New Role Seen For Lincoln College

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28890, 9 May 1959, Page 17

New Role Seen For Lincoln College

Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, might, within a few years, have to study its changing relationships with the community, said the Director of Education (Mr C. E. Beeby) yesterday.

Speaking at the college’s graduation ceremony in the refectory, he said: “It seems likely that, within the next decade, you will have to decide whether you should continue to give the same wide service which you have been giving directly to the farming community, and expand your college correspondingly, or whether you should forgo some of this and assume a new role.”

It might be necessary for the college, he said, to trim its diploma courses, short courses and other sub-degree teaching commitments and concentrate more fully on its functions as a university college. For many years the two agricultural colleges—Lincoln, and its younger sister. Massey—had dominated the field of agricultural education, said Mr Beeby. No university institutions in New Zealand had responded so fully to the demands of the community.

“Through your research, your degree courses, your diploma courses and your intensive and short courses, you have reached out to all levels of people engaged in the primary industries. “Your new three-year degree in agriculture is an excellent example of a university’s altering a course—l believe very wisely—to meet the community's demand for a new type of graduate. But as the demand for the new bachelor of agriculture degree grows—as it almost inevitably will —the very catholicity of your services to the community will force you to review the subdegree work you have been doing for so long. ...” “The two degree courses you now teach are the exclusive func-

tion of the university, and here it is clear that your monopoly must continue.

“If sheer pressure of numbers on your physical facilities should compel your board to review some of the sub-degree teaching commitments it now undertakes, who is to fill the gap that would so obviously be left? It is possible that the community’s demand for such services would be met by the creation of new types of subuniversity institutions—perhaps by the farm institutes recommended by the consultative committee on agricultural education.”

The experience Lincoln College had gained, by recognising so early the responsibilities of its near-monopoly in the field of agricultural education, and by providing such a wide range of services to the community would be of the greatest value to the other university institutions in New Zealand as they worked out the problems arising from the country’s growing demand upon them, said Mr Beeby. But there seemed to him to be no doubt that Lincoln College would, within the next few years, have to study its changing relationships with the community, and act accordingly. Degrees Conferred

The refectory was well filled with parents and friends of the graduands and others associated with the college when the procession from the Memorial Hall entered. The graduands and invited guests took their places and the chairman of the board of governors (Mr W. H. Gillespie, M.P.) opened the ceremony with an introductory address.

This was followed by Mr Beeby’s graduation address—“lt is good of you to have a public servant, like a death’s head, at your academic feast,” he remarked, in opening —the conferring of degrees by the Pro-chancellor of the University of New Zealand (Mr L. J. Wild), the presentation of recipients with diplomas, special awards and prizes. These were as follows: MASTER OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

George Mason (in agricultural economics).

BACHELORS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE James Richard Bruce-Smith, Gavin Thomas Daly, David Erie Harding, Robert Peter Pottinger, Euan Wallace Vartha, Barry Ralph Wilkinson, Albert Norman Woodham. The following degree has been conferred since last graduation: Leeroy Lionel Gordon.

Diplomas in Valuation and Farm Manageiqent

Charles Richard Beamish, Allan Ingram Bilbrough, Revell Bartlett Ellis, Hugh Noel Flay, Richard John Strathearn Graham, Jeffrey Joseph Robertson Green, Bruce Gregg Grinlinton, David Roger Halliwell, William Owen Harrington, Kenneth James Keelty, Thomas lan Marks, Geoffrey Francis Musgrave, Peter Sherwood Roberts, Richard Henry Nelson Smith, Thomas Ronald Sutherland. In absentia: Brian William Anson, Neil Kelvin Darroch Charles Robert Smith, Russell Curtis Stockdill, Brian Warwick Such.

Diplomas in Agricultural Engineering

John Graham Hughes, Cecil ™ an Konschel, Howard Ranald Marshall. In absentia: John Simon Beaven, Bruce William Johnston Treeby. Diplomas in Agriculture Roger Alexander, John Richard Barton, John Stewart Bromell (distinction), William John Brook, John Lennox Agerton Caughey, James Michael Childerstone, Peter Frederick Coates. Neil Gordon Cornelius, John William Cottier, Russell Shaw Cowie, John Terence Darby, lan Donald (distinction), Kenneth Stuart Duff. Anthony Hugh Grigg, Robin Stanley Hughes, Douglas McLaren Jervis, Peter John Kennedy, Mervyn John Kinaston, John Walter Kinvig, Graeme Hugh Kirkland, John Keith Laugesen (distinction), Henry Anthony Lissaman, John Hudson Little, Michael Hutchinson Maze, Peter Gorton Mears, John Robert Miller. William John Philip Mirams. Paul Arthur Hardwick Mullins (distinction), Donal Morrison Reid (distinction), Geoffrey lan Royds, Bryan Thomas Seddon, Richard George Shoobridge, Thomas Gray Sutherland, Brian Keith Taylor, Rodney Herrick Bruce Tonkin, Lester Graham Truman, Richard Thomas Wardell, Stewart Murdoch Wright. In absentia: Wallace Brereton Allen, Brear Warren Boyd-Clark, Terence John Branagan, Alistair John Ferguson, Graham Miller Garden, Charles Henry Smith, Maxwell Reid Walker. The following diploma has been awarded since last graduation: Nirwono.. Diplomas in Horticulture Charles Campbell Mayne. In Absentia: Robin David Gay. SPECIAL AWARDS Diploma of Agriculture, gold medallist: J. S. Bromell. C. C. Leitch Memorial Cup: J S. Bromell. E. R. Hudson Prize: J. S. Bromell. Leonard White Memorial Cup: I. Donald. Wreford Reid Memorial Cup and Marcroft Challenge Medal: I. Donald. W. A. Yardley Cup: I. Donald. Dalgety and Company’s Challenge Cup: R. H. B. Tonkin. Wright, Stephenson and Company's Perpetual Challenge Cup: G. A. Ewing. W. B. Cunningham Memorial Challenge Cup: G. A. Ewing. Ploughman’s Cup: F. J. Grant. David Sidey Memorial Challenge Cup: J. W. Cottier. Southdown Sheep Society’s Challenge Shield: J. S. Wilson; S. C. Harris Memorial Cup: R. D. Gay. N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op. Cup: O. C. Wallace. Geo. F. Wright Cup: G. I. S. Burnett and R. B. Pottinger, jointly. Diploma in Valuation and Farm Management, gold medallist: C. R. Beamish.