RHODES SCHOLARS

Evening Star, Issue 22446, 17 September 1936, Page 12

RHODES SCHOLARS

THE OTAGO NOMINEES The committee set up by the Professorial Board of the Otago University to select the o*®!!° nominees for the Rhodes Scholarship met yesterday and selected the following F. J. LEHANY. P. M. LUSK. Mr F, J. Lehany was born at Wyndham, Southland, in April, 1915, and attended various schools in the district, being dux of the Greenhills School in 1927 From 1928 to 1932 he attended the Southland Boys’ High School, passing the matriculation examination in 1930 and being dux of the school in 1932. ■ He sat for the entrance scholarship examination in 1932 and was placed on the credit list. He was also awarded the Invercargill Savings Bank Scholarship. Mr Lehany, while at school, played football and cricket and also took part in other branches of athletics. In 1932 he won the open class boxing championship of tho school. In 1933 he took up residence at Knox College, and was awarded a Knox College entrance scholarship. He studied mathematics and science, and in 1934 he won the Moore Scholarship for the best university record of thre© ycA-rs* standing or under for competition amongst students resident in Knox College. .Last year he gained the senior Beverly Brize in mathematics, senior Beverly Prize in physics and the Smeaton Research Scholarship in applied science. He was also awarded by the University of New Zealand a senior scholarship in applied mathematics. At the University he played second grad'e football, fives, lawn tennis, and badminton. It is his intention, if selected as a Rhodes Scholar, to undertake at Oxford a course of study in physics and to proceed, if possible, to research in electricity. It is his intention to return to New Zealand to some scholastic or other post for which his training in physics would fit him. Mr P. Mi Lusk was born in March, 1915. He was dux of Whitiora School, Hamilton, in 1927, and gained a junior national scholarship in that year. From 1929 to 1931 he attended the Otago Boys’ High School, passing the matriculation examination in 1930 and being awarded the Gray Russell Scholarship the following year. In 1930 he_ became a student at the Otago University, gaining a senior university scholarship in English in 1934 and the George Young Scholarship in 1935. The same year he graduated M.A. with second class honours in French. Mr Lusk has been a member of the committee and secretary of the Dunedin French Club and a member of the committee of the Dunedin Philatelic Club. In 1935 he became vice-president of the Arts Debating Society and a member of the ‘ Critic ’ staff, and during the present year he was appointed associate editor of that journal. He also became vice-president of the Arts Faculty and accepted a similar office in the Literary Society. In June of this year he was appointed joint editor of the ‘ Critic.’* At the Otago Boys’ High School he played cricket and took an active part in swimming sports.. He proposes, if awarded a scholarship, to take an honours course in modern languages with a view later to teaching English, French, and German.