SPEECH CLINIC

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27208, 27 November 1953, Page 2

SPEECH CLINIC

STUDENTS BIDDEN FAREWELL Miss Nancy Caughley, Miss Grace M. Gane, and the staff of . the Christchurch Speech Clinic invited many friends and well-wishers to a party held last evening to bid farewell to 15 speech therapy students. These students, who came from many parts of the Dominion, have now, after two years’ training as teachers, completed a year’s specialised training in speech tnerapy. They will now return to their homes, and their places at the speech qlinic will, next year, be taken by a new group of students. The party last evening was held in the women’s common room at the Teachers’ College, where Mr Bernard Dunne was master of ceremonies. The varied programme comprised piano solos played by Miss Laney Davis, ’cello solos by Miss Lionella Walker, songs sung by Miss Bryony Gray, with Mrs J. Scott as accompanist, an mstrumental trio arranged by Mr Keith Newson, a play produced by Miss Bernice Roberts with an all-student cast, a mock court conducted by Mr Dunn a . a students’ ballet arranged by Miss Delvis Taylor, and seversd .exciting games. After the programme Mr Duncan Mackay (principal of- the Teachers’ College) and Mr W. J. Cartwright (chairman of Canterbury University College Council) congratulated the students on having completed their course and wished them well in the future.

The following were the students:— Misses Beverley A. Allison (Hastings), Margaret Bullock (Wanganui), Laney M. Davis (Dunedin), Leonore Freitag (Masterton), Vraie Hear field (Tauranga), Pauline Henderson (Otaki), Lois E. Hinton (Stratford). Jacqueline H. Laws (Wanganui), Norma Parker (Blenheim), Jocelyn A. Powley (T? Awamutu), Bernice M. Roberts 'Hamilton). Delvis M. Taylor (Auckland), Annette Waterman (Christchurch), Oriole D. Whitlock (Wellington), and O’Dell C. Wise (Oamaru).