Pauline Engel

Sister Dame Pauline Frances Engel DBE (10 September 1930 – 15 November 2017) was a member of the Sisters of Mercy who served as the third principal of Carmel College, Auckland, New Zealand.

Born in 1930 in Waimea West to Roman Catholic parents, John and Eileen Engel, she was one of five siblings. A sister in the Sisters of Mercy, Nga Whaea Atawhai o Aotearoa, she became an educator. In 1983, the third principal of Carmel College. She was the first principal to be appointed by Carmel College's Board of Governors.

In the 1995 Queen's Birthday Honours, Engel was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to education,[1] having been made a Commander of the same order in the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours.[2]

Partial history of Carmel College

In 1957, the long-held dream of the Sisters of Mercy to establish a Catholic girls' school on the North Shore was realised. Carmel College is the Mercy Charism at the heart or centre of the school.

Sister Mary Justine Gillies was given the mission of founding Carmel College on donated land, initially with fifteen students and no actual classrooms. Sister Justine gathered dedicated teaching Sisters and, as the school grew, these Sisters were joined by the first full-time lay teacher, Mrs Verena Butler, in 1963.

Under Sister Pauline (the third principal of the College, who was appointed in 1983 by the school's Governors), the College undertook an extensive programme of building, expanding and refurbishing. This included building a gymnasium, a food and technology block, an Arts block and the refurbishment of the Science laboratories.[3]

Death

Sister Dame Pauline Frances Engel died at North Shore Hospital, Takapuna on 15 November 2017, aged 87.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Queen's Birthday Honours List 1995 Archived 2015-01-14 at the Wayback Machine.; retrieved 10 January 2013.
  2. ↑ London Gazette (supplement), No. 50553, 13 June 1986; retrieved 21 January 2013.
  3. ↑ Carmel College website; accessed 15 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Pauline Engel death notice". New Zealand Herald. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2017.

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