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The New Headmaster - J. Stanley Carr, B.Sc. Reprinted from the 52nd Annual Report 1939-40 |
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After the war he completed his degree and was appointed Geography Master at the co-educational school at Keswick, a post which he held from 1919-25. There he met Edith Robinson, who had herself been educated at Keswick School and who was then a Form Mistress. They were married in 1925. Almost immediately he was appointed Geography Master at Ackworth School - a post which he has held for 15 years. During their time at Ackworth, Edith Carr has done very valuable work amongst the wives of unemployed men at the Social Service Centre, of which she was President from its inception in 1935. Stanley Carr has entered with infectious enthusiasm into games (he played for Manchester University 1st XI's in both Football and Cricket and for Cumberland County in Hockey), dramatic work and all kinds of community service in the school‑his interests varied from gardening to Common Room schemes. Outside the school he found time for work in the Adult Schools and in the Meeting. Their interest in Ayton and in Ayton Old Scholars is already deep-seated. Old Scholars' interest in them is bound up with the past as well as with the present and the future. Floreat Aytona.
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SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES |
Stanley
Carr and his wife officially took up their duties as Headmaster and
Mistress of the. Family on September 1st, 1940, but actually they arrived
on July 31st into the midst of a Summer School of some 40 of our children
who were remaining at Ayton during the' holidays because of the danger
of air raids in the towns. No one could have taken up the responsibilities
of such a post at a more difficult time, but luckily for Ayton Stanley
Carr had imagined and faced the problems that he would have to tackle.,
and had the energy and ability to tackle them. It was and is a great
help to him that he is no stranger to Friends' Schools - nor even to
Ayton itself. He was at Ackworth as a boy, from 1906-10, and when he
left school came straight to Ayton as an apprentice teacher for a period
of three years. His work for a degree in History, at Manchester University,
was interrupted by the war, and in 1915 he joined the newly-formed Friends'
Ambulance Unit. For almost four years he served with his Unit in France
and Belgium the most interesting and worth while part of his work being
the rescue of French and Belgian children from their villages after
bombardments and the removal of these children to safer areas - the
evacuation and billeting problems of 25 years ago under conditions infinitely
more difficult than any we have yet experienced in England.