HOME SCIENCE SCHOOL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24406, 18 September 1940, Page 8

HOME SCIENCE SCHOOL

PROFESSOR STRONG RESIGNS TRIBUTES TO HER WORK Tributes to the work of Professor A. G. Strong (Dean of the Home Science Faculty) were paid at the meeting of the University Council yesterday when a letter conveying her resignation from the University staff was received The Chancellor (Mr W. J. Morrell) said the resignation would be received with the deepest regret. Professor Strong's appointment as a lecturer in household arts in the first instance had marked an epoch in the University, and it quickly became apparent that they had a remarkable personality on the staff. Later as Dean of the Home Science School for 20 years she had proved a skilled and able teacher, a great organiser, and the possessor of

unusual qualities of initiative and the. power to impress others. ,Fiv& years, after her assumption of the Jieansh"xp , she started that valuable-organisation! the Association of Country. Education,' and in the city the Home Economics Association. Professor Strong was a person of 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. The resignation was accepted with regret, and with the heartiest wishes for Professor Strong's continued health vigour and happiness. 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 Strong had displayed not only energy and initiative, but a great love of her work and the Home Science School—an affection that was reflected in the great loyalty of the alumni of the school. j