HOME SCIENCE STUDENTS ABROAD

Evening Star, Issue 21880, 17 November 1934, Page 23

HOME SCIENCE STUDENTS ABROAD

lu the twenty-throe years since Uio home science department of the University of Otago was established many graduates have gone abroad, either to further their studios and return to their Alma Mater, or to take-up important positions in other countries. The department was established in 1011, made possible by the generosity of the late Col. John Studholme. The first dean was Professor Boys-Smith,

followed for a short period by Professor Bawson (now Mrs Benson), and is now under the direction of Professor A. G. Strong. Miss Ruby E. Anderson, B.H.Sc. Miss Anderson left Auckland to-day, and intends to pursue the California course for dietitian internes. She qualified for the degree of bachelor of home science in 1931, and for a year was in charge of the university canteen. She has lately been living with her parents in Invercargill. During the course she will be in the general hospital to study kitchen and food service, and to learn about administration and buying for this department. She will then go on to the Stanford Hospital to study food service to

private and clinic patients and special diets in tlie metabolic clinic. At Los Angeles General Hospital she will work in the out-patients’ clinic, and later her work at Queen of Angels (Catholic hospital) will be in connection with the teaching of student nurses. At the children’s hospital a special course will be taken in reference to the feeding of children and formulamaking. This whole course is given gratis to selected graduates, and . Miss Apderson is fortunate in being able to take a .year’s study in this way in her chosen subject.

Miss Eleanor M. Couston. Miss Couston completed her course in 1932, and the following year went to England and was admitted as a pupil-dietitian at the Royal Northern Hospital, London. In July of this year she was given the position of assistant dietitian of St. David’s wing, Royal Northern Hospital. Miss Nora Copsey. Miss Copsey completed her course in 1929. For some years she was engaged in teaching in technical colleges in New Zealand. In 1933 she proceeded to Canada, where she trained as a dietitian at Toronto General Hospital. She is now in England teaching in a very large girls’ school, “ The Grove,” Herts. This old school was formerly the residence of the Earl of Clarendon, and dates back to 1700.