STUDENTS TO GO TO U.S.

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28607, 9 June 1958, Page 7

STUDENTS TO GO TO U.S.

Four From Schools In Christchurch

Four Christchurch secondary school pupils will leave with a party of 18' other New Zealanders on July 14 to spend about a year at high schools in the United States, under an exchange scheme. They are Misses Fiona Chapman, aged 16, and Wendy Pearce, aged 17, pupils at Christchurch Girls High School, and Anne McNaughton, aged 17, who is a'student at the Christchurch Teachers’ College, and Hugh Spencer, aged 17, of Christchuch Boys' High School. Last year. Miss McNaughton attended Christchurch Girls’ High School. While in the United States they will stay at the homes of pupils of the schools they attend.

Miss McNaughton will attend the Lewistown High School in Pennsylvania, where she hopes to take driving and typing. When she returns to Christchurch she will go back to the Teachers’ College and will also study English at the University of Canterbury At present in the upper sixth form studying for her higher ing certificate. Miss Pearce will go to the Inglewood High School in Los Angeles. She is not sure whet she will do when she returns to New Zealand, but hopes to do some kind of hospital work Miss Chapman will attend the Williamson Central School in New York State and plans to finish her studies for higher leaving certificate when she returns next year. She may then take a course in physiotherapy. Hugh Spencer, the only boy from Christchurch, will go to a school at Royal Oak, a suburb of Detroit. He plans to include American history in his course He intends to pass his higher leaving certificate when he returns to New Zealand and then to go to the university to take a Bachelor of Arts degree.