dominant factor in the selection of students for the United College, participation in sport is regarded as another evidence of all-round ability. Mamae's interests are in indoor basketball, netball, cricket and tennis. She has represented North Shore in junior tennis. Together with academic and personal qualities, the students are expected to have taken part in some community work. Mamae's involvement has been as a judges' assistant at competitions society festivals, and working in a geriatric hospital during her school holidays. Each applicant was required to write an essay on their aspirations and to state their personal qualifications. Also the headmaster or headmistress of their school was required to comment on the pupils. From about 30 regional finalists Mamae was chosen as one of eight who travelled to Wellington for final interviews. The United World College of the Atlantic was opened in 1962 as the first of a number of international colleges to be established throughout the world, designed to offer to selected students of different nationalities and high ability a two year academic course immediately before entry to university. The project has two main aims: ‘to promote international understanding through education; and to provide a pattern of education adapted to meet the special needs of our age.’ From the outset, one of the college's aims was a genuinely international matriculation examination, and students are now able to Students practise with their rescue craft, part of the Beach Rescue Unit.