RHODES SCHOLARS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3889, 25 September 1928, Page 50

RHODES SCHOLARS.

OTAGO NOMINEES SELECTED. (Photographs in This Issue.) F. M. HANAN AND W. E. HENLEY. The Otago nominees for the two Rhodes Scholarships available to New Zealand students in 1928 have been chosen by the Council of the University of Utago. They are Frank Marcus Hanan arid Wilton Ernest Henley. Four names were submitted by the executive of the Otago University Students’ Association, which body stated that it could not discriminate between the candidates. Any selection the council might make from the four names would receive its hearty endorsement. J. T. Campbell and J. A. Stallworthy were the other two students mentioned in the final selection of the Students’ Association. F M. HANAN. F. M. Hanan 7 is now 21 years of age, and has entered on the fourth year of his law course at the Otago -University. The younger son of the Hon. J. A. Hanan, M L.C., he spent a short time at the Southland Boys’ H.gh School at the Gut set of his secondary school career, but before his first year was completed he entered Wellington College as the holder of a junior national scholarship. In 1921, at the age of 14, he secured a partial pass in matriculation, and in the following year completed the examination. His record at Wellington College is an exceptional one, and gawe him every opportunity to develop to the full the qualities that the selectors look for in the Dominion’s Rhodes Scholars. For the five years he spent at the school he was a prominent figure in all school sports, and he asserted himself with distinction in the classroom. Comparatively early in his term he found his way into the prefects’ room as a house prefect, and his popularity and ability as a leader of nis fellows soon carried him to the posi tion of head of his house and head of the school, which latter position he held for two years tn succession The organisa tion and supervision of school sports, pastimes. and hobbies were incomplete with out his inclusion on committees On the playing field he was one of the outstanding figures in the school, and this fact, together with his excellent record in the cicssroom, was recognised when he was awarded the special prize for the best all romjd boy of his year. At athletics. Rugby football, and swimming li excelled. and in his final year was captain of the first eleven and the first fifteen His record in sport was no less outstanding than his simcess as a leader. He came down to the University in 1925 and commenced the stud' of law, at the same time doing practical work in local offices His four years’ examinations have been attended with theresults that could have been expected from one with such a distinguished career at the secondary school In the numerous subjects demanded by his course he has invariably secured first or second class passes The promised success as a leader and administrator of his early school days has been fulfilled Since coming to the University he has served on the executives of the Law Students’ Association and the O ILS. A. He has also acted as sponser of the New Zealand National Union of Students He has represented the law" students and the Unive.rsitv as a de bater, and has been secretary and selector of the Grange Cr’cket Club, in the affairs of which he has taken an active part on and off the field. His record on the sports field has not suffered since he left school In Dunedin he has been prominent in University boxing, athletics, and as a member of the Grange Cricket Club. >For ,hi<= renresentntion of the University - in the annual interuniversity tournament h' won his blue, and he has represented Otago University in the first football fifteen As a debater he has won great credit for the University and for himself in interfaculty events

W. E. HENLEY. W. E. Henley is 21 years of age, and is at present in his second year at the University, where he . commenced a medical course in 1927. His secondary school record was a brilliant one, both at Wanganui and at Napier. He entered the Napier High School in 1921, where he spent two years, afterwards going to the Wanganui Collegiate School. He matriculated before he was 16 years of age during his two years at the Napier High School. He also won a Senior National Scholarship at the same school, and distinguished himself in Latin, mathematics and science, in which subjects he had r.o difficulty in securing class and school prizes. While at school in Wanganui he secured a University Entrance Scholarship, and in 1925 passed the Junior University Scholarship examination with credit. Tn his final year he was dux of the school, and liqad of his house as well as of the school, having u orked his way up through the various degrees of prefectship. The promise shown at the Napier High School was again apparent in his later studies. He left Wanganui with his name inscribed on most of the honours boards at the school. Languages, English . verse, mathematics, science and music were the subjects in which he gained particular distinction, and for which he won many prizes. His first year at the University of Otago was merely a continuation of his high school successes. In physics, biology and inorganic chemistry lie was first in his class, and his work in organic chemistry placed him in a prominent place. His second"' yesfr results are not yet available, but reports on the work he has done to date indicate .no lowering of the standard that he has set himself.

Henley passed rapidly through the various stages of school sport, eventually reaching the first eleven and the first fifteen. His sporting career at the secondary schools included participation to good advantage in athletics, boxing, swimming, fives, tennis squash and shooting, and since coming to the University he has continued to distinguish himself at lawn tennis, Rugby football (in which he won his blue) and golf and shooting. He demonstrated his qualities of leadership at school by being an active member of all committees and since his arrival at the University has been closely connected with the administrative work of the O.U.S.A and the sports committees of his year.