cohesive than other areas I have been involved with," adds Gary Monk. "As our businesses talk a lot more with one another, we are able to work together and get better results.”

finance; International trade finance and Treasury solutions.

Contact Richard Ede, Managing Partner - North Shore, BNZ Partners. Phone: 415 3942, Email: Richard_Ede@bnz.co.nz or visit www.bnzpartners.co.nz.

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Prime Minister John Key.

MC Mike Hosking.

Lexus of North Shore Lunches

Well Attended A highlight of the North Harbour Club year is a series of interesting fundraising lunches, featuring a high quality guest speaker, great food and fine wine. For the past two years, the lunches have been generously sponsored by club members Mark and Bob Jago and are known as the Lexus of North Shore Charity Lunches.

Four lunches are held each year. North Harbour Club members, friends and business associates purchase tickets for these events, with all the profits going back to rewarding excellence through the AIMES Awards.

The 2011 Lexus of North Shore Charity Lunch programme was kicked off with a lunch featuring New Zealand Rugby Sevens Coach Gordon Tietjens, on Thursday March 10th at North Harbour Stadium. The MC was Eric Rush, which meant it was an interesting affair for the 300 attendees. The two of them obviously go back a long way so the interview and chat- style format proved to be very entertaining.

For the past two years, the Lexus of North Shore Charity Fashion Lunch has been a big hit with the ladies, and this was the case with the second lunch of 2011, held at the Spencer on Byron Hotel in Takapuna on Thursday April 14th. The lunch, superbly organised by Club trustee Sue Stanaway and General Manager Catherine Lidgard, also proved a perfect occasion for Lexus of North Shore to launch the new CT200h Hybrid vehicle.

This was an opportunity for the crowd, which was predominantly women, to enjoy a corporate lunch with friends and business colleagues, whilst enjoying a viewing of the latest fashions from selected fashion retailers around the Shore. April Ieremia proved to be an excellent MC for the event, which also featured commentary by leading stylist Julia Turnwald. The special Powder Room and Westfield Walk-In Wardrobe, available before and after the fashion show, proved to be very popular. North Harbour Club Ambassador Cam Calkoen also provided an inspirational address to the

audience. A charity auction also added funds to the coffers.

Prime Minister John Key always draws a big audience to North Harbour Club events and this was once again the case for the third Lexus of North Shore Charity Lunch for 2011, held at the North Harbour Stadium in late August. The huge crowd of over 420 enjoyed Key's entertaining speech – delivered without any notes – and the direct way he answered the many questions put to him afterwards. Lexus driver Mike Hosking was an excellent MC, very humorous in his interaction with the PM. The biggest event happening in 2011 was the magnificent Rugby World Cup that captured the imagination of the entire country. So, as a preview to the event, the fourth and final North Harbour Club Lexus of North Shore Charity Lunch for the year took on a rugby theme. The lunch, held on Wednesday September 7th at the Bruce Mason Centre, was something very special as North Harbour Club Ambassador, and former All Black, Ian Jones filmed his Sky TV Rugby show called “Rugby Centre” on stage. It was a great opportunity for attendees to witness a live chat show being filmed, while listening to the thoughts of a whole range of rugby people. These included Buck Shelford, Peter Thorburn, former France international (and Kiwi) Tony Marsh, North Harbour Club member and publican Kevin Schwass, France-based Kiwi journalist Peter Borthwick, Willie Lose and North Harbour Club Ambassador and Broadcaster Pete Montgomery. The programme went to air on the Sky Television Rugby Channel that evening.

Over 1200 people attended the four Lexus of North Shore Charity Lunches in 2011. Lunches for 2012 are scheduled for late March, mid-May, late June and mid-August, with speakers being confirmed as this issue of Northside went to press.

We are thrilled that Lexus of North Shore has once again signed up as the sponsor for the 2012 programme.

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North Harbour Club Lexus of North Shore Charity Lunches 2011

Gordon Tietjens Lunch.

North Harbor Clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lexus of North Shore Lunch programme kicked off for 2011 on Thursday March 10th at North Harbour Stadium with the guest speaker New Zealand Sevenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s super coach Gordon Tietjens. MC was Eric Rush which meant it was an entertaining affair for the 300 attendees.

Nick Henley, Paul Alexander, Rachel Alexander, Mike Ott.

Bev Wiltshire, Lousie Galbraith, Michelle Wall.

Neil Darroch, Peter Wall, Bob Wilson, Don Galbraith.

Dave Delamare, Kris MacCauley, Kurt Shirley, Mat Deihl.

Ken Noble, John Harvey, Dennis Jones.

Ralph and Penny Roberts, Ian Calderwood, Darren Pocock.

Christine Maud, Jenny Young, Alison Gernhoefer, Dean Flyger.

Adele Lendich, Rachel Simpson.

MC Eric Rush.

Daniel Coulson, Pete Staples, Jim Millor, Robert Adams, Debbie Jones.

Fashion Lunch The North Harbour Club Lexus of North Shore Charity Fashion Lunch was held at the Spencer on Byron Hotel on Thursday April 14th.

MC April Iremia.

Jennie Jago, Wayne Sullivan, Helen Wang, Tina Cross, Siga Wong, Seated: Mark Jago, Dennis Millerchen.

Catherine Lidgard, April Iremia, Cam Calkoen.

AIMES Award recipients Melissa Ingram and Joseph Bergin chatting with MC April Iremia.

Back row: Bev Trimbel, Roy Trimbel, Helen Wang, Debbie Putallo, Tony Shaw. Seated: Pauline Jago, Bob Jago, Maree Coleman, Karen Walker.

Melissa Ingram and Joseph Bergin strut their stuff.

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Inspirational guest speaker and North Harbour Club Ambassabor Cam Calkoen.

North Harbour Club President Peter Wall enjoyed being pampered.

Lunch attendees enjoying the pampering.

Charity Lunches John Key Lunch.

Prime Minister John Key was the guest speaker at this lunch held at the North Harbour Stadium in late August. The huge crowd of over 420 enjoyed Key’s entertaining speech and the direct way he answered the many questions put to him afterwards. Lexus driver Mike Hosking was MC.

Bob Jago, Fraser Cunningham, Alistair Davis, Pauline Jago, Chris Rippon, Peter Deedman, Dennis Millerchen.

Andrew Harris, Lisa Ford, Bob Quaid.

Michelle Bennett, Penny Roberts, Ralph Roberts, Ashleigh Bennett.

Felicity Anderson, Wayne Mapp, Cali-Michelle Gordon.

Nicolette Bodewes, Jo-Anne Thomas, Jane Straka.

Peter Wall, Michelle Wall, Wayne Mapp.

Warren Ladbrook, Gordon Johnstone, David Stedman, Hugh Stedman.

Nigel Perkins, Gary Chambers, Peter Carrucan, Alan Cato.

Derek Powell, Tim Brooks, Roger Middleton.

Nick Botica, Hayden Burr.

John Tidswell, Kurt Hardy, Karl Hardy.

Sean Park, Hyunchul Park, Haeran Hu.

Rugby Centre Lunch The four annual lunches hosted by the North Harbour Club are now popular fixtures on the local social calendar.

This lunch, held during September, appropriately took on a Rugby theme as North Harbour Club Ambassador and former All Black Ian Jones filmed his Sky TV Rugby show – Rugby Centre – during the lunch held at the Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna.

Tony Marsh, Ian Borthwick , Ian Jones, Peter Thorburn.

Nick Hern, Simon Templeton.

Bruce and Angela Spooner.

Scott Treadaway, Kris MacCauley, Dean McGahey, Wayne Eivers.

Callum Shaw, Darrel Kinghan, Lynda Mann.

Colin McGough, Craig Harrison, Albert Chang, Duncan Reid.

Andrew Hill, Robert Foster, Michael Biddick.

Craig Biddulph, Kevin Kelly.

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We’re here to help At Westpac North Shore help is what we do – and we’re very proud to be a part of this fantastic community.

North Shore is an area that has experienced significant population growth and a changing demographic over recent years.

And all indications are that this will continue.

We can help with all aspects of banking – from facilitating a simple credit card application to handling complex business solutions. We have an outstanding team of experienced bankers who are dedicated to providing the best in customer service.

One such team member is Senior Business Manager Peter Carrucan. With 30 years’ banking experience, Peter has seen various economic cycles and brings a vast amount of skill and knowledge to the team. His experience spans retail, business and commercial banking, and is underpinned by a Graduate Diploma in Business from Massey University.

A keen sportsman, Peter is currently involved in triathlon and had the honour of representing New Zealand at the 2009 and 2010 Age Group World Champs in Gold Coast, Australia and Budapest, Hungary respectively.

Peter is a North Shore local who is proud to help the local business community.

“My family and I live on the North Shore and I have worked in the area for many years,” says Peter. “I’m committed to working with local customers to understand what is important to them and provide financial solutions to meet their needs. I’m proud to support the local business community and am here to help it grow.”

This sentiment is echoed by Peter’s colleague, Andrew Thomson who is also a Senior Business Manager. Andrew manages a small portfolio of mid market clients, as well as leading

a team of six business bankers.

Andrew brings around 25 years’ banking experience to the role – this experience covers different areas of the industry, including international trade finance, corporate, commercial, Peter Carrucan and Andrew Thomson. business and retail banking.

For Andrew, the best aspect of his role is working with different businesses, adding value and helping them to be more successful.

“We work with a diverse range of businesses on a daily basis.

What I really enjoy is getting to understand my clients’ businesses and help them to be successful with the support of my business specialist partners.”

Another North Shore local, Andrew is married with three school aged children, is currently the Board Chair at Pinehill School, and coaches and plays hockey.

Beyond banking, Westpac North Shore supports the bank’s numerous sponsorship initiatives, such as fundraising for the annual Chopper Appeal, various community activities and beach clean ups, including recent clean ups at Long Bay, Takapuna and Devonport beaches.

We also assist with improving financial literacy throughout the North Shore in conjunction with local secondary schools.

With our strong community commitment, extensive local knowledge, and a focus on understanding our clients, Westpac North Shore is here to help.

Please feel free to call me directly or come by our offices in Corinthian Drive.

Brian Henderson is Area Manager, Business Banking Northern Westpac. brian_henderson@westpac.co.nz The content of this article is for information purposes only. While all opinions, statements and analysis are based on information current at the time of writing from sources believed to be authentic and reliable, Westpac recommends you seek your own independent professional advice. Westpac New Zealand Limited.

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BEN Breakfasts

Business Excellence Network

Breakfasts

Mike Daniell, CEO of Fisher & Paykel Healthcare.

What do you call a breakfast gathering of 150 business owners and managers? The Business Excellence Network!

With five breakfast events during 2011, entertainment, engagement and charity summarised the year’s activities for this north Auckland business group.

The bi-monthly network attracts business owners and managers from as far afield as the Rodney district to Devonport for a two-hour breakfast and networking session. All profits are donated to charity and youth development projects.

This year an impressive $23,000 was donated to charitable causes including the North Harbour Club’s AIMES Awards, the Young Enterprise Scheme and the Christchurch earthquake relief fund.

Designed to promote networking between local companies, the five breakfast sessions also inspire and inform local companies with presentations from top level (CEO) business people including the 2011 line-up of Microsoft New Zealand, Vodafone, Fisher and Paykel

Paul Madden, the CEO of 3M Australasia.

Healthcare, Brand Restaurants and 3M. This joint venture network, which is open to all business owners keen to attend, is supported by founding members Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED), Westpac, Schnauer and Co, and BDO. ATEED’s Manager Business Development – North, Ngaio Merrick, heralds the network with building business connections while also giving back to the community.

“Over the past few years the Business Excellence Network has grown into a significant forum for local business people to regularly engage with each other. It opens the door for networking and connections between attendees and is a valuable business tool. To consistently attract so many decision makers to collaborate, share ideas and information is good for the local business community in the long term,” says Ms Merrick.

“The resulting financial contribution to charitable and youth causes is also important for the future of the local community.”

The Business Excellence Network will continue in 2012 with breakfast events at the Bruce Mason Centre on: Wednesday 7 March, Wednesday 9 May, Wednesday 25 July, Wednesday 5 September, Wednesday 7 November For more information or to buy tickets, visit: www.ens.org.nz/ben

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Westlake Boys

Westlake Boys to celebrate

50th Jubilee in 2012 Westlake old boys James Sclater and Bill Smale with former Deputy Headmaster Brian Rivers celebrate the launch of the school’s upcoming 50th Jubilee year earlier this year.

2012 marks the 50th Jubilee of Westlake Boys High School and plans are in place to ensure a celebration fitting of the school’s ‘coming of age’.

Over the past half century the school has developed a reputation for being traditional and progressive. With a staff count of 220 and a roll of 2200 boys, Westlake Boys has always prided itself on a culture of excellence and achievement in all areas of school life. Accordingly, the school has excelled academically, in sport and in the arts.

Most readers will be familiar with many well-known Shoresiders who have passed through Westlake Boys’ classrooms since 1962 – Frano Botica, AJ Hackett, Don McGlashan, Dean Barker, Nick Evans, Martin Henderson, Tom Ashley, John Hood and Mike Stanley to name a few. But for Ant Ford, ex pupil and Chairman of the school’s Jubilee Planning Committee, it is the very large number of old boys (or Westlakers as they are referred to) characterised by their understated success and gritty determination, who make the school so special.

“Since being reconnected with the school I have been staggered by the next layer of literally thousands of Westlakers who have made or are making their mark across so many sectors throughout New Zealand and abroad. Next year’s 50th Jubilee provides an opportunity for all of us to celebrate this and reconnect with our school”.

“And I’m sure it won’t take long for the Westlake sense of humour to come to the fore, especially after a beer or two”, adds Ford.

Headmaster David Ferguson notes

Westlake old boy David Abercrombie with 2011 Head Boy, Sam Quinn and Board of Trustees Chairman, old boy James Sclater celebrate the launch of the school’s upcoming 50th Jubilee year.

that the 50th Jubilee represents “arguably the biggest event in the school’s history” and advises that “while there will be a range of activities taking place throughout 2012, one ‘long’ weekend from August 10th-12th will be the main focus of the Jubilee celebrations”.

On Thursday 9th August, the Jubilee Golf Day is being held at North Shore Golf Club and that evening the Westlake combined schools Jubilee Gala Concert will be staged in the school’s wonderful Auditorium. The following morning, a special Jubilee Assembly will be held, followed by school tours throughout the day. Friday 10th August will conclude with a cocktail function for all Westlakers and teachers, past & present.

Saturday 11th August will see the school hosting a range of sports fixtures throughout the afternoon, coupled with morning and afternoon refreshments for Westlakers. That evening a formal Jubilee dinner will be held at the school’s Auditorium.

To commemorate the school’s Jubilee year, Tony Vinicombe, a dedicated teacher and rugby stalwart, has authored a magnificent book of the school’s rugby history which will be on sale from mid2012.

The theme of the Jubilee year will be based around ‘celebrating and connecting’. It promises to be a wonderful celebration of this iconic North Shore school.

For more information, visit www. westlakejubilee2012.co.nz or contact Vicki Fowler, Community Relations and Development Manager at Westlake Boys' High School at email: vfowler@westlake. school.nz NORTHSIDE MAGAZINE 2011/2012 PAGE 99

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Education Spotlight

The Teen Commandments Advice to the parents of teenagers has been around since Noah was a boy.

Kristin's Executive Principal, Peter Clague, offers a little of his own.

1. Thou shalt remember why it's called a “Dining” table.

Eat together as a family every day. Yes, yes, yes I know you're all busy modern people and those work calls are important and you think there's educational value to be had from eating together in front of the TV news and blah blah blah. We all know that there is a warehouse full of research to prove that this single daily habit strengthens families more than any other. So just do it.

2. Thou shalt seize the talkable moment.

For a species that is compulsively obsessed with digital connection, teens are remarkably difficult to communicate with.

By all means, take the “if you can't beat 'em, join 'em” approach and try emailing, texting, Skyping, Tweeting or instant messaging your child if you wish. But if they ever appear beside you and look like they might be open to a bit of old-fashioned face-to-face talking, recognise the opportunity. No matter what time of the day or night and regardless of what important task you are doing, drop everything and converse with them. And remember, it's a talkable moment, not a teachable moment. Listen, don't lecture.

3. There shalt be no other driver than thyself.

You wouldn't give your car keys to a jellyfish. Or a sloth. Or a crazed Marmot monkey. Why would you give them to a teenager? Just because their legs are now long enough to reach the pedals, doesn't mean that Peter Clague. their brains big enough to see the consequences. If you don't believe me, buy yourself an MRI scanner and have a look inside your son or daughter's skull. The space that is reserved for consistently wise decision-making is currently unoccupied.

4. Thou shalt say No...

The aforementioned space in your child's brain is actually being filled in gradually, but it won't be fully operational until they are well into their twenties. Until then, YOU are their pre-frontal cortex. Or, as it has been beautifully dubbed, 'the area of sober secondthought.' You are the bit of their brain that is missing. So don't ask them “Where was your brain???” when they've done something monumentally stupid – the part that mattered was still in your head. Which is why you get to say No on their behalf.

5. Banish false idols.

As per the 3rd Commandment, if your kids aren't driving themselves around, you probably still are. Therefore, this is the

perfect time to enact the 2nd Commandment and talk to them without the usual digital distractions. Make your car an ipod-free zone, role-model not using mobile phones whilst driving, and demonstrate that the radio actually has an offswitch. Instead, use the time to chat. Teens especially love car talks because they don't have to make embarrassing eye-contact and they know that you are too pre-occupied watching the road to have a meltdown at what they tell you. So make car journeys a sort of conversational sanctuary, where anything can be asked or expressed without fear. Let them remember that the best advice comes not from Facebook, Justin Bieber, or Jenny's oldest sister's ex-boyfriend, but from their Mum or Dad. 6. Thou shalt not hack their Facebook account.

No. Really, no. Not ever.

7. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's children.

It's ok to let your kids see you gazing enviously at the neighbour's new pool. It's ok to wish out loud that you had your boss' office. It's even ok to reflect ruefully on how you were once thinner, or fitter, or less wrinkled. But it is not ok to draw comparisons between your children. If you want your teens to aspire to greater things, holding up the example of the nerd next door or the sports jock down the street is not the way to impel them. Worse still are the words “Why can't you be like your brother?”

Nothing erodes the fragile teenage self-image faster than the implied message “I wish you were someone else.”

8. As ye reap, so shall ye sow.

You have no need to repeatedly point out your teenager's failings – at this age, they are highly attuned to do that all by themselves.

Similarly, just because they screw up their face and try to dodge your compliments, every piece of praise sticks.

9. Wouldst thou confess thy entire adolescence to thy teenager?

Enough said. Let he who is without sin etc etc.

10. Thou shalt let a few go through to the keeper And lastly, nowhere is it written that you have to play every ball that your teenager bowls at you. Consistency is very important when parenting, but you don't have to be perfect. Occasionally, it's ok to step to one side and let a transgression slip past unchallenged.

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John Bishop Founding Trustee hugely proud of club achievements It has been a year of change and new opportunities for many, and it is in that spirit that after years of faithful service to our community, John Bishop resigned his place from the North Harbour Club and Charitable Trust Boards.

John was one of the founding trustees of the North Harbour Club and Charitable Trust and worked closely alongside Ross Finlayson in the early years, helping to establish the club and mould it into the community spirited organisation it is today.

“I’m extremely proud of the work that has been done and the support that has been given to youth in the North Harbour area,” he says, from his unique perspective as a founder and former trustee that helped guide the Club’s focus and direction.

“From a community point of view that has to be one of the highlights of my career.”

And a varied career it has been.

Born in the UK and raised here on the Shore, John began his professional career back in the UK where he worked with PAGE 102 NORTHSIDE MAGAZINE 2011/2012

investment banks. When he returned to New Zealand he took a job with ASB Bank, running its Commercial and Business Bank divisions.

“Getting established after returning from the UK was one of the most challenging times of my career. I was a director at Credit Suisse, then coming back here I had to reintegrate back into New Zealand, or more importantly the North Shore,” he says.

That was in 1992, two years before him and Ross started seriously discussing the ideas and concepts that would evolve into the North Harbour Club in 1995.

The initial idea of the club was to develop a business networking forum for the North Harbour community.

“In those days there was no business club or network to develop new business contacts, so we talked about that, but as we went on we realised it will be nice to have a charitable element to the club, so we weren’t just seen to be just a bunch

Northside Interview of business people talking about business. We wanted to take an altruistic approach to what we were doing.”

From those humble beginings momentum grew, more people came on board and then the great coup d'etat, confirming Sir Peter Blake as the founding patron. This validated the club somewhat and gave it a lot of the leverage it needed to grow and take hold.

“The challenge in those early days was to get people to recognise the work that we were doing and to get them to support it.”

The Club continued to grow, evolving from an initial 40-odd members, to well over 100.

“A much bigger club now has far more visibility around what it does and a lot more support financially as well.”

What the club has turned into, the influence and support it provides our North Harbour businesses and community, is far bigger than John ever envisioned.

From the business perspective, members have been able to increase their networks and keep in touch with other businesses in the area, and build profitable relationships.

The real support and benefit of the North Harbour Club though is its investment into the community and youth, in their pursuit of excellence.

“It’s hugely rewarding to see all these kids with this talent being recognised and supported in their dreams. We’ve awarded over $1.4 million to youth and I know it has been put to good use in terms of aiding careers or achieving dreams.”

“Every time you go to the AIMES Awards and you see them up there receiving their awards, and you hear about the accomplishments of these kids. I feel very very good about it from the point of view that I, in some small way, helped to achieve this.”

“It’s really tough to get ahead and there are some really smart kids who don’t necessarily come from a privileged or wealthy background, so to be able to compete for large sums of money to support them is extremely well regarded; to reward them is a great feeling.”

It’s those experiences, the youth and community the Club has helped, that makes John’s work with the Club a highlight of his career and allows him to move on to face new challenges.

Since he left ASB, John has taken the path of being an Independent Director, lending his expertise to many organisations.

He currently sits on the New Zealand Rugby League Board as well as that of the Rugby League International Federation; Chairs the Board of Paper Reclaim; the Board of Insurance Holdings Fiji and the Mercy Hospice Foundation Trust. He is also Chairman of KCL Property; Director of International Cargo Systems; and a Governor of Kristin School. In addition to these Board roles he also works with several other businesses offering advice and support to management.

These roles allow him to utilise his skills and experience in a productive way, guiding through leadership.

A long career has taught John many lessons, the key being that business is about people.

“You can be the smartest guy out, but at the end of the day you have to have complimentary skill sets, a culture that people are prepared to follow and strong relationships.”

From his experience, both professionally in business and as a trustee of the club, John’s advice to the youth who so often benefit from the Club is to “follow your dreams, nothing is impossible”.

“In today’s day and age it doesn’t get gifted to you on a plate, you actually have to get out there and work hard.”

The first meeting to formally establish the North Harbour Club back in 1995. John Bishop is at the rear of the photo, in glasses. There will be some other familiar and younger faces.

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The Last Word

The Last Word... Kris MacCauley I trust you have enjoyed reading this latest edition of Northside, it provides a complete overview of the North Harbour Club and its unique endeavours which continue to expand year after year.

I joined the North Harbour Club in 2004 because I wanted to meet like-minded North Shore/Harbour business people and be involved in an organisation that gave back to the community.

Seven years on and I am continually amazed at what the club has achieved and more importantly the talent that it has recognised.

The North Shore is home to such a vast array of exceptionally talented youth and for the most part they are unrecognised – some make the big time and are in the limelight but for a lot of these young people, unless you have a direct connection with them, people are oblivious to their achievements. Through the AIMES and Emerging Talent Awards the North Harbour Club is able to recognise these individuals and financially support them in their pursuit of excellence.

A common situation that illustrates how successful these young people are is when someone wins an award; often they are overseas performing – already making it on a global stage in their chosen fields.

Once the winners become part of the AIMES family, they continue to stay in touch with club members and send regular updates about their ongoing achievements and attend club functions when they can. A prime example is Cam Calkoen who was the joint MC of the AIMES Awards dinner this year. Cam's a previous winner of the AIMES Service to the Community Award (2008) and an Emerging Talent Award (2005). He has gone on to become a recognised motivational speaker and it is a thrill that he is also now a North Harbour Club Ambassador.

With the club now in its 17th year, it has gone through an evolution process but has stayed true to the core values and the reason it was first established – ‘Celebrating Excellence in the North Harbour Region’. The club membership continues to grow year after year and the leadership group rotates with mandatory stand-downs for Trustees so the fresh faces and PAGE 104 NORTHSIDE MAGAZINE 2011/2012

new ideas continue to flow.

The club provides numerous high quality networking functions throughout the course of the year which are always well attended. This provides a platform for members not only to socialise but also to showcase the club and its achievements to their clients. A couple of particularly memorable functions I have attended this year would be two Lexus of North Shore sponsored club lunches. The sellout John Key lunch and the Rugby Centre lunch that involved local rugby legends like Buck Shelford and another club ambassodor Ian “Kamo” Jones.

Speaking of which, it would be remiss of me not to acknowledge the successful hosting of the Rugby World Cup and how the coming together of a nation has left a marked impression on so many of our visitors. It is also worth pointing out that Tony Woodcock – one of the North Harbours’ finest – scored our only try, contributing significantly to the All Black victory in the Final and lifting the spirits of so many New Zealanders. Isn't it great to be World Cup Champions once again!

2011 has again proven to be a challenging time for so many New Zealanders and it is times like this that we must stay focused on being positive and supportive in order to move forward. The North Harbour Club has provided a vehicle for so many people to achieve this.

I consider myself very lucky to be involved with the North Harbour Club, as a member and as a trustee. To have the opportunity to meet and network with such a broad range of positive, proactive people – from club members, community administrators, professional and voluntary, to our young high achievers – is a privilege.

Kris MacCauley is Managing Director and owner (along with his wife Deb) of Alliance Construction based in Albany. Kris and Deb live on a lifestyle property at Riverhead with their three children, Joshua (12), Dana (11) and Carlos (8). He has been a member of the North Harbour Club since 2004 and a trustee since 2009.

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