Teachers’ College Posts

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31633, 20 March 1968, Page 14

Teachers’ College Posts

Three new senior appointments at the Christchurch Teachers’ College, announced yesterday by the Canterbury Education Board, are:—

Mr E. P. Blampied, present associate principal in charge of the secondary department, to be principal of the new secondary division.

Dr A. H. W. Harte, at present deputy associate principal, to be viceprincipal of the secondary division. Miss Jean Herbison, dean of women for the college as a whole, to be vice-princi-pal of the primary division which is headed by Dr J. F. Mann.

Miss Herbison becomes the first woman in New Zealand to be appointed to such a senior teachers’ college post. The appointments, approved yesterday by the Minister of Education (Mr Kinsella), will take effect immediately as no change in staff is involved. Mr Blampied, M.A., M.Sc., trained at the Christchurch Teachers’ College and then became an assistant lecturer in physics at the University of Otago. He was later an assistant master at Waimate High School in 1938-1946, head of mathematics and science at Tauranga College in 1946-1957, and principal of Rangitikei College from 1958 to 1963. He took his present post in 1964. Mr Blampied served in the

Royal New Zealand Air Force in the Pacific in World War 11. In 1953-54 he taught at Suffield High School, Connecticut, on a Fulbright visit and last year visited the United Kingdom on a British Council fellowship to study teacher training.

Dr Harte took his M.A. in New Zealand and his Ph.D. in London. He trained in Auckland. After early teaching, he was on the staff of

the Wellington Technical College from 1940 to 1949 and made a visit to England in 1945.

In 1949-50 he taught English and French in the Correspondence School, Wellington, and then took the same subjects at Kawakawa District High School in 1951-53 and as head of the department at Rangiora High School from 1952 to 1956; when he became a senior lecturer in English at the Christchurch Teachers’ College. He took his present post in 1960. Dr Harte served overseas in the Second N.Z.E.F. Miss Herbison’s first educational post was secretary to the principals of the Southland Girls’ and Boys’ High School. She then graduated

at the University of Canterbury, trained at the Auckland Teachers’ College, and taught at Avonside Girls’ High School from 1951 to 1959. In 1960 she became a lecturer in the new studentship division of the Christchurch Teachers’ College and then spent 1961-62 in the United States taking an M.A in education and counselling at lowa State College. By then she had been appointed dean of women responsible for both the courses and general supervision of these students.

Early this year Miss Herbison attended a seminar on educational administration at the University of New England, New South Wales.