| Robert McIntyre M.A., F.E.I.S., LL.D. |
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Rector 1938-1964 Robert McIntyre was from Hawick in the Borders. He was a graduate in English and the author and editor of some nineteen school textbooks in the subject. When he was appointed a schools' inspector in 1932 he was reckoned to be "one of the most brilliant younger teachers in the country." He resigned this post to become rector of Kilmarnock Academy in 1938, an unusual step to take. He had moved to the town six years before - "the only Inspector ever to have chosen to live in Kilmarnock," he joked - and prior to his appointment as rector he had served as the President of the Kilmarnock Burns Club. He presided over the flowering of the school's academic traditions in the post-war expansion of secondary education and was to be remembered by many pupils in his adopted town as possessing a fine mind. He was given an honorary LL.D. by the University of Glasgow upon retiring. |
