A PROUD SCHOOL

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1928, Page 10

A PROUD SCHOOL

FAREWELL TO RHODES SCHOLAR Yesterday afternoon the Brooklyn School farowelled Mr. C. A. Sharp, one of the Bhodes Scholars for 1928 and a former pupil of the school, he haviug been a pupil from 1917 till 1919. Mr. Sharp was introduced by Mr. J. M. Eussell, chairman of the school committee, and was then presented with an inscribed travelling-rug by the Minister of Education, Hon. E. A. Wright, who referred to the qualifications required in a Ehodes Scholar and expressed himself certain that Mr. Sharp would make the most of the opportunities he had earned. Thanking the children for their gift, Mr. Sharp said that they should be proud, not of him, but of their school, and he paid a tribute to the excellent teaching staff which had always been a. feature of the school. Ho was then escorted around the ranks of the assembled pupils by the headmaster, Mr. J. B. Hopkirk, and the open air proceedings wero. brought to a close with the singing of the National Anthem.' ' > The guests were then entertained at afternoon tea by the members of the staff. Mr. T. Forsytb, M.P., said that as chairman of the Education Board he was delighted to congratulate any past pupil who had done exceptionally well, as Mr. Sharp had. Ho was sure that Mr. Sharp would prove worthy of the objects of the scholarship fund which was to produce manly men. He also congratulated Mrs. Sharp, mother of the distinguished student. Mr. B. M'Keen, M.P., added his congratulations. Mr. Sharp, he said, was entering upon a very important lino of study, that of economics, and the advice of expert economists was especially needed in New Zealand—a young.country of great possibilities—and he hoped that at tho completion '.of his ■ studies Mr. Sharp would return to give this country the benefit of'his learning. ".'■ ' After thanking the speakers for all they had said about him, Mr. Sharp said that he owed a great amount of the success that had come his way to his mother. "Some of you have referred," ho said, "to the value to a young man of the influence of a good school, but I consider that of even greater value is parental influence.. I am very pleased to hear you praise my mother. Many of you may not know that my father died when I was four months old, and from then my upbringing has been in my mothers hands. Although she had not received a higher education herself; my mother set a high standard.upon.education and endeavoured to bring me up to