FIRST HEAD OF TEMUKA H.S.

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30897, 2 November 1965, Page 15

FIRST HEAD OF TEMUKA H.S.

Mr J. A. Rendall, the head of English at the Cashmere High School, has been appointed first headmaster of the new Temuka High School, which will open next year on the translation of the secondary department of the present Temuka District High School. The appointment was made by a joint committee, subject to formal confirmation by the full Canterbury Education Board. Mr Rendall has had a varied career in teaching, sport, the armed forces and in English and library work, closely resembling that of Mr P. W. Murdoch, who he succeeded at Cashmere and who, this week, was appointed head of the Hillmorton High School. Mr Rendall, who was born in 1923, is married with two sons and two daughters. He began training at the Dunedin Teachers’ College but this was interrupted by 18 months’ wartime service with the New Zealand Army, after which he transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy and served for two years in the United Kingdom. On his return in 1946 he completed training as a teacher and held relieving positions while doing part-time study at Otago University. He did primary teaching at Waimataitai and South Schools in Timaru (1946-48), was in sole charge at Conway i Flat (1948-52), and then became a secondary assistant at the former Geraldine District High School (1952-58). I During this time Mr Rendall graduated from the University

of Canterbury, was a South Canterbury junior representative in tennis and swimming, an Army Rugby representative in New Zealand (1942), an Otago Rugby representative (1943), a New Zealand Services Rugby representative in the United Kingdom (1945) and a Navy water polo representative in. the United Kingdom.

He joined the Cashmere High School staff in 1959, becoming head of English there in 1961, and took charge of the school library. He was president of the Canterbury Post-primary Library Association in 1963 and is now president of the Canterbury English Teachers’ Association. A member of the board of managers of the Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church, Mr RendalJ has been president of the men’s fellowship and an active youth leader.