New staff at Lincoln

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32801, 29 December 1971, Page 11

New staff at Lincoln

Three staff appointments have been announced by Lincoln College; two of the positions will be filled by a husband and wife.

Mr J. L. Rodgers has been appointed lecturer in general economics, from January, and Mrs J. R. Rodgers has been appointed lecturer in econometrics, from February. Dr B. D. van’t Woudt has been appointed reader in agricultural engineering (engineering hydrology), from mid-May. Dr van’t Woudt was bom in the Netherlands in 1913, and undertook his university training at Victoria University of Wellington and Massey College after the Second World War. He did postgraduate course work at the University of California and the University of Hawaii, and in 1970 studied systems hydrology at the University of Arizona. Work in Egypt, Asia He was a research fellow at the University of New Zealand from 1950 to 1952, research officer at Ruakura Research Station from 1953 to 1954, a research officer with the Irrigation Research Station in Australia in 1955, assistant specialist in irrigation at the University of California in late 1955 and in 1956, and assistant professor in agricultural engineering at the University of Hawaii from 1957 to 1964. For eight months in 1964

Dr van’t Woudt was a consultant in desert development in Egypt, with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, and from 1964 to 1969 he was regional officer for land and water development in Asia for the F.A.O. Since 1970 he has been senior water-development engineer with the United Nations in Thailand.

Study in Australia Mr Rodgers was bom in Australia in 1945, and trained at the University of New England, New South Wales.

From 1966 to 1968 he was agricultural economist with the Queensland State Government, from 1968 until now has been a graduate research

assistant in the agricultural economics section at the University of Queensland. Mrs Rodgers was bom in Australia in 1947, and also studied at the University of New England and the University of Queensland. In 1968 she was graduate clerk in Queensland’s branch of the Prime Minister’s Department, and in 1969 she transferred to the Commonwealth Statisticians Office, Queensland, as research officer. Later in 1969 she became graduate research assistant with the economics section of the Department of Agriculture at the University of Queensland, and in 1970 undertook part-time teaching in the Department of Agriculture.