MOST BRILLIANT CAREER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 39, 16 February 1928, Page 11

MOST BRILLIANT CAREER.

MISS GLADYS CAMERON. DEATH IN DUNEDIN. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") DUXEDIN. Wednesday. Miss Gladys Christian Mary Cameron, who died at Dunedin, aged 39, had a most brilliant career. She gave early evidence of unusual mental capacity, being dux of her class at both Kaikorai school and Otago Girls' High School. She entered Otago "University in 1907 with a junior university scholarship, and in her first year won the Parker Memorial medal. In 1909 she was the winner of the Stuart prize in physics, and completed her B.Ss. degree, holding a senior scholarship in zoology. She obtained a Master of Science degree with first-class honours in zoology in 1911. Her first staff appointment was at Gore High School. Leaving there, she took the appointment of science mistress at the Methodist Ladies 5 College, Melbourne. In 1913 Miss Cameron entered the home science department, obtaining the Bachelor's degree in that subject. In two years after teaching at Wellington Girls' College she was called to the University of Otago in 1917, and made lecturer in bacteriology and hygiene. She acted as director of this department Wi 1920 and 1921. Miss Cameron was the first New Zealand woman to be awarded the Rockefeller International Fellowship. In 1924 she went abroad, studied at the University of Chicago, and carried on research in soil analysis. She also travelled in Britain and Europe. During this time she represented the New Zealand Federation of University Women, being a member of the executive council at the .world conference held in Oslo, Norwav.