St Mary's Calne News Sheet - 32

S. MARY'S SCHOOL CALNE

NEWS SHEET

SEPTEMBER, 1947

NUMBER 32

R. S. HEATH PRINTER, CALNE

1946-1947 This has in part been a very solemn year for the School. The Autumn term opened with the sad news of the severe illness of Miss Matthews, and on October i3th came the news of her passing.

Yet in the sadness there was a note of triumph. The words on the Memorial Service paper were in all our hearts : " Thank God for the life lived and the life now entered."

Mr. Dunne, our beloved second founder, too, died in June, and also another wise and loved governor, the Bishop of Sherborne.

Yet there has been much to be thankful for. We have had very little illness, and only the mildest of epidemics. Even in the most severe weather, we were well fed and our buildings were warmed.

The sense of continuity and unity so vital to the life of the School has been maintained and strengthened by visits of Old Girls and by the Reunions.

We have long been conscious of the need for a larger chapel, new form rooms, a more spacious kitchen and storerooms. Although with present costs and restrictions we know that all this must take time, we feel that all that can possibly be done to speed these on their way is being done by our governors, and we rejoice in having Mr. Christopher Green as our architect. He so well understands our needs and our aims.

We have so many blessings—in our founders, our traditions, the beautiful buildings we already have, in our gardens and in the lovely countryside that we must all, surely, be filled with a deep sense of responsibility. " To whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required."

This seems to strike us especially as true and urgent in the times in which we live.

MISS MATTHEWS Miss Matthews was one of a family of ten ; the third daughter of the Rev. J. H. Dudley Matthews, Headmaster of Leeds Grammar School. She was educated at Leeds High School, the Godolphin School, Salisbury, which always played a large part in her life, and at Newnham College, Cambridge.

She came to St. Mary's as Head Mistress in September, 1915, after having taught at St. Margaret's, Bushey, for eight years. There were only thirty-four girls in the School and the buildings extended only from Gabriel, smaller than it is now, to the Cottage, which was being used for the first time as Staff Quarters. The only " grounds " were the Chapel lawn and the netball court below the Cottage.

With her characteristic energy and enthusiasm Miss Matthews at once began to plan for the future. A building fund was started for which we had a Sale at Christmas, gave entertainments and sold

" bricks " to our friends in the holidays. This was all a venture of faith as the School was considerably in debt. The Staff was inadequate.

There were a Kindergarten and Music mistress, but every other subject, including drill and games, was taught by Miss Matthews and two Staff.

The first addition to the School was St. Prisca's, to which the Kindergarten moved in 1917. Two years later we acquired the quarry, and the ground between the School and St. Prisca's, and the next year the " Hut." Those accustomed to the newer buildings cannot imagine the thrill and excitement this gave the girls!

Early in 1922 Miss Matthews underwent an operation and was absent for the whole of the Lent Term. The following year the School celebrated its fiftieth birthday with a Thanksgiving Service in church (at which the Bishop preached), a performance of " Much Ado " and the opening of the Jubilee buildings. St. Bridget's was also acquired that year. The year 1925 saw the completion of the Sanatorium and the extension of the Chapel. Two years later the Governors bought St. Faith's and added the Cookery School to St. Prisca's.

In October, 1929, Archdeacon Bodington died and Miss Matthews suffered a real personal loss in one who had aided and abetted her in all her plans. His faith in the ultimate success of the School had never failed, even in its darkest days.

At Speech Day in 1933 when we celebrated the School's Diamond Jubilee, Miss Matthews read an old letter written by Archdeacon Bodington to Mr. Dunne, in which he was rejoicing that there was a balance of some seven guineas to offset an overdraft of ÂŁ268!

Year after year improvements were carried out, eleven acres of ground were acquired, the Workhouse (which provided the stone for the new block) was bought and the wing beyond Gabriel added.

Then, in 1936, when the new buildings were opened, Miss Matthews at last saw her dream of a really beautiful Dining Room and Hall come true. The Red Hall was completed the following year.

To those who do not remember those early days this may well be dull reading but those who shared them will perhaps recapture the thrill of them. To quote Miss Matthews' own words, written in 1936 : " As we look back at old copies of the ' News Sheet' we can hardly forbear a smile at the constantly reiterated 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."

When the present girl looks at the School as it now is she will appreciate what Miss Matthews, in spite of two wars and tremendous odds, achieved during the thirty years of her Headmistress-ship.

Vhe shadow of the Great War was cast over the last years. (The yoth birthday of the School being kept quietly in 1943). She never ceased to remind those around her how fortunate they were to be situated in a place where the war seemed hardly to touch them or

to remember those Old Girls less happily placed and those who had suffered bereavement—all had her warm sympathy and affection.

But this splendid record was not her most important work. She was first and foremost a character builder. After her death letters poured in by hundreds. Every Old Girl spoke of the influence she had over them. " I never made any great decision without wondering what she would have liked me to do . . ." " She was such a rock, I turned to her in all my difficulties . . ." " I shall never forget her wonderful letters when father died . . ." So many too " will never forget her Confirmation Classes and talks in Chapel". All speak of the happiness of their school days, of the fun and enjoyment of simple pleasures. She loved to plan treats and surprises, the last revision lesson before School Certificate would be snatched from a protesting Staff because the sun had come out and games had been missed the day before.

Did anyone ever give so many presents and prizes ? When there was no reason for giving a prize she invented one!

She was the instigator, too, of so many " occasions ", the Health Festival, " Frolics ", Tea and Speeches, the Dress Parade, the Flower Competition and " Lilies ".

And then, when she seemed so necessary to so many and had leisure for even more letters and more visitors, she left us, suddenly, with a great ache in our hearts and an emptiness in our lives that no one else can ever fill.

It is hard to understand why she was allowed so short a time in which to enjoy her leisure and the Cottage. Someone wrote : " There must be some tremendous piece of work awaiting her on the other side which only she can tackle ". Perhaps this is the reason.

We thank God for her life and work—for all she gave so generously, of affection and friendship, for her lively interest in all our doings and her never-failing sympathy in all our troubles. She will never be forgotten by the School to which she devoted her whole life.

APPRECIATIONS BY OLD GIRLS I

When I first went to school I cannot remember that any of our acquaintances had ever heard of St. Mary's. During the war, while stationed on the Wiltshire Downs, I happened to pass through Calne, by what was virtually the only method of travel from our isolated Camp, a " hitch " in a passing motorist's car. To enliven the journey my benefactor was pointing out the landmarks : " There is a well-known Girls' School here," he said as we came into ^alne, " one of the two best in England, in fact a great many people consider it is the best." As we passed S. Mary's I looked through the little iron gate up the path to Miss Matthew's room, over the patch of lawn

to Gabriel. It looked just as unpretentious as when I first entered, and yet there were hundreds of old girls and their parents all over the world at that moment, and many of the leading educationalists of the country, who would agree with the verdict of this passing stranger.

How had this thing happened ? Quite simply it happened because of the life and work of Marcia Matthews. There were others who had contributed, of course, but they would all acknowledge that it was the faith, vitality, breadth of vision, wisdom and laughter of Miss Matthews which had been the mainspring of success.

Looking back, I think it is her vitality and gaiety that one first remembers, the laughter at her table, the discussions ranging from the League of Nations to the Cook's day out, the stimulating uncertainty of the next question, the endearing personal enquiry. She talked over so wide a field and yet was interested in everything we were interested in at home, and talked of the same things as our fathers (perhaps why she got on with fathers so well). She was always making us laugh, she gave us no time to be petty. She continually had some new lecture, concert, picnic or outing for us, was always suggesting something new. Behind her gay vitality we all knew that the foundation of her life was the strength of her faith.

We would see her going down to early services on Sundays and Saints' days, realize it in her Divinity Classes, chapel on Sunday evenings, the midday intercessions, prayers for the Old Girls.

Her immense powers of organisation ran the school as on oiled wheels. We took it for granted in our school days, but one can see now what a difference it made to our lives. The day's programme was always smoothly adjustable if necessary and even the " prep " set us had to be related to the time available in -which to do it. (How rare a school virtue!) Her wise understanding ordered and steered the school, and if as a child one marvelled at her wit and humour perhaps now one marvels more at her wisdom. In a masterly way she mixed our school life with the life of Calne, with our homes, and with life as a whole.

She had the widest intellectual powers and was an educationalist in the true sense. She believed, and taught others to believe, that to educate people was a wonderful privilege. You were not permitted to cast the slightest reflection, however mild, on the teaching profession.

An Old Girl once thoughtlessly referred to " filling up time teaching."

It was a major crime. I suppose that various aspects of her teaching stand out vividly in the memory of most of us. With me it was history. I was enthralled and have loved it increasingly ever since.

She put in such vivid odd bits. I remember her telling us that the younger Pitt made his most famous speech while suffering from a severe bout of sickness : " Imagine what it's like to feel sick," she said, "and think of the spirit of the man! " I have admired the younger Pitt ever since. Perhaps it was the spirit of service she imbued into us that was her greatest contribution : we must go out

from S. Mary's to serve. We used to laugh at the expression " useful home daughter " but it was the essence of her teaching. Wherever we were and whatever we did in some way we must be of use, we must use our lives to serve. Except laughingly, we never speak of it, we do not normally write of it, perhaps we do not live up to it, but it is ground into the consciousness of every single one of us educated at S. Mary's. It was one of the essential things she taught us.

After we left school it was a continued source of wonder to us how she managed to keep up with us all, to address our B.R.F. envelopes individually and apparently to write to us all. She stood as a rock behind us, a certain rejoicer in any good fortune, a sure and quick sympathiser in any trouble. During the War I was lucky to see a good deal of Miss Matthews and I knew how wide was her sympathy with all connected with the school and with the Old Girls.

Her own personal anxieties, which were heavy, were never allowed to diminish her sympathy and anxiety for others. She had a tremendous belief and interest in us and she loved us. Perhaps it was chiefly these things which made the news of her serious illness and the announcement of her death come as such a shock and sorrow to us all. Edith Marcia Matthews, our beloved friend and Headmistress!

We heard later she had faced death with the old courage and splendid faith we knew, her work completed and her spirit undimmed.

II

It is a year since Miss Matthews died, and during the year there have been certain dates on which anyone who had been at S. Mary's must' have remembered Matt. There is no need to remind her old girls of Miss Matthews in a special article. Yet it is almost entirely for old girls that the News Sheet is published, and therefore, although it is a great honour and a welcome task to write about Miss Matthews —as it is to pass on any great experience—it is also particularly difficult. If it were possible to find an artist to represent our thoughts and memories of Miss Matthews more perfectly than we can ourselves, that would be valuable. Anyone else can only attempt to write about her in such a place as the News Sheet with great diffidence.

An appreciation of Miss Matthews should perhaps be a headlong rush of words impelled by spontaneous sincerity, undiluted, unconsidered, and probably overflowing into crude but enthusiastic verse. This would give an impression of some of her most vivid characteristics. On the other hand, Miss Matthews also had a passion for " roots"—philological as well as traditional—and this may excuse a rather pedantic beginning.

Miss Matthews was our friend and we probably think of her mainly as an outstanding personality, but she would wish to be judged, I think, in her professional capacity, and, as she was a great expert, it is only her due to consider her as a teacher. Two words 5

connected with teaching may serve as a starting point: they are " discipline " and " disciples." The first emphasises that teaching is itself a method, and what is taught is a method—of thinking, of acting, of living. The second suggests the personal relationship between teacher and pupil. This is the most exciting and the most exhausting part of teaching, and also, as all great teachers have emphasized, a most essential part. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of a powerful society of teachers, provided in his Exercises a very detailed written system of meditation, and yet insisted that no-one could learn it unless it was " given " him by a master, even though that master appeared to add nothing to the written instructions. Miss Matthews' personality was inevitably closely linked with her methods of teaching, but, to some extent, it is possible to consider these two separately : first, what she was, which affected all the individuals who knew her; second, her contribution to education as a whole.

I hope it is not too presumptuous to discuss Matt's characteristics.

She was endowed with a generous love of humanity and an enthusiastic love of life, with great vision, great faith, and extraordinary creative energy. She cultivated the qualities of courage and control, which gave to her work direction, perseverance, and success. Although all her energies were turned outwards, one of her favourite quotations was " know thyself " and she was very honest to herself. This honesty was partly the cause and partly the result of her profound humility and of her courage. She usually •admitted her mistakes and invited criticism, even from her pupils. She has occasionally been criticised as being sometimes complacent and conceited and a snob. If she did ever show any signs of these things, it was nothing but the effervescence of enthusiasm and no part of herself. She may also have given a first impression of an overpowering personality, but one of the qualities she most admired was gentleness, and she herself had a fund of gentleness and peace. It is possible that her patience and discretion did not always keep pace with her more positive attributes, but they very nearly did. It is impossible to sum up Miss Matthews' qualities because she was a most unrestricted person. She was so versatile she would not fit into any categories. Her powers of invention were equal to any new occasion, .her humour would burst through conventions, she was aware of changing events and ready to meet them, she was not bound by selfishness or fear. Perhaps the most special thing about her was that she was so many sided and yet so integrated.

She combined reverence with jesting, shrewdness with kindness, careful planning with impulsive experiments, broad-mindedness with a clear sense of duty, infinite sympathy and understanding with definite values. She was very faithful and drew her strength from God. Miss Matthews' success as a teacher was largely due to the balance of idealism and practicality in her character. This balance both prevented her from falling into the chief dangers of her profession —becoming disillusioned and weary and getting into a rut—and

also enabled her to find excellent ways of putting things across to us.

Her method was partly that of a personal tradition, passed down especially from her head-mistress at the Godolphin school, and partly a series of constant inventions to meet the need of each changing moment, circumstance and individual. If we consider first a few particular instances of her wisdom, it may be possible to detect some important educational principles underneath them.

It is inevitable that many of the dates on which we are most forcibly reminded of Miss Matthews are religious festivals : S. Luke's day, Ascension Day, the Visitation, and various Sundays. She thought that the most important thing she could teach us was to rely on her source of inspiration and strength. She was very practical about religion. Her confirmation classes, which began with " barnacles and dinosauros " (as a teacher she automatically gave us a vivid— and even lurid—picture that we could not possibly forget) ended with the injunction " not to be vague but to pray about definite things." Matt was never more magnetic than in her sermons. She must have been told more than once that we wished she would stop reading second hand ones and give us another of her own. There cannot be many preachers to whom this request rather than its opposite has been made. She seemed to be fixing each one of us with a specially accusing eye, and everyone of us at the same moment. Her sermons live as a series of pictures : " pictures hanging on groggy nails "—that was about being dependable, " baby kangaroos climbing into their mothers' instincts " (characteristic misprint for " climbing by instinct into their mothers' pouches")—that was about natural instincts being useful but the temptation to pervert them, " water level changing in tanks connected by pipes " (valiant up to date venture into the realm of science)—that was about being unable to give out unless we took in (short digression to compare the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea), and so on. . . .

The chapel was the centre of Mart's school. The rest of our school life was concerned with academic work, the arts and general culture, and miscellaneous activities. The last category was perhaps most typical of Matt but one word must be said about the first two.

At the end of her career, Miss Matthews taught Shakespeare and Divinity and some History. When she first Went to S. Mary's she divided all subjects with Miss Alexander, and Matt had taught such things as Geometry (I am sure she taught it brilliantly; she was very proud of the fact that she could draw perfect circles freehand).

Miss Matthews had a scholarly knowledge and a devoted love of Shakespeare, and was completely convinced that she could not teach us anything more worth while. Shakespeare lessons were exhilarating both because of the matter and manner of her exposition. In Divinity lessons we got to known parts of the Bible very well and sometimes approached a theological topic from an academic and critical point of view, but, much more important, Divinity was the excuse for a fascinating selection of facts about cookery, astronomy, world speed

records, population statistics, etc., and even more fascinating comments on life in general. In these lessons, Matt tried to teach us methods of thinking, of making notes, of collecting and classifying information.

Miss Matthews was very anxious that we should be appreciative of and, if possible, accomplished in music and painting and acting and also the lesser arts which make life civilised. She believed that it was an especially feminine privilege and duty to look after the gracious and beautiful side of life. She was delighted to discover someone who took pleasure in sewing, or arranging flowers, or polishing glass.

Many of Miss Matthews' miscellaneous ideas were also designed to teach as to live in a civilised way. There must be very few of us who will not introduce the excellent custom of reading aloud into our homes—and even make it an important qualification for our husbands—after Matt's Sunday reading. No habituee of an eighteenthcentury salon can have had a better training in the art of conversation than we had at the high table. Miss Matthews was herself an expert at the allied art of letter writing and she urged us to take trouble about it. Tidying-up campaigns were another of the details of which her mind was prolific. Reading tests (here her pleasure must be recorded if someone wrote in her review of the " Daisy Chain " : " Miss Matthews recommended this book to me. I thought it was simply frightful ")—Hobbies—What else is typical of Matt ? Her interest in outside affairs, her devices for ensuring that we read the papers, the general knowledge paper, her system of " school mothers," her standing jokes (" digging up the past " and " sentiment in a hard-boiled age " and many others—it would be possible to compile a whole philosophy out of Matt's standing jokes), other jokes introduced into school life if it happened to be the middle of a wet week and she thought things were becoming heavy and dull, jokes provided for those who were taking an exam and might be being pompous or hectic—a typical specimen of this sort was to look up the candidate's number in " A. & M." and then improvise a frivolous prophecy on the words of the hymn. But this catalogue is long enough.

It may be as well to anticipate possible criticisms of the sort of education Miss Matthews provided in S. Mary's. It might be said that our outlook was altogether too rosy, that we did not know about the grim side of life, and that an emotional religion took the place of hard thought about real problems of whose existence we were unaware. It might be said that the knowledge we imbibed was too palatable, that we were spoon-fed and that this was bad training.

We were not ignorant of the worst features of life, but possibly we were given a too optimistic outlook that our service, which we must give in return for our privileges, would turn the world upside down. This was a justifiable policy to adopt because it gave us the sense of security that all children need, without irresponsible illusions.

Miss Matthews was continually aware of the danger that it might make us smug. No-one who has heard Matt read a philosophical

essay (which she occasionally did on Sundays instead of Jane Austen or Browning), and then exclaim : " Do you understand that ? I don't," and proceed to enlarge on the difficulties, could accuse her of either intellectual dishonesty or intellectual timidity. She also gave us an opportunity for independent thought in the sixth form discussions. Her own religious convictions compelled her to give us a firm religious upbringing and even those who have later rejected this faith must be grateful that when they were young they had a working faith to live by, and within which to grow and discover their own powers, instead of being left to flounder in a state of ineffectual uncertainty. In answer to the last criticism, it is difficult enough to kindle enthusiasm, and the more palatable a teacher can make his subject the greater is his skill. At the same time there were many ways in which we were taught to use our own initiative—and we even occasionally had to do something difficult!

Behind the varied applications of Mrs. Matthews' educational technique can be seen four principles at least. First, she wished each of her pupils to be as complete a person as possible, to increase both their capacity for being and their ability to serve in society. She wanted us all to have wide sympathies and interests. This all round development was sometimes rather a trial to those who had a particular talent in one direction, but Miss Matthews never treated us as units in a machine and she tried to meet individual needs. Secondly she wished us to develop womanly qualities. She thought that too much emphasis on routine organisation was un-natural and tried to avoid the inevitable pettiness of boarding schools. She wished to stimulate our creative inclinations much more than our committeerunning ones. Thirdly, Miss Matthews gave us very practical things to do (e.g. hobbies) and hoped that we would go on doing them so that being occupied we should never have room for the desperate mal de siech of boredom or disillusionment. Lastly, Miss Matthews believed that building, and adding up separate units into a whole, was thoroughly satisfactory. She wanted us to store up happiness and contentment and laughter and joi de vivre and sanity to stand us in good stead in any emergency in the future.

It was a great experience to know Miss Matthews. Her's was a work of love and she trusted us with her friendship. At all ages she often spoke to us as friends and individuals, sometimes for our benefit, sometimes because she just wanted a companion for an hour.

She was too great and too generous to need or want to be distant.

As an administrator Miss Matthews' achievement was to build up a first rate school. She had a marvellous grasp of detail—her handwritten lists of special things such as places in chapel and old girls' visits are very characteristic. As a teacher she diagnosed the chief maladies of the age—ineffectual uncertainty, boredom, disillusionment, hard ungraciousness, and she fought against them in her school with positive remedies. In the technique of teaching she excelled. She gave us her pupils an example, an attitude to life, and

methods of working and of using our leisure for which we cannot be sufficiently grateful. Her contribution to education as a whole is the example of the working out of principles which are sometimes recognised but hardly ever practised.

ELIZABETH STAMPER (1938-43) THE BISHOP OF SHERBORNE Among the recent severe losses sustained by St. Mary's School has been the unexpected death of the Bishop of Sherborne, Harold Nickinson Rodgers. Since he came into the diocese of Salisbury ten years ago he had been a Governor of the School. During that time he attended almost every Governors' meeting, at which his advice and administrative ability were of the greatest value and much sippreciated by his fellow-members. He had a special affection for the School. The present writer hardly ever met him but that he was not asked " How is St. Mary's getting on ? ". His affection and loving personality called forth in a remarkable manner the love and devotion of the School, and not least of the scores of girls whom he confirmed and who still remember his simple, wise, heart-searching addresses so understanding of the problems of youth.

We thank God for what the Bishop did for the School as Governor in helping to guide its affairs with wisdom and foresight, but above all for the memory and good example of the man himself. When we say the familiar prayer thanking God " for those who have served Sit. Mary's School, for their high ideals and aspirations, for their cheerfulness and courage, for their steadfastness and self-sacrifice ", we may well think very specially of His faithful servant, Harold Sherborne.

MR. DUNNE Arthur Mountjoy Dunne, K.C., died on the I5th June, 1947, at the age of 87. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and called by the Middle Temple in 1881, he practised in Calcutta for about twenty years. Returning to this country he became the outstanding leader in Appeals before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, taking silk in 1917.

He took a deep interest in St. Mary's School at a time when its fortunes were at a low ebb. After the appointment of Miss Matthews as Headmistress in the year 1915 things took a new turn and expansion followed under the guidance of the Vicar of Calne, Archdeacon Bodington and Mr. Dunne. Outhouses and land were purchased by and conveyed to Mr. Dunne without any declared trusts, so much so that in time the anomalous situation arose of Mr. Dunne being the owner of most of the School property. There were no legal 10

Governors of the School and the Trustees of the original land and endowments took no part in the affairs of the School. In order to regularise the position a Company was formed in the year 1928 and the members thereof became the Governing Body of the School.

The land and buildings which had been purchased by Mr. Dunne in his own name were then vested by deed in the newly-formed Company. How far, if at all, Mr. Dunne was reimbursed for the amounts paid by him from time to time for the purchase of these properties is not and may never be known. Undoubtedly he was a very great benefactor to the School and he was mainly instrumental in preserving and establishing it on its present basis in the town of Came.

THE MASTER OF MAGDALENE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE We warmly congratulate Mr. Willink on his appointment as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

SCHOOL CALENDAR, 1946—7

September— 20. Beginning of Term.

26. Geographical Excursion to Oldbury Camp.

October— 3. Party to Hand Pottery at Monkton Combe.

5. Party to Recital by Weingarten in Bath.

Party to Organ Recital by Mr. Lovell in Parish Church.

Lacrosse Matches v. Downe House.

12. Lacrosse Match v. South Wilts Grammar School for Girls.

14. News of the death of Miss Matthews on October I3th in Nursing Home in Bath.

18. Health Festival: Junior Service, The Rev. J. T. Davies.

Senior Service, The Rev. L. B. Bell.

19. School attended Miss Matthews' Memorial Service in Calne Parish Church.

23. Two Head Girls to Enthronement of Bishop of Salisbury.

November— 1. All Saints'Day. Lecture on America by Donald Grant.

2. Bishop of Singapore took Evening Chapel.

4. " Madame Curie " at the Cinema.

7. Piano Recital by Julius Issertis.

9. Lacrosse and Netball Matches v. County School for Girls, Newbury.

13. Party to Recital by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears at Melksham.

23. Music Festival: Conductor Dr. Reginald Jacques.

26. Talk by Miss Collyer to Sixth Form on Germany.

29. Upper V. to Harris's Factory.

Sixth Forms to " The Farmer's Wife " by the Bentley School.

December— 1. Confirmation : Bishop of Salisbury.

2. School Certificate began.

13. Calne Town Band in the Hall.

14. Lacrosse Match v. Old Girls.

15. Carol Service in Parish Church.

18. Mark Reading. " Tea and Speeches."

January— 17. Beginning of Term.

25. Netball Match v. Chippenham Secondary School.

February— 6. Recital by Anne and Richard Wood with Margaret Norman.

17. School Certificate Frolic.

March— 3.

13.

17.

22.

24.

25.

29.

31.

May— 2.

3.

7.

9.

10.

12.

15.

19.

21.

23.

24.

31.

Excursion to Heddington.

Lantern Lecture by Canon Veazey on the Mission in Camberwell.

Concert by Dorian Trio.

Lacrosse and Netball Matches v. Newbury County School.

Lacross team played in West of England Schools and Clubs Tournament at Westonbirt.

Talk to Sixth Forms : Dr. Rowley on Photography.

Feast of the Annunciation : Half holiday.

Lacrosse Match v. Old Girls.

Mark Reading.

Beginning of Term.

Miss Gibbins' Birthday Party. " The Messiah " in Calne Parish Church.

Lecture Recital by Bernard Shore.

Two Head Girls to Westonbirt for the week-end.

Talk by the Rev. F. S. Drake on Christian Universities in China.

Ascension Day. General Knowledge Paper. Picnic to Sandy Lane.

Talk for Sixth Forms on Careers : Mrs. Wise.

Talk for Sixth Forms on Greek Tragedy : Mr. Henderson.

Talk for Sixth Forms on Nyasaland : Mary Margesson.

Tennis Matches v. Marlborough.

Choir and Sixth Forms to Oxford to sing in Bach's B-Minor Mass in the Schools Music Festival.

June— 7 Sixth Forms to Dance at Marlborough College.

11. Choir and Sixth Forms to sing in Bach's B-Minor Mass with Marlborough College.

12. Head Girl to Recital by Leon Goossens and Astra Desmondat Melksham.

14. Sixths and Upper Fifth to performance of " Richard II" at Stratford Memorial Theatre.

15. The Rev, S. J. S. Groves in Chapel.

17. Party of Sixths to a talk on China and India by Miss Mildred Cable.

20. Lower Fifth to performance of " The Tempest " at Westonbirt.

21. Cricket with Marlborough " Casuals ".

28. Performance of scenes from G. B. Shaw's " St. Joan."

Founders Day Service : Canon Matthews.

30. Marionette Show by Miss Sherwood Moore.

July— 2.

4.

7.

12.

21.

23.

25-28

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Feast of the Visitation : Founders' Day. Second performance of " St. Joan."

Higher School Certificate began.

School Certificate began.

Sixth Form Classic Specialist to performance of " Antigone " at Cheltenham Ladies' College.

Saint Margarets' Sports.

Cricket and Rounders Matches v. Newbury County School.

Party to Derry Hill Fete.

Concert by combined orchestras of Godolphin School and St. Mary's.

Mark Reading.

Old Girls' Reunion at Calne.

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THE

CONFIRMATION

The Confirmation was held by the Bishop of Salisbury on Sunday, December ist, at the Parish Church. The following were confirmed : Jane Fisher Jane Peterkin Alison Gordon Rosemary Rodd Miriam Groves Judith Rose Gillian Johnson Sally Hore-Ruthven Audrey Miller-Hallett Hilary Salmon Sally Newman Janet Trevelyan Mary Nicholson Juliet Williams Lucy Nugee Susan Chavasse was confirmed at home by her father, the Bishop of Rochester.

Forty-seven friends and relations were present and signed the Confirmation Register.

We are very grateful to those who have taken Services or spoken to us in Chapel this year: The Bishop of Salisbury; The Rev. L. B. Bell; The Rev. J. T. Davies; Canon Matthews; The Rev. S. J. S. Groves; G. A. Goodban, Esq.

TUESDAY

OFFERTORIES Expenditure

Receipts

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THE HEALTH FESTIVAL Gifts for the Health Festival were received from the following :Miss Steele Mrs. Ede Mrs. Webb Sister Allen Miss Alexander Miss Broome Miss Cridland Miss Damant Miss Harris Miss Hedley Miss Stratton Miss Williams A. Agnew L. Attlee G. Beale R. Beer E. Bickersteth J. Blathwayt R. Brickdale A. Ball M. Brockway A. Brown M. Burdett B. Burra E. Burra J. Burrell A. Butler P. Chadwick B. Chapman M. Chapman B. Clerk

V. Cornwallis J. CunninghamGraham M. Grace B. Cunliffe N. Cunliffe W. Dallas Ross J. Dibley D. Drabble J. Drabble C. Fforde M. Field P. Green J. Glossop A. Garrad A. Fletcher A. Fraser J. Fraser M. Gooden S. Gregory F. Groves M. Hale C. Hallward R. Harvey M. Henderson S. Hobson E. Homfrey E. Hunkin A. James J. Johnston A. Kelly G. Kirby

A. Knollys E. Lancaster M. Leatham L. Lea-Wilson M. Lees B. Lutener J. Mackarness C. Lutener I. Maclean M. Maclean T. Martin E. Maundrell G. Miller-Hallett H. Mitchell H. Moore L. Moore J. Morris M. Morement J. Newton D. Nicholson A. Norris J. O'Hara R. Orr B. Osman Jones M. Pite L. Porteous A. Powlett W. Price J. Priestly H. Pullon P. Ram

J. Ren wick A. Roberts P. Robinson V. Rodd S. Rooke J. Rutherford M. Russell J. Salmon J. Saunders R. Strode . Swann . Tanqueray R. Taylor E. Thomas M. Thynne S. Tidbury Y. Troman M. Troutbeck K. Trow.

K. Tyler W. Walden A. Wallace A. Warrick M. Waterfield P. Webb P. Wilson E. Willway S. Winsor E. Willink R. Willink E. Wilson

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THE STAFF During the year we have welcomed on the Staff Miss Barkley, for Physical Training; Miss Macdonald, to be in charge at St. Margaret's ; Miss Whittle, to teach Domestic Science; Miss Chard, to teach Physics and to help with the Mathematics ; Miss Dupere, to teach Music ; Mrs. Hart, as Secretary ; Miss Wilson, as Gardener ; and Miss Porter and Miss Hamilton as Assistant Cooks. Miss Bowiby visits the School once a week to teach the 'cello. We were glad to have Miss Cooper to help with Modern Languages in the Autumn Term during the absence of Miss Hort.

Miss Sparks left us in July after two years and two terms at St. Margaret's; and after two years Miss Emerson, who is going to train as a missionary, and Miss Moore, who hopes to work in Germany before getting married. Mrs. Henry also left in July, after a year and two terms, in order to take a post nearer home; and Miss Dupere, after one year, to do work among juniors.

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THE STAFF—JULY, 1947 RESIDENT : Miss Thouless (Senior Mistress), English.

Mademoiselle Antoine, French and Italian.

Miss Brett, Mathematics.

Miss Chard, Physics and Mathematics.

Miss Dupere, Piano.

Miss Emerson, History.

Miss Hollingworth, Classics.

Miss Hort, French.

Miss Macdonald, Junior School.

Miss Moore, German.

Miss Nesbitt, Piano, Elocution.

Miss Sparks, Junior School.

Miss Stona, Geography.

Miss Whittle, Domestic Science.

Miss Williams, Violin.

Miss Windsor-Aubrey, Science.

Mrs. Henry, Art. Miss Wilson, Gardening.

Miss Greenwood, Matron.

Miss Weetman, Matron.

Miss Jackson, Housekeeper.

Miss Hamilton, Cook.

Miss Porter, Cook.

Sister Mansell, Sanatorium.

Mrs. Hart, Secretary.

NON-RESIDENT : Mr. le Fleming, Director of Music.

Mr. Nightingale, Wind Instruments.

Miss Bowlby, 'Cello.

Miss Chard, Piano.

Mrs. Euerby, Latin, English.

Mr. Lovell, Piano.

Mrs. Coleman, Assistant, Sanatorium.

SCHOOL LIST—JULY, 1947 Boarders 125

Day Girls 64

UPPER SIXTH Age (1) Elizabeth Groves Christine Willis Daphne Hort Annis Heawood Felicity Brocklebank Susan Taylor Margaret Chitty (2) Alison Maclean Beth Wallis Margaret Macfadyen Lucy Tanner

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UPPER FIFTH (Miss Hort) Gillian Brown Anne Carey Susan Chavasse Faith Crook Anne Crosse Lois D'Aubuz June Des Clayes Robina Deuchar Charmian Fearnley (i) Miriam Groves .

Gillian Johnson Margaret Kent Audrey Miller-Hallett Shireen Moore Sally Newman Rosemary Newton Mary Nickson Susan Parry-Jones Margaret Paterson Betty Roach Joan Roach Judith Rose Sally Ruthven Margaret Mackenzie Stuart Anne Walmsley 25

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LOWER FIFTH (Miss Emerson) Patricia Barbour Jane Baynes Jane Craufurd Jane Fisher Jane Fletcher Elizabeth Goffin Jennifer Hickie Jennifer Houghton Jennifer Lindsell Christina Maclean Susannah MacRae Mary Matthews Jennifer Mitchell Mary Nicholson (4)RuthOrr Susan Pedder Jane Peterkin Elizabeth Pite Rosemary Rodd Julia Routh Hilary Salmon Elizabeth Steele Jane Thomas Janet Trevelyan Margaret Willcocks Julia Willink Isabella Wilson

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UPPER FOURTH (West) (Miss Moore) Jennifer Allen Gillian Bliss Angela Boschi Celia Carr Susan Cowdell Ann Deuchar Prunella Dibley Bridget Frewer Susan Glover Jennifer Haddon Joy Harper JanetInnes

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Shirley Aldrick Dawn Checkley Priscilla Copeman (5) Elizabeth Crawley Jane Godfrey Alison Gresford Jones Anne Gunning Hilary Harrison Margaret Kingston Maureen Holbrow Katharine Hughes Gillian Kempe Delia Marshall Mollie Maurice Mary Miller Jean Mountford Jane Parry-Jones Verity Pinney Bryony Powell Elizabeth Ann Bertram Thomas Jeanetta Vaughan Susan Wedgwood Susan Wilson Jennifer Wykeham Penelope Wykeham Catherine Wyllys 26

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ST. MARGARET'S UPPER THIRD (Miss Macdonald) Age Marian Burt 10 10 35 Ann Holbrow 19 4 36 Belinda Peall 10 I 36 Cecilia Robbins i 5 36 Bridget Smeeton 28 2 3 5 Jean Waterston 6 18 6 35

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SECOND Mary Keevil Sally Mills Naomi Robbins Ann Webb FIRST (Miss Sparks) Alexandra Bridgewater Antonia Dugdale Clemency Holt-Wilson Jill Pickford Janet Vaughan Daphne Williams KINDERGARTEN Ann Cameron Gillian Cole (7) Clive Heath Angela Hillyard Wendy Laughlin (8) Carol Maundrell ' (8) Robert Maundrell Sally Smith Jennifer Watkin Neilma Williams John Wilson Rosemary Wilson (6) Trevor Wiltshire

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Daughters of Frances Groves (Farnfield).

Daughters of Margaret Maclean (Randolph).

Daughter of Jean Hughes (Sorsbie) Daughter of Rachel Orr (Stiles) Daughter of Mary Crawley (Durst) Son of Roger Wiltshire Son of Robert Heath Son and daughter of Enid Maundrell.

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EXAMINATION

RESULTS

OLD GIRLS Cambridge University Modern Languages Tripos : Part II, Class I: E. Hunkin (German and Russian).

Modern Languages Tripos : Part II, Class II, Division I: I. M. Troutbeck (French and German).

Oxford University History : Class II, A. Agnew. Class III: A. Ball, J. Glossop, E. Stamper.

Nuffield Scholarship for year's Work in Physiology E. Willink.

Birmingham University Social Science Diploma : R. Wheeler.

London University Intermediate Arts (Internal) : C. fforde.

Social Science Diploma : R. Whiffen.

Bristol Higher School Certificate R. Beer.

L.R.A.M. Shirley Eyre.

Hospital Almoner's Certificate R. Whiffen.

Teacher's Certificate of the National Froebel Foundation M. Lushington.

PRESENT GIRLS Trinity College, Dublin Vacancy (History) : J. Trower.

Reading University Vacancy (Art) : J. Ball.

Bristol University Vacancy (Medicine) : C. Willis.

Vacancy (Arts) : S. Taylor.

Durham University Vacancy (Medicine) : M. Chitty.

Associated Board Piano—Grade VIII Final: E. Groves (Distinction).

Grade VI Intermediate : M. Kenf (Distinction).

S. Parry-Jones (Distinction).

Cambridge School Certificate *S. Agnew *H. Robinson *E. Burnett A.Shaw R. Fortescue-Brickdale S. Skurray *A. Gordon S. Stokes *S. Green R. Swann *J. Harris *J. Tate *P. Harvey P. Thomas *J. Hughes *D. Turk *A. Morris *J. Westlake L. Moule *C. Westmacott U. Nicholson *J. Woodroffe *J. P'elly *S. Woodroffe * Matriculation Certificate 22

MUSIC OF THE YEAR From the musical point of view this year has been very full.

As well as singing and playing with other schools, we have had several excellent concerts.

At the beginning of the Autumn Term some members of the Sixth Forms went to Bath to hear Weingarten, who gave a magnificent piano recital. He played works by Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt.

In the same term we were extremely lucky in having another recital by Julius Isserlis, which everybody enjoyed tremendously.

We were particularly impressed by his brilliant technique.

At the end of November we had our Annual Music Festival, and were again honoured by having Dr. Jacques to conduct it.

The main works were Hoist's " Rig Veda " and Mr. le Fleming's " Day that I have Loved", as well as two songs from Bach's " Magnificat", four Madrigals, and Dr. Jacques' " Orpheus with his Lute ".

The Carol Service in the Parish Church was enjoyed as much as ever, and a great many Calne people came to it.

We are very grateful to the Calne Town Band, who played some carols for us in the hall at the end of the term.

During the Lent Term Anne and Richard Wood very kindly came and gave us a delightful concert. We are most grateful to them.

They were accompanied by Margaret Norman, who also played some solos. We also had a much appreciated concert by the Dorian Trio, who played as a trio and also gave us some violin and 'cello solos.

There were not as many entries this year for the hymn-playing competition, which took place at the end of the Lent Term. There were only three seniors and five juniors. All the seniors, C. Westmacott, M. Kent and S. Parry-Jones, got their badges, and three juniors, M. Groves, J. Houghton and P. Dibley.

The Summer Term was particularly full. At the beginning we had an extremely good lecture recital by Bernard Shore (viola), which everybody enjoyed tremendously. Mr. Shore explained how a viola is made, and how it differs from a violin and 'cello. Unfortunately, as occurred last year with Leon Goossens, the accompanist failed to make an appearance, so Miss Nesbitt and Mr. le Fleming very nobly took her place.

One of the most memorable events of the year was our visit to Oxford to join in the Public Schools' performance of Bach's B-Minor Mass. We had a lovely drive there for a rehearsal at 10 o'clock. There were representatives from fourteen other schools, and over 700 in the choir. After the rehearsal we were very kindly invited by Headington School to have our lunch in their studio.

We then returned to the Town Hall for the performance, which in spite of the terrific heat was really impressive. The soloists, Mary Linde, Grace Bodey, Eric Green and Robert Irwin were all excellent.

At the end of the Summer Term we were very pleased to be able to join with the Godolphin orchestra, and after a rehearsal in the afternoon we gave a concert with them in the evening. The programme consisted of a suite by Purcell, the Allegretto from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, the prelude " Rhosymedre " and a Fantasia on " Greensleeves " by Vaughan Williams, and a " Keltic Lament" by J. M. Foulds. Miss Williams and Miss Spurgeon conducted and we are most grateful to them for all the work they put into making it such a success. We hope that we shall be able to do a great deal more in this way with the Godolphin and other schools.

The members of the Music Club are still keen, and a good number of meetings were held last winter.' In the autumn we concentrated chiefly on " The Mikado ", and in the Lent Term we sang madrigals and Schubert songs, and revived Haydn's Toy Symphony.

It is due to the tremendous hard work and kindness of the Mugic Staff that this has been such a full and successful year, and it is impossible to thank them enough, particularly Miss Nesbitt, for all they do for us.

E. Groves.

It was a wonderful experience for all of us to sing in such a huge chorus under so distinguished a conductor as Dr. Jacques. We were accompanied by the Jacques orchestra.

We were very glad that Mr. Hylton Stewart so kindly asked us again to sing with Marlborough College, •which we did this year in the summer, owing to scarlet fever in the College during the Lent Term. We thoroughly enjoyed this performance of the B-Minor Mass, and the weekly rehearsals leading up to it.

Miss Bowlby, who now teaches the 'cello at St. Mary's, accompanied by Miss Nesbitt, very kindly gave us a recital which, though primarily intended for the juniors, was also very much appreciated by a large number of older people.

This year we have again been able to go to a few concerts in Melksham. In the Autumn Term the Sixth Forms went to hear Peter Pears, accompanied by Benjamin Britten. The music specialists were very fortunate in being taken to a magnificent piano rec'tal by Denis Matthews, and to a wonderful concert with Leon Goossens (oboe) and Astra Desmond (contralto), both accompanied by Mr. Hylton Stewart.

ART OF THE

YEAR

During the past year the Art Club has been very active, with sketching, lantern talks, and different competitions during the Christmas Term.

The weather and infections during the spring combined to make all efforts at organising any activities fruitless. Only at the end of 24

term did we hold a meeting, when various people gave talks on Schools of Painting, illustrated by cards shown on the epidiascope, which Mrs. Henry very kindly manipulated. We were very sorry to say goodbye to an excellent President and Secretary, P. Des Clayes and J. Ball.

In the Summer Term sketching parties went out on Thursday evenings, and one expedition was made in a bus to Cherhill, where a very pleasant evening was spent.

It is hoped that members will continue to be as enthusiastic as they have been in the past and that there will be a large number of entries for the Company Art next term.

M. Macfadyen ; P. Harvey.

COMPANY ART COMPETITION The inter-Company Art Competition was won this year by Poore. Mr. Morgan, from the Bentley School, kindly came to judge the work and afterwards gave some very helpful criticisms. He stressed the importance of mounting and trimming when giving in work for exhibition.

He was particularly interested in the landscapes, and commended the good balance of colour tones and the varied interpretations of the different subjects. He gave us some very helpful hints.

D. Henry.

SAINT JOAN During the rehearsals, we were frequently told that even to do five scenes from Bernard Shaw's " Saint Joan " was too ambitious, and a rather flat dress rehearsal seemed almost to justify this ; but everyone enjoyed the two performances, which finally reached a high standard.

Special praise goes to Prudence Harvey for the natural and sincere way in which she acted the part of Joan. She was sensitive to the changing tension in the different scenes, and in the trial showed both feeling and restraint. Beth Wallis gave a dignified and intelligent performance of the part of the Archbishop, and is specially to be commended for her clear voice. Joanna Hughes put a great deal of thought into the part of the Dauphin, and sustained it well even when she was not speaking. Susan Taylor, as de Baudricourt opened the play vigorously; Susan Agnew and Elizabeth Burnett were very charming as court ladies. Most of the players were so good that it would be invidious to mention others, though Molly Robinson's sturdy La Hire, Rachel Brickdale's Dunois, and Anne Morris's Bluebeard seem to deserve special comment.

The actors in the trial scene worked us up to the dramatic climax of Joan's exit effectively, and Margaret Chitty (Promoter), and 25

Daphne Hort (Ladvenu) contributed especially to this. Jane Woodroffe (de Stogumber) did well in a very difficult part.

The ease of the production was greatly helped by our faithful prompter, Lovedy Moule, and by the quiet efficiency of Margaret Macfadyen, stage manager.

The experiment of using the music stage for this production was amply justified, and all thanks are due to those whose work made this possible.

FORM SHAKESPEARE, DECEMBER, 1946 The judges felt that the standard might have been a good deal higher this year. There was too much groping for words and many people needed more understanding of their parts ; also a great many spoke too fast. Prologues were good and grouping well thought out.

Upper Fifth B were commended for the good atmosphere they produced in " Julius Caesar", Margaret Stuart doing particularly well as Caesar ; and the Upper Sixth for some good work in " Romeo and Juliet ".

Upper Fifth A also did well in two scenes from " As You Like It ", and the cup was awarded to the Sixth for a very intelligent and well-thought-out production of two scenes from " Richard II ", in which Beth Wallis, Dorothea Stewart-Cox, Julia Ball and Susan Taylor were particularly convincing.

THE PLAY READING SOCIETY The Play Reading Society was, as usual, active during the Winter Terms last year. Altogether we read four plays to the School.

In the Autumn Term we read Rudolph Besier's " The Barretts of Wimpole Street", which was a great success. Mary Rowley as Robert Browning, Anne Morris as Elizabeth Barrett, and Jenny Trower as Mr. Barrett were especially good. In the same term we read " She Stoops to Conquer ", which was difficult to get across to the audience, as the plot is a complicated one and we were able to have very few rehearsals. Nevertheless there were some very amusing scenes in which the actors themselves were scarcely able to keep straight faces!

In the spring we read " Berkeley Square". In spite of the tricky entrances and exits and the difficulty of conveying the atmosphere of two different centuries to the audience, the play went off very well and was much enjoyed by the School. We also read " School for Scandal"—yet another comedy. This was great fun to do and we managed to make the audience laugh quite a lot.

We would like to thank Miss Thouless for all her help in casting and rehearsing the plays during the past year.

Daphne Hort.

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COMPANY

READING

A very good standard was reached again this term by nearly all entrants. In the finals the juniors read well in both prepared and unseen work—one or two needed to be more careful over breathing.

Most of them made the passages interesting. Among the senior finalists the prepared passages were much better than the unseen.

There was much less tendency to " spout" than last year. In the unseen, they did not look far enough ahead to get the sense, and we felt the pronunciation of the following words ought to. have been known—oratorical, rhetoric, cynicism. People should practice unseen more as this is the really important part of the test.

The picture was won by Edmund Rich with a total of fifty-four marks, and we are very grateful to Mrs. Gotch for again coming to help in judging the finals.

Grosstete Badges D. Hort (1946) A. Deuchar (J) P. Harvey (1946)

Poore

Edmund Rich

S. Green J. Godfrey (J) L. Moule (1946)

S. Parry-Jones P. Barbour (J) P. Dibley (J) E. Groves (1946)

J. Des Clayes

A. Walmsley

M. Nickson S. Pedder E. Burnett

V. Pinney M. Groves

Class I Class II A. Boschi R. Deuchar S. Moore S. Taylor 46

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Osmund A. Maclean A. Gordon (J) J. Fletcher (J) 1946 Class I J. Rose Class II S. Macrae A. Crosse H. Robinson 48

Moberley B. Wallis

J. Thomas M. Stuart C. Smith H. Salmon R. Brickdale A. Morris 38

THE LIBRARY A large number of books have been added to the Library this year. A great many were bequeathed to it by Miss Matthews, and we also have to thank the following for gifts of books :

Mrs. Bum, Miss Cridland, Miss Moore, S. Skurray, T. Mackarness (Tidman), Mrs. Rodd, Miss Thouless, Miss Emerson, K. Hood, Miss Gibbins, Miss Hort, Miss Alexander.

The Art, Architecture and German sections have had to overflow into the waiting-room.

LECTURES OF THE YEAR We have had some very good lectures this year on varied subjects.

Mr. Donald Grant came to lecture to the School again in the Autumn Term. He had just returned from a tour in America and his first lecture, to the Sixth Forms, was on the Colour Problem and America's Foreign Policy. He also gave a lantern lecture to the whole School, showing slides of the places he had visited in his 10,000-mile tour of the U.S.A. At the end of November, Miss Collyer, who has been doing Friend's Relief Work in Germany, talked to us about the changes which have taken place in Germany between 1936 and 1946. She described the appalling situation of many of the displaced persons with whom she had come into contact through her work.

As we took the Colonies as our subject for the Lent Term's discussions, we had lectures about them that term. We are most grateful to Miss Gibbins for her very interesting talk on Hong Kong, and to Miss Aubrey for hers on Nigeria. The 'epidiascope was used to illustrate both talks, which were given from first-hand experience.

Canon Veazey came in March to talk to us about the Mission, and gave a very vivid account of its eventful history.

Professor Mclnnes' lecture on British Rule in Africa had to be postponed more than once because of the snow-covered roads, but he was able to come at the end of March. He made clear how much has been done, and the problems that have to be solved in Africa.

Dr. Rowley very kindly gave a most interesting talk on photography, mainly as a hobby, and also showed us some really beautiful photographs, most of which were of landscapes, by a famous lady photographer, and some of his own.

Some of us went to a talk by Professor Drake on the Christian Universities of China at a Church meeting held in the hall. At a Bible Society meeting in the Town Hall, to which some of the Sixth went, Miss Mildred Cable gave vivid descriptions of her experiences abroad.

Mrs. Wise gave a very helpful talk on Careers. The same week Mr. Henderson gave an interesting lecture on Greek Tragedy, and Mary Margesson talked to us about her work with the U.M.C.A. in Nyasaland.

We have been very fortunate in having so many good lectures, and we are most grateful to all those who have come to speak to us, and also to Miss Emerson for managing the Discussions.

M. Chitty.

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Bernard Shaw's ST. JOAN June 2 8th, 1947

THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY The Society has kept up its average of thirty to forty members during the year. Most of these are juniors, some of whom are very keen. We have started having Natural History hobbies on Thursday evenings in the winter terms, and as this was a success we hope to continue it next year.

We have, as usual, had many expeditions during the Summer Term. A few of us were again able to go to some of the Wilts N.H.S. field meetings, and we hope to have some of our observations published in its report.

It was disappointing that after finding eggshells of the Quail on the Downs in 1945 we saw no sign of the birds there last year.

This year, however, we have been more fortunate. Miss Thouless had excellent views of two quails from her car, and we have heard them calling on two occasions when we have visited the place. There are two other really interesting observations : a Hobby was seen in Bowood, and a Fly Orchid has been found on the Downs.

It is a pity that only a few people keep records of what they see.

It would be of great value if more people could be persuaded to do this next year.

We want to thank Miss Aubrey very much for all the time she has given up to arrange expeditions and for letting us use the lab. on Thursday evenings.

Susan Taylor.

CONTACTS WITH OTHER SCHOOLS It has been during the Summer Term particularly that we have been able to meet people from other Schools.

At the beginning of May, Westonbirt most kindly invited two of us to spend a week-end there. We are most grateful to them for the hospitality they showed us and were very much interested to see their buildings and grounds, and to hear all about the School.

We were very glad to be there for their Service of Commemoration on their nineteenth birthday. We also much enjoyed the visit their two Head Girls were able to pay to St. Mary's later in the term.

When we went to Oxford to join in the public schools' performance of the B-Minor Mass we saw a great many other schools, especially Headington School, as we had been very kindly invited to go up and eat our lunch there.

We are very glad that Marlborough is near enough for us to be able to go over to the College. We have been there several times during the Summer Term for rehearsals and a performance of the B-Minor Mass, and also to a dance which boys from the College gave in the Town Hall. It is most kind of them to have invited us.

The Godolphin orchestra came over to give a concert with us.

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Everybody enjoyed it very much and we hope they will be able to come again.

During the year we have been fortunate in having a good many matches and so have met people from other schools in this way.

E. Groves ; C. Willis.

MAGAZINES We thank the following Schools for having sent us copies of their maga2ines : Sherborne School for Girls, Queen Margaret's School " Scarborough ", Westonbirt, Godolphin School, Leeds Girls' High School, St. Katherine's.

FOUNDERS' DAY As the Saturday before July 2nd was considered as Half Term, and many parents and relations were staying that week-end, it was decided that Founders' Day should be celebrated then. The School gave a performance of Bernard Shaw's " St. Joan " at 5 o'clock.

The visitors were invited to supper, and then at 8 o'clock there was a Service in the Hall, taken by the Archdeacon. This year Canon Matthews preached the sermon and E. Groves read the lesson from Ecclesiasticus. It was a hot day, but everything went very smoothly and people seemed to enjoy themselves.

July 2nd itself began with a Corporate Communion in the Parish Church, and the afternoon was a Half Holiday. A second performance of " St. Joan" was given in the evening to a local audience.

B. Wallis.

FROLICS AND

HOLIDAYS

In the Spring Term we celebrated the " Frolic" which the Upper Fifth had won for us. This was the third year running that we had had a School Certificate Frolic. The ice was bearing on Bowood lake, so on the morning of February iyth, we went and skated on it—several people making their first attempt! In the evening the Upper Fifth entertained us with an amusing play entitled " Windsor Wins a Wife."

On Ascension Day we had our usual picnic at Sandy Lane after we had tackled the General Knowledge Paper. As is traditional, the rain poured down, but fortunately not until we had finished our lunch. We went to Evensong at the Parish Church.

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and the entertainments that have been provided for us. In the Autumn Term we went to see the film of Madame Curie's life which we found very enthralling. In the evening we had competitions and dancing.

Half-term in the Spring came in the midst of the cold weather, so we were taken up to the Downs where many people enjoyed sliding in the snow. In the evening Miss Hollingworth and Miss Barkley were very kind in arranging an entertainment for us including " I'll Play Actor ", and some amusing forfeits. In the Summer Term we had the morning and afternoon of Half-term free and several people joined in Singles and Doubles Tennis Tournaments. In the evening Miss Sherwood-Moore and Miss Berrill gave us an excellent Marionette Show and afterwards demonstrated to us how the dolls were made and handled.

Annis Heawood.

PARTIES We have been most fortunate in having many most enjoyable parties during the past year.

In the Autumn Term, Sister Mansell very kindly gave a fancy dress Christmas party in the San. Two people from every Form were invited, and in spite of the fact that the acting-cupboard could not be used, everyone came in very original costumes! The San. had been beautifully decorated, and all the beds had been taken from the ward, which left a large and spacious room. It looked very festive with paper decorations and a large Christmas tree in one corner. The first prize for the best fancy dress was won by Ruth Howell, who went as an impersonation of the poster " Keep Death off the Road".

At the end of the term Miss Whittle gave a Christmas party in the cookery school, for all those who did cooking. A great deal of time and trouble had been put into it, and the whole evening was appreciated and enjoyed by all.

In the Summer Term we celebrated Miss Gibbins' birthday on the first Saturday, and in the evening she gave a party to the whole School and the Staff. An enjoyable evening was spent in playing games and dancing, and to finish with, a wonderful supper was provided by Miss Jackson, in true birthday style. We hope Miss Gibbins enjoyed it as much as we did.

Towards the end of the term a German party was given by Miss Moore to all those who learn German. The games were played in German, and German folk-songs sung, to which the accompaniment was provided by E. Groves on the piano, J. Routh on the recorder, and Miss Thouless on the flute. A picnic supper was given in St. Margaret's, as the weather was not very good, and everyone enjoyed the party very much.

F. Brocklebank.

THE REVIVAL

OF THE ANNUAL VISITS TO STRATFORD

If it is true that Shakespeare's spirit still haunts Stratford-onAvon, then I wonder what that spirit thinks when charabanc-load on charabanc-load of sightseers and theatre-goers invades the town.

He must be used to it by now, and his comment when two buses brought over fifty St. Mary's girls and some Staff into his town on June I4th, 1947 was probably : " Just another lot of trippers ".

However, these trippers, most of them visiting Stratford for the first time, were determined to get all possible enjoyment from the all too short time allowed for sight-seeing, as well, of course, as from the peak point of the day's outing, " Richard II " itself.

Shakespeare's spirit probably saw nothing unusual in their visiting with eager curiosity the church, his own birthplace and the many other places of interest; and he was perhaps only mildly surprised to see them eating an excellent lunch in the park in the pouring rain with apparently unperturbed enjoyment.

If he accompanied these schoolgirls into the theatre he also noticed their appreciation of the play—but surely there his spirit still lives, invoked on that day at any rate by the convincing and attractive performance of Robert Harris as Richard. Shakespeare's spirit, in fact, could probably see the play rather better than St. Mary's, right up in the gallery, who nevertheless watched with critical attention and keen enjoyment.

However, he missed the sight of the whole party eating sandwiches and oranges and drinking fizzy lemonade during their bus-drive home through Warwickshire and Gloucestershire, and I don't suppose he knew how much everyone had enjoyed every minute of the day.

A. Maclean.

COMPANY

REPORTS

EDMUND'RICH. On the whole Edmund Rich has had a good year. Although we are such a young Company, our games, as is shown by the results of the Junior Company Rounders, in which we reached the finals, should do well in the future. The Company is keen and enthusiastic, but things like Dates and Marking Inspection need an extra effort.

Edmund Rich is very proud to have had three Head Girls in succession, and is now very sorry to lose Elizabeth Groves, who has been Head Girl and a very valuable member of the Company.

A. Shaw.

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GROSSTETE. The Company has done moderately well this year, and we have managed not to be bottom in anything. We won Marking Inspection in the Summer Term. In the games competitions the Junior Netball team was beaten by Poore in the finals, but in the Summer we won the Cricket Shield, again playing Poore in the 32

finals. We were very sorry to lose two of our Company Staff at the end of the summer. The Company is still rather unevenly distributed through the School, but we have some promising juniors.

D. Hort.

MOBERLY. Since we are now a very junior Company and the juniors are keen, Moberly should do well in the future as in the past. We came bottom in Netball " Shooting ", but we won Marking Inspection in the Autumn. Marking Inspection and Dates, however, are two competitions which require more conscious effort among the juniors. We were badly defeated by Poore in cricket, but the juniors won the Rounders Matches. The Reading Competition was fairly successful. On the whole the Company is keen and people show determination, but a big effort is needed to retrieve the old reputation.

B. Wallis.

POORE. As far as competitions go this has been a good year for Poore. In the Autumn Term we won Company " Shooting ", the Art Competition and Dates. In the Spring we won Junior Company Netball and Spelling. We were beaten by Grosstete in the finals of Company Cricket after a very exciting match. Everybody seems enthusiastic and the Company should do well next year.

C. Willis.

OSMUND. This has been a better year for the Company r we have held second place in most of the competitions and matches, and have won Marking Inspection once. Osmund has begun to recover from an inferiority complex and is becoming a keen Company, though it still rather relies on a few firm pillars throughout the School!

A. Maclean.

LACROSSE AND NETBALL We were very pleased to welcome Miss Barkley as Games.

Mistress in the Autumn Term after a whole term with no resident Games Mistress.

During the year we had only one First VII Netball Match.

This was against Chippenham Secondary School and resulted in a win for St. Mary's. The under-thirteen Netball VII played two matches against Newbury County School, both of which they won.

Form Netball was won by Upper Fifth A, and Junior Company Netball by Poore.

The under-fifteen Lacrosse Team had one match against Downe House in which they were defeated 9 - i.

In the Autumn Term we had three First XII away matches.

The first, against Downe House, we lost 7 - 4 ; we won against South Wilts Secondary School, and lost against Newbury County School. The Second XII also played Newbury County School and won 3 - 2 . A " B " team played them in the Lent Term and were beaten 16-2.

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In both the Autumn and the Spring Term we had an Old Girls' Match on the last Saturday. The School won both matches, but not very easily. We hope it will become a tradition to have a match every term.

We sent an " A " team to Westonbirt to play in the West of England School Tournament. There were six teams present, of which Westonbirt First XII came top. We tied for the third place with North Foreland Lodge.

In the Easter holidays we sent a team to the Lacrosse Tournament at Merton Abbey. In spite of a great deal of rain and a very slippery pitch we managed to play the tournament. In our group we came third, being beaten by Wycombe Abbey and St. Swithin's, who got into the finals but were beaten by St. Anne's, Caversham.

Lacrosse colours were won by C. Willis, P. Des Clayes, J. Cresswell, D. Willcocks and N. Nicholson. Netball colours by D. Willcocks, and drill colours by D. Stewart-Cox. C. Willis.

TENNIS AND CRICKET We have been fortunate in having several matches with Marlborough this term, both cricket and tennis. The annual matches with the " Casuals " and the " Rustics " took place as usual, and the tradition of losing a ball in the Quarry pond was not broken.

A tennis match was played against Field House, in which the School was victorious.

The only other School matches that were played were against Newbury Secondary School. The First XI won by one wicket after an exciting match. The under-thirteen Rounders team were very keen, but they did not manage to beat the Newbury team, which had a very high standard.

Two Staff matches were played during the term, and they were much enjoyed by everyone. On several evenings before the Cricket Match the Staff were to be seen practising on Lansdowne after the School had gone to bed! The match was a great success, and amply compensated for the fact that we were not able to play a Fathers' match.

The Lower Fifth did very well to reach the finals of the Form Tennis, which was won by the Upper Fifth. The Company Cricket cup was won by Grosstete, after an exciting match against Poore.

Junior Company Rounders was played for the first time this term.

It was won by Moberly.

We are extremely grateful to Miss Barkley for all the coaching she has given us. We feel that, owing to this, the teams have greatly improved during the term Tennis colours won by J. Cresswell.

Cricket colours won by S. Taylor and U. Nicholson.

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OLD GIRLS' SUPPLEMENT Officers of Old Girls' Association President: Miss Gibbins Vice-Presidents : Miss Alexander Miss Jennings Miss Thouless Mile. Antoine Chairman : Gladys Beale, Little Court, Minchinhampton, Glos.

Treasurer : Ruth Baker, Executive and Trustee Dept., Rodney Road, Cheltenham, Glos.

Secretary : Susan Rotherham (Hayter), Littlefield, Ham, Mairlborough Acting Secretary : Mary Burdett, Pennington Vicarage, Lymington, Hants.

Group Secretaries : I. Ruth Baker, Executive and Trustee Dept., Rodney Road, Cheltenham, Glos.

II. Kathleen Yerbury (Beach), 91, Kenilworth Court, Putney, S.W.ij.

III. Janet Blaxter (Hollis), Pathside, Frithesden Copse, Berkhamsted, Hants.

IV. Gladys Beale, Little Court, Minchinhampton, Glos.

V. Rachel Buck, Bembridge, Avenue Road, St. Albans, Herts.

VI. Bridget Gardiner, 5, Beach Road, Paignton, South Devon.

VII. Elspeth McGowan (Minnis), 5, Belsize Square, London, N.W.j.

VIII. Marcia Gooderham (Matthews), 38, Oak Road, Redcar, Yorks.

IX. Colette Fairfield (Budgen), Echo Barn, Wrecclesham, Surrey.

X. Torla Mackarness (Tidman), 7, Weston Road, Petersfield, Hants, XI. Laura Barlee (Attlee), 8, Mayflower Close, Townstal, Dartmouth, S. Devon.

XII. Audrey Fletcher, The Priory, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath.

XIII. Pamela Chadwick, Orchard House, Oundle, Peterborough, Northants.

XIV. Rosamund Strode, Blue Spur, Chesham Bois, Bucks.

XV. Jane Renwick, School House, Dover College, Dover.

LETTER FROM MISS GIBBINS My dear Old Girls, This is the first News Sheet actually to be printed since Miss Matthews' death, although we managed to put in a supplement with the last one before it was sent out. Miss Alexander has very kindly written a short life of Miss Matthews and Barbara Mitchell has lent us the negative of a snapshot she took in 1943 which we are very glad to be able to print as a frontispiece. I feel, however, that it is really impossible to make an adequate Memorial Number of The News Sheet—we need something larger than that—a book and that I hope will shortly be written. Meanwhile, and while St. Mary's endures, Miss Matthews' Memorial is and will be in the School, which she built up and to which she devoted her life.

I am sure that she is made happy by your continued loyalty and support. As I wrote last year, fellowship with its Old Girls is an essential and greatly welcomed part of the life of the School. It is a real joy to meet Old Girls and an even greater joy when one gets beyond the first stage of just recognizing you and begins really to get to know you as friends. I do hope to meet many more of you next year and please do come whenever you are able to.

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When we were reprinting the Founders' Day Service Form we had slightly to alter the prayer for Old Girls. We used to pray for you " for strength for the new burdens " laid on you " in this time of war ". We have not altered it much. " These difficult times " has taken the place of " this time of war ". I wish we could have altered it more. But we know that these next few years will be difficult times, yet I am confident that if you hold fast to the sound values and firm foundations which were given to you here in the past, and which we pray to maintain, that you will not only get through the difficult times, but that, in spite of them, you will have real inward peace and happiness.

Yours affectionately, Elizabeth M. Gibbins.

LETTER FROM MISS ALEXANDER Cottesmore, 17, Beech Avenue, Sanderstead, August, 1947.

My dear Old Girls, I have just returned from the Reunion at Calne—a very happy gathering of fifty Old Girls and seven Old Staff. We were given such a warm welcome from Miss Gibbins, the Prefects and the large number of Staff who so kindly stayed behind and contributed so much to the success of the week-end. Miss Matthews was very much in our thoughts. We know how greatly she would have rejoiced at seeing us gathered there again.

In response to many requests we are holding the next January Reunion as an experiment, on a Saturday (January loth). I do hope there will be crowds of you there.

I have been asked to take over " News of Old Girls " which Miss Matthews did so wonderfully. May I plead with you to help me by sending in your post-cards ? They are of the greatest assistance and save so much correspondence. (This year only 188 came in out of a membership of about 560—not good enough!)

We have been so proud of your war records and do rejoice that many of you have at last been able to settle in your own homes, though I fear you may have a great deal too much to do.

I wish I had time for more letters but I do not forget you and am always so delighted to hear your news.

With love and many good wishes, Yours affectionately, E. M. Alexander.

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OF BUSINESS

MATTERS

Did anyone know that the St. Mary's O.G.A. has a Constitution ?

Well it has. It was dug up out of the archives last year and hopefully scrutinised by our very good friend Mr. Gough because Ruth Baker, who is thoroughly sound on matters of money, discovered that we have not been paying Income Tax on our investments. Neither Mr. Gough nor we ourselves however could see that we have any claim to being a charitable body, our function is purely social although we do subscribe very considerably to various things which rank as charitable. That is why we have to make a large payment this year in settlement of tax arrears. The balance sheet is circulated annually with the March notices so that you may see how your subscriptions are used, and the final amount of this payment will appear there.

The 1947 Reunion made an important change in the Constitution by agreeing that we should elect our Presidents and that they should hold office for six years. It was always taken for granted that Miss Matthews was our President and when she retired as Headmistress we certainly would not have allowed her to leave us too. Therefore she was "President because we wanted her. But it is often possible for things to become embarrassing if there is no moment when a term of office can conveniently end, so rather than tie down our successors and our Presidents in any sort of way we agreed that they should be elected for six years, and of course be eligible for re-election if we can persuade them to. So having settled that we set about electing a new one. And that was what was so surprising and exciting.

We knew exactly who she must be. Of course, Miss Gibbins. Some of you don't yet know her. If you did you would say " Of course, Miss Gibbins ". Because she is like that to us. It is rather a waste in a way because she is our Headmistress too so we already had her as our friend and ally, but as we want a President—well, Miss Gibbins, of course.

So now you have a new President, a new Chairman (for Gladys Beale takes over from me. She will enjoy it. It is fun), a very energetic Secretary in Susan Rotherham, and another while she is in America, a very excellent one, Mary Burdett. You have a sound and most reliable Treasurer, and (I almost said above all), you have our most steadfast friends as Vice-Presidents. These are really the people who do more for us than anyone. How much work Miss Alexander does for us in a year it is impossible to imagine. If your " News Sheet " has reached you she has kept track of your address. If you read in it news of someone you knew years ago—it is her work.

If you are surprised to learn that So-and-So has a third baby—thank Alex for keeping you informed. The same with Miss Thouless.

She is the link between the old and new generations. What Miss Alexander does for one Miss Thouless does for the other. She, with Mademoiselle whose many years at School have made her a real friend to so many generations, always make us feel we " belong " 37

when we go to Calne. And how we thank them. But remember, if you move house—if you have an interesting job—if you marry, do tell them and they can pass on the news. Someone will be very much interested to hear. But neither Miss Alexander nor Miss Thouless can know by instinct.

Ivy C. Martin.

BURSARY We now have £1125 invested in Government stocks. Owing to the low rate of interest on gilt-edged securities we shall need more capital than we thought at first so the Fund will be kept open.

At present the £50 Bursary will be paid by money coming in under the Covenanting Scheme and the balance used to increase our capita!.

The first holder of the Bursary arrives at St. Mary's in September.

G. Beale.

VISITORS The following have visited the School during the year : Miss Alexander, Miss Cridland, Miss Freke, Miss Goodrich, Mrs. Harris (Snell), Miss Powell.

A. Agnew.

L. Barlee (Attlee), B. Bullick (Ridley), J. Burrell.

M. Field, B. Fortescue-Brickdale J. Glossop, S. Gregory.

R. Harvey, K. Hood, E. Hunkin.

E. Kinnear.

L. Lea-Wilson, B. Molony (Sheldon), M. Margesson, O. Mayhew, H. Mitchell.

J. Newton, D. Nicholson, A. Norris.

J. Renwick, M. Robinson, V. Rodd, D. Rosedale, S. Rotherham, M. Rowley.

P. Saxon, D. Stewart-Cox, R. Strode.

A. Tanqueray, R. Taylor (Aldworth), E. Thomas, S. Tidbuiy, M. Tidman, C. Troutbeck, M. Troutbeck, J. Turner.

A. Wallace, P. Webb, D. Willcocks, H. Wilson, A. Wood.

THE JANUARY REUNION At the Mary Sumner House, January 9th, 1947 The children I teach had, in conversation, fixed thirty as the age when one ceases to be young : I had, after a hectic day in London, decided I was not as tough as I used to be :. I could not at first find the Mary Sumner House, and the Old Girl I fell in with on the 38

same quest I could not remember seeing before : I decided none of my generation would be there: going downstairs a mark and inscription on the wall (like the notices on ancient monuments) "Level reached by the great Flood of 1928 " (the year I went to St. Mary's), made me antediluvian—so that I arrived [at the Reunion feeling positively middle-aged, self-centred and curmudgeonly.

I need not have worried. One was recognized with reassuring speed and charmingly welcomed and fed by Rachel Willink and Rosamund Strode and the rest, and carrying on half-a-dozen simultaneous conversations within two minutes. There is a special quality about having been at the same school, unrelated to knowing each other well or at all—an immediate ease in conversation—a common basic attitude to the world. This comes home more forcibly at the London Reunion, where there are no associations of place to carry one back. Until one is actually there, one tends to forget this particular atmosphere of a Reunion. It is a return to a (more tranquil ?) frame of mind, when Time had not the urgent importance it has now. The presence all together of so many " generations " and especially of Miss Alexander—and surely of E. M. M. in spirit— added to this feeling of timelessness.

It was good to talk to Miss Gibbins, and to hear plans for a July Reunion at Calne—and very pleasant to meet again so many people after so long and to exchange news and views and nonsense.

All of which had such a softening effect that I yielded weakly to Ivy's request—backed by Jennifer (nee Morris) who would have made a much better job of it—that I write this account. Only afterwards did I realise how unqualified I am, having arrived too late for Ivy's speech and the business part of the meeting. " They " tell me she spoke admirably, so I record it. I must apologise for offering a personal impression rather than a report of the Reunion.

Peggy Wilson.

REUNION AT ST. MARY'S, JULY, 1947 The weather is certainly to be congratulated for the magnificent part it played in making this year's Reunion such a great pleasure.

In fact, it almost overdid the good work, for by the end of Saturday at any rate, with its delightfully unofficial tennis tournament and rather uneven-sided game of tip-and-run, most of those who had taken part were quite exhausted by the heat, to say nothing of the unwonted physical exertion.

After this bodily weariness, nothing could have been more welcome than the long talks in the dormitories at night, ranging from exchange of news about absent friends and reminiscences of past misdemeanours, especially those perpetrated at the seven o'clock and eight o'clock stages to our present jobs and interests with all the variety of their scope. It must not however be thought that the 39

time was so severely organised that the only opportunity for conversation was after lights out. On the contrary those responsible for the programme of events had fixed on just the right proportions of entertainments and idleness. There was ample leisure to wander over the grounds, noting among other details that the white horse had been restored to his pre-war candour, to examine the minor alterations in the School, such as the daylight illumination in the library, and to sit utterly absorbed in the School Diary, Miss Alexander's labour of "love, with its exhaustive account of the activities of past and present members of the School.

The entertainments, both musical and dramatic, were of just the right kind for such an occasion. The songs rendered by last term's prefects were sometimes too much for the gravity of all present; the rehearsal of them must have made it an even busier week-end for these thoughtful and unobtrusive hostesses. Two most important Old Girls—-important because they have sent their daughters to St. Mary's—showed by their accomplished and spirited vocal and pianistic performances (and one of them also by her uproarious speech), that they are very far from fulfilling the belief, expressed by a member at the O.G.A. general meeting in answer to an enquiry about the arithmetical progression of the numbers of the Committee, that there was no need to worry because the earlier Groups would soon die off!

As an account of this meeting will appear on another page, this is not the place to make any further reference to it beyond stressing how very glad we are that Miss Gibbins has been unanimously elected as our new President. It seems both impertinent and superfluous to thank Miss Gibbins for taking such an interest in Old Girls, and receiving us with such unfeigned sincerity and friendship. As it was repeatedly stated in the speeches made after tea on the Saturday, it is hard to believe she has been at the school only just over a year ; she has already taken the essential and central place in St. Mary's, so of course it goes without saying that the Old Girls as well as the present ones are always assured of her whole-hearted welcome and interest.

At this first Reunion without Miss Matthews, our thoughts could seldom be far from her; we know that she was with us in spirit, as were the many others who for whatever reason were unable to join us that week-end.

Elfride Bickersteth.

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PRESENT AT THE REUNION July 25-28th, 1947 Present Members of the Staff: Miss Thouless (Senior Mistress) ; Mile Antoine (French) ; Miss Aubrey (Science) ; Miss Brett (Mathematics) ; Miss Hort (French and Divinity); Miss Nesbitt (Senior Music); Miss Jackson (Housekeeper) ; Miss Weetman (Housekeeper) ; Miss Greenwood (Matron) ; Sister Mansell (San.) ; Miss Hamilton and Miss Porter (Cooks) ; Miss Wilson (Gardener); Mrs. Hart (Secretary).

Visitors) Mr. and Mrs. Gough ; Canon C. H. S. Matthews ; Dr. and Mrs. James.

Prefects (Upper Sixth) : Elizabeth Groves (Head Girl); rirl) ; Christine Willis ; Daphne Hort ; Annis Heawood ; Alison vlaclean ; Beth Wallis ; Susan Taylor ; Felicity Brocklebank.

"Old Staff" : Miss Alexander Mrs. Baskett Miss Inge Mrs. Maw (Colbert) Miss Stratton Miss Williams Mrs. Bull " Old Girls " : Rhoda Amphlett Eleanor Ann (FortescueBrickdale) Julia Ball Ruth Baker

Years 1915-40 1938-41 1928-32 1928-29 1944-46 1918-25

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1943-47 Before 1915 A. Barton Before Annie Barton 1915 Gladys Beale 1921-25 Elfride Bickersteth 1937-41 Veronica Brown Douglas 1937-40 Mary Burdett 1934-39 C. E. Clark Before 1915 Jane Cresswell 1943-47 Dorothy Duguid (Duder) 1927-32 Janet Findlay 1934-37 Gwyneth Fleetwood-Jones 1926—30 Audrey Fletcher 1937-41 Pamela Forde (Robinson) 1931-36 Anne Fraser 1941-46 Janet Fraser 1940-44 Mary Glossop 1930-35 Frances Groves (Farnfield) 1916-17 Pauline Harrison 1934-39 Mary Hibberd (Combes) 1927-35 1927-33 Grace Hole (Combes) Margaret Hort 1925-31

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Years

Ruth Howell 1942-46 Jean Howell 1938-42 Margery Hulbert 1917-23 Audrey James 1934-46 Susan Jefferis 1935-39 Eleanor Kerr (Samuelson) 1935-38 Gwen Kirby 1926-30 Celia Livingstone 1941-43 Elspeth McGowan (Minnis) 1929-34 Margaret Maclean 1918—20 (Randolph) lona Maclean 1940-45 Ivy Martin 1922-25 Jean Martin J937-43 1942-45 Hilary Moore Rachel Orr (Stiles) 1919-24 Mary Pierce (Hiscock) 1917-24 Hilary Pullon 1936-41 Jane Renwick 1941-46 Joan Salmon 1940-45 Mary Smith 1916-25 Marguerite Steele (Smith) 1910-22 1918—25 Iris Telling Jenny Trower 1943-46 Mary Tidman 1936-43 Ann Warrick 1938-42 Ruth Wheeler '937-43 Peggy Wilson 1928-33 Susan Winser 1939-43

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NEWS OF OLD GIRLS HOME LIFE We are delighted that, during the past year, a good number of Old Girls (including some of the newly married), have been able to settle in their own homes and we hope that many more will soon be able to do so.

Elizabeth Bagley's (Westaway) husband has been appointed Rector of All Saints', Huntingdon. She has a lovely but " labour making " rectory. Audrey Light (Westaway) has a house in Maidenhead. She had an anxious time during the floods. Laura Barlee (Attlee) is hoping to move into a " pre-fab " soon. Pamela Brooks (Philips) is much " taken up with village activities ". Mary Cockerell (Tuckwell), after serving for three-and-a-half years as a physiotherapist in Africa and Italy, where she married, has settled in Streatham. Molly Crawley (Durst) is back in England after six years in America. Elisabeth Goudge (Remington-Wilson) is living near Portsmouth, where her husband has an appointment. Sheilah Harvie Clark (Lunt) has left Edinburgh, where she had entertained so many

Old Girls, as her husband has been made Archdeacon of Birmingham.

Daphne Henniker (Maxwell) acts as Secretary to her husband, an architect. Margaret Maclean (Randolph) has gone back to live near her old home at Fittleworth. She would " gladly welcome, out of term time, any Old Girl or Staff wanting a rest in lovely country". Honor McCully (Ward) is moving into a fisherman's cottage at Walmer. Elspeth McGowan (Minnis), Ailie Harrison (Sarjeant), Joan Cotton (Cameron), Pippa Catesby (Evans), have flats in London. Cicely Morgan (Cobb) writes that they are " a united family at last after seven years' separation ". Hester Reeve Fowkes (Cross) has found a house near Southampton which she and her husband (now fit enough to work half-time) are re-decorating.

Lois Porteous (Roome) is " very busy with only a little morning help ". Elizabeth Sharpley (Jardine) has the most beautiful sixteenth century Cotswold stone house at Burford, where her husband has a practice. Vanna Halford (Durst) is settled in London for a time.

Her husband is Private Secretary to the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Betty Bannerman (Douglas) has " three dancing classes besides running dramatic and dancing classes for the British Legion ".

Her husband was in " The Winslow Boy ". Janet Wallace (Glossop) has a " wee cottage " near Rossall where her husband, Ann Wallace's brother, is a master. Catherine Valli (Hall) has a flat in London, after having been in Geneva, Paris and Grasse, where her husband had to go on business. Giana Kurd (Shipley) has become very domesticated. Her husband teaches physics in the University in Oxford. Lorraine Knowles (Carleton) was married in March. She is still acting as secretary to Rodney Ackland, the playwright. After four years in the W.R.N.S., Mary Morgan (Hurst) is doing part-time work at the " Yachting Monthly ". Her husband has an appointment at St. George's Hospital.

Peggy Green (Beale) has settled in her old home where Gladys still has her school and is very busy owing to shortage of Staff and to the plentiful fruit crop. Pamela Hilton (Clarence) and her husband are running an old Inn near Whitby. Dandy Duthie (Leveson) had been to see her. Hilary Dickson (Riley) has a flat in Belfast, where her husband is working at a hospital. We were so sorry to hear of Nora Birkbeck's (Hollis) anxiety over Mary's illness and that Janet Blaxter (Hollis) had had an operation. Mary Cairncross (Glynn) is a very busy person. Her husband is personal adviser to Sir Stafford Cripps. Dorothy Courage (Stephenson) is typing the Regimental History of the War which her husband is writing. It was nice to hear, after a very long break, of Joan Lucey (MacMunn).

Her boy is just going into the Army. Barbara Egerton (Chambers) is back home after spending some months in Italy with her husband.

The following, all recently married, have homes of their own: Susan Crawshaw (Goodden), Betty Jennings (Osman Jones), (Judy Drabble was her bridesmaid), Audrey Sweet (Barnes), Eleanor Kerr (Samuelson), Mary Jones (Higgins), Pamela Parry (Waddilove), 43

Betty St. Leger Moore (Wilson),' Winifred Walder (Osman Jones) and Margaret Russell (Osman Jones).

The following (some of whom have interrupted careers to do so) are helping at home, where they must be a great comfort to their people: Joyce and Mary Chadwick (Mary is also studying at the Bournemouth School of Music), Nellie Highmore, Suzanne Hobson, Ruth Howell, Rowena Jenner, Susan Winser, Mary Lake, Betty Marsden, Peggy Pope, Penelope Ram, Frances Round (Masters) and Thelma Taylor. Mary Crokat has given up her work in Salisbury and is keeping house for Dorothy, who is doing private midwifery.

ABROAD Mary Hamersley is still working for Civilian Relief in Germany.

Angela Pinckney has been spending some time in Holland. Yvonne Troman is hoping to get a post in Belgium. Virginia Carver is spending some months in Switzerland and Italy. Elizabeth Miller (Sarjeant) is going to live in Lausanne where her husband is to teach in the College Classique. Ellen Martin (Wood) still lives in Berne.

Brenda Kirke is at the World Assembly of Moral Rearmament at Caux. She had been in the cast of " The Forgotten Factor " at the Westminster Theatre. Margaret Cowgill (Ogle), with her daughter has just joined her husband in Bucharest, where he is Naval Attache.

Elisabeth Hunkin writes that she has been lucky enough to get a job with the Foreign Office, that of Press Reader in Moscow. We congratulate her warmly on her First Class in the Modern Languages Tripos (Russian and German). She wants to teach eventually but feels " too ignorant and unpractised in the Russian language and has too much information at second-hand only to teach anyone Russian at present ". We hope she may be allowed to make some contacts with Russians!

Veronica Groatly (Lloyd) is in Cairo. She was married there in the Cathedral. Lesly Dennison (Wollen) is still in the Sudan.

She hopes to come home next year. Leila Suffrin is doing massage in the European Hospital at Kampala. Mary Margesson has been home on leave from Nyasaland. Penelope Herbert has married Christopher Bridgman (brother of Joan O'Hara and Hannah Tewson) and is now in Johannesburg where Tessa Diamond also lives. Clare Brakenridge is in Nairobi. Sybella O'Callaghan (Stiles) is in Tanganyka We hear that Jill Rhodes went to Kenya in May. Susan Winser is going there on a visit. Peggy Ball (Jenkins) and Myfanwy Koch (Jenkins) are faithful correspondents. We congratulate Peggy's daughter on being the first St. Mary's grandchild to get engaged.

She was spoken to by the Queen on the Royal Tour. Margaret and Philippa Gibson are still in South Africa. Margaret is nursing and Philippa was offered a post as ordinary clerk in the Basuto Government. She is to continue doing B.Sc. as an external student of the University of South Africa. Molly Lushington has applied for a post in Southern Rhodesia. Patricia Johnson (Mackey) hopes to 44

return home from India in November. In the meantime she is " trying to understand Pakistan, Rajistan, Hindustan, Mr. Jinnah's corridor and Quit India! " Joan O'Hara (Bridgman) has returned to India, after leave, with her two younger children. Hannah went with her and was married in April. Unfortunately she contracted typhoid on her honeymoon and was ill for weeks. She and Joan are starting a school for small children. We hear that Sheila Metherell (McRae) is in India with her family. Irene Campbell (Heywood) came home from Singapore and was married in February. She is now in Persia where her husband is in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Gwynedd Grove (Turner), Carol Hall and Ursula Glennie (Paris) are all in Hong Kong. Carol and Ursula have met. Helen Robb (Arden) has had her first son in Singapore. Hilary Bolton (Cox) now has her own house in New Zealand. Miss Evans has been staying with her and Jane Wilberfoss is going to her as nurse in September. Ruth Palmer has returned to New Zealand with her parents. She hopes to go on nursing after they have settled in.

Pamela Cusack (Angell) is in Bermuda with her children. Her husband is stationed there. Dorothy Sainsbury continues her good work as Assistant Mistress at St. Hilda's College, Beli2e, in British Honduras, a post she has held for nine years. Gwen Scrivener (Croft) has returned to South America after a holiday in England with her family. Her fourth child was born over here. It was nice to hear of Kate Ratcliff(Matthew) again through Miss Bowden. Diana Kirke is in Vancouver where Elisabeth Stubbs (Cox) has also settled.

Valerie Turner is doing Mothercraft Nursing in Ottawa. She is engaged to be married. Katherine Brichta and Patricia Frank (McCormick) are still in Canada, where Deirdre Crosbie has gone on a three months' visit. She has finished her nursing training and is going to do six months' electrical training on her return. We are glad that Susan Rotherham (Hayter) has been able to join her husband in the U.S.A. for eight months. Mary Glossop has gone to Tasmania for a year. Helen Lefroy is working in the Defence Security Office in Palestine.

OLD GIRLS AT THE UNIVERSITY, 1946-1947 Oxford. Lady Margaret Hall. A. Agnew, A. Ball, J. Glossop, E. Stamper (third year), D. Butler, E. Willink (second year). We congratulate the latter on being offered the Nuffield Scholarship for a year's work for an Honours Degree in Physiology. J. Parsons (first year), S. Hughes, Gwenda Whitty (Norman Jones).

Cambridge. Girton. E. Hunkin, M. Troutbeck (third year), J. Salmon (first year). Newnham. M. Pite (first year).

London. Bedford College. B. Fortescue-Brickdale (first year), A. Butler (second year), R. Whiffen (third year). Westfield. C. fforde, R. Hallward (first year).

London School of Economics. J. Campbell.

London School of Medicine. A. Warrick.

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Bristol. M. Taylor and G. Pinckney (medical students), J. Chase (third year), E. Thomas (second year), B. Gardiner (first year).

Birmingham. R. Wheeler (second year).

Edinburgh. H. Pullon (third year) (medical student), C. Livingstone (first year).

Royal College of Music. J. Burrell, P. Chadwick, S. Eyre, T. Kirkpatrick, R. Strode, L. Lea Wilson.

Royal Academy of Music. A. Ree. Among others in training Nancy Williams has much enjoyed her course for Rural Music Work at Dartington Hall and is to be String Class Teacher and organiser for Dorset. Hilary Moore is beginning at Offley Place Froebal Training College this autumn.

Daphne Powlett was released from the W.A.A.F. in the spring after five and a half years' service, and has since taken a three months' course at Atholl Crescent. Catriona McCance and Margaret Henderson are studying at Heatherley's School of Art, Moyra Leatham at the Guildhall School of Art, and Anne Trelawny-Ross at <the Kingston School of Art. Rosamund Thatcher took a short drama course in London and is now at the Somerset Farm Institute doing Horticulture. She had " a glorious holiday in Sweden, mostly in Stockholm, which I loved". Clare Troutbeck is studying music and hopes eventually to go to the Royal College. Jane Cresswell and Diana Willcocks are to take courses in Dairying at Studley.

TEACHING This long list remains much the same as last year. Heather Blackadder has been for the past year at a private school in Cambridge.

She hopes to be married in the Autumn. Mary Goodden is in charge of a private day school for small children in Oxford. Helen Macnab (Tench) after serving in the W.A.A.F., is back at her own work of teaching dancing and producing under the professional name of Helen Wingrave. Ray Moilliet has left her school in Southern Rhodesia and will be teaching in England. Ray is Beth Crawley's Godmother. Hazel Walton's health prevented her sailing to Kenya last year. She is now teaching at the Ladies' College, Guernsey and " is enjoying the work and the week-end visits to the other islands ".

Elisabeth Wilson has left Downe House and was married to Elisabeth Hunkin's brother in August. Elfride Bickersteth resigned her post at West Heath School, Sevenoaks, at Christmas. After a temporary job she is going, in October, to Somerville as a probationary B.Litt. student. Her subject of research will be " some aspects of early Christian Greek Hymnology". Marguerite Steel (Smith) is now teaching the thirteen-fourteen year olds in the same school in Birmingham. Anne Brown is going to Sherborne as Games Mistress. Joanna 46

Newton starts training at Maria Grey in September, and Anne Tanqueray at Roehampton. Diana Turk has a post for a year at Rookesbury Park before she starts a Froebel training.

NURSING, PHYSIOTHERAPY, ETC. Celia Rowley and Margaret Chadwick are training at Gt. Ormond Street Hospital. Pamela Saxon is at the Middlesex, after three years at the Birmingham Children's Hospital, where she was awarded the Gold Medal. Stella Gillett starts at the Middlesex in September, and Anne Kelly at King's. Pat Whieldon has passed her Preliminary State Exam. Kathleen Stone is nursing on White Star Liners. Kitty Synge finished her training at Guy's and had a post in a Boys' Preparatory School for a time. Ann Wallace is at the London Hospital's School of Speech Therapy. She had a " perfectly wonderful holiday in Switzerland " in April. Catherine Harvey is doing Occupational Therapy at Dorset House School, Oxford. Pamela Grant is training as a Physiotherapist at St. Thomas', Mary Field at the Swedish Institute. Congratulations to Diana Carkeet James, who passed her " Conjoint " with distinction in anatomy and physiology.

Kitty Hood has started her training as a Norland Nurse. Katherine Blair is nursing at a Nursing Home in Whitehaven. Mary Burdett is Kitchen Superintendent at the T.B. Branch of the Radcliffe Infirmary. Marcia Whiffen has a post as physiotherapist at the Queen Victoria Hospital at East Grinstead. Jean Howell, after two years as Matron at the Royal School, Bath, is studying Physiotherapy at King's College Hospital.

SOCIAL WORK Cherry Clarke is taking a Social Science Course at Barnett House, Oxford. Peggy Hopkins is Almoner at the Royal Bucks Hospital at Aylesbury. " It has a busy out-patient department and about 150 beds which are never empty." Heather Dillon is Assistant Almoner at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington. Anne Garrard is training to be an Almoner at Bristol. Anne Durst is a Boarding-out Officer for the L.C.C., which means finding and supervising foster homes for children in the care of the Council. Celia Livingstone is studying for the Social Studies Certificate Course in Edinburgh.

SECRETARIAL Margaret Harvey is Secretary to the Head Mistress at St. James', West Malvern. Jean Martin is Secretary to the X-ray Department at Weston-super-Mare Hospital. Jan Dibley is a Private Secretary at the Prince of Wales' Hospital, Plymouth. Elizabeth Burra is doing secretarial work at the Foreign Office. lona Maclean has been for a time Secretary and Mother's Help to Sheilah Harvie Clark (Lunt).

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Smithells, Sybil Barnes and Elizabeth Puckle are taking, or about to take, Secretarial Courses. Rosemary hopes to be in Turkey next year. Jenny Smithells had " five perfect months " in Switzerland.

Anne Cameron was at the same pensionnat.

MISCELLANEOUS Sally Rodale (Betty) has left Ceylon and settled on a farm in England. Dorothy Haviland has retired from the B.R.C.S. and is now living at Tilford. Barbara Mitchell is Supervisor of the Emergency Bed Service, part of King Edward's Hospital Fund. She says : " Our job is to act as middleman for any harassed doctor and find a bed in a voluntary hospital and arrange the ambulance for an acutely ill patient. It may sound easy but sometimes one has to try twenty hospitals as the shortage of beds is appalling. Last year the service admitted 10,000 patients to hospital."

Betty McKenzie has finished her dramatic training and is hoping to get into a repertory company. (Dr.) Isabel Cant (Martineau) is still working three days a week in the Casualty Department of the Children's Hospital in Birmingham. Rosemary Hylton-Stewart has set up as a travelling dressmaker. " I launched the idea with an advertisement in the ' Sunday Times ' and am now booked up till mid-October." Morwenna Kendall has been doing jobbing gardening for the past year and is now acting as housekeeper to her employer.

Rachel Orr (Stiles) has a part-time job as Assistant Librarian at the Marine Biological Station at Millport, where her husband is a research chemist. Mary Tidman is the Laboratory Assistant at Bedales School.

Mary Vischer is " working with a friend who has formed a trading company in the City ". Priscilla Wilson is working on the Staff of the " Economist" (" not as a journalist"). Margot Young has signed on for five years' extended service in the A.T.S. She is a Staff Officer. Ruth Baker has been moved to the Executive and Trustee Department of Lloyds Bank at Cheltenham. Anne Knollys was cooking at Shrewsbury School. She is now doing a Secretarial Course. Pauline Brentnall is Warden of South Hill, a hall of residence for thirty students at University College, Southampton. Barbara Goalen (Bach) is doing photographic modelling and mannequin work. Mary Hale is working in London with the British Council.

She recently had a party of twelve Old Girls. Mary Lees has been working in the University Settlement in Bristol before going to the London School of Economics. Mary Scott (Lucas) has had some of her sculptures shewn in Sweden. She and her husband both teach at the Bath Academy of Art at Corsham Court. They are having a joint show of their work at the Leicester Galleries in October.

Barbara Woodmass is cooking at a Homoeopathic Nursing Home.

April Zinovieff (Mead) was working last year in Berlin interpreting into French and Russian at Conferences. She managed to travel in Germany and went to Paris, Copenhagen, Switzerland and Italy.

After that, she and her husband (home after five years in the Middle 48

East) worked in the Ministry of Defence. She is longing to go abroad again. Annette Prevost is Treasurer of Vic Wells. We congratulate Anne Wood on being Manager of Benjamin Britten's Opera Company.

There is a long list of births and marriages. The following have announced their engagements : Mary Hale, Jean Rutherford, Heather Blackadder, Rachel Willink, Daphne Good, Valerie Turner, Pat Webb, June Priestley and Pauline Brentnall. We wish them every happiness.

We have thought much of those who have had great sorrow.

Clare Millikan (Leigh Mallory), Barbara Goalen (Bach) and Norah Green (Fisher) lost their husbands suddenlyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the first two by accident.

Dr. Neligan, Kitty's father, died after a few hours' illness and Susan Winser and Betty Marsden have both lost their mother. The brothers of Audrey (Sweet) and Sybil Barnes and Susan Rotherham (Hayter) were killed in accidents. We send them our deepest sympathy.

NEWS OF OLD STAFF There is not much fresh news to record of Old Staff. It was nice to see Miss Damant and Miss Williams at the London Reunion.

Miss Wilmott writes that she is very busy teaching two evening dancing classes for adults and a parents' keep-fit class. " It is years since I visited St. Mary's, but I often think of it with affection ".

Miss Gibson is Vice-Principal, teaching Scripture and Latin, at Lansdowne House, Edinburgh. Mrs. Harris (Snell) does Youth Club work in her spare time. Her daughter of three-and-a-half can polka and waltz! Mrs. Maw (Colbert) is back in Bath after a long exile at Uppingham. She is very busy running the house with almost no help and serving on the Local Education Committee. Richenda is at the High School and Jonathan at Monkton Combe. She will be glad to see Old Girls at any time. Miss Hedley is still at King Edwards' School, Birmingham. She now has a flat and would be very pleased to see any St. Mary's people there. Miss Broome has left Whiteland's College and is starting work at the Liverpool Physical Training College. Miss Stevens-Guille is staying on in India. She is in charge of a Training School for Primary and Secondary Women Teachers in the diocese of Chota Nagpur. There are about forty students. They learn in Hindu but speak different languages at home. We were sorry Miss Grover was not well enough to come to the Reunion. She still does part-time teaching and has taken up bowls as a hobby. Mrs. Tyler (Chapman) joined her husband in Egypt in January.

Miss Abdy now has a flat at Deal " in sight and sound of the waves". Mrs. Cornish Bowden has given up her bungalow in Devonshire and taken a house in Bude. Miss Hales is still at University College, Southampton, where she has come across some St. Mary's people. Mrs. Savory is back in her own cottage now 49

that Averil is free to run their Handicrafts Shop again. Sister Cathrow is Assistant Matron at Great Ormond Street Sector Hospital at Hemel Hempstead. She says that apart from the children she supervises the County Council Staff in the Chronic Wards and the Maternity Unit.

BIRTHS Allen. On March nth, 1947, to Monica (Whieldon), a daughter, Claire Margaret.

Bagley. On August 2 5th, 1946, to Elizabeth (Westaway), a daughter, Harriet, (her third child).

Boisseau. On July nth, 1947, to Ursula (Cleverly), a second son, Nicholas John.

Brooke. On November 9th, 1946, to Pamela (Philips), a daughter, Maureen Pamela Ley. Cairncross. On July 6th, 1946, to Mary (Glynn), a son, Philip (her second child).

Catesby. On April nth, 1947, to Pippa (Evans), a daughter, Deborah Jane.

Cockerill. On July 25th, 1946, to Mary (Tuckwell), a son, Michael Alexander.

Coke-Smyth. On October i5th, 1946, to Yolande (Clark), a daughter, Sara Elizabeth (her third child).

Courage. On April i6th, 1947, to Dorothy (Stephenson), a daughter, Rosalind (her second child).

Crawshaw. On July 25th, 1947, to Susan (Goodden), a son, Peter Everard.

Cruft. On December 5th, 1946, to Margaret (McCormick), a son, Sebastian.

Cusack. On March i8th, 1947, to Pamela (Angell), a daughter, Sheelagh Elizabeth (her third child).

Dalglish. On September nth, 1946, to Mollie (Longridge), a second son, Simon Lockhart.

Dennison. On September 23rd, 1946, to Lesly (Wollen), a daughter, Andrea Mary Josephine (her third child).

Dickson. On April i6th, 1947, to Hilary (Riley), a daughter, Deirdre Frances.

Duveen. On May 23rd, 1947, to Eileen (Gowers), a son, Michael (her second child).

Emmett. On October 7th, 1946, to Mary (Wheeler), a daughter, Elizabeth Mary.

Errington. On November 26th, 1946, to Reine (Macaulay), a daughter, Katharine Elizabeth (her third child).

Fawcett. On July 2ist, 1947, to Anne (Whiffen), a second son, Derek Peter.

Green. On May I4th, 1947, to Peggie (Beale), a son, Christopher John Pembroke (her third child).

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Griffith. On March 29th, 1947, to Clemency (Churchill), a second daughter, Margaret Clemency.

Halford. On May 29th, 1947, to Giovanna (Durst), a third son, Michael Anthony Guy. Harrison. On July ijth, 1947, to Ailie (Sarjeant), a daughter, Susan (her second child).

Herford. On February 24th, 1947, to Jean (Hawkins), a son, Richard Henry (her third child).

Hibberd. On January 23rd, 1947, to Mary (Combes), a son, Rupert Combes Hole. On March 23rd, 1947, to Grace (Combes), a daughter, Sarah Grace (her third child).

Homfray. On January I9th, 1947, to Elisabeth (Waller), a second daughter, Mary Elisabeth.

Jones. On March ist, 1947, to Mary (Higgins), a third daughter, Philippa Margaret.

Kidel. On July 6th, 1947, to Margaret (Pollock), a second son Mark Rivers.

Killanin. On January 26th, 1947, to Sheila (Dunlop), a son, George Redmond Fitzpatrick.

Leggatt. On August 4th, 1946, to Dulcie (Taylor), a daughter, Carol Elizabeth (her third child).

Logan. On February i8th, 1946, to Jean (Young), a second daughter, Kirsty Jean.

Mackarness. On June 25th, 1947, to Torla (Tidman), a second son, Thomas.

Miller. On May 9th, 1947, to Elizabeth (Sarjeant), a daughter, Jane Elizabeth.

Monk. On March I4th, 1947, to Margaret (Perry), a daughter, Jocelyn Clare.

Moore. On December I7th, 1946, to Meriall (Patey), a son, Arthur George.

Prideaux. On June 7th, 1947, to Gwynneth (Henly) a son, Nigel John de Courcy.

Rhodes. On February 27th, 1947, to Jennifer (Field), a second daughter.

Robb. On June i2th, 1947, to Helen (Arden), a son, Richard Bruce.

Scott. On August 29th, 1946, to Margery (Parker), a daughter, Barbara Jean Margaret (her third child).

Scrivener. On September loth, 1946, to Gwendoline (Croft), a son, John Rendall (her fourth child).

Sielle. On March 2oth, 1947, to Marguerite (Lucas), a daughter, Caroline (her second child).

Sweet. On March jth, 1947, to Audrey (Barnes), a son, Christopher Hector.

Taylor. On July i8th, 1947, to Ruth (Aldworth), a son, Ian Christopher (her third child).

Thesiger. On April i2th, 1947, to Ursula (Whitworth), a daughter.

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Wells. On July 3rd, 1947, to Marion (Gale), a daughter, Sally Elizabeth (her second child).

Zygadlo. On March i2th, 1947, to Prudence (Wood), a son, Michael.

MARRIAGES Barlee—Attlee. On December i8th, 1946, John S. Barlee to Laura Attlee.

Bridgman—Herbert. On February 26th, 1947, Christopher John Bridgman to Penelope Herbert.

Campbell—Heywood. On February ist, 1947, John Campbell to Irene Heywood.

Cotton—Cameron. On September nth, 1946, Lt. Ronald James Cotton, R.N.V.R., to Joan Cameron.

Crawshaw—Goodden. On September 28th, 1946, Major Everard George Aitkin Crawshaw, R.A.M.C. to Susan Goodden.

Edwards—Bomford. On December 4th, 1946, Major L. H. Edwards, R.A. to Penelope Bomford.

Goatly—Lloyd. On January i8th, 1947, John Goatly to Veronica Lloyd.

Goudge—Wilson. On October lath, 1946, Lt. Cdr. (L) Kenneth Alfred Goudge, O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. to Elisabeth Remington Wilson.

Heath—Jephson. On September zi'st, 1946, Major William Heath, R.A. to Elizabeth Jephson.

Hunkin—Wilson. On August izth, 1947, Oliver John Wellington Hunkin to Elizabeth Wilson.

Jennings—Osman Jones. On February ist, 1947, Kenneth Stanley Jennings to Betty Osman Jones.

Kerr—Samuelson. On December i6th, 1946, Capt. Marc Kerr, M.B.E. to Eleanor Samuelson.

Knowles—Carleton. On March 2ist, 1947, James Knowles to Lorraine Carleton.

Kurti—Shipley. On September 24th, 1946, Nicholas Kurd to Giana Shipley.

McGowan—Minnis. On October i2th, 1946, James C. J. McGowan to Elspeth Minnis.

McMaster—Thomas. On August nth, 1947, F/Lt. S. F. McMaster to Glenys Thomas.

Michaelson—Tylden. On August 22nd, 1947, Sidney Michaelson to Katherine Tylden.

Molony—Sheldon. On September 28th, 1946, Col. Norman Molony, R.E.M.E. to Betty Sheldon.

Morgan—Hurst. On April lyth, 1946, Surg. Lt. J. A. V. Morgan, R.N.V.R., to Mary Hurst.

Page—Morement. On October I9th, 1946, William Alexander Page to Megan Morement.

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Sowerby—Moss. On July mh, 1947, Thomas Sowerby to Patricia Moss.

Stubbs—Cox. On November 23rd, 1946, James Stubbs to Elisabeth Cox. Tewson—Bridgman. On April i6th, 1947, Richard Tewson to Hannah Bridgman.

Wallace—Glossop. On August 26th, 1947, Ian Wallace to, Janet Glossop.

R.I.P. Dunne. On June i8th, 1947, in his 88th year, Arthur Mountjoy Dunne, K.C., for over 30 years a Governor of the School.

Ferris. On February loth, 1947, Elisabeth Ann Ferris, aged 87; at one time in charge of St. Prisca's.

Matthews. On October I3th, 1946, Edith Marcia Matthews, aged 63 ; Head Mistress 1915-1945.

Rodgers. On June 22nd, 1947, Harold Nickinson Rodgers, Bishop of Sherborne; a Governor of the School.

Rutherford. On March i6th, 1946, Annie Rutherford; Old Girl of the School.

ADDENDA Into Group X Janet Findlay, Danum Cottage, Ben Rhydding, Ilkley, Yorkshire.

Into Group XV. Julia K. Ball, The Vicarage, Sidmouth, Devon.

Felicity Brocklebank, Turleigh Combe, Winsley, Nr. Bradford-on-Avon.

Diana J. Brown, Crantock, Shelburne Road, Calne.

Margaret Chitty, Habberley Rectory, Pontesbury, Nr. Shrewsbury.

Jane Cresswell, Castleton, Ocle Pychard, Nr. Hereford.

Anne Crosse, Barlborough Rectory, Nr. Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Lois D'Aubuz, The Manor House, Lydeard St. Lawrence, Nr. Taunton.

Phoebe Des Clayes, 234, Rue Louad I., Alexandria, Egypt.

M. Susan Dibley, Lexden, Hartley Avenue, Mannamead, Plymouth.

Elizabeth Groves, The Vicarage, Sonning-on-Thames, Reading.

B. June Haines, 93, North Street, Calne, Wiltshire.

Ruth J. Howell, Harpitts Withy, Charlton Mackrell, Taunton, Somerset.

Lovedy Moule, Pusat Tasek, Lenthay, Sherborne, Dorset.

Joan Roach, Whetham Farm, Calne, Wiltshire.

E. Mary Rowley, 13, Walliscote Road, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

Susan Skurray, Pithouse, Ashford Hill, Newbury, Berkshire.

Dorothea Stewart Cox, Little Plumstead Grange, Nr. Norwich, Norfolk.

Shirley Stokes, 87, Oxford Road, Calne, Wiltshire.

Rachel Swann, The Rectory, Marlborough, Wiltshire.

Lucy Tanner, North Labis Estate, Labis, Johore, Malaya.

Anne C. Tanqueray, School House, Ipswich, Suffolk.

Susan Taylor, 5, Pembroke Vale, Clifton, Bristol, 8.

Clare J. Troutbeck, 41, Scarsdale Villas, London, W.8.

Jennifer M. Trower, Bengeo Hall, Hertford.

Diana Turk, 13, Shelburne Road, Calne, Wiltshire.

Beth Wallis, The Lodge, Milverton, Taunton, Somerset.

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Jane Westlake, Pinhills, Calne, Wiltshire.

Diana Willcocks, 194, Springfield Road, Ch'elmsford, Essex.

Christine Willis, The Vicarage, Purton, Swindon, Wiltshire.

Into Staff Group II. Mrs. Henry, Crayson House, Harrington by Workington, Cumberland.

Miss R. Sparks, Long Street, Williton, Taunton, Somerset.

CORRIGENDA Elizabeth A. Bagley (Westaway), All Saints' Rectory, Huntingdon. Group Mary Baker, 65, Haven Lane, Baling, W.j. „ R. Baker, Executive & Trustee Dept., Rodney Road, Cheltenham. ,, Margaret I. O. Ball (Jenkins), P.O. Box 15, Hartley, Southern „ Rhodesia. ,, Betty Bannerman (Douglas), Sunnyways, Chislehurst Common, Kent.

Laura Barlee (Attlee), 8, Mayflower Close, Townstal, Dartmouth, „ S. Devon.

A. E., A. M. and F. M. Barton, aoa, The Close, Salisbury. „ Gladys Beale, Little Court, Minchinhampton, Glos. ,, Ursula M. Boisseau (Cleverly), Whincroft, Ivy Lane, Woking, Surrey. ,, Hilary Bolton (Cox), 5, Minto Street, Remuera, Auckland, New ,, Zealand. „ Isabel M. Bowyer (Gough), 9, Willian Way, Letchworth, Herts.

Penelope B. Bridgman (Herbert), 22, Wicklow Avenue, Park View, „ Johannesburg.

Molly E. Bright (Attlee), Hill House, Romsey, Hants. „ Brigid Burra, Elmslea, Sandford-on-Thames, Oxford. „ Elizabeth T. Burra, Elmslea, Sandford-on-Thames, Oxford. „ „ Irene Campbell (Heywood), c/o Westminster Bank Ltd., 81, High Street, Bedford. „ Joanna L. Chase, The Vicarage, Powerstock, Bridport, Dorset.

Nancy P. Chase, 77, George Street,' Summer Town, Oxford. „ Mary Cockerill (Tuckwell), 3, Ashlake Road, Streatham, S.W.i6. „ Nancy Churchill, c/o Bank of England, 18, Finsbury Circus, E.C.2. „ Cicely M. N.-Conwy Morgan (Cobb), 23, Chapel Park Road, St. „ Leonards-on-Sea. „ Joan M. G. Cotton (Cameron), ^a, Collingham Place, S.W.5.

Dorothy M. Courage (Stephenson), 61, Cadogan Square, S.W.i. ,, Molly Crawley (Durst), 13, Betenson Avenue, Sevenoaks, Kent. „ Susan W. Crawshaw (Goodden), i.Riverview Gardens, Twickenham. „ „ Deirdre M. Crosbie, 22?a, Leigham Court Road, Streatham, S.W.i6.

Margaret M. M. Cruft (McCormick), 7, Phene Street, London, S.W.3. ,, Pamela Cusack (Angell), c/o Surgn. Comdr. J. J. Cusack, R.N., „ H.M. Dockyard, Bermuda.

Penelope F. Cutts (Hawkins), 72, Bishops Mansions, S.W.6. ,, Mollie Dalglish (Longridge), Manor Farm, Heyshott, Nr. Midhurst, „ Sussex.

Hilary M. Dickson (Riley), Furzeacre, Bovey Tracey, S. Devon. „ Heather Dillon, c/o Yeovilton Rectory, Yeovil, Somerset. „ Diana E. Drabble, 31, Castle Road, Salisbury. „ Judith C. Drabble, 31, Castle Road, Salisbury. ,, Dorothy Duguid (Duder), Air House, Yew Tree Lane, Ringway, „ Manchester. ,, Anne Durst, 6, Fraser House, Albion Avenue, London, S.W.8.

Barbara Fortescue-Brickdale, 22, Thorny Court, Palace Gate, W.8. „ „ Anne Fraser, Armsley, Fordingbridge, Hants. „ Janet Fraser, Armsley, Fordingbridge, Hants.

Ursula Glennie (Paris), c/o F. L. N. Glennie, Esq., Hong Kong & „ Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong.

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VI!• III. VI. XI. I. IV. X. XI. IX. VIII. XIV. XII. VII. XIII. VII. VIII. VII. V. VIII. X. V. VIII. IX. VI. VIII. X. VII. XI. X. X. X. VI. V. XII. XIV. XIV. VIII.

Mary Glossop, c/o Mrs. A. W. Maxwell, La Belle Alliance, Cam- Group VIII. bridge, Tasmania.

Barbara K. Goalen (Bach), 15, Porchester Road, London, W.z. „ IX. Elisabeth Goudge (Remington-Wilson), Redhill House, Rowlands „ VIII. Castle, Hants.

Peggie Green (Beale), The Yews, Minchinhampton, Glos. „ VII. Norah M. Green (Fisher), Glenthorne, St. Martin's Road, Caer„ IV. philly, Glamorganshire.

Vanna Halford (Durst), 55, Netherall Gardens, Hampstead, N.W.3. „ VI. Ailie Harrison (Sarjeant), 43, Kensington Park Gardens, Netting „ VIII. Hill Gate, London, W.i i.

Pauline D. Harrison, 39, Ulwell Road, Swanage, Dorset. „ X. Sheilah M. Harvie Clark (Lunt), Wishaw Rectory, Minworth, „ VI. Birmingham.

Dorothy K. Haviland, Glebe Cottage, Tilford, Nr. Farnham, Surrey. „ II. Elizabeth V. Heath (Jephson), The Beeches, Melbourn, Herts. „ IX. Daphne I. Henniker (Maxwell), 143, Berkeley Mews, Portman Sq., „ VI. W.i.

Pamela Hilton (Clarence), The Board Inn, Newholm, Nr. Whitby. „ VI. Elizabeth Hindley, 144, St. James' Court, Buckingham Gate, „ VI. S.W.I. „ X. Joanna Holland (Champion), Field Farm, Bibury, Glos.

Margaret F. Hopkins, Rectory Cottage, Hardwick, Nr. Aylesbury, „ IV. Bucks.

Jean Howell, Woodbury Cottage, 140, Biggin Hill, Upper Norwood, „ XII. S.E.I9Ruth Howell, Woodbury Cottage, 140, Biggin Hill, Upper Norwood, „ XV. S.E.i9.

Joan S. Jeffreys (Marjoribanks), 40, Richmond Hill Road, Edgbaston, „ VII. Birmingham.

Jennifer Jenkins (Morris), 35, Marsham Street, London, S.W.I. „ X. Betty B. Jennings (Osman-Jones), 43, Swainstone Road, Reading. ,, XI. Mary Jones (Higgins), 13, Vicars Close, Wells, Somerset. , IX. Margaret Kidel (Pollock), 23, Thornton Way, London, N.W.n.

IX. Elisabeth Kitson, Appleton House, Nr. Abingdon, Berks.

II. Barbara Kitson, Appleton House, Nr. Abingdon, Berks.

II. • Giana Kurti (Shipley), noa, Woodstock Road, Oxford.

II. Lesley B. Lea-Wilson, 46, Earls Court Square, London, S.W. 5.

XIV. Dulcie M. Leggatt (Taylor), Meadow Bank, St. Thomas' Hill, IV. Canterbury.

Winifred Lewis (Lumsden), Langley Wood, Redlynch, Salisbury. „ II. Audrey B. M. Light (Westaway), The Croft, Ray Park Road, Maiden„ VI. head.

Pamela M. Littlejohns (Barker), 53, Litchfield Court, Richmond, „ III. Surrey.

Jean Logan (Young), Chestnut Tree Farm, Forncet St. Peter, „ V. Norwich.

Joan E. Lucey (MacMunn), Wood Cottage, N. Wootton, Norfolk. „ III. Molly Lushington, Hollenden, Exmouth. „ XII. Margaret Maclean (Randolph), Catercross, Fittleworth, Pulborough, „ III. Sussex. lona Maclean, Catercross, Fittleworth, Pulborough, Sussex. „ XIV. Catriona M. McCance, 4, Elveston Place, Gloucester Road, S.W.y. „ XIII. Helen M. Macnab (Tench), 33, Warwick Square, London, S.W.I. „ II. Elspeth M. McGowan (Minnis), 5, Belsize Square, London, N.W.3. „ VII. Sheila M. Metherall (McRae), c/o St. Mary's Cottage, Kingston, „ VI. Taunton, Somerset. „ VII. Clare Millikan (Leigh-Mallory), Stonewall Drive, Nashville 4, Tenn., U.S.A. Ray Moilliet, The Old Vineries, Wareham, Dorset, „ VI, 55

Betty Molony (Sheldon), Brailes, Crawley Ridge, Camberley, Surrey.

Surrey.

Mary R. J. Morgan (Hurst), 75, Holland Road, Kensington, W.I4.

Diana K. M. Newberry (Maitland), Gable End, Petworth, Sussex.

Madge Newman (Bigwood), 5, Pine Walk, Surbiton, Surrey.

Megan Page (Morement), 39, Townley Road, Bexley Heath, Kent.

Ruth M. Palmer, c/o Mrs. Makgill, 148, Great South Road, Auckland, S.E.4., New Zealand.

Barbara J. Phillips, 15, Buckingham Palace Gardens, S.W.I. Meg Pite, Avon Tyrrell, Nr. Christchurch, Hants.

Christina E. Pound, Priestley House, 19, The Green, Calne.

Pamela Preston, 6, The Gateways, Chelsea, S.W-3.

Margaret W. A. Price, 26, Cheyne Walk, London, S.W. 3.

Penelope Ram, Furze Park, Polruan, Fowey, Cornwall.

Hester Reeve Fowkes (Cross), Yew Tree Cottage, Old Bursledon, Southampton.

Ursula Robinson (Robins), 88, Kimbolton Road, Bedford.

Sally Rodale (Betty), Steppes Farm, Frampton, Nr. Dorchester.

Valerie M. Rodd, Willowby House, Yelverton, S. Devon.

Susan Rotherham (Hayter), Little Field, Ham, Marlborough.

Margaret Russell (Osman-Jones), 33, Powder Mill Lane, Whitton, Middlesex.

Dorothy Sainsbury, P.O. Box 98, Belize, British Honduras.

Joan Salmon, The Rectory, Weston-super-Mare.

Monica O. Savage (Hill), The Vicarage, Leominster, Herefordshire.

Gwendoline M. Scrivener (Croft), Fabrica Cooper, Calle San Ramon, Bella Vista, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Elizabeth Sharpley (Jardine), Wysdom Cottage, Burford, Oxon.

Leila Suffrin, c/o Westminster Bank Ltd., Gloucester Road Branch, London, S.W.y.

Audrey E. Sweet (Barnes), 15, Botanic Crescent, Glasgow, N.W. Thelma J. Taylor, The Clock House, Severals Alresford, Hants.

Hannah Tewson (Bridgman), Periavurrai Estate, Munnar P.O., Travancore, S. India.

Ursula J. Thesiger (Whitworth), 15, Paradise Walk, S.W.3.

Clare Troutbeck, 41, Scarsdale Villas, London, W.8.

Mary K. Troutbeck, 41, Scarsdale Villas, Kensington, W.8.

Valerie C. Turner, c/o Mrs. Bowden, 124, Glencairn Avenue, Toronto 12, Ontario, Canada.

Catherine A. Valli (Hall), 6a, Compayne Gardens, Hampstead, N.W.6.

Mary E. Vischer, c/o Lloyds Bank Ltd., Sandwich, Kent.

Winifred Walder (Osman-Jones), 308, Canford Lane, Westbury-onTrym, Bristol 9.

Barbara J. Warburton (Pritchett), The Glebe House, Plough Lane, Christleton, Chester.

Marion J. Wells (Gale), 16, High Road, Bushey Heath, Herts.

Peggy Wilson, Muttons, Bolney, Sussex.

Priscilla M. Wilson, u, Drayton Gardens, London, S.W.io.

Margot Young, Chestnut Tree Farm, Forncet St. Peter, Norwich.

Group VI. „ XI. „ VHI. „ III. „ X. „ VIII. „ IX. „ XI. „ XIII. „ VII. „ V. ,, XII. „ VII. „ IV. „ VI. „ XIV. „ IX. „ VI. „ I. ,, XIV. „ IV. „ III. „ „

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VII. VII. IX. VI.

Staff Miss Abdy, Wendover, The Marina, Deal.

Miss Hunter, 45, Wilford Avenue, Brooklands, Cheshire.

Miss Inge, Reading Bluecoat School, Holme Park, Sonning-on-Thames.

Mrs. Maw (Colbert), Burton House, Lansdown, Bath.

Miss Stevens Guille, S.P.G. Mission, Ranchi, B.N.R., India.

Sister Cathrow, Hempstead House Base Hospital, Great Ormond Street Sector, Hemel Hempstead.

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