NEW PROFESSOR

Grey River Argus, 4 December 1940, Page 9

NEW PROFESSOR

OTAGO HOME SCIENCE. DUNEDIN, December 2. Dr. Elizabeth Gregory has been appointed Professor of Home Science at the University of Otago, in succession to Professor A. G. Strong, who will retire from the position at the end of February. Dr. Gregory’s appointment as a professor of the University of New Zealand has been approved by the Senate. Dr. Gregory has a deep interest in home science as a whole, and possesses special qualifications in chemistry and nutrition. She was educated in New Zealand, and received all her teaching experience here; but widened her experience by two trips abroad. She spent two years and a half in London while studying for the degree of Ph.D., where travel in England, Scotland and the Continent assisted her to a wider viewpoint. At present she is in America as the recipient of a visitor’s grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Dr. Gregory is 39 years of age, and entered on her teaching career in 1924 at lona College Havelock North. In 1932 she was appointed lecturer in chemistry and nutrition at the School of Home Science. Requirements for the B.H.Sc. degree were completed in 1923, and after a year at a secondary school she was appointed lecturer in chemistry and nutrition Department of Home Science School. She was appointed half time assistant of the school for two years, when she decided to sit her master’s degree in 1929. She went to London, and she was appointed instructor on her return. During the absence of Professor Strong in America in 1933-34, Dr. Gregory acted as head of the Home Science School, though not as dedn. In America she has done some research in the New York Laboratory, and studied at the Cornell University.