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* Mr '''[[Pat Lam|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]]''.
* Mr '''[[Pat Lam|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]]''.

* Mr '''Peter Leonard''' was a teacher at St Peter's School and went on to teach at other early schools in Auckland.<ref>Ian Cumming, ''Glorious Enterprise: The History of the Auckland Education Board 1857-1957, Whitcome & Tombes Ltd, 1959, pp. 70, 103 and 135</ref>


* Mr '''Chris McManus''' from Manchester, UK, who was killed in the failed SAS rescue attempt in Nigeria in March 2012 after being abducted in [[Abuja]] in May 2011 and held hostage by terrorists; taught at St. Peter’s College in 2003 during a gap year from his studies in the United Kingdom.<ref>[http://edmundrice.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=911:tragic-death-of-chris-mcmanus&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50 "Tragic Death of Chris McManus", Edmund Rice Network] (retrieved 22 March 2012)</ref><ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/08/kidnapped-briton-killed-nigeria "Kidnapped Briton killed in Nigeria as PM sends in special forces: Construction worker Chris McManus and Italian colleague Franco Lamolinara murdered by captors", ''The Guardian'', Thursday 8 March 2012] (retrieved 22 March 2012)</ref>
* Mr '''Chris McManus''' from Manchester, UK, who was killed in the failed SAS rescue attempt in Nigeria in March 2012 after being abducted in [[Abuja]] in May 2011 and held hostage by terrorists; taught at St. Peter’s College in 2003 during a gap year from his studies in the United Kingdom.<ref>[http://edmundrice.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=911:tragic-death-of-chris-mcmanus&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50 "Tragic Death of Chris McManus", Edmund Rice Network] (retrieved 22 March 2012)</ref><ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/08/kidnapped-briton-killed-nigeria "Kidnapped Briton killed in Nigeria as PM sends in special forces: Construction worker Chris McManus and Italian colleague Franco Lamolinara murdered by captors", ''The Guardian'', Thursday 8 March 2012] (retrieved 22 March 2012)</ref>

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St Peter's College (including its predecessor school St Peter's School), a secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand, has employed many notable faculty and staff.

Former lay staff

  • The Honourable Jim Anderton (born 1938): politician; taught in the intermediate at St Peters in 1959 and 1960;[2] President of the New Zealand Labour Party (1979–1984); Member of Parliament for Sydenham (1984 – 1996); Member of Parliament for Wigram (1996–2011): 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)[3]
  • Professor Kenneth Owen Arvidson (Ken Arvidson)(born 1938): MA (Auckland), Poet and Academic; taught senior English at St Peter's College 1960-1963 (notably, he taught English to poets Sam Hunt in the lower sixth form in 1963).[4] 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).[5] 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".[6] Arvidson was also very influential on another poet, Terry Locke, who he taught for both of the two years he was at St Peter's College.[7]
  • Mr Patrick Dignan (1814 – 20 October 1894), Member of Parliament, and member of the Board of Governors of St Peter's School.[8]
  • Mr Kenneth Coulton Gorbey (Ken 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.[10]
  • Mr Eric Kohlase (1943–2011); for 12 years, Mr Kohlhase was assistant coach of the St Peter's College softball team and coach of the St Peter's College 1st XV rugby team. In 2000, he coached the St Peters 1st XV to win the national championship without losing one game; he was a New Zealand representative softball player, making his debut for the Black Sox at the 1968 world championships in Oklahoma, and representing Auckland for 12 seasons.[11][12]
  • Mr Peter Leonard was a teacher at St Peter's School and went on to teach at other early schools in Auckland.[13]
  • Mr Chris McManus from Manchester, UK, who was killed in the failed SAS rescue attempt in Nigeria in March 2012 after being abducted in Abuja in May 2011 and held hostage by terrorists; taught at St. Peter’s College in 2003 during a gap year from his studies in the United Kingdom.[14][15]
  • Mr Richard James O'Sullivan (1826–1889) an influential teacher at St Peter's School and an important school inspector.
  • Mr Edmund Powell the first teacher at St Peter's School. The first classes were held in his own residence in Shortland Crescent (later renamed Shortland Street) on 27 September 1841[16].

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.[17][18][19]

Christian Brothers

see: Congregation of Christian Brothers in New Zealand

Notes

  1. ^ Johanssen, Dana (8 October 2010). "My life in sport: John Ackland". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
  2. ^ St Peter's College Magazine 1960, pp. 10 and 15
  3. ^ New Zealand Parliament bio of Jim Anderton.
  4. ^ Arvidson, K.O., Robinson and Wattie, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Oxford, Auckland 1998, pp. 27 and 28; Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive/ Arvidson K O: [1]
  5. ^ Rick Maxwell, St Peter's College, Auckland, Simerlocy Press, Auckland, 2008, pp. 20 and 36 (Note No 183).
  6. ^ Sam Hunt, Backroads, Charting a Poet's Life, Craig Potton Publishing, Nelson, 2009, p. 24.
  7. ^ "Terry Locke", Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive, Tuesday, November 20, 2007. (retrieved 20 February 2012).
  8. ^ Hugh Laracy. 'Dignan, Patrick - Biography', from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 1-Sep-10
  9. ^ St Peter's College Magazines 1960 (p. 70), 1961 (p. 7), 1962 (pp. 37 and 39); Margaret Lovell-Smith, The Enigma of Sister Mary Leo:, Reed, Auckland, 1998, pp. 96, 102 and 206.
  10. ^ St Peter's College Magazine 1967, p. 24; Staff Changes, St Peter's College Magazine 1968, St Peter's College, Auckland, 1968, p. 17.
  11. ^ John Watson, "Unsung heroes: A life's work in coaching future heroes",New Zealand Herald, Wednesday, 9 July 2008.(retrieved 21 November 2011)
  12. ^ St Peter's College Old Boys Newsletter 2010, No 3 (retrieved 21 November 2011)
  13. ^ Ian Cumming, Glorious Enterprise: The History of the Auckland Education Board 1857-1957, Whitcome & Tombes Ltd, 1959, pp. 70, 103 and 135
  14. ^ "Tragic Death of Chris McManus", Edmund Rice Network (retrieved 22 March 2012)
  15. ^ "Kidnapped Briton killed in Nigeria as PM sends in special forces: Construction worker Chris McManus and Italian colleague Franco Lamolinara murdered by captors", The Guardian, Thursday 8 March 2012 (retrieved 22 March 2012)
  16. ^ E.R. Simmons, In Cruce Salus, A History of the Diocese of Auckland 1848 - 1980, Catholic Publication Centre, Auckland 1982, p. 32.
  17. ^ T K Weal, "A Memorable Character", St Peter's College Magazine 1970, p. 12.; NZPA Staff Correspondent, Britons in Dark about EEC Says Mr Weal, New Zealand Herald, 25 January 1971, p. 5; Untitled article, St Peter's College Magazine 1980, p. 45; "To El Salvador: The Experience of a Lifetime", St Peter's College Magazine 1982, p. 55.
  18. ^ John Tamihere and Helen Bain, John Tamihere Black and White, Reed, Auckland, 2004, pp. 33-44: John Tamihere rated Tom Weal as his most influential teacher. Tamihere said that Mr Weal would link things to politics and, in particular, to New Zealand's agricultural policies. He would emphasise that grass was the most important New Zealand crop as it was the basis of the wool, meat and dairy industries. Mr Weal alerted John Tamihere to the impact that Britain's joining the European Common market would have on New Zealand's economy and society. New Zealand would have to wake up quickly to the loss of the relationship with Britain, find new markets and new ways of doing things, and start to back itself. "The way Mr Weal brought education to life gave me a strong interest in what I call the Kiwi-isation of our society", wrote John Tamihere.
  19. ^ O'Neill, pp. 108-109; MFAT - El Salvador, Tamihere, pp. 33-44

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