NOTABLE CAREER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 16 October 1942, Page 3

NOTABLE CAREER

MR E. N. HOGBEN, M.A., F.R.G.S. WELLINGTON COLLEGE’S NEW HEAD ; Mr E. N. Hogben, who has been appointed headmaster of Wellington College, has been in charge of Danne. virke High School 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 the 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 firstclass honours in history. Both in New Zealand and overseas lie has taken post-graduate study in those I subjects in which h e has taken an ! active teaching interest. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. After the war of 1914-18 lie was responsible, for some time, for the organisation and control of the N.Z.E.F. education scheme in the Grantham camp. Mr Hogben is regarded as one of the leaders of educational thought in New Zealand. Pie has been an active member for over 20 years of teachers’ associations, and has on three occasions been president of the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Association, and also of the New Zealand Principals’ Association. He is a contributor to educational journals, an active member of the Vocational 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 of the university. e 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 postwar leave, he devoted himself to special educational studies. He has been closely connected for many years with both school and territorial military units, and holds the rank of major in the Hawke’s Bay Regiment. He is the commanding officer of the Southern Hawkes Bay unit of the Home Guard. Mr Hogben. both at school and university, has taken an active part in cricket and football, and is himself o firm believer that every fit boy should have ample opportunity for coaching and participation in school sport. The first fifteen of the Dannevirke fligh School has for six years enjoyed an unbeaten record. 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 cdncail'm: in the Dominion. ;