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The Otago Boys' High School Foundation
PO Box 11,
Dunedin, New Zealand
Tel +64 3 477 2546
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November newsletter –
1920s Reunion
* The Foundation was delighted to host a Reunion of our most senior Old Boys last week.
Seven pupils from the 1920s revisited their school during the two-day gathering, enjoying the company of chums they hadn’t seen for years and, in some cases, meeting fellow Old Boys for the first time.
During the Reunion, the ‘magnificent seven’ were entertained by a portion of the school choir accompanied by some of the teaching staff, they toured the school, had official photographs taken, were addressed by Rector Clive Rennie and the 2008 Head Boy Matt Alai, and visited a Year 9 (3rd form) class in action – where today’s young men marvelled at the longevity of those parading before them and were inquisitive about the days of corporal punishment.
It was a privilege and a pleasure for the Foundation to organise and host this gathering as we saluted men who faced a terrible introduction into the working world with the Great Depression making its presence felt in the late 1920s and who then were confronted with the atrocities of the Second World War just a decade later.
It is a tribute to those Old Boys – and to those who sent their apologies – that they remain so active and interested in their alma mater.
The roll call for this Reunion was:
Bill Isaac (1925-29), aged 97, resident in Dunedin;
Percy Wellington (1925-28), aged 97, resident in Dunedin;
Donald Munro (1927), aged 95 and resident in Sydney;
John Manning (1928-32), aged 94 and living in Lower Hutt;
Stewart Anderson (1928-33), aged 92 and resident in Lower Hutt;
Rodney Eastgate (1929-32), aged 92, resident in Christchurch;
Angus MacIvor (1929-33), aged 92 and living in Auckland.
Next year the Foundation will host of Reunion for those who attended Otago Boys’ in the 1930s and a Reunion for the boys of the 1940s in 2010. A gathering of the intakes of 1950 to 1954 is scheduled for 2011.
Foundation Staff Scholarship
* ‘Education is the world’s most worthy charity and an investment in education will lead to a pathway of positive social change’.
One of the Foundation’s early forays into assisting the school become an even better educational environment is through the development of scholarships – for entrants and leavers alike. A number of those scholarships are in operation already and two more, for leavers, will be announced within the next few days.
Sometimes, when the focus is almost solely on our boys, the staff can be forgotten and yet it is the school’s management and teachers who are charged with the responsibility of delivering the curriculum.
To that end, the Foundation was delighted to announce a new initiative at last week’s senior prize-giving. On an annual basis from 2009, a Professional Development scholarship will be awarded to a member of the staff to allow him or her to pursue a particular area of interest and expertise.
This scholarship will be worth between $5,000 and $10,000 and will open the way for the recipient to travel and study offshore if required.
International research shows schools are only as good as their teachers and the quality of schools will never exceed the quality of their staff. The attraction and retention of teachers of the highest calibre is high priority for the Rector and his management team, and the Foundation is pleased to play a role through what will be known as the Foundation Staff Scholarship.
Tracking Old Boys
* Thank you to all those who have assisted with contact details for ‘lost’ Old Boys in recent weeks.
With the school’s 150th anniversary celebrations now under five years away tracking the whereabouts of all living 17,000 alumni is high priority and any contact information you have for those not on our newsletter database would be welcome.
Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Foundation members
* Since the October newsletter, the following Old Boys and connections with the school have made pledges or donations and have been registered as Members of the Foundation –
University of Otago School of Business Distinguished Speaker
* All Old Boys, their families and connections of the school are invited to the above address by Geoff Davies (1961-63) next Monday (24th November).
Geoff’s CV makes for impressive reading – a BSc(Hons) and MSc from Manchester University, and a Post Graduate Diploma from Keele University; Vice President of an American NYSE listed company (worth $NZ750 million) and Managing Director of the Alamo Group of 10 agricultural and commercial mowing equipment manufacturing companies spread through Britain, France, the Netherlands and Russia.
He is also the recipient of a swag of machinery and Business of the Year awards and an OBE for services to British agriculture.
Geoffrey’s energy is also spent as a Director of the British Chamber of Commerce; Director and Council member of the Agricultural Engineers Association; and Chairman of the Farm Equipment Council.
He also serves as a member of the Regional Strategy Group for Trade and Investment for the West Midlands region of England; is a guest lecturer at the Harper Adams Agricultural University College; is Chairman of the Higher Heath Football Club, which he founded for eight to 15 year olds; and is involved with a good number of charities.
Geoff was named the British Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 and was recently elected President of the United Kingdom Agricultural Engineers’ Association (AEA). He is a Senior Fellow of the Foundation
His address at the Business School is entitled ‘Risks, Gambles and Growing a Global Business’ which he says can certainly be done from Dunedin.
Entry to the Business Speaker Series is free and will take place at the St David Lecture Theatre at 5.30p.m. next Monday. Geoff is also the guest speaker at the Otago Chamber of Commerce Business Awards this Friday evening (21st November).
Back in Dunedin
* The Foundation and the Dunedin City Council’s Economic Development Unit have entered into a partnership to promote the good news stories about the city.
More and more ex-Dunedin people are finding they can move forward in their life, career and business by heading back to their hometown.
The Back in Dunedin icon can be seen on the Foundation website’s Home Page or can be accessed through this link (www.backindunedin.co.nz). It is all about reconnecting with the city, either by coming back to use and extend skills, or by backing a Dunedin-based business that is developing great ideas.
Take a look at the articles about people – mainly with Otago Boys’ High School connections – who have returned to Dunedin to find it changed. It is no longer the city of their youth but the city of their future. Dunedin has used its smarts and its creativity to spread its business base and find new directions. Find out what these folk have to say about their city and the great opportunities it now presents.
You can also follow the links for career opportunities in the city and read the interviews with people involved in great business investment opportunities
School news
* The 2008 joint Duxes were named at last week’s senior prize-giving with the honour being shared by Mostafa Amer (1st Calculus, English, French and Physics and 2nd in Chemistry) and Andrew Dickie (1st Economics, 1st= Accounting and Statistics, 2nd= Calculus, commendation in Chemistry and History).
The Best All Round Boy for 2008 is Stephen Trebilco (1st History, 2nd= Classics and Economics, commendation in Calculus and Chemistry; shared the Dunedin Repertory Society prize; he has a keen interest in military history; was involved in this year’s school productions; and played football for the 2nd XI).
The Best All Round Sportsman for the year was Blair Tarrant.
Next year’s Head Boy and his Deputy were also announced at the prize-giving with Nicholas Dunbar to be assisted by Kurt Purdon.
* The school’s music department continues to impress with several notable milestones in recent weeks.
German exchange student Ivo Kuenhrich successfully auditioned for a place in the bass section of the City of Dunedin choir; Ivo joined Ben Madden in singing with the choirs who joined forces for a special performance of Renaissance and Medieval choral works in late-October; Ben and Ben Kidd have been selected in the New Zealand Secondary School choir; and Chris James gave an impressive solo performance at last week’s prize-giving ceremony in the Regent Theatre.
Chris is also also a highly accomplished rower who performed with great distinction at last month’s inter-provincial championships in Wanganui.
He joined Robert Mears (and Alastair Bond, brother of former Old Boys Callum and Hamish Bond, and Jeremy Stewart) in the Otago under four, which posted the fastest time in the time trials and raced unbeaten to win the gold medal.
Annual Foundation golf tournament
* The Foundation’s fourth annual Golf Classic will be played at the St Clair course in Dunedin on Friday, 20th March next year.
Armstrong Mazda will again be the major naming rights sponsor and will fill that role for the next three years, the partnership with the Foundation being extended through until at least 2011.
Sponsorship of eleven of the 18 holes has already been booked and team and individual entries are now being taken. Please contact the Foundation office (03/4778977, info@obhsfoundation.co.nz) if you wish to be in the playing field of 120 – either as a team of four ($140) or as an individual ($35).
Palmerston North Old Boys’ Christmas party
* The Palmerston North branch of the Old Boys’ Society will be staging its annual Christmas Party at the Hotel Coachman (140 Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North) on Thursday, 4th December.
Pre-dinner drinks will be served from 6.30p.m. in the Hunterville Bar with the meal from 7.30p.m. in the Club Room. Members will pay for their own food and refreshment.
The branch’s annual subscription is also due and payment details can be accessed through contacting Bob O’Driscoll (06/3583995; r.odriscoll@xtra.co.nz)
Old Boys in the news
* A man busier than most in so-called ‘retirement’ is retired Air Vice-Marshal Robin Klitscher CBE, DFC, AFC, BSc (1950-54).
Robin is the national President of the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services’ Association (RSA) and is the first airman to lead the organisation.
Robin joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force as a pilot in 1958. After converting to helicopters in mid-career, he spent twelve months (1970-71) on active service with No 9 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, flying Iroquois choppers based in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Viet Nam. During that year he flew 3,248 sorties clocking up 963 flying hours on operations, service which led to him being awarded the DFC.
In 1989, after many other operational and administrative postings Robin was appointed Deputy Chief of Defence Staff, in the rank of Air Vice-Marshal. Upon retiring from active duty in 1993 he was contracted to the post of Military Policy Adviser to the Chief of Defence Force until, in 1995, he moved to the Department of Internal Affairs as National Coordinator for commemorative activities marking the 50 years on from the end of World War II.
Robin is National President of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Association, and past Chairman of the National War Memorial Advisory Council. He has served on the National Executive Committee of the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services Association since 1997, and is a former chair of its Defence Committee, Ceremonial, Protocol and Medallic Committee and RNZRSA Affiliates Forum. He is also a member of the official Joint Working Group (now the Joint Implementation Group) on the Concerns of Viet Nam Veterans and their Families and is regarded as a leader in the fight for compensation for Viet Nam veterans affected by the use of Agent Orange.
As well as attending functions the length and breadth of the country, much of Robin’s time is now taken up with administrative work, including the overhaul and re-write of the War Pensions Act 1954 where veterans are given an unequivocal benefit of the doubt.
During his flying years Robin was a founding member of the famous Red Checkers aerobatic team, flying at Number 3 in the team’s first display at the Wigram Air Show on November 5th 1967, which marked the 50th anniversary of flying training at Wigram. He led the team in subsequent years.
That tradition is now in the hands of Squadron Leader Stephen Hunt (1978-82).
* Phillip Gibson (1963-67) leads a busy life.
Dux and Best All Round Boy in his final year, Phillip graduated BA Hons from Otago University 1971. Along the way he won prizes for best student in Latin (1970 and ’71) and was the Otago University nominee for a Rhodes scholarship in 1971.
He has been a career diplomat since 1972 with early postings to Rome, New York and Manila with assignments in more recent years as Ambassador to Thailand, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar,(1992-96); Ambassador to Japan (1999-2004); and a current role as Ambassador to Indonesia. Other senior roles have included Chief Executive, Asia 2000 Foundation of New Zealand (1996-99) and New Zealand Commissioner General, Aichi World Expo Japan (2005).
Phillip is also the 2010 World Expo Commissioner-general and he was in Dunedin last week to encourage Otago businesses to take advantage of historic links with China and promote their wares at that event in Shanghai.
With 70 million people expected to attend the Expo during the six months it would be open, it would be an excellent opportunity to showcase businesses, education and tourism.
Otago’s historic connection with China, Shanghai’s involvement in Dunedin’s Chinese garden and the fact that Shanghai and Dunedin were sister cities meant there was an opportunity for Otago to showcase itself, Phillip believes.
The Shanghai expo, which opens on May 1, 2010, will be the largest ever to date.
The previous expo, in Aichi, Japan, in 2005, attracted 22 million people, with 25,000 people a day visiting the New Zealand pavilion.
Phillip said for Shanghai they were planning for 40,000 visitors a day with the New Zealand pavilion .2000sq m, four times that of Aichi. As with the Osaka expo in 1970, Shanghai would showcase China as a global economic super power.
The expo site covered 5.2km of central Shanghai. Because New Zealand was one of the first 12 nations to commit, Mr Gibson said it had secured a favourable site, near China’s pavilion, just inside the main entrance. The Expo theme was Better Cities, Better Life.
The New Zealand pavilion would have a veranda frontage with a large greenstone rock. There would be kapa haka performances and Maori carvers while inside, high-tech scenic images would appear along a 110m walkway. The photographs were of New Zealand beaches, suburbs and cities, countryside, and mountains.
Visitors then come out on to a roof garden. This will feature the vegetation of different New Zealand regions, from the mountains to the coast. A VIP lounge had been built for businesses or groups to use for meetings, displays or presentations.
Phillip says the pavilion is a national statement while the VIP area is an opportunity for regions or businesses to have tailored, specific opportunities, maybe tourism, education, business for Otago people, or sister-city dimension.
Phillip met Otago businessmen and the Dunedin City Council last month to inform them of the opportunities, and said the region was already out of the starting blocks, given the symbolism and connection through the sister-city link and the Chinese garden.
He says Dunedin’s profile in Shanghai is very significant and it’s a real profile, as evident by Shanghai’s investment in the Chinese garden.
The Government has invested $30 million in the Expo and private funding of another $2 million has been promised. Phillip urged people to take advantage of the investment and opportunity.
“The Government is providing a venue, an occasion, and overall promotion. The message is, use it.”
Shorts
* A former Otago country musician whose guitar was auctioned for unpaid fines has been reunited with his instrument.
John Denver Grenell, previously known as John Hore and John Hore Grenell, put an appeal in a newspaper after the guitar was auctioned in June to pay fines.
He said he had bought the guitar when he was a boy for $6. The buyer, Graham Shaw, returned the guitar to Grenell yesterday, saying he knew he had to when he heard it was Grenell’s, TV3 reported.
‘‘There’s no money on a guitar you’ve owned as your first guitar . . . when you get it back, it’s just like meeting an old friend again,’’ Mr Shaw said.
* David Mehrtens (1971-75) has again been involved in organising the annual Penrite Mainland Classic Cars tour.
Hosted in mid-October, the Classic started in Christchurch and finished in Dunedin eight days later with 40 vehicles – ranging from Bentleys, Rolls Royces, MGs and Ferraris – driving up to 220 kilometres a day and not always without some mechanical issues.
Communities through which the Classic passed used the event to raise funds for their own projects with a number of schools supportive along the way.
David and his wife Christine have been involved with the organisation of all nine Penrite Mainland rallies over the past 16 years.
* Policeman and businessman Matt Scoles (1987-91) says one of the best parts of job sharing has been feeling invigorated about both roles.
Three days a week, he is a sergeant and community relations co-ordinator at the Dunedin Police Station and the other four, he helps his partner run their accommodation business – the Quest Apartments in Cumberland Street in the central city.
‘‘One of the big upsides of flexible employment options is that you’re refreshed for both jobs,’’ he says.
Sgt Scoles is in the station from Monday to Wednesday, sharing the community relations role with Sgt Shona Low, who works Thursdays and Fridays. This means he is involved in two fields he enjoys, and the police get two experienced people who are positive about their work, he says.
Where Are They Now?
* Over the last couple of years, the newsletter has outlined the life and times of Kelvin Broad (1975-79).
To recap – in 2006 Kelvin was the Assistant Professor for Curriculum, Teaching and Learning in the Graduate Division of the University of Calgary. Having graduated with a PhD, MA, BEd and Dip Teaching, it wasn’t surprising Kelvin looks for outdoor pursuits to balance his day. A former member of the New Zealand mountain running team, Kelvin has not long taken up a new interest – that of sheep dog trialing.
At the 2006 Alberta trials, Kelvin and his border collie Blade took out the Alberta Novice Championship.
Part 2 of the story was that not long afterwards, while still involved with distance learning at two universities, Kelvin and his wife Angie shifted to the south west of Scotland where they spend a large part of their day training sheep dogs and being involved in trialing.
I can now report Part 3, thanks to Kelvin’s father Michael Broad (1943-47).
Kelvin and Angie are now in Wales where they wanted to make a contribution to an event they refer to as the Olympics of the sheepdog world – the World Sheepdog Trial. This event was staged In mid September where 22 countries were represented by 242 handlers. Kelvin and Blade were members of the New Zealand team.
Angie's job was looking after the World Trial website and helping to ensure the world knew about the event. Her PhD in Marketing came in handy. She and Kelvin designed the World Trial Souvenir Programme and Kelvin also helped out in organising the layout of the trade stands.
All of this was squeezed in around Kelvin’s teaching commitments for Universities in the United States and Canada. Kelvin, with a PhD in Education, now teaches Language Arts Education to students around the globe through the internet.
Recent deaths
* We extend our condolences to the families of the following Old Boys –
Martin Leslie Grindley (1936-37), died in Christchurch on 23 September 2008, aged 86.
Ashley Mountain Patterson (1936-37), died in Nelson on 11th October 2008, aged 87. Ashley, a retired builder, was the brother of Peter Patterson (1939-42) and Donald Patterson (1941-45).
Ken (Kenneth Hamilton) Munro (1933-36), died in Dunedin on 15th October 2008 aged 88. Ken was the grandfather of David Waddell (2002-2006).
John Robert William Strode (1944-45), died in Dunedin on 16th October 2008, aged 79.
Barry Andrew Holt (1960-62), died in mid-October 2008. Barry was the brother of Lindsay Holt (1962-65).
Harold Hyde Harris McMaster (1940-44), died in Dunedin on 28th October 2008, aged 82. Harold was a retired insurance company manager.
Murray Alexander Allan (1941-43), died in Christchurch on 2nd November 2008, aged 81. At various times during his working life Murray was a film projectionist, musterer and farmer.
Dave (David Alexander) Miller (1934-38), died in Dunedin on 7th November 2008, died 88. Dave was a retired teacher and Dunedin Teachers’ College lecturer.
Grant Lester Montgomery (1968-72), died in Mosgiel on 7th November 2008, aged 54.
Alan Graeme Logie (1951-55), died in Dunedin on 12th November 2008, aged 70. Alan was a retired commercial traveller and was the brother-in-law of Wayne Patterson (1958-62).
* We also extend our sympathies to –
Roger Nicolson (1966-69) and Trevor Nicolson (1969-72) whose mother Gwynneth died at Dunstan Hospital in Clyde on 8th October 2008.
Alistair Eckhoff (1961-65) whose wife Wince died in at Dunstan Hospital in Clyde on 13th October 2008. Wince was the sister-in-law of Doug Eckhoff (1954-55).
John Chapman (1968-72) whose father Jack Chapman died in Dunedin on 13th October 2008. Jack was the grandfather of Robert Chapman (1997-2001) and the father-in-law of Les Williams (1960-62) and Barry O’Donnell (1973-77).
Dr Robert Purves (1960-65) whose mother Dame Daphne Purves DBE MA died in Dunedin on 15th October 2008 just three weeks short of her 100th birthday. Dame Daphne was fondly remembered by the boys of 1957 to 1963, whom she taught Latin and French. She was a noted educationalist who viewed education as a key to generating better conditions for women worldwide. A great passion for Dame Daphne was the International Federation of University Women and she served as the President of that body from 1977-80, being the first woman from the southern hemisphere to do so. She initially taught at Waitaki Girls’ and Otago Girls’ in the 1930s and returned to the vocation after raising her family. After her six years at Otago Boys’ Dame Daphne lectured at the Dunedin Teachers’ College for a decade from 1963. She served on a number of education and cultural groups, including New Zealand’s UNESCO education sub-committee. She received the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1979 for her services to education and, at the time of her death, was the oldest recipient of the DBE. A biography Nothing Like A Dame, written by Molly Anderson, was published in 1998. September’s 50th reunion of the 1958 intake sent flowers to Dame Daphne after ill-health prevented her from attending the celebrations.
Noted Dunedin writer Roy Colbert (1962-66) remembers his early secondary school years and the influence Dame Daphne had on him.
We reproduce Roy’s recent tribute in the Otago Daily Times with his permission:
Mrs Purves was the best teacher I ever had.
Dame Daphne Purves, as she later became, died last week 24 days short of her 100th birthday. She taught me Latin at Otago Boys’ High School in 1962 and 1963, my junior school years. In 2008 parlance, Mrs Purves was Old School. She believed simply in patient instruction, learning the words and doing the work. There were no short cuts. You behaved in her class, you didn’t waste a minute of valuable learning time.
This might not sound as inspiring as some kids’ memorable teachers, but she made me learn, and in a way I didn’t mind.
At Otago Boys’ High School then, a boy could be caned for just about anything. I was caned for talking in assembly, my furtive whisper among the heads of 800 boys somehow spotted. Four strokes from the Rector. The three woman teachers did not cane, but they could have you caned.
Mrs Purves never did that. She knew all about classroom control, which she didn’t achieve by being big and loud and scary and male. Mrs Purves was small and slim. She just did it with her eyes. Wonderful eyes.
You need control of third and fourth-form boys. Third-formers — we were called stinkers; now we would be called year 9 — are as silly as soap, far beyond Ritalin anaesthesia. And fourth-formers are ridiculously worse. The post-school ‘‘gap’’ year now fashionably taken by boys seemingly not ready for university would be better taken in year 10, when they could all be sent out into the forest to live with wolves. Teachers would benefit from that too.
Control of a Latin class had its own peculiar difficulties. What were we doing Latin for? How would we ever use this antediluvian tongue? We enviously looked over at the science building, where our classmates were learning chemistry to go home and make gunpowder, crude rockets, and, later on, rotgut liquor. So we sat in Latin with a defensive pout; it took a very good teacher to make this subject work.
Mrs Purves had two particular weapons here. She knew everyone wanted to slump against the gurgling oil heaters that ran along the back wall, heaters which made life almost tolerable in the ice-cold Latin room in the top corner of the Tower block. So the best-performed in her daily vocabulary tests were allowed to sit there. The worst-performed sat down the front, right under her unwavering nose. I was constantly brought back to that nose after loosening the learning reins. You appreciate a good teacher when you can watch them from that close.
Mrs Purves’ second weapon was solely our own doing. Even though we were toothbrush-daft, we still rated our ability to spot a monstrous intellect when we saw one, and Mrs Purves clearly had one of these. But she had one more thing that only a junior boys’ school class could truly appreciate — one of her daughters, Hilary, was Miss Otago. Brilliant teacher and big brain, OK, but mother of Miss Otago, holy cow, yes, we’ll do our homework.
A few years ago, an old teacher told me how moved he had been when a former pupil sought him out to say how much he had appreciated his teaching. I thought then I would go and see Mrs Purves. The time ebbed by. She wouldn’t remember me, I thought, she was in her 90s, she’d be frightened if a stranger turned up at her door. Thin excuses. And then I couldn’t go any more.
I sat at the back of her funeral last Saturday and listened to the tributes. Dame Daphne was always interested in other people most of all, they said. I really should have gone.
Dr Terry Broad (1969-72) whose wife Muriel died in Dunedin on 15th October 2008. Muriel was the daughter-in-law of Michael Broad (1943-47) and the sister-in-law of Tony Broad (1971-75), Kelvin Broad (1975-79) and Kim Broad (1979-82).
Adam Dowsett (1990-94) whose grandmother Audrey Dowsett died in Dunedin on 16th October 2008.
Nathan Wragge (1988-92) whose father Stan died in Dunedin on 18th October 2008.
Dave Pitches (1953-56) whose son Greg died on October 19th 2008.
Rob Muir (1949-51) whose brother-in-law Ross Carstensen died in Timaru on 23rd October 2008.
Andrew Swan (1973-77) whose father-in-law Allan Palmer died in Dunedin on 24th October 2008. Allan was the grandfather of Peter Smallfield (current Year 12 pupil) and James Swan (current Year 10 pupil).
Sam Purvis (1994-98) and Ben Purvis (2002-06) whose father Neil died on his farm at Tarras on 26th October 2008.
Scott McCrea (1968-72) whose mother Nada died in Palmerston on 27th October 2008.
Andrew Collett (1983-87) whose father Frank died in Dunedin on 29th October 2008.
Donald ‘Mac’ McDonald (1942-46) whose wife Huia died in Dunedin on 1st November 2008.
Jeffrey Kofoed (1942-46) whose wife Jean died in Cheviot on 3rd November 2008.
Richard Nyhof (1977-81) whose stepfather Charlie King died in Dunedin on 5th November 2008.
Damon Norden (1991-96) whose father Harold died in Blenheim on 6th November 2008.
Nicholas Cutfield (1988-92) whose father-in-law Kevin Sharpe died in Dunedin on 6th November 2008.
Trevor Cruikshank (1972-73) whose grandmother Mattie Cruikshank died in Gore on 7th November 2008.
Nicholas Elliott (1988-92) whose grandfather Bill Elliott died in Dunedin on 7th November 2008.
Michael Aubrey (1995-98), Andrew Aubrey (1996-2000) and Ben Aubrey (1997-2001) whose grandfather Ross died in Wanaka on 8th November 2008. Ross was the brother-in-law of Guy Kensington (1933-36).
Malcolm Standage (1956-61) and Max Standage (1961-65) whose mother Jo died in Dunedin on 9th November 2008.
Lloyd Gustafson (1964-70) whose father-in-law Ben Bedford died in Dunedin on 10th November 2008.
David Hamilton (1976-80) whose father-in-law Ray Edwards died in Dunedin on 11th November 2008.
Ben Lynch (1996-2000), Nick Lynch (1996-2000) and Tom Lynch (2000-04) whose father Kevin died on 12th November 2008.
Steve Davie
Chief Executive
