Outstanding Young Men

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31499, 13 October 1967, Page 1

Outstanding Young Men

Two Christchurch men and one from Rotorua were presented with their awards as the “Three Outstanding Young Men” of the year at the New Zealand Jaycees’ annual convention in Auckland last evening.

They are Professor L. F. Phillips, of the University of Canterbury, Mr W. R. Hawkey, conductor of the Christchurch Harmonic Society, and Mr P. W. Tapsell, an orthopaedic surgeon. Mr G. Friend, the national president of the Jaycees, said that 55 nominations had been received and great difficulty confronted the judges—Sir Thaddeus McCarthy, a judge of the Court of Appeal, Sir Douglas Robb, Chancellor of Auckland University, the Ombudsman (Sir Guy Powles), the Bishop of Christchurch (the Rt. Rev. W. A. Pyatt), and Messrs E. B. E. Taylor, J. N. Laurenson, and J. P. Cook. Professor Phillips, who Is 31, went to the Westport Technical College and Christchurch Boys’ High School and entered Canterbury University College in 1953- After graduating master of science with first-class honours in chemistry he took a Ph.D. degree at Cambridge University.

After work at McGill University, Montreal, and Harvard University, Professor Phillips was appointed last year to the first personal chair to be created at the University of Canterbury. He has represented Canter-

bury at athletics, and the University of Canterbury at athletics and harriers. He is married, with two children. Mr Hawkey, aged 35,’ was educated in Timaru and at the Southland Boys* High School. While still at school, he gained a licentiate from the Trinity College of Music, London. He is a lecturer in music at the University of Canterbury. As conductor of the Harmonic Society, he has twice taken the choir overseas—to the Commonwealth Festival of Arts in England and earlier this year to Sydney and Melbourne.

His qualifications include a fellowship in organ playing from the Trinity College of

Music and licentiates in conducting and piano teaching. He is married, with four children.

Mr Tapsell, aged 37, completed his medical degree at Otago University, and became a lecturer there in anatomy after a period as house surgeon at the Waikato Hospital. He won the Ngarimu Scholarship for post-graduate study overseas and graduated FJI.C.S. (Edinburgh and London) in 1960 and 1961, while specialising in orthopaedic surgery. On his return to New Zealand he became orthopaedic surgeon at the Rotorua Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, a specialist hospital for rheumatoid diseases.