VALEDICTORY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 July 1913, Page 5

VALEDICTORY.

MlSfe E. WILLIAMS. Miss E. Williams, 8.A.,- retired from tho staff of the Masterton District High School yesterday. Prior to her departure, she was entertained bv the staff, and was made the recipient of several handsome presentations.- Mr W. H. Jackson, headmaster, in his valedictory speech, paid' a well deserved tribute to the earnest work and porsonal influence of Miss Williams during the seven years -she has been on the staff. Mr Jackson stated that the position Miss Williams had so successfully filled was one of the most difficult on the staff. To take over a class of big boys and girls who, on leaving the sixth standard, had passed out of the hands of an able first-assistant master, and to create and engender an enthusiastic spirit for work—the highest and best form of discipline a teacher could employ—was an accomplishment any teacher might be proud of. So well had Miss Williams done this, that only on rare occasions had it been necessary for him to take action. While congratulating Miss Williams on the appointment to f a better-paid position, Mr Jackson expressed his regret on losing so valuable a teacher from his staff and his personal feelings at the departure of a loyal amd enthusiastic colleague. Mr R. Brown, chairman of the School Committee, in making the presentations, voiced the regret felt by the committee. In the name of the Masterton committee he wished Miss Williams suocess and happiness in her new sphere of work. In responding, Miss Williams thanked her fellow-teachers for their nice presents, and said she had been so happy in her work at the Masterton School during her seven years' service that she felt very sorry to have to say good-bye. From the High School pupils Miss Williams received a set silver-mounted cut-glass ware, and from the staff a handsome mirror and other articles in solid silver.