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

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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.

Lay staff

  • John Ackland: rugby league coach and scout who currently works for the New Zealand Warriors; represented New Zealand in the New Zealand national rugby league team, the "Kiwis" in 1983; taught history at St Peter's College.
  • Jim Anderton (born 1938): politician; taught in the intermediate at St Peters in 1959 and 1960; President of the New Zealand Labour Party (1979–1984); Member of Parliament for Sydenham (1984 – 1996); Member of Parliament for Wigram (1996–2011): former Leader of the New Labour Party (1989–1991), former leader of the Alliance Party (1991 – 1994), and current leader of the Progressive Party (2002–present); Deputy Prime Minister (1999–2006), Minister for Economic Development (1999–2005), Minister of Agriculture (2005–2008), Minister for Biosecurity (2005–2008), Minister of Fisheries (2005–2008), Minister of Forestry (2005–2008), Minister Responsible for the Public Trust (2005–2008), Associate Minister of Health (2005–2008), and Associate Minister for Tertiary Education (2005–2008)
  • Ken Arvidson (born 1938): MA (Auckland), Poet and Academic; taught senior English at St Peter's College 1960-1963 (notably, he taught English to poets Sam Hunt in the lower sixth form in 1963). Mr Arvidson endowed a prize for poetry at St Peter's which was awarded in 1962 and 1963 to Christopher Matthews (1962) and to poet Sam Hunt (1963). Sam Hunt said that if Mr Arvidson " ... had not come to the school, I would not have lasted [at St Peter's] as long as I did, and I'd just turned sixteen when I left. He introduced me to poets like Gordon Challis, who I've gone on loving ever since". Arvidson was also very influential on another poet, Terry Locke, who he taught for both of the two years Arvidson was at St Peter's College.
  • Mike Chunn: founding member of Split Enz, taught at St Peter's College in 1977.
  • Patrick Dignan (1814 – 20 October 1894), Member of Parliament, and member of the Board of Governors of St Peter's School.
  • Keiran Fouhy long-serving Headmaster of St Peter's College, 1989-2015.
  • Eric Kohlhase (1943–2011); for 12 years, Mr Kohlhase was assistant coach of the St Peter's College softball team and coach of the St Peter's College 1st XV rugby team. In 2000, he coached the St Peters 1st XV to win the national championship without losing one game; he was a New Zealand representative softball player, making his debut for the Black Sox at the 1968 world championships in Oklahoma, and representing Auckland for 12 seasons.
  • Pat Lam (born 1968), All Black, loose forward (1992), Teacher at St Peter's College (1991–1992).
  • Peter Leonard was a teacher at St Peter's School in the 1870s and 1880s and went on to teach at other early schools in Auckland.
  • Kevin Malloy, advertising chief executive, member St Peter's College Board of Trustees in 2015.
  • Richard James O'Sullivan (1826–1889) an influential teacher at St Peter's School and an important school inspector.
  • Edmund Powell classes were held in his own residence in Shortland Crescent (later renamed Shortland Street) on 27 September 1841.
  • Tom Weal (1929-2016) was a New Zealand politician for the Social Credit Party; served as Social Credit's Deputy leader from 1970 until 1972. He was a long time teacher at St Peter's College (1954-1957, 1959-1989).

    • References

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