1951 Silver and Green

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of

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^etljobist JUNE,

Editor: M O N I C A

WOOD.

Sub-Editors:

MARGARET

^Cahiea'

QlolJege,

pafathorn

1951.

D e p u t y Editor: T A M A R A ADENEY,

MARGOT

WEYMAN. RUMPF.

Magazine C o m m i t t e e : Miss L. Mitchell, W e n d y Gardner, Rosemary Groves, Gwenda Jacobs, Renee Jarvis Judith L u g t o n , Beyerley W e b s t e r , Janet Edwards, Jennifer H a r d i n g , Rachel Lew, Mary M o r g a n .

Editorial T o Thee with radiant hope we bend, Guide Thou Australia, Father, Friend."

In this Jubilee year of the Federation of Australia, it would be well for us to consider not only our material and political progress, but our growth in character, as a nation.

On Youth Sunday, at the service of rededication to the Empire at Wesley Church, Professor Paton, recently appointed ViceChsncellor of the Melbourne University, spoke.

He told us that Australia has become notorious overseas as a country where the people think they can build a civilisation without doing any work. W e cannot dismiss this summarily as a misjudgment. Although a generalisation on a nation's character is often not true of many individuals, we must admit that there is a foundation f o r this harsh statement.

Is not the terrifying rate of inflation in Australia a strong piece of evidence in its support?

Many people to-day are af raid of the threat of Communism to Democracy, and our procedure in subduing the activities of porters is much discussed.

its sup-

One characteristic

of Communists is well known to us all—they are keen about their cause and work for it.

As the early Christian out-lived,

out-thought

and out-died the pagans, should we not also out-work the Communists?

As students, the part we play at present in the life of the nation is not a determining factor in its character, but it will be in a few years' time.

W e can prepare ourselves for good citizenship by doing our work at school v/ell and willingly, remembering that "he who works without complaining does the holy will of G o d . " Future judgment of Australia's character depends on us. W e must prepare f o r it,-we must "study to serve."

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3 SILVER and Miss J. H o d g e (Old Collegians), all of whom we hope will return to our Staff very soon.

Miss E. Weir, 5 i years, Miss N. Braithwaite, Mus.Bac., 5 years, Miss J. Missen, 4 years, Miss Neva Start, Mus. Bac., and Miss Elaine Hurd, Mus.Bac. (both Old Collegians), all of the Music Staff.

Miss W .

Mitchell, Mus.Bac., f o r

26 years

teacher of Theory and Piano, is visiting England this year and will, we trust, return to the Music Staff in 1952.

A m o n g senior girls who left at the end of 1950 were the f o l l o w i n g : — Mary

Hughes,

Senior

Prefect,

Common-

wealth Scholarship, Debating Society.

Pamela

Bowles,

Prefect,

Commonwealth

Scholarship, Hockey Team, Camera Club.

Ailsa Brownlee, Prefect, Secondary Studentship, Social Service Captain, Berry House Captain,

Debating

Society,

Secretary

of

French

Club, Senior Mathematics Group, Treasurer of Walking

Club.

Nanette Burns, Prefect.

Lillian

Duncan,

Scholarship, ing

Prefect,

Secondary

representative,

Commonwealth

Studentship,

Vice-President

of

Life-savS.C.M.,

Secretary of Camera Club.

Lorraine Evans, Prefect, Commonwealth Scholarship, Queen's College Exhibition, Secretary of S.C.M., Treasurer of U . N . A . , Camera Club, Debating Society.

Norma

Fowles,

Prefect,

Commonwealth

Scholarship, Fitchett House Captain, Captain Basket-ball Team, President of Walking Club.

Diana Harcourt, Prefect, Krome House Captain, Tennis Team, Vice-President of U . N . A .

Sh'rley Inglis, Prefect, Queen's College Exhibition, Commonwealth Scholarship, Hockey Team, Secretary of Walking Club.

Shirley

Long,

Prefect,

Commonwealth

Scholarship, Secondary Studentship, Debating Society.

Shirley McAllister, Prefect and Senior House (Boarders')

Prefect,

Commonwealth

ship, School

Pianist, S.C.M.

Scholar-

Committee.

Mary Patten, Prefect, Treasurer of

S.C.M.

Margaret Pinkerton, Prefect, Commonwealth Scholarship, Queen's College Exhibition, Cato House Captain.

A N D

GREEN

Lorraine Spence, Prefect, Krome Sports Captain, Captain of Tennis Team, Secretary of U.N.A. Joan Walter, Prefect, Commonwealth Scholarship, Queen's College Exhibition, Hockey Team, President of Camera Club.

Judith Wappet, Prefect.

Edith Alexander, Senior Associate Primary Studentship.

Prefect,

Pamela Hendy, Senior Associate Commonwealth Scholarship, Queen's Exhibition*

Prefect, College

Louise Baxter, Associate Prefect, Commonwealth Scholarship, Library Committee.

Beverley Bolle, Associate Prefect, Athletics Team, Captain of Hockey Team.

Denise Bradly, Associate Prefect, Debating Society.

Marjory Coates, Associate Prefect, Commonwealth Scholarship, Queen's College Exhibition.

Lesley Curnow, Associate Prefect, Secondary Studentship, Library Committee.

Ervyn Hayes, Associate Prefect, Queen's College Exhibition, Commonwealth Scholarship, S.C.M. and U . N . A . Committees, Secretary of Debating Society.

Marjorie H o d g e , Associate Prefect, Dux of College (Humanities) 1950, Secondary Studentship, Queen's College Exhibition.

Helen Kennett, Associate Prefect, Commonwealth Scholarships, Queen's College Exhibition, Library Committee, Secretary of Senior Mathematics Group.

Susie Lipton, Associate Prefect, Commonwealth Scholarship, Queen's College Exhibition, Co-Editor "Silver and Green," U . N . A .

Committee, Debating Society.

Valerie O ' C o n n o r , Associate Prefect, Baseball Team, Cricket Team, Athletics Team, President of Walking Club.

Margaret WSlliams, Associate Prefect, Queen's College Exhibition.

Heather Aberdeen, Commonwealth Scholarship.

Jill Barker, Commonwealth

Scholarship.

Cecile Benjamin, Queen's College Exhibition, S.C.M.

and

Library

Committees,

Life-saving

representative.

Beverley Cohen, Commonwealth Scholarship.

Verna

Cook,

Commonwealth

Scholarship,

Secondary Studentship, Library Committee.

893 SILVER A N D

GREEN

Jill Cooke, Commonwealth Scholarship.

Joy

Shirley Gawith, Commonwealth Scholarship,

Lesley Walter, Hockey

Queen's College Exhibition, German Language

Storie,

Anne

Commonwealth

Warin,

Scholarship.

Team.

Commonwealth

Scholarship,

Library Committee.

Group Committee.

Beryl Hartman, Dux of College

(Science),

1950, Commonwealth Scholarship, Queen's Ex-

Valerie

Williams,

Commonwealth

Scholar-

ship, Treasurer of Camera Club.

Mary Zalcman, Commonwealth Scholarship.

hibition.

Helen

Heath,

Basket-ball

Team,

Athletics

Catherine Blake, Baseball Team, Basket-ball Team, Captain of Athletics Team.

Team.

Frances Huntsman, Athletics Team, Hockey

Isabelle Blake, Basket-ball Team.

A n n e Elliott, Tennis Team.

Team.

Bronwyn James, Commonwealth Scholarship.

Nancy Gray, Tennis Team.

Helen Jones, Boarders' W i n g Captain, Com-

Heather Herman, Cricket T?am.

monwealth

Catherine Manning, Cricket Team,

Scholarship.

Lynette Judkins, Commonwealth Scholarship.

Shirley

May,

Commonwealth

Scholarship,

Marilyn Murdoch, Commonwealth Scholarship, Secretary of German Language Group.

Shaw,

Commonwealth

Evette Meyer, Athletics Team.

Jill Sparnon, Athletics Team.

German Language Group Committee.

Helene

Hockey

Team.

Scholarship,

Queen's College Exhibition, Library Committee.

Patricia

Thompson,

Tennis

Team,

Cricket

Team.

Pauline Tingman, H o :key Team.

Lorice Whitaker, Baseball Team. '

School Highlights Friday,

February—

Deaf

Tuesday, 13 th— "Lord, behold us with T h y blessing, Once again assembled here."

With mixed feelings hundreds of sun-tanned girls flooded the school once more.

Friday,

16th—The

School

service

with

the

induction of Prefects and Associate Prefects was

held

in

Fitchett

Hall

during

Open

Period.

Friday, 23rd—Enticing

voices were

earnestly

raised in praise of various School activities, each attracting hosts of followers

(?).

9th—Mr.

Reynolds,

representing^ the

and Dumb Institute of Victoria, Was

most entertaining, and introduced aspects of his work unknown to many girls.

Tuesday, 20th—The vice

was

held

School Communion

at

the

Auburn

Ser-

Methodist

Church.

Wednesday,

21st—The

Easter

holidays

were

joyfully welcomed.

Tuesday, 27th—School Friday,

30th—The

resumed.

first

inter-house

debate,

waged between Berry and Cato, on the subject " T h a t Science has done more for the

March—

benefit than f o r the detriment of Mankind,"

Friday, 2nd—In gave

to

Open period, Mr. J.

Senior

Assembly

his

Webb

interesting

was won by Cato speaking for the affirmative.

This appropriately heralded the official

impressions of the United Nations Organisa-

opening,

in

tion at Lake Success, and of

Science

Block

standing personalities.

several

out-

the by

afternoon, the

of

Chancellor

University, Sir Charles Lowe.

the

new

of

the

5 SILVER A N D April—

GREEN

May—

Friday,

6th—Dr.

Edmunds,

after

addressing

the school on his work in a boys' school in Kashmire,

dressed

members of

fortunate

(?)

our assembly in Indian

certain

garb,

Friday, 13th—Rev. Colin Williams was most informative concerning the attitude and influence of the Methodist Church in America.

Tuesday, 2 4 t h — " T h e play's the thing," was the general conclusion following successful performances of scenes f r o m " M a c b e t h " and "Richard I I , " to commemorate Shakespeare Day. 25th—During

service, which

was

held

the

Anzac

Day

in

Fitchett

Hall,

there was a reading f r o m John Masefield's book

"Gallipoli."

Friday,

Wednesday, 9th—Commonwealth Jubilee

Day

was a welcome opportunity to recover f r o m

to the great delight of all present.

Wednesday,

Sunday, 6th—Many girls represented the School in the Empire Youth Sunday march and service.

examinations—and the aftermath.

Friday, 11th—Grey skies failed to dampen girls' spirits and had no audible effect upon the quality and quantity of hoarse voices following the Athletic Sports.

Congratulations, Fitchett!

Sunday,

13th—The

Annual

Church

Service

was held at the Auburn Methodist Church.

Tuesday, 15th—After school many girls took part in a highly successful S.C.M. innovation of an O p e n Forum, followed by folkdancing and singing.

Friday,

18th—Girls

from

the

Intermediate

forms presented scenes f r o m " T h e Merchant

27th—Senior

School,

presumably

of Venice," and excitement mounted through

exams.

the morning as the end of term drew near.

radiating knowledge, commenced

School Officers, 1951 Senior

Prefects—Beverley

Webster,

Monica

Wood.

Prefects—Barbara Atkins, Bettine Dusting, Deidre Fuller, Elizabeth Fullwood, Shirley Gibbs, A n n Green, Janet Huntington, Ariel Keen, Beverley Malcolm, Ainslie Rowe, Mary Rowe, Margaret Wilkinson, Barbara Williams.

Associate

Prefects—Margaret

Adeney,

Elaine

Cavanagh, Barbara Crisp (Senior), Jennifer

House Captains—Senior: Janet Huntington (Berry), Ainslie Rowe (Cato), Margaret Wilkinson (Fitchett), Elizabeth Fullwood ( K r o m e ) . Middle: Natalie Sharpe (Berry), A n n e Collett (Cato), Wilma Garrett (Fitchett), Pamela Holland (Krome).

Junior: Inah McCready (Berry), Alison Dunn (Cato), Diane Simpson (Fitchett), Claire Munro ( K r o m e ) .

Trewin,

Gwen

and W i n g

Cap-

House Sports Captains—Senior: Elaine Stewart (Berry), Jocelyn Rogers (Cato), Joan Gordon (Fitchett), Beverley Malcolm (Krome).

Middle: Elizabeth Barrow (Berry), Diane Knight (Cato), June Beech (Fitchett), Alison Steele ( K r o m e ) .

Junior: Elizabeth O'Neill (Berry), Katherine Nicholls (Cato), Barbara Carroll (Fitchett), Catherine Lee (Krome).

tains—Margaret Brisbane, Elaine Cavanagh,

Form Captains—Honour V l . a , Beverley W e b -

East, Nancy Ellis (Senior), Valerie Falkingham,

Judith

Elaine

Gibbs,

Fowler,

Wendy

Rosemary

Gardner,

Groves,

Anne

Grunden, Jill Hilton, Gwenda Jacobs, Judith Lugton,

Heather

Cynthia

Shillinglaw,

McKay, Ruth

Jocelyn

Rogers,

Watkins, Pamela Watkins.

House

(Boarders')

Barbara

Prefects

Crisp, Shirley

Dunoon,

Rosemary

ster, Monica W o o d ;

Groves, Ainslie Rowe, Mary Rowe

(Senior).

Ellis; H o n o u r V I . c , Tamara W e y m a n ; Pass

Honour Vl.b,

Nancy

895 SILVER A N D VI.a, A n n e Williams; Pass V I . b , Pamela Greenall; Pass V I . c , Shirley Palmer; Pass V l . d , Lesley C o o k ; Diploma A , Gwen Watkins; Diploma B, Margaret Philp; Practical Arts, Marie Allan; V.a, Elizabeth Tweddell; V.b, Lois Y e n ; V.c, Noelle W o o d ; V.d, Barbara Crosthwaite; V.e, Bobbie Sandercock; V . f , June Sutton; V . g , Kathleen Hulme; Lower V.a, Natalie Sharp; Lower V.b, Alison Steele; Lower V . c , Jennifer Andrew; Lower V . d , Robin Griffith; Lower V.e, W e n d y W o o l c o t t ; Lower V . f , Beverley Dux; IV.a, Frances Skerrett; IV.b, Barbara Beatty; IV.c, Janice Palmer; IV.d, Valerie Webster; I V.e, Ruth Bradbury; Lower IV.a, Anne Sinclair; Lower IV.b, Millicent Simpson; Lower I V . c , Edyth Driver; Lower I V . d , Kathleen Oaten; Lower IV.e, Y v o n n e Casemore; III.a, Joan Horsfall; IH.b, Dorothea Cook; Lower IH.a, Myra Langford; Lower IH.b, Judith H o o p e r .

Social Service Captains.—Honour V l . a , Bettine Dusting; Honour Vl.b, Lesley Barnes; H o n o u r V I . c , Jill Hilton; Pass V l . a , Dorothy Alexander; Pass V l . b , Helen Daws; Pass VI.c, Judith Wilson; Pass V l . d , Margaret Bamford; Diploma A , Margaret A n n a n d ; Diploma B, Barbara Algie; Practical Arts, Jocelyn Clemence; V.a, Lynette Hall; V . b , Judith Middleton; V . c , Joan Cornish; V . d , Beverley Skeels; V.e, Margaret Humphries; V . f , Joan Lade; V . g , Patty Glen; Lower V.a, Beverley Smith; Lower V.b, Janice Livingstone; Lower V . c , Janice Holt; Lower V . d , Madeline Jury; Lower V.e, Margaret Wilkins; Lower V . f , Margaret Donaldson; IV.a, Mary Jean Ross; IV.b, Lois Jones; IV.c, Berice Callander; IV.d, Lisbeth Rankin; IV.e, Julie Bell; Lower IV.a, Claire Furneaux; Lower I V . b , Pamela Burroughs; Lower IV.c, Mary Knell; Lower IV.d, Verna Davey; Lower IV.e, Annabel Pemberton; IH.a, Marion Lester; IH.b, Pamela Firth; Lower IH.a, Judith Frederick; Lower IH.b, Lesley Dunn.

Sports Captains—Honour V l . a , Beverley Malcolm; H o n o u r V l . b , Janet Barrow; H o n o u r VI.c, Rosemary Groves; Pass V l . a , Shirley Reed; Pass V l . b , Janet Edwards; Pass V I . c , Marjorie Davies; Pass V L d , Sidna A r m strong; Diploma A , Jocelyn Rogers; Diploma B, Janet Reardon; Practical Arts, Janette

GREEN

Chandler; V.a, Bernice Hargrave; V.b, Margot Fincher; V . c , Maureen McClelland; V.d, Alison O ' G r a d y ; V.e, Y v o n n e Gray; V . f , Mary Wait; V . g , Elizabeth Wustemann; Lower V.a, A n n e Collett; Lower V.b, Judith Wilkinson; Lower V . c , Diana Knight; Lower V.d, Pauline Smyth; Lower V.e, Janeene Christie; Lower V . f , Margaret Kidd; IV.a, Jocelyn Cornell; I V . b , Paddy Dixson; I V . c , Lorraine Barnes; I V . d , Davida Switson; IV.e, Dulcie Stafford; Lower IV.a, Pamela Bowyer; Lower IV.b, Marli Albiston; Lower IV.c, Inah McCready; Lower IV.d, Beverley Heath; Lower IV.e, Janice Barthold; III.a, Beverley Evans; IH.b, Patricia Wait; Lower IH.a, Lesley Bonney; Lower IH.b, Margaret Ralton.

S.C.M. Committee, 1951.—President, Miss Horsman; Vice-President, Jill Hilton; Recording Secretary; Judith Fowler; Correspondence Secretary, Jennifer Harding; Treasurer, Anne Grunden; Committee, Dorothy Alexander, Janet Barrow, Alison Benjamin, Judith Chesterfield, Lynette Hall, Jennifer Hansford, Jennifer Harding, Kathleen Hulme, Rae Lechte, Ainslie Rowe, Mary Rowe, June Sutton, Elizabeth Webb, Beverley Webster, M. W o o d .

School Librarians.—Margaret Lugton.

Gale,

Judith

Fiction Committee.—Heather McKay, Janet Brewster, Noela Parkes, Ellen Bassett, Diana Beattie, Shirley Merrylees, Marion Turner, N o r a Gaskell, Ina Swyer, Pat Davies, Jennifer Giles, Noelle Love, Pam Stewart, Margaret Adamson, Norma Burbridge, Sue Thomas.

Reference Committee.—Suzanne Peverill, Margot Rumpf, Beverley Malcolm, Laurel Bladon, Jennifer Harding, Valda Heraud, Lois Yen, Barbara W e n b o r n , Valerie Joynt, Janet Stahl.

United Nations Associations—Miss Kellaway (President), Rosemary Groves (Vice-President), Mary Rowe (Secretary), Barbara W i l liams (Treasurer), Monica W o o d , Beverley Webster, Elizabeth Fullwood, Ariel Keen, Elizabeth Webb, Janet Barrow (Committee).

Camera Club—Mr.

McKnight

and Mr.

mour (Presidents), Beverley Webster

Sey(Vice-

President), Deidre Fuller (Secretary), Mary Rowe

(Treasurer).

7 SILVER A N D Debating Society—Miss Cochrane and Miss Cerutty (Presidents), Shirley Gibbs (Secretary), Barbara Williams, Gwenda Jacobs (Berry), Beverley Malcolm, Barbara Atkins ( K r o m e ) , Beverley Webster, Monica W o o d (Fitchett), Bettine Dusting, Ainslie Rowe (Cato).

French Club—Miss Dahle (President), Tamara Weyman (Secretary), Jennifer East, Shirley Gibbs, Janet Huntington, Beverley Webster (Committee).

German Language Group—Mrs. Clahr (President), Deidre Fuller (Vice-President), Jennifer East (Secretary).

Senior Mathematics Group—Miss Kellaway (President), Gwenda Jacobs (Secretary), Shirley Gibbs, Barbara Crisp, W e n d y Gardner, Nancy Ellis, Alison Benjamin, Jean Webster (Committee).

GREEN

Junior Mathematics G r o u p — M r .

Seymour (President), Fay Sutherland (Secretary), Beryl Windsor, Margaret Hyden (Committee) .

Cavendish Society—Margaret Nash (President), Patricia Tasker (Secretary), Margaret Lethlean, Louise Gault, Valda Heraud (Committee).

Walking Club—Miss B. Jackson, Miss L. Mitchell (Presidents), Barbara Williams, Barbara Atkins (Vice-Presidents), Janet Barrow (Treasurer), Jennifer Harding, Rosemary McCutcheon, Margaret Oldfield, Margaret Anderson, Joan G o r d o n (Committee).

Life-Saving Representatives—Janet Barrow (Berry), Shirley Merrylees ( C a t o ) , Janet Reardon (Fitchett), Susan Pincus, Rosemary McCutcheon ( K r o m e ) .

Speech Night, 1950 Speech Night, 1950, was held in the Melbourne T o w n Hall on Friday, 15 th December, fully attended by parents and friends of the school.

W e were very honoured to have Lady Brooks, the wife of the Governor of Victoria, to present the prizes, and her graciousness in doing this and in speaking to the school delighted all.

As usual, Dr. A . E. Floyd, O.B.E., kindly took his place at the organ console, and the programme was opened with the school singing his setting of the " T e Deum Laudamus," under the capable conducting of Miss Flockart. T h e rest of the musical programme was taken up with simple, but very beautiful carols.

T h e school choir sang "Puer Nobis," "King Jesus hath a garden," "Be still and slumber."

T h e special choir sang "Break forth, O beauteous heavenly light," " A babe so tender," " T h e Three Kings of Orient," " T h e Coventry Carol," and " T h e Flowering Manger." T h e Madrigal group presented "Dainty fine bird" and " W h a t saith my dainty darling?"

The R. W .

acknowledgements

were made

Nevile, the Chairman of

Finance

and

Advisory

by

Mr.

the M.L.C.

Committee,

to

Lady

Brooks, Miss Flockart, Dr. Floyd, Miss Dahle, Miss Kellaway, Miss Horsman and Miss Perkins, all of whom were instrumental in presenting a successful and a smoothly-run Speech Night, as well as to all members of staff f o r the year's work.

In his Annual Report, Dr. W o o d said that we were living in a period of

extraordinary

unsettlement f o r young people.

In a cynical

society like ours they **ouId not find positive spiritual

values, idealism

and

altruism,

out-

side the teaching of the Christian faith.

An

intellectual

had

paganism

in

some

quarters

been teaching that there is no G o d except a projection of the human ego, no religion except a childish wish-fulfilment, and therefore no

moral

sanctions,

but the

so-called

social

conventions which the practising pagans of our day said might be flouted at will.

8

SILVER

AND

A Christian school, such as M.L.C., was concerned, first for the acceptance of the Christian faith and Christian standards of conduct, second for the development of culture and citizenship, third f o r the preparation of girls for home life and useful careers.

Dr. W o o d also referred to the effects of the shortage of labour in the community. Almost fabulous salaries and the softest of conditions were being offered to bribe girls to take employment, and some young people were leaving school too soon.

While recognis.ng that the University had the right to require its own conditions of entrance, we feared changes which might not remove the difficulties of over-specialisation at an early stage and yet at the same time might require too many subjects to be taken.

For instance, it was doubtful if a pupil strong in mathematics and science should be obliged to pass in a foreign language, and equally questionable whether a pupil on the humanities side should be compelled to pass one of the mathematics-science subjects.

If the Un.versity gave up pre-requisites f o r the various Faculties it would be better for students to gain Matriculation in English and any three or four other subjects.

GREEN

Forty senior girls had visited Central Australia during the May vacation, and another party of forty girls would travel to the Barrier Reef in September, 1951.

M U S I C A N D SPEECH IN C H R I S T M A S W E E K , 1950 O n Tuesday, 19th December, the M.L.C. Choir, trained by Miss Flockart, gave a programme of Carols in conjunction w.th the Victorian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Bernard Heinze. This concert was held in Melbourne Town Hall, and was broadcast throughout the Commonwealth by the A.B.C. Many messages were received f r o m listeners everywhere in recognition of the g rls' singing.

Girls prepared by Miss Dwyer recited the Scripture passages at "Carols by Candlelight' in Alexandra Gardens on Saturday, 23rd December.

Many other girls sang in the massed choir at the same function. Our girls did credit to the school.

In referring to fees, Dr. W o o d stated that even with increases our fees were still comparatively very low, and if it were not f o r our large enrolment fees would need to be much higher.

M.L.C. was gratified that the Commonwealth Government had introduced a most generous scheme of Scholarships to the University and other institutions, including Mercer House, where girls would be trained to become primary and sub-primary teachers in schools such as M.L.C. Our basket-ball and tennis teams had won the premiership for the third year in succession, again being undefeated. Hockey continued to improve.

Inter-school baseball and athletics were restricted owing to the poliomyelitis epidemic in Victoria.

In life-saving M.L.C. had been the ladies' club with highest points in the State for the fifth year in succession.

Cricket had become a major activity.

Typical Swiss Street, Zurich,- Switzerland.

—Laurel W o o d ,

IV.b,

Berry.

9 SILVER A N D

GREEN

The Neu/ Science Block T h e official opening of the new Science Block on Friday, 30th March, 1951, represented an important advance in the teaching facilities afforded by M.L.C. For years past the teaching of all Science subjects has been faithfully given under the disadvantages of small laboratories and inadequate facilities. That our girls have been well taught in spite of these handicaps has been a tribute to the work of past and present Science teachers, and the interest and application shown by girls themselves.

The provision of better buildings was delayed through wartime conditions, but in 1947 a permit to build was granted, to the great gratification of everyone connected with M.L.C. Tenders were called f o r early in 1948, and in July, 1948, the building operations actually commenced.

The architects f o r the new buildings were the Office of Harry A . Norris, and the contractors Clements Langford Pty. Ltd. The School is obliged to them f o r the care and efficiency with which the work has been carried out.

T h e staff and girls would add their gratitude to the workmen and those supervising them f o r their co-operation and courtesy during the progress of the work undertaken simultaneously with ordinary school routine. It was not easy f o r a school of 1500 and the building of a new block to function in such close proximity.

Mr. Green, foreman f o r Clements Langford Pty. Ltd., was particularly thoughtful f o r the interests of the School during the 2 j years' work.

It should be stated that shortage of supplies and other well-known building difficulties affecting the whole community delayed the progress of the work.

has laboratories equal to the best in any school in Australia. T h e Senior Science Master, Mr. H . McKnight, was indefatigable in securing the best opinions f r o m overseas and f r o m other States of the Commonwealth; as a result of his planning and his constant supervision, the School has a modern department with the facilities f o r the teaching of all branches of Science adequate to the needs qf many years to come.

Mr. McKnight has been aided in his work by Miss B. Jackson, Mr. S. Seymour, and other members of the Science staff, and to all of them the School, present and future, will be most grateful.

T h e Science Block has four large laboratories f o r Chemistry, Physics, Biology and General Science, two splendid lecture rooms with full provision f o r visual education, together with rooms f o r the preparation of experiments, storerooms, balance room, etc. T h e equipment in the laboratories is adequate, and there is space f o r large classes doing all kinds of practical work. T h e dark room in the Physics Laboratory is another appreciated feature.

A t the official opening ceremony, invited guests included Professors and lecturers f r o m the University, Science teachers f r o m other schools, executive members of the Parents' Association, Old Collegians' Club and School Council, and representatives of our School staff.

T h e President of the Methodist C o n ference, the Rev. B. L. Semmens, offered prayer.

T h e Chancellor of the University, Sir Charles Lowe, who performed the opening complimented

the School

upon

the

ceremony, progress

shown in providing modern laboratories.

The cost of the new Science Block has been over £43,000. This has represented a venture of faith on the part of the School Council, which has considered that the best facilities should be given for the teaching of subjects which have become increasingly important in a girls' school as in a boys' school.

It has been considered by representatives of the University, technical and other schools, that M.L.C.

He

said that one of the first four Chairs in the University

of

Natural Science.

Melbourne

was

a

Chair

of

This meant that nearly 100

years ago the University recognised the place of Science, although this Professor then covered the work now taken by six Professors and a large staff of

lecturers.

Sir Charles Lowe

spoke of the use of the subject General Science in preparing pupils in Middle School classes

10 for

SILVER A N D

the

separate

School.

Science

subjects

in

Senior

H e recalled many interesting reminis-

cences showing how recent had been the progress in Applied

GREEN

supervision would make present and future girls of the School indebted to him.

Mr.

Nevile

reminded those present that twelve years ago

Science in the facilities in

the late Mr. A . M . Nicholas and Mr. G. R.

homes, in transport and communications, etc.

Nicholas made a gift of £100,000 which en-

In view of the rapid march of scientific dis-

abled the School to be partially rebuilt.

coveries, it was important that schools such as

buildings could not be included in the scheme

Many

M.L.C. should have adequate laboratories and

carried

efficient teachers.

M.L.C. was left with a very heavy debt incurred

Sir Charles Lowe's informative address included a solemn reminder of the danger to the world's future through the mis-use of scientific knowledge, reminding his hearers of Einstein's words that " M a n to-day does not make sensible use of his knowledge."

Sir Charles emphasised

the need f o r teaching responsibility and wisdom to face the problem of how to live in safety and goodwill in a world made dangerous by hatred and the misuse of scientific knowledge.

Mr. R. W . Nevile, Chairman of the Finance and Advisory

Committee, made

the acknow-

ledgments

Sir

and

to

Charles

Lowe

others.

After thanking Sir Charles f o r his wise and

out

twelve

years

ago,

and

indeed

in the partial fulfilment of the plans of 1939.

T h e School was now in a better financial position

but

was

faced

with

the

necessity

for

accepting the challenge of completing the whole plan which the gift years ago had only begun.

Friends of

the School had donated

£11,000

towards the Chapel which it was hoped to build in a few years.

A

new Assembly Hall was

needed urgently, and so were a new

Junior

School and other classrooms which would take the place of temporary buildings.

After the opening function the visitors inspected the laboratories and were then entertained at afternoon tea.

inspiring words, he expressed the thanks of the

In the evening, more than 600 parents and

School to the architects and contractors, and

friends took the opportunity of inspecting the

also

new block and seeing the practical work carried

to

Mr.

McKnight,

the

Senior

Science

Master, whose long and careful planning and

out by senior pupils in all the laboratories.

/

North

View of

Science

Block.

-Mavis Tompkins, I V . d , Krome,

View of the Science Block from the Tennis 12 years.

— M a v i s Tompkins,

IV.d,

Krome,

Court.

12 years.

PHYSICS

LABORATORY. — C . Stuart Tompkins.

BIOLOGY LABORATORY. — C . Stuart Tompkins.

—C.

Stuart Tompkins.

13 SILVER A N D

GREEN

The Assembly Hall Fair Everyone connected with M.L.C. f o r years past has realised the need f o r a new Assembly all. Daily our Assembly has been conducted under cramped conditions, and it speaks volumes f o r the patience and loyalty of the girls that they have valued Assembly and have reverently entered into the devotional session in spite of sitting and standing in crowded numbers. Fitchett Hall, built nearly 40 years

ago, was not intended f o r a School of the present size; and in recent years we have been compelled to hold three Assemblies (at 9.5, 9.45, and 10.25), apart f r o m the Junior School which meets in another building. It has been a real deprivation f o r the School to be unable to meet together—except in the open air. W e have suffered also in not having a proper hall f o r dramatic productions, recitals and concerts,

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functions

for

the

School,

AND Old

Plans have been prepared, and preliminary steps are being taken f o r the erection of a new Assembly

Hall

near

Street.

the

northern

gates

This

will

centrally

be

in

situated f o r the whole School and will be connected with cloisters leading to the classroom blocks.

The new Assembly Hall will seat about

1200.

Unfortunately,

the estimated cost

about £80,000 gives us dismay.

Gifts are now

being

sought

from

parents

and friends of M.L.C. girls, past and present.

Collegians and the Parents' Association.

Fitzwilliam

GREEN

of

T h e building

It is interesting to note that as the Assembly Hall will be a Memorial

to O l d

Collegians

who served as nurses and in other active service capacities in both W o r l d Wars, the fund has been recognised by the Income Tax authorities, and all gifts will be allowable deductions from income tax.

A Fair will be held early in 1952 for the new Assembly Hall Fund.

This is an oppor-

cannot be undertaken without generous support

tunity

f r o m parents and friends.

School, Old Collegians and Parents' Associa-

W h y do boys' schools receive gifts and be-

tion.

for

the

generous

co-operation

of

the

There is not very much time to prepare

quests f r o m wills and girls' schools receive very

— a n d the cause deserves strenuous work f r o m

little f r o m such

us all.

"They

sources?

made us laugh, and helped to pay

For the great grand hall we ll build one day."

Honour

VI.c's

Form

Effort.

— W e n d y Gardner, Berry.

15 S I L V E R

AND

GREEN

School Activities Points against this suggestion

Devotional Notes Those who attend Devotional each Wednesday morning

find

a spiritual

respite in

the

middle of their busy week, and an invitation

were:—

1. T h e secret of successful youth clubs lies in trained and inspired leadership.

2. Groups must develop an "outward

ten-

is extended to those who have not yet shared

dency," that is, they must train young people

these fifteen minutes spent in prayer and study,

to bring in others, preparing themselves with

led by Dr. W o o d .

private and corporate Bible study and prayer.

This about

year

Dr.

prayer.

Wood On

began

the

by

speaking

Wednesday

before

Easter extracts were read f r o m Dorothy Sayers' book " T h e M a n Born to be King."

3. In poorer areas, youth clubs often prove to be the first contact with the church.

T h e question of the pew rental system was discussed, and everyone approved of

Since then we have heard something of the lives of the authors of hymns in our School Hymnal each week, and these brief studies have helped us to understand better the words of the hymns.

J.H.R.

T h e third point discussed was convention in our worship.

1. Conventions are a means to an end, and 2. With some so-called "conventions" we are

14th May, an O p e n

was held by the S.C.M. meeting

Forum

Topics sent in to this

by various circles were

co-ordinated

under two headings, and these subjects were presented f o r

with

the

Lord's Prayer.

S.C.M. Open Forum Tuesday,

T h e points raised here were:—

not an end in themselves. united

On

discussion.

universal

church,

e.g.

regards vain repetition should be noted.

T h e second topic dealt with Pentecost, and Peter's "conversion."

Points presented in this topic were: fortified the disciples.

army "bent on conquest," and the tactics she

2. Conversion—It may be gradual.

must use.

3. "Saved to S e r v e " — J o h n Wesley.

T h e church being regarded as a

fellowship of believers, some points presented on this subject were:—

4.

Help—We

receive

our

help

through

prayer and intelligent use of the Bible.

1. Are our youth movements and

Sunday

schools performing their functions correctly?

2. A r e parallel youth and adult services a wise idea?

3. Is the Pew Rental system necessary, and

5. Vocation.

Discussion

4. D o the conventions in our worship make us blind to the real Christ, or are we lax in church laws?

centred

about

the

following

points:— 1. Pentecost A

a g o o d idea?

quotation

from

Dr.

Weatherhead

was

given and the points were that Jesus' presence before

His

death

was

a

gradual

education.

Pentecost was a blaze of light and they realised that Jesus was with all people in all places at

Discussion centred about these points, and it was felt that our youth clubs may tend to become too social or to take the f o r m of extraactivities

the

T h e warning of our Lord as

1. Evangelism—What was the change that

T h e first subject dealt with the church as an

church

the en-

velope system as an alternative.

or

to

acquire

tendency"—"we are a select few."

an

"inward

all times.

2. Conversion It may be emotional but it must be lasting.

U p l i f t may come either by a gradual dawn or

SILVER

16

AND

GREEN

In the former, the

The

preparation f o r Christian living is before con-

Toorak

by a sudden realisation. version.

In the latter it comes after conversion.

W e should beware of a superior attitude to the "dustman" because each man is a son of God—that is his vocation.

—P.M.W., M.H.W.

Social Service Notes All School Social Service work was explained to girls at "Combined Societies" early in the year.

W e have started the year very well, as already number

of

forms

have

organised

special

" F o r m efforts," in this way raising money f o r various charities.

Once more we are supporting the Food f o r Britain Appeal.

We

are sending money

the

the

University

Women

of

Fund,

to and

parcels are being despatched f o r us f r o m the centre at Government

House.

Social Service money is still in the hands of the Form representatives, but it is hoped the amount will exceed £70.

Also,

also

thanks

College, Ryton,

Elsternwick,

who

came

M.C.E.G.G.S.,

Clyde, and M.L.C., to

compete

in

our

inter-school events.

3. Vocation

a

school

this

term

we have

been

making

a

special effort collecting milk bottle tops, stamps and tooth-paste tubes, to aid the Red Cross.

W e should like to thank Miss Dahle, Mrs. Kelly, Miss Sutton and Miss B. Jackson

(Food

f o r Britain), and all Social Service Captains, who have given such invaluable help throughout the term.

—B.M.D.

SENIOR A N D M I D D L E S C H O O L A T H L E T I C SPORTS, M A Y 1951.

T h e week before Friday, 11th May, saw many points of rain fall in Kew. With much trepidation the date f o r the Sports was not altered, and in spite of a rather sodden field, the Athletic Sports were very successful.

T h e gratitude of the whole school goes to Miss Perkins and the Physical Education staff who gave so much time in preparation f o r the sports, and to the members of the day staff who assisted in the smooth running of the programme.

Mrs. B. L. Semmens, wife of the President of the Methodist Conference of Victoria and Tasmania, kindly presented the trophies at the conclusion of the programme and spoke a few very gracious words to the school.

The 1934 record of 75 yards f o r Baseball Throwing was broken by Jocelyn Rogers, who made the new record, 77 yards.

Results:'—Event 1: 100 yards flat race ( o p e n ) — 1 Berry (E. Stewart), 2 Cato (B. Dusting), 3 Cato ( M . Armstrong). Time 13 sees.

Event 2: 100 yards flat race (under 16) — 1 Berry (J. Edwards), 2 Cato ( D. D u f t y ) , 3 Berry (B. Slade).

T i m e 13 sees.

Event 3: Middle Inter-house flag relay (B T e a m ) — 1 Fitchett, 2 Cato, 3 Berry.

Time 89.5 sees.

Event 4: Senior inter-house flag relay (B T e a m ) — 1 Fitchett, 2 Cato, 3 Berry.

Time 84.6 sees.

Event 5: 75 yards flat race ( o p e n ) — 1 Berry (E. Stewart), 2 Cato ( M . Armstrong), 3 Cato (B. Dusting). Time 10 sees.

Event 6: 75 yards flat race (under 16)'—• 1 Berry (J. Edwards), 2 Cato (M. Baker), 3 Cato (D. D u f t y ) . Time 10 sees.

Event 7: 75 yards flat race (under 15) — 1 Fitchett (F. Phillips), 2 Berry (B. Slade), 3 Krome (L. T a y l o r ) . Time 9.7 sees.

Event 8: 75 yards flat race (under 14) — 1 Fitchett (J. Antell), 2 Fitchett (D. Yorst o n ) , 3 Cato ( D . Knight) and Krome (J. Jackson).

Time 10.5 sees.

Event 9: High jump ( o p e n ) — D e l e t e d owing to condition of ground.

Event 10: Middle north-south-east-west ball game—1 Cato, 2 Krome, 3 Berry. Time 39.7 sees.

Event 11: Senior diamond ball relay—1 Krome, 2 Cato, 3 Berry.

Time 1 min. 52.3 sees.

Event 12: Baseball throwing ( o p e n ) — 1 Cato (J. Rogers), 2 Fitchett (J. G o r d o n ) , 3 Krome (Y. Gray).

Distance 77 yards (record).

17 SILVER A N D Event 13: Middle inter-house flag relay ( A T e a m ) — 1 Fitchett, 2 Krome, 3 Cato.

Time 97.5 sees.

Event 14: Senior inter-house flag relay ( A T e a m ) — 1 Cato, 2 Fitchett, 3 Krome.

Time 81.5 sees.

Event 15: Middle combined ball game—1 Berry, 2 Krome, 3 Fitchett.

Time 66.4 sees.

Event 16: Inter-house diamond throwing— 1 Krome, 2 Fitchett, 3 Cato. Time 1 min. 9 sees.

Event 17: Middle catch-the-train-relay—1 Fitchett, 2 Berry, 3 Fitchett.

Time 4 mins.

49.5 sees.

Event 18: Senior circle zig-zag pass ball— 1 Cato, 2 Berry 3 Fitchett. Time 1 min. 42.5 sees.

Event 19: Middle tunnel and zig-zag ball— 1 Krome, 2 Berry, 3 Fitchett.

Time 1 min.

57.2 sees.

Event 20: Senior spoke-wheel relay—1 Fitchett, 2 Berry, 3 Krome.

Time 3 mins. 46 sees.

Event 21: Middle square ball passing—1 Krome, 2 Fitchett, 3 Cato. Time 2 mins. 18 sees.

Event 22: Senior obstacle relay—1 Cato, 2 Krome, 3 Fitchett.

T i m e 1 min. 29 sees.

Event 23: T h e " M a r c h Past" of competitors — 1 Fitchett, 2 Berry, 3 Cato.

GREEN

2. Intermediate Points Cup won Captain, June Beech.

by

Fitchett.

3. Senior Flag Race won by Cato and Fitchett. (equal first). Captains, Jocelyn Rogers and Joan Gordon.

4. Senior Points Cup won by Cato.

Jocelyn Rogers.

Captain,

5. House Proficiency Cup Captain, Joan Gordon.

Fitchett.

won

by

6. Bettye H a m m o n Cup for Aggregate points won by Fitchett. Captain, Joan Gordon.

7. House v. School won by School, Monica W o o d .

Captain,

Points:—Berry

Cato Fitch. Krome

Senior Points Cup

38

60

35

Middle Points Cup House Proficiency Total Scores ..

27 10 75

23 6

48 20 103

89

29 34 —

63

Lower Middle School Athletic Sports, April, 1951.

T r o p h y List:— Little brothers' and sisters' r a c e — ( 3 and 4 years) won by Elizabeth Berryman; (5 and 6 years) won by Suzanne Furneaux.

Inter-house Fitchett.

flag

race

(under

11)

won

by

Sports captain, Barbara Carroll.

Event 24: Senior inter-school flag relay— 1 M.L.C., Hawthorn; 2 Clyde; 3 M.C.E.G.G.S. T i m e 78 sees.

Inter-house flag race (11 and over) won by

by Fitchett. Sports captain: Barbara Carroll.

Event 25: Junior inter-school flag race—1 M.C.E.G.G.S.; 2 Toorak College; 3 M.L.C., Hawthorn.

T i m e 80.5 sees.

captain, Barbara Carroll.

Event 26: Inter-school diamond throwing— 1 M.L.C., Hawthorn (Silver Team) ; 2 M.C.E.G.G.S.; 3 M.L.C., Hawthorn (Green Team).

Time 49 sees.

Event 27: House v. School—1 House. Time 79 sees.

School,

Berry Total Scores

44

Cato Fitch. Krome 37

59

56

"Books open new worlds . . . and turn a story of

Relay

Captain,

Library Notes mirror on the past.

Inter-school Events: Flag

House v. School won by School.

Sports

Catherine Lee.

2

T r o p h y List:— 1. Junior

Junior Points Cup won by Fitchett.

to-day

Books tell the stirring

and yesterday, and bring

to

life the great man and the c o m m o n man and won

by

M.C.E.G.G.S.

their struggles and

hopes

2. Senior Flag Relay won by M.L.C., Hawthorn.

Books

in

3. Diamond Throwing won by M.L.C., Hawthorn (Silver).

Inter-house Events: ' 1. Intermediate Flag Race won by Fitchett.

Captain, June Beech.

adventure and knowledge and wit and wisdom."

are

worlds

and

achievements.

themselves,

worlds

of

In spite of this, a library is sometimes only a roomful of

books without life or interest,

but the M.L.C. Library

is much

more

than

SILVER A N D

18 that, it is used continuously people

with all

types

of

by all types

interests.

of

It is a

GREEN

please."

W e thank all the girls on the Com-

mittee f o r their unfailing and willing service

powerful force in moulding our lives f o r the

to the Library.

future, so we want even more people to use

sounds with the subjects of Essay Topics and

the Library.

the names of great men.

Some of the girls who have us^d the Library

After school the Library reReference borrowing

is in progress!

in the past have expressed their appreciation

Recently we had an exhibition of books on

by presenting books f o r the use of girls in the

Greek History and Art f o r those Matriculation

future.

girls studying Literature and Greek and Roman

The

presentations

which

previously been acknowledged

have

not

History.

are:—

Lyle Gribbin—"Displaying Australia.'"

Pat. F o w l e r — " T h e

Golden

There is so much of interest and usefulness in our Library that it can be compared with

Bough."

John

Louise Baxter—"Daughter of the Samurai."

Cecile

"It

Benjamin—"Papua."

Margaret

Ann

Kerrison—"Camera

Study

ot

Donne's is a

description of

paradise,

rivers

the

of

University:

knowledge

—M.G.

Queensland."

Gwen Stahl—"Shakespearean

Tragedy."

Mr. and Mrs. Stahl—"Trevelyan's

Mary Patten—2 vols. Judith Wright's poems.

A n n a W a r i n sent us a cheque f o r £5 with which we bought

"Italian

Painting—Creators

of the Renaissance," a book which is proving boon

to

students.

Matriculation

Modern

History

W e want to thank all these people

f o r their generous gifts to our Library.

The School Librarians of last year, Louise Baxter

and

University.

Louise,

Anne

Warin,

are

now

at

the

A n n e is at Janet Clarke Hall, and

who

won

a

Senior

Government

Scholarship, is at the W o m e n ' s College.

Many

girls will remember them f o r their fine service in the Library last year.

For many years now, hundreds of

M.L.C.

girls have been indebted to Mrs. Taylor

for

their love of books and their knowledge of the way to use books.

Aggrey, the A f r i c a n teacher

has said, " I f you educate a man you educate him only, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family."

This makes one wonder

how

will

many

families

education to Mrs. Taylor.

owe

Shakespeare Day

Illustrated

Social History."

a

are

there and arts and sciences flow f r o m thence!"

part

of

their

W e also have to

thank Miss Iversen f o r her great assistance in

After a postponement of one day, Shakespeare's birthday was celebrated on Tuesday, 24th April, with performances of Macbeth and Richard II, both of which maintained the high standards of former years.

A n ambitious and comprehensive selection f r o m Macbeth, including the famous murder and sleep-walking scenes, was attempted by the Leaving forms, an effective atmosphere having been created by the eerie, yet realistic, witch scenes.

As a contrast to the action and fantasy of Macbeth,

Richard

II, which

is essentially

a

play of words rather than actions, proved most successful.

T h e two scenes prepared were the

deposition

scene, in which

Richard

formally

relinquishes the throne to his cousin

Boling-

broke, and a brief but touching scene in which Richard bids farewell to his Queen.

Both plays were received enthusiastically by an intelligent and interested audience, which generally appreciated the time and thought spent in preparing for such a fine afternoon's entertainment.

Those taking part i n c l u d e d : —

the Library.

T h e Fiction Library is so full at lunchtime

Macbeth—Witches, P. Donnelly, M. late,

the

Banquo, S. Shulman; Ross, J. Harding; Angus,

Librarian

calls,

"Committee

off

duty,

V.

Heraud;

Macbeth,

M.

Walk-

that we feel we have done a day's work when

Macfarlane;

19 S I L V E R G. Barr; Lady Macbeth, P. Greenall; Apparitions,

G.

Yelland,

D.

Alexander,

K.

Old;

Lennox, A . Benjamin; Doctor, L. Gault; Ladyin-waiting, L. C o o k ; Messengers, B. Wilkinson, L. T o l d ;

AND

GREEN

their help in the preparation.

All of those present enjoyed the evening, and We hope that next year's History Night may be just as successful and entertaining as this year's.

Macduff, S. H o u g h t o n ; Seyton, M.

—G.A.

Simmons; Stage Manager, B. C a r t e r ; Drummer, I. Arnold.

Music Notes

Richard II—Bishop of Carlisle, B. Malcolm; Duke of Y o r k , E. Gibbs; Henry Bolingbroke, B.

Williams;

Duke

of

Northumberland,

Pearce; Richard, M. W o o d ; Peverill;

Producer,

M.

K.

Queen A n n e , S.

Wood;

Prologue,

B.

Webster.

A t the end of the term, on Friday, 18th May, the Intermediate Forms presented three scenes f r o m " T h e Merchant of Venice." Cast: Antonio, G. Bacon; Bassanio, G. Anderson; Gratiano, L. Paddock; G o b b o , B. Hargrave; Launcelot G o b b o , L. Andrew; Nerissa, P. Balfe; Duke, J. Miller; Portia, B. W o o d ; Shylock, E. Croydon; Leonardo, J. Bissett; Gentlemen, M. Andersen, D. Mills.

—B.F.W.

Intermediate History Night—Jubilee Pageant O n Friday, 20th April, the Intermediate History girls held an All-Australian Night in the Gym., in honour of Jubilee year.

The girls arrived dressed in period costumes, some of which were very beautiful.

T h e items on the programme celebrated events f r o m the Foundation of Melbourne to Federation.

V.f acted the former, and V . g the latter.

V.d acted an aboriginal legend, and V . a and V.b's play was on Separation f r o m N . S . W . This was followed by " G o l d and Eureka" by V.c.

V.e then read one of Henry Lawton's short stories.

All of these playlets were very well acted, and all members of the audience were taught something by them. T w o very interesting talks on Australian History were given by Mr. Cook, a collector of Australiana, and Mr. M c C o m b , former President of the Historical Society. W e were all very grateful to them both f o r having given up their time to come to speak to us.

W e .were also very grateful to Mr. Seymour f o r acting as Master of Ceremonies during the evening, and most of all to Miss Cerutty and members of the Intermediate History staff f o r

" I heard a thousand blended

notes"

—Wordsworth.

T h e Music School has started well this year, and we are looking forward to a very successful year's musical programme.

W e welcome new members of staff, who include: Mr. G o r d o n McKeown, Mus.Dip., Chief Study Teacher of Piano at the University Conservatorium, and an Examiner of the Australian Music Examination Board; Miss Gladys Lawrence, L.R.A.M. and A.R.C.M., who teaches piano, organ, and class singing; Miss Alison Cayley, Mus.Dip.; Miss Beryl Mayfield, Mus. D i p . ; Miss Doris Slatter, Licentiate of Music; Miss Lilian D r u m m o n d , Mis.Bac., and Miss Shirley Robinson, Mus.Dip., who both teach violin; and Miss Nancy Creighton, Mus.Dip., who has taken over Miss Start's solo singing.

Miss Eileen Maley, Mus.Dip., is taking Miss W . Mitchell's classes in Theory, Harmony and Counterpoint while Miss Mitchell is in England.

Last year we said farewell to Miss Mitchell, who was granted 12 months' leave of absence.

W e will look forward to her return next year.

Miss Eunice Weir, who taught piano, and Miss Nancy Braithwaite, violin, both left last year to be married; Miss Neva Start left f o r England to further her musical experience; Miss Elaine H u r d (piano) has gone to St. Margaret's at Berwick; and Miss June Missen (piano) has gone to teach at the Mildura H i g h School.

This year the Music Scholarship tests were held on the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd of February, with Dr. Floyd and Miss Lorna Stirling adjudicating.

A recital was given by the scholarship winners on 20th March, showing what a very high standard of work was maintained.

The winners were: Senior Piano Scholarship (gift of the late E. A . Wright, Esq.)—Iris Arnold.

SILVER A N D

20

T h e ' Rath Flockart" Scholarship for Intermediate Piano (gift of Mrs. Purvis, Mrs. F. B o n d , and Miss O. Pizzey)—Elizabeth Duncan.

Junior Piano Scholarship T r u s t ) — J u d i t h McDonald.

Violin

Scholarship

(gift of

(gift of

Danks'

the late

Mrs.

F. J. Cato)—Elizabeth Sampson.

Singing Scholarship (gift of A a r o n Danks)—Betty Scarlett.

the late

Orchestral Scholarship (gift of i C u m m ) — M a r y Rowe ('cello).

Open

Scholarship

Alcock)—Noelle Open I.orna

(gift

Russell

of

Original Bull.

Composition

Mrs. F. J.

Mrs.

A.

E.

(singing).

Orchestral Scholarship Stirling)—Pamela

Sir

(gift of

Webster

Miss

(clarinet).

Scholarship—Gretta

O p e n Scholarship (Dr. Douglas Thomas) — Judith Walker

(piano).

Congratulations are due to all fhese girls.

As in past years, a number of M.L.C. girls -and staff hold season's tickets f o r the Celebrity 'Concerts.

These programmes are always enjoyable and very educational.

The

Annual

Church

Service

was

broad-

cast f r o m the Auburn Methodist Church at 11 a.m. o n Sunday, 13th May, over 3LO. service

is always one of

the most

This

inspiring

events of the school year.

Many Schools'

schools Music

entered Festival

f o r the Primary this year, held

GREEN

between 7th May and 18th May. The sessions were held in the various suburban districts, and ten Town Halls were used, with two sessions daily. A choir f r o m M.L.C. sang on the afternoon of 14th May. T h e Senior Choir are preparing Gabriel Pierne's " T h e Children's Crusade" for 28th August, in conjunction with the Melbourne Philharmonic Choir and the Victorian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Bernard Heinze. Miss June Dawkins, an O l d Collegian of the School, and Miss Nancy Creighton, will take solo parts.

T h e Crusade was performed by the choir of 1949 with great success.

T h e Senior Madrigal Group has received an invitation f r o m the National Gallery Association to give a recital of Elizabethan work in the Stawell Gallery on 20th July. Dr. Floyd will be the lecturer.

Robin Wright, an O l d Collegian, will also give a recital on 12th June, before leaving f o r Paris for further study in music.

W e remind girls who learn any orchestral instrument, including those who learn outside the school, that new recruits are welcome to the school orchestra, which meets Friday afternoons after school.

W e wish to thank Miss Flockart and the Music Staff for the g o o d start they have given us this year, and hope that 1951 will be as interesting and successful as past years have been.

— M . R . and S.P.

—Shirley

Reed, P.VI.a,

Fitchett.

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Travel Section Letter from South Africa (Extracts f r o m a letter f r o m Miss Betts on her way to England.)

If I start on Cape Town, I'll never be done.

I saw a lot of the surrounding country, and did a particularly fine trip on a perfect day right round the Peninsula.

I couldn't keep my gasps of wonder to myself—there's such a wonderful expanse of blue-green sea, such snow-white sands, and glorious hills.

W e went over by the Atlantic, and returned by the Indian Ocean, and there were spots when we saw both together.

A f r i c a seems all mountains, and I made several very fine trips inland, through rugged mountain passes, and valleys so peaceful and well-cared f o r that one just longs to be part of them.

There were no ugly, shoddy farmhouses, but lovely white dwellings with Dutch gables, in the midst of gay gardens, well-tilled fields, and everywhere trees—oaks and gums, firs and wattles, as if indigenous as well as South A f r i c a n trees.

Lovely orchards, too, and masses of wildflowers!

There is the erosion threat, and a great deal of trouble is being taken to teach the natives agriculture. I saw a g o o d deal of rural native life as I drove through native reserves on my five-day trip f r o m Cape T o w n to Durban, and I was particularly impressed by the spans of oxen ploughing and carting, and by the fields ploughed in curves or alternating rich green grass, and rich ploughed earth, to check erosion.

I came across a very interesting sidelight on the effect of land conditions on the people.

I met a very nice woman who is on the staff of the Groote Schuur Hospital, and she says they now have an increasing number of natives coming to find work, because they can't support the big herds of cattle required f o r their daughters' dowries on the land as they used to do, because of erosion, so they come to the towns. This increases immorality and disease, as they leave their women.

T h e same thing

happens in the mines—women are not allowed to work there, so the men go f r o m long distances and have to leave them behind.

T h e inland South A f r i c a n towns are beautiful—the smaller towns, that is. I didn't see a great many of the big towns like Johannesburg.

Durban is a fine city in the midst of lush green, hilly country. I saw a lot of the smaller country towns, full of trees, and with channels of water flowing by the streets. I was interested in the relics of the "voortrekkers"—old waggons, and the little cottages where they settled, and the fields they ploughed.

My farming ancestry wells up in me at times.

Incidentally, Durban's wide streets are the result of waggons and oxen—the first Governor had them planned so that a waggon and a span of oxen could turn. Durban is a m u c h finer city than dear Cape Town, but not quite so lovable, and one misses Table Mountain.

T h e climate is awful. They say it sucks the life out of one, and I can well believe it.

I feel daunted when I try to tell you about Fort Hare. I only saw it, of course, in vacation, though there were a few of the staff about, native and European, but I felt deeply attracted to it f o r many reasons.

I reached it f r o m Durban after the most heavenly flight when I saw the mountains and coast as no other means could have shown me, and then a train trip to Alice in green rural country at the foot of the Amatola Range.

Everyone told me how lucky I was to see the country under such conditions—the rainy season and a specially g o o d one, had m a d e everything richly green.

My friends hadn't a spare room in the hostel so I slept at the hotel in Aljce, and. crossed the river to Fort Hare every day.

Alice itself is a charming, tree-filled littletown. I used to wake in the morning to the sound of the little country train being greeted by the babble of excited native tongues, and the flowing of water.

There is a market place and a little stone church, which is very

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nice inside.

Being in that church made me feel that Alice was by way of being a University town—they have specially g o o d preachers, and so many of the University folk attend services, and yet, outside, it's just a little country town.

I would like to have been there to attend an evening service in term time in the University itself.

I believe the singing of the students, is in credibly lovely: most native peoples seem to be gifted with song, and the A f r i c a n preachers are very fine.

T h e senior schools f o r both native boys and girls were there in Alice, so I was able to see both.

That first morning I was taken round Fort Hare itself, which is an out-post on the old wall surrounding most of the University buildings.

There's a building known as the Christian U n i o n ; a set of club-rooms, given by the Y.M.C.A.'s of America and Canada, which has a tower commanding a grand view.

I saw the library.

It is quite a fine place with a wonderful collection of volumes (some Australian visitor had given them a set of Australian books, among them Daisy Bates), lecture rooms, laboratories, and a very interesting museum of South A f r i c a n curios.

Most of the students seem pretty poor, and only the women's college is state aided, so the buildings are rather cramped for room.

M y last day in South A f r i c a was spent very politically.

Friends took me to a lunch-time meeting in the Cathedral Hall; a meeting of the League of Civic Rights addressed by a very able woman M.P., a Mrs. Ballinger.

It's supposed to be a non-party league, but, needless to say, Malan's party keeps out of it.

She gave a very capable summing up of Malan's "speech f r o m the throne."

Mrs. Ballinger's address gave me a background f o r Parliament.

I had a g o o d seat in t h e , Visitors' Gallery, and some coloured men, one a minister, were sitting near me.

T h e occasion was historic, as the Opposition was moving a vote of censure on the government over its decision to remove the vote f r o m the Cape Coloureds (mixed bloods) and its refusal to accept co-operation as offered, in the face of world crisis, and dropping contentious subjects.

Dr. Malan spoke at length

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Tropical Cricket O n e of the most interesting features of native life in Hannabade village, Port Moresby, is the week-end cricket.

This is modelled on, and greatly resembles. English village cricket.

There are about five asphalt pitches in the village, and every Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock, the local teams gather there.

T h e usual uniform consists of khaki shorts and a brown torso, or, in some cases, a p o l o shirt.

Sandshoes are worn by the majority, but some natives still prefer to play in bare feet. T h e more dashing members of the team sometimes wear green or red cricket caps, but this is only a recent innovation, and has not as yet been universally accepted. T h e umpires too, are natives, and this is one aspect of native life in which the white man has no part.

T h e captains have a word with their teams, the bowler places his field, and the game is ready to begin.

T h e wicket-keeper is well padded and gloved, but the batsmen sc rn pads, trusting that the ball will not pass their bats.

Scientifically the game is perfect, and it is not often that a wrong stroke is played.

The batsmen must always be alert, as a melee of leg breaks, off breaks, straight, fast and slow balls are often bowled in one over.

Scoring is fairly rapid, and sixes are not uncommon.

T h e members of the batting side who are awaiting their turn usually spend their time singing to the accompaniment of a mouth organ. T h e Papuan is very musical, and hearing these natives harmonise English songs, ranging f r o m "Silver Threads A m o n g the G o l d " to "Forever and Ever," is a delightful experience in itself.

Perhaps even more interesting to us, as a girls' school, is the women's cricket. usually an impromptu affair, and chosen f r o m all who wish to play.

This is teams are

—C. BEVERLEY

Stuart Tompkins

—C.

WEBSTER,

Joint Senior Prefect,

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Stuart Tompkins.

WOOD,

Joint Senior Prefect,

1951.

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T h e usual uniform f o r women is a grass skirt and a blouse. There are no umpires, and no fixed positions.

T h e wicket-keeper wears no pads or gloves, and there is a bowler operating f r o m both ends at the same time. T h e scoring, however, is fast and furious, even though the batswomen have never heard of a straight bat, and the women enjoy their game immensely.

N o batswoman ever stays in for long, but when she goes out she is given a wonderful round of applause.

It is only since the war that the villagers have taken cricket seriously, and this is one of the few introductions into village life by the white man that has really benefited the community of the native people.

—Rosemary

Groves,

Hon.

VI.c,

Fitchett,

16 years.

Port Arthur Convict Settlement Port Arthur, the famous Australian Penal Settlement of the nineteenth century, is situated in the south-east of Tasmania.

In approaching it f r o m the north, a narrow strip of land—the Eagle Hawk neck—must be crossed.

In convict days this neck of lana was guarded by fierce dogs, so that the prisoners had no hope of escape.

Men, women, and even children were sent out f r o m England, and received at least seven years' imprisonment, f o r committing such petty crimes as stealing a loaf of bread or a handkerchief.

T h e cells in which the worst offenders were confined were small and badly ventilated. Strict rules of silence also had to be observed. W h e n a prisoner wanted the guard he pulled a cord, which rang a bell and released a board showing his number.

T h e guard would speak to him through a tiny slot in the door.

If these rules of silence were broken, the prisoner was placed in a solitary confinement cell. It had f o u r doors, which, when closed, allowed not even a pin-point of light to enter.

After a period of f r o m seven to twenty-one days in this cell, the prisoner came out either blinded or insane.

The chapel to which the convicts went had a door half-way up the wall, and all prisoners

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were masked while being led up the steps, so that no communication

could be made with

fellow prisoners.

T h e church at Port Arthur was built entirely by convicts in 1836. It was never consecrated, because, during its erection, one man fell f r o m the top of a high tower and was killed, and another was murdered there.

In all museums in Tasmania, a special room is kept f o r the historical relics of the convict days. O n e of the most cruel devices of punishment was the ducking-box, used on the voyage out. It is a large, square wooden box, with a few holes bored in the top.

If a convict misbehaved, he was placed in this box, which was lowered over the edge of the boat. T h e water poured in through the holes after each wave, and made this f o r m of punishment almost unendurable.

T h e buildings are now in ruins, and seem to be hundreds of years old.

But this decay is not due to age. In 1892 a fire occurred, menacing the whole settlement, and all the buildings were damaged.

It is believed, too, that the foundations were badly constructed.

A scheme has been planned to reconstruct the buildings as they were originally, therefore making it a greater attraction to tourists.

But I feel that the Settlement looks more realistic and interesting standing in ruins.

—Elizabeth

Duncan,

Lower

V.a,

Fitchett,

13 years.

Superstition (Siamese, Chinese and Malay) T h e Asians are very superstitious people, some going to extremes.

As I am an Asian I have met many who are superstitious.

Some Siamese people believe that photographs and portraits should not be given away, because the recipient could use the photograph to practise black magic, which would put the subject under a spell and make him do what ever the recipient wanted. T h e person's hair could also be used in the same way, so most people bury their hair when it is cut, and they carefully collect all the loose hair that drops.

25 SILVER A N D T h e Chinese have peculiar beliefs about the •dead.

It is said that when a pregnant

cat

jumps over a corpse, the corpse will rise and walk,

and

it will

catch

then fall dead again.

hold

of

something,

It will also fall dead

when it comes to a threshold, as it is said that

the

they walk.

dead

never

bend

their

feet

when

That is why most Chinese homes

have thresholds.

T h e Chinese believe that seven days

after

death the dead realise that they are dead, so they

return to

see their family before

leave f o r heaven.

they

Their return can be ascer-

tained by burning some coloured paper.

I have

seen the foot-prints of my grandfather when he came back seven days after his death.

O n the seventh day after my grandfather's death, all his children, grandchildren, and other relatives assembled in the parlour, where his portrait was placed, with f o o d and drink f o r him. W e all stood in a circle, and in the centre there were heaps of coloured paper and paper shoes.

T h e ceremony proceeded, and when the priests had said prayers my father, the eldest son, lit the heaps of paper.

Prayers were then said again in a sing-song manner, till all the paper was burnt.

The ashes were swept carefully away, and there we saw the sole-prints of a pair of tennis shoes.

W e compared these prints with all his shoes, and f o u n d they fitted with the pair tie wore before , he fell ill.

O n e sole-print was very d e a r , the other looked as if it had been moved slightly forward.

W e then burnt that pair of shoes, so that he could use them in heaven.

M y aunts and also my grandmother said that they heard chairs scraping in his room that night. I have seen this done twice, but I feel sceptical about it.

T h e Chinese believe that in July and August the doors of the dead are opened, and devils go about.

Usually the children are kept indoors after six during these months, because if a child encounters an evil spirit he will fall ill, and sometimes even die.

If the child's parents do not worship the spirits and offer them f o o d , the child usually becomes very ill, so people can be seen worshipping these evil spirits in the streets. Although this may seem

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sight

in

China.

Fisherman never allow women to climb into their fishing-boats, or go into their shacks, as women are supposed to bring bad luck, being considered unclean.

Sonje fishermen believe that in the month of August there is a kind of holy fish.

These have five fingermarks o n their backs, and they cannot be eaten or caught. O n c e there was a shack in front of our sea-side house which was owned by an educated business-man, who did not believe in such "nonsense," as he called it, so he gave instructions to the fishermen to let down the net when they saw shoals of these holy fish. They caught many that night, and many more the next day. But a week later a strong wind blew down the business-man's fishing shack.

A f t e r that, he never allowed any women to go into his shack, and he never caught holy fish again.

T h e Indians and Malays never give a knife or needle away, because they believe that there are evil spirits in the knife, and it will kill someone eventually.

So whenever a knife if given away a small sum of money must be paid f o r it.

They also believe that banana trees have spirits of a lovely lady.

This beautiful girl can only be seen at night, and after a certain time she disappears. She is always seen by a banana or a coconut tree, so she is believed to be the spirit of those trees. It is said that if one cuts a finger and rubs the blood o n the flowers of a banana tree, the spirit will appear that night.

A f t e r the person has seen her, he must chop the tree down in three strokes. Some have tried this and have been successful, some have not. T h e spirit is very allergic to nails, so she changes into a human being if a nail is put into her head.

All these superstitions sound incredible, but many Asian people do believe them perhaps because of personal experience, or because they have been brought up to believe them Because of this, we should not laugh at them; instead, we must show them that there is no reliable basis f o r their superstitious beliefs.

—Eileen Y a p , Pass V I . c .

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Queensland Adventure " W o u l d n ' t it be fun to climb T a b l e t o p ? " I remember remarking, as we stood on the lookout, gazing at that marvellous view dominated by the big sawn-off cone below us.

Well, that's what began it. Next morning, at a little after five, four figures might have been seen walking gaily down the road into the valley between the Darling Downs and T bletop.

The sun had not yet arisen, and the trees and grass were sleeping under a grey, dewy quilt. Even the birds were scarcely awake.

A t last we arrived at the f o o t of the mountain. N o track was visible, so we set to climbing the steep, grassy slope, dotted here and there with timber and saplings. Being o n the western side of the mountain, we were still in the cool shade, and the spicy air lent us energy.

W e soon had to cut off into the scrub, which was both prickly and trackless.

It was not long before we came to a great expanse of grey scree—pile upon pile of smooth boulders, f o r m ing a broad, lumpy road on a steep slant. W e seemed to be scrambling over these rocks f o r miles, when at last the " r o a d " petered out into the jungle. A b o v e us, the battlement of the mountain towered, showing a long, shallow depression in its face, f r o m whence the piles of rock had fallen long ago.

O n into the jungle—a mass of thorny shrubs and wet, rotten trees—a living substance f o r fungi, mosses, and tree orchids, with vines of all types—woven in a tangled mesh of leaves stalks, and flowers—crawling over the ground and up into the tallest tree, with exotic clusters of colour and fragrance. Yes, the jungle was beautiful—but the jungle was also dangerous.

Stinging trees spread their hand-like leaves to touch an unspecting passer-by, thick vines tripped careless feet; the jungle was thick and trackless, and more than once we nearly walked straight over a precipice without seeing it in the tangle of roots and creepers.

A t last we burst into the sun. Before us was a grassy, almost vertical ascent. It took some time to get up, f o r the tiny stone ledges in the grass were apt to crumble, and a healthy prickly pear tree is not the best thing tc clutch as one slips.

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W e reached the top.

Standing waist-high in the silken grass, we looked out over the world. O n all sides the slanting sun-beams silvered the dewy leaves of the gums on the eastern hill-sides, while the valleys between were lost in purple gloom. T h e ranges fell away in tiers to the horizon, where the sun was climbing into the cloud-flecked sky. A feeling of importance seized me. Yes, it was f u n to climb Tabletop.

—Jennifer Harding, Pass V l . a , Fitchett, 15 years.

The Maoris of Rotorua Whakarewarewa and Ohinemutu are unfamiliar names to Australians, but in New Z e a land they are well known, as the two main Maori settlements on the North Island. Both settlements are situated in the hot springs district of Rotorua.

W h a k a is the larger settlement of the two. and to the visitor, it is a bewildering maze of winding roads.

Its huts, built of wood, are elaborately carved with grinning little figures called tikis, and are stained with red ochre.

T h e tikis, which are sacred to the Maori, have eyes of luminous pawa-shell, which give them a weird appearance of life. T h e interiors of the huts are hung with flaxen mats, woven by the women, and the floors are usually strewn with extra mats on which the Maoris sleep.

T h e Maoris do all their cooking at the hot pools, f o r there are hundreds of these, large and small, around Rotorua.

T h e favourite f o o d of the Maori is "kumara," which is like a sweet potato. Another delicacy is fish, which the women steam in little flaxen baskets placed in the hot pools.

All the washing is done at the pools, too.

About once a month, all the Maoris at W h a k a go down to the hot pools to wash themselves and all their belongings, usually taking the whole day to do it.

T h e Maori children go to school with white children, and, at school they are c'res^ed like any white child. A t the settlement, however, they prefer to go half-naked, the girls often carrying babies strapped to their backs.

At

27 S I L V E R Whaka, their favourite amusement is to dive f o r pennies which visitors throw into the river f r o m a bridge guarding the entrance of

the

settlement.

T h e second settlement, Ohinemutu, is built on the shores of Lake Rotorua. Although it is smaller than Whaka, it is more important, f o r the Maoris have always believed the lake to be sacred. Before the "pakeha" or "white m a n " came to New Zealand, the tribes held their ceremonies at Lake Rotorua, and to-day, if a chieftain dies, the Maoris still hold a ceremonial dance at Ohinemutu.

T h e ceremonial dance, which is called a "haka," is always a great event.

T h e older men, tattooed and wearing tribal robes of flax and feathers, p e r f o r m the traditional dances, while the rest of the tribe sits cross-legged in a huge circle around the dancers. In the background, the younger womtn, who are dressed in flaxen skirts, chant and beat time with their flaxen poi-balls.

T h e Rotorua Maoris are happy, lazy people.

They lead a carefree existence—any hard work is sure to be put off until to-morrow!

But this attitude is often misleading, f o r the average Maoris is very intelligent, and when he wishes, he can be most industrious. H e makes a peaceful, patriotic citizen, and has earned the respect of all his white countrymen.

—Fran.

McCarthy,

Pass VI.d,

Krome,

15

years.

The Chinese New Year Although many Chinese customs have died away, the Chinese still celebrate many festivals.

O f all, the most important is the Chinese New Year.

A fortnight before this occasion, every Chinese h o m e will be busily baking cakes and biscuits.

T h e fruit shops will be packed with people, and in the grocers' shops, preserved ducks, ducks' meat, and Chinese sausages will be seen hanging. These are preserved in China and are imported into Malaya.

T h e Chinese calendar is calculated by the moon.

Usually the New Year's Day falls in February. This festival lasts f o r fifteen days, and in some homes great celebrations are per-

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formed on the eighth and ninth days. Visitors call to distribute red packets to the children.

These red packets contain money wrapped with red paper. Every child receives one f r o m each of his parents o n New Year's morning or o n the night of New Year's ev?. According to Chinese tradition, unmarried adults are entitled to have red packets f r o m their parents and elders, but when married, they have to give red packets to their brothers and sisters, O n New Year's eve, each family has a gathering f o r the last dinner.

A t midnight, the young people will go f o r a walk, meaning to throw away all their laziness.

Entertainments are always arranged to keep people awake. In some theatres there will be midnight shows, while in many homes, the people play cards.

Some people keep the first New Year's Day sacred.

T h e servants are very superstitious.

They hide all the brooms on the preceding day, f o r they do not like to sweep the floor that day, as they fear that they would sweep all the prosperity and luck away.

T h e Chinese are very f o n d of red. O n every present, a piece of red paper is attached to bring g o o d luck.

—Sieu Lan Thean, H o n . V I . b .

A Journey to Dookie Dookie being about twenty miles f r o m Shepparton, we made a day trip, catching the diesel rail-car at the busy' station.

Speeding across level country watered by irrigation channels, we passed dark green orange groves, peach orchards, wheatfields, and bright patches of lucerne.

S o o n we f o u n d ourselves on the yellow gravel platform at Dookie.

Fancy a Malayan word f o r the name of a Victorian country station! " D o o k i e " means "lament," f o r the owner was sad at losing some of his lovely pasture land when the railway line f r o m Shepparton was laid down.

Three miles away on a rise, stand the ruins of a stone structure, all that remains of Cashel, once a small township. With the construction of the railway across the plains, and the building of the station o n lower ground, a town sprang up around this new centre of activity,

—C. PREFECTS,

Stuart Tompkins.

1951.

Barbara Atkins, Ainslie Rowe, Barbara Williams, Margaret Wilkinson, Elizabeth Fullwood, Deidre Fuller.

Shirley Gibbs, Ann Green, Bettine Dusting, Ariel Keen, Beverley Malcolm.

Mary Rowe, Beverley Webster and Monica W o o d (Joint Senior Prefects), Janet Huntington.

— C . Stuart Tompkins.

H O U S E ( B O A R D E R S ' ) PREFECTS A N D W I N G C A P T A I N S , 1 9 5 1 .

Elaine Cavanagh, Ainslre Rowe (Prefect), Rosemary Groves, Mary Rowe (Senior House Prefect), Shirley Dunoon, Barbara Crisp, Margaret Brisbane.

29 S I L V E R and as the years passed, Cashel was gradually abandoned, and now ceases to exist.

Thr stones that remain formed part of a bank strong-room built when the fear of N e d Kelly spread through this district.

Nearby, there stands Mount Major, an extinct volcano, which deposited the large basalt rocks which show through the soil f o r miles around.

T h e aboriginals made use of this hard bluestone to fashion their stone axes.

Beside the sleepy town of Dookie, there is an unexpectedly large quarry, long s nce overgrown by thick grass and small bushes, with here and there a stunted tree. Before bitumen was used f o r roads, this was a busy spot, anc1 stone quarried here was used f o r road-making as far afield as Strathmerton.

But now, in the eerie silence, the high stone cliffs echo the calls of the wild birds, and rabbits scurry in and out among the boulders, where once there was noise and bustle.

—Rosalind Johns, Form IV.b, Cato, 12 years.

A Trip to Seal Rocks During a recent holiday at Cowes, Phillip Island, we went one afternoon on a trip to Seal Rocks. W e walked along the beach to the jetty at Cowes, where the ferry, "Estelle Star" was moored.

After all tourists had boarded her, the ropes were cast off, and the ship slowly drifted away f r o m the pier. T h e n we headed out into the bay, and a few minutes later, the "Estelle Star" was cutting along at a steady pace.

People at the house where we were staying, could soon be sighted waving vigorously f r o m the verandah.

About half-way to Seal Rocks, the ferrj passed a buoy, around which the green water was eddying, so that we could judge the extreme strength of the tide. T h e swell was nowbecoming more noticeable, as the ship approached the home of the seals, and the spray flew up into our faces.

O n the way, various points of interest were announced over the loud-speaker—Lonely Man's Grave, Summerland, and the Nobbies.

A t last the outline of the Rocks came into view, and o n the other side of

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hills of green water reared, and then dashed themselves on to the jagged pieces.

Hundreds o f , seals sprawled over their craggy home. The captain of the ferry blew a sharp blast on the whistle, which was answered by barks and grunts from the disturbed animals.

T h e engine was stopped, and many of the sleek creatures dived into the sea, and swam and gambolled around the ship.

A t last wc turned round f o r home, leaving the seals still playing in the water.

W e were very regretful when the "Estelle" once more tide up at the jetty, f o r we had enjoyed a memorable afternoon.

—Jennifer Redmond, IV.a, Cato, 12 years.

Life in Nyasaland, Central Africa I live in Nyasaland father, who

with my mo:her,

and

is a D.strict Commissioner,

sta-

tioned at Dowa.

In the dry season it is sometimes very hot and the grass withers.

The cattle, in this season, live mostly on their humps. These are large lumps on the back of the animals' necks which contain fat, and, with water, they can Lve on the humps f o r months.

After the dry season comes the wet season, and f o r several months the rain pours down.

All the earth on the roads is churned into mud, by the lorries travelling backwards and forwards f r o m the different places.

The cows are left in their kraals up to their necks in mud, and their native owners are too lazy to take them into the fields.

T h e A f r i c a n is pleasant company. Although the natives in Dowa wear European clothes, they look quite nice, but outside Dowa the natives are seen to be wearing just a cloth, which is worn a - o u n d the body and fastened at the neck. T h e women wear a sarong with a little blouse, and if they have babies, they put them on their backs and tie them on with another sarong.

M y father has thirty chiefs in his district, each chief having his own protectorate.

At certain times every three months, my father sends a lorry to all the places where the chiefs live, and asks them to a meeting.

There he discusses all the things that he would like to do during the year, such as building new

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houses for the chiefs, making roads and taking precautions against famine.

This meeting lasts f o r about three days, after which the chiefs return to their villages.

During one week of every month my father goes on " U l e n d o , " which is like a walkabout.

W e have no stove, so the cook just digs a hole in the ground, and puts a piece of iron on top of the hole, making a fire underneath. This serves as our stove on which the cook makes very g o o d meals.

Down a path in front of our house theer is a lovely valley garden, with a dam in the middle and beautiful trees around. T h e Public Works Department has built a ram which pumps the water up to a very large cement drum. From this drum, pipes lead into different houses.

T o this valley garden at night, come many animals, f o r instance, deer, leopards, lions, baboons and hyaenas. W e have to be careful of these animals, so nobody must go down to that garden after six o'clock, because we never know whether there maybe a leopard roaming around.

About once every month we show films to the natives on my father's projector.

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o'clock, when it is dark, I carry out all the things that we will need.

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table on the verandah of our Post Office.

T h e n one of our boys ties a sheet on to some poles which stand ready. W h e n everyone has arrived we begin by showing a film of Charlie Chaplin. Although it is very funny the natives do not laugh, but after we have shown them the film several times, they roar with laughter.

In our household we have five boys: head boy, house boy, kitchen boy, cook and Dhobi.

Each one must do his own task in, or outside, the house.

Every month they receive their wages.

O n the way down to our garden you can see several siesal trees. This is a kind of tree that grows straight and tall.

A t the bottom there are very big, long leaves. W h e n these are young the natives collect them and carry them home in bundles. T h e n they cut them into strips, and, while squatting on the ground the natives put one leg out and actually cut the siesal on their right heel.

They scrape their knives on top of the slit leaf until only long shreds are left. T h e n they dry them in the sun. W h e n the leaves are dry, they roll them up and down their legs, making string, until they have enough f o r their needs.

These are some of the things that we see almost every day in Nyasaland.

—Celia Tasker, IV.b, Cato.

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Public Examination Results, 1950 Matriculation— Matriculated Honours

(excluding

Repeated)

(13 firsts, 83 seconds)

• • . . .

Passes

54 96 232

University Exhibition

1

Senior Government Scholarship Secondary Studentships (Education Dept.)

Commonwealth Scholarships

1 8 36

Leaving Certificate— Passes Partial Passes (two or more subjects)

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Intermediate Certificate— Passes

148

Partial Passes (four or more subjects)

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SCHOLARSHIPS A N D

EXHIBITIONS

General Exhibition— Beryl Hartman.

Senior Government

Scholarship—

Louise Baxter.

Secondary Ailsa

v

Studentships

Brownlee,

(Education

Verna

Cook,

Dept.) —

Lesley

Cur-

now, Lillian Duncan, Shirley Gibbs, Marjorie H o d g e , Shirley Inglis, Shirley Long.

Commonwealth Scholarships— Heather Aberdeen, Jill Barker, Louise Baxter, Pamela Bowles, Marjory Coates, Beverley Cohen, Unity Cole, Verna Cook, Jill Cooke, Lesley Curnow, Lillian Duncan, Lorraine Evans, N o r m a Fowles, Margaret Gale, Shirley Gawith, Beryl Hartman, Ervyn Hayes, Pam Hendy, Mary Hughes, Shirley Inglis, Bronwyn James, Helen Jones, Lynette Judkins, Helen Kennett, Susie Lipton, Shirley Long, Shirley McAllister, Shirley May, Marilyn Murdoch, Margaret Pinkerton, Helene Shaw, Joy Storie, Joan Walter, Anne Warin, Valerie Williams, Mary Zalcman.

Queen's College Exhibitions— Cecile Benjamin, Unity Cole, Lorraine Evans, Shirley Gawith, Beryl Hartman, Ervyn Hayes, Pamela Hendy, Marjorie H o d g e , Shirley Inglis, Helen Kennett, Susie Lipton, Margaret Pinkerton, Helen Shaw, Joan Walter, Margaret Williams.

' ^Matriculation Examination Honours

Biology— Second Class: Nash.

garet Nash, Beverley Painter, Judith W a p Beryl

Hartman,

Margaret

British History— First Class: Verna Cook, Shirley Inglis.

Second Class: Bronwyn James, Shirley Long, Helene Shaw, Judith Wappet, Anne Warin.

Chemistry— First Class: Beryl Hartman, Mary Hughes.

Second Class—Heather Aberdeen, Pamela Bowles, Helen Kennett, Margaret Kerr, Margaret Nash, Margaret Pinkerton.

English Expression— First Class: Lorraine Evans.

Second Class: Heather Aberdeen, Jill Barker, Louise Baxter, Denise Bradly, Beverley Cohen, Unity Cole, Ervyn Hayes, Marjorie H o d g e , Stephanie Howell, Bronwyn James, Susie Lipton, Judith Lugton, Mar-

pet, Margaret Williams, Monica W o o d .

English Literature— Second Class,: Dorothy Aldred, Beverley Bolle, Unity Cole, Lorraine Evans, Shirley Gawith, Ervyn Hayes, Shirley Inglis, Susie Lipton, Shirley McAllister, Helene Shaw, A n n e Warin, Monica W o o d .

French— First

Class:

Ailsa

Brownlee,

Unity

Cole,

Shirley Gawith, Tamara Weyman.

Second Class: Jill Barker, Beverley Cohen, Barbara Crisp, Lesley Curnow, Shirley Gibbs, Pamela H e n d y , Marjorie H o d g e , Janet Huntington, Shirley Inglis, Susie Lipton, Shirley Long, Judith Lugton, Shirley McAllister, Marilyn Murdoch, Judith Wappet, Beverley Webster, Monica W o o d .

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Music (Practical) —

Geography— Second Class: Louise Baxter, Verna Cook, Judith

Fowler,

Joan

Marriner,

Jeanne

Taylor.

German— Second Class: Shirley Gawith, Susie Lipton.

Greek and Roman History— Second Class: Shirley Long, Judith Lugton, Valerie Williams.

Latin— First Class: Judith Lugton.

Second Class: Unity Cole.

Calculus and Applied Mathematics— Second

GREEN

Class:

Marjorie

Hodge.

General Mathematics— First Class: Beryl Hartman, Mary Hughes.

Second Class: Unity Cole, Margaret Pinkerton.

Second Class: Mary Patten.

Physics— First Class: Helen Kennett.

Second Class: Beryl Hartman, Mary Hughes.

JUNIOR G O V E R N M E N T SCHOLARSHIPS. The following twenty-one girls were awarded Junior Government Scholarships in the examinations held in November, 1950:—Margaret Adamson, Margaret Anderson, Glenys Bacon, Josephine Brownrigg, Laelia Burke, Gillian Cook, Gillian Dixon, Wilma Garrett, Lynette Hall, Dalys Hearn, Rosemary Horton, Barbara Landells, Janice Livingstone, Lois McLaughlin, Joan Margolis, Adrienne Petty, Julie Robertson, Alison Steele, Doreen White, Joan Wilson, Jill Woodfull.

Pure Mathematics— Second Class: Marjorie Hodge.

Modern

History—

Second Class: Louise Baxter, Lorraine Evans, Shirley Gibbs, Margaret Williams.

Economics— Second Class: Marjorie Coates, Lynette Judkins.

BURSARIES

(EDUCATION

DEPT.)

Matriculation Bursaries were awarded to Iris Arnold, Lesley Barnes, Nancy Ellis, Beverley Jones.

Leaving

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awarded

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Lesley

Told.

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P. V I . a ,

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Cooke, Jill Crisp, Barbara Curnow, Lesley Dawes, Nereda Duncan, Lillian Evans, Lorraine Fowler, Judith Fowles, Norma Fromhold, Helen Gale, Margaret Gawith, Shirley Gibbs, Shirley Grimshaw, Maureen Groves, Muriel Harcourt, Diana Hartman, Beryl Hayes, Ervyn Heath, Helen Hendy, Pamela Hodge, Dawn Hodge, Marjorie Howell, Stephanie Hughes, Mary Humphry, Pamela Huntington, Janet Huntsman, Frances Hutchinson, Margaret Inglis, Shirley James, Bronwyn Johnston, Margaret Jones, Bronwen Jones, Helen . . judkins, Lynette Kennett, Helen Kerr, Margaret Lipton, Susie . .

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Murdoch, Marilyn Nash, Margaret O'Connor, Valerie Painter, Beverley Patten, Mary Pinkerton, Margaret Robertson, Patricia Rowe, Mary . .

Rush, Alison . .

Shaw, Helene Smith, Barbara Smith, Wendy Spence, Lorraine Springer, Annelisa Storie, Joy Tasker, Patricia Taylor, Jeanne Tewksbury, Helen Theiler, Diane Vizard, Margaret Walter, Joan . .

Walter, Lesley Wappet, Judith Warin, Anne . .

Webster, Beverley Weyman, Tamara Williams, Margaret Williams, Valerie Wood, Monica Zalcman, Mary

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Stuart Tompkins.

1951.

Judith Lugton, Jocelyn Dawson, Margaret Adeney, Jennifer East, Elaine Gibbs, Pamela Watkins, Gwen Watkins.

Ruth Trewin, Valerie Falkingham, Anne Grunden, Cynthia Shillinglaw, Heather McKay, Jill Hilton, Judith Fowler.

Elaine Cavanagh, Rosemary Groves, Barbara Crisp and Nancy Ellis (Seniors), Gwenda Jacobs, Wendy Gardner.

—C. HOUSE CAPTAINS A N D

H O U S E SPORTS C A P T A I N S ,

Stuart Tompkins

1951.

Janet Huntington and Elaine Stewart (Berry), Ainslie Rowe and Jocelyn Rogers (Cato), Margaret Wilkinson and Joan Gordon (Fitchett), Elizabeth Fullwood and Beverley Malcolm (Krome).

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GREEN EXAMINATION, 1950

LEAVING CERTIFICATE

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Barclay, Lesley Barnes, Lesley Barrow, Janet . .

Blackwell, Margaret Bladon, Laurel Blake, Isabelle. .

Boxall, Beverley Brewster, Janet Brisbane, Margaret Brown, Judith . .

Browne, W e n d y Buxton, Helene Campbell, Maryrose Chenu, Gillian . .

Clarke, Linton . .

Close, Evelyn . .

Clout, Lavinia . .

Collett, W e n d y Cook, Catherine Cope, Elva Cornish, Helen Cornwell, Elaine Dare, Heather . .

Dick, Maureen Dow, Patricia . .

Dunoon, Shirley Dusting, Bettine East, Jennifer . .

Elder, Dawn . .

Ellis, Nancy Evans, Marilyn Fryer, Margaret Fullwood, Elizabeth Gardner, W e n d y Gibbs, Elaine . .

Gillespie, Bae . .

Godfrey, Merle. .

Goldsworthy, Elizabe' Graham, Joan . .

Gray, Anne Gray, Nancy . .

Greenhill, Olive Greer, Patricia Grice, Gillian . .

Griffiths, Helen Groves, Rosemary Hancock, Betty Hanton, Shirley Hawkins, Rae . .

Helmer, Elaine

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Homes, Myrna. .

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Jackson, Beverley ..

Jacobs, Gwenda ..

James, Marlene ..

Jarvis. Renee . . ..

John, Helen .. ..

Jones, Beverley ..

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Levy, Pamela . . ..

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McDonell, Wendy ..

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Nixon, Lillian . . ..

Northcott, Elizabeth . .

Parker, Jean . . ..

Parkes, Nola . . ..

Peverill, Suzanne ..

Phipps, Elizabeth ..

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Potter, Evelyn. .

Reed, Beverley ..

Renkin, Margaret ..

Rogers, Jocelyn ..

Rogers, Julienne ..

Rowe, Ainslie . . ..

Rumpf, Margot ..

Russell, Noelle ..

Scott, Alison . . ..

Sharman, Beverley ..

Shue, Pearl .. ..

Smith, Barbara ..

Storrie, Janice . . ..

Thean, Siew Lan ..

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Tingman, Pauline ..

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„ «a 6s Partial Passes (2 or more subjects) Dabscheck, Marlene Dickins, Margaret Dingle, Betsy . .

Field, Elizabeth Gordon, Joan . .

Hauser, Rosemary Kerrison, Margaret An Kitchen, Ruth . .

Mackenzie, Mary Maclean, Joan . .

McNeill, Nancy Menzies, Margaret Palmer, Elaine. .

Riches, Merle . .

Rousell, Glenda Sandow, Alethea Searle, Elizabeth Sedgley, Patricia Stride, Margaret Summerfield, Janet Thornton, Janice Watkins, Gwendoline Watkins, Pamela Webb, Elizabeth p—Passed previously.

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Bamford, Margaret Bayles, Shirley . .

Beattie, Diana Benjamin, Alison Bingham, Margaret Blake, Catherine . .

Bourchier, Joyce. .

Bremner, Dorothy Brewer, Valerie . .

Britten, Jeannette Brockway, Jill Brown, Pauline . .

Burgess, Kathleen Carmichael, Judith Carter, Bernice Cecil, Janice Chandler, Cynthia Chapman, Naomi Cheese, Phyllis Clark, Beverley . .

Clarke, Yvonne . .

Clay, June Cleverley, Lorraine Cole, Sally Coleman, Judith . .

Cook, Lesley Corlass, Joan Cove, Lesley Craig, Heather Crellin, Yvonne . .

Crowder, Noel Curcio, Bertina . .

Curtis, Judith Davies, Marjorie . .

Daws, Helen Dean, Margaret . .

Dodd, Beverley . .

Donnelly, Pat Driver, Joan Driver, Norma Easterbrook, Pamela Edwards, Janet . .

Eglington, June . .

Elbaum, Shirley . .

Fisher, Sheryl Gault, Louise Gladigau, Nola . .

Gough, Barbara . .

Greenall, Pamela. .

Greenwood, Beris Hands, Margaret. . p—Passed previously.

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Passes Harding, Jennifer Harris, Margaret Hatfield, Barbara Hay, Ann Heale, Valerie Heraud, Valda Hocking, Marjorie Hogg, Valerie Houghton, Shirley Hughes, Helen Hunt, Dorothy Hunter, Beverley Jackett, Aileen Jagger, Gabrielle Jerrett, Edna Junghenn, Shirley Kay, Dorothy Kefford, Rae Knight, Vivian Leathern, Coral Lechte, Rae Leete, Estelle Tew, Rachel Lomas, Laurie McConnell, Jill McCutcheon, Rosemary : .

McDonald, Margaret Macfarlane, Margaret McKell, Wendy McRae, Ailsa Mahemoff, Diane Marriott, Elaine Matheson, Delyce Merrylees, Shirley Michael, Lynette Millerchip, Joan Milner, Wendy Milnes, Elaine Morgan, Joyce Morgan, Mary Munro, Janice Murdoch, Wynsome Nutt, Janice Oates, Lorna Old, Kathleen Palmer, Beverley Palmer, Shirley Parry, Joan Pelzer, Leona Pettigrew, Fay Plane, Philippa Probert, Beverley Randall, Janice Raymer, Valerie Rea, Margaret Reed, Shirley

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Talbot, Helen Thompson, Joan . .

Thompson, Nola . .

Tingman, Barbara Told, Lesley Trytell, Ann Tunnecliffe, Joan Turner, Marion . .

Unkenstein, Elaine Vincent, Helen Walklate, Muriel Wallace, Patricia Wallish, Helen . .

Webster, Jean Wilkinson, Barbara Williams, Anne . .

Williams, Valma . .

Wilson, Judith Yelland, Gwenda. .

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Bignall, Gwynneth Brooksley, Dell . .

Bunny, Dorothy . .

Campbell, Wendy Cohen, Janice Dewar, Jocelyn . .

Ducat, Ann Fitzgerald, Margaret Glasgow, Helen . .

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Latin

English Literature

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1950,

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1950.

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1950.

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1950.

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Old Collegians' Exan\\r\at\or\ Results, 1950 The School congratulates Old Collegians upon their University results; these include the following:—

Marilyn Croydon (Arts) : Honours Eng. Lang, and Lit. I, Brit. Hist. B.; Passed French I, Ancient Hist. I.

Beverley Ball (Arts): Honours Comm. Law I, Econ. Geog. I, Economics I; Passed Accountancy I.

Jocelyne Cullen (Arts) : Passed Coll. Behaviour, Psychopathology, Ethics.

June Dawkins (Music): Honours Form and Analysis I, Hist. . Liter, and Aesth. I, Sight Reading II, Ear Training, Chief and Second Prac. Studies II, Harmony II; Passed Mod. Languages II. Joan Day (Arts): Passed Latin II, Mod. Hist.

Dorothy Barlow (Science) : Graduated B.Sc. Nancy Batt (Arts): Passed Aust. Hist.

Gwenda Beed (Arts) : Honours Psychol. II, Collective Behaviour, App. Psychol. A. Dorothy Bell (Dentistry): Passed Medicine, Surgery, Gen. Anaesth., Dent. Prosth. III. Margaret Bell (Science) : Passed Zoology I. Judy Betheras (Arts): Honours Logic, Ethics, Hist.of Phil., Pol. Phil., Phil. Psychol., Cont. Phil., Shared Laurie Prize in Philosophy, Graduated B.A. with Honours.

Joan Body (Dip. Soc. Studies): Honours Soc. Organ B.; Passed Aust. Hist., Soc. Work III. Mary Boulter (Arts) : Passed English C., Inter. Relations, Philos. I. Graduated B.A. Joan Boyle (Music) : Honours Gen. Mus. Knowledge, Harmony II, Counterpoint I; Passed Sight Reading I. Mary Briggs (Speech Therapy) : Norma Buckman (Arts) : Passed English C., Fine Arts C., Ethics, Psychol. I, Graduated B.A. Marie Bull (4th year Mus. Bac.): Passed Methods of Teaching II., Chief and Second Studies IV.b, Sight Reading IV, Elem. Accoustics. Graduated Mus. Bac. Beryl Challenger (Science): Passed Phys.

III., Pure Maths. III. Graduated B.Sc. June Chatfield (Science): Passed Biochem.

II., Microbiol. Graduated B.Sc. Gwendy Chitty (Medicine): Passed Mat. Medica.

Barbara Clarke (Science): Passed Chem.

II., Physiol, and Bioch. I., Elem. Micro.

Ann Cockburn (Commerce): Passed Accountancy I.a, Com. Law I., Econ. Geog. I., Economics I. Diane Cohen (Architecture): Honours Hist, of Archit. I., Free Drawing, Design I.; Passed Theory of Architecture I, Building Construction I, Pure Maths. I.

Lorna Dick (Arts) : Passed French I.a.

Lillian Drummond (Music): Passed Method of Teaching II, Chief and Second Prac. Studies IV.b, Sight Reading IV, Elem. Acoustics.

Graduated Mus. Bac. Betty Evans (Arts) : Honours Eng. Liter. Ill, Gen. Hist. Ill, Th. and Meth. of Hist. Graduated B.A. with Honours.

Rosemary Falconer (Music) : Honours Form and Analysis II, Orchestration I, Hist. Lit. and Aesth. II, Harmony IV, Counterpoint and Fugue; Passed Chief and Second Prac. Stud.

III. Loris Figgins (Medicine): Passed Medicine, Surgery, Obstets. and Gynac.

Graduated M.B., B.S. Lois Forbes (Arts): Passed Pol. Science B. Graduated B.A. Claire Fowler (Science) : Passed Biochem. II. Shirley Gilliam (Arts) : Passed French II, English C., American Hist., General Science.

Valerie Gillies (Music): Passed Form and Analysis I, Hist. Lit. and Aesth I, Harmony III, Counterpoint II, Sight Reading II. Rhoda Grice (Dip. Soc. Studies): Passed Psychol. II, Soc. Organ A, Soc. Work I. Janette Hassall (Arts): Passed French I, English A, Pol. Science A, Zoology I. Anne Hawthorn (Drama): Merele Hayes (Arts): Passed French I.a, English A, Anc. Hist I. Dorothy Haynes (Music) : Honours Form and Analysis I, Hist. Lit. and Aesth. I, Harmony III, Counterpoint II, Chief and Second Prac. Studies II; Passed Sight Reading II, Ear Training.

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Jill Hickling (Journalism) : Passed Economics I, Journalism B. Irene Hill (Science) : Graduated B.Sc. Delia Hilton (Arts) : Passed Mod. Hist. English C., Pol. Phil., Psychol. I. Gwen Hotton (Agric. Science) : Passed Agric. I, Agric. Entomology I, Wool Classing, Field Botany, Agric. Surveying.

Margaret Houghton (Medicine) : Passed Anatomy Inc. Hist., Physiol, and Biochem.

Bridget Israel (Arts). Passed French I, German I. Margaret Kendrick (Arts): Passed French III, German III, General Science. Graduated B.A. Elizabeth Kent (Arts): Passed English C., Inter. Relations, Psychology I. Graduated B.A. Valda Knight (Physiotherapy) : Alison Lemmon (Arts) : Passed English B, American Hist., Ethics.

Laurel Lockwood (Music) : Honours Gen. Mus. Knowledge, Harmony II, Counterpoint I; Passed Sight Reading I. Beverley Lord (Arts) : Honours Soc. Biology, Soc. Organ A ; Passed Ethics, Soc. Work I. Alison Lukeis (Medicine) : Passed Anatomy Inc. Hist., Physiol, and Biochem.

Margaret McCutcheon (Arts): Passed Phil.

I, Psychol. I, Soc. Organ A. Elizabeth McMeekin (Arts): Passed Pol. Sc. A, Ethics.

Dorothy Marsh (Physiotherapy): Shirley Michael (Architecture) : Anne Montague (Dip. in Public Administration) : Passed Money and Bank.

Yvonne Mullins (Science) : Passed Pure Maths. I, App. Maths. L, Physics I. Anita Nielson (Arts) : Passed English A, Philosophy I. Margaret O'Callaghan (4th-year Music Diploma) : Passed Chief Prac. Stud. A. Rosemary Orr (Arts): Passed English B, Mod. Hist., Philos. I, Psychol. I. Audrey Pearce (Social Studies) : Passed Soc. Biology.

Ruth Price (Music): Honours Form and Analysis I, Hist. Lit. and Aesth. I, Harmony III, Counterpoint II, Sight Reading II, Ear Training, Chief and Second Prac. Studies III. (O-mond Exhibition).

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Betty Probst (Arts): Marilyn Riley (Science): Passed Pure Maths.

II, Physics II, Chem. II. Marjorie Robinson (Art and Soc. Studies): Passed Ethics.

Shirley Robinson (4th-year Music Diploma) : Passed Chief and Second Prac. Studies III. Enid Rowe (Analt. Chem.): Alison Sandbach (Physiotherapy) : Glen Saleeba (Arts).: Passed English, Mod. Hist., Coll. Behaviour.

Margret Sheer (Science): Passed Chem. I.a, Botany I, Zoology I. Betty Sinclair (3rd-year Science): Honours Anatomy Inc. Histology, Physiol, and Biochem.

Gwen Stahl (Arts): Passed Accountancy I, Econ. Geog. I, Economics I, English A. Kitty Stander (Arts): Passed German I, Brit. Hist. B, Philos. I, Psychol. I. Joan Steminger (Arts): Passed English C. Wendy Straw (Agric. Science): Honours Agric. I; Passed Agric. Zoology, Agric. Entomology I, Wool Classing, Field Botany, Agric.

Surveying.

Winifred Teo (Arts) : Passed Psychol. II, Soc. Work I, Soc. Biology.

Kathleen Thompson (Medicine): Passed Anatomy Inc. Hist., Physiol, and Biochem.

Phyllis Todner (Music) : Honours Form and Analysis 1, Hist., Liter, and Aesth. I, Harmony III, Sight Reading II, Chief and Second Prac. Studies II; Passed Counterpoint II, Ear Training.

Judith Tredinnick (Dentistry): Honours Dent. Mat. Med.; Passed Pathology, Medicine, Surgery, Orthodontia, Gen. Anaesth., Dent.

Prosth. III. ^alda Vaughan (Music): Honours Form and Analysis I, Hist. Lit. and Aesth. I, Harmony III, Counterpoint II, Sight Reading II, Chief and Second Prac. Stud. II; Passed Ear Training.

Dawn Vickery (Music): Clare Walker (Science): Passed Pure Maths.

II, Elect. Engin. with Design I. Marjorie Wall (Science): Dulcie Watson (Arts): Diana Webster (Phys. Ed.): Passed Teach.

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Patricia Williams (Science): Passed Pure Maths. I, App. Maths. I, Physics I, Chem I.a, Joan Williis (Science): (Arts): Honours French I, Pure Maths. I; Passed App. Maths.

I. Joan Withers (Arts) : Passed French II, German II, Pol. Science A..

Elizabeth Wood (Arts): Passed English B, Mod. Hist., French I.a.

Jocelyn Wortley (Science): Passed Pure Maths. I, App. Maths. I, Physics I, Chem. I.a.

Robin Wright (4th-year Mus. Bac.): Passed Meth. of Teaching II, Instr. Ensemble. II, Chief and Second Prac. Stud. IV.b, Sight Reading IV, Elem. Acoustics, Chief and Second Prac. Stud. IV.a, Accompanying II, Graduated Mus. Bac. Mimi Yees (Arts) : Honours Eng. Lang, and Liter. Graduated B.A. with Honours.

Enid Yen (Arts): Passed English A, Brit.

Hist. B. Shahna Zettl (Arts): Passed French I, English A, Brit. Hist. B. . The following Old Collegians have now begun University courses:— Marjorie Atkinson (Music), Louise Baxter (Arts), Pamela Bowles (Science), Denise Bradly (Arts), Ailsa Browlee (Arts), Marjory Coates (Arts), Unity Cole (Arts), Verna Cook (Commerce), Lesley Curnow (Arts), Lillian Duncan (Science), Lorraine Evans (Arts), Shirley Gawith (Arts), Beryl Hartman (Science), Ervyn Hayes (Arts), Dawn Hodge (Commerce), Helen Heath (Commerce), Stephanie Howell (Commerce), Pamela Hendy (Arts), Marjorie Hodge (Arts), Shirley Inglis (Arts), Bronwyn James (Commerce), Lynette Judkins (Commerce), Susie Lipton (Arts), Shirley Long (Arts), Shirley May (Medicine), Marilyn Murdoch (Arts), Margaret Pinkerton (Science), Helene Shaw

A N D " G R E E N 46 (Law), Joy Storie (Arts), Anne Springer (Arts), Jeanne Taylor (Arts), Joan Walter (Law), Anne Warin (Arts), Margaret Williams (Arts), Mary Zalcman (Mcdicine).

Old Collegians who have begun teaching or training for teaching include:— Beverley Reed, Valerie Williams (Mercer House) ; Dorothy Bail, Marion Finlayson, Merle Godfrey, Patay McPherson, Elizabeth Phipps (Kindergarten Training College) ; Edith Alexander, Cecile Benjamin, Isabelle Blake, Maureen Dick, Pamela Humphry, Bronwen Jones, Wendy Smith, Joan Stride (Education Department).

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Original Contributions SENIOR Take it f r o m Ear "Homework Rule 1. Begin early. Finish before wireless serials (if you listen to them at all)."

My homework one night I attempted to write, Disregarding this serious warning, With the radio droning and crooning and groaning; The results were apparent next morning.

When I opened my eyes and began to revise My writings so fluent and tireless!

My feelings were deadly—I gazed on a medley Of study mixed up with the wireless!

This counter-attraction provides a distraction With which Shakespeare could never have reckoned; I'd reported poor Gloucester as quoting Sam Costa In my essay on Richard the Second.

I'd summed up in precis a speech by R. Casey On the subject of Nazi migration, With comments in French on the invalid pension, Plus a Latin remark on inflation.

There was much to relate about Alfred the Great, But I must have been all of a dither,

SECTION For I said that he played (in the Swallow Parade) The "Harry Lime Theme" on a zither.

I endeavoured to cope with a question on Pope, But I gleaned my most thrilling material From Chapter Sixteen of "The Woman in Green," A lurid and asinine serial.

No credit accrues from translating the News Into pseudo-Chaucerian prose, And I blush to confess that my Maths, were a mess, For my motto was "Anything Goes!"

I must turn a deaf ear to the wireless, I fear; With homework it cannot be blended.

In the year 'ninety-four I may listen once more— Then my studies will surely be ended!

—Margaret Adeney, Hon. Vl.b, Fitchett.

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The wind stirred the leaves on the trees, bent the flowerheads on their stalks, and was finally caught in the curtains at an open window. One stray breath escaped, rustled across the littered table, and disappeared through a convenient keyhole.

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heard in the room was the quiet breathing of a plump young lady who was gazing absently at a moist apple core.

A beauteous princess stooped to pluck the lowly bloom when she started back in terror.

There, charging through the forest, was a multi-headed Monster. With a maidenly shriek, the lady plunged head-first into the dense undergrowth and was caught fast among the bushes. She felt the hot breath of the Monster scorching her new nylons, and she shut her eyes. The End Had Come!

But lo!

What strange noist in the distance? It was the noble Sir Percival riding upon his gallant horse. The sound of the flying hooves became clearer, and then, Sir Percival flashed into the dell. At the Monster's enraged roar, Sir Percival flung himself from his horse with a loud clatter, scattering his mace, spear, shield, and sword in all directions.

The war-horse ambled quietly toward the princess and began to champ the grasses in close proximity to her face.

Meanwhile, a fierce struggle was taking place between the Knight and the Dragon. The Monster bit the Knight and the Knight bit back, Then the Monster hit Sir Percival who pulled at its hair. Never had such a fight been seen before. The earth was trampled by angry feet, and dark blood stained the grass. Then, with a superhuman effort, the Knight recovered his sword, and dealt the Monster a death blow.

It fled, howling, to die in its lair.

The Knight stepped across the dell toward the rear end of the princess. A swift sword stroke cut the tangled vines, and she stood upon her feet. She turned toward him, tears filling her lovely eyes as she saw his bloodstained armour. "My courageous rescuer! My noble hero—you are hurt!"

A whistle shrilled beneath the window, and the plump young lady viewed with annoyance a modern Galahad, complete with tartan socks and chewing gum.

—Renee Jarvis, Hon. VI.c, Berry.

T h e Opening With apologies to Lewis Carroll. ""Will you walk a little faster," said the usher to the crowd.

"There are people right behind you, and to end on time we've vowed."

See how eagerly the parents, girls and visitors do flock, They are waiting in the cloisters—quickly come and see the Block!

Come on quickly, come on quickly, come and see the Science Block, Come on quickly, come on quickly, visit our new Science Block.

You can really have no notion how delightful are the labs., And all the apparatus—from the Van ae Graaff to crabs, And the girls will answer questions, and will show you how things work,— (That is if they know the answers, and their duty do not shirk.)

Come on quickly, come on quickly, come and see the Science Block, Come on quickly, come on quickly, visit our new Science Block.

—Rae Hawkins, Hon. Vl.b., Fitchett.

A Boarder's Letter H o m e Methodist Ladies& (' (') Methodist Ladies' Collegt, Hawthorn. loth Marx , o951.

Dear Mum and Dad, I am typing this letter to you bedause I meed praxtice for my typi ng. Iam really getting on berywell. How are you ? just the sa ne as ever , I suppose. Is Trexie grewibg(that last word is Q "growing" and the " W ( I mean " Q " ) shouldn)tbe in ir(I mean "it"). I think I had better bkgin that sentence agan.

Is Trixie growint fat noq') (I mean "now") that i an not there to tide her..? I amso glad that Brownie has had five pippies-what ate you going t oso (k 1 i mean "tod o", and the k and lare not initH)p-the qiarters and the p are not in i t , ether.Pother! this not sa easy as if liiks) ("G ("This is not as eady asirflooks " i ) ? Wow k(I) will go ob with what iwas sayingf- about the puppwws (pupptesH-) — whar are you ging to do withthem? plea se kiip'(keep) ot least one of thim for me, k If too don't mind, i willstop now and nezt time I wellxxxxxxx write ti yiu. Give ny live to

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jillandTom. Oam g -i am having a god time at schol this tirm.

With lotsov ;ove from Marry, p,A. Mu tui-Ny typing id much bitter than it looksjalthoughj you mat not be;ievt it. Love, mery. zzzzz,lllll (xxxx.OOOO).

Contributed by i — —Judy Lugton, Hon. VI.b., 16 years, Berry.

T h e Law of the College (With apologies to Rudyard Kipling) Now these are some laws of your College, please Keep them as well as you may, And the girl that shall keep them shall prosper, But the girl that shall break them must pay.

Keep peace with the Lords of the "Comm.

Room," Their judgment is lawful and good; And trouble not prefects on duty, but come To School dressed as you should.

Because of her standing and prowess, remember To keep her in awe, Whatever you do, please remember, the word Of Head Prefect is Law. Don't talk in Assembly, my school-m. tes, Although Fitchett Hall may be small, Remember the Pres. are on duty, or "ou may Have to stand before all.

The eyes of the world are upon you, no Matter wherever you are, Remember appearances and conduct, forget not Your motto and star.

Now these are some laws of your College, Wise and instructive are they, Remember to keep them, my school-mates, Be loyal, and always obey.

—Gwenda Jacobs, 17 years, Hon. VI.b, Berry.

That Infernal Machine Quite without warning, the peace of our household was rudely interrupted. My father took it into his head to buy a pressure cooker.

The moment my mother laid eyes on it, she became its sworn enemy. With a look nearer to horror than anything, she enquired whether she was really intended to use it. My father

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was, of course, most disgusted, but offered to cook something in it for a demonstration. He chose vegetable soup. The vegetables were duly sliced, and everything was ready. With a lastminute look at the instruction book, he placed the lid on the cooker.

Soon the steam was merrily puffing, as it should be, according to the book, so he placed the indicator on the top. Mother was rather nervously telling us how Mrs. Jones-down-the street had been knocked unconscious when her cooker exploded. Father roared with laughter, and said it served her right, because how could she know how to handle the thing scientifically He gave us a lengthy lecture about scientific handling, when he was interrupted. With a loud swishing noise, the indicator flew off the cooker, and the room was filled with steam and jet-propelled vegetables.

We all dived for cover until the panic ceased.

Gradually the steam slowed down, and we came from our hiding-places, plucking pieces of carrot and parsnip from our eyes and ears.

Father, looking rather sheepish, emerged from under the table, and began to mop up the mess on the floor. By this time Mother was tearfully stating that she refused to have anything to do with that pressure cooker, or any other. Father agreed to remove the menace as soon as possible, and comforted himself by telling us that many people say that pressure cookers make food tasteless.

With relief we set about scraping vegetable soup from the floor, walls, and ceiling. We heartily agreed that what was good enough for grandmother is good enough for us.

—Barbara Heape, Hon. VI.b, Anothre Tale (With acknowledgements to Chaucer) At halfe-past six, the colde and dreery belle, Awakens boarders, as they knowe ful wel, And down to studye hasten they with spede And eet tweye biscuites hungrily with grede, And sitte down to swinke with thought and caree, Hir homewerk they begin than to prepare.

At fyve to eight they hasten, one and alle With grete spede into the Dynyng Halle, And tet with relish "snag" or saveloy For as you knowe, they been a boardre's joy.

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And than comes tyme for maken of the bede, (Or I shoulde say, they pul 'em up instede) Ten seconds bee the average tyme they take, That is, I wis, a bede in Hous to make.

Inspection of the drawers comes after thate AnI boarders fynd hir thynges on the mate, And thane they replace them with wo, For tydiness to boardres is unknowe.

In rol cal alle the boardres one can place, For boardres always wear a smyling face.

In choir kan they syng with tuneful voys, And in the lessen maken loude nois; In Fitchett do they bear the hardships alle, By thinken of the new Assembly Halle, They hurry down with zeale at recesse, And if no lettre, than her bee distresse, But ther's some fruyt, which soothes hir troubled mynd, For the domestique staf is vary kynd, And than at dinner-tyme a pleasant stew, Which bryghtens up the boardres looking blue, And ther is eeke muche nois and chatter, If ther should be a broken cup or platter, And than one heeres as alle the staf withdraw, Twelf duzeyne chairs go scrapen on the floor, And lyke a herde of bullocks out they rune, The day-girls take for granted "dinner's done."

The latter by the nois of it bee strucke 'Til some-one cals, "Make cleere the way to Tucke."

Now after school, there's much that's to bee wroughte, Ther's choir, or ther's practice, or ther's sporte.

For hem who off hir vests hir buttons take, Ther's medying in the Lounge wher they make Hir victime bryng hir needles and hir threde And sew with care, or else "off with hir hede!"

At fyve o'clock ther is for halfe an hour A queue of boardres waityng for a shower, And than for tee they feeste on the brede, And they expand, but none of hem bee dede Now study ends the day, and whan that's done They troope upstairs and longe for boardre's bune: And hurry after that to dressyng gouns, Or else hem do receive many frouns, And scrub hir teethe til they bee pearly whyte, Er than th mistress comes to saye "Goode Nyghte."

And so the day comes to its peaceful close And boardres than synk to a restful doze.

I bee a boardre (as you myghte have guessede) And aye, the boardyng lyfe is of the beste.

—"Brewster," 16 years, Hon. Vl.b.

Smokeless Cities Twilight creeps on cat-like feet over the sands.

The wind dies away with the gentle "hush, hus-s-s-h."

What are these strange images standing like ribs of a shipwrecked liner?

Strange, lonely mud walls inscribed with delicate brush work and glowing colours..

Did your city walls once echo to the laugh of bright-eyed women, the cries of tumbling children and the chatter of slaves?

Don't you remember the colour of the markets in your squares, the oranges and lemons, sweet smelling spices, plums, peaches?

And the soft sad cries of the exiled slaves as they waited, homeless among the eager bustle and cries of the city.

Ah, you remember well, don't you?

The neighs of the soft horse noses chained to your walls is still fragrant in your old mind, but old city, are you not lonely.

The city, scarred and forgotten rouses itself from its sleep to answer, "No, I am not lonely. Long after you left me the slow vines and creepers covered me and stopped the bleeding of my heart and the crumbling of my walls with their flowers, much brighter than fruits, and their tendrils stronger than wire.

"No longer do I miss the careless chatter, the birds and snakes, with sharp hissings and soft chirpings have more than sufficed me for that, and if I long for sadness what can be more melancholy than the songs of a dove?

"The wind lulls me to sleep and sifts the endless earth into my nooks and crannies.

The busy cities of the ants hum and scurry among my bones and I am more than content. All is all. From dust I was made and to dust I go, only my spirit lives on and on. In each new born city I live again and die and sleep."

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Ruins, chattels. When there are cities there will be ruins. And in the ruins will live the cities of birds and pink waistcoated mice and shiny cheeky ants and fat solemn spiders.

Till the end of time these will go on for these are the Smokeless Cities.

—Jennifer Salt Pass, Vl.d., Krome.

Nonsense Little earthworm in the ground, Why do you keep wriggling round?

Is it just to keep you slim That you do this strenuous gym?

Aren't you TIRED, little worm?

Little codlin in my pear, Don't you find it wet in there?

Wouldn't you rather be a moth Eating fur and nice dry cloth?

Aren't you COLD, little grub?

Little fly I'm trying to kill, Wouldn't you like to sit quite still?

Is it just for exercise That you buzz before my eyes?

Aren't you D I Z Z Y , little fly?

"How doth the busy little bee"— But what has always puzzled me Is why the bee caused so much fuss When all he did was simply doth?

How DOES one doth, little bee?

—Barbara Atkins, Hon. Vl.a.

Biology Barrage—Science Night (First influx of visitors:) "Er yes, Mrs. er—we find it very interesting—no, sheep's eyes aren't very revolting—no' sir, I really don't think it will inspire students to favour vivisection—that experiment demonstrates the products of respiration—that, sonny, is a seahorse, please don't touch it—you see you can create a draught by turning on this tap— sorry, wrong tap—yes it will dry out—no, I really don't think pneumonia will develop—yes, the fish are always there—no, I haven't a bent pin—these food tests here—if you add things to-er things—you can test to see if they contain vitamins or carbohydrates—will you put that sea-horse down!—I don't care if it looks like Noah's grandmother—I beg your pardon, little girl—vitamins?—oh they make

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your hair curl—very well, if your mother says so—crusts make your hair curl—if you don't put that sea-horse down. . . . This is a display of vertebrates—animals that have backbones—yes, of course, men have backbones—I don't care what your mother says to your father—these are invertebrates—what are you doing?

I am sure that the hermit crab is happy out there, so kindly stop trying to put him in his shell—how should I know why he came out? Perhaps it was too tight—-I beg your pardon? How did he get in?

At last—the crowd has gone—our patience has gone-—the sea-horse has gone—but who cares? I am going home to bed!"

—"Distraught," Hon. VI.c, Cato.

Leaves Green and crumpled, fresh and new; Ev'ry leaf the same bright hue.

Laughing, happy, childish leaves; Shivering, shaking in the breeze.

Languid, and no longer dancing; Dusty sunbeams through them lancing.

Shaken now by northern breeze; These are summer's tired leaves.

Red and orange, gold and brown; Autumn leaves come tumbling down.

Slipping, sliding on the breeze; Floating, gliding, twisting leaves.

Brown and rotting on the ground; From their grave there comes no sound.

Wind and rain beat down on these— Last spring's happy, laughing leaves.

—Elizabeth Croydon, 15 years, V.b., Fitchett.

O d e to Rising Prices Oh! you prices ever-soaring Far beyond our poor resources, Will you ever stop increasing?

Ever stop your upward courses?

Did you mock us, your poor subjects, As your upward journey ran?

Saying, "Time and Tide and Prices Never wait for any man."

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Than a newspaper or half an egg— Oh! give me the days of yore.

The year is nineteen fifty-one,

And we must bow to thee, The rising price of food and clothes, And even cups of Tea! —Lesley Andrew, V.a, Berry, age 14 years.

The Tunnel of H o r r o r !

I was standing before a dark, yawning cavern, from which issued a thunderous roar, when suddenly somebody or something pushed me forward into the darkness.

I felt myself slipping and sliding helplessly along a dark and gloomy passage. Pale and ghostly shapes flitted to and fro before me; leering faces peered at me from either side, and now and then icy fingers touched mine.

I could hear the slow drip, dripping of water, as I strove desperately to fight my way out of the horror-lades darkness.

But Mary Jane appeared quite deaf, Intent upon her scheme, A loud report! A stifled cry!

She woke—it was a dream.

—Jacqueline Wood, V.a, Fitchett.

T h e China Horses Dainty little figurines, Of alabaster white, Standing there so quiet-serene, Standing day and night.

One seems ready for a race, Another rests a hoof, Another nibbles at the grass, One stands there, calm—aloof.

There one rolls in ecstasy, Tiny hoofs held high, I can almost feel the grass, See the deep blue sky.

Just as I was despairing of ever getting out into the daylight again, I saw a gleam of sunlight ahead, and I struggled as quickly as I could towards it. Hands reached out from the darkness pulling me, dragging me and holding me back, but at last I wrenched myself free and ran the last few steps into the blessed sunlight and the sweet, pure air.

With soft arched neck one smooths his coat, With china nostrils white.

Man's art has made you real to me, As I gaze on you to-night.

I leant against the wall, panting, and thought that half-past six in the afternoon was definitely not the time to go through the subway.

or Fly's Eye-view of M.L.C.

—Elizabeth Croydon, 15 years, Form V.b, Fitchett.

Lab.

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It came upon an autumn day, 'Twas cold and windy too, That Mary Jane was in the Lab. Without a job to do.

To occupy her active mind, She lit a bunsen burner, She turned the gas up very high, But that did not concern her.

She held a flask with acid in, Above the flame, so high, "O Mary Jane, be careful please, You'll blow us all sky high."

—Judith Richards, Pass Vl.b, 15 years.

Algernon

Algernon flew hurriedly up the cloisters.

He was still panting as he reached top cloister and darted through the first open door. He sat on the electric light globe to recover.

"What a narrow escape!" he sighed, and it had been; for while he was exploring the lower regions of Nicholas House he had been pursued by an irate person with a tea-towel. The memory hung about him like a cloud, as he gazed below, where forty heads were bent in studious occupation, and forty pens scratched monotonously on forty books, while forty blotters sucked up the ink splashes as they fell.

"Such industry!" exclaimed Algernon. "Never before in my whole life have I seen anything to equal this." This remark from such an elderly fly (for Algernon was two weeks, three days old) seems surprising, but you see he had never seen a History class making notes before.

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The high altitude of the light globe was affecting his thoughts—it made him quite dizzy, so he glided deskwards and alighted on a rubber.

Here he found it so delightful that he settled down for a little sleep. Now, as you can see, Algernon was no ordinary household fly, f ° r he had overcome many dangers, and cheated death many times. At an early age he had been left to support an ageing mother, who several days later had succumbed to the powers of D.D.T.— (that was when he lived in Cotham Road).

So, sorrowfully leaving his mother floating in the milk, Algernon moved to Glenferrie Road, where, for a time he enjoyed comfort in the home of a bald-headed gentleman and his wife. But one night as he was scanning the headlines of the evening paper, while resting upon the gentleman's unforested expanse, disaster struck in the form of the gentleman's wife, with a roll of lunch wraps. Happily she only succeeded in giving her husband a headache, and Algernon hung from the ceiling shrieking, "—People owning unimproved sites without even a fence round them are a hindrance to the Housing Commission." Still he thought it best to move when he saw the grocer depositing a bottle of fly spray with the next order.

The scraping of forty pairs of feet on the ground brought Algernon back to reality. He stood yawning and stretching on the end of the desk. "Good gracious." he exclaimed, "I didn't hear the bell! but perhaps the power is off; and so must I be," he added after a moment, for the hot air rising as the girls let off steam in the English lesson below gave him quite a headache. "I must run down and see if Sister has a little something to relieve it," and away he flew, only to find the Dispensary door closed. The next best cure he considered was a long fly beside the sea, so towards the Science Block he set his course, having just heard a fresh supply of gold fish had been installed. The swing door shut behind Algernon, and he found the room empty, except for the gold fish. He examined them thoughtfully and they stared back, blowing bubbles and flapping their fins while they glided amongst the spirogyra. " A senseless occupation," remarked Algernon and settled down on the black-board for a short pre-lunch snooze.

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But this was Algernon's last decision, as with a mighty sweep, the black-board duster sent his squashed body to the floor.

I know, because I put the corpse in the waste-paper basket.

—Mary Morgan, Pass VI.d, 15 years, Cato.

The

Holiday

They mount the bus with fervent haste, Glad to be there, although they raced Their breakfast; and have left The bills and housework to be faced Another day.

They leave behind them care and pain, The stuffy shop, the dreary lane, And just for once they feel That they can sail the Spanish Main, In this, their day.

They follow laughing paths and rills, And sing and dance among the hills, Like fairy people, free From income tax and money tills For just one day.

—Kathleen Burgess, Pass VI.c, Fitchett.

With sincere apologies to A. A. Milne for the following ruination of his verse and for the lack of a better title than— Melbourne She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her lightest gown; She turned to the forecast And read without a frown.

She turned to the window And looked for sun in vain, And whispered to no-one at all in particular, "It's going to come down in bucket-fulls."

—"Heartily Ashamed," Pass Vl.a, Fitchett. of Advertisement Although it hath been generally understood that this venerable magazine doth not publish prose which hath a commercial aspect, yet it hath been found necessary to insert the following unseemly, not to say vulgar, appeal for that substance which many of the inhabitants of this globe regard as their only goal, but which

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is, of course, of so little account to the readers of this publication that they will find no difficulty in donating a large amount of it to the worthy cause mentioned.

The girls of the Methodist Ladies' College have long ago realised that the deficiency of the dimensions of the hall which hath been previously used by them for their morning devotional meeting is such that the school hath been forced to meet in three parts. The young ladies have also noticed that the dais of this hall is in very close proximity to the front seat, and that it is therefore inconvenient for those occupying the afore-mentioned seat and for the principals when a speech or a performance of a play taketh place.

However, these difficulties will soon be obviated by the generous gifts which will be forthcoming from each one who readeth this heartrending article, for there is a plan afoot which, when it hath been provided with the necessary amount of the substance afore-mentioned, will result in a fine, big New Assembly Hall.

—Dorothy Alexander, 14 years, Pass VI.a, Cato.

Tribute Our tribute is an avenue of trees, The leafy branches meeting overhead; The pale green sunlight filters softly through, Each passing traveller salutes the dead.

What better monument is there than this?

A mile of golden poplars, birches, elms, Each tree to honour someone who has gone Beyond, one set apart, to unknown realms.

—Bernice Carter, 14 years, Pass Vl.a, Fitchett.

Les Papillons (Translation from the poem by Gautier) Snow-coloured butterflies, beautiful things, Flying in swarms o'er the deep, blue sea.

Lovely white butterflies, when will you come— Taking the road of the sky with me?

Know you, my flower, the fairest of all, My dancing girl, with eyes black and clear.

If they could lend me their snowy-white wings, Know you where I should go, my dear?

Without taking one kiss from the red, red rjses, Far across forests and valleys I'd fly.

Straight to your half-closed lips, my flower, There to remain till I languish and die.

—Shirley Merrylees, 15 years, Pass VI.d, Cato.

Nightmare He never knew. He never felt the desperation, That clutched, vice-like, at a tortured heart, And pressed as iron on a throbbing head, In crushing depths of one endless night; But sensed the chill from staring eyes, Fixed on the horror in all to-morrows: Upon mute spectres of fearful shame, Bared to the savageness of hate, Which, like the arms of twisting ivy, Cunningly weaves a dismal prison.

Deep in the warmth of a wooden cot, Tenderly covered with soft caresses, Secure in the velvet arms of night, He stirred and whimpered in childish dreams, Ridiculous head on a withered body, A monst»r doomed to eternal jeers; Turned his ugly, crooked figure, Away from a father's burning breath, Away from all pain of discordant sound, To the vibrant music of ecstasy.

A sobbing figure knelt in the dark, As images trampled his brain, Of a hideous being, rejected and scorned, A shapeless mass of bewildered life, Stumbling alone on an alien path.

Thoughts ever crowding over the void, Fleeing still faster in desperate haste, From wavering love in pursuit unceasing, Who groped in dark doubt and seizing decision, Inspired in her blindness the criminal action.

O cruel hands, within whose awful strength There lay the summoner of Death!

Limply you hang as two discarded rags, Drained of all life and flung to dry, As you have drained from a trusting cot, And ended a feeble struggle with Fate, Whose cheerless voice resounded still!

Within a stricken mind, defiance sobs aloud, But louder still, grief's piercing cry Echoes a shattered heart.

— T . Weyman, Hon.

VI.c, Fitchett.

SILVER A N D " GREEN Relinquo I cannot understand. My brain is faint, And with my reason fights a sickened fear.

The gods are dead. And yet the gods must live!

Or man will stumble in primeval night, Will never lift his head, and close his eyes, And feel the virgin sunshine on his face, Will never hear the rippling golden breeze Brush past the leaves of summer. He will die.

A thick despair has spread and clogged my mind.

His fingers wrench my heart from out my breast, And leave a hard, numbed socket. Oh to shed The wrinkled skin of sad, defeated years, And like a new-born moth emerge again, And lightly skim the hillsides of my youth, Taut with young life fear cowed before young pride, Ambition stern within me, vibrant youth, Pulsing throughort the channels of my home; And surging softly through my opening soul, A clear, high courage, sensitively strong.

Oh, am I but a dog, a soulless cur, That I no longer see the splendid sun Sink down in his last passion, with the joy, The holy joy, transcending human thought, That once I felt, when with hot, fevered hands, My body weakened by an urgent need, I came into the temple and advanced, And laid my soul upon his burning shrine?

For I was young. So young. So very young.

A boy who, like his parrot, learns his words, And troubles not his brain to find their sense.

A child of pageantry, convention's son, But knowing not, my youth was very sweet.

Now life is but a mirror of the dead, A drear, dark slate, whose many coloured chalks, The flaming crimson, and the depthless black, Which even in its most forbidding hue Retained the name of colour, have been washed To nothing, down a turbid, tideless stream.

The gods are dead. My youth is dead. My life.

Oh, if I could but leave this crowded den, The senseless chatter, and the futile noise, The bloated lives around me, and be free To stumble seawards in the darkening storm, And stand once more upon the throbbing sand,

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Alone; exulting, thrilling. And to feel My body and my soul unite as one, And youth meet age in one eternity.

How strange it is that in each thing I love, There is a quality, the very same That drew it once to complement myself, Which brings to me, instead of happiness, A harried, troubled sensibility.

In such a manner as my mind the cause— The mind, the composite of brain and soul— Of all this present torture. If I had Not given my mind my best, most selfish love, Then would this conflict between gods and man Be of much smaller moment, and my brain Would not be swollen by unceasing thought.

The would-be scholar travels now with fear; My Emperor, my fear. Oh, I would wish That from the cluttered bodies of the gods Foundations of a newer Rome might rise.

But how? My soul, my soul, I wish you had Eternal knowledge to cast out my fear Of emptiness, and of the present shame, Of life without the gods, and with the gods!

My soul—I must be answered! Answered. Yes. And how? By wholly academic means?

Insatiable yearning of a mind Whose instruments are too inadequate May not have satisfaction, and I lack The strangely-sent, elusive, fragrant thing: That knowledge which is old within the soul Before the brain is nurtured, crying "Hark!

All is divine. Now take the hand of God, And rest in him, and look upon his face."

To rest in him. To rest, my soul, to rest.

And thus my mind. I pity you, my mind: Poor haunted, frightened thing, with no more power To whip the prideful satyr from his post Than yonder brown-backed boy, who laughs at play Beside his sister, at the ocean's edge.

No. Much less power. How pitiful it is That I, a man, have more of writhing dread Than has my own young son, and he knows fear, Knows well how dark the sleepless nights become, Knows well the tortured terror of the storm.

But he is made to conquer: in the night His hands clench hard upon the windows edge,

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His lips close thin and taut, and flinching eyes, Are forced upon the conflict. He will live To know a deep fulfilment, for his mind Is yet too young to feel a youthful pride; The fearless arrogance of all young things Is unknown to his nature. This disease Is strange and evil, shallow, transient, For when the hot, dry flush has drained away, And with it drawn the savage, fevered strength, The bodies natural talents ebb as well, And what is left is useless. Thus am I, And thus I know my son shall never be.

Inherent strength will triumph, and will feel Its spirit leap to meet the crashing cloud.

Oh Life! If I could only will myself To rise, and turn my back to face despair, Each sense uniting in the one desire— Desire—the force that motivates the man, The best of life, the worst, and still the best, To rid this fetid store house of its rats: A race of rats called gods. I do not think That I shall ever move beyond belief, And hold before Rome's dissipated gaze The mirror of her folly. Will is weak, And equal only to the task composed When such a task is equal to the will.

And if it were? Mere force would lose the fight, My intellect is not a scholar's prize, Though I love learning dearly, and I know I cannot find the necessary facts To argue for my claim. It is no use; I know my weakness. But, oh life, I know That such a land was built not by such gods!

Some jealous images, whose only claim To high divinity, the one, sole claim Is that they juggle with immortal power.

Immortal jugglers. Jugglers men call gods: Yet when they die, I mourn them—oh my life!

I mourn them, and am glad that they are dead.

My soul is sore, and yet my eyes are dry.

Perhaps the sea affects them. I must spend My leisure in a less inclement place— No. It is useless to compose my mind With senseless words, it will not be composed— And now the night approaches. Gentle night, Whose hireling smooths the jagged edge of pain,

Yet leaves instead a dead and dragging ache, That will not be removed, because the brain Has lost the power to ease it. Tender night.

How simple it would be to end the pain, And rest in nothing. Better yet to know The sun, the trees, the stars, the quivering sea As dear beloved brothers: And my soul Is gone, and with the wind I am a bird.

The stone beneath my hand grows hard, and cold, As if the sun had given it a life, And snatched it back within a few swift hours.

The lights lie low against the lazy wave, The shore is merged with ocean, and the moon Is hidden yet below the rimless clouds.

Good-night, my world, the dawn is far away, And by my side the night is very dark —Margot Rumpf, Hon. VI.c.

T h e Commonwealth Nation of nations, land of lands, Passed on to us through our fathers' hands, May we, as they did, toil for thee, That future ages may be free.

May the spirit of the pioneer Live in us throughout this year, For now we honour, as a nation This Jubilee of Federation.

-—Rosemary Groves, Hon. VI.c, Fitchett.

Editor's N o t e The magazine committee wishes to commend the following contributions for the promise they show: Be it ever so humble (M.W.), Belgian Folk Lore (R.L.), Rhododendrons (B.W.), Shoes (V.B.), Monday Morning-itis (J.E.), Country Cafes (B.M.), Soup (B.D.), An Interlude (V.H.), The Hunter (J.S.), Sherbrooke Forest (J.S.), Chinese Wedding Customs (E.Y.), Cool, Clear Water (B.H.), The Rose Romance (P.G.), Our Cloakroom (V.W.), "The Narcissus" (B.W.), A Sticky Tale (J.P.), The Enchanted Swan (S.S.).

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— B a r b a r a Williams, H o n . V I . a ,

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MIDDLE AND LOWER SECTION Summer Day The sun streams in through the open window, The scent of cherry-blossom fills the air, And the sound of the cattle returning from milking; From the orchard comes the singing of a blackbird there.

Slowly, silently, cunning and crafty, The vixen comes creeping from her shady lair, Bent on catching, killing and devouring A tender rabbit, or a nice fat hare.

Down from the sky comes swooping, gliding, On outspread wings of shining gold, A sharp-eyed eagle, ever watching For a silly young lamb, strayed far from the fold.

Down by the river goes swiftly diving A bright blue kingfisher into the spray, Darting through the water, into the sunshine, Up to join the swifts, and the swallows at playOutside the vixen's lair are sleeping Three small fox cubs, round and red, While inside, the vixen, triumphant, contented, Lies full length on her moss-strewn bed.

Up in his nest, on a crag, on a hilltop, Stands the eagle devouring his meat, A long flight it had cost him, over many farm-yards.

Over endless pastures of barley and wheat.

Daylight is fading, shadows are lengthening, Cattle come lowing over the hill; Birds fly home to their nest in the tree-tops, The moon comes up to find everything still.

—Paddy Dixson, IV.b, Cato.

Autumn in Melbourne On a clear, crisp, autumn morning, I love to stand on that hill near my home, and watch the slowly awakening city. The sun, rising behind me, touches with delicate fingers the spires and tall buildings which are thrusting their heights through the light ground fog, and turns them to gold.

Swiftly the fingers of light search out the darkest recesses of the city, and soon Melbourne is sparkling under another autumn sun.

As the sun slowly sinks on a glorious, mellow, autumnal day, the city becomes a bowl of liquid gold.

The air is soft and still, broken only by the sweet songs of the birds.

As the sun sinks below the horizon on the other side of the gradually darkening city, a plane wings its way homeward across the t nted sky.

—Margaret Scott, IV.b, Berry, 12 years.

Gipsy

Wagons

From the distant misty hills, Where deep green valleys lie, The Gipsy wagons blue-grey smoke Curls slowly to the sky.

And there amidst the shady trees, Streaked with golden light, They camp beside a flowing stream, And settle down for night.

There in peace they calmly sleep Until the following morn, Till birds a-singing in the trees Awake them in the dawn.

Laurel Wood, IV.b, Berry.

The

Deer

A shot rang out upon the air, The deer turned and ran; The hunter chased him through the trees, But he outstripped the man.

He paused for one short moment, The man took careful aim; The bullet found its target, And the deer cried out in pain.

He stumbled, and then staggered on, For he had done his best; He limped into a near-by cave And laid himself to rest.

—Helen Bennett, IV.a, 13 years, Krome.

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Gully

Deep in the fern-grown gullies, Amid the tall, majestic trees The babbling brook with its burden of leaves Goes rippling by to the second of the breeze.

H'dden in the bracken-fern, as silent as could be, There sat a lyre-bird, upon his mound, Mimicking his bushland friends.

Then, as the echoes died away, the gully was left without a sound.

—Lorraine Williams, 14 years, Lower V.e, Krome.

A Sleep on the Beach The waves wash on the golden shore, The sun's rays warm you to the core.

The screaming gulls fly overhead, Your eyelids feel they're made of lead.

The breezes whisper in your ear, And sleep is hovering quite near.

The distant rocks like mermaids seem, As you go off to the land of dream.

When you awake your back is sore, Sunburned on that sunny shore.

Your head is swimming round and round, You make your way to shady ground.

If only you could straightly see, You'd hurry home to have your tea.

How sore and burnt your poor legs seem; Where did you put that sunburn cream?

—Janice Maling, 13 years, IV.d, Cato.

Inflation The costs are high For the stuff we buy; Some is rough, The other is tough, But it's all the same to the butcher.

—Janice Dickens, IV.a, Cato, 12 years.

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Summer I enjoy the summer With its sunshine bright, Dancing on the waters, Turning them to l'ght.

As the night approaches, Sun sinks in the west, But its warmth still lingers As children go to rest.

—Ngaire Knight, 12 years, IV.a, A Rabbit Drive Our Mallee school wished to raise money to buy library books, and so the Head decided to have a rabbit drive. Rabbits were plentiful that year, and organisations used that means to raise money.

Immediately after school, the seniors rushed out to the gate, where they found a number of interested parents waiting. Having piled into the cars, we were driven about eight miles out to the selected paddock. The farmer on whose property the drive was to be held was very helpful, as it was in his interest to get rid of the pests. He had erected two fences of wire-netting, running at right angles to each other, and leading into a small enclosure, where the fences met. The "drivers," that is, all the people, spread out in a long line about a mile and a half from the run, and at a signal we moved slowly in towards the fences, making plenty of noise, so that the rabbits would move before us towards the run.

As a rabbit would break back between two of us, sticks would be thrown, in the hope of hitting it. The farmer was galloping around on a jet-black horse, shouting orders and giving directions. The rabbits ran straight into the trap, and the gate was shut.

Then tea and biscuits were handed around to us, after which we drove home—tired, happy, and dirty, and that night dreamt of the new books to be added to the library, for which we had made £22.

—-Valerie Joynt, Lower V.d.

T h e Haunted H o u s e No-one lives in the old house now, The house across the road; The old man died some years ago, And it's now a ghosts' abode.

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Two ghosts live in the haunted house, They're always dressed in white; They give you such a terrible scare If you go there alone at night.

Some bats live in the attic, too, And bats do there abound.

The pines outside sigh in the wind, And make a dismal sound.

—Margaret Harry, 10 years, Krome.

The

Clock

The little green clock On the kitchen shelf, I'm sure must feel Very proud of itself.

It ticks away The hours each day, And tells us the times To work and play.

Without our clock I'm sure we'd be All in a terrible Quandary!

—Janice Kenny, Lower IV.b, 12 years, Cato.

I A m an O l d Boot When my life story begins it goes back one hundred or so years, that is about the year 1850.

I was made in England by an old cobbler. He was a very kind man, though very poor.

One morning when the sun was shining brightly, a man came into the cobbler's workshop and said he would like a decent pair of shoes.

"I have just finished these nice black ones.

They are very strong," said the cobbler.

"Thank you, I will have them," and he took them, paying the cobbler half a guinea.

In those days that was a big price. The cobbler was very pleased.

The man, whose name was Jim, took me to a ship which was anchored in the bay, and we soon sailed to Australia. The ship was a "windjammer." After about six weeks, we arrived in Australia. It was in the olden days and they had not invented steam-ships then.

Immediately I was put on and I saw trees and black men with things they called boomerangs and waddies. I even saw strange animals with big tails. My master said they were "kangaroos." They had pockets in which their babies, called "joeys" were kept. There were different trees also.

After a while I was thrown out because it was difficult walking on hard ground. I was very sad.

Some fifty years later, a wealthy gentleman picked me up and put me in a museum, saying that I was one of the first boots to land :n Australia. I am still in the museum, so come and see me.

I often remember those days, and it makes me feel very happy, because I helped this grand country, Australia.

-—Margaret Mott, Lower IV.d, Cato.

T h e Forest The call of a bell bird floats lilting and high, Through the entwining trees, up to the sky, Where the fluffy white clouds, as fat lambs at play, Are chasing each other like ships on the bay.

Along a dim gully a river flows clear, And when it is evening, to drink come the deer.

Wild flowers are growing the whole forest through, Which, in early morning, are sprinkled with dew.

—Jennifer Murphy, Lower, IV.b, Cato, 11 years.

M r . Fox When moonbeams dance upon the wall, And trees are standing straight and tall, And birds are sleeping in their nests, And people in their beds do rest; Mr. Fox comes creeping round, Smiling at the feast he's found: Twenty-four wee baby chicks, Resting on their roost of sticks.

He opens wide his vicious jaw, And one small chick will live no more.

He jumps the gate, he will not wait, And next night he will not be late.

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SILVER A N D " GREEN Next night everyone is ready.

Guns in hand held true and steady, Every man's behind a tree, Waiting for the fox to be Hungry for his evening feed.

When from the darkness guns go popping, And fate has Mr. Fox a-dropping.

And now that wicked Fox is dead, The chicks can go in peace to bed.

—Joyce Bryse, Lower, IV.d, Fitchett.

M y Little Friend A little bird came up to me and looked into my face, He fluttered to my shoulder and then on to my case.

It seemed to me he wished to say, "How cold and wet the weather, Why can't I stay with you," he thought, "and both play games together?"

—Sandra McKeddie, IH.b, Caeto, 11 years.

just near that place, and he was bitten on the back of the hand by a tiger snake. It made us wonder how the little platypus would get on if it was attacked by the sna.;e.

—Myra Langford, Lower III.a, 10 years, Berry.

Our

Holiday

We left on a Friday morning, To camp down by the sea, We took our tent and we took our dog, And our hearts were full of glee.

We made a list of everything That we would have to take, And mother was making an effort In baking us a cake.

We spent a happy holiday At Queenscliff by the sea, • We sat and watched the ships go by, Sailing out to sea.

—Fay Cattlin, IH.b, Berry, 11 years.

Gas Restrictions When you're called for breakfast, Please do not be late, Because you must remember, The gas goes off at eight.

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—Jill Carter, Lower IH.b, Krome.

River

Wonders

One evening early in February, my father, mother, sisters and I went for a walk along the banks of the River Yarra, which is very close to our home. While walking near a little sandy beach near a bend in the river, we saw a round, black object swimming in the water quite close to the edge.

At first we thought it was a water rat, but when it swam closer we saw that it was a platypus, about twelve inches long. It came very close to us, and we could see its duck-bill and flat tail, as it searched for food in the mud. We watched it for some t'me, until it swam out towards the centre of the river and suddenly vanished.

We were thrilled to see the platypus, as we had never see a live one before.

We thought it was lovely to see a platypus only five miles from the centre of Melbourne.

Yesterday, a man put his hand in the water

Skipping Jane Here comes little Skipping Jane, Skipping till she gets a pain, Always skipping day and night, Skipping till the morning light.

Then she knows that it is time For her to skip to school by nine, So she starts to skip again My darling little Skipping Jane.

School is over and now Jane Start to skip home again, In the sun and in the rain •Skips my little Skipping Jane.

—Sandra Epstein, 10 years, Fitchett.

T h e Robin Up in the air I fly, Up very, very high, When I look down I see A very busy bee.

When I go down I see on the ground A very little beetle And a very big steeple.

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When the cold winds roar, I visit the kitchen door, And there, with luck, perhaps I'll find some crumbs or other scraps.

—Elizabeth Bryre, Lower IH.b, 10 years, Fitchett.

Marching

Tilly T o e s

We love to see our men parade, Their marching is "a treat."

Our country safe for us they've made,

There was a small cat, Who was very fat, And his name was Tilly Toes.

And this very small cat Was trying to catch A rat with a turned-up nose.

But try as he would He never just could Catch the rat with the turned-up nose,

JUNIOR My

One day he saw Coming through the floor That rat with the turned-up nose.

Up leaped our cat; And killed the rat, That clever puss, Tilly Toes.

—Patricia Bell, IH.b, 10 years, Cato.

They look so smart and neat.

The crowds all cheer, and clap their hands.

The men look proud and brave, The children love the big brass bands, To all the men they wave.

—Joyce Hagger, Lower, IV.a, Krome, 11 years.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Song

T h e Story of M r . and Mrs. Whiskers

The wind through the poplar tree blows, There I shall sit, and sing you a song Of the flowers and their lovely hue— That is all I have for you.

Once upon a time there lived two Scotch terriers and their names were Mr. and Mrs. Whiskers. They had three children and their names were Granny, Anne and Belinda.

The wind blows the waves on the sea, I shall sit on the sand, and sing you a song Of the waves, all green and blue— That is all I have for you.

One day Mr. Whiskers told them that he had ordered three bicycles.

Granny, Anne and Belinda were over-joyed and ran squealing to their mother. "Daddy's going to buy us a bicycle each, aren't we lucky, mother?" "Yes, I think you are very lucky."

—Jennifer Secombe, Junior, IV.a, Krome, 9i years.

Little Lizards There's lots of little lizards, that play in the green, Such as the blue-tongue, that's hardly ever seen, And the little frill-necked that plays in the bark, With all the other insects, but hark! hark! hark!

Oh, it's only Mother calling, So I must say good-bye, 'Cos I'm writing in the morning, And I have to do my tie.

—Jenny Weight, Junior, IV.a, Fitchett, 9 years.

The next day the bicycles arrived and the pups played until bed-time.

•—Jean Roughsedge, Junior, IV.b, 9 years.

Birds in Spring I love the little birds that fly Right up in the bright, blue sky.

We see them every passing day, They are very bright and gay.

The blackbird with his shiny wings, The little nightingale that sings, The birds that make their nests in trees, Thank God for giving all of these.

—Noala Yen, Junior, IV.a, Fitchett, 9 years.

SILVER A N D " GREEN School

Days

I like to go to school each day, And with the other children play, We sing, and hop, and skip about, And yes, I must admit we shout.

We hear the bell, and in we go.

Oh dear, I wish I weren't so slow.

At Arithmetic, but I might improve, Then to the top of the form I'll move.

Swimming now is really fun; And reading books out in the sun Is quite the nicest thing to do, I think that school is grand, don't you?

—Anne Jennifer Lee, Junior, IV.a, Berry, 9i years.

Jan and W u f f Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Jan. She had a little puppy named Wuff.

One day Mother said to Jan, "Would you like to go to the shops?"

This was a great treat for Jan as she had not been to the shops by herself before.

Mother made out the shopping list of things that she would like Jan to buy, and gave her the money to pay for everything.

She said, "Be very good, and watch the traffic." Jan asked Mother if she could take Wuff. Mother said, "Yes, if you would like to," so Jan put Wuff on the lead and off they went.

And from that day, Jan and Wuff have always done the shopping for Mother.

—Suzanne Byriell, Junior, IV.b, Fitchett, 82yearf.

M y Puppy I have a little puppy dog, His name is Tiny Joe; When I'm going up the street, He always wants to go.

While I'm putting on my hat, He runs to get his lead; Then he brings it up to me, And the basket which I need.

—Valerie Ellis, Junior, IV.a, Krome, 9 years.

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T h e Rainbow Fairies Sitting on the rainbow bright, Fairies, red and green and blue; Soon you will be put to flight With the sunbeams chasing you.

—Pauline Rosengarten, Junior, IV.a, Fitchett, 9i years.

Puff Puff was a little puppy dog, He had a shaggy tail.

He used to stand outside the door And wail and wail and wail.

Puff was a little puppy dog, He was such a sweet little thing.

He used to wear a silver bell That rang a-ting-a-ling.

—Vivienne Baker, Junior, IV.b, Krome, 8 years.

My Dolly I have a little dolly, And her name is Fairy Floss, I got her for my birthday, And she is never cross.

—Barbara Gill, Junior, IV.b, Krome, 82 years.

I Wish I W e r e a Birdie I wish I were a birdie, To chirp and fly each day, I'd have a nest of babies, And watch them while they play.

—Patricia Sandercock, Junior, IV.b, 8 years.

T h e Easter Bunny I am the Easter Bunny, I am all furry brown, I bring you pretty little eggs, And paint them up and down.

Some are little chocolate ones, All made by me and Sam, And some are filled with lollies, And some with raspberry jam.

I wish you all a happy Easter, And lots of fun and cheer, And if you only get one egg, I'll bring you more next year.

—Airdrie Hutton, Junior, IV.b, Krome, £ years.

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T h e Jubilee Exhibition We went to the Exhibition, and saw a lot of things made in Australia. We saw a mach ine making tacks, and the man gave me some for nothing. We saw them making mugs from plastic powder, and Mummy bought me one.

We saw a man making handkerchiefs and saw how he printed them, and Daddy let me get one of those. We also saw screws being made.

We saw a picture an artist had made and we saw his model standing outside. We looked at a little piece of glass and saw a tiny screw there, then we looked through a microscope at it and it was mu--h bigger. We saw a printing machine printing on some paper. We also saw men making brushes.

—Vivienne Baker, Junior, IV.b, Krome, 8i years.

T h e Fairy I am a little fairy, As happy as can be; I'm tripping to the dairy To get some milk for tea I am a little fairy, I dance when the moon is bright— I dance with all the fairy folk, With a dress of snow-drop white.

I am a little fairy, With a magic silver wand.

You must know my name is Mary, And I live by the moon-lit pond I am a little fairy, All dressed in silvery white, I'm going to have a happy dance With all my friends to-night.

—Glenis Jolly, Junior, IV.b, Cato, 9 years

T h e Swan Down by the lake, I saw a swan, He touched my hand as he glided on, On through the water to the end of the day, Shedding peace and goodwill, as he went on his way.

—Felicity Blandford, Junior, IV.a, Krome, 9 years.

T h e Pixie I saw a little pixie, playing in the sun, Playing with his golden ball, He had lots of fun.

If you see that pixie, playing in the sun, Do not try to chase him, Or far away he'll run.

—Beverley Kennedy, Junior, IH.b, Cato.

8i years.

T h e First Easter Eggs Once there was a famine over the land, and there was no rain at all. The wheat could not grow, so the people had to be very careful with their food.

Most of the people were poor.

When Christmas came there were no presents, but the children did not mind, for they gave few presents then. The best time was at Easter. But when Easter drew near, the mothers were quite worried about their children; so one night they held a meeting. Nobody could think what to do about it, so everyone went home.

There was one mother who was sadder than the others. So in the morning she told them her plan and they did as she had said. They painted hens' eggs to make them pretty.

Now when Easter Sunday came, they went to Church, and after the service they went to the woods. There they found the eggs, and wondered who had put them there. They saw the Easter bunny and said it must have been him.

—Judith Knell, Junior, IV.a, Fitchett, 9i years..

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Miss Bennett was an Old Collegian of M.L.C. Hawthorn. For more than fifteen years she taught at Elsternwick, recently being chief of staff, and she wielded a unique influence by her culture and her character.

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Editor:

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D e p u t y Editor: Sub-Editor:

1951.

WOOD.

TAMARA MARGARET

WEYMAN. ADENEY.

Magazine Committee: Miss T . Mitchell, M a r g o t R u m p f , G w e n d a Jacobs. Renee J arvis, Beverley W e b s t e r W e n d y Gardner, Rosemary G r o v e s , Judith L u g t o n , Janet Edwards, Jennifer H a r d i n g , Rachel Lew, Mary M o r g a n !

Editorial Throughout this issue of "Silver and Green," frequent mention is made of the new Assembly Hall, its Fund, and the Fair, which will be held to augment that Fund, next March. During third term particularly, this year, it has been a chief topic of interest in the School, and every girl has had a part in working f o r this School project.

This support has not been the result of logical reasoning, carefully considered in each girls' mind.

It has been a spontaneous and enthusiastic effort to an appeal f o r the School and f o r future M.L.C. girls.

Girls in the Senior School and, perhaps, even in lower forms, realise that they will be Old Collegians when the Assembly Hall is opened, but, nevertheless, wholehearted support has been evident everywhere.

This is the spirit that has been inculcated in us at school, it is the spirit that is needed in

the community to-day—working, but not selfrighteously, f o r the c o m m o n g o o d , disregarding personal benefit.

Although we are few, we can spread this spirit throughout the community. W e have seen how the enthusiasm of our organiser has infected us as a School.

Each f o r m has "caught o n " to the idea, raising money in many and various ways.

Our parents have joined in and added to the programme of their busy lives, preparation f o r the Assembly Hall Fair; this is greatly appreciated.

This enthusiasm we have seen in the staff, through their highly-successful production of a play, to which the producer, the cast, and others, gave a great deal of valuable time and energy. Then again, we have an excellent and touching example of the infectiousness of enthusiasm and generosity which resulted in £50 being given to the Assembly Fund.

Willie Paia, of the Solomon Islands, hearing of the

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Fund when he came to speak to the School, sent £10 very generously through Mr. Goldie, who visited us with him. Mr. Goldie decided to send £10 also, and his three daughters, O l d Collegians of M.L.C., each added £10.

As we have seen enthusiasm spread in the school, so we can conceive of it happening in the community end the world.

Surely this wholehearted desire to work f o r the c o m m o n good, disregarding personal gain, is one way of solving the problems which lead

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to strife.

Perhaps we could find in this an answer to that nagging question: " W h y is the world thrust into a state of war when individuals the world over hate and dread the idea?"

While we are in training f o r citizenship here, we are practising selflessness in our combined efforts f o r our great School project.

W h e n we leave School we must develop still further this habit, and "combine our efforts" to bring about peace throughout the world.

School Highlights June— Tuesday,

5th.—Second

term began, as we

gathered together f o r the next lap, determined to work really hard.

Friday, 8th.—Beverley Webster gave a talk on the Royal Empire Society Luncheon she had attended on 24th May. Friday, 15th.—Rev. S. Weeks gave us an interesting and informative talk about India.

Tuesday, 19th, and Wednesday 20th.—The chief dramatic event of the year was the performance of the two School Plays, " T h e Boy with a Cart" and " T h e Dumb W i f e of Cheapside." W e were as much moved by the first play as entertained by the second.

Friday,

22nd.—A

very successful Ball was

held at the Wattle Park Chalet f o r all matriculation girls.

Friday, 29th.—The Boarders celebrated their Birthday in the traditional manner, with drama and a supper to follow. This was the occasion of a unique speech, spoke as a duet by our " d u a l " head prefect. W e wished the Boarders many happy returns.

JulyMonday, 2nd.—Many M.L.C. girls attended Canon Bryan Green's mission services at St. John's, Camberwell, and St. Paul's Cathedral.

This mission was a profoundly moving experience f o r many of us. O n this day, we were fortunate enough to be visited by the Canon, who spoke to our Senior Assembly.

Thursday, 5th.—Krome and Fitchett debated " T h a t Australia's present immigration policy is suited to her economic needs." T h e Krome team emerged victorious.

Congratulations!

Friday, 13th.—The French National Day was celebrated by the performance of Edmond Rostand's play, "Les Romanesques," Act I, by Matriculation French students. This play was quite intelligible even to those who do not study French.

Monday, 16th.—The mid-term holiday provided a brief respite f r o m work.

Forty-three girls retired to the calm of Clifden Farm, Kinglake, with the two Walking Club presidents as chaperones.

The words of " u p and o n " occurred to us as we hiked that never-to-be-forgotten thirty miles! W e returned to school f o r a rest cure!

Friday, 20th.—In O p e n Period, Miss Fox, f r o m the Y . W . C . A . , spoke to us on India, under the auspices of S.C.M. Her talk reminded us of the urgent need for co-operation and understanding in the world to-day.

A t night, our Madrigal Singers performed f o r the National Gallery. " W h e n music sounds, gone is the earth I know, A n d all her lovely things even lovelier grow."

Friday, 27th.—In O p e n Period, Mr. Hewlett gave us a comprehensive survey of Europe, which he has visited three times. This interesting talk was in connection with the work done by U . N . A .

At night, a successful Senior Music Recital took place.

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August— Thursday,

2nd.•—The

film

"Caesar

and

Cleopatra" was shown in Fitchett Hall.

Thursday,

9th.—Exams.

"There was silence deep as death; A n d the boldest held hi9 breath For a time."

Friday, 24th.—Mr. Y o u n g , the well-known psychologist, gave us a most interesting talk on the right careers to choose.

Tuesday, 28th.—The "Children's Crusade" was performed at the Melbourne T o w n Hall by the M.L.C. Choir, the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Society and the Victorian Symphony Orchestra.

Friday, 31st.—End of term. Three mistresses and forty girls left the Barrier Reef amid shouts of " B o n V o y a g e ! "

September— Tuesday, 18th.—Back to School.

Forty "niggers" appeared at school, muttering a strange dialect in which we caught such words as "pineapples sixpence each." They were eventually recognised as our school-fellows, who had had a wonderful time.

Friday, 21st.—During Methodist Week, the Rev. V . R. Secombe spoke to us about the importance of Prayer.

A t night, an excellent programme, "Excerpts f r o m the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas," was presented in Fitchett Hall by members of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. T h e performance was sponsored by Diploma students in aid of the New Assembly Hall Fund.

Friday, 28th.—In Open Period, Mrs. T. H .

Coates gave us a fascinating account of her experiences abroad.

October— Friday, 5th.—Mr. Johnston and Mr. Downes, f r o m the University, gave us their advice on careers and courses. ( A subject of pressing importance f o r those leaving school!)

Thursday, 11th.—Willie Paia, a Government servant of the Solomon Islands, and Rev. J. F. Goldie, visited the School.

Willie Paia addressed us f o r a few minutes, then Mr. Goldie, who was the pioneer Methodist minister in the Solomon Islands, told us some interesting stories about his native parishioners.

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Friday, 12th.—The final debate was held between Krome and Berry, on Socialism. Krome bore off the laurels amid our hearty congratulations.

Saturday, 13 th.—The D o g Show.

Wednesday, 2 4 t h . — O n United Nations D a y , Rosemary Groves, the Vice-President of the United Nations Association, gave the School a short account of the aims and work of U . N . A .

Thursday, 25th.—The Rev. Palmer Phillips addressed the School on the work hitherto done

by U . N . A . , and reminded us that peace is possible only if all barriers of race and religion are set aside, to make way f o r understanding between nations.

Sunday, 28th.—At the evening service at Auburn Methodist Church, M.L.C. boarders were among those received into Church membership.

Friday, 26th and Saturday, 27th.—Ten members of staff took part in a very entertaining play,

"The

Red Umbrella," referred to

else-

where.

Tuesday, 30th.—The

Lower Middle School

Swimming Sports were held.

November— Thursday,

1st.—The Middle House

Choral

Contests were adjudicated by Dr. Floyd, who placed the houses in this order: Berry, Cato and Fitchett (equal), Krome.

Friday, Korea.

2nd.—Rev.

George Y u l e spoke

After the Senior Scripture

on

Examina-

tions, the School broke up f o r the mid-term holiday.

Wednesday,

7th.—The

Principal

us that Mr. E. L. Brown, of

informed

East

Malvern,

would give a large collection of paintings to the School.

Friday,

9th.—Remembrance

oured in Assembly.

Day

was

hos-

Leaving and Intermediate

examinations began.

Saturday, 10th.—A Fancy Dress Party and Doll Show brought a large crowd of and girls.

parents

This was another successful effort

f o r the new Assembly Hall. and

Lower

Middle School Music Recital was held.

Thursday,

The

programme throughout.

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Monday, 19th.—Middle School exams began.

and Lower

Middle

Friday,

7th.—The

exhibition

of

work

on

Parents' Day was highly successful.

Wednesday, 21st.—An S.C.M. evening was held, at which all members had tea together, then heard a recording of Canon Bryan Green's final address to youth, followed by discussion.

Monday, 26th.—Old Collegians visited the school in order to enrol prospective members f o r the Club.

Tuesday, 27th.—The School Communion Service was held in the morning at Auburn Methodist Church. T o those who were leaving School, especially this last service had special significance and spiritual value.

December— Monday, began.

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3rd.—Matriculation

Examinations

Saturday, 8th.—The O l d Collegians held a very enjoyable Garden Party.

Thursday, 13th.—Lower Speech Night was held.

Middle

School

Friday, 14th.—Speech Night was held at Melbourne Town Hall. School broke up, with gratitude f o r a happy and successful year.

Monday, 24th.—Members of special choir will take part in "Carols by Candlelight," with other Melbourne Schools.

Also the Madrigal G r o u p will present an item of two bracketed songs, and a group of girls will speak portions of Scripture.

— M . A.

Schoo) Activities Devotional

Notes

During second and third terms, we have studied many of our hymns and their writers, and also the subject of prayer. Each meeting opens with a hymn and prayer.

Dr. W o o d reads extracts f r o m different books on the subject of our devotions, and we disperse after a short prayer and the benediction.

T h e number of girls attending this meeting at 8.40 each Wednesday morning has grown in a very encouraging way, and, with the whole School, we have been conscious of the H o l y Spirit W h o has been working among us.

Devotional has been of great benefit to all who have attended this year, and we hope and pray that next year will be just as helpful.

— M . C. W .

Reception of Methodist Church Members Twenty-seven boarders were received into Church Membership on public confession of faith at Auburn Methodist Church on Sunday evening, 28th October. T h e service was conducted by the minister of the Auburn Methodist Church (the Rev. Henry Clarnette) and the

Principal.

Dr. W o o d preached on the text, " Y e are M y friends" (John 15: 14). T h e new members were Gwenda Akers, Anne Bossence, Jocelyn Clemence, Joan Corbett, Jocelyn Curnow, Beth Dewar, Diana Dufty, Ruth Dufty, Jennifer Garonne, Marlene James, Joan Lade, Jean Leggo, Phyllis Lyndon, Jeanette M c D o n ald, Valerie McKean, Lois McLaughlin, Margaret Martin, Doreen Millikan, Beth Ower, Penelope Pickwell, Janice Pope, Janice Roe, Ngaire Silvester, Janet Spivey, Beth Stewart, Lesley T o l d , Valerie W o o d .

S.C.M. Notes Throughout the year, study circles have met every second Wednesday. T h e book we use is "Pioneers of the Early Church." W e thank Miss Horsman and the other members of staff f o r leading us.

W e were very fortunate to have Canon Bryan Green to speak to us early in July, and later that month we had a tea meeting at which Dr. W o o d answered questions in connection with Bryan Green's Mission.

Other speakers were the Rev. Colin W'lliams, who spoke on "Methodism in America," and

SILVER Miss Fox, who spoke on "Adventuring the Blue Triangle in Asia."

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Inter-school activities began with a tea and service at Wesley on 1st March, when Dr. T. H . Coates gave the address.

A mid-year service was held at P.L.C. on 31st July, when Mrs. Rosalie McCutcheon gave the address. O n the W o r l d Student Day of Prayer, a service was held in St. James' Old Cathedral, at which the Rev. Colin Williams conducted the service.

Folk dances were held during the year at Kew Presbyterian Church, M.L.C. and Ormiston, and were very successful.

T w o interschool camps were held—one f r o m 1st June to 3rd June, at the Basin; and the other f r o m 6th September to 10th September, at Kinglake, and all who attended felt them to be both enjoyable and profitable.

— J . H . and A .

G.

United Nations' Association Notes This year the grave world situation has been so brought home to us, young and old alike, with almost terrifying force.

T o produce a better world of to-morrow, we can see that perhaps the greatest essential is to educate thoroughly the present-day youth in international understanding.

In our meetings we have discussed current topics of international importance, and we have also received many pamphlets concerned with the work of the United Nations Organisations.

In the open periods allotted to the United Nations Association this year we have had many interesting speakers, who have given us an intimate view of conditions in the world around us, and how the United Nat'ons Organisation is coping with these problems. T h e first speaker f o r the year was Mr. James Webb, who gave us a picture of the actual way in which the United Nations Organisation works. Later in the term a very enlightening talk was given

by Dr. Edmunds f r o m Kashmir, who told us of difficulties there.

O n 8th May, we held an International Evening, which was attended by representatives f r o m some other Melbourne schools.

T h e evening was divided into two sections, the first of which was held in the gym, and took the f o r m of mixed games, national folk-dancing, and folk songs.

A f t e r this we adjourned to Church

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House, where Mr. James W e b b spoke to us, his subject being, "United Nations—War or Peace?"

In second term we had a visit f r o m the Rev, Stanley Weeks, who spoke about the terrible, famine conditions in India, and this urged us to begin a drive in the School f o r the Indiap Famine Relief.

The amount received as a result of this drive was £84, and a cheque f o r th s amount was presented to Mrs. Mammen, on behalf of her country.

O n 27th July, Mr. Howlett, who is the senior language master at Melbourne Grammar School, spoke to us about the attitude in Europe to-day towards the United Nations Organisation. Another speaker, Mrs. Coates, a former member of staff, also spoke on Europe.

During United Nations Week (18th-24th October), posters could be seen in prominent places all over the School, and we also had a display of posters denoting the work o f the United Nations Organisation, in one o f the form-rooms.

T h e outstanding feature of the week was a visit f r o m the Rev. Palmer Phillips, the President of the Victorian Branch of the United Nations Association, who spoke to., the senior assembly on the aims, principles, and, achievements of the United Nations Organisation.

A t the close of the week's activities, a film entitled, "Paving the W a y " was shown in the cinema room.

In conclusion we sincerely thank Miss Kellaway, our most capable and untiring president, f o r all that she has done during this year.

— R . G. and M. R.

Debating Notes This year the Debating Society began well when there was a large attendance at the first meeting.

This early promise has been fulfilled and the interest shown by Leaving Pass girls seems to speak well f o r the future.

Several lunch-time meetings have been held during the year and thus many girls have been given an opportunity to speak.

Subjects at these debates have ranged f r o m women's hats to the problem of heredity and environment.

In the first term Berry and Cato stood up to the ordeal of a n Inter-house debate in Fitchett Hall. Berry was successful in saying "that

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Science has done more f o r the benefit than the detriment of man." In second term Krome defeated Fitchett, when they successfully argued "that Australia's present immigration policy is suited to national needs." Krome and Berry then met in the final inter-house debate, the subject being "that Socialism is in the best interests of the community." T h e Krome team was successful by the narrow margin of one point, and therefore Krome wins the debating cup f o r 1951.

During second term a team of nine debaters visited Scotch College f o r a round-table debate, and later we acted as hostesses to a team f r o m M.B.H.S. M.L.C. also attended a Discussion Evening at M.C.E.G.G.S., at which schools f r o m four different States were represented.

In third term one inter-school debate was held at M.L.C. against Wesley.

O n the whole, these debates were very g o o d and many varied opinions were expressed.

Subjects at these debates covered a wide range and included, " T h a t Communism is mankind's main h o p e " and " T h a t the happiness of youth is overestimated."

Finally, the Society would like to thank Dr. W o o d f o r adjudicating the Inter-House Debates, and also our Presidents, Miss Cochrane and Miss Cerutty, f o r their help and encouragement throughout the year.

— S . G.

Social Service Notes The Social Service work this year has been very successful, and we feel this success is mainly due to the unfailing interest of Miss Dahle, Mrs. Kelly, Miss Sutton and Miss B. Jackson, and we wish to thank them f o r all their help.

A t the moment, the school is in the midst of numbers of activities to raise money f o r the New Assembly Hall Fund.

Apart f r o m the cake and sweet stalls, all have been racking their brains f o r new ideas and the variety of inspiration has been truly amazing.

During second term we had a very successful effort f o r Food f o r India, and in spite of this the Food for Britain appeal was well supported during the year.

Although the response to the Egg Day Appeal was good, the total was much below

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last year's as a result of the high cost of eggo.

T h e number of eggs was 2577, and £7 was collected in money.

Another nine guineas was raised by the sale of buttons.

Forms can be justly proud of the way they have organised special efforts to raise money f o r various charities.

Here are amounts sent to some institutions: Blind Babies' H o m e , £ 3 3 / 1 6 / 4 ; Cheltenham Children's H o m e , £ 2 1 / 3 / 5 ; Methodist Babies' H o m e , £ 8 2 / 4 / 3 ; Overseas Missions, £25; Tally H o Boys' H o m e , £ 2 1 / 1 7 / 3 .

End of year results show has been sent to charities.

that over

£300

Once again Senior girls have been visiting the North Richmond and Collingwood Missions, and have helped the superintendents in many ways.

W e wish to thank all Social Service captains, and all girls of the School who have each contributed "their bit" towards the success of the year.

— B . M. D.

Indian Bazaar T h e girls of the four leading forms arranged an Indian Bazaar in the gym. on two successive lunch-times, and raised over £11 f o r Indian Famine Relief. Characters f r o m " K i m " mingled with the crowd, and "beggars" were very successful in helping others to "acquire merit" by filling their begging bowls f o r this needy cause.

W e take this public opportunity of thanking Mrs. Mammen f o r all the help she gave to this effort.

—Pass, V I Forms.

The Dog Show O n Saturday afternoon, 13th October, a most successful D o g Show was held on the Sports Oval. This was arranged by Miss E. J. Mitchell, and it realised over £80 f o r the New Assembly Hall Fund.

Besides being so successful financially, this event proved a very happy one socially, and was enjoyed very much by the hundreds attending. The dogs also seemed to mingle amicably, as no serious dog-fights were reported!

SILVER A N D Mr. E. Bayfield was indefatigable in helping throughout the afternoon, and was ably assisted

by Mr. H . W o o d f u l l , and Mr. Balmer, of 3 K Z .

Probably the Oval has never before heard such a yapping chorus, but the Show was such a " h o w l i n g " success that requests have already been made f o r another!

Films Three very successful "picture nights" were held in Fitchett Hall, the films shown being, " T h e Magic Bow," "Great Expectations," and "Caesar and Cleopatra." V.a and V.b, who arranged these, raised over £40 f o r the New Assembly Hall Fund.

Films have also been shown during lunchhours throughout the year.

Very popular were " A Harbour Goes to France" and "Spotlight on Australian Ballet," but the programme has been most varied and interesting, and the films chsosen have been of great assistance in all subject teaching. A special film was shown f o r United Nations Day, and French, German and Danish films have also been enjoyed by large audiences.

W e again thank Mr. Seymour for his generous help in this very important part of modern school life.

Club Notes Senior Maths. Club This year, Senior Maths. Club has again continued to hold meetings every fortnight.

During the year, Mr. Seymour has given us several talks on Astronomy. W e have learnt some very interesting facts about the planets and our solar system.

Miss Keilaway has given us very interesting talks on the calendar and the Golden numbers and we have had much enjoyment f r o m various mathematical puzzles and cryptograms.

W e heartily thank Miss Keilaway f o r giving up her valuable time and f o r her kind interest in our club.

— G . E. J.

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This year, because of the efforts being made f o r the Assembly Hall Fair, we had to f o r g o the usual third term hike. The first and second term hikes, and the long week-end at Clifden Farm, were, however, most successful.

Although some eminent members of the Club do not seem to appreciate Australia's "wide, open spaces," the remainder, we felt, enjoyed the first hike to Y a n Yean Reservoir.

In order to satisfy the afore-mentioned "eminent members," the next hike was around (all around) the Dandenongs.

Our leaders' unfailing ( ? ) sense of direction led us eventually to O n e Tree Hill, but unfortunately we missed the train home (owing to the antiquated timetable consulted).

However, some Cubs, who were in the same plight, entertained us royally with " S a m b o " and tonettes.

Mid-term f o u n d us again at Clifden Farm.

After only one night a new member of the Club managed this epic: "Last night, I was not kept awake By storm or angry billow, N o r by the gentle sound of rain Descending on my pillow; N o r by the croaking of the frogs In loud, insistent chorus: One of my room-mates had another Entertainment f o r us.

She sang while she was fast asleep!

She sang both soft and low, O f old, unhappy, far-off things, A n d hikes of long ago."

— (M. A . ) .

The hikes we managed to fit in between the rain were enlivened by interesting discourses on the behaviour of strawberries and the shocking shortage of straw; and such side-splitting ( ? ) riddles as: Q . — " W h y are the prefects r i c h ? " A.—"Because they have a p o u n d . "

Junior Maths. Club The Junior Maths. Club has had an interesting programme of films o n Astronomy and Mathematics.

These have been kindly shown and commented upon by Mr. Seymour in the Montgomery Lecture Theatre.

O n the Sunday night we had a "questionand-answers" session after the style of Bryan Green's mission services. During the week-end we tried out several new hikes which provided perpendicular muddy hills and endless timber tracks.

Jocelyn Rogers

— P h o t o . C . Stuart Tompkins.

BASEBALL T E A M , 1951. ( c a p t . ) , Judith Fowler, Beverley Malcolm, Helen Sanders, Ainslie Rowe, Judith Coleman.

Alison O ' G r a d y , Janet Reardon, Joan Graham.

— P h o t o . C. Stuart T o m p k i n s .

T E N N I S T E A M , 1951.

Back: Barbara Swan, Mary H a n n , Heather Thomas, Shirley Bayles.

Front: Beverley Malcolm ( c a p t . ) , Jocelyn Rogers, Lorraine Coghlan, Bettine Dusting, Mary Wait.

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W e would like to thank our worthy Patroness, Miss B. Jackson and Miss L. Mitchell, and all members of the Committee, and to wish next year's Club, " H a p p y H i k i n g . " — B . W . and B. A .

Camera Club Notes The Camera Club this year has had a small but enthusiastic membership.

W e are greatly indebted to Mr. H a m m o n d f r o m Kodak, who has given us many interesting addresses and has been able to illustrate these by means of the projector.

Developing has been greatly encouraged in the school with the acquiring of a well-equipped dark-room in the Science Block, which has been reserved f o r the use of the Camera Club members.

T h e September trip to the Barrier Reef has undoubtedly encouraged photography within the School.

W e should like to thank Mr. McKnight and Mr. Seymour f o r their assistance, and we hope that the Club will continue to grow and prosper.

— D . F.

Library Notes This year we have; had many visitors to the Library.

W e entertained Scotch College Library Committee o n 29th June, and on 16th July, Mr. Cowdrey, Sydney Grammar School Librarian spent the morning with us.

Members of Clyde and of T o o r a k and Adelaide Teachers' Colleges also visited us. A teacher librarian f r o m Cheswick School, London, watched our girls at work in August, and the girls f r o m the Friends' School, Hobart, also saw over the Library the week they were here.

O n 27th September a member of the Public Library Training School visited us.

A l l the visitors were very interested in the Library and in all the work done by the girls. Much of this work was later exhibited in Melbourne Public Library Exhibition, "Library in Education," which was opened by Mr. Inchbold, the Minister f o r Education. T h e girls f r o m Elsternwick sent their exhibit, an illustrated review of the "Little White Horse," by Elizabeth Goudge, with ours, and the work f r o m both schools was highly commended. T h e work of Noela Parkes and Jennifer Harding was greatly

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praised by many who saw the exhibition, and Noela's work was later exhibited by Cheshires.

One of the greatest events in the history of the Library took place on 27th September, "Back to School D a y , " when the Past Presidents of the O l d Collegians' Club presented to the School a marvellous collection of books, which must have taken much thought on their part.

The bookcase f o r the books was given

by Mrs. Kilvington, who was President in 1904, and is now Senior Past President. W e know the girls will appreciate and care f o r the books, each of which bears a special Past President's book plate, and the name of the Past President who gave it.

W e wish to thank Mrs. Taylor and Miss Iversen f o r the work they have done through the year and we also wish to thank the members of committee who have stuck loyally to their posts in the face of counter attractions of plays and stalls. Thanks are also due to girls who helped us out in hours of need.

This year has been a very successful one f o r the Library and a great deal of interest and enthusiasm has been put into the work d o n e there.

Girls who are thinking of making library work their career find the work they do as members of Committee a great preparation f o r their future career.

—M.

E. Gale.

French Club Notes The sound of a few faltering sentences in uncertain accents and grammar, accompanied by half-stifled laughter and then the expectant silence that awaits the first clear words of fluent French—all these tell of another enjoyable party.

The first one this year was held at P.L.C., where Madame Cockerton, Secretary-General of the Alliance Francaise of Victoria, spoke on the scholarship scheme by which a student may attend a French school in New Caledonia f o r a year. W e then listened to some recorded French music.

A t the second party we were honoured at M.L.C. by the presence of the Consul, M o n sieur Sirot and his wife, Professor Chisholm and Madame Cockerton. During second term several matriculation girls had combined with

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tion: Shirley Gibbs, Suzanne Peverill, Pamela

three girls f r o m P.L.C. to present Act I of "Les Romanesques," by Rostand, i o r the Alliance Francaise Drama Festival, and this was repeated f o r our guests. T h e n M. Sirot gave a very interesting talk on the development of the French language, and he read two lovely poems.

Later Madame Cockerton read the poetry prescribed f o r the matriculation exams, and Professor Chisholm gave an interesting, critical talk on the poems.

Grade II. 1st Honourable Mention: Rachel Lew; Honourable Mention: Kathleen Old, Gracie Barr, Bernice Carter, Gwenda Yelland, Margaret McFarlane.

During Open Period, "Les Romanesques" was presented to the School with an all M.L.C. cast, to celebrate the French National Day. We appreciated the friendly co-operation of the P.L.C. girls, and we thank Miss Dahle and Miss Lockhart f o r their direction and help.

Grade I V .

Honourable Mention: Judith Walker, Margaret McGinnis, Jill Bendall, Dalys Hearn, Aileen Poolton, Margaret Trathan, Jane Elton, Patricia McAUan, Susan Oddie, Joan Cother.

Many matriculation girls were delighted by the Alliance Francaise production of Molier's play, " L e Bourgeois Gentilhomme," which they attended. It was pleasant f o r a change to be able to appreciate humour in a foreign language, because it had been explained beforehand.

Altogether, this has been a most successful year f o r the French Club, and to Miss Dahle and Madamoiselle Bracquart we offer our sincere thanks f o r their guidance, and ungrudging sacrifice of much of their leisure time to help us in every way.

—T. W. Alliance Francaise Examination Resultsi: Dictation— Grade I. 1st Honourable Mention: Tamara W e y m a n ; Honourable Mention: Barbara Crisp; Monica W o o d , Margaret Adeney, Shirley Gibbs, Beverley Webster, W e n d y Gardner, Jennifer East, Elaine Gibbs.

Grade II.

Diploma of the Alliance

Fran-

caise: Rachel Lew; Honourable Mention: Jean Webster.

Grade III. 1st Prize: Joan Margolis; H o n ourable Mention: Joan Wilson, Evi Dickins.

Reading and Conversation— Grade I. 1st Prize: Monica W o o d ; Honourable Mention: Beverley Webster, Jennifer East.

Grade II.

Diploma of the Alliance Fran-

caise Very Honourable Mention: Richel Lew. Poetry— Grade I. 1st Honourable Mention: Beverley Webster, Tamara W e y m a n ; Honourable Men-

Levy,

Deidre

Fuller,

Elizabeth

Fullwood,

Elaine Gibbs.

Grade III. 2nd Prize: Joan Margolis; H o n ourable Mention: Evi Dickins, Bronwyn Harris, Ena Smith, Jennifer Hansford.

German Club Notes T h e German Club had a successful beginning this year with an inter-school party, to which P.L.C., Lauriston, Merton Hall and Tintern were invited. Mr. H . Wiemann, M.A., of the Melbourne University gave us an informative talk, entitled, "E. T . A . H o f f m a n n und seine Z e i t . " E. T. A . H o f f m a n n , who wrote the novel, "Das Fraulein von Scuderi," which has been studied by Matriculation this year, is also well known f o r " T h e Tales of H o f f m a n n , " the opera written by Offenbach.

Also this year, Leaving and Matriculation girls went to see, "Faust and the Devil," a film based mainly on the play by Goethe.

Early in August, German students of the Melbourne University presented Goethe's play, "Iphegenie auf Tauris," taken f r o m Greek mythology, and Mrs. Clahr very kindly took us to see it.

O n the second day of third term, we went to a German Folk Singing afternoon at Scotch, where we heard University Students sing some very charming folk songs and sang them ourselves to the accompaniment of a piano accordion.

A m o n g the contestants f o r the Goethe prize f o r speaking poetry were Joan Margolis, who came third in the O p e n Section with Anne Carew and Evi Dickens receiving Honourable Mentions.

Gracie Barr, Barbara Landells, Shirley Elbaum and Jennifer East also received Honourable Mentions in other sections.

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Under Mrs. Clahr's direction, the Intermediates and Sub-Intermediates presented a folk singing session with folk dances and the play, "Hansel und Gretel," f r o m the opera

by Humperdinck, late in October.

W e feel that this year has been very successful, as well as enjoyable, f o r the members of the German Club and we thank Mrs. Clahr f o r her untiring and most helpful leadership and guidance.

— J . E. and D. F.

Berry House Notes Although house spiri- has b. en high this year, it has not resulted in any marked success.

Our results in sport have been rather disappointing; but it could not be f o r lack of enthusiasm on the part of our Sports Captains: Elaine Stewart, who has worked energetically, Elizabeth Barrow and Elizabeth O'Neill.

In first term Gwenda Jacobs, Babara Williams, and Julie Rogers debated successfully against Cato.

However, they failed by only one point in carrying off the Debating Cup, which v/as won by Krome, who successfully argued that Socialism was in the best interests of the community.

T h e result of the Penny Mile race f o r the Assembly Hall Fund was most gratifying, as we came second, showing that, although we may be lacking in talent in some directions, we are not lacking in spirit.

W e are glad to congratulate our Middle School on winning the Choral Contests, particularly Mardi McCallum, conductor, and Judith Walker, pianist.

Berry thanks Miss Cerutty, Miss Short and the Berry members of staff who have supported us during the year. Also to be thanked are our Middle and Lower Middle House Captains, Natalie and Inah; Janet Barrow as Lifesaving representative, the prefects and associate prefects, and all the girls who have given their support in sport and other House activities.

— J . R. H .

Cato House Notes The year is now drawing to a close and Cato is leading in House points. This is due largely to the House spirit which prevails.

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Whether we are victorious or not, we shall look back on the year with great pleasure.

W e thank Miss Horsman and all the House mistresses f o r their untiring help and support.

W e also extend our thanks to J o Rogers, our sports captain, who has ably led us to many victories.

Both the Middles, led by A n n e Collett and Di Knight, and the Lower Middles, led by Alison Dunn and Kath Nicholls, have been very enthusiastic.

W e won the Swimming Sports and Baseball.

Although Shirley Merrylees used energetic methods to coax the girls into the swimming pool our life-saving results were disappointing.

Cato was second in the Athletics Sports. O u r debating team was defeated in first term by Berry.

During second term we won all the winter sports played, and third term offered just as many chances of success.

Throughout the year House Assemblies have been held. These provide a g o o d opportunity to get to know house members and to foster house spirit.

W e have had a successful and enjoyable year, and we wish those leaving the best of luck.

W e know that those returning will "keep the house flag flying."

—A.

R.

Fitchett House Notes This year we feel the House has worked hard, and our record of achievements shows proof of the fine spirit exhibited by the House.

Although we did not excel ourselves in baseball, we did have some measure of success with Hockey, Basket-ball, Athletic and Swimming Sports. Our Middle Section, under the leadership of June Beech and Wilma Garrett did very well. Our Lifesaving totals were also g o o d , and our thanks are due to Janet Reardon and Joan G o r d o n f o r their hard work this year.

W e congratulate also all who were awarded their colours.

If all the work and research that went into the preparation for, the debates were to be taken into account, we would have received high honours.

W e owe thanks to Beverley Webster, Monica W o o d and Kerry Pearce, and congratulate Krome.

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New Assembly Hall Fund appeal, f o r

which

Choral Contests had to be cancelled this year,

a satisfactory amount was raised.

but f o r the Middle

For so much that she has done in all House activities we thank Beverley, and also our other prefects, associates and leaders f o r their work.

W e must sincerely thank Miss Kellaway and the Krome mistresses f o r having helped and guided us so that we have all had a very happy .year.

Contests we came

equal

second with Cato.

During the first term we held a House Party.

Judging by the noise and the quantity of f o o d consumed, everybody had a g o o d time!

Our effort f o r the Assembly Hall Fund was very successful, thanks to the co-operation of all concerned, especially members .of the staff and senior girls who helped on the day.

T h e House has shown this year that it is not only what we gain that counts, but what we can do f o r others. O u r sincere thanks go to Miss Wilson and other House mistresses, the Prefects and Associate Prefects f o r their continued help and interest, throughout the year.

T o them, and to all members of the House we say "thank-you!"

—M. W.

Krome House Notes "Earnest and steadfast endeavour Will give her the right to lead," and so, with these words in mind, Krome may yet come to the fore. work, whether

In all our sport and

we have succeeded

the enthusiastic support of

or

failed,

the whole House

has spurred us to greater efforts.

Although we were not very successful in first term's swimming sports, we were able to gain second place in tennis and we enjoyed our basket-ball and baseball matches very much.

In the Inter-house debating Krome was successful in both second and third terms.

Our team, led by Beverley Malcolm, with A n n e Williams and Elaine Gibbs, must be congratulated. Krome took the affirmative and showed that, "Socialism is in the best interests of the community"—by one point only, but that was all that was needed!

Krome Middle and Lower Middle School has had its successes also, having won the Basketball and been second in the Tennis matches.

For these, and the Choral Contests, we thank Pamela and Alison, and in Lower Middle, Catherine and Claire, because Middle School means a great deal to all of us.

This year the House has been united at the House Assemblies, and in contributing to the

— E . F.

Boarders' Notes As usual peals of laughter, screams of " D i d you have a g o o d holiday," and many other such things rang through the corridors on this day.

Can you guess? T h e beginning of the school year.

Old and new girls, the latter looking rather awed, filled the familiar buildings This year we welcomed Miss McLeod, who is teaching Art of Speech. A t the commencement of T e r m I I we welcomed Miss Cox, as Miss Stafford had left the previous term.

O n 7th March, about a hundred girls took part in assisting the Ministerial Choir on Overseas Mission night at the Methodist Conference, with the singing of two hymns. Twelve girls also sang with the Ministerial Choir, " N o body knows the trouble I see."

T h e traditional Old Girls' Concert was held o n 9th March.

W h a t a night, what a mess, what a din! Will we ever forget the great production of "Cheaper by the D o z e n , " or the other able performances?

I hardly think so!

T h e following week the old boarders were able to relax and enjoy the concert produced by the new girls. What did we see this time?

Beautiful Cinderella, the dashing Prince, and many such other characters.

May 5 . — T h e Boarding House was in a state of great excitement, this time owing to the Wesley Party. Everyone who went had great fun.

O n 6th May, the majority of the boarders, together with many of the day girls, represented the School in the March on Empire Y o u t h Sunday.

Some 145 eager boarders crowded the four buses, which took us to Kallista f o r a picnic on

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Black faces, muddy shoes, and tired but smiling countenances proved the result of the day's outing.

Red, red everywhere, and red, raw throats as well, but why?

Sports Day! For three years we had held the cup and we were nearly successful in keeping it again.

However, we have only to wait f o r next year.

Second Term comenced on 5th June, For most, holidays were soon forgotten as with the thought of the School Play f o r many, and Birthday Night f o r all, our minds were turned f o r the preparation of these activities.

W e were very proud that we had such a g o o d representation of boarders in the School Play, which was held on 19th and 20th June.

Congratulations to all who helped to make the play such a success.

Flutter, flutter—what this time?

With last minute panic, many of the Senior Boarders departed f o r the Senior Girls' Dance on 22nd June at Wattle Park Chalet, where a most enjoyable evening was spent.

June 2 9 . — T h e greatest event in the year had come—Birthday Night, and this year we celebrated our sixty-ninth birthday.

T h e details of this wonderful evening are at the close of these notes.

Realising the great talent that House possessed we thought that the rest of the school would like to see some of the plays which were presented at Birthday Night. Consequently the well-known actresses gave two or three brilliant performances at lunch time f o r the Assembly Hall Fund, and proceeds f r o m these performances amounted to £ 6 / 1 0 / - .

A most memorable event of a serious nature was the attendance by many girls at two of the services held in St. Paul's Cathedral on 8th July. T h e message given by Canon Bryan Green was a challenge to all girls.

O n 7th August our hockey team played a match with the day girls. Even though we were not successful, the match was great f u n .

Another match, this time played against P.L.C. on 25th August, proved to be thoroughly en-

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joyable, and the afternoon tea that followed was even more so.

August 3 1 . — A h ! what an excitement f o r some.

Six of the boarders were included amongst the forty girls who went to the Barrier Reef. Other boarders naturally looked forward to the forthcoming holidays.

At the commencement of Term I I I many boarders were seen staggering up the stairs with goods f o r the stall which was held o n the first Wednesday in aid of the New Assembly Hall Fund. T h e total sum amounted to £ 6 / 1 8 / - .

Many strange and beautiful creatures o n 22nd September, assembled in the gym. f o r a fancy dress party. W e were honoured with the presence of many well-known personalities such as Mr. Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle and Roosevelt, who represented the Big Four.

This term we recommenced the system of Houses, which was in existence a few years ago.

T h e four Houses are Waratah, Wallaby, Wattle and Wombat. So far we have held baseball and tennis matches, which resulted in a win f o r Wattle, and the Athletic Sports won by W o m bat. Later on in the term, we had Swimming Sports.

Concerts were also given by each House.

A service conducted by Dr. W o o d and the Rev. H . Clarnette was held at Auburn on 29th October, at which 27 boarders were received into Church Membership.

This year we congratulate Ainslie Rowe, who received colours f o r basket-ball, Joan Graham f o r basket-ball also, and a redate f o r baseball, Rosemary Groves and Elaine Stewart with redates f o r hockey.

Once again our hearty thanks go to Dr. W o o d f o r his devoted loyalty and work which he has done f o r us, to Miss Ball f o r her unfailing energies in all directions, and to Mrs. W o o d , the Sisters and all the Resident Staff f o r their co-operation in House matters.

— M . R.

Birthday Night June 29.—Boarders' Birthday Night!

Ever s'nce our return f r o m our holidays, frenzied practices had been taking place every night in

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the utmost secrecy. Naturally, all were curious as to what items the other wings were doing, but all secrets were well guarded until the dress rehearsals.

O n the evening of the 29th, we had a delicious tea in a transformed Dining Hall. During the course of the meal, Mary presented Miss Ball with a crystal trinket case, as a token of appreciation of her work f o r the Boarders. The climax of tea came when Marlene, as the youngest boarder, blew out the candle on the three-tiered cake.

After tea, our day-girl guests arrived.

We ushered them into Fitchett Hall, and promised to hurry back after dressing f o r the concert.

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T h e items were excellent, and ranged f r o m an operetta—"Zurika," given by East W i n g , to a historical ( ? ) — " T h e Battle of Crecy," presented by U p p e r Tower. T h e other enjoyable items were: " T h e Astrologer," also presented by U p p e r Tower, " T h e H a p p y Revolution," given

by Lower Tower, and "King Cole's Birthday Cake" and "Mary's Dismissal," presented by West W i n g .

I am sure n o day-girl failed to be impressed by the vast amount of talent displayed by the actresses!!

T h e n came an ample supper in the dining hall, after which Boarders and day-girls parted, after yet another enjoyable Birthday Night.

— S . M.

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to record work by the Madrigal girls and one of the chamber music groups, f o r re-broadcast during Education Week.

This year has been a very successful one f o r the Music School, and many activities have taken place. Some of these have already been reported in the June issue of "Silver and Green."

O n e of the greatest events of the year was the choir's performance of " T h e Children's Crusade," by Gabriel Pierne, with the Melbourne Philharmonic Choir and the Victorian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Bernard Heinze, on 28th August. W e are grateful to the Company of " H i s Master's V o i c e " f o r the complete recording of this work, which was made possible through Mr. Miniken, of that company.

The Special Choir has also been honoured by being asked to present a programme of choral and madrigal work over "Radio Australia," f o r the first time, in the last week of October.

Some members of the choir have agreed again to help Mr. Norman Banks with his "Carols by Candlelight" programme on Christmas Eve, sponsored by 3 K Z in aid of the Blind Children's H o m e and the Austin Hospital Children's W i n g f o r Incurables.

T h e Madrigal .Group has also been very busy this year. O n the 26th June, they gave a fifteen-minute broadcast f o r the " Y o u n g Australia" Session. O n the 20th July, they were asked to contribute a programme f o r the National Gallery Association at an evening in the Stawell Gallery.

Dr. Floyd was to have been the lecturer, but unfortunately he was ill and could not attend.

A number of chamber music groups have been at work in various activities. T w o of the groups, with the Madrigal singers, participated in the V . S . M . A . Chamber Music Festival on 3rd August.

T h e Orchestral Festival was o n the following afternoon, and was attended by members of our own orchestra.

A t the end of this programme, the orchestras f r o m the various schools combined under Alceo Galliera.

A recording unit was sent out by the A.B.C.

A t "Back to S c h o o l " day f o r the Old Collegians, on 27th September, items were given by chamber music groups and some of the Art of Speech girls.

Owing to the amount of work which had to given to the Crusade, there was no Senior House Music Contest this year, but the Middle School Choral Contest was held on 1st November. It was won by Berry.

A senior Music Recital was given on 27th July, which proved to be most interesting and enjoyable.

T h e Middle and Lower School Music Recital was held o n 15 th November.

T h e Junior School, under the direction of Miss Alison Hall, gave an enjoyable afternoon f o r their parents by performing an operetta, which was later repeated f o r the school in aid of the New Assembly Hall Fund.

W e are grateful to Miss Asta Flack and M r .

Mack Jost f o r giving an excellent violin and piano recital during a lunch-hour in second term, and also to Miss Slatter and Miss H e y wood f o r their equally excellent two-piano recital given later in the term.

These recitals were given in aid of the New Assembly Hall Fund.

Miss Flockart and the Music Staff have not spared themselves or their time this year, and we would like them to know, on behalf of all connected with the music school, how very much their help and interest have been appreciated.

M. R. and S. P.

University Conservatorium Results (Matriculation results not yet available) Piano Grade V I I . — H o n o u r s : Suzanne Peverill.

Credit: Iris A r n o l d , Jean Glasgow.

Pass: Julienne Rogers.

Grade VI.—Honours: Elaine Cavanagh, Denise Lear, Lesley Cook, Pamela Greenall, N o l a Thomas, Helen Glasgow, Barbara Gough.

Credit: June Bremner, Louise Gault.

Grade V . — H o n o u r s : Elizabeth Duncan, Judith Walker.

Credit: Jeanette Britten, Barbara

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Margaret

Curtis,

Northcott,

Yeo,

Lois

Wynsome

Elaine

Milnes,

McLaughlin,

Murdoch,

Dawn

Jocelyn

Curnow.

Flute Grade V . — H o n o u r s : Bernice Hargrave.

Violin

Pass: Janice McNee, Beverley Probert, Helen Talbot.

Grade

Grade I V . — H o n o u r s : W e n d y Orton, Joan Corbett, Eulalie Hepburn, Eril Hutton, Joan Lade, Fay Sutherland, Margaret Adamson, Credit: Elaine Schuch, Jenifer Kelly, Helen Purves, W e n d y Taylor, Gillian Cook, Maureen Grimshaw, Elizabeth Milnes.

Pass: Marjorie Burns, A n n e Paton, Patsy Pederick, Diana Yorston, Margaret Brown, Doreen Millikan, Margot Falvey, Margaret Butlin, Dione Schultze.

Grade V I . — H o n o u r s : Gretta Bull.

Grade I I I . — H o n o u r s : Judith M c D o n a l d , Pamela Webster, Pamela Holland.

Credit: Lynette Hansen, W e n d y Renkin, Lois Becroft, Marie Peverill, Judith W e b b , Myra Langford, Merle Probst, W e n d y Wellard, Carol Brewer, Glenys Griffiths. Pass: Isobel Rowland, N o l a Peddle, Alison Storrie, Elizabeth Hosie, Pamela Westwood, Judith Hicks, Heather Marshall, Mavis Tompkins, Joan Horsfall, Catherine Cook.

Grade I I . — H o n o u r s : Patricia Lewis, Lynette McLeod,

Dorothy

Viola Tsaing.

Jones,

Credit:

Stephanie

Fay

Tasker,

Robinson,

mary Williams, Jill Carter, Kathleen

RoseOaten,

Valerie Hewitt, Merle James, Kay Mills, Margaret

Langstreth,

Barbara

Maughan.

Pass:

Elizabeth Lade, Pamela Stewart, Edith

Hatt,

Margaret Moodie, Kay Hewitt, Marcia

Beau-

mont.

Grade I . — H o n o u r s :

Diana

Edwards, Janet

Kirton, Judith Roe. Credit: Jill Kennedy, Janet Stahl, Pamela W o o l f , A n n Simmons, Julie Bell, Elsa Hepburn, Valerie H o l m , Margot

Lloyd,

Noala Yen. Pass: Lynette Start, Kay Yelland, Helen Collins.

Preliminary.—Honours: gela Layh.

Judith

Knell,

Credit: Barbara Lawrence.

AnPass:

Grade IV.—Credit:

Grade V I I . — H o n o u r s : Jennifer Dufty.

Grade IV.—Credit: Janice Clarke.

Clarinet Grade V . — H o n o u r s : Pamela Webster.

Katharine

Jean

O'Neill.

Glasgow.

Grade III.—Credit: Elizabeth Sampson.

Grade II.—Credit: Judith Sandow.

Grade I.—Pass: Dawn Ralph.

Singing Grade V I . — H o n o u r s : Elaine Cavanagh.

Theory Grade V I . — H o n o u r s : Iris A r n o l d , Suzanne Peverill.

Grade

V.—Honours:

Katharine

O'Neill.

Pass: Pamela Greenall.

Grade I V . — H o n o u r s : Lesley Cook, Dawn Northcott, Margaret Lethlean, Beverley Probert. Credit: Judith Curtis, Pamela Webster.

Pass: Jeanette Britten.

Grade I I I . — H o n o u r s : Beverley Smith, Gretta Bull, Elizabeth Duncan, N o l a Thomas, Margaret Y e o , June Bremner, Margaret Butlin, Jocelyn Curnow.

Credit: Doreen Millikan, Helen Talbot, Janice M c N e e , Eril Hutton, Joan Lade. Pass: Janice Clarke, Margaret Bridges.

Grade I I - — H o n o u r s : Gillian Cook, A n n e Paton, Margaret Scott, W y n s o m e M u r d o c h , Muriel Orton, Elisabeth Tweddell, Y v o n n e Deeble, Pamela Holland, Weiidy Renkin, Helen Purves. Credit: Fay Sutherland, Barbara Marshman, Diana Yorston, Jane Teasdale, Dione Schultze, Denise Lear, Elaine Schuch, Pass: Elizabeth Milnes.

Grade I . — H o n o u r s : Joyce Hagger, Rosalind Johns,

Lynne

Stephanie

Courtier,

Tasker.

Margaret

Credit:

McLean,

Marjorie

Margot Falvey, Maree Schuch.

Burns,

Pass: Barbara

Maughan.

Suzanne King, Dorothy Russell.

'Cello

VII.—Honours:

Musical Perception Grade VI.—Pass: Barbara Gough.

Grade V . — C r e d i t : Louise Gault, Helen Glasgow.

Grade I V . — H o n o u r s : Elaine Milnes.

Grade III.—Credit:

Denise Lear.

Grade II.—Credit: Robin Parkes.

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Vision.

" T h e Children's Crusade" O n Tuesday, 28th August, the School Choir, together with the Royal Philharmonic Society, and the Victorian Symphony Orchestra, performed Gabriel Pierne's musical legend, " T h e Children's Crusade," to a packed audience in the Melbourne Town Hall, and over the National Programme of the A.B.C. Conducted

by Sir Bernard Heinze, it was proclaimed an outstanding success by all who heard it, and, as far as M.L.C. was concerned, quite up to the standard of the performance of 1949.

due to Miss Nancy Creighton and Miss June Dawkins, who unselfishly gave up precious time to familiarise the girls with the main solo parts, thus giving the story a meaning and a definite shape in their minds.

The girls showed intense interest in the final big rehearsals at Albert Street on Friday,

T h e work of Miss Anne Rosenkranz at the piano, has been especially valuable; it would have been hard to find anywhere a more capable pianist f o r the purpose, and the School acknowledges with gratitude her contribution to the success of the work. Sincere thanks are

Part I I I .

T h e Children

Reach

the Sea.

Part I V . T h e Blind B o y Sees the V i s i o n in the Storm.

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24th August, and Saturday morning, 25th August, and in the Melbourne Town Hall on Monday evening, but even then it was hard to anticipate what a wonderful experience the real performance would be. It was an inspiration to the choir members to know that, as representatives of M.L.C., they could publicly uphold the School's Christian ideals in such a beautiful way. " T h e Crusade" is the story of some thousands of European children, who, in the 13th century, journeyed towards the Holy Land, believing that they could recapture it f o r Christianity, but after many tragic adventures, they perished, their earthly goal unattained, yet with faith and joy in their hearts.

The choir would here pay a tribute to Miss Flockart, whose enthusiasm, and deep insight into the meaning behind " T h e Children's Crusade," have been entirely responsible f o r any thing the girls themselves have been able to do towards its ultimate success.

—I. A.

and

the New Testament

reading

by

Monica

Wood.

At the Old Collegians' Back-to-School Day, an item spoken by a group of girls afforded much amusement and two poems spoken individually were appreciated by all present.

Last year a group of girls spoke portions of Scripture f o r Carols by Candlelight on Christmas Eve. This was greatly appreciated and we have again been asked to take part.

Fewer

girls

entered

for

exams,

this

year,

but all were successful.

All girls are extremely grateful f o r the friendly tuition and guidance in their Art of Speech work, and sincerely thank Miss Dwyer and the staff f o r their untiring work.

— V / . D.

Art of Speech Examinations Grade VI.—Credit: Heather McKay. Grade

IV.—Honours:

Winsome

Pettifer.

Credit: Jill Smith.

Art of Speech Notes

Grade III.—Credit: Lesley Told. Pass: Judith

This year the work of the Art of Speech School has maintained past standards.

During the year, Miss Illingworth has been abroad and we will welcome her back to the staff next year. Miss Draper and Miss McLeod are new members of the staff this year, replacing Miss Illingworth and Miss Kendrick.

At the beginning of the year scholarship tests - took place.

As well as the two senior tcholarships donated by the Parents' Association, " and the two Intermediate and Middle Scholarships given by the Dramatic Society, Mr. W . J. Crellin has kindly given a scholarship f o r Lower Middle School. T h e tests were adjudicated by Miss Eileen O'Keefe, who awarded them to Barbara Williams and Margot Simmons (Senior), Winsome Pettifer (Intermediate), Helen D o d g s o n (Middle), and Alison Jones (Junior), These girls displayed their ability at a Recital on 20th March.

At

the

school

commemoration

service

on

Anzac Day, Monica W o o d gave a very moving reading f r o m Masefield's great prose epic, "Gallipoli."

For the annual School Church Service, the Old Testament reading was given by five girls,

Richards.

Grade II.—Credit: Helen Dodgshun.

Grade I.—Credit: Alison Jones.

Preliminary.—Credit: Diane Humphrey, Marlene Lear. Pass: Vivienne Wajsbrem, Shirley Karp, Patricia Wait.

Dramatic Notes T h e house lights are dimmed, the overture ends, and the curtain goes up. N o less than 58 excited girls are waiting nervously to display their hidden talents to an audience they know will be kindly, but critical.

A young boy skips across a green meadow, and the play begins. In less time than it takes to tell, the curtain has been rung down, brought up on a handsome lawyer, and rung down f o r the last time on a nagging wife and three doctors; and the dressing-rooms are filled with breathless, chattering girls—they wonder how such an experience could have happened to them—an experience that they will never forget.

All these girls, who not so long ago were very realistic old men, old women, handsome

SILVER A N D young men and pretty young girls, are members of the Dramatic Society of 1951. Incidentally, this year's Dramatic Society is one of the largest M.L.C. has known.

The Seniors are divided into two sections, one taken by Miss Thirlwell, and the other by Miss Dwyer; a large Middle School group is taken by Miss McLeod; and 40 Juniors are taken by Miss Dwyer.

Right f r o m the beginning of the year, the Society was plunged headlong into practices f o r our double b i l l — " T h e Boy with a Cart," a morality play in verse by Christopher Fry, and " T h e Dumb W i f e of Cheapside," a comedy

by Ashley Dukes.

The casts of the plays were as follows: " T h e Boy with a Cart" Cuthman

Monica W o o d

Bess Mildred Matt Tib Neighbours

Dawn Mills Ariel Keen Elizabeth Fullwood Louise Gault Margaret Bamford, Pat

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Stocker, Mother

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Buxton, Y v o n n e Clarke Margaret Macfarlane

Mowers Janet Brewster, Susan Pincus, Diana Beattie, Sidna Armstrong.

Tawm Daughter

Kathleen O l d Kerry Pearce

Son-in-law Farmer

Ellen Bassett . . Shirley Gibbs

Alfred Demiwulf Mrs. Fipps 1st Villager

i Elizabeth Tyler Margaret Wilkinson W e n d y Gardner Jill Jackson

2nd Villager

Pamela

Levy

Villagers Margaret Dickens, Kathleen Burgess, Valerie Brewer, Gael Sage, Joan Cornish, A n n e Garrett, Elisabeth Tweddell, Noelle W o o d , Jennifer Mollison, Elaine Clark, Barbara Wilkinson, Lorraine Jones.

People of South England — Heather McKay, Jill Smith, Winsome Pettifer, Barbara Atkins, Jill Hilton, Lesley T o l d , Tamara Weyman, Ainslie Rowe, Margot Simmons, Shirley Shulman, Janice Cohen, Judith Richards, Marion Turner, Jennifer Punch, Julienne Rogers.

f

— P h o t o . C . Stuart T o m p k i n s .

"THE

BOY

WITH

A

CART"

(CHRISTOPHER

FRY).

THE

CHORUS

FROM T H E

PLAY

"THE

L

"THE

DUMB

BOY

WITH

A

— P h o t o . C . Stuart T o m p k i n s .

CART" (CHRISTOPHER FRY).

WIFE OF C H E A P S I D E

—Photo. C '

Stuart T o m p k i n s .

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" T h e D u m b W i f e of Cheapside" Matthew, a manservant . . . . Elaine Stewart Master Quill, an attorney . . Barbara Williams Alderman J o h n Groat, a city haberdasher . .

Elaine Gibbs Mistress A n n Groat, his young wife Valerie Falkingham A Waiting W o m a n Jennifer East Master Julep, a physician . . Beverley Webster Master Sunder, a surgeon . Beverley Malcolm Master Ounce, an apothecary . . Jenifer Kelly T h e great day drew near with alarming rapidity and was gone in a flash. W e were very pleased to be able to donate again two A r t of Speech and Dramatic Scholarships, as well as £80 f o r the Assembly Hall Fund, f r o m the proceeds.

A f t e r the play we settled down to slightly more mundane things—play, readings, mimes and exercises, which everyone thoroughly enjoyed.

T h e Wednesday afternoons of 1951 have been some of the most pleasant spent by the girls of the Dramatic Society, and we give our hearty thanks to Miss Thirlwell, Miss McLeod, and especially to Miss Dwyer, who has shown interest and unfailing patience throughout the year.

— W . A . G.

The School Plays—A Seat in the Stalls This year the Dramatic Society presented two short plays instead of the usual long one.

They were " T h e Boy with a Cart," by Christopher Fry, and " T h e D u m b W i f e of Cheapside," by Ashley Dukes.

T h e theme of " T h e Boy with a Cart" was a religious one.

T h e play told of a boy's faith, and of his struggle to build a church in the years when Christianity was still young.

T h e play provided many opportunities f o r character acting.

Margaret Macfarlane, as Cuthman's mother, sustained her part very well, and Kath. 0 1 d , ( T a w m ) , also showed ability.

T h e crowd scenes were well-balanced, and were made all the more effective in that no one asserted herself unnecessarily.

T h e play relied a great deal o n group work, the chorus taking a most important part. T h e girls' voices were very well modulated, and

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they succeeded in producing beautiful light and shade. T h e y provided much of the play's atmosphere, especially in such lines as: " T h e y flog their way T o where the journey less and roofless trees Muster against the plunging of the dark . . .

N o floorboard mouse, n o tattling friend; only T h e flickering bat dodging the night air, Only the stoat clapping the fern as it runs."

Another

group,

the mowers,

gave a

con-

vincing and enjoyable performance.

T h e scenery was very simple, yet very effective, and blended with the costumes to give a delicate

impression

of

fresh, pastel

shading.

T h e lighting, an integral part of the scenery, helped

to

produce

atmosphere,

especially

in

the scene of the storm.

T h e creation of the right atmosphere f o r the play fell largely on Monica W o o d .

As Cultman, she welded the play together, and often managed to lift it to something approaching intensity.

W e n d y Gardner, as Mrs. Fipps, Elizabeth Tyler and Margaret Wilkinson (her sons), gave us a remarkable piece of miming. " T h e Dumb W i f e of Cheapside," in an entirely different, light-hearted way, was quite as interesting. T h e costumes and scenery were richly coloured, and the characters of the play were brought to vigorous life by people who were obviously enjoying themselves.

Val. Falkingham must be congratulated as the dumb wife, especially f o r her endless chatter, which was kept up at such a rate f o r so long. Elaine Gibbs, her unfortunate husband, provided much of the comedy of the play, and Barbara W i l liams must be mentioned f o r the poise which she maintained during the long periods, when she stood on the stage, yet had nothing to say.

Jennifer East, although she had only a small part (the m a i d ) , was completely at home, and was most convincing.

T h e other members of the cast seemed to fit into their parts with no trouble at all, and helped to create atmosphere of gaiety.

The closing scene, with the Alderman sitting in a state of blissful deafness amid the babble of noise, was almost too g o o d f o r words.

W e should like to congratulate Miss Dwyer very sincerely f o r her production of two such interesting and enjoyable plays.

—M.

R., R. J.

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Mr. Carter

The Staff Play During third term the School was delighted by a performance by members of Staff, of the charming comedy, " T h e Red Umbrella," by Monica Cousens and Brenda Girvin.

The whole School is greatly indebted to Miss Dwyer and the Staff f o r giving up so much of their valuable time during this very busy part of the year.

Sylvia Jackson

Rosie

Shirley Simpson

Arnold

Kay

Harkness

T h e Reverend Thomas Howard Elizabeth Lardner Mrs. Howard Barbara Sutton Produced by Dorothy Dwyer.

—T.

W.

The Red Umbrella

W e greatly admired the ability of some of our staff to portray men, which they did very convincingly.

T h e character parts were excellently sustained and the contrast between the two young women was sensitively conveyed.

Three hearty cheers! T h e College Staff, Try once again to make us laugh.

Their play this year is very jolly About a large and blushing brolly!

T h e stage properties, obtained with difficulty, formed a pleasing background to the piece.

T h e swiftness of action, needed to show to best advantage the light, but twisted plot, was excellently carried out.

Its owner was Miss Whimsey Drew, So coy was she, so modest too, That even when it was not damp She used to hide behind her gamp!

Each member of the audience was intrigued by the complete metamorphosis of the staff, and thoroughly enjoyed the evening.

Cast: Whimsy Drew

Jean Leckie

Martha Peggy Norton Cyril Carter

N o r a Horsman Heather McLeod Lorna Mitchell

Bentley

Lorris

Jean

Cochrane

A certain domineering Tartar (Uncle to handsome Cyril Carter) Deprived his heir of £ s. d.

A n d Whimsey was his legatee.

Just when we thought they'd make a pair A later will made Cyril heir, H e faded o u t — a n d Whimsey

wed

A liver specialist instead!

— M . A.

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date), Beverley M a l c o l m (re-date), Fowler, Jocelyn Rogers (re-date).

Judith

All our thanks g o to Miss Perkins and Miss Kerr f o r their expert coaching and encouragement, which helped us win the premiership.

Result of matches: M.L.C. v. Fintona, 33-1; M.L.C. v. M o r o n g o , 22-1; M.L.C. v. Hermitage, 20-5; M.L.C. v. M.C.E.G.G.S., 11-3. — J R.

Athletic Notes

Basket-ball Notes

First term proved to be an enthusiastic one f o r Athletics. Miss Vaughan put much time into geting us fit to run at the University. Our team was E. Stewart (captain), J. Edwards, M. W o o d , B. Slade, P. Brown, M. Armstrong, G. Hansen and L. Taylor.

This year three members of last year's team returned and the final team chosen was: Ainslie Rowe (goaler), Joan Gordon (attack), Janet Reardon (attack w i n g ) , Joan Graham (centre), Mary Armstrong (defence wing), Alison O'Grady (defence), and Barbara Atkins (goal d e f e n c e ) . Janet Barrow, Jeanette Gourlay and A n n Green also played matches with the team.

W e were premiers and were victorious in all but one match, when Korowa defeated us by one goal.

However, later we defeated Korowa in a very exciting game.

However, our running did not begin very well as we were only placed third in the relay at the University and fourth in the Senior Representative race.

W e proved this to be only nervousness, as we easily won the relay at our sports.

Our team that day was E. Stewart, B. Dusting, J. Edwards, M. W o o d , B. Slade, F. Phillips, M. Armstrong and P. Brown.

These changes were due to some girls running in the Juniors that day, as they were young enough.

W e had no Senior Representative race because the oval was too slippery.

W e would like to extend our sincere thanks to Miss Leckie, who coached us f r o m a few individual players to a team.

T h e seconds were led by A n n Green and won all their matches. Miss Harkness coached the Juniors, among whom were many promising players.

W e extend thanks to Miss Vaughan f o r her coaching of Senior Athletics, and to Miss Harkness and Miss Connor f o r their coaching of Junior Athletics.

T h e Juniors, although not successful in their race at our sports, ran very well, and we may expect a very good senior team in the future.

A t the end of the term we were visited by three interstate schools, "Friends" f r o m Tasmania, " W o o d l a n d s " f r o m Adelaide, and S.C.E.G.G.S. f r o m Sydney.

W e played all these schools and were victorious, although the match against S.C.E.G.G.S. had to be abandoned because of rain.

— E . M. S.

Baseball Notes Baseball started with much enthusiasm, and this continued throughout the season. Due to keen competition, the standard of play was very high, and because of the very young members of the Senior Team, and the very promising members of the Junior Team, it looks as though this high standard will be maintained.

W e won all our matches, but owing to bad weather, we were unable to play P.L.C. T h e team finally chosen was: P., J. Rogers; C., J. Coleman; 1st, B. Malcolm; 2nd, J. Fowler; 3rd, H . Sanders; S.S., A . O ' G r a d y ; L.O.F., J. Reardon; C.O.F., J. Graham; R.O.F., A . Rowe.

Colours were awarded to Joan Graham

(re-

W e were very sorry when Miss Leckie had to return home before the end of term, and we were grateful to Miss Perkins f o r taking over.

Five members of the team received colours — M a r y Armstrong, Barbara Atkins, Joan Graham, Alison O ' G r a d y and Ainslie Rowe.

— A . R.

Cricket Notes This year the S c h o o l Cricket Team is competing in the A Grade W o m e n ' s Cricket. Only one match has been played so far and this resulted in a win f o r us.

W e did not realise up till now, how lucky we were to have such a wonderful wicket and oval.

W e soon f o u n d out after the first match, which we played away.

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T h e team chosen was: A . O ' G r a d y , M. McLean, J. Coleman, R. Y o u n g , J. Graham, C. Manning, D. Gribble, B. Martin, J. Fowler, J. Rogers, E. Wustemann.

T h e house matches are being played at present, and all f o u r teams are much more experienced than they were last season.

W e thank Miss Perkins and Miss Kerr f o r their patient coaching, which is greatly improving our cricket.

J.

Hockey Notes This year we had only four of last year's team back at the beginning of the season, giving new players and last year's seconds excellent opportunities. However, Miss Kerr f o u n d it rather difficult to decide on a final team, owing to the equal standard of all players.

Our final team was: A . Gray ( G o a l i e ) , P. Watkins (R.B.), R. Groves (Vice Captain, L.B.), E. Helmer (R.H.B.), H. Sanders ( C . H . B . ) , E. Tyler ( L . H . B . ) , B. Nixon ( R . W . ) , L. Barnes ( R . I . ) , E. Stewart (Captain, C . ) , J. Edwards ( L . I . ) , P. Balfe ( L . W . ) .

Also playing during the season were D. Brewster, M. A n n a n d , M. Tharle, M. W o o d and R. McCutcheon. J. Edwards, L. Barnes and E. Helmer received colours, also R. Groves and E. Stewart received re-dates. W e congratulate tkese girls o n their awards.

T h e results of all matches were as following: M.L.C. defeated M o r o n g o 2-0, M.L.C. lost to T h e Hermitage 3-5, M.L.C. defeated Fintona 7-2, M.L.C. lost to M.C.E.G.G.S. 1-9, M.L.C. drew with Ruyton 4 all, M.L.C. lost to Korowa 0-3, M.L.C. defeated Woodlands ( S . A . ) 5-4, M.L.C. defeated Friends (Tas.) 5-4, M.L.C. and S.C.E.G.G.S. abandoned at 5-0.

W e thank Miss Kerr once more f o r her efficient and patient coaching, and we all thoroughly enjoyed playing with her.

T h e seconds, although not very successful in all matches, had a g o o d season. Their results were: M.L.C. drew with M o r o n g o 0-0, M.L.C. lost to T h e Hermitage 1-5, M.L.C. lost to M.C.E.G.G.S. 1-4, M.L.C. drew with Korowa 0-0.

W e heartily congratulate all schools f o r their victories.

Miss Vaughan capably coached the Juniors this year and these had two teams, Silver and

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They had a g o o d season and I am sure are looking forward to playing with the Seniors soon.

— E . M. S.

Tennis Notes This year the team had a most successful season and was premiers, and unbeaten, f o r 1951. W e were fortunate in having some of last year's members as well as some promising juniors.

Congratulations go to Lorraine Coghlan and Barbara Swan f o r their success in the recent Elsternwick tournament.

T h e second senior team also did very well being narrowly defeated by M.C.E.G.G.S. A n d with the Juniors, who won most of their matches, it seems as if the teams will be strong in the future.

Colours were presented at the end of second term to Mary Wait, Heather Thomas and Shirley Bayles, and Bettine Dusting, Beverley Malcolm and Jocelyn Rogers received re-dates.

W e would like to thank Miss Perkins f o r her invaluable help and encouragement during the year.

—B. M.

Swimming Notes Although the swimming activities were restricted in first and second term because the pool could not be heated, rivalry was shown between the Houses in lifesa ving, in which Berry led, with Krome a close second.

Congratulations are due to Cato f o r winning the Senior Swimming Sports in Term I. T h e points were: Cato 61, Fitchett 60, Krome 45, Berry 25. W e would like to thank the sports mistresses f o r their assistance in organising the sports and lifesaving throughout the year A t the end of the 1950-51 season, M.L.C. was awarded the " T . H . Garden C u p " f o r resuscitation, the "William Henley Challenge Cup," which carried with it the Junior Lifesaving Championship of Victoria, and the " W i l m a Yarborough Lewis Excellence C u p " f o r the highest number of points gained by any ladies' club in Victoria.

Although during the first few weeks of term I I I the weather remained cold, a few brave girls were tempted to take a plunge.

Other activities included Senior Swimming Sports and Lifesaving, which were all successful.

— S . P.

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Magnetic Island O U R TRIP T O T H E Barrier Reef Diary

Saturday, 1st September.—Visit to Horseshoe Bay, and to a pineapple farm.

Sunday, 2nd September.—Service beach, taken by Miss Howie.

on

the

Monday, 3rd September.—To Picnic Bay. Tuesday, 4th September.—To Alma Bay. Wednesday, 5th September.—To the R e e f ! ! !

A thirty-mile cruise to Keefer Reef, and inspection of coral in glass-bottomed boats. T h e day!

Thursday, 6th September.—Return to Townsville. T o u r of city, including visit to new baths, hospital, and ascent of Castle Hill.

Magnificent views of Palm, Fantome, Hinchinbrook and Magnetic Islands.

Friday, 7th September.—To Palm Island, where native settlement was visited. Saw children's corroboree, and inspected Church of England, decorated by native craftsmen.

8th

September.—Fancy

Dress

Party.

Sunday, 9th September.—Said good-bye to Mandalay, and to the Stewarts who had done so much to make our holiday so memorable and enjoyable.

Some to church in Townsville.

First contingent to Brisbane early. followed in evening.

Monday,

10th

REEF

Tropical Torments

Friday, 31st August.—40 girls, in the charge of Mrs. Kelly, Miss E. J. Mitchell, and Miss Howie, by Convair to Brisbane, thence to Townsville, and finally by launch to Mandalay Guest House, Magnetic Island, by 10 p.m.

Saturday,

BARRIER

September.—Brisbane,

Second sight

seeing.

Tuesday, 11th September.—Home.

—B.

W.

O h thou with limbs and back aflame, A n d nose of ruddy h u e — Come, join with forty suffering ones W h o went to Queensland, too.

Come, warn these trusting Southerners Of the dire and painful fate W h i c h awaits them when the "sunny Entices them f r o m this State.

north"

Y e innocents! That "winter sun," Those "glorious cloudless skies," Those "azure seas" with "palm-fringed shores" Are tortures in disguise!

Incline your gaze on peeling limbs— Observe our scorched complexion; Those railway posters tempting you Are guilty of deception.

— B . Atkins, H o n .

Vl.a.

The Barrier Reef Trip A t the end of August last, W h e n exams, and work were passed, Forty girls all dressed in grey T o Essendon did make their way.

With shining* shoes and well-brushed hair, A tense excitement in the air, For to-day we were to leave by plane T o get some sun-tan back again.

W e were all bound f o r tropic isle, T h e thought of which made each girl smile; Our friends would still wear coats and boots While we "went round" in bathing suits.

T h e plane was ready—all got in, With last good-bye's to kith and kin A t last the plane had left the ground Without much movement, jolt or sound — Y o u cannot guess how small and square T h e houses look when seen f r o m air.

c

— P h o t o . C. Stuart Tompkins.

A T H L E T I C S T E A M , 1951 Fay Phillips, Beverley Slade, Mary Armstrong.

Janet Edwards, Pauline Brown, Elaine Stewart ( c a p t . ) , Bettine Dusting, Monica W o o d .

HOCKEY Elaine Stewart

TEAM,

1951.

— P h o t o . C. Stuart Tompkins.

( c a p t . ) , Philippa Balfe, Rosemary Groves, Janet Edwards, Elizabeth Tyler, Barbara Helen Sanders, Pamela Watkins, Elaine Helmer, Lesley Barnes, A n n e Gray.

Nixon,

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After travelling all the day

The Children's

By Convair owned by T . A . A .

W e arrived at last both safe and sound, Glad to be once more on ground.

Then we arrived at Mandalay, Tired of travelling f o r that day, For when we left the coast by sea, A few lost all th y'd had f o r tea!

A t last we reached the Guest House gate, A n d bagged a hut with room f o r eight.

In the rooms all shared by two, Were Nick and Webb, D u n o o n and Stew, A n d just across the hall f r o m them

Corroboree

T h e group of dark children came f r o m behind the school and advanced hesitantly into the dusty space surrounded by a semicircle of spectators.

There were a dozen small boys, wearing khaki shorts, and striped with white paint on their chests, thin arms and legs. T w o natives squatted on the ground.

One started to strike two boomerangs together, and the other was beating a small drum. A white baby crawled towards them, and the aborigines placed the child beside them.

Another aborigine announced that the small, painted children would dance.

With much

Slept John and Judy, Pam and Gwen.

After we unpacked our junk, A n d each chose top or bottom bunk, While we were giving teeth a swill, W e heard a noise and stood sock still.

What we thought was just a breeze Rustling through the mango trees, Were flying foxes overhead, Their screech enough to wake the dead.

A f t e r recovering f r o m this fright W e settled down f o r our first night.

W e started off o n our fir^t day For a picnic held at Horseshoe Returning f r o m

pineapple

Bay.

farm

With loads of pines held in each arm, All staggered home to their own huts

LAUNCH

Loaded with pines and coconuts,

COMING

INTO WHARF TO T O P A L M IS.

TAKE

M.L.C.

All the days we spent were gay, In launch or town, or Nellie Bay. AH were burned a lovely brown, Though lost before we got back home.

W e went out to the reef one day A n d some felt sea-sick all the way.

Another to an isle called Palm, Where natives work on one big farm.

T h e days sped by, and much too fast Our holiday had gone at last

. . . .

. . . A n d before we knew it we were home, Landing smoothly on the 'drome.

Our friends were waiting on the strip T o meet us after our long trip.

A n d all that we could say f o r days

Watkins, 17 years, Diploma A

T h e woodten collection box was handed around, as the small school needed more financial aid than it was receiving. The boys then expressed their thanks in a dance. White teeth flashed in brown faces as brown hands flashed f r o m knee to knee.

T h e n the small boys pulled their shirts over their white paint, and went into school.

Was " O , those lovely palms and bays!"

—Pam

prompting by the older men, they arranged themselves in rows and began. Each one was watching the others to see what to do, and followed the directions of their aboriginal teachers.

A small emu in brown shorts ran in a large circle, and eleven other emus followed. T h e n diminutive waves broke' upon the shore, and young debbil-debbils wave threatening arms.

Berry,

—Renee

Jarvis, H o n .

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Those sticky pools of pineapple round,

Memories of our 'Ut A little hut at the end of a row Of a lot of other huts, With a front door that jams and sticks on the floor, A n d a back d o o r that never shuts, Litered with suncream, hair-pins and Pyjamas and coconuts.

shorts,

T h e basin where it was cut; That dimness while we wrote back home, A n d the generator went phut; Slimy worms of toothpaste in the shower— Memories of Our 'Ut. —Jennifer

East, Hon.

VI.b,

Fitchett.

Cargoes (With apologies to Masefield) Stately T . A . A . plane flying north f r o m bourne, Flying to strand,

Magnetic

and

the

lovely

Melcoral

With a cargo of students, carrying cases, Flight logs, cameras and books in every hand.

Trim, new launch "Mingela," tossing in the tempest, Rolling o n the ocean coming home from Great Palm Isle,

— B a r b a r a Atkins, H o n .

PARTY

ON

HAYLES'

WHARF,

MAGNETIC

Vl.a.

With a cargo of coral, woomeras, spear-heads, Mistresses and sick girls trying hard to smile.

ISLAND.

T h e mirror placed against the light, Into which we peered en masse.

It seemed such a cruel trick to me That such could come to pass— That five of us—five females vain, H a d to share one looking-glass.

Those cases underneath the beds, O'er which we always stumbled, Stuffed with hankies, films and sweets, Ants and clothing jumbled, Making us often think out loud What we should at least have mumbled.

T h e banana palm by our back-door, Whereon we draped our togs; Artistic and most tropical, But swarming with weird wogs: Cockroaches, moths and spiders fierce, Grubs, ants and emerald frogs.

Those myriads of little ants Appearing f r o m — w h o knows where?

They loved to come and sleep with u A n d crawl into our hair; Such friendly, nosey little ants, W h o would always share and share.

E. F u l l w o o d , ALMA

BAY, MAGNETIC

ISLAND.

Rattling Nelly Bay bus with dust-caked mudguards, Chugging o'er the cliff-road to the haven of our huts, With a cargo of sun-cream, wet togs, sun-hats, Souvenirs, burnt backs, and large coconuts.

—Wendy

Gardner, H o n .

Vl.b.

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Mandalay (Apologies to Kipling) By the sands on Isle Magnetic, looking lazy at the sea, That is where we were a-lying, and that's where we'd love to be, For the wind is in the palm trees, and the coconuts they say " C o m e you back, you M.L.C. girls, come you back to Mandalay."

Come you back to Mandalay,

G R E E N 32 They were rough, those Paddock seas, Seats fell over o n our knees, W e were drenched and sick and tired and were chilled by the cold breeze; O n the road to Mandalay, Where the flying foxes play, A n d the lights they shine and twinkle out of Townsville 'cross the way.

Was the Barrier Reef exciting?

Well, I thought

that's what you'd ask, W e first lost the reef entirely, but we f o u n d it at the last.

Where the flying fishes play, Can't you hear the curlews crying f r o m

W e went out in little row-boats, and we saw

Arcadia round the bay?

O n the road to Mandalay,

W e saw clams, and fish, and sea slugs, and

the coral there, green coral just like hair.

W e saw blues, and reds, and greens, They surpassed our wildest dreams, W e had marvellous views, f o r in the boats the bottoms had glass screens; O n the road to Mandalay, W h e r e the flying foxes play, A n d the lights they shine and twinkle, out of Townsville 'cross the way.

— G . Jacobs, 17 years, H o n . V l . b .

Reminiscences O what f u n at " M a n d a l a y , " T h e best guest house at Nellie Bay; Forty girls f r o m M.L.C. Left in charge of teachers three.

Many faces turning pale, A n d constant rushing to the rail O f " M i n g e l a " launch, well known to all, —Monica W o o d , THE

MISSION

SCHOOL,

PALM

H.VI.

ISLAND.

Where the flying-foxes play, A n d the lights they shine and twinkle out of Townsville 'cross the way.

O n the trip to green Paim Island neath the blue Australian sky, W e saw whales and sharks a-splashing,

and

the flying fishes fly, W e could steer across

"Paddock,"

and

around the launch we'd roam, But the scene looked very different o n journey coming home

the

the

A n d scenes that now we can recall: Sun-bathing or steering at sea, Eating sandwiches, drinking tea.

But woe, alas, f o r those who sat With faces green, expressions flat, Uttering groans at every dip A n d roll of wave throughout the trip.

Here's a very "fishy" tale About a huge and vicious whale, Seen by nearly forty-three, Pointing, staring, full of glee; Also sharks and "finney p r e y " Were seen on our sea-trip that day.

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GREEN The Deserted Island

Entertainment there was f o r all, Including an excellent fancy-dress ball,

( W i t h insincere apologies to Goldsmith and his poetic diction)

Where one could scarcely recognise T h e mistresses all in disguise.

Sweet island! Now we wave a sad farewell: W e three and forty virgins here did well In days just passed.

Here did we sport and play

I wonder if one e'er did see Such a "Varied Company."

A m o n g the characters notorious W h o raised laughter, quite uproarious, Were Julius Caesar, wife, and slave, P.rate, Eskimoes, Indian brave.

O n e night did many of us go T o see an out-door picture show.

Appropriately

screened was "Neptune's

Daughter," W h o m we copied next day when in the water.

O n the beach we said our psalms, A n d sang our hymns to swaying palms; Then we f o r many photos, posed, A n d after that the service closed.

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unforgettable, unregrettable holiday,

In our hearts it will always stay.

—Heather McKay, H o n . V I . b , Fitchett.

In lovely bowers of " c o c o " trees all day.

H o w often have we climbed thy rocky heights With flushed and fevered brows, and skeeter bites All over our lithe limbs! H o w often have thy Cool, blissful waters almost reached our thigh!

Haply one day, embarked upon the d e e p — T h e sufferings of some nymphs would make you weep— Beauty, arrayed in wondrous robes, was seen From motor-boat and dinghy by our keen, Bright eyes, which clearly 'spied the finny prey Move gracefully through coral grove and bay.

But vanished now are these delights, as we Wave farewell with sad hearts, once full of glee: Leaving behind one solitary swain W e three and forty nymphs by 'plane.

— " S o m e fair female, unadorned and plain."

C. Cook.

A G R O U P OF A B O R I G I N A L

BOYS READY T O D O A

DANCE, PALM

IS.

WAR

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The Royal Film Performance One rainy night, we left our London hotel, which was just near O x f o r d Street, and made our way to the Empire Theatre, Leicester Square.

For that night, " T h e Mudlark" was showing f o r the Royal Film Performance, and it was to be attended by Their Majesties T h e King and Queen, and the Princesses, as well as the film-stars f r o m that film, and many society people.

Although we arrived there early, there were already many people excitedly waiting. W e were allowed to go to the opposite side of the street, f o r last year people who were standing near the doorway mobbed the Royal Party.

However, we f o u n d a g o o d position, and settled down f o r about an hour's wait in the light rain.

Presently mounted police arrived to control the crowd, and all traffic was diverted.

Very soon a quiver of excitement passed through the crowd, as Rolls Royce cars pulled up, and notable film stars stepped out. Standing near us was a group of young film fans.

T h e y knew every film star, and would wave and call out to them, as they drove past. Each "star" arrived in his own car, driven by a smart-looking chauffeur.

Claudette Colbert wore a lovely copper tulle full skirt, thickly embroidered with gold sequins.

James Stewart arrived with his wife and two boys, and Gloria Swanston came with her daughter.

W e also saw Irene Dunne, Jean Kent, Vera Ellen, Linda Christian and Marlene Dietrich,

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cach one in a dress which tried to be more breathtaking than the one before.

A n d the last to make their appearance were the best of all.

T h e crowd gasped as the Royal cars drove up, and out stepped the Royal Family.

The Queen and two Princesses were dressed alike— each in a black, wide-skirted dress, with a fur round her shoulders, and glittering with diamond tiaras, earrings and necklaces.

It was all a very lovely sight, and as the doors closed, the crowd dispersed, each person sadly wishing that he were inside to have a better view.

— N o e l l e W o o d , 15 years, V.c.

The B!ow Hole at Kiama W e had seen so many interesting things during our holiday in Sydney, that we hardly expected anything particularly novel or exciting on the long homeward drive.

But at Kiama, a small town in the Illawarra district, we saw one of nature's curiosities—the blow hole, where sea and rocky shore combine to produce an interesting spectacle.

Nestling on the shore of the Pacific, behind a fringe of tall pines, Kiama slumbers to the ceaseless murmur of the surf pounding on the rocky foreshores. T h e town itself is a sleepy little centre full of historic associations, and originally established as a naval look-out station, in the very early days of Australia's history.

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O n a headland jutting into the sea, a long tunnel-like cave faces the ocean, and some whim of nature has driven into it a funnellike opening f r o m the rocky surface above. T h e long Pacific rollers thundering against the cliffs, fill the cave with a surging turbulence which, with each successive wave, shoots a great column of water and spray through the funnel mouth above, which is some distance back f r o m the edge of the cliff.

In stormy weather this geyser-like column is forced a hundred feet or more into the air, with a thunderous roar. The ceaseless spray of salt water has denuded the rocks of all top soil, leaving them encrusted with salt, and completely barren.

In the peaceful calm of this little township, the blow hole is an example of the tremendous hidden forces of Nature.

—Fran. McCarthy, 15 years, Pass V I . d .

People of New Britain New Britain is an island north-east of New Guinea, and its capital is Rabaul. In places it is fifty miles wide and three hundred and fifty miles long.

T h e people do not wear many clothes.

On the stations the men wear a loin-cloth called a "lavalava." T h e women wear loose blouses and a lavalava.

In the hills they we'ar a grass tail covering the front and back of them. They carry their babies in net-bags on their backs.

T h e women carry all the loads.

They are very clever at making mats and bags out of leaves. The walls of their houses are covered with plaited leaves. T h e coconut leaves are picked and woven into a mat. T h e Pandamus Palm is used also. These leaves are dried and then cut into strips and woven. These are finer and better mats than those made f r o m the coconut leaves.

T h e children attend school, which starts at six o'clock and finishes at eight.

T h e only subjects they learn are reading, writing, arithmetic and Scripture.

For their reading lessons they use their Bible and hymn book, as these are the only books they have. There are only a few high schools, and at these they are trained to teach in the village schools.

They have two ways of carrying water. T h e first is in a coconut shell which has had the

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inside scooped out and the shell is passed back and forth through a flame to blacken and dry it. A leaf is put in the hole at the top f o r a cork. T h e second way is in a piece of bamboo, which is cut just below a section which forms a closed end.

T h e other sections are knocked out with a stick and the water is put into it.

Their money is made f r o m little shells which are threaded o n to long lengths of cane. This is called "tabu."

The people have many strange customs. If a boy's relatives think that he should marry, the uncle goes to the parents of the girl they have chosen and if they consent he buys her and takes her home.

T h e young people d o not know that their marriage is being arranged.

If the boy wakes up and finds a piece of shell money around his stomach, he knows that they have bought a girl to be his wife. The girl lives with her mother-in-law, and the couple often meet in the cook-house.

Because of a native custom, the boy avoids his wife's mother.

Although these people have strange ideas, and were once cannibals, many of them have been converted and live very happily.

— L o l o m a Linggood, 14 yrs., Lower V.a, Berry.

The Attractions of Singapore *or a Prospective Tourist Singapore is an isle of Oriental splendour with places of fascinating and unusual interests.

T h e island of Singapore is situated just at the tip of the Malay Peninsula, and it is also very near to the Equator.

Every day travellers f r o m all parts of the world, and of the East, pass through this fascinating city.

Some of the travellers stay f o r a few days before proceeding to another country.

Singapore is predominantly a Chinese city.

About three-quarters of its million inhabitants are Chinese, and the rest are Malays, Indians, Arabs, Eurasians and Europeans.

T h e Chinese " W o r l d s " or fairs are one of the most popular attractions f o r the visitor.

Food shops which line Albert Street and Bugis Street, and the Satay stalls along Beach room are frequently visited by people, be they inhabitants or visitors.

In the brightlylit grounds of the H a p p y W o r l d , in Geylang Road, the Singaporians have their fun. There

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are cabarets with taxi-dancers, cinema halls, screening English and Chinese pictures, shooting galleries, where prizes are given, eating stalls, sundry shops, and, last of all, the park similar to "Luna Park" in Melbourne.

The Malay Ronggeng, a dance which is performed o n a raised platform is the open air, is the men's craze. T h e men have to balance on one leg throughout the dance. Outside this amusement park, there are usually long rows of cars and tri-shaws on the car parks. The drivers and tri-shaw peddlers are f o u n d outside the gate, waiting patiently to be hailed by frequenters of this fair.

Night sightseers usually call in at f o o d shops f o r a meal after having returned f r o m the " W o r l d s . " T h e popular dishes are " c h o u mien," known as fried noodles, and "chau f u n , " fried rice.

Satay, a favourite Malay delicacy, is grilled on charcoal burners while buyers look on. Before being eaten, the satay, which is meat stuck closely together, is dipped into hot spiced sauce and taken between mouthfuls of sliced cucumber or onion. At the market, the clatter of a thousand wooden sandals

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is deafening, and the loud, incessant chatter of the buyers and sellers indicates the true nature of a market. Long and neat pig-tailed amahs, some with their charges and shopping baskets, are a c o m m o n sight in Singapore.

T h e mass production of beautifully decorated lanterns f o r festivals, processions and funerals has been a Chinese craft f o r centuries. A t a corner, in South Bridge Road, lanterns, large and small, and of all shapes, are hung all over the shop front. These are waiting to be painted by the artist, who squats o n a stool on the pavement and applies bright colours in traditional and intricate designs. Outside the city of Singapore, the making of " m e e " or spaghetti is a c o m m o n cottage industry.

This is an unusual sight f o r visitor.

The "mee," when they are made into long strips, are stretched over bamboo sticks in the open. These, at a distance, look like wires.

Singapore's attractions do not end here, by any means. There are still very many places of interest, in or around the city, which have not been described.

— H e l e n Tan, Pass VI.c.

— J o a n M c C a n c e , 15 yrs., V . c , Berry.

THE

SPHINX,

BACK

BEACH,

SORRENTO.

Original Contributions Senior Section Where dreams and fleeting love rule all to-

Rhapsody

morrows.

Untitled creatures of the silent void,

Words—

Roaming the barren wastes of sound; Dropping as leaden shot without recoil of life, Sounds, that drift in emptiness, unknown to intellect, Until creative mind inflamed by Beauty's fire Inspires in them this glow of idle dreams. bubbles,

tipped

with

light,

that

blithely float Through tender, blos:omed spring, and charm The twittering birds to rippling melody in song; That whisper in the foliage of newly-clothed trees, And hover round the lovers in their carefree chase Through fields of grassy fragrance and laughing daisies. interweaving

patterns of delicate

harmony,

Sweetly flowing sounds that sing in ecstasy, to

the

music

of

freshly-stirring

thoughts; Lured

into

of

Winter's

frosty

The grace of mellow autumn, enticing as that Piper, The coloured leaves in dance through dying The glory of

the lingering days where sun

with scarlet-gold Enshrines the radiant sky, and leaves a magic twilight; cold hearts, deepening the glow of Warming youth.

Wordseternal, outliving stubborn life, and whirled By uncurbed passion, down the currents of hate Are battered on the rocks of bitter memories, And trampled under horror, lie gasping in the mud;

Words-

Gliding

memories

grandeur,

hours;

Wordsdelicate

that cherish

ethereal

realms soft,

bewitching

tunes That beckon to Reality's elusive fairyland,

Swept

around

through

ugliness

with

ever-

growing speed, Sucked into Charybdis beside the shrieks of pain, And rise above the turmoil of spinning hopelessness, And roar with awful feeling of all iniquity.

Photo. C. Stuart Tompkins.

B A S K E T - B A L L T E A M , 1951.

Mary Armstrong, Alison O ' G r a d y , Joan G o r d o n , Ainslie R o w c ( c a p t . ) , Janet Reardon, Joan Graham, Barbara Atkins.

1 i

— P h o t o . C. Stuart Tompkins.

M.L.C. M A D R I G A L

SINGERS,

1951.

SILVER A N D Wordsborn in every spirit, creations of the mind, T o serve in brighter colours the aims of human thought,

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The yellow sun in a tousled sky; A n d I smiled, f o r I knew his beams would be streaming

That glow within each being with fresh tensity,

in-

O n that strange new country, on the rim of the world,

A n d tell with various power the hopes fears of Man.

and

Where deserts burned, and raindrops pearled The slender leaves of gum trees high.

— T a m a r a Weyman, H o n . VI.c.

I waked up at the web of black ropes tapering T o a sky-framed apex 'midst bulging sails:

N o Barriers Beyond the walls of knowledge where there is peace sublime, W e feel the want of wisdom in which to make our time More precious than it was before and yet it cannot be, For life and death must struggle on until eternity.

Although the sands of time are trickling fast away W e have the want to put a stop and make another day.

That knowledge, truth and learning will triumph over all, A n d we will have the faith to rise and not to stoop and fall.

There is a power which gives us strength of love and truth and grace That we may pledge our life to G o d and see H i m face to face.

-—Jennifer Punch, Dip. B, Berry, 16 years.

Leaving London I leaned on the rail that cold, March morning, T h e wind was awake and the sea was high; A n d the sky hung low like a pearl-grey awning, A n d I heard the squeak of the straining mesh O f taut ropes crying, and it chilled my flesh; For I heard in their plaint another cry.

T h e cry of my heart f o r the land I was leaving, A n d a sob in my soul f o r the smile of a friend.

There's a vision through the blur of my grieving O f the dear old house in a notch on the hill, Like a smudge on the green; and the fluttering frill Of

birches, by the grey stone bridge at the bend.

I raised my eyes, and saw through my dreaming,

And

I thought of

gold, and

of

black

men

capering Smeared and daubed, weird in the amber light Of a dancing fire in a velvet night, And

the

grey

bush

whispering

the

strange

bush tales.

—Jennifer Harding, Pass V I . a , 16 years.

Une pensee en francais C'est une histore Bizarre— Moi Et mes trois Filles capables Sur les Sables (Pres d'une

cave)

Avons vu l'epave Nous marchions ensemble Tout a coup Kate tremble— L'epave, s'affaisait Sur son propre cote!

—"Rosemarie," Hon. VI.c.

Around the World in Eighty Ways Our predecessors, in their school vacation, W o u l d seldom venture very far f r o m home.

But nowadays, when seeking recreation, W e travel interstate f r o m 'drome to 'drome.

What changes in a single generation!

Where will the students of the future roam?

They'll arrange a trip to Cairo By and by; In a flashing auto-gyro They will fly.

Then they'll visit Buenos Aires, Passing through T o the hot and humid prairies O f Peru.

They'll enjoy a week in V e n i c e — It's so gay;

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T h o u g h it's rather wet f o r tennis, Sad to say.

From the Poles to the Equator, For each fancy they will cater, If they have to go by freighter All the way.

They will tour the Arctic Regions O n a yak, Meeting several O l d

Collegians

Coming back.

They'll explore the depths of ocean Vast and green, In a new atomic-motion Submarine.

Of this planet's teeming places They may tire; T o the M o o n ' s deserted spaces They'll aspire.

What a strain on Father's pocket W h e n they rent a special rocket A n d present him with a docket For the hire!

—Margaret Adeney, H o n . V l . b .

An M.L.C. Boarders' Diary from Milton 6.30 a.m.— " Y e t first to those ychained in sleep, T h e wakeful trumps of d o o m must thunder deep."

(The

Hymn)

6.50 a.m.— "Awake, arise, or be forever fallen."

7.0 a.m.—

(Paradise Lost)

" T h e sound O f bees' industrious murmur oft invites T o studious musing."

(Paradise Regain'd).

8.0 a.m.— " I d r a n k — f r o m the clear milkie juice allaying Thirst, and refresh'd."

(Samson 9.5

Agonistes)

a.m.— " T h e Oracles are dumm, N o voice or hideous humm Rises through the arched roof in words deceiving."

(The

9.30

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AND

10-10 a.m.— " F o r Sage Philosophy next lend thine ear."

(Paradise " F o r so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with surmise."

(Lycidas) 11.0 a.m.— " T h e n all the Oratory of Greece and Rome For them is plainest taught."

(Paradise Regain'd).

11.40 a.m.— " T h o u shalt hear and learn the secret power O f harmony in tones and numbers hit By voice or hand, and various measur'd verse."

(Paradise Regain'd).

1.0 p . m . — " A n d eat the second time after repose."

(Paradise Regain'd).

2.0 p . m . — " A m o n g the rest, a small unsight by root.

T h e leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, as

he

s a i d "

(A

Mask)

2.40 p . m . — "Be famous then by wisdom."

(Paradise Regain'd).

3.20 p . m . — "Say their names then known, who first, who last."

(Paradise Lost) 3.30 p . m . — " S u c h musick (as 'tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sang."

(The Hymn) 5.30 p . m . — " A r e at their savory dinner sit O f hearbs, and other country dishes."

(L'Allegro) 6.30 p . m . — (Referring to "Silver and Green" contribution) "But hast thou no verse, no hymn Or solemn strain?"

(The Hymn) 8 0 p.m.— "But what is strength without a double share O f wisdom?"

Hymn)

a.m.—

Regain'd).

10.45 a.m.—

(Samson

Agonistes)

8.30 p . m . —

"But let my due feet never fail T o walk the studious cloyster pale."

(II

Penseroro)

" S o o n as night brought on the dusky hour, Friendliest to sleep and silence."

(Paradise Lost)

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(Paradise Regain'd).

12 M i d n i g h t — " O r let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high, lonely tower."

(II Penseroro) —Shirley Merrylees, Pass VI.d.

A Modern Approach to an Ancient Invention 0

thou white and smooth rectangle,

T h o u indispensable modern utensil, More use to man than book or pencil—

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out her hand to see if she could feel anything, and then she touched it! It was wet, cold, and slimy. She screamed and tried to escape f r o m it, and in doing so ran into what felt like a small cave. Something jabbed sharply in her back, and a torrent of water fell o n her head.

She sprang away and slipped on a small object. As she slipped her hand came into contact with a small box. A h !

She lit a match and saw a dark figure facing her.

She was struck dumb f o r a minute, but she came to her senses, scrambled to her feet, and took a few frightened steps.

Once more she ran into a solid wall and her elbow came into contact with a sharp knob.

The light clicked on and she looked around and f o u n d herself in the bathroom.

—Margaret

Yet not extensive,

Golding,

Form

V.b.

N o r even expensive.

You are Fat, Cousin Mary

T h o u art not complex, hard to wangle, Yet often round about thee, there

(With apologies to Lewis Carroll)

Is an almost mysterious air Of

something

" Y o u are fat, Cousin Mary," the young

superior—

A hidden interior

girl

cooed,

(?)

" A n d your figure's an absolute whopper; A n d yet you incessantly cram in more f o o d — D o you think!, with yclur weight, it is proper?"

1 never quite know which is worse— Classical prose or modern verse, But I think the latter is quite neat For a short description of a sheet.

" I n my youth," Cousin Mary replied, just in

-—Rosemary Groves, H o n . VI.c.

fun, " I thought it might injure the

figure;

The Snowstorm

But now that I ' m perfectly sure I have n o n e —

Softly the snow began, silently, daintily Stepping on tip-toe down f r o m the sky; S o o n it came faster and thicker and heavier, Chasing the wind, as the wind hurried by.

W h y , I eat, and grow bigger and bigger."

Heavy it lay on the roads, fields and hedges, White on the fences and deep to the feet; T h e n was the air filled with children's glad voices,

(With sincere apologies to A . A . Milne)

Laughing street.

and

snowballing

all

down

—Beverley Skeels, V . d , 15 years, Fitchett.

Assembly Hall Fair I had a penny, A bright new penny, I took my penny

the

T o the New Hall Fair.

I wanted some

— A d r i e n n e Shell, V . d , 15 years, Krome. . 9 June entered.

Everything was dark, cold, and draughty. Somewhere in the interior she could hear water dripping.

It tinkled as if it were falling into a stream.

She felt f o r her matches and received a shock when she could not find them. She put

onions

Some little brown onions, A n d I looked f o r onions 'Most

everywhere.

I went to a stall where they shine shoes cheaply, (Only Id. f o r a fine shoe shine), " H a v e you got some onions cause I don't want a shoe shine, But

they

there.

hadn't

got

onions,

not

anywhere

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42 I had a penny,

The Deserted Hall

A n d I had another penny,

(With apologies to Oliver Goldsmith)

A n d I took my pennies T o the New Hall Fair.

I did want some onions, Some small, brown onions, A n d I looked f o r onions 'Most everywhere.

Sweet Fitchett, loveliest assembly of all, Where prefects stood to stop the neighbourly call,

I

went to the stall where they sold white elephants, ( " O n l y twopence f o r a fine white elephant"), Have you got some onions, 'cause I don't want elephants, But

they

didn't

have

onions,

not

anywhere

there.

I f o u n d sixpence, A little white sixpence, I took it in my hand T o the New Hall Fair.

I was buying my onions (I do like onions) — A n d I looked f o r onions 'Most • everywhere.

I went to the stall where they sold fine veg'tables (Walk up, walk up, sixpence f o r a cantelope), Could I have some onions, 'cause we grow our cantelopes, But they there.

hadn't

got

onions,

not

anywhere

I had nuffin', N o . I hadn't got nuffiin', I spent all my money At the New Hall Fair.

So I walked into the garden, T h e struggling back garden, A n d I saw little onion W e e d everywhere.

I'm sorry f o r cheaply,

the

people

who

C'os they haven't any there.

From which I rose to sing f r o m hymn torn.

book

H o w often have I gazed upon thy walls, A n d in the evening seen how possum crawls!

H o w often have I paused to note thy past, T h e captains of the games f o r only fast; T h e maidens who in studies all outshone, A n d those whom care and worry lay upon.

H o w often have I blessed the happy day W h e n ta'en f r o m work, we watch a Shakespeare play That platform will no more debaters hold, Or plays and Boarders' concerts manifold, N o r speakers holding forth in double sway A n d f r o m there Dr. W o o d no more will pray.

N o longer on the founders' robes of red.

Shall looks of awe f r o m scholars there be shed, The age-old sights and sounds have all now gone A n d wind whispers through the eaves anon.

The rousing hymn to suit the morning new From other open windows now comes through.

O h , let the modern maiden scorn this past, W h i c h it in cramped conditions scholars past But to my heart, this hall, now, quite at rest Shall ever be the loveliest and the best.

'41 to '51 shine

onions, not

Wilkinson,

Where eager youth her morning visit paid, A n d after all is over long delayed.

Dear W o o d e n seats, where once I sat each morn,

-—Louise Gault, Pass V I . c , 16 years.

shoes

I'm sorry f o r the people who sell white elephants, I'm sorry f o r the people who sell fresh veg'tables,

—M.

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Hon.

anywhere Vl.a.

( W i t h apologies to W . S.

Gilbert)

W h e n I first put this uniform on I thought, as I looked at my f o r m , It's one to a thousand That many will rouse and Think me a mushroom or corm.

M y hat had a brim that was wide, A n d the star seemed so big that I sighed;

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My shoes, they were shiny, Yet so very tiny, A n d perfectly laced up and tied.

Somewhere through all pain and sorrow, Into all eternity, Laughing at the bleak to-morrow,

I thought when I first put it on, It is plain to all those who observe, The length of my tunic Looks really quite "lunic."

Beneath my grey blazer's cute curve.

M y socks were kept up by brute force, A n d my blouse was new, yes of course!

But with squirmishly feeling, M y tummy was reeling, A n d my voice seemed all croaky and hoarse.

W h i c h I never counted upon, W h e n I first put this uniform on.

W h e n I last put this uniform on, I thought, as I looked in the glass, My body is longer A n d broader and stronger, In fact it all seems quite a farce.

My stockings replace the long socks, A n d the star fits in quite a small box.

M y first tunic's end W o u l d most probably tend T o come nearer my waist than to pass

Blithely leaping, Glad and rejoicing Willingly

free,

to all extending

O f its life and liberty, Gracious cruel and supple bending, Free in love and ecstasy, Onward going, Swiftly flowing— Sometimes catches you and me.

-—Kathleen Burgess, Pass V I . c , Fitchett.

Delight I like to swim, T o dive into clear waters, Cool and dim.

T o feel myself alone, A l o o f and free T o know the magic mystery .

Shipwreck

O n e morning in June, 1878, the ship " L o c k A r d , " f r o m Ireland, seeing the lights of Warrnambool, apparently mistook them f o r the Cape Otway light-house, and so was preparing to arrive in Melbourne next day.

T h e passengers on board were celebrating their arrival in Victorian waters when the ship struck the rocks, and was wrecked on Mutton Bird Island. T h e only two survivors escaped in most peculiar ways.

Miss Eva Carmichael drifted to the beach on a hen-coop, while the young sailor, T o m Pearce, swam ashore, scaled the vertical cliffs, and plodded off to find help.

H e came naked to Glenample homestead, where he got help. T h e y returned to the Gorge and rescued Miss Carmichael.

—Janice Clarke, Practical Arts, Berry.

Pictured by posterity.

Love comes seeping,

What do I like to do?

—Ainslie Rowe, H o n . , V l . a , Cato, 16 years.

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43 Love

Some facts which I doted upon, W h e n I first put this uniform on.

Some facts which I doted upon, W h e n I last put this uniform on.

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O f the sea.

— S o n i a Cartwright, 15 years, Cato.

The Question " W h o is G o d ? " The little girl ran to her nurse, " N a n n y , where can I find G o d ? "

pleading,

" O h , G o d lives ever so far away, W a y up in the sky.

Y o u cannot see H i m , H e is too great f o r y o u . " But she was not satisfied, A n d ran to her mother. " W h o is G o d ? " she cried.

A n d her mother took her gently by the hand, A n d led her out into the garden.

There was a lark, Spiralling, spiralling in the sky, Singing as though his heart would burst; A n d the child's mother whispered, " T h a t is God's voice, singing."

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" O h ! What a beautiful voice H e has!!"

A n d she saw a rose Lying in her velvet gown O n a bed of leaves, A n d she smiled at the rose, A n d was smiled at in return. " L o o k , mother!

H o w beautiful she is!"

A n d her mother whispered again, "That is G o d , in all His beauty!"

A n d her mother pointed to the sky Where the gold clouds were drifting— Drifting around the great dome of the sky, A n d she cried, " L o o k ! There is G o d !

In the clouds, in the trees, Everywhere you look you can see H i m ! " A n d the little girl Threw herself on to the grass A n d worshipped H i m .

. . . Soon his iron constraint broke down, H e watched them with a mighty frown; H e clutched his left hand till the knuckles whitened, With his right hand he bade them be quietened; His eyes like smouldering fires, were seeking theirs, While ruffled on his head was his hair.

It was he or they T h e thought kept hammering away, H e knew too well, that none need tell, There was no other way.

For an instant, an insane desire to laugh overcame him, But he refrained, f o r the crowd behind him W a s watching his every move, Which

— S . Peverill, H o n . V l . b , Fitchett.

Oriental Daintiness Chinese women like their sisters all over the world, will do anything f o r what they think enhances their beauty.

Even in this century, Chinese girl-children have had their feet bound.

Elderly women of well-to-do families are still proud to show their four-inch feet.

This meant binding of the feet f r o m childhood, and of course it was painful, but the children were supposed to become accustomed to it slowly.

There are several advantages to tiny feet.

T h e ladies have to walk slowly as a lady should; well, you will automatically do that with those feet! Also it was assumed that parents, hoping that their match-making would be a success, would have their daughter's feet bound so small that it will not be easy f o r her to run away f r o m her husband.

Children of servants, of course, do not have their feet bound, so it is quite easy to tell the difference in station.

Actually the tiny shoes embroidered by the ladies were very pretty—every pair had a different patern on it.

M y grandmother, who had her feet bound in her younger days, still thinks that women's feet should be small and dainty. Her feet are five inches long, but she considers that her mother could have bound them smaller.

— E . Lee, Pass V I . c .

nerved him to

an effort beyond

his

power.

T h e sweat broke out on his brow, As he summoned his last powers; A sob shook his frame, His hands clawed in vain; Desperately pleading, beseeching, imploring . .

But the orchestra remained unmoved, Ifs conductor always stayed in that mood, A n d f o r these few minutes, everyone stayed silent, During the part of the slow movement.

—Betty Tsiang, V.b, Berry.

The Marmalade Cat H e was a small cat, and on the whole a very satisfactory cat, with his long sleek body dappled the colour of home-made marmalade, and terminating in a long, sleek tail. All the morning he had been amusing himself in the garden, playing tag with the butterflies through the stiffly disapproving ranks of parsnips, and when, after lunch, I returned to my studies, he was still there. W h e n enough time had elapsed to allow the dog to succumb to the combined effects of the heat and his dinner, the cat left his game of touch last with the falling apple blossom, and gave some attention to me. H e jumped on to my knee, and smelt my nose affably. I scratched my chin, and he proceeded to

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mark time, and purr in a comradely fashion.

Puss settled himself comfortably, and in a few minutes was asleep. I sighed, and then picked up my book again.

— P a t Tasker, H o n . V I . c .

Wiihelmina Fortescue W h o always did what was right, and accumulated an immense respect.

(With apologies to Hilaire Belloc) T h e nicest girl I ever knew Wiihelmina Fortescue.

She never lost her books, or tore Her stockings or her pinafore: W h e n eating lunch, she left no litter— ( A n d this of course made no-one bitter) N o orange peel, and no cake crumbs— She was extremely f o n d of sums T o which, however, she preferred T h e parsing of a Latin word.

She sought, whenever in her power T o be at classes on the hour, A n d up in scientific height, She often put the others right, A n d actually enjoyed to part The regions of a rabbit's heart!

A n d oft-times, faced with things abhorred, W o u l d beg them, of her own accord, T o give her, if they did not mind, T h e vilest tasks that they could find, Like duty on a rainy day—• Although (if I may only say) She suffered rather frequently From rheumatism on the knee.

In later years, no less was she Renowned f o r quiet courtesy.

She rose at once in her career, A n d long before her fortieth year H a d helped in many fairs to gain Some m o n e y — g o n e to greatest pain T o raise tremendous funds because She wished to help the worthy cause, T o build (as you may well recall By n a m e ) , T h e New Assembly Hall, W h i c h shows what everybody might Become by simply doing right.

—Barbara Wilkinson, Pass V l . a .

so

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45 Incident

The tiny boat was tossing as if it were a small boy on an uncomfortable mattress. T h e waves, their crests frothy half-moons, seemed to beat against each other in a hopeless frenzy of passion.

T h e clouds hung low and threatening over the sea, and the sun, showing only fitfully through the rifts, was blood-red.

The men in the boat did not appear to notice the violence of the sea around them.

They crouched together, swaying with the motion of the boat, their eyes turned to the west, gazing sightlessly to where sea merged into sky in dn empty and barely perceptible line. A b o v e the boat swooped and hovered a silent white bird, but the men gave no acknowledgement of its presence.

Suddenly through a break in the clouds, a ray of tawny sunlight shone down, illuminating boat and bird. The ray hovered f o r a minute on the frail craft, and then receded slowly heavenwards.

T h e great bird circled slowly, climbing higher and higher, uttering a mournful cry of loneliness as it ascended.

A n d then f o r a minute space of time all was quiet.

A sudden gust of wind swept across the sea.

—Elizabeth Croydon, V . b ,

15 years.

Stage Fright " Y o u r mistress is awaiting m e — " " N o — t h a t ' s wrong. Entrance again."

A n d so we returned once more f o r my entrance: the correct position was down stage centre, the correct words: " Y o u r master is awaiting me."

At last the great night. Oh, how I wished I could just run through that entrance again, and how worried I felt about the stage p r o p erties—would they remember to' bring the cups in? W o u l d they remember the papers? W o u l d they remember A n d so my worries went on, until I f o u n d myself in the dressing-room (after stealthily creeping through dark passages, up winding staircases, and through dark doorways with huge doors that clanked and rattled).

Having donned my regal gowns of purple velvet I made f o r the man who seemed to be in charge of that sticky stuff and the greasepaint. With a slap to the right cheek and a

pat to the left, I had a wonderful tan—then with a few dabs of the glue-brush around my mouth, chin and eyebrows, I was ready to have my whiskers -attached. After extracting several red hairs f r o m my mouth, I managed somehow

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to utter a few remarks of

beholding

that

handsome

surprise

gentleman

in

on the

glass!

In due course the curtain went up on our play—and with knees knocking and cheeks blushing under the grease paint I managed to squeak—"your master is awaiting me." That over, I realised how much in the centre of things I was: there were lights glaring at me f r o m above and below, and the audience, the players in the wings, and the technicians in the flies seemed to be doing the same. M y worst moment was when I had to take drink in one scene—apart f r o m swallowing a few hairs, I took so large a mouthful of the cordial that there was a long silence while I swallowed and collected my thoughts.

So Spring picks up her petticoats and dances in G o o d old-fashioned petticoats, trimmed with hollyhocks, Garlanded

with

mirth

and

swishing

to

the

sound of rain— In her auburn hair are roses, white roses, symbol of youth; Her shawl she has thrown away, what need of a shawl W h e n she has youth before her, a whole life before her?

A n d she dances to the sound of rain.

She has forgotten the awkwardness of birth, A n d does not know the pain of later life.

All

the country

welcomes her, welcomes

the

fiddle

room.

After the drum has played the sullen months of Winter; But the lambs grow up and the wheat f r o m its green heart Calls passionately and slightly sentimentally f o r rain.

But Spring, like the whole world, has grown capricious From the constant pain of adoration—she is older

After the removal of grease paint, by means

A n d some of the gilt of the world has come

After

the

last

curtain

came

flowers

and

chocolates—needless to say these were acceptable—and we felt like florist's shop employees as we wandered of

back to the dressing

cold cream and old rags, it was time to

fingers.

She can laugh with the best at herself, she is

For once I realised what it is like to have

wise, She knows pain and cherishes within her the failure of youth, T h e momentous failure of youth, the end of ambition.

the whiskers—off

they

came with

tug.

a

off on her

a

remove

five-o'clock

shadow!

Attached to my

very

sore face were little red hairs; these are usually removed with methylated spirits, but fortunately som one

had broken

the

uv

methy-

lated spirits bottle, and I had to set to and pull them off one by one.

About twelve o'clock that night I fell into bed, greasy

(too late and tired f o r a bath!)

but happy, f o r nothing had gone drastically wrong, and we had thoroughly enjoyed

our-

selves—amazing as it may seem!

—Barbara Williams, H o n . V l . a , Berry.

Rebirth A cold wind worn like a shawl Is clasped around the early soul of Spring A cold heart dwells in her and frosts the grass With crystal cold remembrances of Winter.

She has been born and has lived, but the sap within her is dying She can no longer give rain to keep her creations in youth.

She is dying, and with her death will come maturity to earth.

Her creations will blossom with the fullness of life after death.

She will die, this defiant old lady in petticoats, Without admitting she would rather not see the death of her life; She has rent her shawl in anger, defying necessity, Defying the need to cover her wrinkled forehead, Wrinkled with the ruthless hand of Summer.

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Wrinkled with the lack of hillside

rain on the bare

For she wanders dreaming

the bare

now

on

hillside,

Embroidered dreams of her triumphant dancing youth; Now she stumbles and falls, but, drawing her shawl around her, She still will not admit to death, who rebirth.

know

—Margaret Gale, H o n . V l . b .

Divinity What shall we call the unbidden thought That fills our mind when the needy call For gifts of comfort, courage, life?

O r when great music fills our soul With unheard accompaniment?

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Or when inspired literature Holds our breath with beauty?

H o w shall we know when it will come Unbidden f r o m a grassy hollow Where the earth has paused to look at greenness, Or when, i n soft September rain, Our heart re-echoes to the call of Spring?

Or after prayer, sincere, complete, Our soul is held with holiness?

W h e n shall we know it perfectly Unshackled by our earthly bonds, When shall we see our dreams outlined, A n d true light in our visions?

—M. Wood, Hon.

Vl.a.

Middle and Lower Middle Section Spring Spring has come

with her laughing

face,

A n d clothed the trees in their gowns of grace, She has opened the buds of the sleeping flowers, A n d they lift their heads to the soft Spring showers.

She has painted the sky with a touch of her brush, A n d awakened a song in the heart of the thrush, She has sped to the gullies and deepened their green, A n d scattered the sunbeams through each gurgling stream.

She has left on the meadows her diamonds of dew, A n d her quaint fairy bells of a deep sapphire blue, She has spread a gay carpet of buttercups gold, She has brought with her sunshine, and banished the cold.

—Margaret Scott, IV.b, 13 years, Berry.

The Historical Tree M y life history begins back in the 18th century. T h e first I knew of myself was that I was a little seed pod hanging on my mother's

arms.

T h e n the wind came and blew me away in the air and put me gently down on soft Mother Earth.

I grew and grew till I was about half as big as my mother, when some people with fair skin came to me and carved the date 1770 on my trunk. T h e y came in a boat with the name Endeavour painted on its side.

I was very proud, f o r no other tree in the forest had a name or date on its trunk.

After this I grew until I was bigger than my mother or any other tree near me. T h e n I was noticed as having been a great historical tree. I was ever so old then and I was queen of the forest.

These people put a fence around me, and an inscription which stood o n a stand, that said, "This is a tree which Captain C o o k and his men saw, and on which they carved the date 1770."

I am very happy, so come and see me.

—Margaret Mott, L. IV.d,

12 years, Cato.

Dog Show Dachshund, terrier, foxy dogs, N o n e of them lying just like logs.

Long tails, short tails, Wagging here and there, There is fun and mischief

flying

in the air!

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Dachshund, terrier, foxy dogs, All

of

them

are

well

groomed:

"Goodbye,

Wogs!"

Long ears, short ears, Listening to each sound, Even though the puppies are running

round

and round!

Dachshund, terrier, foxy dogs, There goes a comic one, dressed in togs!

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with all the pine trees covered with snow. T h e beavers are now safely in their well-built houses.

S o o n the. ice covers the pond, and Mr. Beaver has to break through the ice to get more f o o d .

Mr. W o l f has a very bad time finding f o o d f o r his family as he has not prepared f o r the winter as the busy beavers have.

Sometimes he tries to catch the beavers, but they are too quick f o r him.

S o o n the summer is back again and the snow

Long legs, short legs, Running round the place,

melts away.

"Keep it up, doggies, keep that pace!"

busy getting ready f o r winter once more.

T h e beaver family are all very

— H i l a r y Cook, IH.b, 10 years, Fitchett.

—Pamela Coates, Lower IH.b, 10 yrs., Fitchett.

Day Dreams

The Wishing Well

I have often thought how exciting it would be,

A reminder of long-forgotten days, It's like a lovely garden maze, Entwined with flowers of every hue, Weaving together, pink and blue.

Set amongst the blossoms fair T h e flowers give off a perfume rare; T h e lovely roof all patched and torn, T h e swinging rope much used and worn.

T h e broken bucket, the fallen sign, T h e tree that's weathered every clime, T h e time-worn boards through which have passed

T o pretend I was a pirate and go sailing on the sea, T o find a lot of riches or a box of hidden gold, Or perhaps a shipwreck with treasures in the hold.

Perhaps some day when I grow up and visit other lands, (I dream about it now as I lie upon the sand) — For that is my ambition, to go a sailing o n the sea, A carefree way of living, as happy as can be.

I suppose the last old pirate ship was wrecked some time ago, There's none left now f o r you and me, but perhaps you never know.

A n d though we dream and hope a lot, what could be better f u n Than imagining I'm a pirate while lying in the sun?

—Elaine Jeffrey, IV.a, 13 years, Cato.

T h e wishes f r o m true lovers' hearts.

— I n a Swyer, Lower V.a, 14 years, Berry.

Spring and Summer The primrose is out, and the wren sings his song

A n d the violet smells sweet in the warmth of the spring, And

Beaver Valley

the great day comes, and the

the blue-bells are

ringing

a-ting-a-ling-

ling.

In the holidays I went to a picture called "Beaver Valley." It was very interesting.

In the summer the beavers bite down trees with their long, sharp teeth. T h e n with the branches and the trunks they go to a shallow part of a stream and pile them up to a point, using mud and clay as well.

By this time the beavers have wives and little baby beavers, so they have to get a big store of twigs f o r their winter f o o d .

Then

t

H o u r after hour all the day long,

snow

begins to fall heavily, making a beautiful sight,

But then spring is over, the hot days begun, A n d the flowers all die in the heat of the sun; T h e trees they all wither, and the grass turns to brown, A n d the weather is wearing her new summer gown.

— M a r i a Schuch, I l l . a , 11 years, Krome.

The Tower of London W e stayed at a hotel near St. Pancras, and one day we decided to go to the Tower London.

of

W e took a bus f o r some distance and

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walked the rest of the way. W h e n we arrived we went through two big gates where two sentries stood with busbies on their heads.

W e bought a guide, but on the bridge we met a Beefeater who said he would take us round when some more people came.

T h e bridge we were standing on once had a moat under it, but they had to drain it away because it smelt, but the steep banks are still there. W e met Miss Mitchell, a music teacher at M.L.C., who was also on our ship. W e saw the Traitors' Gate where Queen Elizabeth had entered, and the White Tower, which is supposed to fall down if the ravens leave it. T h e Beefeater said that he would give us an exam., and if we failed we would be locked in the Bloody Tower! H e showed us where the murdered princes were buried under some steep steps leading to a door.

W e went up some very narrow stone steps, and the Beefeater pointed to a stair bigger than the rest, and anyone not aware of it would trip and make a noise, and so the people in the Tower would be warned.

W e went into a small room where the Princes were murdered and saw where Sir Walter Raleigh was kept prisoner and where he used to take his exercise.

W e then went outside, up a little hill where there was a copper slab, and on it was written the names of the people who had had their heads chopped off there.

It was a very gruesome place. T h e n we went into the Tower chapel where the famous people who had been beheaded were buried. W e went into the White Tower and saw armour f r o m all ages, also the chopping block and a few axes and some instruments of torture.

It was then time to go home, but as we were going out of the gate, I saw a sentry who did not move an inch.

T h e n suddenly he stamped the ground and began walking to and fro. Another sentry came up to him with a piece of paper which had o n it a secret password, which has only five letters in it and is never the same in a year. Only a few people know it—the King and the Beefeaters. H e put it in his box, put the gun over his shoulder, and stood still. W e caught a tube back to Saint Pancras.

I did not have a very g o o d night.

I think the Tower of London is a very frightening place.

— D o r o t h y Davies, Lower I l l . b , 10 years.

49

GREEN The M.L.C. Dog Show

T h e Show's in full blast, T h e judge stands aghast As

the

dogs

form

their

crocodile.

There is quite a sensation As a spotted Dalmatian Chases a Peke. f o r a mile.

T h e lordly St. Bernard A n d sheep-dog most learned, Scowl at the impudent terrier; H e only grimaces, As the Borzoi he chases, " T h e more fighting," he says, "the merrier."

T h e Cairn says the Peke Looks a terrible freak, A n d calls forth a growl f r o m the Collie.

There's an ear-piercing wail As a playful Airedale Thinks nipping the Chow would be jolly.

A n d still, late at night, T h e sounds of the fight Will echo around the green oval; A n d dogs, smooth or hairy, A n d owners foot-weary G o homeward, some glad and some woeful.

— J o a n Cathcart, Lower IV.a, 12 years.

My Friend Spinks I have a little faithful friend, Just brown and white is she.

N o doubt you think she's fairly old, Although she's only three.

Her eyebrows are so very thick— She scarcely can peep through; A n d when she blinks her big, brown eyes, Her whiskers wriggle too.

She carries all the stockings out; Brings bones up on the mat; M y goodness! there she's off again With daddy's new golf hat.

In spite of all, I love her still, Although she chews things u p ; For how could anyone dislike A merry little p u p ?

—Jane

Pincus, IV.d,

12 years.

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sently

At My Window

emerged—a An

ancient

cuddly,

furry,

brown

grey-box

lodged

in

hospitable hollow two new occupants.

A n d when the rain is falling, My little window shines, grape

its

They

were a mother koala and her baby.

All the little sunbeams glow, Like fairies in a shower.

the

he

creature.

A t my little window, H i g h up in the tower,

Like dew drops on

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leaf,

A n d many other vines.

—Marcia Hardy, Lower I l l . b , 10 yrs., Krome.

The Fairies

Meanwhile an old wombat scuffled noiselessly down towards the river bank where a fresh gushing tinkle greeted his ear.

The young platypus was just diving in—splash!— he came back eating a long worm which he had caught in the slushy mud at the water's edge. H e , like every other living creature in the bush that golden day, was eager to welcome the summer.

All along the river, In and out the trees,

—Elsa Hepburn, IV.b, 12 years.

G o the little fairies Dancing in the breeze.

The Supreme Sacrifice

Their frocks are made of thistle-down, Their shoes are leaves, so green,

Great is H e W h o reigns above

They're coming home f r o m market With their eggs and cream.

W h o sent His Son to conquer sin,

—Elaine Parkes, III.a, 11 years, Berry.

With wisdom and abounding

love,

T o love all men, their hearts to win.

In a lowly stable H e had His birth, H e who came to conquer the earth

The Funny Little Man As I was walking out one night, As late as late could be; I saw a funny little man Standing by a tree.

I asked him what his same was, H e said he didn't know— H e looked a bit ridiculous Standing

just

so.

A n d so I kept on wandering As far as I dared, Then I f o u n d myself home In my comfortable bed.

— A n g e l a Schafer, 9 years, Fitchett.

Summer Dav/n A l o n g the rutted, dusty track birds could be heard warbling loudly to greet the new day.

A 'brilliant red a n d purple mountlain-Iory screeched harshly, and f r o m his perch in a tall gum tree he drank in the golden sunshine. The cheeky kookaburra laughed mockingly at a brown snake which slithered lazily out of its hollow tree stump to greet summer. T h e soft rustling of the growing wheat was answered in eager spirit by the leaves of a lonely gum.

From somewhere in the bush, the quick padding sound of a wallaby was heard, and pre-

Rested His head on the manger's hay, Under the star brighter than day.

W h e n H e reaced the age of thirty, H e Began His preaching round Galilee; H e told them all to love and forgive, For other people their lives to live.

T h e selfish world did not heed His cry, But H i m on the Cross did crucify; "Forgive them, Father!"

were the words

He

said— A n d th<* Lord and Saviour of the world was dead.

But now H e is risen and lives alway, T h e Christ we love, and to W h o m we pray, W h o bore such sorrow and so much pain, T o bring us back to G o d again.

— W i l m a Garrett, Lower V.b, 13 years.

The Setting Sun T h e brilliant sun was slowly sinking over the clear, calm sea. It appeared to hover in the still air before plunging into the translucent water.

From the horizon, a widening pathway, bright and golden, shone across the shimmering sea, but further to the North, both sea and sky were misty, the water, inky blue, showing the presence of rocks beneath the

SILVER

AND

surface, Here there was no clear horizon line, but out of the haze a small boat skimmed across the water, disturbing the stillness f o r a moment, and crossing the path of sunlight.

T h e sun sank lower, casting a wider path of light, and seagulls called softly to each other, as if they too saw the sparkling ripples of the water as they danced nearer to the shore.

A rugged headland stood outlined against the darkening sky, and nearby a fishing smack was anchored. There was movement again as the little skiff was stirred by the ripples f r o m the wash and calmly rode the swell.

A b o v e the sun-path, the sky changed f r o m deep blue, through rose and violet, to a filmy blue-grey, as the sun sank beneath the horizon, while overhead the velvet of the darker sky was pierced with an increasing number of stars. A t the water's edge, trapped by the outgoing tide, there was phosphorous gleaming and sparkling like silver stars fallen f r o m the sky.

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Out on the hills where the wild birds sing, T h e dull grey mist of the rising haze Has turned to blue, as night comes on, A n eerie blue in the full moon's rays.

The ghost gums standing straight and tall, Have turned a light grey-blue in the dusk; Below the trees the dew has fallen O n heat-ridden violets and dying musk.

D o w n in the valley a pale blue mist Has gathered on bracken and heath-bells, and bushes, A n d over a bed of rounded white pebbles, Like a thread of quick-silver a tiny stream rushes.

After a while the blue turns to grey, As the dark cloak of night comes over again, The evening drifts f r o m the valley—away, Till the moon rides Heaven with star-drawn rein.

-Paddy Dixson, IV.b.

As night came on, other fishing craft put out f r o m the jetty, bound f o r some calm spot where the nets would be lowered and worked until another day began.

—Rosalind Johns, IV.b, 13 years, Cato.

A Happy Ending There I lay in my bed, Trying to get it out of my head, A n exam, t o - m o r r o w — O dear! O dear!

I'm beginning to feel a wee bit queer.

•

I wish I could pretend I'm sick, But Father might threaten me with the stick.

I'll have to go, O ! what a pest, O well, I'll go and do my best.

Morning comes and I dress f o r school, A n d follow the usual week-day rule.

Mother comes in and says quite clear, " D o n ' t you know it's Saturday, dear?

.. ail

— A n n Galagher, Lower IH.b, 9 years.

Blue Evening After the very hottest noon The cool of the evening comes at last, Turning the outside world to blue, W h e n the heat of the sweltering day has passed.

Yvonne Clarke,

F.VI.b.

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SILVER

AND

GREEN

Junior Section T h e daisy and the daffodil,

Namba (After reading " N a m b a the Elephant")

T h e rose so bright and gay, The crocus and the jonquil All bloom ere Christmas Day.

Namba was an elephant W h o lived in far Siam, Rolling logs to the river,

•—Anne Lee, Jun. IV.a,

For her master, the white man.

Lonely f o r the herd life, She went off one dark night, Leaving only a broken chain T o mark her sudden flight.

Found by a kindly native, She wandered to and f r o , H a p p y and contented With her baby Bo. Growing old and tired With this native friend and Bo, She wandered far to the burial lands, T o the place where the elephants go.

—Vivienne Baker, Jun. I V . b , 9 years, Krome.

The Fish I have a little fish, A n d I keep him in a dish; I like my little fish, A n d he likes his little dish.

—Suzanne David, Jun. IH.b, 8 yrs., Fitchett.

Toad-stool House There was once a little toad-stool house, Inside it lived a tiny mouse; H e slept and slept and slept all d a y — W h e n night-fall came he went out to play.

10 years, Berry.

Our Trip to the Snow One day in the winter we went up to our holiday house at Ferny Creek.

Mummy and Daddy thought we might find some snow there.

W h e n we were nearly there the snow began to appear in little patches on the side of the road. It gradually grew and grew until in a short time all the ground and the roads were covered with it.

Even the trees were loaded with snow, and they looked just like Christmas trees in picture books.

T o get to our house we had to leave the car and walk down a road. It looked just like a foot-track, with the snow in some parts up to our knees. W h e n we got to our house the drive was about two feet deep and the roof was covered with snow. It was such a pretty sight.

While Daddy was shovelling snow off the roof we made a huge snow-man.

W e gave him a bow-tie.

Sometimes Daddy threw a shovelful of snow at us and we all squealed and ran away. W e had quite a lot of snowball fights and sometimes we crept up and threw snowballs at Daddy, but he caught them in the shovel and threw them back at us. They sometimes hit us.

While we were doing all this, Mummy was getting a nice fire going. W e soon were sitting around it and drinking steaming hot cups of cocoa and warming our fingers and toes.

Soon

H e lived on bread and honeycomb,

it began to get late and so we had to go home,

Across the fields he loved to roam,

so we said good-bye to our snowman and told

A n d nibbled at the stalks of

him to wait until we came back.

hay—

W h e n pussy came he ran away.

But I don't

expect he will!

—Sylvia Joyce, Jun. I V , b , 8 years, Krome.

— J a n i c e Martin, Jun. I V . b , 9 years, Berry.

Spring Days

My Chicks

T h e spring-time is a happy time, A n d all the flowers bloom, T h e orange, lemon, and the lime, For summer's coming soon.

Y o u should see my baby chickens, They're the cutest little things, T h e y love to run about the yard, A n d flap their tiny wings;

SILVER A N D They cheep and chirp f r o m morn till night, A n d hunt f o r worms with eyes so bright; I feel them carefully every day, A n d when they're big some eggs they'll lay.

—Janet Clarke, Jun. IV.b, 8 years, Cato.

My Little Kitty I have a little kitty, I took her to the city, I lost my little kitty: It is a pity.

—Enid Sommerfeld, Jun. I l l . b , 8 years, Cato.

Spring

—Jennifer Shears, Jun. Ill.a, 8 years.

With cream and golden spots, A n d at the show at M.L.C. His prizes will be lots. go

with

lots

good

day's

work

A s his tail bobbed round about.

For he had seen a silver star

For she'd lost it, don't you see.

I have a cocker p u p you see,

we'll

O n e day when I went out, A n d he seemed very merry

W h i c h stood f o r M.L.C.; A little girl was very sad,

Roger the Pup

a

I have a pet canary, and he is a beautiful whistler.

H e whistles loudest when he hears running water. O n e morning after I had fed my pet and had hung him up on our verandah, I went inside to have my breakfast.

In a little while we heard a commotion on the verandah, and Daddy went to see what was happening, and I went too. W e saw a hawk attacking my bird through his cage.

Daddy scared the hawk away, and then we f o u n d that the hawk had pulled my canary's tail out, and now he has grown a new tail and it is a prettier one than before.

I saw a little rabbit

" H o w do you d o ? " While the flowers are nodding: " G o o d morning to y o u . "

home

M y Canary

A Rabbit's Find

Birdies are singing:

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— M a r i o n Kelly, 9 years, Cato.

Flowers are blooming, A n d the sun's ray Makes everyone Feel happy and gay.

So

GREEN

of

fun, is

done.

T h e little rabbit frisked about As happy as could be, A n d said: " D o n ' t worry, little girl, Just come and follow me."

—Josephine Renshaw, Jun. IV.b, 9 years.

— N e r o l e Hardie, Jun. IV.a, 9 yrs., Fitchett.

Babar the Elephant The Crescent Moon

Babar the elephant, H a p p y and gay, Went in a balloon One bright sunny day.

H e went over the tree-tops, U p and over the trees; H e saw wonderful things, As hives with honey and bees.

Down he came on an island, 'Twas beautiful and gay, Then off he went on a whale's back This beautiful sunny day.

—Jenny Weight, Jun. IV.a,

10 yrs., Fitchett.

T h e crescent moon sailed away, It will come again some other day; While the thief crept up to the house, T h e dog at the door stayed as still as a mouse.

T h e thief crept past Rosemary's room, T h e big clock gave a sudden b o o m ; It frightened the thief, who looked about, T h e n at the thief the hero jumped out.

T h e thief escaped and crept on his way, But it was now the time f o r the break of day, So the thief quickly grabbed five precious jugs, A n d then he grabbed three crystal mugs.

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54 A n d suddenly

at the thief

the hero

AND

jumped

out, H e hoped that no other thieves were about, Luckily f o r him there were not, So the hero was happy about the lot.

— P a t Sandercock, Jun. IV.b, 9 yrs., Berry.

Me I wish I were a sailor, U p o n the deep blue sea, With a crew of one and twenty, T h e captain none but me.

I'd sail the deep wide oceans T o many countries far, A n d see all the strange sights Under both sun and star.

G R E E N 54 But until I grow older, As all of you will see, I'll have to be content With no one but me.

- -Noala Y e n , Jun. IV.a, 9 years, Fitchett.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS T h e Editors wish to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the following School Magazines this year: The Queenswoodian, T h e Swan, T h e Melburnian, T h e Mitre, T h e Carey Chronicle, The Scotch Collegian, T h e Wesley T h e Michaelian, T h e Corian.

Collegian,

MRS. R. L. (Grace

PRESIDENT'S Dear Fellow O l d

HALES

Waite)

GREETINGS

Collegians,

It is indeed a very great privilege to write as your President f o r this year, and I am very grateful f o r this opportunity of worlcing with you all, and f o r the School.

I do hope that during the coming year I will meet most of you, and I know that you will help the Club in eVery way, so that the coming months will bring us new Success and inspiration. I hope that the New Year will bring you every happiness.

GRACE

HALES,

President.

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The Old Collegian OFFICE-BEARERS A N D 1951-52

COUNCIL,

President:

Mrs. R. L. Hales (Grace Waite).

Vice-Presidents:

Mrs. A. G. Haycraft (Elma Martyn), Mrs. F. W. Cornell (Edna Pryor), Rev. Dr. A. H. Wood, M.A. (ex-officio).

Honorary Secretary:

Dorothy Kerr, Mrs. P. R. Leslie (Mabel Rowe), Mrs. F. Martin (Nance Wyatt), Miss Betty Matthews, Miss Audrey Oldfield, Miss Megan Sheil, Mrs. L. P. Smith (Stella Robinson), Miss Phyllis Waitt, Miss Win Williams.

Immediate Past President

(ex-officio):

Mrsj T. Powell Dawes (Margaret Guthridge).

College Council Representatives:

Mrs. T. Twycross (Violet Woolcock).

Mrs. R. L. Hales (Grace Waite), Mrs. P, R. Leslie (Mabel Rowe), Mrs. T. Powell Dawes (Margaret Guthridge), Mrs. G. B. Swift (Marie Sutherland).

Honorary Treasurer:

Delegates to National Council of Women

Miss Venie Harrison.

Honorary Assistant

Secretary:

Miss Hilda Brown.

Editress of Magazine:

Miss Elizabeth Kent.

Council:

Miss Elizabeth Blyth, Miss Wyn Collins, Mrs. H. Crawford (Sheila Marshall), Miss Eunice Dann, Miss Beverley Effick, Miss Anne Goldsworthy, Mrs. L. Haslam (Hesse Graham), Miss Anne Hattam, Mrs. B. J. Jackson (Kathleen Vimpani), Miss Kathleen Kelly, Miss

of Victoria:

Mrs. F. W. Cornell (Edna Pryor) Mrs. P. R. Leslie (Mabel Rowe).

Club Rooms Circle Committee:

Chairman: Mrs. W. L. Russell (Ida Skelton).

Honorary Secretary: Mrs. F. W. Cornell (Edna Pryor).

Honorary Treasurer: Mrs. A. Tozer Thompson).

(Alice

Younger Members' Circle:

Miss Mwyn Sheil, Convener.

EDITORIAL Many of us after reading the enthusiastic report on "The Children's Crusade," by one of The Old Collegians Club, by very nature of its being, claims a , bond with, and a responsi- our younger members, will probably hope that bility towards, M.L.C. But few of us, when such an outstanding and successful experiment asked, would be able to define clearly what will serve to create a vital precedent. this relationship means to us, and in turn, to This is not, of course, the first time that the the School.

School and Old Collegians have combined (a The Club cannot run itself, and so we have memorable event, the Chapel Fund Concert, Administration. It would be a dead thing' in- comes immediately to mind), but these other deed if business matters were its entire con- happenings were in the main particularly cern: social contacts are an intrinsic part of its M.L.C. functions. "The Children's Crusade" was growth. But what of the creative exchange of of wider application. Not only did former stugifts? M.L.C. cannot increasingly give the best dents join with present ones, enriching the without receiving much—this applies in turn work, but this choir in turn joined with Melto the Club. We are Old Collegians of the bourne's finest musicians, making music for a School: what of the School to-day? We have universal audience. the day-to-day contacts with M.L.C., but is In a world in which the emphasis is laid inthere no especially practical way of getting to creasingly on things secular, scientific and warknow the School and the pupils as a unit in a like, music, and all creative arts, form one of modern, thinking and ever-changing world? the few remaining bonds among men. Great

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things have small beginnings, and in the core

Kelly, seconded by Miss Howell that this state-

of the school life opportunity is infinite.

ment be accepted.

Old

Collegians may have the benefits of more experience, a mature

outlook,

but there is so

much we can learn f r o m the School, and it was this creative give and take, with the blending of young experience with old memories, that was

so

much

a

feature

of

the

combined

singers. Moving out into the life of Melbourne, instead of confining these gifts of pure music within School walls was a valuable step. N o t only in the sphere of music and art, but in sport also, horizons are wide f o r the School as a living web of generations to take an active part in the search f o r peace and in glorifying the diverse gifts given us.

THE

The

following

reports

were

read:—Club

Rooms Circle, by Mrs. F. Cornell; Chapel Fund,

by Miss E. Barker, Younger Members' Circle,

by Miss Mwyn Sheil; Elsternwick Branch, by Mrs. G. B. Swift, on behalf of Miss C. Rosier; National

Council

of

Women,

by

Mrs.

W.

Blackburn; and were received c n the motion of Mrs. Crawford, seconded by Miss Pearson.

Miss E. Dann reported that the Return Ball, held at T u d o r Court on 17th August, had resulted in a profit of £15, which was presented to the Younger Members' Circle towards expenses.

MINUTES

OF

ANNUAL

M E E T I N G OF T H E

FORTY-SIXTH OLD

C O L L E G I A N S ' CLUB OF T H E METHODIST

Carried.

LADIES'

COLLEGE

Held on Friday, 1st September, 1951, at 8 p.m. at the Caris Club, McEwan House, Little Collins Street, Melbourne.

Chair T h e President, Mrs. T. Powell Dawes presided.

Apologies

Election of Office-Bearers Junior Vice-President.—After the appointment of Misses Pearson and D a n n as scrutineers, voting papers were distributed f o r the election of Junior Vice-President.

Council.—The number of nominations received f o r the Council was one less than required. N o election was therefore necessary and it was decided that the Council should appoint a suitable person to fill the vacancy.

College Council.—As nominations f o r the College Council did not exceed the number required, no voting was necessary.

Apologies were received f r o m • Mesdames Kilvington, Harwood, Stahl, King, Haslam, Russell, Sutherland, Hendy and Garden, and Misses Haycraft, Rosier, Effick, Kerr, Harcourt, Pettigrew and Miss P. Hagerty who sent a greeting f r o m England.

Magazine

Minutes

bined with "Silver and Green," and to omit the

T h e Minutes of the Annual Meeting held on 20th September, 1950, were read and confirmed on the motion of Mrs. Crawford, seconded by Mrs. Flewellin.

was decided on the motion of Miss Pearson, seconded by Mrs. Cornell, to publish only the December magazine each year, this to be commid-year issue. It was also decided to distribute the magazine at the Garden Party to reduce the cost of postage.

Assembly Hall Fair T h e O l d Collegians' stall f o r the Fair was

Reports T h e report of the President f o r the year 1950-51, presented by the Honorary Secretary, was adopted on the motion of Mrs. M c C o y , seconded by Mrs. Haycraft.

T h e Honorary Treasurer presented the statement of

After much discussion, and due to the excedingly high cost of printing and paper, it

accounts and it was moved by Miss

discussed, and it was decided to concentrate on the one stall f o r all household articles specializing in cakes and jams with Mrs. McCoy as Convener.

A

sub-committee

was

formed

of

members in various districts who each agreed to organise some preparations f o r the fair in those districts. Members were reminded of the

THE

OLD

Jumble Sale to be held in the Malvern T o w n Hall, f o r which helpers and cars would be required.

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Collegians, many

of whom enjoyed with

President memories of

the smiles of

the

various

past and present members of the staff. A f t e r a delightful programme by present students, we all enjoyed

the hospitality of

Dr.

and

Mrs.

In order to facilitate preparations f o r the 1952 Ball, it was decided to appoint a Convener at the Annual Meeting and Mrs. F. C. Martin was nominated and appointed.

evening,

General

Methodist Church was well attended, and the

T h e Secretary was asked to send a greeting f r o m the meeting to Mrs. Russell who was ill and in hospital.

A moment's silence was observed in memory of the passing of several O l d Collegians—Mrs. V . G. Anderson, Misses Hilda Gault, Elsie Harcourt and Gladys McMeekin.

O n behalf of the members, Mrs. T . H . W o o d thanked the President and Council f o r their work and services during the year, and Mrs. Dawes expressed her appreciation of the cooperation and help of the members which had made her year as President such a happy one.

T h e incoming President, Mrs. R. L. Hales, was then welcomed.

T h e meeting then closed.

A N N U A L REPORT OF T H E O L D C O L L E G I A N S ' CLUB OF T H E M E T H O D I S T L A D I E S ' COLLEGE

W o o d at afternoon tea.

T h e annual Church Service, held o n Sunday 19 th

November,

1950,

at

Auburn

christening of the baby daughter of Mrs. A .

King (Betty M c L a u r i n ) , the solo by Miss Neva Start, the reading of the lesson by Miss Beverley Ball, and the message f r o m the sermon of Dr. W o o d , combined to make it a service which we shall all long remember.

The President, Senior Vice-President and Secretary were welcomed to Morning Assembly at school on 20th November when the President spoke to the Senior Girls about the Club, inviting them to become members. 183 girls were enrolled.

The day of the Garden Party, 9th December, was again all that could be desired, and many members enjoyed renewing old friendships.

A f t e r n o o n tea was served in the garden, and there was much interest in the exhibition o f handicrafts of the school and the tennis matches with Frencham girls visiting the school f o r the week-end.

It is my pleasure, on behalf of the Old Collegians' Club of the Methodist Ladies' College, to present the forty-sixth annual report f o r the year 1950-51.

Once again a limited number of tickets, f o r Speech Night was available f o r O l d Collegians, and they were much appreciated by those who' attended.

Six Council meetings and two Executive meetings have been held during the year; two at the College and the others at the Caris Club.

A t the second meeting the Executive Committee was elected as follows:—Mesdames Crawford, Jackson, King, L. P. Smith and Misses Kelly, Kerr, G. Pearson, I. Pearson and C. Rosier. Mrs. W . Blackburn and Mrs. B. J. Jackson were appointed as our representatives f o r the year to T h e National Council of W o m e n and have submitted interesting reports on the various meetings attended.

T h e welcome by the Council to new school girl members was held in the Dining Hall o n 30th March, 1951. This was also the evening of the Opening of the Science Block, and Dr. W o o d very kindly arranged f o r all girls to inspect the new buildings. A n amusing programme of progressive games was arranged by Miss Gwen Pearson, and on this, as on so many occasions, we appreciated the use of the school buildings.

T h e year commenced with Back to School Day on Show Day, 26th September, 1950. O n e side of the Assembly Hall was occupied by O l d

A new function was arranged f o r 20th A p r i l — a Golf Day—which was held at Huntingdale, where one of our members (Mrs. L .

Hinton) is Captain. Many O l d Collegians, some g o o d golfers and some not quite so good, took

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part and the picnic lunch at which some non-

limit has been fixed at 25 years and we trust

golfers were also present, was a time of happi-

these young members will

ness and chatter. W e appreciate the organisa-

ness in their associations! with each other, the

tion of

Club, and the School.

Mrs.

congratulate

Buick and them o n the

her committee happy

day

and

which

resulted, and also hope to arrange a similar day in 1952.

In the evening of that day, 20th April, the Literary

Evening

Lounge.

Our

Kumm

was held in

guest

speaker

the

was

Boarders' Mrs.

Karl

(Gertrude Cato) who told of her im-

pressions of L o n d o n on a recent visit, and Mrs. W . B. Miller

(Dorothy Reseigh)

soloist, and

Miss Pamela Webster, flautist, also contributed to a very happy evening.

T o the younger members especially, the Ball in the St. Kilda T o w n Hall on 4th July was a very important evening. There were 26 delightful debutantes who were presented to our President, and we extend our thanks to Mrs. L. P. Smith, the Convener, Misses Mwyn Sheil, A u d rey Oldfield and A n n e Goldsworthy, the Ticket Secretaries, f o r making this Ball so successful.

arranged

a

Return

Ball

which was held at T u d o r Court on 17th August and the Ticket Secretaries, Misses Eunice D a n n and

Beverley

Effick are to be

W e are very pleased to report that a Branch Mrs. Cornell was able to assist with the first meeting when in Brisbane recently, and with Mrs. G. H . McQuie as President, Miss Clare Margaret

Kerr,

Treasurer, and eight other foundation

Green,

mem-

congratulated

o n 21st August, at Birdwood, Elwood. Although not as central as we would have wished, there attendance and all felt well re-

warded f o r any slight inconvenience. A

pro-

gramme

was

play

reading

and

singing

enjoyed after the dinner, and we thank Misses M a y and Margaret Guthridge f o r their duets, Miss W y n Collins, accompanist, and Miss Daisy Bradley and her associates f o r entertaining us.

The

Younger

Members'

and

Miss

During the year, representatives of our Club have accepted invitations to a Luncheon at Church of England Girls' Grammar School, Dinners at M o r o n g o and T h e Hermitage at Geelong, a Garden Party at T h e Presbyterian Ladies' College, the Speech Nights of our own School and of the Elsternwick Branch, Elsternwick Branch Ball and Wesley Ball, also to the official opening of the Science Block and to a Musical Recital at the School.

Whilst the President was in Adelaide, late in members of the Adelaide Branch, and also to see the Adelaide Methodist Ladies' College, of which one of our O l d Collegians is Headmistress.

W e should like to express our sincere thanks

T h e last function of the year was the Dinner

of

Secretary,

bers, we feel their future is assured.

o n the delightful evening.

was a g o o d

happi-

1950, she was very pleased to meet some of the

f o r the new Assembly Hall Fund.

Debutantes

much

of the Club has now been formed at Brisbane.

A s a result, £ 1 3 2 / 4 / 8 was handed to Dr. W o o d The

find

Circle, which

was

proposed at the last annual meeting, has now come into existence. A f t e r the excitement

of

and appreciation to Dr. and Mrs. W o o d

for

the welcome which

the

always

awaits us at

School, and f o r so graciously allowing us the use of

the various rooms f o r

our

functions

f r o m time to time, and to Miss D. Ball f o r all

her

help

and

co-operation;

also

to

our

various members who have entertained us so willingly and graciously and to Miss Flockart who has helped us to make these arrangements.

W e extend our sincere sympathy to all who have suffered sorrow and to those who have not been with us owing

to illness, we send

our

loving thoughts.

the Ball had subsided, a general meeting was

In conclusion, we wish to thank you all and

held in August, as a result of which a tennis

especially the Council members for your help

day took place on Saturday, 8th

September.

and co-operation in making this year such a

T h e Convener is Miss Mwyn Sheil and with

happy

her committee, we feel sure thii Circle will fill

incoming President, Mrs. R. L. Hales, and to

a much needed place in our Club. T h e

pass on to her our very best wishes.

age

one.

W e should like to welcome

the

ANNUAL OLD

THE

OLD

REPORT OF T H E

M.L.C.

C O L L E G I A N S ' CLUB

ROOMS

CIRCLE (For the Year ending 31st August, 1951)

By Mrs. F. W . Cornell

XB3605.

O n behalf of our members I have much pleasure in presenting the twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Club Rooms.

Thursday, 5th October, 1950.—Our first meeting was held at Mrs. Tozer's home at Bayswater. Mrs. Russell welcomed the H o n . Secretary (Mrs. Cornell) on her return f r o m a trip overseas. Luncheon and A f t e r n o o n Tea were provided by our gracious hostess, Mrs. Tozer, and were enjoyed by all, the enjoyment being greater on account of the pleasant surroundings and a very sunny day.

Monday, 4th December.—Our 24th Birthday and Christmas Party, celebrated at the Caris Club, took the f o r m of a Dinner. A t this meeting it was decided to dispose of the remaining Club Rooms'

furniture, china, linen,

etc. The

Club

(M.L.C.)

was presented

Room

Picture to

of

Mrs.

cutlery,

the

School

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T h e Christmas Party and 25th Birthday Party of the Club Rooms will be held at the Caris Club on Monday, 3rd December. Dinner at 6 p.m.

Once again we wish to thank the above members most sincerely f o r their many kindnesses during the year, in making these happy gatherings possible.

(Edna P r y o r ) ,

H o n . Secretary.

COLLEGIAN

in

Membership.—We have about forty financial members. (Entrance fee f o r new member, 1 0 / - .

Annual Subscription, 2 / 6 . ) Subscriptions are now due.

Finance.—As we have now disposed of all our furniture, we have agreed to give £130 to Epworth Hospital (to equip one r o o m ) ; £100 to the Chapel Fund (to be set aside f o r a Baptismal F o n t ) ; £100 to the Assembly Hall Fund; and £10 to the O.C.C. Council.

Bereavements.—Members desire to express their sincere sympathy to relatives of the following loved members—Mrs. V. G. Anderson, Miss Walton, Misses McMeekin and Elsie Harcourt, who passed away recently.

In closing, I would like to thank all members for their co-operation during the year, and especially Mrs. Tozer who carried on during my absence abroad last year.

appreciation of her services to the Club.

Thursday, 13th March, the

Caris

Club,

and

1951.—We

after

E D N A L. C O R N E L L , September, 1951.

met at

luncheon,

Mrs.

YOUNGER

Cornell gave a talk on her recent trip abroad.

Friday, home,

6th

April.—At

Hawthorn,

the

silver, crockery, linen and the O.C.C.'s crockery

Mrs.

"odds

and

Kilvington's ends"

of

cutlery—including

(which had been given

to us) were sold. These realised £ 3 6 / 0 / 9 .

It

was then decided to sell the piano at a figure near the valuation of £130.

Friday, 8th J u n e . — A noon

Report, General Meeting, 21st September, 1951.

August 13.—General Meeting was held in the Music School of

the College. T h e

President,

Mrs. T. P. Dawes, and the Secretary, Miss V .

Harrison, were present and gave us many helpful

suggestions.

Thirty-three

members

were

there and it was a happy and very successful

very enjoyable after-

at the Caris Club,

MEMBERS' CIRCLE REPORT

as Mrs.

Patience's

meeting. A Committee of nine was elected, including a Secretary—Audrey Oldfield, and a

guests.

Treasurer—Marion Fenton. Other members of

Thursday, 2nd August.—-Another very enjoyable afternoon at the Caris Club, as Mrs. Hocking's guests.

Hickling,

Friday, 5th October.—An evening at the Caris Club, Mrs. Leslie and Mrs. Dewar to be the hostesses.

the

Committee

are

Shirley

Anne

Junghen,

Goldsworthy, Lorise

Jill

Whitaker,

Margot Fetherstone and Jill Cooke.

A Tennis Day was decided upon f o r our first function.

September 8 . — A Tennis Day was held at the College and twenty of our members enjoyed a

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OLD

very h a p p y day. D r . W o o d was very kind in allowing us the use of the S c h o o l courts and Mrs. W o o d f o r the use of the crockery.

Further functions will include a day tour to Mt. M a c e d o n o n Saturday, 17th November and a

week-end

holiday

is being

women in Parliament, and a much wider sphere f o r women's work. Miss Roper is Principal of the University W o m e n ' s College. T h e r e are too many

women working

behind

of

the meetings held by the National Council of Women.

I n M a r c h , at the first meeting of the year, Mrs. Karl K u m m spoke of her trip abroad, and her interesting visit to Queen Mary, also her visit

to

Mr.

Winston

April

meeting,

Mr.

Churchill's

home.

Feney

spoke

about the National Library, dwelling mostly on the new Latrobe Library, which in July

of

this year, being

first Governor of

was

called

opened

after

the

Victoria.

I n M a y , Mrs. Catherine Biddle, an English social worker, who was recently

to

cultural developments were useless without an

It is with pleasure I present the report

the

far

attitude

J. S H E I L , Convener.

N A T I O N A L C O U N C I L OF W O M E N REPORT

At

o f t e n too

some

arranged

added. People should realise that scientific and individual change of heart which could ensure peace. W e

memorable

far too

the scenes, she said. O u r

education was specially important, Miss Roper

time in the New Year.

MWYN

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awarded

the

International U n i o n of Child Welfare's Order of Merit, and is in Australia campaigning f o r funds f o r the Save the Children A p p e a l , spoke.

Mrs. Biddle stressed the need to befriend those who came to Australia, especially the children, so many have never known anything but con-

have been too much

"Anti-every-

thing," she said. W h a t we need is a positive belief in goodness instead of all the " a n t i " d o c trines.

I n August, Dr. Rogers was the speaker, and gave interesting insight about the Asian

stu-

dents who

the

come

under

his

guidance

at

University—there are 200 of these students who work

under

language

difficulties at

first,

but

quickly overcome them and settle in to hard work.

I n September, Mrs. R. G. Casey, who has recently returned f r o m a tour of S.E. Asia and Japan,

spoke

mostly

of

the

women

of

the

Near East, telling of their charm and intelligence.

The

women

knew

very

little

of

the

cruelties of the last war and were horrified to hear of them. Mrs. Casey told of many amusing incidents which occurred during her trip.

The

National Council

of

Women

through

the year has f o r m e d a committee to look after the interests and welfare of the A g e d

People

of Melbourne.

Mrs. Herbert Brookes and Mrs. Karl K u m m

centration camps and barracks, have never sat

were selected to represent the N . C . W .

at the

at a table to eat a meal, nor handled knife or

Prime

Sydney

Minister's Conference

held

in

fork. If the children of Europe o n the starva-

to discuss inflation—they

tion line were to pass f o u r abreast by the Mel-

women at the Conference, and both spoke very

bourne T o w n Hall, f o r instance, it would take

strongly o n behalf of the women of Australia.

seven years f o r

all to pass that spot.

were the

only

two

The

need to protect and help these children in our midst is very urgent.

Mrs. George Paton was the speaker at the

A N N U A L REPORT O L D COLLEGIANS'

CHAPEL

FUND

June meeting. She spoke o n Children's Films.

This year the Fund has been considerably in-

A t the University, suitable films are shown f o r

creased by a donation of £ 4 6 / - / - f r o m the O l d

children at the U n i o n Theatre, and are booked

Collegians' Club, f o r which we thank them.

out immediately the booking

opens.

Negotia-

tions were being made with Hoyts Pictures to show

Arthur

Rank

Children's

Films.

Those

negotiations were successful.

The

July

meeting

was

addressed

by

Miss

Myra Roper, who thinks there should be more

A g a i n we are indebted to T h e Lion Players, who

allotted

us

a

block

of

tickets

for

the

August play, "Trespass," at the U n i o n Theatre.

A d d e d interest this year was the female caste being

taken

by

members

of

the

Elsternwick

Debutantes with the President of the O.C.C., at Annual Ball held at St. Kilda Town Hall, on 4th July.

64

THE

OLD

C O L L E G I A N 66

O l d Collegians' Dramatic Club, and our con-

Silver stars and tinselled ivy-trails decorated

gratulations are offered to the whole caste on

one hundred supper tables at which Old Col-

the very high standard of presentation, which

legians entertained their guests.

carried off rather a weird type of play.

table was decorated with lacquered pine-cones

The

appeal

for

the Assembly

Hall

being

launched, all efforts by the Club will be to forward it, and, as there is no likelihood of a permit being granted f o r the building of the Chapel f o r some time it was considered wise to invest the money. to announce

T h e Committee is pleased

£300 has been invested in

the

State Electricity Commission Loan N o . 85 f o r 10 years, maturing August, 1961, at the rate of 3 i per cent. This was put into Inscribed Stock and interest will be paid direct to the account in the State Savings Bank, which has a balance of £ 2 / 4 / 5 .

To

all

members

who

have

contributed

directly or indirectly to the Fund, we express a

T h e official

placed on mirrors joined by trailing ivy-leaves and tinselled stars. It was here that the charming smile of the President welcomed the official guests who were, Dr. A . H . W o o d

(Principal

of the College) and Mrs. W o o d ; Mr. and Mrs. F. W . Stahl

(Parent's Association); Mrs. and

Miss Hattam (representing Mr. Hattam, acting Head master, Wesley College); Mr. Ken Hecht (President, Wesley O.C.C.)

and Mrs.

Hecht;

Miss B. F. Lindsay

(Head

mistress,

Elstern-

wick

and

M.L.C.);

(Senior

Mr.

Vice-President,

Mrs.

R.

O.C.C.);

L.

Hales

Miss

Venie

Harrison ( H o n . Secretary, O . C . C . ) ; Miss Hilda Brown ( H o n . Treasurer, O.C.C.) and Miss D. M. Ball (Supt. College).

very sincere " T h a n k Y o u , " and, as we leave

Later in the evening much fun was derived

it, that in 1961 it will stand at about £410, we

f r o m square-dancing with the American, Jimmy

feel it is quite a fair sum to build on.

Dean, calling.

T h e O l d Collegians' Club is greatly indebted to members of committee f o r their service, and on your behalf we express your thanks.

For

the loyal support and ever-ready help given by the conveners by the committee members, we gratefully record our thanks.

(Sgd.)

E D I T H C. SAYDE

BARKER,

A n innovation was the much

patronised oyster-bar.

T h e sum of £ 1 3 2 / 4 / 8 was raised, and sent as a donation f r o m the O l d Collegians' Club to the funds f o r the much-needed New Assembly Memorial Hall.

The

following

Old

Collegians

made

their

debut:

WHITE, Conveners.

Misses Eunice Dann, Beverley Effick, Rosemary Hamly, June Eglington, Pat Robertson,

BALL (REPORT,

1951

Leslie Barclay, Jean Parker, Barbara

Fenton,

What a charming scene! Twenty-six debut-

Valme

Noelle

antes gowned so beautifully in individual white

Crowder,

floor-length

Greta Bullings, Verna Cook,

frocks, and carrying pastel posies

Morrison,

Margaret

Beverley

Boxall,

Collins, Lorise

Whitaker,

Jeanne

Taylor,

of camellias, azaleas and hyacinths set in silver

Joan Maclean, Joan Embury, Barbara Harri-

holders

son,

tied with

school-green

ribbons,

were

O n 4th July at the St. Kilda T o w n Hall, these young people won the admiration of 800 onlookers as they, with perfect poise and deportment, wended their way through the

flood-lit

garden setting to make their bow to the very happy

President

Powell Dawes

of

the O.C.C.,

Mrs.

(Margaret Guthridge),

by Mrs. Leonard P. Smith

Thos. assisted

(Stella Robinson),

Convener of the Ball Committee, and Misses Audrey Oldfield, A n n e Goldsworthy and Mwyn Sheil, honorary ticket secretaries.

Shirley

Gray,

escorted by immaculately-clad partners.

Janice

Junghenn, Nutt,

June

Marsh,

Nancy

Marjorie

Brown,

Lorna

McGraw and June Clay.

Assisting the convener and ticket secretaries were the following committee members: Mesdames Williams, Garden and Misses Mary Hughes, Elizabeth Koier, Jill Corbett, Sutton,

Margaret

Blackwell,

Norma

Fowles,

Marjorie

Iduna

Marion

Fenton,

Hagger,

Heather

Murdoch, Dorothy Price, Gwen Pearson, Pam Sparrow and Judy Wappett.

—Stella P. Smith.

64 T H E OLD M.L.C. ( E L S T E R N W I C K ) O L D COLLEGIANS ASSOCIATION Report for

1950-1951

Office-Bearers President: Miss tyl. Snowball.

Vice-President: Miss A .

grapher who did a great trade with the groups c f old school friends. Our congratulations were extended to the Ticket Secretary, Miss L. Spence, and her committee for their excellent work and results.

In closing this brief report of our activities, wick Vice-Principal, f o r her co-operation

Treasurer: Miss P. Bowles.

help and also the Hawthorn O l d

Secretary: Miss C. Rosier.

Committee: J. Barker, P. Dearman, A . Green,

C L A I R E ROSIER,

Spence.

O u r Dinner, held in October last year at U n i o n House, took the f o r m of an informal buffet followed by a Theatre Party to "Brigad o o n . " As this arrangement is so popular with the girls, the same style of evening is planned again this year with the addition of a sketch to be performed by the Dramatic Club.

T h e School functions have been very well D a y " and Speech

Night in particular.

H o n . Secretary.

S Y D N E Y B R A N C H OF M.L.C., O.C.C. A t our Annual Meeting, on 4th September, we f o u n d it impossible to elect a Secretary, and it was unanimously agreed we would still be able to hold our meetings without our usual Committee. W e have elected as small a Committee as possible f o r the ensuing year: President: Miss Cicely Money.

Minute Secretary: Mrs. Satchell ( M . Bartlett).

Early in the year, the General Meeting was held when the new President and Vice-President came into office amid much cheering and applause.

Treasurer: Miss Z a t Prestcn.

At

each

meeting

and enthusiasm in the Association. It is hoped to see many of our friends f r o m the Hawthorn Club at their productions next year.

T h e Barn D a n c e . — T h e Younger O l d Caulfield Grammarians combined with our girls to hold a Barn Dance in April this year.

The

Committee

some

hard

and produced

very original and authentic scenery and engaged an old time band f o r this evening which was a terrific success.

other

members

are

everyone

to

become

acquainted

and

spread the responsibility evenly.

was f o r m e d ; this, we feel is a most successful step and should provide a great deal of interest

two

asked to act as hostesses, and this, we feel, will enable

From the General Meeting, a Dramatic Club

worked

and

Collegians'

Club who are our very best friends.

This year has proved a very full and interesting one f o r the Elsternwick Branch.

attended, "Back to School

67

I would like to thank Miss Lindsay, the Elstern-

Goudie.

B. Knox, B. Salmond and L.

COLLEGIAN

News A t the September meeting, the Committee were pleased to welcome new members Mrs. Skinner ( W i l s o n ) , Miss Margaret Macleod and Miss Y v o n n e Robinson. Mrs Cbaldjian ( W o o d ) an ex-pupil of M.L.C., Launceston, ' has also joined our Club and we are glad to have a members f r o m Tasmania with us.

Mrs. Satchell (Margaret Bartlett) has a son.

Yvonne

Robinson

has announced

her

en-

gagement to W i l f r e d Roden.

T h e School Sports Day, held on Saturday, 5th May, was " c r o w d e d " with O l d Girls who cheered heartily when Alison Newman won the Cup f o r the race between the Present Girls and the O l d Girls.

T h e Annual Dance.—This dance was held in

Barbara Astridge married Harold Buchan on 24th November.

Mrs.

Satchell

(M.

niece's

wedding

in

Bartlett)

attended

Melbourne.

Her

her

niece,

Nancy M c L e o d , married Charles Maguire.

Street,

Miss Joan M o n e y has returned to work at

Brighton. Novel attractions to this evening were

Burns Philp after recovering f r o m a nervous

a juggler who performed very well and a photo-

breakdown which lasted some months.

June

at

the

Masonic

Hall,

Church

64

THE

Pam

Thomas

sailed

for

England

OLD on

the

" M o o l t a n " early in December, where she will further her studies.

Miss Cicely M o n e y

COLLEGIAN 68 17th Annual Report, August, 1951 During the year four meetings were held.

O n 24th October, eleven members lunched at

has paid

very

trips to Melbourne, Tasmania and

hurried

Myer's " A p o l l o "

and welcomed

Mrs.

Martin

Adelaide,

back f r o m her trip overseas. Most of the party

and regretted she was unable to get in touch

went on to Parliament House, where we saw the

with Old Collegians in these States.

Library before listening to the debates. A t a

CICELY

MONEY.

later date, we hope to accept the invitation extended to us, to see the rest of the building.

ADELAIDE

BRANCH MELBOURNE M.L.C., O.C.C.

Office-Bearers, 1951-1952.

President:

O n 6th November, on the occasion of Mrs.

Mrs. E. W . H . Reece (Rita Davidson).

Dawes'

(Ruby

arranged

Millar).

(Alberta

her

ing Hall on 17th August, 1951, at 2.30 p.m.

Mrs.

Cockrell, who had just returned f r o m an extended holiday in Cairns and Sydney, also Mesdames Reece, Loveday, Rooney, Dunn, Nicholls ( f r o m Melbourne C l u b ) , V . B. Anderson and Marshman 4 (friend of the Club).

Apologies

were received f r o m Mesdames Morgan, Winnall, Beynon and Miss

meet

"Went-

of the doings of the Melbourne Club.

(Vera B a m f o r d ) .

Eight members were present, including

and

drove back to the

and chat. This gave us a chance to hear some

Annual Meeting held in John Martin's Din-

Bowman, Martin,

accompanying

worth" to meet our members f o r afternoon tea

Sauer).

Secretary: Mrs. T . W . Martin

Adelaide,

to see M.L.C., Wayville,

Miss Harris. W e

Treasurer: Mrs. M. Loveday

visit to

husband to the Doctors' Conference, a visit was

Vice-President: Mrs. C. L. M o r g a n

During Old Scholars' Week, the Secretary represented our Club at the Annual Dinner at M.L.C., Wayville.

O n 5 th January, a farewell was arranged at Henley Beach f o r Mrs. Field, who was leaving f o r a trip abroad on 19th January, accompanied by her son. Flowers and a small gift were given by Mrs. Cockrell with suitable expressions of g o o d wishes f o r a happy holiday.

O n 8th May, we held our annual "Husband's Night."

Twenty

seats were reserved

for

the

Repertory Jubilee production, "Shipwreck," by

Jackson.

Australian author, Douglas Stewart. After the

Minutes of previous Annual Meeting were read

play, seventeen of us drove out to Glenunga

and confirmed and the 17th Annual Report was

f o r a social hour and supper at the invitation

presented and the Secretary moved its adop-

of Mr. and Mrs. T . W . Martin. Mr. Jack D u n n

tion, seconded. Carried.

thanked our host and hostess for their hospi-

Mrs. Loveday presented the Treasurer's report and moved its adoption, seconded. Carried.

tality. A new member, Mrs. Beynon, was welcomed. Those present were Mesdames

Reace,

Telephone account passed f o r payment.

Loveday, Dunn, Morgan, Martin,

Officers, for the coming year were appointed.

Beynon, Rooney and their husbands, and John

Discussion with regard to future meetings.

Reace o n holiday.

Mrs. Reece invited Club members and their husbands to a bridge evening at her home on 6th October. Date of second meeting was left open, to be welcome home to Mrs. Field

on

her return f r o m overseas.

Mrs. Anderson was welcomed to the Club.

Correspondence

from

Melbourne Club was

read and discussed.

A f t e r n o o n tea brought a pleasant meeting to a close.

Marshman,

W e have just contacted a new member, Mrs. V . B. Anderson and extend to her and Mrs. Daley, a hearty welcome to the Club.

O n 24th July, at the invitation of Mrs. Leyton, 158 Buxton Street, North Adelaide, six of our members attended a buffet luncheon at Myer's " A p o l l o " to meet with members of other Victorian colleges to discuss the advisability of holding some combined functions.

64 T H E OLD M.L.C. O L D

COLLEGIANS'

CLUB

(Brisbane Branch) President: Mrs. G. H . McQuie.

Secretary: Miss Clare Green.

Treasurers: Miss Margaret A n n Kerrison and Miss Margaret Kerr.

T h e Brisbane Branch was formed on 21st June this year when Mrs. Cornell, of Melbourne, visited Brisbane, and extended an invitation through the press f o r Old Collegians of M.L.C. to be present at morning tea at Lennons on that date. There were twelve members present at the first meeting, and an election of officers was held.

July 31 was chosen as the date f o r our next meeting, which took the form of a luncheon in the Palm Lounge of the Canberra Hotel. A t this meeting we were pleased to welcome a member of the Melbourne Branch, Miss Madge Green, who was visiting Brisbane.

It is proposed to hold meetings approximately every two months, or perhaps more frequently as membership grows.

Some country O l d Collegians have been written to and advised of the formation of the Branch in Brisbane.

Each member is endeavouring to contact other O l d Collegians and interest them in the Club. W e are hoping it will continue to grow in numbers.

COLLEGIAN

69

W e enjoyed going back to School for some rehearsals—so much like old times! It made us realise how much we missed the choir; and we were most impressed with the very high standard of the singing of this present one.

T h e tremendous ovation Miss Flockart received at the end was a tribute to her fine training of us all—the glowing Press reports supported this. T h e choir's sureness of attack, purity of tone, clear words, and sensitive interpretation were high achievement, and we agreed that this repeat performance was quite as g o o d as the first one.

T h e theme of the work is the "vain Crusade of thousands of children to recapture the H o l y Land by l o v e " — t h e score translucent and typically French.

W e particularly enjoyed singing the second part, the children on route; while the musie builds up to a glorious climax after the children are drowned in a storm, after first the Blind Boy, and then the others, see God. T h e children have ended their Crusade in an unexpected way, but they have f o u n d God. " J o y of Joys, Light of Lights, Noel."

W e would like to say once more how thrilled we were able to join the School ori this occasion, and only hope that this will be a forerunner to many more links with the School in this fashion.

BEVERLEY

BALL.

C. G R E E N , H o n . Secretary.

"THE

CHILDREN'S

CRUSADE"

PRESENTATION

TO

LIBRARY

A pleasing ceremony took place on "Back to S c h o o l " Day when Mrs. Basil Kilvington, on behalf of Past Presidents, presented their gift of books to the School Library.

A very nice compact bookcase given by Mrs. Kilvington contained the books

It was a very great thrill, and privilege, f o r the fifteen O l d Collegians who took part in the Melbourne T o w n Hall performance of Pierne's "Children's Crusade," when with the Victorian Symphony Orchestra, and the Philharmonic Choir, and conducted by Sir Bernard Heinze, the M.L.C. choir gave such a memorable performance.

Many Past Presidents were seated on the platform and representatives f r o m the families of the late Mrs. Tiddeman, Mrs. Stillman and Mrs. Jack were also present.

W e privileged few would like to thank Dr. W o o d and Miss Flockart f o r letting us take part on 28th August.

Each book had the O l d Collegians' badge embossed on the cover and inside a book plate of the Past Presidents, designed by Mr. A l a n

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THE

OLD

COLLEGIAN 70

Jordan, signed by the donor. Where it was not

W h e n you open one of our books, look at

possible to obtain a personal signature, one was

the book plate, very simple and unpretentious,

taken f r o m the Club minute book.

but rich in ideas. A t the corner is the badge of

For the benefit of those not present, Mrs. Kilvington's

most

interesting

address

is

ap-

pended: Dr.

Wood,

Old

Collegians,

Present

Day

Girls, Past Presidents and Presidents-to-be: It is indeed an honour to be asked by the Past Presidents to present their gift of

these

beautiful books to the School Library.

I think I have been asked to do this not as

the O l d Collegians; trusting that when you leave the College you will join us and wear it. T h e n the

open

book

offering

you

knowledge

and

learning all through the years. A b o v e is the torch—a symbol of progress and light.

I am sure all Past Presidents join me in saying to the present girls—we throw the torch; 'tis yours to hold it high.

Dr. W o o d , on behalf of the Past Presidents,

your oldest Past President, as I come tenth on

I have great pleasure in asking you to accept

the list, but as the founder of the O l d

this gift of books f o r the College Library.

Col-

legians' Club forty-seven years ago.

Mrs.

It is wonderful to have such a number of Past Presidents with me on the platform. Twelve of

our number have passed on to a higher

life. Others are far away and some I am sorry to say are absent through sickness. T o these we send our love and g o o d wishes f o r a speedy recovery.

Kilvington

then

read

the

following

names of donors: Mrs. Tiddeman, Miss A . Fitchett, Mrs.

G.

Vasey (Alice M c C u t c h e o n ) , Mrs. E. V . Heath (Elsie Fitchett), Mrs. Stillman (Mabel Roberts), Mrs. A . McCallum

(Alice B o o t h ) , Mrs. Hall

(Emma B o o t h ) , Mrs. Kilvington

(Lucy Wats-

f o r d ) , Mrs. J. Williams (Ethel Laycock), Mrs.

There have been 45 Past Presidents—we have

V . Walklate (Myra C o r n e y ) , Mrs. A . Eggleston

managed to get in contact with 43. O f those

(Gladys

who have passed f r o m us their friends or rela-

Lane, Mrs. A . McCutcheon (Doris Gault), Mrs.

tions have given a b o o k in their memory.

L. Blanchard

T o Mrs. Leslie and Miss Barker most of the success of this gift of books is due. They have been most untiring in their efforts to please everyone. Chosing the book plate has been a long and controversial matter.

Gault),

Miss

V.

Sollas,

Dr.

(F. Stucker), Dr. W .

Mary

Kennan,

Mrs. A . Southey (Nancy M c C o m a s ) , Mrs. W .

L. Russell (Ida Skelton), Mrs. L. V . Stephens (Dora Cato), Mrs. E. G. Carter r i n g ) , Mrs. A . H . Guthridge l i n g ) , Mrs. J. T h o m p s o n

(Doris Bow-

(Margaret Stir-

(Alma Stubbs), Mrs.

E. T . Bailey (Alice W e l l s ) , Mrs. V . G. Ander-

This plate had to be pasted in each book

son (E. Butcher), Miss O . D o d d , Mrs. T . H .

with signature and date of office of each Past

Wood

(Gertrude

Osborne),

Mrs. R.

Landen

President.

(Ethel

Robbins),

Mrs. W .

Blackburn

(Vera

Many books were left to the choice of Mrs. Leslie and Miss Barker, and they trust they have pleased the donors.

L o c k w o o d ) , Miss Dora Harcourt, Mrs. W . Jack ( A m y Jeffreson), Mrs. E. S. A . Bell

(Fanny

Smith), Mrs. G. M . Shain (Ivy Kermode), Miss Norma

Elliott,

Mrs.

A.

Hay

Hedley

(Rea

I have glanced through the books and have

Lawson), Mrs. G o r d o n Sutherland (Eva H a l l ) ,

been delighted with them. They are as varied

Miss Kathleen Kelly, Miss Edith Barker, Mrs.

in character as the Past Presidents themselves

R. Napier White

(Sayde Reynolds), Mrs. P.

-—brave

R. Leslie

Rowe), Mrs. R. L.

and

gay

from

Bunyan's

"Pilgrim's

Progress" to modern ballet. I hope these books will provide many happy and instructive hours of reading, and that it will be felt that it is another link between the O l d Collegians and the School.

(Mabel

McCoy

( A n n e D u f t y ) , Mrs. G. B. Swift (Marie Sutherland),

Mrs.

T.

Powell

Dawes

(Margaret

Guthridge).

—E.B.

THE OLD TRAVELLERS

ABROAD

day,

Copy of a letter sent to the Editress by Mrs. Howard Secomb (Janet W o o d ) : Tupou

Tonga.

29/9/1951.

Dear Elizabeth, A few days ago I received the June copy of " T h e O l d Collegian" and it was wonderful to read all the news, which included several items of which I had not heard. I have always looked forward to getting the magazine, but since coming to T o n g a I have been even more pleased to see the familiar green cover amongst the mail.

W h e n we first came to Tonga, we were sent to an island, Vava'u, 200 miles north of the main island here. Vava'u, although small, is a lovely island and possesses one of the most beautiful harbours in the world. As it is not well known it remains quite unspoiled. Several of the villages are on island* dotted here and there in the harbour and quite often Howard would spend a Sunday preaching in these villages. I always took the opportunity of going with him although it meant leaving by launch at 6 a.m. and often not returning until 8 or 9 at night.

O n e of my vivid memories of Vava'u is returning home in the bright moonlight with the Tongans singing hymns, their lovely voices echoing across the harbour.

I f o u n d Vava'u rather lonely as there were only a handful of Europeans. Part of the time there was only one other family besides ourselves.

While in Vava'u we started the Crusade f o r Christ and spent week-ends in the various villages holding Crusade Camps. W e never slept very well on these occasions. A t one village, the hours

during

the

night

and

we

would

the

Camp

71 programme

was

temporarily

suspended while the entire village down to the tiny tots, following the usual custom, attended the funeral.

College,

people kept holding prayer meetings at

COLLEGIAN

odd be

wakened by hearing an old lady praying to a background of soft singing. A t another village, a man had died just before our arrival and all

Three months ago, we were transferred here to our Boys' College. This is the work where my mother and father spent their 13 years in Tonga, so you can imagine how pleased I was to come here. Several of the tutors f r o m those days are still teaching at the College and they take a great delight in recalling incidents when I stole the guavas which Mum was going to make into jelly, or when I got out of bed at night and ran off to the homes of my T o n g a n playmates. I can't recall half of these escapades and am sure the tutors are giving their imaginations full exercise.

There are 400 boys at the College—all boarders. They grow and cook all their own f o o d and look after the College property and buildings. T h e administration of a school like this is mere child's play compared with the complex machinery of M.L.C. In school the boys learn Scripture, English, Tongan, Arithmetic, Hygiene, English and T o n g a n History and Geography, Elementary Science, Music, Agriculture, Carpentry and T o n g a n Crafts. In the Girls' Colleges, Domestic Science and Sewing take the place of the exclusively boys' subjects.

Although I had practically forgotten all my Tongan, D a d provided me with some sheets of useful words and phrases and these I learnt in the plane on the way here. I was determined to start speaking T o n g a n right f r o m the moment I arrived whether I knew the words f o r what I wanted to say or not. Consequently, I picked the language up in a very short time. People are constantly surprised that I speak with a native accent but it is really natural as I was born and lived here as a child. I ' m afraid I have not been much help to my husband as I can never give him grammatical reasons f o r the way I speak.

through the night there was singing and weeping and wailing in the house o f the bereaved

I was overjoyed to have my sister, Linnell

family. In the old days the people would weep

and her baby Kenneth, with us f o r some weeks

and wail o n such occasions, but the early mis-

recently. Linnell greatly enjoyed seeing people

sionaries taught them to sing hymns instead.

and places she remembered. While here, Ken

Even now, some people prefer to do both. Next

had his first birthday and the Tongans, with

64

THE

characteristic

generosity,

gave

him

OLD a

feast.

COLLEGIAN 72 — t h o u g h the f o o d box cost me dear, it proved

There is always more f o o d provided at a feast

v/ell worth it. T h e school

than those present can possibly eat, but on this

gave me a wonderful

occasion there was enough to last us a week.

Watson is in charge of the boarding school, and

girls and

welcome.

Miss

teachers Nancy

There was a roast pig done on a spit, with

I am to stay here as a second white worker.

delicious crackling, baked pork, roast ducks and

T h e 23 children are delightful; they come f r o m

chickens,

scattered Christian families who live among the

lobsters,

crabs,

fish,

baked

yams,

breadfruit, sweet potatoes, T o n g a n pudding and

depressed classes. But f o r this, these children

water melon. Everyone was very amused when

would have the proverbially degrading and un-

Ken crawled forward to the f o o d and gleefully

helpful social and moral background of these

took a piece of yam in one hand and the leg

people.

of a chicken in the other. Our G o r d o n always enjoys these feasts—he generally concentrates on the water melon.

T h e Queen lives on the main island. She is a truly amazing woman, well over 6 feet tall and she carries herself with regal dignity. She attends church every Sunday, was responsible f o r introducing the Christian Endeavour movement to T o n g a and is leading the women's section of the Crusade. Every month the Crusade leaders from the villages meet together and the Queen speaks to them—her speeches are always extremely practical and original and show fine qualities of mind and a keen understanding of the circumstances and needs of the people. Y o u can see why the Quen is so greatly loved and respected by everyone, Europeans and Tongans alike.

In many ways I would prefer T o n g a to Australia as my home were family and friends not so far away. Y o u can imagine how often my thoughts go to M.L.C., not only to my family, but to friends and schooldays.

However, I am

cherishing the hope that I will be home

in

time f o r the 1954 Garden Party.

Mrs. H O W A R D S E C O M B

(Janet W o o d )

Rosa Angus is a member of the Council of the Poona and Indian Village Mission, and revisited

India at the beginning

of

this year,

with plans of remaining f o r some time.

Mission,

established

for

many

years,

This

accepts

duly qualified men and women as missionaries, without restriction as to denomination.

Here

are some of Miss Angus' impressions of India, sent to us by her sister, Mrs. McCauley.

W e are very comfortable, although it is warming up. Miss Watson and I sleep out, under mosquito nets, on the wire-netted side verandah. Cockroaches are our biggest pest at present, and we have to lock up all silks and woollens.

India has made a law that no animal under 15 years is to be killed (Brahmins regard the cow as sacred, as you k n o w ) , so you can imagine what our meat is like. Even after casserolling some f o r 7 hours it was tasteless, but at least we could then cut it! Things are very dear and hard to get, but so far we have had sufficient grain, which Catherinebai grinds and bakes into wholemeal bread f o r us. In Poona, they cannot get enough bread or grain, and so have to use rice as a substitute.

It was Independence Day yesterday, so we took the girls across to the village to join with five or six other schools to celebrate. Each school gave an item or two, then the District Head told the children what the day meant, that though it meant that f o r five years they have not been governed by foreigners, yet they were very pleased to have two foreigners with them, and trusted we would continue our work in their country.

W e have had a hectic time since June—there seems to be a new kind of difficulty to cope with each day. O n Thursday, Lalabai was bitten by a scorpion when cleaning out. Miss Watson tied a ligature on her arm to keep the poison f r o m spreading, plunged the hand into very hot water and massaged f o r two hours until the frantic pain eased, but she had no sleep f o r

W e had a g o o d trip f r o m Colombo to Bom-

twenty-four hours. Another scare was what was

bay, and on arrival, a missionary came down

apparently a snake bite on another lass who had

to meet me.

gone into the kitchen without a light, which is

I got through the Customs easily

64 THE

OLD

of necessity against orders. As we have had some g o o d rainfalls, everyone is out planting pumpkins and other vegetables, and some zinnia seeds, while we are going to try a portion of rice in the back field.

Times are changing in many ways. U p to now there have been three Medical Schools in India, at Vellore, Ludhiana and Minaj. T h e Indian Government has now ruled that by 1953 all medical schools must be upgraded, to give a degree equal to an M.D., or else close their doors. There is little hope of the possibilitv of securing either money or staff to upgrade all these schools, so Vellore has been chosen to become the All India United Christian Medical College, supported by 40 denominational boards in Britain, Canada, Australia and the United States.

A t the end of last year, thirty people in a village in the Mehasana district, whose sentiment against locust killing made them raid a Government insecticide depot and attack locustfighting squads, have been jailed. The same sentiment made others throw a causeway of shrubs across the Banas River to help locusts swarms cross the river to fertile fields beyond.

A n d the continued observance of untouchability is a challenge to Indian leadership. India's problems are of universal concern, and the fields f o r Christian work and inspiration are boundless.

NEWS Mrs. O. Pigdon (Barbara W a r d ) living at The Terrace, Ocean Grove.

is

now

Pat May, who has completed 2 years' nursing, is spending her 3 weeks' leave in January hitch-hiking around Tasmania, leaving Melbourne on the " T a r o o n a . " Wilma Pearce has completed her training at Epworth, and expects to commence her midwifery training at the Women's Hospital early in December.

Helen Paterson and Prue Apperly recently motored to Sydney, and at present are enjoying a working holiday in N . S . W .

Nancy Nancarrow is now touring the British Isles, and hopes to spend some time on the Continent before returning home.

COLLEGIAN

73

In May, Mrs. Jack Y o u n g (Eileen M o r g a n ) motored f r o m Sydney with her husband and young son, to spend a holiday in Melbourne, and during her stay, Mrs. V. Hare, of Kew, gave a party f o r her at her home. Included among the twenty guests were many O l d Collegians: Mrs. Hare's sister, Mrs. E. M . Ditchburn, Constance and Peggy Ditchburn, Mrs. V . Alley (Joan Wastow), Mrs. Peter Winter (Vera Brehart) and Mrs. F. W . Cornell (Edna Pryor).

A m o n g nurses who have recently graduated are Ailsa Trott and Ruth Adamson.

Molly Spencer (Pearse) sailed f o r England in December, while Valerie Bell and Estelle Boast left Australia in May. Joan Smith is another O.C. on the Continent.

Jean Williams (now Mrs. Charles D o w ) , is living in Kaniva, and is teaching piano.

Noleen Ferris, who plans to go abroad in June, is at present teaching driving at a Melbourne motor school.

Jill A d a m is a part-time student at the Conservatorium of Music.

Margaret Holdsworth is teaching at Lauriston.

Elizabeth M a c Burnie is press publicity officer f o r the Pakistani Government in Melbourne.

Deidre Lay is attached to the firm of Buckley Sc Hughes, Chartered Accountants.

W h e n Deidre left M.L.C., she was the holder of the Senior Blennerhassett Scholarship, and has since passed Intermediate Auditing and Accounts, Company Law, Commercial Law 1 SC 2, Bankruptcy, Receivers and Company Liquidations, and has just completed Banking Finance and Foreign Exchange, and Advanced Auditing.

D o r a Walker returned f r o m England in September, and will continue as Dr. W o o d ' s secretary.

Elizabeth W o o d and Gwen Stahl have been elected to the Students' Representative Council of the University of Melbourne.

Jean Hawk (Siddons) is Colombo with her husband.

now

living

in

Audrey Harding ( M c P h e r s o n ) , f o r many years on the Music Staff at M.L.C., has a small son (John Maxwell).

64

THE

OLD

Lorraine Laity is working at the Head Office of the National Bank in Melbourne.

Betty Jungwirth to Mr. Lee Hogan.

Joan Wustermann to Mr. Peter

Joan Garden and Faye D u n o o n leave on the " O t r a n t o " on 26th February f o r a trip to England and the Continent. is connected with Photo Gravure Pty. Ltd. Joan Laigh is secretary at H . J. Heinz Pty. Ltd., while Delphine Todner is working in the Paper

Manufacturers

Ltd.

Shirley Robinson to Mr. Geoff. Douglas.

Margaret Holdsworth to Mr. Fred Sprigges.

Delma Blight to Mr. William Blessley.

Pauline Anscombe to Mr. Robert McCullough.

Wilma Pearce to Mr. John Godfrey.

Valerie Schinkfie'd to Mr. Bernie Day.

Judy Granowski is working at Hardys, the

RECENT

Jewellers, in the City.

Betty Pullen is planning a trip to England Valerie Chalkley is teaching at a school at Loch, in South Gippsland.

Joan Lee was married to Mr. Geoffrey D u m -

Phyllis M c N a u g h t o n is taking a course at the Jeanette

Roper,

Betty

Graham and Margaret Mitchell are all at the Melbourne Teachers' College.

Savige

married

Mr.

Peter

Lovett

O l d Collegians at the wedding included Betty Millward and Miriam Taylor (Lobascher). T h e couple will make their home in Adelaide

for

the next two years.

O n 3rd November at Christ Church, South

Jean H o g g , who spent some months teaching whilst abroad, returned early in the year, and now is on the staff of M.L.C. T h e Club congratulates

Patricia

at Christ Church, Hawthorn, on 3rd October.

Teachers' Training College in Geelong, while Kefford,

WEDDINGS

brell at Scotch College Chapel an 16th October.

early next year.

Elizabeth

Chapman.

Naomi Purvet to Mr. T o m Bennett.

Jill Hickling to Mr. Graeme Bull.

Delma Blight is doing Commercial Art, and

office of the Australian

C O L L E G I A N 74

the

following

Old

Collegians who recently celebrated their comingof-age: Norma Buckman, Margaret Kendrick, Elizabeth Kent, Elizabeth W o o d , Beryl Gardner.

Yarra,

Betty

Millward

was

married

to

Mr.

George Noske. O l d Collegians present included Val

Maughan,

Miriam

Taylor

Joan Rewell and Nance Martin

(Lobascher), (Wyatt).

Patricia Trebilco married Mr. Donald Merrett on 17th October at the Methodist Church, Dandenong.

Estelle Boast, Valerie Bell, Jill Hickling, Mar-

O n 21st October, 1950, Edna Marriott was

garet Holdsworth, Jill A d a m , Beryl Challenger,

married to Mr. Norman Hawkes at the Meth-

Joy Pascoe, Shirley Marquis, Margot Simmons,

odist Church, Bentleigh. A m o n g the guests were

Nancy

Mrs. J. Daniell

Batt,

Deidre

Lay,

Delphine

Todner,

Wilma Pearce, Lois Harding, Dawn Vickefcy, Mary Boulter, Lois Miller, Betty Pullen

and

Heather Murdoch.

(Bernice Marriott)

and Elva

Marriott.

Beth Duncan married Mr. Darren Jungwirth on 7th April at South Camberwell Methodist Church. Betty Jungwirth was bridesmaid, and

ENGAGEMENTS

among the guests were Peg M a y o ( M c D o u g a l l ) ,

T h e Club offers congratulations to the following

Old

Collegians

who

have

announced

their engagements:

At

W.A.

Joan Eggleston to Dr. Murray Maxwell.

Judy Betheras to Mr. Ken Inglis.

Barbara Williams to Mr. Edward Porter.

Pat Milner to Mr. Basil Willoughby.

( N a n c e ) , Wilma Mabert, Joan

B'air and Beverley Baker.

Wesley Chapel

on

20th February, Pat

Crone was married to Mr. Alec Stubbs. Pat is

Neva Start to Mr. Noel Mcintosh.

Ruth Campbell to Mr. David White, of

Gwen Tatnall

the daughter

of

Mrs.

Dave Crone

(Leonore

Pearse).

Merle Purser married Mr. Rex Tann at the Ringwood Methodist Church on 25th November, and Alison

Turner was her

Old

present

Collegians

were

bridesmaid.

Mrs.

C.

W.

64 T H E Turner

(Eva

Mitchell),

Mrs.

Les

OLD

Roberts

(Helen Turner) and Mary H o o k e .

Melbourne

Grammar

Chapel

Margaret

Todner was married to Mr. Bill Newton. sister,

Jean

Mill

(Todner)

was

matron

Her of

honour. Margaret is now living at Frankston.

Judy Cumming was married at

Numurkah

on 13 th October to Mr. Keith Christy.

Also at Numurkah, on 10th November, Joan H o d g e was married to Mr. Keith Taylor. Freda Ruler was one of her bridesmaids.

Joan Beattie marries Mr. Peter Cook, f r o m Sydney, at the Toorak Presbyterian Church in December.

Muriel

Cock

MacDonald

at

was

married

to

the

Canterbury

Mr.

and

Mrs.

75

Bert

Ferris

(Betty

Hick),

a

daughter (Susan Elizabeth), on 10th April.

Pat Carter married Mr. Roy McConnell at the Collins Street Independent Church on 27th October.

At

COLLEGIAN

Mr.

Robert

Presbyterian

Mr.

and

Mrs.

Harold

Richards

(Dorothy

H i c k ) , a son (Michael J o h n ) , o n 15th May. Mr. and Mrs. W . W . Beck (Margaret C o o k ) , a son, born at Lexington, North Carolina, U.S.A. Mr. and Mrs. Len Walker son (Noel Michael).

(Nola Perrott), a

Mr. and Mrs. George Yule ( V a l daughter (Esther Margaret).

East),

a

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Reilly (Patience C o r n a l l ) , a son (John D a v i d ) , on 28th July.

Mr. and Mrs. G o r d o n Ross (Ethel H e n t y ) , a daughter (Pamela D a w n ) , a sister for Lorraine, on 4th April.

Mr. and Mrs. Blair (Sylvia Bizley), a daughter.

came over f r o m Sydney and Edith Wentworth.

Mr. and Mrs. A . W . Lanyon (Doris C u r n o w ) , a daughter (Wilma Ruth), born on 9th April. Mrs. Lanyon, who now has two small daughters, recently moved f r o m Berrigan, N . S . W . , to Sunbury.

Gwen Pearson married Mr. Harwood on 11th August.

Mr. and Mrs. John Danks son in November.

Marjorie Robinson was married to Mr. Neville McNeil on 12th May. Dr. W o o d officiated at the ceremony, and Shirley Robinson and Elaine McNeil were her bridesmaids. Mrs. Doug. Barelli (Linnell W o o d ) was among the guests.

Marjorie and her husband are now living in Brisbane.

It is with deep regret we record the passing of Miss Elsie Harcourt. Her death occurred whilst on holiday in Hobart early this year.

Church on 4th August. Her bridesmaids were her sister, Betty and Betty Matthews. Old Collegians

present

included

Elspeth

Page,

who

BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Les Roberts (Helen T u r n e r ) , a second son (Ian Leslie) on 3rd November, 1950.

Mr. and Mrs. Watt (Joyce Bustard), a daughter (Margaret Joy) o n 20th February.

Mr. and Mrs. Baker (Shirley Lockfield) a son.

Mr. and Mrs. Trebilcock (Nanette Edmunds), a daughter in April.

Mr. and Mrs. G. A . Miller (Jean Jeinner), a son

(Laurence Kingsley),

o n 4th

January.

Mr. and Mrs. E. W .

Palmer (Lorraine Kowarzik), a son (Robert Stephen), on 26th March.

(Norma

Butt), a

OBITUARY

As a schoolgirl it is remembered Elsie was a very popular girl, always cheery and bright, and was a staunch friend.

For many years she was a loyal member o f the O.C. Club and Council, and was interested in the founding of the Margaret Tiddeman Scholarship.

W e extend our sincere sympathy to her sisters, Mary and Dora, and her two brothers.

T h e deep sympathy of the Club is also extended to Madge Gault, to Mrs. A . Eggleston (Gladys Gault) and Mrs. A . McCutcheon (Doris Gault) in the loss of their sister, Hilda Gault, who died in February this year.

Gladys August

McMeekin,

was a valued

who

passed

member

of

away the

in

Club,

having served on the Council and taking an active interest in its life.

64

THE

OLD

COLLEGIAN 76 SECRETARY'S

For the past few years, Gladys had not enjoyed the best of health and was unable to attend many gatherings.

The

financial

NOTES

year commenced on

1st Sep-

tember, and it will be appreciated if subscrip-

T h e sympathy of O l d Collegians is extended

tions are paid as soon as possible.

T o w n Members

to Gladys' relatives.

. . 7/6

Country Members

BEREAVEMENTS

Life Members

T h e sympathy of the O.C.C. is extended to the following who have suffered recent bereavement:

Hon.

Mrs. T. Grieves (Nell C r o f t ) o n the death

Venie

Harrison,

126

High Street, Glen Iris, S.E.6.

WM9045.

H o n . Treasurer.—Miss Hilda Brown, 24 Were Street, Brighton Beach, S.5. Phone XB2086.

Mrs. L. Hawkes (Edna Marriott) in the pass-

of her mother.

annum.

. . £5/5/-.

Secretary.—Miss

BADGES

ing of her mother in August, 1951.

Nance Campbell on the death of her mother.

per

. . 5 / - per annum.

Badges may be obtained f r o m the Secretary at the price of 5 / - each, plus postage.

SYDNEY,

ADELAIDE

AND

BRISBANE

CLUBS

SPORT

The

ENTHUSIASTS

Secretaries

Brisbane

Branches

of

Sydney,

of

the

Adelaide

O.C.C.

and

would

be

Perhaps some O l d Collegians will be inter-

pleased if any O l d Collegians visiting, or go-

ested in joining the W o m e n ' s Squash Racquets

ing to reside in these cities would contact them.

Association of

Sydney:

Victoria. Squash is similar to

tennis, but much faster and more scientific. If we are able to gather enough junior girls, we hope next season to organise a junior championship. T h e age limit f o r this would be 20.

During the season, April to August, we have weekly pennant matches between clubs, with a winning shield as our aim.

Dr. M. Read, Flat 2, 74 Raglan Street, Mosman, N . S . W .

Adelaide: Mrs. L. D. Rooney, 38 Thomas Street, Croydon, S.A. Brisbane: Miss C. Green, 20 Manson Road, Brisbane,

Last year we regained our pre-war status, and

Queensland.

MAGAZINE

sent a Victorian team of 4 girls to N . S . W . f o r an interstate match, and also the final of the Australian Championship. Victoria was victorious. A tour arranged f o r New Zealand unfor-

Members will notice f r o m the Minutes of the Annual Meeting, printed in this magazine, that it has been decided to publish only the Decem-

tunately was postponed owing to illness. But as

ber

you

after much discussion and was due to the ex-

can

see

we

have

possibilities

of

inter-

Dominion tours f o r those who attain the required standard.

A n y girls interested will be readly welcomed, by prominent players including both Victorian

get in

year.

This

was

decided

ceedingly high cost of printing and paper. news items to the magazine

should

forward

them to: Miss Venie

Harrison,

126 High Street,

and Australian champions.

would

each

Members of the Club wishing to contribute

and will have the opportunity of being coached

I would be pleased if

magazine

any girls

interested

touch with me, either

by

let-

ter, or p h o n e — R a e Maddern

(Stevenson), 54

Canterbury Road, Camberwell.

WF3052.

Glen Iris, S.E.6.

It will be appreciated if Club members, when forwarding news, will kindly give initials, dates and details as fully as possible.

64 T H E

OLD

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Mrs.

T h e Editress wishes to thank the following together with all those who have contributed reports and individual items of news: V.

COLLEGIAN

Misses

Harrison, J. Garden, D. Hilton, B. Ball

and E. Barker.

T.

Elsternwick.

Mrs.

H.

Wood,

25

Stanley

Street,

1 Merchiston

Grove,

(LF2970).

E. S.

Strathmore.

77

A.

Bell,

(FX3477).

Mrs. A . Heath, 58 Wheatland vern. ( U 7 8 6 9 ) .

Road,

Mal-

Mrs. R. Maddocks, 1 Whyte Street, Balwyn.

HISTORY

(WX3239).

COMMITTEE

Miss Q . Howell (Convener), 23 Wills Street, Kew.

(WA8921).

Miss M. Gault Road, Malvern.

Mrs.

P.

Essendon.

R.

(Secretary), 343

Glenferrie

(UY6046).

Leslie, 49

Washington

Street,

(FU2822).

Mrs. R. L. Hales, 169 Wattletree Road, Malvern.

(U4635).

Mrs. F. L. W e b b , 58 Kinkora Road, Hawthorn.

(WA2820).

Mrs. L. Kilvington, 14 Coppin Grove, Hawthorn.

(Haw.

867).

Mrs.

R.

M.

Aitchison,

Road, Mont Albert.

421

Mont

Albert

(WX2752).

Mrs. F. Cornell, 46 New Street, Brighton.

(XB3605).

Miss

F.

Canterbury.

Carnegie,

29

Torrington

Street,

(WF3784).

Miss M. Hunt, Post Office, Mt. Dandenong Miss O. Pizzey, "Far H o r i z o n , " Kallista.

Miss E. Barker, 8 Torrington terbury.

Place,

Can-

(WF7427).

Miss V .

(BJ2393).

Sollas, Trawalla

Avenue,

Toorak.

Salvete T h e school heartily welcomes new members

Miss H . M. McLeod, f r o m New South Wales, and

of Staff: Miss E. L. McKay, B.A.

(Old

Collegian),

Mathematics, f o r 15 years a member of Staff at M o r o n g o , Geelong, and at other

Schools.

Miss B. Draper,

both teaching

Art

of

Speech.

Mr.

Gordon

McKeown,

Miss B.

Mayfield,

Miss M. Cayley, Miss G. M. Lawrence

(who

Miss McKay has had experience in Y . W . C . A .

left at end of Term I ) , and Miss D . Slatter,

work, and in England.

Piano;

Mss

^^Creyjhton,

Marie

B M

^^RrjJ^rummondfcnd^hirley

She is a

of Miss

I. M f l & v v J B ' our Miisic Stgffi Mifs E . * e b b , B.A.,*»EnglisPanff History, a teacher with Victorian experience, recently in Miss B. Flett, Dress Art, for many years on our Staff, and returned f r o m two years' experi-

Flack, Violin.

Miss M. Stewart, Geography, f r o m England (Miss Stewart left at the end of Term Leonore

Collegian),

in Business School.

Mrs. C. Hull and Miss M. Ray, Assistants in Science Laboratories.

ence in England.

March,

Latin,

B.A., Dip.Ed

English,

E. Kubly,

Miss P. Robertson

( O l d Collegian), Assis-

tant in Craft Studio.

I).

(Old

Miss D. N. Cox, B.Sc., Geography f r o m the

recently

teaching

beginning of Term II.

French,

English,

sence of Mrs. Brann on leave in Term II.

School,

welcomed this year.

at M.L.C., Adelaide.

Mrs.

Robinson ( O l c f t o l l e ' g i a n s ) , V i o l i n ; Miss Asta Miss Coral Clark (Old Collegian), Assistant

England.

Miss

Smging^Misses

Miss M. Morrison, Business, during the ab-

German,

formerly a member of our Staff.

Mrs. E. B. Knight, Lower Middle

All new girls numbering over 350, have been Special reference is made

to senior girls f r o m M.L.C., Elsternwick, who

f r o m England.

Miss M. Daniel, B.A., History.

transferred

Miss L. Bamford ( O l d Collegian), Art.

Forms, including the following School Officers:

Miss J. E. Connor, K. Harkness and G. M. Vaughan,

Sportsmistresses,

graduates

of

the

to

Matriculation

and

Business

A n n Green and Deidre Fuller (Prefects), Margaret

Adeney,

Valerie

Falkingham,

Anne

Melbourne University Physical Education De-

Grunden, Cynthia Shillinglaw and Ruth Trewin

partment,

(Associate Prefects).

and

Inter-State

representatives

in

various sports.

Valete T h e School regretfully bade farewell to the following members of

Staff

who left at the

end of 1 9 5 0 : — Miss J. Alston, B.A., who had taught Geography f o r two years and who left to be married.

Miss F. Clarke, who had taught Scripture most efficiently f o r nine years and who was formerly a Presbyterian missionary in Korea.

Miss G. Johnston, Sportsmistress f o r

four Hunt,

who coached in Tennis at M.L.C. f o r many years.

(Old

Col-

Miss J. Marrows, one year, returned to England.

Miss G. Farley, Lower Middle School, three years.

Miss G.

Jenkin, Dress Art, two years.

Miss H . Martin

( O l d Collegian), Business

School Assistant, one year.

Mr. F. W . Green, B.Sc., Mathematics.

Miss M. Kendrick

years.

Mr. O ' H a r a W o o d and Mrs. G. D.

Miss B. Phillips, B.A., Dip.Ed. legian), one year.

( O l d Collegian), Art of

Speech, three years.

Miss M. Betts, M . A . , Dip.Ed., visiting England, Miss L. Powell, B.A., Miss J. Illingworth