It is with sadness that we have to let you know of the unexpected passing of one of our Wall of Fame Ākina Man - Professor John Broughton

Here is the Otago Vice Chancellor’s tribute to Professor Broughton.
Tēnā koutou katoa,Ka pari te tai, ka karaka a Pōhutukawa. Kua uru te wairua o tō tātou pou, o Ēmeritus Ahorangi John Renata Broughton, ki te muramura o kā kāhui whetū. Kua tahuri koe ki te ope o te rua o Matariki — haere atu rā, e te rakatira, ki te hokinga mai.The tide has turned, and Pōhutukawa calls. The spirit of our pillar, Emeritus Professor John Broughton, CNZM, has risen to the glow of the stars and turned to the great company gathered by Matariki. Haere atu rā, e te rakatira, to the return home. It is with profound sadness that we share the news that John passed yesterday afternoon, surrounded by his whānau. Our thoughts and our aroha are with his whānau at this time.For more than 40 years, John gave himself to this University and to hauora Māori. He came to the dental school as a student in the 1970s and never really left us — as a clinician, as a lecturer in Māori health, as Associate Dean Māori for the School of Dentistry, and as inaugural Director of the Ngāi Tahu Māori Health Research Unit. Through his doctoral work he built oranga niho — Māori oral health — on a kaupapa Māori foundation and wove it into the way we teach, so that generations of graduates now carry it into their practice.He was, too, an award-winning playwright whose work brought te ao Māori to stages here and abroad. He had an intense love of rugby, he could name every dentistry All Black, and daily wore his beloved Otago University Rugby Club tie. And for those of us who have sat through many a graduation, his was the voice that welcomed each cohort home — a fixture at that podium for nearly 30 years, calling our graduates into being.Beyond the University, John gave decades to the New Zealand Territorial Force as a commissioned officer, service recognised with the Efficiency Decoration.John was of Ngāti Kahungunu and of Kāi Tahu — a descendant of Tame Parata — and he carried that whakapapa with pride and with mana. One of John's own plays was named Te Hokinga Mai — The Return Home. It is a fitting grace that this is now the journey he makes: down the roots of the ancient pōhutukawa at Te Rerenga Wairua, across the moana, and home to the whenua and the tīpuna from which he came. The pōhutukawa does not only mark our departures; each summer it flowers crimson. So too the ora that John planted keeps blooming long after the hand that sowed it — in every Māori clinician who now sees themselves in this work.Details of the taki aue and how we might tautoko the whānau will follow as they come to hand. For any staff or tauira feeling this loss, please reach out , and lean on one another.Ka mate kāinga tahi, ka ora kāinga rua. Moe mai rā, e te rakatira. Takoto mai i raro i te hihi o te rā, i te piataata o te marama. Haere, haere, haere atu rā.Nāku noa, na

Hon Grant Robertson, Vice-Chancellor Distinguished Professor Jacinta Ruru, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Māori,Associate Professor Megan Gibbons, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Health Sciences,Associate Professor Justine Camp, Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Maori, Health Science