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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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September newsletter –
Bill brings up his ton
* Bill Heenan (1923-24) celebrated his 100th birthday last Thursday (September 11th) and may well be our most senior living Old Boy.
A retired Mossburn farmer, Bill now lives in Christchurch where his daughter Doreen Goodall reports he is very sharp of mind. He is now receiving the Foundation’s newsletter and we’re delighted to be able to keep him up to date with developments with the Foundation and at his old school.
Bill is the proud recipient of a QSM for Services to the Community, mainly in recognition of his 12 years as chairman of the Southland Hospital Board.
With his late brother Archie (1925), Bill attended many Old Boys’ Society functions and he forms part of a strong link to the history of the school. Brothers Archie and Ralph (1929) were at Otago Boys’ as was his son-in-law, the late Donald Goodall. Donald’s brother Dr Murray Goodall lives in Wellington
And the link continues through Bill’s late wife’s family.
His brothers-in-law Arthur Buckham (1925-27) and Jim Buckham (1929-30) were pupils not long after he left with Jim’s son Revell (1966-70) and grandsons Kieran (1999-2002) and William (2003-07) continuing the tradition.
Reunions
* Dunedin hosted a highly successful 50th Reunion of the 1958 year group at the weekend with a full programme enjoyed by all who attended – 37 Old Boys registered, a further 30 sent their apologies and two Masters of the time, Ian Sime and Paul Inder, were also present.
After Friday night’s highly successful meet and greet session, Old Boys and their wives or partners were taken through the school by the Rector Clive Rennie, an entrant of 1958 himself, on the Saturday morning. Official photos were taken at that point and they can be viewed at www.seenindunedin.co.nz
Dunedin’s Mayor Peter Chin (1954-58) was the guest speaker at Saturday night’s dinner with his address ending in a spirited rendition of the school song. In the lead up to the celebrations, it was discovered that Dame Daphne Purves, DBE, who taught many of the 1958-1962 group, was now resident in Glamis Hospital and will celebrate her 100th birthday on 8 November 2008. She was not able to attend any of the functions but flowers were sent to her on behalf of the 1958 Reunion.
Reunion organiser Bob McKillop and his team, did a terrific job in tracking boys from the era and in putting the programme together.
* A reminder that the 7th form of 1989 will be gathering in Dunedin on April 3rd & 4th 2009 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their passing out.
A full programme has been organised, comprising a Friday night ‘meet and greet’; touch rugby, golf and football on the Saturday afternoon; and a formal dinner on the Saturday night.
For further details regarding timing and costs, please contact Adam Walker – reunion.adam@gmail.com
* And work continues on the tracking of the 1959 entrants with a Reunion of that intake planned for next year.
Website Business Directory
* The Foundation’s Business Directory continues to grow and we welcome and acknowledge the support of our early partners.
Growing the profile for their businesses through the Directory are – Peak Golf Queenstown, Brooker United Travel, Johnston Realty, Cooke Howlison BMW, Chatsford, SBS, Hawkdum Lodge, Your Business Team and the Brothers Boutique Hotel.
A number of other business houses have indicated an interest in being involved and the Foundation has a number of ideas with regard to the networking opportunities and the ‘one stop shop’ concept where every product and service required can be accessed through our website.
We greatly appreciate the support received to date and urge the utilisation of our partners’ experience and expertise.
Those interested in advertising on the Business Directory are invited to make contact with the Foundation office (03/4778977, 027/4370335, info@obhsfoundation.co.nz). Current rates stand at $200 for six months or $300 for a 12-month contract.
Foundation members
* Since the August newsletter, the following Old Boys and connections with the school have made pledges or donations and have been registered as Members of the Foundation –
School news
* In an innovation which will benefit the school in years to come and the boys concerned for the rest of their lives, Otago Boys’ last month celebrated its first Scholarship Assembly.
The school has developed a clear philosophy of striving for excellence – in all aspects of the day to day activity that is encouraged and nurtured – and the scholarships reflect that standpoint.
Awards to 17 Year 9 boys (3rd form) have been made in three categories – academic, cultural and sporting – with the ratio underlining the strong emphasis on academic excellence. The academic awards were based on exam results in the four core subjects while the cultural and sporting scholarships focused on the students’ contribution and standard of involvement.
Each winner had members of his family present at the awards’ assembly along with representatives of their primary or intermediate school.
This is a terrific move on the part of Otago Boys’ management and teaching staff and one which will bear fruit in the years ahead. The school is to be congratulated along with the scholarship winners.
The 2008 Year 9 scholarships have been won by –
Academic: Vishak Balaji, Eamon Frazer, Samuel Gabbusch, Benjamin Hendry, Thomas McCabe, Ciaran McLaren, Louis Ritchie, Nicholas Tipa.
Sporting: Samuel Ellis, Thomas Griffin, Cameron Howieson, Jack Hunter, Arthur Ibbotson, Thomas Wardhaugh.
Cultural: Dominic Shogimen, Samuel Madden, Ben Taiawa.
* The Otago Boys’ 1st hockey XI has fallen just short of what would have been a stunning achievement.
The team was defeated 3-2 by Auckland’s Westlake Boys in the final of the Rankin Cup in Napier earlier in the month but can be very pleased with its effort. This time last year the school was celebrating winning the India Shield and gaining promotion to the country’s premier tournament for school boys.
The team has been coached by Jenny Dunbar for the last two years and with Jenny having coached the 2nd XI and the Colts team prior to that, many of this year's selection have progressed under her tutelege through their time at Otago Boys'.
To move from the top of a second tier competition and almost win the ultimate prize presents a remarkable improvement, assistant coach Mark Joyce said.
Out of the 16-strong squad, 11 will have an opportunity to return next year, although the team will be without junior Black Sticks Blair Tarrant, Hugo Inglis and Nick Ross.
Westlake seized the initiative by scoring two goals within the opening seven minutes. Stunned, Otago Boys’ clawed a goal back when Ross deflected a penalty corner past the ‘keeper. Westlake seemed to have sealed the victory when it scored a third goal with 15 minutes remaining but Otago Boys’ mounted a late run. Kane Russell grabbed a goal as the Southerners surged forward, and Tarrant had an opportunity to send the game into extra time but pushed a penalty stroke wide in the dying moments of the match.
School shorts
* Hockey players Blair Tarrant, Hugo Inglis and Nick Ross have retained their places in the Junior Black sticks.
The trio helped Otago to a place in the final of the national under 18 championship this season and have also been instrumental in Otago Boys’ entering the ranks of the Rankin Cup – the top six in secondary schoolboys’ hockey in New Zealand with the team going all the way to the final.
* The Otago Boys’ chess team of Campbell Calverley, Matt Weston, Luke Moratti and Sadit Reza has taken out the Otago secondary school chess with a 3/1 win over a very strong Logan Park combination.
Especially encouraging is the fact the boys are all Year 10 (4th form) pupils, opening to way for a long spell of continuity.
* Otago Boys’ was well represented in this year’s New South Wales Science International Competition & Assessment with more than 50 boys entering.
Of those involved, three – Andrew Sise, Luke Trainor and Eamon Frazer – were awarded High Distinction, a further 10 received Distinction with another 22 gaining credits.
* Multi-talented sportsman Kane Russell faces a pleasant dilemma in the years ahead.
Kane, a Year 11 (5th form) pupil, excels at hockey, athletics, cricket and rugby and in the not too distant future he will need to specialise if he wants to make his mark at international level.
At the moment, hockey is his favourite sport and has been selected in the Otago under-16, under-18 and under-21 teams for three national tournaments this year. He was in the New Zealand under-16 team last year.
After his Mum wouldn’t let him play rugby this year, Kane concentrated on honing his hockey skills.
Three of his fellow members in the Otago Boys High School First XI — Nick Ross, Blair Tarrant and Hugo Inglis —are current selections in the Junior Black Sticks squad giving him plenty of motivation.
Kane competes as both a track and field athletic during the summer, proving his ability at the New Zealand secondary schools athletics championships at Wanganui last December where he won the junior boys’ javelin title and was a member of the school’s winning 4 x 100m relay team. Not surprisingly, his favourite Olympian at Beijing was Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt.
When he was a pupil at Balmacewen Intermediate, Kane averaged 450 in the Milo Cricket Cup with a best score of 172 not out. He is a member of the Otago Boys’ second cricket XI and enjoys the style and success of Australian Michael Hussey.
Old Boys in the news
* University of Otago associate law professor Andrew Geddis (1985-89) will chair a newly-established panel of experts to review electoral administration and political party funding.
Justice Minister Annette King made the announcement yesterday and said the panel, supported by a citizens’ forum, would begin work immediately.
The establishment of the panel has upset National Party deputy leader Bill English.
"If Labour really wanted a process that was to be fair and enduring, then other parties would have been consulted.
"National has had no input into the process. This is little more than a desperate measure by a government trying to cover up more than three years of dishonesty over election spending."
Prof Geddis said the panel had just been appointed and had not yet met.
But it had already decided it would take a completely independent approach and make statements as it saw fit.
Any recommendations relating to the electoral finance regulation would reflect the views of those "ordinary voters" participating in the citizens’ forum.
The panel's role would be to provide the forum with the information it needed to reach a fully-informed decision, he said.
Prime Minister Helen Clark has made no secret of wanting public funding for political parties' election campaigns and repeated her wish again this week in Parliament.
With New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, and his party, facing both privileges committee and Serious Fraud Office investigations over whether large donations should have been declared as part of election expenses, the call for public election funding has become stronger.
Mrs King said both the panel and forum would provide an independent, non-political perspective on the reform options.
The forum was established as part of an agreement between the Green Party and the Government during the negotiations around the Electoral Finance Act.
Green Party co-leader Dr Russel Norman said it would include representatives from every electorate in the country and be resourced as to provide a considered opinion about the future of political party and election funding.
"Forums such as this have been used overseas to consider and review similar issues. The great beauty of a citizens forum is that it takes the debate away from the political parties and hands it over to a group of citizens without a vested interest."
Mr English said the appointments of the panel were significant and had been made within three months of a general election.
"Labour has flagrantly broken the convention around such appointments."
The Electoral Commission was to meet on Monday to discuss what to do about New Zealand First's breach of electoral law, NZPA reported.
The commission said in a statement yesterday it had received formal correspondence from the party's president about its annual donation returns for 2005-07.
"This correspondence will be considered by the commission at a meeting on Monday afternoon, along with options for possible further action," it said.
"We are unable to disclose the contents of the letter [or options] until, at earliest, their consideration by the commission."
Another political party is in trouble over its 2007 donation returns.
The commission said the Democrats for Social Credit had no reasonable excuse for the late filing of its donation return and the matter would be referred to the police.
The Democrats for Social Credit filed its return on May 19, whereas the deadline was April 30.
* Earth Sea Sky owner David Ellis (1969-73) is a happy man, having played a part in a major business coup along with continuing a proud family involvement.
David’s Christchurch-based company has assisted in the production of a new wardrobe for New Zealanders working in the Antarctic.
Earth Sea Sky last year won an initial contract valued at more than $500,000 to produce a complete seven-piece wardrobe for the extreme Antarctic conditions where temperatures can drop to -50degC.
David said last week the original down-filled jackets for the Antarctic were made in Dunedin about 50 years ago and he was thrilled to see the tradition continue with Otago Apparel involved in the partnership.
The project also had an important personal link, as David’s father, Murray, was an Antarctic and Himalayan adventurer who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on his 1,900 kilometre journey to the South Pole in 1957-58. Dunedin family firm Arthur Ellis produced the jackets and sleeping bags used on the journey.
David Earth Sea Sky designer Moira Park were in Dunedin last week accompanied by representatives from Antarctica New Zealand, which awarded the contract.
The group visited Otago Apparel’s Kaikorai Valley Road premises to check on progress with the order, which is due to accompany the crews when the season starts on October 1st.
The outfits had to cater for a wide range of temperatures and uses, from scientists on the sea ice to machinery operators and cleaners at Scott Base.
One of the key differences with the new clothing range was the ability to layer items for personal comfort. As well as introducing a waterproof bib overall, another new feature was displaying the New Zealand flag on the three outer shell jackets.
David said the complicated outer items were being manufactured in Dunedin, and the three fleece inner garments were being made in Christchurch. In each of the seven styles, 260 pieces were being produced. There were 13 sizes — seven for men and six for women.
The new wardrobe was more versatile and included features such as specific jacket pockets for radios and manuals.
Earth Sea Sky began production almost 20 years ago.
* Gifford Brown (1949), one of Dunedin’s longest serving JPs, has presided over his last court sitting with his retirement from court work announced this week.
Gifford was sworn in as a JP in 1967 while he was living at Beaumont where he and his wife, Shirley, had an orchard.
He recalled arriving outside the court building in Dunedin — ‘‘I think I had a load of super [phosphate] on the truck’’ — to arrange a time for his swearing in as a JP. But one of the local judges [then magistrates], Tom Ross, happened to be free so he was sworn in that day.
For a long time after his appointment to the position of an official, but unpaid, officer of the court, there were no training courses for JPs. An Open Polytechnic correspondence course was introduced in the 1990s.
‘‘We were expected to use our common sense,’’ Gifford said.
Since moving from Beaumont to Dunedin in 1980, Gifford has been one of the team of JPs who regularly preside over a variety of court cases, ranging from minor traffic matters to depositions hearings in serious criminal cases.
During his 41 years as a justice of the peace, he also spent a year as president of the national association of JPs.
Gifford had only one year at Otago Boys, his final year of secondary education, having come up from Beaumont. As well as his service as a JP, he also spent 17 years as Church Officer at First Church in Dunedin.
* Ralph Markby (1939-41) doesn’t believe in the adage everyone has a book in them.
Some might have none, he asserts, and he has had two. But that’s quite enough for an 81-year old, he says – eyes twinkling.
While he considers age may now be a barrier to producing more books, it’s not as far as skiing is concerned.
He did that the day before last week’s launch of Snow Business outlining the 60 year history of New Zealand ski industry so he could be sure he still knew what he was talking about. And at that launch, by publisher Longacre Press, at least 49 books were sold, slightly more than the 45 people who attended.
Up to 1,200 copies of his first book, Garden Plants for Central Otago (2005), have sold with it still a sought-after item.
The secret to success is to only write about things you know, he says.
When Longacre Press said ‘‘yes’’ to his second book, he went to work from the very beginning — 1945 — when the ski ‘‘industry’’ was run by clubs and there were no commercial resorts.
Ralph became fascinated by the development of New Zealand’s ski resorts as he delved into the history of the Mt Cook Tourism Company and ski industry pioneers. Friends and contacts lent him photographs to augment his own and more than half of the 200 pages are filled with pictures.
The text covers ski fields in the South and North Islands and ends with Ralph’s reflections on the snowboarding revolution, the patterns of change and the thrill of watching extreme skiers and youth seeking out new challenges and frontiers.
‘‘Looking back over my 60-plus years of skiing provides a wonderful vista . . . that simple, challenging life has gone forever but we are all the hardier and richer for it,’’ he writes.
Influenced in his love for language, literature and writing by legendary Otago Boys’ English teacher, Monty McClimont, Ralph was introduced to the outdoors by the scout movement and later joined the Otago Tramping Club. He began skiing on home-made wooden skis when he was about 20, on the Rock and Pillar Range near Middlemarch. When Coronet Peak’s resort opened in 1947, he started going there.
One had to be terribly keen to ski in 1945 because the equipment was terrible but when Coronet Peak opened, skiers finally began getting tuition, he notes.
In 1968, Ralph became a founder member of the Treble Cone skifield and later joined the board of directors.
The prime movers behind Treble Cone — Rod Aubrey, Ray Cleland and Murray Raffills — were passionate about the mountain and Ralph spent his seven years on the board. At that time, he was working in partnership in Dunedin with Gordon McLaren. The metal working company they founded, Metalon, is still operating in Dunedin today.
When Ralph retired to Wanaka 18 years ago, he continued to combine his love for skiing in Otago with trips to North American ski fields. He also began learning conversational German for pleasure, writing for magazines and spent an enormous amount of time in his garden, eventually writing his first book, a reference manual of suitable plants for the Central Otago conditions.
* Brian Merrilees (1952-56), Professor Emeritus of French of the University of Toronto, has been honoured by his peers, receiving a volume of Florilegium, the journal of the Canadian Society of Medievalists.
Essays in English and French were contributed by colleagues from France, England, Canada, the United States and New Zealand.
The volume is entitled “Essays in Honour of Brian Merrilees “Queil boen professeur…” Mélanges offerts à Brian Merrilees” (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007) and was edited by Dr Carol Harvey of the University of Winnipeg with assistance from Dr Margaret Burrell of the University of Canterbury.
Brian is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and taught at the University of Toronto from 1964 to 2004. He was Dux of Otago Boys’ in 1956, is a Friend of the Foundation and a keen supporter of the Foundation’s annual golf tournament.
Otago Daily Times’ Class Act 2008
* Blair Tarrant and Stephen Trebilco were the two Year 13 (7th form) forms profiled in last week’s Class Act –
Blair, a sports prefect, says his inspiration to train, be the best and win, no matter what hurdles life throws at him comes from Muhammad Ali, and hopes it will give him his shot at playing hockey with the Black Sticks.
It's a goal he intends to achieve by 2012 when the team competes at the London Olympics.
Blair (17) has already represented New Zealand with the Junior Black Sticks at the Eight Nations Hockey Tournament in Malaysia this year and hopes to be selected next year to compete in the World Cup in Malaysia and Singapore.
In 2006, he played for the New Zealand under-16 team in matches against Queensland schools teams.
He has also played for the Southern Hockey under under-18, under-21 and NHL teams and his school's 1st XI hockey team since year 9.
Blair is captain of the school hockey team this year and has begun passing on his considerable knowledge by coaching junior teams at the school.
When he is not hitting hockey balls on the school's fields, he is bashing cricket balls for the 1st XI and will compete in the Gillette Cup Secondary Schools Cricket finals with the team in Palmerston North later this year.
The higher echelons of hockey are not his only ambition.
Blair hopes to balance his sporting career with study at the University of Otago to become an accountant.
"Hockey is not going to pay my way. So passing my exams is really important."
Achievements: Prefect (2008); Junior Black Sticks (2008);
New Zealand under-16 Hockey;
Southern Hockey under-18, under-21 and NHL;
1st XI Hockey (2004-08);
1st XI Cricket (2007-08).
Role models: Mum, Dad and Muhammad Ali.
Hopes for the future: To become a Black Stick and an accountant.
Blasts from the past are Stephen’s primary passion.
The 17-year-old academic prefect has been studying history, particularly military history, for several years and has been top of the class for the past two years.
Stephen says he likes the social interactions of history - the way the actions of individuals in power influence events and how those events affect other events in history.
"One of the greatest lessons I've learnt from history is that we are not very good at learning from our mistakes. The same mistakes have been made by different people throughout the centuries, and often it's because they don't identify why they have failed."
On a personal level, Stephen says he tries not to make the same mistakes twice.
Stephen likes variety in his life and says he often finds himself running out of time in a day because he picks up "anything" that interests him.
He recently expanded his cultural interests in drama and found himself performing in the school's productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Buddy Holly, and played a lead role in Prince Caspian at the Mayfair last year.
He is also organising this year's Samstock Christian Youth Music event at the Mosgiel A&P Showgrounds - purely because it interests him.
His only challenge is knowing when to say enough is enough, he says.
Achievements: 1st in history (2006-07); 2nd in English (2007); 2nd= in chemistry and biology; Academic Blues (2007-08); school production (2007-08); 2nd XI football; Northern Association Football Club member.
Role model: My Dad, Paul Trebilco (Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Otago).
Hopes for the future: To study history, economics and politics at the University of Otago.
Congratulations
* Mike Groves (1958-62) was recently inducted into the TVNZ/Marketing Magazine Marketing Hall of Fame.
Currently the Director of Operations, Graduate Programmes at the University of Auckland Business School, Mike is credited with being largely responsible for the competency of a large number of New Zealand marketers – this due to his teaching on the Postgraduate Diploma in Business programme for seven years and his subsequent work as the Director of Short Courses, which he set up in 1996.
Mike built this division of the Business School into a multi-million dollar business providing high-quality learning to the business and professional communities, including marketing.
Under his leadership, Short Courses developed the vision ‘to lift the competency of the nation’. This is supported by the one word mission statement ‘incomparable’ which is the standard to which Short Courses aspires in all of its activities.
Mike joined the University of Auckland in 1989 as a senior marketing lecturer. Not long afterwards he took up the role of director of the Diploma in Business and led that programme successfully prior to establishing Shorts Courses.
Prior to joining the university, Mike had enjoyed 22 years of business experience working in marketing and general management for Cadbury Schweppes (now Cadbury Confectionery), Unilever, New Zealand Meat Producers Board, Healtheries, Bluebird and as a self-employed marketing consultant.
Mike’s qualifications include MA (Otago) and MPhil (Auckland).
* Hamish Bond, Head Boy in 2003, has been unveiled as New Zealand’s 1000th Olympian.
An exhaustive process by the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) to number every athlete in 100 years of summer and winter Games competition thrust Hamish (1999-2003) under the historical spotlight at the team’s function before Sunday night’s closing ceremony in Beijing.
Hamish is the stroke for the world champion men’s coxless four and had a less-than-ideal first Olympic Games, the crew pipped into fourth place in its semifinal before winning the ‘B’ final.
He said it was a great honour (being named the 1,000th New Zealand Olympian), as he had been absorbed with the Olympic Games since childhood.
‘‘It’s always been a big part of my life. It’s been a goal of mine to be an Olympian for a long time,’’ he said.
He had no idea he was in line for the honour, and was caught on the spot when his name was announced.
There had been 989 New Zealand Olympians before these Games and Hamish was the 11th new name on the list alphabetically when the Beijing team of 182 athletes was finalised.
NZOC Committee president, Barry Maister said Bond had brought up a ‘‘special milestone’’.
‘‘As an athlete Hamish was a strong member of both the New Zealand Olympic rowing team and the greater New Zealand team,’’ Maister said.
‘‘As the 1000th, Hamish represents all those Olympians who have gone before as well as his Beijing team-mates.’’
Bronze medal-winning walker Harry Kerr is credited as being the first Olympian, one of three New Zealanders at the 1908 Games competing for a combined Australasian team.
Other notables include Jack Lovelock (No 33), first woman gold medallist Yvette Williams (76), Sir Murray Halberg (94), Peter Snell (151), John Walker (379), Mark Todd (513), Barbara Kendall (630), Sarah Ulmer (741), and Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell (896 and 897).
The New Zealand Olympians Club will hold a series of functions next year to formally award numbers to all athletes.
Hamish’s Olympic campaign struck rough waters last December when he was struck by a truck while cycling. His shoulder detached from his collarbone, forcing him to spend time out of the boat.
He is the current Otago Sportsperson of the Year and he and crewmates Carl Meyer (1995-1999), James Dallinger and Eric Murray were named 2007 Team of the Year at the Halberg Awards.
Recent deaths
* We extend our condolences to the families of the following Old Boys –
David Thomas Mason Luke (1935), died in Dunedin on 11th August 2008, aged 86.
Gordon Duncan Revie (1939), died in Christchurch on 12th August 2008, aged 85. Gordon was a retired farmer.
Merlin Frederick Jones (1944-45), died in Dunedin on 8th September 2008, aged 78. Merlin was a retired insurance executive and motel owner.
Brian George Rodgers (1959-60), died in Dunedin on 10th September 2008, aged 63.
* We also extend our sympathies to –
Barry Lyall (1958-60) and Geoffrey Davis (1966-68) whose mother-in-law Doris Milne died in Dunedin on 9th August 2008. Doris was the grandmother of Scott Lyall (1984-88) and Craig Lyall (1986-90).
Ken Whyte (1957-58) whose mother Doris died in Dunedin on 9th August 2008.
Trevor Seal (1966-69) whose father Sam died in Dunedin on 10th August 2008.
Peter Whyte (1964-66) whose mother Jean died in Invercargill on 13th August 2008.
Stanley Mawhinney (1946-48) whose sister-in-law Morvena Lake died in Invercargill on 17th August 2008.
John Pine (1954-57) whose mother-in-law Christina McKenzie died in Dunedin on 17th August 2008.
Dennis Chandler (1963-65), Neville Chandler (1965-66), Gary Chandler (1969-72) and Paul Chandler (1973-74) whose father Ray died at Orewa in 17th August 2008.
Roly Henderson (1972-76) whose mother Rosemary died at Waikaka on 19th August 2008.
Devon Pape (2007-present) whose grandfather Jim Morgan died in Dunedin on 18th August 2008.
Ian Rutherford (1961-64) whose mother Rena died in Dunedin on 19th August 2008.
John Hunter (1951-54) whose wife Lorraine died in Mosgiel on 22nd August 2008. Lorraine was the sister-in-law of Harris Hunter (1956-59).
Grant Paterson (1968-73) whose mother-in-law Agnes Sutherland died in Geraldine on 26th August 2008.
Adrian Vandorp (1984-87) whose father Martin died in Dunedin on 27th August 2008.
Ian Young (1974-78) whose father Bob died in Dunedin on 28th August 2008.
Terry McGhie (1994-95) whose father-in-law Ernie Aitken died in Calcutta on 28th August 2008.
Philip Bonis (1974-77) and David Bonis (1978-81) whose father Rex died in Dunedin on 31st August 2008.
Rowan Farmer (1963-65) whose mother-in-law Patricia Mitchell died in Dunedin on 2nd September 2008.
Paul MacLennan (1964-67) and Ian MacLennan (1967-70) whose father Victor died in Nelson on 5th September 2008.
Jim Kerse (1962-64) whose mother Gladys died in Alexandra on 6th September 2008.
Ross Woodall (1972-76) whose father Bill died in Dunedin on 7th September 2008.
Peter Rollo (1967-69) whose mother-in-law Betty Somerville died in Dunedin on 8th September 2008.
Neville Page (1965-67), Raymond Page (1967-69) and Murray Page (1976-78) whose mother Gladys died in Dunedin on 11th September 2008.
Cameron Wilson (1984-88) whose father David died in New Plymouth on 12th September 2008. David was the father-in-law of Stephen Lumb (1983-87).
Alasdair Chapman (1957-61) and Ian Chapman (1960-66) whose mother Evelyn died in Oamaru on 12th September 2008. Evelyn is the sister-in-law of Max Chapman (1937) and the widow of James Chapman (1930-35).
Stefan Laing (1967-73), Rick Laing (1973-77) and Graeme Laing (1978-83) whose father Duncan died in Dunedin on 13th September 2008.
Steve Davie
Chief Executive
