DEPARTURE FOR ENGLAND

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24906, 20 June 1946, Page 2

DEPARTURE FOR ENGLAND

MISS J. P. MORRISON TO STUDY AT OXFORD Miss Joan Patricia Morrison will sail to-morrow for England to study at Oxford University. Miss MorHson* who graduated from Canterbury University College with first-class honours in history, was last year awarded the Sir William Hartley Scholarship, which is awarded once in three years to a woman student who has acquitted herself with such distinction that, in the opinion of the professorial board, she is capable of obtaining a doctor’s degree at an English university. The scholarship may be used for an approved course of study other than a doctorate. Miss Morrison intends to take a B.A. course at Oxford. Her subjects will include philosophy, political science, and economics. Miss Morrison received her secondary education at the Christchurch Girls’ High School, where she won the Lissie Rathbone Scholarship. In her second year at Canterbury University College she was equal with another student for the John Connal Scholar-

ship, which is awarded for outstanding excellence in some particular subject; in Miss Morrison’s cage, history. Her thesis for M.A. dealt with the expansion of Christchurch and is now in the course of being published by the Christchurch City Council. She has also completed seven units of her LL.B. degree, and has worked in a city law office for the last two years. Miss Morrison is at present Dominion secretary of the International Student Service, and has been appointed New Zealand delegate to the International Student Service conference to be held at Girton College, Cambridge, in July. After the conference she will go on a month’s Continental study tour under the auspices of the International Student Service, visiting Belgium. Holland, France, and the Geneva headquarters of World Student Relief. She has also been appointed New Zealand delegate to the World Student Christian Federation conference, which is to be held at Geneva. This is the first world conference of this organisation which has been held since before the war. Miss Morrison Will return to England in September and begin het studies at Oxford in October.