FMD, University of Waikato
Issue No: 69 – April 2009
Terry Judge and Shar Temara
Student Centre Project Progress Photos
Below are a couple of photos taken by Jaime Walsh, Librarian ‐having a go at one of the
Electronic Access. These and more shots can be found at the Kingitanga Day events “Sumo
Wrestling”. Result was a draw.
link below.
East Wing – taken 28/4/09
More East Wing photos (and Shops photos) can be found:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uowlibrary/sets/
Terri Van Jaarsveld Farewell
A moko’d Ka Te Laurence
entering into the spirit of
Kingitanga Day on the 21st April.
(Thanks to Katie for her snippet
on the recycling stations below).
First of the new recycling stations now installed
The first of six new recycling stations, as designed by students in
Mike Duke’s Engineering Design class in 2007, was installed near
G and R Block on 6 April 09. Myles McInnes (WMS) designed the
ferns and labels. Allied Sheetmetals did the manufacturing.
Mark Thompson and John Roberts have helped to choose
suitable locations.
This station includes the first plastic recycling bin on campus
(plastic codes 1 and 2) and also takes cans and green, brown, and
clear glass.
Recyclemen have agreed to collect the recyclables as and when
required while these new stations get established. Your plastic
milk bottles could become buckets and polar fleece jumpers!
Terri pictured here
with husband Ub at
the farewell
morning tea held at
FMD on Friday 17th
April.
Terri was employed
here on campus as
the Administration
person for the
FMD Social Club
Security Division.
Saturday 16th May: Reminder re the trip to Rotorua ‐
Terri’s main role was to complete all the data entry and
Gondola/Restaurant combo for lunch. Cost is $25 adults and
maintenance for the Cardax system; this included
$10 children. Names and money are needed by the end of
programming all the staff access cards. She had contact with
April so that the lunch booking can be confirmed.
every School and secretary on campus. She completed this
Wednesday 20th May: Sausage sizzle lunch at FMD.
role for nearly nine years and left the University to for her
Raffles: The raffles/lotto start up again, effective from
brother in a position she was already working in after hours.
Monday 4th May, so have your $2 available. Money for
Terri will be missed by many on campus. Her dedication and
these now needs to be paid to Faye Kett.
outstanding customer service skills will be very hard to
A special thanks to Tom for all the work carried out in
replace.
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Ray Hayward
collecting the raffle money over the past few years.
A computer uses 75% less energy if it is turned off
overnight and weekends rather than being left on standby.
A little energy can make a big difference!
Letter of thanks to Security
I would like to commend your staff member Kahu, for her very kind
action on Saturday evening after the Night Glow. My friend, her
elderly aunt and I got lost on our way back to the Gate 10 car park, and
she came along and rescued us with her van. The elderly aunt was
feeling quite breathless after a climb back up some stairs. I feel we
may still be wandering around if she hadn’t come across us.
Did you know….
Bike Wise Battle
Yes, the University beat
Hamilton City Council and the
DHB for highest local
participation rate: 13.2% of
staff. Those of the 203
competitors who were
available enjoyed the NZTA‐
funded morning tea prize on
29 April. Good work!
I regard her as a highly valued member of your team.
In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
Please pass on our thanks to her, we were most appreciative.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
E D Mills, 29 March 2009
In 2003, there were 86 days of below‐freezing weather in
Hell, Michigan.
I thought you might like to see some lovely photos of my mokopuna,
dressed up in their home‐made Easter bonnets. Some of you may Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
remember that their father, Kawe Enoka, was once a part‐time Porter 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
at the University. He now lives with his wife Lyn and children Aimee
and Aaron in the wilds of darkest Scotland ‐‐ he couldn't get further
away from me if he tried !!.
Aren’t we lucky to live and work in spacious New Zealand!
Te Karu
Contributions from Katie Laurence
Quine Road (Ta Huna) Sealed Hill Climb
A month or so back I noticed an advertisement in a magazine for a seal road hill climb out Ta Huna way. Sealed road hill climbs
once were reasonably common in NZ but this would be one of the first I heard of that was held for motor cycles only since the
1980’s. I just had to be in for the experience.
The 26th approached and I had completed absolutely no maintenance on my bike from the racing at Taupo the weekend before. I
turned up at Quine Rd about 20 minutes early and I was the only one there so took the time to drive the course (once I guessed
where it started and finished). By 9:15 we had riders briefing then a compulsory walking of the course. Now it had been raining
all night and I can tell you the course looked really bad with large sections of very smooth seal bleed that were very slippery from
the overnight rain. I admit at this point I was starting to wonder if I had made the right decision as there were no run off areas if
you got it wrong just a bank or farmers fence then down a big gully. There were 3 classics machines entered in my division, a large
number of Super Motard machines, race bikes, a 1200 Aprillia and number of road machines like a 1200 Suzuki and 750 Bimota.
19 bikes in total had entered for the event. Following the familiarisation track walk we had one practise run to be followed by 4
timed runs up the hill. The quickest time up the hill was the winner. By the time we had the practise run the road surface was
drying out and my confidence was being restored. I was 3rd away in the practise order which was quite unusual as I was halfway
up my run when I realised you could use both sides of the road, but it was real exciting stuff. There were a couple of long and
tight corners that snuck up on you, some small straights and two quite fast left handers to the finish line. The first three runs up
the hill were in the dry and there was no doubt all the guys were going faster and faster.
The best part of the circuit I enjoyed was the second half where you managed to get
up some speed. I was in 3rd gear tapped right out doing about 8000rpm and you had 2
left handers in a row where you were on the edge of the bike’s limitation, just great fun,
but the challenge was to ignore the strong urge to throttle off. After the 3rd session
the clouds rolled in and the rain came down heavily. Lunch was called early in the
hope the weather would clear but it did not. At that point I packed up (as a large
number did) as I saw absolutely no fun in sliding my way up this hill and with only one
round to go I foresaw only disaster pending. The final outcome for the day I finished
9th overall and was the quickest Classic bike up the hill.
Hopefully the club will put on another day even and I will certainly be in.
Ray Hayward, 26/4/09
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