From the president

One of the best aspects of the president’s role in the Alumnae Association is hearing first-hand some of the inspiring, impressive, and immensely diverse stories related to alumnae achievements. We are diverse in every way. Members of our Dio tribe are making medicines, beautiful designs, lovely food, movies, successful campaigns on all sorts of issues, and tough business and legal decisions. We are thinkers, writers, community leaders, entrepreneurs, service providers, activists, academics, church leaders, and contributors in an astonishing range of fields. We hold together families, in some cases communities, and sometimes we are just holding it together ourselves or helping others to. That’s legend right there!

So, how do we take this incredible resource and harness it for existing and future generations of alumnae? Through many means. As you know, we have a programme of events to acknowledge achievement and inspire others. One of our 2023 goals is to add to this through the development of a series of podcasts so that people in our network can get access to insights and advice that might be useful to them. It won’t just be career focused; it will be broader than that. We want to talk about success and failure. We want to talk about challenges and opportunities and luck. We want to talk about local and international experiences and the pathways to be more than you ever imagined.

We will be reaching out to a range of our members to ask whether they might be interested in contributing to our podcast library, which will be set up with easy search-and-click access in mind. This is going to be a big 2023 project for us in addition to our usual slate of activities.

Just a couple of other quick things. I would like to acknowledge the newer members of our committee who have stepped up to fill some big shoes and who make me reflect frequently on how

AUCKLAND DIOCESAN ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION (INC)

PRESIDENT

Penny Tucker (Macdonald)

M. 021 256 0454

TREASURER

Felicity Buche (Olson)

FELLOWSHIP SECRETARY

Emily Steel (Houlker)

COMMITTEE

Rachael Brand

Sarah Couillault (Willis)

Danielle Harper

Sarahmarie Liebmann

Sarah MacKenzie

Damaya Padupati (Rasanathan)

Lena Saad

Jenny Spillane (Orsborn) Vice president

Sheryl Tan

Susan Tapper

Margaret Timms (Webster)

Dio Today Editor, League pages

Deirdre Coleman

E. d.g@slingshot.co.nz

Auckland Diocesan Alumnae Association PO Box 28-382, Remuera, Auckland 1541 fortunate we are to have such amazing volunteers in our midst. And, as always, in the ‘it takes a village’ category of thankfulness, the support we get from the team at Dio in School House makes me feel immensely grateful. In the build-up to some of the changes we made last year, I talked to many other similar associations to exchange views and gain their perspectives, and I feel particularly lucky to have the School so constructively and collaboratively engaged.

Ut Serviamus

Penny Tucker

Diocesan Alumnae Association President