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.