Teacher Takes Mission Job
Miss Phyllis Whatman, who recently retired from being head of the geography and social studies department of the Avonside Girls' High School, wti'l] leave Christchurch soon to join the Church Mission Society’s Butane Girls’ High School in Kenya. She will arrive in Nairobi on June 27. Miss Whatman will be teaching history, geography, english and scripture.
Her interest in becoming a mission teacher in East Africa began some time ago after hearing a talk given to the Student Christian Movement group at Avonside, by Mrs M. Wiggans, wife of Bishop Wiggans, who is in charge of a diocese in Tanganyika. Bishop Wiggans’s daughter came from Tanganyika to Avonside and spent two years art the school.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30157, 14 June 1963, Page 2
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