AN AUCKLANDER'S SUCCESS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 71, 24 March 1910, Page 5

AN AUCKLANDER'S SUCCESS.

HIGH SCHOLASTIC POST. (Received 8.45 a.m.) "LONDON, March 23. Miss A. W. Whitelaw, of Auckland, has been appointed head mistress of the Wycombe Abbey School.

Miss Whitelaw, who at present holcU •the position of headmistress of the Auckland Girls' Grammar School, is affl educationalist of great ability. Her career has 'been one of uninterrupted success, and she is now to assume control of one of the most important girls' schools in the Empire. Miss Whitelaw was educated in Auckland, and was for nine years attached to the school of which she has just been appointed, being bouse mjslress for six years. When the Auckland College and Grammar School 'was divided into two sections, she was choscu from a large Jist of applicants to undertake the work of organising and controlling the gills' section, and during the three and a-half years which she has acted as headmistress splendid work has

Ibeen accomplished. The Wycotn.be Ai>bey School, to which she now returns, was founded by Miss Dove in IS9G. Miss Dove, before that, had 'been for many years headmistress of Str Leonard's, a large boarding-school for girls in St. Andrews, Scotland, and in 1896 she gave np her work there to found in England a school of the same type—a school to do for girls what Bton and Winchester are doing for boys. High Wyco-mbe, where the school is situated, is in Buckinghamshire, and is a small town half-way between London and Oxford. The Echool is limited in numbers to about 230 pupils— all boarders —and these are divided into eig-ht houses, all in the grounds. whieb are some 33 acres in size. Excepting Cheltenham, the school is the largest girls' boarding school in England. Jt is owned by a company—the Girls' School Company—and governed by a council. Afiss Dove's resignation will be a grea* lose to -education in England, for she ranks as one of those who followed closely on the steps of the great pioneers of girls' education —Miss Buss and Mis? Beale —and she most certainly has been the founder of schools of this type for girls. There are now several others in England, but Wycombe Abbey still hold? its place in the very first rank.