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MASSEY is published by Massey University, Private Bag 11-222, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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Following On

What has happened to some of the people in past issues of MASSEY.

Michelle Richardson, who featured on the cover of MASSEY issue 11, resigned from Villa Maria in January 2002, but stayed on to finish the 2002 vintage. When last heard of, she was holidaying in the Australian outback and making plans.

Ian Stringer, who featured in Searching for the God of Ugly Creatures, is working for the Department of Conservation in Wellington, and, from the same article,

Halema Flanagan is back from her OE, importing with her a British partner, and having managed to hold a chameleon in the wild – a long-time ambition for this expert in reptiles.

Don and Corrine Jones, last heard of working in Laos and featured in Defusing the Situation, are back in New Zealand with their new daughter Gwenn.

Dr Mark Orams, who was with Peter Blake on the Amazon, is now involved with the Team New Zealand defence of the America’s Cup, gathering meteorological data.

The two journalism students sojourning in Cambodia, Rachel Scollay and Sophie Wilson, are now reporters for the Nelson Evening Mail and the Marlborough Express respectively. Rachel is kicking herself for having missed a scoop: the story of the Amerasian children of the Vietnam War – who are now in their twenties and thirties – being repatriated to the United States, some accompanied by a retinue of bogus relatives.

Gay Eustace, aka ‘Mum’ had a wonderful – though sometimes cold – trip in April 2002, encompassing Turkey, Sicily and Italy. She continues to host overseas students.

Steve Maharey is now the Minister of Broadcasting as well as Associate Education Minister (Tertiary).

Shaun Barnett, featured with Rob Brown in Going Bush, is the editor of New Zealand Wilderness magazine. North Island weekend walks are the subject of his latest book, published in association with Craig Potton. He is also a new father. Rob Brown is the editor of the FMC Bulletin. Watch for his article on Harry Ell and Christchurch’s Summit Road in the next issue of New Zealand Geographic.

Anthropologist Ann Appleton of The Mild Woman of Borneo is immersed in writing her thesis and is no doubt longing to be back in Sarawak, where life was simple.

Tom Scott was duly presented with his doctorate. In his speech he advised the audience not to peak while at university – “I haven’t peaked yet, and I don’t intend to” – and recommended people to enjoy their progress through life. “Too often we assume that if we can only get to a certain point, even if we have to endure hardships and be miserable on the way, the attainment of the goal will impose a retrospective happiness on the whole exercise.

This is seldom so.” Scott’s speech, anecdotal and humorous, can be found on the MASSEY magazine website. Scott’s play, the daylight atheist, was well reviewed, but MASSEY’s article about Masskerade ’69 drew umbrage from Will Candler:“As editor of Masskerade in the mid-50s I take objection to the implied suggestion that these earlier magazines were lacking in poor taste. I don't see how you can have overlooked the cartoon of an elephant putting its trunk into the tent of a honeymooning couple on safari, with the simple caption ‘Oh! Henry!’, and an expression of delight on the elephant's face, that I have only seen equalled at Khajuraho [a Hindu temple complex in India]. Or, the tramping couple who had evidently taken advantage of a passing bush to exchange shorts and trousers. Admittedly our best piece was rendered in French, and so perhaps less accessible.

“I think a better defence would have been that ’69 was not out of line with community standards as evidenced by comparison with the capping magazines of other universities and in earlier years; and, most importantly, the substantial consumer demand for these magazines year after year.

“A Professorial Board that tries to protect its butt by sending Masskerade to the Indecent Publications Tribunal deserves to have it kicked. If the police want to send the magazine to the Tribunal, so be it, but they risk being laughed at, and hence are reluctant to make fools of themselves.
“Surely everyone realizes that a decent capping magazine is an oxymoron?”

MASSEY apologises unreservedly for any implication that any issue of Maskerade ever displayed anything approaching good taste.

Finally, congratulations to all those associated with the success of Olivado Avocado Oil. Featured in issue 11 of MASSEY, the Extra Virgin oil won the Premier Award and the Enterprise Award at the 2002 Massey University Food Awards.