This profile was written for the New Zealand Bakers Journal by Mike Meaclem, a baker and bakery instructor in Christchurch, and formerly BIANZ Executive Officer.
Many people have asked me what baking can offer as a career. Nat Cheyne and his wife Talia can answer for me. Nat and Talia own a beautiful lolly business called Sweet. They set it up about two years ago, inspired by what they had seen during their overseas travels.
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 Bernie Sugrue (the name is pronounced Sugrue) is an energetic sort of character. He plays six different musical instruments (and he doesn’t include his voice in that count) but his hobby, his passion, like that of most people in the trade, is baking.
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 Jason Heaven was born to bake, and bake he does.
His father, Graham Heaven, is a legendary baker in Hawkes Bay and around New Zealand, famously passionate about the craft and the business, and Jason was brought up in the bakery.
How could Jason do anything else?
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 Paul Hansen is widely respected in the baking world. His gentlemanly manner is supported by actual gentlemanly virtues: integrity, courtesy, and respect for others.
He is someone who listens more than he speaks.
These qualities, fortunately, are not rare, but somehow Paul Hansen personifies them more than most.
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Presenting a Baking Society Lifetime Achievement Award at the
gala Awards Dinner in Auckland in August 2003, president Peter Gray
said:
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Phil Folter - Lifetime Achiever |
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Few
members would have been surprised, and all would have been pleased,
when Phil Folter was presented with a Baking Society Lifetime
Achievement Award at this year’s conference. His close association
with the Society dates back 28 years to when he was the Society’s
Apprentice of the Year.
Phil worked his apprenticeship under John van Til, a founder-member
of the Society, so he was aware from the beginning of its work
and value.
Naturally Phil became a member himself soon after starting his
own bakery in 1974.
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An
era came to an end as Norman West relinquished his position as
secretary of the New Zealand Baking Society after the 2001 Conference.
Not that Norman is lost to the Society altogether. He continues
to work on the administration of training and apprenticeships.
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Peter Gray, president of the New Zealand Baking Society, died suddenly as the result of a motor accident on April 9 2005.
Peter Gray was born in Wellington in 1954, the youngest of six children of Lewis and Katherine Gray, who had escaped as Jewish refugees from Germany in 1939.
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