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WHERE IS YOUR STAR? CONTINUED

Paul Clark (1974) famous Margaret River wine region. These
Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand days I keep busy as a Director of an Aged Care
company and keep fit competing in Ironman
Triathlon races.
Michael Fordyce (1957)
Wakerley, Queensland, Australia

and became a composer and playwright. I
have since written music for 46 theatrical
My education continued in Edinburgh after
productions. My credits include 12 short
leaving Heriots in 1974 - mixing beer and
Australian plays for the Edinburgh Festival
football with Accounting & Finance at Heriot
(2009), music for Shakespeare’s Queens/The
Watt. Following graduation, it was into CA
Madness of King Lear, performed in Edinburgh,
training and then a chance to broaden horizons
Stratford and London’s West End (2012), a
and come to NZ in 1983 with my wife Helen.
stage play commissioned for Australia’s ANZAC
We settled permanently in NZ in 1986, and
Centenary For The Sake of Mother England
subsequently raised 3 children all have whom
(2015) and a musical for Sydney Grammar When I was elected President of the Institution
have been overseas but are currently back in NZ
School, The Bloodhound Boys (2018). of Structural Engineers in 2004, I used Structural
partially due to the pandemic. I retired in 2016
Engineering – a Passport to Travel as my theme
Graham Christie (1985) having completed 30 years with PwC. I now do
and that has been my story, taking me to many
Bilgola, New South Wales, some work with the University of Auckland,
interesting places, initially around the UK, then
Australia I stress not in a teaching capacity. I’d love to
Memphis (Tennessee) in the 70s, back to the
get back for the 50th anniversary and hear
UK, and since 1984 Brisbane has been home,
from anyone who’d like to be in touch.
apart from 18 months in Sri Lanka. As a result,
Jeff Dick (1974) we have a very scattered family with 2 sons
Dunsborough, Western Australia & 6 grandchildren in the UK, 2 daughters &
4 grandchildren in Brisbane, and another
granddaughter with our first great-grandson
in Japan. Apart from my marriage to my wife,
Joan, having a great family and being President
of IStructE, another highlight was being
awarded Engineers Australia’s John Connell
I spent 12 years in Advertising, initially in
Gold Medal. Now retired, I am still involved in
Edinburgh, then for several years in London
structural engineering as a Director of CROSS-
before moving to Sydney in 1999. Advertising
AUS, but still find time for croquet, bowls and
is a game for the young and headstrong so
of course travel.
I was ideally suited, until I aged! I spent 5
years with Vodafone which ignited a business Neil Henderson (1974)
idea I pursued with passion to co-found my After leaving Heriot’s, I completed Economics Guerilla Bay, New South Wales,
own digital media services business, growing degrees at Aberdeen and Glasgow Universities Australia
it over 9 years to a team of 100 across before starting work in the oil industry in I was not a ‘sporty
Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. London. A spell in Management Consulting player’ at school
I’m now a seed investor and a mentor for start- with McKinsey led to a career in Investment as I found that
ups, an independent consultant, and I have a Management. In 2006, my wife, Casey, both rugby and
business transformation book being published daughter Jasmine and I moved to Sydney cricket could cause
in April 2021. I have the great pleasure of – to be honest, I wish I had made the decision extreme pain
keeping the growing Heriot’s community in to move sooner as Australia is a great place which I avoided
Australia connected with an age span ranging to live. After retiring from full time work, we like the plague.
from the young and headstrong 20- moved to Western Australia and now spend I took up skiing
somethings, to the jovial and vintaged 80- our time between Perth and Dunsborough. and sailing and
somethings. George Heriot’s School and The South West of Australia is one of the most it transpired that
Lauriston House run deep in my veins. beautiful places and we are right next to the I was reasonably