October 2011

 A Brave Man

Mr Morris received this letter 3/8/11 from Dr Lawrence Hogben DSC ’29, Prefect and University Entrance Scholar 1933, Rhodes Scholar 1937.

Dear Headmaster
 I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your series of leading articles in ‘Ad Augusta’ – they give me a good feeling. You may somehow wonder about your old pupils. Well – as top graduate mathematician of all NZ universities and a Rhodes Scholar, I went to New College Oxford for a year.

Then war broke out, so I left and by October I was a naval officer. After over three years at sea I was, in battle, awarded the first DSC ever given to a Royal Navy Instructor Officer. Later, from the Admiralty, I became one (the only New Zealander) of Eisenhower’s six controlling D-Day weather forecasters. Against his will, we stopped his proposed invasion on the disastrously stormy 5 June 1944 and gave the go ahead for the successful 6th.

After the navy, I took a doctorate at the Imperial College London and joined ICI. I served internationally for 30 years ending as Head of Europe on public relations in Brussels, later retiring to France.

Best wishes to you, your staff and the boys at Grammar.
Lawrence Hogben (95 years old)

CBA CEO

Ian Narev ’80 has been appointed chief executive of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Mr Narev has two Masters degrees in law. He graduated with an LLM in international corporate law with first class honours from Cambridge University in 1994 and an LLM in international relations from New York University in 1998. He worked in the New York, Sydney and Auckland offices of McKinsey & Co before leaving to join CBA in 2007 as the bank’s head of strategy. He went on to be made head of CBA’s business-banking division in 2009. Mr Narev takes up his new appointment in December.

 

Accountants Fellowship

Stephen Stafford-Bush ’72 recently had Fellowship status conferred on him by the Institute of Chartered Accountants for outstanding service to the Institute following seven years on the Auckland Branch Committee (1993–1999 – one as Chair) and nine years on the Primary sector Committee and Regional Advisory Group (2003–2011 – four as Chair).

 

 

Rugby World Cup Old Boys

This year’s RWC saw an impressive eight Old Boys representing four countries. For Tonga, Andrew Mei’ilei, Samisoni Fisilau and Sione Kalamafoni; for Fiji, Napolioni Nalaga; for Samoa, Daniel Leo, Taiasina Tuifu’a and Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu; and for Ireland Geordan Murphy.

Queen’s Birthday Honours

Barry Cleal JP ’52 MNZM for services to rowing and John Hawkesby ‘61 MNZM for services to broadcasting and the community.

Environment Judge

Judge Laurence Newhook ’63 has been appointed Acting Principal Environment Judge. Judge Newhook was appointed to the Environment Court Bench in 2001.

Black Sticks and professional hockey player

Ryan Archibald recently returned to New Zealand to live, following five years playing professional hockey in the Netherlands. He represented HC Rotterdam in the Dutch Hoofdklasse, which is hockey’s equivalent of the English Premier League football competition. Since returning, Ryan is now Business Development Manager with national waste and recycling company Envirowaste Services, and has married long-term girlfriend Kim Noakes. He has one more sporting goal, to represent the Blacksticks at next year’s London Olympic Games.

 

 

 

 

 

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