Career
She was the first principal to be appointed (in 1983) by Carmel College"s Board of Governors. In the 1995 Queen"s Birthday Honours, Engel was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to education, having been made a Commander of the same order in 1986. Carmel College is the Mercy Charism which is still at the heart or centre of the school.
Sister Mary Justine Gillies was given the mission of founding Carmel College on donated land, initially with fifteen students and no actual classrooms.
Under Sister Pauline (the third principal of the College, who was appointed in 1983 by the school"s Governors), the College undertook an extensive programme of building, expanding and refurbishing. This included building a gymnasium, a food and technology block, an Arts block and the refurbishment of the Science laboratories.
