Samoan Graduate

A Samoan student, Miss Fanaafi Ma'ia'a, who last year graduated B.A., received the degree of Master of Arts at this year's Capping Ceremony. Miss Ma'ia'a moreover obtained first class honours and was awarded the James Macintosh Scholarship. It is understood that she is the first Samoan to obtain an M.A. from a British Commonwealth University.

Miss Ma'ia'i will soon go to the United Kingdom, where she will study towards a doctorate in the teaching of English and indigenous languages at London University.

Although she was busy working on her thesis and other studies during the year Miss Ma'ia'i found time to translate two English novels into Samoan.

Miss Fanaafi Ma'ia'a