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The Otago Boys' High School Foundation
PO Box 11,
Dunedin, New Zealand
Tel +64 3 477 2546
Fax +64 3 477 5468
Roy Colbert (1962-66) recently had a story published in the Otago Daily Times about his finest memory of Carisbrook… he writes:
I associate Carisbrook, the whining grinding turnstiles, the biting cold in winter, the excitement upon entry in all seasons, with Lankford Smith (1928-29).
Lankford was a close family friend, hence as a kid, I tended to follow him around. He ended a 22-season Otago cricket career the year I first went to Carisbrook, but as Albion captain, he continued on in senior cricket, still with cravate, and I saw many of those games. I remember Albion clinching the senior title at the North Ground, speedster Geoff Anderson splitting a bail in half with the winning delivery. It sailed halfway to the boundary where I picked it up and stuffed it in my pocket. It may still be somewhere in our basement. I'm sure Warwick Larkins would like to have it glass-enshrined out at Culling Park.
Doyen of New Zealand cricket writers, Dick Brittenden, wrote (Smith of Carisbrook) that Lankford was the finest cricketer never to play for New Zealand. Lankford may have been on the receiving end of a conspiracy theory involving working class cricketers - the theory that also accounted for George Mills (1930-34) missing out on the 1949 New Zealand tour of England. But Lankford did play soccer for his country. He was good at every sport, extraordinarily agile and fit.
Every year two days before Christmas, his birthday, he would come to our house, balance in a press-up position on his right hand, and twist right back over to pick a brand-new handkerchief with an L in the corner, his birthday present, from the floor on the other side with his teeth. He could still do this in his 60s.
Lankford was always at Carisbrook when I was there. I would sit with him, have lunch with him underneath the Rose Stand, listen to his stories and meet his cricketing friends.
When he became a New Zealand selector writing for the Saturday night Star Sports, I did his research. Lankford could evaluate a cricketer well enough, but he was always vague on numbers and hard facts, I would provide these from a vast cricketing library inherited from my grandfather. Soon my notes started turning up unchanged in the paper. Lankford had a word with the editor, and a writing career I had never contemplated for a second began. I was 15. Lankford was a very generous man.
A few years later I was playing for a local media team at Prospect Park against his Celebrity XI. When our wicket-keeper decided he wanted to bowl, I took over the gloves. Lankford went up the pitch and blithely walked past the first ball so I could have the honour of stumping him. But the ball walked past me as well, I was so stunned he had missed it. He didn't give me another chance. He knew if he did and I missed it again, my team-mates would throw me into the Town Belt.
Lankford's health and fiercely cheery attitude to life declined sadly in his final years. I remember standing with Otago cricketing legend Bert Sutcliffe at Carisbrook as Sutcliffe bemoaned the state of his former captain, the man who drove him on to his record 385 when Sutcliffe kept indicating to the pavilion he had had enough and Lankford kept furiously signalling to stay out there and score more.
We lost Lankford shortly after that. His three daughters took his ashes out to Carisbrook. A number of Otago's favourite sporting sons' urns have been sprinkled or buried there. Sutcliffe is down in front of the terraces.
Lankford's daughters carried his ashes right out into the middle. Where he belonged.
From Doug Kamo – Chief Executive
In the month of September I will be in Australia and will be hosting a series of Old Boy gatherings in Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane.
I personally invite all Old Boys’ living in these areas to attend these functions which is a great way for school mates to reconnect, reminisce and form new friendships.
I will also take the opportunity to briefly update you on the progress of the Foundation and the benefits it will generate for Otago Boys’ High School in the years, decades and generations ahead; answer any questions you have about Otago Boys’ of the 21st century and to update you on what is happening back home in Dunedin.
As these are break even functions there will be a small cost to attend to assist with venue hire, beverages and catering.
Please contact me direct to confirm attendance on info@obhsfoundation.co.nz – Please RSVP no later than 27th August 2010.
Function Dates:
Venues TBC
Friday 3 September
Fringe Bar - Paddington
6.00pm - 7.30pm
Wednesday 15th September
Breakfree on Hindley
5.30pm - 7.00pm
Friday 17th September 2010
Victoria Park Golf Complex
5.30pm - 7.30pm
* Since the June newsletter, the following Old Boys and connections with the school have made pledges or donations and have been registered as Members of the Foundation –
We are genuinely appreciative of their continued support and belief in the Foundations Objectives. If you wish to find out more about how you can make a pledge or donation please click here or contact info@obhsfoundation.co.nz
Planning is well underway for the 50th reunion of the intake of 1960.
This event has been scheduled for 8 & 9 October 2010 and is a wonderful opportunity to rekindle friendships and your connection with the school.
Full registration packs will be available soon but we urge those wishing to attend to contact Ray Hay (1960-62) on +64 3 474 5853 or ray@ciigroup.co.nz or Fred Dodds (1960-63) on +64 4 293 1810 or freddodds@xtra.co.nz
We anticipate a great turnout with 214 Old Boys from the 1960 Class Year.
We do still require contact details and email addresses for 115 Old Boys so click here to see who they are and if you are able to assist please forward their information to info@obhsfoundation.co.nz
The proposed programme is:
Friday Evening Catch Up Drinks
Saturday Morning Registration & Official welcome
School Museum Display
Saturday Afternoon Lunch - Photographs - Golf & Tourist Activities
Saturday Evening Drinks and Official Dinner
Sunday Farewell Brunch - Depart at leisure
We have had a fantastic response to the relaunch of theFoundation RD Petroleum Fuel Card - a card that allows members to save up to 28 cents per litre whilst theFoundation benefit's directly from ourOld Boys' and family members usage each month.
Due to theEmission Trading Scheme (EMS),even more fuel increases are set to hit the pumps sothere is no better time to become a Foundationcard holder and take advantage of this cheaper fuel option while lending valuable support to the Foundation.
GET CHEAPER FUEL EVERY TIME YOU FILL UP...
NO MORE HUNTING FOR SUPERMARKET VOUCHERS!
All Foundation card holders receive a 5 cents per litre discountto the national pump price for petrol and diesel. Discounted petrol and diesel can be purchased at all BP,RD Petroleumand most Gasoline Alley retail sites along with Truck Stops.
HOW IT WORKS:
If today the national price for a litre of 91 octane is $1.729 cents. The cost to you would be $1.679 cents. If on the West Coast 91 is currently priced at $1.909 cents per litre and on the Coromandel Peninsula it’s sitting at $1.959 cents per litre – those with Foundation fuel cards will still pay $1.679 cents per litre. That’s a 28 cpl saving!
This offer is open to all Otago Boys' High School - Old Boys' and their immediate family members so please pass this on to a New Zealand based family member you think may well benefit from joining the program.
There is an annual fee of $20.00 + GST per card of which $10.00 comes directly back to the Foundation in the form of a donation from RD Petroleum. On top of this RD Petroleum gifts 0.05 cents for every litre poured. There are no additional transaction fees.
Cards are linked to a bank account with all payments being made by direct debit. Fuel bought one month will be billed for the 20th of the following month. Card holders will receive an invoice giving ample notification of the amount to be debited against their account.
If interested in joining please download the appropriate forms below and return directly to RD Petroleum, PO Box 1487, Christchurch 8140 or if you have any queries call them on
0800 44 00 14.
Important:
Individual Application – Click here
Limited Companies Application – Click here
REGISTERED SINCE LAST NEWSLETTER 13
TOTAL REGISTRATIONS TO DATE 400
MAKE SURE YOU ARE PART OF THIS
HISTORICAL EVENT BY REGISTERING NOW!
Contact the Foundation info@obhsfoundation.co.nz with ‘Register 150th’ in the subject line or a call +64 3 477 2546, and leave a message. Include your full name and years of attendance.
OUTRIGHT WINNERS
Highflying OB’s rock band ‘Outright’ were judged overall winners of the Band Jam at the Regent Theatre recently beating two other high school bands comprising mostly Year 13 students. What is important to note is all the Outright band members are Year 9 which is an outstanding achievement.
Band members are Nick Alexander, Kalin Geisreiter, Will Kindley, Marco Taiaroa & Matt Watt. They were all excited at having won & walked away with what seemed like 400 moro bars each & $500 in cash.
The competition was judge by stalwart Dunedin musicians Graeme Downes & Dei Hamo.
THE SHAVE OFF
25 June the Otago Boys’ School Council held its first ever “Shave Off” for the Leukaemia and Blood Cancer Foundation of New Zealand. Sixteen Prefects, six teachers and The Chairman of the School Council all had their heads shaved and in some cases their legs waxed for the cause.
The event began with a quick final photo of the participants with their hair, then it was straight into the thick off it as massive amounts of hair came falling off heads at an alarming rate. Students and teachers who had won the right to shave the hair enjoyed the opportunity to produce many “impressive styles,” but in the end only one style was possible, which was everything off.
At time of print money was still being collected but it is anticipated that $4000.00 would’ve been raised to pass on to a great cause.
HARLEY – TAYLOR TROPHY
The Harley – Taylor Trophy was contested at Carisbrook for the first time between Otago Boys’ and Kings 1st XV sides on Thursday 1st July in splendid conditions.
This game has been played since 1938 but never has there been a trophy to acknowledge the clash. Last year the Old Boys’ reunion of 1959 decided to introduce the trophy for this fixture naming it the Harley – Taylor Trophy in recognition of the competition and camaraderie which came from Don Harley (OBHS) and Evan ‘Bugs’ Taylor (Kings) going on to represent Otago division one and remaining friends for life.
Otago Boys’ made a somewhat slow start with forced errors from a Kings side who dominated the first 20 minutes. Slowly OB’s gained composure to grab hold of the match and eventually win 23 - 13.
The trophy was presented to Otago Boys’ High School following the game at Carisbrook by Don & Evan.
KING’S INTERSCHOOL – OB’s DOMINANCE
Otago Boys’ yet again showed their interschool dominance by beating Kings High School on 1st July 19 – 5.
Kings Interschool |
||
SPORT |
||
Jnr Badinton |
5 |
1 |
Snr Badminton |
4 |
2 |
Yr9 Basketball |
59 |
46 |
Yr10 Basketball |
66 |
45 |
1st Basketball |
68 |
41 |
Chess |
4 |
0 |
Snr Crosscountry |
12 |
24 |
Jnr Crosscountry |
30 |
54 |
1st Football |
7 |
1 |
2nd Football |
0 |
2 |
Yr10 Football |
2 |
1 |
Yr9 Football |
7 |
1 |
Ice Hockey |
7 |
0 |
Jnr Waterpolo |
20 |
4 |
Mountain Biking |
3 |
1 |
1st Hockey |
4 |
1 |
RUGBY |
||
U16 |
57 |
5 |
U15 BLUE |
41 |
5 |
U15 GOLD |
22 |
39 |
U14 BLUE |
12 |
5 |
U14 WHITE |
19 |
48 |
U13 |
22 |
41 |
2NDXV |
17 |
19 |
1STXV |
23 |
13 |
OVERALL RESULT |
OBHS 19 |
Kings 5 |
If you find a story on an OB’s Old Boy share it with us all!
Send it to info@obhsfoundation.co.nz and we will do our best to include it in the next newsletter.
NOT ENOUGH
Ken Gillespie (1965-67) says $4.9 million allocated to compensate land owners between Roxburgh and the Waitaki Valley who are affected by the upgrade of the existing lower South Island transmission lines is insufficient.
An Oturehua farmer, Mr Gillespie made a submission they said was on behalf of about 75%-80% of affected landowners. The framework for offering any form of compensation agreement for transmission lines on private land belonged to another era, he said.
"Today, the network is owned by a company that is charged with making money from the transmission of electricity over land owned by private individuals. Whereas previously landowners gave up their land for the good of the nation, now they are being asked to give up their land for the increased profits of Transpower," Mr Gillespie said.
While not opposed to the upgrade, he believed property owners should be fairly compensated for the long-term effects of "hosting the lines" across their land.
ONLY $5,500.00
John Eckhoff (1966-70) says “two precious bottles of some of the world's oldest bottled single malt whisky on sale have arrived in New Zealand, but those wishing to taste it will have to open their wallets, and wide”.
The Mortlach 70 whisky was distilled at Elgin, Scotland, in 1938 by the forerunner of specialist malt whisky distillery Gordon & MacPhail and bottled by the company in 2008 after 70 years maturation in a Spanish oak sherry cask. It is the world's longest matured whisky to go on sale.
The cask produced 54 700ml bottles, at present selling for NZ$22,000 each, and 162 200ml bottles selling for NZ$5500.
John said it was barely believable that the whisky was 70 years old. "We have 40-year-olds and 50-year-olds, but this is just phenomenal. "It's so old you would have expected the wood to have destroyed the whisky." Instead, the whisky had become more concentrated, the flavour more intense, according to reviews.
He had not tasted it, but got a "whiff" every time he opened the safe where it was stored. "It's brilliant."
The bottles were being reserved for next year's DramFest whisky festival in Christchurch, where interested tasters could buy a measure of 20ml probably for about $550.
John was confident there would be 20 people interested enough to spend that much on a dram and that the other bottle would be sold.
BOND RECEIVES TOP ACCOLADE
The awards keep coming for world champion rower Hamish Bond (1999-03), who was named the top sportsman at the New Zealand University Blues dinner in Wellington recently.
The North End Club rower was named the 2009 New Zealand University Sportsperson of the Year. He was amongst a stellar line up of other finalists including Silver Fern netballer Laura Langman, All Black Stephen Donald, cyclist Jaime Nielsen, surf-lifesaver Nikki Cox and Paralympic swimmer Cameron Leslie.
The accolade was yet another triumph as he recently won the gold medal in the men's coxless pair at a World Cup regatta in Munich with Eric Murray.
Hamish received the award for winning the pairs title at the world championships at Munich last year. It was his second world title. He was stroke of the four that won the world title in 2007.
The feat also led to Hamish being named the New Zealand Rower of the Year for 2009, and he and Murray were named the Team of the Year at this year's Halberg Awards.
MUSIC HONOUR
Peter de Blois (1980-84) was recently honoured for his work in church music by being made an Associate of the Royal School of Church Music.
A founding member of the OBHS Sextet and a former convenor of the University of Otago Capping Sextet, Peter began organ lessons with the late Peter Warwick (former HOD Music at OBHS) and Organist at Knox Church. Following 5 years as an organist at St Paul’s Cathedral, Peter moved to Christchurch and then Wellington, working at the Anglican cathedrals there.
He then spent two years at Ely Cathedral in the UK. He was the second of a group of singers from Dunedin Cathedral to sing there which include Anthony Sandle (1980-83) and Nicholas Madden (1995-99).
Upon returning to NZ, he became Director of Music at the Roman catholic Cathedral in Wellington and then, since 1990 has been Director of Music at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Auckland where the funeral for Sir Edmund Hilary was held.
The ARSCM is an award for achievements in church music and/or liturgy of national significance, or for important musical and/or liturgical work within the RSCM.
YOUTH PREVAILS
Youth prevailed over age when Otago A won the senior A metropolitan pennant series by beating Taieri 4.5-1.5 at Balmacewen recently. The Otago A team comprised of three university students and two schoolboys from Otago Boys' High School and is captained by "veteran" Michael Smith.
Duncan Croudis (2005-09) returned to the fold after being sidelined by a broken ankle and picked up where he left off. Croudis beat masters (over-40) golfer Ken Shaw in 14 holes and is showing good form coming up to his defence of the New Zealand under-19 title at Balmacewen in September.
The two schoolboys both won, with Thomas Facer (2006) beating Taieri No 4 Ian Boath, and boarder Kayne Wardell (2007), from Allen Grange, getting ahead of Taieri's Matt Lee on the final green.
The Balmacewen team goes forward to the provincial final in October.
PHARMAC CHAIRMAN
Stuart McLauchlan (1971-75) has been appointed chairman of the Pharmac board.
It was "wonderful" to have been considered for the position, after being appointed deputy chairman last year, he said. "It's always good to have Dunedin people involved in these national activities," he said.
Pharmac, the country's pharmaceutical management agency, aims to improve New Zealanders' access to medicines and Mr McLauchlan said it delivered drug cost savings of $700 million a year.
Stuart has previously served on several health boards, including the Southern Regional Health Authority for three years in the mid-1990s, and the Clutha Health First board, which runs the Balclutha Hospital and medical centre.
Announcing the Pharmac appointments, which took effect yesterday, Health Minister Tony Ryall said Mr McLauchlan provided "strong financial and governance expertise".
ASPIRING DIRECTOR
Mike Horne (1984-88), partner of Deloitte Dunedin, this week became the inaugural winner of the Otago-Southland branch of the Institute of Directors "aspiring director" award.
Mr Horne leads the account and advisory practice for Deloitte in Dunedin. His role includes everything from financial advisory to business and strategic planning. He said he was keen to play a role in furthering the governance practices and ultimately the prospects of businesses in the region over the next 20 years.
"I see the aspiring director award as an excellent initiative and a step for me in terms of furthering these aspirations and ensuring I build the necessary skill base and experience."
A REAL WEAPON
Kane Russell (2006-) is the Otago Under-18 hockey team's "weapon".
Team coach Simon Cullen said Russell was a vital component of his team. "He's definitely one of our best players. He's a real weapon in our attacking penalty corners," he said.
Russell said representing New Zealand in the under-19 championships was the highlight of his hockey career. While hockey is his No 1 sport, Russell is also a talented athlete, competing in javelin and 100m as well as being a right-hand pace bowler in cricket.
He will represent the region's under-21 team in a tournament in May next year and was in the Southern men's team in the National Hockey League last year.
KARITANE BY THE SEAS
Ian Church (1955-59) has completed his 25th book named karitane by the Sea.
The book covers the history of the seaside village, tracing its European settlement to the 1830s when Johnny Jones established a whaling station across the bay at Waikouaiti. Before that, Karitane and the Huriawa Peninsula was a Ngai Tahu stronghold.
Mr Church said Karitane had undergone several stages of development, including whaling, a transit port for gold seekers travelling from Dunedin and Port Chalmers to the gold fields in the 1860s, and fishing from the 1880s, including crayfishing from the 1950s to the 1980s.
There had been hopes Karitane would be the major port for Otago, but this was not to be, he said. Mr Church's other books, many on sea themes, have included histories of Port Chalmers and Blueskin Bay.
CHOCOLATE DESSERT WINNER
James Musk (1998), of Ironic Cafe and Bar, was the outright winner of the recent dessert competition held during the Cadbury Chocolate Carnival.
Mr Musk said "lots of practice and trying the flavours together" enabled him to create the winning dish, dubbed the "Tantalising Teaser".
Greg Piner, Pier 24 chef and judge, said the standard in the competition, which attracted nine entries, was "very high", making it difficult to choose a winner but Mr Musk’s dessert trumped in all areas.
GOOD FOR DUNEDIN – GOOD FOR OB’S
Former pupils and students from across Otago are the targets of an initiative aimed at luring them home.
The Dunedin City Council has secured $126,500 in funding from New Zealand Trade and Enterprise for the project, which would be used to help alumni groups contact people and encourage them to return home.
The one-year project was also being supported by $50,000 combined funding from the council, regional economic development agency Otago Forward, Tourism Dunedin and Otago Polytechnic.
Steve Davie (past Foundation CEO) has assisted the DCC with the project lending valuable insight and experience learnt through his 5 year association with the Otago Boys’ High School Foundation.
Council economic development unit manager Peter Harris said the funding would be used by council staff to build online databases, which would be used by alumni groups from secondary schools and tertiary bodies.
The tools would help the groups organise reunions and promote opportunities across Otago to "re-engage" ex-pupils living abroad to become involved in the region again, he said.
"Many people leave the region with very fond memories of their time here.
"We want to ensure they not only get to relive these times through reunions, but that they understand the ways the region has changed since they left, and the opportunities there might be for them here now," Mr Harris said.
Council EDU business development adviser Deb Sutton said the University of Otago and some schools, such as Otago Boys' High School, already had good alumni programmes in place.
So far, 15 schools had indicated a willingness to be involved, she said.
Otago Forward chairman and Queenstown Lakes Mayor Clive Geddes said the project would help connect businesses looking for staff, investment or mentoring with alumni "scattered around the world who have goodwill towards Otago".
"This project will help alumni turn good memories into great opportunities and will offer Otago businesses an incredible pool of talent, contacts and investment."
PROFESSOR CLIFFORD HUGH GREENFIELD IRVINE
D Sc (Hon) FACVISE BVSC ONZM.
Born: Dunedin 1920
Died: Christchurch, June 11, 2010.
Professor Cliff Irvine (1933-36), was honoured with such a long list of degrees and awards for outstanding work in several fields of equine medicine that it seems odd he should rate his proudest thrill as winning the 1986 Dominion Handicap at Addington with his mare - Tussle.
But it sums up the complexity of a rare personality - someone able to discuss the most involved aspects of equine reproduction at any university forum in the world, and yet just as happy chatting about training his horses with people who never went to secondary school.
Professor Irvine was Emeritus Professor of Veterinary Science at Lincoln University, a Doctor of Science (Otago) - the highest award in his field in New Zealand - and had honorary doctorates from Massey and Sydney universities among a host of other national and international awards, including the Bledisloe Medal from Lincoln University.
He had an insatiable appetite for research but he never lived in an ivory tower.
Born in Dunedin in 1920, Clifford Hugh Greenfield Irvine, never one to bow to authority, left Otago Boys' High School at 15 after a dispute over the justification for a punishment he received.
He later had similar problems in a brief Army stint.
He started several unlikely careers from journalist to night porter, before going to Otago University to qualify for a veterinary surgeon course then available only in Sydney. He played for the champion Otago senior rugby team, Southern, on the wing.
Irvine used proceeds from training horses both in Dunedin and Sydney to finance his university days and his first winner, Carnavon, in 1940. He set up a veterinary practice in Invercargill, catering for large and small animals at separate surgeries, a novelty then. The biggest challenges were operations on badly gored pig dogs.
He married Fay Curtis, whose father, Ross, was a racing trainer. The couple had a son, Guy and a daughter, Penny.
An illness he contracted from working with cows caused Irvine to be hospitalised for six months, during which he taught himself several new skills including knitting.
A highly competent practical "vet", Irvine nonetheless always had an affinity for research and he was appointed as a lecturer to the then Lincoln College in 1966. He had already made his mark as a trainer and driver.
Light Mood, for which he paid a substantial sum as a youngster won nine races, two of them at New Zealand Cup meetings, but he had as much satisfaction with his success with 1957 New Zealand Cup winner Lookaway, which had not won for 16 months when Irvine took him over.
At that time he was heavily involved in research into the effect of the thyroid gland on horses, research which was to lead to major advances in treating racehorses. Lookaway restored to form was one example.
Irvine's research into reproductive endocrinology was world class, though he liked to recall that his first boss at Lincoln, Dr Bob Burns, would not allow him to experiment with horses at Lincoln until after a visit by Queen Elizabeth in 1977.
She discussed the problems of getting some mares in foal with Irvine and later at lunch with Burns mentioned his obvious need for horses to work with. They were soon permitted and he ended up with 25, including two stallions. One of the mares was Kimmer, by his former star, Light Mood.
In 1977 he was invited to lecture at Texas A and M University and returned with his second wife Sue Alexander, a student at the college at the time and who was to prove a close professional associate and devoted nurse.
For many years Irvine was the consultant for both Harness Racing New Zealand and New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing. He defused the bicarbonate controversy which threatened to tear harness racing apart in the 1990s as large doses of "milkshakes" turned mice into lions on the track.
He was an international expert in several areas of drugs and their influence on racing horses. His research into reproduction, however, was a greater boon on the local industry front.
In the 1980s the Irvine name became famous in another arena.
The trotting mare, Tussle, which he had bred from Kimmer and which showed little early promise, blossomed into one of the best mares produced in New Zealand and became the first to win the Rowe Cup, Dominion Handicap and the Interdominion Trotting Final, the three biggest trotting races in Australasia - a feat subsequently equalled only by Lyell Creek.
Cliff Irvine was critically injured in a car accident in 2000, suffering a broken pelvis, serious head injuries and a fractured breast bone and knee. He was little more than semi-conscious for three months and in hospital for five.
He set himself the seemingly impossible goal of getting back in the sulky with one of his trotters and just managed to achieve it.
But the days of the highly competitive tennis matches at his Halswell home (opponents claimed cracks in the court surface were never repaired because the host knew exactly how to hit into them in tight situations) and some aspects of his work were ended.
The ONZM award in 2000 for services to veterinary science was a thrill which came close to equalling the Dominion Handicap and also served as a stimulus to recover sufficiently from his injuries to travel for the presentation.
Irvine never believed in wasting time and urged a similar attitude in family members and his many successful students, some of whom, notably Margaret Evans, have gained international prominence of their own in the veterinary research field.
"Television and some other things we like doing were wasting time. But he was never an angry person. I cannot remember ever seeing him lose his temper even in the most difficult situation," Penny Irvine recalled.
Sue Irvine remembers a man of great determination who "never gave up", even when recovering from his critical injuries, but accepted reverses with aplomb.
"He set very high standards in his research, as you would expect, and you worked hard with him.
"But he was never flustered when things went wrong or one of us did something wrong. He had the true scientific gifts of concentrating on the main focus."
Ivan Thomas Hall (1936-37) passed away at Dunedin Hospital on 15th July 2010 in his 88th year.
Percy Wellington QSM (1925-28) who passed away on 16 July 2010 at Elmslie House in Wanaka; in his 100th year. Percy is the father of Mark Wellington (1965-66) and Grandfather to Mike Wellington (1991-95) and Rick Wellington (1993-97).
Ian McMeeking (1951-52) died June 2010 in Dunedin. Ian held many positions within our community with an enduring capacity in service to others. He was president, chairman, director or trustee of over 20 community and professional organizations including St John Ambulance, Dunedin Children’s Hospital Appeal, the Barry de Geest Trust, the Chamber of Commerce and Civic Affairs Committee. It was no surprise he was awarded an MBE for services to the community.
Rev Stewart R Anderson (1928-33) passed away 5th July 2010 aged 95 years. Born in Dunedin 1915, Stewart was a shy young man who attended Musselburgh Primary; Otago Boys High School; then Otago University for Law, Commerce, Philosophy, Theology. He represented Otago University and NZ Universities in athletics. He was honoured to have been presented with an Otago University 'Blue' (Blazer), and a NZ University 'Blue' for athletics. Stewart helped to form the Dunedin Presbyterian Harrier and Amateur Athletic Club and loved to tell how he ran with Jack Lovelock in 1934!
Graduating with a degree in Theology he began a parish ministry in Mangaweka in late 1949; followed by St Columba, Naenae 1954-1959; North Church, Invercargill 1959-1976; and then in 1976 the Union Parish in Kaeo-Kerikeri. On retirement from Parish Ministry in 1981, he continued preaching and church administration.
He was proud to have conducted over 300 marriages including former 'Miss NZ' Lyndal Cruickshank, Shane and Nerida Cortese and all of his family weddings! He felt honoured to have been asked to officiate at the MacDiarmid family reunion to honour Nobel Prizewinner, Allan MacDiarmid.
Stewart was a long time moderator of Southland Presbytery; President of Southland National Council of Churches and nine years as an elected member of Southland Hospital Board.
With family he developed an orchard from farm land in Kerikeri and joined the Tamarillo Growers Assn. Soon after he was selected as secretary where he spent 13 years representing the Tamarillo Growers Association on NZ Fruitgrowers Federation.
He moved to Lower Hutt in 2004 where theology remained a pilgrimage for him.
Jim (James) Charles Rush (1947) passed away on 24th June 2010 at Marne Street Hospital aged 75 years.
David Colin Campbell (1935-37) passed away on 29th June 2010 at Dunedin Hospital aged 88 years. Mr Campbell served during the war from 1939-45, Lieut. R.N.Z.N.V.R. He spent three years at Otago Boys' before a year at Waitaki Boys'. David is the father of Denis Campbell (1966-70) and Andy Campbell (1976-80). A Foundation Member as a Friend.
John Holdforth Mauger (1944-49) passed away on 26th June 2010 in Auckland. John was Head Boy in 1949. He was a rugby rep for Manawatu, Canterbury & Waikato and former president of the Hawkes Bay rugby union.
Andrew Robson (1978-81) whose father passed away in Tauranga on on 18th July 2010
Jack Wills (1950-53) whose wife Gillian passed away on 15th July 2010 in Wellington
Jason Cayford (1990-94) and Simon Cayford (1994-97) whose Granddad, Pete passed away on 17th July 2010.
Aden Grebneff (2009) whose father died 7th July 2010 in Tijuana, Mexico aged 51 years.
Ken Gillespie (1965-67) whose mother passed away on 11th July 2010 at Maniototo Hospital aged 80 years.
Ron Barnes (1959-63) whose mother Addie died on 30th June 2010 at Radius Fulton Home in Dunedin
Francis Chilton (1977) whose mother Irene passed away on 20th June 2010 at home.
Roger Everest (1967-71) whose father Robert passed away on 20th June 2010 at Ilam Lifecare.
Newsletter researched and compiled by Douglas Kamo
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