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THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND Alumni MAGAZINE | Spring 2012 SUMMER SHAKESPEARE TURNS 50 AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARADISE WINNING SHORT STORY EDITORIAL In this issue The power of philanthropy Ingenio – The University of Auckland Letters to the Editor 4-5 series of functions at home and abroad, the value of philanthropy. alumni magazine 10 together with excellent speakers, (often our Fifthly, we have seen a gradual and growing News 6-9 leading researchers) have largely blunted those appreciation among our alumni, many of whom Spring 2012 early suspicions. had become totally disengaged, of the fact ISSN 1176-211X Features At the same time, having visited the that even small annual donations can, when Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Virginia, aggregated, make the world of difference, Editor: Tess Redgrave Summer Shakespeare 10 Melbourne and Sydney, we were planning particularly in providing scholarship funding to Contributing editors: Helen Borne, Judy Wilford and building our Development infrastructure support talented students who would otherwise Ahuahu dig 12 Design: Justin Marshall and Laura Dueker for the University’s first major pan-University be unable to afford a University education. Advertising manager: Don Wilson Whale woman 14 fundraising campaign, “Leading the Way”. This Between 2008 and 2011, the number of Proofreading: Rose Yukich has just concluded, having raised over $202.9 alumni donating to one of the University’s Born activist 16 14 million (against an initial goal of annual appeals grew by 75 percent. Editorial contact details $100 million!) largely for specific chairs, As Vice-Chancellor Professor Stuart Ingenio Winning short story 18 Communications and Marketing fellowships and scholarships. McCutcheon has noted, the campaign has The University of Auckland Taking Issue 20 What were the key outcomes from the transformed the University’s, and its alumni’s Private Bag 92019 campaign? understanding of, and approach to, the power Auckland 1142, New Zealand Poetic justice 22 Firstly, we confirmed the vital importance of of philanthropy. Simply put, the government Level 10, Fisher Building doing very thorough homework with potential cannot provide what has been described as 18 Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland Manliness 23 Telephone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 84149 donors beforehand. We discovered that being “dream money”, which has become so vital in Facsimile: +64 9 373 7047 Urban storyliner 24 125 years old, and being (then) 51st in the attracting and retaining top level researchers Email: [email protected] 20 world, were of secondary importance to the and teachers in the current arms race for www.auckland.ac.nz/ingenio Pacific storyteller 26 University being less self-serving and more academic talent. Audited by www.abc.org.nz outward-looking and motivated to make a In conclusion, the campaign has been One of the challenges in any university is to difference to the health, the economic and hugely beneficial in informing and motivating How alumni keep in touch Regular sections To ensure that you continue to receive Ingenio, resolve the archetypal tension between alumni social wellbeing of our nation, and of humanity more alumni to take a more proactive interest and to subscribe to @auckland, Alumni achievers 28 relations and development – in simplified terms, generally. in their alma mater, especially older age the University’s email newsletter for alumni and between friend-raising and fundraising. Both are Secondly, we confirmed the importance groups who supported themselves through the friends, please update your details at: Photo gallery 30 at opposite ends of a continuum, from the more of appropriate investment by respective University without the current impost of having www.alumni.auckland.ac.nz/update altruistic alumni engagement for its own sake to Vice- Chancellors in providing excellent to take large student loans. I have no doubt Alumni Relations Office Alumni News 32 The University of Auckland the more utilitarian use of the alumni database infrastructural support for the campaign that the increase in “giving back” to student 19A Princes Street, Private Bag 92019 Alumni Noticeboard 33 26 to support the University’s financial needs. committee, deans and research champions support scholarships we have seen during Auckland 1142, New Zealand Given that common challenge, we were very Telephone: +64 9 923 4653 Development 33 fortunate, here at Auckland, to combine both Email: [email protected] Why are you having this function, you are the alumni and the development functions www.alumni.auckland.ac.nz Books 34 when we moved into the former synagogue only after our money? Copyright Art 37 which became University House in 2003. Articles reflect personal opinions and are not Our early focus was on reconnecting with across the University from development the campaign is motivated by a desire to give those of The University of Auckland. No parts of Sport 38 alumni both at home and abroad, not only managers, researchers and writers to as many talented students as possible the this publication may be reproduced without prior by mounting a comprehensive functions communications, event management, and web opportunity to gain a university degree without consent of The University of Auckland. Student life 39 All rights reserved. programme, but chiefly through this biannual and database experts. the long-term millstone of a huge student loan. ©The University of Auckland 2012 Ingenio magazine which now goes out to Thirdly, we discovered that a fundraising Long may that sentiment and support continue! more than 100,000 alumni, largely in print campaign could be very transformative in Finally, may I acknowledge the great Cover photo but also to a small but growing percentage, terms of highlighting the practical outcomes support I have received from the respective From Outdoor Shakespeare's Julius Caesar electronically. of top-level research. We now know far more Vice-Chancellors, deans, senior management (1974) Back: Adrian Kierknander (Casca) One issue that had to be worked through about who our research superstars are, and and especially our Alumni Relations and and front Dr Robert Leek (Julius Caesar) Ingenio website carefully was how to integrate an extensive what they are achieving for good, across so Development team during my very stimulating alumni re-engagement programme with many different fields. We also have a better Check out our website www.ingenio-magazine.com decade at the University. the University’s ever present and growing understanding of their vital importance to New If you’re as happy to read Ingenio online as in philanthropic needs – meat and drink in the Zealand’s future economic and social success print, we’ll stop sending you the magazine and John Taylor, who has been Director of Alumni US but not so in New Zealand, Australia and than that afforded by our often more publicly instead you’ll receive an email each time the Relations and Development at The University the UK. acclaimed sporting and other celebrities. website is refreshed with the latest Ingenio content. of Auckland since 2003, and has directed the Reactions to that re-engagement programme Fourthly, we witnessed the magic which You can search articles, browse by topic, view “Leading the Way” fundraising campaign, varied from “Why are you having this function, results when a potential donor meets a top videos and leave comments on the Ingenio website. retires at the end of this year after a career you are only after our money?” (in New researcher and becomes intrinsically involved which has also included the headmasterships Zealand) to “What is the value proposition?” in sponsoring vital research – which in turn of Kings College, Auckland (1988-2002) and Ingenio is printed on 100% recycled, elemental chlorine-free paper, (in the more fundraising-focused US). However, has made the University’s academics and Rathkeale College, Masterton (1979-1987). using soy-based ink. during the last decade, our largely biennial researchers far more aware and appreciative of 2 | The University of Auckland Ingenio Spring 2012 | 3 LETTERS LETTERS Response from Susan St John, Co-Director of the Retirement Policy and Research Centre, after the external exams are complete. part-time Associate Professor in the Economics Department, University of Auckland With monotonous regularity they Note the comment [in the response that rehash what is already known. So the are reminded of the perils of relying on from McAuley High School] “We also comment was as much as anything self- professional sport as a career (not an issue do not spend our extremely busy days deprecating. for the girls). They are three of the four ‘handwringing and writing endless reports’ My message, clearly missed, is that poor Head Prefects and when they leave to go as stated by Susan St John, although we educational achievement is one of the to university they do degrees in medicine, do support her point that the negative symptoms of child poverty. We know enough engineering, commerce, law and the arts. effects of poverty are both varied and to act now, especially in the first years of Through our GATEWAY programme we even many in our society”. life when New Zealand does really badly got seven apprenticeships in 2011 and they arruthers C in supporting young families. A low income are harder to get than entrance to university. ean I was not referring to these very talented D child with good food/good health/good To meet the challenge of getting more and hardworking alumni at all, but to students