This week I complete approximately six and a half years as Chief Executive of Royal Society Te Apārangi. My first involvement was in 1984 when I was lucky enough to be a co-winner of what was then the Cooper Medal. I was then fortunate enough to be elected a Fellow in 1995. My election started a period of active voluntary involvement in the Society – adjudicating awards, participating in the Fellowship election process, being President of a Constituent Organisation and service on the Society’s then education committee.
As part of its Antarctic Oral History Project, the New Zealand Antarctic Society recently completed an ambitious programme to interview 11 individuals who had been closely involved in the immediate aftermath of New Zealand’s aeroplane disaster on Mount Erebus in Antarctica in November 1979.
