STUDY IN AMERICA

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22319, 2 May 1947, Page 3

STUDY IN AMERICA

SCHOLARSHIPS OFFERED FOUR EX-SERVICEMEN (P.A.) WELLINGTON. May 2. The University of New Zealand announces that it has accepted the responsibility for the award of four scholarships ofTered by the American Field Service. This was a volunteer civilian ambulance unit which did invaluable work with the Eighth Army during the war, including the period before America's entry into the war In recognition of the close relationship between the Field Service and the New Zealand Division ..these scholarships are being offered to four New Zealand ex-service university students —with preference to returned soldiers who served with the Eighth Army. Applications will shortly be called for through the university and university colleges, and both graduates and students with a partially completed degree will be eligible. The scholarships will cover fees and living expenses, including the vacation period, for two years. Two scholarships are available at Yale University and two at Dickinson College, an art college in Pennsylvania. In America the scholarships will be administered by the International Institute ol' Ed ication. New York. After the last war American Field Service scholarships were established for French university students and these have continued to the present day. -The Field Service hopes that the scholarships to New Zealand will continue in the same way as a memorial to the comradeship established in the Libyan Desert between the Americans and New Zealanders.