Scholarships
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N. Guinea Memorial Scholarships Three Awarded for 1950
ALTHOUGH no New Guinea Memorial Scholarship was awarded in 1949, three have been awarded for 1950.
They went to Loloma Linggood, lan G.
Stanton Crouch, and Nigel R. C. Cooper.
The following are a few notes on pre sent scholarship winners: LOLOMA LINGGOOD is the daughter of the late Rev. William L. Ling good who, until he lost his life in the Montevideo Maru had lived for 12 years in New Guinea, at Raluana Metho dist Mission Station. Mrs. Linggood has lived in Melbourne since losing her home in New Britain and Loloma attends the Methodist Ladies College. Bill Linggood, her brother, won the first NGM Scholar ship, his three years term finishing last year. He is still at Wesley College for another year or two and hopes to follow in his father’s footsteps and go back to New Guinea as a Missionary.
Nigel Robert c. cooper is the son of the late Dr. Robert William Cooper MBE who joined the New Guinea Administration as medical officer in 1931. Dr. Cooper was stationed in various places in the Territory and in 1937, the year Nigel was born, was decor ated for his work in Rabaul at the time of the eruption. He also, lost his life in the Montevideo Maru . Nigel has been at Scotch College since he went to Mel bourne in 1941 and will continue his studies there. Swimming is his partic ular sport and he has not decided whether medicine or the land will be his future career. lAN STANTON CROUCH is at Wesley College, Melbourne. His father was a Padre in New Guinea during the war and has been attached since 1946, to the Education Department, firstly in Port Moresby and later in Madang. lan was Junior Champion Gymnast at Wesley last year and this year in the Senior School has already made the under 14 A teams in cricket and tennis. He is to decide between Medicine and Engineer ing as a profession.
THE fifth Scholarship holder whose third year finishes at the end of 1950, is Norman Ashby, son of the late Mr. Stan Ashby, who was one of the oldest Territorial residents—he went to the Kavieng district in 1921 and he also lost his life in the Montevideo Maru.
Norman got his Intermediate Certificate last year. Fishing and golf are his special sporting interests, and his am bition is to go back to New Ireland and plant up the family property “down the road” from Kavieng.