A DUNEDIN GIRL IN NEW YORK

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19661, 1 December 1933, Page 12

A DUNEDIN GIRL IN NEW YORK

Miss Rene Wilkie, ~>( Dunedin, who is the holder of tlie Carnegie Kindergarten Scholarship for 1933-1934. writes glowing letters to a Wellington friend of her life at the Columbia University. New York She is having a wonderful time and finds the American people the essence of kindness. She writes: "They can't seem to do enough to help a stranger to feel at home. One American lady I met on the boat insisted that I should stay at her apartment in New York for the first few days; so. you see. I had a very happy Introduction to New York. She took me to see the famous Aquarium, the Metropolitan Museum, the theatres, and she also explained all the traffic regulations till i felt she would exhaust herself completely on my behalf “Mr Russell, of the Carnegie Trust, arranged for my room at the International. and he also introduced me to people who would help me to map out my course at the Teachers’ College. I am taking sixteen points. that is sixteen lectures of an hour, each week on kindergarten work We study ■ blackboard drawing, and an Interesting course ir. American education for foreign students. Next week we are going for a five-day trip into Connecticut and Massachusetts to see different types of administration and various representative schools ■’Life Is wonderfully interesting hcr*\ we meet and ts!k with Germans, Indian*. Americans French. English and Chinese, and I find all so very much alike- ‘under their kins.' New Zealand seems to exercise a great fascination for all the people here, and I am kept busv showing my photographs and talking The American way I talk is ’cute!' * ’ °