COMMONWEALTH SCHOLAR

Press, Volume C, Issue 29497, 26 April 1961, Page 17

COMMONWEALTH SCHOLAR

MR A. W.S. Baird Mr A. W. S. Baird, a graduate of the University of Canterbury, has been awarded a United Kingdom Commonwealth scholarship that will enable him to study in Britain for two years. He will leave early in August. Mr Baird said yesterday that he would study for his Ph.D. under Professor J. S. Spink at Bedford College, one of the colleges of the University of London. It was his intention to carry on with the work he did for his M.A thesis last year by continuing his research into the life of the seventeenth century French mathematician and thinker, Blaise Pascal, said Mr Baird. In accepting the United Kingdom Commonwealth scholarship, Mr Baird had to decline the award of the University of New Zealand’s post-graduate scholarship in arts. Educated at the Waimataitai School and the Timaru Boys’ High School before he entered the university, Mr Baird has for the -last term been teaching a junior form at the Timaru High School. Mr Baird took his B.A. at the University of Canterbury- in 1959, and in 1960 graduated M.A. with honours in French. In 1959 he was awarded the university’s Alabaster -scholarship in classics, and the next year a university senior scholarship.