DIFFICULT YEAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1940, Page 9

DIFFICULT YEAR

TECHNICAL COLLEGE j PROGRESS RECORDED SERVICE TO PUBLIC Students of the Wellington Technical College and their relatives and friends filled the spacious assembly hall at the college last evening for the annual prize-giving and breaking-up ceremony. The chairman of the board of governors (Mr. W. Appleton) presided. The main speaker was the Mayor (Mr. T. C. A. Hislop), and the awards were presented by Mrs. His- j lop. The year had been a difficult one, said Mr. Appleton. He stressed the value of the vocational training given by the college. Mr. Hislop said he felt that the traditions of the college were as secure and the work of the staff and the response of the pupils as good as they had been.at any time during the ten years in which he had attended at the close of the school year. All would know that they had gone through a period of most valuable training, not only in the type of work they had taken up but in living together and working together in the spirit of the school, and they would have realised the importance of doing the task ahead as well as it could be done. That realisation had never been more important than today. Mr. Hislop referred to the indomitable spirit actuating the people of Britain, and urged the boys and girls to remember and be guided by that example in their future activities. In his annual report the director (Mr. R. G. Ridling) said that the numbers in the technical high school, the evening classes, and the art school gave a greater enrolment than in 1939, but the average attendance at evening classes had fallen to 62 per cent, of their total. The fall in attendance was caused mainly by military activities or by the restlessness and overtime work associated with the national disturbance. That had made organisation and administration particularly arduous, and the college had been grateful for the sympathetic co-opera-tion of departmental officers. Mr. Ridling emphasised that service to the people was the sole reason for the establishment of the college. An endeavour had been made to maintain a sane outlook and they had kept as their main purpose the development of a democratic spirit. SPECIAL AWARDS. Special awards and scholarships were announced as follows: — Award for kindliness and helpfulness (on the vote of their fellow-students) : Medals, Margaret W. Wainwright and Ivan W. H. Lowe. Public speaking championship medal, Margaret W. Wainwright. Junior public speaking medals, Betty E. Glen, Brian D.Brimer. Athletic. champions, medals and . cups: Junior girls, Joyce H. Clark; intermediate girls, Shirley Fredericks: senior girls, Hilda Falieui; junior boys, F. T. Perry, intermediate boys, R. Earsman; senior boys, W. A. Cullen. Swimming champions, medals: Junior girls, June O. Bean; senior girls, Flo SI. Sadler; junior boys, C. G. Maskill; intermedia^ boys, S. Greenfield; senior boys, M. McGinity/ Henry Disston and Sons, prize for building classes: Panel saw, W. C. Wagstaff. Canada Foundries and Forgings, Ltd., prize for building classes: Hammer, B. G. O'Connell. Ward and Payne, Ltd., prize for building classes; Chisels, J. F. Dixon. Moore and Wright, prize for engineering classes: Precision tools, M. A. Emley. Callender Memorial Scholarships.—Engineering: S3A, L. K. Arnold, J. P. Barrett, A. J. Beard, G. H. McKenzle, F. M. Thomson; ES2, K. Henderson, X. G. Lake, T. B. McSweeney, M. L. Horlor; E2l, L. A. Dimmock; E22, D. G. Downing, M. Millar; evening, K. J. Mansfield. Building: 82, W. G. Wagstaff; evening, H. Lane. Home science: H2l, A. A. Allardice; H22, L. I. Henderson; K. E. Hutchings, H. M. Strong. Art; A3A, R. B. Dobson. Recommended for Extension, 1941. —Engineering: ES2, M. L. Horlor; E22, D. G. Downing. Building: 82, W. C. Wagstaff. Home science: H2 Audrey Allardice, Kathleen Hudson. Recommended for 1941.—Engineering: ESI, G. Cooper, K. Cooper, W. J. Cameron, B. Offer, L Baker, S. Dallas; Ell, N. Henderson, B. S Wood, A. Thompson, H. Sinclair, I. D. Zander; El 2, S. J. Wheatley, 1.. Aslin; El 3, E Hodson, B. Harnett; El 4, J. Lander, E. Leslie, J. Lowry. Building: 811, H. Arcus, R. Dement, S. Smith; 812, N.- Barclay, H. Smith. Home science: HI, N. Williams, H. McDermid, J. Steel, I. Farcy. Art: AIB, D. Grant Taylor, E. Pearce, M. Jardine; AIA, R. Vann. Victoria Bowling Club special commercial scholarships: Lola J. Parsons, Reginald L. Ramage. Parents' Association scholarship: Gordon H. McKenzie.