Network 2012 May

St Paul’s Collegiate School

Network Commitment

EDITOR

Deborah McRae

SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHERS

Andrew Constable, Deborah McRae, School media Team

OLD COLLEGIANS’ ASSOCIATION

Deborah McRae

Ph (07) 957 8805 DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

SPC FOUNDATION

Tina Bowler

Ph (07) 957 8898

ADDRESS

St Paul’s Collegiate School

Private Bag 3069

Waikato Mail Centre

Hamilton 3240

New Zealand

Ph (09) 309 6945

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Headmaster’s Pen

Dear Past and Present Families, Old Collegians, Fellows and friends of St Paul’s

WE SEE THE START of this year continuing the really positive trends we have witnessed in the School over recent years:

St Paul’s school roll is currently at its highest level in its 52-year history with 673 pupils (the previous highest level was 652 students in 2006); 254 of these are boarders so we are well on track to achieving our goal of having a full boarding roll in 2013 (i.e. 270 living on the Hamilton campus). We are fortunate to currently have a waiting list for boarding placements at all age levels – this, at a time of recession, when Independent Schools are experiencing a 5% decline in rolls.

Continuing great academic performance in national and international educational qualifications: our senior students gained an

amazing 37 subject scholarships – just short of the record level of 39 set in 2006. Our joint Duxes in 2011, James Kennedy and Chang Zhai, gained five scholarships (one Outstanding) and four scholarships (two Outstanding) respectively and became two of the 51 students nationally to be awarded the distinction of being named ‘Outstanding Scholars’. 83% of our Year 13 students gained their Level Three NCEA certificate: seven students gained 100% or Excellence grades for their Level Three Achievement Standards in a subject; 89% of Year 12 candidates gained their Level Two qualification (10 Centurions); while at Year 11, 92% passed their Level One certificate (seven Centurions). In Cambridge International

Head Students

Liam O’Donoghue House: School

Studying: Maths with Statistics, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, History, Scholarship Chemistry, Physics, Science and Statistics

Achievements: 92.5% GPA in IGCSE Cambridge, 90% at Level Two NCEA with Excellence, grade 4 Piano, John Oehley cup (presented to a Year 12 who has excelled in all areas), Waikato Hockey Rep, and 3rd in New Zealand Rowing at Maadi Cup in U15 8+

Interests: Guitar, Hockey, Water-skiing, Piano, Tennis and Golf

Lizzy Rajan House: Harington

Studying: Accounting, Biology, Chemistry, Sports Science and Statistics and Modelling

Achievements: 1st equal in NCEA Level One Accounting, 1st in NCEA Level One Science, 1st equal in NCEA Level Two

A.P.E., 2nd in NCEA Level Two Biology, St Paul’s 1st XI Girl’s Hockey and Head of Girls Fitchett House

Interests: Sport, Hockey, playing with animals, hanging out with friends and family, running, meeting new people and travelling to new places

HEAD BOY

HEAD GIRL

Examinations, Paul Newton-Jackson topped New Zealand in Music while 98% passed their IGSCE (Year 11) and 88% AS subjects (Year 12) and an incredible 49% was graded ‘A’ or above (an ‘A’ grade indicates a mark of 80% or above).

The past six months have seen a $3-million investment in improvements to buildings and ICT equipment. The newly refurbished and expanded Dining Room allows us to cater for 350 diners and greatly enhances our ability to cater for major School events such as parents’ functions, the Cultural and Sports Awards ceremony, House Dinners and the Leavers’ Dinner. The finished function room is 50% larger than was the original, has

DEPUTY HEAD BOY

Jonty Wood

House: Sargood

Studying: Statistics, Geography, Physical Education, English and Biology

Achievements: Chiefs U18s

Rugby, New Zealand U17 Rugby, Waikato U16

Rugby and Waikato Academy

Interests: All sports, socialising with friends and bodyboarding at the beach

DEPUTY HEAD GIRL

Brenna Cockrem

House: Harington

Studying: Accounting, Economics, Statistics and Modelling, English and Drama. Scholarship: Drama and Statistics

Achievements: Head of Girls Hamilton House, Directed Stage Challenge and gained 2nd place, Female Lead in Damn Yankees, St Paul’s 1st XI Hockey and Altruza Award for Citizenship

Interests: Drama, travelling, socialising with friends, cooking, sport and experiencing new cultures

excellent acoustics and aesthetic qualities, and is a facility of which the whole St Paul’s community should be proud of.

Recently, we have upgraded all the fibre optic and internal cabling within the School and installed new switching devices, ‘virtualised’ servers and wireless points around the campus. This $1-million upgrade has also seen desktops in the computer suites, library and mini-labs modernised, along with the provision of laptops for teaching staff. For 2013, we are investigating students having handheld mobile devices (i.e. iPads) to facilitate anytime, anywhere access to the internet.

Curriculum innovations have seen the completion by the Year 13 Construction class of the ninth student house at Tihoi and the replacement of the original Frank’s House. We are indebted to carpenters, Messrs Gavin Jakes, Mark May, Martin Dobbe, Nick Holcroft, Richard Hull and John MacDonald, Old Collegians, and past and current parents, who have given up their time to impart to our young men the skills and knowledge of the building industry. Spanish and Agricultural

HEAD OF HOUSES

and Horticultural Science have also been introduced into the curriculum in the 2012 academic year.

Success at regional and national regattas, Athletics events and traditional summer sports fixtures have all been features to our start to the new school year. The introduction of new bands and musical groups and the success of the Shakespearean production of A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream have all proved to be highlights of the first term.

St Paul’s is in great heart and we thank you for your ongoing support and encouragement as we enter an exciting phase in the School’s development. I look forward to meeting many of you as the year unfolds.

G W Lander, Headmaster

CHAPEL PREFECTS

David Rooney

Patrice Forgeson

Rose Spence

Liam Buchanan

SCHOOL PREFECTS

James Chenery

Ryan McIntyre

Josephine Reilly

Tommy Moss

Jasper Mansson

Sarah Cranswick

Malcolm Luman

Teagan Voykovich

Scott Hilliar

Melissa Gilmartin-Kara

Head of Clark Peter Grierson

Head of Fitchett Jonty Rae

Head of Hall Nikora Payne

Head of Hamilton Aaron Keppler

Head of Sargood Josh Tye

Head of School

Jonathan Eyers

Head of Williams Martyn Brown

Head of Harington (Day) Harrietanne Embling

Head of Harington (Boarding) Theresa Steiner

Staff Leaving

MRS CATHIE MASON

Cathie Mason joined St Paul’s as the School Receptionist in 2004, where she was responsible for the front office. Always pleasant, friendly and helpful, her enthusiasm and commitment to the organisation were exceptional.

In 2008, she was promoted to the position of Academic Support Secretary. It soon became evident that the school’s choice was an inspired one, as Cathie rose to the challenge of a very complex role in the school. This included secretarial support for senior managers, liaison with both the Ministry of Education and the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, management of the school’s academic database and students’ subject choices, timetabling, exam entries, reporting to the Board, staff and parents, and organising the annual prize-giving.

An attribute we valued and respected was her professionalism. Despite being privy to a number of confidential decisions, Cathie was discreet in all her dealings with staff, parents and students.Cathie will be missed by both teaching staff and administration alike. We wish her every success and happiness in her new venture in Tauranga.

MRS GLENYS PARTON

Glenys joined St Paul’s Collegiate School in 2008 as the Director of Marketing and Development. Prior to her appointment, she was a member of the Waikato Anglican Trust Board. Her tenure at St Paul’s was defined by the tireless hours she worked and the passionate nature in which she marketed the School. Her children, Keegan (2006) and Gemma (2008), were students of the School so she has experience as a parent, a Board member and a staff member. In the time that Glenys worked at St Paul’s, she did a wonderful job in promoting the School to the wider community and worked very hard at improving the quality of publications and our website.

Glenys left us in November 2011 to take up a position in Tauranga in horticultural research. Relocating to Tauranga, where her aging parents reside, will enable her to provide them with more timely hands-on support when needed. Glenys is greatly missed by her colleagues, management and Board members alike and is remembered for her tenacity and professionalism.

MRS SONIA WELLS

Since 2003, we have been fortunate to have had a warm and caring person looking after our girls in Harington Boarding House. Sonia’s approach to managing the Boarding House proved to be quite different from that of her predecessor. The Harington girls soon came to realise that Sonia had their best interests at heart; she would go out of her way to meet their needs and make boarding life as comfortable as she could for them. This has endured and, at many meetings of the Residential Committee, Sonia went in to bat for ‘her girls’ and the Committee was never in doubt about what the girls’ needs were and why they ought to be met!

It was Sonia’s passion for boarding that led to her involvement with the New Zealand Boarding Schools Association (NZBSA). She was part

of the small group that was instrumental in establishing the NZBSA in the early 1990s. This organisation now represents the interests of more than 10,000 boarders in 90 member schools. Sonia served on the executive of the Association for many years and was, for a period, its National Co-ordinator. When the Boarding Hostel regulations were introduced in 2006, Sonia was a member of the consultative group that met with Ministry of Education officials during the drafting of the legislation. Sonia has been elected a Life Member to the NZBSA for her tireless services and remains one of only three people to be afforded this honour.

We thank her for her support and guidance and for her willingness to share her time, experience and wisdom with the St Paul’s community. It is fair to say that anyone who has worked with Sonia would acknowledge her grace, kindness and generosity.

We are sure her family are looking forward to seeing her as much as we will miss her; Sonia, we wish you all the best for the future.

HETA AND MARGIE SMITH

Margie joined St Paul’s in 1996, initially as the school librarian. Her partner Heta was at that time a technology teacher at Hillcrest High School. She recalls former Headmaster Steve Cole bailing him up in the staff car park and telling him to apply for the Technology position at St Paul’s.

Heta began his career at St Paul’s in 1998 as HOD Technology and then as Assistant Housemaster of Clark House in 1999, and then Housemaster in 2000. Heta and Margie believed in the concept of family and worked together as house-parents. Margie also carried out Housemaster duties at Harington Girls’ Boarding House, which was between Housemasters.On 20 October 2000, they became the first couple to be married in Harington Boarding House courtyard.

Heta took up the position of Housemaster in Williams House in 2009 and his big building projects of 2010 and 2011 will live long in the history of the school. Building a fale in tsunami-ravaged Samoa saw Heta co-ordinate a huge fund-raising and logistics exercise to help people in desperate need. Last year’s project to build a Tihoi house on-site at St Paul’s benefited the boys by giving them both skills and a sense of purpose: an educational experience hard to match. Heta leaves us to join Francis Douglas Memorial College as Head of Boarding.

Margie, who took up the position of Director of International Students in 2004, enjoyed the challenges of her new job. Caring for young people who came from halfway around the world from countries as diverse as Thailand, China, Brazil and Germany, this was a natural extension of Margie’s house-parenting role.

Margie believes that St Paul’s Collegiate School isn’t just a place that provides opportunities for students; it also offers opportunities for staff in “turning dreams into realities”. She gained a CELTA qualification to teach and, in 2010, Margie gained her Diploma of Teaching.

Margie will be with us till the middle of May and then will take up a similar position at Francis Douglas Memorial College. She has played a vital role in marketing, visiting and supporting the school’s international families as well as teaching ESOL and English.In a sense you are both going home to Taranaki but St Paul’s will always be your second turangawaewae. We will miss you both.

New Staff

MS BRIDGET

HANSEN BA, PGDip Tchg (Auckland)

English Teacher and Assistant Housemaster of Harington Boarding

Bridget taught at St Kentigern College, Auckland, from 2003 to 2009, firstly as Assistant HOD of the English Department, then later as HOD. Her final year was as a member of the Independent School’s Senior Management Team. For the past two and a half years, she has taught English at Yew Chung International Secondary School in Hong Kong, where she was Year 7 and Year 11 Dean. Bridget and her son Nicholas moved back to New Zealand to take up the position at St Paul’s. Although Bridget is enjoying being back in New Zealand, she says that she misses the excitement of Hong Kong. She is currently working her way through her Master’s in Education.

MRS TRACEY

HARFOOT BA, GradDip Tchg (Waikato)

Spanish Teacher

Tracey was educated in the Waikato at Hillcrest High School and gained a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Waikato, majoring in Spanish. During her studies, she spent one year at El Tec de Monterrey, Campus Colima in Mexico, where she studied Spanish language in conjunction with Mexican Literature, History and Culture and has taught in a number of primary schools throughout the Waikato. Tracey is married to Kieran; they have two children, Ellie who is two and a half and Finn who is seven months old.

MR COLIN LEWIS

BEd (South Africa)

English Teacher

After being educated at the University of South Africa where he gained a BEd in English and History, Colin taught at Westville Boys’ High School, South Africa, for five years before teaching in the United Kingdom. He then returned to Westville for two and a half years as the Year 9 and Year 10 Dean before immigrating to New Zealand. In 2011, he taught English at Matamata College. Colin and his wife Heidi have a two-year-old son called Cayde.

MRS HANNAH

MUNN BSc, PGDip Tchg (Massey)

Science Teacher

Educated in Hawke’s Bay, Hannah was Head Girl of Havelock North High School, during which time she represented the province in both Softball and Netball and was selected for the New Zealand Development sides in both sporting codes. At Massey University, Hannah completed a Bachelor of Science before being appointed to her first full-time teaching position at St Paul’s Collegiate School.

MR CARL

NEETHLING BEd (Hons) (Johannesburg)

Mathematics Teacher and Housemaster of Sargood House

Educated at the University of Johannesburg, Carl gained a Bachelor of Education with Honours. He first taught at Grey College for four years, before moving to St Stithians Boys’ Prep where he held the position of Director of Sport. Carl, his wife Jenny and their two children Christian who is 11 and eight-year-old Megan immigrated to New Zealand in 2009 and he taught Mathematics at Hamilton Boys’ High School; he also held the position of Year 9 Dean. They are expecting the birth of their baby boy at the end of April. When Carl has time off, he likes to spend time in the New Zealand outdoors, hunting and fishing.

MR JAY-RIMUS

RAPANA PGDip Tchg (Waikato), PGDip Maori Ed Te Reo Māori Teacher

Brought up in Huntly, Jay-Rimus gained his Bachelor of Teaching and Postgraduate Diploma in Māori Education at The University of Waikato. He has taught at Te Whare o te Ata and Watson Ohia in a Māori language immersion environment. A skilled kapa haka tutor, Jay-Rimus has judged at both regional and national level and has led kapa haka groups to success at primary school, secondary school and adult levels.

MRS AMANDA REID

BSs, Dip Tchg (Waikato)

Digital Technology Teacher

Educated in the Waikato at Hamilton’s Fraser High School, Amanda gained her Bachelor of Business Studies in Accounting and Information Systems and Technology. Before taking up her first teaching position, she was employed in the private sector for 10 years. Amanda then completed her teacher training and started teaching at Cambridge High School where she held the position of Teacher of Digital Technology for three years, before coming to St Paul’s Collegiate School.

MS TRISH URE

Academic Secretary

Educated in the Waikato at Hillcrest High School, Trish has for the past 11 years worked at Te Awamutu College, firstly as Receptionist in their Student Centre and more recently as the Personal Assistant to the Principal.

MR HAAPI WILSON

AdvTradeCert, Dip Tchg (Auckland)

Materials and Technology Teacher

Haapi was educated in Hawke’s Bay, and completed his Carpentry Apprenticeship in Hastings, before undertaking his teacher training at Auckland College of Education. He was a Carpenter Instructor in the New Zealand Army, which included a stint at Scott Base in Antarctica. Haapi taught at Kerikeri High School and Wainuiomata College, before tutoring Carpentry for six years at the Wellington Institute of Technology. For the past three years, he has taught at Ngaruawahia High School. Haapi is married to Erica and together they have three children, Courtenay who is 23, Raymond 21 and Toby-Jon who is 16 and is Year 12 student at St Paul’s. He has also built a cyclone-proof house in Vanuatu, renovated churches in Fiji and is passionate about and enjoys singing in the Hamilton Community group choir when he has time. Haapi is a strong believer in treating all in a fair way with a good balance of respect, challenge and compassion. Boys bloom and flourish in the eye of tragedy but rarely display that instinct in times of calm.

Academic Excellence & Outstanding Performances

TOP ACHIEVERS YEAR 13 (2011)

James Kennedy – Joint Dux (Aggregate 89%)

Chemistry 100%

Physics 97%

Calculus 95%

Biology 80%

English 74%

Outstanding Scholarship for: Chemistry

Scholarships for: Physics, Science, Statistics, Calculus

University of Auckland

Elizabeth Wilson (Aggregate 82%)

English 88%

Biology 86%

Chemistry 79%

Physics 78%

Statistics 78%

Scholarship for: Biology University of Auckland

Catherine McRae (Aggregate 79%)

History 95%

Media 100%

English 84%

Geography 64%

Economics 50%

Scholarships for: Media Studies and Geography

Victoria University of Wellington Academic Scholarship $5000

Melissa Oosterwijk (Aggregate 89%)

Statistics 100%

Calculus 96%

Physics 86%

Spanish 84%

Chemistry 81%

Scholarships for: Chemistry, Statistics and Calculus

University of Waikato

Jason Coventry (Aggregate 81%)

Physics 88%

Calculus 85%

English 85%

Biology 80%

Chemistry 68%

Scholarships for: Statistics and Accounting

The University of Auckland Scholarship up to $50,000 in fees

Chang Zhai –Joint Dux (Aggregate 74%) Calculus 100%

85%

81%

63%

62%

Outstanding Scholarships for: Chemistry and Statistics Scholarships for: Physics and Calculus

University of Auckland

TOP SCHOLARS NCEA AND CAMBRIDGE COMBINED:

Year 13 James Kennedy

Year 12 Olivia Thompson

Year 11

Hannah Clare Paul Newton-Jackson

Evan Wilson (Aggregate 85%)

Calculus 100%

Physics 90%

English 84%

Chemistry 81%

Biology 70%

Scholarships for: Statistics and Calculus

University of Otago Performance

Scholarship $5000

Reece Patterson (Aggregate 81%)

Digital Tech 100%

Calculus 89%

Chemistry 81%

Physics 75%

English 60%

Scholarships for: Chemistry and Physics

Victoria University of Wellington Academic Scholarship $5000

Connor Spence (Aggregate 83%) Science 96% History 95% English 74% Statistics 68%

Scholarship for: English Victoria University of Wellington

Grace Gatenby (Aggregate 79%) Chemistry 92%

Scholarship for: Biology

The University of Auckland Scholarship up to $50,000 in fees

OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT

Belinda Pedersen: Statistics and a scholarship for Calculus OTHER SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

Sheng Cao: Statistics and Calculus Lachlan Cooper: Biology

Natalie Hong: Biology

James Lin: English, Chemistry, History

James Mason: Accounting University of Canterbury College of Business and Economics Scholarship $5000

ICAS GOLD MEDALS

Hadleigh May: David Johnstone Scholarship (to attend the Waikato Institute of Technology) $5000

Codey Nepe: The University of Auckland Jubilee Scholarship $2000

Connor Robson: Calculus

Fiora Stewart: English

Olivia Thompson: Statistics

Christopher Whiteley: Calculus

In December 2011, at a special ceremony in Auckland, two of our students received gold medals for their performance in the ICAS (International Competition and Assessments for Schools) Science examinations.

Chang Zhai topped New Zealand in Level Three Science while Conor Robson topped New Zealand in Level Two Science. These medals are very prestigious and were the only gold medals in Science awarded to New Zealand students. We are very proud of these two exceptional scholars.

Chang Zhai Conor Robson

SCHOLAR’S TIES LEVEL ONE 2011

A total of 46 awards was made to our 2011 Year 11 cohort. The top ten students are listed below:

Paul Newton-Jackson Including equivalent of 100% L1 Music, 100% Cambridge English, and top New Zealand IGCSE Music student

Hannah Clare Including equivalent of 100% L1 Accounting

L1 Physical Ed

SCHOLAR’S TIES LEVEL TWO 2011

A total of 45 awards was made to our 2011 Year 12 cohort. The top ten students are listed below.

1. Olivia Thompson* Including equivalent of 100% L3 Statistics and 100% L3 Calculus

2. Maia Tapsell Including

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L2 English

Sharlene Lu Including equivalent of 100% L1 Maths

10. Fiona Thorp Including equivalent of 100% L1 French 85%

Other Year 11 (in 2011) students who were also awarded Scholar’s Ties at the academic assembly held on Friday, 10 February 2012 were

Andrew Huang

Including equivalent of 100% L1 Mathematics

Jacob Robb

Shani Fernando 83% Victoria Blomfield

Meg Morbey

William Guest

Keegan Frost-Jones

Navroz Gill

William Heald 82% Matthew HusbandDravitzki

Oliver Tomic

Alexandria Ashford

Nicholas Don

Mark Swarbrick

Josh Walpole-Smith

Scott Finlayson

James Hunt

Dominic Scott-Jones

Devon Kyle

Phoebe Boyes

Phoebe Earnshaw

Brittany Smith 77%

Jonathan Ring

Toby Way

Alec Wilson

Peter Winkelmann

Lovely Dizon

Joshua Malpas

Fransois Eksteen

Lucas Martin Including equivalent of 100% L1 Physical Education

Samuel Holmes

Bradley Morton

Panasann Pattanakulchai

using grade point average of best five subjects including English and Mathematics

Rosie Searle Including equivalent of 100% L2 Physics

Alex Hargreaves*

7. Liam O’Donoghue* Including equivalent of 100% L2 Chemistry

Belinda Pedersen* Including equivalent of 100% L2 French

10. Nina Lee* Including equivalent of 100% L2 Japanese

Mitchell Proudfoot*

Other Year 12 (in 2011) students who were also awarded Scholar’s Ties at the academic assembly held on Friday, 10 February 2012 were:

of 100% L2 Chemistry

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using grade point average of best four subjects including English

Michelle Flint, Director of Instrumental Music, Winner of the 2011 KBB Midwest Scholarship

Surprisingly enough, the weather was quite mild and a mere one degree when we landed at Chicago Airport in December 2011 for the 65th Midwest Clinic.

I WAS STAYING AT the Sheraton Hotel on the 17th floor and couldn’t believe the wonderful view from my hotel room. I was overlooking the city in its entire splendour; the scene was beautiful with Christmas lights everywhere and a hint of snow in the air as the temperature dropped.

I had one day before the conference to find my feet, establish my bearings and prepare for the conference for the following day so, on Tuesday morning, I was up bright and early and caught a taxi to the venue for the Midwest Clinic. I couldn’t believe the sheer size of the place. The venue was very impressive with 2.6 million square feet of exhibit halls, 173 meeting rooms, 600,000

square feet of meeting-room space, four ballrooms, two of which are the largest in the city, assembly seating for 18,000 people and 5000 parking spaces. This was to be the third year that the Midwest Clinic had been held in this venue with many visitors still attending since year one. This says something about the experience of the Midwest Clinic. It is certainly the best professional development experience that a music educator can have.

The programme, the printed version of which was the size of our Yellow Pages, consisted of 88 clinic sessions, 38 concerts, two reading sessions and five rehearsal labs. What a dilemma, so much to choose from. I decided on: Different Ways To Think About Music, Teaching and Advocacy; Brassed On: A Guide to Expressive Brass Playing; You Are Only as Good as Your Last Breath: Improving Brass Pedagogy; and It Sounded Better At Home: Tips and Techniques to Manage Performance Anxiety. I also attended several rehearsal labs including one by Richard Floyd, UIL State Director of Music at The University of Texas. He was

one of the most inspiring clinicians at the Midwest Clinic. He focused on the multiple kinds of listening that are critical factors in determining the effectiveness of rehearsals and offered strategies to refine these proficiencies. He had many tips to share including: “Metronomes can tell you that you are in time but not in rhythm”. All music has a heartbeat and we have to connect with its inner pulse. Richard Floyd was a master at his art. He very cleverly used the United States Army Band to get across all of his strategies. As musical directors, we all face the challenge of developing listening skills that serve to maximise rehearsal efficiency.

Technician Anthony Maiello, Professor of Music and Associate Director, School of Music from George Mason University, did not disappoint with his outstanding ‘rehearsal lab’. Amongst his many accolades, Professor Maiello served as conductor for the National Symphony Orchestra at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and as honorary conductor of the United States Navy Band. He served as musical director for Music Festivals International, president of the

Royal Society Fellowship

FOR THE SECOND HALF of 2011, St Paul’s Chemistry teacher Dr Jason McGrath was awarded a Royal Society of New Zealand Teacher Fellowship that allowed him to work alongside a scientific research organisation on a project of his choosing.

Before joining St Paul’s in 2003, Jason worked as a research scientist at AgResearch in the area of nitrogen cycling and mitigation research. He decided to return to this type of research and developed a project to investigate a novel application for the removal of nitrogen from dairy-farm wastewater.

The nitrogen-loading to the environment from dairy farming is becoming of greater concern to New Zealand and AgResearch’s Nitrogen Mitigation programme is growing in both scope and importance. Jason’s project of carrying out the initial microbiological studies into the efficacy of applying the process of Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (Anammox) to the treatment of dairyshed wastewater would see him based in one of the nitrogen research labs at AgResearch, Ruakura. By the completion of the Fellowship in midDecember, Jason’s results showed that there was indeed some promise in using the Anammox

International Association of Jazz Educators (New York State Chapter) and was a guest clinician for Yamaha Corporation and Warner Brothers. Professor Maiello was a very jovial character and humorously got his point across to everyone. He had everyone in the audience in tears of laughter at his one-liners but also in tears of admiration for his absolute and total dedication to his art. Anthony’s passion for the music and his passion for the way he worked with the students was inspiring.

I left the Midwest Clinic in total awe of these wonderful technicians and I also knew that what I had learnt would totally change the way I rehearse my ensembles and connect with young musicians.

I would like to take the opportunity to thank KBB for giving me this opportunity and in particular Alan Kemp and Jennifer Hsu. I also give special thanks to St Paul’s for additional financial assistance and to Simon Hocking of House of Travel for organising all of my travel and accommodation.

Scholars of 2011

Please note not all universities provide us with their results and we do our best to source all of the information we can.

GRADUATES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO JUNE 2011 –OCTOBER 2011

Donna Frederikson – BMS (Hons)

Dylan Groom – Certificate of University Preparation

Julia Lin – BSc (Hons)

Rachael Linklater – MSc (Hons)

Jeremy Markman – Certificate of University Preparation

Michaella Roess – Bsoc Sc

GRADUATES FROM OTAGO UNIVERSITY JUNE 2011 –DECEMBER 2011

Jaimee Barham – BPhty

Nicholas Keddell – DipGrad (Endorsed) Marketing Management

Pippa Sherratt – BA Sociology

Charlotte Tye – BPhEd Exercise Prescription and Management; BCom Accounting

Anna Hickmott – LLB

Lauren Fleming – BCom Accounting

Ju Yea Kim – BPharm

Duncan Jess – BSurv

Jason Cheng – BPhty

Jonathon Murtagh – BBiomedSc Functional Human Biology

Elaine Bracefield – BSc Biochemistry/Human Nutrition

Matthew McIvor – BCom Management/Marketing Management

Mitchel Ewen – BCom Marketing Management

Matt Johl – BPhEd Sport and Leisure Studies/Exercise and Sport Science

David Ellacott – MBA

Shardae Oliver – LLB

Duncan Todd – BA Economics

GRADUATES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND DECEMBER 2011

Danielle Haultain – MA

Nicholas Henzell – PG Dip Bus

GRADUATES FROM MASSEY UNIVERSITY DECEMBER 2011

Robert Fisk – PhD(Sc)

Michael Black – BBS Accountancy

process to develop small-scale treatment systems for the ‘on-farm’ removal of nitrogen. Jason believes that the technology for systems such as this is some way off, but that something of this type may become a requirement down the track to help mitigate the impact of nitrogen leaching into our waterways. Jason fully intends to use the experience and knowledge gained during his fellowship to make his students aware of the ‘real’ environmental challenges facing New Zealand.

Anne-Maree Hill – BSc Soil Science with Second-class Honours (Div 1)

Joanne Richardson – BSc Computer Science; BSc Statistics

Alistair Barclay-Green – BVSc

Hannah McDonnell – BAcc

James Van Oosten – BDesign Industrial Design with First-class Honours

Grace Beange – Dip Fashion Design and Technology

GRADUATES FROM AUT UNIVERSITY DECEMBER 2011

Kirsty Clayton-Greene – Bachelor of Health Sciences and Spec Podiatry

Warming to Paleoclimatology

Gary Wilson (Hamilton 1980 - 1984)

I went to Victoria University of Wellington to start a Science degree majoring in Maths and Physics. In those days, one was required to take four subjects in the first year, so I also took Chemistry and the only other thing that fitted into my timetable was Geology.The Physics didn’t gel with me at the time so, in my second year, I switched to a Music degree, but the Geology caught my attention so I carried on with it and ended up with two degrees: a Geology degree and a Music degree.

I WAS THEN INVITED to do honours in Geology and in that year was able to make the first of 21 visits to Antarctica. It was about then that I realised that I wanted to come to grips with understanding global climate through the study of past climates – paleoclimatology. One of the compelling aspects of paleoclimatology is that, with the threat of global warming, it is important to be able to put the changes in global climate into some perspective, which can help with prediction of future changes as well as pin down what’s driving the changes; paleoclimatology offers that. We can build sophisticated computer models but these are limited by our observations of how climate works now, rather than how it might work when we change some of the components. Studying past climates offers insight into how variable global climate can be – what might change and how quickly. The challenge, though, is in reading the sedimentary record of past oceans and climatic conditions and what led to past changes in climate.

Some may say “Why might we care?” Well, it is unequivocal that the globe is warming and that, in turn, will lead to melting ice in the Arctic and Antarctic and changing ocean and atmospheric circulation. So what? Well, melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica will result in rising sea levels – metres to tens of metres... and the circulating ocean is the single most important agent in delivering heat around the planet. Even slight changes will have profound effects on climate. In the past, when the planet was just a few degrees warmer, global sea levels were higher – up to 20 metres higher – and climate patterns (precipitation, winds, etc.) were very different and, indeed, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide were significantly higher. The questions that now require our attention are: how did changing levels of carbon dioxide

force climate change and at what rate did climate change and sea level rise? This is what I’m focusing my attention on at the moment. It all sounds a little straightforward, but what we’re talking about here is a global-scale experiment that we are conducting as we pump fossil-fuel-derived carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at unprecedented rates and there is little sign of us slowing down our addiction to fossil fuels. Understanding can come only from global-scale study so my laboratory is the globe. And the two most important agents are Antarctica and the oceans. Both are difficult and costly to access and thus much of my work has been in assembling teams, mounting expeditions to remote places and developing new technologies for accessing and studying the sedimentary record through sediment cores. By nature, the teams are international and the scale of the fieldwork often involves tens to hundreds of people. Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are unique; Antarctica’s ice sheets are significantly larger, older and more enduring than are ice sheets in the northern hemisphere and Antarctica is a continent surrounded by ocean rather than an ocean surrounded by continents as it is at the North Pole. The combination of the large ice sheet and the linked Southern Ocean is essentially the engine room of global ocean and climate circulation and Antarctica also has a much greater potential to deliver change. So, that’s where we need to go to do the research even though it’s expensive and hard to get there and, once there, hard to carry out the fieldwork.

Working in remote places is not straightforward; it requires a certain level of practical skill, pragmatism and adaptability. I’m often working from tent camps in the Antarctic, where a good deal of time is spent just keeping alive: making water and cooking at 20 to 30 degrees below zero or working on boats where the floor is always moving beneath your feet. Meticulous expedition planning is required, as just nipping back to collect something you have forgotten is not an option. My research is funded through grants from various government agencies in America, the UK and New Zealand. Over the past 10 years, the University of Otago has invested in unique laboratory facilities and equipment to enable me and my graduate students to do our work. Otago has also invested in research vessels that enable us to travel out into the Southern Ocean.

Professor Gary Wilson is head of Department Marine Science at Otago University. He lives with his wife Kate in Dunedin with their two boys Jacob who is seven and Adam who is five. If you would like to follow Gary on his latest expedition, his blog is www.dunedinaquarium.blogspot.co.nz

Gary at Tate Peak Antarctica

Gary at Macquarie Island

Chapel of Christ the King

I recently went back to visit what I consider to be the nicest building in New Zealand, the Chapel of Christ the King. The brief visit brought back so many memories and I felt very proud to have been in charge of the construction of stage one before it was altered in later years.

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HAD JUST COME out from Great Britain and was working for Holman Construction when I was handed a set of plans; I was to study them for a week then start on the job. I was very surprised to see that the plans were for a church, but this one was different and I knew it would look spectacular when it was finished.

The site was nice and flat which meant that all trade vehicles would have easy access and that all the site facilities could be dealt with including the locating of any underground services. This was a major exercise as the new chapel was to be built between the existing buildings of the school and the main road.

The first thing to be done was to set up a temporary toilet and connect to the city services, set up a site office and organise a phone to be connected as there were no cellphones in those days. The earth-moving machinery came in next to remove all of the topsoil, the site was then covered with hardcore and sand, which was well compacted. With five carpenters and one labourer on the job plus the necessary sub-trades such as drainlayers, electricians and plumbers, it was necessary to ensure that the services were all in place and fully tested before the concrete floor was poured. The templates for the bolts to hold down the steel work all had to be made and a cage of reinforcing steel had to be set around the bolts to ensure accuracy as there was no room for error. The concrete was poured then flooded to cure it which took seven days.

After the structural steel and timber purlins were set in place, the Stramit boards were fixed on top. These boards are very interesting; they have a two-hour fire rating and are made of straw which has been solidly compressed and then wrapped in very shiny paper. Handling these was like being on a slippery ski field. A rope had to be tied to the top of the church and then to the person fixing the Stramit board. Sheets were lifted into place with a crane, nailed with 100mm nails and washers, and all edges that had been cut had to be taped securely to avoid the straw getting wet. This was VERY IMPORTANT as we found out later. Once the boards had been secured in place, they were covered with a polythene envelope to protect them. The original roof on the plans was meant to be stainless steel but the designers changed that to copper. This had to come

from Australia but had not arrived and, after a few weeks and quite a bit of rain, we found out why it was important to cover the cut edges of the Stramit. The roof had started to grow, causing more than a little problem. The roofing finally arrived, the growth was removed and the roof was fixed in place but not without having to have security in place over night as copper was not cheap and we were afraid it would disappear.

Once the outside was waterproofed, we started on the inside ceiling. We had to start in the centre with a 25mm square (the sizes and amounts of wood were worked out by George Haywood from Ellis & Burnand) then move slowly out to the edges. The cutting of the wood had to be precise as an extra millimetre here or there would throw out the whole design. Each square of cedar was ‘secret’ nailed and carefully mitred. Working upside down on scaffolding is quite tiring but, at the end of each day, it was very satisfying to see how the ceiling was progressing.

While we worked on the structure of the chapel, Vic Matthews and some of his students in the woodwork class were working on the altar and pulpit. Vic designed and created the lectern as his own gift to the chapel. They had it all ready to put into place just as we completed the job. The last thing to go into the chapel was the clamshell which came from the islands. This was set on a pedestal at the main entrance and used as a font.

Working on the Chapel of Christ the King gave us all a great satisfaction and seeing it all now makes me feel honoured to have been there at the very beginning. Thank you for the chance to be involved in a really beautiful church.

Just as a matter of interest, a year after the chapel was finished, the factory that produced the Stramit boards was burnt to the ground.

• The chapel was designed by Orchard and Allison with a huge input from the Chaplin, Pat Parr.

• Overall cost was about $100,000.00 with the Williams trust supplying $80,000.00 of the total.

• June 1967 saw Mrs H B Williams lay the foundation stone in memory of her husband.

• The chapel was dedicated on 18 November 1967.

• Auckland artist Pat Hanly was commissioned to design the lancet windows in the east wall. He also designed the facing of the rood cross, made the enamelled copper plates for it and chose the overall colour scheme.

If you would like to read more about the history of the chapel, it can be found in the latest copy of A Venture in Faith by Bruce Hamilton, which can be purchased from the office of the Executive Officer of the Old Collegians, Tel 07 957 8805.

Robert Denis Corlett

Mrs HB Williams with the Reverand Pat Parr

Close-up of roof

Construction of the new chapel

Old Collegians President’s Report

THE 2012 SCHOOL YEAR is well under way with many structural changes in progress. The rebuild and refurbishment of the dining hall is almost complete and is a huge improvement on the old building, so much so that the euphemism ‘To turn a pig’s ear into a silk purse’ is most appropriate. Other building upgrades are scheduled to begin later in the year.

We have begun our annual social events calendar with the wellattended Hamilton get-together; this included several first-time attendees who enjoyed catching up with school friends they hadn’t seen for many years. We would like everybody to make an effort, please, to attend these functions in their areas if possible. They are a lot of fun with many old school friendships being renewed. All event dates and times are on the school website under the Old Collegians link. Invitations to these events are also emailed out so, if you would like to be kept in the loop, please update your contacts by emailing through to oldcollegians@stpauls.school.nz

We have had two 1st XI games where the Old Collegians have played the students, one in December and the other in February 2012. The coaches of the 1st XI were very appreciative of the match experience gained by their boys in both of these competitive matches which were very closely fought contests. Our thanks go to former Head Boy Guy Schwikkard for his help in organising the Old Collegians’ team.

We are in the process of organising a mid-winter sports event which will include Rugby, Football, Hockey and Netball. This will be carefully scheduled to match the University holidays for maximum possible participation of our younger fraternity. Again the website and emails will advise of the finalised arrangements.

The school roll has again seen an increase and is at a record level with high interest in places for next year, especially for boarding. This demand for placement at St Paul’s reflects well on the leadership of the Headmaster and the Board and on the talented and dedicated teaching staff who go the extra mile for their students. Outstanding results both in the classroom and in extracurricular activities reflect the efforts of both staff and students.

I would like to welcome these four new members to our committee: Ryan McCarthy (Sargood 1993 – 1997), Craig Sanders, Treasurer (Williams 1985 – 1987), Peter Gilbert (Staff Rep) and Nick Jensen (Fitchett 2003 – 2007); they join Dave Mackay, Campbell Ludbrook, Pearce Watson, Amy Whetu and Scott Neeley.

In conclusion, your committee welcomes any suggestions as to how we can improve service to our members. Please don’t hesitate to email our Executive Officer Deborah McRae, d.mcrae@stpauls.school.nz; all ideas are welcome.

Ivan Posa (School 1966 – 1970), President

Gold in Beijing Peter Latham (Williams 2000 - 2001)

THE BEIJING TRACK WORLD Cup was run over 12 to 15 January and was the third stopover of the four-leg series. With valuable qualification points on offer for both the upcoming World Track Championships in April and the London Olympics in August, several hundred of the world’s best track cyclists descended on Beijing, including a 14-strong team from BikeNZ supported by 12 staff. Old Collegian Peter Latham was part of the team. The members of the New Zealand team pursuit squad were first up on day one of qualification and set the third-fastest time of the 17 countries behind the Russians and Aussies. On the following nights, they rode against the British team and took a comfortable win in a time of 4:03.758 for the 4000m team pursuit to take the bronze medal.

With New Zealand’s top pursuit rider racing the Tour Down Under with his professional road team, Peter was given the nod to ride the Individual Pursuit on day three. Last off in heat 12 of 24 riders, Peter knew what time he had to achieve and qualified fastest in a time of 4:26.100. He competed against an Australian later that night in the ride-off for gold. The Aussie pulled ahead early; however, Peter was able to finally get ahead at the 3000m mark and carried on to win the gold in a time of 4:25.964, just 0.2 of a second quicker than was the Australian rider.

Peter says, “To win by such a small margin was extremely satisfying and it was a proud moment hearing the national anthem on top of the podium for my first gold medal at a World Cup”. The win has qualified New Zealand for a second spot in the Individual Pursuit for the World Championships in Melbourne in which Peter hopes to race; he also hopes to compete in his number-one event, the Team Pursuit. The World Championships will be a huge week as they are the final chance for competitors to impress; the Olympic team will be named following this and a big team of Kiwi supporters is expected to come across to Melbourne.

Ivan Posa Ryan McCarthy

Nick Jensen

Craig Sanders

Peter Gilbert

Surf Club Champions

THREE NEW ZEALAND CLUB surf boat crews travelled to Newcastle’s Stockton Beach in Australia to take part in the Australian Surf Rowers League (ASRL) Open. These included the Piha A team (Open Men) and three of this crew of five are Old Collegians of St Paul’s – Chris Morris (Williams 1999 – 2003), Paul Gerritsen (Sargood/School 1999 – 2003) and Scott Lissington (Hamilton 1998 – 2003). This competition is the world’s biggest dedicated surf boat event and, for these lifeguards and surf boat rowers, the one thing they were there for was to win.

They were also selected as one of New Zealand’s top open crews to take part in a trans-Tasman club race coined the “Battle of the Ditch”, where they faced clubs Lorne and South Curl Curl. Piha A blasted off at the start holding a good boat-length lead at the first turn. But Lorne, Australia’s top club, was chasing hard so Piha A hit the afterburners. A lucky run for Lorne saw them come up even with Piha A, and the race came down to a sprint at the line. The race finish saw both crews wondering who had the result; a few minutes passed before the silence was broken with the announcement that Piha A had claimed the spoils of the day.

Celebrations for the Piha A crew had to wait as they continued to move their way through the ASRL Open which had 70 crew entries; they too had to be decided from video replay. Again the Piha A team was victorious becoming the first New Zealand surf boat crew to win the ASRL Open. New Zealand crews in the open men’s division have now been successful in the last four trans-Tasman clashes, dominating their Australian counterparts since 2005.

The weekend of 17 March saw the crew attend the New Zealand Nationals in Gisborne where they were successful in claiming both the long and short-course titles.

Knightshade had a cult following on the underground circuit and played with the likes of ZZ Top, Iggy Pop, Deep Purple, Bon Jovi and Guns N’ Roses. The single ‘Rough at the Top’ is out for sale on iTunes and the band’s video can been seen on YouTube. This is the link: youtube.com/watch?v=k_EAKp-mLS4

BIO CRAIG POLLOCK (HAMILTON 1978 – 1982)

1983 – 1987 – Commercial electrical apprenticeship with G E Sylvia Ltd

1987 – 1988 – Music degree at Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California, specialising in guitar

Deadly Knightshade plays again

AFTER A 15-YEAR HIATUS, Knightshade has reformed, and released the single ‘Rough at the Top’. The members of the four-piece band, which has had five singles on the music charts, have taken time out from their day jobs and raising their families to produce this new single. The band planned to play some shows to promote the track but, because they all have families now, they cannot hit the road with reckless abandon as they could in the old days. In its heyday,

1988 – 1989 – Returned to New Zealand, taught guitar privately, played professionally with a band called ‘Russia’

1990 – 1991 – Recorded and released solo album ‘Just Looking’

1991 – 1995 – Joined Knightshade; played professionally; also played with Hamilton pub bands ‘Whisperscream’ and ‘Circus Animals’

1996 – 2000 – When Knightshade went on hiatus, returned to trade as an electrician with Electrical Team (formerly Edmond and Jackson)

2001 – Present day – left Electrical Team and formed own company, Alexis InfoTech Management Ltd. They are primarily computer and network specialists for the Small Business space, and security specialists (alarms and CCTV) but do commercial electrical work too.

Craig Pollock is on the left – Photo courtesy of the Waikato Times

Networking Events 2011-2012

Martin Gummer (Williams 1969–1973) and Evan McCulloch

Warren Priest (Williams 1960–1961, Richard Guise (Hamilton 1967–1972) and Peter Fuscic (School 1971–1972)

Lex de Jong (Clark 1973–1975), Duncan Laird (SchoolWilliams 1959–1963) and Diana Plant

Simon Franks (Clark 1978–1982) and Evan McCulloch

Evan McCulloch and Warren Bird (Sargood 1971–1975)

Gary Smith (Hall 1971–1975) and Greg Thompson (Hamilton 1971–1975)

David Davies (School 1959–1962) and Paul Campbell (School/Williams 1961–1965)

Hamish Quinn (Clark 2002–2005), Chris Haskell (Hamilton 1979–1982), Thomas Scheres (Williams 2003–2005), Sam Corbin (Williams 2001–2005)

Pat Plant, Bill Esling (School 1960–1962) and Howard Alexander (School 1960–1962)

Paul Chapman (Hall 1977–1981), Steve Rickerby (Hall 1981–1984) and Matt Adams (Hamilton 1982–1985)

Richard Calderwood (Hamilton 1971–1975), John Lloyd and Mark Calderwood (Hamilton 2004–2008)

James Donaldson (Clark 1992–1994), Howard Martin (Clark 1978–1980), Partner of Rose, Stuart Collison (Williams 1976–1980) and Rose Clements nee Collison Dio Old Girl and dance partner to many St Paul’s Old Collegians

Edwin England (School 1999–2003), Garth Croad Sargood (1965–1969), Nick Woolfield (Sargood 1968–1972), Pat Plant, Geoff Croad (Sargood 1959–1960) and Jim Napier

Gary Smith, Greg Thompson and Bruce Fulton (Hamilton 1971–1973)

Stuart Collison and James Donaldson

Geoffrey Ford (School/Williams 1962–1964), and Grant Parker (Williams 1981 – 1985)

Evan McCulloch and Bill Meiklejohn (School/Williams 1961–1965) at Bill’s place in Mosman

Sam Hogg, David Hoskins, Jo Powell and Kent Stewart all 2010 leavers

Matt Johl (Hall 2002–2006) and John Oehley

Jim Napier (School 1967–1971 and his wife Lorleen

Paul’s Collegiate

Inty

This is a story about a race, and the person who lost when he should have won.

PROBABLY, HE STILL CONSIDERS it his worst failure, and probably he’s right, but it was also a triumph. Losing isn’t given the credit it should get.

The person who won is gone into the mists of time. I have no recollection of him, but the loser is still fixed in my memory. To be remembered for forty years seems like winning to me.

It was 1962. In the closed environment of a Boarding School, you get to know people quite well, and you tend to categorise them, often unfairly, but equally often with some accuracy.

And having done so you want to label them, so you give them a nickname, either as a reflection of their particular attribute, or the opposite of it.

The hero of this story wasn’t an academic, so naturally we called him Intelligence. Inty for short.

His particular skill was that he could run like the wind. He was unbelievably fast and unbeatable in his specialist distance, the 440 yards. Put money on him in the 440, and your only problem would be how to spend your winnings. Until November 1962, that is.

Most of Inty’s races were in house, so to speak; his competition being fellow pupils, since none of us got out much. But he was racing a stopwatch as well, and beating it, and occasionally he’d range further afield to Inter School competitions, and beat everybody there too. He was our champion, and we were proud of him. We were sure he was infallible, and as it turned out we were wrong, but we didn’t know that at the time.

Nemesis was approaching, in the form of a Provincial Track and Field meet on our own Playing Fields. The 440 was a foregone conclusion. Everybody knew that.

About a month before the big day, word began to trickle in about a new runner. Unbeatable, they said. It wasn’t true, just a bit of marketing by his supporters, but this was the sixties, remember. If somebody told you something, you believed it. And I admit we were concerned. Not as much as Inty.

He began to get a faraway look in his eyes. He was unlikely to have been thinking about schoolwork, so we knew he must be worried. He threw himself into an obsessive training regime, and there were those who felt he was losing his grip. Even his closest friends were looking thoughtful.

But when the day finally came, everybody got a look at the outsider, and the general opinion was he didn’t look much. In fact he looked a mean little sod, and even turning up was pretty arrogant. It was going to be a pleasure to watch him get humiliated. Inty, on the other hand, looked like a greek god. He was clean. He was match fit. He was an absolute dead cert, and only a fool would say otherwise. With one difference.

Unlike us armchair generals, Inty was a runner. He knew talent when he met it, and he was meeting it now. It must have been at that point he decided to go with plan B.

Down on that paddock, in the afternoon sun, was when he decided to raise the whole thing to a different level, a radical new way of running the 440. Just how radical we were about to find out.

There were twelve in the field. They settled to the blocks, the gun went, and eleven runners made a classic start. One had a different idea. There’s no Olympic 50 yards, but if there was Inty would still be the World Record Holder. He was ten yards clear before the others got their hands off the ground, twenty yards in front at the first corner, and by the time the field got there, Inty was well into the turn, with a thirty yard lead and still accelerating. And still gaining ground.

We’d been expecting powerful, maybe even supercharged, but this was Nuclear. Inty was out to win, and if he had to sprint all the way, that was what he was going to do. The training regime was forgotten, the coach was forgotten, the speed/distance/endurance equation was dead, and we knew we were seeing history in the making. Inty had torn up the rule book and thrown it away. The most amazing thing was that it seemed to be working. Halfway along the back straight Inty had a fifty yard lead, and holding. The rest were a tight bunch, struggling to catch up, and probably wondering what they’d struck. It was a total whitewash, and it was Inty holding the brush. I think at that point we all stood a little taller.

Inty came into the final turn still at full speed. We all knew what was going to happen next. Peter Snell had just made it famous. One of the field would break, and come swooping down on the leader. In this case, of course, it was only going to be a race for second, but it was still worth waiting for. And, sure enough, it happened. As we predicted. Except they all broke. It was unheard of. Eleven schoolboy runners speeding up at the same time, in perfect unison.

It took us some time to realize that the others weren’t speeding up, Inty was slowing down. His arms and legs were still moving at the same speed, but he didn’t seem to be covering the ground. Even so, he was still going to win. All he had to do was hold on. The tape was in sight.

And then it happened.. Exactly at the 390 yard mark, Inty suddenly ceased. He fell sideways, without warning and without a sound. One minute he was there, and then suddenly he wasn’t. One minute he was a functioning human being, and the next he was just a crumpled heap on the grass, while the rest of the field swept past him and on to their various places in history.

He lay there for a long time. If he had been on a treadmill, being monitored by a Sports Medicine Physiologist, he’d be in the textbooks today as the classic example of oxygen debt. But he wasn’t, and he isn’t, he was just a schoolboy in a paddock, and a magnificent experiment that failed. Long before it became a catchphrase, Inty had hit the wall, and it promptly fell on him.

I don’t think he ever got over it. Probably, he still wakes in the night, running the race over and over in his mind, trying to think how he might have done better, desperate to run it again. If only.

The only thing he got out of it was a new nickname, but none of us ever dared use it to his face.

We called him 390.

Peter Cox (Sargood 1960 – 1963)

Sadly, Peter passed away and will be greatly missed. His obituary is included on page 28

Rob Cummings (Inty) (Sargood 1961 – 1962) after a succcessful run around the colluseum.

Events Calendar 2012

Please feel free to attend any of these events around the country. We often take a minivan from school so, if you would like to catch a ride with us, then just let us know. Some RSVPs are required for catering purposes; please refer to our website www.stpauls.school.nz/ Content/516/Old-Collegians for updates or contact the Old Collegians’ Executive Officer on 07 957 8805 or email oldcollegians@stpauls.school.nz

MAY

• Friday 25 St Paul’s Academic Open Day: Registration at 12.30pm; Headmaster’s address at 1.00pm

• Wednesday 30 BOP Old Collegians’ Networking Evening from 5.00pm, The Hub, Level 3, 525 Cameron Road, corner Cameron Road and 11th Ave (behind Sierra Café), Tauranga; parking in basement before 5:30pm otherwise at the front of the building or in the street (hosted by John Mackay School 1986 – 1990)

JUNE

• Wednesday 6 Hamilton Networking Evening, 5.30pm, Keystone Bar, Victoria Street, Hamilton

• Friday 15 Fieldays/Old Collegians are welcome to visit us

• Tuesday 26 – Friday 29 St Paul’s musical Les Misérables School Edition, Southwell Performing Arts Centre; tickets can be bought from the school office from 28 May

• Saturday 30 Old Collegians’ Winter Sports Day (to be confirmed)

AUGUST

• Saturday 11 Open day Registration at 1.30pm, Headmaster’s address at 2.00pm

• Friday 17 ’70s Celebration – See panel opposite for details

• Saturday 18 ‘70s Celebration continues

• Thursday 23 Christchurch Networking Evening (venue and time to be confirmed)

• Friday 24 Networking Evening Russell McVeagh 157 Lampton Quay Vodafone building level 24 Wellington 6pm start (Hosted by Tim Clarke Williams 1984 – 1988)

OCTOBER

• Friday 12 – Saturday 13 Gisborne Show

NOVEMBER

• Tuesday 6 BOP Old Collegians’ Networking Evening from 5.00pm, The Hub, Level 3, 525 Cameron Road, corner Cameron Road and 11th Ave (behind Sierra Café), Tauranga; parking in basement before 5:30pm otherwise at the front of the building or in the street (hosted by John Mackay School 1986 – 1990)

• Thursday 15 Hamilton Networking Evening 5.30pm, Keystone Bar, Victoria Street, Hamilton

• Friday 23 Beer and Barbecue evening for 2011 and 2007 leavers 5.30pm, Old Collegians’ Pavilion

• Thursday 29 Auckland Old Collegians’ Networking Evening, 5.30pm, Commercial Travellers’ Club (CT), Ellerslie

’70s Reunion Weekend

Pre-registration for this weekend is on the Registration Form found on the website at: www.stpauls.school.nz/Content/516/OldCollegians

FRIDAY 17 AUGUST 2012

• 2.15pm Celebrations will begin with a Welcome and Assembly in the St Paul’s Collegiate School Chapel of Christ the King with the whole School Community

• 3.15pm Registration in the Pavilion

• 3.45pm Year photos

• Mix and Mingle

• Continuous drinks (cash bar available) and nibbles will be served throughout the afternoon in the Pavilion

• 4.00pm Welcome from the Headmaster

• Welcome by President of the Old Collegians

• Address by staff from the ’70s

• Mix and Mingle continues till 7.30

SATURDAY 18 AUGUST 2012

The day begins with School sports

• 9.30am Final registration in the Pavilion

• 10.00am Morning tea will be served in your old house

• 10.45am School tours will begin

• 12.00pm Reunion lunch will be served in the Long Room with guest speakers

Hassall (Hamilton 1969-1972)

The next major School project – the Redevelopment of Sargood House

FIFTY-ONE YEARS AGO, SARGOOD became one of St Paul’s three boys’ Boarding Houses. Many of the dormitories are very similar to those that Old Collegians experienced over the past five decades –bunks in the Year 9 dormitories and a barracks-type arrangement for Year 10/11 students with minimal privacy. Currently, the showers and ablutions are centralised at one point in the House.

The redevelopment of Sargood, which we hope to be able to commence in the latter part of 2012, would see much greater space for our junior boarders, with separate designated showers and toilets, and a common room area. Capacity would increase from the current 17 students at each level, to 20, enabling a total of 90 boys to be accommodated within Sargood. A three-bedroomed Assistant Housemaster’s residence would be included in the development, with the Housemaster having direct access from their home into the junior common room.

It is hoped that a second storey will be added to the central area of Sargood which would provide new single-room accommodation for Year 13 students and additional adult supervision in the form of a House Tutor’s flat.

The cost of the renovation and expansion of Sargood House is expected to be $2.0 million and the project is scheduled for completion in April 2013.

Pavilion Donors

A very big thank-you to the following Pavilion Project donors:

CORPORATE DONORS

• Perry Foundation

• Southern Trust

• BNZ

• WEL Energy Trust

• Receipt 4834

• St Paul’s Old Collegians’ Association

• St Paul’s Parents’ Association

SIGNIFICANT DONORS

• Greg Thompson

• Tim and Sue Aitken

• Jon and Sue Tanner

• Raymond and Jenny Bird

SEAT DONORS

• John Shafer Spacific Yearbooks

• Grant and

Judith Lander

• Bowers Family

• Mason Family

• Receipt 5944

• Richard Ludbrook

• Gary Schofield

• Glenys Parton

• Kaine Thompson

• Dave Mackay

• Tim Clarke

• Simon Clarke

• Receipt 5942

• Pat and Diana Plant

• Posa Family

• 2010 Leavers (2)

• Max Hill

• Andrew S D Gordon

• Philip Morgan QC

• Gerrand Family

• Nicholas Smart

• Gill Family

• Yarndley Famly

• Cooper Family

• Humphry Rolleston

• Snodgrass Family

• Bill Esling

• Blackett Family

• Harris Family

• Hugh Barton and Margaret Bruce

• Marcus and Nicki Wilkins

• James and Donna Wilkins

• PM Burt Family

• Graeme Hughes

• Mexted Family

• KC Kirk Family

• AJ Martin (Brian Smales)

• Tessa Hickson

• Tim Hickson

• Beaumont Family

• Bayly Family

• Peter Guise

• Webb Family

• Fawcett Family

• Gasquoine Family

Dining Room Upgrade

ONE OF THE MAIN building projects that has been taking place in the school grounds over the last few months is the upgrade of the dining room. As well as being extended both up and out, it has a new sound system, new furniture and new flooring. It will comfortably seat 360 people with the space for potential café development in the future. When you enter the dining room now, one of the first things you notice is that it is much quieter and warmer. The kitchen also is having a makeover, including new dishwashers and a new dish-drop area.

• Elliott Family

• Alice Fisher

• Furminger Family

• Evan McCulloch

• Oehley Family

• Stewart Family

• Greg and Percy Thompson

• David Curtis

• Colin and Loris Eyre

• Clayton-Greene family

Any further family that wishes to secure naming rights for seats on the bleachers can make a donation of $1,500 (which can be made over three years at $500 per annum). Your generosity will be recognised with a brass plaque (inlaid into a pair of seats) and a listing on the honours board in the refurbished Pavilion.

OTHER PAVILION DONORS

• Campbell Ludbrook

• Fraser Barron

• Clarke Family

• Candy Family OTHER FOUNDATION DONORS

Staff Development Scholarship

• John Ormiston

Football Scholarship

• Dan Wilson

Sports Sponsorship

• Atlas Concrete (Graham Collie)

• Hamilton Planks

How You Can Help –become a ‘Pavilion Partner’ with St Paul’s Collegiate School

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Sponsor s will be individually acknowledged on signage and on the honours board in the Pavilion. All sponsors will be listed in the community publications of Informer and Network, and on the website.

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Technology Upgrade

In line with both our strategic plan and the research on the 21st-century learner, considerable interest has been taken in the latest teaching technologies and pedagogy.

EARLY IN 2011, AFTER expert advice, it became clear that our IT infrastructure had to be re-evaluated to ensure long-term site stability, security and confidence.

In July last year, work started with the upgrading of the site cabling and switch infrastructure. A new fibre backbone was run, along with strategically placed CAT 6 cabling and associated switches. All this work was undertaken after school hours and in parallel with the existing network so no downtime was experienced in the teaching and learning sites.

During the 2011 July holiday period, St Paul’s was a hive of activity. A new server room was built, we installed a new server farm and there was a complete refit of the two ICT labs and a roll-out of over 100 new PCs.

St Paul’s went from having very old tower servers sitting on the floor in an office space to a purpose-built environmentally controlled room with two modern rack mount servers hosting approximately 13 virtual servers and an attached SAN for storage. This server farm now has extra storage in the server housed in the School Chapel. Our network now has terabytes of storage and runs the latest software comprising Microsoft Server 2008 R2, Windows 7 and Office 2010 to name but a few.

Our ICT labs have experienced a total refit and have changed from rather drab uninspiring spaces to modern, dynamic learning environments. The physical upgrades continued for the remainder of the year with the introduction of wireless access across the academic campus. This has meant that any student who has a Wi-Fi-capable device has been able to access the appropriately filtered internet for research purposes. In tandem with these physical advances, staff members have been

undergoing considerable professional development focusing on the use of our chosen learning management system, Moodle. Departments are now moving to having assignments and support resources online and available to students anytime, anywhere. This will evolve so that students not only have basic course outlines and assignments but more interactive activities that promote and reinforce higher-level thinking skills. We will move to being online not only for students but also for parents.

THE FUTURE

During the next holiday break:

• Wireless access will be rolled out to the boarding houses, keeping in mind the school has complete control over when and what is accessed by the students

• A new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone system will be installed

• The Tihoi campus IT infrastructure will be rebuilt

• Conversations will begin with stakeholders over the introduction of a ‘Bring Your Own Device’ BYOD program to start at Year 9 in 2013

• We hope that ultra-fast broadband will be available in October; this is yet to be confirmed.

• We will also move to ‘Cloud’ solutions

A solid foundation has been laid here at St Paul’s, not only with the physical infrastructure but also with the pedagogical change in classrooms to facilitate 21st-century teaching and learning.

St Paul’s Collegiate’s outstanding successes in all aspects of school endeavours will only be strengthened and supported with its modern and leading-edge IT facilities.

Mike O’Donnell, Director of Digital Learning

Tihoi Venture School – 2012

Intake one 2012 has started well with summer finally deciding to rear its head just as the term got under way. Sixty-five students make up the 65th intake during the time that the Venture School has been in operation.

FOR THIS ARTICLE, IT seems appropriate to remember some of the history and how that history has been replaced, in many cases, with a newer version of the same thing. One of the interesting trends that seem to be increasing is the number of Old Collegians’ sons who are now arriving at Tihoi with their fathers having experienced Tihoi themselves. This year, we welcome two new staff members to the staffroom: Simon Goodwin and Josh Mann. Simon has been working as a contract outdoor instructor at several outdoor centres around the North Island and joined partner Hillary as a full-time staff member at Tihoi. Josh completed Year 13 at St Paul’s in 2011 and joins us as the Tihoi Tutor for 2012. Both have enjoyed the first few weeks in the job thus far.

As we celebrate 33 years of Tihoi Venture School this year, the centre has developed an ethos and gives students and staff an ongoing opportunity for developing communal values. For this centre to remain unique as an educational facility and continue to have

a good ethos, each person must portray the types of traits that are most valued within society: for example, virtues such as justice, courage, temperance, respect, magnificence, gentleness, prudence, empathy and wisdom. The ethos of Tihoi has been tested on a number of occasions over the past few years. It is sad to think that we are required to ‘sell’ the ‘back to basics’ idea to students and that often many struggle to realise the importance of this programme until it is over. With technology improving all the time, many of the Tihoi traditions, which past directors and staff set up, are becoming more and more difficult to hold on to.

The current cohort of staff is dedicated to continuing with these traditions and I can only hope this will continue into the future. One of these is letter-writing. Although parents and staff are able to email on a daily basis if required, the communication between students and parents and other family members still remains the same. Many of these letters become treasured items for years after the Tihoi experience.

The ethos of Tihoi has always been based around the idea of being equal and simplistic. Possibly the biggest change to happen to Tihoi is its appearance compared to how it looked in years gone by. The commitment by the Headmaster and BOT to continue to develop Tihoi has and continues to be outstanding. St Paul’s has a world-class outdoor facility and programme to match. Recent developments have seen the removal of the final two original mill houses. In October 2011, ‘Old Villa’ was removed and this made way for a three-bedroomed Lockwood to be transported from Taupo to the school. This house is now the residence of our Catering Manager, Gerard Pascoe. In November 2011, the ‘Old Franks’ house was also replaced with a newer version which was built by the students throughout 2011 on the Netball courts at St Paul’s. This construction challenge was completed by the Year 13 construction class under the guidance of Mr Heta Smith (teacher), Mr Gavin Jakes and Mr Mark May (builders and

Franks House Blessing 2012 Intake 1

parents) along with a huge number of other supporters. This has given Tihoi the capacity to now have 72 students in nine houses. It is also excellent accommodation for outside functions such as the weddings held here this summer. Franks House is a real credit to all those who worked on it and, this year, is being used for the first time as a student house. Revd Craig Luccock blessed the house in early February with all students of the current intake taking part in this celebration.

A lot of thought went into keeping or, in the end, not keeping the old houses as a legacy to those who had been through. In the end, it did not make practical sense as they were not in good shape. Many of the emblems, which made these houses and the centre what they were, have been kept. Most of the houses now have the original signs attached at their entrances. The ‘Cooks Corner’ sign has been reinstated on the Gallagher Centre. Over the coming years, we intend to frame some of the old photos we have. These will be placed in the dining hall not only for past students to remember but for the new generations to understand why this place has become so important to so many people.

Another new development is that St Paul’s has taken over the running of the catering

here. Gerard and his team of Sandra, Anne and Erna are now employees of St Paul’s. Spotless and, more recently, Alliance have done an outstanding job in this area for many years and we thank all involved. As I write this, the rain is teaming down outside and the students are ether indoor Rock Climbing in the shed, Kayaking on the Waikato near Taupo or huddling under black plastic near the YMCA huts completing a survival exercise. How many Old Collegians will read this and know exactly what being out there in those conditions feels like?

This year at Tihoi, we have welcomed the ERO visit and Cyn and I have been given the opportunity to attend the International Boys’ Schools Coalition Conference in Melbourne in July. The theme this year is ‘Unearthing Creativity’; we have been asked to present the Tihoi Venture School ‘model’. This will be a fantastic opportunity also to learn from many other presenters while we are attending.

Chris Wynn and Cyn Smith, Directors

New staff house for Tihoi

The new staff house for Tihoi is being built by the Technology class under the tutorage of Mr Wilson, Old Collegians Cole Weston and Richard Hull, current parents Gavin Jakes, Martin Dobbe from Urbo Homes and Nick Holcroft from Prestige Homes, and past parent, Mark May.

ST PAUL’S COLLEGIATE SCHOOL has committed $180,000.00 to the project this year. Several of the students who were involved with the building of Frank’s House for Tihoi last year have already found apprenticeships with builders and plumbers. Livingstone, the company involved in the rebuild of some of our major buildings including Clark House and the Dining Hall, have expressed an interest in offering employment to a couple of the boys at the end of this year.

The students involved this year are: Andrew Bishop, Arie Brogden, Andrew Collie, Louis Cronin, Aaron Elliott, David Glover, Jack Kelly, Adam Langdon, Malcolm Luman, Gerard Needham, Patrick Sauni, Sam Savage, Josh Smith and Matt Tingey.

Franks House Arrival

Franks House Arrival

Gee Cooks Corner Sign

Buy A Brick Wall in the New Franks House

Bunnings delivering the first load of wood for the Staff house

School Community Sport

North Island Secondary Schools Rowing Championships 2012

DESPITE ATROCIOUS WEATHER FOR the heats and fierce competition, all St Paul’s crews raced well; they went into the finals day with nine crews in the A finals and nine in the B finals. We won six medals (one Gold, three Silver and two Bronze) and ranked 10th out of the 90 competing schools. This is one of the most successful results in a number of years.

The Girls’ Under-18 Quad raced confidently and took the Gold medal in their A final; racing were Antonia Anda, Theresa Steiner, Danielle LeSueur and Brittany Smith coxed by Jesper Mansson.

After a close fight with Macleans College, who finished 1st, the Boys’ Under-17 Four of Jack Kelly, Tom Schicker, Alex Hargreaves, Cameron Bartley and cox Jesper Mansson took the Silver medal.

The Girls’ Under-18 Novice Double of Livi Jackson and Sarah Cranswick also won Silver, finishing behind St Peter’s but well ahead of the rest of the field.

The Boys’ Under-18 Lightweight Four of William Guest, Jonty MacPherson, Callum Windley, Lucas Martin and Jesper Mansson brought home the Bronze medal after a gutsy row, confirming that they would be an exciting medal prospect at Maadi.

The Under-15s also raced well. The Eight punched well above its weight to take the Bronze medal, beating much heavier crews. Racing

The Colts

FOR THE FIRST TIME in St Paul’s history, the Colts Cricket team (Years 9 and 10) has made it to the national finals. The campaign started back in December 2011 when only the Year 9s were eligible to play. The first qualifying game was actually the toughest as the Colts were drawn against the mighty Hamilton Boys’ High Colts who had been successful in achieving finals week qualification in the previous three years. The boys knew the game would be tough and the key message they had to keep in mind was to fight all the way until the last ball had been bowled. They did so and were successful in winning the game in the last over, on the last ball, by just one run. The bravery and sheer determination shown by the boys on the field was second to none.

were Jack Schicker, Tom Goodwin, Ryan Marsh, Tim Husband-Dravitzki, Lachlan Lee, Willis Webb, Hugo Brown and Henry Wills. The cox was Logan Birt.

The Under-15 Four of Hugo Brown, Willis Webb, Lachlan Lee and Henry Wills, this time coxed by Marcus Ground, raced maturely and excelled themselves by taking the Silver after finishing 6th at the last regatta.

The regatta’s strong results are testament not only to a good few days of racing but to the superb work ethic that has emerged in the squad over the past few weeks.

Alex Mason (Hamilton 2005 – 2010), Rowing Coach

Only a week later, the Colts were drawn against the St John’s Colts XI in the second round of the cup. Still riding high on the success of the previous fixture, the boys came out firing and beat St John’s by 196 runs. The first two games had been successes and the boys were eager to play the next round; however, they were forced to wait until February 2012 because of the summer break.The campaign started up again with a few new faces as the new Year 9s competed for places in the Colts. After a couple of weeks’ training together, they were ready to take on Pukekohe High School in the third round of the cup. Believing the opposition would be strong, the boys again went out hard and were successful in achieving a victory over Pukekohe by 237 runs.

In the fourth and final qualifying game, the Colts were forced to travel as they were drawn against the largely unknown side of Whangarei Boys’ High School Colts XI. The resulting victory for the St Paul’s team was a win of 11 runs and qualification to national finals week.

In the four cup victories, the Colts have scored 828 runs for the loss of only 25 wickets and the bowlers have taken 38 wickets for the concession of just 384 runs. These figures duly represent the quality of the players in the Colts XI. All 16 young men who have stepped on to the field in the cup games should be incredible proud of themselves as they have represented the school superbly and, more importantly, played together and supported one another magnificently.

Jacob Lee

Antonia, Brittany, Danni, Theresa, GU18 4x Gold Medal, NISS

Athletics

SEVEN ATHLETES FROM ST Paul’s competed for Waikato Bay of Plenty at the National Age group Athletic Championships in Tauranga on 23, 24 and 25 March. Together they achieved the best results in the school’s history of Athletics, by winning a total of 11 medals: eight gold, two silver and one bronze from individual events and relays.

WAIKATO/BOP RESULTS

• Scott Hilliar won Senior Boys’ 800m and 1500m as well as receiving the John Walker shoes trophy; also he is the New Zealand title-holder for the U20 800m

• Katelyn Matthews second in the Senior Girls’ 800m and second in the 400m

• Jonty Rae third in the Senior Boys’ 400m

• Michael Gutry won Senior Boys’ 100m and was second in the 200m

• James Hunt won the 300m and the 110m hurdles and is now the New Zealand titleholder for both

• Tom Smith won the Intermediate Boys’ 100m, then broke the U17 400m record, which had stood since 1975 in a personal best time of 49.73 secs; he is now the New Zealand title-holder

• The Senior Boys’ 4x100m team of Michael Gutry, Sean Henley-Smith, James Hunt and Jonty Rae broke the meet record held by St Paul’s since 1999

• Senior Girls’ 4x100m relay team of Rebecca Foster, Katelyn Matthews, Teagan Voykovich and Laura McKenna came third

• Ryan Ballantyne won the Junior Boys’ 300m, second in the 800m

• Jack Tatton second in the Senior Boys’ 3000m and 2000m steeplechase

• Laura McKenna third in the Senior Girls’ 100m and 200m

• Jack Davies third in the Junior Boys’ 3000m

• Morgan Jackson threw 12.38m to place third in the Junior Shot-put

NATIONAL AGE CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS

• Scott Hilliar gold medal in the Men’s U20 800m and bronze in the Men’s U20 1500m

• Katelyn Matthews silver medal in the Women’s U17 and gold medal in the 4x400m Women’s U17 relay

• Jonty Rae gold medal in the 4x400m U20 Men’s relay

• James Hunt gold medal in the 110m hurdles, gold medal in the 300m hurdles, gold medal in the 4x400m relay and silver medal in the 4x100m relay;

• Tom Smith gold medal in the Men’s U17 400m in 49.53 secs to win (breaking his own record that he had just set in Tauranga), gold medal in the 4x400m relay.

Golden Shears Competition

ON THE FIRST DAY of competitions for the Golden Shears in Masterton earlier this year, several winners were produced. One of them was St Paul’s student, 13-year-old Josh Balme. He won the Novice Shearing title and is the youngest-ever competitor to win this title in the Golden Shears’ 52-year history. Josh is the son of veteran shearer Digger Balme, who has competed in the Golden Shears Open finals.

News from Maadi Cup 2012

LAKE RUATANIWHA, TWIZEL –HIGHLIGHTS

• Bronze medal – Boys’ Under-17 4+ Jack Kelly, Tom Schicker, Alex Hargreaves and Cameron Bartley coxed by Jesper Mansson

• Bronze medal – Girls’ Under-18 4x Brittany Smith, Danielle LeSueur, Theresa Steiner and Antonia Anda coxed by Jesper Mansson

• 4th – Boys’ U18 LWT 4+ Callum Windley, William Guest, Jonty MacPherson, Lucas Martin and Jesper Mansson

• 4th – Girls U18 Novice 2x Sarah Cranswick and Livi Jackson

• St Paul’s crews made eight A finals (top eight in New Zealand) and seven B finals, making it one of the most successful Maadi Cups in a number of years.

Tom Smith

School Community News

Paul Newton-Jackson

ST PAUL’S STUDENT

PAUL Newton-Jackson gained top place in New Zealand in the IGCSE (Cambridge) Music exams for the 2011 examination session.

Paul is an exceptionally talented musician with a wide range of abilities and is involved in all aspects of Music at school. He is particularly gifted in composition and wrote a piece for a string quartet which was entered in the Chamber Music Competition and won the Statham Award for best performance of a piece by a New Zealand composer. Paul’s second composition was a Concert Prelude for a symphony orchestra. The challenge of writing for the full orchestra was ably met by Paul with an energetic and colourful piece. Paul plays piano, organ, guitar, bass and drums, and sings in the choir. Paul’s band Bermuda Squared, won People’s Choice through a text vote at the Waikato Regional Smokefree Rockquest last year. Paul played drums for Damn Yankees and is involved in most school Music activities. He has played the organ for Chapel on both weekdays and Sundays.

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Musical Production

Les Misérables, School Edition

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THE INTERNATIONAL, LEGENDARY MUSICAL has been specially adapted to meet the needs of young performers. This author-approved edition has been abridged to a running time of just over two hours, while carefully maintaining the integrity of one the greatest musicals ever written. This epic story recounts the struggle against adversity in 19th-century France. Imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread, petty thief Jean Valjean is released from his 19-year term and not only becomes an honest man, but becomes the mayor of a prosperous town and a loving adoptive father – violating his parole in the process. The relentless Inspector Javert, who makes a decent life for Valjean impossible, consequently pursues him. Only years later, after Valjean proves his mettle during the bloody student uprising (Paris 1832) and saves the life of a young man hopelessly in love with Valjean’s adopted daughter, does the ex-convict finally feel fully redeemed.

Originally adapted from Victor Hugo’s timeless novel, Les Misérables School Edition introduces a new generation to the grand and inspirational story that has touched the hearts of millions. For, within Les Misérables School Edition lies the universal truth ‘To love another person is to see the face of God’ and this message is sure to have a lasting impact on cast, crew, audience and school alike. The talented cast includes Sam Armstrong as Valjean, Ross Noble as Javert, Josie Reilly as Fantine, Jonathan Eyers as Marius, Rosie Searle as Cosette and Holly Ho as Eponine.

Performances are at Southwell Centre for Performing Arts 26–29 June, 7.30pm. Tickets will be available from St Paul’s Collegiate School office from Monday 28 May.

Paul is being presented with his award by CEO of Cambridge International Examinations, Ann Puntis

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Athletics Day

First Morning at School

Girls at Tihoi

House Kapa Haka Girls Harington Fashion Show

St Paul’s Collegiate School

Book by: ALAIN BOUBLIL

Music by: CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG

International Report, Term One, 2012

WE START THE YEAR with 31 International Students from a wide range of countries including Korea, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Tuvalu, Hong Kong, Germany and China. They each bring with them a host of different experiences, cultures and traditions. What is also pleasing is that we have three prefects who hold the portfolio of International Students, they are Head Girl Lizzy Rajan, Deputy Head Boy Jonty Wood and Jesper Mansson.

Jonty, Lizzy and Jesper hosted our first social get-together for 2012 with a drink-and-doughnut morning tea. Other ideas for more social events include going to a rugby game, fish-and-chips night and hokeypokey ice-cream shout. All suggestions were enthusiastically received and we look forward to a very cultural year.

Four International Students were recipients at the Scholar’s Ties Awards for their NCEA results from 2011: Scott Ham (Year 13, South Korea), David Back (Year 13, South Korea), Andrew Huang (Year 12, Taiwan) and Panasann Pattanakulchai (Year 12, Thailand).

As my time at St Paul’s Collegiate School draws to a close, I am mindful of the aims and goals I have had for International Students: To achieve academically within the New Zealand education system

Parents’ Association

Greetings to all of our School community. The Parents’ Association has had a great start to the year.

OUR RECENT AGM HAS confirmed Tim Elliot as President, Brett Whiteley as treasurer and Eleanor Carmichael as secretary, and we welcome Richard Tatton as Vice-President.

Thank you once again to all of the families who have supported us through the Cattle Scheme. This scheme, due to the passion of its team leaders – Paul Coster and Jenny McPherson (outgoing) and Diane and Rick Donaghue (incoming) – and the commitment of our School’s rural families, has contributed $53,000.00 to funds that will be allocated to various projects around the School.

It has been a pleasure, over the last 12 months, to contribute to the well-being of the School and the pupils.

Our projects for this year will include: an Honours Board for Duke of Edinburgh gold recipients; outdoor furniture; $21,000.00 for an AV system for the new Dining Room; carpet squares to protect the Gym floor when it is being used for functions; a grant for a gear trailer for the school vans; further support for the band initiatives run by Michelle Flint; coaches’ jackets; and travel and House grants as requested. We also continue to work with the Old Collegians on a project to build a Coffee Service Trailer that can be used by different groups in the school for fund-raising.

To study English and the culture and lifestyle of New Zealand and to participate as fully as is possibleTo develop the ability and confidence to communicate competently in English, in both spoken and written formsTo develop an awareness of the multicultural identity of New Zealand societyTo develop personally and to return home enriched intellectually, socially and culturally.

I believe that as a school we have been successful as a community in accepting Internatio nal Students. Our students have learnt about cultural diversity, acceptance and tolerance of others and have learned to accept that we are part of the greater global community.

I am also mindful of all the wonderful International Students who have come through our gates. Their achievements, academic, physical (Tihoi), sporting and cultural, have often inspired me and made my job worthwhile.

Margie Smith, Director of International Students

The Parents’ Association will have a food stall at Fieldays again this year, as last year was very successful for us; we also enjoyed the visits from Old Collegians.

We look forward to supporting school events such as: House Rugby/ Soccer and Hockey, the Celebration of Music, the School production Les Misérables School Edition and the Ball.

Our cookbook Plates for Mates continues to be a popular gift. Copies of this can be bought by emailing the association directly at parentsassociation@stpauls.school.nz

We are keen to receive ideas about, and support for, further projects and look forward to our ongoing involvement with the School community.

Eleanor Carmichael, Secretary of the St Paul’s Collegiate School Parents’ Association and current parent

International morning tea

International prefects 2012

Births

In April 2011, Jane and Quentin Dalziell (Clark 1985 – 1989) welcomed MacKenzie into their family. Quentin describes him as an absolute champion of a kid and, at 11 months old, he is absolutely running their house! He loves all things to do with food (a bit like his Dad in that regard) and will eat anything. On New Year’s Eve, they went out for lunch, where he ate a raw salmon tartare with ginger and lime panna cotta, duck-liver parfait with rabbit and speck galantine, duck confit and French cheese. Quentin doesn’t know that he can afford MacKenzie’s tastes into the future…

Deaths

Our condolences are extended to the families of the following people from the St Paul’s community: Michael Abraham (Clark 1991 – 1995) passed away on the 2 April 2012 after a battle with Cancer

Michael Bryan (Williams 1975 – 1979) passed away on the 1st of October 2011 after a long battle with Cancer. His partner Di says that he was an amazing, well-loved and very much respected man. She says that he was also a brave police officer who she feels gained many of his attributes that were so respected by his work colleagues, from his time at St Paul’s. He always spoke fondly of St Paul’s.

Peter Cox (Sargood 1960 – 1963) By

Dave Mackay (School 1959 – 1961). Peter attended St Pauls’ in the very formative years of the school and is regarded as a ‘Foundation Pupil’. In the five years Peter was at St Paul’s, he took a major part in building the foundations of the School’s Theatre and Drama departments. On leaving school, Peter pursued a career in Dramatic Arts before being called to take on the farm following his father’s death. One of Peter’s significant acting roles was in the movie Erebus. Like everything Peter did, it was done to a very high and positive level. One of his major achievements was the building and running of a large equestrian ‘Crosscountry Course’ on the family farm. The home farm known as ‘The Crossing’, along with this course, became known worldwide attracting royalty as both guests and competitors. In later years, Peter moved to Waiheke Island and became heavily involved with the coastguard where he was well known in both the rescue work and as an able administrator. Peter as a father, husband, brother

and friend was renowned for his sense of humour; his ability to see a scene in a view like no other and put pen to paper and produce a poem or story was legendary. His arrival at an Old Collegians’ get-together was always a great experience and he will be sorely missed.

Geoffrey Fletcher (1968 – 1986) was groundsman at St Paul’s for 18 years. Geoff died on 10 December 2011 at Malyon House, Te Puke, in his 97th year.

Michael Harper (Williams 2008) passed away on the 9th of April. If you would like to record your memories of Mike, then please do so at www. amemorytree.co.nz

Ben Khouri (School 2001 – 2005) passed away on 27 October 2011 after struggling with a terminal illness.

Peter Wallace Johnstone, Fellow of St Paul’s 10 January 1941 – 18 October 2011. Mr Peter Johnstone died tragically on 18 October while working on a digger on his farm at Puketutu which lies 13km east of Te Kuiti. Peter and his wife Margaret had a son Allen who attended St Paul’s in 1984 and his grandson, William Reeves, is currently in Year 11 at the School. An accomplished and highly respected farmer, Peter established his first farm at Puketutu and, along with Mr John Oliver in 1972, acquired a property at Pureora and commenced a planting operation. Over successive years, this has been followed by other blocks and more shareholders. Peter played a key role in the establishment and eventual development of the Honikiwi Forest. Peter’s enduring support of St Paul’s has been deeply appreciated over the years and is acknowledged by the whole school community.

Engagements

Hadyn Cummings (Hamilton 1997 – 2001) and Michelle Smith (Harington 2002) were engaged late last year.They plan to be married in February 2013. Michelle is the manager of an early childhood centre called The Barnyard in Te Awamutu and Hadyn is the manager at Southern Fresh Foods in Cambridge. After four years of travelling on and off, they have recently bought a house and are now settled in Cambridge.

Michael Oehley (Hamilton 1997 – 2001) has become engaged to Claire Lipman from Australia.

Mark Robertson (Sargood 1986 – 1990) and Angela Guilfoyle became engaged while on holiday in Antwerp and will be married in Sydney in September 2012.

Marriages

Charlie Hancy (Hamilton 1997 –2000) and Kim Rauputu (Harington 2000) met at St Paul’s in their final year of school and have been together ever since. Charlie and Kim are currently living in London and returned home for their wedding at the Hamilton Rose Gardens on 7 January 2012. Old Collegians –Aimee Leather (Harington 1999 – 2000) and Erin Simpson (Harington 1999 – 2000) – were the bridesmaids.

Rebecca Thomas (Harington 2002) married her partner Nathan Hubbard in Christchurch on 1 October 2011. She met Nathan just after finishing her teaching degree in Canterbury. They both worked in the Christchurch central city and decided after the February 2011 ’quakes, to move back up to the Waikato to steadier ground. They are now working on a dairy farm in Matamata but decided to go ahead with their wedding in Christchurch as planned. Rebecca and Nathan are expecting their first baby in July this year.

Mr Peter Johnstone and Mr John Oliver at the Fellows induction in May 2011

Snippets

Grant Bell (Williams 2001 – 2005), former 1st XI cricketer, was recently selected in the Australian Country Cricket team after being named ‘Batsman of the Tournament’ at the recent Australian Country Cricket Festival held in Victoria in January 2012. Grant was representing Northern Territory and scored 376 runs at an average of 53.71 for the Festival. He is pictured here with his former 1st XI cricket coach Garth Littlejohn and proudly displaying his Australian playing shirt, ‘baggy green’ cap and batting award.

Richard Bracefield (Sargood 2002 – 2005) has now completed his time at The University of Waikato and started working as a law graduate in Auckland. His qualifications are BMS(Hons)Maj.Acct/ LLB(Hons) (Bachelor of Management Studies majoring in Accounting with Honours/Bachelor of Laws with First-class Honours). This was a conjoint programme that took six years to complete. During that time, he was elected The University of Waikato Law Students’ Association President in 2009 before passing the job on to Ben Gilbert (another St Paul’s old collegian and friend) who took up the position in 2010. Richard is now working in Central Auckland at Simpson Grierson (a large commercial law firm) as a law graduate in their Banking and Finance Litigation team.

Quentin Dalziell (Clark 1985 – 1989) and his wife Jane have bought a small farming property in Canowindra (about 250km north-west of Canberra), where they are planning to build their dream home/lifestyle. The farm is only 25 acres, but it is part of an organic and biodynamic neighbourhood scheme with incredibly fertile soils and excellent water rights. There are seven families who share the costs of maintaining the infrastructure and who all work in together with machinery and maintenance.Two of their neighbours are winemakers and others grow figs and olives, and farm sheep, and there is a market garden.The other farms practise what is called ‘industrial organic’ agriculture, in that they

are single-product enterprises. Quentin and Jane plan to have an intensive organic smallholding that allows them to achieve a degree of selfsufficiency, through the production of fruit, nuts and animal produce. It all sounds very green, and in some respects it probably is. However, Quentin says “We have been lucky enough to find a piece of paradise where the people are fantastic and where we want to bring up our children.” If you want to follow their journey, please check out their blog, at ourjourneytobeyond.blogspot.com

David Donald (Clark 2006 – 2008) has spent the last three years in Whangarei on a building apprenticeship. He has just moved to Dunedin with his girlfriend Jess.

Daryl lyes (Sargood 2003 – 2005) is a volunteer for the Hamilton Volunteer Fire Brigade. He has just been presented with the 10-year anniversary medal for the International Year of the Volunteer.

Howard Martin (Clark 1978 – 1980) completed his BCom at The University of Auckland. He moved to Norfolk Island to run the family business, and then lived in Sydney working for Qantas, London for Singapore Airlines, Turkey and Greece for Sunsail and, now, for the last 20 years has lived in Brisbane. Howard married Sandra, a Queenslander, and they have two wonderful children. Howard says “it is very, very tough as an All Black diehard raising my Australian-born children to be Wallaby supporters (though feel it’s the right thing to do) – buying them merchandise almost brings on a rash.” Howard will be climbing Mt Fuji this year for the big “five O”. Martin would be pleased to hear from others who were at school with him. howardsandra@optusnet.com.au

David Morgan (Hamilton House 2005 – 2009) was selected to play for the New Zealand Universities Rugby team. The programme for New Zealand Universities in 2012 is an internal tour involving matches against Wairarapa Bush at Masterton, a match against Japan Universities (Kanto) at Westpac Stadium in Wellington as the curtain raiser to the Hurricanes/Crusaders Super 15 match and a match against Australian Universities.

Ken O’Bryan (Past Staff 1961) After leaving St Paul’s Ken and his wife Maureen left New Zealand and went to Canada to teach in the far north of Alberta at Fort Chipewyan Indian School on Lake Athabaska which they said was a great adventure. They returned to study at the University of Alberta Edmonton where Ken completed a Master’s degree and subsequently a PhD in Experimental Psychology. Maureen did an MA at the same University. They then moved to Toronto where ken became a Professor of Applied

Psychology in the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto and Maureen completed a PHD in University Administration to become Chair of the Degree Programme in the School of Physical and Health Education. Ken was invited to be a Research Associate at Harvard and worked on Sesame Street and other Children’s Television Workshop products, and a number of major PBS television programmes throughout the 70s. Maureen became the President of the Sports Federation of Canada She then created the World Masters Games (which will be in Auckland in a few years’ time) and after that the World Corporate Games which became their business after Ken retired from the academic world.The headquarters are in England where they have offices and a home in a 300 year old Water Mill north of London but they live most of their time on the residential ship “The World”. On the ships recent visit to Auckland Ken and Maureen made time to come and visit us at St Paul’s.

Michael Pervan (Hall 1980 – 1984) has just been made a fellow of the Institute of Professional Engineers of New Zealand.

Amy Piggott nee Clotworthy (Harington 1996 –1997) and her husband Charles have two children, Chloe who is five and started school this year and Abbie who is three.They are living in Queensland, Australia, and enjoy the warmth, lifestyle and opportunities. Amy says that she is looking forward to catching up with family at her brother Carl Clotworthy’s wedding in Fiji. Her other brother Scott, who also went to St Paul’s and now lives in Hong Kong, will also be attending.

Janine Thomas (Harington 1990) writes that after a few years of working in Auckland, she immigrated to Perth in 1995, aged just 21 – and never looked back. She says, “Perth is a wonderful city with beautiful beaches, crystalclear sky and plenty of warm weather”. Janine has been in the real estate industry, selling large-scale apartment towers, off the plans, for 10 years. She says that she enjoys working alongside developers who have exciting visions and plans to transform Perth into an even more dynamic city than it already is today. Janine’s sisters followed her to Perth and, more recently, her parents, who had their ties very deep in Hamilton as her Dad was the MP for Hamilton West (Grant Thomas), have followed suit. Now they are all together again and enjoying the sunny skies of Perth!

Simon Wallace (Sargood 1985 – 1989) called into St Paul’s the other day. He is still living in the Cerrado region of Brazil where he is involved in developing a dairy business. Simon fondly remembered some of his remarkable teachers, terrific classmates and an all-conquering Sargood House. He was also very happy to catch up with Bev whom he described as the very loyal Matron of Sargood.

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