Appointed Dean

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31902, 1 February 1969, Page 20

Appointed Dean

"The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND, Jan. 31. Sister Dorothy Moss, of Masterton, has been appointed the first woman dean of the Peter Lowe School for docj tors’ nurse-receptionists. Sister Moss was, until re cently, supervising sister al the Masterton Maternity Annexe. She trained in Broad Green Hospital, Liverpool, and did her midwifery in the Isle of Wight followed by a post-graduate course in chesl surgery at Brompton Hospital, London. Coming to New Zealand in 1954 she worked in Wellington, Waipukurau and Whangarei Hospitals and spent six months at the Coronation Hospital, Cashmere, Christchurch, before moving tc Masterton 10 years ago. The Peter Lowe School wil! be officially opened in the Masterton Town Hall on Sat urday, March 1, by the Min ister of Health (Mr McKay) About 500 guests invited by the school’s principal. Dr T Simpson Crawford, are expected to attend the inaugural opening of the school, which is the first of its kind in the world. The one-year course will correspond with the university year, with lectures in the mornings and practical work in the afternoons. Those who qualify in the third term examinations will become diploma graduates entitled to membership of the Foundation. There have been 20 provisional applications already for the 1970 course.