HOME SCIENCE SCHOOL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 3 December 1940, Page 3

HOME SCIENCE SCHOOL

DR ELIZABETH GREGORY’S APPOINTMENT | United Press Association! i DUNEDIN, 2nd December, j Dr Elizabeth Gregory has been ap- ! pointed professor of home science at i 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 'us 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 and a half years 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 l visitor’s grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Dr Gregory is 39 years of age and entered upon 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. The • requirements for the B.H.Sc. degree were completed in 1923 and after a year at a secondary school she was appointed assistant in the chemistry and nutrition department of the Home Science School. She was appointed half-time assistant at the school for two years. When she decided to sit for 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 the head of the Home Science School though not as dean. In America she has done some research in a New York laboratory and studied at Cornell University.