GREAT RECEPTION

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 25, 31 January 1938, Page 5

GREAT RECEPTION

LECTURER ON TOUR.

"TREATED LIKE PREMIER." RESEARCH WORK ABROAD. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. "While in America I was treated by educationists as though I was the Prime Minister instead of a poor 'varsity lecturer," states Mr. R. Winterbourn in a letter received in Christchurch. Mr. Winterbourn was awarded a Carnegie Fellowship in 1936 for research work abroad in education. "They go to no end of trouble," he adds, "to give me any details I require. This has been the rule, too, in every place I have visited." He spent gome time in Chicago at one of the most famous clinical psychology institutions of juvenile research in the world. "Ever since my early days." he wrote, "I have read and used material from America and the National Institute of Industrial Psychology in London, but have always felt that reading was not enough. The desire to see the real things and meet the real people and learn from them has always been strong. That desire has been granted. "My knowledge of my special work has increased surprisingly since niv arrival here, and I am seeking to equip myself thoroughly lor my life's work." Mr. Winterbourn is at present studying vocational psychology, and child guidance methods and remedial teaching at the London Institute of Education. On his way home he will be married in Melbourne to Miss Nan Cromie. elder daughter of Mrs. M. Cromie and the late Mr. R. Cromie, of Melbourne. Miss Cromie has had expert training in kindergarten and physical defective work among children, and last year visited many educational institutions in England. She is n>.,w continuing her work in Melbourne.