{"id":1504,"date":"2023-07-04T13:10:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T01:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2023-07-04T13:35:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T01:35:51","slug":"te-poroaki-o-lachy-paterson-te-pohiri-o-roma-donaldson-gush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/te-poroaki-o-lachy-paterson-te-pohiri-o-roma-donaldson-gush\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Poro\u0101ki o Lachy Paterson &amp; te P\u014dhiri o Roma Donaldson-Gush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2023\/07\/Roma_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1514 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2023\/07\/Roma_1-300x113.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2023\/07\/Roma_1-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2023\/07\/Roma_1-1024x386.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2023\/07\/Roma_1-768x290.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2023\/07\/Roma_1-500x189.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2023\/07\/Roma_1.png 1034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week Te Tumu celebrated well with the retirement of Emeritus <strong>Professor Lachy Paterson<\/strong> and the arrival of new M\u0101ori Studies p\u016bkenga, <strong>Roma Donaldson-Gush<\/strong>. Roma, of Ng\u0101ti Porou, Taranaki, Ng\u0101ti T\u016bwharetoa, Kotirana descent, joins Te Tumu staff with a background in bilingualism and intergenerational language and culture transmission for M\u0101ori. Roma will be completing her PhD studies as well as teaching into the M\u0101ori Studies programme. She is a Te Tumu alumnus having previously completed postgraduate study looking at Te Reo M\u0101ori in urban New Zealand. The p\u014dhiri, held on Wednesday 28 June, included representatives from Office of M\u0101ori Development, Te Huka M\u0101tauraka, Te R\u014dp\u016b M\u0101ori, staff from Te Tumu and the wider university. Roma was supported by her wh\u0101nau, colleagues, and friends in a day filled with the celebration of new relationships and excitement for the future of Te Tumu.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1523\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2023\/07\/Lachy_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1523\" class=\"wp-image-1523\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2023\/07\/Lachy_1-300x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2023\/07\/Lachy_1-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2023\/07\/Lachy_1-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2023\/07\/Lachy_1-500x250.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2023\/07\/Lachy_1.png 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L: Dean of Te Tumu Patrick Vakaoti garlanding Lachy with a salusalu. R: Angela Wanhalla, Lachy Paterson and wh\u0101nau<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Ara mai he t\u0113t\u0113kura, wehe atu he t\u0113t\u0113kura. \u00a0With a new frond beginning, a mature frond leaves.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With over 16 years of service as a teacher, mentor, friend, and conspirator, Lachy Paterson was farewelled in an intimate gathering of colleagues and wh\u0101nau on Friday 30 June. Many spoke of the contributions Lachy has made to M\u0101ori Studies, Te Tumu and the university as a whole with several teaching, administration and leadership roles. Stories unfolded about his days as a student, teaching fellow and ultimately his unrelenting commitment to Te Tumu. Although it was a bittersweet day, Te Tumu looks forward to a continuing relationship with Lachy as an emeritus professor and eagerly await his future publications and foray into YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Te Tumu celebrated well with the retirement of Emeritus Professor Lachy Paterson and the arrival of new M\u0101ori Studies p\u016bkenga, Roma Donaldson-Gush. Roma, of Ng\u0101ti Porou, Taranaki, Ng\u0101ti T\u016bwharetoa, Kotirana descent, joins Te Tumu staff with a background [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8759,85073,35284],"tags":[17511],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maori-studies","category-pohiri","category-staff-profile","tag-te-reo-maori"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}