Founded 1961

Calendar 2025

President: Kathy Slater

Vice President: Catherine Young

Hon. Secretary: Catherine Young

Assistant Secretary: TBA

Treasurer: Sandra Cant

Assistant Treasurer: Margaret Joseph

Honorary Member: Christine Wechsler

Past President: Christine Morgan

Venue Supervisor: Pam Holdaway

Almoner: Jan Campbell

Badges: Anne Baird

Guest Liaison: Susan Larsen

Meetings are held on the following Tuesday mornings at 10.30am at the Ellerslie Events Centre, Ellerslie Racecourse

Members are asked to arrive by 10.15am and be seated by 10.25am

March 11	Sam Stubbs Managing Director Simplicity	Why NZ’s future Looks Bright
March 25	Dr Kathryn Jones Professional Teacher Fellow	Tiri Tiri Matangi The Jewel of the Gulf

April 08	Dr Eleanor Holroyd AUT Nursing Professor	Beyond the Horizon ‘Echoing the voices of underserved communities’

April 22	Kenneth Brummel Art Historian	Pablo Picasso at Auckland Art Gallery Topi o Tamaki

May 06	Grant Fox New Zealand Sportsman	My Life – Your Questions
May 20	Assoc Prof. John Collins	Breaking Barriers – Evolution of Womens Education
June 03	Jim Morrow Mountaineer	My relationship with Mountains
June 17	Ms Amanda Gilchrist First Foundation	A Generation of Impact
July 01	Professor Justin O’Sullivan Liggins Institute	Acute Care Genetics: the Beginning of a precise journey in NZ Healthcare
July 15	Professor Brian McAvoy Honorary/Adjunct Professor	You can’t be what you can’t see: A History of General Practice and Medical Education
July 29	James Duncan MOTAT Volunteer	The Story behind the arrival of electric trams in Auckland
August 12	Patrick Drumm Principal Mt Albert Grammar	Feeding the 5000 – Navigating a large State Secondary School.

August 26	Mrs Jeanette De Heer Author	Walking Back to Happiness: My OE (When it wasn’t called OE) 1961-1962
September 09	Professor Harry Allen Dept of Anthropology Auckland University	Australian Aboriginal Art and Archaeology Looking back and looking forward
September 23 Trixie Vernon Day	Mrs Norma Hayward West Auckland Riding for the Disabled.	The Magic of Horses
October 07	Simon Keable Elliott Teacher/Author	Robert Keable: Utterly immoral WW1 Chaplain?
November 11	Annual General Meeting