KINDERGARTEN FELLOWSHIPS

Evening Star, Issue 22026, 11 May 1935, Page 11

KINDERGARTEN FELLOWSHIPS

THE CARNEGIE GIFTS I - TWO MORE FOR NEW ZEALAND TPeb United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 10. Two more Carnegie kindergarten fellowships will be available to New Zealand, a9cording to advice received from the secretary of the Carnegie Corporation, New York, by Lady Sidey, vice-president and formerly president of the New Zealand Free Kindergarten Union, who is at present visiting Auckland. They will he each of £SOO, and one will be available for the academic year 1935-36 and the other for the year 1936-37. The fellowships were granted at the request of Dr F. P. Keppel, director of the Carnegie Corporation of New YorK, who recently visited New Zealand. Lady ‘Sidey said that she suggested to Dr Keppel that one fellowship should be for Auckland and one for Christchurch, as these districts had not benefited in the past. The first Carnegie fellowship of £SOO, awarded in 1932 to enable a promising New Zealand student to visit _ the United States for advanced training work, was won by Miss E. Scott, of Wellington, and the second fellowship, of a similar amount in the following year, resulted in the selection of Miss Rene Wilkie, of Dunedin.