Year: 1956 - 1959
Occupation: Computer Science

John graduated with a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington in 1971. After about a ten year period with the Institute of Nuclear Science (then part of the DSIR) in NZ, he changed careers and became an academic in the then new field of Computer Science. From 1992 to 1996 he was Director of Research for Information Technology at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He served as Dean Of Faculty of Information Technology at QUT from 1996 until his retirement in 2004. John’s current title is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. His area of research is the design and implementation of programming languages. He is still active in this field as the chair of an International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) expert working group. He has written three books on related technologies and currently works closely with Microsoft Inc. as a research collaborator and technology partner.

Year: 1956 - 1959
Occupation: NZ Basketball 1962-65

Glenda played lots of sports at school and played for New Zealand Women’s Basketball from 1962 – 66 touring Australia in 1964. Despite leaving school without School Certificate, Glenda gained a BA from Victoria University in 1983 and so began a lifetime in academia. She moved to America and gained an MA, PhD and MBA. As a tenured professor at Longwood University ,Virginia she has program expertise for Healthcare, Business, Management, Recreation/Leisure & Tourism teaching a diverse range of students. She has written many articles and presentations and served on several community agencies. Glenda has received several awards including the Longwood University Dean’s Award for College Education & Human Services, Dean’s Award for Graduate Studies, and the VAHPERD Professional of the Year Award 2008.

Year: 1955 - 1958
Occupation: NZ Basketball & Softball

Marie has represented NZ in two sports. She represented NZ in basketball 1963-1967 – touring Australia twice, while representing Wellington for 13 years. Marie was a Wellington representative in softball from 1958 – 1974 and a member of the New Zealand team competing in the first World Series in Melbourne in1965, in Osaka, Japan in 1970 and captained the team in Stratford, Connecticut, USA in 1974. She was inducted into the International Softball Federation Hall of Fame in 1991 and carried the Olympic torch preceding the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.

Year: 1957 - 1960
Occupation: International Theatre Designer

Allan Lees has spent 50 years in theatre and costume design. He is currently Director General of Theatre Associates in Sydney. His skills have seen him sought after and involved in over 350 major productions – the majority in Australia, but a significant number locally and internationally. He has designed with 45 major companies in opera, ballet, musicals and theatre. Examples of his work with the Royal New Zealand Ballet could be seen in Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, the Canterbury Opera production of Don Giovanni, and The Merry Widow for the Wellington Opera Company. For three years 1991-1994 Allan was General Manager of the State Opera House in Wellington. Allan’s extensive background saw him design costumes for episodes of Star Wars. Allan was Guest Lecturer in Theatre at the NZ Drama School in Wellington during which his designs for the musical THE JUNGLE BOOK received the Chapman Tripp Costume Designer of the Year Award in 2001. His most recent New Zealand productions have been MADAMA BUTTERFLY with director Elric Hooper for Dunedin 2003, and CARMEN for Christopher Doig at Southern Opera in 2007. Currently Allan is in Perth where he is Designer for a new production of CINDERELLA for the West Australian Ballet.

Year: 1954 - 1958
Occupation: Singer & Actor

As a jazz singer Ann has had many gigs in restaurants and clubs over a number of years, including residencies at the Duxton, Wellington Intercontinental, The Malthouse, The Oaks Brasserie, and she’s been a support act for Michael Crawford. Ann has also taken part in many concerts at Old St. Paul’s, the Hot Club Sandwich and with Kirsten Mackenzie’s trio, The International Festival of the Arts, several appearances at Government House, and charity events. She has been in numerous radio programmes on National Radio; and released three albums. Ann has been in many musicals including Chicago and Braindead. She acted the title role in Mabel and had numerous supporting roles in plays such as the Odd Couple and A Streetcar named Desire. Ann has been regularly seen on our TV screens in series like; Big Night In, Dark Knight and 56 children programmes. She has had supporting roles in several movies being nominated for best supporting actor in Send a Gorilla.