MISS E. M. JOHNSTON

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 134, 8 June 1944, Page 3

MISS E. M. JOHNSTON

RETIRING NEXT YEAR

The headmistress of the Auckland Girls' Grammar School, Miss Elsie Millicent Johnston, will retire as from January 31, 1945. Her decision was conveyed in a letter to the board of governors yesterday. The board decided to send a letter of appreciation of her services and to make arrangements to appoint a successor.

Miss Johnston, who has been headmistress of the school since January, 1926, taught for many j'ears in South Africa and Worcestershire, England, as well as in this country. She passed her Master of Arts examination for the University of New Zealand in 1909, is a Queen's Scholar, and was offered the Jacob Joseph Scholarship for research at Victoria University College in 1910. She holds teachers' certificates of the University of Cambridge and the Education Department of Natal, and took a post-graduate course at the University of London and a vacation course at Oxford in 1919. Miss Johnston began teaching in New Zealand at Wellington Girls' College in 1908, and was a form mistress at her present school in 1910-11. She was for two years lady principal of the Southland Girls' College before taking her present appointment.