BLIND GIRL’S SUCCESS
! An IS-year-old blind poetess, who j failed to gain an open scholarship to Cambridge, did so well in competition I with the best-sighted women of her j year that both Girton and Newnham ! offered to accept her as a member (slates lire News-Chronicle).
The girl, .Miss Ruth Hitchcock, has chosen Newnham, and will go into residence next October.
It is her intention to study theology ■ —an unusual tine of study for women. .Miss Hitchcock, who is a daughter of .Mr and Mrs P. \V. Hitchcock, ol' Ipswich, was blinded by illness at the age of 11 months. For the past twelve years she has been a pupil of Chorleywood College, which is run by the National Institute for the Blind. Iler school career has been an outstanding success. At 1-i she passed tire piano examination of the Associated Board and the Royal Academy of Music, and at 16 gained her school certificate with honours.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19759, 14 December 1935, Page 26 (Supplement)
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