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

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

Main category: St Peter's College, Auckland faculty

• John Ackland  –history teacher ^[3] and as of 2019 ^[update] taught in the commerce faculty; ^[4] rugby league player in the Kiwis in 1983
• Jim Anderton CNZM (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 c.f.c.  –(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 CNZM (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 ONZM (1929–2019) – priest, social activist, writer, academic and radio talkback host – school chaplain in 1960s. ^[17]
• Br William Hofbauer (Bill) Dowling (1939-2024) - taught at St Peter's in 1962 in the junior school and from 1964 to 1975 at secondary level. ^[18] "He saw each pupil as an individual with a family and a variety of interests and skills beyond what he was teaching them. 50 years later a group of these students brought him back to Auckland to celebrate those years of teaching and friendship." ^[19]
• Paul Farmer, priest, monsignor – chaplain of St Peter's College in the 1970s and currently (as at 2021). ^[20]
• Kieran Fouhy MNZM  –long-serving Headmaster of St Peter's College, 1989–2015 ^[21]
• Ken Gorbey CNZM (born 1942) – Museum designer: of Te Papa and the Jewish Museum Berlin; taught Geography to senior classes at St Peter's in 1967. ^[22]
• Bro Michael Benignus Hanrahan c.f.c.  –Provincial of the Christian Brothers; provided Christian Brothers to staff St Peter's in 1939. ^[23]
• Grant Hansen – Deputy Headmaster (2016–present), Rugby union coach of the Black Ferns 2009. ^[24]
• Bro Vincent Michael Innocent Jury c.f.c.  –(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). ^{[25] [26]}
• Pat Lam  –All Black, loose forward (1992), teacher at St Peter's College (1991–1992) ^{[27] [28]}
• Peter Leonard  –a teacher at St Peter's School in the 1870s and 1880s and went on to teach at other early schools in Auckland ^[29]
• Archbishop James Liston CMG (1881–1976) – 7th Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland – founder and funder of St Peter's College. ^[30]
• Peter Lyons (1965–2020) – economics teacher at St Peter's College (2007–2020); media commentator on economic issues ^[31]
• 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". ^[32]
• Kevin Malloy  –advertising chief executive, member St Peter's College Board of Trustees in 2015 ^[33]
• Bro Thomas Monagle c.f.c. (1928–1983) – founder of the St Peter's College railway station in 1964. ^{[34] [35]}
• Bro Francis Pius O'Driscoll c.f.c. (died 1964) – foundation headmaster of St Peter's College (1939–1944). ^[36]
• Richard James O'Sullivan (1826–1889) –a teacher at St Peter's School and a school inspector ^[37]
• 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. ^[38]
• Archbishop Giovanni Panico, Apostolic Delegate, ruled that Bishop Liston could invite the Christian Brothers to staff St Peter's College. ^[39]
• Edmund Powell  –classes were first held in Powell's residence in Shortland Crescent on 27 September 1841 ^[40]
• 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 ^[41]
• Bro Patrick Celestine Ryan c.f.c. (1909–1996) – Headmaster of St Peter's 1957–1965; creator of The Cage.
• Bro Benjamin Everard Ryan c.f.c. – Headmaster of St Peter's 1966–1974; a great builder. ^[42]
• Pio Terei MNZM (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 ^[43]
• Bro Patrick Ambrose Treacy c.f.c. (1834–1912) – established Christian Brothers in Australia; eponym of Treacy House at St Peter's.
• Bro Peter Watt c.f.c.  –a teacher at St Peter's 1969–1972; 1980; and 1986–2016; ^{[44] [45]} 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 ^{[46] [47]}
• Bro Lawrence Wilkes c.f.c.  –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. ^{[48] [49]}

See also

• Schools portal
• New Zealand portal
• Catholicism portal

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

References

1. Maxwell, p. 10
2. Elliott, p. 338.
3. Johanssen, Dana (8 October 2010). "My life in sport: John Ackland". The New Zealand Herald . Retrieved 15 October 2011.
4. "St Peter's College Staff List". St Peter's College, Auckland. 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
5. "Staff". St Peter's College Magazine. St Peter's College, Auckland: 10, 15. 1960.
6. "Jim Anderton, MP". New Zealand Parliament.
7. Arvidson, K. O.; Robinson; Wattie (1998). The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Auckland: Oxford University Press. pp. 27 and 28.
8. "Arvidson K. O." Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive. December 2007.
9. Hunt, Sam (2009). Backroads, Charting a Poet's Life. Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing. p. 24.
10. "Terry Locke". Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive. 20 November 2007. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
11. O'Neill, 1968, pp. 17–27
12. "Untitled". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. VII, no. 1877. 21 January 1870. p. 4. Retrieved 24 May 2013– via Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand.
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. Laracy, Hugh (1 September 2010). "Dignan, Patrick - Biography". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
17. Felix Donnelly, One Priest's Life, Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Auckland, 1982.
18. St Peter's College Magazine 1962, p. 34; St Peter's College Magazine 1963, p. 19; St Peter's College Magazine 1964, Donaldson, p. 14
19. Brother Joe Lauren, "Brother Bill - Memories by Joe Lauren", STC, 10 December 2024(Retrieved 19 January 2025)
20. Otto, Michael (27 June 2021). "Priest among Old Boys of Distinction at SPC". NZ Catholic. p. 14.
21. Elliott, pp. 259-299.
22. "Annual Report", St Peter's College Magazine 1967, p. 6; "Staff Changes", St Peter's College Magazine 1968, p. 17
23. • Reid, Nicholas (2006). James Michael Liston: A Life. Wellington: Victoria University Press. p. 163.
24. St Peter's College Staff 2022 (Retrieved 31 August 2022)
25. Brother celebrates diamond jubilee, NZ Catholic, Feb. 24 - Mar. 8, 2008, p. 18.
26. "Bro Vin Jury c.f.c.  –", SPC Newsletter 2023/2, 24 February 2023 (retrieved 25 February, 2023)
27. Bush, Graham W. A., ed. (2006). The History of Epsom. Auckland: Epsom & Eden District Historical Society Inc. p. 224.
28. Gerry Thornley, False Front Up, Rise Up: The Official Story of the Connacht Rugby Miracle, 2016, p.86ff (Retrieved 27 January 2023)
29. Cumming, Ian (1959). Glorious Enterprise: The History of the Auckland Education Board 1857-1957. Whitcome & Tombs Ltd. pp. 70, 103 and 135.
30. Reid, Liston, 2006, p. 163
31. "St Peter's College mourns sudden death of economics teacher Peter Lyons". Stuff News. 7 August 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
32. Robertson, p. 278
33. "Board of Trustees". St Peter's College, Auckland. Archived from the original on 21 October 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
34. • Graeme Donaldson, p. 17.
35. Eyre, pages=33-34
36. 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.
37. Goddard, Peter. "Richard James O'Sullivan". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Ministry for Culture and Heritage . Retrieved 23 April 2017.
38. Otto, Michael (20 September 2011). "Church benefactors' graves in a sad state". NZ Catholic Newspaper. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
39. Reid, Liston_p163"
40. Simmons, E. R. (1982). In Cruce Salus, A History of the Diocese of Auckland 1848 - 1980. Auckland: Catholic Publication Centre. p. 32.
41. St Peter's College Newsletter, No 3/16, 4 March 2016, p. 6 (Retrieved 23 July 2022)
42. Eyre, pages=36-37
43. St Peter's College website, BOT Members Retrieved 29 April 2011. Archived May 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
44. "Bro. Peter Watt". St Peter's College Newsletter. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
45. "Death Notice, "Peter William (One-Arm) WATT". NZ Herald. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
46. Bryant, George (1981). Beetham. Palmerston North: The Dunmore Press. p. 25.
47. Elliott, p. 104.
48. 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.
49. "Service Programme", St Peter's College website (Retrieved 17 November 2022)

Bibliography

No author; sorted by publication name

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

by author

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

External links

• st-peters.school.nz