The Icelandic Canadian - 01.09.1964, Page 53

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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IN THE NEWS
MISS AUDREY FRIDFINNSON
APPOINTED TO RESPONSIBLE
POST.
Miss Audrey Fridfinnson
Miss Audrey Fridfinnson is one of
a ithree member counselling service
which has been inaugurated in the
University of Manitoba. The functions
of the service are counselling, testing
and guidance, and generally to im-
prove the academic functioning of
university students.
The Director of the Service is Dr.
Robert I. Hudson of Minnesota, with
the status of Associate Professor of
Education. Miss Fridfinnson is a
counsellor and Assistant Professor of
Social Work. The third member, Dr.
Gordon M. Stephens of Winnipeg, is
the psychiatric consultant to the ser-
vice.
Miss Fridfinnson obtained her B.A.
degree and holds a diploma in Social
Work from the University of Mani-
toba. She went to the University of
Chicago where she obtained her
Masters degree from the School of
Social Work. She has studied at Smith
College school of social work, and also
in the graduate division of the Uni-
versity of New York.
In Manitoba she has served with
the Children’s Aid Society and the
Society for Crippled Children and Ad-
ults, as well as in the School of Social
Work.
Audrey is the daughter of Mrs.
Bertha Fridfinnson and the late Wil-
liam Fridfinnson, who was Secretary
of the Falcon Hockey Club when the
team won the World Championship.
★
WINS EDUCATIONAL AWARD
Mrs. John Davidson Brown, the
former Unnur Anna Kristjanson of
Winnipeg, this summer was named the
outstanding graduate student for
1963-64 in the school of nursing at the
University of Washington, Seattle,
U.S.A. The Nursing Education Award
of $100 was presented to her. Mrs.
Brown has her master of nursing
degree from the University of Wash-
ington and her bachelor of nursing
degree from McGill University, Mon-