MCGILL UNIVERSITY POST FOR N.Z. MAN: MR. C. F. WRIGLEY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23024, 15 August 1949, Page 4

MCGILL UNIVERSITY POST FOR N.Z. MAN: MR. C. F. WRIGLEY

The appointment of Mr. C. F. Wriglcy to the post of assistant professor of nhychology at McGill University, Montreal, one of Canada's leading educafional institutions, has a special interest for many Gisborne people who are acquainted with the appointee. Mr. Wriglcy received his early education at Tauranga and later was a brilliant pupil of King’s College, Auckland, prior to entering the Auckland University College. There he graduated with first-class honours in philosophy in 1939. He served with the R.N.Z.A.F. during the war years, and returned to New Zealand to take up on appointment as lecturer in psychology at Otago University. He left New Zealand in 1946 on a travelling scholarship in philosophy, and has recently completed a thesis for his doctorate at London University. Mr. Wriglcy will leave London for Canada in September, accompanied by his wife and two daughters. I Mrs. Wrigley is the daughter of Mr. I and Mrs. James limes, weU-known Gis- | borne residents of Jong standing. She also had a brilliant scholastic career, graduating M.A. with honours at Otago University in 1939.