Red faces over doodle in school booklet

Pupils were given a phallic drawing. Photo / WhaleOil.co.nz

A row has broken out at a top all-girl school after a sexual doodle was drawn on a commemorative booklet and distributed to students and parents.

Emily O'Halloran, 18, is captain of the rowing team at Auckland's exclusive Diocesan School for Girls.

Whaleoil blogger Cameron Slater this week revealed the teen had a 40-page booklet made up for the team to celebrate her final year at the school.

Her father, Martin O'Halloran, chairman of the influential advertising agency DDB group, organised the design and production through his firm.

But Emily was horrified to find a disgruntled employee at the company had sabotaged the booklet while it was being made and had drawn a phallic symbol on one of the pictures before it was sent to the printers. The offending drawing wasn't noticed and 40 copies of the booklet were passed out to the school rowing team and parents.

It wasn't long before the defaced snap was noticed by other girls.

O'Halloran, who is on the Diocesan board of governors and has two daughters at the school, issued an apology to everyone who received the book and said Emily was embarrassed by the incident.

It is believed the employee no longer works at DDB.

Diocesan school, in Epsom, has about 1400 students aged from four to 18.