December graduation speech Elric Hooper Reprinted from the University of Canterbury’s Chronicle – 15/03/02 After receiving his honorary LittD, Christchurch actor Elric Hooper gave the graduation address: Dr Elric Hooper "As well as expressing my profound gratitude to my old university for the great honour it has done me in conferring this degree, I would…
Nature Enters Number One Wendy – 30/11/01 New Zealand’s top 30 songs were announced recently at the 2001 APRA Silver Scroll Awards as part of a celebration to mark APRA’s 75th Anniversary. Established in 1926, APRA is a non profit organisation who administer copyrights and royalties of worldwide songwriters and publishers in Australia and New…
An Interview With Dr Katharine Hunt Dorothy – 26/10/01 Much debate at present centres around the teaching of Maori language as a core subject in our schools. The arguments fly back and forth. I interviewed a number of New Zealand adults and here are some of the responses. “The curriculum is too full already. There’s…
An interview with Simeon Lodge Dorothy – 19/10/01 When I heard that Simeon was going away to a weekend function organised by the Society for Creative Anachronism the title intrigued me. I checked in the dictionary to see whether my understanding of the word ‘anachronism’ was correct and decided that the best definition was probably…
Reprinted from the University of Canterbury Chronicle – 12/10/01 Canterbury University women astronomers have achieved remarkable success over the last decade in a major international award commemorating pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart. Jennifer McSaveney Four Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowships (the famous aviator was a Zonta member) are awarded each year and Canterbury doctoral student Jennifer…
Dorothy – 21/09/01 An interview with Elric Hooper – recently retired Director of the Court Theatre in Christchurch – Part 3 Elric Hooper Photo source Elric Hooper Theatre the gymnasium of emotion Elric’s conversation is so often enlivened by vivid images. He began talking about the theatre with just such an image. “Theatre is the…
Reviewed by Wendy Gallagher – 24/08/01 Night Swimming By Emma Neale Published Vintage, 1998 Capturing a glimpse of a hauntingly familiar face on a London train sparks off a look back into the past of Marie’s youth. As an adult she struggles to make sense of the mysterious events surrounding her teenage friendship with Jenny…
Conferment Of The Degree Of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa on Dame Ann Ballin Dame Ann Ballin: A life filled with intelligence, compassion and courage Associate Professor Bruce Jamieson – 20/07/01 The Chancellor of the University of Canterbury, Dame Phyllis Guthardt (right), presents Dame Ann Ballin with her honorary LittD. at a special ceremony at…
Book Review by Laura Lynch – 14/07/01 Indigenous women from Australia, Bougainville, East Timor, French Polynesia, Hawaii, West Papua, Marshall Islands, New Zealand and Palau have overcome incredible odds to tell their stories of survival in a joint publication, Pacific Women Speak Out for Independence and Denuclearisation by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom…
Ian Hunter – 13/07/01 Can complicated English Spelling be simplified and still understood by users of the dozens of different accents used around the world? A small keen group of Kiwis and others around the English speaking world think it can, by using phonemes, rather than phonetics. I have long held the view that Traditional…
