Alice Candy

Alice Muriel Flora Candy (9 July 1888 – 18 May 1977) was a New Zealand teacher, university lecturer and warden. She was born in West Oxford, Northern Canterbury, New Zealand on 9 July 1888. Candy attended Christchurch Girls' High School and got a Junior Scholarship. She got a BA in 1910 and an MA with honours in political science in 1911 from Canterbury College before teaching in various schools. Candy was appointted to lecture hsitory at the University of Canterbury December 1920, making her the second woman academic at the insitiution, after biologist Elizabeth Herriott. She worked closely with James Hight, including writting the 1927 A short history of the Canterbury College; it was to be her only major publication.

At the time between a quarter and a third of students were women, and Candy played an active role in caring for them, being warden of Helen Connon Hall, an all-women hall of residence. By the time of her retirement in 1948 she had risen to senior lecturer.

Candy never married or had children. She died on 18 May 1977 in Christchurch. Candy lives on in the name of a bulding on campus and in a W. A. Sutton portrait in the collection of the university.

Roles

• Foundation member of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Federation of University Women .
• President Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Federation of University Women (1926–27).
• Vice President New Zealand Federation of University Women (1929).
• Delegate National Council of Women of New Zealand (1926–27, 1928–29) .