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100 years of stories.
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Annie Jane Grantham (“Gran”)
1922-1946 / NZBTI Housekeeper, Matron (Hopetoun Street, Queen Street) One of the unheralded people in this College’s history is a woman...
Charles (Charlie) Bennet, MBE
1935-1936 / NZBTI (Queen Street Campus) At age 23 Charlie was working on a farm in Gore when he was persuaded to hear the Irish...
Professor Edward Musgrave Blaiklock, OBE
Lecturer in NT Greek, 1927-1975 Board Member (1939-1964), Board Chair and President (1965-1975) As a trainee teacher in 1921 Ted...
Henry Yolland
1927-1960 Lecturer and Dean of NZ Bible Training Institute (Queen Street Campus) Born in August 1883, Henry Yolland was brought up in...
Hessell Troughton
1930-1931, NZBTI Diploma (Queen Street campus) Hessell William Forster Troughton was born in Thames in 1907 and grew up on dairy farms in...
Hilda Griffin (née Allen)
1939 – 1940 / NZBTI Diploma (Queen Street Campus) Hilda was the 8th of 10 children, and one of the few among her peers who attended high...
Rev. Joseph W. Kemp
Founder and Principal, NZ Bible Training Institute, 1922-1932 Joseph William Kemp was born in the port city of Hull, England, in December...
Leslie William (Les) Rushbrook
1934-1935 / NZBTI Diploma, Queen Street Campus, 1936-1981 / Secretary-Treasurer/Registrar At only 18 years of age, Les began studies at...
Norman and Amy McIntosh
Norman McIntosh 1934-1935 / NZBTI Diploma, Queen Street Campus Amy McIntosh (neé Carter) 1933-1934 / NZBTI Diploma, Queen Street Campus...
Sir Norman Perry, KT, MBE
1935-36 / NZBTI Diploma (Queen Street Campus) Born at Tiniroto in the back blocks between Wairoa and Gisborne, Norman grew up in...
Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw, CBE
1922 – 1942 / Board member, NZ Bible Training Institute 1943 – 1965 / President, NZ Bible Training Institute Robert Laidlaw joined Rev....
Rev. Herbert Roy Puddle
1936-1937 NZBTI Diploma (Queen Street Campus) Roy was converted through the ministry of Lionel Fletcher at age 20 and played an active...
Wilbur Thomas Clark
1930-1931 (Queen Street Campus) Wilbur Clark has the distinction of being the 100th graduate to serve in overseas mission, fulfilling a...
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