WELLINGTON COLLEGE

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 17, 15 October 1942, Page 4

WELLINGTON COLLEGE

New Headmaster Appointed

The board of governors of Welling.•ton College has unanimously agreed on the appointment of Mr. E. N. Hogben as headmaster of Wellington College in succession to Mr. W. A. Armour, who is to retire at the end of the year. Mr. Hogben is the headmaster of the Dannevirke High School, where lie has been in charge for seven years, after having been first assistant in that school for almost the same period. He has also had experience as an assistant master in the Auckland Grammar School, and in the Palmerston North Boys’ High. School. On the'academic side; he has had a distinguished career, being the holder of the degree of master of arts in the University of New Zealand with first-class honours in history. Both in New Zealand and overseas he has - undertaken postgraduate study in those subjects in which he has had an active teaching interest. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. After the war of 1914-18 he was responsible,’ for some time, for the organization and control of the N.Z.E.F. education scheme in Grantham camp. Mr. Hogben is regarded as one or the leaders of educational thought in New Zealand. He has been an active member for over 20 years of teachers’ associations, ami has on three occasions been the president of the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Association, and also or tbe New Zealand Principals’ Association. He is a contributor to educational journals, an active meniber of the 1 ocational Guidance Association, and a corresponding member of the Wellington Institute for Educational Research. Recently he has been elected a member of the University Entrance Board,, and is also a member of the senate ot the university.

For two years and a half during the Great War, Mr. Hogben saw active service in France, and was later invalided to England, where, on post-war leave, ho devoted himself to special educations, studies. He has been closely connected for many years with boQi school and territorial military units, and holds the rank of major in the Hawke's Bay Regiment. He is the commanding olticer of tlie Southern Hawke’s Bay unit of the Home Guard. Mr. Hogben. both at. school and university, Jias taken an active part in crickc’taud football, and is himself a firm believer that every fit boy should have ample opportunity for coaching and participation >n school sport. The first fifteen of the Dannevirke High School has for six years enjoyed an unbeaten n He is himself an old boy of Wellington College and is the son of a Director of Education, who in former years made a notable contribution to education in the Dominion.