Pauline Engel

Dame Sister 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.

Biography

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 appointed 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]

Engel died at North Shore Hospital, Takapuna on 15 November 2017, aged 87.[3]

References
  1. "Queen's Birthday honours list 1995". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 19 October 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  2. "No. 50553". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 14 June 1986. p. 32.
  3. "Pauline Engel death notice". New Zealand Herald. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
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