WAIRARAPA COLLEGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1943, Page 2

WAIRARAPA COLLEGE

THIS YEAR’S MAGAZINE. On account of there being no publication last year, the “Wairarapa College Magazine” just issued, is a record of the life and activities of the school during a period of two years. It is a well-arranged, comprehensive and informative record of its kind which will be. valued by all who are interested in the Wairarapa College, its pupils, past and present, and staff. The extent to which the school is affected by the war appears not only in particulars of staff adjustments made necessary by the absence of the Principal (Colonel G. G. Hancox) and a number of his assistants on war service, and in other details of working organisation, but in notes regarding some of the large number of former pupils who have served ojf are now serving in various branches of the armed forces in many theatres of war. A number of former girl pupils are engaged in war service overseas, as nurses and in other capacities. Honour is conferred on the school by the rank and standing attained by not a few of those who not so long ago spent their days in its class rooms and playing fields, and in the awards and decorations they have earned for gallant and distinguished service. At the same time, the bitter price the war has exacted in the sacrifice of youthful lives of bright promise is nowhere brought out more keenly than in school records and chronicles like'Aose contained in the “Wairarapa College Magazine.” A temporary Roll of Honour unveiled in the college at the end of 1942, bore 49 names under the inscription: “They Died for Freedom.” There have been additions to the roll since that date. In its various sections the magazine gives an extended account of scholastic, sporting and other activities and developments, and illustrations add. to the interest of the text. In a leading article attention is directed, amongst other things, to the arrangements that are being made “for a fairly thorough change in the post-primary curriculum.” Anticipating that “the next few years, will see established a widely altered syllabus of work in secondary schools,” the article concludes: “While admitting that the time is ripe for some such advances, we hope that, in the enthusiasm for something ‘more useful,’ the fundamentals of a liberal cultural education will not be sacrificed.”