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Jennifer Sylvia "Jenny" Wheeler is an Auckland newspaper journalist, magazine editor, author and company director, born in Thames 21 December 1946. She was founding editor of the ''Sunday Star'' newspaper (1987–1993) and ''NZ House & Garden'' magazine, (1993–94) and the first woman editor of the ''New Zealand Listener'', (1994–1997). Since 1997 with partner the late Tim Bickerstaff she has been a director of Happy Families Ltd and then Intenza NZ Ltd marketing honey and herbal health supplements including Herbal Ignite. ==Early life== The eldest of four daughters raised in a small farming community on the edge of the Hauraki Plains. Wheeler's parents met and married in Oxford, England during World War II. Her father, Arthur Bevan Wheeler, DFC, was a New Zealand-trained bomber pilot who had worked in the NZ Post Office at Turua before joining the Royal New Zealand Air Force; her Oxford-born mother Peggy May Wheeler, was a former Wren who worked at Bletchley Park deciphering German communications. Her father's family lived at Ngatea on the Hauraki Plains and when he returned from service he went farming nearby at Mangatarata. Wheeler got her primary schooling at Mangatarata School – a one teacher country school with around a dozen pupils when she started her education – and then as a boarder at Diocesan High School (1960–64). She did a Bachelor of Arts degree at Auckland University (1965–67) a teaching diploma at the Secondary Teachers College, Auckland (1968) and then taught English, history and social studies at Wellington East Girls High School (1969). 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「Jenny Wheeler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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