Elizabeth Moir
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Elizabeth Moir is a British born educationalist who pioneered the International Schools concept in Sri Lanka.
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Born in London to Scottish parents, Elizabeth and her parents lived for several years in India, as her father was a regional representative for General Electric. While in India, her parents were so enraptured by the beauty of the world renowned holiday resort Simla at the foothills of the Himalayas, that they built a hotel there and settled down.
Elizabeth Moir is a honorary graduate in English and Mathematics from the Oxford University and is a former tennis captain, who led her team to victory in the 1963 Battle of the Blues. A former IBM system analyst, she is also an accomplished pianist and flautist[1].
Soon after graduating, she left for Hong Kong where she joined the Diocesan Girls School and was there for four years. She loved Hong Kong so much that she returned a second time and served another four years as the head of mathematics.Thereafter, she returned to India and served as the Governor of the British School in New Delhi.[2]
Elizabeth Moir came to Sri Lanka in 1982, invited by former sri lankan diplomat in India Jayantha Dhanapala. She was the first to brave the powers that were in education then to start an international school that Sri Lankan children could go to, as the Overseas School at that time was restricted to expatriates. Thus she founded the Colombo International School and was its principal till 1994. In 1994, she founded the British School in Colombo and two years later, set up her very own Elizabeth Moir School. She also functions as the Executive Director of the Trivandrum International School in India since 2003.[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ TIS Newsletter (html). Newsletter. Retrieved on March 8, 2007.
- ^ Daily News 07/09/2002 (html). Geoff Wijesinghe. Retrieved on December 2, 2006.
- ^ THE HINDU 05/02/2003 (html). Bureau. Retrieved on December 2, 2006.
