TELEPHONE KEPT RINGING

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31081, 9 June 1966, Page 2

TELEPHONE KEPT RINGING

As she kept excusing herself from an interview to answer the telephone and receive congratulatory messages at her home in Christchurch yesterday, Mrs Molly Pyatt, wife of the Bishopelect of Christchurch (the Very Rev. W. A. Pyatt) had a taste of the busy life ahead of her in Bishopscourt Mrs Pyatt had known of her husband’s appointment for some hours but her three children heard the news for the first time yesterday afternoon.

Her daughter, Kerry, aged 22, is a mathematics teacher at Hagley High School and her two sons, Michael, 17, and Denis, 15, are pupils at Christ’s College. Michael is a prefect and a house captain. Mrs Pyatt was born in Wairoa and was educated at Napier Girls’ High School, and later at the Auckland Training College. She has taught in both primary and technical schools.

Since she came to Christchurch with her husband in 1962 her work has been concerned with the Cathedral and the Deanery. She is a member of the women’s committee of the Dominion executive of the National Council of Churches, and a member of the National Council of Women. “Don’t ever marry a clergyman,” Mrs Pyatt joked, as the doorbell added to the confusion of the Incessant telephone

calls. She admitted that she enjoyed the life herself. “I was bom and bred In a smaller community and I am always grateful for this background,” said Mrs Pyatt “In smaller communities you grow up conscious of your responsibilities to other people. This training has stood me in good stead as the wife of a clergyman.” The picture shows Dean Pyatt with his wife and family, Kerry, Denis and Michael.