Ani’s aspirations receive a boost from scholarship

Carlos (Carl) Reed was the first principal at Otangarei School – now Te Kura O Otangarei – which opened in 1955. When he passed away in 2004, he left a legacy for the students he had worked for over many years.
The Carlos Reed Fund was left as a scholarship through Northland Foundation to support a student each year to attend boarding school. For a variety of reasons the scholarship has not been awarded until this year.
Ani Hill is the recipient of the Carlos Reed Scholarship in 2016, worth $4500, and is now attending  Hato Petera College on the North Shore in Auckland. Principal of Te Kura O Otangarei, Myles Ferris says that Ani was the school’s first Head Girl. He says she was part of the school leadership and attended a number of school Board meetings.
Ani was also in the Sports Academy, always conscientious about her attendance and commitments, although not a naturally gifted athlete.
Ferris says “Ani is fluent in Te Reo as well as English. She attended the Full Immersion Maori programme from the age of five and spent all her primary education at the Kura. She was one of pour kapahaka leaders and well versed in Maori protocol and tikanga. Academically she was the top pupil in the Immersion programme in every subject except PE.”
“I have never heard Ani say a bad word about anyone,” he continues, “she is always happy and smiling and I cannot think of anyone more deserving of this award in all my time as an educator.”
He also pays tribute to Ani’s parents, Rob and Devi Hill for raising “such an awesome daughter.”