Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 27, No. 11. 1964.
New Life Member Elected
New Life Member Elected
A New life member of the Students' Association has been elected. By receiving 1056 votes from a total poll of 1168, Mr. William Henderson Landreth, VUW physical welfare officer, easily obtained the necessary four-fifths majority required for election.
Mr. Landreth was born and educated in Otago. He trained as a primary teacher at the Dunedin Training College, doing university units part-time, and spent a third year on a specialist physical education course. He taught as a physed specialist for some years in the Otago and Canterbury education districts, and then became a lecturer at Ardmore Teachers' College.
He was appointed to the position of Physical Welfare Officer of VUC when this office was inaugurated in 1951 and has held it ever since. He obtained his Master's degree with honours in education in 1955, and was elected to the Blues Panel in 1959. President of the National Physical Education Society for the last two years, he has been a New Zealand representative at overseas physed conferences. He has been a member of the management committee since its inception in 1961.
There is no such thing as the 40-hour week for Mr. Landreth; his policy has always been to be always available to students who require his assistance. Every sports club in the university knows it can count on his interest and backing, and he is untiring in his efforts for better facilities.
In an interview, he said: "The more students using the facilities offered by the university the better. We'll have better faciliies soon, providing we make use of the ones we have."
Salient Survey figures just completed show that women students show an equal interest with men in student elections. There was no significant difference between the ratio of men to women students in the university and the ratio between the two sexes amongst voters.