Top Student

Te Ao Hou, 1972, Page 47

Top Student Derek Kapinga from Manunui took top honours amongst a group of thirty-one students who recently graduated from the Telford Farming Training Institute at Balclutha. Derek entered the Institute in January 1970, and at the graduation ceremony last December won the following Awards: the Telford Certificate of Agriculture, the Wool Board Learner Shearer Certificate, the Howard Eriksen Shearing Cup, the P.M. Packard Trophy for Excellence in Woolhandling, and the William Telford Cup for the Highest Aggregate of Marks. Derek was educated at Taumarunui High School where he was accredited University Entrance in 1969. He was his school's senior athletic champion, vice-captain of the first fifteen rugby team and a King Country Secondary Schools' Rugby Team representative. He was also a school prefect. At Telford Derek also excelled at sports and was vice-president of the Students' Association and chairman of Telford's Rugby and Athletics Committee. Earlier this year Derek took up employment with Mr G. Pullar of Pukerau who is a member of the Southland Federated Farmers Cadet Scheme. Derek later intends to enter Lincoln College to study for a degree in Agriculture.