BLIND STUDENT GRADUATES
Auckland University Ceremony
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 8.
Loudest cheers from fellow students at the Auckland University graduation ceremony today were for a blind girl, Anne Clark, of Mount St. John. Anne, who has been attending university for the last three years, graduated Bachelor of Arts.
“I want to go to underdeveloped countries, especially around the Pacific,” she said, “and I help the blind people there.” I Another graduate was Mr Yow Cheong Siew, a Colombo Plan student from Kuala Lumpur Malaya. He graduated Bachelor of Science and senior scholar in zoology. He is at present taking his master’s degree in science. A former All Black, Mr N. H Thornton, graduated Master of Arts in history. He was a member of the 1949 team that toured South Africa. Mr Thorton has been teaching for six years at 'Mount Roskill Grammar School, where he is the senior geography master.
Mr M. M. Maihi, who has been a Maori All Black for several years, graduated Bachelor of Science in geography. He is at present teaching science at Penrose High School.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28890, 9 May 1959, Page 11
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