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Speaker 1: Celebrating teachers as spotted on Facebook, all thanks to our

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Speaker 1: friends at Speaksabors on cash Streets. This after a ninety

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Speaker 1: year old in the States has earned a Guinness World

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Speaker 1: Record for spending sixty seven years in front of the classroom.

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Speaker 1: Beverly Hannett Price is her name, So got me thinking

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Speaker 1: what about some of the long serving teachers that we

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Speaker 1: have here in mid Canterbury. Caught up with mister Hoops

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Speaker 1: John Hooper yesterday, but also having a look on the

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Speaker 1: facy page, Kirby says, don't forget missus Donnelly at Mayfield.

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Speaker 1: I'm a former student of missus Donnelly, only retired recently. Well,

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Speaker 1: I hope you are enjoying your best life now, missus

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Speaker 1: Doodietracaia School, says Rebecca kas at Mount Hart said that

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Speaker 1: there's currently teacher there, Miss Lisa Pondweiser. Hope I'm getting

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Speaker 1: that right. Art teacher forty one years. That's pretty impressive.

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Speaker 1: Local history buff Shirley for Loon is in studio. Hello

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Speaker 1: to you, hi. We may have found top contender in

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Speaker 1: mister Mark Gleeson.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, has been a teacher at Ashburton College

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Speaker 2: for knocking on fifty years. He started there in nineteen

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Speaker 2: seventy as a very fresh faced young adult from New

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Speaker 2: England and his parents came.

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Speaker 1: Out New England of Patriot supporter. He's a Yankee presume, yeah,

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Speaker 1: although maybe a bit quiet after the weekend. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So he was my teacher in nineteen seventy one

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Speaker 2: for school Sharit history. So he's had a very long

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Speaker 2: career at Ashburton College, as say, nearly fifty years, and

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Speaker 2: I think even after that he went back relieving for

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Speaker 2: several years. So he did retrain at some ord more

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Speaker 2: study and became the legal teaching law which he really enjoyed,

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Speaker 2: apparently when they talked to him back in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I imagine that could be a little more animated

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Speaker 1: than history at times, although there's a pretty colorful starf

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Speaker 1: in the history box. So that was at the time

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Speaker 1: when he started that Ashburton College was across sort of

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Speaker 1: three sites. That's exactly right, just a challenge tearing your

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Speaker 1: way from one side of town to the other to.

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Speaker 2: Come and you know it didn't worry us as students

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Speaker 2: having our teacher turn up fifteen minutes late for subject,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, that made it very awkward for them. They

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Speaker 2: in fact Mark and colleagues had a Ministry of Education,

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Speaker 2: it's an education department back in those days. They had

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Speaker 2: a car provided, but it was very unreliable. In fact,

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Speaker 2: I think he was going and of course they got

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Speaker 2: held up by trains many times going between the new

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Speaker 2: site and the Ashburton.

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Speaker 1: High schools the Ashburton Bridge.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly. Yeah, No, I didn't have to worry about

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Speaker 2: the bridge. But he said one time the steering wheel

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Speaker 2: came away in his hands, so that was the end

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Speaker 2: of that car. In the end, Mark used his own car.

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Speaker 2: He just founded a heck of a lot easier.

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Speaker 1: Oh as you would. Yeah, and many teachers sort of

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Speaker 1: find themselves calling on their own resources in different forms.

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Speaker 1: Why was he nicknamed Chalky?

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Speaker 2: Chalky for reasonably obvious reasons. He managed to get an

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Speaker 2: incredible amount of chalk all over himself, hands, clothing, everywhere.

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Speaker 1: That makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And he had sort of what I would like

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Speaker 2: to call sartorial elegance. He had jumpers from teacow netwhere,

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Speaker 2: but I think it's one has still survived to this day.

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Speaker 2: But he also had a pair of very loud beow

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Speaker 2: bottomed trowlers as they were sort of brown and white

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Speaker 2: and black.

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Speaker 1: Chairs was the fashion at the time.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, look, it was very trendy. But when I

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Speaker 2: talked to him at our interview, unfortunately those trousers hadn't

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Speaker 2: survived the year, so they are no more.

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Speaker 1: The interview that your references for ash cole alumni, which

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Speaker 1: we must go and share on our Facebook page. Might

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Speaker 1: do that a little later today. That was when he retired.

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Speaker 1: It was about six years ago, was it about?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, about year four or five years ago?

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Speaker 1: Oh, okay, maybe not that long. Yeah, so he's still

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Speaker 1: with us, right, Oh.

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Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, you know, he's still very with it. He's

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Speaker 2: keeping himself busy. He loves woodwork. He's got grandchildren, so

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Speaker 2: he's building.

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Speaker 1: Oh, tree houses and all sorts of things. Absolutely, yeeah.

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Speaker 1: And there was another long serving Ashburton teacher who sadly

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Speaker 1: we lost last year.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that was Brian Lynn. And I'm not sure how

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Speaker 2: many years Brian did, but the college would be able

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Speaker 2: to fill us in there. Yeah, he was there for many,

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Speaker 2: many years. And his wife, Rosalie, taught at Allenton. And

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Speaker 2: another long serving teacher which was who was everyone's favorite,

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Speaker 2: was Lynn McDonald She is still with us, but she

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Speaker 2: lives in christ Church now and very very active on

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Speaker 2: the esh COL alumni page. She's got lots of.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if I had her at one stage and

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Speaker 1: she taught me the greatest life lesson of all I

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Speaker 1: know everything and what I don't know. I make up

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Speaker 1: a good motto phrase that stuck with me. Fake it

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Speaker 1: till you make it all the same lines. Oh, cheers

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Speaker 1: for taking us for a trip down memory lane. There

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Speaker 1: a shirly