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.^{[citation needed]}

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[]

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

External links[]

NRAM website

[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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