List of former staff of St Peter's College, Auckland explained

St Peter's College (including its predecessor school St Peter's School), a secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand, has employed many notable faculty and staff.

Approximately ninety Christian Brothers were associated with St Peter's College from 1939 until 2007.^{[1] [2]}

Notable staff and patrons

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• John Acklandhistory teacher^[3] and taught in the commerce faculty;^[4] rugby league player in the Kiwis in 1983
• Jim Anderton (1938–2018)politician, Deputy Prime Minister in the Fifth Labour Government (1999–2002); taught in the intermediate (the middle school) at St Peters in 1959 and 1960^{[5] [6]}
• Ken Arvidson (1938–2011)poet and academic; taught senior English at St Peter's College 1960–1963, Notably, he taught poets Sam Hunt^{[7] [8] [9]} and Terry Locke^[10]
• Bro Dominic Fursey Bodkin (1843–1929) – established Christian Brothers in NZ; eponym of Bodkin House at St Peter's.^[11]
• John Logan Campbell (1817–1912) – donor of the Pitt St site of St Peter's School.^{[12] [13]}
• Mike Chunn (born 1952)founding member of Split Enz; taught at St Peter's College in 1977^[14]
• Reginald Delargey (1914–1979), Archbishop and cardinal – St Peter's College school chaplain for 18 years (1940s–1950s).^[15]
• Patrick Dignan (1814–1894)Member of Parliament, and member of the Board of Governors of St Peter's School^[16]
• Felix Donnelly (1929–2019) – priest, social activist, writer, academic and radio talkback host – school chaplain in 1960s.^[17]
• Paul Farmer, priest, monsignor – chaplain of St Peter's College in the 1970s and currently (as at 2021).^[18]
• Kieran Fouhy long-serving Headmaster of St Peter's College, 1989–2015^[19]
• Ken Gorbey (born 1942) – Museum designer: of Te Papa and the Jewish Museum Berlin; taught Geography to senior classes at St Peter's in 1967.^[20]

• Bro Michael Benignus Hanrahan Provincial of the Christian Brothers; provided Christian Brothers to staff St Peter's in 1939.^[21]
• Grant Hansen – Deputy Headmaster (2016–present), Rugby union coach of the Black Ferns 2009.^[22]
• Bro Vincent Michael Innocent Jury (1933–2023) B.Sc (Hons) (in pure and applied mathematics) (Sydney); M.Sc(?) (Otago?) (1962); BA (1970); Dip.Ed: old boy of St Peter's College; taught at St Peter's College 1967–1974; Principal of two secondary schools (St Thomas of Canterbury College and Trinity Catholic College, Dunedin); pastoral worker and community adult education administrator and teacher (also established a community radio station and a youth centre), Christian Brothers outreach, the Edmund Rice Community, in Murupara, Bay of Plenty (1992—2008).^{[23] [24]}
• Pat LamAll Black, loose forward (1992), teacher at St Peter's College (1991–1992)^{[25] [26]}
• Peter Leonarda teacher at St Peter's School in the 1870s and 1880s and went on to teach at other early schools in Auckland^[27]
• Archbishop James Liston (1881–1976) – 7th Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland – founder and funder of St Peter's College.^[28]
• Peter Lyons (1965–2020) – economics teacher at St Peter's College (2007–2020); media commentator on economic issues^[29]
• Br James Bonaventure Lynch (1908—1995) B.A. leading Physics teacher at St Peter's 1960s and 1970s; subject of Sam Hunt's poem, "Brother Lynch".^[30]
• Kevin Malloyadvertising chief executive, member St Peter's College Board of Trustees in 2015^[31]
• Bro Thomas Monagle (1928–1983) – founder of the St Peter's College railway station in 1964.^{[32] [33]}
• Bro Francis Pius O'Driscoll (died 1964) – foundation headmaster of St Peter's College (1939–1944).^[34]
• Richard James O'Sullivan (1826 - 1889)a teacher at St Peter's School and a school inspector
• Isa Outhwaite (1842–1925) – watercolour artist, poet social activist and philanthropist – donor of the St Peter's College site and first funder of the college.^[35]
• Archbishop Giovanni Panico, Apostolic Delegate, ruled that Bishop Liston could invite the Christian Brothers to staff St Peter's College.^[36]
• Edmund Powellclasses were first held in Powell's residence in Shortland Crescent on 27 September 1841^[37]
• Nicholas Reid (born 1951) – poet; historian; book and film reviewer; was a philosophy and theology teacher at St Peter's, and also taught public speaking and debating 2008–2018^[38]
• Bro Patrick Celestine Ryan (1909–1996) – Headmaster of St Peter's 1957–1965; creator of The Cage.
• Bro Benjamin Everard Ryan – Headmaster of St Peter's 1966–1974; a great builder.^[39]
• Pio Terei (born 1958) – actor, singer and comedian on New Zealand television – as at 2010 he was a member (representing parents) on the St Peter's College Board of Trustees^[40]
• Bro Patrick Ambrose Treacy (1834–1912) – established Christian Brothers in Australia; eponym of Treacy House at St Peter's.
• Bro Peter Watt a teacher at St Peter's 1969–1972; 1980; and 1986–2016;^{[41] [42]} cricket coach and eponym of Watty's Nets.
• Tom Weal (1929–2016)teacher at St Peter's College (1954–1957, 1959–1989); also a New Zealand politician for the Social Credit Party, the New Democratic Party and the short lived Christian Democrat party^{[43] [44]}
• Bro Lawrence Wilkes at the school over 40 years until mid-1990s; Technical Drawing specialist; he introduced Young Christian Students (YCS) programmes in the college and commenced the college's service programme.^{[45] [46]}

See also

• Congregation of Christian Brothers in New Zealand
• List of people educated at St Peter's College, Auckland

References

Bibliography

No author; sorted by publication name

• NZ Catholic : the national Catholic newspaper, 1996–present.
• Book: St Peter's College Silver Jubilee 1939-1964 . Christian Brothers Old Boys Association . Auckland . 1964 .
• St Peter's College Magazines, St Peter's College, Auckland, 1948-2015.
• Zealandia, 1939-1990.

by author

• Book: Donaldson, Graeme . To All Parts of the Kingdom: Christian Brothers In New Zealand 1876-2001 . Christian Brothers New Zealand Province . Christchurch . 2001 .
• Book: Donnelly, Felix . Felix Donnelly . One Priest's Life . Australia and New Zealand Book Company . Auckland . 1982 .
• Book: Elliott, Matt . 2015 . On This Rock: 75 Years of St Peter's College, Mountain Road . St Peter's College, Auckland . 978-0-473-331542.
• Book: Eyre, Tony . The Book Collector: Reading and Living with Literature. Mary Egan Publishing . Dunedin . 2023.
• Book: Maxwell, Rick . 2008 . St. Peter's College, Auckland . Simerlocy Press.
• O'Neill, J. C. . The History of the Work of the Christian Brothers in New Zealand . Unpublished Dip. Ed. thesis . University of Auckland . 1968 .
• Book: Reid, Nicholas . James Michael Liston: A Life . Victoria University Press . Wellington . 2006 .
• Robertson, Paul Malcolm . Nga Parata Karaitiana The Christian Brothers, A Public Culture in Transition, A Comparative Study of the Indian and New Zealand Provinces . https://web.archive.org/web/20210725021514/http://www.edmundrice.org.nz/index.php?page=/downloads/index.htm/ . dead . 25 July 2021 . Unpublished thesis for MA in Anthropology . University of Auckland . 1996 . Edmund Rice Network of New Zealand .
• Book: Tamihere, John . Bain, Helen . John Tamihere Black and White . Reed . Auckland . 2004 .

External links

• st-peters.school.nz

Notes and References

1. Maxwell, p. 10
2. Elliott, p. 338.
3. News: My life in sport: John Ackland . Johanssen, Dana . 8 October 2010 . . 15 October 2011.
4. Web site: St Peter's College Staff List . 2019 . St Peter's College, Auckland . 31 March 2019 .
5. Staff . St Peter's College Magazine . 1960 . St Peter's College, Auckland . 10, 15 .
6. Web site: Jim Anderton, MP . New Zealand Parliament .
7. Book: Arvidson, K. O. . Robinson . Wattie . The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature . . Auckland . 1998 . 27 and 28 .
8. Web site: Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive . Arvidson K. O. . December 2007 .
9. Book: Hunt, Sam . Sam Hunt (poet) . Backroads, Charting a Poet's Life . Craig Potton Publishing . Nelson . 2009 . 24 .
10. Web site: Terry Locke . Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive . 20 November 2007 . 20 February 2012 .
11. O'Neill, 1968, pp. 17–27
12. News: Untitled . The New Zealand Herald . VII . 1877 . 21 January 1870 . 4 . . 24 May 2013 .
13. The Freeman's Journal, 16 August 1881.
14. Elliott, p. 211.
15. Foreword by R J Delargey, St Peter's College Magazine 1970, p. 3: "For years, St Peter's was my second home. Mass in the morning for the Brothers, and classes for the boys was the routine for over eighteen years".
16. Encyclopedia: Dignan, Patrick - Biography . Laracy, Hugh . Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand . 1 September 2010 .
17. Felix Donnelly, One Priest's Life, Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Auckland, 1982.
18. News: Otto, Michael . Priest among Old Boys of Distinction at SPC . NZ Catholic . 27 June 2021 . 14 .
19. Elliott, pp. 259-299.
20. "Annual Report", St Peter's College Magazine 1967, p. 6; "Staff Changes", St Peter's College Magazine 1968, p. 17
21. • Book: Reid, Nicholas . James Michael Liston: A Life . Victoria University Press . Wellington . 2006 . p. 163.
22. https://www.st-peters.school.nz/spc-staff/ St Peter's College Staff 2022
23. Brother celebrates diamond jubilee, NZ Catholic, Feb. 24 - Mar. 8, 2008, p. 18.
24. https://sway.office.com/z039dcvyrzbjyAVS?ref=Link&fbclid=IwAR2H7FNcFEFols5nIVp9w0X076e4XbRV72n9lssIu83rrlo8QhRfmePwwdE "Bro Vin Jury
25. Book: Bush, Graham W. A. . The History of Epsom . Epsom & Eden District Historical Society Inc . Auckland . 2006 . 224 .
26. https://books.google.com/books?id=1neBDQAAQBAJ&dq=educated+Auckland+St+Peter%27s+College&pg=PA88 Gerry Thornley, False Front Up, Rise Up: The Official Story of the Connacht Rugby Miracle, 2016, p.86ff
27. Book: Cumming, Ian . Glorious Enterprise: The History of the Auckland Education Board 1857-1957 . Whitcome & Tombs Ltd . 1959 . 70, 103 and 135 .
28. Reid, Liston, 2006, p. 163
29. News: St Peter's College mourns sudden death of economics teacher Peter Lyons . Stuff News . 7 August 2020 . 8 March 2021 .
30. Robertson, p. 278
31. Web site: Board of Trustees . St Peter's College, Auckland . 2015-11-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151021002316/http://www.st-peters.school.nz/SPC-Community/Board-of-Trustees.aspx . 2015-10-21 . dead .
32. • Graeme Donaldson, p. 17.
33. Eyre, pages=33-34
34. A Glimpse at the Past, 1945, St Peter's College Magazine 1964, p. 13; St Peter's College Silver Jubilee 1939 - 1964, Christian Brothers Old Boys Assn, Auckland 1964, p. 5; O'Neill, pp. 38 and 101; 1876 - 1976: The First 100 Years in New Zealand at Christian Brothers School Dunedin, pp. 4, 26 and 30; Felix Donnelly, pp 8 and 9; Rick Maxwell, pp. 16 and 40-43.
35. Web site: Church benefactors' graves in a sad state. Otto. Michael. 2011-09-20. NZ Catholic Newspaper. 2022-08-18.
36. Reid, Liston_p163"
37. Book: Simmons, E. R. . In Cruce Salus, A History of the Diocese of Auckland 1848 - 1980 . Catholic Publication Centre . Auckland . 1982 . 32 .
38. https://www.st-peters.school.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/032016_1.pdf St Peter's College Newsletter, No 3/16, 4 March 2016, p. 6
39. Eyre, pages=36-37}}
40. http://www.st-peters.school.nz/welcome/BOT.php St Peter's College website, BOT Members
41. Web site: Bro. Peter Watt . St Peter's College Newsletter . 10 . 22 June 2018 . 24 June 2018 .
42. News: Death Notice, "Peter William (One-Arm) WATT . NZ Herald . 25 June 2018 .
43. Book: Bryant, George . Beetham . The Dunmore Press . Palmerston North . 1981 . 25 .
44. Elliott, p. 104.
45. Brother Norm Gillies, "Friend to all his students: Br Lawrence Wilkes: A legend in the Christian Brothers teaching community", Sunday Star Times, 05 April 1998, Edition A, P. 13; Graeme Donaldson, p. 11.
46. https://www.st-peters.school.nz/catholic-character/service-programme/ "Service Programme", St Peter's College website