Post At Alexandra For Chch Teacher

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31784, 14 September 1968, Page 12

Post At Alexandra For Chch Teacher

Mr W. E. Jeffery, Canterbury regional chairman of the New Zealand Postprimary Teachers’ Association and head of the English department at the Hillmorton High School for the last four

years, has been appointed headmaster of the Dunstan High School at Alexandra. It has 450 pupils and he will start there next year. Mr Jeffery, aged 37, married, with three children, was born at Milton and educated at King’s High School, Dunedin. He took a master of arts

degree with honours in history and a diploma in education at Otago University, then had professional training at the Auckland Teachers’ College. He taught at King’s High School for three years and at the Motueka High School for five years before coming to Hillmorton in 1964. He was secretary of the Golden BayMotueka Rugby Junior Advisory Board.

In Christchurch Mr Jeffery served in the Third Infantry Brigade until recently, rising to staff captain.

He is an elder of St Stephen’s Presbyterian Church, a lay preacher, and a member of the Presbyterian General Assembly’s Christian education committee. Mr Jeffery has been an active leader of teachers’ refresher courses and chairman of the national English course at Rangiora last year. He has been a School Certificate examiner in English for the last nine years and a member of the P.P.T.A. English curriculum revision panel. He is a past president of the Canterbury Postprimary English Teachers' Association.