Houses
The houses of Westlake Boys are:
- Hood - (Maroon)
It represents Academia. It is named after John Hood who is a vice chancellor of Oxford University.
- Murchison - (White)
It represents Leadership. It is named after Peter Murchison for his 11 years' loyal service in Westlake Boys High School. He has now gone into retirement.
- Pupuke - (Blue)
It represents Landmark. The school is at the west of Lake Pupuke.
- Smale - (Green)
It represents Enterprise. It is named after Bill Smale, a successful property developer, who is an owner and director of Smales Farm Technology Office Park Next to Westlake Girls High School.
- Stanley - (Red)
It represents Sport. It is named after Mike Stanley who is a two time rowing world champion in 1982 and 1983. He is also the head rowing coach for the schools rowing squad.
- Ururoto - (Black)
It represents Culture. Uru=West, Roto=Lake (Maori translation)
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
“Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)