Death of former principal, Anthony (Tony) Brough

We have recently learned of the death of former Principal Anthony (Tony) Brough, who died peacefully in Nelson in November, aged 89 years. He was Principal from 1990 – 1995. Tony, along with his wife Barbara, made a huge contribution to College life. They were well-liked and respected by teachers, parents, and students, and Tony’s tenure is a significant part of College history. Tony was the 13th Principal, the first lay Principal and the first principal to manage College House as a mixed hall of residence. He presided over CH as it grew through the addition of Hardie and Beadel houses. Our thoughts are with his family at this very sad time.

CH Alumni are part of the team to win prestigious engineering award Last week, the NZ Transport Agency, KiwiRail and the North Canterbury Transport Infrastructure group (NCTIR) won the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) People’s Choice Award. This award celebrates the world’s top civil engineering projects and sets the benchmark for excellence in construction and design. It is decided by a public vote – truly reflecting what the local people who benefit from each project really think! We would like to congratulate CH alumni who have been part of the huge team working on this project – Rolly (David) Rowland (2004), Daniel Headifen (1995), Hannah Willis (nee Lord) (2010/11) and Frances Neeson (2005/06). NZ Transport Agency Regional Director Steve Mutton, chair of the NCTIR Board, said it was a collective effort that resulted in engineering excellence, and every crew member – past and present - should feel proud of themselves. “The team worked hard, under extremely difficult conditions, to rebuild and create a safe highway and rail line to reconnect Kaikōura and critical South Island transport links to the north and south, as well as benefiting the wider surrounding communities also still recovering from the effects of the earthquake Rolly (Beca) continues to work on the project in his role as Central Shared Path Project Lead and told us that work along the Kaikoura coast will continue this year as the rebuild is completed. This includes making the temporary works permanent, as well as continuing to improve the safety and resilience of the route with slope protection measures, tunnels, seawalls and safe stopping areas. Daniel Headifen (KiwiRail) also continues to work on the project in his role as Rail Design Manager.

Alumnus is helping save lives and reducing impacts of flooding Being in the midst of the US hurricane ‘season’ which runs from June to November, most Americans will have no idea that a Kiwi engineer/hydrologist has led the team that developed the software to monitor and measure water flows across the continental United States. Having this data at their fingertips means that the authorities can make decisions much earlier that will help save lives and reduce the impact of flooding on property. Alumnus Professor David Maidment (1968-70), and his team at the Center for Water and Environment at the University of Texas at Austin, developed the National Water Model that takes in weather, river and land surface data and predicts when and where major floods will occur. 2018 Texas hurricane season In 2018, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration in the US has forecast a 75% chance that the Texas hurricane season will be of average to above average in intensity. “Our data will be one of the major tools that will help predict what is going to happen, where, the volume and the intensity of the water flows. It means that people can more quickly get out of their houses to higher ground, and make their properties safer,” explains David. David says that the model successfully predicted the water flows from Hurricane Harvey that slammed into Texas in August-September 2017. “We had a better understanding of where the water would fall, where it would flow and where the damage was likely to be – which was horrendous – more than 130,000 homes were flooded during the hurricane”. David served in the Texas State Operations Center throughout Hurricane Harvey helping to provide flood information to support the emergency response. He describes the experience as “the 10 most pressured days of my life”. Launched in 2016, the National Water Model calculates the risk of flooding in 2.7 million creeks and rivers in the continental United States. The data is refreshed every hour of every day of every year.

Death of Maurice Mahoney ONZM, Distinguished Fellow NZIA ‘A special man who quietly gave so much to his family and ’ It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Maurice Mahoney, architect and friend of College House. Maurice was born in London to Doris and Ernest Mahoney and trained in architecture at the Christchurch Architectural Association's Atelier. After working with several Christchurch firms, he teamed up with Sir Miles Warren in 1958 to remodel the Dental Training School. Their firm, Warren and Mahoney, designed many of the country's most significant buildings from the 1960s to 1980s, including College House, the , which they won the right to design in a competition, and the Michael Fowler Centre in . Most were in their trademark concrete, blocky, geometric designs and were noted for their great scale and complexity. Other Christchurch buildings that bore the Warren and Mahoney stamp were the Crowne Plaza – originally known as the Parkroyal Hotel – the AMI building on Latimer Square, Dorset Towers, the Transport Ministry building on Montreal St, the Harewood Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, and numerous residential buildings. The former Central Library, New Brighton Library and South Library were also all designed by Warren and Mahoney. Mahoney's last major project, the refurbishment of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings and the Parliamentary Library, won numerous architecture and design awards. Though much of his legacy was obliterated in the Christchurch earthquakes, Mahoney collected several awards for his work, including the inaugural Distinguished Fellowship in 2017 in recognition of his career and became an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit for services to architecture in 2010. At the 2017 Canterbury Architecture Awards, Mahoney and the Warren and Mahoney company were a standout, winning an Enduring Architecture Award for their work at 18 Butler St, a Christchurch house clad with mirror glass, as well as a Commercial, Enduring Architecture and Heritage Award for the practice. The firm amassed more than 300 architectural awards, including four New Zealand Institute of Architecture's Gold Medals – its highest honour – awarded to the practice between 1959 and 1973. Sir Miles Warren said he admired the way Maurice put things together with such great clarity and precision, and his expert draughtsmanship and ordered approach to design problems. Mahoney retired from professional practice in 1992, with Warren, the public face of the firm, following in 1994. Mahoney is survived by his wife, Margaret, four children – Sarah, Jane, Nigel and Emma – and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. A service will be held in St Barnabas Anglican Church, in Fendalton, at 1.30pm on Tuesday. Pro Ecclesia Dei

Farewell and big thanks to David and Helen Maidment Professor David Maidment (1968-70) and Dr Helen Maidment will be missed but not forgotten. After two months in Christchurch, from February to April 2018, while David was back at the as an Erskine Fellow sharing his water management expertise, David and Helen Maidment have returned to their home in Austin, Texas. During their stay in Christchurch they participated in a number of College House events and students and staff are extremely sorry to see them go. While here, David and Helen announced a gift of $100,000 towards the restoration of the College House Chapel. As students, they were often in Chapel together. Helen recalled attending plainsong concerts on Saturday nights. "It was an experience for the ages,” she said. “Those orange windows cast such a beautiful light. And the ritual…it responds to something very deep in human needs.” The announcement of the gift, by BM at formal dining, was met with sustained applause. The Maidments later spoke to students in the common room about their own student years and the opportunities student life offers for daring, creativity and personal development. They described the Chapel, which today's students have yet to experience, as a quiet place to think, to contemplate. And, they reminded students that a strength of CH is that it cares for students’ spiritual side as well as their mental, physical and academic growth. David says: “We have gained so much from our gifts to College House. I remember flying over the North Island after we visited for the opening ceremony for Maidment House… I looked down on the green hills and thought ‘it feels like home again’.

Alumnus appointed adviser to Reserve Bank of New Zealand Dr William Rolleston (1979) has been appointed one of two part-time advisors on monetary policy to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. He will provide advice to the Bank's Governing Committee leading up to setting the Official Cash Rate, starting his role with the Monetary Policy Statement to be issued in May. William says he's very much looking forward to his role in helping set New Zealand's monetary policy. "My role is to bring an outside perspective to the Bank’s decision-making process. I expect to draw on my farming, business, political and international experience as well as my exposure to a wide range of society through my previous medical practice.” Dr Rolleston is production director and co-owner of South Pacific Sera Ltd and Blue Cliffs Station; chair of Life Sciences Network, AgriView NZ and the University of Otago’s Genomics Aotearoa. He was chairman of Biotenz (the biotechnology industry organisation) from 1995-2003, president of Federated Farmers from 2014-2017 and Acting President of the World Farmers Organisation from 2016-2017.

London event to be at Lambeth Palace Our UK alumni and any CH parents or friends visiting London will have a rare opportunity to be entertained inside Lambeth Palace on 10 May this year. College House is enormously grateful to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby for kindly allowing the College House NZ Trust to hold this reception in the Palace. Lambeth Palace has been the official London residence of Archbishops of Canterbury since mediaeval times. Parts of the Palace date from the 13th Century while much of the rest was completed in Tudor times. Significant restoration was required after World War II as the palace buildings were heavily bombed. The buildings and grounds are registered under the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953 by English Heritage as a building of national architectural and historical significance The reception will be held in the State Drawing Room, which was once the daily living room of the Archbishops of Canterbury. Today the State Drawing Room is mainly used for entertaining visiting guests, including religious and political leaders and members of the Royal Family. Our guest speaker will be CH alumnus, Emeritus Archbishop Sir David Moxon (1972-73) who is a recently appointed CH board member. David returned to New Zealand last year from his position as the Anglican Church's representative to the Vatican. As a board member, he will be closely involved with plans for the strengthening of our much-loved Chapel. You can read more about Sir David here in our 2017 alumni magazine. The College House NZ Trust, is a registered charity in the UK, which supports the activities of College House. If you are able to attend please contact the College House Alumni & Development Office. Further details and an online booking form will be available shortly.

Archbishop Sir David Moxon joins the board Archbishop Emeritus Sir David Moxon (1972-73) joined the Board of College House on 20 March 2018. David is delighted to have the opportunity to serve an institution which he has said played a significant part in his career and was pivotal to his personal growth. He says, “It was a time of my awakening social responsibilities, my spiritual life and an increasing awareness of my educational opportunities". He is especially keen that as part of his responsibilities as a board member he will have a close involvement with the planning and fundraising for the strengthening, then re-opening of the Chapel. To David, even though CH is no longer a theological training place, it makes perfect sense for us to not only restore our Chapel, but to find new ways to re-integrate the chapel into student life and as a place for wider community benefit. David didn't come to CH as a theological student- he studied education and psychology at UC. However, during the 1970s David’s faith developed and he was ordained as a priest in 1979. He served in North Island parishes before being appointed Director of Theological Education for the Anglican Church in 1987. Six years later David was consecrated as the Bishop of Waikato and in 2006 he was appointed Archbishop of New Zealand. In 2008 he became one of the three Primates of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and the Pacific. In 2012 David was appointed as the Archbishop of Canterbury's Representative to the Holy See and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome. He was subsequently named an Archbishop Emeritus of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia by the General Synod / Te Hīnota Whānui. During Archbishop David’s time in Rome the Anglican Centre has focused its mission aspect on ecumenical education and networking in the area of modern slavery and human trafficking, as well as ecumenical networking for refugee ministry. In October 2016, Archbishop David helped facilitate the fourth meeting of Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, where they publicly renewed their respective communions' commitment to deeper dialogue and greater mutual partnership in mission, as part of the 50th anniversary of the first official visit of an Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury to a Pope, and of the establishment of the Anglican Centre in Rome. His term of service in Rome ended with a private audience with Pope Francis on June 16 2017, and he returned to his wife and family in Hamilton. Soon after he accepted an invitation from CH to chair a Chapel Steering Group. He is also patron of the Faith Community Nurses Association, and a Pihopa Awahina (honorary assistant) Bishop of the Maori Bishopric area of Te Manawa o te Wheke; and continues in a role as a governor of the Anglican Centre in Rome as co -chair of the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission. David is married to Tureiti, who is currently the director of Hamilton primary health provider Te Kohao Health. They have four adult children.

Sam Neill eats plastic bag College House alumnus, winery proprietor, film director and actor Sam Neill (1966-67) has joined former PM, Helen Clark, primatologist, Dr Jane Goodall and Greenpeace to call for an end to the use of throwaway plastic shopping bags in New Zealand. Sam Neill has shown his commitment to the cause by "eating" a bag, as many poor turtles do. See video On 27 February, Greenpeace and the Jane Goodall Institute presented a letter – along with a petition signed by more than 65,000 Kiwis – to the NZ Conservation Minister urging a regulatory ban on the bags. The letter highlights increasing concerns about the plague of plastic in the oceans and the impact it has on the environment. Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel has also given it her backing, along with her counterparts in Wellington, Nelson, Queenstown and . The letter says single-use plastics have a "devastating impact globally on animals, people and the environment". It suggests New Zealand has fallen "well behind the rest of the world" in the move to eliminate single-use plastic bags and that while commitments to reduce waste production are encouraging, "New Zealand's current position as the 10th worst nation for creating urban waste is indeed shameful".

Student Volunteer Army marches into action The University of Canterbury's was in action at the weekend with its "Big Give" initiative. The University of Canterbury’s Student Volunteer Army was in action at the weekend with its “Big Give” initiative which saw more than 1000 students clean up at Christchurch’s Godley Head. Department of Conservation rangers organised the students into 20 different groups to tackle projects ranging from planting trees to repairing fences. It’s over 7 years since (2008–09), Jason Pemberton (2007–08) and friends founded the SVA in response to the Christchurch earthquakes and the organisation is as active today as it was then. There are currently 2000 members with numbers expected to rise to 3000 by the end of the year which equates to almost a quarter of the UC student population. Ch students continue to be closely involved with SVA. Alumnus and current tutor Shayne Goldingham (2014-15) is a member of the executive team and is responsible for communications. Josh Blackmore (2015-16) is the current SVA president.

Listen to Josh Blackmore talk about the challenges of leading the organisation in 2018 and watch the students in action at Godley Head.

RYLA 2018 at College House College House has been the venue for 50 young adults to discover more about themselves, their leadership skills, and being part of a community. RYLA - the Rotary Youth Leadership Award - graduates 25,000 young adults each year around the world. It provides an environment in which young people develop their leadership, teamwork and communication skills. Many RYLA graduates refer to their experience as "the week that changed my life". The course at College House ran from Sunday 21st of January to Friday 26th of January and made full use of the House. Participants stayed in the houses, ate in the Dining Hall and made full use of the Quadrangle and Alan Pyatt Study Centre for a wide range of physical and mental challenges.

BM Alastair Drayton said, "It's a great pleasure to welcome RYLA each year. The energy and commitment they show during their brief stay in College House is wonderful. Coming after our Christmas break and before our own students begin their year, it's a great reminder of what a wonderful environment we have at College House and how superbly the facilities and surroundings effect the development of young people". The RYLA course is sponsored by Rotary Clubs throughout the Canterbury, Nelson, Marlborough and West Coast areas and is free to approved participants. More information can be found at RYLA 9970 Site

New Chair for College House Board Jono Brent (1996) is the new chairman of the College House Board Jono assumed the role of chairman on 1st January 2018 taking over from Anna Wilkes (1994 and tutor 1997-98) who served in the role since 2016. Jono says “The board accepted Anna's resignation with regret and is delighted that she will continue as a member. Anna's new business role now involves a great amount of travel and she reluctantly warned us that this would be incompatible with continuing as chairman. She has made an outstanding contribution and I am proud to be her successor".

Jono graduated from UC with a B.Com, majoring in Accounting and Business Administration, followed by a Master's degree in Engineering Management. He joined our board in 2013. Since 2010 he has been CEO of Connetics Limited, a multi-discipline electrical and utilities construction and maintenance business based in Christchurch. In addition, he is a board member of the Canterbury Rugby Football Union and a trustee of the Christchurch City Choir Foundation Trust. "College House is in great shape for 2018," says Jono. "Nonetheless, the board and management are eager to meet the challenges of being the preeminent hall of residence in Christchurch and leading the way for the pastoral care and accommodation of students around the country".

Alumnus on New Year's Honours List Congratulations to Dr William Rolleston (1979) for recognition on the New Year's Honours List Dr William Rolleston (1979) has been awarded Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) in the New Year’s honours list. After his studies at UC, William went on to study medicine at Otago. After a period of work in UK, he returned to the family farm near Timaru. Back in New Zealand, William began to develop blood products for use in cell culture, microbiology and immunology and formed the biotechnology company, South Pacific Sera along with his brother John (1979). John is a current CH board member. In 2009 William received the Ross Clark Distinguished Biotechnologist of the Year Award. He was the founding Chairman of the Biotechnology Industry Organisation and maintains his passion for science as the chairman of Genomics Aotearoa at Otago University. Alongside his work in the biotechnology sector, William continued with the family farm and became a strong voice in the agricultural sector. He has just stepped down after 3 years as president of Federated Farmers and continues on the board of the World Farmers Organisation.

Happy Christmas Happy Christmas from all at College House On behalf of the staff at College House, we send warm wishes to you and your family during the Christmas season. May your home be blessed with love and happiness