It's the end of August and the promise of spring is in the air. What a wonderful time of the year this is.
All are reminded that at the end of the academic year, Members must leave 24 hours after their last exam or Sunday, 12 November 2017, whichever date is the earliest.
As many will know, regular Sunday Formal Dinners are a unique feature of St Margaret's College. This year has been no exception.
It's hard to believe that spring is just about upon us! The year is speeding by, it's already mid-semester break, and final year exams are a mere six weeks away.
St Margaret's College has launched a brand new website including refreshed content, new photographs, an events calendar and regular news items.
Following a recruitment and selection process, the College is pleased to announce the appointment of eight new College Leaders for 2018.
The College's mixed basketball team played in the Inter-college finals on 20 August 2017 against a Uniflats team and achieved a proud second place in the competition.
Two books recently purchased are Ki Te Whaiao for Māori studies, and Being Mortal primarily - but not exclusively - for Medical Students.
Pardon the pun, but my wife, Brenda, and I had a ball at our very first St Margaret's Annual Ball held at the Savoy on Saturday evening, 12 August.
St Margaret's men's futsal team played against Aquinas College on Saturday, 12 August in a fast-moving and exciting game.
Thirteen St Margaret's recipients of the University's prestigious Entrance Scholarship attended a special function hosted by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Harlene Hayne, on 8 August.
The College's Formal Dinner on Sunday, 6 August had an international theme and many of our Members wore their cultural attire.
July 28th heralded the start of the annual St Margaret's ski trip. 60 students bussed down to Queenstown, eager to spend a weekend on some of New Zealand’s best slopes.
Just a couple of hundred metres down (thankfully!) the hill from the College, the Water of Leith displayed all its glory during Dunedin's deluge of rain in July.
In keeping with the international theme of the Formal Dinner to be held on 6 August, all guests have international backgrounds and two are Chiefs!
Kathryn Fitzpatrick (nee Leigh), the President of the 1989 Student Executive Committee, enjoyed visiting the College on 26 May and sharing President "talk" with the 2017 President, Xavier Parackal.
Each year the Welfare Staff team script, direct and produce a short video highlighting essential study skills for new Members.
The second half of the University's Inter-college Sports Competition got underway again in mid-July after the mid-year holiday.
The Choir performed a beautiful and sincere rendition of the hymn Abide with me at the University's Graduation Thanksgiving Service on Thursday, 13 May 2017.
Dr Brent Alsop teaches at both 100 and 400 level. He grew up in rural Northland outside Whangarei, where he went to high school. He then spent a year as an exchange student in the USA, where the more liberal curriculum enabled him to study both psychology and computer programming at a time when this was rare in high schools in New Zealand.
Professor Ian Lamont studied microbiology in Edinburgh (where he was born before moving to St Andrews), then genetics for a PhD at Oxford. After an enjoyable spell at the excellent molecular biology centre in Adelaide, he moved to the Department of Biochemistry at Otago.
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