From the Director of
Development
We are excited about the opening of the Centennial Chapel and launch of the Centenary on 15 September this year. We hope that many Old Collegians will return to the College for the gala weekend from 17–19 March 2017 for a wonderful weekend of catching up with former schoolmates, and to enjoy the special celebrations for our first century. We welcome alumni to update their contact details by emailing stac100@stac.school.nz or contacting Kate Baker on 03 940-2036. We want everyone to have the opportunity to join us in celebrating at the various events we are hosting throughout the year. The gala weekend will also mark the close of the Step Into Our Future fundraising campaign. We have received wonderful support for the campaign, raising over $6 million in gifts and pledges at the close of 2015. In our annual Philanthropy Report (enclosed) we recognise and celebrate philanthropy, from across all areas of our StAC community. Although the end is approaching for our Step Into Our Future campaign, we still need to raise a great deal more to complete the Chapel, stage two of the Sports and Cultural Centre and to grow the St Andrew’s College Foundation. The opportunity to purchase a brick and contribute to the Centennial Chapel while securing permanent recognition on the plaque in the foyer, is still
Anna Galvan (Development Manager), Kate Baker (Alumni and Community Relations Co-ordinator), Clare Wilkinson (Director of Development), Kelsey Williams (part-time Development Co-ordinator) and Jacqui Anderson (part-time Development Office Administrator).
available. However there are only 700 left of the 1000 bricks available for purchase, so please don’t hesitate to contact us. We are pleased to welcome Anna Galvan, the newest member of our team, who joined us in March 2016 from Ronald McDonald House South Island. A highlight of 2015 for our team was achieving the Endeavour Scholarship Challenge. The challenge was initiated by a generous founding donor, who pledged to match dollar for dollar all donations to the Endeavour Scholarship fund above the value of $100 and to a maximum value of $100,000 before December 2015. We are thrilled with the response to this challenge and thank those who generously contributed for helping us to achieve the full $100,000 in time. These funds will now be matched giving the
Endeavour Scholarship fund $200,000. The Endeavour Scholarship supports students with academic and co-curricular merit with proven financial need. We thank our founding donor for setting the challenge and generously supporting the Endeavour Scholarship fund, the Step Into Our Future campaign and St Andrew’s College. We look forward to meeting you all at our upcoming celebrations and working further with you to Step Into Our Future and become part of history. Clare Wilkinson Director of Development
Update your contact details at stac100@stac.school.nz
Chapel champions
Class 8S, winners of the brick donation box competition.
Congratulations to class 8S, who won a very special lunch with Rector Christine Leighton and Principal of Preparatory School Jonathan Bierwirth after raising $1127.50 in our brick donation box competition. Each child from the Preparatory School was offered a new brick donation box, which they were encouraged to take home and fill with spare change to raise funds for the new Centennial Chapel. Collectively the Preparatory School raised an outstanding $3519.40. Well done also to class 5A, which returned the most brick donation boxes: 11 plus a shared class box. We were delighted with the number of children who took up this challenge, and thank all who encouraged and supported them. The competition followed a tradition from the 1950s when students gave up their lunch money to buy bricks to help fundraise for their Memorial Chapel.
