Mervyn Stanley Rosser (1939-1943)
Merv was a prefect, Captain of the First X! Association Football team and Dux. He returned as HOD Mathematics after the retirement of Herb Towers. He left here to teach Engineering Mathematics at the University of Auckland, where he became Associate Professor. Merv also had a music degree and was the organist and choirmaster at the Mount Albert Methodist Church for three decades. At his funeral in 2014 a hymn was sung for which Merv had written the music.