Rhodes scholarship

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32779, 2 December 1971, Page 16

Rhodes scholarship

Mr J. W. Lee, a student at the University of Canterbury, and Mr D. C. G. Skegg, a student at Otago University, both aged 23, have been nominated for Rhodes scholarships, the Press Association reports.

Mr Lee has just completed his M.A. degree with firstclass honours in historical geography. His studies were related to the development of the settlement pattern in early Canterbury. The photograph above shows Mr Lee, who is a housemaster at Adams

House, the Christchurch Boys’ High School boarding residence, supervising from left, G. R. Wilson, J. R. Wilkinson (rear), J. W. Lee and R. S. Brown last evening. Mr Lee proposes to study for a B.Phil. degree at Oxford to extend his scholastic work into the formal study of politics and political institutions in the context of planning. He attended Christchurch Boys’ High School from 1962 to 1966. For the last three years, while studying at university, he has been acting as senior housemaster at the hostel. He has« contributed to the university capping magazine as a political cartoonist. Mr Skegg, who will complete his medical degree next year at Otago University, attended King’s College, Auckland, from 1961 to 1965, and won a university junior scholarship in 1965. He was awarded a study scholarship by the Medical Research Council, and he won the T. H. Pullar Memorial Prize in pathology in 1970. At Oxford he proposes to read for a research degree in medical science, or to take a course in the Honours School of Physiological Sciences.