A POPULAR TEACHER

Evening Star, Issue 18032, 28 July 1922, Page 2

A POPULAR TEACHER

MISS M'KENZIE FAREWELL ED. Yesterday afternoon Miss M'Kenzie, of the Musselburgh School, who has been promoted to a position in the Hornby School, near Christchurch, was entertained ■at afternoon tea by the school committee and the staff of the Musselburgh School. The teachers’ room had been prettily decorated by the junior teachers for the occasion. Mr Jacobsen, chairman or the committee, presided, and on behalf of the committee and staff made a presentation to Miss M'Kenzie of a. gold wrist watch. He expressed the great regret of the committee and teachers at losing Miss M'Kenzie from the staff. He had been connected with the committee for the ten a«d a-ha-lf years that Miss M'Kenzie had taught in the school, and during the whole of that time Miss M'Kenzie had been not only nn able and effective leader, but had invariably won the love of her pupils' and the esteem and goodwill of their parents. With the committee and staff she had worked in great harmony, and he trusted that before long she would return to the ranks of Otago teachers, and. if opportunity offered, to the Musselburgh School. Messrs Harris, ’Waugh, and Robertson for the committee, and Miss Chalrner and Messrs Ironside and Grant for the school staff, endorsed heartily all that Mr Jacobsen bad said, and added their own personal tribute to Miss M'K-enzie’s worth as a teacher and a woman. A poem appreciative of Miss M'Konz-ic iv-ns read by a member of the staff, after which the toast of her health was drunk and ‘For She’s a Jolly Good Fellow’ was sung. Miss M'Kenzie, in reply, expressed her thank's for the .present made to her and the. kind things said about her. She had enjoyed her work in the -Musselburgh School, and her relations with the members of staff and .committee. She particularly thanked tho committee for courtesy and consideration extended to her, and for its support of the staff. No request of the staff for material to help in their work was ever turned down by the committee if it had tho power to grant it. Earlier in the. day Miss M'Kenzie was presented by her- pupils with a fountain pen.