WOMEN TEACHERS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22389, 30 April 1938, Page 2

WOMEN TEACHERS

FAREWELL TO MISS D. BASTER

ADDRESS BY MISS M. KENNEDY

Members of the Canterbury Women Teachers' Association took the opportunity at their monthly meeting test evening to bid farewell to one of their members. Miss D. Baster. who will leave Christchurch early next month for a trip to England. .Miss A. F. Ironside (president), on behalf of the women teachers, wished Miss Baster a pleasant journey and safe return, and asked her to accept a cheque. Miss Brown added the good wishesoi junior teachers and students of the Training College, and Miss E. Sapsfrrd those of the infant teachers. During the business session remits for the Dominion conference, to be held in Wellington in May. were discussed, and later Miss Millicent Kennedy, spoke of some of her experiences at an International School in Miss Kennedy described Geneva and the surrounding country, and spoke of the international organisations and schools there. Members were greatly interested in the three divisions of the schools, which corresponded to the primary, junior high, and secondary schools of New Zealand. In the school in which she taught, Miss Kennedy had attended interesting assembly talks given by different members of the staff, the subjects of international interest being given in different languages According to the nationality or the speakers. . The principal of this school was an interesting and dignified Frenchwoman, and the aims of the school were simply to be international, co-educational, residential, and progressive. . • -. Miss E. Burn moved a hearty vote of thanks to the speaker.