RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS

Evening Star, Issue 23377, 21 September 1939, Page 5

RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS

UTAH NOMINATIONS MR M. V. FARRELL AND MR LI CEERINI The instuctions which had been received from the authorities in England that no Rhodes Scholarship nominations were to be made this year have since been cancelled, and the Universities in New Zealand authorised to make nominations as usual. The reason for this apparently lies in the decision of the English University authorities to carry on the various- faculties in that country during war-time. Accordingly, two nominations have now been submitted by the committee appointed by the Professorial Board of the University of Otago. They are:— Norman Victor Farrell. Lloyd George Geering. MR N. V. FARRELL. Mr Norman Victor Farrell was educated at the Normal School and later at the Otago Boys’ High School, matriculating m 1932. At High School he had a distinguished academic career and was also outstanding in the cadet corps and in the field of sport, being a particularly good cricketer. Since his entry to the University in 1935, he has had a remarkably fine record, graduating with his B.A. degree in 1937, and gaining in the same year a senior scholarship in Latin and a George Young scholarship. Last year he graduated as M.A. with second-class honours inFrench, and was the Otago nominee for a Rhodes Scholarship. This year he has been studying for honours in Latin. He has taken a wide interest in the outside activities of the University, being a member of the first grade cricket team and gaining his “ Blue ” for this sport. Mr Farrell was secretary of the Cricket Club, a member of the Golf Club Committee, and also a member of the Badminton Club Committee. He was Intellectual Affairs representative on the O.U.S.A, Committee, his duties in this position causing him to resign from his appointment as president of the Arts’ Faculty Students’ Association. He also holds I ,thq editorship of both the University paper, ‘ The Critic,’ and the. magazine, ‘ Review.’ Mr Farrell has played a prominent part in the Capping and Dramatic Society presentations. MR L. G. GEERING. Mr Lloyd George Geering received his elementary education in Australia, being dux of the Warrnambool Elementary School in 1929. After a successful scholastic career at the Otago Boys’ High School, he won the dux medal in 1935, and was awarded a Junior University scholarship' in the same year. His’ chief interest in the sporting side of school life was in hockey, and he was vice-captain _of the first eleven. He was also prominent in the Dramatic Club, and as an n.c.o. in the Cadet Corps. Mr Geering entered the Otago University in 1936, being awarded the Shirtoliffe Graduate Bursary in that year. He also qualified for the University Seniar Scholarship and the Beverly Scholarship both in mathematics. Mr Geering continued his participation in hockey at the University, and succeeded in gaining a place in the University’s first grade team. University dramatic productions have been aided by Mr Geermg’s work, and he has also shown an active interest in debating. He^has taken an enthusiastic interest in the Student Christian Movement, and his work for this body was rewarded this year, when he was elected president.