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Posted: 4 September, 2018

In Memoriam – Mrs Penney

Alumnae, Senior School

It was with great sadness that we heard this week about the death of Mrs Penelope Penney - Putney Headmistress from 1987-1991.

“Being a Headmistress is fun!”. These were Mrs Penney’s words when she took the role of Headmistress in 1987.

Those that were lucky enough to know her during her five years as Head will recall her enormous enthusiasm and the vigour with which she approached every task, from limbo dancing at the Sixth Form fair, to coursing down an alpine slope on a summer sledge.

According to Governor and former teacher, Maud Matley, who wrote about her “magic way of sending many people out of her room with a smile on their face”, in the 1991 School Magazine, she will be remembered as a “person of exceptional warmth, vision and wisdom.”

 

A service to celebrate the life of Penelope Penney (née Chamberlain) will be held on Tuesday, 13 November 2018 at 11.30am at The Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, Cloth Fair, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7JQ.

Refreshments afterwards will be served at Haberdashers’ Hall, 18 West Smithfield, London EC1A 9HQ. RSVP to [email protected]

Mrs Penney’s obituary appeared in the Times newspaper on 29 September 2018.

“She was an ardent supporter of single-sex education, which she felt allowed girls the space to develop their interests without the constraints of gender stereotypes. Penney encouraged her pupils to aim for stellar careers in law, politics, education and the arts. A staunch believer in individual agency, she had little time for the notion that there was a glass ceiling preventing them from achieving their ambitions.”

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