Massey celebrates its 2014 Jubilee + CHAFF remembered + Precision agriculture + Inside Oracle Team USA THE ENGINE www.definingnz.com OF THE NEW NEW ZEALAND | Massey University | January 2013 | MASSEY | 1 STARTERS CHRONICLES Timelines and images from Massey’s history. 10 Blessed are the cheesemakers Meet Michael Matsis, the man behind gourmet 19 Origins: 1913 to 1927 cheese company Zany Zeus. The idea of a North Island-based agricultural 12 To be a pilgrim college. A social anthropologist investigates the enduring appeal of the Himalayas for seekers 20 Laying the foundations: 1927 to 1964 of all descriptions. Foundation, depression, war and rejuvenation. Contents 13 Eruptions to order 24 The rise of the multidisciplinary How to create a pyroclastic flow without a university: 1964 to 1990 volcano. Growth, social turbulence and consolidation. 14 The question of quicksilver Why is mercury a liquid? It’s all to do with 32 Becoming multicampus: 1990 to 1999 New Zealand’s national university. Einstein’s theory of general relativity. 38 A university for a new millennium: 2000 to 2014 FEATURES The engine of the new New Zealand. 15 The way we were A new book charts the eventful life of CHAFF, 1934-2011, Massey’s student newspaper. 40 Precisely right Professor of Precision Agriculture Ian Yule and engineer-entrepreneurs Stu Bradbury and George Ricketts. 52 Catching some wind Joe Spooner was one of the crew on the victorious America’s Cup contender in 2013. Website: definingnz.com Editor: Malcolm Wood
[email protected] Writers: Kelly Burns, Bonnie Etherington, Michele Hollis, Jennifer Little, Paul Mulrooney, Bevan Rapson, Sidah Russell, Massey is Sarah Wilcox, Malcolm Wood, Sonia Yoshioka Braid published Photography: Mark Coote, David Wiltshire annually by Massey University, Cover: Wellington campus graduation parade, 2013 Private Bag Thanks to: Louis Changuion, Mason Durie, James Gardiner, 11-222, Palmerston Lucy Marsden, Jeannette McKinnon, Kerry Taylor, Ian Watson North 4442, Design: Grant Bunyan New Zealand.