GIRLS' COLLEGE

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 128, 24 February 1938, Page 4

GIRLS' COLLEGE

Miss E. M. North Appointed Principal

The appointment of Miss E. M North, senior French mistress at Wellington East Girls’ College, as principal of Wellington Girls’ College in succession to Miss V. M. Greig, was announced yesterday. Miss North has had a distinguished career in secondary education, including a number of years in which she obtained first-hand knowledge of the methods of the leading schools of Europe. She was educated at Wellington Giris’ College, where she won the Governors’ Scholarship and Mary Izard Memorial Scholarship, and Victoria University College from which she graduated B.A. After a year as a pupil teacher at the Terrace School, Wellington, she took the graduates’ course at the Wellington Training College. In 1921 she was selected by the University Senate for a post-graduate passage to Europe. She spent a year at the College for Women, taking the London University diploma of pedagogy and specialising in the teaching of languages and history. She also gained teaching experience in the. leading secondary schools controlled by the London County Council. During two years in France, Miss North was at the Sorbonne, Paris. She took the Diploma of the Cours de Civisation Fraiicaise, the Diploma of the International Phonetics Association, and a course in the history of European art, and architecture. Miss North’s teaching experience in New Zealand covers four years in the secondary department of the Pahiatua District High' School, 1916-20, and subsequent periods at Wellington Girls’ College, Wellington East Girls’ College, New Plymouth Girls’ High School, Wanganui Girls’ College, Nelson Girls’ College (first assistant), Palmerston North Girls’ High School (first assistant) and Wellington East Girls’ College (1932-37). In 1927 Mis? North was on the staff of the Ascharil Girls’ School, Sydney, and while there was given facilities to visit and inspect the principal girls’ secondary schools of Sydney and Melbourne.

In, 1031 Miss North returned to Europe and made an intensive study of the methods, equipment and organisation of post-primary schools. After the World Education Conference in London she toured the schools of Germany, France, Czechoslovakia and Italy. In Germany she attended a teachers’ summer school, and in both that country and CechoslOvakia visited modern centres, of physical training. The new principal thus brings to hoi’ work the results of special attention to the latest developments in literary, scientific, Commercial and physical education. Her other interests are wide. She was formerly a vice-president, of the ’ International Federation of University Women, and is the Wellington president of* the National Council of Women. She is interested in horticulture and forest preservation. In 1933 she wrote the Jubilee Ode of the Wellington Girls’ College. She has published a small volume of verse and has been a frequent contributor to the Press.