to the President of the Association (then Phyllis Comerford) from Alastair Thomson, who had worked on the Waikato University student radio station. This letter brought together other interested parties including members of the bands Netherworld Dancing Toys and The Verlaines. With a grant from the OUSA of approximately $12,000, the station first went to air in early 1984 broadcasting from the OUSA's former boardroom. The station ran on a part-time basis during the university year until the mid-1990s, from which time it has been operating round-the-clock throughout the year in a new annex to the Student Union building which was specifically designed to house the station, the OUSA's offices, and the university's student newspaper Critic. The station celebrated its 25th birthday at the beginning of 2009. Radio One alumni include Shayne Carter, Wallace Chapman, Charlotte Glennie, Sam Hayes, Jan Hellriegel, Lesley Paris, David Pine, Brent Hodge, Sean Norling, Chris Armstrong and Ria Vandervis. Aaron Hawkins served as Radio One's breakfast host from 2006 to 2013 and music director from 2011 to 2013 before standing for the Dunedin mayoralty and being elected a Dunedin City central ward councillor. Notable alumni Past Presidents Grant Robertson, President 1993 (Labour Party Member of Parliament) Kirsty Graham, President 1992 (Deputy Permanent Representative Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New York) Sir Jon Doig, President 1988 (Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland) David Payton, President 1976 (Administrator of Tokelau 2006-09 and Ambassador to the Netherlands 2002-06 and Saudi Arabia 1997-2000) Murray Grenfell Jamieson, President 1969 (Rhodes Scholar and Coroner) Sir James Bruce Robertson, President 1968 (President of the Law Commission and High Court Judge) Patrick Thomas Finnigan, President 1967 (Filed the injunction to stop the Springbok Tour) Sir Murray Brennan, President 1964 (Chairman of the Surgery Department of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and author) Sir Frank Holmes, President 1947 (Economist and government advisor) Jack Dodd, President 1946 (Hector's Medal Winner and well-known physicist) Dr Douglas Peter (Doug) Kennedy, President 1937 (Director General of Health) Wilfred (Mick) Borrie, President 1936 (Demographer and Australian government advisor) Sir John Arthur Stallworthy, President 1930 (Nuffield Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford) Phillippe Sidney de Quetteville Cabot, President 1924-26 (Founding President of the National Union of Students (precursor to NZUSA) and an All Black) Professor Alexander Aitken, President 1920 (Renowned mathematician who developed a number of novel methodologies such as Aitken Extrapolation) Te Rangi