Dear all TBC Old Boys' Association members,

Term 3 is well under way and there has been a large amount of activity with the Old Boys since my last update.  We have hosted functions prior to the very successful TBC show of Spamalot  as well as in both Auckland and Wellington. As always it was good to catch up with some of you and especially good to see a number of new faces fronting up at these events.

Our Annual Dinner is fast approaching  -  Friday  September 11^th  -  at which Old Boy and Member of Parliament Todd Muller will be the Guest Speaker as we recognize Bill Holland as our Old Boy of the Year.  Bill’s  support of the school and the Tauranga community has been immense  over a long period of time and this most fitting award  has been recognized with his  being awarded one of five Tindall Foundation awards for Outstanding Community Service.  Bill’s leadership in driving the Acorn Foundation since 2003 has seen $200 million promised for philanthropic purposes to the Community for which he was recognized by the Governor General at Government House.

The Annual Winter Tournament week begins August 31^st and as usual we have a significant number of students scattered around the  country.  The boys would appreciate your support if you are able to get along to see any of them.

Report of TBC Old Boys' Association President Richard Craven to the 2015 AGM

When reflecting on the report card for our 2014 -2015 year, it seems appropriate to align the language with this evening's.  On that basis I'm pleased to report a  MERIT, and it's a MERIT with: “next year impresses as one of great opportunity“.

A MERIT on the back of a sound platform established by our Patron Bill Holland and for that Bill we thank you for your inspiration.

For those that attended last year's dinner, the special evening launching the Garth Sim Centurion Scholarship, it's been heartening to all involved that attendees, even this  week, talk about how much they enjoyed the evening and the sense of the Old Boys Association coming of age.

And it's by no mean a co-incidence that it's at this stage we are proud to announce tonight we will be formally nominating for Life Membership of the Old Boys Assn Mr Bill Holland. Messrs Geoff Olsen and Robert Mangan will later be speaking to Bill's nomination.

It's with pride this evening, that the Executive can report of four new initiatives being established during the year and now available for the support of our young men as they traverse the challenges and opportunities through Tauranga Boys' College.

Dear members,

It has been a hectic term at school, with a wide range of activities as well as a visit from the Education Review Office that I will report on in my next update. Here is the latest news and as always if there is anything else that you would like reported on please let me know.

Events

The Annual General Meeting of the Old Boys Association saw changes to the Committee as inaugural President Bill Holland stood down and Richard Craven was elected in his place. Matt Billett, who has been our Secretary since inception has also stood down after 5 years sterling service  to the Association.

At the AGM long-serving staff member Fred Newton was inducted as a Life Member of the Association – the 9^th person to be so honoured.

Annual Dinner & Sports Day – September 19^th

Basketball, football, hockey, rugby & volleyball matches against the currentschool first teams will be contested on Friday afternoon, before dinner in the evening. A good number of tables have been purchased already so get your mates together to support our main event of the year.  Leading New Zealand artist Nigel Brown will be recognised as our Old Boy of the Year, while Ryan Johnson will make a very interesting guest speaker. At school Ryan was in the 1^st XV rugby and rowing 8 before heading to university to study marine biology. He has become one of the world’s foremost authorities on great white sharks, with TV documentaries on the Discovery Channel and National Geographic.

Book your tickets on www.tbcoba.org.nz or get in touch with me for any further information.

Winter Sports Tournament week is almost upon us.  It is timely then to inform you about where you can see some TBC sporting action during the week of September 1^st to 5^th.

Football 1^st XI             NZSS Tournament @ Park Island, Napier

Hockey 1^st XI              Rankin Cup in Palmerston North

Hockey 2^nd XI            Galletly Cup @ Lloyd Ellsmore Park, Auckland

Hockey Under 15      Tanner Cup @ St. Pauls Collegiate, Hamilton

Rugby Under 15        Palmerston North

Rugby Under 14        Colquhon Trophy, Hastings

Basketball Senior A Regional qualifier @ ASB Arena, Tauranga, Sept. 3^rd to 6^th

Basketball Junior     NZSS zone 1 & 2 finals @ ASB Arena, Aug. 31^st – Sept. 2^nd

Underwater Hockey NZSS in Rotorua, Sept. 4^th – 7^th

Indoor Bowls             NZSS, Wellington, Aug.  31^st - Sept. 1^st

Duathlon                    NZSS, Taupo, August 31^st

Swimming                 NZSS, Wellington, September  5^th – 7^th

TBC Sport

Super 8

Winter codes are building up towards their respective tournament weeks. Footballwere placed 3^rd at their Super 8 tournament, while the Hockey XI were defeated in the final of their Super 8 by Palmerston North BHS. Unfortunately, at our quadrangular tournament the following week a couple of season ending injuries disrupted their tournament preparation. At that tournament Westlake BHS, Kings College and TBC all ended with 3 wins, while Super 8 winners PNBHS headed home without a win!

The 1^st XV season is over after an entertaining 47-34 loss to Rotorua BHS in the BOP qualifying for the top 4 competition. The side was very competitive throughout the season, however a number of close losses saw them finish 7^th for 2014.

Squash

Our squash players have just completed an impressive 3-peat of national titles,winning the tournament in a canter. Only Christchurch BHS were able to take a game off them all tournament, with TBC winning the final 4-1. Unsurprisinglythree team members were subsequently named in the NZSS team – Josh Oakley, Jamie Oakley and Alex Revington.

Surfing

TBC surfers faced big swells at Raglan when they contested the national champs recently. Consistent efforts from all of our surfers saw the team finish third overall, with best performer Jordan Griffin placing second in the Under 18 event.

Gymnastics

Year 13 student Henry Smith performed with distinction at the recent NZSS gymnastics competition, emerging champion in the A-grade competition.

Basketball

TBC Basketball scooped the titles at the BOP Championships earlier in the month. The Senior A team were untroubled in taking their 3^rd Division 1 title in a row, while the Senior Bs backed up that performance with victory over Katikati College to take out the Division 2 award. In the junior divisions the Junior A side beat a bigger Otumoetai side to win their grade, while the Junior B team won the Division 2 title to complete the clean sweep.

Hockey

Three current 1^st XI players have recently returned from the National Under 18 tournament, where Midlands gained the silver medal in the 8 team competition. Head Prefect Hamish McGeorge, Wade Bennett and Denym Clarke were joined by old boys Joseph Lyons and John Preece to give a strong TBC flavour to the side.

Motocross

TBC riders were prominent at the Auckland Secondary School Champs held at Mercer this past weekend. Riders placed 2^nd, 3^rd & 4^th in a very competitive 250f class, with Johvann Phillips the top performer.

Waterpolo

Sean McKenzie has been selected in the New Zealand Under 16 side.

Two TBC lads, Adam McKenzie & Liam Moffat, were part of the Tauranga club team that won the national under 14 boys’ title.

Old Boy Sports

Aussie Rules

Adam Simpson is flying the TBC flag at the AFL International Cup in Melbourne, where he is competing for the NZ Hawks in this 3 yearly competition against teams from around the globe. To date the team has dominated its opposition with a 162-0 win against the Swedish Elks and 188-0 victory over China. The side was then beaten by PNG but rallied to take the bronze medal from South Africawith a one point victory.

Hockey

Commonwealth Games competitor Andy Hayward was back in Tauranga and spoke at assembly about his Games experience. The 180 test veteran and 4^th top goalscorer (75) in NZ hockey history is off back to Europe almost immediately, where he will play league hockey in the UK. He is looking forward to the Olympics in Rio in 2016.

Cricket

Old Boys from TBC are going to be more prominent in Northern Districts first class cricket plans in the 2014/15 season. Debutants from last year Joe Carter and Bharat Popli have both won contracts, joining captain Daniel Flynn. Kane Williamson has his national contract and recently scored 189 for Yorkshire, who lead the top division of the English Championship.

Basketball

Tauranga basketball is on the upswing, with the Tauranga City Marinerscompeting strongly in the inaugural SAS Sports Central Basketball League. Old boys Ashton McQueen and Matt Fullerton, who were in our first 5 last season, are important members of the side.

Rugby

A couple of TBC  Super 15 stalwarts will not feature in the 2015 edition as they head  off overseas to ply their trade.  Tanerau Latimer has signed to play for theJapanese side Toshiba Brave Lupus after 7 seasons and over 100 games for the Chiefs, while Jarrad Hoeata has a 3 year contract with the Cardiff Blues. Another TBC old boy in the UK is Daniel Braid, who captained the Sale Sharks in the 2013/14 season.

The Steamers season has begun with losses to Southland and Tasman – Old Boys included for the season are Nathan Harris, Dan Hollinshead, Carl Axtens, Te Aihe Toma, while in the development team are  David Smart, Aaron Carroll, Jeff Thwaites, Nick Evemy, Steve Honey and Hamish Boyce.

We have had some good rugby playing gappies from the UK in the last few years and I have just heard from Andy Vilk that after representing England at 7s and a professional career in Italy he has now been appointed Italian 7s coach and is hoping to see them qualify for Rio.

Ruaridh McConnochie was the first of our gappies from Cranbrook School in Kent where I taught in 2010 and he has just returned to England from Rio with agold medal won in the University 7s competition. On the strength of his performances there, Ruaridh has been called into the full England set up for a 2 week training camp. Ruaridh played fullback for Rangataua in 2011.

Sailing

Peter Burling and Blair Tuke retained their 49er European title in Helsinki and then headed to Rio for the test event 2 years out from the Olympics, which they also won.

Football

The Tauranga City United side, which features a number of TBC old boys, clinched promotion to the Northern Region Division 1 a couple of weeks back. With a resounding win at the weekend they claimed the title, with Andrew Cooper completing a first half hat trick and finally scoring 4, while Josh Nelson got abrace in the 6-0 victory.

Old Boys Arts

Jeremy Redmore has just released his long awaited solo album “Clouds are Alive”. After a very successful time as lead singer with Midnight Youth Jeremy is now looking to forge a solo career.

Shane Cortese has just been seen on local screens in a 2 hour “Nothing Trivial” special. The popular show was abruptly cut in 2013 and this programme tied up some loose ends with the potential for further series in the future. Shane has been following work opportunities in Las Vegas and Australia in recent months.

James Rolleston, who starred in the highly regarded movie “Boy” while at TBC, has been seen on movie screens in recent weeks in the film “ The Dark Horse”,which also stars Cliff Curtis, Karl Urban & Keisha Castle Hughes.

Dylan Frewin has returned to Tauranga having completed a degree in performing art, majoring in musical theatre.  He has been instrumental in setting up the Mauao Performing Arts Centre, where he teaches theatre and drama and will look to perform some of his own work.

Old Boys Politics

Former TBC students Ben Rickard and Todd Muller are both standing for parliament in this year’s election.  Ben is standing for the UnitedFuture party in the Bay of Plenty electorate, and has also been placed 5^th on the party’s list.  Todd Muller is standing for National and is the favourite to win the seat and enter parliament as MP for Bay of Plenty.

Old Boys Adventures

Josh & Zac Lyon have decided to take up the challenge of walking across the four largest icecaps on the planet (4 Caps Challenge) and have got $ for $ support from Spark to assist them in their endeavours. Follow their expedition on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/FourCaps.

All the best for now,

Rob Leslie.

Upcoming Events at TBC

August 29^th – EVENING AT THE THEATRE

September 13^th – DINNER & SPORTS DAY

October 22^nd – ART EXHIBITION

TBC Arts/Academic

TBC  Sports

Super 8 Sport

Other Sport

WINTER TOURNAMENTS

A SPORTING WEEKEND

Old Boys Sports

Other Old Boys Activities

Tauranga Boys' College Old Boys' Association (Incorporated)

Presented at our AGM on Monday, 5 August 2013...

This has been another very good year for the College itself and for our Association.

Most of you will have had the opportunity to read the Principal's Report to the 1912 Senior Prize-giving, and some of you will have read the regular newsletters to parents.

The academic results achieved last year were exceptional: especially at senior level. These were matched by success in both sporting and cultural areas . The students of the College continue to "punch above their weight". The appearance of no fewer than seven (I repeat seven) TBC Old Boys in the 2012 London Olympics was of world significance. The resultant medals to Mahe Drysdale (gold), and Peter Burling (bronze) were icing on the cake.

Committee member and long time staff member of TBC, Rob Leslie, continues to keep us up to date with the activities of our Old Boys in his regular newsletter.

The Old Boys' Association was established in May 2009 with the principal objectives of helping maintain friendship between Old Boys and promoting and encouraging the College, its students and staff.

Past Activities

The Executive organised a number of activities over the past 12 months.

As always, the highlight was our Past/Present Sports Tournament on 14 September, followed by our Annual Dinner.

Our guest speaker was Jeremy Redmore of Midnight Youth fame who entertained us with songs and stories.

Our Old Boy of the Year for 2012 was Dr Bryan Gould. Best known to us for his former role as Vice-Chancellor of Waikato University, Dr Gould himself had attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He went on to become a leading member of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, before taking up his position at Waikato. In speaking to Dr Gould at the Dinner, it was interesting to learn that his grandson is currently a student of the College. How appropriate.

At our 2012 Annual General Meeting we honoured Graham Anderson as a Life Member of the Association. Graham served the College for many years as a teacher. Many of our teachers give far more of their time and effort than they are required to do, and Graham was certainly one of these teachers. He has also been particularly supportive over the years in terms of the Old Boys' Association as well as the College itself.

Another significant item on our calendar this year was the show "Joseph" which was performed in the Graham Young Theatre. A group of Old Boys gathered in the Staff Room for some "social time" before enjoying what was an outstanding performance by some very talented young people from the College and from Tauranga Girls'.

We enjoyed good turn-outs of Old Boys at many of the College sporting events. The College continues to perform so well in so many areas it is difficult to keep up.

Informal gatherings of Old Boys were also held in London, Auckland and Wellington.

Future Activities

Activities for Old Boys over next 12 months are likely to be much of the same as the past.

With our experience over the past four years, we are finding what it is that you as new members are wanting of our Association in terms of activities and overall.

We are finding that each year there is growing interest and growing attendance and this is very encouraging.

This year's Sports Tournament and Annual Dinner will be held on Friday, 13 September 2013.

Our guest speaker will be Richard O'Brien of Rocky Horror Show fame. He is bound to be entertaining for both you and your partners.

Our Old Boy of the Year will be Tom Roper who will be known to many of you. Tom is a man who has stayed most of his adult life in Tauranga. He is a very successful businessman and a great worker for the community. He has always been a great supporter of the College.

This should be a great night so please put a table together. As always, for this type of function: the better the turnout the better it will be.

Life Member

The Association has the opportunity to elect a Life Member who "shall include any person honoured for meritorious service to the College or to the Association, after recommendation by the Executive as a Life Member by resolution at a General Meeting passed by a two-thirds majority of those present and voting".

We regard Life Membership as the greatest honour that we can bestow.

It is therefore appropriate to list our Life Members:

Garth Sim
Norm Morris
Graham Young
Max Heimann
Rob Naumann
Ron Buller
Graham Anderson

For this AGM, the Executive Committee has recommended Mrs Gillian Gemming.

More will be said about her at the AGM, but many of you will be well aware of the huge contributions made by Gillian as Chair of the Board of Trustees and as long-time coach and supporter of our hockey teams.

Executive

The Executive has continued to meet on a monthly basis over the past 12 months, with some of the tasks being handled by sub-committees.

The Executive for the 2012/13 year consisted of:

College Principal Robert Mangan
Staff Representative Rob Leslie
President Bill Holland
Vice President Simon Oldham
Secretary Mathew Billett
Treasurer Alan Neilson
Other Members Paul Gartner
Tony Lamberton
Rawiri Walker
Ben Rickard
Glen Strang
Scott Wikohika
Richard Craven

A number of these Members have been on the Executive from the outset.

Simon Oldham has always served as Vice President and he has made a wonderful contribution. He has, however, decided not to stand again. All other members have declared they are available for another term. We thank Simon for his work and for his continued support.

Positions remain open if others are prepared to all allow their names to go forward.

Financial Accounts

Audited accounts for the year ended 31 March 2013 will be presented at the AGM and you will find they are healthy.

You will see that we moved from a break-even situation to making a modest profit of $4,282.70. This is largely attributable to the success of our Annual Dinner.

We would like to build on this and to grow a fund of money which we can then use for the benefit of the College.

The Future

We have now completed our fourth year and the Association is in very good heart.

It has been helped by the stability of the Executive Members who have collectively given much of their time in bringing us to where we are now.

We must continue to work on increasing our Association membership and increasing participation in new events and activities.

As an Executive, we will continue to try to provide you with the events you have shown interest in.

In return, we would be grateful for your continued and expanded support.

Bill Holland
August 2013

TBC Old Boys Update #3 2013

Hi everyone,

It has been a busy last week with the Old Boys Association hosting a Drinks and Nibbles event before the TBC/TGC productionof Joseph and the Amazing Technicoloured Dreamcoat in the Graham Young Youth Theatre which was an outstanding success and also a well supported Auckland function.

On August 5^th we have our Annual General Meeting in the TBC staffroom beginning at 7 p.m. At this meeting we have traditionally awarded life membership and this year is no different with Gillian Gemming being honoured in this way.  Gill served as Chair of the Board of Trustees for years, had her 4 sons through the school and has been a significant driving force in the success of our hockey programme as she is Director of Coaching for the sport.  Blackstick Andy Hayward will be present and it would be great to have a big turnout, particularly of our hockey community.

Our annual Sports Day & dinner are on Friday September 13^th so dust off those sports shoes and clear the diary so you can come along to the dinner where Rocky Horror Show writer Richard O’Brien is Guest Speaker.  Go tohttp://tbcoba.org.nz/ for tickets and more information. 
We have always played rugby, football, basketball, volleyball and hockey as part of this event but we are now looking to arrange Old Boys T20 cricket and tennis in December or January so please let us know if you are interested.

TBC Academic

University Studies

Thirty one TBC students undertook studies at the University Waikato in their first semester and all passed their papers in Economics, Philosophy, Statistics and Chemistry. More than 32 “A” passes were achieved with the stand out performance being that of Todd Harris who scored A+ grades in Chemistry, Statistics, Philosophy & Economics.  Todd was top student of almost 200 taking Chemistry with 99.1% and has been offered a $5000 scholarship to assist one of the lecturers with their research during the summer holidays.

Youth Parliament

Head Prefect and 1^st XV Captain Mungo Mason will travel to Wellington in the July holidays to be a Youth Parliament Representative for MP Simon Bridges working on the Select Committee for Health.  Mungo will miss the first 2 days of Parliament as he has been picked in the Chiefs Under 18 training squad and they are training for a match against the Blues or Hurricanes the second week of the holiday break.

TBC Sport

Rugby

The promising 1^st XV season has continued with the only loss being 27-28 to strong Super 8 rivals Hamilton BHS in the Chiefs Cup.  St Paul’s Collegiate were comfortably beaten 35-14 and in the first Super 8 match of the season perennial bugbears Rotorua BHS were accounted for 31-26. Things have been tougher in the last encounters with disappointing 1 point losses to New Plymouth and Palmerston North BHS while in a rematch with Hamilton the score again was in the visitors favour with the result ending  24- 29.

A highlight for the team has been their training session running live defensive screens against the All Blacks before the French test in Auckland.

Old Boys Todd Jennings, Simon Oldham, Ra Walker, Charles Baxter, Jason Hona & Richard Craven enjoy 1^st XV rugby on Nicholson Field.

Cross Country

Bay of Plenty Championships were held recently at Waipuna Park and TBC had a perfect event winning the Junior, Intermediate and Senior 3 and 6 man events as well as each individual title with Korban Eades (son of Old Boy Neville), Daniel Hintz and Luke Bradshaw respective winners.

Squash

The Bay of Plenty Secondary School Squash Championships has been held and TBC were dominant claiming the top 6 individual places. Joe Lyons emerged victoriousbeating Josh Oakley in the final.

Sailing

During the last holidays our sailors travelled to Taupo to contest the National Secondary School Team Racing Championships.  The side began very well, but frustrated by light winds towards the end of the competition they were overhauled by Kerikeri by 1 point.  This second result was enough to qualify for the InterDominions in Brisbane later in the year.

Following in the traditions of Olympians Peter Burling and Jason Saunderssailor Trent Rippey won the Under 19 Starling Nationals in Picton which is the largest single handed youth class with over 100 boats competing.  Trent also joined up with younger brother Cole to place 2^nd in the 29er nationals.

Water Polo

Fifteen teams contested the National Championships however TBC drew the toughest pool and began with 2 losses to top Auckland schools Westlake BHS and Sacred Heart.  From there on they were unbeaten and eventually were 5th= with Hamilton BHS whom they drew their final match.

Hockey

The 1^st XI has begun the season well remaining unbeaten to date.  In the holidays they played Indian Shield winners St Kentigern College beating them 3-2 and 1-0

and also Super 8 champions Hamilton BHS  2-1.  After local qualifying rounds they will compete in a regional Midlands secondary school competition in their build up to the Rankin Cup.

Volleyball

Brad Fullerton has been selected in the Under 19 New Zealand team who travel to the World Champs in Portugal next month.

Basketball

The basketballers have also had a good start to the year with them hosting St John’s College, Hamilton BHS and Rosmini College at a quadrangular tournament last month. The side performed extremely well winning their 3 matches against talented opposition.

Football

The side has been playing local competition but has also begun qualifying games for nationals with wins against Western Heights HS (5-2) and St Paul’s Collegiate (1-0).

The most recent result was a 3-2 win over St Peters which means the side has again qualified for the Premier National Football tournament which features the top 16 teams in the country.

Road Cycling

A growing team of riders contested the BOP/Waikato Champs with Mitchell Lowe Under 14 Champion and Theo Wright claiming the Under 15 title.

Wake Boarding

Daniel Tingey contested the national championships and placed 3^rd  which was good enough for him to be selected in the New Zealand team for the 2013 World Championships in Korea.

MotoCross

TBC sent 16 riders to the national championships and placed 12^th out of 47 schools competing.

Judo

Two TBC competitors fought at the WBOP Championships with James Brogan claiming bronze in the Cadets Under 66 kg division and Jonathan Hodges-Ginns also securing bronze in the Junior Men’s Under 66 kg class.

Badminton

Two junior teams won their respective grades at the Bay of Plenty Championships held in Tauranga recently.

Special Olympics Football

Our boys competed in the Regional Championships in Pukekohe where they came away with the gold medal.

Indoor Bowls

TBC dominated the recentBOP Championships with 1st (Josh Saywell) and 2^nd (Nash Smith) in Division 1 Singleswhile Stefan McCartain and Nathan Arlidge won the Division 1 Pairs.TBC Bowlers also won Singles and Pairs in Division 2.

Kayaking

A New Zealand Junior team which includes 4 TBC students is competing in Europe as a build-up to the World Championships.  Dan Munro and Luke Robinson have been the stand out performers claiming bronze in the Under 16 C2 team event in both Slovenia and Poland.

TBC Arts

Production

The 2013 show of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat played to full houses in the Graham Young Youth Theatre last week with reviews enthusiastically singing the praises of the cast and the music.

Smoke Free Rock Quest

TBC was very well represented in the local finals with students from our school involved in 4 different bands.  Stand-out performers were ‘The Incline’ featuring TBC students Alex Twidle & Daniel Kulasingham, Old Boy Cody Mitchell who is now at the Mount and singer Leilani Taula from TGC who placed first and are now busy recording a 15 minute demo for nationals.  Our Ben Guernier featured with other Mt Maunganui students in RPM who placed second.

Super 8 Cultural Festival

TBC were well represented in this annual contest this year held in Rotorua gaining 3 firsts, 5 seconds and a third placing in the 13 different events.  Placings were as follows:

Visual Art Senior: 1^st Adam Staples

Visual Art Junior: 1^st Conner Borell

Music Solo Junior: 1^st Elijah Tuala  

Drama Group: Second

Music Group: Second

Debating Junior: Second

Theatre Sports Senior: Second

Theatre Sports Junior: Third

Other special awards were to the Drama Group who won “Best Ensemble Piece” and to Josh Pereira who won the coveted “Best Actor” award.

Old Boy Achievements

Queen’s Birthday Honours

Hugh McCarroll who went to Tauranga College was honoured in the Queen’s Birthday lists with The New Zealand Order of Merit for services to shearing sports and agriculture.  Hugh has competed in national and international shearing competitions since 1967 and been heavily involved in the administration of the sport as well.

Dairying

Two Old Boys who have chosen dairying as a career have been recognized for their success in the industry.  Twenty two year old Tangaroa Walker was the 2011 Southland AgITO student of the year and last year he won the Ahuwhenua Trophy as the country’s best young Maori farmer, along with study scholarship and $3000 cash.  It is not all work with Tangaroa though as he has represented both Bay of Plenty and now Southland at rugby.

Former physiotherapist Thomas Chatfield has just been named runner up in the 2013 Dairy Industry Awards in their Trainee of the Year competition which included a $4000 prize.  He had earlier won the Bay of Plenty competition and contested the finals against 11 others from throughout the country.

United Nations

2005 Head Boy Tim Fletcher completed a law degree before moving on to humanitarian work.  He has now begun work as an Observer for the United Nations based in Geneva.

Old Boys Arts

Music

Chase Douglas has completed a Bachelor of Music degree with 1st Class Honours and in 2012 he won one of ten AMP National Scholarships in Performing Arts from around 2000 applicants.  This year he has been one of 3 soloists singing with the Bay of Plenty Symphonia in the series of the Proms.

Television

Old Boy Jamie Fitzgerald along with Kevin Biggar has a new series of First Crossings on television.  This show retells the stories of pioneer New Zealanders making first trips through our land.

Erik Thomson, who stars as Dave Rafter in the Australian production of Packed to the Rafters has just finished shooting what is to be the last series of this successful show.  The second last series has just finished screening this last week in New Zealand.

Music

I’ve just heard that Old Boy Jason Cresswell has been making waves on both sides of the Atlantic as a member of the London-based hard hitting alternative rock band Katalina Clicks.  They have toured both the UK and the USA with their debut album The Return of the Montague Rotter and are described as a mix of the Clash and the Kinks.  Check out www.katalinakicks.comfor the sound of these guys!!

Old Boys Sport

Rugby

With the local club rugby season approaching the finals stage the Bay of Plenty Union has just announced its squad for the coming ITM Cup competition. The Steamers squad includes the following Old Boys: Tanerau Latimer, Sam Cane, Karl Axtens, Steve Honey, Josh Hall, Nathan Harris and Nick Evemy.

Rowing

Having just climbed the tallest mountain in Africa (Mt. Kilimamnjaro) Mahe Drysdale has got back in his boat and has rowed at the Henley regatta.  In a rare occurrence he was beaten but he now has a couple of months to train up before major competitions in Europe later in the year.

BMX Cycling

Olympian Kurt Pickard is currently racing on the American pro circuit and last week competing just outside Chicago he gained his first pro podium finish with minimal build up.  Later this month he will be competing against 125 of the world’s best riders at the 2013 UCI BMX World Championships in Auckland.

Cricket

Having been an important part of the BlackCaps tour of United Kingdom Kane Williamson has no international cricket until October and has been invited to play T20 cricket for powerful English County side Surrey alongside Ricky Ponting.

Sailing

Olympians Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have just taken out the gold medal at the 2013 SAP 49er European Championships sailed in Denmark.

Meanwhile Sam Meech won gold in the EUROSAF Champions Sailing Cup regatta held at the 2012 Olympic venue of Weymouth.

Football

Longtime All White and professional Tony Lochhead has not been offered a contract with the Wellington Phoenix after Ricky Herbert was replaced as coach. The New Zealand Under 20 World Cup has just been held in Turkey and three Old Boys in the Phoenix; Tyler Boyd, Ryan Thomas and Jesse Edge were all members of the team.

Golf

Tauranga professional Jared Pender has had success on the Queensland Sunshine Tour where he won the ProAm in the Glendene Mining Series.

Kayaking

After serious injury around 6 months ago Mike Dawson is back on the water in his kayak and enjoying success.  He has just won the Steep Creek title at the Mountain Games in Colorado for the third time running.

Hockey

Andy Hayward has been with the Blacksticks in Rotterdam where the team came 4^th in the Rabobank Hockey World League Semifinal. Since debuting in 2007 Andy has scored 57 goals and played 158 tests.

Running

The North Island cross country championships were held recently over a 9 km. course at Taupo.  Glenn Hughes placed a respectable 3^rd while Kyle MacDonald was 6^th.  Glenn was also 3^rd in an injury affected New Zealand Mountain running performance which qualified him again for the New Zealand team which will contest the World Championships in Poland in September.

A blockbuster edition this time and I hope there is something of interest here for all of you.  I can only do so much and appreciate the news several have passed on to me in the last couple of months.  If there is anything of interest please pass the news on to me.

All the best,

Rob Leslie

Hi everyone,

One of the comments passed on to me from time to time about what I do with these updates is that there is a sporting bias so this is an attempt on my part to redress the balance !!! Please be aware that I can only include information about people I know about and I would be most grateful for as many other details or inaccuracies in my information to be forwarded on to me ....... Here goes with approximate time at school in brackets where known ...

MUSIC

Jeremy Redmore (late 90’s) is the lead singer & one of the main writers for Midnight Youth who are currently doing very well with their album “ The Brave don’t Run”. It is up for recognition at the NZ Music Awards.

David Morgan, Regan Lethbridge & Glenn Mossop  (late 90’s) are all members of the Melbourne based Bonjah who featured in the August edition of Rolling Stone as a “Band to Watch”. Their single “Fly” features on Jetstar advertising in NZ & the boys are looking to tour New Zealand in October.

Grant Winterburn (early 1980s) featured on keyboards with the NZ’s got talent show and is recognised as one of NZ’s leading jazz keyboard players on piano & organ.

Chris Watson ( 1990s) is currently the Mozart Fellow at Otago University having completed a Ph.D. at Victoria. He has won the 2002 Asian Composers Competition and has had works performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic & NZ Symphony Orchestras.

Tumanako Farrell , who starred in the TBC Production of Grease in 1990, continues to woo the crowds with regular appearances at the SkyTower casino in Auckland. He won the Australasian Karaoke Championships at one stage and has spent a considerable period of time entertaining on Cruise Ships.

Rock & Roll revivalist Tom Sharplin (1960’s) & his band the Cadillacs were very popular featured artists at the 50th Jubilee celebrations last year & are well supported through the North Island.

Robbie White (1980s) is a rock & Roll singer/song writer influenced by groups such as the Beatles & the Clash. He is Auckland based and has recorded material @ the Sound Room recently.

Glyn Marillier (1960s) is based in Perth these days and has had a professional career in Music there for many years.

ART

A number of Old Boys have exhibited in the Tauranga Art Gallery since it opened. Nigel Brown (1960s) has just finished a major show while others including John McLean (1960s), who resides in Taranaki  and local potter John Roy (1990s) have had work in some of the smaller spaces.

Other Old Boys showing/working fulltime as artists in Tauranga are Richard Smith (1970s ?) , Antony Warnes (1950s) & graffiti artist Graeme Hoete (1990s).

Malcolm Evans (1960s) worked as one of the foremost cartoonists in NZ – primarily for the NZ Herald – but in recent years has worked more with his painting & sculpture.

Out of Tauranga Glen Leslie (late 1990s) has exhibited a number of times in his hometown of Hamilton while David Brown (1980s) has turned to art fulltime in Wellington after previously working as an archaeologist.

STAGE & SCREEN

Ian Mune (1950s) - an icon of NZ film who has been an actor, writer & director in many of our most influential movies – Sleeping Dogs, The God Boy, End of the Golden Weather, Came a Hot Friday, etc.

Shane Cortese (was Collins - 1980s) is one of our most high profile actors with recent work in Outrageous Fortune on our TV screens and recently on stage in Auckland performing in Cats. He continues to perform with his rock and roll (1950s) group on a regular basis.

Erik Thompson ( Head Prefect 1984) has been in Australia for quite a number of years but has featured on New Zealand TV screens recently in the drama “The Alice” and currently he is starring in “ Packed to the Rafters”.

Several other Old Boys from the 1980s & 1990s – Eryn Wilson, Craig Muller,Brian Callahan & Clint Sharplin – have been involved in a wide range of TV ads, stage shows, Shortland Street, NZ films, theatre & production from their Auckland base.

MEDIA

Wayne Hay (1990s?) read the Sports news on TV 1 a number of years ago and from there has gone to Malaysia where he is now working for Aljazeera TV

Jared Savage (1990s) is one of the lead reporters for the Herald on Sunday while Shayne Currie (1990s) is Editor.

Jay Reeve (1990s) has gone from performing in the Cooking Suite at TBC to presenting on MTV and also recently has been on ZM radio as Breakfast host.


I’m certain this list could be added to substantially so if there are others I don’t know about please pass on the details...

All the best for now,

Hi everyone,

Next week is Winter Sports Tournament Week & the opportunity for Old Boys around the country to see a wide range of our teams competing at a national level. If you are able to get along to see any of the matches I know our boys & their coaches would appreciate it. Please note the days of play in brackets ...

Rugby

• Under 15 @ New Plymouth BHS  (Mon-Fri)
• Under 14 @ Palmerston North BHS (Mon-Wed)

Football

• 1st XI  @ Nelson (Mon-Fri)

Hockey

• 1st XI  @ Albany (Mon-Fri)
• 2nd XI  @ Palmerston North (Mon-Fri)

Basketball

• Senior  @ Rotorua (Tues-Sat)
• Junior   @ Te Awamutu (Sat-Tues)

Golf

• NZSS Finals @ Manukau (Mon)
• Juniors  @ North Shore (Wed-Sat)

Cross Country

• @ Hamilton (Mon)

If you would like to get more details get back to me ASAP as I will be in PN managing the 2nd XI hockey team. Anyone there it would be great to catch up !!!

A number of the teams above are priming well for tournament week as results below suggest ......

Rugby - 1st XV  Victory against Gisborne BHS meant our side placed 2nd in one of the closest Super 8 competitions ever
Rugby - 2nd XV Another good win from this side meant an unbeaten Super 8  and victory overall

Squash - NZ SS competitions have just been completed and our boys ended 6th in the country – their best ever result. The highlight was a 2-3 loss to Auckland GS who have been national champions for the last 5 years. All of our team return in 2010 so even better should be achieved then !!!!

Football - Our 1st XI, coached by James Pamment, had an impressive 4-2 victory away to Auckland GS and backed that up with promotion by winning their local competition. They should perform well at nationals.

Basketball - Our lads won this competition for the first time in a decade in dramatic fashion. They lost to 2 times champs PNBHS in pool play & then found themselves in a rematch in the final. Captain Adam Dunstan, who was MVP for the tournament, drained a clutch 3 pointer with 2 seconds left on the clock to take out a famous victory 66-65.

Hockey - The 1st XI had the last of their quad tournaments & performed extremely well against 3 Rankin Cup teams. We were 4-0 down against national champs Westlake BHS before fighting back for a 4 all draw, beat Hamilton BHS 4-1 & then in the final were beaten 4-3 by Auckland GS who are always in the running for top national honours.

That’s it for now,

Rob Leslie