Network 2014 May

Page 1


EDITOR

Deborah McRae

SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHERS

Andrew Constable

School Media Team

CONTRIBUTORS

Monica Holt

Geoff Lewis

Karen Pickering

OLD COLLEGIANS’ ASSOCIATION

Deborah McRae

Ph 07 957 8805

MARKETING AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

Michelle Smith 07 957 8818

Karen Pickering 07 957 8898

ADDRESS

St Paul’s Collegiate School

Private Bag 3069

Waikato Mail Centre

Hamilton 3240

New Zealand

PRODUCTION

Spacific

Ph 09 309 6945

COVER

Andrew, Jack and Amanda Oliver in

From the

Headmaster’s pen

Dear past and present families, Old Collegians, Fellows and friends of St Paul’s

We have made a magnificent start to the new school year; with the highest school roll we have ever had in Term Two (i.e. 677 students); our 2013 Deputy Head Boy and Dux, Paul Newton-Jackson, awarded the Nation’s most prestigious tertiary scholarship – the Girdler’s Scholarship, to undertake an undergraduate course of study at Cambridge University; some of our best ever results in NCEA, including an incredible 91% of our Year 13 students gaining tertiary entry from their Level 3 results (i.e. up from 86% in 2012 and 79% in 2011).

In co-curricular activities, the National Summer Tournament week produced a plethora of highlights. Our 1st XI cricket side defeated Hamilton Boys’ High School in the final of the Northern Districts Gillette Cup competition and will represent the region for the first time since 2004 in the National secondary schools’ one-day finals. Our boys’ Futsal team for the second year in a row came runners up in the NZSS indoor soccer championship, while our rowers backed up a successful NISS competition, gaining four medals in the Maadi Cup regatta – winning

2014 student leaders

ADITYA SAKALKALE, HEAD BOY

Aditya Shakalkale is a strong academic and a confident, able student leader. He completed NCEA Level 2 with Excellence in 2013 and this year was the highest run scorer for the Development Cricket team which plays in the Division 1 Waikato Secondary

If I could choose my dream job it would be… a successful stock broker

If I could travel anywhere in the world it would be… maybe an around the world trip

School’s competition. He is an all-round strong sportsman, placing first in javelin at the Central Zone Athletics Competition and captaining the Development Football team in 2014. This year he is completing NCEA Level 3 Physics and Statistics and New Zealand Scholarship Chemistry, Biology and Classics.

JESSICA CHANWAI, HEAD GIRL

Jessica Chanwai is a talented violinist who plays at a first year tertiary undergraduate level. This year she was selected to perform at the Super 15 Chiefs v Crusaders match, which was held on Saturday 19 April. Alongside her musical talent, she gained NCEA Level 1 and 2 with Excellence and has an impressive portfolio of mission and outreach work. This year she is taking on a monumental academic workload, aiming to complete NCEA Level 3 Biology, Chemistry, Statistics, Physics and English as well as Biology Chemistry, Music, Statistics and Accounting as part of New Zealand Scholarship.

If I could choose my dream job it would be… travelling the world all-expenses-paid

If I could travel anywhere in the world it would be… everywhere, from top to bottom

Gold in the boys U17 four; Silver in the boys U17 eight; Bronze in the boys’ novice eight and girls U17 double. Sixteen of our athletes finished on the podium at the Waikato Bay of Plenty Track and Field championships and 19 of our swimmers replicated this feat in the pool. We have had students medal at a National level in a wide range of individual/ team events from golf croquet, to downhill mountain-biking, through to more traditional pursuits on the track.

Over the past 12 months we have enjoyed a respite from major construction projects, but this is all too soon about to change. On Monday 16 June, we will officially launch our Capital Campaign - one of the most important events in the recent school history. Over the past 20 months, a group of Old Collegians, current parents, supporters of the school, have quietly been meeting with some of the key members of the St Paul’s community to garner support for a set of projects they hope will go a long way to future-proofing the school for the challenges that await St Paul’s in the next few decades. Extremely encouragingly, we have had initial pledges of $1.25million towards a Capital Campaign to raise $4.0million, which would see the library expanded and modernised into a Learning Hub; the expansion and renovation of the Williams boarding house; a new Music teaching and practice facilities; and the launch of a new, exciting Centre

of Excellence in Agricultural Science and Business. St Paul’s is currently piloting an Agri-Business course at both NCEA Level 2 and Level 3, which in the next few years will be trialled in a number of other schools around the country, with the help of our Principal and Business Partners, before being rolled out nationally to all secondary schools. We believe this initiative will position St Paul’s as a key contributor within the rural sector.

JOHN PENYAS, DEPUTY HEAD BOY

John Penyas is a talented football player with sights set high for the future. He was selected to represent New Zealand’s futsal team, Futsal Whites, and the Waikato under-19 team in 2013. Alongside his love of sport he is a talented musician who plays the piano at a first year tertiary undergraduate level. This year he is completing NCEA Biology, Art Design, Statistics and Music as well as an additional Music subject as part of New Zealand Scholarship.

PARE GILMARTIN-KARA, DEPUTY HEAD GIRL

If I could choose my dream job it would be… to get paid to play football at a high level

If I could travel anywhere in the world it would be… to Rio De Janeiro because the whole world will be there this year watching the FIFA World Cup

If I could choose my dream job it would be… an Olympian or a chocolate maker

Pare Gilmartin-Kara was named St Paul’s sportswoman of the year in 2013. Her list of sporting accolades is impressive; she was selected to represent the Aotearoa Maori netball team last year and secured a bronze medal at the Australian Youth Olympics as a member of the New Zealand 3x3 basketball team. This year she is studying NCEA Accounting, Math, Biology and AgriBusiness as well as New Zealand Scholarship Te Reo Maori and Te Reo Rangatira.

If I could travel anywhere in the world it would be… Jakarta Indonesia or America

In April we were informed that Mr Gary Henley-Smith was to be one of eight recipients of an ISNZ Honours Award. Gary becomes the third St Paul’s Collegiate School staff member in recent years to be recognised by the Independent Schools of NZ to ‘honour exceptional staff who demonstrates talent, service and commitment to independent schools that is truly above the ordinary’. In 2012, Head of Faculty of Science, Mr Duncan Smith and in 2013, Head of Commerce, Mr Martin Holmes were both awarded an ISNZ Honours Award. Mr Henley-Smith has been an extremely loyal, committed and dedicated St Paul’s Collegiate teaching staff member for the past 20 years, making a valuable contribution to pastoral care as guidance councillor and as both a day and a boarding housemaster of many Houses, as well as an amazing athletics and rugby coach. We are very proud of Gary’s achievement and national recognition.

I firmly believe that you can be extremely proud of St Paul’s Collegiate School. We have top quality staff who are leaders in their fields. Our current students are excelling academically, culturally and on the national sporting stage. While we have very exciting plans for St Paul’s in the future, which will further raise the school’s profile as a high quality leader in secondary education in New Zealand, it is a real pleasure to lead a school that has such a positive momentum and feel about it.

We thank you for your ongoing support and encouragement as St Paul’s Collegiate School goes from strength to strength. We look forward to giving you news of our students ongoing success and providing you with further information on the exciting plans we have for our school in the future.

Twenty thousand hours

A MEMOIR OF LES VARNEY

Twenty seasons made up of 1000 hours over and above the normal 40 hour week – this has been Les Varney’s life for the past 24 years. Twenty thousand hours, or 833 days or almost two and a half consecutive years devoted to rowing. Some would say Les’ dedication to rowing is sheer madness, others would say true passion. At St Paul’s we think it is a little bit of both, with a touch of eccentricity.

Let’s talk about old Les’ passion. Some will remember giving up their summer holidays to sleep on Les’ couch while helping him build an eight (The Old Boys), which is still on the water today along with three of Les’ other boats. One year, while building another boat for the fleet, the students asked if the boat they built (John Ward) was good enough to win. His response was honest, “no.” From this devastatingly open response the boys rallied together to raise money to build a faster boat. This sheer Les-influenced determination and passion led them to win the lightweight eights that same year.

As for old Les’ eccentric character, his humour and enthusiasm is infectious and his story telling legendary. Some of you will have heard a trumped-up story or two about his bent little finger. One that springs to mind is how on one freezing Otago morning his hands were

stuck to the oar and he had to break his finger in order to prize it off the oar. Another well known tale is when he punched a python in the Amazon resulting in his crooked finger –for those of you who believed this outrageous tale, Les has never travelled further than Australia.

Along with his stories, his coaching methods are also a little unorthodox. Who in their right mind would make fours row three at a time? Even those of us with a bare-basic understanding of physics will know that two oars working on one side of the boat, while one oar is working on the other side, is not conducive to a boat going straight. But, Les would insist on crews rowing down the 2000m in this fashion while he – red faced, bearded and grumpy – would follow in his coach boat, waving his arms and yelling “Get your legs down” or “I want to see rippling thigh muscle.” His appetite for rowing success still sticks in the minds of staff and rowers who have had the pleasure of working with him. Common memories are of old Les sticking his wet finger into young rowers’ ears and his fashionforward wet-weather gear, a homeless-chic garbage bag. But, in all seriousness, Les’ eccentric characteristics and wacky ways are fondly memorable and show how much the man loves the sport.

Speaking of love, when I arrived at St Paul’s, Les took me aside and explained the protocols of coaching. He said that no matter how wonderful the parents are I should not discuss coaching issues with them. In fact, I was to keep

them at arm’s length. Little did I know how rich this advice was coming from Les, who broke the golden rule of coaching: he was worried that a particular lightweight eight member wasn’t managing his weight quite right and he insisted on discussing this with the boy’s mother at ‘arm’s length,’ at her house! The rest is history; Les and his wife Dawn have loved each other ever since.

During the rowing seasons, old Les spent every waking moment thinking of better ways to get the message through to his rowers: how to improve their skills, how to make their boat go that little bit faster. When there weren’t enough hours in the day he would lie awake at night scheming and conjuring up another idea for success. He started the concept of rowing camps on flat water; he increased the fleet by building boats (four doubles, two eights and a four) and by sourcing funding for eight singles; and he was instrumental in getting Ian Wright (Former New Zealand Olympic rower) on board in the late 90s, which resulted in two back-to-back Maadi Cup titles.

Les Varney’s greatest legacy after 24 years at St Paul’s is the positive influence he has had on the hundreds (if not thousands) of young people that have come in contact with him over this time. Les and Dawn were gifted airfares, accommodation and some spending money to attend the Henley Royal Rowing Regatta which takes place in the UK, July 2014 to the value of $7,500. Money for the gift was raised from the school community including the Headmaster, staff, Old Collegians and the Rowing club.

Smithy’s doomed to die in unfortunate ways

The problem with Smithy is that he was doomed to die in unfortunate ways – from dodgy nightclub drinks to being the victim of wayward wax jobs. But his sacrifice was worth it to provide secondary school students with a better understanding of chemistry.

Smithy is a fictional character whose fatal exploits feature in a series of scenarios developed by St Paul’s Collegiate School chemistry teacher and head of science

Duncan Smith.

For his efforts Mr Smith was awarded the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Denis Hogan Chemical Education Award. Mr Smith created Smithy as a reaction to the recent introduction of a new national standard curriculum for chemistry, for which there turned out to be no resources.

The scenarios challenge students to discover and understand why Smithy has died from a series of odd chemical mishaps, including imbibing a deadly cocktail in a Bali nightspot, picking a deadly short cut through a freight forwarding yard and even waxing his dreadlocks.

“Chemistry is a tool students can use wherever they go. Some will go on to teach chemistry, others will use chemistry in things like engineering and health sciences. I believe in edutainment. So long as the students are having fun they’re learning.”

Mr Smith is contracted to Waikato University to help teacher trainees develop practical skills when it comes to teaching chemistry.

He has worked at St Paul’s for 14 years and is one of the school’s 10 science teachers.

Geoff Lewis, Old Collegian and journalist for Hamilton Press and Waikato Times.

Chris Foot
Photo courtesy of Fairfax

Changing the landscape of sports education

Peter Gilbert has been a stalwart leader and a driving force of change in the area of sports during his 35 years at St Paul’s. When he started in 1979, St Paul’s was lagging behind other New Zealand schools in relation to the physical education curriculum offered to students – now St Paul’s is one of New Zealand’s leading sports secondary schools.

This reputation is only set to intensify as Peter will spend an eight week sabbatical in search of best practice and high performance sports programmes. He will visit leading sports colleges in Australasia to research the execution of these sports programmes in secondary schools and observe the integration of sport and academics in a high performance environment.

His sabbatical comes after the introduction of a high performance sports programme at St Paul’s in 2014, a programme which Peter says provides teams with the best shot to perform at their full potential.

As part of the programme a strength and conditioning coach and a life coach were introduced to work one-on-one with players and teams, but Peter says it isn’t just these coaches who are working towards making a notable impact.

“Twice a week we have two Chiefs players who come to coach our boys,” Peter said. “We also have resource coaches in our sports. For instance, we have Graham Oberlin-Brown in the rowing and he has made a huge difference there.”

Graham Oberlin-Brown, New Zealand rower and world record holder, along with the School’s new strength and conditioning and life coaches, have led St Paul’s to success at the 2014 Maadi Cup with five medals (a result similar hasn’t been achieved in ten years). Another ten year drought was broken from the guidance of these two new coaches; the School’s 1st XI cricket team won the Northern Districts Gillette Cup for the first time in a decade against rivals Hamilton Boys’ High School.

The introduction of the high performance programme and the current structure of the sporting department at St Paul’s, reflects a huge change since Peter’s employment in 1979 as PE teacher and 1st XV rugby coach. A proper teaching structure was

non-existent at the start of his tenure; Physical Education was run by teachers in other departments in addition to their core curriculum.

“My role was to develop a PE department so I wrote a PE scheme for St Paul’s. Once we had a scheme up we were able to lock it into the timetable as a core subject.”

St Paul’s was playing catch-up. The PE curriculum had been in place at other schools for some while but it wasn’t long before St Paul’s was taking strides and leading the national curriculum.

“The work that our guys were doing in scholarship and bursary here [at St Paul’s] was set as the bench mark for national PE students at Year 13.”

As a result of his work in PE, Peter was employed by NZQA as a national moderator for bursary and scholarship PE. “I was on the writing team with five others and we wrote the national scheme for education for Year 13 bursary and scholarship.”

Once Peter and his colleagues had written the scheme for New Zealand he was involved in monitoring the implementation of the curriculum across the country, ensuring all schools were up-to-speed with the new standard for bursary and scholarship PE, which is now known as New Zealand Scholarship examinations.

At the start of his time at St Paul’s, the gym was deteriorating. So in addition to leading the national PE curriculum, Gilbert was involved in the build of St Paul’s sport centre in 2006; a state-of-the-art sporting facility that houses a gymnasium, two squash courts and a 25m lap pool.

“I came into a school that had a gymnasium built in the 60s,” Peter said. “It had Pinex on the roof, ply on the walls with numerous holes in both. As with the nature of boys, if there is a hole it doesn’t take long to get bigger.”

“The work that our guys were doing in scholarship and bursary here [at St Paul’s] was set as the bench mark for national PE students at Year 13.”

His leadership to improve the School’s facilities and curriculum extends further than the sporting field. Peter was responsible for the development of Fitchett House including the recruitment of students to join this house, introducing dance and movement to the curriculum and temporarily heading the Music and Drama departments in the absence of staff.

In more recent years, he adopted the role of director of extracurricular activities in which he manages the School’s cultural, sporting and other extracurricular related activities –helping the School build a structured holistic education.

A role of 35 years may seem like a lifetime to many but for this man who has seen a tremendous amount of change and been a major force behind the change says, “I guess one of the neat things about being at the School for so long and the answer I give when people ask; ‘Why are you still at St Paul’s?’ – is that I have never stagnated. I have changed projects and roles from year-toyear.”

Students scoop $400k of tertiary scholarships

Students from St Paul’s Collegiate School gained prestigious and valuable scholarships from major universities across New Zealand and Australia, estimated to be worth almost NZ$400k, for the 2014 school year.

Eight scholarships were offered in total with Paul Newton Jackson (Hamilton House 2009–13) receiving two impressive scholarship offers. At the end of the 2013 school year Paul was offered a Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship to the University of Waikato covering the full cost of tuition to study a conjoint degree of music and engineering. Following this success, Paul was offered the Girdlers Scholarship (NZ$200k) to study music composition at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

Like Paul, Grace Namana (Harington House 2011–13) also received a Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship to the University of Waikato. Grace is now studying a Bachelor of Laws and is receiving professional training as a result of her secondary school netball success as a member of the New Zealand Secondary Schools and Aotearoa Maori netball teams.

Head girl Jessica Reilly (Harington House 2011–13) accepted a University of Auckland scholarship to study a Bachelor of Biomedical Science degree which covers the full cost of tuition, halls of residence and two return airfares per year. The University of Auckland scholarships were offered to 120 students, from 1300 applicants, who displayed exceptional levels of academic excellence, all-round ability and leadership.

From Adelaide, Australia, the International College of Hotel Management (ICHM) offered Conor Gawith (Clark House 2009–13) a NZ$25k scholarship to study two degrees: Bachelor of Business (Hospitality Management) and Bachelor of International Hotel Management (Swiss Hotel Association). Only one scholarship was made available to a New Zealand student with Conor announced as the lucky recipient for entry in 2014.

Other scholarships offered to St Paul’s Collegiate School students in 2013 include the Victoria University of Wellington Achievers Scholarship ($5k), Otago University Young Leaders Scholarship ($5k) and The University of Auckland Academic Jubilee Scholarship ($2k).

Multi-talented student awarded $200k scholarship

Each year, a New Zealand student is offered the Girdlers’ Scholarship (valued at NZ$200k) to study an undergraduate degree at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom – this year, was Paul Newton-Jackson’s year.

The multi-instrumental musician and composer, who was deputy head boy and dux at St Paul’s Collegiate School in 2013, says the Girdlers’ Scholarship is a “phenomenal opportunity” and will be a “life changing” experience.

The scholarship will cover the full cost of tuition, expenses and airfares for Paul (Hamilton House 2009-13) to complete an undergraduate degree in music composition at Corpus Christi College. But for Paul, the scholarship offers much more than that: “It will open up opportunities that I could have only dreamed about until now.”

“Cambridge was the first university in the world to offer a dedicated music qualification, so it’s the ultimate university for an academic musician.”

Paul will begin his degree in October this year, attending intensive lectures and tutorials which are complemented by weekly workshops from distinguished composers.

“For a musician, collaboration is a pretty big part of it and a place like Cambridge will be attracting all sorts of passionate and inspired people from all around the world who also have these cool ideas, so I think that will give me a big chance to make lots of cool connections and collaborations,” Paul said.

So, where to after the lecture theatres and music studios of Cambridge? The mastering musician says his interest lies in composing music for the film industry although he also says his options are open.

Paul is the fiftieth New Zealander to receive the scholarship and was notified of his success during a lab session at the University of Waikato. Paul accepted a University of Waikato Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship to study a conjoint undergraduate degree in music and electrical engineering on the completion of his secondary school studies in 2013.

Photo by Kelly Hodel – courtesy of Fairfax.
Photo courtesy of Fairfax

Top Achievers Year 13 (2013)

Joseph Chen (Aggregate 99%)

Proxime Accessit

Scholarship for: History University of Sydney

Jessica Reilly (Aggregate 90%)

Outstanding Scholarship for: English University of Auckland

Hannah Clare (Aggregate 83%)

Scholarships for: Chemistry, English University of Auckland

Paul NewtonJackson (Aggregate

Dux

Outstanding Scholarship for: Chemistry, Physics

Scholarships for: English, Calculus, Music University of Waikato

Sharleen Lu (Aggregate 90%)

Scholarship for: Calculus, Statistics

University of Otago

Keegan FrostJones (Aggregate

OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

Dominic Scott Jones – English

Andrew Huang - Calculus

OTHER SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

Mark Davis – Earth and Space Science, History

William Guest – Accounting

Deanna Morse – Photography

Sam Holmes – Geography

Taylor Deakin (Year 12) – English

Youngmin Goo (Year 12) - Calculus

Christopher Whitely (Aggregate 92%)

Scholarships for:

Scholarships for: Chemistry, English, Physics, Statistics, Calculus University of Auckland Antonia Anda (Aggregate

Devon Kyle (Aggregate

of Waikato

Peter Winkelmann (Aggregate 81%)

Scholarship for: English University of Auckland

Nicholas Don (Aggregate

Scholarships for: English, Geography, History University of Victoria

Year 13 Scholastic Centurions

Joseph Chen: Biology, Chemistry, History and Physics

Christopher Whitely: Calculus and Music

Antonia Anda: Accounting and Physical Ed

Paul Newton-Jackson: Music

Sam Holmes: Statistics

Andrew Huang: Calculus

Fiona Thorp: French

Joshua Walpole-Smith: Chemistry

NCEA

From Texas to Te Atatu

Hewlett Packard values work flexibility and allows Amanda Oliver (nee Drew) to do her job remotely – a role previously based in the USA – from Auckland.

Amanda Oliver (Harington 1996–1997) moved home in January, after nine years working for computer giant Hewlett Packard in the UK and USA.

Amanda wanted to raise son Jack in New Zealand, but when she went to resign from her job as a Human Resources Futurist for HP in Texas, the company had other ideas. They said “no, that is not a good idea. Just do the job from New Zealand, we will give it a try,” and so far so good.

So since relocating back to New Zealand and settling at Te Atatu Peninsula, Amanda has been working from HP’s offices at Auckland’s Viaduct. Her boss is in Silicon Valley, California.

“There is a lot of video conferencing. I am definitely the champion of video conferencing in our team. I do a lot of that with my boss and other colleagues.”

Occasionally she will hook up via video link to the US as early as 5.30am. The early start means she misses the worst of Auckland’s traffic and finishes early to spend time with Jack, 3, who is looked after at home, by a nanny. Already she has had a 5 day trip back to the US and will have regular trips back.

“When I was there last time we commented that it really doesn’t feel like I am that far away, as I am seeing them all the time.”

It was a family decision to move home for Amanda and British husband, Andrew, who was offered a job at an engineering firm in Auckland.

“Texas is not really somewhere I ever thought I would bring up children, with their guns and healthcare and everything, it is not really ideal. So when he got that opportunity, it was the right thing to do for our family.”

Amanda’s career with HP started in the first few months of her OE in the UK in 2005. The plan had been to stay in the UK only a short time then work on the super yachts in France.

“I was going to be in the UK for three months. Within those three months I got a contracting opportunity with Hewlett Packard, and it was an amazing opportunity. It was project coordination across Europe

for recruiting, and it turned out to be the start of my career with HP.”

By that time she had also met Andrew and ended up staying in the UK for 4 years before relocating with HP to Houston, Texas. Amanda has held a number of senior roles in Human Resources at HP, including within Global staffing and the area of employee integration which saw her working on some of the biggest acquisitions HP has ever done. She got approached for the Futurist role a year before returning home. So what does a Futurist do? It is a question people often ask, Amanda says.

Amanda works in the HP Software division which has a global workforce of 13,000 and her role is all about developing workforce strategies that ensures HP Software has a talented workforce. She focuses mainly on trends relating to age and gender diversity.

Ultimately, having a diverse workforce drives business results.

“Software is a really exciting business. It is relatively new compared to other HP business units and has a number of industry leading products. When I first came into the role about a year ago what I did was really get to know and understand the HP Software workforce – it was a lot of data analytics. What do the generations look like and what does the diversity look like, predominately gender diversity and then analysing what this will look like over time. It was about determining what strategies we may need to put into place today, to ensure we have an effective workforce in the future. I could talk about that for ages.”

Amanda has developed a passion for the field, and hard work has allowed her to rise through the ranks of the company.

Andrew, Jack and Amanda in Texas
“You work hard and do a good job then there is flexibility. So as long as I continue to deliver good results, being based in New Zealand will continue to be viable. The focus in Hewlett Packard is doing the job and doing it well and then the world is your oyster.”

“Everything is global and virtual, so within the project teams I was leading, you have team members from Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and South America. It is very interesting but very 24/7 with lots of issues and challenges.”

Another responsibility this year and next year is developing a global graduate programme for her organisation. “Surprisingly we didn’t have one so it is starting from scratch, which is daunting but a great opportunity.”

Amanda has a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in management and employee

relations from the University of Auckland. A highlight from that time was completing a three month summer internship at Disney World in Florida.

“The good thing to know is from a New Zealand standpoint, the fact that I had a Bachelor’s degree from a New Zealand university has never been an issue. So I think we should take some pride in that fact, my degree is just as good as someone’s from a US university.”

‘On the job’ experience has been more important than further qualifications, she says. “The experience and what I have learnt

across the years has really been a lot more beneficial. I have worked in a lot of different areas and in a lot of different countries so I have developed a good knowledge base.”

There are many highlights from her time abroad, including getting married in Las Vegas and doing the New York marathon. But she is happy to be home, and closer to family in Hamilton where she grew up.

“I am finding it to be a good balance being back in New Zealand. I am still getting the great career and at the same time I am able to balance my family a lot better,” Amanda says.

Hewlett Packard prides itself in having flexible, family friendly work arrangements.

“You work hard and do a good job then there is flexibility. So as long as I continue to deliver good results, being based in New Zealand will continue to be viable. The focus in Hewlett Packard is doing the job and doing it well and then the world is your oyster.”

Riding the IT wave

Bryce Elliott has lived in the United States for more than two decades carving out a lucrative career in computer programming and IT consulting. Having made a fortune, he retired at 40.

Bryce Elliott (Clark 1978–1981) left school in 1981 not sure what path to take, but he knew one thing for sure.

“I didn’t want to become a dairy farmer,” says Bryce from his home in Chicago, USA, where he has lived for 22 years.

“I didn’t want to get up at 4 o’clock in the morning and work till 9 o’clock at night, seven days a week. And then my dad came home from a board meeting, and he said ‘these computer people only work 9 to 5, five days a week and make good money.’ I thought that’s what I want to do.”

Computers were very new in the early 1980s and the best course on offer was a Computer Science degree at the Waikato Technical Institute (now WINTEC).

It proved to be a very good decision allowing Bryce to gain practical skills and rise quickly up the ranks in IT, carving a lucrative consulting career for major corporations in New Zealand, Britain and USA. With it came financial security, allowing him to retire at 40. Not bad for a boy who grew up on a Morrinsville dairy farm.

Bryce, 49, now manages eleven houses in his property portfolio, and is heavily involved in High School rugby coaching and mentoring teenagers.

In the mid-1980s Bryce started out working for Winstone Ltd then Fletcher Challenge in Auckland, when computers were just taking hold.

“I did the very first installation of computers in all of the Winstone Glass stores,” he recalls. He then moved into leadership and supervisory roles and became involved in acquisitions, restructuring and hiring.

The job also allowed him to continue playing rugby for a senior North Harbour side, having earlier played for Waikato age group teams.

As data processing manager at Fletcher’s he was in charge of converting everything over from manual systems, to computers, which was revolutionary at the time.

“Even until the day I retired, I always did programming. Even when I was in management roles, I always tried to assign myself to a small part of programming, just to keep me in contact with my staff and I enjoyed it.

At aged 27, he went on his OE.

“I had a couple of houses in Auckland. I rented them out, packed my bags and went to England. Everyone thought I was crazy leaving a high paying job and a company car, especially when it was tough to get a job, but I wasn’t too concerned.”

He worked and travelled in the UK and Europe for a couple of years, had a short stint in New York, then moved to Chicago where he had some friends from his days at Fletcher Challenge.

“I ended up hooking up with the local rugby club on the first day I was here. They had their own fields and clubhouse. I didn’t even know they played rugby in America. I really enjoyed it. It was like I was an All Black playing with High School kids. It was like I was 18 again.”

After a few months he thought he better get a job, and got back into computer programming, as his skills were so highly sought after.

“Even until the day I retired, I always did programming. Even when I was in management roles, I always tried to assign myself to a small part of programming, just to keep me in contact with my staff and I enjoyed it.

He did this without a “Green card” which only came through six months ago.

“I went from not having a work permit and earning this money, to waiting for someone to knock on the door and say ‘you shouldn’t be working here.’ That never happened. They are not looking to deport the people who are making the country a lot of money. “

Bryce worked as a consultant for a number of companies, including McDonalds. “It was very interesting working for a world corporation. I met about eight or nine of the original ‘McClass’ the original people who invested in McDonalds. They are very nice people.”

He rode the wave of the IT boom of the 1990s, doing a lot of work around the Y2K; including a successful US-based New Zealand company Dispatch Management Services.

Bryce playing Rugby

He became involved in NAVTEQ, a navigational software company, struggling at the time to develop its product, but which later got bought out by Nokia in a deal estimated to be worth more than $8b in 2007.

“I was consulting for NAVTEQ, it was not so much for the navigational programming skills, it was for the management skills to try and get this project back on track.”

“A lot of the investors were very concerned we were spending billions of dollars and we were not getting the results, they were pulling out saying a navigation system cannot be built, it cannot be done. I got in there and could see it was going to be done. They were very close. It was the software that was failing them.”

The results speak for themselves, “If you want to know, I have still got that very first navigation system in my Holden Monaro, and it still works today, and it is 15 years old.”

Bryce also holds personal and group patents on a number of navigational software ideas which he invented including one allowing cars to pinpoint the nearest gas station when the petrol light comes on in a car.

He retired completely from the corporate field aged 40. It was the many years of consulting which made him rich, he says, but it was good investments in property, since his early 20s which has made him wealthy. He is married to Canadian woman, Heather, and has two children aged 15 and 19.

He has not worked in the corporate field for some years, but did help a friend manage a struggling medical practice until it was fully recovered.

While the rewards have been great there have been some regrets.

“One thing I would have changed is to have stopped working so hard in my life earlier and got married younger. I was married four years ago. You can get tied up in making money.”

He still has a great fondness for New Zealand and he and Heather attended the Rugby World Cup in 2011, including the final at Eden Park. His parents have passed away, meaning trips home are less frequent, but he does have siblings living here.

While he is happy in the US, he has dreams of living in New Zealand again.

“The one thing about living in America is it is very expensive once you retire with property taxes and health care. And more to the point, the weather here is either really cold or really hot. I want to move back to New Zealand and live six months in New Zealand and maybe, six months in Australia.”

“I

ended up hooking up with the local rugby club on the first day I

was here. They had their own fields and clubhouse. I didn’t even know they played rugby in America. I really enjoyed it. It was like I was an All Black playing with High School kids. It was like I was 18 again.”

Bryce and Heather Elliott

Kiwi product stocked at Coles

Maleny Cuisine has hit the shelves at major Australian supermarket chain, Coles, with the company’s products now being stocked at the chain’s Queensland stores. The supermarket giant and specialty stores throughout Australia are stocking Maleny Cuisine’s chutney, jam, salad dressings and sauces.

The company, owned and operated by Old Collegian William Nicholl (Williams 1989-1993), is two-years-young and already experiencing huge success. Over the past two years Maleny Cuisine products have been awarded the Best in Show Trophy with one gold and two bronze medals at the Royal Melbourne Fine Food Awards. Maleny Cuisine was also a finalist at the Sunshine Coast Business Awards earlier this year.

William has plans to expand his business to New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Rolling out Flooring Xtra

In just six months, Don Barry set up a business which radically changed carpet retailing in this country.

With 55 stores, Flooring Xtra is one of New Zealand’s largest carpet retailers.

It was founded in 2008 by Don Barry (Hamilton 1971–1975) in a major shake-up in carpet retailing and in what ended up being a life changing year for Don and his business partners.

“We were close to our 50s and looking to wind things back, do what some other people do, but for us it was just cranking up.”

Don spearheaded the branding and helped implement an aggressive start up plan.

“Myself and some other individuals established Flooring Xtra from a clean sheet of paper. Husbands and wives, we put it together and within six months we went from nothing to 55 stores from Kaitaia to Invercargill.”

Don, who is the CEO and four fellow directors previously worked for rival Carpet Court and effectively ‘jumped ship’ luring 18 store owners unhappy with Carpet Court’s shift from a co-operative business model to a franchise system.

“The key thing to learn is you can often achieve more working with other people. This wouldn’t have happened if it hadn’t have been a collaborative effort, and everyone understands and recognises those abilities. I think you achieve a lot more by harnessing the right people.”

“Operators didn’t want to be part of a company structure and lose the freedom to run their business,” Don says.

“We took the view there is enough space in flooring retailing to have a brand with company owned stores and there is room in that space, for a well-run owner-operator brand, we saw that gap in the market, and by the end of 6 months we had 50 odd stores.”

“It was a brand that was born out of revolution not evolution - we had the benefit of being able to start with a clean sheet of paper. We could establish those key values from the start which was all about independence, respect, integrity and transparency. We built the brand on those blocks as well as sound commercial blocks.”

Business owners can have a genuine buy-in on the common goal.

“It gives your owner- operators an actual stake in the company. The profits that you generate through negotiations in the supply chain go back to the members.”

The Flooring Xtra brand is also licensed to an Australian carpet retailer, meaning there are 70 stores across the Tasman. Its New Zealand operation had a turnover exceeding $100m last year.

Buying carpet is both a complex and personal decision, Don says.

“Our research shows us it can be a daunting experience. It is disruptive. It is the one purchase where your whole house gets cleaned out of all its furniture.”

“Customers do not know what it will cost unlike a motor vehicle or television set. Customers can be intimidated as they do not have a lot of knowledge. So we have got to make that as easy and comfortable and empowering for the customer.”

Don was born and raised in Hamilton, attended St Paul’s Collegiate School, then Waikato University where he did a Social Sciences degree in Economics and Mathematics. He moved to Auckland in 1982 where he did a number of sales and marketing roles for companies including Xerox, Thorn EMI and Feltex. He was National marketing manager for Mazda, aged 29, at the time the MX5 was launched which took the motoring world by storm.

He also worked as General Manager of Carpet Court.

Flooring Xtra is based in Manukau. “The support centre is in Auckland, we dare not call it a Head Office as Head office sounds corporate. We actually run it quite lean. We have 4 ½ staff on the payroll serving 55-odd stores so we have a reasonably lean, but focused overhead model.”

The company’s market share is somewhere between 16 and 20 per cent, and the company has more shop frontages than its competitors. Flooring Xtra also embraces sustainability and environmental values where both underlay and old carpet is recycled.

“We were the first retailer to turn the corner on that. It just doesn’t go to landfill. It has got to be part of the contract that it is taken back to plant for recycling and is turned back into underlay.”

Business owners have also discovered that the scheme reduces costs, as they are not “wildly throwing waste into a skip,” which in turn, means costs are kept down for the customer, he says.

In rural communities, old carpet is donated to farmers who use it for cattle races or weed mat. “Recycling is very much part of our DNA.”

“The business is a lot of fun. It was a bit of luck, but I guess you create your own luck. I’ve been very fortunate.”

The day to day running of the company is very much a team effort, with the original partners still involved in the company.

“The key thing to learn is you can often achieve more working with other people. This wouldn’t have happened if it hadn’t have been a collaborative effort, and everyone understands and recognises those abilities. I think you achieve a lot more by harnessing the right people.”

Another thing Don has learnt is playing to strengths and recognising weakness.

“Everyone is good at something and has something to contribute. You just have to discover that discover what you are not good at. As sometimes you think you are walking over a bridge and it is actually a plank.”

Don is constantly looking at ways to improve the service, and the company is currently developing an online tool for customers to use a carpet sample to visualise what the carpet would look like in their home.

“What we are really honing in on, is making the customer experience the best it can be.”

A catchy television advertising campaign, to the Kiwi song Everything is going to be alright has been hugely successful, Don says.

“We are trying to communicate the brand and what the brand stands for and it has been really successful for us in terms of brand association. “

He enjoys going to work each day. “The business is a lot of fun. It was a bit of luck, but I guess you create your own luck. I’ve been very fortunate.”

“Flooring Xtra is our brand as much as the Mad Butcher is Peter Leitch’s brand. We just don’t have our personalities above the shop window. But we are very passionate,” he says.

Illustrations on tees sell out

Ezekiel Crawford’s (Hamilton 2011–2013) black-and-white sketches are the purest form of expressionism, depicting modern day society, urban influences and pop culture. The young artist, now entrepreneur, started his business, Theism Co, “overnight” with a friend from a neighbouring school to St Paul’s Collegiate School.

The duo, made-up of Ezekiel and friend Josh Barkle, opened the clothing business at the end of 2013 producing casual t-shirts and singlets that detailed prints of Ezekiel’s intricate hand-drawings.

Since starting on their venture, the duo have struggled to keep up with demand selling out of 90 per cent of their stock, which has forced them to create a new line of casual wear for the winter months.

The unexpected demand for Theism Co clothing has triggered Ezekiel and Josh to set their hopes on national and transTasman sales with the aim of stocking their clothing range across stores in New Zealand and Australia within the next 12-months. Theism Co clothing is currently sold on the company’s website,

Facebook and through local market-stall sales.

A new clothing line and trans-Tasman sales, coupled with a commitment to complete a five year Architecture degree at the University of Auckland, will prove to be a challenge for Ezekiel. But one the young entrepreneur is up for. “I am hoping by the time I graduate from university, Theism Co will be a self-sufficient business and its clothing range stocked in a series of stores throughout New Zealand and Australia –that’s our goal.”

The changing face of religious studies

Professor Chris Parr (Hamilton 1968–1972) has recently been in New Zealand on a talking tour, visiting universities across the country discussing one of the taboo conversation topics, religion.The tour forms part of his two-semester sabbatical from Webster University, St Louis in the United States, where he is professor of religious studies.

In his role at the university he creates discussion and provokes thought about the notions behind religious beliefs and the actions that people take, which are motivated by their beliefs. His research and religious interest is not solely Christian based. He researches and teaches the ideologies behind all religions, paying particular attention to South East Asian religions such as Buddhism and Taoism as well as alternative religious such as Wica and Paganism.

“I am not arguing to introduce religious education to encourage people to be religious. What I am interested in is for universities to become much more involved in religious studies – the study of religion,”

Chris’ research spans more than 10 years and his articulate observation of religion challenges what you may have originally thought the topic. Part of the reason why he is in New Zealand is to challenge educational institutions’ perceptions of religion as an academic subject.

Chris is here is discuss his ideas of how religious studies should be taught as a sole curriculum and how it should be introduced to unrelated curriculums to better students’ knowledge of international relations.

“I am not arguing to introduce religious education to encourage people to be religious. What I am interested in is for universities to become much more involved in religious studies – the study of religion,” Chris said.

“Since religion plays a very important part historically, and at the moment, in how cultures interrelate in both friendly relations and conflict situations it seems like a very valuable thing to be able to study and analyse how religion is playing a role in international and intercultural situations.

“If we are going to understand the world we live in we absolutely have to become much clearer about why people are religious, how religion motivates them and why it causes them to do what they do,” Chris said.

Professor Chris Parr will be in New Zealand until July, finishing a book and visiting a select number of universities. If you would like to make contact with him please call our Old Collegians Executive Officer Deborah McRae on 07 957 8805.

Graduates of St Paul’s Collegiate School

Congratulations to these Old Collegians of St Paul’s whose degrees were conferred at the end of 2013

Please note that not all universities provide the results of students and we do our best to get all of the information we can.

GRADUATES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO – 2013

Geoff Booth Master of Educational Leadership (Hons)

Rowan Buckley Certificate of University Preparation

Rachel Campbell Graduate Diploma of Teaching – Secondary

William Chung Bachelor of Management Studies

Scott Neeley Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies

Sharon O’Keefe Bachelor of Business Analysis

Paul Radich Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Laws

Andrew Russell Master of Engineering

Paul Sharp Bachelor of Management Studies

Takena Stirling Bachelor of Laws

GRADUATES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND – 2013

Chien Huang Master of Science

Allister Hughes Postgraduate Diploma in Business

Dewi Kodrat Master of Engineering in Management

Paul Lelieveld Master of Architecture (Professional)

Anthony Simpson

Bachelor of Commerce Bachelor of Science

GRADUATES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY – 2013

Robert Bennett

Bachelor of Science Bachelor of Laws

David Kingham Bachelor of Engineering (Hons)

Ben Holmes Bachelor of Science

Stuart McCready

Bachelor of Engineering (Hons)

Nick Mellsop Bachelor of Science

Sarah Murray Bachelor of Arts

Anna Needham Bachelor of Science

Stuart Nicholls Master of Engineering in Management

Todd Patterson Master of Engineering in Management

David Thomas Bachelor of Science

Nissanka Weerekoon Bachelor of Engineering (Hons)

Stuart Wise Doctor of Philosophy

GRADUATES FROM MASSEY UNIVERSITY – 2013

Peter Latham

Benjamin Munro

Stephen Oehley

Bachelor of Business Studies

Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Veterinary Science

Perousia Rock Band 1999: T van Dammen, A Singh, G Cooper and T Haylett-Petty

Running the distance

FIRST TIME IRONMAN ENTRANT QUALIFIES FOR HAWAII

Justin Kerr (Williams 1993–1997) won his division during his first-ever Ironman triathlon at the 2014 New Zealand Ironman competition based in Taupo. He finished the triathlon in 9:14:41 which placed him first in his division and sixteenth in the overall competition. Justin has now qualified for the 2014 Ironman World Championships in Hawaii, which will be held in October. The Ironman World Championships attracts more than 2000 competitors each year.

COAST

Lex de Jong (Clark 1973–1975) and son Nico de Jong came first in the family division of Speight’s Coast to Coast, placing overall fifth with a time of 13:05:13. The competition attracts 800 qualifying competitors each year, all of whom vie for the enviable position of Speight’s Coast to Coast winner by enduring 140km of cycling, 67km of grade two kayaking and 36km of running.

Nico finished the fastest bike ride and second fastest mountain run. Lex was involved in a 20-bike crash in the first bike-leg but carried on with a grazed back, fractured rib and bent back wheel.

Willy Wonka spirit raises money

The eagerness to find 100 oversized Easter eggs during a nationwide hunt, which formed part of the Whittaker’s Big Egg Hunt for Starship Children’s Hospital, was somewhat reminiscent of the urgency to find golden tickets to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.

Social media pages went frantic during the month-long event as adults and children searched far-and-wide to find the giant eggs. Fortunately the giant eggs weren’t edible so egg hunters didn’t have to fear that their glutton for all-things-chocolate would result in another Augustus Gloop incident. For those of you who can’t recall, after Augustus’ over-enthusiastic consumption from the chocolate river, he falls in and is sucked up the pipe to the fudge room.

Old Collegian Sam Mathers (Hall 1998-2002) was invited to paint one of the 70cm tall fibreglass Whittaker’s Big Egg Hunt eggs along

with other famous kiwi artists.

Sam’s egg documents the history, characteristics and genetic makeup of the largest birds in the world (the ostrich and the now extinct elephant bird and moa).

Sam said he used a multi-media technique involving hundreds of layers of paint as well as markings, scratches and drips to illustrate the depth of history of these large birds, which he then worked back into with oil sticks, graphite and inked illustrations.

Sam’s egg, along with a hundred other eggs, was distributed around Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Egg hunters who were successful in their hunt were entered into a draw to win a 340g 18ct Whittaker’s Gold Slab made by Partridge Jewellery.

The egg hunt raised a total of $235,000 from the sale of the 100 giant eggs and Whittaker’s Chocolate.

FATHER–SON DUO WIN SPEIGHT’S COAST TO

A weekend of reunions

St Paul’s Collegiate School Old Collegians Association will be holding two reunions over the first weekend in August – Friday 1st to Saturday 2nd August.

The first will be celebrating 50 years of Hamilton House. All those who belonged to Hamilton House between 1964 and 2014 while attending St Paul’s are invited to attend.

The second reunion is for all those who attended St Paul’s during the 1990s. The school welcomes you to join past Headmaster Steve Cole along with past and current staff and past and current students for a weekend of memories, collegiality and plenty of laughter.

Below is a programme of events over the course of the weekend. To register and buy tickets to attend, please go to www.stpauls.school.nz/tickets/ Alternatively you can either email the Executive Officer Deborah McRae at d.mcrae@stpauls.school.nz or phone the office 07 957 8805

FRIDAY AUGUST 1

2.30pm 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, Old Collegians from both the 90s and Hamilton House. Guests speakers Past Headmaster Steve Cole 1992 – 2000 and Old Collegian Scott Neeley (Williams 1994 – 1998)

3.30pm Mix and Mingle. Guests will register in the Old Collegians Pavilion where complimentary drinks and nibbles will be served by the current prefects of Hamilton House.

4.00pm Welcome speeches from past staff including Old Collegian Richard Calderwood (Hamilton 1971 – 1975 and past Hamilton House Master 1991 – 1993) also Past Staff Judy Shaw 1975 – 2003

4.30pm 90s year photos will be taken and a special Hamilton house photo taken in Hamilton House Mix and Mingle continues through till 6.00pm

6.00pm Dinner in the Dining room for all guests

6.30pm Headmaster welcomes guests

Guest speaker Old Collegian Wynne Gray (Hamilton 1966 – 1971)

7.15pm Dinner will be served

8.00pm After dinner speaker to be confirmed

8.45pm Dessert

SATURDAY AUGUST 2

The Day begins with School Rugby being played on the front fields

9.30am Final registration in the Pavilion

10.00am Morning tea in the pavilion

10.45am School tours with the current prefects from Hamilton House

HAMILTON HOUSE 50 ANNIVERSARY

12.00pm Reunion lunch for all guests will be served in the Dining room with guest speakers Old Collegian Amy Whetu (Harington 1998 – 1999) and Current staff member John Oehley Hamilton House Master 1994 – 1995. 1964 - 2014 We invite you to come and join in the celebrations with past staff, friends, class mates and the current community. AUGUST 1 – 2

FOR MORE INFORMATION: d.mcrae@stpauls.school.nz www.stpauls.school.nz FOR TICKETS: www.stpauls.school.nz/tickets/

Networking events 2014

* Stephen Hassall (Hamilton 1969-1972). Parent of Old Collegians Craig and Dean Hassall.
Gary Henley-Smith (Current Staff), Stephen Hoskins (School 2003 – 2007) and Tim Hickson (Williams 2004 – 2007)
Chris and Deirdre Parr
03
Lex de Jong (Clark 1973 – 1975), Greg Thompson (Hamilton 1971 – 1975), Evan McCulloch (Past Staff) and Warren Priest (Williams 1967 – 1974)
07
Alan Webb (Hamilton House 1981 – 1982) and Richard Dodds (School 1978 – 1982)
Tim Plant (Sargood 1979 - 1983, Ivan Posa (School 1966 – 1970), Chris Parr (Hamilton 1968 – 1972), Peter Wynne-Jones 01
Jon Eriksen (Hamilton 1966 – 1970), Pat Plant (Past Staff)and Bill Farmer (Williams 1971 – 1974)
02
David Walker (Sargood 1962 – 1965), Wayne Carter (Sargood 1960 – 1963) and Diana Plant (Friend of St Paul’s) 06
Brian Mackenzie (School/Williams 1960 – 1964), Howard Alexander (School 1960 – 1962), Peter Wynne-Jones (Hamilton 1968 – 1969) and David Heron (Sargood/Williams 1961 – 1964)
The Parr family with John Lloyd and Mike Shaw
09
08

01–09 Auckland 2013 10 Bay of Plenty 2013 11–12 Hamilton 2014 13–16 Hamilton 2013 17 OC Sports Day 2014

More photos can be viewed at: www.stpauls.school.nz/Content/516/Old-Collegians

Events Calendar 2014

You are welcome to attend any of the upcoming events listed around NZ below. We often take a minivan from school so if you would like to catch a ride with us, then please let us know. Some RSVPs are required for catering purposes; please refer to our website for updates. http://www.stpauls.school.nz/ page/events-calendar or contact the Old Collegians’ Executive Officer on 07 9578805 or at oldcollegians@stpauls.school.nz

JUNE

• Wed 11–Sat 14 Fieldays Call in and see us at sites PD5 and 7 in the main Pavilion at Mystery Creek

• Mon 16 St Paul’s future projects revealed – 6pm St Paul’s Dining Room

• Tue 17 NEW EVENT – Rotorua networking evening for Old Collegians – Hosted by John Sefton and Tracey McKay, The Holiday Inn, 10 Tryon Street, Whakarewarewa

JULY

• Tue 1–Thu 4 St Paul’s school production – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Southwell School

AUGUST

• 1 and 2 Celebrating 50 years of Hamilton House, see page 17 for more information

• 1 and 2 Reunion for the 1990s, see page 15 for more information

• Fri 15 Celebration of Music – Chapel at St Paul’s

• Thu 28 Christchurch – Old Collegians networking evening – Venue to be confirmed

• Fri 29 Wellington – Old Collegians networking evening –Hosted by Tim Clark , Russell McVeagh, Vodafone Building, the Quay Wellington

SEPTEMBER

• Sat 6 Open Day at St Paul’s Collegiate School

• Wed 10 Old Collegians AGM all welcome, Long Room St Paul’s Collegiate School

• Sat 13 Sydney – Old Collegians networking evening, The Waterfront, 27 Circular Quay West, The Rocks, Sydney

• Sun 14 Tihoi Bus Trip for prospective families

OCTOBER

• Sat 18 and Sun 19 St Paul’s at the Gisborne Show and parents evening

• Thu 23 Tauranga – Old Collegians networking function, Hobec, 525 Cameron Road, Tauranga

NOVEMBER

• Thu 6 Auckland – Old Collegians networking function CT Club Sports Bar, 27–33 Ohinerau Street Remuera

• Tuesday 11 Hamilton – Old Collegians networking evening, Key stone bar, Victoria Street, Hamilton 5.30 start

11
Andrew Thompson (Hamilton 1976 – 1979 and Craig Morton (Current Staff)
12
Pat Plant (past staff) and Maxwell Abbott (Hamilton 1970 – 1971)
13
Campbell Ludbrook (School 1985 – 1989), James Whetu (Clark/Hamilton 1987 –1991) and Roden Whetu
14
Amy Whetu (Harington 1997 – 1998) and Craig Sanders (Williams 1985 – 1987)
Raymond Bird (Hamilton 1972 – 1976) and Headmaster Grant Lander
John Lloyd (Past Staff), Brendon Walsh (Williams 1985 – 1989) and Glenn McHardie (Hamilton 1984 – 1988)

Births

Kevin MacDonald (Sargood 1997–2000) and his wife Stacey welcomed their daughter Mikaere Jordan MacDonald into their family on 15 November 2013. Mikaere was 8 pounds and 2 ounces, everyone doing well.

Deaths

Our condolences are extended to the families of the following people from the St Paul’s community: Wesney J O’Connor (School 1964–1965) passed away in Auckland, June 2013.

James Myers (Clark 1993–1997) brother of Andrew (Clark /Hamilton 1996–2000) and Hannah Myers (Harington 1998–1999) passed away in Vancouver, October 2013.

Reverend Roy Bowler (Biology teacher 1967–1970) passed away in Ashburton on 28 March 2014. Roy is survived by his wife Glennis, sons Mark and Mike and seven grandchildren. After leaving St Paul’s Roy and his family returned to Rhodesia to teach Biology and serve as Chaplain of the local school. In more recent times Roy spread his teaching and discussions via the internet with colleagues from all over the world. He was still writing syllabi as he wanted to make ancient Hebrew more accessible for those who were interested.

Engagements

Marriages

Antonios Papaspiropoulos (Hamilton 1979) married the love of his life, Victoria Tobin, at St Mary’s-in-Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland on 7 February 2014. Guests travelled from as far afield as Poland, Italy, United Kingdom, United States, Australia and Suriname, joined friends and family to help celebrate this wonderful day which included a memorable speech by Princess Diana’s former private secretary, Patrick Jephson.

Snippets

Cliff Allen (Clark 1969–1971) made hay, drove delivery trucks and did fencing to save money so that he could go to Massey University. He graduated with a BA in English literature. He says the best thing about Massey was meeting Susie who eventually became his wife. After travelling and adventuring on sail boats around the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, Cliff moved back to New Zealand with Susie and worked on the family farm near Tirau. After three years of farming they bought Vogal Farm Equipment in Te Rapa. In 1998 they sold the business and Cliff went back to Waikato University studying and teaching at the Management School for 10 years. He graduated with a Master’s Degree and gained a PhD on the development of business social responsibility in New Zealand. Cliff is now a politician with the Labour Party as a candidate for Hamilton East and is humbled that so many people in the electorate trust him to carry their hopes and aspirations.

Steve Burns (Hall 1976–1980) spent some time in London after leaving university where he gained degrees in Science and Business. He moved back to Auckland in the mid-1990s where he and his wife Jane have a daughter and a son. Steve worked in investment banking before setting up his own advisory firm, Campbell Macpherson. He has not looked back and now provides investment advice to many high net worth individuals and corporates throughout New Zealand. When he has spare time, Steve likes to spend time fishing and travelling. Steve would love to hear from other Old Collegians from his era. He can be contacted on 021 393636 or steve@campbellmacpherson.com

Dr Rod Carr (Williams 1993–1995) has been instrumental in receiving $260 million from the Government which will be allocated to two major projects at the University of Canterbury.The projects include new learning facilities for the College of Engineering and the development of a Regional Science and Innovation Centre (RSIC).

Richard Dodds (School 1978–1982) is Director of Sales and Marketing for Rendezvous Hotels New Zealand. He lives in Devonport, Auckland with wife Michele and son Taylor who is 7.

Simon Franks (Clark 1978–1982) began his broadcasting career as a radio announcer in Hamilton and then on to Whangarei, Hastings, Auckland, Melbourne and the Gold Coast. Since the early 90s, Simon’s distinctive voice has been heard on many television and radio commercials. He is currently the voice of Sky Television’s Soho channel and Coast FM radio stations nationwide. Simon was the first St Paul’s 1st XI football captain to lift a trophy for the school,

Richard Dodds (right) and friend Alan Webb at the Auckland Networking evening.
Jerry Lloyd (Hamilton 1974 – 1979) and Broni Henton were engaged on 30 May 2013.

the ‘Waikato Schools’ Cup in 1982. The boys beat HBHS 4-2 in extra-time with Simon’s brother Spencer earning the ‘Man of The Match’ award for his performance in goal (Spencer was only 16 at the time). Simon coaches juniors and still plays competitive football in his 50th year, regularly turning out for Hibiscus Coast. He lives in Stanmore Bay with wife Jo and children Edie (7) and Stanley (6).

Paul Holdom (Hall/Hamilton 1972–1976) left St Paul’s for a year in 1975 and travelled with his family by ship to England.There he did his O levels for a year before returning by ship via Cape Horn. Paul completed his 7th form year at St Paul’s but his wanderlust was born. In April this year, Paul and his family embarked on their fourth world tour, by motorhome. In 1981 Paul and his wife Cate (then his fiancé) travelled from London to Singapore by motorbike - that’s six months and 15,000 miles. In 2012, Paul and his family travelled around the world taking on 13 flights and 20 train journeys including braving the perils of the Iran war and crossing the Baluchistan desert. A lifetime of adventure.

Stephen Hoskins (School 2003–2007) recently returned from a working week in Papua New Guinea, where he was working on Star Mountain Plaza, a landmark convention centre. Stephen works for Insight Economics, who are conducting an assessment of the viability of a convention centre, including financial modelling of the construction and operation of SMP, an economic impact assessment, and a detailed analysis of the MICE industry (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) in the Asia Pacific region. In 2018 Papua New Guinea will host APEC, and this facility will play a key role in hosting many of the world’s leaders. Stephen said that they found PNG to be a vibrant hive of activity, with incredibly friendly locals and a love of beer. They certainly have their own chaotic way of getting things done!

Kurt Lynn (Hall 1988–1992) dropped into St Paul’s for a visit while he and his family were here on holiday. Kurt is married to Miyuki and they have two children Taiki and Kimmi. Kurt has been living in Hong Kong for the last 16 years where he has worked as a pilot for Cathay Pacific Airways.

Kevin MacDonald (Sargood 1997–2000) was appointed the HOD of Physical Education, Outdoor Education and Health at Rotorua Boy’s High School in the third term of 2013.

Nick Oehley (Hamilton 2002–2006) is doing his Masters of Earthquake Engineering through the University of Canterbury.While studying, he is currently working on a project which involves State Highway 16, a road of national significance. This section of Highway 16 floods under king tides and storms. Nick is the structures design team liaison which involves helping the constructors sort out problems while ensuring quality control and moderating risks.

Nick Smart (Hamilton 1962–1965) lives in Atlanta and spent Waitangi Day celebrating all things Kiwi with the rest of the Atlanta NZ Association.They had a record attendance of 50 for the dinner, including another Old Collegian who had driven up from Macon for the celebrations, Ian Wilkinson (Sargood 1962–1965). They had an enjoyable evening remembering the school personalities such as Pat Plant and Headmaster Reg Hornsby.

Peter Smith (Clark 1982–1986) and his wife Megan have 3 sons who were all christened in St Paul’s Chapel. Their eldest Harry has started at St Paul’s this year and is in Fitchett House. Peter says that he keeps in contact with many Old Collegians from St Paul’s and hopes that his children will enjoy the same friendships. Peter works as a property valuer for his own company in Hamilton and Megan is the CEO of the charity organisation Beat Bowel Cancer Aotearoa.

Stuart Wise (Hall 1972–1976) has now completed and successfully defended his Doctorate which investigated the use of technology in music education in secondary schools. He was looking forward to being capped by Old Collegian Dr Rod Carr at the ceremony.

Kevin Yun (Clark 2003–2007) works for Orica and is doing his final year with the Orica Graduate Programme. His firm provides the three year programme where graduates rotate to different roles and countries each year. This has allowed Kevin to live and work in Mt Maunganui as a project engineer, Newcastle Australia as a research and project engineer and now Melbourne as a chemical engineer with the speciality emulsifier’s team. Orica was the winner of the 2013 and 2014 top graduate employer award.

Information update – keep in contact. Most of our communication is sent out via email, do we have your email address? Please notify us of your email address and remind other Old Collegians that you are in contact with, to do the same. Email the Executive Officer at d.mcrae@stpauls.school.nz

Nick Oehley out in the field.

Zip-line tour funds forest conservation

Rotorua Canopy Tours is one of the newest attractions to New Zealand and the only zip-line canopy tour in the country. Rated as the number one Rotorua-based activity on Trip Advisor, I went along to find out what all the fuss was about and to talk to co-owner and Old Collegian James Fitzgerald (Sargood 1993–1997).

Well, let me tell you, zip-lining through the forest while 40 metres above the ground is definitely an activity that you should add to your bucket list. The tour takes three hours and is located among beautiful New Zealand native trees at the Dansey Road Scenic Reserve. Two knowledgeable tour guides take you on the tour, giving you a new perspective on New Zealand’s natural beauty – within and above the forest’s lush green canopy.

For some (like me) six zip lines, 10 tree-top platforms and two swing bridges will give you a major rush of adrenaline. For those who don’t fear heights, it’s worth making the trip for the breath-taking views of the canopy as you fly across 200 metre zip-lines to your next 500-year-old tree-top viewing point. Either way you will have an enthralling experience with an intimate group of about 10 people –no mass tourism here, you have the whole forest to yourself.

Prices start at $86 for children and go up to $129 for adults (a cheaper rate is available for locals). A significant amount of the admission fee is allocated towards the Rotorua Canopy Tours Forest Restoration Project. The project, still in its infancy, aims to remove all introduced predators from the Dansey Road Scenic Reserve and to create a safe forest sanctuary for New Zealand wildlife (in particular bird life) and flora.

Co-owner and operator James Fitzgerald said he felt he had a responsibility to set up the restoration project. “I simply couldn’t operate in this forest without trying to care for it and trying to bring the wildlife back to how it once was.”

Phase one of the conservation project began in mid-2013, involving the preparation of 10 kilometres of trapping lines and the placement of 500 humane, instant-kill traps that target possums, rats and stoats (all of which were introduced by settlers to New Zealand). Now complete, phase one of the project has the full 10 kilometres under control and the results of these conservation efforts are starting to show.

James says the wildlife is slowly coming back. “I’ve been going to that forest for five years and for the first four I never heard a bird tweet.”

Now things have changed. We witnessed the reviving bird-life on our tour; a little black robin approached us to say hello – a sight that wouldn’t have been seen a little more than a year ago.

The project is now in phase two, which will involve the strategic development for further conservation of an additional 200 hectares. This phase is expected to take two or more years and will be followed by phase three - the restoration of an added 500 hectares.

The end product will be something that New Zealanders and tourists can enjoy. Cherished native bird species such as the kaka will naturally flock back to the forest, which will be like none other; the forest was completely untouched during the logging cycle, leaving it full of large native trees that are more than 500 years old.

James’ journey to this point as a conservation leader and eco-tourism entrepreneur has been a natural passage that he realised during his early teens at St Paul’s Tihoi Venture School. As a 14-year-old Tihoi student, James found himself tramping through the Pureora Forest –irritable and tired – until his tutor pointed out the natural beauty that surrounded him and his fellow Tihoi mates. It was in this moment that James realised he wanted to have something to do with the outdoors.

James recalls writing a letter to himself after the tramp, during his 48hour solo. When he looks back on the letter now, he says it details a very accurate representation of what his life is now like as an adult.

“I’ve been going to that forest for five years and for the first four I never heard a bird tweet.”

MIGHTY OAKS

FROM LITTLE ACORNS GROW

ST PAUL’S COLLEGIATE SCHOOL WILL EMBARK ON THE BIGGEST DEVELOPMENT THE SCHOOL HAS SEEN IN OVER 40 YEARS

From accommodation through to learning, the school will take on a major initiative where four key projects will lift St Paul’s to become New Zealand’s leading secondary school.

Centre of Excellence in Agricultural Science and Business

Learning Hub

Williams House upgrade

Music Centre extension

We invite you to join us for a presentation by Headmaster Grant Lander to learn more about these projects

Monday 16 June 2014

St Paul’s dining room 5.30pm for 6pm start

For catering purposes, please RSVP by Friday 13 June 2014 to Deborah McRae on 957 8805 or d.mcrae@stpauls.school.nz

School community news

BIG BAND OPENS FOR US’S OLDEST COLLEGE BAND

St Paul’s Big Band opened the concert for the United States’ oldest college band, the Notre Dame Concert Band, on Friday 23 May at a performance held at the school’s Chapel.

“The Big Band’s ability to perform as cohesively as a group this early in the year can be put down to three things:

student talent, willingness to learn and the inaugural music camp which was held during the summer period before the 2014 school year.”

The Notre Dame Concert Band, which performed in Hamilton as part of their whirlwind Australasia tour, is made up of 50 musicians. The band forms part of the Band of the Fighting Irish, a 360 piece college marching band that performs in front of hundreds-ofthousands of college football fans and is seen by millions on US television.

Director of Music at St Paul’s, Michelle Flint, said the opportunity for the Big Band to open the Notre Dame Concert Band’s Hamilton performance is a reflection of the talented musicians currently enrolled at St Paul’s.

“The Big Band’s ability to perform as cohesively as a group this early in the year can be put down to three things: student talent, willingness to learn and the inaugural music camp which was held during the summer period before the 2014 school year.”

Thirty-seven students that make-up St Paul’s Big Band and Concert Orchestra took part in the inaugural music camp at St Paul’s Tihoi Venture School. Here they participated in sectional, orchestra and band rehearsals mixed in with some recreational activities.

The week long camp allowed the two music groups to be well prepared for musical performances throughout the year including the Notre Dame Concert Band performance.

STUDENTS PERFORM AT CHIEFS HOME GAMES

Over the Easter break, Jess Chanwai and the St Paul’s Choir were invited to perform in front of a 25,000 strong crowd, at the Chiefs home game played at Waikato Stadium.

Jess Chanwai, violinist, performed on Saturday 19 April to a sold out stadium where the Chiefs played the Crusaders. Jess performed a solo of mashup pop songs on her electric violin, an instrument she plays at a first year tertiary undergraduate level.

A few weeks later, on Saturday 3 May, St Paul’s Choir performed at the Chiefs v Lions game. The choir, which on the night of the performance was made up of 36 students, sung Guiding Light by Muse, Bonfire Heart by James Blunt and Some Nights and We Are Young by Fun.

Photo by Richard Spranger Photography

BALME SECURES NZ SHEARING TITLE

Nineteen intense shearing competitions saw Josh Balme (Year 11) take out the title for No 1 Ranked Junior NZ Machine Shearer. Josh accumulated enough points to win the title by securing seven wins and 10 placings during the 19 competitions held against full time shearers.

His success for the 2013/14 competitive shearing season started at Golden Shears, a shearing and woolhandling competition, earlier in the year where he placed third out of 66 competitors who are full-time shearers. Josh experienced a difficult shear during this competition but kept his cool and battled on to produce quality shears despite the hurdles, gaining a spot in the top three. Josh’s season finished on a high with the youngster securing second place in the Junior Shearing Competition at the Coca Cola Easter Show held over the Easter weekend. A very successful season for Josh who only started competing three months into the season.

School community news

BUILDING CLASSROOMS IN TANZANIA

St Paul’s Collegiate School and Waikato Diocesan are working collaboratively to raise money to build a classroom for disadvantaged and orphaned children at the Njombe International Academy in Tanzania. Both schools have set a goal to raise $11,000 each, to fund one classroom at the newly established academy. The school is situated in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania on 208 acres of fertile land. The land will be used primarily for growing pine and eucalyptus trees and for farming and agriculture to help selfsustain the project. The remainder of the land will consist of school buildings and playing fields.

The school was founded by Richard Morris, former housemaster of St Paul’s Sargood House, and will educate 96 pre-primary, 336 primary and 336 secondary school students from 44 neighbouring villages. Sixty percent of the 768 children educated at Njombe International Academy will be orphans or vulnerable children, in which either their mother, father or both parents have passed away.

The boarding school academy will teach extracurricular activities that will help encourage involvement in various sports and other commitments. Morris is working alongside different members of the Tanzanian government to make this project a success.

INAUGURAL MOTOCROSS EVENT ATTRACTS HUNDREDS

One hundred and seventy four motocross riders from 21 New Zealand secondary schools participated in the inaugural MotoX in the Maize motocross competition held in Huntly on Friday 4 April, 2014.

The competition, hosted by St Paul’s Collegiate School and Huntly Motocross Club, was a huge success with a crowd of almost 500 riders and spectators turning up to the track.

Races ranged from beginners to competitive 250cc with Tauranga Boys High taking out the overall schools title, closely followed by Matamata College and Hauraki Plains College in second and third place respectively.

Participating schools are eagerly anticipating the announcement of next year’s competition, which is expected to attract more competitors and a bigger crowd.

Well known businesses from across New Zealand were also highly supportive of the event, providing sponsorship to help get the competition off the ground. Supporters included: Kiwi Rider Magazine, Gatorade, PGG Wrightson, TDH Tractor Services LTD, Peter Glidden Honda, Pioneer Brand Products, Torpedo 7, Wattle Contracting, Lakes Medical Services Trust and MX Timing.

School community sport

STELLAR SEASON FOR CRICKET

St Paul’s 1st XI cricket team have had a season of victories, winning two major competitions. The first win for was the Student Horizons T20 in Auckland, a competition against many top Auckland cricketing schools. St Paul’s enjoyed an unbeaten run held over three days with wins over St Kentigern, Kelston Boys High School, Auckland Grammar and Westlake Boys High School to win the tournament.

Coach Mark Bailey and Assistant Coach/Manager Garth Littlejohn said for the team to beat four top Auckland schools in just two days, winning the title, was an amazing effort. Tom Harsant received the bowler’s award and was a highlight of the tournament.

The 1st XI then went on to break a ten year drought by securing the Northern Districts’ Gillette Cup title. This win placed St Paul’s in the national top six Gillette Cup finals which will be held in Lincoln, Canterbury, in December this year.

Captain Chris Swanson said the team played exceptionally well in the first three games of the Gillette Cup, but found themselves under pressure against rivals Hamilton Boys’ High School in the final, after losing the toss and finding themselves out on the field.

ATHLETICS STUDENTS RACK UP MEDAL TALLY

Another successful athletics season saw St Paul’s take home an enviable 70 medals. To kick-off the season, in December last year, St Paul’s athletes secured six titles at the New Zealand Secondary School Track and Field Championships held at Porritt Stadium. James Hunt impressively tallied-up four medals of his own - three gold and one silver.

In 2014, the success of students continued with athletes winning a total of 37 medals, including 11 titles, from the Central Zone Athletics Championships held at Porritt Stadium in March. From this competition 43 of the School’s athletes qualified for the Waikato Bay of Plenty Secondary Schools’ Athletics Championships; a total of 23 students competed, cleaning-up a further 22 medals at the event held later in March.

Coach Mark Bailey and Assistant Coach/Manager

Garth Littlejohn said for the team to beat four top Auckland schools in just two days, winning the title, was an amazing effort.

Tom Harsant received the bowler’s award and was a highlight of the tournament.

Simon Morbey kept the team above water, taking 2 for 17 from his nine overs. Chris Swanson made the biggest impact with 5 for 19 from his eight overs – an effort that earned him player of the tournament and player of the final. Other stand-outs from the match were spinner Eli Spadoni who took 1 for 13 from seven overs during his debut tournament for the team.

When batting, St Paul’s were under pressure having lost two wickets early in the innings with the score at 7-2. Ali Blackett stepped in and took control. Batting at number five for St Paul’s his displayed maturity beyond his years in making a crucial 51 not out. Devon Nolan scored 41 and Chris Swanson scored 26 which pushed St Paul’s, comfortably in the end, across the line for a six wicket win and to victory after a ten year drought in the Gillette Cup qualifying competition.

Team management said that moving to play in the Waikato Valley men’s competition was pivotal for St Paul’s success in schools cricket. This competition provided the boys with tough cricket matches that improved the overall skills of the 1st XI players. The boys performed well, finishing second in both pre and post-Christmas play with nemesis Kaipaki finishing first both times and providing an excellent bench mark for the boys going into next season.

The season wrapped-up in April with victory at the North Island Secondary Schools’ Track and Field Championships where five St Paul’s athletes competed. Emma Walker and Ryan Ballantyne continued their fine performances from the Waikato Bay of Plenty competition, taking home a gold, three silver and a bronze. Emma won gold as part of the Waikato/Bay of Plenty senior girls’ 4 x 100m relay team and silver in the 100m hurdles. Ryan threw a personal best in the intermediate boys’ discus, gaining bronze, and secured silver in the shot put. Paris Kingston-White also had a successful weekend, locking-in silver in the open girls’ pole vault. Another successful season for one of New Zealand’s leading athletics teams.

School community sport

ROWING SUCCESS AT TWIZEL

One of the St Paul’s most successful rowing seasons in more than a decade wrapped-up at the national rowing regatta, the Aon Maadi Cup, held at Twizel in March. St Paul’s rowers secured one gold, one silver and two bronze medals – an impressive medal collection from a school of only 670 students.

A total of eight A finals and four B finals were made at the regatta, which attracts more than two-thousand competitors each year. In the A finals, the boys’ under-17 four (Charles Christy, Ben Dobbe, Jack Schicker, Henry Wills and cox Logan Birt) took home the gold; the boys’ under-17 eight secured silver; and the girls under-17 double and boys’ under-17 novice eight both took home bronze.

Coach Graham Oberlin-Brown describes the boys under-17 four win as monumental.

“What a great way to finish off an outstanding season for those boys. They were capable of gold at the North Islands but only managed to secure bronze after a clear water victory in the eight. It was great for them to be so clinical in securing gold to finish the season off,” said Graham.

RANKED THIRD AT SWIMMING CHAMPS

Competing against 22 secondary schools, St Paul’s ranked third at the Waikato Secondary Schools’ Swimming championships on Wednesday 16 April at Waterwold in Te Rapa, Hamilton, with a total score of 836 points.

The St Paul’s boys’ squad placed second, accumulating a total of 654 points. The boys were beaten by rivals Hamilton Boys’ High School who placed first with a total of 988 points. In third place was St Peter’s School, Cambridge, who scored 492 points.

The two top-three rankings maintain St Paul’s reputation of always placing in the top three at the Waikato Secondary Schools’ Swimming championships. Overall St Paul’s achieved 22 podium finishes – first, second and third.

“What a great way to finish off an outstanding season for those boys. They were capable of gold at the North Islands but only managed to secure bronze after a clear water victory in the eight.

It was great for them to be so clinical in securing gold to finish the season off,” said Graham.

The School’s success during the 2013/14 season follows an intense training regime with professional mentorship from a new coaching team of New Zealand rowers and experienced coaches: Coach Graham Oberlin-Brown, world champion and world record holder in the under-23 mens’ lightweight double; and Assistant Coach Tim Wilson, who coached New Zealand university crews during the Trans-Tasman test series against Australian in 2012 and 2013.

In addition to St Paul’s success at Maadi Cup, the School secured four medals at an earlier competition in 2014, the North Island Secondary School rowing regatta. At the regatta, the boys under-17 eight (Henry Wills, Jack Schnicker, Ben Dobbe, Lachlan Lee, Tim Husband-Dravitzki, Charles Christy, Connor Gordon, Sal M’Boge and cox Logan Birt) won gold against rival’s Hamilton Boys’ High School; a season highlight for the team.

Success gained in the 2013/14 season is only set to improve as talented junior rowers move up the ranks over the next few years.

KEEPING DRY IN NEW SOCCER DUGOUTS

St Paul’s soccer players are set for a drier and warmer season in 2014 compared to last year, thanks to some swanky new soccer dugouts on the St Paul’s soccer field. The dugouts will keep players and guests dry during fixtures and will provide shelter during training sessions.

The dugouts were completed over the summer months thanks to the generous donation from the St Paul’s Parents’ Association. The new soccer dugouts are one of many projects completed in the past year which have improved St Paul’s sporting facilities.

School Life

Network Advertising

Network is a magazine celebrating the St Paul’s Collegiate School Community. Network is produced by the Development Office of St Paul’s Collegiate School in conjunction with the Old Collegians’ Association. The publication informs past and present students and the extended school community of development and events within the school and the wider school community.

Put your name in front of over 6500 readers while supporting St Paul’s Collegiate School by becoming a Network Advertiser:

• Business card (50mm H x 90mm W) = $135 + GST

• Quarter-page advert (125mm H x 90mm W) = $250 + GST

• Half-page advert (260mm H x 95mm W) or (130mm H x 190mm W) = $500 + GST

• Full-page advert 297mm H x 210mm W) = $1000 + GST.

All advertising artwork is to be supplied print ready, saved as a high-resolution pdf, tiff or jpg file.

Please contact the Executive Officer of the Old Collegians, phone (07) 957 8805 or email oldcollegians@stpauls.school.nz to book your space in Network

The University of Waikato welcomes 26 St Paul’s Collegiate School students this year and congratulates 11 of them who were awarded school-leaver scholarships. Congratulations to Grace and Paul who received the prestigious Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship.

The University of Waikato welcomes 26 St Paul’s Collegiate School students this year and congratulates 11 of them who were awarded school-leaver scholarships. Congratulations to Grace and Paul who received the prestigious Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship.

Grace Namana

Bachelor of Laws

Paul Newton-Jackson Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Music

Sir

Sir Edmund Hillary Scholar

Grace has been awarded a Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship in 2014 for her involvement in Netball, representing the region and country at secondary school level.

Grace has been awarded a Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship in 2014 for her involvement in Netball, representing the region and country at secondary school level.

Sir Edmund Hillary Scholar

Paul has excelled in Music from a young age and from 2010 has been writing and composing music for national competitions. Paul has also been awarded a Girdler Scholarship to attend Cambridge University and will move from the University of Waikato this August to continue his studies.

Paul has excelled in Music from a young age and from 2010 has been writing and composing music for national competitions. Paul has also been awarded a Girdler Scholarship to attend Cambridge University and will move from the University of Waikato this August to continue his studies.

We reward success.

We reward success.

At the University of Waikato, we reward success. We have a broad range of scholarships available for school leavers including the Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship Programme and the 2015 Golden Jubilee Scholarships worth up to $40,000.

At the University of Waikato, we reward success. We have a broad range of scholarships available for school leavers including the Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship Programme and the 2015 Golden Jubilee Scholarships worth up to $40,000.

The Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship recognises students who show academic excellence, leadership and who excel in sports, or the creative or performing arts. The Scholarship pays fees for the duration of a student’s undergraduate study at the University of Waikato.

The Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship recognises students who show academic excellence, leadership and who excel in sports, or the creative or performing arts. The Scholarship pays fees for the duration of a student’s undergraduate study at the University of Waikato.

Other scholarships available for school leavers include the Head-Start Merit and Excellence Scholarships for students who achieve NCEA Level 3 with Merit or Excellence endorsement.

Other scholarships available for school leavers include the Head-Start Merit and Excellence Scholarships for students who achieve NCEA Level 3 with Merit or Excellence endorsement.

In 2014 only, ten Golden Jubilee Scholarships will be awarded to students enrolling to study with the University of Waikato in 2015. The Scholarship is worth $10,000 per year for up to four years.

In 2014 only, ten Golden Jubilee Scholarships will be awarded to students enrolling to study with the University of Waikato in 2015. The Scholarship is worth $10,000 per year for up to four years.

For more information on all of our scholarships available and for application forms, visit waikato.ac.nz/scholarships or talk to us on 0800 WAIKATO.

For more information on all of our scholarships available and for application forms, visit waikato.ac.nz/scholarships or talk to us on 0800 WAIKATO. At

At the University of Waikato, the possibilities are endless.

Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.