Mr Murray Lints - 1993 to 1999

Mr Murray Lints 1993 to 1999

Mr Lints went to Gonville School and Wanganui Boys High and then attended Victoria University and obtained a Master’s Degree in French. He then spent a year at Christchurch Teachers College obtaining his teaching diploma and an MCC Cricket coaching diploma which he used in his first teaching position at Tararua College, Pahiatua, and a French government grant to teach and study for a year in Cherbourg. He returned to Tararua College and then was offered a position at the high school he had attended as a student.

So in 1966 Mr Lints went back to teach at Wanganui Boys High and was also Dean of Forms 6&7, teacher in charge of prizegivings and a one-night-a-week hostel housemaster.

In 1971 he was took up a post at Kamo High School, Whangārei, as HOD English. He was then Deputy Principal at Kamo for 10 years before being asked to join the Education Review Office (ERO) when it was launched 1990.

Leaving this role in 1993 Mr Lints was appointed Principal at Whangārei Boys High School where he served in this role for 7 years. He retired in 1999.

After his retirement in 1999 he was approached by the Auckland College of Education, now the University of Auckland's Faculty of Education, to coordinate secondary teacher

training at the campus here in Whangārei. He then also became a half-time lecturer here. He resides in Tutukaka.

In June 2006 Mr Lints was awarded the QSM for public service.

Mr Lints said upon this award – “I confess to being somewhat surprised when the powers-that-be decided to honour me with the Queen’s Service Medal for Public Service this year but then realised that I have spent 50 years serving on committees of one sort or another, starting with the Wanganui Hockey Association in 1956. I chair the hospice board and I'm on the Hockey Association board and the All-Weather Athletic Track Trust and I'm the education officer for the Northland JP Assn. And for good measure I've just completed editing a history of the Whangārei high schools for their 125th celebrations.”