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Envelope with the typed address label - Professor Noel Odell, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
And ‘My graduation address at V.U.C.’ written in pencil in Odell’s hand writing.

Contains copies of the address given by Odell at the Victoria University College Graduation Ceremony in 1952 and related papers:

(1) manuscript draft of the address written in a black notebook

(2) two typed copies with manuscript corrections

(3) printed booklet, ‘Adventure and Enterprise in Our Time’ by N.E. Odell
Loose letter inside dated 10 Feb 1953 and signed Malcolm Dylan Hutt thanking him for the booklet and mentioning his plans for walking in the hills

(4) Order of Ceremony booklet for the Victoria University College Graduation Ceremony 1952 at which Odell gave the address. Loose inside:

• Order of procession
• newspaper cutting about the ceremony
• loose letter dated 12 Jan 1953 thanking Odell for his graduation address to Wellington and wondering how it was received as Odell spoke to them ‘very straight’.

(5) newspaper cuttings reacting to the address in which he said N.Z. people had a “complacent and lazy” attitude towards life.

Presumably compiled by the Tutor, these also acted as draft registers of admissions: the third volume lists the student's former school as well as the permanent address.

Presumably compiled by the Tutor, these also acted as draft registers of admissions: the first volume names sponsors in addition to addresses.

Presumably compiled by the Tutor, these also acted as draft registers of admissions: the second volume names sponsors in addition to addresses.

Copies of the Development Office publication 'Achievements' which is published annually and was started in July 2010.

Accounts for meals and accommodation for non-resident students.

Accounts relating to the management of the estate of Godfrey Harold Wilson, Master of Clare 1929-39. It is not clear, although it is likely that the College acted as an executor to Wilson's estate (which is presumably how the accounts ended up in the College Archives). They estate was finally wound up in 1982.