Christchurch Graduate In Student Christian Post

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30971, 29 January 1966, Page 21

Christchurch Graduate In Student Christian Post

A former Christchurch teacher is one of four new appointments to the staff of the New Zealand Student Christian Movement. He is Mr D. Cooke, who will share the position of schools secretary with Miss B. Phillips, a graduate of the University of Melbourne. Since 1963 Mr Cooke has been a member of the staff of

the English Language Institute at Wellington where he has taught English to students and teachers from Asia and the Pacific. A graduate of the University of Canterbury, Mr Cooke attended the Christchurch Teachers’ College and taught for a time at the Burnside High School. He is an Anglican. Miss Phillips graduated M.A. in Christian education from Hartford Seminary Foundation, Connecticut. She has taught in secondary schools and worked as a director of Christian education in local churches and as a Methodist field secretary in Tasmania. She is a Methodist local preacher.

The position which Mr Cooke and Miss Phillips share was vacant from October, 1964. They will be concerned with assisting the work of voluntary S.C.M. groups in secondary schools throughout the country; or organising leadership training by arranging camp inter-secondary schools conferences, seminars, and forums on social, political, and religious questions that are of interest to secondary school pupils. Mr L. Chisholm has been appointed assistant secretary. He will be more concerned with university and teachers’ college work. Mr Chisholm recently completed his B.Sc. degree at Otago University. He will be working for the S.C.M. for a year until entering Knox College to prepare for the Presbyterian ministry. Miss N. Bell, a former schools secretary in New Zealand, has been appointed high schools secretary for the World Student Christian Federation. Miss Bell has represented New Zealand at a number of overseas conferences. For the last few years she has taught at Taihape College.

First Catch.—The first striped marlin to be caught by a woman angler in Mayor Island waters this season was taken by Mrs M. Styles of Taupo on Tuesday. The fish weighed 2351 b.