St Mary's Calne News Sheet - 21

S. Mary's School, Calne.

NEWS SHEET

Number 21.

September, 1936.

R. 8. HEATH, PRINTER, CALNE.

ST. MARY'S

SCHOOL NEWS SHEET. 1935—1936.

The year 1936 has been marked for us, as for every other school in the country, by the passing of King George V. We had only just returned to school in the Lent Term when the blow fell, and was brought home to us in a way unknown to any earlier generation by the voices to which we listened on the wireless. The School had its representatives at the Lying-in-State, and at the Funeral procession, while to Margaret Harris, one of our prefects, was given the unforgetable experience of being present in S. George's Chapel. We shall never forget the Memorial Service in Calne Parish Church, nor the Proclamation in Calne of King Edward.

To the national grief at the passing of so great a king has been added this year our own private sorrows in the loss to the School of two of our greatest friends. We were in Chapel on the morning of December 7th, arranging places for the Service he was to have held for us there that evening, when news reached us that Bishop Donaldson had passed away that morning in his sleep. Ever since his first visit to us, in March 1922, the Bishop had shewn a real interest in the School. He was far more than an official 'Visitor', and we remember with gratitude his share, so full of gaiety, in our rejoicing at our Jubilee in 1923; while year by year his Confirmation addresses, and his words to the parents when he took our Service in Chapel on the eve of the Confirmation, will never be forgotten. His belief in the School was an inspiration to us all.

2 Almost as swiftly, last March, came the passing of one of our Governors, Lord Lansdowne. What we owed to him was indeed a great debt. His generosity in opening Bowood to us has given the School a privilege which can hardly be equalled elsewhere. That we were enabled two years ago to double our playing fields we know is mainly due to him. His advice and help on the Governing Body is sorely missed. We are proud to think that our new cricket field bears his name.

As we look back at old copies of the News Sheet we can hardly forbear a smile at the constantly re-iterated accounts of new developments, and additions. Each as it is reported seems to have been of such importance, and so greatly appreciated at the time. We were so proud of them all.

As we look round us to-day, however, every improvement, every addition ever made pales into insignificance beside the amazing developments of 1936. The old workhouse has disappeared, and lives again in our wonderful new buildings. Where the old garden stage once stood lies the really beautiful Staff House and Domestic Quarters. The old stone of which they—like the new Hall—are made, coupled with the most attractive brown sand faced tiles on the roof—give'an air almost of an Oxford College Quadrangle. There is nothing new, nothing upstart about these buildings, they are mellow, dignified and - at the same time—friendly. A gloriously sunny corridor, so attractive with its bay windows, runs the whole length of the building, and leads us to the Dining Hall, an exceptionally attractive room with its lofty windows overlooking the playing, fields, its oak pannelled walls and most beautiful floor. The propor• tions are perfect, the colour scheme entrancing.

A spacious staircase leads us to the crowning glory of the building— a magnificent Assembly Hall. It is difficult to put into words all that one feels about this, suffice it to say that it is of compelling beauty with its lofty vaulted roof, its noble windows on both sides, giving so pleasant a vista of Downs and far off fields and woods,- -one never knew until now that S. Mary's had a view! In our wildest dreams we never visualised so beautiful a building as this. There is a distinction in all Mr. Rudman's work for us : when he designed the Hall he was inspired.

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As we write the buildings are nearing completion.

The formal opening is planned for Saturday, October 31. Our visitor, the Bishop of Salisbury, will be with us on that day,—his first visit to the School-and we are also extremely fortunate in having secured the presence of the Mistress of Girton. It will be a great day for the School, and we know that we shall have the support of all our friends.

Early in the year the Governors launched an appeal for funds to help us in our great adventure. Thanks to many of our friends the fund now reaches £2,300. This is but a beginning: we are in need of every possible bit of help.

The old Workhouse has been demolished. Between that and the sanatorium lay, last November, a grass field.

To-day there lies there a most beautiful garden: the planning of this we owe to Miss Ferguson who came to us in November and with an artist's eye saw that the field held wonderful possibilities.

With its rose garden, broad grass walks, herbaceous borders and most prolific vegetable beds the garden has already produced wonders.

Miss Ferguson planned the garden, it has been worked

by Miss Record and batches of girls. We are very proud of it.

We extend a hearty welcome to our new Governor— Miss E. Steel, O.B.E. Many of us have met her when she was Head Mistress of the Royal School, Bath, where she proved herself a master-builder : Miss Steel now lives at Hungerford, within easy reach of S. Mary's, and we are delighted to think that she now has an official connection with the School in which she has always shewn so kindly an interest.

A special word must be said about one very interesting event of the summer term. Who as they see him— can believe that Mr Pullein has been teaching at S. Mary's for fifty years? But it is really true. We were delighted to be at the Jubilee performance of his Musical Society in May. Later in the term we had a little ceremony when we gave him a silver inkstand as our special recognition of his Jubilee. And at the Reunion he was awarded " The Lilies".

S. Mary's has many good friends, who have helped and served her through many a time of crisis. But no one has served her in quite the same way as Mr Pullein. We are immensely proud of his connection with the School, and immensely grateful for all he does for us.

School Calendar.

1935-1936.

1935.

Sept. 24.

Oct. 1. „ 3. „ 5. ,, 8. „ 10. „ 12. „ 17. „ 18. „ 19. ,, 25. ,, 26.

Nov. 2.

Beginning of Term.

Party to Bath to see '' The Munich Marionettes."

Lecture: " Modern Art ". Mr. Augustin Booth.

Lacrosse and under 14 Net Ball matches v. Downe House.

Lectures: " The Present Crisis ". Mr. Donald Grant.

Lecture: "Garibaldi". Mr. Aston.

Net Ball matches v. S. Brandon's.

Health Festival. The Vicar of Chippenham in Chapel.

L.N.U. Meeting. Mr. Alec Wilson.

Maidless Day. Lecture at Dauntseys. " The Genius of Kacine ".

Net Ball match v. Trowbridge High School.

Foundation Stone of New Building laid by The Marchioness of Lansdowne.

Expedition to Savernake. ,, 4. Half term: Parties to Salisbury and to Fry's Factory at Somerdale. „ 5. Wedding of Duke of Gloucester. " David Copperfleld " at Calne Cinema. „ 8 French Oral Examination. School Certificate. ., 9. Lacrosse match v. Godolphin.

Net Ball v. Chippenham County School. ., 11. " Twelfth Night " at Chippenham, Middle School present. ,," 19. ' Les Comedians de Paris' in ' Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon ' in Bath. „ 21. Lecture: "Dante". Mrs. Herbert Richardson. „ 23. Lacrosse v. Old Girls. „ 26. Licrossev. Wilti h're Ladies. ,. 30. Musical Festival in Bath.

Dec. 2. Net Ball: Staff v. School. ,, 8. Confirmation. „ 9. School Certificate Examination. „ 11. "At Home ' to Teachers in Calne. „ 14. Lacrosse v. Westonbirt. „ 16. Shakespeare Competition. „ 17. Mark Beading, Tea and Speeches.

1936.

Jan. 16. Beginning of term. „ 21. Lecture : " The Danube ". Mr. Donald Grant. ,. 22. Lectures : " The Changing World ". Mr. Donald Grant. ,, 23. Proclamation of King Edward VIII. „ 28. Memorial Service for King George V. Feb. 1. Net Ball matches v. Boyal School.

Concert: Mary MacDougall, Anne Wood, Mr. Hylton Stewart. „ 6. Lecture : " Soviet Russia". Mrs. King.

7. Lecture in Bath. " Chinese Art".

10. Lecture: •' Leaves from my Log". Commander Bernard.

15. Calne Cinema. King George's Funeral.

21. Bishop of Kimberley in Chapel 22. Poore Company Play. " Alice in Wonderland".

24. Grosstete Company Play. " The Taunton Maids".

29. Osmund Company Play. " A Kiss for Cinderella".

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Miss Matthews' Birthday and Girton Frolic.

Edmund Rich Play. " Ships and.Sealing Wax " Moberly Company Play. " The Prince who was a Piper".

Lacrosse v. Wiltshire Ladies.

Concert by Dorian Trio.

Drill Display at Salisbury Lacrosse Rally. Royal School.

Form Drill Competition.

School Concert.

Mark Reading.

Beginning of Term.

Concert by Wayfarers' Trio.

Farewell to The Rev. A. B. Browne.

Lecture: "Anglo-American Relations". Professor Arthur Newell.

Calne Musical Society Jubilee Performance. " Hiawatha " Enthronement of Bishop Lovett in Salisbury Cathedral.

Miss Matthews took two prefects. " Much Ado about Nothing " at Stratford-on-Avon.

Ascension Day. P. Wood on TJ.G.S. Social Service Week.

General Knowledge Paper. School Picnic to Sandy Lane.

Cricket match v Downe House.

Cricket match v. Trowbridge Ladies.

Whit Sunday. Report by prefects of the Hayward's Heath Conference. " Romeo and Juliet " at Stratford-on-Avon.

Tennis match v. Royal School, Bath. " Twelfth Night" at Stratford-on-Avon.

Half Term. Fathers' Match Marlborough College. Recital by Adela Fachiri.

Parties to Bratton and Edington, and to Bath to see County Cricket.

Isabel Martineau's Holiday.

Tennis v. Westonbirt.

Party to Bath. Balliol Players in " Alcestis ".

The Visitation. The Rev. E. Gross in Chapel.

Tennis v. Downe House.

Conference. Downe House Seniors.

Party to Dauntseys School.

Miss Jennings'party for Music Club.

Prefects to Denford.

Lecture: " Europe To-day ". Mr. Donald Grant.

Presentation to Mr. Pullein.

Form Picnics.

Leaving prefects with Miss Matthews to Salisbury.

Lower VI party. Miss Alexander's Birthday.

Marlborough College Concert.

Cricket with Marlborough College Casuals.

School Concert.

Dress Parade.

Tennis Match. Staff v. School.

Mark Reading.

Reunion.

The Confirmation.

December 8, 1935.

The Confirmation was held in the Parish Church on Sunday, December 8th.

The Bishop of Kimberley (Margaret Gibson's father) most kindly came to our help and took the service which would otherwise have had to be postponed owing to the tragically sudden death, the day before, of the Bishop of Salisbury.

The following were Confirmed : A. C. Budgen B. J. Philips U. M. Cleverly M. G. Pollock D. M. Crosbie D. K. Powlett A. M Dyson P. K. Reed A. H. Gwatkin A. M. Gay Roberts E. P. Hocking P. E. Roe R. M. Hylton-Stewart A. Sarjeant E. V. Jephson V. F. D Tennant E. G. Long T. F. W. Tidman S. J. Mallock C. A. Whiffen F. O. Matthews P. M. Wilson M. J. Morris Fifty-seven relations and friends who were present signed the Confirmation Register We are very grateful to those who have taken special services, or who have spoken to us in Chapel this year: The Bishop of Kimberley. The Rev. H. Green The Rev. E. Cross. The Rev. C. H. S. Matthews.

The Staff.

This year has seen an unusual number of changes.

First and foremost—though we can hardly with accuracy designate him as one of "the staff" we must record our sorrow at the departure from Calne of Mr Browne.

Ever since Archdeacon Bodington left us in 1927 Mr. Browne has come, week by week, to teach Divinity to

Form VI. So keen has been his interest in the School that we have always recognised in him one of our staunchest friends. His encyclopaedic knowledge has extended to everybody and to everything connected with the school窶馬o Old Girl has scored a success without his being cognisant of it, no present girl has ever been beyond his ken. We are proud to think that he cared to carry away with him, into his new work in Central Africa, a School list.. He is remembering us, as we remember him, each Wednesday morning. We are glad to have in Mr. Browne another link with the U.M.C.A. Mary Margesson wrote from Likoma that she hoped to welcome him " wearing, if it is not too hot, my school jersey to make him feel at home."

We were sad, in November, to part with Nurse Mai ks, such a wonderful friend to us all, whose long illness since has been so wearisome and distressing.

We are glad to know how good a recovery she is now making.

It has been good to have in her place Sister Ash, who returned at a moment's notice to fill the gap, and is still holding the fort.

In April we lost Miss Maclachlan. She had been with us for four years and her teaching had done a great deal to raise the standard of Science in the School.

We weie glad that her last term was crowned with B. Mallory's success in obtaining a vacancy at Girton.

Miss Maclachlan sailed in June for Malay and was married at Penang on July 4th.

Miss Attwell, who came to help us when Miss Anderson fell ill, also left us in April, after doing so much to keep alive our interest, especially in Modern History.

In July we had to say good-bye to Miss James, who joined the Staff as Mathematical Mistress over nine years ago. Those who have " passed through her hands" will realise how big a gap she is leaving behind. She has been indefatigable on behalf of those whose talents have not lain in the direction of Mathematics, and there are many who owe her a great debt for her patient, kindly help.

We also had to part from Miss Haywood, who as Domestic Science Mistress has spent nearly five years here. Her lessons have been very popular, and her organisation of " Maidless Days " will never be forgotten.

Miss Rygate has also left us, after two years as Geography Mistress.

To all these we offer pur most grateful thanks and give them our very best wishes for the future.

Last September we welcomed as Classical Mistress Miss P. Evans, of S. Hugh's College, Oxford, and Sister Cathrow to take charge of the Sanatorium. In April we welcomed Miss G. M. Boyd, of Somerville College, as History Mistress, and Miss M. S. Fraser, of Edinburgh University, as Science Mistress.

The Staff.

July. 1936.

BESIDENT. Miss ALEXANDER (Senior Mistress) French.

MADEMOISELLE ANTOINE. French.

Miss BOYD. History.

Miss EVANS. Classics.

Miss FRASER. Science.

Miss HATWOOD. Domestic Science.

Miss HENDRY. Art. Miss INGLIS. English.

Miss JAMES. Mathematics.

Miss JENNINGS. Music.

MISS MOSSE. Kindergarten.

Miss PRIOR. Music.

Miss BYGATE. Geography.

Miss WOLFF. Games, Gymnastics, Dancing.

MISS RECORD. Gardening.

SISTER ASH. Matron.

SISTER CATHROW. Sanatorium.

NON-BESIDENT—

MR. PULLEIN. Piano.

MRS. HYLTON STEWART. Violin.

Miss TOMLINSON. 'Cello.

MR. BOBERTSON. Wind Instruments.

Miss JENKINS. German.

MR. CULLEY. Carpentry.

School List July, 1936.

D. S. Hobson M. Harris E. M. Booker G. Martens A. Sarjeant

FORM Came 1932 i 1933 2 1930 3 19353 1935 i

VI. M. J. Blathwayt M. F. Glynn P. B. Herbert M.E.Matthews P. M. Clarke

LOWER

Came 19323 1931 2 1932 3 1928 2 1931 3

VI.

R. E. Amphlett C. C. Brakenridge T. H. Bridgman C. D. Hall M. Hamersley M. S. Hayter E. V. Jephson

1929 l 1934 3 1931 2 1930 Âť 1931 3 1933 1 1931 3

M. U. Paris V. D. F. Tennant C. P. Waldo J. M. Warrand p. M. Wilson M. P. Wood

1931 3 1934 l 1931 3 1932 3 1935 1 1931 2

E. R. Allen A. C. Budgen L. G. G. Carleton U. M. Cleverly D. M. Crosbie A. M. Dyson E. Hocking R. M. Hylton-Stewart B. M. Trevor Lewis

UPPER 1934 3 1933 3 1933 i 19H4 2 1933 3 1935 i 1933 i 1934 2 1933 3

V. E.G. Long p. o. Matthews C. A Mead M. J. Morris M. G. Pollock A. M. G. Roberts T. F. W. Tidman B. Wilson

1927 3 1928 2 1932 l 19323 1932 2 1933 3 1933 2 1935 2

E. J. Chadwick S. J. Mallock M. Morement

REMOVE A. 1935 2 D. K. Powlett p. K. Reed 1933 3 1935 2 P. E. Roe

1934 3 1935 2 1932 3

J. Champion J. Grover L. M. Higgins G. P. Hunt

REMOVE B. 1934 3 G. S. M. Lake 1934 2 H. L. Maxwell Lefroy 1934 3 D. Maundrell 1935 3 W. Wotton

1933 3 1935 3 1929 l 1933 3

LOWER 1934 Âť 1934 S 1935 3 1933 3 1934 3 1936 1 1935 i 1935 3 1935 2 1936 a 1 934 2

1935 3 1935 2 1933 1 1933 3 1934 1 1936 2 1933 1 1935 1 1935 3 1931 3 1933 2

S. E. Barnes P. M. Barker

H. M. Blackadder D P . Butler

C. M. Clarke P. G. Clark-Kennedy P. M. Evans M. B. Gibson V. O. Gillingham E. E. G. Griggs A. H. Gwatkin P. D. Harrison

1934 3

V. P. F. Hawkins E. R. Hay J. McCormick E. P. N. Moss S. M. Patey M. K. Pite B. J. Philips S. M. Remington-Wilson E. C. Samuelson M E Whieldon C. A. Whiffen

10 FORM Came 1935 3 1934 3 1934 3

P. Bomford N. M. Burdett K. H. Cox D. E. Drabble JR. I. H. Durie J. M. Pindlay B. S. Godwin S. Jefteris S. B. Mayne

1932 3 1935 3 1934 1 1931 3 1333 2 1935 2

0. M. Ball M. Chadwick M. A. Coventon J. C. Drabble E. F. M. FortescueBrickdale N. M. Hale M. P. A. Hall A. P. Harris M. Hughes M. E. J. Hurst

FORM 1936 1 19343 1936 1 1932 3 1935 3 1935 2 1936 l 1936 2 1934 3 1936 2

IV. Came K. J. Neligan A. G. Pegg M. C. Perry P. V. Philips P. H. Puckle W. B. A. Dallas Boss D. M. Stephenson J. M. Weller

III E. McKenzie B. 3. Mattingly B. Osman Jones E. H. Puckle B. M. Thatcher J. A. Trow M. L. Warrand E. M. Whiffen J. Wilberfoss

FORM II. E. M. Teague P. E. Whieldon

B. U. Awdry D. D. Lewis M. E. Budman

1935 2 1935 2 1934 3

1934 1 1935 * 1935 :i 1933 3 1935 l 1935 3 1934 3 1935 3

1936 l 1933 l 1930 ^ 1935 l 1934 3 1929 2 1936 l 1935 2 1936 2

1933 2 1931 3

S. PRISCA'S FORM 0. E. Pound H. P. Vines P. M. Williams

I. 1932 3 1934 3 1934 3

K.G. D. B. Beer D. Black M. Black D. J. Brown C. F. J. Ducksbury E. P. Herbert-Smith E. A. K. James G. E. Matthews A. F. Phillips M. E. Pound D. Turk

1935 2 1936 l 1936 l 1935 2 1935 2 1934 3 1934 3 1935 2 1934 3 1933 3 1935 3

M. Harris has been elected Head of the School for next term.

E. Booker has been elected Second Head.

11 Examination Results.

July 1935-1936.

OLD GIRLS. Oxford University.

Final School of Modern Languages (Italian) Class III.

G. M. Durst

Cambridge University.

Historical Tripos. Part I Class II Division I. Class II Division II.

F. C. Leigh-Mallory V. M. Armstrong

Birmingham University.

M.B. (with distinction in Medicinel The Arthur Foxwell Memorial Medal for Clinical Medicine.

The Priestly Smith Opthalmology Prize.

Gold Medallist in Medicine.

Gold Medallist in Surgery.

PRESENT GIRLS. Cambridge University.

Scholarship (History) Girton College Vacancy (Science) Girton College First M.B. (Chemistry and Physics)

I. M. Martineau

K. B Macaulay B. B. Leigh-Mallory B. E. Leigh-Mallory

CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL CERTIFICATE. December 1935 C. C. Brakenridge M. E. Matthews T. H. Bridgman* M. TJ. Paris* P. M. Clarke M. P. Bobinson V. M. Combes* E. F. Thomas M. F. Glynn* M. E. Tuckwell* C. D. Hall* C. P. Waldo M. Hamersley P. M. Wilson P. B. Herbert M. P. Wood J. 8. Kirkaldy-Willis* (* Matriculation Certificate.)

Social Service.

1935-1936.

In the Autumn Term we sent off a large parcel of overalls and different kinds of clothes which had been made during the holidays; the dolls which had been dressed remained behind to decorate Chapel for the Health Festival, which was held this year on October 17th, instead of on S. Luke's day as usual, in order that the parcels might be sent off before the week-end. As usual this was a great success and sixty Old Girls and staff sent

12 contributions, which we think must be a record; as a result the chapel window-sills were overflowing with all the different kinds of medicines, bandages, clothes and toys which the Mission needs so much. The main feature of this year seemed to be hot water bottles which are so badly needed and of which we had about fourteen ! The Rev. H. Green of Chippenham most kindly came and took our Service for us. We received a very grateful letter from the S. Mark's nurse later saying how much the Mission had appreciated our parcels.

Three large Christmas hampers made by the cookery classes were sent off to poor ladies at the end of the term, as well as Christmas presents to the little boys who have stayed with us at various times.

Knitting in the Autumn Term concentrated mainly on squares for blankets, but some people made some very attractive clothes for the Mission.

Throughout the Spring Term people were busily engaged in knitting garments for children in Camberwell, and it is no exaggeration to say that almost every person in the school knitted one or more squares for the five large " Company " blankets which were sent off at the end of the term; however most praise is due to those who spent so long crocheting the squares together, for it was mainly through their work that the blankets could be so much appreciated by the people who received them.

Unfortunately fewer flowers than usual were s>;nt off to the Mission this Spring, this was largely due to the weather which did not encourage flower-picking expeditions.

After the Easter holidays several people brought back parcels of unwanted clothes from home which were sent off to the Mission at the beginning of the term. On Ascension Day this year we were most fortunate in hearing P. Wood's account of the Social Service Week she spent in Camberwell during the holidays. She was very lucky to be able to go, for she had a most interesting time visiting factories and nursery schools in the Settlement, and hearing lectures on the different kinds of work that is being done there ; we all enjoyed her talk very much.

Later in the term, four of the prefects went to a Public School Girls' Conference at Haywards Heath which was most inspiring and enlightening; they also told the school of their experiences on their return.

13 Again this year we were able to have two boys down from London for a fortnight; the weather was not very kind to them, but in spite of this they enjoyed themselves very much and were able to go for several picnics and spent as much time as possible out-of-doors. We loved having them and were sorry when they returned to Camberwell.

Although earlier in the year Chapel collections did not amount to record sums, this term people have been far more generous, and we hope that there will be a good balance over with which to buy wool, so that many garments and blankets, which are so badly needed, may be made next term.

M. Harris (Mission Secretary.)

Tuesday Offertories.

Beceipts. £ s. d.

Balance from Summer Term 1935 2 7 9 U.G.S. Term's Subscriptions ... 9 0 0 Tuesday Offertories 32 16 3 Old Girls on S. Luke's Day ... 4 10 0 Confirmation Day Offertory 12 0 0 Armistice D a y Poppies 3 9 4 Bishop of Kimberley 10 0 Nursery Schools 3 3 44 Easter offering ... S 2 5 S. Prisca's Box ...

19 2 Chapel Box 1 1 4i

£74 19 8

Expenditure. £ s. a.

Home Missions.

Term's Subscriptions 9 0 0 "Kecord" ...

9 0 Wool ...

16 6 Christmas Presents 16 8 Nursery Schools 3 10 0 Country Holiday Fund ... 3 3 0 Expenses of Boys' Holiday ... 3 1 0 Postage & Carriage 1 17 2 I.C.A.A. ... 4 10 0 Friends of Salisbury Cathedral ... 1 0 0 Church Flowers ...

100 Poor Ladies' Christmas Hampers ... 2 19 7 Calne Playing Field Fund ... 1 0 0 Calne Girl Guides 3 2 0 Easter Offering .. 5 2 5 Devizes Home ... 2 2 0 Diocesan Fund ... 6 0 0 S. Brandon's School Building Fund . . . 1 1 0 Earl Haig's Fund . . . 3 9 4 Foreign Missions.

Accra Diocesan Association .. 1 1 0 U.M.C.A. ... 8 6 5 Bishop of Kimberley 12 0 0 Balance ...

2 7 £74 19 8

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The Conference at Haywards Heath.

May 22nd—25th, 1936.

The Church Adult Teaching Group held in May a Conference for Public Schoolgirls at Elfinsward, Haywards Heath. The purpose of the Conference was to learn and discuss the place of the Church in the world today, and what we could do to carry on its work. Four or' us were fortunate enough to be able to be present at it.

It was organised by Canon Hudson and Canon Woodard ; the Archbishop of York was in the Chair, and the Bishop of Hull, Miss Dorothy Marten and Miss Ruth Kenyon addressed us. The sixty girls who represented twenty different schools, were divided into small groups for discussion. A senior member of the conference presided over each group in which werediscussed questions relating to previous lectures; the findings of these groups were reported and commented upon in General Meetings in the evenings.

The lectures were on:—"The World we live in," by the Bishop of Hull, " The Worshipping Church," and " The Teaching Church," by Canon Hudson and Miss Ruth Kenyon respectively, and " My Place in the Church," by Miss Dorothy Marten. In addition to these the Archbishop of York gave opening and closing addresses and presided over the general meetings.

The Bishop of Hull showed us that it was impossible to look at the world from an unprejudiced point of view, but that this, in our case, should be the Christian point of view, as it alone can reduce things to their correct proportions Canon Hudson said that the Church was a large community, and that its worship and services, particularly the Eucharist, should be approached from a communal attitude. Miss Kenyon told us that, having obtained the teaching of the Church, we must make it our central loyalty in life.

Miss Marten tried to show us some of the practical ways in which we could help the Church in its work, whether in our parishes or in our work away from home.

We were most impressed by the Archbishop's closing address ; in this he used the example of S. Peter's life and character to give us advice for carrying out the ideas which we had received at the Conference.

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Throughout the whole week-end there was ari extraordinary atmosphere of friendliness and enjoyment— it was most revealing to meet so many people of our own age with such a variety of interesting ideas. Above all it was wonderful that the Archbishop and Mrs. Temple should so entirely devote themselves to us for the weekend, and that they should find time for us in their extremely busy lives.

Those few days were a great experience for us all; we sincerely hope that this successful experiment will be repeated in future years.

E. Booker.

M. Glynn.

M. Harris.

A. Sarjeant.

The New Buildings.

We are very grateful to our Architect, Mr. Walter Rudman, for the following: -" The Assembly Hall and the Dining Hall are almost completed.

Gone are the belt of fir trees below the Sanatorium, the orchard, and the Summer House, and in their place stands our latest and largest addition.

Approached from Curzon Street by a drive down between the Sanatorium and the Long Hut, the main block stands on the axis of the drive, with the Dining Hall below and Assembly Hall above, with its two Stages, and high ceiling intersected by semicircular roof trusses.

Facing the tennis lawns the new building rises high above the surrounding field, and we are attracted by the four low relief carved stone panels between the windows designed for us by Mrs. Birnstingl.

Facing S. Prisca's are the Music Rooms, and a Class Room.

The north Lawn behind the Chapel is now bounded by the Staff-house, a complete unit in itself, and the Domestic Block, with the Kitchen and its necessary adjuncts on the Ground Floor, and the Maids' Cubicles, etc., on the floor over.

Perhaps a few figures may convey some idea of the task accomplished. The building covers an area of one sixth of a acre, and the distance round the walls is 200 yards. From the floor to the top of the lightning conductor on the cupola is 58 feet. About 45,000 cubic feet

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of walling was used in the walls, representing 3,650 cart loads. Bath Stone accounted for 4,500 cubic feet, in the window dressings, doors, etc.

It has taken 75,000 tiles to cover the roofs, weighing about 75 tons, and the rafters (roof timbers) placed end to end would stretch two miles.

There is almost an acre and a half of plastering on the walls, and for decoration over a ton of distemper and half a ton of paint has been used.

There are 100 doors in the building, and over 11,000 tiles have been used on the floors.

The electrical installation has taken nearly three miles of wire, and incidentally is the first scheme in Calne to be wired for the new A.C. supply. The lighting has required HO lights besides power plugs.

For heating the building the equipment includes a single boiler to deal with both heating and hot water supply, which is fitted with an automatic stoker. The stoker is controlled by an electric fan, which in its turn is thermostatically controlled, to provide any predetermined temperature. A smaller boiler is provided for summer use.

The boiler capacity is 886, 870 B.T.U's, [B.T U. = the amount of heat required to raise 1 Ib. of water 1 ﾂｰ Fahr.] and there is nearly a mile of heating pipes in the building.

The glazing of the windows took 1,578 panes of glass.

Quite fourteen firms besides the General Contractors, have been directly concerned with the building, and those indirectly concerned would amount to at least three or four times this number To give all necessary details and instructions to these firms and the General Contractors, the Architect has produced over 450 drawings."

The Growth of the New Buildings A remarkable change took place in the surroundings of the School between the end of the Summer Term 1935 and the end of the Summer Term 1936. When we came back for the Autumn Term last year we found many startling things had happened. The first thing most people noticed was the absence of the line of trees that used to divide the Staff path from Chapel Lawn. Further investigations revealed a new way to S. Prisca's窶馬o

17 longer could we wander across Chapel Lawn, past the summer-house and down the slippery path by the studio — instead we were obliged to go round by Court 1 and alongside the Stiff Lawn. In a week or so, however, we were quite used to this and had almost forgotten the old way.

Mud and workmen were the predominating factors during this term but the latter so overcame the former that by November 2nd Lady Lansdqwne was able to lay the foundation stone of the new buildings. From then onwards they grew steadily and the walls were quite high by the time we broke up for the Christmas holidaysBad weather delayed progress considerably during the Lent Term but nevertheless the buildings grew apace.

Much can be accomplished in five weeks but when we came back from the Summer Term 1936, we were amazed to see how much had been done. The roof of the Hall was completely tiled and within the first fortnight of the term the roof of the Staff wing was also completed.

Gradually more and more details were filled in ; the main staircase to the Hall appeared ; likewise glass in the window frames; the four strange, excitingly modern plaques of S. Bridget, S. Prisca, S. Faith, and S. Cecilia filled the four previously empty spaces on the far side of the Hall; and then, just before Half term, nearly all the scaffolding was taken down and disclosed the new buildings in their beautiful simplicity.

By the end of the term the floors of the Hall and Dining-room were laid, radiators arrived in lorry loads, the windows were painted a soft green and a thousand other happenings marked the now rapid progress made each week Attention was turned towards the interior furnishing and decorating. We heard wonderful accounts of 'the tables that were to hold ten persons, the new china decorated with green dragons, and the green curtains to match.

Now, however, with eight weeks and more before the beginning of the Autumn Term, there still remains a great deal to be completed The actual opening will take place on October 31st and will be a thrilling occasion when the result of the past year's work, which we have watched each day, will be achieved.

A. Sarjeant.

18 The New Garden.

Who could believe that this time last year the new garden, now bright with flowers and vegetables, was no more than an empty field ?

In November we welcomed Miss Ferguson, who came to plan our garden for us. Every day volunteers helped her in games' time, and the first task was to transplant a young hedge from the edge of the lacrosse field to the new flower bed. On either side of this lay the rose beds and herbaceous borders.

The following term Miss Record came to us, and continued to develop the plans already begun. A room in the workhouse lodge close at hand was converted into a tool shed for the new spades, forks, and other instruments. Throughout the term the chief job was that of digging flower and vegetable beds; again volunteers gave their assistance, and certainly found digging very warm on a cold winter afternoon. Towards the end of March we began to sow seeds, and felt that the garden was becoming a reality.

During the Easter holidays while we were all away, Miss Record remained behind to carry on her work, so that when we returned for the Summer Term there were signs of considerable progress; flowers and vegetables were coming up, shrubs were in blossom, and all looked promising. Since then the garden has been increasingly productive, and quite fulfilled our expectations. The roses have flowered beautifully their first year, and made a gorgeous show of colour; the long herbaceous borders have been a most lovely sight, with a large variety of plants, and we have had almost more vegetables than we could manage—radishes, lettuces, potatoes, beans, and cauliflowers have been supplied unceasingly, and gay flowers for indoor use. The summer-house formerly on the Chapel lawn, has been moved to the new garden, and fits in well with its fresh surroundings. The work this term has consisted of weeding, thinning and pulling up vegetables. A committee was arranged to organise this, with Miss Record's help. I am sure we have enjoyed gardening, and learnt something from it too; there is a certain thrill in eating the products one has grown, and seeing the plants come up week by week.

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Miss Record and Miss Ferguson for their untiring work, and to the Governors for all they have given us. I think we can

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truly say that the new garden has been a wonderful success so far; it is certainly a great addition to the school.

In future years, when the remains of the workhouse have disappeared, and the trees on the west boundary have grown up, the garden will reach our highest hopesM. Hamersley.

The Shakespeare Competition.

December 16th, 1935.

We are most grateful to Mrs. Gotch who came to judge the Competition for us. The Hyndley Cup was awarded to Form VI, the second cup being won by Upper V; Lower V and Form IV came next. Unfortunately, owing to the exigencies of the School Certificate Examination, the Lower VI were unable to compete.

The performance was interrupted by a telegram telling us that Reine Macaulay, whose performance of Volumnia was so exceptionally moving, had won a scholarship at Girton.

Mrs. Gotch has sent the following report: — " The scenes from Coriolanus produced by the Vlth were distinguished by a quiet dignity which was most impressive.

Volumnia's (R. Macaulay) appeal to her son was moving in the extreme, as was Coriolanus's (B. Mallory) reply to Volumnia, where his consent to her pleading, despite his conviction to the contrary, was well brought out. The three serving men were good, and the grouping and diction were most pleasant.

The scenes from Henry I, Fart 1. given by VA. were well acted and every word could be heard. The King (R. H. Stewart) was truly royal in his anger; Hotspur (J. Morris) was reasonable, clear cut, and vivid in his presentation, and Worcester's (D. Crosbie) lovely speaking voice and Northumberland's (M. Pollock) clever acting combined to make this scene really alive.

The tavern scene was not quite boisterous enough, why was there so little laughter? Falstaff (B. Lewis) was good, had obviously worked hard, and although not quite rollicking enough, gave a very good rendering of an extremely difficult part. Prince Henry (E. Jephson) has obvious possibilities, and was most natural and unaffected throughout. Mistress Quickly (A. Dyson) was not nearly vivid enough. Both scenes were introduced by excellent prologues.

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Macbeth. Lower V. The witches in Macbeth knew how to produce atmosphere. We really were transported to a blasted heath, with a premonition of coming tragedy. After such a good opening the rest of the scenes were a little disappointing. Macbeth (N. Gwatkin) was good in his soliloquies in the first part. In the later scenes there was no sense of tragedy. The discovery of the murder was much too tame. The choice of properties was, I think, slightly unfortunate, I refer to the daggers (?) and the 20th century bell.

The Tempest. Remove.

The grouping and the setting of the first scene in the Tempest was of a high order, the position of Prpspero (D. Powlett) being especially well thought out. Miranda (E. Jardine) was very good, her entrance was attractive but a little lacking in reticence. Her acting was most appealing. Ferdinand (M. Higgins) was not quite virile enough in a difficult part. He spoke clearly.

Ariel (P. Roe) almost overcame the handicap of playing the part in school clothes; she sang pleasantly and shepherded her crew with skill. Prologues very good.

The Merchant of Venice. Form IV. The grouping here was excellent, and the two pages were interested throughout the scene, which could not be said of the wives. Portia (G. Hunt) showed great promise, especially in her opening lines, but she would have added much to the dramatic effect both of her'own speeches and the scene if she had stood up earlier. " The Quality of Mercy " should not be declaimed sitting comfortably in a chair.

Shylock (S. Mayne) was good but turned his back too much ; it speaks well for his diction that every word could be heard. Every player spoke her part distinctly and the Duke (K. Neligan) presided well and kept his court together with great skill.

I have made criticisms, because no good work should be above criticism, but I enjoyed every minute of the evening and thought the standard of production very high; my enjoyment was increased by the thought that the scenes had been produced by the girls without outside help. Well Done !"

21 Alice in Wonderland.

February 22.

One finds it hard to believe that the apparently sane and sensible members of Poore Company are identical with those who produced that cheerfully mad and nonsensical work, " Alice in Wonderland." Lewis Carrol's blithe disregard of the sensible and prosaic is refreshing in print; when reproduced by lively actors it is positively exhilarating.

The acting of T. McCormick as Alice was delightfully natural as well as very pleasant to watch ; she made one really sympathise with the little girl, full of common sense and proper education, who suddenly found herself plunged into a dreadfully confusing land of opposites, where everything that had once made sense now appeared to be the height of stupidity, when she was told in seriousness that she was only a part of the Red King's dream.

The White King and Queen should both be congratulated on their costumes, which perfectly reproduced the original illustrations, while the latter's energetic and extremely amusing vocal performance bore a strong resemblance to a "passe" prince donna. The Mad Hatter (A. Mead) might have been taken straight from the book, so appropriate was he, from his evidence at the trial to his watch and ever-present tea-cup. The restrained futility of the White Knight (P. Wilson), his kindly interest in Alice, his keenness to demonstrate to her his interesting but useless inventions, brought home to one more strongly what one had always felt before, namely that he was a perfect gentleman with no brains but charming manners. It is impossible here to enlarge upon the many points of excellence, such as Tweedle Dee (S. Jefferis) and Dum's (M. Chadwick) joint recitation, the mad tea-party, the startling behaviour of the Cook (P Reed) and the Duchess (B. Wilson), the court scene, and the surprising metamorphosis of baby into pig, for they are far too numerous.

The happy and determined disregard of sense with which everything was carried through gave a revived animation and enjoyment of Alice and her adventures; Poore should be highly praised for their music and scenery, and more especially for the life and movement of the whole absurd production, by which they set a very high standard to be reached by the rest of the Company plays.

M. Glynn.

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"The Taunton Maids."

February 24.

Grosstete was the only company this year to choose a historical play, " The Taunton Maids," which showed the life in a school of the seventeenth century. The play began with the pupils, unusually distinguished young ladies, working at a banner which was to be presented to the Duke of Monmouth, who had then risen against King James II. The setting of this act was charming ; the girls so lively, and the dresses so attractive.

The heroine of the play was Lady Margaret (M. Warrand) who, being the most distinguished pupil, had to present the banner; she was very natural and acted well. She aroused great sympathy in the second act, when she was condemned to prison but was .saved in the last moment by the servant maid of the school, Sarah (A. Roberts). The audience quite realised how great was the sacrifice made by the servant, who disguised herself as the Lady Margaret and was carried off to prison. Mistress Norton (P. Herbert) amused the audience by the great dignity with which she conducted her school, and rehearsed the scene of the presentation of the banner. In the second act Mrs. Dunch, the housekeeper of the school, was well played by C. Waldo.

All turned out satisfactorily in the end, when Lady Margaret reached the court in London where her sister lived safely. Here Queen Mary of Modena pardoned the maid who had made so great a sacrifice.

Grosstete can be congratulated on their play, it was well produced and specially nice to watch.

G Martens.

" A Kiss for Cinderella."

February 29.

Osmund's production was undoubtedly the most ambitious and most successful of all the Company plays.

They were fortunate in being a fairly old Company, and in having a number of good actors. But in spite of these advantages it must have needed a great deal of thought and hard work to produce such an excellent performance of a Barrie play.

23 The scene opened upon Mr. Bodie in darkness in his studio, Venus of Milo, his ideal, looming up in one corner. When the policeman came in and Mr. Bodie put on the light, the interior of a comfortable sitting room was revealed. The policeman (P. Robinson) and Mr. Bodie were most convincing in their conversation, and Gertrud Martens (Mr. Bodie) is especially to be congratulated on taking her part so well in a language foreign to her. A sigh of astonishment went round the audience when Mr. Bodie, whose actions were most manly, lit a cigarette and settled down to wait for Cinderella.

Cinderella, when she came, was most amusing in her lively, imaginative and droll vocabularly, as well as being pathetic at times. One was not surprised that she carried the policeman back to the day when he was young " down in Badgery", as Mr. Bodie had prophesied. Throughout the scene Venus of Milo kept amazingly still, she was so statuesque that several times I thought she was going to be knocked over.

The second Act at Celeste-et-Cie, where the secret of Cinderella's boxes was revealed, was most amusing.

The "great, big, ridiculous, policeman" when he came in dressed up as a sailor with his false beard nearly falling off looked more ridiculous than ever, especially when he romped with the children. There can have been few of us whose hearts did not go out to Cinderella when we heard her vivid, but, alas, impossible imagination about the Ball. It was a great relief when the Fairy Godmother granted all that Cinderella wished in her dream.

The scenery for the Ball was most magnificent and cleverly arranged. True, to all dreams the Ball was incongruous, the King and Queen hanging on straps, and talking with a cockney accent. Despite the good looks and attractive appearance of all the " beauts " the Prince was excessively languid; as he said himself he did not experience a single " palp ". He was not the only one who was indifferent to the beauties, for no one seemed to care (except the censor, who thoroughly enjoyed himself) when they were censored. When Cinderella came in and the Prince fell in love at first sight the whole scene was transformed to one of animated interest. There was obvious relief when the second and third prizes could not answer the riddle, and great excitment when Cinderella answered it, right: but her request to have the Prince's temperature taken created

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some consternation, until the thermometer was broken and the King hastily uttered the magic word " ninetynine ". After this all went smoothly with the Ball, the great excitement of the evening being the King's treat of ice creams.

The last—and probably the most difficult act—the hospital, brought the play to an excellent close. Dr. Bodie, the efficient lady doctor acted her part very well, she was just as we had imagined her. Cinderella's excitment at seeing Mr. Bodie, and having a visit from her policeman, David, was so great that we did not realize fully the tragedy of the last episode.

The whole play was so enthralling that we missed, or did not appear to appreciate much of the humour in the first performance, and we were all glad to see it a second time in order to enjoy it as fully as possible. It showed great ingenuity and attention to detail on the part of the producer, and the acting throughout was of a very high standard.

B. Leigh Mallory.

"Ships and Sealing Wax." March 3.

Edmund Rich, unlike the other companies, presented an original play. This was written for the occasion by Reine Macaulay, and very good it was. The play, in three acts, gave us a picture of Princess Vivian (M. Pollock) ruling over Kindaland. Love complications were hers, Michael, Prince of Cremonia (M. Hamersley) having a serious rival in the villain of the piece. King Leopold of Telarouse, (U. Cleverly) who had the support of an excellent, and most amusing, army (M. Perry, U. Paris and J. Morris giving us delightfully portrayed soldiers). Equally good was the acting of the Mayor (G. Clark-Kennedy) and Mayoress of Kindaland (D. Powlett) while their son, Rufus, (B. McKenzie) showed real talent in his part.

The unexpected denouement, when the villain conquered, and we realised how feeble and unconvincing had been his rival, brought a most successful play to a happy conclusion. Reine is to be congratulated on a really interesting piece of work. The dialogue was so refreshing, the interest so well sustained. And M. Harris the producer, who also played so well the part of Gemeral, Princess Vivian's Prime Minister, deserves high praise. It must be extremely difficult to produce a play when the acts only reach one at long intervals !

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"The Prince who was a Piper."

March 7.

Moberly's presentation of " The Prince who was a Piper" closed the series of the five company plays of this year. It was a one act play without any change of scenery, the scene being the Palace garden of the Princess. This scenery was remarkably good and convincing ; the setting a beautiful garden.

The standard of the acting was quite high on the whole, some of the actors were even outstanding. The naturalness and the charm of Princess Maie (H. Bridgman) made it very easy for the Prince to fall in love with her at once, although it was a pity that she could not always be heard very well by the audience. Prince Denis (L. Carleton) was not too convincing either as prince or as piper, but he tried to make the best out of his part.

His equerry Bernez, (C. Brakenridge) was rather stiff and did not quite know what to do with his arms and legs. Jezu (M. Glynn) the Lord Chancellor, was most amusing. , The action of the play was interspersed several times by country dances given by peasants, which were very well done, considering our small stage. The play was very well produced, the setting as well as the scenery helped to make it as complete as possible.

G. Martens.

Reading Competition, 1936.

There was a definite improvement in the reading this year, and though perhaps there were no outstanding performances, the reading of everyone was of a good standard.

The four badge winners (J. Morris and S. Hayter (Senior) and C. Clarke and N. Gwatkin (Juniors)) read well. The diction was clear, there was plenty of variety of pace and pitch, and I particularly enjoyed the speaking of the verse. Many of those in the first class came very near to obtaining the marks necessary for a badge.

It is always interesting to compare the sight reading with the prepared work and practically everyone tackled the " unknown'' with courage and correctness, though many fell into the small traps contained therein. I think that everyone should aim for a better attack, more assurance, clearer diction and a better pose.

It is very good to know that somewhere in these busy times the art of reading aloud is not being allowed to die.

R. Minnis.

Reading Moberly.

M. Glynn H. Bridgman N. Gwatkin (J) Class I. C. Brakenridge (6) M. Coventon (J) Badges.

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Class II. B. Lewis (3)

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Grosstete. Edmund, Rich.

Osmund.

J. Morris S. Hayter E. Booker O. Matthews (J) C. Clarke (J) P. Wood D Crosbie E. Jardine D. Butler (J)

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Poore.

A. G. Roberts U. Cleverly C. Hall M. Pollock P. Herbert A. Mead H. Blackadder A. Pegg(J) S. Mayne ij) J. McCormiick(J) U. Paris P. Wilson M. Lake M. Hurst (J) P. Hall (J)

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Impressions of Half-Term November 1935.

There is always great excitement connected with Half-Terms, and especially so this term when the weekend began with such an important event as the laying of the foundation stone of the new buildings, and was lengthened by an additional holiday on the Tuesday, when celebrations for the coming Royal wedding were combined with the usual Guy Fawkes' Day festivities.

It is remarkable that the clerk of the weather should so fully realise the importance of school functions; for although, as at the time of our Jubilee, he delights in flooding us with rain beforehand, yet he generally rises to the occasion when the great hour arrives.

A few passing observations may perhaps preserve for generations to come some impression of Saturday's ceremony. The school marshalled into rows under an awning, rustling service papers, parents perched precariously on planks aboye a sea of mud, important figures standing on an improvised platform around the hanging stone, all gazing with admiration at the site of the building with its rapidly growing walls such would have been the outstanding features of the scene as noticed by a bystander on that day.

After the laying of the stone by Lady Lansdowne, who performed her duties most carefully with a special trowel, mallet and spirit-level provided for the occasion, the school, conducted by Mr. Pullein, sang a hymn of dedication, and so the service ended with prayers. All shared in the feeling that they had witnessed a most

27 significant step in the history of the school, knowing also that if in far distant years to come the stone should be uncovered, the names of all those at present living in the school could be found in two sealed bottles, and, as a matter of historical interest, the coins of the year and a Jubilee Crown.

There was no need to pity those left at school that day for they thoroughly enjoyed themselves in Savernake, ending up at Marlborough for a magnificent tea. The evening passed in a riotous fashion with a fancy-dress arty. A holiday atmosphere also prevailed on Sunday )r there was no set programme, and Miss Matthews gave the school a lovely treat in the evening with her readings of the " Just so Stories ". • Monday morning brought the satisfying feeling that this was no usual day, for there were more excitements yet to come.

At an early hour the majority departed, some for such distant destinations as Oxford, London and even Northampton, while the rest, though they did not go so far, found plenty to see in Salisbury or at Fry's factory at Bristol.

Although most parents had left by Tuesday, the school still gave itself up to festivities and looked forward with great anticipation to the specially arranged performance of " David Copperfield", at the Cinema, the humour and appeal of which was not lessened for those who were seeing it for the second time. The discussions which afterwards arose were a sufficient proof of how much it was appreciated.

Nunn's well-constructed bonfire was worthy of the most pathetically life-like guy which crowned it. The circle of cloaked figures, their faces lit up by the glow of the fire the pitiful disintegration of the guy, limb by limb—and finally the joining of hands for ' Auld Lang Syne "—these formed the last impressions of a week-end worthy of special remembrance.

VI Form.

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" The Girton Frolic ".

March 2nd, 1936.

This year on Miss Matthews' birthday we also celebrated a scholarship to Girton, and a successful First M.B., and so the event was enlarged, from the usual halfholiday, to a whole day of pleasure.

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Celebrations began in the morning when we all went down to the Cinema, and, having wished Miss Matthews " Many Happy returns of the Da—ay ", in the traditional manner, settled down to a riotous programme.

First we saw a " Foxhunt" according to the notions of the authors of Silly Symphonies which made us laugh from beginning to end. Next we saw Cicely Courtneidge as the ideal school mistress in " Things are Looking up " in the ideal school where all the girls wore silk pyjamas and all had their hair permanently waved !

Having returned from the Cinema we all went off and amused ourselves till lunch, after which an exciting game of Lacrosse was fought out between Cabbages and Kings, which culminated in the Cabbages just defeating the more regal players.

After tea the whole school went up to the hall and sat round impatiently awaiting " Miss A. Non." a distinguished visitor, who was coming to addres.s the school.

We had not long to wait before Miss Matthews arrived with " Boo-boo " a very frisky and, as he proved, intelligent ape. " Boo-boo," at Miss Matthews' direction then presented each School Certificate Candidate with a little chocolate nigger, and crowned our budding doctor and our scholarship winner with laurels. Having performed this arduous task " Boo-boo " was allowed to take a little relaxation and proceeded to perform intricate antics on the bar until called off to bed by Miss Matthews.

When " Boo-boo " had left the Hall we all prepared for one of Mr. Peat's delightful puppet shows, which fully lived up to our expectations. Mr. Peat gave us several scenes from Henry V, and from " The Taming of the Shrew ", and ended with the story of " Paminondas" and his many adventures, which included a narrow escape from being run over by our (J.P.) headmistress!

When Mr. Peat had finished his entertainment, he explained the workings of the puppet show to those of us who had not seen it before and then came with us to supper. This feast which was laid in the dining room had been entirely provided by Miss Jackson in her wonderful way, and included a large and handsome cake from which all, Staff, girls and maids, had a slice.

After supper we all went to the hall where, to the strains of a novel orchestra consisting of a piano, accordian and spoons, we danced till chapel, after which we all went, tired but happy, to bed, at the end of a perfect day.

M. E. Matthews.

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June 26, 1936.

The excitement caused in the school by the announcement of Isabel Martineau's success may well be imagined.

Isabel had won gold Medals in Surgery and in Medicine; was top of her year, men and women, and when we heard that she was coming down with Jo Hughes to celebrate her victory with us, the excitement rose to fever heat.

The day chosen for the holiday was June 26th, and Isabel had written to ask if we might spend it in Savernake, as, she said, some of her happiest days at school had been there. The day arrived, and with it, glorious sunshine. Directly after chapel, assembled on the lawn, we presented Isabel with a third gold medal—(cardboard this time)—to show her how proud we were of her, and also in case she should lose the others!

There followed a cricket match against the Staff, and although the opposing team appeareclwith large " L's " on their backs, they succeeded in taking our wickets for eighty-six runs, and were well on their way to equalling our score, when we had to stop to start for Savernake.

Mr. Philips had kindly invited twenty people to see the Witney blanket Factory, and from their descriptions at the end of the day, these twenty seemed to have enjoyed themselves as much as we,—if this were possible.

We arrived at Savernake, and after putting the lunch down, set off in twos and threes to explore. We came back very ready for Miss Jackson's excellent lunch, and the next half-hour was spent in more or less silent enjoyment.

After lunch we again went off into the forest, where we walked, stalked deer, swung on trees, or picked flowers according to our varying tastes. Miss Matthews had offered prizes for the two best decorated hats, and just before starting back we collected together for the judging.

There were hats of every description, artistic and comic, decorated with flowers, leaves, bracken, and even stones.

Jennifer Morris and Elizabeth Puckle were the winners, Jennifer with an ingenious decoration of acorns, and Elizabeth with an attractive, but rather uncomfortable,— rock garden!

We arrived back at school, and after another large meal in Gabriel, did as we liked for the rest of the day. we went to bed with the feeling of another of those days which you always remember, behind us, and a determintion that one day, we too, would win gold medals.

H. Bridgman.

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Our Expedition to Witney.

June 26.

On Friday June 26th, twenty of us were very kindly invited to Witney by Mr. and Mrs. Philips to be shown over the blanket factory there. . We were shown all over the factory, and found it very interesting, and we felt that after all the trouble that was taken making blankets that it was quite scandalous to sleep under them! The finished blankets were extremely nice, and we especially admired the ones which were made for children.

We had a marvellous lunch at the " old Swan," and afterwards we went to look at the old manor house in Minster Lovell. This house had been the seat of the Lovells for many centuries, and one felt history in every part of it. After having looked over the ruins at Minster Lovell we drove to Burford, and went to see the Church there. The Church was very beautifully carved and decorated, and was practically composed of chapels, of which there were a great many.

When we had had our tea at Burford, we drove home, having enjoyed our day extremely. It was a most kindly thought of Mr and Mrs. Philips to treat us so royally and we hope the cheers we gave them helped them to realise how grateful we were.

D. Butler.

Half-Term.

June, 1936.

The Summer half-term is such an essentially outdoor function, that fine or wet weather can make or mar our full happiness in such things as the Mass Drill, the Fathers' match and picnics. Last year heavy showers prevented us performing the drill and the match was a matter of a few minutes. But this term the sun beamed on all our exploits and completed our happiness.

Saturday morning passed more quickly than usual while we wrote wildly imaginable, and, in many cases, impracticable plans for improving the garden or furnishing the New Buildings. Very few people did not go out with their people this time and a whole host of relations and friends turned up to watch the drill and the match.

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only a few seconds and it was entirely due to Miss Wblff's untiring coaching that it went so well at the actual moment. Then followed the match—a triumph for the Fathers. The school declared at 84 for 8 wickets and left the Fathers one hour to get the runs. They scored fast and closed their innings at the first possible moment—85 for 8 wickets.

For the favoured few who did not go put, this half term stands out and almost reaches the glorious standard of joy that we felt at our Jubilee. On Sunday, after a day of peace and freedom, ten lucky people "chaperoned "

by Miss Alexander, spent the evening listening to a wonderful concert at Marlborough College. Mr. Hylton Stewart conducted the small string orchestra which was the setting for the superb technique of Adela Fachiri on the violin. It was twilight when we came out and as we drove back past the White Horse we saw the downs in a new mood of grey stillness and solemnity.

On Monday we had a never-to-be-forgotten picnic on the downs near Bratton. The sun shone and the wind blew to add to all our other joys. After lunch we had three hours to explore the downs and the villages round about, while some people went to Bratton church and climbed the tower. It was a lovely little country church surrounded by great beeches and everything was beautifully kept. We had tea in the garden of an Inn and for the rest of the evening our minds ran on things architectural. We went to see the beautiful monastery church at Edington, and many of us, who had lately been discussing such things with Miss Hendry, were greatly interested to see the magnificent screen, and two misericordes carved with dragons and serpents!

The new gardens were at their height of glory, and the buildings were left free from debris so that the parents might inspect the magnificent future abode of their daughters. Altogether it was a most successful and glorious week end, enhanced by the fact that next half term will be the momentous occasion when the work of the past year will be completed, and we hope to enter the New Buildings in state.

U. Paris.

The Downe House " Conference."

July 9, 1936.

There is practically aflv no opportunity for those who do not shine at games to get the chance of meeting girls from other schools, and those who do play in

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matches say that they only have time for pleasant conversation, so we were all very glad when Miss Matthews told us that ten seniors were coming over from Downe House to spend the evening with us.

We had tea alone in the dining-room, the rest of the school having gone out to games, and soon we were talking as if we had known each other for ages. Some of us had met before at the Conference at Hayward's Heath, so that helped to break the ice.

After tea we went to the library, where we had discussions on many topics, ranging from Social Service, (what we as schools did and could do for it), housing, risons and contemporary literature. We were all great/ interested in our discussions, and everyone was most friendly, and had so much to say that we did not notice how fast the time had flown.

Our visitors were very anxious to see the new buildings, so, in spite of a torrential downpour we took them over. They were very appreciative and interested, and especially loved the Hall. When they had seen all that they wanted we went to Gabriel and played some mad and amusing games.

They stayed to supper, and afterwards to chapel, where we had the office for Compline, which has been introduced this term as an occasional alternative to the usual evening service.

We were extremely sorry to say goodbye to our new found friends; they were so delightful and friendly, and we all enjoyed the evening so much, and think it is an excellent idea to meet girls from other schools in this way, as we can exchange ideas, and get new ones, and broaden our outlook. They have_ invited us to Downe House next term but the sad part is that many of us will not meet again, as next term most of the prefects from both schools will have left.

P. M. Clarke.

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Our Day at Denford.

July 11, 1936.

Of course we had all seen Mr. and Mrs. Dunne at the time of the Jubilee, and we have heard of them many times since. We had also heard from Old Girls of a wonderful day in the Summer Term when the prefects go to Denford, Mr. Dunne's house at Hungerford.

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We were told fabulous stories of lovely gardens filled with beautiful old trees and every sort of flower, of tennis courts on which even the hopelessly bad cannot fail to play well, of the generous hospitality of the host and hostess in allowing us to do exactly as we pleased; and finally we had been warned to be abstemious over breakfast, so that we could do justice to the next two meals of the day. So it was not without a certain thrill of excitment that we drove through the gates of Denford, one Saturday in July. From the very first we knew that our expectations were to be more than realised, and when after lunch, Mr. Dunne took us round the garden we were filled with the wonder that the charm of an old garden always inspires. We passed through a wrought-iron gate, guarded from above by two stone owls, into a great walled-in rose-garden, in which stood a fern leaf beech tree. Delphiniums, carnations, begonias, antirrhinums, every flower that we knew, and many that we had never heard of, met our gaze as we went further afield. We studied with interest the welfare of peaches, grapes, nectarines, cucumbers, tomatoes, and melons suspended from the roof in nets, in the many greenhouses. On our return we tried our hand at putting under the careful instruction of our host. Then as the sky seemed clearer we began sets of tennis, but down came the rain again, and we adjourned hastily to the house, where we were most interested in Mr. Dunne's old prints of India, and sketches of the various stages of the hunt in pig-sticking. We had to leave soon after tea, and as we were going Mr. Dunne pressed a leviathan casket of chocolates in our hands, with the words, " To eat in the bus "—as if we had not just had enough tea to feed all the Special areas for a week! But such things can be appreciated later on. So we became members of the large number of girls for whom Denford will always be a vitally beautiful memory, and we shall never forget the kindness and friendliness of Mr. and Mrs. Dunne.

S. Hobson.

34 Lower VI " At Home."

July 18th.

What fun it all was! Blue silk frocks -a transformed Gabriel—a more than transformed Third Form Room. Such charming hostesses, such ingenious games and competitions, such a wonderful supper (with one of Miss Jackson's " wizard " isn't that the correct term ?— birthday cakes) and, as a finale, such a delightfully composed and sung " Ballad of Twenty-one years ago." It was all in honour of Miss Alexander's birthday, and well she deserved it too. If there were any feeling of " Oh, it's so impossibly near the end of the term, how can we find time ? " that disappeared like magic before pur kindly welcome. In no time,—our partners having been found by a series of original labels -we sat down to every conceivable kind of competition, some old, some new.

(How was it that Miss Prior guessed the exact number of peas in a large bottle ? What is the connection between music and peas ?)

What a surprise it was when the Prefects, arrayed in two solemn rows, broke into song, Mary Glynn impersonating Miss Matthews, and Eleanor Booker, Miss Alexander, and every " well worn joke, by now timehonoured tradition" was brought in to this deliciously indiscreet " ballad " with its haunting chorus. No wonder it called forth rapturous applause, and had to be repeated.

Yes, it was a lovely evening and we are most grateful to the Lower VI for choosing so delightful a way of celebrating the birthday. Thank you.

A. Guest.

Lectures.

Autumn Term, 1935.

The first lecture of the autumn term was given by Mr. Augustin Booth, of the Wallace collection. He spoke of modern movements in art, and showed us that some of these really began very far back. In portrait painting, for example, the first modernist was Velasquez.

Mr. Booth particularly emphasized the importance of colour, form and handling, and illustrated his lecture by a very interesting collection of slides, leaving us with a new

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impression of modern art and its tendencies. The ever welcome Mr. Grant was the next lecturer. He spoke, as usual, upon politics, in the world today, and devoted two lectures to this. The first, in the morning, was upon the Abyssinian question, and Mr. Grant told us the past history of Italo-Ethiopian relations, as well as discussing and explaining the nature of the present problem.

Sanctions had not then been enforced, and he explained to us the different kinds, financial, economic, and military, and spoke of the machinery of the League which was being set in motion for the first time. The second lecture was more general in its range and dealt with the Pacific problem, Japan, China and the U.S.A. The older members of the school went to a League of Nations Union meeting in the Town Hall, where the speaker was Mr. Alec Wilson, introduced by Captain Cazalet, Member for Chippenham. The subject was Abyssinia, and we were interested to hear the point of view of someone who had recently visited Geneva and had heard Sir Samuel Hoare's speech to the nations.

We were very glad to welcome Miss Edith Thompson who conducted the school girls' tour round the world upon which Elisabeth Waller went. She spoke to us about the tour, and gave us a very vivid description of Australia and New Zealand. It was interesting to hear about the Fairbridge Farm schools, and her slides were very good. We could realise after hearing Miss Thompson, how much the party must have enjoyed going with her.

Mr. Aston and Mrs. Richardson had given their lectures before, but they were both so interesting that we were glad to hear them again. Mr. Aston spoke upon Garibaldi and the making of the Italian nation ; it was impossible not to be stirred by that amazing adventure.

Mrs. Richardson's lecture on Dante and the Divine Comedy was also much enjoyed.

Four of the lectures we have heard this term have concerned Italy, past or present. Naturally in the present situation the Italian nation has a prominent place in our minds, and it was particularly interesting at this time to learn about the famous past or Italy as well as its infamous present.

R. Macaulay.

36 Lent Term, 1936.

Mr. Grant came and spoke to us on January 21 st and 22nd, the two days after the death of the King, at a time when he must have found lecturing anything but easy: yet he was even more inspiring than usual. The first lecture, on Tuesday evening, was one illustrated by beautiful slides, on ' Austria and the Danube.' Who did not want to visit Austria after that ? We were thrilled and amazed by his description of canoeing tours down the Danube, of Winter sports and climbing in the Austrian mountains, of the towns, like those in an illustrated Hans Andersen, and, perhaps the most striking, of the wonderful modern flats in Vienna, which seem to have everything necessary for a clean, pleasant existence and are let to people of the working class for the equivalent of ÂŁ2 to ÂŁ4 a year. Vienna sounds a dream city, of the past, the present and the great future.

The next day Mr. Grant lectured to us twice, on a far wider subject. ' The Changing World.' He showed us the possible kinds of outlook onto the world, and the challenge which the world today, so full of incident and changes offer us, especially to us who have still such a long time to spend in it, and how important it is to respond to this challenge and not live in indifference to the rest of the world. He went on to suggest that a new epoch was beginning with the reign of King Edward VIII, an epoch of inventions, which made a great difference to the human race: he showed how these inventions are only going to be useful if handled in the right way and not used by nations only for the good of the state, leaving the good of the individual out of the balance, as seems to be the tendency of dictators. He talked to us about the life of King Edward VIII and showed how well equipped the new King is for his work. This was a wonderfully interesting course of lectures, opening up such possibilities of thought. We are grateful to Mr. Grant for giving up such a long time to us, and for seeming to enjoy it, too.

On Thursday, February 6th, Mrs. King, who has spent a great deal of time in the Soviet Republic, gave us a lecture on the U.S.S.R. today. We had been told that her views were communistic, and we were expecting something rousing. However, though the lecture was kindly, with the sort of information that showed that Mrs. King sympathised with the Russian, it was not particularly

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stimulating. Perhaps in an almost too kindly considertion for our youth, Mrs King avoided the discussion of deeper issues. She told us much that was interesting about education, industry and improvements in the social life of the Russians. Whether any of us who knew nothing about Communism were much enlightened as to its most important aims and motives, or whether any rabid anti-communists were converted is uncertain.

Lieutenant-Commander Bernard's lecture ' Leaves from my Log' on February 10 was delightful: no-one could have helped enjoying it. He has the most charming, dry sense of humour (I do not think that the story of the unloading of the horses will ever be forgotten!) and this tempered his descriptions of his early life on sailing ships, which must have been so hard and grim as to be almost unbearable. His pictures of sailing ships were very beautiful; and we are glad to have learnt from this lecture something about a kind of life, that of a ship's boy on a Merchant Clipper, which is now almost a thing unknown. This lecture must have driven all of us to realizing how comparatively soft is our life.

We were very sorry that Mr. Aston was seriously ill at the beginning of this year, and because he was ill we could not have his promised and much looked-forward to course of lectures on ' Life in Ancient Greece,' after examinations; but we hope that he will soon be well and able to come to us again. We are very grateful to those people who have given us such interesting talks, to Miss Matthews for arranging them, and (not to be forgotten) Misses Hendry and Beridge for manipulating a sometimes slightly fractious epidiascope.

Summer Term.

Of the four lectures which we have had this term, the first and the last were on International Affairs, one from the point of view of an American and the other of an Englishman; the other two lectures were perhaps equally useful and important in a different way.

Professor Newell, an American who spends much of his time in England, and whom some of us remembered from the time, two years ago, when he lectured to us, came again and spoke to us about " Anglo-American Relationships." He stressed the common interests and ideals of English and Americans, which made links between them as well as the tie of speaking the same

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language. He told us how our constitution and government are envied and looked at rather as a model by many Americans; he also criticized the American rigid constitution, and showed us how 'at that time) the feeling of the majority of Americans inclined towards joining the League, though that action was impossible because of their type of constitution. Professor Newell is a delightful lecturer, and we were all very much interested in the facts and ideas which he set before us.

On May 26th, Mrs. Wise lectured to us, in a calm, rather uninspiring way (which may be a good thing, since people would not be likely to be carried into a Social Service career blindly, on a wave of emotion) on Careers, and especially those connected with Social Service. She was quite helpful, and her beginning piece of advice seemed excellent; she said that in the choice of a career it was important to consider how the life which you had chosen was going to suit you, not only at twenty, but perhaps at thirty, forty and fifty . . . She told us about House Property Management, the work of a Hospital Almoner, a Probation Officer, and of many other interesting careers in work for other people.

Miss Wight, after coaching tennis on the courts, gave us an energetic and spectacular lecture on " Tennis."

It was accompanied by films of herself and various Wimbledon notabilities.

Then, when Examinations and book writing exertions were things of the past, Mr. Grant came again, to take us out of ourselves and to show us the present difficulties of the World, which are so much greater than we are inclined to realize. He could not stay for very long, unfortunately, this time, but he spoke to us very interestingly and then answered patiently a number of questions. Mr. Grant showed us the significance of recent events at Geneva, the ever-growing importance of Germany in Europe, and the anxiety which her policy must cause; he also pointed out how the aims of Italy and Germany had much in common, and how there seemed to be an understanding between them, shown by the recent action of Germany with Austria. He also told us a little about Russia, the Balkans, and Japan. Mr Grant had just come back from America, and showed us how the desire of America is to keep out of a war at any price; to this end she is even parting with some of her

89 colonies, such as the Philippines. It was one of Mr. Grant's consistently interesting lectures, and our only sorrow was that he could not stay and speak to us again.

P. Herbert.

Music of the Year.

The great event of the Autumn Term, to which all singing and orchestral work has been devoted was the Musical Festival at Bath. This was held at the Pavilion with representatives of the Royal School, Westonbirt and Sherborne and again this year we were thrilled to welcome Mr. Jaques as our conductor. The programme was as follows : — JUNIOR CHOIRS (with Orchestra).

The Christ Child The Shepherds Under the Greenwood Tree

Peter Cornelius Peter Cornelius A. H. Linton

SENIOR CHOIRS (with Orchestra).

The Gardener How lovely are thy dwellings fair

Brahms Brahms

OMNES (with Orchestra).

The Spacious Firmament on High Christmas Song

Gordon Jakob Hoist

ORCHESTRA. Organ Concerto in A (arranged for piano) Toy Symphony

Handel Haydn

These needed a good deal of preparation, and as we decided to give a concert performance of the whole programme at three o'clock this meant we had to work very hard rehearsing in the morning and early afternoon.

Altogether there were about four hundred people singing and about fifty in the orchestra and it was amazing how quickly, under Mr. Jaques' direction, we were able to sing and play satisfactorily together.

This was the first year that we have ever produced people to play in the orchestra and as a result six of us

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think that we had an even jollier day than the people who sang. The orchestra was led by Dr. Hunt of Bristol, who, with a large body of experienced first violins, was able to keep us together quite successfully.

The Junior songs were most attractive and went extremely well, as did the Unison songs, of which " The Spacious Firmament" sounded most impressive. The outstanding feature of the day was " How lovely are thy dwellings ", which everyone enjoyed and which sounded extraordinarily beautiful. The Handel concerto was divided between a VC'estonbirt and Sherborne girl who played two movements each with great feeling and skill.

The Grand Finale was the Toy Symphony which was great fun and most amusing. Thus we managed to fit a good deal of music into a most enjoyable day for which our thanks are due to Miss Steel, Miss Vincent, our Royal School hostesses and, above all, to Mr. Jaques.

It was in every way a wonderful festival, the only sad part being the thought that it was Miss Steel's last year at the Royal School. The Head Girl of each school joined in presenting her with a bouquet as a sign of our gratitude to her as Founder of the Festival, Owing to the C9mpany Plays, time for concerts in the Lent Term was limited.

We were however, lucky in having Anne Wood and Miss Mary McDougall to sing to us, accompanied

by Mr. Hylton-Stewart. The programme began with a group of Brahm's duets, which was followed by a selection of English Folk Songs by Miss Mary McDougall.

Anne Wood then sang two Schubert songs and " My William " by Schumann, and they ended with a group of duets. We especially liked Purcell's " Sound of the Trumpet", Mervyn Horder's " Jesu dulcis memoria", and "Now is the month maying." Between the songs Mr. Hylton-Stewart played Schumann's "Papillons" most inspiringly. We are extremely grateful to them all for coming and giving us such an enjoyable evening.

Later in the term the Dorian Trio came to play to us. We much enjoyed Beethoven's " Archduke" trip, and Trio in C major by Brahms, but the 'cello and violin solos were not so inspiring.

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Summer Term.

In the Summer Term the Wayfarers' Trio again visited us, and we much enjoyed their recital. They played trios by Tchaikowsky and Schubert, and Miss Ruth Spqoner played " Grillen" by Schumann on the piano which was greatly appreciated.

This year the Calne Choral Society performed " Hiawatha " in Celebration of Mr. Pullein's fifty years as its conductor. It was an excellent performance which we all thoroughly enjoyed, particularly the solos by Miss Mary Hamlin and Mr. William Parsons, and the choruses in the " Wedding Feast."

For those who were lucky enough to go, the great musical event of the term was a violin recital at Marlborough by Adila Fachiri, accompanied by Mr. HyltonStewart and a small string orchestra from London.

Madame Fachiri played two Bach concertos, in E major and D minor, and Brahms' Sonata in A major. The performance absolutely thrilled us, and we are so grateful to Mr. Turner and Mr. Hylton-Stewart for inviting us over to it. Some of us also greatly enjoyed a College concert at Marlborough at the end of term.

The acquisition of a wireless in the Lent Term greatly increased our facilities for hearing good music. Lately we have been able to listen-in to several excellent concerts.

During the year the orchestra has increased in size, and in the Summer Term played Mozart's piano concerto in A major. A renewed keenness for chamber music has arisen, and there have been performances by several quartets and trios.

The Music Society was unable to give any performance this year owing to the Musical Festival and Company Plays, but in the summer term we learnt a variety of Folk Songs from many different countries. At the end of the term Miss Jennings most kindly invited us all to a picnic at the Bear. We appreciated her generous hospitality all the more because the rain made out-door entertainment impossible, and she managed to accommodate sixty of us in her house at great inconvenience to herself.

"We feel that this has been a good year for the music of the school. Extra time has now been given to orchestra practices, and there seems to be a growing keenness for music generally throughout the school. We are sorry to

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lose Mrs. Hylton-Stewart who has taught violin here for a year. We wish to thank her and allthe music staff for all they have done for us during the year, and especially Mr. Pullein who has now taught in the school for fifty years.

M. Harris.

E. Booker.

Science of the Year.

We were extremely sorry to say goodbye to Miss Maclachlan, when she left us at the end of the Lent Term.

Her ceaseless energy and interest have done wonders for the school science, the standard of which has risen considerably since she came. In her place we are very fortunate to have Miss Fraser who has brought with her many new and thrilling ideas, and under whom the science of the school will doubtless continue to improve.

There has been, of late a fine array of experiments on germination and plant growth, most of which appear to have given good results.

Those people studying Biology did not entirely appreciate the great influx orrabbits and fish for dissection.

However, some of us derived enjoyment from them—until they became quite unapproachable.

The Field Club has had a number of outings which, judging by the laden and triumphant members who return from them, have been successful. At these meetings not only are wild flowers collected but also butterflies, caterpillars and pond animals. These last usually find a home in the aquarium, which now contains a large and varied number of fascinating creatures. From among the water weeds in the tank there spouts a small fountain, which continually aerates and changes the water.

We have higher ambitions for this aquarium, since Mr. Olive kindly invited Miss Fraser to take a party of us over to the magnificent aquaria at Dauntsey's School.

At the same time we were shown an extremely interesting botanical garden where several experiments in artificial habitats and in crossing of plants were being carried out.

There have been two excellent examination results this year; Isabel Martineau has proved one of our most distinguished Old Girls in winning the students' Gold Medals in both Medicine and Surgery at Birmingham University. We heard later that she passed her final

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examination with distinction in Medicine. Beridge Leigh Mallory has been a pioneer in passing her first medical examination from school, and has also obtained a vacancy in Science at Girton. It is to be hoped that these successes will provide inspiration and encouragement for many aspiring, potential scientists.

M. Glynn.

Thursday's Clubs.

Everyone was filled with apprehension, one day at the beginning of the term, to hear that we were all to go to the Hall at 12.45. Our fears turned to joy, however, when Miss Inglis tentatively announced to us a new idea of the Staff. " Why", she said, " should Hobbies be confined to the Winter Terms, when there are so many interesting things that can be done in the Summer ? " and so we were invited to join the various clubs, being started by different members of the Staff.

Miss Inglis and Miss Evans held Dramatic Readings for the more studious people, while Miss Alexander has given much of her time to a Stamp Collectors' Club.

Miss Jennings. Miss Mosse and Miss Rygate ran a Photographic Club, which ended the term with an exhibition of its handiwork. Miss Boyd and Miss Wolff have initiated Forms IV and III into certain of the mysteries of Woodcraft, one of whose joys was cooking " Dampers " in the ruins of the Workhouse, an exploit which awoke much envy in the hearts of those " beyond the pale".

Miss James offered a prize to Form III for the best collection of Wild Flowers, and organised walks in search of rare specimens. The more scientifically minded accompanied Miss Fraser on Biology walks, fishing expeditions playing a prominent part in their activities, while the artists, (and others) under Miss Hendry's aegis, defied the elements in order to go sketching.

Despite the inclemency of the weather the experiment has proved very successful and popular, and the whole school is very grateful to the Staff for giving up so much of their time in order that we might have something to look forward to in the middle of the week.

F. Wilson.

44 An Experiment: "Books not Exams."

It was a great surprise when one Wednesday morning we learnt from Miss Matthews that instead of doing examinations this term, she and the Staff had decided that we (i.e. Forms VI and Lower VI) might each write a book.

Those of us who were thus forced to be authors very much appreciated this " novel" idea, although in the almost unlimited range of subjects from which we could chose actually a novel was not included. W^e all heartily agreed that instead of stopping work with the rest of the school to revise and do examinations, it would be much better for us to take this chance of finding out about some subject in which we had an individual interest.

We are sure the Staff were as pleased as we were that we did not do examinations, since it must have reduced by several inches the mountain-like pile of papers which they have to correct. They were a great help to us, however, in lending books, and giving information and advice, although, with some subjects such as Communism—it was difficult to know which Staff to attack !

We all found book-writing a very enjoyable occupation. At the end of each morning questions flew -— "How many pages have you written? "Twenty-six."

"Well done!" "I have got to chapter III," and so on.

The choice of subjects varied from " Pre-Roman Britain " to " This New Generation."

We realised that we were very inexperienced and that the enlightenment that we obtained through writing the books would not perhaps be shown to the best advantage in their pages. The only blow fell when we heard that our books were to be reviewed by the Staff in Mark Reading at the end of the term.

C. Brakenridge.

P. Wood.

The subjects chosen were so varied that it is difficult to assess them accurately. Two girls chose musical subjects, six historical, three literary, one classical, tive more modern topics. Special commendation is due to S. Hobson who wrote on " Chaucer, his Times, Life and Work " ; P. Herbert on "Three Essayists: Addison, Lamb, and R. L. Stevenson ;" and M. Glynn on " Unemployment."

E. M. M.

45 Expeditions.

Does anyone ever wade through the Calendar of The School Year? It provides a very interesting record of an amazing number of activities. We are a country School (and very thankful we are for that) but with what advantages! Who would have imagined that in one vear we should have opportunities—in Bath— for seeing plays German, French, and Greek ? (But to our surprise—not to say relief the Munich Marionettes were performing in English, and the Balliol Players gave the 'Alcestis' in Gilbert Murray's translation). Then there have been our three expeditions to Stratford-on-Avon, for " Romeo and Juliet," " Much Ado" and "Twelfth Night," and " Twelfth Night " again, this time for the Middle School, in Chippenham. We have been to Concerts and Lectures in Bath, at Marlborough and at Dauntsey's, where we also spent an afternoon seeing their wonderful aquaria.

Some of us have seen a very fine Art Exhibition in Salisbury, while Prefects on other business bent—have found time to break their journey in London, to see the Chinese Exhibition and National Gallery. Then of our country expeditions which have we enjoyed most ? The whole school Ascension Day picnic to Sandy Lane, or in Savernake Forest ? Saturday rambles to the White Horse, or the Dumb Post, or—further afield - in fours ? Form picnics to King's Down, Martinsell, Alton Hill, Castle Combe and elsewhere ? Half term outings to Bratton and Edington ?

Wonderful statistics could be made of all the miles travelled, all the meals taken out. But no statistics can reveal all that these outings mean in the life of the school, and of the fun we get out of them, and the refreshment that they bring. We are very lucky people.

The Library.

This has been a year of steady growth for the Library.

We owe our thanks to several friends for gifts of books but especially to the Rev. A. B. Browne, who, on leaving Calne, gave us a valuable selection from his library.

The " reading lists " kept by the girls shew to what good use the library is put. If we study the " School Library Review," which has just come out and to which we subscribe, we shall see that we have fewer library

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rules than almost any other school. We still hope that the day may come when no one forgets to enter the book she has taken out!

We have recently joined the Junior Book Club which gives a new book per month.

Our thanks are due to the Sixth and Lower Sixth, who spend laborious hours at the end of each term checking the books and searching the school for the missing copies. We wish more girls would make suggestions for new books.

E.M.A. S. Prisca's.

What is the most important part of S. Prisca's?

Perhaps it is the kitchen, but though it is certainly an admirable one, cooking could, if necessity demanded it, be learnt in the school kitchen when everyone was out; The bedrooms ? but they are very much the same as those in the other houses; as for the roof, that is only used during the summer term. But in a certain room on the ground floor, more goes on every day than anybody realises, for that room is the Kindergarten. Beyond the fact that a few small people appear in the dining-room for dinner every day, and in break, little blue-bereted figures rush round S Prisca's garden, or stand on the wall and wave to their friends playing lacrosse, few of us at " the big school" as they call it, are given a'chance to notice the activities of this important part of S. Mary's.

Every morning when the hymn-books have been put away after prayers, the work begins. Anyone else but Miss Mosse would be driven crazy in half-an-hour by the business of teaching in one class fifteen children who are nearly all at different stages. But if you were to look through the window one day, you would see her sitting in the middle, perhaps listening to someone reading, while on all sides the work goes on, apparently by itself. Some are doing copy, others arithmetic, or tables, while on the mantelpiece are the results of their handwork--an illustration of a history story, a large picture of a Zulu village with queer figures stuck on amid trees, houses and animals, or calendars and bags, future Christmas presents for parents. But no one comes to school to learn lessons alone. At S. Prisca's you learn, if you are an only child, what life with many others is like. You tie up your own shoe-laces, and see that your finger-nails are clean before the " clean hands " inspection ; and if you wish to ask a

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question, you do not call out, or run across the room, but put up your hand, and wait until someone comes to you.

It is during the play-hours that one gets to learn the K.G. best. Their games are as the sand of the sea-shore in number.

Hide-and-seek, Sardines and Witch, not forgetting " Sheep, sheep, come home "—an old favourite in which Mr. Wolf, though reputed to have gone to Devonshire for seven years, is really lying in wait to catch unwary lambs who do not run home fast enough.

The offspring of the elephant was certainly not the only child to be filled with an " insatiable curiosity " and if it is true that children learn more from the questions they ask, than from what is told them, then some of the K.G. must be very wise by now. They usually like to know all about the big school—what the badges stand for, why there are " cages" on the lacrosse field, what everybody is called, and who sleeps in each room at S. Prisca's. For their part they are more than ready to supply information as to what they do at home, and one hears stories about their families, their animals, the parties they went to and what " so-and-so told me in break this morning."

Yes, life at S. Prisca's is a goodly thing, and lucky are those who begin their school life there.

S. Hobson.

Grosstete Company Report.

In many ways this has been quite a successful year for Grosstete. We seem to be forsaking the bottom place in competitions, for one a trifle more exalted. But we must not be content with being second in the Company lacrosse, and tying second in the Reading Competition. Next year it must be first. We had a most enjoyable lacrosse match against Osmund, and all feelings of grimness departed when the opposing captain shot a goal from the other side of the circle. In the Lent term we produced the" Taunton Maids," a short historical play. \X e were sorry Ithat most of the day-girls lived too far away to be able to come back for rehearsals, but the unlimited supply of programmes which the elder ones produced, went far to make up for their absence. In our cricket match against Moberly we were not eminently successful, and though there was much good material in the team, no one displayed themselves to their best advantage. S. Hayter and C. Clarke are to be congratulated on winning their Reading badges, and we were

48 pleasantly surprised to find that our total was thirteen points higher than last year. There has been an increased keenness in the company during the past twelve months ; however, it should not be necessary for some, who are more energetic and conscientious, to do the jobs of the rest of the company. We were very sorry to lose P. Clarke and J. Mallock, who were most keen and helpful.

P. Herbert has been elected head for next term, and- we wish her the very best of luck.

S. Hobson.

Moberly Company.

We were very sorry to lose our excellent head, Anne Nettelfield at the end of the Autumn Term this year.

There has been a great improvement in the work of the company throughout the year, and people are willing to do even the most unpopular duties.

In the Easter term we produced " The Prince who was a Piper " by Harold Brighouse, which was great fun, and which we all thoroughly enjoyed.

We won the Reading Competition in the Summer Term, being fortunate enough to ha vet wo badges already in the company. N. Gwatkin is to be congratulated on winning her Junior badge. We have not been very successful in games, yet this has not been due to lack of practice, and we hope that the spirit of determination and keenness is a good sign for the future. We were third in the lacrosse, the team improving greatly towards the end of the matches. We were beaten by Osmund in the finals of cricket.

We are very sorry to lose our second head, Mary Glynn, who has helped the company so much, and without whose untiring coaching we should never have won the Reading Competition.

H. Bridgman.

Osmund Company.

The company has been keen throughout the year, and has shown marked enthusiasm when on duty as well as in competitions.

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For the first time this year each company did a separate play in the Lent term. We chose Barrie's "A kiss for Cinderella," which was a great success, thanks to the splendid way in which everybody was so keen and helpful in every possible way. G. Martens deserves special congratulation for her rendering of the part of Mr. Bodie, and D. Crosbie who was a most successful Cinderella. The Company owes much to Gladys Beale whose help and advice in the production was invaluable.

This term we won the Lacrosse Shield. The team was very nearly the same as last year, and proved the value of their experience by showing much better teamwork.

In the Reading Competition we did not reach such a high standard as last year. With this year's experience we hope that the four who gained first class will succeed in winning their badges next summer.

We managed to win the Company Cricket again this year. All the team practised keenly with the result that we were able to produce a good variety of bowlers which is always a great asset. C. Budgen, T. Tidman, and V. Tennant are especially to be congratulated on their excellent batting and bowling, as is H. Cox, who is already a valuable bowler, and fielded well in both our matches.

At the end of the summer we were very sorry to lose three of our members, A. Sarjeant, J. Blathwayt, and V. Tennant we are very proud of the unselfish work they have done for the Company.

E. Booker.

Poore Company.

Poore is still a young company and therefore has not been very successful in the competitions this year. However, the company ought soon to be doing better as the juniors are all most promising. We have sadly missed B. L. Mallory this last term especially in the cricket and reading competitions. She was head for four terms and is a very great loss to us.

In the company lacrosse most of our matches were fairly even, with the exception of the one against Osmund, but we never managed to shoot a great number of goals.

We came out fourth in the final result. We rather disgraced ourselves in the cricket match against Osmund: our chief need is for experienced batsmen, as the fielding was quite good. W^e were bottom in the Reading competition, but have gone up since last year, gaining four firsts and two seconds this time.

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The outstanding event of the year for Poore was the company play. This year each company had to produce a play by itself. At first we were appalled by the thought of this and the early rehearsals were certainly most uninspiring. The play we had chosen was " Alice in Wonderland," which meant a very large part for " Alice." However J. McCormick played this role admirably and made the whole thing a success, or, at any rate, a success for the performers, who enjoyed themselves tremendously.

Throughout the year there has been keenness in practising for the competitions (though perhaps if practices started a little sooner before the event we should do better!) and the preparation and clearing up of the company play was done by everyone, even the smallest people rising to the occasion nobly.

The company duties have been done well at the beginning of the week, but enthusiasm for these has rather tailed off towards the end of it. If the junior members had a little more zeal for company duties Poore would be much more successful.

P. Wilson has been elected head for next year. We wish her and all the company the very best luck C. D. Hall.

Edmund Rich, It is a great pity that Edmund Rich seems unable to do itself justice in the more important Company Competitions for although most people are very keen in practices, and we have managed to win the Netball Shooting Competition and the Cup for the least number of unmarked clothes, we really must do better in Company matches of all kinds.

In Company lacrosse we failed to maintain last year's improvement and, although M. Pollock and J. Morris coached the team well, there was very little feeling of good combination, and in the results we found that we were at the bottom of the list.

In Company Cricket we were beaten in the first round by Moberly, however the team was much better than in previous years, and the fielding reached quite a high standard, so we are hoping that next year we shall have more success.

Although we were fourth in the Reading Competition the team was promising and worked splendidly.

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and M. Pollock on being the best of all the first classes, they and U. Cleverly deserve thanks as well as praise for their valuable coaching and reading.

The great event of the year has been the Company Play. We were most fortunate as Reine Macaulay wrote " Ships and Sealing Wax " especially for us It was a great success and everyone enjoyed acting in it. It has shown that we have amongst us quite a number of keen and promising actresses.

During this year we have lost five valuable members of Edmund Rich ; R. Macaulay who had been an excellent head for four terms, R. Palmer our second head, M Tuckwell, J K. Willis and M. Combes. We still feel the loss of the keenness and usefulness of these'people.

Throughout the year everyone has shown an increased energy over their company duties and, with a few exceptions amongst members of the lower school, we feel that the company is most reliable. I must mention particularly U. Paris who has been an invaluable second .head; we are so pleased that she will be with us again next term.

M. Harris.

Netball—Autumn Term, 1935.

FIXTURES. First VII V.S.Brandon's Lost 23—19.

Second VII. v. S. Brandon's Won 33—16.

First VII v. Trowbridge Won 36-15.

Second VII v. Trowbridge Won 21-9.

First under 15 VII v. Downe House Lost 22—6.

Second „ „ VII v. Downe House Lost 14-5.

First „ „ VII v. Chippenham Won 28—3.

This year the team started with very little experience, five of its members being new since last Easter. The first match was a very close one against S. Brandon's who won through good team work The other first team match played later in the term showed a great improvement. The team really got together well and won a decisive victory. S. Hobson played outstandingly throughout the term, and was elected captain for the Lent term.

Again this year the second team reached a high standard, and proved their ability by winning both of their matches. It is very encouraging to find such keenness in the second team, and to have two teams so nearly of the same standard. Keenness has led to great improvement among the Juniors this term. The two Junior

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teams were badly beaten early in the term by Downe House, but the matches provided very good experience for them. Later they played rather a young team from Chippenham Secondary School, and showed the value of hard practising by winning a well-deserved victory.

Good team-work and keenness were shown all through the school in the Form Netball Competition which was won by the Upper V who produced a very promising team, after beating the Lower VI in the Final.

Frequently during the term Miss Matthews has come out to take our netball games, and Miss Wolff has been untiring in helping the teams — the improvement in the general standard of play is largely thanks to their most valuable coaching.

E. Booker.

TEAMS. First Second C.S. M. Tuckwell U. Paris A. A. Nettelfield C Hall A.C. S. Hobson* C. Budgen C. E. Booker* T. Tidman B.C. P. Robinson E. Jephson D. B. L. Mallory R. Amphlett G.D. E. Hocking P. Wood * denotes colours JUNIOR TEAM. W. Wotton G.S. P. Evans A. P. Hawkins AC. C. K. Neligan M. Whieldon D.C. D. M. Higgins G.D. P. Barker Lent Term.

The following changes were made in the Lent Term :—

G.S. A.

1st VII U. Paris C. Budgen

A. D.C FIXTURES. 1st VII v. The Royal School 1st VII Ilnd VII v. „ „ „ Ilnd VII

Ilnd VII J. Morris A. Roberts Lost 18—14.

Abandoned on account of rain, 7—5 to the Royal School.

53 Unfortunately we were only able to play two of outmatches in the Lent term ; in the Cup Match the play was good, but the team, although two goals ahead at half-time, failed to catch up with the extra spurt made at the end by their opponents. The second VII match was stopped before time, by rain.

As the Second VII has had nearly as much experience of match play as the First, the two members who filled the vacancies in the latter at the beginning of the term soon reached First team standard. Both teams played keenly and vigorously throughout the practices, and Centre and Defending Centre combined very well together. The circle players are still too slow on their feet, and all the team would do well to realise the vajue. of larger and more definite movements out to the side when getting free. Passing improved when it was found by experience that long passes are seldom successful.

The Junior team practised hard for their match which was prevented by bad weather. They played very well as a team, and showed promise for the future.

The Form Shooting picture was won by the Remove with VIb only 1 point behind. Although a few individual scores were good, the general standard was not as high as it should be. It is cheering that netball games other than team practices are becoming much keener all through the school, probably due in part to the help and encouragement given by Miss Wolff and the Umpire Coaches.

S. Hobson.

Lacrosse.

Autumn Term 1935.

FIXTURES. Oct. 3. 1st XII v. Downe House Lost 16-5.

Nov. 9. v. Godolphin Lost 12—8.

30. v. Old Girls Won 8-4.

26. v. Wilts Ladies Lost 6—4.

14. v. Westonbirt Won 9 7.

Mar. 14. v. Royal School Won 9—4.

17. v. Wilts Ladies Lost 7 - 5 .

28. Lacrosse Rally at Bath.

We did not begin the term very successfully, the weather was exceptionally bad, and during the first ten days of term we could play practically no games at all.

The result was that when we played Downe House on the second Saturday of term we were all extremely out of practice and were easily beaten.

54 Quite the most enjoyable match of the term was against a team of Old Girls captained by Mrs. Harris.

Some of the old girls had not played since they left school three or four years ago, they played amazingly well in spite of this, improving very much as the game went on, if we had not gained a lead of six goals right in the beginning they would easily have beaten us. I hope that the " Antiques"—as they were rudely called — enjoyed the match as much as we did, and that it will become an annual fixture.

On the whole the team is very young this year, and lacks experience, but in spite of this we have had some very good matches, and nearly all of them have been exciting. It was a great pity we did not manage to win the cup from Godolphin, we were leading at half time, but had not enough energy left in the second half to keep our lead It was satisfactory to end the term with a really thrilling match against Westonbirt which we just won after a great struggle.

The attacks have improved, although shooting is still a weak point. The attack wings have played well, H Bridgman is to be congratulated on her great improvement during the term. The defences played especially well in the Westonbirt match, and have learnt to combine together; they must try to give harder and more accurate overarm passes when clearing out from a ' scrum.'

Goal has been fairly reliable, especially in matches, but must learn to concentrate even more, especially in games' times.

The whole team is splendidly keen and determined, and I am sure that they will do very well next term.

A. Nettelfield.

Lent Term 1936.

FIXTURES. 1st XII v. the Royal School Won 9 4.

"A" XII v. the Wiltshire Ladies Lost 7—5.

Rally at Bath, with the Royal School, the Rovers and Cheltenham College.

Unfortunately nearly all our lacrosse matches this term had to be scratched because of the various diseases in other schools. The first team very much missed Anne Nettelfield who left last term, and who had cap-

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tained the School for two seasons. Her place in the team was taken by D. Crosbie who has improved her game this year.

The team had a very exciting match against the Royal School, whom we beat after a close game for the first time for some years. On the last Saturday of term we played in a rally at Bath with a scratch side, the Rovers, the Royal School, and Cheltenham. Although we lost our matches, the team learnt a great deal from playing such experienced teams, and all enjoyed the afternoon immensely.

The team have shown keenness and perseverance in their play this term. The defences are specially to be commended for effective tackling and combination, and E Jephson has become much more reliable in goal.

Much hard practising, especially by the juniors, was put into the Company Lacrosse, which was arranged as last year, marks being given for tactics as well as goals, and all the Companies playing each other. The standard of play was noticeably higher at the end of the term than at the beginning of the competition. Osmund won the Shield, chiefly through the number of goals they scored, but all the companies showed intelligent tactics, and the marks they gained only varied comparatively little.

We have to thank Miss Wolff, who has been so enthusiastic in coaching us, very much indeed for all she has done for us throughout the term.

TEAM. G. E. Jephson P. J. Morris C.P. C. Budgen 3rd M. B. L. Mallory* L.D. E. Hocking R.D. T. Tidman C. E. Booker* R.A. P. Robinson* L.A. H Bridgman 3rd H. M. Pollock 2nd H. D. Crosbie 1st H. C. Waldo * denotes colours E. Booker.

Tennis.

FIXTURES. 1st VI v Royal School Lost 10—8 sets 1st VI v. Westonbirt Lost 7-2 matches 1st VI v. Downe House Lost 5—4 matches

56 Although we have not been successful in our matches this season, there has been a definite improvement in the standard of the School's tennis.

The team were able to put up a good fight against all their opponents, and the last match, against Downe House, in which the games were exactly equal, was a really thrilling one. The third couple are to be congratulated on keeping up a consistently high standard. Unfortunately the second couple never managed to show their best in matches, but with this year's experience, they should dp well next season.

Again this year there is too much of a gap between the team and the next best players in the school, largely because members of the middle and upper school who are not in the team do not make any real effort to improve their game. It is important that this should be rectified next year as the present lack of good players means that the team cannot get any good practice between matches, and also makes the choosing of a new team at the beginning of each year very difficult.

The Juniors unfortunately were unable to have any matches this year owing to diseases in other schools.

Many of them were keen in practising, and towards the end of the term showed very promising play in the Form Tennis, and the Singles. The Lower Sixth won the Form Tennis after defeating Remove in the final The Senior Singles were won by C. Budgen, and K. Neligan won the Juniors, after an excellent final against D. Drabble.

Twice during the term Miss Wight came and coached many of the school, and we found her advice most helpful. We are grateful to Miss Waller who has devoted much of her time to helping the tennis of the school, and to Miss Wolff who has been untiringly keen and helpful throughout the term.

E. Booker.

FIRST TEAM. C. Budgen First couple E. Booker *

* denotes colours.

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FIXTURES. 1st XI v. Downe House "A" XI. Lost 84-38.

1st XI v. Trowbridge Old Girls.

Won 59—24.

1st XI v. Father's XI Lost 88 for 8-84 for 8.

TEAM. E. Hocking Square leg Bowler C. Budgen Slips Bowler E. Booker* Mid on E. Jephson* Deep Bowler C. Brakenridge Mid off Bowler C Waldo Cover point Bowler T. Tidman Change bowler Bowler P. Hawkins Slips K. Neligan Long leg A. Roberts Point Bowler M. Gibson Wicket keeper V. Tennant and J. Chadwick also played. * denotes colours.

We have been fortunate in only having to scratch one of our matches this season in spite of external conditions. Although the standard of the team has not been very high, and there are many young members, it contains much good material, and we have great hopes for next year with so many promising juniors.

All through the school batting is felt to be the weak point, although in our earlier matches we did not excel in fielding either; in this however we redeemed ourselves in the Fathers' Match. E. Jephson's bowling has greatly improved, although we feel she has hardly done herself justice in either batting or bowling recently. E. Hocking has become a very useful member of the team, and is one of the few people who is not perturbed by a " straight ball ". M. Gibson has also kept wicket consistently well throughout the term, and when she has learnt to move more quickly should prove a great asset to the XI. Little can be said of the Company matches, which did not reach a very high standard —the spectators were willing, but players weak in most cases. Osmund however retained the shield; in the final they beat Moberly who put up a good fight considering they were without their best player.

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On Isabel Martineau's holiday the Staff XI made their debut in cricket as played at St. Mary's. If they had not been possessed with inferiority complex in the form of large " L's" on their backs no doubt the school would have suffered a crushing defeat. Miss Prior particularly distinguished herself, and Miss Wolff lived up to her reputation. We also much enjoyed a game with the 'Casuals' from C. House, Marlborough.

We are most grateful to the Governors for our splendid new cricket field, and we appreciated the way in which the Archdeacon opened it, taking a wicket with the very first ball. We also owe a great debt to all those who have coached us this term, but it is unfortunate that, partly owing to the weather, we did not altogether respond to this coaching, and have not had all the opportunities we might have had to put it into practice.

C. Waldo.

Form Drill Competition.

Miss McConnell very kindly came to judge the competition this year, and gave an encouraging and very helpful criticism.

The Lower VI came out top, the Upper V being second, and the Fourth a good third. The Lower VI were specially commended for their good standing positions, and the sureness with which they performed the exercises.

The standard in each form was even, Miss McConnell said, and there was no very apparent " tail," The forms were inclined to be over-serious, with the exception of the Lower VI who approached their work with enthusiasm and confidence.

The Drill Sergeant's Cup was won by Mary Glynn, who gave her commands excellently. Betty McKenzie was specially promising as a junior Drill Sergeant.

M. H. Wolff.

The Drill Display.

It was with great disappointment that we learnt that the Godolphin School were unable to take part in the Drill Display this year. The other schools beside ourselves were the South Wiltshire Secondary School, where the drill took place, and Trowbridge High School.

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Miss Price, from Clifton High School, who judged, was most interesting and helpful in her criticisms. She laid great stress upon the importance of maintaining a good standing position at all times. She spoke of the feeling of well-being and self-respect which it brings, as well as bodily health.

In her detailed criticisms she mentioned, among other points, Trowbridge for their particularly good arch movement, South Wilts for their quickness and the neat way of playing the team game, which they won, and S. Mary's for their good attack, and their good standing positions between the exercises. In addition to the set table an unpractised exercise was given to each team, which S. Mary's picked up well.

Miss Price spoke of the great value of such a display as this, when so much could be learnt by everyone from the good and bad points of the other teams. We are looking forward to next year, and hope Godolphin will be with us.

The team was as follows :— E. Booker* S. Hobson* P. Robinson* B. Long* R. Amphlett C. Brakenridge C. Budgen M. Glynn E. Jephson J. Morris M. Pollock A. Roberts *=colours M. H. Wolff.

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OLD

GIRLS' SUPPLEMENT.

Officers of Old Girls' Association.

President Miss MATTHEWS

Vice-President-Miss ALEXANDER

Chairman—I. C. Martin.

Woodham Lodge, Addlestone, Surrey Treasurer—E. Birkbeck (Hollis) 3, Stonefield Avenue, Lincoln.

Secretary—D. E. Waller, Castleton House, Sherborne, Dorset, and S. Mary's School, Calne.

GROUPS. I.

Secretary Katharine Barton, 23, S. Mark's Crescent, N.W.I. (For all who left school before 1915) II. Secretary Jean Hughes (Sorsbie) 4, Hillmorton Road, Kugby.

III. Secretary Janet Blaxter (Hollis) 49a, Philbeach Gardens, Earl's Court, W.5.

IV. Secretary Eileen Buszard, 44, Ladbroke Grove W.ll.

V. Secretary Edna Bodinnar, Old Palace, Chippenham.

VI. Secretary Bridget Gardiner, Stokecliff, Dartmouth, Devon.

VII. Secretary Barbara Mitchell, Eookwood, Cuckfleld, Sussex.

VIII. Secretary Betty Bulmer, The Great House, Canon Pyon, Hereford.

The London Reunion.

January 8, 1936.

January 8th was the date of the London Reunion, and once again, owing to the splendid organisation of Ivy Martin, the day was a complete success. We were so delighted to have with us Miss Jones, who had been Headmistress of the School from 1877—1883.

The next Reunion will be held at the same place, The Portsmouth Club, 12, Grovenor Place, quite near Hyde Park Corner, on Saturday, January 9th. All Old Girls are welcome, and it is very much to be hoped that they will endeavour to keep that date free.

61 The following were present: — J. Inder Miss Matthews M. Joyce Miss Alexander G. Kirby Miss Abdy L. Kirby Miss Damant P. Lacon Mrs. Harris (Snell) J. Lovell Miss Inge R. Macaulay Miss Jones C. Mallory F. Bartlett B. Mallory E. Bodinnar E Mansergh B. Brooke I. Martin K. Brown C. Martin (Johnson) R. Buck M. Merrett J. Cameron A. Carter (Le Mesurier) B. Mitchell A. Carver B. Neatby D. Orlebar A. Chenevix Trench R. Palmer J. Cole M. Price M. V. Cole E. Remington-Wilson J. Collard B. Sheldon A. Conybeare J. Simpson (Beach) G. Croft H. Cross E. Waller H. Ward W. Egerton P. Waterfall C. Fairbaim (Croft) A. Westaway G. Fleetwood Jones M. Gale E. Westaway S. Goodden Z. Wimperis (Inder) Alison Wood M. Harris Monica Wood D. Haviland K. Yerbury (Beach) M. Hill Jean Young B. Hindley J. Hindley M. Young

O.G.A. Reunion.

July 24th-27th, 1936.

A Business Meeting was held on Sunday morningUnfortunately our resigning Chairman (D Morrison) was not present; I. Martin (resigning Secretary) and G. Beale were nominated for the Chairmanship and the former was elected. A very hearty vote of thanks was given to I. Martin for all she had done as Secretary of the Association for so many years, and especially for the tremendous amount of time and trouble she had spent in

producing the O.G.A. Register, which is most valuable and interesting; a more efficient Secretary we could not have had and we are very glad to have her as Chairman.

E. Waller was elected Secretary in her place.

The Treasurer (N. Birkbeck) presented the accounts and it was realised how badly off the Association is financially and how little support we give to the school.

There was much discussion as to what should be done with the very small annual interest (about £7) on the Stock we hold, and finally it was decided we must try for the next two years to build up a reserve and not allocate the money towards anything.

It was proposed, and agreed to, that 2/6 a day should be charged for the Reunions at School. It was also proposed that the London Reunion should, for an experiment, be held on a Saturday, and it was agreed to do this next January. The matter will be considered again next year.

It was very sad that the were so few Group Secretaries at this meeting, B. Bulmer being the only one present.

E. Waller.

O.G.A. Accounts.

1935-1936. £

Balance in hand Received from: group secretaries Subscriptions from leaving girls Interest (1st half year)

16 17 6 11 11 0 3 18 10

£88

Assets July 31st, 1936.

Invested in 3£ % War Stock Invested in 3| % Conversion Balance in hand

8. A.

56 1 6

8- 10

£130 0 0 £95 0 £39 17

Group secretaries' expenses News Sheet subscriptions TJ. G. S.

. £

s. A.

1 9 9 5 2 0 10 4 0

Printing and Register 28 13 6 Postage 2 9 6 Wreath (Lord Lansdownei 12 6 Balance on July 31st 39 17 7 £8S 8 10

(Group Secretaries' expenses include those of Treasurer) NORA BIRKBECK.

63 I. Over sixty people at a Reunion. Why ? What have we all come for ? Some left school barely three months ago, but it is fifteen years since others were here.

Why have we come from all over England to spend two or three nights at Calne ? Curiosity ? A holiday ?

Friends? Or-what shall I say—Auld Lang Syne?

Perhaps a bit of all four. And do we find what we come • for? Let's think.

Curiosity. Yes, curiosity is all right. We came to see whether the reports of great buildings were really true. And they are. More than true. Other contributors have described them, so we will be content to say we poked our nose in everywhere and found that is was good. But our curiosity was whetted rather than satisfied. We saw that the Builders are building us a great School, and we shall come again to assure ourselves that the School is as great as the vision of the Builders. We shall find that it is.

Curiosity, then, yes. But a holiday, never. A more exhausting three days would be hard to imagine. Yet we did nothing. The rain didn't let us. Try the word Recreation. Saturday night's acting was that—for the audience. And you could cut up Recreation and put in a hyphen, then it would fit Sunday evening.

Friends? There's a difficult one. For none of the friends we hoped to see seemed to be there. That little horror from the Lower IV was there—and how surprisingly nice she is. We adopted her as our contemporary.

We adopted everybody. Everybody adopted everybody.

Out of sixty almost strangers we renewed ten friendships and made forty-nine new ones. Right. We found friends there.

Auld Lang Syne. We sang it of course, and had our arms pulled out in the proper way, but if we hoped to find our lost youth, well we just lost our way instead.

We were too early for breakfast because we remembered S. Faith's as further away than it is. We were late for tea because we thought there were two bells. Here and there we sang ' lah' in the School Hymn. We had " Lunch " at 1.0 and " Dinner " at night. We had early morning tea in Bodinnar. We had coffee at Maslen's and our own cars to go up to the Downs. No, it was not like being back at School again. But we shall certainly go again next time. And you, all you arrant cowards who didn't come. You aren't all abroad. You made a

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great mistake. You see, we got all we went to get, and you weren't there. And you weren't there to help us give as well as get. It is a nearly impossible task for sixty people in two days to give back anything worth giving. We gave, and still give, our thank-yous to the hostess VI, to Miss Matthews, the Staff, the maids. But we would like to think we gave thank yous plus. Plus what ? Plus a little something.

I. C. M. II. " Will you write an account of the Reunion for the News Sheet ? " I was asked. Though no longer at school I feel that this is an order to be obeyed ; so I very dutifully promise to do so, and then go home and forget about it till the last moment, when I wonder how exactly I shall do it. For to write from the point of view of an old girl is rather difficult for such a young old girl as myself; I don't feel a real one yet, and find it hard to give an account of the Reunion that will interest genuine old girls of an earlier generation. I don't know what they would like to hear about most either. Perhaps the best plan is to tell exactly what happened as plainly as possible.

The present school except for the sixth form, departed on Friday morning, leaving S Mary's deserted for a few hours of what must have been rather hectic preparation before the first visitors began to arrive. By supper time most of us had come, and it was a party of fifty or sixty that sat down on either side of the long tables, with the Staff, past and present at the ends. After supper came chapel, and then discovering of friends and ceaseless talking which did not end with bed time. Most of us—I .speak for the younger generation—had been abroad or begun to train for a job or done something exciting since we last met, so naturally we had endless things to say, and if we had not fallen asleep in the middle we might have gone on talking all night.

Next morning we woke at the sound of the bell, and went over to school for breakfast. Some people were late for it, and looked as guilty as though they were still under Miss Matthews' authority when they walked up to the high table to apologize. Most of us played tennis or wandered about the garden until twelve o'clock. We then went down to church where Mr. Pullein gave us a recital, accompanied by a rolling bass of thunder. One

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remembered his playing after the evening service when we sat on in the emptying church and hoped that the Staff would not take us home to bed before he had finished. We came out of church to find the rain in torrents, which made the tennis match planned for that afternoon impossible.

However, it didn't stop us enjoying ourselves very much.

In the afternoon Miss Matthews took parties of us round the new buildings, which seem to be nearly ready.

We may feel a little sad at the loss of the stage with the tall trees behind it and the lawn below ; but what we have got in exchange is very fine, particularly the wonderful dining room, and the great hall, with its two stages, one for concerts and one for plays, its deep windows and lofty ceiling.

The guests at tea were the Archdeacon, Dr. Ede, and Mr. Pullein, who was celebrating his golden jubilee, fifty years' work in Calne and at S. Marys'. Miss Matthews presented him with his " lilies " in honour of the occasion, and the Archdeacon was made an " old boy " and given his badge at the same time.

Supper was followed by an entertainment. The sixth form sang us a most amusing song of their own invention about Miss Alexander. Then the old girls gave some scenes from school life, the more recent ones imagining the school in the future, the older ones reconstructing the past.

Sunday was like any Sunday at S Mary's. Most of us went to the early service. Breakfast was the familar Sunday meal. Later a meeting of the O.G.A. was held; and then we went to church, and the service was rather specially for us, with Smart's Te Deum, Psalm and Hymns of our own choosing, and the Archdeacon preaching. In the afternoon Miss Matthews read to us in Gabriel, the scenes from Jane Austen of Mr. Collins' proposal, and Elizabeth with Lady Katharine de Burgh. After supper came chapel, with a sermon from Miss Matthews. It was a less exciting but very nice day, ended by one last night of talk before the morning's separation. And the next morning we departed in a bustle like the end of term.

Altogether we had a most delightful week-end. I can only give my impression of it by saying that it was rather like being back at school again, school at its very nicest, with none of the small tiresome things that must

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happen in everyday life. There was the joy of meeting friends again and discovering that they had not changed a bit; of sleeping in the same old rooms with the same people ; and of singing in chapel together the hymns and psalms that we all knew. Of course it was not quite like being back at school because Miss Matthews was much too polite to us ; I felt that she should have ordered us about. In the sudden silence that followed the tap on her glass after lunch we wondered for a moment whether she was going to give us a row. But all she said was " I think the glass is going up at last."

R. Macaulay.

III. " It is curious how one can suddenly become transported into an entirely different world just for a few hours, and re-experience some of the feelings one had when aged about fifteen! Listening to your reading after lunch, I felt a peculiar longing for the missing sweet (a thing I never feel nowadays!) and began to wonder what I should say in my letter Home, and whether I really remembered the Collect. However, that vision of ancient days was very soon shattered by the one of the future which burst upon our astonished eyes. The new buildings, in fact, take one's breath away, and they are made allthe more exciting because they are such a courageous venture ".

IV. " I was so struck with the beauty of the new buildings, and with the improvement—artistically—of the furnishing of the whole school. It is a place we can all be proud of. But I am still most sentimentally attached to ' the Hut", and though I know the hut must eventually go I hope the lime-kiln will remain as a " sentimental monument".

The following were present:— Miss Abdy Miss Groyer Miss Alexander Mrs. Harris (Snell) Miss Angell James Miss Hendry Sister Ash Miss Jennings Sister Cathrow Miss Mosse Miss Prior

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R. Aldworth A. Barnes G. Beale P. Beale M. Beloe E. Birkbeck (HollisJ L. Blathwayt B. Brooke B. Bulmer J. Cameron D. Champain M. Charsley N. Chase A. Chenevix-Trench C. Churchill B. Clark J. Collard N. Cole G. Dixon P. Dixon D. Duder S. Dunlop M. Goodden W. Heath K. Hill M. Hiscock M. Hopkins

P. Hopkins M. Hulbert M. Jenkins B. Kirke E. Kitson B. Kitson M. Longridge R. Macaulay B. Mallory I. Martin E. Minnis B. Neatby A. Nettelfield W. Osman-Jones P. Robinson L. Roome M. de L. Smith M. E. Smith E. Thomas B. Thompson M. Thynne K. Trow M. Vischer E. Waller H. Walton Alison Wood B. Woodmass J. Young

News of Old Girls.

(N.B. Owing to the great increase in the number of Old Girls it is becoming increasingly difficult to give news of those whose work has not changed recently).

Ruth Aldworth is taking a course in Institutional Housekeeping at Gloucester School of Domestic Science.

Violet Armstrong has just completed her second year at Girton. She is engaged to be married.

Pamela Angell is taking a course of training at S. James' Secretarial College.

Joan Alexander writes that she and Carola were Presented on Joan's twenty first birthday. She hoped to motor to Budapest for August.

Betty Adelmann (Adnitt) was married in July. She is living in London.

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Peggy Ball (Jenkins) writes from Uitenhage, C.P.: —'' I was so thrilled to get the News Sheet a couple of weeks ago, and I got it in such a strange way ! I went into a small shop here to pay an account and to buy some seeds, and when my receipt was handed to me by the shopkeeper and owner of the place, he held up the magazine and said, " Do you know this paper ? " Imagine my amazement when I saw what it was! It had been sent to the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce (owner of shop !) he had seen my name amongst the changes of address, wasn't it funny?"

Peggy has sent us delightful photographs of her two little girls, Margaret and Jennifer.

Audrey Barnes has been out in Egypt with her parents since leaving school. She has been busy with Infant Welfare Work, with First Aid and Nursing, and with dancing lessons.

Freda Bartlett is secretary at Hawtreys' School, Westgate-on-Sea. Yvonne Bartlett has had a post for some months in Paris.

Gladys Beale came to help at the School in a time of difficulty caused by Matron's illness. She is now teaching at S. Neot's, Eversley, and enjoys her work there very much.

Margaret Beloe has been in Brussels since leaving school.

Nora Birkbeck (Hollis) has moved to Lincoln, ner husband having been appointed Director of Education for the Lindsey part of Lincolnshire.

Lisbet Blathwayt has been working at an Art School in Bristol.

Edna Bodinnar is engaged to be married.

Diana Bradford has been working in Oxford with a coach ; she hopes to take a medical training.

Barbara Brooke is working at Interior Decoration at the Central School of Art in Southampton Row. Rachel Buck sailed in May for her new work in S. America. She spent several months in London training in dancing before she sailed.

Betty Bulmer is living at home; she is studying art in Hereford.

Eileen Buszard wrote that she was just going on a trip to Australia.

Mercy Butler is hoping to be married on September 15th.

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Joan Cameron, after leaving school, spent some months with Madame Nicolardot. She is now working with her brother on his Fruit Farm. Her father is leaving Mere in the autumn and the family are to live at Shroton.

Dorothy Capewell's (Clayton) fifth little daughter, Carol, was born in January.

Alice Carter (Le Mesurier) is to be congratulated on the birth of her son in July. Alice was teaching at Westfield College until Easter.

Virginia Carver writes splendid letters from Saint Cloud, where she has been living with Madame Nicolardot.

Diana Bateman-Champain wrote: " I have just had a hectic and gloriously gay. three months of London, doing hydrotherapy. I am now at the Wingfield Hospital, Oxford, for some months and hope to go back afterwards to London."

Meriel Charsley is working in kennels in Calne.

Nancy Chase has just finished her third year at Grove House, Roehampton. She is a splendid correspondent and has written excellent letters about her training.

She took the part of Delilah in the third year's production of " Samson Agonistes." She was president of the Literary and Debating Society. Nancy, Honor Ward and Peggy Parry Okeden were three of a party of students who went in the Easter Vacation to the Norfolk Broads to watch birds. Nancy writes: " We saw fifty-nine different species, and I heard the bittern boom for the first time A friend and I found twenty-eight birds' nests (this year's) in the College Grounds yesterday, which shows how rural we are here at Roehampton." Nancy has a post for next term at Caledonia School, Bexhill.

Anne Chenevix Trench has been at home all the year; she has been working hard with Brownies, and is taking a course in Dressmaking.

Clemency Churchill is training in Domestic Science in Bath.

Nancy Churchill is still working in the Bank of England.

She writes: " We, that is the Bank Musical Society, have now started rehearsing for the Concert we give at the Queen's Hall. This year we are doing Brahm's Requiem, Blest Pair of Sirens, Beethoven's Overture Egmont, and the Suite from the Water Music."

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Pamela Clarence wrote:—" I have left the stage and films for good, and have been a canine-nurse-kennel-maid for two months at the Wembley Sick Animals' Hospital, I am enjoying my job very much."

Constance Clift (Allen) is to be congratulated on the birth of her little girl in April.

Joyce Collard has just left Downe House where she had been for three years, and has been appointed Games' Mistress at Queen Margaret's School, Scarborough.

Shelagh Clark (Lunt) was married in August. Arminel Conybeare was one of her bridesmaids, and Joyce Hindley would have been had she not been ill.

Betty Combes has joined Grace at the Wingfield Hospital, Headington, where they are both training.

Ruth Coney (Davis) writes that she spent Christmas in hospital with appendicitis. Her little girl, Delia, is a great companion.

Arminel Conybeare has just finished her training at Bedford Physical Training College.

Ruth Conybeare has been with a family in Paris since leaving School.

Gwendoline Croft writes; —" Half my summer seems to be booked up with Guide work, and taking camps, as I run both Guides and Rangers here, and have now been made District Commissioner. I am also probably helping with the Post Guide Camp (cripple and blind Guides) if I can fit it in." Gwen is engaged to be married ; her wedding is fixed for October, she will be living in Monte Video.

Hester Cross has been working since September at her Art (Lettering and, latterly, Interior Decoration) at the Central School of Art in Southampton Row. She has been fortunate in securing some jobs already.

Gwendoline Dixon has a post at Thorneloe School, Weymouth. Peggy Dixon is in charge of the Junior department, The Bentley School, Calne.

Betty Douglas has been teaching dancing near Tunbridge Wells all the year. She is now about to start a connection near her home in Dorset with Jean Blathwayt (who has just left school) as her accompanist, ana will be teaching at S. Mary's next term.

Dorothy Duder has a post as Physical Mistress near Paris, at the Convent School of Notre Dame des Oiseaux, Verneuil-sur-Seine. She writes extraordinarily good letters about her work, and seems to be having a most interesting time.

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Sheila Dunlop is living at home; she is training in dancing in Bath.

Vanna Durst has just finished her time at Oxford as a home student. She is engaged to be married. She writes:—" We are living in Staffordshire now, near Burton-on-Trent. It is a great old country house in the middle of a huge park and has been turned by the National Council for Social Service into what is called a Demonstration Centre, where picked men from the Unemployment Clubs all over the country come for courses of six weeks or so, and are taught such things as shoe mending, upholstery and weaving, and metal work, in order that they can go back and help their own people in their clubs.

My Father is at the head of it, and my Mother is Craft Adviser for the Women's side and visits clubs all over the country. The work is most thrilling, and most of the men are perfectly charming . . . . We have Scotchmen, Welshmen, Tyne siders, and men from the Potteries and the Mines, they are busy building themselves a smart recreation hut now and have done it all themselves under a foreman, from clearing the ground to the last dab of paint."

Barbara Majoribanks Egerton (Chambers) has been in Egypt with her husband all the year. She is to be congratulated on the birth of her little girl.

Stephanie Evans-Lawrence was for a time at Citizen House, Westonbirt.

Rosalind Evans wrote in July: " I have recently come back from America where about twenty-five of us went out for a National Assembly of the Oxford Group in Massachusetts."

Sheila Ferguson wrote from Stockholm, where she had not fogotten our S. Luke's Day Festival.

Margaret Fraser has been appointed to a big military hos"pital near Bombay and sailed in January to take up her work there.

Mary Fry is hoping to be married to Mr. Pountney on September 5th. We were glad to see them both here in July.

Gwyneth Fleetwood-Jones writes: "I got my Camper's Licence this summer, and as I am Camp Recorder for my district, I have all the arrangements to make for our District Camp. I am having tremendous fun with my viola,—with two orchestras and my lessons I am kept fairly busy."

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Barbara Gamble (Lacon) is to be congratulated on the birth of her daughter.

Bridget Gardiner has recently lost her Father. We are so sorry about this.

Jean Gibson (Ferguson) was married in July. Her husband is to be stationed in Ireland.

Adela Gleeson (Bradford) came home from India in the spring. She is to be congratulated on the birth of her daughter (Cassandra.)

Mary Goodden is very much interested in her work in a school in Ladbroke Grove.

Susan Goodden seems to have had a very happy first year at Westfield College.

Eileen Gowers has been taking a course as an Equestrian, and as done very well in her examinations.

Nora Green (Fisher) has recently moved to another centre and writes very interesting letters about her life in the coal fields.

Katharine Griffith (Prevost) writes that her husband has settled down very well in his new living at Crickhowell. There are about a thousand people in the parish. The Rectory is a pretty old house, and the garden very large. Nesta and Barbara are growing up very fast.

Rachael Hales wrote of an interesting job in a Nursery School in Battersea. She is engaged to be married, but her fiance is in Spain, so the future is very uncertain.

Catherine Hall is to be congratulated on securing a vacancy at S. Hugh's College, Oxford. She has had a most interesting visit of some weeks to Finland this summer.

Dorothy Haviland is an extremely busy person she writes: " I am on about fourteen different Committees and seem to be in a perpetual state of organising efforts to try and raise funds for them," She is secretary to the Townswomen's Guild,Âť and is responsible for brasses and flowers in Romsey -Abbey.

Winifred Heath has been in London this year, and has been helping at a clinic in Euston for about fifty toddlers and at an Infant Welfare Centre in Hampstead. She attended a most interesting course at Ashdridge College in July.

Gladys Helder (Burnett) is to be congratulated on the birth of her second daughter.

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Irene Heywood wrote from a private post where she was teaching French.

Joan Hilder (Hussey) is living in Swindon at present.

Diana Hill is training in Massage, at the Westminster School of Massage.

Katharine Hill is a very busy person, as in addition to all her teaching work she is doing a great deal of Guide work, and has been made District Captain to two districts.

Monica Hill spent six months last year in touring S. Africa in connection with Toe H. She sailed again at the end of July as she has gone out as organising secretary for S. Africa to the Toe H League of Women Helpers. She is going to make her Head Quarters in Johannesburg, but her area comprises the whole of the Union and Rhodesia, so she will have much travelling.

Ann Hornby (Sadler) was married in July. Barbara Brooke was one of her bridesmaids. Ann spent her honeymoon in the Voges. Her home is to be in Beverley.

Marion Hopkins has had a most interesting four months in Egypt as companion to a lady. She did a great deal of sight seeing. She now has a post as Chaperone to two American girls.

Peggy Hopkins wrote from the General Hospital, Birmingham, where she has a post as Almoner, " I am now in the Casualty department, we deal in huge numbers. Our record was just on 750 in one day.

I have a lot to do with the road traffic cases. I also arrange for the District Nurse, Ambulance, and all the usual assessment part."

Margaret Hort is teaching at Lowther College, Abergele.

Mary Hotchkis wrote that she was to go on the Public School Girls' tour to Canada.

Jo Hughes seems to be a very flourishing Medical student. She takes her finals next year.

Jean Hughes (Sorsbie) has new responsibilities as her husband is now a House Master at Rugby.

Elsie Haythornthwaite (Toop) is to be congratulated on the birth of her second son, Garth. She writes: — " My husband is in the Indian Medical Service ; we returned to Assam in February, leaving our elder boy Richard at home this time, he has just had his

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first term at his Prep. School. My husband has the post of Civil Surgeon to the Kasia and Jaintia Hills, with the headquarters at Shillong, the capital of the province, arid the seat of Government. We are very fortunate to be posted here, especially with a young baby, as it is a hill station, with a good climate. Shillong is a very pretty place, between five and six thousand feet up."

Myfanwy Jenkins left her post at Herschel, Cape Province and came home in July. She is hoping to go out to stay with her brother in India, and then return to South Africa. We were delighted to have her here for the Re-union. She wrote from Holiday Week at Bedford P.T.C. "Joyce Collard, Helen McNab (Tench), Dorothy Duder and I have been here all the week, and on Sunday went to see Miss Helliwell who was staying in Bedford. Miss Goodrich is excellent with her Central-European dancing."

Gwendoline Kirby has finished her training at S. Thomas' Hospital. She is to take a course of Children's Nursing at Cromwell House, Highgate.

Brenda Kirke has written most interesting letters from Hong Kong, where she has been teaching in a Kindergarten in Kowloon. She has visited Japan, and wrote of a wonderful climb up Fuji by night: " We started at 1 p.m. and climbed through the night.

Every half hour or so we came to rest houses packed with sleeping pilgrims, they were so polite and kind and always made room for us, giving us Japanese green tea and biscuits which were most refreshing. Towards dawn we got into the stream of pilgrims, and about 3 a.m. we saw the most perfect sunrise coming across a field of clouds below us. The only 'land' we saw at all were the peaks of the Japanese Alps with snow on them in the distance. It really was a glorious sight! The last stage we were all feeling the altitude and had to crawl, and when we did arrive at the top about 4 o'clock, we found it crowded with pilgrims, and quite a small town of wooden huts on the edge of the crater! We found a hut, and all fell asleep in a row at once. It was too cold to stay up long." Brenda arrived in June, for a few months at home.

Elisabeth Kitson is doing great things with the oboe.

She wrote that she had been accepted for the British

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Women's Symphony Orchestra and was playing at Queen's Hall in November. She also played in one of the operas at Glyndbourne, which had ten performances. She much enjoyed a cruise to Scandinavia in July.

Pamela Lacon is engaged to be married.

Dulcie Leggatt (Taylor) is to be congratulated on the birth of her son.

Clare Leigh-Mallory has had a very happy second year at Girton.

Molly Longridge is nursing at S. Thomas' Hospital. .

Barbara and Christine Lutener have had an anxious time owing to their Mother's illness: they are both living at home and have part-time jobs.

Anne Le Mesurier has a post as a Psychiatric Social worker, under the L.C.C. She and Anne Durst are sharing a flat. They held a small Reunion on October 23rd as a " house warming ", and rang up the School to send best wishes. Those present were R. Buck, A. Carter, (Le Mesurier) D. Hill, C. KestellCornish, M. Ogle, R. Price, L. Suffrin, A. and E. Westaway.

Margaret Maclean (Randolph) is to be congratulated on the birth of her fourth daughter.

Diana Maitland has been in Paris since leaving school, and is now at home. She was presented at the Royal Garden Party in July.

Elisabeth Mansergh has been in a private post at Caversham since her return from Paris.

Mary Margesson writes from U.M C.A. Likoma Island :— "It is fifty years since the first missionaries landed at Likoma and started work We kept it during the octave of S. Michael and All Angels. The special services began on the Eve and continued during the week, including an Adult Baptism. Canon Yohana Tawe preached on the Sunday; he was one of the first to be baptised There were literally crowds of people at the services-. On the Tuesday we had a Minganda Parade. There are seven different Minganda Teams on the island. The boys and young men dance in ranks, singing and waving handkerchiefs and blowing trumpets made out of baobab trees. We had this entertainment in the quad, of the boys' school. The dancers adored it. The nicest part as far as I was concerned was the rag, tag, and

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bob tail at the back. This consisted of tiny tots of six upwards. They rather spoilt the rhythm but were two priceless for words. The next day was the children's day when we had races of all kinds for the boys on the football field, and for the girls in their playground There was plenty of dust and even more noise than dust. I spent most of my time starting the boys' races. I think the sack and three-legged were the most popular. There are seven hundred boys and the same number of girls. They were all fed in relays with native porridge and meat—goat, sheep and cow. We started at 8.30 and stopped at 12 p.m ; and we had our lunch while the last relay fed in school. One day we had a football match against Msumba Central School. Our boys played really well, especially the forwards. At last they are beginning to combine after much effort on my part.

The atmosphere was one of intense excitement but there were no fights; there have been fights on such occasions in the past as the African hates bjing beaten. On Thursday we had a play, which ended with the arrival of the first missionaries at Likoma.

The cloisters made an excellent stage."

Ellen Martin (Wood) is to be congratulated on the birth of her little girl (Daphne).

Isabel Martineau has won great distinction in her final year at Birmingham. In February she won the Gold Medal for Surgery, and for Medicine. In June she was awarded her degree with distinction in Medicine.

We are very proud of our first doctor!

Ivy Martin is much to be congratulated in all she has done as Secretary—for the Old Girls' Association.

She has worked indefatagably on its behalf. We are so glad that she has been elected Chairman.

Jo Matthew (Gould) has sent delightful snapshots of her small son — Ian. Ruth Matthews is still nursing at the Middlesex Hospital.

Margaret McCormick, " Kiki,'' is very busy with her dressmaking.

Patricia McCormick is hoping to be married to Mr. Frank on September 10. She has been out to stay in Toronto, with her fiance, who has a parish there.

Elspeth Minnis is at King's College, working for her degree in Languages. She has been elected VicePresident of the College S C.M. She wrote of a most interesting social service week-end at Toynbee Hall -

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ending it up by an all-night tour. " My party went to the " Daily Telegraph" where we were shown all over the building and presented with a copy of Tuesday's paper at 11.30 on Monday night. Then we went on to the G.P.O. where we saw all the arrangments for sorting letters of every kind for varied destinations. From the G.P.O. we went to a Telephone Exchange. We paid a brief visit to Billingsgate but it was only about 3.45 a.m and there was not much doing just yet; then we went on to Smithfield and ended up at Covent Gardens at 5.45 a.m. The flowers there were heavenly and the spring-flowers made.such marvellous splashes of colour."

Barbara Mitchell lives a very full life, among other things she runs Brownies, (working at the Chailey Home for Cripples) and learns singing.

Ray Moilliet wrote from a new post, in a small school at Market Drayton. " It has only been going a very short time, and this term there are only eleven children, so it is rather exciting starting at the very beginning of things."

Cicely Cpnwy Morgan (Cobb) is living out in Tanganyika. She is to be congratulated on the birth of her son.

Dorothy Morrison is a very busy person. She is so tied at home, but she seems to find time for all sorts of outside work.

Bunty Neatby is doing secretarial work with the I.C.A.A. Gwenda Norman-Jones came home from New Zealand some months ago, and now has a post in London.

She had a splendid holiday in the spring, organised by the National Union of Students, in Austria.

Margaret Ogle finds her work with the National Union of Students extremely interesting. In November last she went out to Vienna, where she stayed until March in order to see how the work was carried on out there, she wrote :—"My life here has been burstingly happy.

Despite the unheard of and mean political oppression, and despite the prevailing poverty, the people keep up a brave and courageous front. The worst is the religious persecution, appalling in its low underhand methods. One has the conviction the whole time, however, that Austria will come through and all the stronger. Her people look upon their troubles as inevitable for the moment, but the standard of culture is so high that materialism is of second importance.

78 It is astounding to see the hordes of University students, the majority of them paying their own fees out of any odd part time job they can pick up : to see the Opera, Concerts, Theatres packed as regards gallery and standing-room space with all types of the population ; to hear them sing or dance in their national costume— 'Dirndl' and leather embroidered or worked trousers at a ' Fasching' (Carnival) Ball, or to watch the forest of skis on every station platform on a Saturday evening or a Sunday. Their interests are so wide, and not only that, they are thorough; if they are interested they know, and know whatever is to be known.

This Amt fiir Studentenwanderung is one of the most splendid things of its kind I have ever seen or heard of. Oskar Bock, the Director, founded it in gratitude to the Student Relief under Donald Grant out here after the War. For the last eleven years it has grown steadily, and there is now an office with two secretaries and a corps of just under two hundred voluntary student guides. The aim is to bring England to understand and be understood by the Austrian and the Continental, and it is achieved in astounding measure, by the thrilling tours for English people which are organised here. Tours are arranged not only in Austria, but in France, Scandinavia, Iceland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Roumania, Italy, Greece, The Aegean, Turkey, etc. The work is all very individual: the voluntary guides in some cases know special countries or languages and can work out the itineraries " Margaret came back to England in March. She was first engaged in "three weeks' hard going, showing 1,400 Belgian Secondary School Children around London." She was then preparing for the summer Austrian invasion.

Marion Pollock is much enjoying her work at Studley College.

Peggy Pope wrote of a long visit to Paris, where she was studying music.

Pamela Preston writes:—"I am now concentrating my energies On learning Folk Dancing i.e. Country, Morris and Sword. I go to classes three days a week at Cecil Sharp House. I suppose I shall be there about two years and take the various examinations.

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hope to be able to play the Folk dance tunes on the pipes. I am also taking German lectures at University College." Pamela and Barbara Mitchell had a wonderful tour in Bavaria in the summer, hearing a great deal of music.

Annette Prevost writes very interesting letters about her work as secretary to Miss Lilian Baylis, she says: " I am still thoroughly enjoying my work; it seems to have a never flagging interest, largely due, I suppose, to the endless variety."

Margaret Price wrote that she had finished her training in Infant Welfare: she has been in a post at Hastings.

Elisabeth Remington-Wilson has had a delightful six months in Paris, and later by the sea, with Madame Nicola'rdot.

Joan Rew writes : " I am still at the teashop in Honiton, " The Highland Fling " I like the work very much, and the cake making interests me immensely. It is most satisfactory turning out batches of cakes one has made. I am glad to say the " Fling " is doing well.

This winter we have had nearly double the trade we had last winter, which is encouraging."

Margaret Rice has had a year's teaching at Heathfield School, Ascot.

Sally Rodale (Betty) came home from Ceylon this summer to be with her people for a time.

Lois Rpome has had a most interesting time in France this year. She is hoping to go out to India next year.

Mollie Selmes (Maundrell) wrote very happily from Hinton, Whitchurch, Salop where her husband is working.

Averil Savory wrote: " You will be surprised to hear that we are opening another branch of the " Witch and Broomstick" at Combe Martin for the summer months, (called " The Penguins.") The wholesale is becoming such a drag that we feel if we could have a good summer place we could drop some of it."

Marguerite Smith writes most happily of her work as Head Mistress of the School at High Ham, Somerset.

She seems to be introducing every possible activity into the School.

Margaret Stead writes of her most interesting training in Nursery School work.

Helen Smith (Douglas) has been in India since she left her post at Westonbirt. She was married in January and is living at Kingston.

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Mary Tallents writes very interesting letters about her work at Selby High School. Among many other activities, she runs the Junior Dramatic ClubMadeleine Thomas (Barton-Wright) has left Clifton as her husband has been given the living of Sherbourne, six miles from Stratford-on-Avon. Madeleine has had many months of ill-health. Her little boy Peter is now three years old.

Pamela Waddilove has left the Royal Sussex Hospital where she has finished her training.

Elisabeth Waller has been appointed secretary to Miss Matthews, and began her work at the School in May,.

Barbara Warburton (Pritchett) writes : " We were married at the little country church at home on December 21 st, it was a glorious day, brilliant blue sky, lovely sunshine, and everything glittered with the frost. We went to Miirren for the Winter Sports for our honeymoon. Now that I have some leisure (after four years nursing in a Birmingham Hospital, a most interesting and valuable experience,) I am having music lessons again at the Manchester School of Music."

Honor Ward has finished her training in Nursery School work at Roehampton and is going out to her parents in Basra, where she is hoping to run a little School.

Pat Waterfall is living at home. She has taken a secretarial training, and now has a post.

Elizabeth and Audrey Westaway have taken a tiny flat (3, Magdalen Court, Earlsfield Road) where they seem to be very happy. Elizabeth is teaching in a special school run by the " Waifs and Strays " Audrey has a very good job with two ladies who have started a dress-making business in Connaught Square.

Nancy Williams has joined the Cambridge University Musical Society. " I am thoroughly enjoying it, and have squeezed into a special chorus to broadcast in the " Foundation of Music" in June. I am still struggling with a postal course in my spare time."

Peggy Wilson has just finished her second year at Girton.

Lesly Wollen has been working hard in her Father's School.

Alison Wood has been doing practical work since obtaining her Social Science Diploma.

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Anne Wood came with her friend, Miss Mary MacDougall, to give us a song Recital. Mr. Hylton Stewart most kindly came with them and we had a delightful evening. On March 27th she gave a song recital at The Grotian Hall. She had excellent notices. " A cultivated artist, a singer who made her rip of the nature and sense of a song felt. She should e one of the singers who count." (Daily Telegraph) " The singing heard at this recital had behind it the working of a cultivated mind, besides a degree of Vocal play that at least placed no insuperable obstacles in the way of the seemly shaping of German 'lieder' and contemporary British songs of that order." (Sunday Times.) " There was ample material for demonstrating a contralto voice of warm tone, good range, and for the most part even quality, and for revealing an intellient musician and singing of a generally attractive ind." (The Times,) We were glad that there was quite a S. Mary's contingent at the Recital, and we felt very proud of Anne When she was staying with us she gave us a very interesting account of her work at the B.B.C. where she was singing in the chorus at the time of the King's Death.

Barbara Woodmass has been at home and in France since leaving school. She is going to Gloucester School of Domestic Science in September.

Margot Young wrote last September :—" You may have seen that the International Students' League sent out a party of public school boys to Germany to act in Gordon Daviot's "Richard of Bordeaux". I was fortunate enough to know the man who was organising it and so I and two other girls went with them.

It was a marvellous, and, for me, quite an unusual experience: we spent a week at Canford School rehearsing and then on the 1st of September left for Germany—27 of us. We went first to Berlin where we gave two performances. I found it rather disappoi-nting and uninteresting and was quite glad to go south. After that we played in Munich, Freiburg, Stuttgart and Aarmstadt, and ended up at Frankfort. I love the Black Forest best and have a great desire to return Everywhere we went we were feted by the town authorities and taken everywhere and given enormous lunches etc."

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Janet Young after obtaining her B Sc. Bristol University has spent a year in practical work at Gloucester Training College. She has now to return to Bristol to take the Teacher's Diploma.

Of the girls who have left us since July 1935:— Beridge Leigh-Mallory (Head of the school) has obtained a vacancy at Girton, where she is to read Medicine.

Since leaving school in April she has had a splendid time in Heidelberg.

Suzanne Hobson (Head of the School) is to train for Froebel work at Roehampton.

Reine Macaulay, who left at Christmas, after winning a Scholarship at Girton, goes up to Girton in October.

She has been in France for three months since leaving school.

Anne Nettelfield, who left at Christmas, is going to Bedford Physical Training College.

Ruth Palmer, who left at Christmas, has begun her training at Bath Orthopaedic Hospital.

Ailie Sarjeant is to be at home.

Jean Blathwayt is to join Betty Douglas who is starting a dancing connection near her home. Jean is to be her accompanist.

Prudence Clarke is to be at home for a time, helping in a Kindergarten class, before going to Germany.

Mary Glynn is going abroad for some months. She hopes to begin her training as a dentist next year.

Pamela Robinson is going out to Singapore with her people.

Mary Tuckwell went straight out to India on leaving school at Christmas.

Carol-HalL is to be at home, working at University College, Exeter, in preparation for the entrance examination at one of the Oxford Colleges.

May Combes and Enid Thomas are at home for the present.

Joan Mallock is to join her people in India.

Vanessa Tennant is to go to Italy in order to learn Italian.

Jane Kirkaldy-Willis is to train as a Nursery Nurse.

88 News of "Old Staff."

Miss Anderson is still leading a very quiet life at home as her Doctors will not allow her to be active in any way.

Mrs. Babington came to see us in June. Her elder boy is now at his prep, school.

Miss Clephan is a splendid correspondent. 'We were so sorry to hear of a broken leg, necessitating a long time in hospital in Grahamstown. She was asked to stand for the Town Council, and was elected "with a record majority at the top of a record poll! I am the first woman councillor here. There is a large Native Location with about two thousand Xosas or Fingoes and it was really interest in that and work on the Joint Council of European and Bantu which has driven me on and into the Council Chamber.

We are at last, after saving up for forty years, to build a real church here—brick. I am also the only woman on that Committee."

Miss Daldy is still working in Liverpool.

Miss Grover is teaching in a school at Weybridge.

Mrs. Harris (Miss Snellj has been to see us frequently.

Miss Inge has, unfortunately, had another year of ill health, but she seems to get about well in her electric chair. We were so glad to see her in June.

Mrs. Inglis (Miss Maclachlan) is living in the Malay States.

Miss Angell James has been to see us twice. She lives a very full and busy life at Sutton High School.

Miss Monica Jones is teaching in Exmouth.

Mrs. Lambert (Miss Powell) is living in the Deccan. Her little girl is called Jennifer Christian.

Miss Williams has been ill this summer, and so has not been able to come to see us.

Visits from Old Girls.

Autumn Term, 1935.

During this term as many as twenty-five old girls have been down, a larger number than usual.

Violet Armstrong with her usual fidelity visited us early in the term, and nearly all the week-ends in the term some old girls have come, ranging from those who left last term to those who left ten years ago. Some came only for a few hours, like Giana Shipley, and the

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McCormicks who " blew in " for lunch. Others stayed several days like Ivy Martin who spent her time here busily working at the Old Girls' Register. Three old girls came for the week-end of the Musical Festival in Bath, and joined us in the great expedition, enjoying themselves apparently almost as much as we did; and there were several representatives of the Old Girls at the Laying of the Foundation Stone at half term But the greatest gathering of Old Girls was on the 23rd of November, when Mrs. Harris' team of Old Girls played a lacrosse match against the school. On Friday night and throughout Saturday morning Old Girls came pouring in from every side, until at lunch they filled the whole of the High table. After dinner they all prepared for the fray. The match began, and at first the school went well ahead, while the Old Girls were getting used to such unaccustomed exercise, and remembering the long disused art of catching and throwing the ball. After half-time, however the Old Girls showed their worth, and pressed hard all the time so that the game was really exciting, the final score being 8—6 to the school. Had the match continued for a few minutes more the victory might well have been to the other side.

In the evening there was dancing in the Hall during which more than one of the Old Girls were heard to complain of stiffness and exhaustion after the afternoon's game. The Old Girls were then distributed all over the school to sleep at S Bridget's, S. Prisca's, Mrs. Ludlow's cottage, and the Staff cottage. Most of them left us on Sunday, and the rest on Monday morning. Miss Matthews tried hard to make us believe that she disliked being overwhelmed by such a host of Old Girls, but her obvious huge enjoyment of the whole week-end betrayed her. The whole school thoroughly enjoyed the week-end, and it is hoped that an Old Girls' match will become an annual event in the school.

E. Booker.

The following Old Girls have visited the School this year, in addition to those who came to the Reunion, B. Allison (Skyrme) and her husband, R. Aldworth, P. Angell, V. Armstrong and her fiance.

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A. Barnes, G. Beale, P. Beale, D. Beazley, E. Bodinnar and her fiance, D. Bradford, F. Bradford, R. Buck, B. Bulmer, B. Butler, M. Butler, F. Bartlett.

J. Cameron, A. Carter (Le Mesurier) and her husband, V. Carver, M. Charsley, N. Chase, A. ChenevixTrench, C. Churchill, N. Churchill, J. Collard, J. Cooke.

G. Dixon, P. Dixon, B. Douglas, S. Dunlop, A. Durst.

P. Ede, D Ede. C. Fairbairn, her husband, Pat, Brooke and Andrew; M. Fry and her fiance.

M. Goodden, S. Goodden, I. Gough, M. Gough, C. Hall, F. Hancock (Keevil), A. Heath, B. Hindley, J. Hindley, Jo Hughes.

L. Jackson, R. Jenner.

A. Keevil (Godfrey), G. Kirby.

A. Le Mesurier, M. Long.

R. Macaulay, D. Mallock, I. Martin, I. Martineau, M. Maclean (Randolph), M. McCormick, P. McCormick, E. Minnis, B. Mitchell, D. Morrison, A. Nettelfield.

M. Osman-Jones, W. Osman-Jones, M. Olive.

P. Preston.

S. Randolph, L. Roome A. Sadler, B. Sheldon, G. Shipley.

Marguerite Smith, Mary Smith, B. Sheldon, M. Stead, K. Synge.

S. Tench, M. Thynne, K. Trow.

E. Waller, L. Wollen, Alison Wood, Anne Wood, Janet Young, M. Young Also: —Miss Anderson, Miss Angell James, Mrs. Babingron, Miss Daldy, Miss Damant, Miss Grover, Miss Hales, Mrs. Harris, Miss Nesbitt.

Old Girls' Badges.

The Old Girls' Badge, a small shield brooch in blue and white enamel, may be obtained at any time from Miss Matthews. The price (including postage) is 2/8.

Notice.

Subscriptions to the News Sheet should be sent, as soon as possible, to " The Secretary", S. Mary's School, Calne. Old Girls belonging to the Association pay through their group secretaries. Each Copy costs 2/-.

Life Subscriptions 25 -.

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We have received, with thanks, magazines from : — Abbey School, Reading; Benenden School; Bishop Strachan School, Toronto, Ontario; Dauntsey's School; The Godolphin School; Havergal College, Toronto ; Howell's School, Denbigh; Leeds Girls' High School; London Orphan School; Luckley, Wokingham ; Queen's College, Barbados; Queen's Hall, Compton, Quebec; Queen Margaret's School, Scarborough; Sandecotes School; Sherborne Girls' School; School of S Mary and S. Anne, Abbots Bromley ; S. Katherine's, Heatherton Park; and the Marlburian

Births.

Capewell. On January 11th, 1936, to Dorothy Capewell, (Clayton) a fifth daughter, (Carol.)

Carter On July 12th, 1936, to Alice Carter (Le Mesuder) a son (Michael Norman.)

Clift. On April 7th, 1936, to Constance Clift (Allen) a daughter (Jane Anne.)

Gamble. On February 2nd, 1936, to Barbara Gamble iLacon) a daughter (Patricia Wendy.)

Gleeson. On May 16th, 1396, to Adela Gleeson (Bradford i a daughter (Cassandra:) Haythornthwaite. On November 22nd, 1935, to Elsie (Toop) a second son (Garth Ferret.)

Helder. On February 14th, 1936, to Gladys Helder (Burnett) a second daughter (Mary Brodie.)

Leggatt. On April 26th, 1936, to Dulcie Leggatt (Taylor) a son (Peter William.)

Maclean. On October 11th, 1935, to Margaret Maclean (Randolph) a fourth daughter (Fynvola Susan.)

Marjoribanks Egertpn On May 7th, 1936, in Cairo, to Barbara Marjoribanks Egerton (Chambers) a daughter 'Philippa Anne.)

Martin. On April 1st, 1936, to Ellen Martin (Wood) a daughter (Daphne Ellen.)

Morgan. On July llth, 1936, at Tabora, Tanganyika, to Cicely Conwy Morgan (Cobb.) a son.

Tail. On February 22nd, 1936, to Valerie Tait (Taylor) a daughter.

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Adelman -Adnit. On July 18th, 1936, in London, H Adelman to Betty Adnitt.

Binney—Mallock On August 4th, 1936, in Secunderabad, R. A. W. Binney (1st Royal Battalion 9th Jat Regiment) to Diana Mallock.

Clark —Lunt. On August 6th, 1936, in Ripon Cathedral, The Rev. S. Harvie Clark to Sheilah Lunt.

Gibson—Ferguson. On July 16th, 1936, at Penalt, Captain J. T. Gibson to Jean Ferguson.

Hornby—Sadleir. On July 15th, 1936, in Lambeth Palace Chapel, Miles Hornby to Ann Sadleir.

Inglis—Maclachlan. On July 4th, 1936, at Penang, Allan Inglis to Constance Maclachlan.

Logan-Young. On April llth, 1936, Captain A. R. Logan, R.E. to Jean Young.

Pedder -Jackson. On August 14th, 1935, LieutenantCommander R. C. Pedder, R.N. to Joy Jackson.

Selmes - Maundrell. On March 26th, 1936, at All Souls', Langham Place, H. C. Selmes to Mqllie Maundrell.

Smith—Douglas. In January, Captain H. Smith to Helen Douglas.

Warburton—Pritchett. On December 21st, 1936, J. D. Warburton to Barbara Pritchett.

R.I.P. Kemmis Betty. On March 3rd, 1936, after a riding accident, Enid Mary (" Bobs") elder daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Paget Kemmis Betty, of Puddletown, Dorset, aged 24.

Heath. On June 3rd, 1936, in Calne, Robert Heath.

Merriman. On December 9th, 1935, suddenly at Avignon, William Antony Merriman, husband of of Gwynedd (Turner), only son of Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Merriman, aged 27.

Tait. On February 22nd, 1936, Valerie (Taylor) wife of Flight-Lieutenant N. A. Tait, aged 25.

ENID BETTY June 2nd, 1911-March 3rd, 1936.

To all who knew her the swift passing of Enid came as a great shock, and a real grief. Enid came to S. Mary's, with her sister, Sally, in September 1926. She was with us for just over two years, and left from the Sixth, a school prefect.

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Enid quickly made for herself a special place in the school. She was so bright, so gentle, so friendly and considerate. She had unusual charm, and was so simple and natural in manner that everyone was attracted to her, and she made many friends. After leaving school she often came to see us—she would drop in unexpectedly — and we always found her exactly the same, warmly appreciative, interested and keen. We heard much of her many activities; her riding, (she was an accomplished and fearless horsewoman, and was well known with the Cattistock and South Dorset Hunts,) her tennis, her work with the Puddletown Cubs, her dressmaking.

We can hardly bear to think of what her passing means to her parents and to Sally. They have our very deepest sympathy.

VALERIE TAIT (TAYLOR).

March 10th, 1911-February 22nd, 1936.

Valerie was with us from March, 1923 until July, 1925, as a day girl while her mother was living in Calne.

We remember her vividly as a practical, friendly little person, alert and interested in her school life. We had heard such happy things of her marriage, and of her little son. The day after his first birthday a little sister was born, and the same day Valerie died.

It is too tragic to think of the two motherless babies Our deepest sympathy goes out to Valerie's husband, to her mother, and to her sister Marjorie.

ROBERT S. HEATH. At rest June 3rd, 1936.

Old Girls all over the world will share with us in the loss we are feeling in the death of that very good friend of the school, Mr. Robert Heath. From its very first days the Heath family were bound up with the history of the school, and Mr. Heath felt as great a pride in it—more so perhaps—than did even his sisters, all of whom were in the school. He was constantly with us, no one was a more interested member of the audience on Speech Day, and as for our plays, he never missed a performance. He took the keenest pride, year by year, in producing our News Sheet, and it is sad to feel that we shall never again have his help in this direction.

To Mrs. Heath, their four sons, and his sisters we offer our deep sympathy.

89 The Register.

The outstanding event of the O.G.A. this year has been the publication of the Old Girls' Register. This we owe entirely to Ivy iMartin who has worked indefatigably in its production. We owe her a great debt. Any member of the O.G.A. who has not received her copy should inform the Secretary (E. Waller at S. Mary's School).

It is very difficult to keep the Register up to date. The Secretary will be very grateful if corrections may be brought to her notice We apologize for the following omissions.

Addenda.

Cooke. J. 28, Cobbett Boad, Bitterne Park, Southampton.

Group 3. J 921-192?.

Combes, V. M. Manor House, Bishop's Cannings.

Group 8. 1927-1936.

Crokat, M. K. Kirkdale, Wemdon, Bridgwater, Somerset.

Group 2. 1912-1916.

Gleeson, A. (Bradford) Newlands, Petworth, Sussex (Please forward) Group 5 1923—1927.

Morgan, C. M. N. (Cobb) c/o The Secretariat, Dar-es-Salaam.

Tanganyika.

Group 5. 1921—1927.

Price, M. W. A. Group 5. 1923 - 1928.

Bodale, E. K. K. (Betty) Nunsnugga, Puddletown, Dorset.

(Please forward) Group 6. 1926-1930.

Wood, Monica, The Rectory, Cold Ashton, Chippenham.

Group 2. 1920-1921

The following have joined the Association since the publication of the Register: — Blathwayt, M. J. Dyrham Bectory, Chippenham.

Group 8. 1932- 1936.

Clarke, P. M. C. Gatcombe Court, Flax Bourton, Somerset.

Groups. 1931-1936.

Glynn, M. F. 4, Tarn Villas, Ilkley, Yorks. Group 8. 1931—1936.

Hall, C. D 15, The Close. Exeter, Group 8. 1930—1936.

Hobson, D. S. Lavenderhayes, Budleigh Salterton, Devon Group 8. 1932-1936.

Leigh-Mallory, B. B. Westbrook, Godalming, Surrey.

Group 8. 1930-1936.

Mallock, S. J. Newlands House, Gymkhana Boad, Secunderabad, India.

Group 8. 1933 — 1936.

Beed, P. K. Group 8. 1935—1936.

Bobinson, M. P. c/o Master Attendant's Office, Singapore.

Group 8. 1931 1936.

Sarjeant, A. Dower House, Ben Bhydding, Yorkshire.

Group 8. 1935-1936.

Tennant, V. D. F. The Vineyard, Saffron Walden, Essex.

Group 8. 1934—1936.

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Corrigenda.

Alctworth. E., Fishford,Abingdon, Berks.

Adelmann Mrs. (E. J. Adnitt) 75, Cromwell Eoad, S.W.7.

Binney, Mrs. (D. Mallock) Newlands House, Secunderabad, India. Please forward.

Birkbeck, Mrs. (E. Hollls) 3, Stonefleld Eoad, Lincoln.

Capewell, Mrs. (D. Clayton) 109, Eownhams Eoad, Maybush.

Southampton.

Clark, Mrs. Harvie (S. Lunt) The Rectory, Jarrow-on-Tyne, Co. Durham.

Clift. Mrs. (C. Allen) Bracken Cottage, Binton Lane, Seale, Parnham Marjoribanks Egerton Mrs. (B. Chambers) Manor House, Sandgate, Kent.

Gowers, E. A., Eondle Wood, Eogate, Petersfield.

Green, Mrs. (N. Fisher) Gwawefryn, Ferndale, Glamorgan.

Hiscock, M., Moorshall, 79, Malmesbury Eoad, Chippenham.

Hulbert, M., 7, Cotham Grove, Bristol.

Leggatt, Mrs. (D. Taylor) Lynton, Oldfleld Eoad, Hampton.

Logan, Mrs. (Jean Young) 22, Earl's Terrace, W.8.

Maxwell, D. I., Cicely Hill, Cirencester.

Merriman, Mrs. (G. Turner) 30. Eedcliffe Square, S.W.10.

Newman, Mrs. (M Bigwood) 119, Chiltern Drive, Surbiton, Surrey.

Pedder, Mrs. (J. Jackson) 1, S. Catherine's Hill, Worcester.

Thomas, Mrs. (M. E. Barton Wright) Sherbourne Vicarage, Warwick Warburton Mrs. (B. Pritchett) Castleton, Ocle Pychard, Hereford.

Waddilove, E. P., East Walton Vicarage, King's Lynn, Norfolk.

N.B. These additions and corrections are printed so that they can easily be detached and kept with the Register now in the hands of all members of the O.G.A.