SCHOOLMASTER'S APPEAL.
Dennison J. McCall (26), schoolmaster of Whicham School, residing at Seaview, Silecroft, was granted conditional exemption on the 31st March, and his certificate came up for review.
Mr. Britton-Jones said he was not opposing. McCall passed C1.
The Clerk said McCall was employed by the managers of Whicham School, who had written stating that they had a headmaster and two female teachers. They considered McCall as headmaster, was indispensable for the proper management of the school.
Certificate renewed.
Millom Gazette (Cumberland), Thursday, 5 Apr 1917, p. 4
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In the 1939 Register Dennison J McCall (b. 16 May 1889), head schoolmaster, and wife Lily McCall (b. 30 Nov 1888), unpaid domestic duties, were living at 26 Macaulay Drive, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. At the same address was [daughter] Jean D McCall (b. 9 Apr 1925), at school.
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Funeral of Mr. D. J. McCall.
LINCOLN Education Authority and teachers past and present paid tribute to the work in the city of Mr. Dennison Johnson McCall, first headmaster of St. Giles senior school, by their attendance at his funeral yesterday.
Mr. McCall had been teacher in Lincoln since 1917, first at Christ's Hospital Terrace School, as assistant master and then as headmaster, then teacher in charge of the new junior mixed department at St. Giles and, since 1933, as headmaster of the senior school in that suburb of the city.
He died on Saturday at the age of 52, leaving a widow and one daughter.
For many years he had been an active worker at St. Giles church and was vice-chairman of the parochial church council. His body was received into the church on Monday evening and yesterday morning there was a requiem celebration of the Holy Communion.
The vicar, the Rev. R. N. Daniels, conducted the funeral service in the afternoon, assisted by the curate, the Rev. R. G. C. Moore. The vicar to the comittal at Newport cemetery.
Mrs. Mabel Daniels, A.R.C.M., was at the organ, playing Bach's chorale prelude "Jesu, joy of man's desiring" and Parry's "Elegy."
Pupils in the three upper classes at St. Giles senior school attended the service with a deputation of teachers....
Lincolnshire Echo, Wednesday, 18 Jun 1941, p. 3
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Dennison Johnson McCall of 26 Macaulay-drive Lincoln died 14 June 1941 at the Bromhead Nursing Home Lincoln. Administration (with Will) Lincoln 3 October to Lily McCall, widow. Effects £3173 7s. 4
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MUSICAL pupils at a city school have rediscovered a "hymn of St. Giles" which was written 60 years ago but later lost.
Staff and children at Myle Cross Junior School, St Giles, found the hymn, which had been written by the school's first headmaster Dennison McCall in an old pamphlet.
The song had been set to the music of Lincoln Cathedral organist Dr Gordon Slater in the 1930s. But over the years the hymn, written when the housing estate was first built, was forgotten and no longer used in the local church or school.
At a special service held at St Giles church today to celebrate the school's 60th birthday the old song was dusted off and sung for the first time in more than 20 years.
Lincolnshire Echo, Wednesday, 24 Oct 1990, p. 5
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