Harry Evison

Harry Evison, B.A., is a rehab, student doing History Honours and has been Secretary of the Association since June, 1948. He first attended Victoria in 1941 and enlisted in the RNZAF the following year. He returned to NZ late in 1945 and spent two years in Wellington Training College, where he was Chairman of the Debating and Tramping Clubs, active in drama, and editor of "Student Opinion" and "Ako Pai." His chief joys in sporting are mountaineering and ski-ing.

He has definite ideas on Association affairs and policy, and Building Fund Appeal Committees; Member of Common Room, Gymnasium, Liquor Regulations and Constitution Committees; VUC Delegate NZUSA Annual Conference; VUC representative NZUSA Congress Committee; and VUCSA representative to the Price Tribunal. He has also been active on several Club Committees.

He has definite ideas on Association affairs and policy. He stands for maximum possible support and assistance to all College Clubs, both financial and otherwise; but he also wants more attention paid to the needs of students outside of club activities, particularly in hostel, cafeteria, and Common Room accommodation. He is at present working on a scheme with the co-operation of the College authorities, for provision of a comfortable joint Common Room for men and women. He also believes that important decisions affecting Association policy should be made by General Meetings of the Association rather than by the Executive.

Finally, his experience of the recent war has convinced him that students as citizens are involved in the general struggle for World Peace.

Kevin O'Brien

Kevin O'Brien, M.Com., a part-time Arts student, has been President since April 1948 and was Secretary till then from January, 1947. He is the student representative-designate to the College Council, was Business Manager of "Salient," 1946, Extrav. Organiser 1948 and 1949, is Treasurer NZUSA, represented VUC on the Resident Executive 1948-49, and at NZUSA meetings last August and this year.

He was a NZUSA representative in Australia at Congress and Council meetings this year. Special VUC and NZUSA committees of which he has been a member in addition to standing and financial ones include: Building Fund Appeal Committee, Jubilee Celebrations Committee, Curious Cove Congress Committee, VUC Physical Education Committee, Exam Fees Committee. He has been President and Treasurer of the Debating Society in which he has won the New Speaker's Prize, Union Prize, Plunket Medal, while he has represented VUC three times in Joynt Scroll, once in Bledisloe Medal and was in this year's NZU debating team against Australia.

He thinks that improvements to the Association Administrative efficiency should still be continued, particularly by the best utilisation of our facilities in the light of recent experience. He believes that the Association exists primarily for the benefit of its own members and that more attention should be paid to this. He thinks it should be our policy to see that there is a minimum of outside publicity for our purely internal affairs, and that this should be part of a sound public relations policy.