APPOINTMENT IN SYDNEY

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21084, 8 February 1934, Page 8

APPOINTMENT IN SYDNEY

MR A. K. ANDERSON GOING TO SCOTS COLLEGE SUCCESSFUL CONTROL OF ST. ANDREW'S Private advice has been received from Sydney, and has been confirmed, that Mr A. K. Anderson, M.A., headmaster of St. Andrew's College, has been appointed to the position of principal of Scots College, Sydney, from more than 30 applicants from England, Australia, and New Zealand. Mr Anderson will assume his new position in January, 3935. Scots College is the leading Presbyterian boys' college of New South Wales, and is one of state's great public schools. It was founded by the Earl of Jersey, in 1892. The roll in 1933 was 427, and a staff of 19 masters was employed. There are four boarding houses. Mr Anderson will be the third principal of Scots College. The first was the Rev. A. A. Aspinall, M.A., who was succeeded in 1913 by Mr J. Bee, M.A., M.Sc. Mr Bee will retire this year. Mr Anderson was appointed headmaster of St. Andrew's College in 1921) on the resignation of Mr S. R. Dickinson. He was then 28 years of age, mid was the youngest principal ii\ any secondary school, in Australia am) New Zealand. He received his primary education at Mataura .in •Southland, and his secondary education at. '." e Port Chalmers High School. He later studied at the University of Olago, and at Canterbury College. After two years at the Dunedin Teachers' Training College, he was appointed as an assistant master at Waitaki High School, and later at the Otago Boys' High School. While at Waitaki, he completed his B.A. degree, and in 1915 graduated M.A. with first-class honours in history. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the following year. Early in 1918 Mr Anderson was appointed to the lectureship in advanced and honours history at the University of Otago, a position which he held for three years. From 1922 to 1925 he was external examiner in B.A. history for the University of New Zealand.

Mr Anderson played football, hockey, and tennis for Knox College, and was later prominent in rifle shooting. He commanded the Otago High School cadet battalion for four years, and is now a captain on the reserve of officers.

He is a member of the University Entrance Board, and president of the Association of Heads of the Registered Secondary Schools in New Zealand. At St. Andrew's. Mr Anderson's career as headmaster of St. Andrew's has been one of marked success. When he took over the school in 1920, the school roll numbered about 100 boys. In a few years the number had trebled, and boarders alone accounted for 125 names on the roll. In scholarship the school showed great progress under Mr Anderson. More than 200 passes have been gained in the University Entrance examination, and numerous scholarships have been won. Ten old boys graduated last year in arts, science, and commerce. The sporting side of the school life has shown a record hardly less imposing than that in scholarship, and in games the school has for years held its own among the secondary schools of Canterbury.