Page 2 - 1992 News Clippings

Hectic Year for Top Student

Huntly Press, January 15, 1992

Regan MacDonald crammed a lot of
things into his final year at Ngaruawahia
High School yet still managed to achieved
proxime accessit to cap it all off.

Not the least of the 17 year old
achievements was his editorship of the
school magazine.
Boasting gloss, a wide selection of
photographs with a centre fold-out and
good clean layout, the 76-page magazine
was produced within budget.

As well as the usual class and sports
photographs and informal snaps taken on
camps and trips, Regan included short
articles from students and a couple of his
own zany articles.

He was editor of last year’s issue too, Regan MacDonald with the 76-page 1991 school
but with less responsibility. magazine he managed to edit in between his
studies.
“One of our teachers, Mrs (Lorraine)
Middleton, gave a lot of help arranging the His bursary subjects were physics, art
advertising and taking all the photos. design, economics, calculus and statistics
and he took a graphics and design course
A keen computer buff, Regan produced and did seventh form computer studies.
the pages and designed the advertising on
his Atari STE using a desktop publishing He was also chairperson of the Student
programme. The result is a very attractive Council and student representative on the
and professional looking magazine. Board of Trustees.

He gained the Templeton Award for

1991 Yearbook Senior Draughtsmanship and Technology.
Regan is hoping to attend Waikato
1992 Yearbook University to take a degree in Computing
and Mathematical Sciences.