Amy Sutherland receives Vivian de Klerk Prize

Amy Sutherland was presented with the 2010 Vivian de Klerk Prize for the highest marks achieved by a Linguistics 2 student continuing to Linguistics 3 at a special presentation made at the beginning of a Linguistics 3 lecture on Friday 27 March.?

It is the second year in a row that Amy Sutherland has won the prize for the highest marks in her class, having been awarded the UPB Prize last year for her Linguistics 1 results. The award also continues the dominance of the Amys in Rhodes Linguistics, with Amy Richardson having won the Bill Branford Prize for top Linguistics 3 student. If you find this all a bit confusing, you're not the only one!

Vivian de Klerk, who was the head of the Department of English Language and Linguistics from 1990 to 2006 before becoming Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网's Dean of Students, gave a short motivational speech to the Linguistics 3 class. She encouraged them to keep on working hard and aiming for excellence in their upcoming exams, and to consider postgraduate studies once they had finished their degrees.