A CLEVER STUDENT

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 50, 28 August 1934, Page 15

A CLEVER STUDENT

ROMANCE AND PRIZES

A 23-year-old doctor, Miss Jessie Roughton. Browne, listened on July 11 to a long recital of her successes at the annual prize-giving at the London (Royal Freo Hospital) School of Medicine for Women.

As Miss Browne walked back to her seat, bearing the many prizes and cortilicatcs presented to her by tho ViceChancellor of London University, the applause of her fellow-students rang in her ears. But her eyes sought only those of a tall sun-bronzed young man seated among the audience. The young man was Dr. Norman C. Parflt, sou of Canon and Mrs. J. T. Parfit, of Maidenhead.. They are to be married soon. It is a, romance which began and-blossbmod to an engagement in the prosaic walls of the Royal Free Hospital.'. '.'"■. Miss Browno received, the Gwendolen Lynn prizes for medicino and surgery, the Evans prize for obstetrics, the prize for forensic medicine and toxicology, the Biehardsoii-Kiihlmann prize in senior subjects, the Dean's medal for kill in clinical medicine, and certificates for opthalmology, public health, diseases of the ear, nose, and throat, children's diseases, and dermatology. This clever young woman won the London University gold medal for the M.B.s examination in May, being adjudged the most brilliant of both the men and women candidates talcing the examination. I "Our marriage will not be allowed to interfere with Jessie's career," said Dr. Parfit afterwards. "Her talents are not going to bo wasted. She is going to play quite as big a part m medicine as I myself am likely to.