6CD Robert Asi Kaine Babington
Scott Baker Robert Bullock Graeme Clarke Da mon Green
Bryce Herbert Mark Latham Matthew Mallett Kyle McPhillips Philip Mitchell Kyle Nixo n Tony Philp Greg Roebu ck
M atthew G arven
Ivan Bru ce Sh ane Ch adwick •
Shane Grant Stephen Harding Dion Herlihy
Timothy Cooper John Coulth ard Campbell Feather Matthew Gibbs Scott Granville Blair Horner Steven Jones Simon Lees
David Irving M a rk Johnson Craig Mowat C raig R amsay Darren Rankine D uncan Robertson
Charlton Leo
Stuart Smnh
Aaron M organ
Jayson Vi nsen
Willi am Muir Brett Mulligan
Paul Whittaker
Sam Pigott,.. Michael Potroz
Robert Simpson
Albert Seluka Steve Stark
Christia n Wingate
M a rk Urwin
7HE Craig Avery Nigel Dasler Blai r Duffy Tony Earl
6CG Paul Alexander Shannon Bradley
6HO
Mark Finnigan Prase najit Gunasekera
Da rren Rowland
Jeremy Brown
Jeremy Coley Andrew Eagles Glen Ewington Suiti Faavae
Michael Frampton Ka rl G orringe Peter G rimwood Christian Hanson Aa ron Hin e Ch arlton James Andrew King
Brad Kisby Brendan Lightfoot Jon M organ W arre n Ritso n 8 rent Thompson
Andrew Bean Steven Bunya n S am Cannell Abraham C hamberl ain Damien C hristofferse n
Michael Hobin
Richard Day Paul Drake Gregory Feek Andre Greedy
Alexa nd er Perkins Shane Painton Jamie Thompso n Nich olas Thomson
Jonath on H arme r
Richard Willan
Daman Jacobsen Taryn Jordan • Howard Marriott
David Maxwell
Andy llo
7MI Matthew Allen Scott Avery
G ordon Jamieso n
Laiton Julian Anthony Kenneth Michael Kuriger
M ark Bre mne r Michael Collins
Brett Mascull Rhy s Mclnally
Kyle Dawson R oss Gold sack Michael Gord on Ivan Groot
D amian Muir
Peter Van Praagh
Rohan Singh Daniel Smnh
6Ct
6MI
Jami e H uston
Ca rl Andrews *
David Savers *
A ndrew Ke msley
Mark Boyde Matthew Brooks Paul Busing
Hamish Bryant Robert Bull Jamey Kerr
M atthew C a mero n
Andre w Kinsella Steven M aid en Da rre l M arti n Graeme M art in James Newson Roge r Pinta r
Andrew Dod d Gareth Edlin Paul Glover • Darryl Goddard Be n H arla nd Jarrad Hodson Daniel Ki nera
Mark Lash David Lindsay Peter Little
Craig Healy
Bruce Murray
Matthew Old Daryl Robinson Taani Smnh Chris Tubby Damia n Wil son
Michael Yiannett 7RY Rob Ae rt s
Mark Powell Ashley Taylor Obed Timakata
M alachi M atoe
Laisiasa T ora Ca meron T wig ley Michael Webster
Anthony Mildenhall Nicholas Miskelly
H amish Archer Demian C hapman M atthew C heer
Hayden Chisholm Mich ael C lentworth
V in cent Yu
Joshua Moore * Alan Newso n H anfiro R exford
Paul Goldswort hy Brooke Goodey Alastair Hunt
6RY Garfield Cadman
Andr ew Martin Thomas M cD iarmid
Bevin Coley
Philip Merednh
6EI
Anthony Ling Scott Lister
Alistair M urray
Callum Mackenzie Donava n M attock
H one Rata
R onnie A si David Bre mner
Karl Erikson Ch ri s Forema n
Lenh Gray Chris Hall Elton James
Kylie le Bas Karam Meuli
Jared Miles Poata Oke roa
Gene Paul Clinton Pease S hay ne P reston Justin Rain e
Ste phen Rowlands
Chris Wh ne
Michae l P arker T revor Read Derek Ric hards Kent Skinner Ch ristoph er Su rgenor Jason Tan M ichael W einstock Greig W ilson Joh n Woodward
Richard Young 7CD
Richard Taylor Rhys Watkins
Leon Allen
Benjamin Broadhurst Gavin Jones
Dinesh Kathriarachchi Philip Lister Jeremy Lloyd Jonathan Marshall David McClintock Kevin Moorhead
Corey Mullin Gregory Paynter Lloyd Percival Gareth Pryce Jason .Robert son Joshua Robinson
William Stanley
D uane Agate S imon Angelo Adam Benton Julian Di mond
Stefan Gray Andrew G r ~f i ths Jason Horsley Mark H unte r
Tim Mitchell Alistair Murray Rue l Newsome Paul Nielsen Gregory Novak
Shaun Philp Martin Robi nson
Steven Rollo • Reuben T horne Regan Yarrow
Regan Washer
7EI
Troy W atkins
James Alldridge
Ch ris Amon Michael Asi Steffan Beau repai re Michael Caronna S hane Davis
V incent Birch
Daryll Eliason
6HE G rant Aitke n
David Smale James Smnh Jelfrey Stone Martyn T aylor
Steven McCa llum Steven McKinlay
D uncan Scott
6H A Stephen Barkley
Matthew Peacock
ian Besley also joined in 1952 and is the longest serving member, the first secretary and has never missed a sale in 40 years. A new band member and a new tape due out means New Plymouth's Irish folk group, Orange and Green are keeping themselves busy. In 1991 the group released their debut recording ''The Settling" which sold very well. Two of the. group are staff member Rob Green and cricketing brother Dennis. Jack West has made another outstanding contribution to the school. During World War 11228 old boys gave their lives and 63 have no known grave. Jack has spent the last couple of years finding out about the 63 men who were listed as missing. Now as a tribute to those 63 men a photographic memorial board has been placed in the School's WW II memorial shrine. Jack has written more than 60,000 words about the 228- a pen portrait of each man. . . The Taranaki senior cricket squad has a fresh new look about 1t thts season. Three Old Boys whose names do not appear are. Stephen Robertson , who is carving out a new business career in Australia, brother Gary who may retum to rep cricket after Christmas and Ali Jordan who played his 1OOth game for Taranaki last season, who is on call if needed. However the squad contains a number of ex first XI players in Stuart and Russell Dempster~ Dylan Cleaver, Trent Ri~dick, Peter Leach and Richie Sheather. Also 1n the squad ts a currentftrstXI player, Tony Earl whose father Graeme, is a tireless worker for his old school. Both Demptster brothers were recently married, Russell to Tracey Erb and Stuart to Nicola Bublitz, the daughter of Lynn and Robin. Lynn is now Principal of Inglewood High School but Robin remains on the NPBHS staff. The Slater brothers have enjoyed conside ra ble success this year with the Taranaki rugby tean . No. 8 Andrew, Head Boy 1987, has already clocked up 50 games for his province while younger brother and NZ Colt Gordon has formed part of a formidable front row and played 25 games. Former first XV captain Craig Taylor was selected for the NZ Under 19 team. The previous season he was a NZ secondary school rep. Other Old Boys who have appeared on the rep scene this year are veterans Bryce Robbins and Malcolm Greig and NPBHS teacher Geoff Hall. Former All Black Neil Wolfe continues his interest in racing. He is part owner of several horses, is President of the Taranaki Jockey Qlub and has been elected to the board of the TAB. Neil and Raewyn have given outstanding service to the School as Chairman of the School's Board of Trustees and Convenor of the Catering Committee respectively. Daughter Katie is making her name as a TV actress. Grant Moorehead continues to excel at golf and his younger brother Paul is making excellent progress. Grant has been selected in the four man NZ Eisenhower team which will contest the World amateur teams event. He recently teamed with Philip Tataurangi to win the Australian Amateur Foursomes. Former staff member Max Carroll who chaired the Jubilee Committee and is currently Old Boys President will succeed another Old Boy, Ken Holyoake as Captain of the New Plymouth Golf Club . The Flannagan Cup was won by Jamie Strode who also won in 1989. over 100 swimmers competed in th is open water swim . Not surprisingly Stephen Venables took out the fastest time . At the national surf livesaving championships held at Oakura, Gavin White coached the winning Old boys Club six man team while the most successful regional swimmer was 1991 Head Boy Paul Veric who collected six medals. On the basketball scene John Carr had a great season with the NP BP Bears who topped the league . After six years with New Plymouth big Roge r Harris shifted to Palmerston North and it was Palmerston who came through to win the final. Another basketballer of note, Blair Hicks, who played for the NZ Under 20s in 1989-90 has had a year in the States at Casper College, Wyoming . While home on holiday he played some games for the Royals in the second division league and in one scored 25 goals and took out the man of the match award. He is keen to play for the Bears sometime in the future . A number of Old Boys made themselves available as candidates for the local body elections. They include David Lean (NP Mayoralty), David Walter (Stratford Mayoralty), Ross Allen, Neville Davies, Barry Marsh and Darcy Ranger (Taranaki Regional Council), and Lynn Bublitz, John Honnor, Stan Florence, Brian Bell ringer, ian Lobb and Peter Steffensen (New Plymouth District Council). During the year a number of Old Boys passed away. They include versatile sportsman Jeff Gardener who died in Sydney; well known author, soldier and sportsman Noel 'Wig' Gardiner of Auckland; former cycling identity Dave Mitchell of New Plymouth; former Chief Fire Officer of the Inglewood Volunteer Brigade Noel Reesby; a pioneer of preventive-dentistry Bruce Tompkins of New Plymouth; the man who celebrated his 81 st birthday with three backward somersaults off a high diving board, Clive Shaw of New Plymouth. Clive and his wife Ethel have been outstanding supporters of the School for many years and sons Denis, Robin and Adrian all attended NPBHS. Ella Hinz (nee Earp) attended NPBHS in 1908-09 as did her son Trevor, grandson Garry and great-grandsons Kyle, Brent and Inver. Ella was able to attend the School's 11 Oth reunion at the age of 98 but has since sadly passed on.
OLD BOYS' NOTES The year 1992 has been a very significant one for the School and its Old Boys. At Easter between 400-500 Old Boys attended a very successful reunion at the School. Later the success of the School's first XV in winning the inaugural World Cup for Secondary Schools rugby at Whakatane brought great pride to Old Boys worldwide and rekindled great interest in their old school. Congratulatory messages flooded in to coach Jed Rowlands and his well disciplined and talented team and these were richly deserved . Some of those who attended the reunion were , Dr Rob Archibald , now a scientist with the Meat Research In stitute; Philip Armstrong , Head Boy 1984; Brian Arthur, Moyes House 1947-51 and now an accountant in Stratford; the Besley brothers, Ttm, Davtd , ian and Bryan; Maurice Betts, well known for his cricket and hockey an,d recently chairman of the committee whtch organtsed New Plymouth s Sesquicentennial celebrations; Barry Boon, Head Boy 1951 ~nd .a prominent Wellington lawyer and golfer and a ftne tennts player tn hts younger days; Joe Broughton, the outstanding schoolboy rugby player and cricketer of the 1940s; Bruce Brown , Head Day Boy 1948 and currently High Commissioner to Canada; ian Campbell from Fiji, former MP for Wellington Central and Mayoral candtdate for Wellington ; Ken Comber; John Davies, Head Boy 1950, now NZ Operations Managerforthe Shipping Line P and 0 NZ Ltd; Lawrie Barclay, whose cricketing record at School is second only to Martin Donnelly, a former Air NZ Captain and currently flying short-haul jets for Malaystan Airlines; Gerald Barrack from Fiji, currently running the Sugar Industry in Fiji and al so Chairman of Air Pacifi c, Peter Dent from Nelson who has set up an Old Boys branch in that city; Evan Haine OBE of Wellington who devotes his time now to the World Wildlife Fund; Murray Herbert, former pupil, teacher and housemaster, now teaching at Stratford High School; Ella Hinz, then aged 98, the oldest past puptl to attend JUSt beating Les Martell, aged 95; Ken Holyoake, Dux 1.968, currently Captain of the New Plymouth Golf Club,l ed the club to vtctory tn the NZ championships, former middle distance runner Mark Houston, outstanding schoolboy cricketers in the 30s; Martin Donnelly and Tom Larkin , former cricketer and retired Army Colonel ian Launder; the Mclntyres, John the former Board Chairman and sons Donald and Victor; the Meulis, Russell and sons ian and Bruce; Stan McKeon MBE, former Army Colonel, now retired in Taradale ; Judge Gerry Monaghan, former All Black Captain, Graham Mourie ; the O'Meagher brothers, Barry and Terry; Leo Palmer, Head Boy 1942; John Murray, Profes.sor of Medicine in Minneapolis; David Prichard, a former Wing Commandarin the RAF of Dorset, England; John Pybus, a Clinical Chemist in Auckland Hospital; Medical Practitioner Peter Rich; Primary School Principal, Kevin Taylor; well known businessmen, Willy Still of New Plymouth and Dick Still of Auckland; Business Consultant Stephen Underwood of Wellington; Haematologist Boyd Webster of Maroubra, NSW; Harold Titter, former Health Commissioner and now Secretary of Defence; former Secretary of the NZ Dairy Board, Arthur Wells of Wellington; and Russell Wood, recently retired London Stockbroker who is currently writing.Vol. I of "England at the Crossroads". One Old Boy who really enjoyed returning to his old school was Dr Douglas Kendrick of Tokyo and he has become a notable benefactor of the school. Maurice Cleland JP was awarded the OBE in the New Year Honours for his contribution to community projects which includes the development of the Taranaki Polytechnic. Maurice can recall a time when he served on 13 different committes at the one time . Son Grant who suffered from spina bifida attended NPBHS in a wheelchair and is now a Social Welfare Officer in Christchurch. Jason Brown was a guest speaker at Mishima's new Civic Centre in Japan. Mishima is New Plymouth's sister city and Jason is attending the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies with former Head Boy Jason Renau. Another former NPBHS student Chris Bougen has won a pre stigious Monbusho Scholarship and is at Tokyo University's Lan guage School. Scott MacKenzie was Senior Scholar in English at Canterbury University. On completing his honours degree , Scott received the Winston Rhodes award for the Top English Graduate and th e William Georgetti Scholarship. He has also received a Fullbright Travelling Scholarship and a Scholarship to Comell University in New York where he will study for a Ph. D. Former staff member Rosey Mabtn has also completed her Masters degree in English at Canterbury and is now studying for a Ph.D. Clyde Haldane, Head Boy 1982, has been working for County Natwest Investment Management in Sydney and following a visit to Canada and the UK he will retum to be Deputy Manager of the Melbourne branch . Two of the Laurenson brothers, David and Andrew have now become Barristers and Solicitors like their father John . John Lauren son QC is the province's leading Barrister and resides in New Plymouth, David is practising in Wellington and Andrew in Christchurch. Eldest son Peter who has a Commerce degree works in London. Two Old boys have had a long association with the Taranaki Angus Breeders Association. Les Martell (aged 95) was the first President when the Association was formed in 1952 and has been awarded life membership.
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