PROFESSOR STRONG RESIGNS

Evening Star, Issue 23684, 18 September 1940, Page 12

PROFESSOR STRONG RESIGNS

DEAN OF HOME SCIENCE SCHOOL TRIBUTES TO HER WORK Eulogistic references were made to the work of Professor A. G. Strong (Dean of the, Home Science Faculty) when a letter conveying her resignation from the University staff came before the meeting of the council of the University of Otago yesterday afternoon. The chancellor (Mr W. J. Morrell) said that the resignation would bo received with considerable regret. Professor Strong,, besides possessing a strong personality, had proved herself a skilled and capable teacher. Her appointment as a lecturer in household arts in the first instance had marked an epoch in the University, and. later, as Dean of the Homo Science School for 20 years, .she had been a great organiser and the possessor of unusual qualities of initiative and the power

to impress others. Five years after her assumption of the dcanship she started that valuable organisation, the Association of Country Education, and in the city the Homo Economics Association. Professor Strong was a person of great energy and resource, a good citizen of the community and of the Dominion, and well worthy of the honour that was done her when the King conferred a decoration upon her.

Mr J. Robertson also referred to the enthusiasm and wholehearted devotion of Professor Strong to her work, which she had spread throughout the whole country. The fruits of her labours were to be discovered in many quarters, and would cause her to be gratefully remembered. Mr L. Deans Ritchie said that from her first appearance in the University Professor had _ displayed not only energy and initiative, hut a great love of her work and the Horne Science School —sin -i(lection that was reflected in the great loyalty of the alumni of the school.

The resignation was accepted with regret, nml with the heartiest wishes for Professor Strong’s continued health, vigour, and happiness.