YEAR’S SCHOOLING IN U.S.

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27734, 11 August 1955, Page 13

YEAR’S SCHOOLING IN U.S.

Adolescents Return To N.Z. HOLDERS OF FIELD • SCHOLARSHIPS (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 10. Fresh from a year’s schooling in the United States, a group of New Zealand youths and girls arrived at Whenuapai this morning by C.P.A. airliner. They had held American Field Service Scholarships, mostly in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The ©arty hailed friends with MidWestern high school idiom, flung leis round parents’ necks, tore themselves away to dash into telephone booths, and handed sticks of gum to younger brothers. Two Aucklanders were among them: Jill Bestic. of Parnell, and Catherine Styles, of Epsom. James Wallace, of Cambridge, had been left behind to come home by way of England. Amid the tumult of greetings from parents—some of whom had come from as far away as Wellington— Jill Beetle managed to say she thought American high school students were “way beyond ours” in social achievements. She held her hand high above her head to indicate just how far. Academically, it was another matter. “Everyone there,” .she said, “seems to think that school work Is hard, but, gee, it’s a breeze.”