02/10/2008
Repeat Prescription For Ulster Veterinary Nurse
A newly qualified veterinary nursing and practice management graduate was celebrating this week - and doubly so with an extra special Northern Ireland link to the graduation festivities at the Shropshire University College, Harper Adams.
The graduating Londonderry student is the daughter of a couple who first met while studying at the same prestigious college almost four decades ago
Gwen Mackey, 22, who achieved a BSc Hons, was able to look back some 37 years, to recall how her parents, Roger and Wendy first met. She is pictured here with her parents.
Roger studied at the National Institute of Poultry Husbandry at Harper Adams between 1970 and 1972.
"It was a great place and I went on to work at three different poultry places in England up until 1976, until I went back home to Londonderry to work on a livestock farm and then as a meat inspector for the Department of Agriculture.
"My wife, Wendy, is from Churchdown in Gloucestershire. She came to Harper in 1971 to do an HND in agriculture.
"We married while she was still a Harper student and I was working on the other side of Gloucester - she travelled back and forth, staying in Shropshire during the week.
"She graduated in 1974 and we had our first child in 1975. We have four children and Gwen is the youngest. I've tried to get them all to come to Harper, it's such a great place, but we only succeeded with Gwen."
Gwen said she would recommend it to anyone wanting to study agriculture and animal-related courses: "I've had an amazing time," she said.
(BMcC)
The graduating Londonderry student is the daughter of a couple who first met while studying at the same prestigious college almost four decades ago
Gwen Mackey, 22, who achieved a BSc Hons, was able to look back some 37 years, to recall how her parents, Roger and Wendy first met. She is pictured here with her parents.
Roger studied at the National Institute of Poultry Husbandry at Harper Adams between 1970 and 1972.
"It was a great place and I went on to work at three different poultry places in England up until 1976, until I went back home to Londonderry to work on a livestock farm and then as a meat inspector for the Department of Agriculture.
"My wife, Wendy, is from Churchdown in Gloucestershire. She came to Harper in 1971 to do an HND in agriculture.
"We married while she was still a Harper student and I was working on the other side of Gloucester - she travelled back and forth, staying in Shropshire during the week.
"She graduated in 1974 and we had our first child in 1975. We have four children and Gwen is the youngest. I've tried to get them all to come to Harper, it's such a great place, but we only succeeded with Gwen."
Gwen said she would recommend it to anyone wanting to study agriculture and animal-related courses: "I've had an amazing time," she said.
(BMcC)
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