THE DIOCESAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR THE HONOR JENSEN AWARD FOR 2023/24

Past recipient Charlotte Bennett (Alumna 2005)

Charlotte Bennett was awarded an Honor Jensen Memorial scholarship in 2016 while studying at Oxford University. The award helped to finance the completion of her DPhil. Heather McRae was delighted to present the award to Charlotte at the London reunion in September 2016.

To quote Charlotte’s application: “My doctoral thesis is at the cutting edge of transnational children’s history; while age has been identified as a significant category of analysis in First World War studies, published work overwhelmingly uses national approaches to focus on continental Europe, Britain, Australia, and Canada. This project treats prestigious Irish and New Zealand boys’ secondary colleges as case studies, juxtaposing youth reactions against those of their teacher counterparts in addition to staffarticulated expectations.”

Charlotte’s more recent work on returning to New Zealand is at the University of Auckland. She has had a research management role since the beginning of 2019 and was awarded a Royal Society Marsden Fast Start grant to study children’s experiences of the 1918 influenza pandemic.

The Honor Jensen Memorial Fund provides annual grants “for the advancement and enjoyment of history and the classics by any member of the Diocesan School community — current student, alumna, staff member of the School.”

Miss Honor Jensen was a much loved history, Latin and English teacher and Senior Mistress at Diocesan for 27 years from 1937 to 1964. Her contribution to Diocesan was exceptional and she devoted herself to the education and welfare of the girls at the School.

If you wish to apply, please contact Angela Coe acoe@diocesan.school.nz

Also a Heritage Foundation event, Women2Watch, celebrating the achievements of Dio alumnae under the age of 35 years, was held during Term 1. You can read about our 2023 Women2Watch on pages 71-73 in the Lifelong Friends section of Dio Today.