The Noeline Clark Foundation charitable trust was established by Noeline Clark who was a Divisional Principal at Burnside High School from 1960 to 1976. Since the year 2000, The Trust has awarded over 50 scholarships to Burnside High School students.
Congratulations to the recipients of this years’ Noeline Clark Foundation general excellence scholarships. The following students have been award $8,500 each towards undergraduate study at the University of Canterbury.
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Sam Allan
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Petra Brown
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Alfie Buttle
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Jack Buttle
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Anisha Chand
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Ron Livne
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Emma Mauger
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Coco Morizono
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Nallavi Padiachy
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Samantha Soeters
The Noeline Clark Foundation is a charitable trust set up to provide scholarships to pupils of Burnside High School who continue their studies at the University of Canterbury.
Noeline Clark created the foundation initially but her brother Richard Clark (Dick) made a significant contribution to the foundation upon his death in 2006.
Miss Noeline Clark was the Senior Mistress when Burnside High School opened in 1960. Noeline spent sixteen years at Burnside and when she retired in 1976 she was the Deputy Principal of North Division. Prior to teaching at Burnside Noeline was head of geography at Christchurch Girls High School, taught at Dannevirke High school and spent time teaching in England and Vermont, USA on a Fulbright teaching exchange.
Noeline was a life member of the Canterbury Branch of the Federation of University Women and served for several years on the National Council of Women. Until ill health prevented her from doing so, Noeline worked every year at the regalia hireage for the University of Canterbury graduation ceremonies.
Dick was a chartered accountant who was admitted to the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1948. He worked for many years for the Christchurch firm of Lake Smith and Co. After retiring in 1976, Dick ran a small accountancy practice from home. He was also a keen golfer and was the treasurer for the Templeton Golf Club for a number of years. Dick served in the Airforce signals unit in the Solomon Islands in his earlier life.
Both Noeline and Dick had strong Christian beliefs and Noeline represented her church on the National Council of Churches. Both Noeline and Dick had no other immediate family so were very close. In retirement they lived in adjoining units and shared the love of a wonderful garden.
It was the wishes of Ms Clark that the Foundation continues indefinitely and the Trustees are working hard to ensure that is possible.
These scholarships are open to students who have attended Burnside High School in the year immediately preceding the first year of study at the University of Canterbury. It is a requirement that the recipients must be able to show proof of enrolment and commencement of study at UC in order to receive this award.
