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Fulbright in New Zealand

Black and White photograph of Catherine Landeth with a pre-school child

Black and White photograph of Catherine Landeth with a pre-school child.

Catherine Landreth came to New Zealand on a Fulbright grant in 1959, to conduct research
into pre-school studies at Victoria University. Hers must be one of the most unusual grants
ever. Born in New Zealand in 1899, Catherine went to the States on a fellowship in 1925 and
became an American citizen in 1942. She returns to New Zealand every year, for all her
relatives are here; she has what she terms a 'two-country lifestyle'. When she came to New
Zealand on an American Fulbright grant, the Prime Minister called her ‘still one of us’. The
pre-schoolers thought they knew better, however — they called her the ‘Murrican lady’.