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A contractor cleared the Mountain Road site in 1931 and it was expected that the school would open in 1933.<ref> Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006, p. 163.</ref> But financial problems caused delays.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The Marist Brothers appealed to th the Apostolic Delegate and to the Sacred Congregation of Religious in Rome.<ref>Ibid.</ref> They believed that Cleary had promised them the St Peter's School site but as no written record could be found, the Bishop was informed by the Sacred Congregation of Religious that he could invite the Christian Brothers<ref>Pompallier Diocesan Archives Auckland reference document reference CLE 128-7.</ref>and the Apostolic Delegate ruled "that the Bishop is free to make whatever provision he may decide in the matter".<ref> Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006, p. 163.</ref> The Marist Brothers accepted this ruling, but unhappily. <ref>Ibid.(Some of the Marist Brothers may have been influenced by memories of earlier events in Sydney. One elderly Brother in the Marist Brothers' Sacred Heart community in Richmond Road had been a member of the [[St Mary's Cathedral College, Sydney|St Mary's Cathedral College]] community in Sydney early in the twentieth century. At that time the Marist Brothers who administered the Cathedral school in Sydney had complained to the Archbishop of Sydney ([[Patrick Cardinal Moran|Cardinal Francis Patrick Moran (1884 - 1911]]) about their living and working conditions. The Cardinal told the Marist Brothers to leave the school and directed, under the threat of interdict, the Christian Brothers to take over the school, which they did in 1910. The Christian Brothers were then granted the requests that the Marists had been denied. "Thus when the Christian Brothers arrived in Auckland they were seen as moving in on Marist 'territory' by some of the elderly Marist Brothers. However there is evidence that the relationship between the Christian Brothers and the younger Marist Brothers was positive in the early days of St Peter's College": Edmund Rice & New Zealand - The Story: http://www.edmundrice.org.nz/storynz.htm (accessed 17/09/2004)); An interdict is a situation where the church refuses its sacramental ministry to some or all of its members in a particular area, usually for a specified time: Ibid. Part of the annoyance of the Marist Brothers also arise from their own scheme to re-develop Sacred Heart College, which they did sixteen years later by shifting it to its new site in Glendowie: Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006, p. 163; Felix Donnelly suggests that the problems with the Marist Brothers continued after the school opened. Donnelly has written that Brother O'Driscoll, the foundation principal " ... had a go-getter approach that probably did good things in getting the school established. He had to cope with the resentment of the Marist Brothers and their supporters at the coming of this new group into the Catholic boys' education scene": Felix Donnelly, One Priest's Life, Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Auckland, 1982, page 8</ref>
A contractor cleared the Mountain Road site in 1931 and it was expected that the school would open in 1933.<ref> Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006, p. 163.</ref> But financial problems caused delays.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The Marist Brothers appealed to th the Apostolic Delegate and to the Sacred Congregation of Religious in Rome.<ref>Ibid.</ref> They believed that Cleary had promised them the St Peter's School site but as no written record could be found, the Bishop was informed by the Sacred Congregation of Religious that he could invite the Christian Brothers<ref>Pompallier Diocesan Archives Auckland reference document reference CLE 128-7.</ref>and the Apostolic Delegate ruled "that the Bishop is free to make whatever provision he may decide in the matter".<ref> Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006, p. 163.</ref> The Marist Brothers accepted this ruling, but unhappily. <ref>Ibid.(Some of the Marist Brothers may have been influenced by memories of earlier events in Sydney. One elderly Brother in the Marist Brothers' Sacred Heart community in Richmond Road had been a member of the [[St Mary's Cathedral College, Sydney|St Mary's Cathedral College]] community in Sydney early in the twentieth century. At that time the Marist Brothers who administered the Cathedral school in Sydney had complained to the Archbishop of Sydney ([[Patrick Cardinal Moran|Cardinal Francis Patrick Moran (1884 - 1911]]) about their living and working conditions. The Cardinal told the Marist Brothers to leave the school and directed, under the threat of interdict, the Christian Brothers to take over the school, which they did in 1910. The Christian Brothers were then granted the requests that the Marists had been denied. "Thus when the Christian Brothers arrived in Auckland they were seen as moving in on Marist 'territory' by some of the elderly Marist Brothers. However there is evidence that the relationship between the Christian Brothers and the younger Marist Brothers was positive in the early days of St Peter's College": Edmund Rice & New Zealand - The Story: http://www.edmundrice.org.nz/storynz.htm (accessed 17/09/2004)); An interdict is a situation where the church refuses its sacramental ministry to some or all of its members in a particular area, usually for a specified time: Ibid. Part of the annoyance of the Marist Brothers also arise from their own scheme to re-develop Sacred Heart College, which they did sixteen years later by shifting it to its new site in Glendowie: Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006, p. 163; Felix Donnelly suggests that the problems with the Marist Brothers continued after the school opened. Donnelly has written that Brother O'Driscoll, the foundation principal " ... had a go-getter approach that probably did good things in getting the school established. He had to cope with the resentment of the Marist Brothers and their supporters at the coming of this new group into the Catholic boys' education scene": Felix Donnelly, One Priest's Life, Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Auckland, 1982, page 8</ref>


The School was constructed on the corner of Khyber Pass and Mountain Road a site which been given to the church for educational purposes by the Outhwaite family. The Outhwaite family were descendents of an English barrister who was one of New Zealand's early colonists and was the first registrar of the Supreme Court in Auckland. The family not only bequeathed the site of the college but also a part of the fund required for its erection.<ref>information provided by Liston in his speech at the opening of the college on Sunday 29 January 1939 at 3.30pm: Auckland Welcomes the Christian Brothers, Zealandia, Thursday 2 February, 1939, p. 5.</ref> The remaining funds were provided from other trust funds.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The Christian Brothers to staff the school arrived in Auckland from Australia for the 1939 year. They were accommodated by the parish priest of Remuera, Monsignor J. J. Bradley, in his presbytery until the Brothers residence was habitable.<ref>Twenty-Five Years, St Peter's College Magazine, 1964, St Peter's College, Auckland 1964, page 11</ref> Bradley, who had been a pupil of the Christian Brothers in Ireland, was responsible for the laying out of the grounds - work which took ten months to complete.<ref>Ibid.</ref> However, work continued on the development of Reeves Road (a street that has now disappeared as it has been incorporated as the entrance to St. Peter's College), the building of stone walls, and soil transfer from the basketball courts to level the playing fields until 1941. That year " ... saw the end of a familiar sight at the College when workers on the Government Relief scheme finished working on the grounds on November 1st. These men spent three years working on the grounds at a very small cost, as the Government paid their wages in an effort to lessent hardship in the difficult post-depression years. Without their work and the guiding hand of Monseignor Bradley, the grounds with their three different levels could not have been developed as they were".<ref>A Glimpse at the Past, St Peter's College Magazine, 1964, St Peter's College, Auckland, 1964, Page 12</ref>
The School was constructed on the corner of Khyber Pass and Mountain Road a site which been given to the church for educational purposes by the Outhwaite family. The Outhwaite family were descendents of an English barrister who was one of New Zealand's early colonists and was the first registrar of the Supreme Court in Auckland. The family not only bequeathed the site of the college but also a part of the fund required for its erection.<ref>information provided by Liston in his speech at the opening of the college on Sunday 29 January 1939 at 3.30pm: Auckland Welcomes the Christian Brothers, Zealandia, Thursday 2 February, 1939, p. 5.</ref> The remaining funds were provided from other trust funds.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
The Christian Brothers to staff the school arrived in Auckland from Australia for the 1939 school year. They were accommodated by the parish priest of Remuera, Monsignor J. J. Bradley, in his presbytery until the Brothers residence was habitable.<ref>Twenty-Five Years, St Peter's College Magazine, 1964, St Peter's College, Auckland 1964, page 11</ref> Bradley, who had been a pupil of the Christian Brothers in Ireland, was responsible for the laying out of the grounds of the school - work which took ten months to complete.<ref>Ibid.</ref> However, work continued until 1941 on the development of Reeves Road (a street that has now disappeared as it has been incorporated as the entrance to St. Peter's College), the building of stone walls, and the very significant soil transfer from the basketball courts to level the playing fields. The year 1941 " ... saw the end of a familiar sight at the College when workers on the Government Relief scheme finished working on the grounds on November 1st. These men spent three years working on the grounds at a very small cost, as the Government paid their wages in an effort to lessent hardship in the difficult post-depression years. Without their work and the guiding hand of Monseignor Bradley, the grounds with their three different levels [ie. the basketball court level, the old tennis court level (now filled in under the playing field level) and the playing field level (now extended into the old tennis court level)] could not have been developed as they were".<ref>A Glimpse at the Past, St Peter's College Magazine, 1964, St Peter's College, Auckland, 1964, Page 12</ref>


The school was opened on Sunday, 29 January 1939 by Bishop Liston and in the presence of Hon [[Rex Mason|H. G. R. Mason]], Attorney-General and local MP, standing in for Rt Hon [[Peter Fraser]], the Minister of Education (who became Prime Minister on the death of [[Michael Joseph Savage]] in 1940) and the Mayor of Auckland, Mr Ernest Davis. The opening took place on a wet afternoon and, as he read his speech, Bishop Liston was sheltered under an umbrella held by the foundation principal of the college, Brother F.P. O'Driscoll. <ref>Auckland Welcomes the Christian Brothers, Zealandia, Thursday 2 February, 1939, p. 5.</ref> In spite of the rain, a large number of friends and well-wishers participated in the opening.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
The school was opened on Sunday, 29 January 1939 by Bishop Liston and in the presence of Hon [[Rex Mason|H. G. R. Mason]], Attorney-General and local MP, standing in for Rt Hon [[Peter Fraser]], the Minister of Education (who became Prime Minister on the death of [[Michael Joseph Savage]] in 1940) and the Mayor of Auckland, Mr Ernest Davis. The opening took place on a wet afternoon and, as he read his speech, Bishop Liston was sheltered under an umbrella held by the foundation principal of the college, Brother F.P. O'Driscoll. <ref>Auckland Welcomes the Christian Brothers, Zealandia, Thursday 2 February, 1939, p. 5.</ref> In spite of the rain, a large number of friends and well-wishers participated in the opening.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

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St Peters College
Address
Map
Mountain Road, Epsom, Auckland
Information
TypeIntegrated Catholic Boys Secondary (Year 7-13)
MottoTo Love and To Serve (formerly "facere et docere": "to do and to teach")
Established1939
Ministry of Education Institution no.62
PrincipalK. F. Fouhy
School roll1129
Socio-economic decile7
Websitehttp://www.st-peters.school.nz

St Peters College is a College for Year 7 to 13 Boys and offers a Catholic education to its students.

Location

The school is located in the Central Auckland suburb of Epsom.

Roll

The school draws enrolments from throughout the city, reflecting its central location and its easy accessibility from all the main transport conduits and services of Auckland.

The school has a diverse, multicultural roll, and it excels in sporting and cultural activities. Academically, the school offers an alternative to the NCEA system in senior years, the Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), which challenge's the school's top academic performers.

Foundation and Opening

The earliest Catholic school in Auckland was established under the patronage of St Peter.[1] It was established in 1841 by the Catholic laymen of Auckland following the first visit of Bishop Pompallier (Vicar Apostolic of Western Oceania, from 1848 first Bishop of Auckland) and continued to provide education for boys mainly under lay teachers until the Marist Brothers established a school on the corner Pitt and Wellington Streets in 1885. [2]

However, Walter Bisscop Steins S.J., third Catholic Bishop of Auckland (1879-1881) had had doubts about inviting the Marist Brothers to open a school in Auckland as he felt there were prejudices against them because they were a French congregation. He believed that it would be better to invite the Christian Brothers because they were an Irish congregation particularly since most of the Catholics in Auckland were Irish. However Stein's successor, John Edmund Luck OSB, fourth Catholic Bishop of Auckland (1881-1896), had no such qualms and invited the Marist Brothers to establish their Auckland school.[3] Another move may have been made in 1885 for a Christian Brothers School in Auckland. But that too was unsuccessful[4]

Nearly 40 years later, in 1923, Henry William Cleary, the sixth Catholic Bishop of Auckland, issued an invitation to the Christian Brothers to establish a school in Auckland. [5]

The Marist Brothers, by now very well established in Auckland at Sacred Heart College (then located in Richmond Road, Ponsonby), objected strongly and Cleary wrote to the Provincial of the Christian Brothers, Brother Barron, changing his offer to a primary school. [6] As a result the Christian Brothers lost interest.[7]

Shortly after he became seventh Catholic Bishop of Auckland in 1929, James Michael Liston expressed an intention to renew the invitation to the Christian Brothers, whose pupil he had been in Dunedin. [8] Liston's intention again aroused the opposition of the Marist Brothers.[9] who were concerned that a new boy's Form I to VI school would take enrollments from Sacred Heart College and would diminish their revenue.[10] Unmoved by the Marist Brothers' opposition, Liston wrote to Brother James Hanrahan, the provincial of the Australian province of the Christian Brothers requesting Christian Brothers to provide staff for the proposed school.[11] The Christian Brothers agreed on the establishment of the school.[12]

A contractor cleared the Mountain Road site in 1931 and it was expected that the school would open in 1933.[13] But financial problems caused delays.[14] The Marist Brothers appealed to th the Apostolic Delegate and to the Sacred Congregation of Religious in Rome.[15] They believed that Cleary had promised them the St Peter's School site but as no written record could be found, the Bishop was informed by the Sacred Congregation of Religious that he could invite the Christian Brothers[16]and the Apostolic Delegate ruled "that the Bishop is free to make whatever provision he may decide in the matter".[17] The Marist Brothers accepted this ruling, but unhappily. [18]

The School was constructed on the corner of Khyber Pass and Mountain Road a site which been given to the church for educational purposes by the Outhwaite family. The Outhwaite family were descendents of an English barrister who was one of New Zealand's early colonists and was the first registrar of the Supreme Court in Auckland. The family not only bequeathed the site of the college but also a part of the fund required for its erection.[19] The remaining funds were provided from other trust funds.[20]

The Christian Brothers to staff the school arrived in Auckland from Australia for the 1939 school year. They were accommodated by the parish priest of Remuera, Monsignor J. J. Bradley, in his presbytery until the Brothers residence was habitable.[21] Bradley, who had been a pupil of the Christian Brothers in Ireland, was responsible for the laying out of the grounds of the school - work which took ten months to complete.[22] However, work continued until 1941 on the development of Reeves Road (a street that has now disappeared as it has been incorporated as the entrance to St. Peter's College), the building of stone walls, and the very significant soil transfer from the basketball courts to level the playing fields. The year 1941 " ... saw the end of a familiar sight at the College when workers on the Government Relief scheme finished working on the grounds on November 1st. These men spent three years working on the grounds at a very small cost, as the Government paid their wages in an effort to lessent hardship in the difficult post-depression years. Without their work and the guiding hand of Monseignor Bradley, the grounds with their three different levels [ie. the basketball court level, the old tennis court level (now filled in under the playing field level) and the playing field level (now extended into the old tennis court level)] could not have been developed as they were".[23]

The school was opened on Sunday, 29 January 1939 by Bishop Liston and in the presence of Hon H. G. R. Mason, Attorney-General and local MP, standing in for Rt Hon Peter Fraser, the Minister of Education (who became Prime Minister on the death of Michael Joseph Savage in 1940) and the Mayor of Auckland, Mr Ernest Davis. The opening took place on a wet afternoon and, as he read his speech, Bishop Liston was sheltered under an umbrella held by the foundation principal of the college, Brother F.P. O'Driscoll. [24] In spite of the rain, a large number of friends and well-wishers participated in the opening.[25]

It is noteworthy that, in view of the difficult history with the Marist brothers, Liston said, "this is a fitting occasion to pay tribute to the Marist Brothers for their long, honourable and fruitful record of service in the cause of education in the diocese of Auckland and throughout New Zealand: 'by their fruits ye know them' ". He also said later in his speech, "We welcome today the Christian Brothers, who are here at the invitation of the Bishop to take charge of St Peter's school and to have their part, along with the Marist Brothers and other religious communities, in our Catholic education system. They have their own traditions to give us, formed in the society's work of teaching since 1802, and the fruit of the experience gathered, to speak only of Australia and New Zealand, of over 500 Brothers teaching more than 20,000 boys". Liston added, " ... if I know the Brothers at all, the boys under their care will be put to hard work - an excellent thing - and teachers will not do for them what they should do for themselves. The thought of the years ahead and of the eternal life will be regarded as of first importance. Teachers will feel it their daily duty to fit the boys to bear life's burdens with a spirit of nobility and to meet life's problems with unfaltering courage". At the conclusion of his speech, Bishop Liston said, "This is a very happy day for me indeed for I owe much more than I can say to the training I received at the hands of the Christian Brothers in Dunedin long years ago".[26]

On the following Tuesday, 31 January 1939, St Peter's College opened its doors[27] with a roll of 183 pupils,[28] aged from 11 to 14 (i.e from Form I to Form IV).[29] Five brothers comprised the original staff - Brothers O'Driscoll, Killian, Rapp, Skehan and Carroll.[30]

The original school buildings opened in 1939 on the four acre Outhwaite site consisted of an incomplete two-storied class-block for the pupils and an incomplete two-storied residence (the brother's residence). They were designed by William Henry Gummer (1884 - 1966), a student of Sir Edward Lutyens and architect of some notable Auckland buildings such as the Auckland railway station and the National War Memorial and carillon and National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum building in Wellington.[31] The two school buildings were full completed in 1944.[32]

The Succeeding Decades

In the early 1960's St Peter's had the largest roll of any Catholic school in New Zealand, having 834 pupils. Expansion became necessary. In 1959 Archbishop[33] Liston purchased 2.5 acres on Mountain Road opposite the school.[34] This land was purchased from Dominion Breweries for 11,000 pounds per acre.[35] This land is used as a rugby field and also has located on it a sports pavillion (now replaced by the Brother P. C. Sports Pavillion - see below). In the 1960's the Brother's residence was extended and a new science block consisting of science laboratories, class-rooms and a demonstration room was built. This building was upgraded in the 1990's and is now called the Brother J. B. Lynch Science Laboratories.

A large three-story set of classroms plus assembly hall and squash courts were opened in the early 1970's.[36] During the 1990's the Brother P. C Ryan sports pavillion replaced the original pavillion built in 1960 and the Brother W. R. Smith Music and Drama Suite was built. Brother Smith (1948 - 1953) had initiated the first school orchestra.[37]

The school became an integrated state secondary school with attached intermediate in 1982. At that time the entire Catholic school system (currently some 240 schools) was integrated into the New Zealand state school system, with all schools retaining their Catholic "special character".[38]

The Christian Brothers have staffed St Peter's College ever since its opening, although their presence has diminished in recent years and they no longer reside on the site. The school is, and always has been, a diocesan school in that its proprietor is the Catholic Bishop of Auckland.

The school has had a lay principal, Mr Kieran Fouhy, since 1989. Under his leadership, a major building programme has commenced. Recent important buildings completed are the Brother L. H. Wilkes Technology Block (2001)(awarded the NZIA Resene Supreme Award for Architecture 2002, NZIA Resene New Zealand Award for Architecture 2002, and the NZIA Resene Branch Award for Architecture 2001) and a dedicated building for the intermediate school on Mountain Road (2003) named after Brother V.A. Sullivan."[39]

"St Peter's is still dedicated to the objectives of the Christian Brothers' founder, eighteenth-century Irish merchant Edmund Rice [(now Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in October, 1996)][40]): they were to encourage its members to serve the community in a positive manner. As such, some of the school's recent old boys have become lay member's of Edmund Rice communities, and have committeed themselves to Rice's objective of bringing social justice. The school has always had a particular commitment to supporting Cristian Brothers missions in Polynesia and, more recently, has organised annual trips to India for senior students"[41]

"The school has also endeavoured to ensure outlets for the boy's sporting and cultural aspirations. In recent years St Peter's has attained national secondary titles in rugby, softball, soccer and music. By establishing both music and soccer academies in the late 1990's the school has encouraged excellence in pursuits that might be considered atypical within the context of educating New Zealand boys".[42]

The North train and the railway station

The railway running along the western boundary of St Peter's has played an important part in the history of the school. From the time the school opened many students came from the western suburbs of Auckland along the route of the train and they used the train service (the "North train") to attend the school. Until 1964 the nearest station to the school was Mt Eden station, a twenty minute walk to or from the school. By 1964 about 250 St Peter's boys[43] were using the train and walking between Mt Eden station and the school.

The college (Brother T. A. Monagle who supervised the train boys and who travelled on the train each day for that purpose) approached the Railways Department to request that the train stop at the school. The college had several reasons for asking that the trains should stop there. "The traffic in Mt Eden Road had become very heavy, and was a constant danger to the younger and more thoughtless of our pupils, and another source of considerable danger existed at Mt Eden station where supervision was necessary to prevent accidents when the boys were boarding the train. Again, the train would disgorge its pupils at Mt Eden and then chug merrily past the school almost empty, leaving the boys to walk half a mile, often in heavy rain."<Our Railway Station, St Peter's College, Magazine, 1964, St Peter's College, Page 39</ref>

Brother Monagle persuaded the Minister of Transport[44] to come and see for himself. In fact the Minister volunteered to walk up to the Mt Eden station from the school. "Well, somebody must have been pulling some strings up above, because on the day of the Minister's visit it rained cats and dogs, and even the odd pink elephant ..."[45] and Brother Monagle's request was granted.[46] The North train stopped at St Peter's College for the first time at 8.30am on Tuesday 15 September 1964 for the 250 St Peter's College boys and a dozen from Auckland Grammar.[47]

Another noteworthy event occurred in November 1965, when, for the last time, the North train had a steam engine on it. it was the last passenger train in the North Island to be pulled by a steam locomotive...."[48]

In relation to Brother Monagle, " ... it is generally agreed that he deserved the rank of Railway Employee. Surely no single person has ever held down so many positions at once - stationmaster, signalman, ticket inspector and guard, not to mention construction engineer, traffic officer and the occasional shot at engine-driving! During the many years that he was associated with the train, Brother Monagle became friends with most of the railway employees along the line as he made his trip each afternoon as far as Mt Albert".[49]

Initially, only the "school" trains stopped at St Peter's College, once in the morning and once in the afternoon.[50]

The St Peter's College railway station is now a formal part of the Auckland suburban rail network and has been named prosaically after its nearest street as the Boston Road station. It is still a major transport link for St Peter's College.

Principals

Brother F. P. O'Driscoll (foundation principal 1939 - 1944)[51]

Brother J. A. Morris (1945 - 1947)[52]

Brother W. R. Smith (1948 - 1953)[53]

Brother ?. ?. Watson (1954 - 1956)[54]

Brother P. C. Ryan (1957 - 1965)[55]

Brother B. E. Ryan (1966 - 1974)[56]

Brother N. Doherty (1975 - 1980)[57]

Brother J. Prendergast (1981 - 1988)[58]

Mr Keiran Fouhy (first lay principal 1989 - present))[59]

Reputation

St Peter's College is an important Catholic boys' school in Auckland and it is the largest Catholic school in New Zealand with a roll of approximately 1200.

Notable Alumni

Arts

  • George Baloghy (1950 - ), Artist, (since 1978 has had twenty-six solo exhibitions, represented in every major public collection in New Zealand). George Baloghy website
  • Sam Hunt (1946 - ), Poet.[60]
  • Tony Mackle (1946 - ), MA Art History (Ak), Diploma in Archives Administration, Art historian and curator, Collections Manager Art (Works on Paper) Te Papa Tongarewa (Specialist areas of knowledge and expertise: New Zealand and British art 1850-1950).
  • Constant Mews (195? - ), D. Phil (Oxon), Associate Professor, Director, Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, Monash University, Melbourne, (expert on medieval religious thought (especially Peter Abelard) and on interfaith dialogue).
  • Douglas Mews (195? - ), MMus (Auck), Certificaat Koninkijk Cons, Lecurer , organ, Harpsichord, Fortepiano, Keyboard Skills at the New Zealand School of Music (Victoria University of Wellington), Wellington City Organist, choir director at St Teresa's church, Karori, Wellington.
  • Michael Brian Lewis Morrisey (1942 - ), Poet and Fiction writer.[61]
  • Raymond Waru (1952 - ), Television producer and director.

Business

Church

  • Denis George Browne, Most Reverend, CNZM DD, (1937 - ), third Catholic Bishop of Cook Islands and Niue (1977 - 1983), tenth Catholic Bishop of Auckland (1983 - 1994), second Catholic Bishop of Hamilton (1994 - ).
  • Father Felix Cornelius Donnelly (1929- ), QSM, PhD, priest, broadcaster, author, counsellor.[62]
  • Edward Russell Gaines, Most Reverend, (1926 - 1994), first Catholic Bishop of Hamilton (1980 - 1994) (foundation pupil of St Peter's and first old boy to be ordained a priest).

Law

  • Patrick James Downey (1927 - ),OBE, MA(NZ), LL.B(NZ), Barrister and Solicitor, Chief Human Rights Commissioner and Chairman of the Human Rights Commission of New Zealand (1978 - 1984), Director, Butterworths of New Zealand (1983 - 1993), Editor, "NZ Law Journal" (1983 - 1996), General Editor, "The Laws of New Zealand" (1991 - 1995) (foundation pupil of St Peter's).
  • Michael Kruse (1948 - ), LL.B (VUW), MCL (George Washington), Chief Justice of American Samoa (1987 - ).
  • Dr Anthony Patrick Molloy (1944 - ), LL.D (Auck), QC (1984), lawyer, tax and trust law expert, winegrower (St Nesbit winery), author.

Politics

  • Chris Carter (Honourable Christopher Joseph) (1952 - ), New Zealand Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament for Te Atatu (1993 - 1996; 1999 - ), Minister of Conservation (2002 - ) (He was New Zealand's first openly gay MP, and first openly gay member of the Cabinet).[63]
  • John Henry Tamihere (1959 - ), New Zealand Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament for Hauraki (1999 - 2002) and Tamaki Makaurau (2002 - 2005), Cabinet Minister (2002 - 2004).

Public service

  • Simon Dallow (196?- ), New Zealand television presenter and lawyer.
  • Martyn Dunne (195? - ), CNZM (2000), Soldier and senior public servant, Commander of New Zealand Forces and international troops in East Timor during New Zealand's largest deployment since WWII (1999-2000), (as Major General) Commander Joint Forces New Zealand in the New Zealand Defence Force (2001 - 2004), Chief Executive of the New Zealand Customs Service and Comptroller of Customs (2004 - ).
  • Warwick Hutchings (1946 - ), Diplomat and senior journalist, New Zealand permanent representative in Nairobi (1992 - 1994), Press secretary to HRH the Prince of Wales (2005 - ).
  • Dr Martin Reyners (1950 - ),(Ph.D), Seismologist, New Zealand Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS Ltd).
  • Jan Charles Schell (1950 - ) Senior public servant, General Manager, Crown Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (1998 - .

Sports

Other

Notes

  1. ^ Auckland's First Catholic School - And its Latest, Zealandia, Thursday, 26 January 1939, p. 5.
  2. ^ Ibid.
  3. ^ Tony Waters, Confortare, A history of Sacred Heart College, Auckland 1903 - 2003, Sacred Heart College, Auckland, 2003, p. 19.
  4. ^ Graeme Donaldson, To All Parts of the Kingdom: Christian Brothers In New Zealand 1876-2001, Christian Brothers New Zealand Province, Christchurch, 2001, p. 10.
  5. ^ Pompallier Diocesan Archives Auckland reference document reference CLE 128-7 p. 1.
  6. ^ Ibid.
  7. ^ Ibid.
  8. ^ Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006, p. 163.
  9. ^ Ibid.
  10. ^ Ibid.
  11. ^ Ibid.
  12. ^ Graeme W. A. Bush (ed), The History of Epsom, Epsom & Eden District Historical Society Inc, Auckland, 2006, p. 224.
  13. ^ Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006, p. 163.
  14. ^ Ibid.
  15. ^ Ibid.
  16. ^ Pompallier Diocesan Archives Auckland reference document reference CLE 128-7.
  17. ^ Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006, p. 163.
  18. ^ Ibid.(Some of the Marist Brothers may have been influenced by memories of earlier events in Sydney. One elderly Brother in the Marist Brothers' Sacred Heart community in Richmond Road had been a member of the St Mary's Cathedral College community in Sydney early in the twentieth century. At that time the Marist Brothers who administered the Cathedral school in Sydney had complained to the Archbishop of Sydney (Cardinal Francis Patrick Moran (1884 - 1911) about their living and working conditions. The Cardinal told the Marist Brothers to leave the school and directed, under the threat of interdict, the Christian Brothers to take over the school, which they did in 1910. The Christian Brothers were then granted the requests that the Marists had been denied. "Thus when the Christian Brothers arrived in Auckland they were seen as moving in on Marist 'territory' by some of the elderly Marist Brothers. However there is evidence that the relationship between the Christian Brothers and the younger Marist Brothers was positive in the early days of St Peter's College": Edmund Rice & New Zealand - The Story: http://www.edmundrice.org.nz/storynz.htm (accessed 17/09/2004)); An interdict is a situation where the church refuses its sacramental ministry to some or all of its members in a particular area, usually for a specified time: Ibid. Part of the annoyance of the Marist Brothers also arise from their own scheme to re-develop Sacred Heart College, which they did sixteen years later by shifting it to its new site in Glendowie: Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006, p. 163; Felix Donnelly suggests that the problems with the Marist Brothers continued after the school opened. Donnelly has written that Brother O'Driscoll, the foundation principal " ... had a go-getter approach that probably did good things in getting the school established. He had to cope with the resentment of the Marist Brothers and their supporters at the coming of this new group into the Catholic boys' education scene": Felix Donnelly, One Priest's Life, Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Auckland, 1982, page 8
  19. ^ information provided by Liston in his speech at the opening of the college on Sunday 29 January 1939 at 3.30pm: Auckland Welcomes the Christian Brothers, Zealandia, Thursday 2 February, 1939, p. 5.
  20. ^ Ibid.
  21. ^ Twenty-Five Years, St Peter's College Magazine, 1964, St Peter's College, Auckland 1964, page 11
  22. ^ Ibid.
  23. ^ A Glimpse at the Past, St Peter's College Magazine, 1964, St Peter's College, Auckland, 1964, Page 12
  24. ^ Auckland Welcomes the Christian Brothers, Zealandia, Thursday 2 February, 1939, p. 5.
  25. ^ Ibid.
  26. ^ Ibid.
  27. ^ St Peter's College Silver Jubilee 1939 - 1964, Christian Brothers Old Boys Association, Auckland, 1964, p.7.
  28. ^ Graeme Donaldson, To All Parts of the Kingdom: Christian Brothers In New Zealand 1876-2001, Christian Brothers New Zealand Province, Christchurch, 2001, p. 10.
  29. ^ St Peter's College Silver Jubilee 1939 - 1964, Christian Brothers Old Boys Association, Auckland, 1964, p.7.
  30. ^ Ibid.
  31. ^ Graeme W. A. Bush (ed), The History of Epsom, Epsom & Eden District Historical Society Inc, Auckland, 2006, pp. 279 - 280.
  32. ^ St Peter's College Silver Jubilee 1939 - 1964, Christian Brothers Old Boys Association, Auckland, 1964, pp. 7 and 8.
  33. ^ In November 1953, the Vatican awarded Liston the personal title of Archbishop, acknowledging that while Auckland was not the archdicese of the ecclesiastical province of New Zealand, Liston was the most senior active bishop, Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston, a life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, p. 242
  34. ^ Ibid. p. 225.
  35. ^ Graeme Donaldson, To All Parts of the Kingdom: Christian Brothers In New Zealand 1876-2001, Christian Brothers New Zealand Province, Christchurch, 2001, p. 10.
  36. ^ Ibid., p. 11
  37. ^ Ibid., p. 12
  38. ^ Ibid., p. 11
  39. ^ Graham W.A. Bush, The History of Epsom, Epsom & Eden District Historical Society Inc, Auckland, 2006, p. 225; Architectus website
  40. ^ Ibid. p.4
  41. ^ Graham W.A. Bush, The History of Epsom, Epsom & Eden District Historical Society Inc, Auckland, 2006, p. 225.
  42. ^ Ibid.
  43. ^ Their Own Station, Auckland Star, Tuesday 15 September 1964, p. 4,
  44. ^ John Kenneth McAlpine (1906-1984) (National) was Minister of Transport 12 December 1960 - 12 December 1966.
  45. ^ The School Train, St Peter's College Magazine, Auckland, 1968, pages 25 and 26.
  46. ^ Ibid.
  47. ^ Their Own Station, Auckland Star, Tuesday 15 September 1964, p. 4,
  48. ^ The School Train, St Peter's College Magazine, Auckland, 1968, pages 25 and 26.
  49. ^ Ibid.
  50. ^ Their Own Station, Auckland Star, Tuesday 15 September 1964, p. 4,
  51. ^ St Peter's College Silver Jubilee 1939 - 1964, Christian Brothers Old Boys Association, Auckland, 1964, p.5.
  52. ^ A Glimpse at the Past, St Peter's College Magazine, 1964, St Peter's College, Auckland, 1964, Page 13
  53. ^ Ibid., Pages 12 and 16
  54. ^ Ibid., Pages 16 and 17
  55. ^ Graeme Donaldson, To All Parts of the Kingdom: Christian Brothers In New Zealand 1876-2001, Christian Brothers New Zealand Province, Christchurch, 2001, p. 10.
  56. ^ Ibid., p.11.
  57. ^ Ibid.
  58. ^ Ibid.
  59. ^ Ibid.
  60. ^ Jim Sullivan, Catholic Boys: New Zealand Men Talk to Jim Sullivan, Penguin, 1996, pages 34 - 46 (contains much detail and comment concerning Sam Hunt's time at St Peter's College); Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1998, pages 249 and 250
  61. ^ New Zealand Who's Who, Aotearoa 2001 New Millenium Edition,entry for Morrisey, Michael Brian Lewis; Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1998, pages 380 and 381
  62. ^ Felix Donnelly, One Priest's Life, Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Auckland, 1982, Pages 3 - 17, Chapter 2 ("To be a priest"). In that chapter, Father Donnelly describes his years at St Peter's College (1941 - 1946) providing a very interesting description of the life of the college in its early years and making particular (if rather acerbic) mention of Brother F.P. O'Driscoll (the foundation principal) and Brother Skehan
  63. ^ James Allen: Growing Up Gay: New Zealand Men Tell Their Stories, Godwit, Auckland, 1996 includes extensive details and comments by Chris Carter on his time at St Peter's College.

Main reference sources

  • St Peter's College Silver Jubilee 1939 - 1964, Christian Brothers Old Boys Association, Auckland, 1964.
  • St Peter's College Magazine, 1964, St Peter's College Auckland, 1964.
  • J.C. O'Neill, History of the Work of the Christian Brothers in New Zealand, 1968.
  • St Peter's College Magazine, 1968, St Peter's College Auckland, 1968.
  • Felix Donnelly, One Priest's Life, Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Auckland, 1982.
  • Jim Sullivan, Catholic Boys, Penguin Books, Auckland 1996.
  • James Allen: Growing Up Gay: New Zealand Men Tell Their Stories, Godwit, Auckland, 1996
  • Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1998.
  • Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Chambers, Edinburgh, 6th edition, 1999.
  • Graeme Donaldson, To All Parts of the Kingdom: Christian Brothers In New Zealand 1876-2001, Christian Brothers New Zealand Province, Christchurch, 2001.
  • New Zealand Who's Who, Aotearoa 2001 New Millenium Edition.
  • Tony Waters, Confortare, A history of Sacred Heart College, Auckland 1903 - 2003, Sacred Heart College, Auckland, 2003.
  • Graeme W. A. Bush (ed), The History of Epsom, Epsom & Eden District Historical Society Inc, Auckland, 2006.
  • Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006.
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