WALK IN THE LIGHT
Kittie Prescott in 1903. After a lifetime's association with the MLC Old Girls' Union and Newington College, she died in 1984 at the age ofninety-six.
maintained. There were several reasons for this. Minnie Wearne had worked with him for many years and was accustomed to his way of thinking, and his approach to problems and potential conflicts. Mr Rodd kept in touch with Prescott through his work with the theological students at Newington. Prescott kept his position on the College Council, attended meetings and retained more than a passing interest in the school's affairs. He and his wife were almost invariably invited to school functions; their daughter Kittie was one of the school's most able students, excelling not only academically but also on the sportsfield and tennis court. The patterns and precepts established by Prescott had been proven to work; they were therefore retained by the conservative Rodd and the equally cautious Minnie Wearne. In the first thirteen years of the twentieth century, enrolments at Burwood Ladies' College grew steadily, if slowly. There were seventy-two students at the school in 1900, including fifteen boarders. By 1906 the enrolment had grown to 114, with thirty-eight boarders. The following year there were 124 students at the school. Only thirteen sat for the junior examinations, with nine passing, and three sat for the senior examinations, two of whom were successful. The number of students being prepared for the junior and senior public examinations increased with growing enrolments, although the figures were never high. Much was made of the success of individual students at 38