RHODES SCHOLARSHIP

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 302, 17 September 1936, Page 10

RHODES SCHOLARSHIP

Otago Nominees Chosen Dominion Special Service. Dunedin, September 16. The committee set up by the Professorial Board of Otago University has selected Mr. F. J. Lehany and Mr. P. M. Lusk as the Otago nominees for the Rhodes Scholarship. Mr. Lehany was born at Wyndham, Southland, in April, 1915, and attended various schools in the district, being dux of Greenhills School in 1927. From 1928 to 1932 he attended the Southland Boys’ High School, passing the matriculation examination in 1930 and being dux of the school in 1932. He sat for the entrance scholarship examination in 1932 and was placed on the credit list and was also awarded the Invercargill Savings Bank Scholarship. Mr. Lehany, while at school, played football and cricket and also took part in athletics. In 1932 he won the open class boxing championship of the school. In 1933 Mr. Lehany, took up residence at Knox College and was awarded a Knox College entrance scholarship. He studied mathematics and science, and in 1934 won the Moore Scholarship for the best university record of three years’ standing or under for competition among students resident in Knox College. Last year he gained the senior Beverly prize in mathematics, senior Beverly prize in physics, and the Smeaton, research scholarship in applied science. He also was awarded by the University of New Zealand a senior scholarship in applied mathematics. At the university he played second-grade football, fives, lawn tennis and badminton. He proposes if selected to undertake at Oxford a course of study in physics and to proceed if possible to research In electricity. , Mr. P. M. Lusk was born in March, 1915. He was dux of Whitiora School, Hamilton, in 1927, and gained a junior national scholarship in that year. From 1929 to 1931 he attended Otago Boys’ High School, passing the matriculationexamination in 1930, and being awarded a Gray Russell Scholarship in the following year. In 1932 he became a student at Otago University, gaining a senior university scholarship in English in 1934 and the George Young Scholarship in 1935. In the same year he graduated M.A. with second-class honours in French. Mr. Lusk has been a member of the committee and secretary of the Dunedin French Club and a member of the committee of the Dunedin Philatelic Club. In June of this year he was appointed joint-editor of “Critic.” At Otago Boys’ High School he played Cricket and took an active part in swimming sports. He proposes if awarded the scholarship to take an honours course in modern languages with a view later to teaching English, French and German. ©©©©©©®®©®o®®®®®®®®®®®©®©©