SCHOLARSHIP IN MEDICINE

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28979, 21 August 1959, Page 14

SCHOLARSHIP IN MEDICINE

Award To City

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Mr William M. Wardell, of Christchurch, aged 20, a student at Otago University, has been awarded this year’s Commonwealth Medical Scholarship by Oxford University. Valued at £470 a year, it will enable him to study for five years at the Oxford Medical School. He is a son of Mr and Mrs T W. R. Wardell, of Christchurch

Mr Wardell will sail from Auckland in the Athenic in a fortnight, enter Brasenose College, and take the animal physiology course for the bachelor of arts degree before completing the clinical course for the degrees ot bachelor 'of medicine and surgery Receiving his primary education at the Christchurch East School, where he was dux boy in 1951, Mr Wardell entered Christ’s College and won the senior science prize in his fifth year. He was a house prefect, a member

of the first hockey eleven, secretary of the college Dialectic Society, and a member of the chapel choir for five years. After a year on the medical intermediate course at the University of Canterbury, Mr Wardell went to the medical school at Dunedin, last year, staying at Knox College. He has just gained first place with distinction in physiology and biochemistry in the first professional examinations in medicine at the Medical School.

Mr Wardell is keen on tramping, mountaineering, and debating, and choir and madrigal singing. He also plays tennis and hockey.