Timaru Boys' High School alumni named a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit & More News Here

A Timaru Boys’ High School (TBHS) alumni turned a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) in the Queen’s Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours.

Dr David Graeme Woodfield, who lives in Tamahere, Waikato, was recognised for his providers to transfusion drugs which has been referred to as an “international scale of achievement” by the TBHS Old Boys’ Association.

Woodfield was one of eight CNZM recipients that included now returned Black Cap cricketer Ross Taylor, for providers to cricket and Pacific communities, Dr Miriam Edna Saphira, for providers to the LGBTQIA+ group and John Anthony Monaghan, for providers to the dairy business.

Old Boys’ Association president Bruce Leadley stated Woodfield had made a vital impression in his first 12 months at TBHS (1952), as a sixth former.

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“By 1953 he was a faculty prefect and home chief, firm sergeant main of the cadet unit, president of the debating society, a member of the first hockey eleven, and winner of the senior essay prize,” Leadley stated.

“The essay prize foreshadowed a profitable writing profession, each inside and past his medical profession.

“His e-book, Jack Lovelock: Athlete and Doctor, revealed in 2007, is of particular significance to TBHS. The analysis notes for the e-book have been donated to the faculty archives.”

Leadley said throughout his career, Woodfield has maintained strong links with TBHS and its Old Boys’ Association.

Born in 1935 in Geraldine, Woodfield, was educated at Pukerangi and Sutton schools in Otago, Seadown and Temuka primary schools and later at Temuka District High School and TBHS.

After TBHS, Woodfield went to Christchurch where he passed the medical intermediate exam for entry into Medical School in Dunedin.

After five years he graduated in 1960 with the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBChB), starting work with the Auckland Hospital Board in 1961 as house surgeon and then pathology registrar.

In 1965, he travelled to Scotland where he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

He entered a research programme at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Blood Transfusion Service, graduating with a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in medicine in 1968, moving back to New Zealand in 1976 to be medical director of Auckland Blood Transfusion Services.

Woodfield re-developed the service and was able to expand its activities to meet all transfusion needs. He worked nationally with the Blood Transfusion Advisory Committee, became a member of the New Zealand Aids Advisory Committee, was appointed to the NZ Medical Research Council on its South Pacific Committee and held numerous other positions including president of the Auckland Wholetime Medical Specialists, serving on the National Central Specialists Organisation.

He worked for two years on the national executive of the NZ Red Cross Society as well as being a voluntary medical advisor to the Auckland division.

Woodfield also travelled, developing and teaching aspects of transfusion medicine at blood services and universities in Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, USA, UK and South America. He has also written many papers on the different areas of transfusion.

Along with Mr Tony Hunter (a surgeon) he founded the NZ Blood Foundation (now the Leukaemia and Blood Cancer Foundation) which has proved to be successful in providing considerable support for patients with blood diseases.

Woodfield was active in The Australian and NZ Society of Blood Transfusion becoming its president in 1990 and awarded a life membership. He also became president of the Australian and South East Asian Tissue Typing Association.

In 1985, he was appointed to the executive council of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) and for 10 years was the chairman of the ISBT Working Party on rare blood donors, as well as serving on several other ISBT committees or working parties.

Woodfield served as the chairman of Medical Aid Abroad for over 30 years, an organisation that collected and forwarded medical goods to less financially dis-advantaged countries.

After an early retirement in 1998, he served on the executive committee of the Auckland Medical History Society, served for 3 years as president of the society and wrote the 50-year booklet on the history of the organisation.

In 1999, he was appointed as an honorary associate professor (previously senior lecturer then reader) in the Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology at the Auckland University Medical School, eventually retiring in 2020.

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