Calculating Machines For School
Authority to buy four calculating machines for mathematics teaching was given to the principal of Shirley Boys’ High School (Mr C. V. Gallagher) by the school’s board of governors. Making the request, Mr Gallagher said that a modern approach to mathematics teaching was necessary. The machines would be of much greater use now that the decimal-coinage system was in sight. It was intended to expand the classes using the machines in two or so years, and build up the number of machines to about 18. A £lOO endowment for a language prize had been made by Mrs L. R. Hartley, the chairman of the board, said Mr Gallagher. Mrs Hartley had already endowed the school with a prize for English. The board expressed its gratitude for the endowment and for all the other work which Mrs Hartley had done since the school opened.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30212, 17 August 1963, Page 5
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