Miss P. M. Taylor

Abstract

Miss P. M. TAYLOR, who has recently been appointed woman educational officer to the Central Council for Health Education, was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, and Westfield College, London. Miss Taylor joined the executive committee of the Association of Women Science Teachers in 1932, and in 1935 was elected honorary general secretary, in which capacity she served until October 1944. Her new position with the Central Council is an important one which necessitated her relinquishing the onerous duties of the general secretaryship of the A.S.W.T., though she was re-elected to the Executive Committee this year. The present investigations of the Association, which have already resulted in the publication of the pamphlet "Pre-Nursing Course in Schools" (1943) and the Interim Report on Science in Post-Primary Education (1944), are in a large measure due to the initiative and exceptional powers of organization of Miss Taylor. The Association is fortunate in having her continued co-operation in the completion of this work, the results of which it is hoped to publish shortly. Miss Taylor's zeal is unabated, in spite of the calls made upon her and her capable assistants during the war years to keep in touch with the members. Their success is seen in the vigorous growth in membership and the widespread interest in progressive methods of science teaching, which factors have necessitated the appointment of a full-time secretary. In addition to her work as honorary general secretary, Miss Taylor has served on the Education Advisory Committee of the Central Council for Health Education, the Consultative Committee to the Nursing Reconstruction Committee, Royal College of Nursing, and as president of the Essex Branch of the A.W.S.T. She held the post of senior science mistress at the Southend-on-Sea High School for Girls until July 1944.