Authors : Khutale S.L. and Chikmath P.C.

Page Nos : 49-52

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The present paper focuses on the life and work of Miss Alice Emilie Kimmins in Panchgani. In school, children are members of a small society that exerts a tremendous influence on thei r moral development. Teachers serve as role model to students in school; they play a major role in inculcating their ethical behavior.Miss Alice Emilie Kimmins was the best example of good teacher. (1) Miss Alice Emilie Kimmins was the founder of Kimmins H igh School, Panchgani. She was known as “The Mother of Panchgani”. She was enthusiastic, confident and looked always happy. Miss Alice Kimmins, right from the beginning, was very much interested in the field of education. The teachers are the first role mo del to the children outside their family. When the children see the model showing concern for others, motivating them for their good deeds and cooperating and helpful with their academic issues, the children learn them by observing and imitate it with teac hers. The children are taught basic morals and values in school. (1) With this approach Miss Alice Kimmins started her educational work. Miss Emilie Kimmins arrived in India in 1885. She started working first in Lahore then in Varanasi and finally in the Z enana Mission‟s High school in Girgaum in Bombay now known as Mumbai. In the beginning, she was disappointed to teach the classes with 80% non - Indian children. But later on these very non - Indian children created in her mind interest and love. Bombay was th en stricken by famine and Plague. Two outcomes of these disasters are relevant to the foundation of Kimmins High School in Panchgani. When she was working in Girgaum, Miss Kimmins had begun to dream of a school in the hills for the European children. The c limate of Bombay was exhausting for them. The European children went white faced, pale, weak and anemic. They were struggled with the adverse and very hot climate. They needed to be transplanted into the cool breezes and free open air which was being exist ed in the Western Ghats. She under her outstanding leadership tried her best to support the construction of the buildings and during her 22 years‟ of active and dedicated service, she constructed the school buildings.

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