| 词条 | Sheila Mary Tuer |
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| name = Sheila Solarin | image = | image_size = |caption = Solarin, reading | birth_name = Sheila Mary Tuer | birth_date = 1924 | birth_place = Lancaster, Lancashire | death_date =21 October 2012 (aged 82) | death_place = Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State | age_at_death = 88 | nationality = British | other_names = | alma_mater = | occupation = Educator, teacher | spouse = {{marriage|Tai Solarin|1951}} | children =Corin Solarin Tunde Solarin | website = }}{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2012}}Sheila Mary Solarin {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MBE}} (née Tuer 1924 – 21 October 2012) was a British educator. She was appointed an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II on 17 October 2007 for services to education in Nigeria. She ran Mayflower School on behalf of her late husband, Tai Solarin.[1][2] War serviceSheila met her husband while both were in the forces following the World War II.[1] Educational establishments in NigeriaIn 1952 they decided to move to his native Nigeria, and both worked in Molusi College ijebu Igbo. But they disagreed with the politics of the day and religious discrimination in schools, and decided to build their own in a town called Ikenne. On 27 January 1956, Tai Solarin and his wife founded the first and only secular school in Nigeria, Mayflower School, Ikenne, Ogun State. The Students' Second Home was established by Sheila and her husband in 1977, a boarding house which serves more than two thousand students of the three public high schools in Ikenne town. Also complementing the now state-owned Mayflower School, was the establishment of the privately owned Mayflower Junior School, the primary school arm of the Mayflower institution, a citadel of secular education for self-reliance and all round excellence. Using breeze blocks made from clay they constructed two classrooms, each able to accommodate 36 pupils.The student also helped in construction of more class rooms . "They had their bunks at the back of the class, and the desks at the front'" said Sheila who has been an English teacher for 50 years. "We didn't ask anybody what their ethnic background or religion was, we simply wanted to provide an education for all the children in the area." The school became more popular, and Sheila and her husband were forced to extend, making it one of the biggest in the country. They even made the furniture on site, much of it using wood from trees Sheila planted herself. She headed the Mayflower School on behalf of her late husband Tai Solarin. Sheila officially retired two years ago at 80 and passed much of the responsibility on to her children.[1][2] Personal lifeSheila and her husband had two children Corin and Tunde Solarin. She died on 21 October 2012, at the age of 88.[3] References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200702120318.html|title=Big Shoes, Small Feet...|last=Taslim|first=Elias|date=11 February 2007|publisher=AllAfrica.com|accessdate=14 August 2010}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tuer, Sheila Mary}}{{UK-bio-stub}}2. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://saharareporters.com/2012/10/21/tai-solarin%E2%80%99s-widow-sheila-dies|publisher=Sahara reporters|title=Tai Solarin’s Widow, Sheila, Dies|accessdate=14 November 2014}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Tai Solarin|url=http://www.taisolarin.org/profile.html|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110320011610/http://taisolarin.org/profile.html|archivedate=20 March 2011|df=dmy-all}} 8 : 1924 births|2012 deaths|British emigrants to Nigeria|Members of the Order of the British Empire|Nigerian people of British descent|Nigerian women educators|British people of World War II|Founders of Nigerian schools and colleges |
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