PRESENTATION OF 8 BRONZE AWARDS

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30737, 29 April 1965, Page 2

PRESENTATION OF 8 BRONZE AWARDS

The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme had been planned to offer young people a challenge to lift them out of a state of apathy. Its aim* were to train them In service, interests, adventure and, for girls, design for living, said Mr J. Leggat, at the Y.W.C.A. last evening. What the Duke of Edinburgh and Sir John Hunt had in mind when planning it was to help young people think beyond themselves; to develop interests they enjoyed doing; to have the opportunity of learning to live with their contemporaries under conditions away from home (adventure) and, in the case of design for living, to help girls become homemakers and to make the best of themselves, he said. Mr Leggat, who is Canterbury co-ordinator for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, told eight Y.W.C.A. girls who had just received the bronze award:

“In this award you are not in competition with anyone else. The important thing is that you are putting effort and concentration into what you are doing to the best of your ability.” Before presenting the bronze awards, the. Mayor of Christchurch (Mr «G. Manning) told the girls that by gaining them they were making a contribution to the family unit, the community group and the nation.

“That is what we want to encourage in society today,” he said.

The presentation of the awards was part of World Membership Day celebrations at the Christchurch Y.W.C.A. During the evening a group presentation of “Walk The City Streets Again” was made by “Y Teens,” in which they told of situations and problems arising from city life. The f ollowing candidates received awards:—Carol Chapman, Beverley Winter, Lyndsay Rowe, Carol Stanbury, Mary McDrury, Susan Clark, Erica Hammond and Margaret Tanner.