BURSARY WON BY NELSON GIRL

Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 2

BURSARY WON BY NELSON GIRL

Award Of Crippled Children Society

The first overseas bursary of the Crippled Children Society has been awarded to Miss Vivienne Jessie Palmer, of Nelson, younger daughter of Mr and the late Mrs Russell Palmer. Miss Palmer will go overseas in August for about a year to study mainly cerebral palsy in centres in Britain and the United States. After leaving Nelson College for Girls, where she was a prefect Miss Palmer studied at the School of Physiotherapy. Dunedin, qualifying in 1954. Overseas . Experience She joined the physiotherapy department of Nelson Public Hospital, and had overseas experience in 1957. She was acting head of the physiotherapy department at Nelson Hospital for a year, and then became physio-therapist-in-charge at Cook Hospital, Gisborne. She is attached to the cerebral palsy unit of Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Rotorua, and will go to Canterbury for further New Zealand experience in this specialised study before travelling overseas. The secretary of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society (Mr P. Carroll) said the society had been engaged for some time in building up a fund to establish bursaries for overseas study, of which the one awarded to Miss Palmer was the first It was considered generous, consisting of a living allowance of £6OO a year, and air fares to wherever the bursar had to go to pursue her studies.