Bishop Opens Wing At College

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31197, 22 October 1966, Page 2

Bishop Opens Wing At College

Although new classrooms did not necessarily make a good school, a dedicated staff deserved the best facilities, the Rt Rev. W. A. Pyatt, Bishop of Christchurch and warden of the St Margaret’s College, said yesterday when he officially opened the Stephanie Young wing at the school.

More than 200 parents and friends of the school inspected the two-storey concrete block wing after the opening.

June 17 by the former Bishop of Christchurch (the Rt Rev. A. K. Warren), was named after the woman who was headmistress of the school from 1931 to 1949. Children from Standards one to four sang two songs and other children displayed their work. Right: The Bishop and Mrs Pyatt inspecting children’s work in one of the upstairs classrooms in the new building.

Bishop Pyatt said he was glad to be associated with the opening and especially delighted that Mrs Young had been able to attend. “We must make every effort to expand the school still further,” Bishop Pyatt said. "There is an ever-growing demand, and a larger school will enable the staff to achieve a better balanced education. “Good schools are the result of the staff and the basic philosophy behind the teaching. In this school the teaching is based on the philosophy of Jesus Christ, and this determines the character of the staff who choose to teach here, and also the product of the school.” As the wing has been used since the beginning of the

; third term, Bishop Pyatt said : he would declare the building • “open to the public.” I “It has already been opened to the private,” he said. Mr P. B. Austin, chairman I of the appeal committee, said . he was delighted to see the ■ familiar faces of so many who I had worked to make the i building possible. “I hope it will not be too ■ long before we can have : these facilities extended to - the senior school as well,” he • said. ' The chairman of the junior - school committee, the Dean- ■ elect of Christchurch (the i Rev. M. 'L. Underhill) said he : wished to express his gratitude for all that had been I done. • The new wing, dedicated on