Western News: June 04, 2019

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Queen’s Birthday Honours
Recognition for work in the community
Three residents from the
Western News area have
been recognised in the
Queen’s Birthday Honours
List for their contributions to
the community
New Zealand Order of
Merit awards
•Susan Bagshaw,
Burnside
Dr Bagshaw has become a
Dame Companion of the New
Zealand Order of Merit for her
services to youth health.
She has worked in the youth
health sector for 30 years, is
currently a senior lecturer in
paediatrics at Otago University’s
Christchurch centre, and a
contract educator and trustee at
the Collaborative for Research
and Training in Youth Health
and Development, which she
founded.
Dr Bagshaw is the Korowai
Youth Well-Being Trust
chairwoman, running the 298
Youth Health Centre, where she
has three teaching clinics.
She established the youth
one-stop shop in 1995 where she
worked as a primary care youth
health specialist until it closed in
2010.
She has been involved in
advising the set-up of many
Susan Bagshaw Yvonne Loader Peter Cox
youth health centres around
the country, now known as the
network of Youth One Stop
Shops.
Following the earthquakes,
Dr Bagshaw collaborated with
Action Works to bring together
16 youth organisations to form
the first youth hub in Barbadoes
St in 2012.
Most recently she has been
developing a Youth Hub - Te
Hurihanga o Rangatahi, a
collaboration of health and social
services and transitional housing
for young people.
Anglican Care became
involved in 2017 to help purchase
a site in central Christchurch.
Dr Bagshaw has been
New Zealand Association
for Adolescent Health and
Development president,
International Association of
Adolescent Health president, and
was a founding member and key
driver of the Society of Youth
Health Professionals Aotearoa.
•Yvonne Loader, Burnside
Mrs Loader has become a
Member of the New Zealand
Order of Merit for her services to
the sport of gliding.
She has been heavily
involved in the New Zealand
gliding community and has
instructed for the Omarama and
Canterbury gliding clubs.
Mrs Loader holds a
number of national gliding
records for altitude, distance,
and speed, and set a world record
in 1988 for greatest height gain
by a glider which still stands
today.
She has flown several
hundred hours, towing gliders
as a volunteer tow pilot, and
has towed for the Canterbury
Gliding Club at national and
international competitions, and
for Youth Glide Development
camps at Omarama.
She served as secretary of the
Canterbury club from 2000
to 2014, and as secretary of
the Omarama club from 2008
to 2014, and was made a life
member of Youth Glide New
Zealand in 2014.
For all three organisations, she
has spent many hours applying
for funding, with thousands of
dollars raised which has gone
towards safety equipment, such
as parachutes and emergency
location beacons.
Queen’s Service Medal
•Peter Cox, Ilam
Mr Cox received a
Queen’s Service Medal for
his contribution to sporting
communities in Canterbury over
a number of decades.
Throughout his career, he has
advised on boards for private
sector companies, state-owned
enterprises, and other public
entities. He has dedicated his
expertise as a professional
director to promoting
and developing hockey in
Canterbury. He was a founding
trustee and board member of
the New Zealand Academy of
Sport – South Island in 1999
until it merged into the Crown
entity High Performance Sport
New Zealand in 2011, where he
continued to serve as a board
member until 2015.
After the earthquakes, he
undertook a number of volunteer
positions to support the hockey
community. He is a trustee and
treasurer of the Canterbury
Artificial Surfaces Trust which
leads the reconstruction of
hockey facilities throughout
the city. He is also a trusteedesignate
for the Nga Puna Wai
Sports Hub Trust.
Mr Cox has contributed to
military history with two
books on New Zealand’s
involvement in the Middle East
during World War 2 – Good
Luck to all the Lads (2008) and
Desert War – the Battle of Sidi
Rezegh (2015).
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