< The following obituary appeared in the Woking News and Mail on 21^st September 1968>

Mr. F.W. Goodger

One of Surrey’s most outstanding and most successful headmasters, Mr. Frank William Goodger, of Red Tiles, Send, died on Monday last week, aged 61.

The funeral took place at Woking Crematorium, St. John’s on Friday.

Mr. Goodger started his service in Surrey in 1934 and was at the Shaftesbury School, Bisley for 11½ years. During the war he was an officer in the Woking A.T.C. where he was responsible for physical training. He was appointed to the headship of Charlwood Village School when the war ended – a post he held for five years.

On leaving Charlwood, he took over as head of Send C. of. E. County Secondary School, where he remained for a further five years. In 1954 he became headmaster of West Byfleet County Secondary School, where he stayed until retiring in July 1967.

He joined the British Aircraft Corporation at Weybridge in September 1967, as personnel officer and was still holding this post at the time of his death.

He leaves a widow, two brothers and a sister.

Mourners at the funeral included the widow Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Goodger (brother and sister-in-law), Mr. A.C. Tearle (father-in-law), Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Farley and Mr. and Mrs. D.E. Tearle (brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law), Mr. G. Tearle (brother-in-law), Mr. B. Tearle, Miss A. Tearle, Mrs. G. Iddess (nephew and nieces), Mrs. H.A. Mead and Mrs. E. Mead (cousins).

Other present included heads of many of the schools in the area, representatives of Woking Urban Council and Surrey County Council Education Committee, former colleagues from B.A.C. and representatives of West Byfleet County Secondary School.

< The following article appeared in the Surrey Advertiser on 20^st September 1968>

DEATH OF MR. FRANK GOODGER

One of Surrey’s most outstanding and most successful headmasters, Mr. Frank William Goodger, of Red Tiles, Send, died on Monday in St. Thomas’s Hospital, London. He was 61.

Mr. Goodger served on the staff of Shaftsbury School, Bisley, for eleven years and was subsequently appointed headmaster of Charwood School, near Horley, where he remained for five years.

He then became headmaster of St. Bede’s Church of England School, Send, and during his five years there did much to establish the school and to forward its progress in every way.

CO-EDUCATION

During the last eleven years’ service with Surrey County Council he was headmaster of West Byfleet County Secondary School.

Mr. Goodger was a staunch advocate of co-education, believing that boys would be more chivalrous and girls more courteous if educated together.

Since his retirement from West Byfleet in July 1967, he had been personnel officer at B.A.C., Weybridge, with special responsibility for the recruitment of pupils leaving schools in the area.

He leaves a widow, to brothers and one sister.

A tribute to Mr. Goodger’s school work was paid this week by Dr. Caleb Wallace, vice-chairman of the governors of St. Bede’s School.

“STRICT DISCIPLINE”

“While maintaining strict discipline, his pupils were always aware of his personal interest in them and his enthusiasm”, said Dr. Wallace. “His pupils soon learned the importance he attached to truthfulness and proper deportment. It gave him great satisfaction to find an increasing number of his secondary school pupils taking ‘O’ level examinations”.