Forever a Dio girl | Christine Kindred

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FOREVER A DIO GIRL

We recently received a delightful letter from Old Girl Christine Kindred (Fraser, 1946). Christine left New Zealand 56 years ago when she married an American and has never been back. But she told us how much she loves receiving her copies of Dio Today magazine and staying up to date with what’s currently going on at our School. She says, “Dio is a wonderful school – such lovely, smart, talented young pupils.”

Miss Edwards was headmistress when Christine was at Dio, and she was in the same class as Bryan Bartley. She grew up in Remuera and was crazy about horses.

“There were plenty of paddocks near home to keep my horse in,” she writes. “It was like living in the city and country. There were a couple of sheep farms and a dairy farm. My girlfriends and I would help the farm hands bring the cows to the cowshed to be milked.”

Christine recalls taking her horse for swims at Point England and cantering along the path at the Remuera Golf Course, not far from where she lived.

Her niece, the late Vicki Sandman (1964), was a Dio Old Girl. Christine has two daughters, four grandchildren, and three intermediate-aged greatgrandchildren who all live in and around Boston. Although she’s not fond of the cold Boston winters, she enjoys travelling to Florida for a few weeks of sunshine. MINI SCHOOL REUNION

In late April, Dio Old Girl and current Director of Development Angela Coe happened to be in Boston. She was there to attend the wedding of Dio Old Girl Melany Park (2004) to Travis Hughes at the beautiful MIT Chapel. Both Mel and Travis are PhD candidates at Harvard and MIT respectively. While there, Angela visited Christine at her apartment in Brookline, southwest of downtown Boston. Angela says they had a wonderful afternoon together, sharing stories of Christine’s days growing up in Auckland and attending Dio. They even managed to get a selfie together!

Thank you for writing to us, Christine, and for continuing to support our School. We hope you enjoy this issue of Dio Today magazine.

Can you help?

Young people’s understanding of what is involved in the workplace for most jobs is generally very limited. To this end, the School’s Career Development Centre is looking for assistance from locally based Old Girls who might be able to offer work experience, job shadowing or information sharing to our current students to help them develop a better understanding of what is involved in particular job areas.

We would like to establish a database of contacts for this purpose and would welcome emails outlining: • area of work • qualifications gained and where • details of your career progression to date • what level of involvement you would be prepared to offer (work experience/ job shadowing/general chat about your area of work/ lunchtime talk to a group etc) • contact details

If you are willing to share your expertise and time, please email careers@diocesan.school.nz