List of former staff of St Peter's College, Auckland: Difference between revisions

see also: a fuller list of former St Peter's College staff

For the Christian Brother staff also see: Congregation of Christian Brothers in New Zealand

The following is a complete list of Christian Brothers known to have been associated with St Peter's College (those educated there and those who taught there). Some biographical details for each of them are given at: Congregation of Christian Brothers in New Zealand Template:Multicol

• Br Leo Eugene Barry
• Br Edward Camillus Boreham
• Br Paul Alonzo Boyd
• Br Breach
• Br F Cameron
• Br J C Carroll
• Br Ian Robert Carroll
• Br Richard Ignatius Carroll
• Br Marty De Porres Connell
• Br Raymond Bonaventure Connolly
• Br Vincent Nicholas Cusack
• Br John Stanislaus De Courcy
• Br Noel Cuthbert Doherty
• Br Graeme Gonzaga Donaldson
• Br William Hofbauer Dowling
• Br D Drake
• Br James Eamon Duffy
• Br Mark Augustine Dunlop
• Br Denis Francis Edgar
• Br Michael Paul Follas
• Br Eric Evangelist Fraser
• Br Michael Angelus Frost
• Br Anthony Eugenio Gherardi
• Br Norman Campion Gillies

• Br Gyger
• Br James Benignus Hanrahan
• Br Hardisty
• Br John Hay
• Br Hede
• Br Francis Placidus Henery
• Br P C Hill
• Br Jerome Timothy Hughes
• Br Reginald Edward Humphries
• Br Terry Felix Hunter
• Br Walter Frederick Ives
• Br Vincent Innocent Jury
• Br Kevin Gerard Keane
• Br Keniry
• Br Killian
• Br Lathey
• Br Brian Joseph Lauren
• Br John Laurence Ledger
• Br A A Loftus
• Br B H Louisson
• Br Gerard Vincent Lovell
• Br James Bonaventure Lynch
• Br K F Lynch
• Br Christopher Claver Marlow
• Br Perry Neri Mason

• Br James Ignatius McClintock
• Br William Gerard McCombie
• Br Robert John McCrae
• Br John Paul McKean
• Br Patrick Aiden McManus
• Br Michael Joseph McMenamin
• Br Robert John McRae
• Br Patrick Theodore McSweeney
• Br Richard Ligouri McSweeney
• Br C. D. Mills
• Br Maurice Peter Moloney
• Br Thomas Aquinas Monagle
• Br Kevin Flavian Moncur
• Br James Alexis Morris
• Br Peter Gregory Mullane
• Br Don Magnus Murray
• Br Michael Joseph O'Donnell
• Br David Garnier O'Donoghue
• Br Francis Pius O'Driscoll
• Br Arthur Edwin O'Kane
• Br John Didicus O'Neill
• Br Anthony Damian Peterson
• Br John Paschal Prendergast

• Br Denis Fabian Prescott
• Br John Cuthbert Price
• Br Maurice Venard Quirke
• Br Rapp
• Br John Virgil Riley
• Br Paul Malcolm Robertson
• Br Ignacy John Rubisz
• Br Benjamin Everard Ryan
• Br Patrick Celestine Ryan
• Br Michael Luke Scott
• Br Raphael Gervase Shanahan
• Br Michael Alwin Sheahan
• Br John Henry Shepherd
• Br Shoebridge
• Br Rex Anthony Sisson
• Br Skehan
• Br W. R. Smith
• Br Victor Antonine Sullivan
• Br Edward John Thorpe
• Br K. V. Watson
• Br Peter Claver Watt
• Br Gary Joseph Wellsmore
• Br Whiteman
• Br Lawrence Hubert Wilkes
• Br Michael Vincent Wilson

Former lay staff

• John Ackland: rugby league coach and scout who currently works for the New Zealand Warriors; represented New Zealand in the New Zealand national rugby league team, the "Kiwis" in 1983; taught history at St Peter's College.

• The Honourable Jim Anderton (born 1938): politician; taught in the intermediate at St Peters in 1959 and 1960 ; President of the New Zealand Labour Party (1979-1984); Member of Parliament for Sydenham (1984 – 1996); Member of Parliament for Wigram (1996-present): former Leader of the New Labour Party (1989-1991), former leader of the Alliance Party (1991 – 1994), and current leader of the Progressive Party (2002 - present); Deputy Prime Minister (1999-2006), Minister for Economic Development (1999-2005), Minister of Agriculture (2005-2008), Minister for Biosecurity (2005-2008), Minister of Fisheries (2005-2008), Minister of Forestry (2005-2008), Minister Responsible for the Public Trust (2005-2008), Associate Minister of Health (2005-2008), and Associate Minister for Tertiary Education (2005-2008)

• Professor Kenneth Owen Arvidson (born 1938): MA (Auckland), Poet and Academic; taught senior English at St Peter's College 1960-1963 (notably, he taught English to Sam Hunt in the lower sixth form in 1963); As a student at Auckland University he attended lectures by Bill Pearson, John Reid, M K Joseph, Allen Curnow and others. "His verse has appeared in literary magazines in New Zealand and internationally, and has been anthologised in Australia and Japan as well as the Penguin, Oxford and other New Zealand collections". "Temporal and spiritual matters balance one another in much of his poetry, in keeping with his Catholic cast of thought." "Arvidson's research interests include John Henry Newman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Victorian literature and Australian literature." Since 1974 he has taught at the University of Waikato.. Mr Arvidson endowed a prize for poetry at St Peter's which was awarded in 1962 and 1963 to Christopher Matthews (1962) and to poet Sam Hunt (1963). Sam Hunt said that if Mr Arvidson " ... had not come to the school, I would not have lasted [at St Peter's] as long as I did, and I'd just turned sixteen when I left. He introduced me to poets like Gordon Challis, who I've gone on loving ever since".

• Miss Judith Edwards: influential and effective choir and singing teacher at St Peter's College late 1950s until 1962; trained as a singer by Sister Mary Leo at St Mary's College; in 1955 she won the John Court Memorial Aria Contest and she was a finalist in the first Mobil Song Quest in 1956.

• Mr Kenneth Coulton Gorbey (born 1945) CNZM (2007, for service to museums): Museum Consultant and Academic; taught at St Peter's College in 1967; director of the Waikato Museum (opened in 1987); involved in the development of Te Papa, New Zealand's National Museum (opened in 1998); project director of the Jewish Museum Berlin (opened in 2001); teaches Museum and Heritage Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.

• Mr Patrick Richard Lam (born 1968), All Black, loose forward (1992), Teacher at St Peter's College (1991 - 1992) see Notable Alumni of St Peter's College, Auckland.

Tom Weal

Mr Thomas K Weal was born in 1929, and taught at St Peter's College from 1953 to 1989. In the 1960s he particularly taught History to the Form Three classes (Year 9). He was greatly loved for his willingness to depart from the curriculum to talk about any aspects of Philosophy, History, Religion or current affairs raised by students only too eager to encourage these instructive diversions. He was Deputy Leader of the Social Credit Party (then called the Social Credit Political League) from 1970-1972. In 2008, he was the Honorary Consul in Auckland for El Salvador.

During the many years Mr Weal taught at the college, he undertook some interesting trips. During the St Peter's College summer vacation of 1970/1971, as Deputy Leader of the Social Credit Party, he mounted a one-man campaign in London to protect New Zealand's interests in relation to the entry of the UK into the European Community (then known as the EEC). Mr Weal felt that the British public was not aware of the damage which New Zealand would suffer if Britain joined the Common Market without safeguards for her primary produce. He spent three weeks talking to anti-market groups in England. He felt that British people knew that New Zealand would have to have a special arrangement if Britain entered the EEC, but that they did not know why. Mr Weal said he had found that very few people knew exactly what joining the EEC meant for Britain. He thought that that was why there was a great fear of going into Europe. He said: "The public just doesn't know what's going on in Brussels. For this reason they're interested in hearing the Commonwealth view on the negotiations and that's what I've tried to express." Mr Weal was invited to return to Britain and was urged to bring a member of the New Zealand Labour Party with him. "We wouldn't be here to play politics, but just to let people know what's in it for us if Britain joins the EEC," he said. He rejected the idea that he was "meddling" in British politics. "In fact one of the most successful things I did was to deliver a letter outlining New Zealand's objections to British membership to every MP before the Common Market debate," he said. Mr Weal thought that letter had an influence in the fact that more than 100 Labour members signed a petition opposing the entry negotiations. On his way back to New Zealand, Mr Weal broke his journey in Rome, where he had an audience with Pope Paul VI. The UK joined the EEC in 1973, but there were special arrangements put in place for New Zealand primary product exports.

Mr Weal was also in Zambia in 1970 where he met, and was impressed by, Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo of Lusaka.

In 1980 Mr Weal and his wife, Margaret, were in the UK and in Rome where they met Pope John Paul II. Mr Weal said to the Pope, "'Back at St Peter's College where I teach Christian Living, three of my boys each want to be Pope'". "[The Pope] ... paused a moment, shook with mirth and stepping back to me with an appreciative grin, he said, 'Maybe'". In 1982 Mr Weal went to El Salvador where as part of a "a trip of a lifetime", he met President José Napoleón Duarte of that country.