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Taking a Chance on Xero Craig Walker in New York MasseyThe magazine for alumni and friends of Massey University | Issue 36 | 2019 | | www.massey.ac.nz | Taking a chance on Xero Craig Walker in New York + Shihad singer’s labour of love + Going strong - Sir Mason Durie at 80 + Memory issues - reassuring new research | Massey University | April 2019 | MASSEY | 1 SCHOOL OF VETERINARY SCIENCE TOGETHERTOGETHER WEWE CAN MAKE AA DIFFERENCE Massey University is home to some of the most specialised and highly trained veterinarians in the country. The revolutionary work pioneered by Massey Vet School is transforming the lives of thousands of cats and dogs here in New Zealand and is contributing to the health and happiness of animals around the world. Advances such as 3D printed titanium implants for injured animals and groundbreaking cancer treatment for dogs are a testament to the commitment and dedication of the Massey Vet School team. By leaving a gift in your WillWill toto thethe MasseyMassey UniversityUniversity Vet School School, of Veterinary you’ll be helping Science, support you’ll researchbe helping support researchand discovery and discovery that changes that animals’ changes lives. animals’ lives. PleaseContact contact Kylie Gibbard the Massey on 021 University 328 787, or Foundation email her at at [email protected] [email protected] TO FIND OUT MORE OR TO MAKE A DONATION, VISIT FOUNDATION.MASSEY.AC.NZ OR SPEAK TO YOUR LAWYER ABOUT LEAVING A GIFT IN YOUR WILL. 2 | MASSEY | April 2019 | Massey University MSU0331 MSU0331 Massey Foundation 210x275.indd 2 28/03/18 1:36 PM Massey | 2019 10 11 24 31 Cover story People 6 Taking a chance on Xero 14 On the ball Chief technology officer Craig Walker started International rugby player Apirana Pewhairangi out studying for a Bachelor of Business Studies has returned to the southern hemisphere, after but switched to science when he discovered five years in Ireland and England, to a contract information management. Then Rod Drury with the Vodafone Warriors. But he’s keeping up offered him a place at ground Xero. with study at Massey (along with his siblings). 31 The moving art Features A phenomenally busy and successful career didn’t stop dancer and choreographer Lucy- Margaux Marinkovich from studying English 5 Reassuring research on memory literature at Massey. Now she’s won a top Everyday memory difficulties are common and international award. become more frequent with age. But there are many explanations. Departments 10 A labour of love For Shihad frontman Jon Toogood, a master’s thesis was a musical marriage of minds with his 3 Campus wide tutors – but it was also inspired by his marriage in A round-up of news from Massey’s three Sudan. campuses and further afield. Contents 24 Giving and receiving 31 Alumni notes and news Sir Mason Durie spent last year as a panel member All about the Massey alumni community. of the Mental Health and Addiction Inquiry. Oh, and he also received an honorary doctorate and turned 80. 38 Distinguished Alumni Awards Celebrating the achievements of Massey’s alumni 26 Our vet in Asia and staff. An interest in travel led veterinarian Jim Young from Massey to the Waikato to a passion for helping developing countries across Asia with food safety and security. Readers of MASSEY magazine can now view much of the content online. Go to massey.ac.nz/alumni-magazine to see many of the stories and images featured within these pages. Website: www.massey.ac.nz If you have any feedback please email alumni@ massey.ac.nz MasseyThe magazine for alumni and friends of Massey University | Issue 36 | 2019 | | www.massey.ac.nz | Editor: Jane Blaikie/Annalie Brown Taking a chance Contributors: Sidah Russell, Jenna on Xero Craig Walker in Ward, Jennifer Little, New York Ryan Willoughby, Jane Blaikie, Mitch Murdoch, David Wiltshire. Designer: Grant Bunyan Proofreading: Foolproof + Shihad singer’s labour of love + Going strong - Sir Mason Durie at 80 + Memory issues - reassuring new research | Massey University | April 2019 | MASSEY | 1 | Massey University | April 2019 | MASSEY | 1 First word Vice-Chancellor Professor Jan Thomas writes. Massey will continue as a safe place from which alumni can fly write this just a few alumni and staff just five days days after the tragic after the horror that was still March 15 massacres being played out in wall-to-wall in Christchurch that news media coverage. rocked our nation In the editorial I wrote before and shocked the the shootings, I noted that while world. the University is woven into the As I said in a fabric of New Zealand’s economy message to staff and culture, it is also a conduit to that I sent out two the wider world. days later, on a Sunday, I felt After the Christchurch attacks, breaking new ground in distracted, sad and angry all at these words take on a new light. understanding age-related the same time. I was not alone. While the University is a memory issues. Shihad frontman IWe have many connections launchpad to the wider world, we Jon Toogood worked with with Canterbury, including more must also process and respond musicians at the School of Music than 600 students and staff to, and prepare for, unwelcome and Creative Media Production to based there along with more than developments from the wider produce a new album that 4000 alumni. Additionally, many world. As we have done in the combines up-and-coming local hundreds of internal students at past, Massey will continue to ask talent with the sounds of all campuses call Christchurch or and help develop answers to northern Sudan. Canterbury home. tough questions. In this issue, we celebrate the Our first thoughts were for In this issue, we feature several outstanding career of Massey’s them, to establish that people alumni who began their careers first head of the School of Ma-ori were safe, and the outrage and with Massey qualifications, and Studies Te Pu-tahi-a-Toi, Sir Mason despair we all felt as details of who are now visible on the world Durie, who received an honorary the events unfolded was stage. Craig Walker, now in New doctorate days before his 80th tempered slightly but only York, sat down at a kitchen table birthday at the end of last year. slightly when we learned none with Rod Drury a few years ago He had just finished a busy year were among the dead or injured. to nut out the internationally as a panel member of the Mental Our friends at Lincoln and the successful accounting software Health and Addiction Inquiry. University of Canterbury did company Xero. The wonderfully Massey’s international students, have students injured and, in at understated Professor Rosemary too, are using the skills gained least one case, killed. At the time Horne, based at Melbourne’s here in life-changing ways. of writing details were not Monash University, is a world Kisione Manu has graduated official. leader on sudden infant death twice from Massey as he We followed police advice and syndrome whose research has continues his quest to improve shut down the Islamic prayer helped save lives around the teaching and learning in Tonga. spaces on all campuses, which world. Dr Jim Young started out I remain confident that Massey naturally caused some concern at as a veterinarian in the Waikato University will continue as a safe a time when Muslim students but now works throughout Asia place for students and alumni to were desperately in need of those to improve food safety and food learn and grow, and for the work spaces. security. Captain Preston Wilson that we do to be as relevant as We also decided to postpone is literally flying high – for British ever in contributing innovative the Defining Excellence Awards Airways working out of London solutions to the issues New from 20 March 20 to 31 July. No Gatwick. Zealand and the world faces. one could really countenance the Some alumni stay local and prospect of gathering to make their contribution from celebrate the achievements of here. Dr Bridget Burmester is Professor Jan Thomas 2 | MASSEY | April 2019 | Massey University Campus wide First aviation students complete Qantas training program November 2018 at the airline’s training centre in Sydney. Senior base pilot for Jetstar New Zealand, Captain Ian Griggs, says Qantas’ chief pilot was impressed with the group’s professionalism and motivation and is looking forward to the next four Massey students entering the Qantas Future Pilots Porgram. Two students, Grayden Ecklein and Jacob Houghton, have already been selected. Massey University was the first tertiary institution outside of Australia to join the program when it signed a partnership deal with the airline in May 2018. It offers aviation students a pathway to flying for Jetstar New Zealand. Captain Griggs says the airline partnered with the School of Aviation because of an expected shortage of pilots globally and the school’s high standard of training. School of Aviation chief executive Ashok Poduval Aviation students Grayden Ecklein, Vanessa Brill-Holland and Darcy Clure with Captain Ian Griggs (second from right). says the partnership will be a game changer for pilot The first four School of Aviation students selected by Cameron Nayler, Chase McDonald, Vanessa Brill- training in New Zealand. “For our best students, this Jetstar New Zealand for the Qantas Future Pilots Program Holland and Darcy Clure completed the third and final programme is an amazing opportunity to transition into are now working as first officers for the airline. stage of the Qantas’ Airline Transition Course in a reputable airline,” he says. New portal tracks GDP in real time Massey University has launched a real-time gross domestic product (GDP) tracker, which is believed to be the first of its kind in the world.
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