Wall of Fame
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| While at King’s, Lindsay was an athlete, in the 1949 Tennis team, and a member of the 1st Soccer XI for three years. He left school to study physical education at Otago University, which in those days offered a three-year diploma course only. He was awarded his Diploma in Physical Education in 1953 and after spending a year at Auckland Teachers’ College he returned to Otago and became a Research Assistant to Professor Smithells, and a Junior Lecturer in 1955 when the incumbent was overseas on study leave. Lindsay won a Fulbright Scholarship in 1956 and studied at the University of Iowa, gaining an M.A. and a Ph.D (1959) before returning to New Zealand to lecture in physical education for three years, followed by his appointment in 1962 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Education at San Diego State University in California. There Lindsay taught applied anatomy and kinesiology, biomechanics, growth and development, and kinanthropometry. In 1964 he established an Anthropometry Laboratory and in 1967 an Electromyography Laboratory. In 1983 he received the Outstanding Faculty Award, and in the following year the Exceptional Merit Award. His main research interest has been in kinanthropometry, which is the science of the movement of the body and those influencing factors such as body build, body movements, proportions, composition, shape and maturation, motor mobilities and cardiorespiratory capacities, physical and recreational activity, as well as highly specialised sports performance. It focuses on the structure and function of athletes and non-athletes and has applications for medicine, education and government. Lindsay is the co-developer of the method most widely used in body build research: the Heath-Carter Somatotype Method. He was the key investigator in anthropometric studies of Olympic and World Championship athletes at Mexico (1968), Montreal (1976), Perth (1991), Uruguay (1995), and Zimbabwe (1995) and has served as a consultant and co-investigator in 18 countries. He has published some 125 articles and chapters, as well as being author or editor of nine books. Many honours have been bestowed on Lindsay. In 2003 the Auckland University of Technology opened the J. E. Lindsay Carter Kinanthropometry Laboratory as a teaching, research, and community facility, and ten years later the J. E. Lindsay Carter Kinanthropometry Clinic and Archive, which provides teaching, research and community services to children, adolescents and athletes at different levels of the sport. The Semmelweiss University in Hungary (1998) and the Vrije University in Belgium (2005) have each bestowed honorary doctorates on him. He is a Life Member of Physical Education New Zealand, and in 2006 he was elected to the inaugural Wall of Fame at Otago University’s School of Physical Education. He is Honorary Life Member and Past President of the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK), and Fellow of the American Academy of Physical Education. Lindsay retired in 1992 and is currently Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University where he continues his research as well as consulting, organising workshops, and accepting invited presentations. |
| The Reverend Canon David Morrell (At KHS 1954–57) —Humanities |
| David comes from a family prominent in Dunedin educational circles. His father was Professor of History at Otago University, and for 14 years Chairman of the Otago High Schools Board which controlled King’s; his aunt taught at Otago Girls’ High School for 35 years ultimately as First Assistant, and his grandfather was Rector of Otago Boys’ High School from 1907–33 and subsequently Chancellor of Otago University. In his final year at King’s David was a member of the 1st Hockey XI. He then attended Otago University graduating BA in History & English in 1963. He received his Licentiate of Theology (L. Th.) after studying at St John’s Anglican College in Auckland from 1964–66 and became curate of St John’s Roslyn. Three month’s Clinical Pastoral Education at Porirua Hospital led in 1971 to a post as Acting Presbyterian Chaplain at Dunedin Hospital and then as Anglican Chaplain at Christchurch Hospital. He was later at Burwood Hospital Christchurch and was Co-ordinating Ecumenical Chaplain. He was President of the NZ Hospital Chaplains’ Association and a member of the Department of Health’s Inter-Church Council on Hospital Chaplaincy. From 1977 he undertook a postgraduate study into the health/welfare and theology interfaces at the University of Birmingham, gaining a Diploma in Pastoral Studies (DPS); this included part-time training as a Probation Officer there. He spent the following year as a salesperson at Harrods of Knightsbridge. In 1982 David was appointed as City Missioner at the Christchurch City Mission. The City Mission is an Anglican centre city social service organisation ministering to the downtrodden, the homeless and the drug and alcohol addicted. He held the position for 22 years retiring in 2004. The budget rose to well over $lM and staff to about 65, as the work expanded in response to changing social and economic conditions. The position was a high profile one involving a great deal of media contact. In 1990 he was appointed to the Cathedral Chapter as a Clerical Canon and remains an Honorary Canon. He was a member of the Diocesan Standing Committee. In 2001 David stood for election to the Canterbury District Health Board and has at times been highest polling member, chairing the Board’s Hospital Advisory Committee for many years. He continues on the Health Board. He chairs the trust for The Nurses’ Memorial Chapel: the chapel commemorates NZ nurses killed when travelling with their army hospital to Salonika to nurse the wounded of Gallipoli—their ship being torpedoed by a submarine in the Aegean Sea in October 1915. The heritage building is currently awaiting earthquake repairs. David is also controversially, a trustee of the Great Christchurch Buildings Trust which seeks to restore heritage buildings in Christchurch damaged by the earthquakes, in particular the Christchurch Cathedral. Since 2007, he has been British Honorary Consul at Christchurch covering the South Island and was involved in the quakes and the Pike River mine disaster. David has remained at the top of his professional and pastoral life by judicious travel to attend relevant study courses and conference programmes in Australia, Europe, Great Britain and North America, often funded by fellowships, grants or as a member of a delegation. As a Churchill Fellow in 1994, he visited Washington, New York, London and Manchester having discussions with senior governmental officials, politicians and organisations on the process of advocacy for the disadvantaged, and also participating in a three-week strategic leadership course at Ashridge Management College funded by the Bonar Law Trust. In 1988 a St John’s College Fellowship had taken him to Virginia Seminary to participate in a six-week MidCareer Assessment Programme. David’s work has not gone unnoticed: he was awarded a 1990 Commemoration Medal for Community Services, in 1994 Lions’ International made him a Melvin Jones Fellow; and in 2004 he was made a Fellow of the NZ Institute of Management. In 2002 the Queen honoured him with the Companion of the Queen’s Service Order (QSO) for Community Service. |
| Glen Denham (At KHS 1977–82) —Sports |
| Glen is of Maori descent, and Te Arawa is his iwi affiliation. During the school’s first fifty years, he was the third pupil to be selected as Head Boy for two consecutive years. Glen is one of the most versatile sportsmen to represent King’s. He was awarded Blues in basketball, cricket, soccer and volleyball— indeed at the 1982 winter interschool against Southland Boys’ High School, he played in the basketball, volleyball and soccer matches! He captained the school’s 1st Cricket XI for two years, hitting a century against Shirley Boys’ High School; represented Otago at Basketball while still a schoolboy; and was a member of the school’s 1st Soccer XI which included three players who would in future captain New Zealand, in Basketball, Cricket and Soccer! Not surprisingly Glen won the Salter Trophy in 1982 as sportsman of the year. In 1983 he left school to attend the Dunedin College of Education and gained Diploma of Teaching. Glen first represented New Zealand at Basketball in 1984 and played in more than 200 matches for his country. He remains the longest-serving Captain (13 years) of any New Zealand international sports team. During this time he mentored a new generation of basketball stars, including Phil Jones, Mark Dickel, Pero Cameron and Sean Marks. He was named most outstanding New Zealand forward three times, and at 1986 FIBA World Championships (where New Zealand was placed 13th) he scored an average of seven points per game. During an illustrious NBL career, which started in 1986 with the Waikato Pistons and subsequently with the Canterbury Rams and the Otago Nuggets, he scored more than 4000 points secured an impressive 2000 rebounds: his 50 point haul against Harbour on June 11, 1993, is still the franchise record! At the same time Glen was enjoying success in both television and radio, appearing with Lana Coc-Kroft in the entertainment series Across the Ditch, and in such other shows as Sports Cafe, A Question of Sport, Clash of the Codes, Deaker, Give Us a Chance, and A Game of Two Halves. He was a basketball commentator for both NBL and international matches, and for Radio Sport, while also hosting the radio show The Bigger Breakfast. In 2000, Glen and his family moved to England, where he was appointed Deputy Head Teacher at Moulsham Junior School at Chelmsford in Essex, and then to Woolwich Polytechnic in southeast London. In 2009 he was appointed Principal of the new 1600 pupil Oasis Academy Shirley Park in Croydon, a tough environment with high levels of deprivation and need, gang issues, and teenage pregnancy all prevalent. The student population was predominantly Afro-Caribbean, speaking more than thirty languages, with only seventeen per cent white British. However Glen believed that it shouldn’t matter where the pupils came from, nor the status of their parents, but the quality of the education they received; it was all about social justice and transformation. Because of his leadership and his dedicated staff, the school’s GCSE results improved by a staggering 38 percentage points, and it reached the top one per cent of the most improved schools in the United Kingdom. This year Glen has returned to New Zealand to become Principal of Massey High School in northwest Auckland. |
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