"GIFFORD. OF WELLINGTON."
Sir,-Under this heading S. H. Jenkinson in The Listener of March 12 pays. tribute to a great mathematician. But A. C. Gifford was more than this. His essential humanity and kindliness earned for him the affectionate regard of the thousands of boys who passed through his classes. We knew him as a whole man-one whose _ transcendent ability was apparent even to the mind of the young male, whose burning enthusiasm lit many an answering flicker, some never to fade, but whose joyous vitality and sincerity in the classroom, on the tennis court, or in any one of the numerous out-of-class activities in which he loved to join, demonstrated to us the full flowering of human personality. Looking back on one’s days at Wellington College, it is clear that our association with "Uncle Charlie" was a vital and permanently enriching experience, which we shall always treasure.
G.R.
POWLES
(Washington, D.C.).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 471, 2 July 1948, Page 9
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152"GIFFORD. OF WELLINGTON." New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 471, 2 July 1948, Page 9
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