GREY MATTER

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30763, 29 May 1965, Page 14

GREY MATTER

(By

WHIM WHAM)

‘•Little grey administrators” in the Education Department were one cause of (New Zealand's) educational mediocrity. "But I don’t blame the Education Department really. They lust reflect the prevailing tone of this country Mr M. Riske, a New Zealander newly appointed visiting professor of psychology at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. An Administrator’s Hair Can go Grey With administrative Care, Day to Day So can Yours, and so can Mine, And it needn’t be a Sign Of our imminent Decline Or Decay. An Administrator’s Fate May be kind, And the Grey not penetrate To his Mind Nor a grizzled Hair or Two Impart a Matching Hue Till his Thinking's grey all through, Colour-blind. An Administrator’s made, If not born. To acquire the Neutral Shade, As it’s worn In the Corridors and Cells Where Administration dwells. And Anybody Else Feels forlorn. The Administrator’s Colour Range is small. He’s dull, and getting duller Aren’t we All? As We are, We feel 0.K., PUT is how We like to stay. Though We like our Curtains gay And the Carpets that We lay It’s the Atmosphere that’s grey, Wall to Wall!