Newly knighted Sir “just call me” John Hood is a past Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, the current chairman of the Rhodes Trust and a Westlaker.
Which is what we alumni of Westlake Boys High School (Auckland, NZ) call ourselves.
The current headmaster, David Ferguson, invited a bunch of UK (the rest) and German (me) based Westlakers to a dinner hosted by Sir…er…John in Rhodes House in Oxford a while back.
I overlapped Tony Evans in the early 1960s, John overlapped me in mid 1960s and the age spread pretty much covered the school’s 50 year history.
Excellent evening.
Photo by Lady “just call me Emma” Hood
