COLUMBA COLLEGE
NEW PRINCIPAL ARRIVES MISS G. M. ASHWORTH'S EXTEHSIVE CAREER As successor to Miss Grace Mackintosh as principal of Colurabn College, Miss Clarice Mabel Ashworth arrived in Dunedin yesterday. She will take np her duties at the college at the commencement of the first term on February 6. Miss Ashworth comes to-New Zealand after a highly-successful career in' Australia, her last position being that of principal of the Methodist Ladies’ College at Wayville, Adelaide, South Australia. She is a graduate of the Universities of Sydney and Adelaide, and she holds in addition a teacher’s certificate from the Education Department of New South Wales. She was trained at the .Sydney Teachers’ Training College, and is specially qualified to give instruction in English and history, with French, Latin, and mathematics as subsidiary subjects. She has had extensive experience in primary and secondary school work both as assistant and as headmistress, and she has also worked in the. primary and secondary departments of State schools in New South Wales.
For four years she did organising work in missionary schools in Fiji. From 1927 to : 1928 she was of llavenswood College, Gordon, New South Wales, and in June, 1928, she received the appointment as principal of the Methodist Ladies’ College, South Australia. This college is one of the most important private schools for girls in South Australia. In addition to its Other activities, it provides a three-year course of training for kindergarten teachers, which was supervised by Miss Ashwortn.,
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Evening Star, Issue 21623, 19 January 1934, Page 2
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