SCOTS COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1938, Page 27

SCOTS COLLEGE

NEW HEADMASTER

WELCOME EXTENDED

A social evening was held at Scots College last evening to welcome Mr. is.. W. R. Glasgow, the new principal of the college, and Mrs. Glasgow. The function, at which Mr. A. Leslie Wall, chairman of the board of governors, presided, was attended by members of the board, the college staff, and the Parents' Association. Mr. Hope Gibbons, a member of the board of governors, said that much concern had been caused when Mr. J. R. Sutcliffe's resignation was received. While he was fet the college they thought he was the only pebble on the beach but they had not watched the tide roll in and out. They had just watched the beach. (Laughter.) They had found that tlie breach could be filled, however, and in Mr. Glasgow the board considered it had filled the breach better than ever before, ihe school was well on the up grade and he was confident that, under Mr. Glasgow's rule, the school Would go ahead even better than before. _ In the absence of the moderator (the Rev. P. J. Wainwright), the Rev. J. «. Blanchard welcomed Mr. Glasgow on behalf of the Presbytery of Wellington Wishing him every success m hisfuture at the school, Mr. Blanchard said that the Presbytery had been drawn closer to the school during thelastfew weeks because the absence of a headmaster there coincided with the absence of a minister in the parish in which the school was situated. T-__i,o.f , Welcoming Mr. Glasgow on' behalf of the staff of the college, the first assistant (Mr. V. F O. Francis) saul that the staff showed a very real interest in meeting their new head. He congra^lated the board of governors on their choice for the position of principal, and said he was sure the, school would go a long way under his rule. He assured Mr. Glasgow of the staff's loyal co-operation and wisheahim many happy years at the school. Other speakers were the chairman ot the Queen Margaret College Board of Governors (the Rev. B. Kilroy), the principal of Queen Margaret College (Miss I. Wilson), the president of the Old Boys' Association (Mr. A. CamjH bell)- and the president of the Parents Association (Mr. I. Fraser). Mr. Glasgow thanked the board toi their warm welcome. It was a bad thing, he said, to hasten too rapidly and for this reason he would not make any mention of his future policy in regard to the control of the school. He had heard of the staff's loyalty to past headmasters and he was perfectly^ certain that he would have that same loyal co-operation in the future. Items were given by Miss I. M. Hurst (vocal solos) and Mr. G. McConnell (piano solos). A dainty supper was afterwards served. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Smith, Messrs. G. H. Scott, W." E. King, E. Fraser, D. B. Brown, D. Virtue, I. M. Macarthur, R. Buckleton, G. McConnell, Leuchers, G. E. Vercoe, and F. Cormack, Mesdames V. F. O. Francis, J. R. Blanchard, A. Campbell, and I. Fraser, Captain and Mrs. J. A. Duffy, Misses C. MacKenzie and P. Dartnell, Messrs. J. McKelvie, J. Thurston, E. J. Tapp, T. G. Bedding, E. Wall, and A. Wall, and Dr. Lochore.