Honoured Scholar
Lal PROFESSOR G. W. von ZEDLITZ, who died on May 24 at the age of 78, was a wellknown Wellington personality, and the first , professor of foreign languages at Victoria University College. His voice was familiar to listeners throughout the country for the part he took in open discussion broadcasts, for he was chairman of many of the ZB Citizens’ Forum sessions, and of the first broadcasts of the Speaking for Ourselves panel from 2YA. He contributed to the ZB Book Review panel on Sunday evenings, and was one of the regular reviewers on The Listener book page (his last review appears on page 18 of this issue). A series of talks on Living English Novelists which were recorded shortly before his death was heard re-
cently from 4YA. In a broadcast tribute from 2YC, Dr. J. C. Beaglehole said of him, "I think he was a great man. He was great not for what he did exactly, not for making an undue noise in the world or for imposing himself here and there, not for shouting any particular gospel at people, but great for what he was as a personality, as a mam of peculiar and persevering quality of mind, humane, stoical, wise, of a most noble sense of honour, and always kind." | ee
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 520, 10 June 1949, Page 13
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