Some have likened his spurious grin to that of Friends character Chandler Bing, who famously struggled to smile, while others have gone for a most obvious villain, The Demon Headmaster, from the Nineties children's television show.
Faking it A Danish gem gets a polish in India ReprintsPoul Petersen, an amiable, bearded headmaster from the Danish island of Funen, has been visiting Tranquebar for 13 years.
Ten years on from the invasion of Iraq, and five years after the death of his son, Geoff Dunsmore, a retired headmaster from Devon, visited the very spot where his son died in Basra.
So we've got Voldemort and Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore from the Harry Potter books, witch Nanny Ogg and cowardly wizard Rincewind from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, Aslan and the White Witch from CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and, from the Arthurian legends, the enchanter Merlin and his nemesis, evil sorceress Morgan Le Fay.
The headmaster from St . Petersburg his wife, -- a translator of German literature in Russia but retrained here as a bank teller -- and their son, who became a computer programmer, depicted a four-year struggle to establish themselves in New York City.
Though alumni did not say Mr. Shallenberger ever molested them, it was Mr. Shallenberger who recommended Mr. Hanson and Anthony Edward Battaglia, the headmaster from 1969 to 1971, for their jobs, Mr. Battaglia said in a telephone interview.
Citing the First Amendment, a judge on Tuesday denied a request by a New York City private school to prohibit the son of a former headmaster from picketing in front of the school as students arrive for class each morning.
"I took him as a favor to a headmaster from a 'famous' school because the headmaster, who I thought highly of, gave his recommendation and thought that he had great potential," Mr. Stewart said in an e-mail.
He thought, perhaps, that he would earn a word of commendation from the headmaster for the privilege shown to his son, although I doubt if my father would have approved of any special treatment for us (my elder brother also obtained these facilities).
Leslie Church resigned as headmaster from Downhills Primary in Tottenham, north London, after the school was judged inadequate in the latest inspection by the watchdog Ofsted.
Sir Eric Anderson, his headmaster from 1980-89, told me, "From day one, Norman was brilliant at conveying the excitement of mathematics to brilliant – and indeed not so clever – boys".
