TRIBUTE TO TEACHER
Old Students Gather
More than 70 former students and associates of Mr David Beggs, principal lecturer in science at the Christchurch Teachers’ College, have gathered this week to pay tribute to him before his retirement at the end of the year. Mr Beggs became head and sole lecturer of the biology department of the college in 1945. At first he instructed all primary students, and then the specialist course in agriculture, which was later changed to nature study. As secretary of the nature study syllabus revision committee he did much of the work. Those attending the reunion said yesterday that they knew of nobody who had done more for New Zealand in these fields of teaching. Those gathered attended a social evening yesterday. They will spend today with Mr Beggs at the Mackay Lodge field station of the college in the Oxford bush and hold a dinner in the evening and professional discussions tomorrow, and they will be received at Mr Beggs’s Kaiapoi home in the evening. The “Nature Study Bulletin” for New Zealand school science advisers devotes the whole of its latest issue to an appraisal of Mr Beggs’s work.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31462, 31 August 1967, Page 10
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