Housewife in Form VI

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33773, 20 February 1975, Page 6

Housewife in Form VI

(N.Z. Press Association ’ | HASTINGS, Feb. 19. A 35-year-old housewife. Mrs Hazel Wright, of Have-; lock North, has gone back to school to study for the Uni-' versity Entrance examination so that she can later become a teacher, of the deaf. Mrs Wright began full-time: studies at Karamu High School, Hastings, this week. She said she had always wanted to go back to school so that eventually she could qualify as a teacher of deaf children, because her mother, sister, and nephew had all been deafened by measles. Mrs Wright had previously had two years of secondary

(education, and in 1972 took a i correspondence course and passed the School Certificate ? English examination. In 1973 Jshe gave up her studies i because of a family tragedy, J and last year decided not to . I take the University Entrance ■ course because her daughter, b | Janet, was to sit the examinaTtion. 1 “I decided it wouldn’t have * been good for my daughter J to have ‘Mum’ as a competi- * tor,” she said. * Now Janet has her Univer--1 sity Entrance and is working, : and Mrs Wright has joined 1 the sixth form and will study English, History, Geography, ' and art. She will not be eli- ’’ gible to be accredited. Mrs Wright says she receives much encouragement from her daughter, and from her husband and seven-year-old son.