MRS C. L. YOUNG TO RETIRE

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25613, 30 September 1948, Page 2

MRS C. L. YOUNG TO RETIRE

HEADMISTRESS OF ST. MARGARET’S COLLEGE Mrs. C. L. Young, who has been headmistress of St. Margaret’s College for nearly 18 years, is to retire from the position some time next year. In announcing that the St. Margaret’s College Trust Board had accepted her resignation with regret, the Dean of Christchurch (the Very Rev. A. K. Warren), who is chairman of the board, said yesterday that the date of her retirement had yet to be fixed, after the appointment of her successor. Mrs Young’s appointment as headmistress of the college was made in 1931. when the school was taken ’over by the diocese. Before that she had been teaching for 10 years at the Christchurch Girls’ High School, where she specialised in history. She was educated at the Laleham School,

Eastbourne, England, and later studied at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, from where she graduated M.A. with honours in history. While at Oxford she was awarded blues in hockey and tennis, being captain of the women’s tennis team. She first taught at the Sherbourne Girls’ School. Dorset, and during the First World War was for a time teaching at St. Christopher’s Boys’ Preparatory School, Eastbourne. She came to New Zealand in 1919. After her husband’s death Mrs Young returned to the teaching profession, and was appointed to the staff of the Christchurch Girls’ High School. When Mrs Young was appointed headmistress of St. Margaret’s College in 1931 there were 150 pupils (including 20-30 boarders), about 12 teachers and. one house (St. Margaret’s). The pupil roll has now increased to 420, with nearly 90 boarders, and the staff numbers 20. Two houses have been added to the school—Julius House for junior boarders, and Canon Galwey House for senior boarders, where the day girls as well as the boarders can study homecraft for the school certificate -examinations. A number of other important additions have been made to the school since Mrs Young’s appointment, including a swimming bath, new playing fields and classrooms, a biology laboratory and a new dining hall and kitchen block. The library has been reorganised to include reading bays.