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The Congregation of Christian Brothers is a Catholic religious order which has been established in New Zealand since 1876. The order's particular charism is the education of boys and in New Zealand the order has been responsible for eight schools and has launched other educational initiatives.

History of the Christian Brothers

The Christian Brothers were founded in Waterford Ireland in 1802 by Edmund Ignatius Rice who was beatified in Rome in 1996. He was a wealthy committed Catholic businessman noted for his charity towards the poor. The death of his wife shortly after the birth of a handicapped daughter was a catalyst in his life. It deepened his spirituality which made him more aware of the needs of the marginalised especially young boys who lacked education in faith, literacy, numeracy and often lacked the basic necessities of life. He established schools for these boys despite the fact he had no teacher training and was in his early forties. Gradually other men, often businessmen like himself, joined him inspired by his charity and compassion. Other schools spread rapidly throughout Ireland. By the time of his death in 1844 his considerable fortune had been spent in establishing schools. In his own life time schools had been set up in England, and by the turn of the century schools were founded in America, India, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Christian Brothers arrived in New Zealand in 1876 and, in that year opened a secondary school in Dunedin, the Christian Brothers School. From the arrival of the Christian Brothers, New Zealand was administered as part of the Australasian province incorporating Australia, New Zealand and, from 1950, Papua New Guinea. In 1959, New Zealand became St Joseph's Vice-Province. This resulted in New Zealand Brothers returning to work in their home country and many Australian brothers went in the opposite direction. In 1966 New Zealand became a full Province of the order.

In recent years, especially following the integration of their schools into the New Zealand state education system and with aging membership and a lack of recruits, the New Zealand Christian Brothers have generally moved away from teaching in and managing schools and have refocused on those at the margins of society. There is still, however, strong support for the New Zealand schools and a focus on establishing and supporting schools in Oceania, Africa and the Philippines.

In 2007, the Christian Brothers provinces in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific (including St Joseph's Province, New Zealand) were abolished and replaced by one new Oceania Province which was itself sub-divided into twelve "clusters". Each cluster leader is responsible for the pastoral care of the Brothers in the cluster as well as encouraging close links with the Edmund Rice Ministries and Edmund Rice Network in that cluster area. The New Zealand Cluster includes: the Christian Brother Communities at Young Street Dunedin, 24A Wharenui Road Christchurch, 24B Wharenui Road Christchurch, Rarotonga, Murupara, Otorohanga, the Edmund Rice Community Westport, the Edmund Rice Community Auckland and the Mission Sisters/Christian Brothers community in Opotiki. The other clusters in the Oceania Province are: Papua-New Guinea Cluster; NSW Cluster A; NSW Cluster B; NSW Cluster C; Victoria & Tasmania cluster A; Victoria & Tasmania cluster B; Victoria & Tasmania cluster C; Queensland cluster A; Queensland cluster B; South Australia Cluster; and Western Australia Cluster.

New Zealand Province Leaders 1959-2007

• Br C C Marlow (1959-1965)
• Br P C Ryan (1966-1972)
• Br P A McManus (1972-1984)
• Br M B Scanlan (1984-1996)
• Br B J Lauren (1996-2007)

New Zealand Cluster Leaders 2007-

• Br John O'Shea (2007- present);

Christian Brothers initiatives

Schools and other initiatives associated with the New Zealand Christian Brothers include:

• Christian Brothers High School [6], Dunedin
• Christian Brothers Junior School [7], Dunedin
• Edmund Rice College[8], Rotorua
• Edmund Rice Community, Murupara, Bay of Plenty
• Edmund Rice Sinon Secondary School, Arusha, Tanzania.
• Fatima Vocational School, Banz Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea
• John Paul College[9], Rotorua
• Kavanagh College [10], Dunedin
• Liston College [11], Waitakere City, Auckland
• Nukutere College, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
• St Bakhita Formation Centre, Kitale, North West Kenya
• St Edmund's School [12], South Dunedin
• St Kevin's College [13], Oamaru
• St Patrick's Primary School [14], Oamaru
• St Paul's High School [15], Dunedin
• St Peter's College [16], Epsom, Auckland
• St Thomas of Canterbury College [17], Christchurch

Notable Christian Brothers

Because of ambiguities and mistakes in the sources, two or more of the names below may, in some cases, refer to one person. The biographies are based on information available in the publicly-available sources listed below. These do not include the Christian Brothers own records.

• Br Allen: the assistant to the Superior-General of the Christian Brothers visited Christian Brothers School, Dunedin, in 1939.

• Br Darryl Justin Anderson (born 1949): educated at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1968; Christian Brother 1968-1969.

• Br Barron: Australian and New Zealand Provincial of the Christian Brothers from 1900s until the 1920s(?); in 1907 he decided to withdraw the Christian Brothers from Dunedin but after the remonstrations of Bishop Verdon of Dunedin, he changed his mind; he was invited to establish a Christian Brothers School in Auckland by Bishop Cleary of Auckland in 1923.

• Br Leo Eugene Barry (born 1935): educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; entered the Christian Brothers in 1953; made his final profession in 1960; taught at St Edmund's School, Dunedin, in 1956; taught at St Peter's College, Auckland 1957–1960 (Form 3L); transferred to Australia in 1961; taught at St. Patrick's College, Strathfield.

• Br J F Beeden: taught at Christian Brothers High School 1934-1939 and then transferred to Oamaru; he taught at St Patrick's Primary School, Oamaru, where he was the Principal 1939-1949; in 1973 in Dunedin, "three old boys [of Christian Brothers School, Dunedin], Brothers Ryan, Lynch and Mills, along with a highly respected teacher, Brother Beeden, celebrated their Golden Jubilee".

• Br Laurence Alvin Bent (born 1934): educated at Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham, Sydney; entered the Christian Brothers in 1952; made his final profession in 1959; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1954-1960 (he taught Standard 3 in 1954/55, Form I in 1956/57 and Form III in 1958/59); transferred to Australia in 1960; he was ordained priest 5th March, 1999 for the Canberra Goulburn diocese; in 2008 he is Parish Priest of St Augustine's Parish, Yass, NSW, Australia.

• Br G Bilich: taught at Christian Brothers High School 1950-1955; transferred in 1955 to St Edmund's School.

• Br Patrick Regis Bloom (1904- ?): educated in Toowoomba; entered Christian Brothers in 1920; final profession in 1928; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1959; transferred to Australia in 1960.

• Br D Fursey Bodkin (1843-1929): Born near Tuam, County Galway, Ireland; one of the four Christian brothers who arrived from Ireland in Melbourne on 15 November 1868, under the leadership of Br Ambrose Treacy, to establish the order in Australia. The other two pioneer brothers were Brothers Barnabus Lynch and Joseph Nolan; leader of the first New Zealand Christian Brothers Community; together with Bros Dunne, Healey and McMahon, landed at Port Chalmers from the "Arawata" on 02 April, 1876; he founded, and was the first Principal of, Christian Brothers School, Dunedin 1876-1886; in 1886 and 1887, he was Headmaster at St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane (?); he was moved to Melbourne (?); served another term as Principal of Christian Brothers School, Dunedin 1897-1898; he was the Director of the Christian Brothers' Orphanage at Clontarf, Western Australia 1898-1929; in 1929, " ... in his 87th year and in the 71st of his religious profession, the venerable founder of the [Christian Brothers School, Dunedin] fifty-three years before, went to his reward"; he "was first and foremost a man of a deep religious sense and of extraordinary piety and devoutness ... by nature more fitted for the peace and quiet of the cloister ..."; "he was no mean disciplinarian, a particularly fine and penetrative teacher and a widely read and cultured scholar"; but he must have had considerable character as a teacher because at one time, in Dunedin, Br Bodkin taught a class of 200 boys. The Houses of St Peter's College, Auckland are named after Bros Treacy, Bodkin, Lynch and Nolan.

• Br Edward Camillus Boreham (born 1915) BA: educated Christian Brothers' High School, Dunedin and at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; entered the Christian brothers in 1932; made final profession in 1940; taught in Dunedin from 1941; at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1944; back in Dunedin again from 1953 until 1959; taught at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1960; in 1961 transferred to Australia; taught at St Patrick's College, Goulburn, New South Wales; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch in 1963; Christian Brother 1932 - 1963.

• Br Borman: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1951-1953 (?).

• Br F P Bowler (died 1970): Principal of Christian Brothers School 1917-1923; opened a hostel for 12 country boys at 2 Bishop's Place Dunedin, in 1917; the hostel then shifted to Rattray St before it was transferred to 6 Smith St where over thirty boys were accommodated; Br Bowler guided the hostel until he was transferred in 1923 to Adelaide; the hostel closed in 1924; foundation teacher at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1927; returned to Dunedin for 75th anniversary of Christian Brothers High School in 1951: he was the guest of the old boys of the school and was presented by them with a return air-travel ticket from Melbourne to Dunedin; "this spontaneous act of remembrance and generosity really overwhelmed the venerable brother"; there was a special, "informal function" of welcome to Br Bowler and there was a "fine attendance" and good spirit at this gathering; Br Bowler replied to the toast to the Christian Brothers at the reunion dinner; he re-visited the school in 1961 "to renew acquaintances".

• Br Paul Alonzo Boyd (born 1933); educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru (1945-1951); entered the Christian Brothers in 1953; made his final profession in 1960; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1958, 1959 and 1961 - 1964; at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1960; returned to Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin in 1962; was Rector of St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1972-1974; also taught at St Peter's College, Auckland and Edmund Rice College Rotorua 1970s/1980s (?); taught at St Kevin's College in 1979 - 1981. Member of the Auckland Christian Brothers Community in 1995.

• Br S Boylan: taught at Christian Brothers High School 1933-1935; in 1933 he began a class in Accountancy for post-matriculation boys; transferred to Melbourne.

• Br Bradstreet: (see Br Broadstreet)

• Br C Brady: principal of Christian Brothers School, Dunedin 1905-1910; established the old boys association in 1909.

• Br Herbert(?) T P Breach Dip. Ed (Auck): taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1939-1944; transferred to Sydney 1944; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1953; joined staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1954; returned to Australia; in 1960 was teaching at St. Kevin's College, Melbourne.

• Br P A Brennan BA: senior science master and Principal of Waverley College, Sydney until 1926; foundation teacher at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1927.

• Br A Broadstreet (or Bradstreet) came from Australia to join the staff of Christian Brothers High School in 1892 and was transferred to Brisbane in 1902.

• Br G Brophy: born in Ashburton; taught at Christian Brothers High School 1929-1935; was "an outstanding swimmer and coach"; transferred to Ballarat in 1935.

• Br F Myron Byrne (born 1927): educated at Christian Brothers College, North Melbourne; entered the Christian Brothers in 1944; made his final profession in 1952; transferred to Australia in 1992.

• Br Christopher Bosco Cahill (born 1944): educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru (1959-1960); entered the Christian Brothers in 1964; taught at St Edmund's School, Dunedin, in 1967; Christian Brother 1964-1975.

• Br F Cameron: educated at St Peter's College, Auckland and at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin, where he later taught; was teaching in Melbourne in 1961.

• Br J Carden: came from Australia to join the staff of Christian Brothers School and was on the staff from February to October, 1885.

• Br P Carew: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin from 1924; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1929.

• Br J L Carey: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin, leaving in 1934.

• Br A Carlson: taught at Christian Brothers High School from 1901

• Br C C Carroll: taught at Christian Brothers High School from 1936.

• Br F Carroll: educated at Christian Brothers High School.

• Br Ian Robert Carroll (1939-2000): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1950? - 1957?; entered the Christian Brothers in 1958; was a foundation Christian Brother at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1961-1962 and also taught there in 1964 and 1968; taught at St Peter's College, Auckland 1963; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua in 1963 and 1967 - (?); between the years 1968 and 1976, he went to Papua New Guinea, teaching at Fatima Vocational School, Banz (Western Highlands Province) and there carried out work with the local equivalent of "street kids"; " ... made a significant contribution to the Brothers' work in Papua New Guinea."; he remained in Papua New Guinea for 26 years.

• Br J C Carroll, BA, MusB ("Jock"): taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1935; one of the five foundation Christian Brothers of St Peter's College, Auckland, arriving there in 1939 from Sydney; he was Rector of St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1953-1957; initiated the "Sheep Scheme" at St Kevin's; this funded a chapel, hall, classrooms, dormitories and tennis and basketball courts there; in 1960 he was " .... at Manly, New South Wales after a number of years at Oamaru".

• Br J I Carroll BA: educated at St Peter's College, Auckland; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1972; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1965-1968.

• Br Richard Ignatius Carroll (born 1942): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1953-1958; entered the Christian Brothers in 1961; taught at St Edmund's School, Dunedin in 1964(?); taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1965-1968; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua in period 19651973(?); Christian Brother 1959 - 1974.

• Br M D Cervetto: (died 1954) taught at Christian Brothers School, Dunedin from 1935 and was principal 1939-1944; he was very enthusiastic for performances of Gilbert and Sullivan; in January 1945, he was transferred to Queensland where he became Superior of the Christian Brothers' school in Rockhampton; died in 1954 at Indooroopilly, Queensland.

• Br E Clancy: Superior-General of the Christian Brothers visited New Zealand in 1952; on 6 February, he visitedChristian Brothers High School, Dunedin and was present at the 25 year celebrations at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; he was still Superior-General when New Zealand was made a separate vice-province of the Christian Brothers in 1959; he appointed Br C C Marlow as the first Provincial of the new province.

• Br Dominic Julian Coe (born 1920): educated in Wellington; Christian Brother 1962.

• Br Martin Luke Cooney(born 1950): educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; Christian Brother 1967.

• Br Martin De Porres Connell (born 1946); educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1957-1964; taught at St Edmund's School, Dunedin, in 1968; Christian Brother 1964 - 1976.

• Br Raymond Bonaventure Connolly (1918-1992) MA: educated St. Kevin's College, Oamaru (1932-1934; entered the Christian Brothers in 1937; made his final profession in 1944; joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1945; left the college in 1952 to teach at St Edmund's School, Dunedin; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1960-1968(?) ; at St. Kevin's College in 1969; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua in the 1970s (?); died at the age of 73, buried at South Hill Public Cemetery, Oamaru.

• Br Conway: came from Australia to join the staff of Christian Brothers High School in 1881; made his novitiate at Dunedin and taught there until 1885.

• Br N S Cook: taught at Christian Brothers High School 1946-1949; transferred to Australia in 1949.

• Br Simon Germaine Coughlan (1920-1993); educated St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; entered the Christian Brothers in 1943; made his final profession in 1949; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1955 and 1956; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin in (from?) 1957; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1962 and 1963 and 1968-1973; was a member of the first Christian Brothers Community at Nukutere College, Rarotonga from 1976; also taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua; taught again at St Kevin's College in 1989; died aged 72 in 1993; buried at the South Hill Public Cemetery, Oamaru.

• Br T Cusack: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1898-1912; he was interested in literature and music; he reorganised the school choir and raised it to "a very high degree of artistic attainment".

• Br Vincent Nicholas Cusack (1912-2004): educated at Christian Brothers School, Dunedin; played rugby for the Dunedin Rugby Football Club (First Five Eighths) 1929-1932; in 1932 he played in the Otago representative team; he went to St Patrick's College, Strathfield to became a Christian Brother in 1933; he started off as a lay brother (which meant that he did not wish to teach but rather do manual work) made his final profession in 1944; in 1938-1939 and 1943-1944 he was at Tardun Farm School in Western Australia and in 1940-1941, 1945-1948 and 1957-1960 he was at Clontarf Orphanage, also in Western Australia; joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland to teach in the intermediate; taught at, and was otherwise associated with, St Peter's College for 37 years (1961–1997); one of his ex-pupils at St Peter's said "Mentors are few and far between. Br Cusack loved and understood his boys and was tough but fair"; in the mid to late 1990s was involved with the St Peter's tuckshop where he arrived at 7.30am every school day to heat the pies for the day; spent the last years of his life at the Bothers' residence, St Kevin's College, Oamaru; died aged 91 in 2004 (buried South Hill Public Cemetery, Oamaru)

• Br Andrew Dawani from Papua-New Guinea; teacher at Nukutere College, Rarotonga from 2007.

• Br John Stanislaus De Courcy (born 1950) M.Sc (Auck): educated at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1967; made his final profession in 1975; taught at St Paul's High School, Dunedin in the early 1970s; taught at St Peter's College, Auckland in the 1970s; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua in late 1970s(?); Christian Brother 1967-1981.

• Br Noel Cuthbert Doherty (born 1936) BA: educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru (1950); entered the Christian Brothers in 1954; made his final profession in 1961; taught at St Edmund's School, Dunedin in 1956; taught at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; taught at St Peter's College, Auckland from 1960 (transferred from St Edmund's School, Dunedin); taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1970, 1972 and 1980; at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1972; seventh principal of St Peter's College 1975-1980; taught at Liston College in the 1980s (?); Christian Brother 1954-1991; now retired from teaching.

• Br Graeme Gonzaga Donaldson (born 1933); educated by the Christian Brothers at Christian Brothers' High School, Dunedin and at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru (1945-1951); entered the Christian Brothers in 1952; made his final profession in 1959; taught in Australia for some years before he was transferred to the new vice-province of New Zealand in 1960, coming from Christian Brothers' College, Bundaberg, Queensland; he was on the staff of St Peter's College, Auckland 1960-1965; he taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1967-1973; taught at St Paul's High School 1974-1979; taught in New Zealand until 1990; in 1990 he had taught in schools in Australia and New Zealand for 37 years; he was one of the longest serving school Rugby Union First XV coaches in New Zealand; in 1992 on his retirement from teaching he returned to Dunedin; from 1992 until 2007 was the Catholic chaplain at Dunedin Prison; he followed the Dunedin Rugby Football Club from when he was a schoolboy and was closely associated with that club whenever he was located in Dunedin; in 1994 the Club made him an honorary life member; Bro Donaldson has written the following two books: Dunedin Rugby Football Club, 1871-1996 : 125 years history of the Club, The Club, Dunedin, 1997 (co-authored with J P Stumbles) and To All Parts of the Kingdom: Christian Brothers in New Zealand 1876 - 2001, Christian Brothers New Zealand Province, Christchurch, 2001.

• Br Paul Vincent Donnelly (born 1965): educated at Liston College, Auckland, entered the Christian Brothers in 1985; Christian Brother 1985-1992.

• Br Leo Francis Doolan (born 1920): educated at Christian Brothers College, Essendon, Victoria, Australia; entered the Christian Brothers in 1944; made his final profession in 1952; taught at St Paul's High School, Dunedin until 1988(?);transferred to Australia.

• Br P Doonan: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin from 1924.

• Br T I Dowd: in 1926 toured country districts to solicit donations for the building of St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; foundation teacher at St Kevin's from 1927.

• Br Dowdall: came from Australia to join the staff of Christian Brothers School, Dunedin in 1881; he was "an able and efficient lieutenant to his superior" (i.e. Br Bodkin); "probably the most painstaking, thorough and effective teacher in the history of the school"; "he achieved great results by stern and uncompromising methods"; returned to Melbourne in 1888.

• Br William Hofbauer Dowling (born 1939): educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru (1953); entered the Christian Brothers in 1958; made his final profession in 1964; taught at St Edmund's School in 1961; joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1962; transferred to St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch in 1963; returned to St Peter's College in 1964; in 1976 he returned to Christchurch; 26 years teaching at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1976-2002; renowned for his contribution to cricket at the college and in Christchurch generally; was briefly at a mission in Latin America; now teaching at Edmund Rice Sinon Secondary School, a Christian Brothers School in Sombetini, Arusha, Tanzania.

• Br D Drake: educated at St Peter's College, Auckland.

• Br James Eamon Duffy (born 1932): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1943-194?; entered the Christian Brothers in 1957; made his final profession in 1963; taught at St Peter's College at various times from 1967 (coming from St. Joseph's Christian Brothers College,Rockhampton, Queensland); he finally stopped teaching at St Peter's College in 1992; also taught at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1975; taught at Liston College in the 1980s; an accomplished saxophonist, he played the saxophone at his own farewell at St Peter's College in 1992, accompanied by old boy, All Black and teacher, Pat Lam

• Br John Borgia Duffy (1910-?) BA, B.Ed(Hons): educated at Waverley College, Sydney; entered Christian Brothers in 1926; made final profession in 1935; Rector of St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1958-1961; returned to Australia in 1962; author.

• Br Mark Augustine Dunlop (born 1956): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland; Christian Brother 1975.

• Br Dunne (born ?): born in Ireland (?); member of first New Zealand Christian Brothers Community in Dunedin from 1876; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin, from 1876.

• Br Denis Francis Edgar (born 1941); educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1953-1957; entered the Christian Brothers in 1960; made his final profession in 1966; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1963-1964; taught at St Edmund's School, Dunedin, in 1964; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1968-1971 and 1977; Christian Brother 1960-1977.

• Br A Egan: " ... brother of Br B Egan, and later Father Egan - he took the place of his brother and was on the staff of Christian Brothers School until October 31st, 1884.

• Br B Egan: came from Australia to join the staff of Christian Brothers School in 1878.

• Br C Egan: educated and taught at Christian Brothers High School.

• Br Peter Liam Ellis (born 1936): educated at St. Joseph's Nudgee College, Brisbane; entered the Christian Brothers in 1954; made his final profession in 1959; taught at St Edmund's School, Dunedin, in 1957; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1958; transferred to Australia in 1959.

• Br T Enright: educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin.

• Br C Fanning: taught at Christian Brothers High School; left the school in 1920 and returned in 1932 until 1934.

• Br Desmond Hugh Fay (born 1923): educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1943; made his final profession in 1950; Principal of St Patrick's Primary School, Oamaru 1961-1962; was Principal of St Edmund's School, Dunedin 1963-1968 was at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch in 1984.

• Br Brian De Porres Fitzgerald (born 1945): educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1963; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua; Christian Brother 1963-1969.

• Br Brian (Peter) Eulogius Fitzgerald (1920-2004) BA: educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru (1932-1935); entered the Christian Brothers in 1937; made his final profession in 1945; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1946 - 1953 and 1967 - ; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1954; also taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua; died aged 84 in 2004; buried in Grahams Rd Cemetery, Christchurch.

• Br L C Fitzgerald: educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru (1947-1948).

• Br Thomas Gerard Fitzpatrick (1889- ?): entered the Christian Brothers in 1908; made his final profession in 1916; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1959; transferred to Australia in 1960.

• Br W G Fitzpatrick: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1930.

• Br M C Flaherty: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1949 1952; transferred to St Edmund's School, Dunedin in 1952

• Br J F Fogarty (died 1927): taught at Christian Brothers High School from 1894; organised sport as a regular part of the curriculum was first introduced by him; was Principal of Christian Brothers School 1899-1904; in 1899 he procured the entry of the school to the School' Association; in 1900 the Christian Brothers' football team won the premiership; he was Headmaster of St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane in 1912.

• Br Kevin Joseph Fogarty (born 1959): educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; Christian Brother 1978.

• Br Michael Paul Follas T.T.C.:(born 1954); educated at St Mary's School, Avondale (1959-1964) and St Peter's College, Auckland 1965-1971; entered the Christian brothers in 1972; made his final profession in 1982; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1980 and 1981; was at St kevin's College, oamaru for many years where he held many positions - Hostel Administrator and Head of the Intermediate Department; also taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua; in 2000 he joined the school staff at Edmund Rice Sinon Secondary School, a Christian Brothers School in Sombetini, Arusha, Tanzania; in 2008 he is the burser or business manager for that school.

• Br Foran : at Christian Brothers School about 1900.

• Br Gerard Kevin Forde (born 1943): educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; Christian Brother 1962.

• Br Eric Evangelist Fraser (1909-1964): educated at Christian Brothers School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1924; made his final profession in 1934; taught at Christian brothers School, Dunedin in 1935 and 1936; taught (especially mathematics) at Waverley College, Sydney from 1936; joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1949; transferred in 1955; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1959; returned to St Peter's College in 1960; and remained there until he died aged 54 in 1964; buried at St Patrick's Catholic Church Cemetery, Panmure, Auckland.

• Br Graeme Sarto Frawley (born 1937): educated at St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane; entered the Christian Brothers in 1955; made his final profession in 1962; came to New Zealand in 1960(?) to make his "culinary and management skills available to the Province formation houses"; transferred to Australia in 1969.

• Br Michael Angelus Frost (1937-1965) ("Jack Frost"): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1949-1951; entered the Christian Brothers in 1955; made his final profession in 1961; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1960-1965; died aged 29 in 1965 as the result of a climbing accident; buried at the Anderson Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.

• Br D Fry: taught at Christian Brothers High School.

• Br William Peter Galland (born 1945): educated at Christian Brothers College, Essendon, Victoria, Australia; entered the Christian Brothers in 1962; taught at Edmund Rice College in the early 1970s (?); at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1973; transferred to Australia in 1975.

• Br Garvey: Provincial of St Patrick's Province, Australia, came from Melbourne for the opening of Edmund Rice College on Sunday 30 June, 1963..

• Br N T Geffery: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1952.

• Br A Geraghty: taught at Christian Brothers High School; he was on the staff in 1910 - 1917(?); encouraged sport at the school.

• Br Gettons: (called "Tiny") Rector of St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1936-1938; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin, from 1939.

• Br Anthony Eugenio Gherardi (1938-1998) BA, Dip.Ed., T.T.C.: educated at St Peter's College, Auckland (1949? - 195?); entered the Christian Brothers in 1957; made his final profession in 1963; taught Senior Languages at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1963; he also had many other stints at SKC; taught at St Paul's High School, Dunedin from 1974; was Deputy Principal of that college in late 1970s and was Principal 1979-1988; taught at Nukutere College, Avarua, Cook Islands; Director of Catholic Education, Cook Islands 1989-1997; died aged 60 in 1998; " ... the out-pouring of grief at his funeral evidenced his influence on the young adult community of all faiths, especially the volleyball players, in which sport he played a major administrative role"; buried at the Old Cathedral cemetery, Avarua.

• Br Norman Campion Gillies (1939-2007): educated Christian Brothers' High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1957; made his final profession in 1964; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1965-1969; Deputy Principal at St Peter's College, Auckland in early 1980s; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua in 1980s and was fourth and final principal there 1982-1987; sixth Principal of St Thomas of Canterbury College 1988-1994; he introduced the "College Foundation" as a means of financing future projects and developments; Principal at Nukutere College, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands 1998-2000; established a charitable trust at Nukutere College to ensure regular income for the college; at the time of his death on 21 November 2007, was a member of the Murupara Christian Brothers Community; funeral was on Saturday, 24 November 2007 at Murupara and he was buried in the Rotorua Public Cemetery.

• Br Richard Steven Glen (born 1923): educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1941; made his final profession in 1948; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1961-1962; foundation Christian Brother at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua from 1963; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin from 1964 until the late 1970s(?); transferred to Australia; at the 125th Jubilee Mass (in 2001?) in Dunedin (?), a brass ensemble of former pupils formed by Br Glenn led the congregational singing.

• Br S I Goggins: taught at Christian Brothers High School from 1923.

• Br H C Gore: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1929; then taught at Christian Brothers High School, leaving in 1933.

• Br F A Greally: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1932.

• Br Michael Patrick Guthrie (born 1966): educated at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua; Christian Brother 1986.

• Br H C Gyger: Principal at St Mary's Cathedral College, Sydney 1938-1942; joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1949; transferred in 1957; he returned to Australia; in 1960 was at Toowoomba, Queensland; he was Principal of St Patrick's College, Strathfield 1964-1966.

• Br Ian Joseph Hailes (born 1956): educated at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; Christian Brother 1974.

• Br Hanlon: was on the staff of St Edmund's School, Dunedin, when it opened in 1949 and in 1950.

• Br Michael James Benignus Hanrahan (1877-1953): Born in St Bathans, Otago, New Zealand; educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; he was for a time the classmate of James Michael Liston (later Bishop of Auckland) although Hanrahan was four years older than Liston; at about the time (1893) that Liston began his priestly studies, Hanrahan (without his parents knowledge) was spirited away to the Christian Brother's novitiate in Geelong, Australia to begin his training; this was later referred to "with only a little irony" as a "kidnapping" as it seems that the Christian Brothers were determined to get one of these two talented pupils as a member of their order, and "kidnapped" Hanrahan in retaliation for Liston's being recruited for the priesthood; Hanrahan entered the Christian Brothers in 1893; founded, and was first headmaster of, St Patrick's College, Strathfield, Sydney in 1928; Provincial for the Christian Brothers in Australia and New Zealand in 1930s; visited New Zealand in 1936 and attended the 60th anniversary celebration of Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin, taking the role call in the school yard at those celebrations; he negotiated the establishment of St Peter's College, Auckland with James Michael Liston, by then the seventh Catholic Bishop of Auckland; in January 1943, Liston wrote to Br Hanrahan on the occasion of the latter's Golden Jubilee, saying: " ... Auckland has its special reason for gratitude. Perhaps I can put that simply by saying that from the first day the school has been all that you or I would wish it to be"; in 1949, Brother Hanrahan (then the Director of the Christian Brothers Scholasticate at Strathfield, Sydney) visited St Peter's College, Auckland and attended the school prizegiving where he was welcomed by Bishop Liston who "recalled happy schooldays together" in Dunedin; Bishop Liston observed that it was due in great part to Hanrahan that St Peter's was started; in adulthood Brother Hanrahan had thin ascetic features remarkably like Liston's own features.

• Br Hardesty or Hardisty, BA: joined the staff of St Peter's College, Auckland in 1940; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1942; transferred to Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin in 1944; returned to Australia?

• Br John Hay: educated at St Peter's College, Auckland; made final profession as a Christian Brother on Christmas Day, 1959.

• Br Healey (born ?): born in Ireland (?); member of first New Zealand Christian Brothers Community in Dunedin from 1876; taught at Christian Brothers School, Dunedin from 1876.

• Br Hede: joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1944; transferred in 1956; returned to Australia; " ... appointed Superior of Young, New South Wales early this year [1960] ... ".

• Br Francis Placidus Henery OBE (1912-1987)("Farmer Jack"): educated at Christian Brothers School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1928, made his final profession in 1937; taught at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1940s and in 1955 and 1956(?); taught at St Edmund's School, Dunedin from its opening in 1949; was Principal there 1952-1954; taught at Christian Brothers School, Dunedin from 1957 and was the Principal there 1962-1967; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1955 and 1956 (?); at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1957-1985(?) (in 1975, in Dunedin, "Br F P Henery, an Old Boy [of Christian Brothers School, Dunedin], marked 50 years as a Christian Brother, including 20 years of secondary teaching at St Paul's. His many outside interests - rugby, cricket and tramping also included a term as President of the Otago Cricket Association".); in 1960 he designed the uniform of St Thomas of Canterbury College and selected and ordered the complete outfit; at Liston College in 1980s until 1986-1987 (?); died aged 75 in 1987 (buried at St Patrick's Catholic Church Cemetery, Panmure, Auckland)

• Br Hennessy: visited Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin in 1908.

• Br James Malachy Hessian (1910-1976) B.Sc., M.A.C.E.: educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; "as a boy James Hessian had received an inspiration from an outstanding man, Brother P. I. Hickey, and from that time had one desire - 'to be a brother' "; he entered the Christian Brother's Training College at Strathfield, Sydney in 1924; "received the habit of the brothers" on September 9th, 1925; taught first in Sydney for 4 years before being posted to Tasmania in 1931 where he taught for 29 years (1931-1960) (at St. Virgil's College, Hobart where today one of the college Houses is named "Hessian") and "acquired a well-earned reputation as a teacher, headmaster and educationist"; in Tasmania he served on many education boards and committees and was admitted to membership of the Australian College of education; "when he returned to Tasmania in 1974 on a visit his welcome was almost that of a Roman triumph"; he was Principal of St Paul's High School, Dunedin 1962-1967: "He ... made a real impact on returning to his old school after many years in Australia. He was principal when the new St Paul's High School, Dunedin, was opened (in 1964) and, as host to the 1966 celebrations [i.e. the 90th anniversary of the arrival of the Christian brothers in Dunedin], was keenly looking forward to the centennial [in 1976]; he was Rector of St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1968-1971; he was at the Provincialate in Christchurch and taught (at first full-time and later part-time) at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1971-1975; at the beginning of 1976, however, he died suddenly in Christchurch [on 08 May 1976] just a month before the centennial celebrations of St Pauls High School, Dunedin; he was 65; he is buried in Grahams Road Cemetery, Christchurch.

• Br P I Hickey: Provincial of the Australia and New Zealand Province of the Christian Brothers in the 1920s; spent some time in Dunedin from 1923; he influenced Br J M Hessian and Br J B Lynch and 10 others to become Christian brothers (they were called "the twelve apostles"); as the Provincial of the Christian Brothers, in 1925, with Bishop Whyte of Dunedin (and in parallel with Br Noonan), he inspected various sites for the establishment of St. Kevin's College, Oamaru and chose the "Redcastle" estate in Oamaru as the site.

• Br E M Higgins: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin, 1916-1928; promoted sport at the school; transferred to Sydney.

• Br Desmond Azevedo Hill (born 1931): educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin and St. Kevin's College, Oamaru (1946-1951) ; entered the Christian Brothers in 1950; made his final profession in 1957; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1958; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin in (from?) 1960; was at St Edmund's School, Dunedin, in 1962; Principal of St Patrick's Primary School, Oamaru 1964-1968; Principal St Edmund's School, Dunedin from 1969; taught at Liston College in 1970s/early 1980s (?); Christian Brother 1950-1984.

• Br P C Hill: educated at St Peter's College, Auckland.

• Br J J Honner: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1939.

• Br Vincent Andrew Howell (born 1940): educated by the Christian Brothers at St Thomas College, Clifton Hill, Melbourne (?); entered the Christian Brothers in 1953; made his final profession in 1960; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch in 1969; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1970; transferred to Australia.

• Br T R Hughes (died 1913): third Principal of Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1888-1890; he was inspired by "a broad, liberal and progressive educational ideal"; he introduced elocution, class-singing, physical culture, gymnastics and military drill; he had a shrewd eye for the school's finances and "was able to provide many valuable improvements to the school buildings and property" like building a gymnasium; he extended the secondary department by introducing pupils to the public examinations of the University of New Zealand; with Br Magee, he organised a choir to which he gave the title of "St Cecelia's Choir"; he was one of the representatives of the Brothers in Australia and New Zealand at the 1890 General Chapter of the Christian Brothers; at that chapter, Brother Hughes laid the matter of the establishment of a boarding school near Dunedin before the Superior General, Brother Maxwell, but nothing came of it.

• Br Jerome Timothy Hughes (born 1943) BA: educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1954? - 1960?); entered the Christian Brothers in 1961; taught at St Paul's High School, Dunedin 1964-1966; taught at St Edmund's School, Dunedin, in 1966; taught at St Peter's College from mid-1967; at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1973; Christian Brother 1961-1976.

• Br Reginald Edward Humphries (born 1939): educated at Christian Brothers School, Dunedin in 1948; first day pupil at St Edmunds School 1949-51, and back at Christian Brothers High School 1952-53; entered the Christian Brothers in 1957; did not make his final profession; taught at St Edmunds School, South Dunedin, in 1960; taught at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1961 (Form I Blue); Christian Brother 1957-1961; retired school administrator living in British Columbia, Canada.

• Br Terry Felix Hunter (born 1940): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland (1951?-1958?); entered the Christian Brothers in 1959; made his final profession in 1965; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1962; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch, 1963 and 1964; taught at St Peter's College 1965; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua in period 1966 -1971(?); Christian Brother (1959 - 1977).

• Br E Hynes: (known as "Crusty") taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin, 1920-1926; was director of the school concert and raised it to great heights.

• Br Walter Frederick Ives (born 1934): educated Christian Brothers' High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1954; made his final profession in 1960; joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1956-1959 ; taught at St Edmund's School, South Dunedin in 1961; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1969 - 1976; teaching at Liston College in 1983 (?); from August 1998 at the Christian Brothers formation community in Arusha, Tanzania.

• Br Kerrigan William Jacques (born 1957): educated at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; Christian Brother 1979.

• Br Noel Thaddeus Jeffery (born 1927): educated by the Christian Brothers at Parade College, Melbourne; entered the Christian Brothers in 1949; made his final profession in 1957; taught at Christian Brothers High School 1955-1957; taught at Edmund Rice College; transferred to Australia in 1977.

• Br Anthony Dominic Johnston (born 1946) ("The Fonz"): educated at St Bede's College, Christchurch; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1970s and 1980s; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College 1982-1990s(?); also taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua; from 1999 he was part of the new Edmund Rice Community in Westport; in 2001 he completed his formation as a counsellor.

• Br A J Johnston: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1950; taught at Christian Brothers High School.

• Br N A Jones: taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College 1971 and 1972.

• Br J F Jordon: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1950-1952; taught at Christian Brothers High School from 1953.

• Br E D Joyce: educated and taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1909; made his final vows at Christmas 1917 in Dunedin with Brother Marlow.

• Br Vincent Innocent Jury (born 1933) B.Sc (Hons) (in pure and applied mathematics) (Sydney); M.Sc(?) (Otago?)(1962); BA (1970); Dip.Ed: spent his boyhood at the city end of Remuera, was an altar boy at the nearby St Michael's church, Remuera; attended St Peter's College, Auckland from 1944 to 1948; in 1948, two weeks after his 15th birthday, he embarked on a flying boat (or sea plane) in Auckland harbour and flew for seven hours to Sydney to train as a Christian Brother; he did not see his family again for nine years; entered the Christian Brothers in 1950; made his final profession in 1958; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1959-1966; taught at St Peter's College 1967-1974; Deputy Principal at St Paul's High School, Dunedin (later incorporated into Kavanagh College) 1975 - 1981; fifth Principal of St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1982-1988; and was founding Principal of Kavanagh College, Dunedin 1989-1992 (he was the last of 23 Christian Brother principals at the Rattray Street site (from 1876)); pastoral worker, Christian Brothers outreach, the Edmund Rice Community, in Murupara, Bay of Plenty (1992-2008). " ... [Brother Jury wrote] of the Brothers' work in Murupara: 'the Brothers Community is involved in four main area of activity: working with Maori Youth, energising Parish activities (there is no resident priest), the Edmund Rice Programme and General Community involvement' "; Br Jury began an involvement with the Murupara Learning Centre and (in 2001) he had a staff of eight tutors for sixty trainees, providing courses in forestry, adventure tourism, computers, business studies and Maori studies; in February 2008, Bro. Jury celebrated his diamond jubilee as a Christian Brother with a thanksgiving Mass at St Michael's, Remuera. This was followed by a gathering in the parish hall for family, friends and Christian Brothers; he is a keen tramper, loves travelling, especially by train, and has a love for New Zealand's forests. "Generations of boys remember him playing his saxophone at school liturgies, college balls and at any other opportunity".

• Kevin Gerard Keane (born 1943): educated St Peter's College, Auckland 1956-1958; at the Edmund Rice Juniorate at Otahuna, Tai Tapu, 1962-1964 (Established by Br Marlow); Christian Brother 1962-1964.

• Br Kelty: Superior-General of the Christian Brothers; attended the celebration of 100 years of the Chrisitan Brothers in New Zealand, in Dunedin, in 1976.

• Br E F Keniry (1868-1941): born in Ireland; entered the Christian Brothers in 1892; arrived in Australia in 1898; he was a member of the Provincial Council of the Christian Brothers in Australia and New Zealand 1936-1941; he represented the Provincial Council and the Provincial of the Christian Brothers (Brother Benignus Hanrahan) at the opening of St Peter's College, Auckland on 29 January 1939; he was the Headmaster of St Patrick's College, Ballarat 1912-1915 and 1920-1924; at his death on 27 October 1941, he had been a Christian Brother for 49 Years.

• Br Paul Kikisi from Papua-New Guinea; teacher at Nukutere College from 2006.

• Br O S Killian: One of the five foundation Christian Brothers of St Peter's College, Auckland in 1939; arrived in Auckland with Brother O'Driscoll on 11 January 1939; transferred to Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin in 1942; transferred to Sydney in 1944.

• Br V Lark: taught at Christian Brothers High School.

• Br V Larkin: taught at Christian Brothers High School 1950 - 1956.

• Br P A Lather: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1928.

• Br Lathey: the Principal at St Patrick's Primary School, Oamaru 1930-1937; joined the staff of St Peter's College, Auckland in 1940; he returned to Australia; in 1960 was at Toowoomba, Queensland.

• Br Brian Joseph Lauren (born 1942) B.A., T.T.C., Dip.Cat., Dip.R.E., Dip.Ed: educated at, and was joint dux (in 1960) of Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1961; made his final profession in 1967; taught at St Peter's College, Auckland from 1964?; taught at Christian Brothers High School; he was at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1974; he was Rector of St. Kevin's 1980 - 1996, being the 13th and longest serving Rector (and as at 2008, the final Christian Brother Rector); at St. Kevin's College, he instituted the St Kevin's Foundation which raised funds for the college and made many improvements to the college; he managed St Kevin's amalgamation with St Thomas's Girls' High School to form a co-educational secondary school in 1983; he was Province Leader of New Zealand and the Cook Islands 1996-2007; Member of the Leadership Team of the Oceania Province of the Christian Brothers (2007- ); in 2007, he was Chairman of the New Zealand Catholic Education Office Board, the Association of Proprietors of Integrated schools and the Steering Group for New Zealand Catholic Tertiary Education.

• Br L B Le Breton: foundation teacher at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1927; taught at Christian Brothers School, Dunedin; organised a mouth-organ band which quickly collapsed when he was transferred to Australia.

• Br John Laurence Ledger (born 1942); educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1953-1959; entered the Christian Brothers 1960; Christian Brother 1960-1964.

• Br Austin A Loftus: Superior-General of the Christian Brothers; elected in 1966; led to a greater missionary impetus being required of each province; led to the extension into Rarotonga; visited New Zealand in 1967; he visited St Paul's High School High School on 01 June; visited St. Kevin's College, Oamaru, St Thomas of Canterbury College and St Peter's College, Auckland about the same time.

• Br B H Louisson: educated at St Peter's College, Auckland (in 1940s?); he was the first old boy of St Peter's College to enter the Christian Brothers; in 1961 he was located at St Francis Xavier Post Primary School, Bundralis, on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea; " ... [has made a significant contribution to the Brothers' work in Papua New Guinea. [He] has been in the country since 1952 and has held positions of responsibility in the administration of what is now the Papua New Guinea region [of the Christian Brothers?], including Regional Superior.

• Br Gerard Vincent Lovell (born 1955): educated at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian in 1973; also taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua; taught at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1976; Christian Brother 1973-1977.

• Br B E Lunny: taught at Christian Brothers High School in 1957.

• Br Barnabus Lynch: one of the four Christian brothers who arrived from Ireland in Melbourne on 15 November 1868, under the leadership of Br Ambrose Treacy, to establish the order in Australia. The other two pioneer brothers were Brothers Fursey Bodkin and Joseph Nolan. The Houses of St Peter's College, Auckland are named after Bros Treacy, Bodkin, Lynch and Nolan.

• Br James Bonaventure Lynch (1908—1995) B.A. (known generally as "Bon" or "Bonnie" but known as "Tojo" to his students at St Peter's College): important New Zealand science teacher; born Queenstown; educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1921-1923; his mother was during that time housekeeper for the Christian Brothers; influenced by Br P I Hickey to become a Christian Brother; went to Australia in 1923 to become a Christian Brother; made final profession in 1933; joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1944; transferred to Dunedin in 1945; and was Principal 1948-1950; transferred to St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1951; arrived back in Dunedin in 1957; taught at St Peter's College, Auckland from 1957 until 1970; he gained his Bachelor of Arts by correspondence in Latin, French and English but actually taught Science all his life, becoming a leading Physics teacher in the 1960s; in 1973, "three old boys [of Christian Brothers School, Dunedin], Brothers Ryan, Lynch and Mills, along with a highly respected teacher, Brother Beeden, celebrated their Golden Jubilee. The New Zealanders left together for Australia in 1923"; in 1980 when he was 71 he learnt and taught the new subject of Computer Studies; he taught himself Greek so that he could read the New Testament in its original form; in 1992 he enrolled in a course of scripture studies with the Otago University extension; he was a potter, wood-turner, composer of musicals, carver, boat-builder and publisher - and these were his spare-time interests; spent the last 21 years of his life at the Christian Brothers' residence at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; died aged 86 in 1995 (buried South Hill Public Cemetery, Oamaru) (he is the subject of Sam Hunt's poem, "Brother Lynch").

• Br K F Lynch: joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1949 ("to teach the junior classes"); went to Australia; in 1960 was at Yeppoon, Queensland.

• Br B F Magee (1865-1942): first joined the staff in Dunedin in 1884; with Br Hughes, he organised a choir to which Br Hughes gave the title of "St Cecelia's Choir"; fourth Principal of Christian Brothers School, Dunedin 1890-1893; he was responsible " ... for the very considerable successes attained in public examinations by pupils of the school in the early 'nineties"; the first pupils of the school to enter for the matriculation examination (University Entrance) were prepared by Br Magee and they passed in 1889; he taught at the school until he was transferred back to Australia in 1894; he was Headmaster of St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane 1917-1922; in 1926 travelled to Dunedin for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Christian Brothers School, Dunedin, and he played a leading part in those celebrations; he was the first Rector of St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1927-1933; also an important figure at St. Joseph's Nudgee College, Brisbane (one of the Houses of that college is named after him).

• Br G M Maguire: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1922-1924.

• Br Ian T Mahon (born 1933) M.A.(Hons.), B.Sc., Dip.Soc.Sci., (Econ.), T.T.C.: (known to students at St Thomas of Canterbury College as "Pluto"): educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1952; made his final profession in 1959; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1957; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1958-1960 and 1966 and 1967; was Principal there 1974-1979(?); foundation Christian Brother at St Thomas of Canterbury College 1961-1965 and also taught there 1968-1972; Christian Brother 1952-1994.

• Br A Maloney: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin from 1935

• Br P Maloney: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin, leaving in 1933.

• Br Christopher Claver Marlow (1892-1965); educated Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin and at the University of Melbourne; at the age of 16 he went to Sydney to train as a Christian Brother in 1908 and made his final profession at Christmas 1917, in Dunedin; he was a teacher of mathematics for many years in Melbourne, principally at St. Kevin's College, Melbourne; he was Consultor in St Mary's Province, Sydney from 1947-1959; in August 1959, New Zealand was formed into a Vice-Province of the Congregation of Christian Brothers and Br Marlow was appointed as First New Zealand Provincial of the Christian Brothers; he was Provincial 1959-1965; he established a Juniorate at Otahuna, Tai Tapu, and founded St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch in 1961 and Edmund Rice College, Rotorua, in 1963; was present at opening of the new buildings at St Paul's High School, Dunedin in 1964; was a frequent visitor to St Peter's College, Auckland and other New Zealand Christian Brothers' Schools in the early 1960s, for example, "[Thursday 3rd November, at St Peter's], Brother Marlow ... addresses the classes on the subject of religious vocations; he tells us of the crying need for Catholic teachers, not only in New Zealand, but throughout the whole world."; died aged 73 on Christmas Day, 1965, buried at Grahams Road Cemetery, Christchurch; he was a Christian Brother for 58 years.

• Br Perry Neri Mason (born 1931): educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and St. Kevin's College, Oamaru (1954); entered the Christian Brothers in 1959; made his final profession in 1965; joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1962-1969; taught at Fatima Vocational School, Banz, Papua New Guinea for a period between 1969 and 1975; Christian Brother 1959 - 1975.

• Br Maxwell: Superior General of the Christian Brothers in 1890; approached in 1890 by Br T R Hughes about the Chrisitan Brothers opening a boarding school near Dunedin, but nothing came of it.

• Br J C May: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1928.

• Br Maye: on the original staff of St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; he was a lay brother who replace Br Prunster, who had been laying out the grounds of that college.

• Br Laurence Cajetan McAllan (1900-1965): educated at Christian brothers School, Dunedin; taught at St Patrick's Primary School, Oamaru from 1928; he was the Principal there; a member of the Rotorua Christian Brothers community at the time of his death aged 65 in 1965; buried in the Rotorua Public Cemetery.

• Br Michael Denis McCarthy B.A.(1881-1973): born in Lixnaw, County Kerry, Ireland; educated in Ireland by the Presentation Sisters and the Christian Brothers; entered the Christian Brothers in 1896 and spent 6 years in Ireland before going to Australia; he made his final profession in 1904; in 1908 he was in Fremantle and associated with Br David Gabriel Purton who communicated his love of Greek so that Br McCarthy became a Greek scholar in his own right; he loved to read the Greek New Testament (especially the Gospel of St John); was still under 30 when he was appointed Superior at South Melbourne and stayed there for nine years; later he was superior at St Virgil's College in Hobart; associated with St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from its beginnings in 1927: " ... as Consultor to the Christian Brothers he had much to do with the choice of the site and the purchase of the property"; commenced teaching at St Kevin's in 1930; Principal of Christian Brothers School, Dunedin 1933-1938 and 1945-1947; Rector of St. Kevin's College 1939-1945; he continued teaching at St Kevin's until 1948 when he retired; from 1932, persons who wished to study for the priesthood at Holy Cross College, Mosgiel , the major seminary for New Zealand, did preparatory study in Latin and Greek and also, for some, in English, at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru under Brother McCarthy. Many of these students were in their twenties and unused to study. For the first month or so Brother McCarthy would only take them for half a day so that they could get accustomed to study and use some of their free time to learn Latin and Greek vocabulary; remained at St Kevin's College until his death in 1973, " ... at the advanced age of 92 years, seventy six of them as a Christian Brother"; died in 1973 at 92 years of age; buried at the South Hill Public Cemetery, Oamaru.

• Br James Ignatius McClintock (1910-1985) ("George"): educated at Christian Brothers School, Dunedin; became a Christian brother in 1924; final profession in 1935; taught in Melbourne and Sydney; taught at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1944; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1945; in 1960 was at Waverley College, Sydney; was foundation principal of St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1961-66; he arrived in Christchurch on 19 January 1961 and took up temporary residence at the Cathedral presbytery and later at the presbytery at Bryndwr; taught at St Peter's College 1967-1985; died aged 75 in 1985; buried at St Patrick's Catholic Church Cemetery, Panmure, Auckland.

• Br William Gerard McCombie (born 1942): educated at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1961; taught at St Peter's College, Auckland 1964-1966; Christian Brother 1961-1967.

• Br Robert John McCrae (born 1957): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland; Christian Brother 1975.

• Br W M McCrossan: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1932.

• Brother Terence Vitus McErlane T.T.C.(known as "festus") (born 1924): educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1943; made his final profession in 1950; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin in 1960 and 1961; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1962; and was HOD of Science for a time in the 1980's; at St Thomas of Canterbury College 1973-1975 (he was the superior of the Christian Brothers community, and achieved outstanding pass rates with his School Certificate mathematics classes); Principal of Nukutere College, Rarotonga 1976-1981.

• Br McEvoy: came from Australia to join the staff of Christian Brothers High School in 1878 or 1883; transferred to Ballarat in 1889.

• Br J A McIntosh: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1936.

• Br John Paul McKean (born 1941): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland (1952? - 195?); entered the Christian Brothers in 1962; made his final profession in 1968; taught at St Edmund's School, Dunedin, in 1965; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua in period 1965 -1971(?); at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1973; was a foundation teacher at Liston College. "The College (Liston College) opened on 7 February, 1974 with a staff of two Christian Brothers, Br Wellsmore and Br McKean and 72 foundation pupils. The pupils were divided into Form One 'J' and Form One 'M'. These initials stood for Archbishop Liston's Christian names - James Michael. Classwork began immediately and homework was set on the first day."; in 1991 he went to the Christian Brothers Outreach, the Edmund Rice Community, in Murupara where he was able to use his skills in outdoor education; he developed a camp for the Edmund Rice Programme in the Coromandel and he also set up an activity centre for the young of Murupara; he initiated a radio station in 1998 in Murupara to provide pride and skills to the struggling town; (in 2001) it operated from 7.00am Monday to Saturday and was called Radio ERFM (named after Edmund Rice); it grew out of a concern at the growing number of bored and apathetic people in the town and (in 2001) was the only radio station in Murupara; in 2005 he was with the Brothers' community in Westport and in 2008 in Epsom Auckland, still supporting youth.

• Br I T McMahon (born ?): born in Ireland (?); member of first New Zealand Christian Brothers Community in Dunedin from 1876; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin, from 1876.

• Br Patrick Aiden McManus(1918-2001) BA, Dip.Ed, (known at Christian Brothers High School as "Magnus" and at St Peter's College and St Thomas of Canterbury College as "Jiggs"): educated at Christian Brothers' High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1937; made his final profession in 1944; joined the Staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1945; transferred to Dunedin in 1954; Principal of Christian Brothers School, Dunedin 1956-1961; Rector of St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1961-1967; New Zealand Provincial of the Christian Brothers 1972-1984; died in 2001 at the age of 83; buried in South Hill Public Cemetery, Oamaru.

• Br Michael Joseph McMenamin M.A. (Hons.)(born 1952); educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1963-1969; entered the Christian Brothers in 1973; made his final profession in 1979; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1977-1979; at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru as Director of Religious Studies and Dean of Year 13 1985-1987; from 1989 he was at the Christian brothers Outreach, the Edmund Rice Community in Murupara where he focused on youth work and he established the Edmund Rice Programme; Christian Brother 1973-1993; secondary school teacher; Headmaster of New Plymouth Boys' High School (2009-present)

• Br Philip Giles McNamara (born 1922): educated at Cromwell District High School; entered the Christian Brothers in 1941; made his final profession in 1949; came from Sydney in 1960 to the Christian Brothers Juniorate; transferred to Australia.

• Br J McQuillan: educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1909.

• Br Joseph De Porres McRae (born 1929): educated by the Christian Brothers (?) in Geelong, Victoria; entered the Christian Brothers in 1952; made his final profession in 1959; came the New Zealand in 1960 to make his " ... culinary and management skills available to the Province formation houses; a member of the first Christian Brothers community at Nukutere College, Rarotonga from 1976; at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch from 1982; transferred to Australia in 1993.

• Br Robert John McRae (born 1957); educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1968-1974; Christian Brother 1975-1976.

• Br L McSweeney: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin, leaving in 1924; he returned to Dunedin in 1955; he left the Chrisitan Brothers and became a secondary school teacher in Victoria;

• Br Patrick Theodore McSweeney B.A.(1914-1979): educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1928-1930; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin from 1946; joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1948; in 1960 he was "in Dunedin"; returned to Dunedin in 1967; taught and worked in the bursars office at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in the early 1970's; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch in 1979; died at the age of 64 in 1979; buried at Grahams Road Cemetery, Christchurch.

• Br Richard Ligouri McSweeney (born 1925) BA, Dip.Ed: educated in Brisbane; entered the Christian Brothers in 1943; made his final profession in 1950; taught at St Peter's College, Auckland in the early 1950s; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1954; transferred in 1955 to Christian Brothers' High School, Dunedin; taught again at St Peter's College 1957 - 1959; transferred to Dunedin 1960-1961; returned to St Peter's College finally for the 1962 and 1963 years (Form IVL); returned to Australia in 1964 (to Christian Brothers' College, Warwick, Queensland).

• Br John Nicholas Melia (born 1937): educated at Monastreven, Ireland; entered the Christian Brothers in 1955; made his final profession in 1962; was on the staff of Edmund Rice College, Rotorua, in 1987; Christian Brother 1955-1994.

• Br C. D. Mills (born 1907): joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1942 (transferred from St. Kevin's College, Oamaru); he was involved in organising the annual St Peter's College Boxing competitions while at that college; he left St Peter's College in 1952; was teaching at St Edmund's School, Dunedin from 1955; went to Australia; in 1960 he was at Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.

• Br Gerard De Sales Mills (born 1907) (known to the brothers as "Rardy Mills"): educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; in 1923 went to Australia to become a Christian Brother; made final profession in 1932; Principal of St Patrick's Primary School, Oamaru 1950-1954; taught at St Edmund's School, Dunedin, in 1968; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College (?);in 1973, "three old boys [of Christian Brothers School, Dunedin], Brothers Ryan, Lynch and Mills, along with a highly respected teacher, Brother Beeden, celebrated their Golden Jubilee. The New Zealanders left together for Australia in 1923"; he celebrated his 100 years of age in 2007.

• Br G S Mills: foundation teacher at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1927; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin in 1929; in 1930 he was transferred to St Patrick's Primary School, Oamaru; was principal of St Edmund's School, Dunedin, 1955-1957 (?).

• Br K Moloney: educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin.

• Br Maurice Peter Moloney (born 1905): educated at Manly, Sydney; entered the Christian Brothers in 1925; made his final profession in 1932; joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1956; transferred in 1959 to Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; returned to Australia in 1960 to teach in Sydney.

• Br W A Moloney ("Turk"): taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin, 1933(?)-1942.

• Br Thomas Aquinas Monagle (1928-1983) (M.A. in French): educated in Melbourne (St. Kevin's College, Toorak (?)); entered the Christian Brothers in 1945; made his final profession in 1953; spent three years at St Peter's College and transferred to Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin in 1948; transferred to St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1950; returned to St Peter's College in 1952 and remained there until 1966; taught at St Paul's High School, Dunedin 1967; at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1968; taught at Liston College from the mid-1970s; he was the Deputy Principal of Liston College in 1981, 1982 and 1983 until his death; died in 16 February 1983 (Ash Wednesday) aged 54, buried St Patrick's Catholic Church Cemetery, Panmure, Auckland; Brother Monagle was an important teacher at St Peter's College, Liston College and other schools; a leading New Zealand teacher of French; arranged for student visits from Tahiti to St Peter's College and student exchanges; organised the North train boys and travelled on the train each afternoon from the 1960s; mounted a successful campaign for the North train to stop on the St Peter's College boundary, and therefore was the principal creator of the Boston Road railway station; at Liston College he beautified the grounds by planting and tending trees around the boundary; at Liston, he also organised the school transport; he travel around by bicycle or car plotting the school bus routes and stops and working out the distances; on his death, a newspaper in Papeete published an obituary honouring him by calling him "Un Ami Meconnu" (a friend of French Polynesia who should have been better known); in February 1983 his funeral Mass was held in the Liston College school hall and was attended by parents, past pupils and many religious; Bishop Rogers was the main celebrant assisted by 13 priests most of whom were ex-pupils of Br Monagle; the brothers who carried the casket from the hearse to the graveside had all been pupils in schools at which Br Monagle had taught.

• Br N X Monaghan: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1934.

• Br Kevin Flavian Moncur B.A., T.C.L. (born 1949); educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1961-1967; entered the Christian Brothers in 1968; made his final profession in 1974; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch, 1976-1979; From 1980 taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru and was the Director of Religious Studies and Head of the English department. He left St Kevin's in 1984. (?).

• Br J N Moore (died 1941): taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin, arriving in 1888; he was later transferred, but returned in 1908 and remained on the staff (with several interruptions, until 1917; organised a bazaar and "art union" dominion-wide to defray the expenses of establishing St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; from 1928 taught at St Patrick's Primary School, Oamaru, which opened in that year; died in Hobart, Tasmania in 1941.

• Br James Alexis Morris (1910 - 1998): educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1925; final profession in 1935; joined staff at Christian Brothers High School in 1936; in same year, commenced teaching at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; second Principal of St Peter's College, Auckland 1945-1947; in 1948 returned to Dunedin; was Rector of St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1951; in 1960 was in charge of the Training College at Box Hill, Melbourne; returned to St Peter's College in 1961 and taught there until 1964; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua in period 1965 -1971(?); died aged 87 in 1998; buried Anderson Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.

• Br Peter Gregory Mullane: (born 1941): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1952-1958; entered the Christian Brothers in 1960; foundation Christian Brother at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua; Christian Brother 1960 - 1964.

• Br Patrick Vincent Mullin (born 1942); educated at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1961; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1964-1967; was at Fatima Vocational School, Banz, Papua-New Guinea for a period; taught at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; he was at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1974; Christian Brother 1961-1975.

• Br C Mulrooney: educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin.

• Br J A Murphy ("Pom") BA (died 1966): originally came from Ireland; principal of Christian Brothers School, Dunedin 1923 (May)-1928: taught the matriculation class - all subjects from Latin to Chemistry; the school celebrated its 50 years in 1926; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1929; returned to Ireland in 1949 and died there in 1966.

• Br B Murray (died 1898): second Principal of Christian Brothers School Dunedin, 1886-1888; he was a quiet, shy, reserved man of considerable scholarship and ability who prior to joining the Christian Brothers was a qualified civil engineer; he was Principal for two years but remained in Dunedin until the early 1890s; used his professional skill to survey and lay out the school playground.

• Br Don Magnus Murray T.T.C. (born 1932): educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru (1946-1948); entered the Christian Brothers in 1951; made his final profession in 1958; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1959; transferred at the end of 1963 to St. Kevin's College, Oamaru and taught there for some years in the 1960s and 1970s; from 1975 - 1994 he was Senior Master (Assistant Principal) and from 1975 - 1992 he was Boarding Master (Hostel Manager), in coach of the 1st XV for some years, and the 1st XI Cricket team, he enjoyed success with both of these teams; spent some time in the period 1968-1976 at Fatima Vocational School, Banz, Papua New Guinea; in 2009 he is a member of the Board of Trustees of St. Kevin's College, Oamaru.

• Br J B Nagle: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1939-1946.

• Br Joseph Nolan: one of the four Christian brothers who arrived from Ireland in Melbourne on 15 November 1868, under the leadership of Br Ambrose Treacy, to establish the order in Australia. The other two pioneer brothers were Brothers Fursey Bodkin and Br Barnabus Lynch. The Houses of St Peter's College, Auckland are named after Bros Treacy, Bodkin, Lynch and Nolan.

• Br Noonan: in 1925, he was Assistant to the Superior General; in that year made a quinquennial visit to the Australasian province; while in New Zealand he inspected five sites for a boarding school: Mosgiel, Redcastle estate (Oamaru), Elderslie (Oamaru), Opoho and Anderson's Bay; with Brother Hickey, Redcastle was chosen for the establishment of St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1927.

• Br M Paul Nunan: taught at Christian Brothers School, Dunedin from 1876-1883; he arrived in Dunedin eight months after the foundation community; he was the Headmaster of St Patrick's College, Ballarat 1910-1912.

• Br Desmond Chanel O'Brien (born 1937): educated at Gore High School; entered the Christian Brothers in 1959; taught at St Edmund's School, Dunedin, in 1962; Christian Brother 1959-1965.

• Br D O O'Conner: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1930.

• Br M M O'Conner ("Rudolph"): Principal of Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1929-1932; he encouraged the sporting tradition of the school; second Rector of St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1933-1935; he was Headmaster of St Patrick's College, Strathfield in 1944; in 1958, he visited Dunedin and " ... renewed many old acquaintances".

• Br P O'Connor: educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin and later taught there.

• Br W O'Conner: educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin and later taught there; entered the Christian Brothers in 1908.

• Br David Michael O'Dea (born 1951): educated at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1970; taught at Edmund Rice College 1971 and 1972(?); taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch in 1973; Christian Brother 1970-1974.

• Br T O'Doherty: taught (transferred from Hobart, Tasmania) at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1920-1922.

• Br Michael Joseph O'Donnell (born 1958); educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1969 - 1975; Christian Brother 1978 - 1983.

• Br D F O'Donoghue (died 1906): fifth principal of Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1894-1896 (but O'Neill says that he was Principal June 1893-July 1894)

• Br David Garnier O'Donoghue (born 1912): educated in Adelaide; entered the Christian Brothers in 1940; made his final profession in 1947; joined the staff of St Peter's College, Auckland in 1942: "[Brother O'Donoghue] commence[d] a long period at the school during which he endeared himself to many boys by his earnestness and gentleness, particularly with the backward pupils. Br O'Donoghue began technical work in the woodwork room which was very generously furnished by His Lordship [the Bishop]"; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1945, he was in charge of the primary classes there 1945-1950; made improvements to the buildings there; transferred to Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1950-1955; Principal of St Patrick's Primary School, Oamaru 1955-1960; back in Dunedin in 1966; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1967 and 1968, 1978-1986 (?); also taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua; transferred to Australia in 1987.

• Br J D (or B) O'Donoghue (known as "Diddums") (died 1922): was on the staff of Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin in 1910, and was Principal there 1911-1913; made moves to shift the school; the school to was shifted to Tennyson St, the new building opening in 1915; in 1915 he was headmaster at St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane.

• Br Francis Pius O'Driscoll (died 1964): taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin, first arriving there in 1891; foundation Principal of St Peter's College, Auckland (1939-1944) and the superior of the foundation St Peter's College Christian Brothers community of five brothers; he arrived in Auckland on January 11th, 1939, accompanied by Br Killian, and, after being welcomed by a group of Dunedin old boys, they went to the Bishop's Palace where they were given a very special welcome by Bishop Liston; after he left St Peter's College at the end of 1944, " ... he moved to Western Australia where he was to continue his good work by founding other Colleges and setting them on their feet as he had done so well here in Auckland"; Brother O'Driscoll's parting was regretted by many. As one of his ex-pupils, Mr Devon Hern, expressed it: "He combined a wonderful teaching ability with a benevolent yet severe discipline and won our respect and loyalty. Indeed, he won the respect of all those he came in contact with, and obtained for the college a prestige that was out of all proportion to its years of existence"; Felix Donnelly wrote that at St Peter's College, Br O'Driscoll had a "go-getter approach" that did good things in getting the school established. Donnelly goes on to point out that Br O'Driscoll 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. "We, his pupils, were never in any doubt about his uncertain temper. Sometimes he was beside himself with anger"; he died in Perth, Western Australia in August, 1964: see St Peter's College, Auckland ("The first year") for examples of his driving dynamism in establishing that school.

• Br O'Hare: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin, coming to the school at Easter, 1887 and stayed until 1892; returned to Australia in 1901.

• Br Desmond Ambrose O'Hehir (born 1939): educated at St. Augustine's College, Yarraville, Victoria; entered the Christian Brothers in 1957; made his final profession in 1964; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua; transferred to Australia in 1969.

• Br E O'Higgins: joined the staff at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin in 1915; "took charge of Fourth Class"; "was widely known for his class "museum".

• Br M O'Higgins (died 1942): at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin when he died in 1943 (the first Christian Brother to die in New Zealand(?)).

• Br Arthur Edwin O'Kane: (born 1927); educated Christian Brothers' High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1953; made his final profession in 1960; in Australia until 1960 when he returned to New Zealand; was at the Christian Brothers Juniorate from 1967 and 1968; was on the staff of Fatima Vocational School, Banz, Papua New Guinea between 1968 and 1972; at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1973 as the Groundsman until 1993; a member of the Auckland Christian Brothers Community in 1995; in 1999 he was part of the new Edmund Rice Community in Westport; he is a tradesman and works with the disabled.

• Br John Kevin O'Leary (born 1950): educated at Xavier College, Christchurch; Christian Brother 1971.

• Br James Patrick P O'Malley (1909-1987): educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1924; made his final profession in 1933; taught at Christian Brothers School, Dunedin, arriving first in 1934, and arriving for the second time in 1938; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1934-1937; died aged 78 in 1987; buried at Anderson Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.

• Br Peter Hugh O'Malley (born 1911): educated at Christian Brothers School, Dunedin; Christian Brother 1962.

• Br John Didicus O'Neill (born 1936) (also known as J.C. O'Neill) BA, Dip. Ed: educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1951-1952; entered the Christian Brothers in 1956; made his final profession in 1962; began his teaching career in Australia in 1957; taught at Christian Brothers College, Bundaberg, Queensland until 1960; taught at St Peter's College, Auckland from 1961; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua from 1965; at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1971; taught at Liston College 1991-1994 (while living in the Mangere Christian Brothers Community- the last Christian Brother to teach at Liston College (?)); in 2007 was head of Mathematics and Economics at Nukutere College, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands and (until 2008) Christian Brothers Community leader there; Catholic chaplain at the Rarotonga prison maintaining " ... a vigorous outreach to those who are paying the debt of their wrong-doing"; wrote a history of the Christian Brothers in New Zealand: J.C. O'Neill, The History of the Work of the Christian Brothers in New Zealand, unpublished Dip. Ed. thesis, University of Auckland, 1968.

• Br Charles O'Rourke (born 1955): educated at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch (?); Christian Brother 1973.

• Br B O'Ryan (died 1962): principal of Christian Brothers School, Dunedin 1914-1916; in 1920, he was transferred to St. Edmund's College, Ipswich, Queensland.

• Br John P O'Shea: Christian Brothers' "Cluster Leader" for New Zealand (2007- present); born in Australia; he was Principal of St Dominic's College, Penrith, St Edmund's College, Canberra and, from 1981 to 1987, St Patrick's College Strathfield; was a member of the New South Wales Province Leadership Team from 1996 until 2002; from 2002 until 2007, he was a parish assistant in Bungendore Parish in rural ACT.

• Br J B O'Sullivan ("Sam"): taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1929-1935; was " ... a brilliant scientist ... [and] ... was most active in the literary and debating society; transferred to Strathfield, Sydney in 1935.

• Br W J Owens: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1939; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin from beginning of the second term, 1944; in 1949 he was transferred to Australia.

• Br Francis William Perkins (born 1952) B.Sc., A.T.C.L., T.T.C.: educated St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; entered the Christian Brothers in 1971; made his final profession in 1977; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College 1974-1978; taught at Liston College after 1978 - early 1980s (?); he taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in the early 1980's and then in the 1990s until 1999, being the last Christian Brother to be on the Senior Management/Administration team at that College, holding the positions of Senior Administrator and Dean of Year 13; Principal at Nukutere College, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands 2000-2004; in 2007 he is in the Philippines " ... currently exploring the establishment of the second [Christian Brothers] community ...".

• Br Anthony Damian Peterson (born 1948): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland; Christian Brother 1964.

• Br Anthony Pratt (born 1948): educated at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1967; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch in 1975; Christian Brother 1967-1976.

• Br John Paschal Prendergast (born 1937): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland (1948- 1953); entered the Christian Brothers in 1955; made his final profession in 1962; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1961; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1962 - 1970s (?); eighth principal of St Peter's College (1981-1988) (first old boy to hold the position); Christian Brothers outreach, the Edmund Rice Community, in Murupara, Bay of Plenty (1989-1992) where he worked at the community learning centre and in the local Catholic parish; he was at Nukutere College, Avaura, Rarotonga, Cook Islands 1992-2001; in 2002 he was at Saint Bakhita Formation Centre in Kitale, North West Kenya; 2003-present, a pastoral worker at the Catholic parish of Otorohanga.

• Br Denis Fabian Prescott (born 1947): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland; Christian Brother 1964.

• Br John Cuthbert Price (born 1946): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland; Christian Brother 1964.

• Br A Prunster: a lay brother (?); supervised the building operations in relation to St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1926; he also worked in 1926 attempting to beautify the grounds; foundation brother at St Kevin's from 1927, but was soon obliged by ill health to return to Australia; replaced by Bro Maye.

• Br David Gabriel Purton (1883-1948): Classicist, historian, educationalist, author; BA (Adelaide (1916), MA (Adelaide) (1918); won the Roby Fletcher scholarship in Psychology and the Robert Barr Smith prize in Greek; born in St Bathans, Otago, son of George Purton, a miner, and his wife Ann, née Dee; educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin until he was 13; in 1896 he went to the Mt Sion Novitiate at Lewisham, Sydney, to become a Christian Brother; made his final profession in 1900 at the age of 17; taught at a Christian Brothers College in Albany, Western Australia, in 1901; on the closure of that college in 1903, he transferred to Christian Brothers' College, Freemantle; at Christian Brothers College, Adelaide 1914-1923 (he was headmaster there 1920-1923); founder and first headmaster of Rostrevor College Adelaide in 1923; on the staff at St. Joseph's Nudgee College from 1924; headmaster at St Patrick's College, Ballarat from 1934: headmaster at St. Kevin's College, Melbourne 1941-1943 (he taught History and Languages there and one of the college Houses is named after him because "although his stay at St Kevin's College lasted only 3 years, he left a lasting impression"); he was also headmaster at St. Patrick's College, Goulburn from 1944; he died in 1948; he was " ... an acclaimed educational leader in the [Christian] Brothers and beyond"; he edited' Our Studies (a privately circulated magazine of the Christian Brothers) from 1924(?); contributed articles to the Holy Name Monthly (an Australian magazine); wrote two text books for use in Catholic schools: The Story of the Church (1934) and History of Australia and New Zealand (1937).

• Br Maurice Venard Quirke (born 1936): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1947-1953; entered the Christian Brothers in 1954; made his final profession in 1961; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin in 1956 and 1958-1961; at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1962 - 1965; taught at St Paul's High School, Dunedin 1965; at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch in 1966; Christian Brother 1954 - 1966.

• Br J G Ramsey (died 1950): educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; was accidentally killed during a science demonstration at St. Laurence's College, South Brisbane.

• Br Rapp: one of the five foundation Christian Brothers of St Peter's College, Auckland; he came from Sydney; he returned to Australia?

• Br M F Redmond: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin, arriving in 1908; was still on the staff in 1910.

• Br W R Redmond: was "at" Christian Brothers School, Dunedin, before 1908; transferred to Australia in 1908; returned to the Christian Brothers School 1910 - 1913; "visited Dunedin for a month" in 1966.

• Br John Virgil Riley (1908-1978): educated in Hobart; educated at St Virgil's College, Hobart (?); entered the Christian Brothers in 1932; made his final profession in 1939; joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1959; left St Peter's at the end of 1959 to become Vice-Rector at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; was at St. Joseph's Nudgee College, Brisbane (?)(one of the House of that college is named after him); taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua; died 6 August 1978 aged 78, buried in Rotorua Public Cemetery

• Br A Robinson: educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin.

• Br Paul Malcolm Robertson (born 1957) ("Br Rob"): M.A. (Anthropology - Auckland); educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1969-1975; he won the Trenwith Cup for History at St Peter's College in 1975; entered the Christian Brothers in 1976; made his final profession in 1982; he attended Christian Brothers Teachers Training College, Melbourne (1976 - 1978); he was a teacher at St Edmund's School, South Dunedin (1979-1981); he was at St Peter's College, Auckland for 26 years 1982-2007 and, as at 2008, he was the last Christian Brother to teach there; he held many positions at St Peter's, including as a year 8 teacher, Director of Special Character and Head of Religious Studies, Dean of year levels including the Senior Deanship, Deputy Principal, Associate Principal and Acting Principal; he was a member of the St Peter's College Leadership Team and the St Peter's College Board of Trustees (1990–2007); In 2007, he was Deputy Province Leader of the New Zealand Province of the Christian Brothers, he lived in the Edmund Rice Community Auckland (at Queen Mary Avenue - also the location of the Auckland Christian brothers community), a community for tertiary students from the Edmund Rice Network who wanted to live a community life; he was closely associated with the development of the Edmund Rice Network in New Zealand and was responsible for vocations promotion, the NZ schools student leadership program, the India Immersion programme and Edmund Rice Volunteers; In July 2007 he left St Peter's College on his appointment as a Member of the Leadership Team of the Oceania Province of the Christian Brothers, located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; wrote study of Christian Brothers: Malcolm Robertson, Nga Parata Karaitiana The Christian Brothers, A Public Culture in Transition, A Comparative Study of the Indian and New Zealand Provinces, an unpublished thesis for MA in Anthropology, University of Auckland, 1996.

• Br John Gilbert Rodgers (1917-1965): educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; went to Strathfield 1933; entered the Christian Brothers in 1936; made his final profession in 1943; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1945-1955: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1959; back at Christian Brothers High School 1960-1963; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College in 1964; died aged 49 in 1965; the parents of the boys at St Thomas of Canterbury College provided transport so that every boy in the College was able to attend the Requiem Mass at Blessed Sacrament cathedral, Christchurch; he was buried in South Hill Public Cemetery, Oamaru.

• Br Michael Rowbotham (born 1948): educated by the Christian Brothers at Parade College, Melbourne; entered the Christian Brothers in 1967; made his final profession in 1973; transferred to Australia in 1973.

• Br Ignacy Jean Rubisz B.A., T.T.C. (1949-2005): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1961-1967; entered the Christian Brothers in 1968; made his final profession in 1974; mathematics teacher at St Peter's College, Liston College, Nukutere College St Paul's High School (in the 1970s), Dunedin, and other schools; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua in late 1970s until 1982(?); taught at Liston College 1983 - 1988; Taught at St Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1994; member of Edmund Rice Community, Westport (2000? - 2004?); in 2005, was teaching at Nukutere College, Rarotonga; died aged 56 in 2005 (on Sunday, 23 October); buried at the Old Cathedral cemetery, Avarua, Cook Islands.

• Br Gerard Edward Ryall (1910-1980) ("Tokyo Joe"): educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; entered Christian Brothers in 1925; final profession in 1935; began teaching in Dunedin in 1955; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1957; he was teaching in Dunedin in 1974, at St Paul's High School, Dunedin, "School Mass held in the Cathedral to honour Br. G E Ryall and other Old Boy jubilarians on their 50 years as Christian Brothers. Br Ryall had been "teaching at St Paul's for more than 20 years' "; died aged 70 in 1980; buried in Anderson's Bay cemetery, Dunedin.

• Br B C Ryan: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin.

• Br Benjamin Everard Ryan (1920-2008): educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru (1934-1936); entered the Christian Brothers in 1939; made his final profession in 1946; first taught at St Peter's College 1947-1949; in 1949 went from St Peter's College to Rome; back at Christian Brothers High School 1956-1960; was in charge of the New Zealand Juniorate at Morven, South Canterbury 1960-1966; he was sixth Principal of St Peter's College, Auckland (1966-1974) during which time the Bro B E Ryan Building was completed and also the St Peter's College Hall and the squash courts; at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1974; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch in 1977 and 1980; Principal of Nukutere College, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands 1982-1988; he returned to St Peter's College briefly in the early 1990s during which time he was largely occupied in the remedial programme for slow readers; returned to the Cook Islands to teach; from 2004 he did administrative work at Nukutere College; he retired in 2007 and resided in the Christian Brothers community at Nukutere College for the rest of his life; in July 2006, Br Ben Ryan was honoured as he celebrated 70 years as a Christian Brother at a Mass celebrated by Bishop Stewart O'Connell in St Joseph's Cathedral, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. The local newspaper reported that, including his time as principal, Brother Ben had taught for 22 years at Nukutere College; he died in 2008 at morning Mass on 30 July at the age of 88.

• Br John Anselm Ryan: (1902-1957): born at Woollahra, Sydney of Irish parents; educated in Sydney by the Sisters of Charity and the Chrisitan Brothers; foundation teacher at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1927; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1933-1938; transferred back to Oamaru in 1938; known as "Big Digger" at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; returned to Dunedin 1944-1948; in 1949 was transferred back to Oamaru where he remained until he died; instrumental in developing the cricket field at St Kevin's and encouraged rugby, cricket, boxing and swimming (responsible for the design and layout of the swimming baths) at the school; died aged 54 in 1957: "he was the first of 22 Brothers to die in New Zealand" (Donaldson, p. 9) (but see Br O'Higgins above)); buried in South Hill Public Cemetery, Oamaru.

• Br N Ryan: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin from 1902 until 1908.

• Br Patrick Celestine Ryan (1909-1996) B.A., (known as "Wee Digger" at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru and Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin and "Paddy" at St Peter's College, Auckland): educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; went to Australia in 1923 to become a Christian Brother; entered the Christian Brothers in 1924; made his final profession in 1934; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1933 and was Rector there 1945-1950; when Brother McCarthy retired in 1948, Br Ryan took over the training of the "Seminarians" (or the "Sems") by teaching them Latin and preparing them for their priesthood training at Holy Cross College, Mosgiel; he was Principal of Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1951-1953 (he took ill in the third week of the 1952 school year and did not teach for the rest of the year, Br Watson being temporarily appointed acting Principal); was Principal when the school celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1951; joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1954; he was the fifth Principal of St Peter's College 1957-1965; second New Zealand Provincial of the Christian Brothers 1965-1972; he attended the General Chapter of the order in Rome in 1966 when New Zealand was raised from the status of a Vice-Province to that of a Province; he met Pope Paul VI at that time; in 1973, "three old boys [of Christian Brothers School, Dunedin], Brothers Ryan, Lynch and Mills, along with a highly respected teacher, Brother Beeden, celebrated their Golden Jubilee. The New Zealanders left together for Australia in 1923"; returned to teach at St Peter's College in the 1980s; "Has there ever been a better maths teacher than Paddy Ryan? Mind you, he scared the hell out of us in 1961 or 62 when he misread the news on the radio and said that the Cuban missile crisis had lead to war"; died aged 86 in 1996, buried at Anderson's Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.

• Br E Sandys: educated Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin.

• Br Michael Benignus Scanlan: (born 1935) B.Sc., Dip.Ed.: educated at Christian Brothers College, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1954; made his final profession in 1960; taught at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch in 1965; second Principal of St Thomas of Canterbury College 1967-1972; at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1975 - 1979; at St Paul's High School, Dunedin in the early 1980s; New Zealand Provincial of the Christian Brothers 1984-1996; from 1996 occupied in teaching and administration at Saint Bakhita Formation Centre in Kitale, North West Kenya (set up under the inspiration of the Bishop of Rambek in the South Sudan with the aim of having a group of young church personnel who could help restore normality to their war-torn country; in 2001 it had 140 students); Christian Brothers Community leader at Nukutere College, Rarotonga (2008-present).

• Br Raymond Gerard Schmack (born 1945): educated Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; Christian Brother 1962.</ref>

• Br Michael Luke Scott: (born 1944); educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1955-1961; entered the Christian Brothers in 1963; made his final profession in 1970; taught at St Paul's High School, Dunedin 1966 - ; taught at St Peter's College 1968 - (?); taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch in 1972 and 1973; at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1974; Christian Brother 1963 - 1994.

• Br Neville Aquinas Sevicke-Jones (born 1950): educated at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1968; Christian Brother 1968-1972.

• Br Raphael Gervase Shanahan (born 1924): educated at Middlepark, Melbourne; entered the Christian Brothers in 1942; made his final profession in 1949; joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1957; was Principal of St Edmund's School, Dunedin 1958-1960; in 1960 was at St Edmund's School South Dunedin; transferred to Australia in 1961.

• Br Michael Alwin Sheahan (born 1929) ("Moses): MA: born in Victoria, Australia; educated at St Patrick's College, Ballarat(?); entered the Christian Brothers in 1947; made his final profession in 1954; arrived in New Zealand in 1949; was on the staff of St Edmund's School, Dunedin, from its opening in 1949 and in 1950; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin from 1951 until 1958; taught at St Peter's College, Auckland 1959-1962 and 1980-1988; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1962-1966; Principal of Christian Brothers Juniorate (1966-1967); Principal of the St Paul's High School, Dunedin (1968-1973) (when he left that position, he had spent 20 of the previous 25 years teaching at that college); at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1974; Principal of Edmund Rice College, Rotorua (1975-1980); at St Peter's College in the 1980s, he taught Mathematics and Accounting, edited the school magazine, organised Housie, helped run the tuckshop, and managed the 1st eleven soccer team; returned to Australia in 1990.

• Br Christopher Michael Shearer (born 1938): educated at St. Augustine's College, Yarraville; entered the Christian Brothers in 1955; made his final profession in 1965; transferred to Australia in 1979.

• Br John Henry Shepherd (1939-2005) B.Sc, Dip.Ed: educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1950 - 1957; entered the Christian Brothers in 1958; made his final profession in 1964; taught at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College in 1964 and 1966; at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1967; Principal of St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1979-1981; taught at Liston College 1983, 1984, and 1987; also at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua in 1987; in 1991, he initiated the Edmund Rice Camps movement in New Zealand and remained involved with them for the rest of his life; died aged 66 in 2005 (on Sunday, 23 October); buried at Green Park Cemetery Dunedin.

• Br Shoebridge: taught at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1940s/1950s; returned to Australia; in 1960 he was at Tamworth, New South Wales.

• Br Rex Anthony Sisson B.Sc., T.T.C. (born 1937): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1948-1955; entered the Christian Brothers in 1956; made his final profession in 1962; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1961 and 1962; Principal of St Patrick's Primary School, Oamaru in 1963; principal of Edmund Rice College, Rotorua (now John Paul College) (1969-1974); principal of Liston College (1980-1985)(when Br Sisson became Principal, the roll of Liston College was 380 boys with 28 staff including five brothers); he was the last Christian Brother to teach at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru, leaving that college in 2001.

• Br Skehan: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1937; he was Principal of St Patrick's Primary School, Oamaru in 1938; one of the five foundation Christian Brothers of St Peter's College, Auckland, arriving from Oamaru in 1939; Donnelly calls him an "impressive personality"; he taught in the intermediate, and was a particularly memorable Maths teacher; he formed a choir of "selected voices" to sing at weddings and concerts; he took the boxing classes at St Peter's; transferred to Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin in 1949; he was Australian and he returned to Australia in 1949; in 1960 he was " ... Superior at Mt Carmel College, Charters Towers, Queensland".

• Br Anthony Leo Smith (born 1939): educated at St. Augustine's College, Yarraville, Victoria; entered the Christian Brothers in 1957; made his final profession in 1964; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua in the 1960s; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College in 1967; transferred to Australia in 1969.

• Br Leo Francis Smith (born 1945): educated at St. Augustine's College, Yarraville, Victoria, Australia; entered the Christian brothers in 1961; at St. Kevin's College in 1971; made his final profession in 1970; transferred to Australia in 1973.

• Br W. R. Smith: B.A. Otago; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin from 1946; he taught at Christian Brothers High School 1944-1947; in 1947 the Christian Brothers High School orchestra (comprising 110 players - it was a full orchestra of strings, wind, brass and percussion instruments) was under his direction; he was third Principal of St Peter's College, Auckland 1948-1953 (established the first school orchestra); Principal of Christian Brothers High School 1954 and 1955; transferred to Australia in 1956; he left the Christian Brothers and was ordained as a Carmelite priest; in 1960 he was in Ireland.

• Br W F Spillane: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1946 - 1949; in 1949, he was transferred to Oamaru; returned to Dunedin in 1951 to teach at St Edmund's School; transferred back to Oamaru in 1953.

• Br Ray Clement Stedman (born 1940): educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1962; taught at St Edmund's School, Dunedin, in 1967; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua in period 1965 -1966(?); Christian Brother 1962-1967.

• Br Leigh Vincent Stewart (born 1948): educated at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers in 1966; Christian Brother 1966-1969.

• Br Victor Antonine Sullivan (1921-2001): educated in Timaru; entered the Christian Brothers in 1947; made his final profession in 1954; head of the intermediate at St Peter's College 1955-1960; Principal of St Edmund's School, Dunedin 1961-1962; first Principal of Edmund Rice College, Rotorua (now John Paul College, Rotorua) 1963-1968; at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1969; Principal of St Edmund's School, South Dunedin for 18 years 1970-1986(?) ; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College (?); died aged 80 in 2001; buried at the Grahams Rd Cemetery, Christchurch.

• Br Neville Anthony Symons (born 1952): educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; entered the Christian Brothers in 1970; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua; Christian Brother 1970-1973.

• Br Edward John Thorpe (born 1929): educated at Auckland Grammar School; entered the Christian Brothers in 1967; made his final profession in 1973; taught (as a lay teacher) at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1965 and 1966 (especially History and English to the sixth forms (years 12 and 13)); taught (as a Christian Brother) at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1970-1972; back at St Peter's College, Auckland from 1973; taught at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua in its final year, 1987; associated from 1991 with the Edmund Rice Youth Support Trust (its aim was to provide appropriate housing and give to give general support to young people who were in trouble with the law but had shown some indication that they wished to change their way of life); the Edmund Rice Trust House opened in Papatoetoe in 1991 on the initiative of Br Thorpe; he was heavily involved in its coordination and was a care giver and main reliever; during its six years (1991-1998), 70 residents stayed in the house; Br Thorpe was a Christian Brother 1967-1995.

• Br Patrick Ambrose Treacy (1834-1912): born in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland; he was the leader of the four Christian Brothers who arrived from Ireland in Melbourne on 15 November 1868 to establish the order in Australia. The other three pioneer brothers were Brothers Fursey Bodkin, Barnabus Lynch and Joseph Nolan. In 1875, as Provincial of the order in Australia, Brother Treacy visited Bishop Patrick Moran, First Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, and promised him a community of Christian Brothers. This resulted in Brother Bodkin arriving with Brothers Dunne, Healy and McMahon to establish the Dunedin community, the first Christian Brothers community in New Zealand in 1876. The Houses of St Peter's College, Auckland are named after Bros Treacy, Bodkin, Lynch and Nolan; he was Provincial of the Christian Brothers for thirty years, retiring in 1900; he established twenty-seven schools in the principal cities of Australia, and one in New Zealand; he was recalled to Ireland in 1900 as an assistant to the superior-general, and returned to the Australian and New Zealand province in 1910; although retired, he insisted on working and was sent to Brisbane in a bid to prolong his years in a warm climate. He died at St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, on 2 October 1912.

• Br J Tyler: educated and taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin.

• Br Kevin Aquinas Vincent (born 1941) BA: educated at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin; entered the Christian Brothers 1965; taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch in 1969 and 1970; Christian Brother 1965-1970.

• Br Desmond Cecelius Waigth (known as "Heavy")(born 1934); educated St. Kevin's College, Oamaru 1946-1951; entered the Christian Brothers in 1953; made his final profession in 1960; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin in early 1960s; third Principal of St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1973-1978; taught again at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch in 1979; Christian Brother 1953-1981.

• Br K A Walker: educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru (1952-1954).

• Br Richard John Walsh (born 1954): educated at St Edmund's School, South Dunedin 1964-1967 (?) and St Paul's High School, Dunedin 1968-1972; entered the Christian Brothers in 1973; made his final profession in 1979; first taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch in 1976; at St Paul's High School, Dunedin 1980-1987; Kavanagh College, Dunedin 1989-1990 (he was the seventh form dean for the first two year's of the school's existence); seventh Principal of St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1994-2000; from 2001 Director of the International Spiritual Centre, Lusaka, Zambia; in 2008 he is the leader of the Christian Brothers in Africa; he spends a lot of time travelling to the 10 countries where there are Brothers.

• Br K. V. Watson, B.Sc.: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1949, and was Head of the Science Faculty in that year; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1951-1953 (he was acting Principal for Br P C Ryan, who was ill, for the 1952 year); fourth Principal of St Peter's College, Auckland (1954-1956); returned to Australia; in 1960 was at Townsville, Queensland.

• Br Peter Claver Watt (known as "Hoss") (born 1947); educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1958-1962?; entered the Christian Brothers in 1966; made his final profession in 1973; taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch 1973-1979; taught at St Peter's College 1969-1972 and in 1980; Christian Brother 1966-1981; 1986 - present, teaching as a lay teacher at St Peter's College, Auckland.

• Br P X Webster: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1934; taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1935-1944; transferred to St Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1944; first Principal of St Edmund's School, Dunedin, 1949-1951

• Br Gary Joseph Wellsmore (born 1941): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1952-1957; entered the Christian Brothers in 1960; made his final profession in 1966; taught at St Edmund's School, Dunedin, in 1963 and at St Paul's High School, Dunedin 1964-1966; taught at Edmund Rice College in 1967 - early 1970s(?); Principal of St Patrick's Primary School, Oamaru in 1969; foundation Principal of Liston College (1974-1979) where " ... Brother Wellsmore ... supervised the building programme, the establishment of the curriculum and the development of a unique school spirit. The Christian Brothers' tradition and values underpinned Br Wellsmore's vision for the school. As the school roll grew and the building programme was completed, the college spirit became embedded in the Liston community." taught at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch (he was the Director of Religious Studies) 1981-1985; from 1985(?) he was part of the community at the Postulancy House, established in 1983, in Herne Bay, Auckland; he headed the itinerant Retreat team which moved around Christian Brothers' schools to give retreats to pupils.

• Br J G Willsmore: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin.

• Br Kevin Xavier Whitburn (born 1948): educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; entered the Christian Brothers in 1966; Christian Brother 1966-1971.

• Br Whiteman: joined staff at Christian Brothers High School in 1948; transferred to St. Kevin's College, Oamaru in 1951; returned to Dunedin in 1953 until 1957; taught at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1940s and late 1950s(?); went to Australia; in 1960 he was at Gregory Terrace, Brisbane.

• Robert Ligouri Whiting (born 1943): educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru; Christian Brother 1961.

• Br Gerard Robert Whitley (born 1966): educated in Auckland; entered the Christian Brothers in 1985; Christian Brother 1985-1986.

• Br Whitty: came to examine Christian Brothers High School in 1899.

• Br Lawrence Hubert Wilkes (1923-1998): educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru (1937); entered the Christian Brothers in 1942; made his final profession in 1949; taught for some years in Australia, notably in Brisbane; joined the staff at St Peter's College, Auckland in 1956; leading teacher of technical subjects: "The work done in the Technical Department [at St Peter's College] drew great praise from the Education Department Insepectors. Boys from his class obtained the highest mark in School Certificate Technical Drawing for several years"; started his teaching career in the poorer areas of Brisbane and Sydney where he attempted to introduce pupils to drama, classical music and other arts; taught at St Peter's College for 25 years until 1981; then taught for some years at Liston College and in the Cook islands at Nukutere College; he was back at St Peter's in the late 1980s until the mid-1990s(?); Brother Wilkes died in Timaru on 03 March 1998, aged 75; buried Grahams Road Cemetery, Christchurch.

• Br H L Williams: taught at Christian Brothers High School, Dunedin 1940-1946.

• Br Michael Vincent Wilson (born 1953): educated at St Peter's College, Auckland 1964-1969; entered the Christian Brothers in 1970; taught at St Paul's High School, Dunedin; Christian Brother 1970-1979.

• Br H H Wittig: taught at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru from 1934.

References/Sources

• Zealandia, 1939-1989.
• St Peter's College Magazines, St Peter's College, Auckland, 1960-2008 .
• St Peter's College Silver Jubilee 1939 - 1964, Christian Brothers Old Boys Association, Auckland, 1964.
• J.C. O'Neill, The History of the Work of the Christian Brothers in New Zealand, unpublished Dip. Ed. thesis, University of Auckland, 1968.
• 1876-1976: The First 100 Years in New Zealand at Christian Brothers School Dunedin, Christian Brothers School Centennial Committee, Dunedin, 1976.
• Redcastle Recollections, A Golden Jubilee Volume, St Kevin's College, Oamaru, 1977.
• Felix Donnelly, One Priest's Life, Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Auckland, 1982, pp. 7-17.
• St Thomas' Jubilee 1961-1986, St Thomas of Canterbury Jubilee Committee, Christchurch, 1986.
• Barry M Coldrey, The Scheme: The Christian Brothers and Childcare in Western Australia, Argyle-pacific Publishing, O'Connor, Western Australia, 1993.
• NZ Catholic: the national Catholic newspaper, 1996- present.
• Malcolm Robertson, Nga Parata Karaitiana The Christian Brothers, A Public Culture in Transition, A Comparative Study of the Indian and New Zealand Provinces, an unpublished thesis for MA in Anthropology, University of Auckland, 1996.
• Graeme Donaldson and J P Stumbles, Dunedin Rugby Football Club, 1871-1996 : 125 years history of the Club, The Club, Dunedin, 1997.
• Liston College, 25th Jubilee Magazine, Liston College, Auckland, 1999.
• Peter Joseph Norris, Southernmost Seminary: The History of Holy Cross College, Mosgiel (1900 - 1997), Holy Cross Seminary, Auckland, 1999.
• Graeme Donaldson, To All Parts of the Kingdom: Christian Brothers In New Zealand 1876-2001, Christian Brothers New Zealand Province, Christchurch, 2001.
• Bridget (Anderson) Harrod, 100 Years Catholic Education in Rotorua 1903-2003, St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Rotorua, 2003.
• Graham W.A. Bush, The History of Epsom, Epsom & Eden District Historical Society Inc, Auckland, 2006.
• Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006.
• Rick Maxwell, St Peter's College, Auckland, Simerlocy Press, Auckland, 2008.

External links

• Edmund Rice Network
• Edmund Rice Justice, New Zealand
• St Peter's College website
• Catholic-hierarchy website
• Catholic Diocese of Auckland
• Catholic Church in New Zealand