MR. ROCKEFELLOW’S HEIR

Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1930, Page 9

MR. ROCKEFELLOW’S HEIR

ECONOMY AS A STUDENT. / An old car, a total expense account of £3OO yearly, and high scholastic standing, sums up the college career of one • of America’s potentially richest young men —Nelson Rockefeller, son of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, jun., says the American correspondent of a London newspaper. Though Nelson Rockefeller will one day share in the vast, fortune of-Tiis father, his four years at college have been marked by an economy that would do credit to a student of very moderate means. His monthly allowance w z as barely sufficient to cover college expenses. While the majority of students rolled around in flashing cars from their freshmen year, young Rockefeller’s family allowed him a car only in his senior year. And that car was a eheap one—• three years old! The £3OO annual allowance had to cover the following expenses: Tuition £BO, board £OO, room rent, from £4O to £OO, subscriptions £2O. His largest social expense came when he escorted his fiancee to the college “prom.” Young Rockefeller wears simple clothes. His hobby is photography, and he always carries a camera on his numerous walks into the woods. "Rocky” does not drink or smoke, and, like his father, he attends church every Sunday. He also conducts a Sunday school class for girls.