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Sam Webster Wins Triple Gold at the Junior World Track Cycling Championships October 2009 - Volume 17 No. 4 Ad Augusta Sam Webster wins triple gold at the Junior World Track Cycling Championships AUCKLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL MagaZINE Contents The Headmaster ...............................................................................................................Page 3 Report from the Board .....................................................................................................Page 4 Grammar has never been a normal state school; Champion Cyclist Sam Webster ......................................................................................Page 5 we have thrived on the challenges put before us Sports: Round Up .............................................................................................................Page 6 and this latest challenge is no different. Sports: Focus on Tournament Week ...............................................................................Page 8 Sports: Staff vs. Prefects rugby and football games, the Hillary Challenge ...................Page 9 Academic: Library Week, Debating ...............................................................................Page 10 Academic: Geography trip to South Africa .................................................................... Page 11 The Headmaster Arts: Music Festivals, Shrew’d ......................................................................................Page 12 Arts: Stage Band Tour, Papa Eden on Telethon .............................................................Page 13 he School featured in the press before us and this latest challenge is no champions in Dunedin and the five extensively last term as a result of different. Auckland rugby championships won by Events: Art Exhibition .....................................................................................................Page 14 T a fracas at the end of the 1st XV rugby The annals of all great schools are the School’s teams. Events: Foundation Trust Gala Dinner ............................................................................Page 15 semi-final which Grammar won 20–9. full of such challenges to their reputation The term also witnessed the really The fracas was regrettable and and philosophy. Many Old Boys have positive achievements of our boys in Events: School Ball, MEN programme, Headmaster’s Environmental Committee .....Page 16 reflected poorly on both schools, but the written to me reminiscing about such music, academic pursuits and in the way the press reported the affair was incidents during their time at Grammar general life of the School. Many of these Staff News: 40 years Mr Des Cutler, 25 years Mr Min Lee and Mr Jon Hasler...........Page 17 also very regrettable. To all intents and and that has been very encouraging are profiled in this magazine. This gives purposes, the reporting made Grammar to me and the School generally. We a much more rounded picture of our Foundation Trust: Annual Appeal donations ..................................................................Page 18 seem to be the villains, when a close will emerge from this media beat-up school, its achievements and its eclectic Notices: Term Dates 2010, Exam tutorials, Leavers’ Lunch, Golf Tournament ............Page 20 look at the two videos available on the stronger and more united than ever. activities rather than the negative game and the minutes from the judiciary Certainly our school’s reputation emphasis on the rugby fracas. and punishments meted out by the remains as strong as ever and this has This term is of course the climax to Old Boys’ News judiciary do not back up that view. recently been reflected in the huge the year’s academic work, with senior There is no doubt in my mind that number of out of zone applications boys sitting external examinations from OBA President’s introduction, invitation to the Augusta Awards .................................Page 21 the press were out to portray Grammar received by the School, which is the the middle of October right through until as the villain. We are an easy target. I highest number ever received since the end of November. Both NCEA and Pavilion Changing Rooms Appeal, Donation from The Burnett Trust ...........................Page 22 also have no doubt that if TV cameras the introduction of the new enrolment CIE examinations are testing challenges Augusta Awardees: Denis Feeney, Max Gimblett and Sir Duncan McMullin ..............Page 23 had not been present at the game, there regulations in 2000. which boys need to focus fully on and would have been no publicity about Regarding enrolments, I can assure the School wishes all boys well for these OBA Executive Committee 2009, Form 6 Leaders’ Camp ...........................................Page 24 this incident at all; if the two teams the Grammar community that the exams, which serve as an accountability involved had not been AGS and KBHS, School has continued to lobby the mechanism for both boys and teachers. Branch News and Events: USA and UK .........................................................................Page 25 I am equally certain the publicity would National Government at the highest level Academic success remains the have been nil, with the result that both to re-look at the regulations promulgated raison d’être of our school and is a major Grammar Families: The Leyland Family .........................................................................Page 26 schools would have sorted the matter by the previous Labour Government in factor differentiating our school from all Rugby traditions: 1st XV caps, rugby lunches, Cooper-Greenbank trophy ...................Page 27 out internally, as normally happens in 2000. The ability to maintain the family others in New Zealand. The School’s these rare instances. connections that are so vital for our long history of academic achievement is News of Old Boys ...........................................................................................................Page 28 In a way we are the victims of school (and other kindred schools) is unmatched and it is important that we our own success. Our high profile something we have tried to convince maintain this emphasis on academia and Join the OBA, School Day Memoirs, Old Boys’ e-bulletins ..........................................Page 29 means the press are constantly on the the current government to incorporate in maintain our niche as the pre-eminent Editor lookout for stories that may bring us an amendment to the legislation. Time academic state school in the country. Amanda Harkness Obituaries, Regular Reunions, Facebook .......................................................................Page 30 down a notch or two. As the Grammar will tell if we have been successful, community will be aware, the egalitarian but I remain optimistic given the Best wishes Contact Details Calendar of Events..........................................................................................................Page 31 lobby is alive and well and keen to government’s championing of choice Editor ensure that no state school can stand and flexibility. Ad Augusta apart and be different. Our sports teams have also finished Auckland Grammar School Well Grammar is different. We off the season very strongly, with the Private Bag 99930 have never been a normal state school; highlight being the victory of the 1st XI Newmarket Front Cover: Triple World Cycling Champion Sam Webster. we have thrived on the challenges put hockey side who were crowned national John Morris – Headmaster Auckland 1149 Photo by Jason Oxenberg, courtesy of the Central Leader. Email: [email protected] Ad Augusta | October 2009 | page 3 > Sports < Triple World Under 19 Cycling Champion n July, Sam Webster went to Moscow Ias part of the New Zealand Under 19 Cycling team to compete in the World Championships. Much was expected of this team, with Sam Webster predicted to do very well. Racing began on 11 August with the Team Sprint. The team was confident but aware of the history of sprinters from other nations. New Zealand qualified first after the kilometre ride in a time of 1 minute 00.4 seconds and then went on to take the final, riding faster then they did in the qualifying round. The win was the first gold medal and World Championship win by a New Zealand sprint team. Sam with his father James in the French Alps two years ago, The Keirin qualifying rounds then when AGS Cycling followed Le Tour toward Alpe D’Huez. began, an event where a motorbike paces six riders up to 50km/h over narrowly missing out on the world cycling history. He is earmarked for a distance of five laps and then pulls record. He finished the qualifying bigger and better things when he leaves off, leaving the riders to race over two rounds in second place. He then faced School at the end of the year. laps. In the final, Sam was a marked a German rider in the best of three final Ironically Sam does not qualify for an man with all the other riders waiting series. Sam won the first race and then ASB Young Sportsman of the Year Award for him and trying to obstruct him. Sam convincingly smashed the German in because there is no track cycling offered delivered to their expectations and made race two to claim his third World title. in Auckland Secondary School Sport. the first move, putting a few lengths This was an incredible feat, and to on the field, with only one rider able to go through the championships, with a An extract from Deputy Headmaster hang on. Sam went on to win his second total of 14 unbeaten races was
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