Dorothy.

The return to College by students who have been up for several years is always tinged with sadness. At the beginning of the Session we find that graduations and transfers have removed many friends from our midst whose loss we can ill afford. For the first time since 1926 Miss Dorothy Martyn-Roberts will be absent from us. It is no exaggeration to say that every student has suffered a distinct loss, as Miss Martyn-Roberts was the ideal undergraduate. No one can forget her charming personality and her happy knack of making everything with which she was connected run smoothly whether it was in dressing an Extravaganza caste, or in cooking a delightful dinner at short notice for a horde of starving trampers. Dorothy was a member of the Executive from 1928 until 1930, when she was the women's Vice-President. There was hardly a Club at College that did not at one time or another benefit by Dorothy's talent for organisation, and in particular the Basketball. Tramping, Tennis. and Dramatic Clubs owe her a debt of gratitude.

Dorothy was an outstanding basketball player, winning her Blue on several occasions, and it was unfortunate that her inability to leave Wellington prevented her from gaining a place in the Wellington Representative Team last year. In 1928 Dorothy was awarded the Lady Stout bursary, and students will agree that few have so richly deserved the honour. Teaching at Tahora has claimed her for two years, but we hope to see her whenever she is in town. In any case whether Dorothy Roberts is in Wellington or in Woop-woop, it will be a long time before her personality and her work for Victoria College is forgotten.