MISS E. GIBSON
Memorial Service At Cathedral
A memorial service for Miss Ethel Gibson, held at the Christchurch Cathedral yesterday, was attended by about 1000 old girls of Rangi-ruru school, present pupils, staff members and representatives of the school board of governors.
Miss Gibson, who died in late December, had been closely associated with the school for about 50 years and was its principal from 1938 to 1945.
The Bishop of Christchurch (the Rt. Rev. A. K. Warren), who was chaplain to the school when he was vicar of Merivale, conducted the memorial service and gave the address. The lesson was read by Miss N. Lough, president of the Rangi-ruru Old Girls’ Association. By her influence on pupils of the school who became mothers. Miss Gibson had laid the foundations of building the character of many generations, Bishop Warren said.
Miss Gibson had a great capacity for imparting knowledge and she realised the tremendous in.portance of character-building with knowledge. All members of the Gibson family, so prominent in the education of girls, made others realise that they must put back into the community what they had taken from it.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29153, 14 March 1960, Page 2
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