Duxes

1950’s – School Dux

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1950: Peter Rawson Smart (Attended King’s High School from 1946 to 1950)

Peter Was Head Prefect at the School in 1950
He graduated M.A. the University of Otago 1955- Senior Scholar – 1^st Class Honours

After leaving university Peter held teaching positions at Gore High School, Shirley Boys High School and Riccarton High School. He wrote several school English textbooks including the “Lets Learn English” series, “Response to Language”, “Process and Product”, “Criticism is Response” and “Reading is Thinking” …

On retiring from teaching he became editor of `Landfall’ New Zealand’s foremost literary magazine. – a position he held from 1978 to 1981 the year he died.

1951: Charles Robb Webster, . (Attended King’s High School from 1946 to 1951)

Gained his Higher School Certificate and a Mining Bursary. He was winner of the Dunedin Shakespeare Club’s prize for Shakespeare Reading and the Parents’ Association Prize for Excellence in VIA.

1952: Hilliker, Roger William

Dr Rodger William Hilliker, Temuka: M.B., Ch.B 1959 (University of NZ).

Dr Hilliker first arrived in South Canterbury as a medical student in 1957 and spent a couple of years at Timaru Hospital before moving to a Temuka practice in 1961. He retired in 2010.

He be came a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services as a general practitioner in 2011.

He became invested as a Commander of the Order of St John, May 2020

1953: Allen Hair,

Batchelor of Arts at the University of Otago 1957. Winner of the George young Scholarship in 1956.

Master of Arts (History Second Class Honours) at Otago University in 1958. Allen was a winner of a James Clark prize for History in 1957.

High school teaching in Masterton.

1954: Sammes Robert Frank Norman

Teacher Bayfield High School 1966

MA(HONS) The University of Otago

1955: Brian James Austin,

At King’s High School 1951 – 1955

While at school in 1955 Brian was awarded a University National Scholarship

He completed a BSc in 1959 and was a winner of a Senior Scholarship in Science (University of New Zealand) and a Beverly Scholarship (University of Otago)

Brian received a Master of Science First Class honours in Mathematics at the University of Otago. He also won the Robert Jack Prize for Mathematics.

On receiving the Shirtcliffe Fellowship from the University of New Zealand Brian spent time studying at the Oxford University.

1956:

James, Arthur Eric

Arthur attended King’s High School from 1952 to 1956.

He studied Civil Engineering at the University of Canterbury and graduated with a B.E. [Civil in 1961]

In 1966 he gained his M.N.Z.I.E. registration. He worked in the Dunedin City Engineer’s Department until his retirement.

Arthur died on the 1st of July 2012.

1957

: Roy Mackie Dineen

Dr Roy M Dineen (Kings High School 1953 – 1957)

Senior lecturer in French at the University of Otago

Awarded France’s top award of “Chevelier” of the Palmes Academiques, for distinction in French language and literature scholarship and teaching

1958

McIntyre, Michael Edgeworth

1959 Joint Dux

Donaldson, Ivan Macgregor (At King’s High School 1955 – 1959)

Ivan was School Dux in 1959.

Professor Ivan Donaldson has been honoured as a world leader in neurology with a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year honours 2013 for his services to neurology.

Ivan became the first dedicated clinical neurologist at Christchurch Hospital in 1977, where he helped establish departments for clinical neurology and neurophysiology.

He was integral in bringing the first CT scanner to Christchurch, a machine vital to establishing the inaugural Neurosurgical Department.

He was head of neurology at Christchurch Hospital for nearly 20 years and is a past-president of the Neurological Society of New Zealand.

Building up neuro-science services in Christchurch from “basically nothing” to now having about 12 specialists, was one of the most satisfying aspects of his medical career, he said.

Widely published in medical journals, his most significant work is the internationally regarded Marsdens’ Book of Movement Disorders (2011), the result of a near 30-year collaboration with the late Professor David Marsden.

He has been on the board of the New Zealand Brain Research Institute since 2006 and established Friends of the New Zealand Brain Research Institute to raise funds for neurological research.

The New Zealand Brain Research Institute now has about 40 people, including students, working there, he said.

Donaldson’s focus is now on wine-making, a passion sparked after his now-wife Chris gave him a book on wine-growing. Together they established Pegasus Bay Winery at Waipara in 1985.

1959: Joint Dux

Holmes, John Robert

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