Oil firm gives Aberdeen caddy £8,000 for university fees
Tom’s delight as oil firm chips in
By Esther Beadle
Published: 28/09/2012
A STUDIOUS Aberdeen golf caddy was amazed when a chance meeting saw him fulfil a life-long ambition.
Tom Kipling was starting to worry that his dreams of completing a masters degree in petroleum geo-sciences had ended up in the rough.
But two weeks after a chance meeting with a boss at oil firm Apache, Tom, 23, was delighted to hear the firm had arranged to pay the £8,000 tuition fees for his studies at the University of Aberdeen.
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