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Further Honours for Suzanne Sparrow
Suzanne Sparrow, the principal of the Suzanne Sparrow Plymouth Language School, has received an Honorary Doctorate of Education from the University of Plymouth, the latest event in an extraordinary life and career.
Suzanne has been respected member of the English language teaching community for more than 30 years. She was born in Plymouth in 1924 and attended Western College Preparatory School (known as ‘Busy Bees’) and Plymouth High School for Girls. She later followed her father’s footsteps into the Royal Navy in 1942, serving as a Wren and Coxswain during World War II. She demobbed three years later and took up a secretarial post at a research laboratory where she worked with many overseas scientists.
Suzanne edited a number of natural history publications and in 1978 founded the first professional language school in Plymouth. She joined the city’s Chamber of Commerce where she was elected Chairman in 1988 and went on to found their international division. She was also a founder member of the Plymouth Marketing Bureau and in 2006 was awarded Business Woman of the Year for the South West. In 2009 she was thrilled to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Education from the University of Plymouth.
Congratulations and best wishes are offered by friends and colleagues for this much deserved recognition of Suzanne's fantastic contribution to international education.
Article by Susan Breary (17/12/09)
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