FELLOWSHIP AWARD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23040, 18 May 1938, Page 12

FELLOWSHIP AWARD

TELEGRAPH ENGINEERING NEW ZEALANDER APPOINTED STUDY IN UNITED STATES [BY TELEGBAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Tuesday A cable message from London announces that the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship has appointed a New Zealander, Mr. C. S. Plank, to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The Commonwealth Fund was established in 1918 by Mrs. Stephen V, Harkness and provides a varying number of fellowships for candidates of British descent of an annual value of about £750 each, tenable for two yeans at certain American universities. Mr. Plank is a son of Mr. C. S. Plank, of Wellington, former chief telegraph engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department. He was educated at the Auckland Grammar School and Victoria University College. Wellington, and holds the degrees of M.Sc., 8.C0m., A.R.A.N.Z: and A.M.1.E.E., and is a chartered electrical engineer. In New Zealand Mr. Plank has held various positions in the engineering branch of the Post and Telegraph Department, and at the moment is telegraph engineer at Palmerston North. He is not going to any particular university, but is being sent to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in view of the fact that he is to 'study transmission engineering. As the company covers practically the whole of America, this will assist his studies.