a keynote speaker at her Runton conference. This would lead to the Gipsy Hill College in South London, which gathered 14 well educated and mature students to pay £54 a year to be the first trained in October 1917. The college, in time, became a key part of Kingston University. Rennie would lead Gipsy Hill College as chair of governors until 1945. In 1920 she went to America where she met Helen Parkhurst who was the lead for Montessori's ideas in the USA. This meeting discussed the Dalton Plan, which was named for a school in Dalton, Massachusetts. The Dalton Plan was intended to give a structure to the used of the Montessori methods for older children. The basic idea was that there should be a series of structured tasks for the child that in total contributed to a broad curriculum. Rennie became an evangelist for the approach, and she created the Dalton Association in Britain. In 1932 she published The Triumph of the Dalton Plan'' with the educational psychologist Charles William Kimmins. Rennie died in Royal Tunbridge Wells in 1966. References 1875 births 1966 deaths People from County Durham Education activists People associated with Kingston University