AUDIO
Interview with Sir Roy McKenzie
- Date
- 14 July 1994 - 14 Jul 1994
- By
- McKenzie, Roy Allan (Sir), 1922-2007
- Reference
- OHInt-0147/1
- Description
Sir Roy Allan McKenzie born in Wellington in 1922. Backgrounds setting up of the Roy McKenzie Foundation to help community organisations when the McKenzie Education Foundation ended in 1984/85. Explains the role of the McKenzie Education Foundation which functioned for twenty years and the role of the new Roy McKenzie Foundation which aimed to help new organisations set up innovative projects. Explains how the trustees brought a wide background to the organisation. Mentions John Watson, Morva Croxson, Diana Crossan, Basil Potter, Bruce Hucker, Jenny Gill, June Johnston and Robyn Gibson. Talks about `Creative Giving' a book published by the foundation. Refers to help given by the foundation - scholarships to the deaf; Women's Refuge; SPELD (Specific Learning Difficulties Inc). Describes how Capital Discovery Place, a major project, arose and refers to Mayor Fran Wilde. Talks about interest in hospices and, in particular, Mary Potter and Te Omanga Hospice.
Access Contact - see oral history librarian
Venue - Wellington
Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005931-005932
Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.12 Hours and minutes Duration.
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1304.
One photograph of Sir Roy Allan McKenzie
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
- Use/Reproduction
- No public use without written permission of the Roy McKenzie Foundation Copyright: Copyright held by the Roy McKenzie Foundation
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- Roy McKenzie Foundation Oral History Project
- Format
- 2 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 1.12 Hours and minutes Duration, Oral histories, Illustration: One photograph of Sir Roy Allan McKenzie
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Interview with Sir Roy McKenzie, printed abstract
Date: 14 July 1994
From: Roy McKenzie Foundation Oral History Project
Reference: OHA-1304
Description: Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1.12 Hours and minutes Duration.
Interview with Sir Roy McKenzie, tape two
Date: 14 July 1994
From: Roy McKenzie Foundation Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-005932
Description: Arrangement: Tape sequence - tape 2 of 2 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 12 Minutes Duration.
Interview with Sir Roy McKenzie, tape one
Date: 14 July 1994
From: Roy McKenzie Foundation Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-005931
Description: Arrangement: Tape sequence - tape 1 of 2 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration.