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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25. No. 13. 1962

O'Leary Throws Exec

O'Leary Throws Exec.

Con O'Leary, Cultural Affairs Representative on Executive, has resigned. The new executive has had four meetings. Mr O'Leary has attended two. He was absent for two, once without apology.

At the last Exec, meeting there was discussion on the motion that his resignation be accepted with regret. Some members wished to have the words "with regret" removed. Said Mr Perham, "That a very polite way of putting it. Leave them in."

It was proposed that a letter be written to O'Leary thanking him for his services. Mr Perham wanted included the hope "that Exec. did not disrupt his studies in any way by the duties we gave him during his period of office."

Mr Blizard said he did not like the tone of the remarks and asked a retraction, but the majority felt that the letter was not in bad faith or taste.

Commented Chairman Moriarty: "Con O'Leary has done nothing, his position was anomolous from the beginning" (sic). It was decided the matter should lie upon the table.

When asked to comment, O'Leary said that his dramatic activities were the main problem. He took up his position towards the end of a schools' tour with "Julius Caesar", has since produced a play for Arts Festival, and has been engaged in "Ghosts" and "Under Milk Wood". Performances and rehearsals were the sole reason for his inability to attend Exec, meetings.

Mr O'Leary said he fell "unhappy" with this continuing conflict of interests. When he saw that the situation was not going to resolve itself, with rehearsals coming up for a North Island tour of "The Chalk Circle" and "The Tinkers Wedding," he resigned.

He commented finally that his respect for A. R. D. Fairburn had "deepened considerably as a result of my brief experience on student committees." He quoted Fairburn: 'The camel—a horse built by a committee."