Chanel College, Masterton

Chanel College
Location
Herbert St, Masterton, New Zealand
Coordinates	40°57′37″S 175°39′14″E / 40.9602°S 175.6539°E / -40.9602; 175.6539Coordinates: 40°57′37″S 175°39′14″E / 40.9602°S 175.6539°E / -40.9602; 175.6539
Information
Type	Integrated secondary (year 7-13) co-ed
Motto	All through Christ
Established	1978
Ministry of Education Institution no.	244
Principal	Mr Grant Miles
School roll	379 (2011)
Socio-economic decile	5
Website	chanelcollege.school.nz

Chanel College, Masterton is a Catholic secondary school situated in Masterton, New Zealand. The school is named after St Peter Chanel, who was a French Marist priest killed on the Pacific island of Futuna in 1841. The school was established in 1978. It resulted from the amalgmation of two schools, St Joseph’s College for Boys (founded in 1945) operated by the Marist Brothers and St Bride’s College for Girls which had been established in 1898 by the Brigidine Sisters. The College, which is located on the old St Joseph's College site, became an Integrated School in November 1981. It is owned by the Wellington Archdiocese with the Archbishop of Wellington being named as its proprietor in the college's integration agreement with the New Zealand Government.

Alumni/ae

• Barry Barclay, MNZM (1944–2008), New Zealand filmmaker and writer of Maori (Ngati Apa) and Pākehā (European) descent. (St Joseph's College).^[1]
• Phillipa "Pip" Brown (born 1979), singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
• John Atcherley Dew (1948- ), 6th Archbishop of Wellington (2005-present) (St Joseph's College).

Sources

• Claire Hills (ed), The story of Catholic education in the Wairarapa: 50th Jubilee, August 25-27th 1995: St. Joseph’s College, Chanel College, St. Joseph’s Golden Jubilee Committee, Masterton, New Zealand 1995.
• Helena M Fouhy, One love, many faces : Brigidines in New Zealand, 1898-1998, Congregation of St Brigid, Masterton 1998.
• Michael King, God's farthest outpost : a history of Catholics in New Zealand, Viking, Auckland 1997.
• Michael O'Meeghan S.M., Steadfast in hope : the story of the Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington 1850-2000, Dunmore press, Palmerston North, 2003.

References

1. ^ Stuart Murray, Images of Dignity: Barry Barclay and Fourth Cinema, Huia, Wellington, 2008, pp. 7-8.