EPSOM GIRLS' GRAMMAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 258, 31 October 1929, Page 11

EPSOM GIRLS' GRAMMAR.

NEW HEADMISTRESS APPOINTED. j

MISS A. N. LOUDON, OF OTAGO

A special meeting of the Auckland Grammar School Board yesterday appointed Miss Agnes N. Loudon, senior assistant at the Otago Girls' High School, to the position of headmistress •at the Epaorn Girls' Grammar School in succession to Miss A. C. Morrison, who will retire at the end of the year. Miss Loudon will take up her new duties in February next. Twelve applications for the position were considered by the board, some of them being from Australia. Miss Loudon received her secondary education at the Otago Girls' High School, where she was dux in her. final year. She took the degree of M.A. with honours in the English and French, at the Otago University, which she attended for four years. She also obtained a Diploma of Education. Her first teaching appointment was as junior assistant at the Southland Girls' High School. Miss Loudon became first female assietant at the Dannevirke High School, where she served from 1919-21. She then became senior assistant at the Otago Girls' High School, a position which she has held for eight years. During that period she has been responsible for the control of various sports, including hockey, tennis and ewinrrning.