Teacher Exchange System With U.S.A. First Five Selected

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 10, 11 July 1949, Page 3

Teacher Exchange System With U.S.A. First Five Selected

Word has been received from the United States of final approval of Fulbright travel awards for five New Zealanders, to enable them to teach and conduct research in the U.S., the United States Educational Foundation in New Zealand announced today. The announcement was the first made by the Foundation on travel grants to New Zealanders. Awards to enable five Americans to come to New Zealand for study, teaching and research have already been made under the Fulbright exchange programme.

Additional travel awards, for other New Zealanders to go to the United States, are expected to be made in the near future. These grants will be announced as soon as final approval is received from the Fulbright Board of Foreign Scholarships in Washington, D.C., the Foundation has indicated. The first five New Zealand award recipients are: Mr S. T. Barnett, Wellington, Miss Jessie C. Borland, Mr L. B. Fastier and Mr John Rogers, all of Dunedin, and Mr H. C. Mathew, Invercargill. Mr Barnett, Assistant Director of Education (Administrative), expects to be able to leave for the United States about February or March, 1950. Miss Borland, an Assistant Education Officer with the Otago Education Board, engaged in school service work at the Otago Museum expects to leave for the United States by air within the next few weeks. ■

Mr Fastier, University of Otago School of Medicine and a microbiology research officer with the Medical Research Council of New Zealand, left for the United States by air on June 28.

Mr Rogers, a Research Lecturer in mineral dressing at the University of Otago, has booked his passage to the United States on the Aorangi, leaving Auckland, on September 27.

Mr Mathew, recently Superintendent of the Borstal Institution at Invercargill, has booked his passage to the United States on the Aorangi, leaving Auckland on Julv 5.