8 - Sunday, December 6, 1987 - North Shore News

WY student named Rhodes scholar

WEST VANCOUVER’S Robert
Wai has been selected as B.C.'s
Rhodes scholar for 1988,

The 21-year-old University of
B.C. first-year Jaw student was
notified Nov. 28 that he had won
the $15,000-per-year scholarship,
which is one of only 11 awarded in
Canada this year.

ROBERT WAI
“I’ve calmed down a little since
I first found out,’ Wai said
Thursday. ‘‘But it’s great. It will
be a fabulous way to study law.’’
The scholarship will allow Wai
to study at England’s Oxford Uni-

Reg. Price $7.99

versity from 1988 to 1990. It will
pay his travel and living expenses
for two years, with an option for a
third year.

Wai, who has a brother and two
sisters, graduated from West Van-
couver's Sentinel Secondary
School in 1984 with a Governor
General bronze medal. He was a
provineial champion badminton
player and represented Sentinel in
basketball, volleyball and other
athletics.

After a year at UBC, Wai went
on to Montreal’s McGill University
in 1985, where he received the Sir
Edward Beatty Gold Award as the
top graduate in Honors Economics
last spring.

Wai said his years at Sentinel
were extremely beneficial, and
singled out instruction he received
at the school in science, history
and English as great inspiration to
his subsequent academic pursuits.

Rhodes scholarships, which were
established in 1904, recognize
outstanding scholastic abilities, but
also overall student character,
leadership qualities, athletic
achievements and contribution to
community activities.

Beyond his goid medal academic
achievements at McGill and
elsewhere, Wai’s qualifications for
the prestigious scholarship includ-
ed editing the McGill Journal of
Political Economy, being president
of the badminton club, tutoring
high school students and volun-
teering to do work for housebound

elderly people.

He said the chance to study law
at Oxford will be an excellent op-
portunity to experience the
renowned university's method of
instruction, which, he said, is
much different from that offered
at North American universities.

Wai is also an accomplished
pianist and writer.

His father Wing Wat, a lawyer,
said the scholarship is a great
honor for his son and his family.

“Wei are very happy... very
proud,'' he said.

The Wai family has lived in
West Vancouver since 1970.

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