On Tuesday 24 May the School held a special assembly to celebrate Founders Day (actually 18 May 1881) and present the Altiora Peto Award.

The Altiora Peto Award and medal is given by the Old Boys’ Association each year to a living Old Boy who personifies the School’s motto “Altiora Peto – I seek higher things”.

The recipient for 2016 is Dr Selwyn Gerald Maister QSM.

Dr Maister attended CBHS from 1959-1963 and was Senior Monitor and Deans Scholar in his final year. He played hockey for the First XI from fourth form (Year 10) onwards and went on to play for Canterbury and New Zealand from 1965-1980. Selwyn was a member of the 1976 team which won the gold medal at the Montreal Olympic Games.

He was a Rhodes Scholar who completed a D.Phil. in organic chemistry at Oxford and he went on to become Dean of Applied Sciences and Allied Health at CPIT (now ARA) in Christchurch for 30 years.

Selwyn spent many years coaching hockey at club, provincial and national level and was appointed to the inaugural board of Hockey New Zealand when the men’s and women’s associations were amalgamated in 1989. He is still involved in sport as Chairman of the Board of Paralympics NZ and former CEO of Softball NZ and the NZ Academy of Sport and Sport Auckland.

The School congratulates Dr Maister on this award.