Pauline Engel
Dame Sister Pauline Frances Engel was a member of the Sisters of Mercy who served as the third principal of Carmel College, Auckland, New Zealand.Biography
Born in 1930 in Waimea West to Roman Catholic parents, John and Eileen Engel, she was one of five siblings. A sister in the Sisters of Mercy, Nga Whaea Atawhai o Aotearoa, she became an educator. In 1983, the third principal of Carmel College. She was the first principal to be appointed by Carmel College's Board of Governors.
In the 1995 Queen's Birthday Honours, Engel was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to education, having been made a Commander of the same order in the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours.
Engel died at North Shore Hospital, Takapuna on 15 November 2017, aged 87.
