Male principal appointed
A man has been appointed principal of Te Wai Pounamu Maori Girls’ College for the first time in its 61-year history. The .appointment of . the Rev. W. Vercoe, chaplain at Bumham Military Camp, was confirmed last week. He will take up his duties for the start of the 1971 school year. "This is something very untisual,” the Dean of Christchurch (the Rev. M. L. Underhill) said last evening. “Since the college was founded in 1909 all principals have been women.” Mr Vercoe was ordained in 1951-, and was appointed curate of the Feilding parish. He was later appointed pastor of the Wellington Maori Pastorate, and the pastorates of Wairarapa, and Ranga-tikei-Manawatu.
He later became an army chaplain, serving in Malaysia from 1961 to 1962, and in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969. He is married with three sons. His wife, who teaches at Bumham school, will teach at Avonside Girls’ High School, where the girls of the college are taught. Mr Underhill said Mr Vercoe would work in with the Christchurch Maori Mission.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32461, 23 November 1970, Page 16
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