List of former staff of St Peter's College, Auckland
St Peter's College (including its predecessor school St Peter's School), a secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand, has employed many notable faculty and staff.
Approximately ninety Christian Brothers were associated with St Peter's College from 1939 until 2007.[1][2]
Notable staff and patrons[edit]
- John Ackland – history teacher[3] and as of 2019[update] taught in the commerce faculty;[4] rugby league player in the Kiwis in 1983
- Jim Anderton CNZM (1938–2018) – politician, Deputy Prime Minister in the Fifth Labour Government (1999–2002); taught in the intermediate (the middle school) at St Peters in 1959 and 1960[5][6]
- Ken Arvidson (1938–2011) – poet and academic; taught senior English at St Peter's College 1960–1963, Notably, he taught poets Sam Hunt[7][8][9] and Terry Locke[10]
- Bro Dominic Fursey Bodkin c.f.c. – (1843–1929) – established Christian Brothers in NZ; eponym of Bodkin House at St Peter's.[11]
- John Logan Campbell (1817–1912) – donor of the Pitt St site of St Peter's School.[12][13]
- Mike Chunn CNZM (born 1952) – founding member of Split Enz; taught at St Peter's College in 1977[14]
- Reginald Delargey (1914–1979), Archbishop and cardinal – St Peter's College school chaplain for 18 years (1940s–1950s).[15]
- Patrick Dignan (1814–1894) – Member of Parliament, and member of the Board of Governors of St Peter's School[16]
- Felix Donnelly ONZM (1929–2019) – priest, social activist, writer, academic and radio talkback host – school chaplain in 1960s.[17]
- Paul Farmer, priest, monsignor – chaplain of St Peter's College in the 1970s and currently (as at 2021).[18]
- Kieran Fouhy MNZM – long-serving Headmaster of St Peter's College, 1989–2015[19]
- Ken Gorbey CNZM (born 1942) – Museum designer: of Te Papa and the Jewish Museum Berlin; taught Geography to senior classes at St Peter's in 1967.[20]
- Bro Michael Benignus Hanrahan c.f.c. – Provincial of the Christian Brothers; provided Christian Brothers to staff St Peter's in 1939.[21]
- Grant Hansen – Deputy Headmaster (2016–present), Rugby union coach of the Black Ferns 2009.[22]
- Bro Vincent Michael Innocent Jury c.f.c. – (1933–2023) B.Sc (Hons) (in pure and applied mathematics) (Sydney); M.Sc(?) (Otago?) (1962); BA (1970); Dip.Ed: old boy of St Peter's College; taught at St Peter's College 1967–1974; Principal of two secondary schools (St Thomas of Canterbury College and Trinity Catholic College, Dunedin); pastoral worker and community adult education administrator and teacher (also established a community radio station and a youth centre), Christian Brothers outreach, the Edmund Rice Community, in Murupara, Bay of Plenty (1992—2008).[23][24]
- Pat Lam – All Black, loose forward (1992), teacher at St Peter's College (1991–1992)[25][26]
- Peter Leonard – a teacher at St Peter's School in the 1870s and 1880s and went on to teach at other early schools in Auckland[27]
- Archbishop James Liston CMG (1881–1976) – 7th Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland – founder and funder of St Peter's College.[28]
- Peter Lyons (1965–2020) – economics teacher at St Peter's College (2007–2020); media commentator on economic issues[29]
- Kevin Malloy – advertising chief executive, member St Peter's College Board of Trustees in 2015[30]
- Bro Thomas Monagle c.f.c. (1928–1983) – founder of the St Peter's College railway station in 1964.[31][32]
- Bro Francis Pius O'Driscoll c.f.c. (died 1964) – foundation headmaster of St Peter's College (1939–1944).[33]
- Richard James O'Sullivan (1826–1889) – a teacher at St Peter's School and a school inspector[34]
- Isa Outhwaite (1842–1925) – watercolour artist, poet social activist and philanthropist – donor of the St Peter's College site and first funder of the college.[35]
- Archbishop Giovanni Panico, Apostolic Delegate, ruled that Bishop Liston could invite the Christian Brothers to staff St Peter's College.[36]
- Edmund Powell – classes were first held in Powell's residence in Shortland Crescent on 27 September 1841[37]
- Nicholas Reid (born 1951) – poet; historian; book and film reviewer; was a philosophy and theology teacher at St Peter's, and also taught public speaking and debating 2008–2018[38]
- Bro Patrick Celestine Ryan c.f.c. (1909–1996) – Headmaster of St Peter's 1957–1965; creator of The Cage.
- Bro Benjamin Everard Ryan c.f.c. – Headmaster of St Peter's 1966–1974; a great builder.[39]
- Pio Terei MNZM (born 1958) – actor, singer and comedian on New Zealand television – as at 2010 he was a member (representing parents) on the St Peter's College Board of Trustees[40]
- Bro Patrick Ambrose Treacy c.f.c. (1834–1912) – established Christian Brothers in Australia; eponym of Treacy House at St Peter's.
- Bro Peter Watt c.f.c. – a teacher at St Peter's 1969–1972; 1980; and 1986–2016;[41][42] cricket coach and eponym of Watty's Nets.
- Tom Weal (1929–2016) – teacher at St Peter's College (1954–1957, 1959–1989); also a New Zealand politician for the Social Credit Party, the New Democratic Party and the short lived Christian Democrat party[43][44]
- Bro Lawrence Wilkes c.f.c. – at the school over 40 years until mid-1990s; Technical Drawing specialist; he introduced Young Christian Students (YCS) programmes in the college and commenced the college's service programme.[45][46]
See also[edit]
- Congregation of Christian Brothers in New Zealand
- List of people educated at St Peter's College, Auckland
References[edit]
- ^ Maxwell, p. 10
- ^ Elliott, p. 338.
- ^ Johanssen, Dana (8 October 2010). "My life in sport: John Ackland". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
- ^ "St Peter's College Staff List". St Peter's College, Auckland. 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
- ^ "Staff". St Peter's College Magazine. St Peter's College, Auckland: 10, 15. 1960.
- ^ "Jim Anderton, MP". New Zealand Parliament.
- ^ Arvidson, K. O.; Robinson; Wattie (1998). The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Auckland: Oxford University Press. pp. 27 and 28.
- ^ "Arvidson K. O." Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive. December 2007.
- ^ Hunt, Sam (2009). Backroads, Charting a Poet's Life. Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing. p. 24.
- ^ "Terry Locke". Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive. 20 November 2007. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ O'Neill, 1968, pp. 17–27
- ^ "Untitled". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. VII, no. 1877. 21 January 1870. p. 4. Retrieved 24 May 2013 – via Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand.
- ^ The Freeman's Journal, 16 August 1881.
- ^ Elliott, p. 211.
- ^ Foreword by R J Delargey, St Peter's College Magazine 1970, p. 3: "For years, St Peter's was my second home. Mass in the morning for the Brothers, and classes for the boys was the routine for over eighteen years".
- ^ Laracy, Hugh (1 September 2010). "Dignan, Patrick - Biography". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
- ^ Felix Donnelly, One Priest's Life, Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Auckland, 1982.
- ^ Otto, Michael (27 June 2021). "Priest among Old Boys of Distinction at SPC". NZ Catholic. p. 14.
- ^ Elliott, pp. 259-299.
- ^ "Annual Report", St Peter's College Magazine 1967, p. 6; "Staff Changes", St Peter's College Magazine 1968, p. 17
- ^ * Reid, Nicholas (2006). James Michael Liston: A Life. Wellington: Victoria University Press. p. 163.
- ^ St Peter's College Staff 2022 (Retrieved 31 August 2022)
- ^ Brother celebrates diamond jubilee, NZ Catholic, Feb. 24 - Mar. 8, 2008, p. 18.
- ^ "Bro Vin Jury c.f.c. – ", SPC Newsletter 2023/2, 24 February 2023 (retrieved 25 February, 2023)
- ^ Bush, Graham W. A., ed. (2006). The History of Epsom. Auckland: Epsom & Eden District Historical Society Inc. p. 224.
- ^ Gerry Thornley, False Front Up, Rise Up: The Official Story of the Connacht Rugby Miracle, 2016, p.86ff (Retrieved 27 January 2023)
- ^ Cumming, Ian (1959). Glorious Enterprise: The History of the Auckland Education Board 1857-1957. Whitcome & Tombs Ltd. pp. 70, 103 and 135.
- ^ Reid, Liston, 2006, p. 163
- ^ "St Peter's College mourns sudden death of economics teacher Peter Lyons". Stuff News. 7 August 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
- ^ "Board of Trustees". St Peter's College, Auckland. Archived from the original on 21 October 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ * Graeme Donaldson, p. 17.
- ^ Eyre, pages=33-34
- ^ A Glimpse at the Past, 1945, St Peter's College Magazine 1964, p. 13; St Peter's College Silver Jubilee 1939 - 1964, Christian Brothers Old Boys Assn, Auckland 1964, p. 5; O'Neill, pp. 38 and 101; 1876 - 1976: The First 100 Years in New Zealand at Christian Brothers School Dunedin, pp. 4, 26 and 30; Felix Donnelly, pp 8 and 9; Rick Maxwell, pp. 16 and 40-43.
- ^ Goddard, Peter. "Richard James O'Sullivan". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- ^ Otto, Michael (20 September 2011). "Church benefactors' graves in a sad state". NZ Catholic Newspaper. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ Reid, Liston_p163"
- ^ Simmons, E. R. (1982). In Cruce Salus, A History of the Diocese of Auckland 1848 - 1980. Auckland: Catholic Publication Centre. p. 32.
- ^ St Peter's College Newsletter, No 3/16, 4 March 2016, p. 6 (Retrieved 23 July 2022)
- ^ Eyre, pages=36-37}}
- ^ St Peter's College website, BOT Members Retrieved 29 April 2011. Archived May 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Bro. Peter Watt". St Peter's College Newsletter. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- ^ "Death Notice, "Peter William (One-Arm) WATT". NZ Herald. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
- ^ Bryant, George (1981). Beetham. Palmerston North: The Dunmore Press. p. 25.
- ^ Elliott, p. 104.
- ^ Brother Norm Gillies, "Friend to all his students: Br Lawrence Wilkes: A legend in the Christian Brothers teaching community", Sunday Star Times, 05 April 1998, Edition A, P. 13; Graeme Donaldson, p. 11.
- ^ "Service Programme", St Peter's College website (Retrieved 17 November 2022)
Bibliography[edit]
No author; sorted by publication name
- NZ Catholic : the national Catholic newspaper, 1996–present.
- St Peter's College Silver Jubilee 1939-1964. Auckland: Christian Brothers Old Boys Association. 1964.
- St Peter's College Magazines, St Peter's College, Auckland, 1948-2015.
- Zealandia, 1939-1990.
by author
- Donaldson, Graeme (2001). To All Parts of the Kingdom: Christian Brothers In New Zealand 1876-2001. Christchurch: Christian Brothers New Zealand Province.
- Donnelly, Felix (1982). One Priest's Life. Auckland: Australia and New Zealand Book Company.
- Elliott, Matt (2015). On This Rock: 75 Years of St Peter's College, Mountain Road. St Peter's College, Auckland. ISBN 978-0-473-331542.
- Eyre, Tony (2023). The Book Collector: Reading and Living with Literature. Dunedin: Mary Egan Publishing.
- Maxwell, Rick (2008). St. Peter's College, Auckland. Simerlocy Press.
- O'Neill, J. C. (1968). The History of the Work of the Christian Brothers in New Zealand (Unpublished Dip. Ed. thesis). University of Auckland.
- Reid, Nicholas (2006). James Michael Liston: A Life. Wellington: Victoria University Press.
- Robertson, Paul Malcolm (1996). Nga Parata Karaitiana The Christian Brothers, A Public Culture in Transition, A Comparative Study of the Indian and New Zealand Provinces (Unpublished thesis for MA in Anthropology). University of Auckland. Archived from the original on 25 July 2021 – via Edmund Rice Network of New Zealand.
- Tamihere, John; Bain, Helen (2004). John Tamihere Black and White. Auckland: Reed.