US FIELD SERVICE AWARDS NZ STUDENTS FOUR SCHOLARSHIPS

Grey River Argus, 3 May 1947, Page 8

US FIELD SERVICE AWARDS NZ STUDENTS FOUR SCHOLARSHIPS

WELLINGTON, May 2. . The University of New Zealand announces it has accepted responsibility for the award of four scholarships offered by the American Field Service. This was a volunteer civilian ambulance unit which did invaluable work for the Eighth Army during the war years, including the period before America’s entry into the war. In recognition ot close relationship between the Field Service and the New Zealand Division, these scholarships are being offered to four New Zealand ex-ser-vice University students —with preference to returned soldiers who served with the Eighth Army. Applications will shortly be called for, through the University colleges, and both graduates and students with a partially completed degree will be eligible. The scholarships will cover fees and living expenses (including vacation period) for two years, and are available, two at Yale University and two at Dickinson College, a liberal arts college in Pennsylvania. In America the scholarships will be administered by the International Institute! of Education, 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 comradeship established in the Libyan Desert between -Americans and New Zealanders.