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John Vernon Head (1927–2007) after a 40-year teaching career, founded CALM, the New Zealand Campaign Against Landmines in 1993.〔(New Zealand Campaign Against Landmines ) Retrieved 14 October 2013.〕 He boosted New Zealand's awareness of the scale of worldwide landmine problems and his efforts were the catalyst for the Anti-Personnel Mines Prohibition Act 1988, which became New Zealand law early in 1999.〔(New Zealand Legislation ). Anti-Personnel Mines Prohibition Act 1998. Retrieved 21 October 2013.〕 He was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for Public Services (QSM) the following year.〔(New Year Honours List 2001 ). Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 6 January 2013.〕 ==Personal life== John Vernon Head was born in Napier, New Zealand on 24 March 1927, the adopted son of Gilbert Charles Head and Marjorie Cecil Bretherton of Napier. At age 16 he discovered that he was adopted when he accidentally discovered his birth certificate which showed his name as John Vernon Peillon. John was educated at Parkvale Primary School, Hastings High School, Rotorua High School and Whakatane High School where he was Dux in 1943. Boy Scouts was an important early life influence culminating in receiving the highest scouting award of Kings Scout. He married fellow teacher Avril Nell Pope (great granddaughter of the educationalist James Henry Pope) in Hawera on 31 December 1949. They had 4 children; two boys and two girls; one of the girls dying at an early age. In 1988 at age 61, John met his birth mother for the first time, Agnes Isobel Rolls née Peillon, "Nessie". She was the granddaughter of a French gold-miner, Paul Peillon, who was killed in the explosion at the Brunner Mine disaster in 1896. Paul was originally from near Lyon, France. John undertook extensive research of his family history and made four trips to Lyon as part of this research. Away from work and his pacifist activities he was a keen gardener, walker and traveller. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Vernon Head」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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