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Maxwell: The man behind a town s name
16 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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The district named after George Maxwell is on course to be renamed Pakaraka. Photo / File
Whanganui Chronicle
By: Dave Scoullar
In Whanganui District Council discussions George Maxwell has been described as probably not the nicest guy. Whether he was or not it s indisputable that he played a prominent part in an infamous event. Just over 150 years later the district named after him is on course to revert to its earlier name of Pakaraka.
So who was Maxwell and how did it come to this? He was born in Alloa, Scotland, and arrived as a young boy in Wellington in March 1852 on the Agra with his parents John and Catherine Maxwell.
Susan Rice ’86 joins Biden administration as head of domestic policy
National Security Advisor and Stanford alumnus Susan Rice urged students at an Freeman Spogli Institute event to take action to curb climate change in October 2015. (L.A. CICERO/STANFORD NEWS)
on December 13, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Obama White House senior official Susan Rice ’86 to run the White House Domestic Policy Council. In the role, Rice will likely help implement Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, a sprawling set of policy proposals which Biden says will address the job crisis created by the current pandemic.
Rice, a Stanford graduate who has frequented campus over the years to give lectures, worked closely with Biden during the Obama administration as the ambassador to the United Nations and later as the national security advisor.