W.E.A. DIRECTOR

Evening Star, Issue 22277, 2 March 1936, Page 14

W.E.A. DIRECTOR

WELCOME BY STUDENTS The R.S.A. Hall was the centre of a large and enthusiastic gathering of students and friends of the Workers Educational Association on Saturday evening to welcome their director, Dr R. Souter, M.A., and their tutor-or-ganiser, Mr J. Brailsford, B.A. The hall was beautifully decorated, with gladioli, asters, and hydrangeas of all hues, and on the arrival of the guests of the evening, bouquets from the students were presented to Mrs Souter and Mrs Brailsford. Professor G. E. Thompson presided, and in response to a roll-call students answered from arts and drama, music, women's, literature, economics, psychology, Milton, Hampden, and Waverley classes. Community singing, under Hie baton of Mr Donald French was held, and on Dr Thompson expressing to Dr and Mrs Souter, Mr and Mrs Brailsford, Miss and Master Brailsford, the pleasure of the District Council in extending a welcome to them, the audience gave it hearty endorsement in the rousing singing of ‘ For They Are Jolly Good Fellows.’ In replying. Dr Souter said that both he and Mrs Souter were happy to be back in the city where he had spent so many years as a boy, and they were grateful for the warmth of their reception, this being endorsed in happy vein by Mr Brailsford on behalf of himself and Mrs Brailsford and family, Mr Brailsford particularly referring to the interest he had had in Dunedin because Otago was tHe birthplace of Professor Allan Fisher, the late director, whom he had known in his student days. During the evening songs were contributed by Mr Froude and Mr French, elocutionary items by Miss Marian Webster, and violin solos by Mr Ronald Watson. Mr James Cunningham acted as M.C. for the dancing, and a hearty vote of thanks was passed to Mr W. H. Stephens, the secretary of the association , and to Miss Margaret Rollo and the committee which had organised the social evening.