Principal Pays Tribute To Retiring Senior Mistress

Wanganui Chronicle, 14 December 1949, Page 4

Principal Pays Tribute To Retiring Senior Mistress

“The departure early in the New Year of Miss H. Blacker, 8.A., who for a period of ten years has occupied with such outstanding success, the most responsible post of senior mistress, will mean the closing of an era in the school’s history,” said the principal, Mr. J. Dash, at, the annual prize-giving ceremony of the Wanganui Technical College last night. “Mothers whose daughters have come under her guidance have cause to laud the Board of Managers which had the foresight to entrust to her this major responsibility in the school. Not. a girl can have passed through the school during Miss Elacker's period without being the better for her

guidance, her inspiration, her inculcation of the highest ideals of character and behaviour-. Miss Blacker set I lor all the highest, possible standard of conduct, of dress, of deportment, and no substitution for the best was 'ever countenanced,” said Mr. Dash. “Wanganui Technical College can count itself extremely fortunate in being able to secure and retain for so long a senior mistress, who as a lady (principal, would have brought dis•tinction to any school in the Do- | min ion.