POST-PRIMARY TEACHERS

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27190, 6 November 1953, Page 10

POST-PRIMARY TEACHERS

NEW TRAINING UNIT IN CHRISTCHURCH

MR GEORGE GUY TO BE PRINCIPAL

Mr George Guy has been appointed associate principal of the Christchurch Teachers’ College in charge of the new post-primary teachers’ training division, which will open next February. With an initial enrolment of about 60 students, most of them from -the. South Island,, the new division will occupy rooms in the Normal School after the transfer of the school itself to Elmwood.

Vice-principal of the college for the last five years, Mr Quy has had experience in many branches of education, has observed methods overseas, and has been a prominent officer of several national organisations. MT Guy was born in Auckland. He entered the Mount Albtert Grammar School on a junior scholarship and returned to his home towp of Swanson for pupil-teachihg. Subsequently he undertook a two-year course in the Auckland Teachers’ Training College, with a third year of special study in mathematics- and science.

All Mr Guy’s degrees have been secured as a part-time student. In 1930 he graduated bachelor of science frqm Auckland University College and took an appointment at the Seddon Memorial Technical College, Auckland. Later he taught at the Kowhai Intermediate School, Auckland.

During, seven years op the staff .of the Timaru Boys’ High School Mr Guy took a bachelor of arts degree extra-murally from Canterbury University College. In 1937 the Youth Hostels Association organised a tour overseas, and Mr Guy was appointed leader. The party of 40 tramped in the Blue Mountains of Australia, in Tasmania, and then in England. The party dispersed after visiting London for the Coronation of King George VI. Mr and Mrs Guy remained overseas for a full year apd made a bicycle tour of the British Isles and Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and France. On this tour they studied education systems in the countries visited.

Experience at Museuifi In 1938 the Carnegie of New York provided funds for the appointment of educational. officers in the main museums of New Zealand, and Mr Guy, on his return, inaugurated this service at the Canterbury Museum. In- three years he laid the foundations for today’s wide activities.

He joined the staff of the Christchurch Teachers’ College in 1941 as lecturer in geography. He withdrew the next year for war service in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He

was educational officer at several stations, mainly at Wigram, and there also served as a photographic and intelligence officer. At this time he took a master cf arts degree. Mr Guy returned to the Teachers’ College in 1945. His service was again interrupted for a year when he was appointed a temporary inspector of post-primary schools in 1946-47. In 1949 he became vice-principal of the college. An original member of the New Zealand Ornithological Society, Mr Guy has been its Canterbury representative, secretary of the Canterbury branch of the Royal Society for two years, and the Governor-General’s nominee on the Boys’ High School Board since its inception. He was national vice-president of the Youth Hostels Association. He has taught evening classes in geography at the Christchurch Technical College and has lectured for the Workers’ Educational Association. Last year he was chairman of a refresher course at Timaru for primary school headmasters. Mr Guy has been active in the Sumner Parent-Teacher Association for seven years. Mr Guy has an unusual record in sport. He represented the Auckland Training College in Rugby, Association football, cricket, and hockey, and Auckland University College in Rugby. He played in the Auckland B representative Association football team. In the last three years he has helped with junior ski schools in the South Island. •