St Mary's Calne News Sheet - 16

S. MARY'S SCHOOL NEWS

SHEET.

July, 1930—July, 1931.

This has been a wonderfully happy year. In some ways, perhaps, it has seemed fuller than ever, so constant have been our engagements, so many our interests. And yet as we look back we can feel that probably never has better work been done.

The Lent Term brought a devastating epidemic of measles and influenza, but never have we felt prouder of the school and of the way in which every single person rose to the occasion. With six of the staff incapacitated, with the domestic staff entirely disorganised, we might have expected difficulties But difficulties there seemed to be none, and we came through unscathed, and ended the term on a note of victory, when we heard that we had won a scholarship at Lady Margaret Hall. This, following upon the outstanding success in the School Certificate, has been a great encouragement.

Of building developments we can this year report little Two very convenient practising rooms were added last September, and this term, mainly through the generosity of an anonymous friend, we are rejoicing in another new hard tennis court, a great acquisition. There are many minor improvements, and a great addition to our equipment is the Epidiascope which the Governors gave us last autumn.

One point of special interest this year was our link with the Round Table Conference, as we had with us for the Autumn Term Parvati Kumaramangalam, the eleven year old daughter of Mrs. Subbaryan, one of the two women delegates to the Conference. Parvati settled down remarkably quickly to school life, and we think that she carried back with her to India very happy memories of her short time with us.

The Staff.

This year we have had two losses. In April Sister Irvine left us. For more than four years she had been in charge of the Sanatorium, her one complaint being that we never gave her any work! The " Great Epidemic " of the Lent Term came just as she had heard of her appointment to Queen Anne's School, Caversham, and showed what were her powers of carrying through in so abnormal a time. With real unselfishness Sister handed over her beloved Sanatorium, as being easier to work by the temporary nurses, and herself took charge in the School House. It was a strenuous time, but a very happy one, and that we got through so remarkably well must be largely due to her organisation. We parted from her with real regret. To Sister Ash, who was with us in the epidemic, we gave a special welcome in May. She is now in charge of the Sanatorium.

Miss Clark left us in July. What that means to the School all those who have been with us in the last four years must realise. For it is to Miss Clark that we owe so great a debt for making our Domestic Science a really remarkable feature in the School. When she came to us it was at a very low ebb; the needlework was poor, dressmaking almost unknown. The results in the public examinations, (Housecraft and Hygiene) since she came show something of what Miss Clark's teaching has been, but they bear no witness to the love of needlework and enthusiasm for it throughout the school, and to the really remarkable dressmaking displays. This we owe entirely to her. Miss Clark has been appointed to a most important post as organiser of Domestic Science in Trinidad. Hers will be pioneer work, and in it we wish her the very greatest happiness and success.

In January we welcomed Miss Powell (Lady Margaret Hall) who came—in the absence, through illness, of Miss Daldy—to take over the science work. When it was found necessary for Miss Grover to be absent during the summer term Miss Powell kindly volunteered to take over the Geography teaching. We are very glad to have had her with us for these two terms.

Miss Daldy returned in May, and we are hoping to have Miss Grover with us in September as she has now quite recovered from her illness She was much missed, as she gives such generous help in so many departments.

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Mrs. Hill's departure from the neighbourhood is a great loss to the musical side of the work, but now that she is living in Oakham she cannot undertake such long journeys, and her violin pupils parted from her with the keenest regret in July We were very sorry too, in June, to say goodbye to Mrs. Addison, who had been such a help to us, but we congratulate her and Dr. Addison on his appointment to Zeals.

The Confirmation.

The Confirmation was held in the Parish Church on Sunday, December 7th. The service was taken by the Bishop of Salisbury.

The following were confirmed:— V. M. Armstrong J. G. Alexander M. C. Beale B. M. Brooke A. B. Carver N P. Chase C. D. N. Churchill A. N. C. Churchill A. M. B. Conybeare J. H. Cross S. M. Evans-Lawrence C. A. Hall W. M. Heath I. E. W Heywood M J. Hindley F. C. Leigh-Mallory J. S. Marjoribanks E. M. Minnis B. S. Mitchell R. G. Mogg M. O. E. Stead D. E. Waller H. G Ward L. B. M Wollen Fifty-one relations and friends who were present signed the Confirmation Register.

We are most grateful to all those who have taken services in Chapel for us this year :—The Rev. F. P. Crosse, The Rev. C. H. S. Matthews, The Rev. W. P. G. McCormick, and Canon Pym.

Social Service.

No special effort in the form of an entertainment has been made this year for the U. G. S. We kept the health Festival on S. Luke's day, at which the address was given by the Rev. C H. S. Matthews, and were able to send up a bumper collection of water-bottles, blankets, etc. A new feature this year was a host of dolls, which had been dressed during the Summer holidays.

Tuesday offertories are sent to this mission, unless there is a special appeal for anything else, and we were able to send up ÂŁ12 19s. 1 Id. for the Building Fund.

M. Hort and M. McCormick went to the Social Service " Week " in April, and on Ascension Day they gave us very interesting lectures on all that they had seen, and an account written by them for the U.G.S. "Record " is printed below. Many of us have correspondents among the girls of our own age in Camberwell. This is an excellent way of widening our interests, especially for those who intend to give themselves to Social Service.

We also have correspondents among the girls leaving the Borstal Institution at Aylesbury.

During the year we have helped the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, and we look forward to the Bishop of Accra's quarterly letter in the " Golden Shore."

The problems of education and marriage in Africa are very pressing. The Africans must be given the right sort of education, the sort that will best help them to a higher standard of living. The other problem, that of marriage, is even more perplexing.

On the last night of the Christmas term some of us went to sing at the Workhouse. The old .people enjoyed the music, joining in the dancing after the carols, and they were all very pleased with their fruit and tobacco. We hope it will become an annual custom to give this little treat.

For the School Certificate holiday in the Summer Term we entertained seventy three town children. There was a boys' cricket eleven to play against (and soundly defeat) pur junior team, and twelve girls were kept quite busy with a treasure hunt. The remaining fifty, who were from the Guthrie Infant School, enjoyed themselves with buns, balloons and the see-saw and swings, and each had a toy on leaving. Their letters to Miss Matthews were'delightful. One wrote '' I liked the balloon you gave me I came home and burst it I was working up the gran

(garden) path when I burst it I was sorry when I burst it Inily cried when I burst it" and another " We had a Dear time down there and I had a toy." Yet another said " thank you Miss Matthews for the grass we played on." It sounds like one of Robert Louis Stevenson's prayers.

This year our social services have not flagged, and we hope in future to keep up all our connections with missions as well as, and better than, we have done so far.

M. Ogle.

The following Old Girls contributed to the Health Festival:— J. Ferguson, I Martineau, S. Ferguson, E. Bodinnar.

M. Dillon-Trenchard, A. Durst, M. Durst, R. Jenner, M. Thynne, G. Kirby, R. Moilliet, L. Suffrin, G. Fleetwood-Jones, Anne Le Mesurier, I. Martin, M. Kendall, B. Gardiner, M. de L. Smith, M. Tallents, M. Hulbert, and Miss Brown

Social Service Week.

The aim of this year's Social Service Week was to find out all that was possible in the short time allowed about the life of the working girl. As it is in her work rather than in her leisure that she differs from ourselves, we were to see first of all how she learns the trade for which she is most fitted, then how she is helped to find a suitable job, and lastly, the actual conditions under which she works, We were addressed by the Bishop of Kingston, who touched upon some of the tremendous social problems caused in large towns by the advent of machinery. He urged the three great needs of to-day; that everyone in in England should realize the hardships of the working classes, that people should give up their spare time for voluntary social work, and lastly, of course, the need for more lives given up wholly to social service.

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We visited several Trade Schools where we saw irls learning trades, such as dressmaking, cookery and airdressing. This training is of immense advantage in a girl's career : if she went into work with no experience and no knowledge, she would very likely have to begin with an extremely monotonous occupation and work her way up to interesting employment. We also managed to gather something of the organisation of Employment Exchanges. We were specially struck by the personal relations kept up with boys and girls who have come from the Central Schools.

Between us we visited four factories and the Blue Bird Laundry, and saw girls working under what are presumably the best factory conditions, since companies whose organisation is less ideal naturally do not invite inspection. But even exceptionally good arrangements for workers leave much to be desired : the interests of the individual are often sacrificed in the cause of speedy output, and piece-working is an unquestionable evil.

Play centres and Guides' evenings are held regularly every week, and run by voluntary workers of the Settlement. The children looked extremely happy, and they certainly did not suffer from shyness ! The Guides could hardly be recognised in their uniform: they looked so clean and tidy : it is an excellent plan that the uniforms should be kept at the Settlement.

The Jewish Settlement at Whitechapel can hardly be compared with that of the U.G.S. The entire building is given up to recreation rooms of all descriptions. The children's health is attended to : they are even given sun ray treatment. The building itself is beautifully decorated with pictures by famous masters. The roof is flat and laid out with a garden and netball courts.

We feel that we could hardly have spent two and a half days in East London more profitably. We are very grateful to those who arranged the programme for us, and enabled us to find out so much that had hitherto been quite unknown to us.

M. M. M. McCormick M. Hort.

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Tuesdays' Offertories.

September 1930-July 1931.

RECEIPTS, £

B.

d.

Balance 4 7 Term's Subscriptions 8 0 0 Tuesdays' Offertories 30 9 11 Health'Festival f Old Girls 7 6 1 Sale of Fruit 5 0 Hospital Box 1 7 3 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS IS S.P.G. 11 10 9 Diocesan Fund 6 17 6 Calne Assistant Clergy' 1 8 3

EXPENDITURE. I

U.G.S. L Term's Subscription 8 0 Record 7 James Hughes (Xmas)0 10 Special Effort 12 19 Carriage and Postage 19 B Bath & Bristol Hospitals isi1 7 11 10 S S.P.G. 2 2 A Accra U.M.C.A. ...

6 6 I 15 V Waifs and Strays Workhouse Sweets 17 V 19 rDevizes Home 6 17 Diocesan Fund r Calne Assistant Clergy• 1 8 c 5 10 cChildren's Holiday

£60 10 9

0 74 6

"4 1 3 9 0 0 0 6 4

6 3 0

£60 10 9

The " Michael Hussey " Organ Fund.

Acknowledged August, 1930 M. Smith Chapel box Mr. & Mrs. Preston Miss Prior.

School (Miss Matthews' birthday) Miss Clark Confirmation Candidates 1930 Miss Alexander ...

Miss Duncan

d.

£ s.

30 10 2 9 1 0 14 14 10 S 1 0 1 0

d.

3 6 1 0 0 6 0 3 0 0

£36 8 7

School List, July 1931.

FORM G. M. Shipley B. M. Rice M. F. Hort M. B. Butler D M. Osman- Jones M. M. M. HcCormick M. Ogle

Came 19272 19273 1925 3 1924 3 1922 3 1928 2 19263 LOWER

P. L, Clarence D. Duder R. M. Hales M. J. Hindley ]. M. Hughes A. Ilott M. K. Longridge

1928 1 19273 1928 3 1929 2 19283 1928 1 1928 3 UPPER

V. M. Armstrong B. M. Brooke N. P. Chase A. N. C. Churchill A. M. B. Conybeare G. M. Durst S. M Evans-Lawrence I. E. W Heywood

1930 ) 1929 1 1928 3 1922 2 1928 1 19303 19273 1928 3

J. G. Alexander M. C. Beale C F. Bradford E G. Combes M. J Gale S W. Goodden C. A. Hall W. M. Heath W. Osman-Jones

LOWER 1929 1 1929 1 1929 2 19273 1923 3 19293 19292 1928 2 1923 3

K. B. Bulmer A. Carver C. D. M. Churchill D. A. Chenevix-Trench J. H. Cross B R. Leigh-Mallory

UPPER 19293 1929 2 1923 2 19293 1929 3 1930 3

VI. D. L. Kirke E. D. B. Champain P. L. Dixon M. E. Fry A. D. Hill R. E. R. Wasley

Came 1930S 1925 2 1919 3 19273 1926 3 19261

VI. R. Matthews D. M. Orlebar A P. Sadler A B. M. Westaway M. E Wilson A. E. Wood P. J. Young

19283 19283 1931 2 19243 19281 1928 2 1920 3

V.

S. M. Lunt F. C. Leigh-Mallory M . N . E. llansergh S. M. McRae B. S. Mitchell M. O. Neatby H. G Ward

19272 19283 1926 1 19293 1929 9 1928 3 1928 3

V. B. M. Kirke J S. Marjoribanks E. M. Aiinnis F. K. Moilliet P Preston M. O. E. Stead K. M Svnge D E. Waller L. B. M. Wollen

1930 3 19293 19293 1929 1 1930 3 19292 1929 3 19293 1928 3

IV. P. M. McCormick M. M Reade I. Roome K M. Trow H. Walton

1929 1 1929 2 1931 1 1922 3 1930 3

R. Aldworth E. M. Booker J. M. G. Cameron B. M. Chadwick Y. M. Clarke E. B. Combes R. A. Conybeare E. A. Grant C. L. Alexander A.E.Barnes D.E.Bradford H. Bridgman V. M. Combes P. D. Ede

LOWER 1929 33 1930S3 1930 19303 1930S 19302 1930 2 1931 23 19273 1931 22 1930S 1930 3

IV.

F. J. Grant M. F. Glynn D. C. M. Maitland A. Nettelfleld R. M. Palmer Palmer M. M. E. Pollock N. Reade P. K. Waterfall

FORM III. 1930S 1930 3 A. M. E. Glossop 19303 1930 3 C. D. Hall J93Q3 1930S G. M. Henly 193122 M. M.E.Matthews E. Matthews 1931 192733 1927 M. P. Wood 19273

19303 1931 as 1929 19283 1931 1931 1931 2 1930 2 1930 3 1930S3 1926 19282 1931 2

FORM II. J929 1929 1 E. C. Long 1927 3 192733 1927 F. O. Matthews 1298 1925 3 S. PRISCA'S J. Combes 19291 J.James 1930* 1929 1 J. James P. V. Lawrence 1929 1929 1 B. Osman-Jones 1930 2 D. Maundrell 19291 J. A. Trow 19292 19291 19283 M. B. Wiltshire M. Ogle will be head girl 1931—1932, with M. Hort as second head.

R. E. Amphlett D. M Ede I. Gough

The Staff—July

1931.

RESIDENTMISS ALEXANDER, (Senior Mistress) French.

Miss GROVER, Science, Gardening, Geography.

Miss DAMANT, Matron.

Miss JENNINGS. Music.

Miss DUNCAN. Classics.

Miss JAMES, Mathematics, Miss CLARK, Domestic Science.

Miss DALDY, Science.

Miss INGE, Art. Miss MOSSE, Kindergarten.

Miss ANGELL JAMES, English.

Miss COOKE, History.

Miss PRIOR, Music.

Miss SNELL Games, Gymnastics, Dancing.

MADEMOISELLE ANTOINE, French.

Miss BARTLETT, Secretary.

SISTER ASH. NON-RESIDENT— THE REV. A. B. BROWNE, Divinity.

MR. PULLEIN, Piano.

Miss POUND. Piano, Leatherwork.

MRS. HILL, Violin.

MRS, WATLING, Italian.

MR. CULLEY, Carpentry.

10 School Calendar.

1930.

Sept. 25.—Beginning of Term.

Oct, 1.—Party to Chippenham to concert by Jelly d'Aranyi. „ 16 —Health Festival. Service aud address by the Kev. C. H. S. Matthews. ,, 20.—Lecture on " Cause and Effect in Plant Life." by Mr. A. G. Lowndes ,, 25.—3rd team netball match v. Tytherton 1st VII. School won. „ 30. —Lecture on Florentine Art by Miss Payton.

Nov. 1.— 1st and 2nd Netball matches v. Downe House. School won both matches. ,, 7. -1'rize Giving. ,, 8.—Party to Hath to entertainment by Chief Os-ke-non-tou. ,, 10.—Half Term. ,, 17.—Lecture on " Wiltshire under the Tudors and Stuarts " by Mrs. Richardson. ,, 21.—Lecture on " The Life History of some Common Plants" by Mr. A. G Lowudes, „ 23.—Concert by the Mont-Clar String Quartette. ,, 27.—Lecture on Florentine Art by Miss Pay ton.

Dec. 7.—Confirmation in the Parish Church. „ 8.—School Certificate Examination. ., 12—Lecture on " Natural Selection" by Mr. A. G. Lowudes. ,, 13.—Netball Cup Match v. Royal School 2nd VII. School won.

Junior Netball v. Hoyal School. School lost. ,, 18. —Competition for Shakespeare Cup. Mark Heading, Tea and Speeches.

1931.

Jan. 21.—Beginning of Term.

Feb. 7.—Lacrosse match v. Clifton Ladies. School won.

Mar. 5.—Lecture on " Boys and Girls of the Eighteenth Century "

by Mrs. Richardson,. 7.—Lacrosse match v. Royal School. School lost. ,, 9.—" The Messiah " by the Calue Choral Society, ,, 13.—Lecture on •' Fungi" by Mr. A. G. Lowndes. „ 14.—Drill Competition v. Godolphin School. School won. ,, 19.—Lecture on " Racine " by Miss Marjorie Gabain. ,, 21.—1st team Netball match v. S. Brandon's. School lost.

2nd and 3rd iietball matches v. Downe House.

School won both matches. ,, 23.—Lecture on " Brewing " by Mr. A. G. Lowndes. „ 26.—Mark Reading.

April 29.—Beginning of term.

May 11.—Lecture on < ; Moliere " by Miss Gabain. ,. 14.—Ascension Day, ,, 29.—" Les Romanesques " at Dauutscy's School. ,, 30.—Tennis match v. Downe House 2nd VI, School won. ,, 31.—Lecture, Marlborough College. Professor Julian Huxley.

June 3.—" Richard II " by Ben Greet's Company. ,, 6 —Maidless Day. Cricket match v Godolphiu 2nd XI. School lost. ,, 9.—Concert by Wayfarer's Trio.

Lecture, Marlborough College. Miss Gabain. „ 13.—Half term.

Cricket match v. Fathers. School won. ,, 15.—Expedition to Inkpeu Beacon. ,, 27.—Picnic to Savernake, given by Lord and Lady Hyndley.

11 July 1.—Address on her work in Bombay by Deaconess Murray Browne. „ 2.—Giana's holiday. " Queen of Cornwall" and "Philip the King " by the Oxford Players. ,, 5—Song recital by A n n e Wood. ,, 9—Tennis match v. Dauntsey's School. School lost.

Tennis match v. Tytherton. School won. ,, 11.—Tennis match v. Bath High School. School lost.

Cricket match v. Royal School 2nd XI. School won. „ 18 -" Twelfth Night." ,, 20.—Final for Form Tcamis Couples. Lower VI won the cup ,, 21.—Tennis match v. Staff. School won.

School Certificate Holiday. ., 22.—Expedition to Denford. ., 24.—Final for Senior Teunis Championship. Won by D. Duder „ 27.—Mark Reading.

Prize Day. November 7th, 1930 This year a larger number of parents than ever before came to our prize giving, at which the Dean of Salisbury gave away the prizes. We were particularly glad to have him with us, as he was so close a friend of Archdeacon Bodington, without whom our first Prize Day seemed very strange, our loss particularly poignant.

Archdeacon Coulter was in the chair—he pointed out that until 1929 there was practically only one governor;'of the school, and he was chairman and "everything else." He was the Vicar of Calne for the time being, but in 1929 the whole scheme was altered, and new governors were legally appointed, of whom the Vicar of Calne was one, but not even chairman unless he was chosen.

The new scheme had been in operation just over a year; and in that short time there had been changes amongst the governors. They had lost by death, and it was a great loss, Archdeacon Bodington, whose knowledge and interest in the school was unique. In his place they had elected as a governor the Bishop of Sherborne, and Sir Ernest Gowers, head of a great department of State, had also been appointed. The faith and confidence of the Governors in the school had been fully justified by the report made upon it by the Board of Education.

In her report Miss Matthews referred to the many additions in our buildings since the last Prize Giving in 1928. These included the cookery school, new dormitory at S. Prisca's, new cloakroom, and our first hard tennis court. At the same time she expressed the hope

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that, as far as numbers are concerned, the school would not expand further. There had been many causes for thankfulness during the year, including a perfect health record. The great event of the year has been the General Inspection by the Board of Education, an inspection we had found entirely helpful and sympathetic, putting new heart into us.

The Dean's address was delightful He said he could imagine a little bit of what we felt about the loss of Archdeacon Bodington, and yet he wanted us to realise it really was no loss. He still belonged to us. Nothing would ever rob the school of that influence which he exercised, an influence which his bright outlook, his gaiety of heart, his freshness of spirit had made so dear to us. It would not be right, however, to dwell on anything tinged with sadness, because if ever there were anyone of whom it would be true to say that he wished that there should be " no sadness of farewell when he put out to sea " it was true of the Archdeacon.

The Dean's address, in which he likened us to a motor factory, was one of the most inspiring we have ever had. His charm, his whimsical humour, his real understanding made the address more than memorable, and we are most grateful to him for his presence We were so glad, too, to have with us Lady Lansdowne, and our new governor, Sir Ernest Gowers.

Examinations.

July 1930-July 1931.

OLD GIRLS London University. Postgraduate Research Studentship, /ISO. A M. C. Le Mesurier.

Oxford University. Final School of Modern Languages, Class II. R. F Evans Cambridge University Classical Tripos. Part 1 Class III. A. A. Le Mesurier.

Bedford Physical Training College. Diploma of the Incorporated Society Trained Masseuses. G M Turner.

Diploma of the Incorporated Society Trained Masseuses.

L. M. Kirby. M. Legh-Smith.

London University, Teachers' Diploma. A M. C Le Mesurier.

London University. Intermediate Arts. J. L. Suffrin.

PRESENT GIRLS Open Scholarship, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. (Italian.)

G M. Shiplev.'

Susan Esther Wordsworth Exhibition. G. M. Shipley.

First Prize, Advanced Grade, British Italian League. G. M. Shipley.

Vacancy, Girton College Cambridge, (History) B. M. Rice

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CAMBRIDGE

SCHOOL CERTIFICATE,

December, 1930.

Honours—J M. Hughes M- E. Wilson. (Distinction Religious Knowledge. Latin, French, German, Botany.)

Pass P. L. Dixon C. M. Gale M. K. Longridge P. M. F. Mackey R. Matthews (Distinction French) M Ogle P. J. Young (Distinction Latin and French) INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE CERTIFICATE. July 1931.

Pass M. E. Fry M. J. Hindley A. D. Hill A.. Ilott D M. Orlebar R E R . Wasley A E. Wood NATIONAL

INSTITUTE

OF

DOMESTIC

STUDIES

JUNIOR HOUSECRAFT EXAMINATIONS. July 1931, Class II. P. L. Clarence M. E Fry R. M. Hales A. D. Hill A. Ilott D. M. Orlebar Societe Nationale des Professeurs de Franfais en Angleterre— Concours Special.

Prizes M. F. Hort M. E, Wilson S. M. Evans-Lawrence Concours des Laureats Prizes M. E. Wilson B. R. Leigh-Mallory Concours Mensuel Prizes E. G. Combes M. E. Wilson S. M, Evans-Lawrence S. W. Goodden

PRIZE LIST. November, 1930.

FORM VI. HEAD OF THE SCHOOL, (given by the Ven. Archdeacon of Wilts) B. M. Gardiner ARCHBISHOP DAVIDSON MEMORIAL PRIZE, (given by the Lady Davidson of Lambeth) CLASSICS, In memory of the Archdeacon of Dorset (given by Mrs. Bodington) FRENCH, (given by Mr. Dunne)

G. M. Kirby J. L. Suffrin M. F. Hort

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(given by Miss Alexander)

G. M. Shipley

(given by Sir Ernest and Lady Cowers) B. M. Rice UPPER V. FORM PRIZE (given by Mr. Bodinnar) M. E. Wilson MATHEMATICS. (given by Mr. Bodinnar) P J. Young GENERAL IMPROVEMENT, (given by Mrs. Dunne) J. M. Hughes HOLIDAY WORK, (given by Miss Grover) M, E. Wilson ARTS & CRAFTS, " No one reached prize standard HOLIDAY WORK, M. E. Fry LOWER V. FORM PRIZES, (given by Miss Murray) N. C. Chase (given by Mrs. H. G. Harris) I. E. W. Heywood F. C. Leigh M'allory HOLIDAY WORK, S. E. Lawrence S. M. Lunt UPPER IV No one reached prize standard.

HOLIDAY WORK, D. E Waller LOWER IV, FORM PRIZE (given by Mr. Norris) D. A. Chenevix-Trench HOLIDAY WORK, Z. V. Leigh-Pemberton FORM-III, FORM PRIZE. P. D. Ede Music. (given by Mr, Pullein) B M. Gardiner (given by Miss Jennings) E. A Gowers (given by Dr. and Mrs James) E G. Combes READING, (given by Dr. and Mrs, Ede) B. M. Rice (given by Dr. and Mrs Ede) E. D. B Champain DOMESTIC SCIENCE, The Madame Brichta Prize, (given by Miss Eddes) B. Butler DRESSMAKING. (given by Mrs, Dudley Matthews) M. B. Sheldon E. K. K. Betty R Jenner DRAWING, (given by Mr Walter Rudman) M. E. Wilson NEEDLEWORK, K. M. Synge (given by Airs. John Harris) G M. Henly HANDWORK, M K. Longridge LEATHERWORK. (given by Mrs. Pound) E. C. Hindley CARPENTRY, Senior (given by Mr. Culley) R Jenner Junior L B. M Wollen GENERAL KNOWLEDGE, Senior (given by the Headmistress) G. M Shipley Junior V. M Armstrong PHYSICAL WORK, Senior i given by Lady Hindley) M. B. Sheldon Junior M. Stead HYGIENE, G Kirby M. Farrington TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP. C. M. Allen Senior (given by Sir John Hindley) Junior (given by .Mrs Ede; F. C. Bradford

15 After Two Years.

The first thing that struck me on coming down after two years absence was not, as I had expected, how many changes there had been, but how very much the same everything was. We still have bacon for breakfast on Monday, and the backwards " Z " still shows on Mozart door, underneath Miss Grover's effort to correct it! But I was asked to write on changes, and although personally, being of a conservative nature, " unchanges " interest me more, I feel I must do my duty.

Of course the first thing that one notices on arrival is that Miss Matthews has got a new carpet, and this one has the advantage of not showing up your footmarks when you are suddenly called in unexpectedly from the garden, golosh-less! The next change I noticed filled me with sorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a new fenderstool! I suppose it was just my conservative temperament coming out again, and I cheered up considerably when I found the old fenderstool that I remembered so well, in Gabriel, and still looking very much the same. The school photographs were missing from their old accustomed place on Gabriel wall, and in their stead was a beautiful new picture by Melozzo da Forli, the Angel of the Annunciation, given to Miss Matthews by the school on her last birthday. I later found the school photographs in the hut passage.

I did not notice any more changes until supper time, and then I entered a dining room that had been absolutely renovatedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;new curtains and walls repainted a cheerful ochre that would have matched beautifully the old jam-pots we used to have. They don't match the new jam pots nearly so well, but no slur need be cast on the jam-pots for this, for they are certainly very artistic, and their greater depth is no doubt an advantage.

I did not see the most important change until the next morningâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;" Rachel," the new hard tennis court. It is where the potatoes and the rhubarb used to grow, at S. Prisca's, and the mnst conservative soul could not but admit that it is a great improvement on rhubarb and potatoes, especially after playing on it.

The cottage beyond the VI form now belongs to the school, and comprises two new music rooms, Byrd and Purcell, and a loft, which is used mainly, I understand, for rehearsals for company plays.

There is a new Botticelli Madonna and Child in Chapel, and the Sistine Madonna that belonged to Archdeacon Bodington, hangs outside in the Red Hali.

16 His desk is upstairs in the library. In the company room, too, are two new picturesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rembrandt's " Young Warrior," also given to Miss Matthews by the school, and a beautiful picture of the Guild Hall, given by Betty Hindley.

And now I think I have enumerated all the changes, and I can only say in conclusion that I hope those of the next two years will be as few, but also to so obvious an advantage, as these.

J.M.B.

Half Term November 7â&#x20AC;&#x201D;10, 1930.

On Friday work stopped at 11.30 a.m. when those who had friends and relations were released from bondage.

At 3 o'clock the school assembled in their appointed places.

Archdeacon Coulter, as Chairman of the Governors, presided.

The prizes, many and varied, were given away by Bishop Randolph, Dean of Salisbury, who afterwards gave what we all thought to be a most inspiring address, one which made us feel that we had known him for years.

He began by telling us of his friendship with Archdeacon Bodington, he spoke of him with a touch of humour, so much like that of the Archdeacon himself, that it made us realize as nothing else could have done that, although the prize giving-day could never be quite the same again without the Archdeacon on the platform, he wo.uld not really be absent. Continuing, he likened each individual girl to a self-propelled motor, and showed us that if each part, gears, brakes, etc., were not perfect in themselves the engine as a whole would be unsuccessful.

In the evening, after a display of photographs by the Epidiascope, Sir John Hindley gave a thrilling display of fireworks to which the school had been looking forward On Saturday at 11.30 a.m. there was a partial evacuation of the school, the number of those going out being greater than ever before. Those left behind were not lacking in amusement as they were taken to Bath by two of the staff to hear Chief Os-ke-non-ton, who visited the School a short time ago. This entertainment was much

17 appreciated, and after a stupendous tea in Bath we came home and ended Saturday in the usual wayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;dancing in the hall for those whose energy was unabated, and rest for those who felt they needed it.

As usual the fun of Half Term did not interfere with the customary quiet of Sunday, the only difference being that, as it was Armistice Sunday, a special service was held in church attended by the Mayor, Corporation and other public bodies.

For those who did not go out a treasure hunt with clues was chosen as the programme for Monday morning.

On leaving the house in a "chary" Miss Matthews informed us that we were being taken to Devizes, but we were eventually dropped at Bremhill! After chasing from pillar to post round Wiltshire we ended our hunt in the lime kiln, hot but triumphant. For the first three " fours" Mr. Heath very kindly supplied prizes in the shape of tiny Shakespeares. For those not wishing to exert themselves in this strenuous fashion, the kitchen at S. Prisca's was made free. After rock buns and fudge had been made, and partly devoured, the cooks were taken to the " Mayor making" by Miss Matthews.

In the afternoon a lacrosse match was played. After tea four sporting staff organized "Sardines" and "Brown Bear " over the whole school. Surely the rats in Hamelin Town could not have scuffled with such awful haste as did the school when a Staff was the Bear and even the " scrum " in the old cloakroom when getting ready for walks, could not have been equal to that seen on the tops of the hat lockers when the lights were turned up after a sardine hunt Supper having been accomplished "the Staff-K.G." were presented with prizes because they had worked well.

Miss E. C. Hindley kindly gave away the prizes, which, as the receivers are still rather young, were mostly in the form of toys.

Half Term, as it is easy to see, was as successful as usual, which could not have been possible if it had not been for the unselfishness of Miss Matthews and the Staff.

Arts and Crafts.

18 S. Mary's Measly Term.

Lent Term, 1931.

(1) From a Victim's point of view.

This has been quite the most abnormal term I have ever spent at school. When the measle germ really started to get going one was never quite certain what was going to happen next. Strange, white-capped figures flitted about the passages; the singing in Chapel grew daily fainter; daily, almost hourly, one's temperature was taken, and agonies of suspense were endured: while one's heart never seemed to be in its usual place, as one heard of fresh victims, and wondered when the inevitable would happen.

When, at last, it did happen, the measler had not much of a point of view for a day or two. Sleep was enough to occupy her from the time that one meal was taken away to the time that the next made its apperance, and broke the monotony of dozing and looking at the ceiling. Fever mixture was a great feature of those days (for there was not much difference between night and day); it was extraordinary that it should take such a great effort to drink fever-mixture in the middle of the night.

Soon, however, the lethargy rolled away sufficiently to permit of our spending the greater part of a day in composing a poem for Dr. Ede's birthday. Our sense of humour also seemed to return at about this period: after exhausting our brains by the tremendous effort of composing poetry, we sought a less strenuous employment, and our inventive faculties found expression in storytelling. Needless to say these stories, offspring of highly imaginative brains which were easily fatigued by sickness, were never completed. Then there was the thrill of the post each day: we heard stories of the efficiency of the Middle Fifth Post officeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;letters certainly never went astray under this able organisation. Miss Matthews read " Little George " to us in the evenings : being read aloud to is always a luxury but how much more of one when you are lying comfortably in bed with a fire to watch.

When we got up the most difficult thing of all seemed to be going up and down stairs: for some reason or other one's legs were heavier than usual and felt completely powerless, but with practice they became more expert. Our meals, taken in the middle of the aisle of Duncan, were extremely select and far less tedious than

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those of everyday lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in fact, when we first returned to a more or less normal existence school dinner seemed interminable.

Our first croc walks were a sad contrast to the usual croc which sallies forth full of energy, with its swift swinging stride ! What surprise must the measle croc have awoken in the worthy hearts of the townsfolk, as it strayed forlornly along the Bremhill Road, conscientiously avoiding each child it met. After two or three of these rather tipsy-looking straggles, our energy returned, and with an almost superhuman effort two of us managed to go round Bowood one morning, and, to our triumph, to return in time for lunch. We had missed the snowdrops completely, but had the thrill of seeing the first primroses there.

At last came to each the day of cleansing. When we and our possessions were thoroughly purified we were allowed to sit in Gabriel. There Miss Jennings nobly held daily singing lessons, and by encouraging deep breathing taught our lungs how to work again. The singing, of course, was pathetic: one never knew if any sound would proceed from one's mouth or not. But our efforts were rewarded, and by the end we could even produce a descant of sorts.

I think the chief characteristic of the measle period (from the measler's point of view, be it remembered) was that of luxury. At first we did absolutely nothing for ourselves. While the rest of the School and the Staff toiled below in pantry and formroom, we merely lay and were brought things; we were even washed by other people. Our food was brought to us and cleared away for us, our letters were dealt out to us, our books were given us. Then there was the supreme luxury of waking up in the morning without the consciousness of having to get up in the near future. And the finishing touch to this height of comfort was breakfast in bed.

M. Hort.

(2) From a Survivor's point of view In years to come the remembrance of the Spring Term, 1931, cannot fail to rank high with the memories of the happiest of our days at school. There is always a satisfactory stir when school routine is upset even for one day. But the happiness which resulted from the " measle term " was not only due to the novelty of everything, but to the remarkable atmosphere which is only felt in

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crises such as this. This atmosphere was inevitable, as everyone was doing their bit to replace the domestic staff who were so largely depleted by influenza. What amusing bits they wereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;washing up piles of the greasiest of plates, clearing away and laying meals (the staff must often have wondered at our incompetence to lay their supper table), polishing floors (an exercise most soothing to the nerves) and making orangeade. There was a ceaseless rush for these jobs, especially at first, and though our slowness and clumsiness were painful to see, this new form of work was, to the majority, infinitely more enjoyable than Latin verbs or Mathematical problems.

Future generations will doubtless be incredulous when told how Miss Matthews took Chapel in an apron, and slept in a Music Room, while Miss Jennings was continually washing up outside the Library, and how form-rooms and dormitories alike were turned into wards.

But these were ordinary sights, as also was Miss Damant armed with thermometers, daily pursuing the few survivors.

Many times we were fortunate in being given extra time for long walks, and those hours spent on the still Downs, or among the snowdrops, are not likely to be forgotten.

Measles was, from the non-measle point of view at any rate, an entirely successful time, and the success of it goes to the magnificent Nellie, without whom we should have been too lost, and to Miss Matthews and the Staff, whose untiring cheerfulness and encouragement pulled us through.

D. B. Champain.

Half Term.

June 13-15.

Each year half-term is "the best we've ever had", and this one has been no exception to the rule. The great feature of Saturday was the Father's match, which, from the daughters' point of view, was the most successful one on record. The captain of the visiting team has provided an adequate description of that "memorable" contest.

But we would like to make it clear that as the school was unquestionably top team, this was obviously a Good Thing. The match was viewed from afar by anxious

21 mothers who, torn between conjugal fidelity and maternal affection (see " Andromaque"), were sheltered periodically by borrowed umbrelfas.

The chief interest of Sunday lay in the violent and hysterical behaviour of the weather, which gave a convincing imitation of a tropical storm. It had, however, recovered its equanmity in time to encourage the annual game of cricket before breakfast on Monday. At half past eleven we set out for Inkpen Beacon : driving along the beautiful, familiar road to Savernake, and on into Berkshire, we reached country almost as lovely and more exciting because unknown. Inkpen Beacon is a high windy ridge : on one side stretch miles of flat wooded country, a typical English view ; on the other more ridges of downs. We had lunch on the top of the beacon and afterwards set off in small parties to explore and appreciate the surrounding country. The Bear Inn at Hungerford provided us with tea: it is old and interesting, with dark beams and a room where William III slept We came back by Ramsbury and admired the Church with its fine wooden roof and beautiful perpendicular windows. We stopped at Silbury. which many people climbed, and eventually arrived, tired but contented.

Form VI.

The Fathers' Match.

June, 13.

The annual tip and run match took place on Saturday, June 13th, under the joint captaincy of Margaret Rice and Mr. Cecil Goodden. The visitors were (as usual) successful: the school, perhaps, even more so. Everybody batted twice, bowled at least once, fielded (22 a side) with exemplary energy, and had, in fact, a thoroughly satisfactory game. The score of this encounter has unfortunately not been preserved for posterity, as the scorers downed pencils on the plea that it was their afternoon out, and went to draw the unemployment dole. The umpires having declared a sympathetic strike, their duties were administered with strict partiality by the present writer (i.e. me).

22 Earlier in the afternoon an eleven a-side match, Antiques v. Curios, was played under rules hitherto unauthorised by the M.C.C. The Curios won the toss by the simple expedient of making the Antique captain toss the coin (his favourite half-crown, known to possess two tails and no head). Their batting (first offences being disregarded under the Probation of Offenders' Act) was extremely good : Jo Hughes (27) and Sheila McRae (24 not out) particularly distinguished themselves, hitting with great vigour: Elisabeth Mansergh, Joan Alexander and Audrey Westaway, with smaller scores, all played excellent cricket, and showed a variety of strokes, especially on the off-side, which were not in the school's repertoire last year. Jo Hughes eventually succumbed, as a courteous gesture, to the present writer (me, again); and her example was gracefully followed by Betty Wasley. Mr. Fry, a younger and better-looking man, no doubt, was more popular among the tail. Of the Antiques' fielding, it can only be said that it was apparently demoralised by the brilliance of three early catches, and degenerated into a sequence of dropped bricks. The score, after a heated argument between the scorers, was finally compromised at 102.

The Antiques' innings were principally distinguished by the batting of Major Brooke (24). only three others attaining double figures and the consequent penalty of displaying their ambidexterity.

Even so, the game showed every prospect of an exciting finish when, with the score at 82 for 6 wickets, Betty Wasley finished off a really remarkable turn of bowling by taking four more wickets for no runs (in all 6 wickets for 16 runs). She has A smooth easy action, and kept excellent length and direction. The Curios' fielding, catching and ; throwing in were first class : Joan Alexander (twice) and ,Elisaberh Waller brought off particularly good catches ; and Margaret Rice showed excellent judgement in her placing of the field (including the twelfth man in the cabbage garden.)

A most enjoyable day: delightful weather, cricket, conversation (particularly at the scorers' tables), and last, but not least, tea. The Antiques will look for their revenge next year, when (let the present writer = me, suggest) they should come equipped with a Catching and Bending Certificate, duly signed by their respective daughters.

C. P. Goodden.

28 Lord Hyndley's Picnic.

June 27th.

One mark-reading, some three weeks after the beginning of the term, Miss Matthews announced the joyful news that on June 27th we were all to be the guests of Lord and Lady Hyndley for a picnic in Savernake forest.

Great was everyone's delight, and the verdict expressed by all was " How perfectly wonderful! " And so it was, as it always has been, a glorious unconventional holiday in that part of Savernake which all of us know now and love for its pleasant associations.

The sun, according to tradition, shone as brightly as could be desired, and everything seemed to conspire with Lord Hyndley for our enjoyment. It was delightful, too, tkat Sir Ernest and Lady Gowers were both present.

In five luxurious 'buses we set forth, nor stopped till we had reached the heart of Sayernake, where we alighted, and were led by an unfailing instinct to the hiding-place of a van whereon the welcome word, "Fortt's, Caterers, Bath," were painted. This, however, we passed, not without glancing lovingly towards it, and went on to the delights of a game of rounders in which three quarters of the school played, (the rest, earnest bug-hunters most of them, had wandered off among the trees). We all met again after a space of time, and under the shade of ancient beeches did full justice to a tea such as is the lot of most only to dream of, but for us, more fortunate, it was realised.

Cakes, more cakes, and still more cakes we ate, and to crown all strawberries in plenty.

And after that we ran races! There was an egg and spoon race in which the staff took part, another in which needles were threaded with a speed rarely seen on Saturdays, and yet another, most amusing of all, in which we flopped and floundered inelegantly along the course in sacks. The prizes (which did not always go to the swift, especially in the latter event) were very happily chosen and just what we wanted, and altogether it was a thoroughly contented party who flocked back to the van to be regaled with ices and lemonade, and presented with delightful boxes of chocolates. Then we returned to the racecourse and those who had not won prizes before ran fully equipped with coats and hats ! Finally the rest of us collected our belongings and we all gave three hearty and heartfelt cheers for Lord and Lady Hyndley for one of the most glorious days of the term.

And so back to schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and supper!

S. Evans-Lawrence.

24 Giana's Holiday.

July 2nd.

The Feast of the Visitation, on which we celebrated the success of our two University candidates, was kept in a most original manner. Amongst other things it was the occasion of the institution of Company picnics.

Martinsell, Clyffe Pypard, Savernake and Hackpen Hill were respectively the chosen destinations for which we set out at 11.30 a m., each Company appropriating for the occasion two members of the Staff. Fortified by lunch picnics we executed athletic feats or explored the country for honeysuckle and orchids. Apart from a slight shower as we drove back for tea the weather held good, and the evening turned out glorious.

At five o'clock we assembled in the darkened Hall for two very remarkable performances given by a Company of Oxford undergraduates, who made their first appearance on our stage. We hope the desire they expressed of coming again will be fulfilled. They presented first " The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall." It was indeed a tragedy, dignified and moving, with Hardy's inevitable fatalism overhanging it throughout. The songs, composed by Bernard Naylor, were well suited to the atmosphere of legend and chivalry.

The actors were very stirring. We felt a special interest in Iseult the White-handed, knowing that in real life she was Barbara Kitson, and she by no means disappointed our expectations. Her child-like devotion to Sir Tristram was a strong contrast to her namesake's overpowering passion ; one felt that, although her love drove her to deceit, Sir Tristram's condemnations were unnecessarily harsh. Sir Tristram played his part with vigour and energy.

The comic relief supplied by the tipsy Sir Andret was very welcome, and by the end of the performance the audience shared the exhaustion of the actors.

The second play was " Philip the King " by John Masefield. The part of Philip was most ably and wonderfully filled by Donald Lindsay who sustained his character admirably throughout, and made the most convincing central figure. The magnificent description of the fleet setting sail was beautifully spoken by the Princess, as were the verses describing the battle by the Captain.

The mysterious effect produced by the chanting voices was very impressive. This play was remarkable for its

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restraint and simplicity, which gave full scope to the poetry and to the setting forth of Philip's personality.

The day was undoubtedly a complete success, as it combined in a most satisfactory way the freedom of wind and sky and grass and trees with the excitement produced by excellent acting.

M. F. Hort.

"Twelfth Night."

July 18th.

Two performances were given in the garden in the afternoon and evening of July 18th. Both were really excellent, though in the evening, as was perhaps natural, the play went with rather more swing. How much more pleasing is this play in the open air ! On that cloudy and showery morning, there were rumours of our being driven indoors, but the day steadily improved to a fine afternoon and a lovely evening. So we had the dances, (which must have been omitted indoors) and the Sea Nymphs following the stately Pavane gave just the right suggestion for what we were to see and here. There are stately Lords and Ladies in the play, but there are also stones of sea and shipwreck, there is the light delicious laughter of Maria and Sir Toby's broader fun. We have seen noisier, coarser, more tipsy Sir Tobys and we have always rather hated the idea of that nasty old satyr marrying dear laughing Maria, so we appreciated the wisdom of the producer in presenting Sir Toby as a very jolly boy who moved us to mirth without any unpleasant taste. Orsino pleased us very much ; he played with a quiet dignity and forte which set an admirable tone in all his scenes. Olivia is a very difficult part but it was borne with the easy grace of the great lady through all the phases of sorrow, love and indignation. Malvolio was delightful, slow and stately in speech and gait, the perfect self-important fool. The clown was charming, acted well and sang most sweetly Sir Andrew was well fitted with her part and very well indeed she acted the would-be-bold but quaking knight. And Viola with a very pleasing voice, was one of the great successes of the play, equally delightful as the not-to-be-denied ambassador of Orsino, the horrified duellist, and the sweet and melting woman.

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The other smaller parts were all most ably borne; we specially liked Antonio, but Sebastian, Fabian, the Sea Captain, Valentine and Curio all did well. In fact the whole play went smoothly and delightfully, and we were amazed to hear that it had taken but five weeks of preparation in a busy term, and that only two periods of work in all had to be surrendered to its claims. The elocution throughout was remarkably good; there are many lovely lines in " Twelfth Night" and we heard them all. There were no pauses and the mutes and dancers moved to perfection. " My true love hath my heart" sung by the whole company made a very pleasant ending.

T. E. Wilson.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE (in order of appearance) ORSINO

Duke of Ulyria, in love with Olivia

E. D. B. Champain VALENTINE \ A. E. Wood Attendants on the Duke M. N. E. Mansergh CURIO } VIOLA Sister to Sebastian, who, disguised as a page, attends the Duke Orsino A. B. M. Westaway (CESARIO) A SEA CAPTAIN who rescued Viola M. Ogle Uncle to Olivia J. M. Hughes SIR TOBY Olivia's Waiting Woman R. E. R. Wasley MARIA SIR ANDREW M". O. Neatby Friend to Sir Toby AGUECHEEK FABIAN \ Servants to Olivia J. G. Alexander FESTE (a clown) J R. Matthews OLIVIA A Countess, who falls in love with Cesario M. M. M. McCormick MALVOLIO Steward to Olivia G. M. Shipley A Sea Captain, who has ANTONIO rescued Sebastian D. Duder A Young Noble of Messaline, shipSEBASTIAN wrecked on the coast of Illyria P. L. Clarence A M. B. Conybeare OFFICERS W. M. Heath' PRIEST G, M. Durst Lords and Ladies, Attendants, Sailors, Sea Nymphs.

The performances realised ÂŁ33 5s. Od which has been added to the School Scholarship Fund.

27 " Twelfth Night " from behind the scenes.

To the audience watching the performance of " Twelfth Night" perhaps the actors seemed calm, dignified or self possessed, as they appeared and played their part upon the stage; yet once let them vanish behind the laurel screen and they are in a different world from the audience. " We will pull back the curtain and show you the picture."

In the dressing room a veritable pandemonium reigns.

Actors in every stage of dressing struggle with their unwonted clothes, tights that are too true to their name, and ruffs which feel like dog collars. Several plaints are heard above the other buzz. " Where are my boots ? " " Will anyone pin me up ? " " Oh, is my face too pink ?"

But gradually the actors in full dress arrive downstairs and scan the unwitting audience through the screen.

The noble Duke, safely negotiating the violin stands and the piano, strides onto the stage followed by his inwardly palpitating attendants, and the play begins.

Close by there is an ominous clodding of feet where the nymphs are preparing to shed their mortal garb, and appear upon the " light fantastic toe."

As the play proceeds the various characters make their first appearances upon the stage and until they gain the shelter of the screen they never stop " to ease their breast with panting." W^hile they are off they watch the striving of their fellows on the stage; the staid and mournful Olivia throws propriety to the winds, and, hitching up her kirtle, mounts upon a chair, better to see the scene munching a chocolate, and Malvolio sits eye to a peephole forgetting his pompous pride. The other characters sit about in easy unconcern; Sebastian stuffs his boots with newspaper; Fabian considers the knotty problem of whether he will finish his toffee before his scene arrives, or whether it will make him incapable of speech, while Aguecheek runs round and round alternately finding and losing his challenge, sword or bandage.

The audience could not hear the stealthy creak of boots or rustle of gowns as the actors crept down to refresh themselves with an un-Elizabethan sausage roll between the scenes. Who dared to say " I care not for good life ?"

At the end the appreciation of the audience denoted pleasure, and we hope that they enjoyed themselves as much as those behind the scenes, for the actors could well say with Maria " Let's to bed, and dream on the event."

Sir Toby.

28 The School Certificate Holiday.

July 21.

As we had all had such a delightful term ourselves, It was decided that on the School Certificate Holiday we should try to do something for somebody else. This plan, however, was not carried out till the afternoon.

In the morning we had sports most admirably arranged by the Lower VI. We practised feverishly until eleven, but many were the casualties when the great moment came. Unfortunate trios, securely tied together at the ankles, writhed on the ground : the wheelers of wheelbarrows rubbed their partners' noses in the dust, while the proud owners of sacks lay on the ground, roaring with laughter, and kicking feebly. In spite of these mishaps to the weaker brethren, many actually reached the tape in safety, some even receiving prizes, the gift of the Lower VI. In the afternoon some girls from the Senior School in Calne came for a treasure hunt, some boys (all under fifteen) for a cricket match, and, best of all, fifty little children, boys and girls, came to enjoy themselves. I really think they did. First of all they were a little shy, and on their best behaviour, but tea broke the ice and soon we were great friends. We knew each others names, how many dogs, cats or rabbits each possessed, and, by the time tea was finished, had even progressed as far as to know who had a brother " at the Green ", and who had no brother but several sisters. They all seemed to be members of large families. After tea they were supplied with balloons, which all the boys wished to have untied, apparently to assist them in making the most ear-splitting noises. We swung them, and see-sawed them, and gave them pick-a-backs, charging at breakneck speed, and leaping imaginary obstacles. Before they went they were each given a toy, to their great delight, and departed tired but happy. They left us wishing they could stay longer, 'and hoping that this party would grow into a tradition.

After supper the School Certificate people gave us an entertainment. First they gave historical scenes, and then a play called " Mechanical Jane." We all felt as if we had never really laughed till that minute; we rocked with laughter, the tears poured down our cheeks, till we were perfectly helpless with mirth. It really was splendid of them to learn those parts, when they had so many other things to do as well. We enjoyed it immensely The

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whole day was one magnificent success from beginning to end, and we all hope that the children's party will become a tradition. Some of the letters thanking us were quite pathetic, they were so touchingly grateful for the tea and the grass and the balloons. We are hoping to see them again some day.

V. M. Armstrong.

Our Day at Denford.

July 22.

Those of us who spent the day at Denford will always remember the impression of peace and dignity left by Mr Dunne's beautiful house and garden.

Mr. Dunne had invited eleven of us, and we drove over to Hungerford with Miss Matthews. We had a sumptuous lunch, and afterwards saw over part of the house. A lovely playroom for Mr. Dunne's grandchildren was being made: when it is finished it will certainly be an ideal playroom But, much as we admired the perfect nurseries and playroom, that which left the deepest impression on our minds was the atmosphere of peace, of space and of leisure which dominated the house Even the arrangement of the flowers helped to accentuate this impression: they were set in huge bowls, and not more than one bowl in each room. Especially beautiful was a mass of sweet peas reflected in the polished dining-room table.

The afternoon was divided between tennis and a tour of the garden. The tennis players were soon convinced that they were playing on the most perfect courts in England and could hardly be persuaded to leave their game in order to see the garden. But any regrets they may have had for lost games of tennis were soon dissipated by the joy of seeing such a perfect garden. We saw first a long walk bordered with roses, behind them on one side an old brick wall covered with clematis, honeysuckle and rambler roses, on the other some magnificent trees, planted wide apart so that each stood out in individual beauty. The glory of the roses was eclipsed by the magnificence of the wide borders in the kitchen garden ; there were great clumps of all the gorgeous summer flowers, scarlet and gold, rich blue and crimson, delicate mauve and pink, and bright bronze. While still dazzled by these we were shown greenhouses sheltering more

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exotic beauties, begonias, carnations and hydrangeas, and other houses devoted to vines, melons and peaches.

The afternoon passed all too quickly, and we had to come back, but not before a delicious tea at which we were honoured by being offered Mr. Dunne's special plum cake!

The time seemed very short, but in that time we gained many impressions, and all of them beautiful and happy: impressions of generous hospitality, of the richness of flowers, and, above all, of the peaceful dignity and satisfying beauty of wide lawns and great trees.

G. M. Shipley.

Lectures, 1930â&#x20AC;&#x201D;1931.

We have been very fortunate this year in our lectures, which have covered a wide variety of subjects, and have been made even more interesting by the presence of the epidiascope. This new acquisition enables lecturers to illustrate by means of pictures or post-cards, so that they are not, as hitherto, restricted to the use of slides.

The three lectures given by Mr. Lowndes in the Christmas and Easter terms, on " Cause and Effect," "Forms of Life," and " Fungi," were certainly eye-openers to the majority of us. Although the scientific questions they involved were far above our heads, they taught us a great deal. Surely, too, they made us wiser by bringing home to us how excessively ignorant we are! Mr. Lowndes may indeed be held largely responsible for the renewed interest the school has lately taken in science. He gave us another very interesting lecture on " Brewing " in the Easter term.

In the Christmas term Miss Payton gave us two lectures on Italian Art, and showed us some very beautiful slides and pictures. In the first lecture she dealt chiefly with the buildings in Florence, and with frescoes and sculptures in relief; in the second with the work of Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi.

We were glad to have two more lectures from Mrs. Richardson whose subjects are as enthralling as they are original. In the Christmas term she spoke to us on " Wiltshire under the Tudors and Stuarts", and we were surprised to find what an important part the county played in the history of that period, and what great men

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and women it produced. Her second lecture, given in the Lent term, on " Schoolboys and Schoolgirls of the 18th Century " was of the same excellent quality. Some of the quaint old prints she showed us were particularly entertaining, and we were filled with admiration for the patience which produced those exquisite samplers.

The wonderful lectures we heard from Miss Gabain, three in the school hall and one at Maryborough, have helped us all to a fuller appreciation of Racine and Moli6re, andher recitations from " Andromaque " and "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme " will be things to remember.

Some of us went over to Marlborough to a lecture on Africa by Professor Julian Huxley.

His slides were especially convincing, being taken from his own photographs, and we were thrilled with his descriptions of the country and vegetation. He touched also upon some of the tremendous political problems which oppress the great continent.

M. F. Hort.

Miss Gabain's Lectures.

When we think of a great play our minds immediately turn to a masterpiece of Shakespeare's, crowded with people and packed with complex incident. Thus it is that when we meet Racine for the first time, in book form, we think his plays lifeless and uninteresting. No action takes place on the stage, and the caste usually consists of not more than four chief characters, who seem to do nothing but stand and direct long, rhyming speeches at each other. Anyone, however, who held the view that Racine's plays are boring was surely disillusioned by Miss Gabain's lecture. Her explanation of the restrictions and conventions under which Racine wrote, cleared away any dislike we may have had for the apparent stiffness of his tragedies, and her interpretation of some extracts from them brought the characters vividly before us as intensely real, living people. Beneath the mask of seventeenth century formalityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;worn very thin in places they appeared, as moving and as tragic as anyone could produce from Shakespeare. We were especially impressed by Miss Gabain's recitations from " Andromaque " :

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the rapidity with which she was transformed from the bitter Hermione to the gentle Andromaque made it hard to believe that they were not both there. The beauty of the poetry in which Racine couched the outpourings of his characters was also brought home to us with renewed force.

The lecture on Moliere was as much a contrast to the other as we expected. Although Miss Gabain had not so many prejudices to contend with as before,â&#x20AC;&#x201D;for Moliere is not so essentially French as Racineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;she certainly led the way to a fuller appreciation of him. In her spirited renderings of a speech from the "Precieuses Ridicules" and a conversation from the " Femmes Savantes " she showed us Moliere as the mirror of his times and the hater of extravagance and insincerity. She ointed out the unconscious humour which characterises is plays and distinguishes them from Shakespeare's comedies. She showed us Moliere, the " Contemplateur", revealing the weakness of human nature and the consequences which attend selfishness, but always in a kindly way, and one which evokes pity as well as laughter.

Her picture of the disillusioned Alceste was masterly.

Miss Gabain devoted a whole lecture to Racine's last tragedy " Athalie," and pointed out the transformation that had taken place in the author's mental put-look since the writing of his other plays. She explained the total absence of love-interest in this play, and the way in which Racine passed from writing of human passions and weaknesses to expounding the ultimate triumph of righteousness over cruelty. Athalie's account of her dreams and forebodings was wonderfully recited, and the conversation between Joash and Josabeth showed the difference between Racine's earlier and later styles. Each one of Miss Gabain's lectures has been a revelation to us.

It is a rare privilege to hear one who combines so effectively the qualities of actress and lecturer, and we hope we have not experienced it for the last time.

M. Hort.

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83 Music, 1930â&#x20AC;&#x201D;31,

" Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter." In this way we consoled ourselves when, owing to measles, the musical efforts of the spring term largely failed to materialise. Otherwise, however, we have had an interesting year. In October a large party went to Chippenham to hear Joachim's great-niece. Jelly d' Aranyi. Her playing was worthy of her violin, which, we hear, belonged to the great master. In November we had another opportunity of hearing Chief Os-ke-non-ton, who sang to his Pump Room audience some of the songs which last year he sang to us. Later in the month the Mont-Clar Quartet gave a concert to the school, and at the very end of the term the school listened to a concert given by itself The Spring term, as has been pointed out, was disappointing. The Musical Society were not able to give their recital of Elizabethan music, which, had it happened, should have been most successful. In place of the school concert Betty Wasley and Ruth Matthews entertained us quite professionally with piano duets, and a song, from Grieg's " Peer Gynt." This was one of the most enjoyable school concerts we have heard lately. Calne Choral Society rendered Handel's " Messiah" in the Parish Church. Mr. Pullein said that Calne did not know it well enough; certainly Calne will know it now, if not with the firm attachment of the north countryman.

In the Summer term we were given another of the Wayfarers' Trio concerts. They played, amongst other things, a Schubert Trio and a fascinating piece by Kreisler, " Syncopation." Anne Wood sang to us one Sunday evening. One or two of her songs we had heard before, but most of them were as fresh as they were calm and dignified. During the term we studied the works of Mozart, and gave a concert of his music at the end of term. To Mr. Pullein we owe a special debt of gratitude for the organ recital he gave specially for the school on the last Thursday of term.

We are very sorry to lose Mrs. Hill. Not only her violin pupils, but the whole school, knew and appreciated her excellence. As with the rest of the musical staff, we thank her, and we wish her the best of luck, hoping that we shall often see her again.

M. Rice.

84 Our debt to Maryborough and Dauntsey's.

We are very fortunate to be near Marlborough and Dauntsey's, and during the last year have gained much from them.

In the Christmas term Mr. Lowndes most kindly gave us a course of lantern lectures on Biology, and thrilled us with what he told us about the tiny animals which are the simplest forms of life. He brought us a jar of hydras which were a source of much interest for weeks afterwards, and we thronged the lab. to look at them through the microscope. In the Lent term he gave us another very interesting lecture on Fungi.

We are hoping for more next term.

This term we have twice been over for lectures at Marlborough—one by Professor Julian Huxley on Africa illustrated by slides, nearly all of them from his own photographs. He told us of the animals and plantsgroundsel and lobelia are great trees out there— and about the people. One tribe has a crocodile a horrible brute— who used to be the judge; the suspected people had to stretch put their arms to him in turn, and the man he bit was guilty. The people trust the white Commissioners absolutely.

The other lecture was by Miss Gabain on "Moliere," with recitations, which she did, as always, marvellously, changing face and tone to represent four people at once.

Five of us had the good luck to go to Dauntsey's performance of " Les Romanesques" which was very well done. Straforel especially kept us laughing, with his wild plans and abductions, and the mad way in which he reconciled the lovers to get his bill paid.

The Headmaster of Dauntsey's most kindly invited some of us over to see their wonderful aquaria, the seabeasts living in their natural environment. One pool actually had a "tide" invented by one of the boys; the water trickled in to fill it, and then was emptied by a syphon. There were crabs, sea-urchins, anemones and fish of the most lovely colours. We also saw their marvellous "bottled" collection, and were given a sea mouse to start one of our own.

Our tennis team played theirs, but they, alas, were too strong for us, and we were beaten after a very good match. We were very glad that some of Dauntsey's could come over for Ben Greet's Richard II, and for our own performance of "Twelfth Night."

We are very grateful to these our two neighbours for giving us so much.

M. E. Wilson.

85 The Library.

The Library continues to grow steadily, and the Reference section will soon have become too large for its present room. The problem of where we can house a larger library has been exercising our ingenuity for some time, and will, before long, have to be faced.

There has been, during the past year, an increased demand for books, other than fiction, and many of the girls have developed a taste for biographies, diaries, and letters.

In spite of the picnics and games of the summer term and the amount of time given by many to rehearsing " Twelfth Night," some excellent '' reading lists " were reduced at the end of term and many girls, particuirly, perhaps, in the middle and lower school, are to be congratulated on the habit they are forming of reading good books.

We are very grateful to the VI form for the amount of hard work they put in at the end of every term checking the books in the Reference Library. This task would be considerably lightened if borrowers did not take out books without entering them, and would return them on the day required.

E. M. Alexander.

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Shakespeare Competition.

The competition this year was better than it has ever been; there were very few weak spots. On the whole the diction was of a very high standard, hardly any actors were at all difficult to hear. The grouping was good, the acting restrained, and a special word of praise must be given to the programmes which were, in most cases, quite beautifully prepared.

It was extremely difficult to come to any decision between the two winning teams, but the senior cup was given to the Middle V, the second cup to Form VI; it was very difficult indeed to judge between them.

MIDDLE V. (Scenes from Henry VIII.) The prologue was exceptionally good and well spoken. The grouping was very good indeed, and the casting and staging especially well done. (e.g. the entrance of the crowd, helped by screens and steps.) The whole scene was dignified ; Buckingham (A. Westaway)

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was the outstanding figureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so restrained, with an exceptionally good voice, her diction so clear. The first scene was original, with a very striking conclusion. The character of Henry VIII (G. Durst) however, was misinterpreted, there was none of the fire, none of the cuning, one would expect. Wolsey's (D. Duder) part, a very difficult one, was not very convincing. All the asides were especially well done.

FORM VI. (Scenes from Hamlet.)

Very good; the words were very distinct. Hamlet (E. Gowers) was exceptionally intelligently played, and the King's (G. Shipley's) action during the duel was very good indeed. The whole performance was restrained.

Osric (J. Foster) was very good, she was helped by her fine voice a thoroughly typical Osric Polonius (B. Hindley) was the one weak spot.

ARTS & CRAFTS. (Scenes from Twelfth Night.)

Here the prologue was very poor, but the form gave a very spirited performance. Malvolio (A Wood) was overacted, and not nearly dignified enough. Sir Toby (B. Wasley) was very good, Maria (M. Fry) was good, and Olivia (M. McCormick) was dignified and natural.

Sir Andrew (J. Hindley) was very much overacted, his part being misinterpreted.

LOWER V. (Scenes from Julius Caesar.)

This form chose very difficult scenes. Their prologue was good, and they were very distinct all through.

They were word perfect. On the whole their diction was perhaps the best, but both Brutus (W. Heath), who was too slow, and Mark Antony (E. Minnis', who was too inanimate, failed in convincing the audience. The crowd was rather wooden, though they warmed up latterly.

UPPER IV. (Scenes from Macbeth.)

They were word perfect ; it was a dignified performance. The wounded captain was the only really inaudible performance of the day. Ross (H. Cross) would have been very good had she not been so fast. Far the best scenes were those of the witches, though, except for P. McCormick, their words were inaudible, but their movements, especially their exits, and their attention to detail, were excellentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a very spirited three.

37 LOWER IV. (Scenes from Midsummer Night's Dream.)

This was a good performance, and they were word perfect. Theseus (Z. L. Pemberton) was inaudible and dull, but it is a very difficult part to play ; questions and statements should not be given all in one monotone. It was well staged, and there were some good speaking voices, especially Lion (D. Maitland), Pyramus (R. Aidworth), and Snout (B. Chadwick). The by-play was good.

E.M.M. E.M.A. M.AJ. Reading Competition.

The Competition again this year was very satisfactory.

Osmund, for the second year running, won the picture, though their score (46 points) was not so high as last years when they scored 61. Edmund Rich, especially, are to be congratulated on scoring exactly twice as many points as in 1930.

Edmund Rich.

BADGES (10)

B. Combes B. Butler

CLASS I. (6) CLASS II. J. Young (3, G. Combes M. Combes O. Matthews

GrosstSte M Rice D. Champain

R Matthews F. Bradford B Neatby J. Alexander

CLASS III.

Total

Moberlv.

Osmund.

D. Duder N. Chase M. Glynn

G Shipley J. Hughes A. Wood B Wasley

Poore.

M. Hort C. Mallory E. Minnis

B Mitchell P. Clarence M. McCormick K.Conybeare R. Hales R. Palmer I. Heywood W. Heath

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32

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46

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Dr. Ede, who once more most kindly judged in the finals reports as follows : â&#x20AC;&#x201D; " This year no less than nine reached the final stage.

J. Hughes, D. Duder, A. Wood and M Hort, all of whom had won their badges last year, and B. Butler, N. Chase, B. Wasley, C. Leigh-Mallory and E. Minnis, to whom I had no hesitation in awarding badges. I think

38 this is the first occasion that no one failed to secure a badge. Whether the standard they all reached was higher, or whether the excellent lunch I had in the school was responsible, I cannot say.

The first prize went to B. Wasley who read extremely well, adapting her reading to the subject matter with judgment. Had D. Duder, who was awarded second prize, been equally careful on this point she would have been much closer in marks to B. Wasley, for no one read the passages from Isaiah and Shakespeare with such distinction. That is one of the great points about readingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; to read with distinction, and put some energy into it.

Very easy to write about, but difficult in practice."

C. Ede.

Grosstete Company The keenness which has always been characteristic of Grosstete has largely disappeared. There are some people who, tremendously keen about the more popular aspects of company life, are noticeably lacking in any enthusiasm for the far more important, though less attractive, company duties. To these people I would say that companies originated, not to play matches, but to keep the school tidy. There is very little company spirit, no working together as a team. That is what we needâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;combined effort produced by a sense of individual responsibility.

If Grosstete could achieve this, it would do well.

R. Matthews and B. Neatby have been elected head and sub. for next year. We wish them and the company every success in retrieving their old reputation M. Rice.

Moberly Company.

Moberly was unfortunate in losing its head, E. Gowers, and sub. J. Foster, at the end of the spring term.

These two had done so much to unite the company and have been much missed. They left a material gift to the Company in the shape of the Lacrosse shield. Owing to the epidemic of measles we were unable to have both the Company Plays and the Skipping Competition. We were to have joined with Poore in producing " The Devil's Disciple" and although we did not give the

89 performance the rehearsals were helped by the keenness shown by the Juniors. We congratulate N. Chase on winning her senior, and M. Glynn her junior, reading badge, and especially D Duder on winning the second reading prize. The elder members of the Company are to be congratulated on fulfilling their Company duties with a thoroughness that might well be imitated by the juniors. A. Conybeare and E. Waller are specially to be commended for their untiring work. We are very sorry to be losing our sub. D. Kirke, and also D. Orlebar, and welcome D. Duder as second head for next year.

A. Westaway.

Osmund Company.

We were unfortunate in losing both head and sub. of the company last summer term. B. Gardiner and P. Lacon were succeeded by G. Shipley and J. Hughes, who are to be followed by D. Hill and P. Wilson.

Change of company leaders has not affected the general enthusiasm of Osmund. I do not want to mention by name those who have been particularly energetic, for nearly the whole company has been extraordinarily keen, and I feel that the few exceptions will benefit by the infectious enthusiasm of the majority. It was a great pity that the measles epidemic prevented our acting " Androcles and the Lion " as a Company Play with Grosstete.

A great deal of hard work was wasted, especially on the part of the armourers and scenery painters. In the Company lacrosse matches we were beaten by Grosstete after a hard match. J. Hindley played exceptionally well, but on the whole, I think, we need a little more determination, especially in tackling. We played the match with five substitutes. We met Grosstete again in the Company cricket matches, and won, owing chiefly to the magnificent batting of J. Hughes and E. Mansergh. In the reading competition we were also successful. B. Wasley is to be congratulated on winning her badge and the Reading prize. On the school holiday on July 2nd, Osmund Company had their picnic at Hackpen Hill.

We all enjoyed ourselves very much, and were glad to welcome Mademoiselle and Mrs. Amphlett as temporary members of the Company.

G. Shipley.

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Poore Company.

The Company has undoubtedly been conscientious throughout the year in attending to its duties. There are a few who have not quite caught the spirit of energy, but we hope that it will not be long before they are as efficient as anyone else. If we were to mention any individual for exceptional enthusiasm and reliability it would be H. Ward, but all the company deserve commendation for their keenness. It was a great disappointment that we were unable to produce the company play " The Devil's Disciple " with Moberly. The rehearsals were very much enjoyed, and everyone attacked them with great keenness. We were unlucky in the company lacrosse matches, being beaten by Moberly who had a very strong team. We missed the other company competitions, but we were second in the reading competition.

C. Mallory and E. Minnis are to be congratulated on winning their badges. We went to Savernake for a company picnic, which proved very successful. Two very kind parents have also added to our enjoyment this summer by giving us a raspberry and strawberry tea.

"We were very sorry to lose M. Farrington, our head, at the end of the Lent term. I am sure Poore will do very well under M. Ogle, and M. Hort, who has been a very helpful sub. this year.

M. McCormick.

Edmund Rich.

We really have very few seniors in our company, but there are so many juniors that in a few years this difficulty will be overcome. On the whole the company has become much more enthusiastic during the last year, especially the smaller juniors, but there are still a few who are not loyal enough. Dujring the Christmas term we gave an entertainment to the Staff and the other companies. We had great fun preparing for this, and with Miss Grover's help it went off very well. We did not do much during the Easter term as most of us succumbed to the measle germ. I do not think we have ever had a Summer term before without Miss Grover, but she has been away the whole of this term owing to illness.

We are so glad she is better, and everyone is looking forward to her return next term On July 2nd, Giana's holiday, we went for a company picnic to Clyffe Pypard,

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we were delighted to have Miss Daldy and Miss Powell with us. It is the first time that we have been able to have a picnic when all the smaller ones could come, and we certainly had a glorious time.

We were more successful in the Reading competition this year, the standard being very good, owing, perhaps, to the keen way in which everyone practised. B. Butler won her senior badge. As regards games, we managed to come out top in the Company shooting competition ; W. O. Jones scored very well. We were unable to have either of the Lacrosse matches or the Skipping competition owing to measles. We have just edited our twenty-sixth number of the Tom-Tits Magazine, and it is splendid to see how well the company has kept it up. We are losing three senior members of the company this year, B. Butler, M. O. Jones and P. Dixon ; they all combine in wishing the company the best of luck for the future. J. Young has been elected as the next head, with N. Churchill as sub.

B. Butler.

Drill, 1931.

S. Mary's won back the Godolphin drill cup this year by 110ÂŁ marks to 101. The competition was here and Miss Douglas of Chelsea Physical Training College very kindly judged. We had a most interesting table to work at.

Both teams did good work in the free standing movements, and vaulted well, but found the balance difficult.

Miss Douglas gave both teams an unseen table which included some difficult co-ordinated work and was most amusing to watch. In this S. Mary's just won.

The judge's criticisms included praise for the Godolphin marching, team game and free standing work and for S. Mary's rhythm, lightness and vaulting. We finished with a rope climbing competition which the Godolphin team won. We are most grateful to Miss Douglas for judging and for her most helpful criticisms.

In the Tytherton competition S. Mary's won both Senior and Junior cups, the latter by a very narrow margin. Miss McConnell kindly judged and we very much appreciated her criticism of the teams. She especially noticed the lightness and rhythm of the Senior team, and the alertness and keenness of the Juniors. She also said the latter were apt to move before the command and so give an impression of uncontrol.

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We were so greatly disappointed that, owing to the epidemic in the Lent Term, we could not hold the annual Form Competition, and for the same reason the Skipping Competition was also dropped this year.

A. Snell.

Lacrosse.

FIXTURES S. Mary's v. Clifton Ladies. School won.

S. Mary's v. Royal School. School lost.

TEAM. G. B. Wasley Ft A. Conybeare C. Ft. M. Rice 3. Man S. McRae* C. H. Ward 3. H. E. Cowers* 2. H. D. Duder 1. H. M Ogle R.A. A. Westaway* L.A. M. McCormick R.D. J. Hughes* L.D. D. Champain* *=colours Lacrosse, 1931.

In some respects we have been very unlucky as regards our lacrosse this year. In the Christmas term the weather was so appalling that we had to scratch all our matches. In the Easter term over half the school succumbed to measles, and were consequently incapacitated for Lacrosse for some time.

In spite of this, hard practising went on during both terms, particularly among the " lacrosse mothers " who took great pains with their daughters, and the middle school, most of whom have improved enormously in their stickwork. When they become more accurate they should prove very useful members of future teams.

The measles epidemic was, in one respect at least, a good thing, as it gave an opportunity to some of the younger members of the School of playing in matches.

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The most surprising and encouraging of these was that against the Royal School in which we were obliged to have substitutes for both our attack wings, our cover point, and one defence wing. For my part, I must say, I started out with rather dubious feelings as to the issue.

It was a freezing day, and snowing at intervals, and this did not help to raise our spirits. However we started by scoring a goal almost immediately and continued neck and neck with the opposing team almost the whole match, until we were finally beaten by five goals to four.

The Company matches were just as exciting as ever.

Although they were perhaps rather wild everyone played their utmost and everyone was determined to win. Besides the matches already mentioned we played the Clifton Ladies whom we beat 16—2.

This year the team was more of an equal standard throughout than previously, but as a whole they need more co-operation. The attacks have improved their shooting, but should aim at greater accuracy in passing and catching, and the defences need to be quicker on to the ball, and surer of themselves. The two defence wings, (D Champain and J. Hughes) and the two attack wings (M. McCormick and A. Westaway) have played particularly well during the year.

For all improvement, and for any successes that we had, we owe our thanks to Miss Snell, who has coached unceasingly, not only the team, but everybody throughout the school, and has given up her Friday evenings in order to teach us how to coach Netball and Lacrosse ourselves. I am sure many people have benefited more by these lessons than by any amount of practising, as they have made them analyse their play, and use brainwork as well as footwork in their games.

E. A. Gowers (Captain) Netball.

FIXTURES. S. Mary's 1st VII v. Downe House 1st VII- School won.

S. Mary's 2nd VII v. Downe House 2nd VII School won.

S. Mary's 3rd VII v. Tytherton—School won.

S. Mary's 1st VII v. Royal School 2nd VII (cup match) School won.

S. Mary's 1st VII v. S Brandon's 1st VII—School lost.

S. Mary's 2nd VII v. Downe House 1st VII—School won.

S. Mary's 3rd VII v. Downe House 2nd VII—School won.

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TEAMS.

1st VII. E. Mansergh E. Cowers* A. Westaway* S. McRae* J. Foster * M. McCormick* J. Hughes*

2nd VII. G.S. G.S. N. Churchill S, M. Gale A. A. J. Young A.C. A.C. F. Bradford C. C. E. Waller D.C. D.C. J. Alexander D. D. A. Conybeare G.D. G.D. M. Farrington *=colours.

The school maintained the high level of netball it reached last year, helped by the keenness which everyone showed.

The shooting, however was very much below the standard of centre court play, except among Edmund Rich.

There will be no shooters for future teams unless much more individual practice is given. Centre court play was very good, interchanging especially has improved throughout the school, but still more thinking ahead is needed. S. McRae, A. Westaway and J. Foster combined well together, as did those in the 2nd VII. Defences should think more of clearing out to the side, and not up the middle, but some good marking was seen.

The team played very well together, their short sideways passes, spring and quickness on their feet were good, and the school would do well to imitate it. In the cup match against the Royal School, which S. Mary's won 20—17, our team gained the advantage by their quickness on the ball. Though the " measle germ " stopped company and form matches, the school were keen and interested to the end.

A. Westaway has been elected captain for next year.

J. Hughes (Captain) Tennis, 1931.

MATCHES. S. Mary's v. Downe House 2nd VI—won, 86—31.

S. Mary's v. Dauntsey's School —lost, 27 -44.

S. Mary's B IV" v. Tytherton 1st IV—won, 54-27.

S. Mary's v. Bath High School—lost, 83—88.

S. Mary's v. Bath Royal School—scratched.

S. Mary's v. Staff—won, 45—36.

45 TEAM. rD Duder. * IS. McRae. fM. Rice.* IP. Beale.

F. Bradford.

A. Westaway, J. Hughes and E. Waller have also played for the team. * = colours.

During this season the general standard of tennis has improved considerably, chiefly owing to the fact that the school has really paid attention to their strokes and consequently has played a more thoughtful game. Forehand drives throughout the school are usually very good, but back-hands need still more practice, as do second services. Net play, especially in the Upper School, has made good progress, although everybody should try to put their knowledge to better use in a game.

The team, which was practically new, have made splendid efforts to conquer their weak points, and should do very well next year. The tennis has been greatly helped by the keenness shown by those who are not yet team standard. The Form cup was won by the Lower VI after an excellent final against the Upper V, the Lower VI just gaining the deciding game from a score of forty all.

Some of the juniors showed promise, and have all been keen, although their singles did not reach last year's standard.

We hope that the beautiful new court (En-tout-cas) will prove an encouragement to tennis in the winter terms; we are extremely fortunate to have another hard court, and are most grateful to the anonymous donor who made this possible.

D. Duder won the Senior Championship, defeating S. McRae in the final. A. Chenevix Trench won the Junior Championship after a splendid match in the final with W. Osman-Jones.

D. Duder (Captain).

Cricket.

FIXTURES. S. Mary's v. Godolphin 2nd XI—lost.

S. Mary's v. the Fathers—won.

S. Mary's v. Trowbridge—scratched.

S. Mary's v. Royal School 2nd XI—won.

S. Mary's under 16 XI v. Boy's Central School 1st XI— lost.

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FIRST XI. J.Alexander Square leg M. Ogle * Long Leg M. Rice * Cover point Bowler A. Westaway * Slips Bowler J. Hughes * Deep Bowler B. Wasley * 3rd Man Bowler S. McRae * Deep Bowler E. Mansergh Mid off Bowler A. Conybeare Mid on E. Waller Point H. Ward Wickets P. Clarence also played. * = colours.

The most noticeable improvement in the cricket of the team this year has been the development of confident battingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a thing we have rarely achieved before. This first became evident in the Fathers' match, when we had a handicap to help us, but we did not lose our confidence in the next match against the Royal School. We have hopes of playing their 1st XI next year. J. Hughes and S. McRae each played a splendid innings in the Fathers' match, M. Ogle has been consistently steady, and E. Mansergh has made a good debut.

The standard of bowling has been fairly high.

B. Wasley has bowled extremely well during the whole term, J. Hughes, though occasionally erratic in direction, has kept a good length. Fielding has been quick and reliable, and sometimes quite brilliant.

The junior team, though hopelessly outclassed by their opponents, showed before the match that they had a very good idea of the game. If more of them would practise bowling they should do very well.

M. Ogle has been elected captain for next season.

M. Rice (Captain) We thank Miss Snell very much for her energy and interest in coaching us, and for her ready sharing of all our difficulties.

E. Gowers M. Rice J. Hughes D. Duder

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"Looking backward" from the point of view of Form VI. When one is a member of the VI form one is supposed to be able to look back on and to judge one's years 'at , school. I do not think that form VI is a point of vantage whence can be surveyed impartially the preceding stages of one's school career. The things one would survey are still too close, and the view is without right perspective, and seems chiefly composed of isolated incidents, standing out clearly but without any definite place in the whole picture.

The earliest and clearest of many memories are those of my first week at school. I was not bewildered by the fact of living at school, for the experience was not new, but what did astonish me was the amazing kindness shown to new girls. Former experience had taught me that new girls were to be looked upon as tiresome people, only useful when " fagging" for elder inhabitants. At S. Mary's the elder inhabitants seem to be the slaves of the new girls. The untiring helpfulness of my " school mother" impressed me more than anything else during the first week.

After my first week or two I lose the chronological order of events, and they present themselves more according to their nature than according to time I find times of wild school rejoicing, such at the day when S- Mary's first won the Godolphin Drill competition at Salisbury, and the school went mad with joy and the victors were crowned with laurels; thrilling company or form matches, with grim determination on the part of the players and vociferous enthusiasm on the part of the spectators; Company plays; early morning cricket at half-term; Lord Hyndley's picnic, and a thousand other noisy, happy events come crowding into my mind, clamouring to be remembered.

But perhaps even more lasting are the memories of times which are not recorded in the school diary. Glorious walks on the Downs or in the woods; nights of sleeping out, and many other times of peace and silence which form the perfect contrast to the rush and chatter of everyday school life, and make it all the more enjoyable when one returns to it.

G. M. Shipley.

48 The New Era of Science at S. Mary's.

Some new spirit has crept into the science work here, the very feel and atmosphere of the lab. is different.

We go down there to work now, and not surreptitiously to burn matches under the bench, or gaze longingly at the apparatus lying rarely used in the drawers.

Now the lab. abounds with neat bottles and rows of beakers and pipettes. We can use the good balances instead of balancing the object to be weighed precariously in one pan of the old balances, while the other swung wildly in the air, finally affixing the poor spirited rider who generally was thrown by such a bucking steed.

The joys of burning magnesium wire, making hydrogen or bending glass tubing are ours now for the asking.

But Miss Daldy in her white overall, with her professional air, invites of nothing slap-dash, or carelessly done; so sometimes we feel the joy of having carried something through thoroughly, due to her austere supervision. The real fun of chemistry and physics, however, is their admixture with biology. There is always the chance that a newt will be reposing near the tripods, or that we may meet a frog hopping about on the benches.

And sometimes if " We ask her nicely" Miss Daldy will tell us about the various bugs and beetles near the windows. Science, as Dr. Stephen Paget says, has perhaps come down and told us a story which has thrilled us and made us eager for more, and we shall want to enquire f u r t h e r " What is things ?"

J. M. Hughes.

Housecraft at S. Mary's.

Why does everybody long to do housecraft at S. Mary's? True, it is essential that every girl should know something of domestic science before she leaves, but there must be something peculiar to S. Mary's, which makes the entire school so eager to do Housecraft. The majority, to their own and their parent's satisfaction, achieve their desire at some point of their school career.

How many people, who do not possess mathematical and lingual talents, have blessed the originators of Housecraft at S Mary's. If they take Housecraft instead of School Certificate they feel they really have something behind them, while those who are fortunate enough to take both leave doublv equipped for whatever kind of life they are going to lead. I shall regret all my life that I did not have a full year to concentrate on Housecraft.

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With what envious eyes we uninitiated ones survey the little group wending it way over to S. Prisca's on Thursday mornings. They must feel that those three periods are being very profitably spent. Housecraft demands as much work as any other subject, although everybody does not seem to realise this. Every opportunity is given to Housecraft, and the kitchen is almost ideal.

Here those fortunate ones learn all the details, which one cannot just pick up, and which make all the difference as to whether a task is done properly or not.

Why has Housecraft become such a success in the last four years ? Surely it is due to Miss Clark, whose leaving has cast a very long shadow over the glamour of the end of term. How strange next term will be with such a tremendous gap !

D. Duder.

Clothes Inspection and Mending at the end of the Term.

When agonizing expectation is replaced by the certainty of a morsel of paper with :â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Stockings 8 Knickers 2 Velveteen dress Serge dress Vests 4 Comb unmarked ? inscribed upon i t ; and with the knowledge that the rest of the beautiful sunny day will be spent in resurrecting with needle and thread the corpses of numberless garments, I stagger, laden with the dead, to the Hall, from whence issues a muffled roar.

There, upon the hard floor, I sit, busily employed, shedding not a few silent tears upon the article in hand, and replying every few minutes to the harsh " Here you are!" followed by an avalanche of coats and overalls that descend upon me like great black bats.

When the long file of waiting damsels, weighed down beneath great piles of clothing, has dwindled to a few despairing souls, I hastily snatch up my things and hurry to the weary staff before whom my garments must be passed as whole. With pathetic tears in my eyes I present a vest riddled with darns, and watch with bated breath until the longed for " Yes ! " is uttered. I meekly

50 tender a pair of ancient stockings, the flame of hope beginning to flicker up in my heart, but, alas, I receive them back with an admonition to strengthen a thin patch, and I heave a dismal sigh. My serge dress has half the hem undone, my velveteen dress meets with like rebuff, the triangular tear made by that barbed wire is still unmended.

Laden as before I return to my place to gather up my work basket with " Bring them to me this evening! " ringing in my ears. Then, a drop of balm in my cup of woe, I see another doleful figure in as sad a plight as I.

G. M. Durst.

Thursdays at School.

After week-ends, Thursdays are the most enjoyable days at school, for it is then that all preparation is finished in the afternoon and the evening, in the winter terms, is devoted to hobbies. There are several different kinds of hobbies, and S. Mary's on a Thursday evening is a scene of happy industry. Girls are everywhere ; the carpentry shop is full of them, hammering, sawing, talking and laughing at such a rate that one can hardly hear oneself speak! In the Studio others cane chairs and stools in various bright colours, while in the dining room a leatherwork class is held. The cookery school is another scene of industry, where twelve or fourteen white-clad would-be cooks learn to make pastry and bread and to toss a pancake in the approved style; and in every possible place are others who have no particular hobby, sewing, reading or talking.

Thursdays in the summer are just as pleasant, though in quite another way. There are no hobbies, but instead the long evenings are taken up with picnics, each form going one walking and one driving picnic in the term. There are also picnics for those who wish to go sketching, and expeditions for members of the Field Club. Those remaining play games and then do as they like, so whether one is going for a picnic or not Thursday is always rather a special day at S Mary's.

B. M. Brooke.

51 To Miss Gates on her Birthday.

We give these flowers to one whose constant care Has made S. Bridget's famed; for linen fair, For gleaming panels, and for polished stair, For garden paths swept clear of leaves and dust, For shining brass that knows nor stain nor rust, For tidy ^cupboard scorning moth and must, For sizzling sausages and crisp hot rolls, For steaming coffee jugs and porridge bowls, Food good and hot, rejoicing hungry souls.

Its ordered beauty won S. Bridget's fame.

Indeed, things could not have been quite the same In those strange days, Miss Gates, before you came.

And so most gratefully we wish to you The happiest of days, as is your due, Whose daily skill brings pleasure ever new.

S. Bridget's.

Presents to the School.

For the Chapel.

" Michael Hussey Organ Fund." Mr. & Mrs. Preston, M. Smith, Miss Alexander, Miss Duncan, Miss Clark, Miss Prior, Confirmation Candidates 1930.

Flowers. Dr. & Mrs. Ede (every week), Miss Damant, B. Butler, Miss Jennings, Mrs. Ludlow, Miss Grover.

Library Books

M. Goodden, Matthews.

B. Hindley, Alison Wood, Miss

Chitirs for Hull.

P. Mackey, D. Maxwell.

Chairs for VI.

E. Gowers, M. Goodden, B. Hindley, J Foster, M. Farrington, M. McCormick, D. Champain, M. O. Jones, M. Rice, B. Butler, M. Fry, G. Shipley, B Wasley, D. Kirke.

Pictures.

The School on Miss Matthews' Birthday; leaving members of Lower VI; B. Hindley ; Miss Clark; Mrs. Shipley.

Puzzles for the Sanatorium.

B. Mallory, A. Ilott, B. Mitchell, D. Taylor.

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OLD GIRLS' SUPPLEMENT. Constitution of the 8 Mary's Association.

1.—The Association is to be known as the S. Mary's (Calne) Association.

2.-THE MEMBERSHIP to be made up as follows :(a) President.

Vice-Presidents. (b) Associates. (Honorary). Any members of the past or present Staff who apply. (c) Members. Any girl who receives a leaving badge to be eligible for membership. Girls who go to another school may apply to the committee for the badge when they leave school altogether.

3.—THE COMMITTEE to consist of the President, the present Head Girl, and two representatives from each group (see 6).

4.—Members of the Committee to stand for six years, one-third retiring every two years. (Elections to take place at the Biennial Reunions at Calne). The Committee to elect its own Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer.

5.—A London Sub-Committee, consisting of members living in or near London, to be appointed by the General Committee, to arrange a London Reunion to be held in the second week of January each year. At least one member of the Sub-Committee to be on the General Committee.

6.—Groups. Old Girls to be divided into groups for the the collection of subscriptions and news.

I. Secretary, Katharine Barton, 77a, Abbey Road, London, N.W. 8. (for all who left school before 1915.)

II. Secretary, Jean Hughes (Sorsbie), 2, New Road, Rugby.

III. Secretary, Dorothy Morrison, 90, Princes Road, Liverpool.

IV. Secretary, Barbara Chambers, The Manor House, Sandgate, Kent.

V. Secretary, Edna Bodinnar, Old Palace, Chippenham.

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

7.—Subscriptions to the Association to be for life, with the privilege of paying by instalment if desired.

Life subscriptions to be £1 Is. possibly to be increased to £1 10s. at a subsequent Reunion if £1 Is. does not cover expenses.

53 Group Secretaries will also collect subscriptions to the U.G.S. (there is no fixed sum for this) and the School News-Sheet (21- a year, or Life subscription

Expenses of Reunions will be shared by those present OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. President —Miss MATTHEWS. Vice-President — Miss ALEXANDER. Chairman — D. Morrison Treasurer— E. Birkbeck (Hollis).

Secretary I. C. Martin, Woodham Lodge, Addlestone, Surrey.

Report of the S. Mary's Association.

The S. Mary's Association still grows. All who left before its formation and who are anxious to keep in touch with the School have probably joined by now, so the growth depends on the leaving girls and will be a steady process of increasing strength. When the Association started Jean Hughes (Sorsbie) was given one of the most difficult groups to organize, being all those who were not in the old groups. These very scattered people have responded marvellously, twenty-one out of thirty-eight being now Members.

In Dorothy Morrison's Group, twenty-one have replied this year—rather more than half. This slackness of people in replying when they receive the Subscription Forms has sorely depressed Barbara Chambers, the new Secretary of Group V. She says " It is very disappointing to receive such little support in the matter of sending in Subscriptions by the time requested. I hope by the time the News-Sheet is printed the remaining eighteen will have sent in their money." She has a group of thirty-six, so exactly half had paid Bridget Gardiner has quite a different tale to tell. Hers is the youngest group, and is growing as people leave school. She has twenty-three at present. She says " They are mostly very good correspondents, and I was much impressed when all the Subscriptions (except two) arrived by return of post."

Come now, you older Old Girls. Has your school training had so short an effect? Note the "return of post," it is the only way.

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Bridget ends with " It would not be seemly for the youngest group to figure too prominently in the Report."

But it certainly deserves a headline all to itself.

The result of the combined efforts of the groups this year is £9 12s, sent to the U.G.S. 167 now belong to the Association. There is £28 8s. lOd. in the Bank, and £130 in War Loan The interest on this still does not cover all the expenses, but with more members joining, and more help from those paying by instalments, the S.M.A. should soon be self-supporting.

I. C. Martin.

The London Reunion.

On January 7th we had a most enjoyable Reunion at 12, Grosvenor Place, in a delightful room taken for us

by Joan Rew, who is one of the Secretaries of the Club which has its headquarters there.

As one of the more hoary of the Old Girls, I find it difficult to decide whether these Reunions make one feel slightly senile, or take ten years from one's life. At one moment I saw one of my own contemporaries looking exactly the same age as when we were in the V form together, and five minutes later someone I remembered as quite one of the " infants " would produce photographs of her husband and two children. It was all very confusing, but whether from veterans or newly-lefts I heard nothing but enthusiastic remarks on the success of this year's reunion. It must have been a record gathering, and I came away with a very warm feeling inside, —not caused by tea alone,-and an impression of a large number of charming people all talking at once, and who all seemed extraordinarily pleased to see each other.

I think we all realise that these gatherings which seem just to happen so easily must entail a great deal of behind the scenes work, and I know that we all very much appreciate it, and wish to thank all the workers, and especially Ivy Martin and the Committee.

B. Green (Skyrme).

The following were present:—Miss Matthews, Miss Alexander, Miss Brown, Miss Clark, Miss Little, Miss Williams, Miss Wrightson, Cicely Baker, Freda Bartlett, Helen Bartrum, Kathleen Beach, Norah Birkbeck (Hollis), Janet Blaxter (Hollis), Rachael Buck, Gladys Burnett, Barbara Chambers, Cicely Cobb, Margaret Cole,

Joyce Collard, Mary Crokat, Ruth Davy, Wendy Egerton, Norah Fisher, Eileen Gowers, Margaret Griffith, Marion Hopkins, Peggy Hopkins, Jean Inder, Carol Johnson, Molly Joyce, Dorothy Kenrick, Lucy Kirby, Barbara Lacon, Pamela Lacon, Patricia Mackey, Ivy Martin, Margaret Merrett, Anne le Mesurier, Joan Rew, Barbara Ridley, Ursula Robins, Joan Simpson (Beach), Sybella Stiles, Leila Suffrin, Dulcie Taylor, Helen Tench, Molly Dillon-Trenchard, Dorothy Dillon-Trenchard, Gwynedd Turner, Doreen Urwick, Mary Vischer, Joscelyn Wilcocks, Joan Williams, Zeala Wimperis (Inder.)

NOTICES. (1) The date of the next London Reunion has been fixed provisionally for WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6th.

(2) We are hoping, in November, to hold a Sale of Work on behalf of the Scholarship Fund, which is having heavy calls upon it at present. Old Girls are asked to support us, as they have done so generously in the past. All contributions should be sent to F. M Bartlett at the school by SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31st. ' God and Ourselves '

By Archdeacon Bodington.

Old Girls will be very glad to have this little book, published last summer by Longmans, (at 2'6). We reprint the following which appeared in "The S. Martin's Review." " The late Archdeacon Bodington was in many ways a remarkable man. A genuine scholar, he not only succeeded for many years, in combining the care of a Parish of between four and five thousand souls with the multifarious duties of an Archdeaconry, covering an unusually extensive area, but at the same time he contrived to read widely enough to keep abreast of modern thought. Moreover, right up to the end of his life he retained a love for and understanding of young people, which drew from them, in return, an affectionate admiration and gratitude, such as is granted only to those who in spirit never grow old. During the long term of his incumbency of Calne, as Chairman of the Governing Body of St. Mary's School, which he regarded as a kind of spiritual daughter, he exercised a profound and last-

56 ing influence over the girls, whom year by year he prepared for Confirmation. When he died a few months ago, numbers of the Old Girls of the School mourned his loss as that of a true spiritual father. They and many others who knew Archdeacon Bodington and many, doubtless, who never heard or saw him will welcome the little volume which he was preparing for publication at the time of his death. He had completed but not revised the manuscript which lay on his desk when he died. It deals with precisely those fundamental problems concerning the character of God, the nature of Christian faith, the meaning and extent of human freedom, the fact of sin and the doctrine of the atonement, which are exercising so many minds at the present time. Many who have welcomed the recent Lambeth Report on the Christian Doctrine of God, and are attempting to clear their minds of the mere lumber, which makes fresh and sincere religious thinking: so needlessly difficult, will, if they read and ponder this little book, find very much to help them. We hope that it will have a wide circulation."

C. H. S. M.

News of Old Girls.

The Aldricks now live at Westbury-on-Trym. Josephine in nursing in Bristol; Patricia is taking a secretarial course and is doing very good work with Guides; Beth and Eileen are at Redland High School.

Betty Adnitt has just finished the first year of her domestic course at Reading University.

Constance Allen had a delightful six months in the South of France after leaving school, and came home last Easter.

Vera Bailey has a post as Physical organiser in Newport (Monmouthshire.)

Yvonne Bartlett has just left Downside School, and goes next term as junior matron to Hillbrow, Eastbourne.

Helen Bartrum is still studying the violin at the Royal College, she has been taking the Teachers' Training course. Last summer she had a wonderful holiday in Austria. She went with a party of University Students, run by the National Union of Students, and stayed in a tiny village near Saltzburg.

Kathleen Beach is still doing private nursing.

Gladys Beale is teaching at Oakley Hall, Cirencester.

Enid aad Elisabeth Betty are both at home, though Enid has been to London for a course in dressmaking.

57 Nora Birkbeck (Hollis) writes delightful letters from her home in Northampton, where her husband is Assistant Director of Education.

Janet Blaxter (Hollis) and her husband came to see us in the autumn. Elizabeth and the twin boys are doing very well.

Kathleen Brown plays a great deal of golf, and is a very busy home daughter.

Rachel Buck has just completed her second year at Bedford Physical Training College.

Mercy Butler is at home—her father has just moved to near Marlborough.

Katherine Brichta has just left Havergal College, Toronto.

Her letters describing her life there have been most interesting.

She has been in the Basketball, Tennis and Badminton teams, and has also been a senior (the same as a prefect at S. Mary's.)

Joan Bridgman came home from India in May, and brought her little sister, Hannah, to school at half term. Joan has a post in Crowborough for next term. She is a capital correspondent, and her letters about her Guide work in India were especially interesting. She writes:—" I take the little ones, or the " Bluebirds " as they are called. They are equivalent to the " Brownies " at home, but they can't be called Brownies out here as they think it is rather suggestive of their colour! I can't talk Tamil very well, and they certainly can't talk English very well, but it is extraordinary what we achieve by signs, and they are all awfully keen to learn, and very quick at picking up knots and things. Their singing is perfectly wonderful. They learn English songs in no time, and we have great " sing-songs " round the camp fire, although I don't believe they have the slightest idea what they are singing about at all. They all look awfully sweet in their uniform—blue petticoats and white bodices. They just love saluting, tcxj," In November Joan wrote from the all India Girl Guide Camp, The Residency, Bolarun, Deccan, which was run by the Nizam of Hyderabad:— " There are about a hundred and fifty Guiders here in all, and more than half of them are Indians and Parsees. The Indians sleep in huge tents, like dormitories, and we sleep in separate tents—three or four in each one. Three of us from the High Range are alliin one tent—a most palatial tent, with a dressing room-and bath room attached! We all have meals in a,big mess tent, and there is electricity and hot

and cold water laid on everywhere, and there are huge searchlights shining from the trees at night to show us the way about. There are also amplifiers fixed up in the trees, so we sometimes have music laid on from a gramophone in the evenings! All this luxury has been provided by the Nizam. He has also lent all the tents and furniture, so he has been most frightfully good. I think the most original contrivance he has set up for us is one of those electric reducing belts! The camp is pitched in an awfully nice part of the Residency Grounds, under a lot of big trees. About two hundred yards from the main camp there is a model camp pitched for those who want to learn to camp really properly. They cook all their own meals, and make their own furniture, and of course all their tents are very much smaller.

We go to lectures and get trained in general in the mornings, have all the afternoon free as a rule, and do-the Physical things in the evenings. Of course we are all enjoying it tremendously, and it is being great fun, besides teaching us a great deal. I am doing mainly bluebird or brownie work, as there is much more scope for that up in the High Range, than for Guides or Rangers."

Violet Briscoe left her post at Cordwalles School in April.

Barbara is looking after a family of children in London until she is old enough to begin her training as a Hospital Nurse.

Gladys Burnett has a most interesting post in the Press and Publications Board of The Church Assembly.

This is being reorganised under a new manager. She writes that " the outstanding feature" of her life is still Guiding, and seems to have had a wonderful time in Camp with her Guides at Patching, near Worthing.

Dorothy Capewell (Clayton) gave up her post at Eakring in the spring.

Barbara Chambers is still at home, very busy with her terriers.

Christine Church has had a course of Domestic Science, at Harcombe House, and is now at home.

Cicely Cobb is living with her aunt in London; she is engaged to be married.

Joan Cole has been working in her father's office all the year and also doing good work with the Calne Brownies. Nancy has been training in secretarial work.

59 Leonore Cooke took her Science Tripos in June: she had bad luck in missing a good deal of the Lent Term with an operation for appendicitis Alice parch has been winning very high praise for her acting. She appeared in " Man and Superman" at the Kingsway Theatre in May. The " Times " critic said that her portrait of Ann Whitefield " is one of which she may well be proud. When.she is silent one may see her intent sparkling beneath her demureness, and when she speaks she makes this girl, who is among the most aggressive figures in Mr. Shaw's Theatre, as fascinating as a blade flashing in air.

It requires no mean accomplishment to preserve the Shavian edge of Ann Whitefield and at the same time to endow her with the charm that was Tanner's downfall and delight." Alice is now acting Shakespeare at Sadler's Wells.

Gwendolen Dixpn is working hard at her music.

Anne Durst sailed last September for Kimberley with her uncle, the Bishop, and has had a most interesting time. She is a capital correspondent. She writes:â&#x20AC;&#x201D; " It's terribly thrilling and interesting living with missionaries all round one like this. The Governor General and Princess Alice have just been in Kimberley for their farewell visit, and they were kept very busy opening and inspecting things. We went to a ball in the City Hall in their honour which I enjoyed like anything. Princess Alice opened the Bishop's Hostel which is a boarding house where they get religious teaching for boys going to the schools in the town. It's a delightful building," Later she writes:â&#x20AC;&#x201D;"At present I am giving mothercraft Lectures to a detachment of coloured Wayfarers and another of natives, and a company of European Rangers.

I'm sure you can't imagine me lecturing!

It's really great fun because they are so keen and interested. It's very interesting working with natives and coloured and white people side by side. Of course they have to have entirely separate meetings.

The coloured and native girls belong to a large teachers' training school, so they are far from stupid.

Not long ago I went all round the diamond works.

We saw the stones being sifted and washed and then passed over grease tables and the diamonds left sticking on the grease. They find about ÂŁ15,000 worth a day, we saw some quite large ones, but I believe

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they haven't sold a diamond for over a year. They have over ÂŁ5,000,000 worth in stock, so that at any moment they could flood the market, and diamonds would be worth nothing. It is rather an appalling thought. Of course Kimberley is feeling the depression terribly as it depends so entirely on diamonds.

We saw one of the compounds where the natives who work in the mines live. They sign on for a period of three months, I think, and are never allowed out during that time. They sleep in large rooms, about forty in each, and have to buy their own food at the store and cook it themselves. The fires and washing places are all in the middle of the courtyard.

There is a post office, bank and surgery as well as the store, and a large room used for religious services, one denomination after another, on Sundays. There is an English Church priest entirely in charge of the compounds. That was the work my uncle originally came out to do. I think they are very well treated, but it must be rather difficult for them to remember that they are free men."

Anne took a temporary post in East Griqualand to look after a baby boy, and returned in August to Kimberley. She was hoping to return to England in the Autumn Rosalind Evans has just taken her Finals at Oxford and came down in June. She is thinking now of taking a course in secretarial work.

Violet Evelyn (Robertston) writes from Jamaica about her son, Peter Eversley, born last September. She sounds a very busy person as she is so keen a gardener.

Christine Fairbairn (Croft) is to be congratulated on the birth of her little son last December, Margaret Farrington is going to take a two years' course of Domestic Science at King's College, Campden Hill.

Jean Ferguson is training in Massage at King's College Hospital. Sheila left school in April, and is going to Switzerland this autumn.

Norah Fisher writes very happily from her new homeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Nazeing, Essex.

Gwyneth Fleetwood-Jones is a very busy home daughter, and, in addition, is teaching some small children.

Joan Foster is extremely happy in her training at the School of Gardening, Clapham, near Worthing.

She is thrilled by the beauty of the country. She writes: -" We do much more practical work than theory, which I am so thankful about; working half

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the morning in the garden, and the rest doing Botany either outside or in. Then again in the afternoon we work in the garden until five, and after tea we write our diary of the day's work. It's all most interesting, and so much nicer with a few of us than otherwise."

Margaret Fraser is nursing at S Bartholomew's Hospital.

Jean Fairfield, (Beckett) was married in May in Capetown. Her husband has very large estates, growing citrus, cotton and tobacco. Jean is loving the life, she gets so much riding, tennis and swimming.

Clarice Gale is going next term to the Bath School of Domestic Science Bridget Gardener has had much travelling in France, Italy and Ireland since she left us last summer.

Phyllis and Grace Gee are very busy people.

Mary Goodden has had a summer term at home, made very much more enjoyable by the gift of a small car.

She is going to Florence this antumn to live with a family and learn Italian.

Eileen Gowers has had a very busy summer, as she is taking up music seriously at the Royal Academy, and has two piano lessons a week as well as lessons in singing, elements of music and aural training. She is also experimenting in housekeeping. She was presented in May. Barbara Green (Skyrme) has been secretary to a dressmaker in Kensington, and enjoyed her work very much as she did quite a lot of dress designing. In August her engagement was announced, and she hopes to be married next January.

Margaret Griffith had hoped to be married this September but writes that unfortunately the wedding has had to be postponed till next Spring.

Katharine Griffith (Prevost) is to be congratulated on the birth of her daughter (Nesta Katharine) in May. Frances Groves came to see us with her husband last autumn. She has entered her little Elizabeth's name for a vacancy in 1942.

Margaret Gill is working among the crippled babies at Chailey.

Alice Hands (Toop) writes that her little girl has been terribly ill but is now much better.

Elsie Haythornthwaite (Toop) writes cheerfully from India, though her husband has just gone to the Burmah frontier in the Field Ambulance.

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Katharine Hill is still teaching inCarnberley, and Monica has a post in London.

Betty Hindley has been at home or on visitsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for the summer, but goes to Switzerland to learn French this autumn.

Marion Hopkins is to spend the winter in the South of France. Peggy has now left the Katharine Low Settlement and is to go in October to S. Thomas' Hospital, to train as a Hospital Almoner.

Peggy Hubbard (Buck) is still living in Medellin, Colombia. She writes of a most interesting journey to Bogota : " To get out of Medellin we did as everyone else has to do, take the mid-day train down to the port (river port Puerto Berrip, which is a seven hour journey, arriving of course in terrible heat as anywhere on the old Magdalena river is terrific. The Hotel there is not too bad, nice showers which is what attracts most, and wide balconies running all the way round, so the rooms are fairly cool. We got up early the next morning in time to catch the 6 o'clock plane to La Dorada. higher up the river, and from there we got on the train and travelled for three hours. Then we changed again and got on a bus and started off on a six hour ride to Bogota. We left in the sizzling heat, at sea-level more or Lss, and when we arrived we were glad to put on overcoats, for the capital is 8,000 ft. up. I like Bogota very much, it is much colder than Medellin, which I enjoyed for a change. We returned by a different mode, all the way to Puerto Berrio by plane. The trip to Giradot only lasts thirty-five minutes, and we tumbled out of the plane in overcoats, etc., and then started peeling them off immediately as Giradot is decidedly tropical. From there we got on the hydroplane down the river to Puerto Berrio; it was rather rough, and I didn't enjoy that part of the trip much.

We were in time to have a little rest and for me to recover a bit before we got on the 12 o'clock train which arrives in Medellin seven hours later I am going to teach Derry myself, for a time anyway, as there is no one else who will, or can, do it. Have you ever heard of the Calvert School in Boston in the States ? They make up courses graded for each year's work, and I have sent for the first year's course, just Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. They send you everything complete for the whole year, text-books,

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stationery and everything, and tell you how to teach the child, which is what appeals to me. The lessons are arranged for every day, too, so everything possible is done for one."

Margery Hulbert is still secretary to some doctors in Bristol, and sees S. Mary's girls occasionally when they go in for consultations Jean Hughes (Sorsbie) is to be congratulated on the birth of her daughter.

Jean Inder is dispensing for two doctors in Harrow.

Lilian Jackson is living in Salisbury and nursing private patients.

Myfany Jenkins came home this spring, after her three years on the Staff of S. Anne's Hilton Road, Natal.

She had had lovely holidays in Bechuanaland and Rhodesia. She has been to see us twice, and as she hopes to be in England for some months longer we hope to see her again.

Carol Johnson is taking a course in secretarial work in London Lucy Kirby has again done splendidly, coming out for the second time top of all England in her massage examinations. This time her subjects were Light and Electrical Therapy. She now has a post in Leicester Infirmary.

Gwendolen is at home for the present.

Barbara Kitson visited the school in July with an opera company from Oxford.

Elisabeth Kitson has been working at Craniology all the year in London.

Barbara Lacon was in Switzerland in the spring but is now at home, as is Pamela, who had some months in France after leaving school.

Alice le Mesurier has been training as a teacher for a year, much enjoying her practical work at The Burlington School. We congratulate her very heartily on winding the University Postgraduate Research Studentship which will now enable her to devote herself to research work, her subject being AngloDutch relationships.

Anne le Mesurier took the first part of the Classical Tripos in June and is now reading Economics. Last summer she had a wonderful week in Stoke with the Cambridge Campaign. This June she was working with a fruiting campaign, and writes:â&#x20AC;&#x201D;"Hundreds

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of mothers and grannies and children and unemployed, men and girls, come down from the London slums every year for four or six weeks to the fruit farms round Wisbech to pick the fruit. They sleep and live in " bunks," the best of which are old railway carriages, one compartment for sleeping and one for eating per family (not more than eight people over the age of eight per family is the Sanitary Inspectors' only stipulation !) The farmer can impose any hours for picking on them, if they refuse they are liable to be turned out, and they are paid per basket of fruit (lÂŁd. a 4 Ib. chip of strawberries, I/-a large " sieve" of gooseberries, etc.) The medical authorities of Wisbech take no notice of them and they are apt to be very rowdy when they do get any money to spend in the town. Our " campaign " was started 21 years ago by Cambridge undergraduate friends of a certain Father John of the community of the Resurrection, Mirfield. We now have centres on five of the farms, which look after about 40 to 50 groups of " bunks " between them, and creches at four of these centres. We have the children with us from 9 a.m. till about 5.30 p.m. some go home for lunch, others have to be fetched in a car or lorry in the morning and taken back at night. The creche I was running has the roughest pickers to deal with, the children are incredibly dirty but most lovable. 42 was our maximum number, but the day I left they were going to have 57."

Margaret Leigh-Smith has passed all her examinations in massage and electrical therapy and has a permanent appointment in a hospital at Walton, three miles from the centre of Liverpool. The hospital has 1,600 beds.

Marguerite Lucas is working at Fry's, and has recently been promoted to a post there as secretary to the Senior Manager on the Production side. Mary has been very busy with her work at the Art school in Bristol, and hopes to go to Paris in October to work there.

Barbara Lutener is still very busy with her little class.

Christine has been since January as matron at " Stepping Stones," a home school for little children at S. Leonards-on-sea. She writes most happily about her work.

Margaret Macdonald (McKay) was married in the spring, with her " twin " Mary Hiscock as her chief bridesmaid. She is now living in a little house between Suttonand Banstead. Her husband is an electrical engineer.

Margaret Maclean (Randolph) has settled down most happily in her home at Copse Cottage, Wickham, Hants.

Pat Mackey is at home. She has been training is secretarial work.

Diana Mallock came home from India in the spring.

Mary Margesson returned to her work in the U.M.C.A. in the spring, her leave having been extended because of an operation for appendicitis. She had a most interesting voyage by the east coast, and wrote that she was to work for a time at Likoma as the mission was very short of staff there. She has been thrilled by the Cathedral at Zanzibar, with its coral roof.

Ivy Martin is as energetic as ever. She wrote in March :â&#x20AC;&#x201D; " My sixteen hundred chickens hate this snow and wind business and so does their keeper!

Now I am getting buried in Guide workâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Captain of Guides, Lieutenant of Rangers, District Captain, Division Secretary - disgraceful! Nobody ought to be allowed more than two different sorts of hats!"

In July she wrote first from camp in Cornwall, and then from Aucton " We are here for a week with 33 of my own Guides, mostly no bigger than my thumb, and it has never stopped raining since we arrived."

Isabel Martineau has had a wonderfully happy first year in her medical course at Birmingham, and is now safely through her first M.B. She has just been elected Treasurer of the Guild of Undergraduates, a very important post.

Daphne Maxwell has been at home since leaving school last December but is to begin her training at S. James' Secretarial College in the autumn.

Margaret Merrett brought her Guides from Weybridge to camp inBowoodthis summer.

Dorothy Morrison holds a most important post as organising secretery for S.P.G. in the Liverpool Diocese.

Ray Moilliet has had a most interesting first year at the Maria Gray Training College, where she is working for her Froebel examination.

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Rachael Orr (Stiles) was married in April, and spent the honeymoon touring in a Baby Austin. " We had quite nice weather for our trip, and took about six days to go down to S. Raphael where we spent a week. We came home over the Alps passing through Geneva on our way. We nearly got stuck going over the Col de la Faucille but by making a large detour tor the descent we managed it all right; as it was we had to wait while some men cleared away a small avalanche! " She wrote from Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, where her husband is working in the Marine Research Station.

Dorothy Owen (Hobbs) writes delightful accounts of Tony and Hilary.

Barbara Pengelley (Isaacs) writes very happily from Jamaica.

Grace Pocock was married in August.

Margaret Price was presented at Court in May. She helps regularly at a creche in London.

Lilian Pegler, who is in England at present, came unexpectedly to see the school in June. She had no idea that the school had left the Green, and called there first. It in very interesting to see girls of earlier generations. Lilian has long been doing nursing work in America, and must be a very faithful old girl as she left S. Mary's when she was quite young, having won a Foundation Scholarship at the Godolphin School, Salisbury.

Susan Randolph, who is teaching music at S. Peter's School, Seaford, writes of a wonderful time in Corsica last April, and was looking forward to three weeks in the Austrian Tyrol this autumn.

Molly Rawlins has begun her training in Massage at King's College Hospital.

Ursula Robins is working in a settlement, S. Mildred's House, Isle of Dogs, and finds the work of absorbing interest.

Nora Samways is engaged to be married She has been having an extremely interesting time as, in the absence of trie leader of her orchestra, not only has she been doing all her work, but she has been conducting.

Averil Savory and her sister have opened a craft shop, " The Witch and Broomstick" at Forest Row. They seem to be doing splendidly, chiefly with lampshades and smaller things. Averil also makes for shops, travelling three times a year. She gets a wonderful number of orders.

67 Margery Scott (Parker) came to see us just before she sailed for India, where her husband is now stationed.

Betty Sheldon had a term in Paris after leaving school last July, but is now at home.

Millicent Short has been in Egypt as a companion to a lady.

Mollie Stevens writes most interesting letters from Greece where she is still living with a Greek lady. She has had wonderful opportunities for travelling in Greece.

Leila Suffrin has just completed her first year at Westfield College, where she is reading classics.

Mary Tallents is still at Durham University. She has won her ' Varsity colours for tennis, and met I. Martineau when she was playing for Durham against Birmingham University.

Thelma Taylor is at Harcombe House.

Helen Tench is very busy indeed with her dancing.

Eleanora wrote that she was leaving Edinburgh and hoping for a post in the South.

Sheila is on a farm in the North.

Barbara Thompson has a secretarial post in the Overseas department at Townshend House, the headquarters of theG.F.S. Marjorie Thynne is taking a course in secretarial work in Bristol.

Valerie Townshend has just finished her training as a Nursery Nurse at Cromwell House.

Gwynedd Turner has just completed her training at Bedford Physical Training College, and has obtained a post in the Royal Naval School, Twickenham.

Mary Vischer is working in the Asiatic Petroleum Company. Her father has just been appointed Vicar of Sandwich.

Madeleine Barton-Wright was married in July.

Elizabeth Westaway has just finished her second year at the Froebel College, Roehampton.

Nancy Williams is a very busy home daughter as she is working very seriously at her music. At the same time she trains the probationers for the choir, and has about thirty G.F.S. candidates.

Eileen Wolfenden was married in May and lives at Ascot where her husband, Dr. Vernon, is in practice.

Myfanwy Jenkins came home from S. Africa in time to be chief bridesmaid at the wedding.

Anne Wood has been having a wonderful number of singing engagements.

68 Ellen Wood was married in April, when Peggy Hopkins was one of her bridesmaids. Her husband is a house master at S. Paul's School.

Jean Young, after many months in France and the summer in England with her mother, is going back to West Africa in the autumn, and Margot is going to take a course of Domestic Science at Harcombe House.

Of the Girls who have left us this July: â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Giana Shipley, our Head Girl, is going up to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, to read Italian.

Margaret Rice is going up to Girton College, Cambridge, to read History.

Betty Butler and Margaret Osman-Jones are both going to the Bath School of Domestic Science.

Margaret McCormick is to be at home.

Diana Bateman-Champain has gone out to a German family in the Hartz Mountains where she hopes to be until Christmas.

Peggy Dixon is going to train for Kindergarten teaching at Westhill College, Selly Oak. Mary Fry is going to take up some form of Domestic Science or nursing, Betty Wasley is to be at home, working, she hopes, for her L.R.A.M. Rachael Hales is to be at home for a year before going to the Wingfield Orthopaedic Hospital.

Joanna Hughes is to go to America for a year to stay with relations before settling down to her training.

Annette llott is hoping to take up secretarial work.

Diana Orlebar will be at home for the present.

Diana Kirke is going to join her parents in India.

News of "Old Staff."

Miss Abdy has left the school in Reading, where she has been teaching ever since she left S. Mary's in 1920.

She is now in Box, teaching in the Home of the Holy Innocents, a home belonging to the " Waifs and Strays." There are about thirty quite tiny girls in the Home. We are very glad to have Miss Abdy so near a neighbour,

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Miss Adams, who left us last summer, is now teaching in Rupertsland College, Winnipeg, and writes most interesting letters about her work.

Mrs. Babington (Miss Montgomery) sounds very happy, and her two small boys most attractive.

She was present at quite a S. Mary's Reunion at Bedford Physical Training College in July, where she, Miss Goodrich and Miss Snell, were joined by M. Jenkins, E. Vernon (Wolfenden). R. Buck and G. Turner.

Miss Brown has been to see us twice. She is teaching at North Middlesex Girls' School, Enfield.

Miss F. M. Clarke is still teaching in the Junior School, Harrogate Ladies' College.

Miss E. P. Clark sails in September to take up her new post in Trinidad.

Miss Gibson writes most interesting letters about her work as secretary to the Diocesan Board of Women's Work in Birmingham. She came to see the school when she was motoring in April, and was much impressed by all the additions.

Miss Goodrich has just completed her first year at the Froebel Training College, Roehampton, She has been to see us several times, and gave a most interesting account of the hockey tour she took in Germany at Easter.

Miss Gutteridge, who is still on the staff of the County School Dovercourt, keeps in close touch with us, but her holidays are always too short for her to visit Calne in term time.

Miss Hales came to see us in July. She is still on the Staff of University College, Southampton.

Miss Helliwell is still at Clapham High School.

Sister Irvine is in charge of the sanatorium at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, Miss Monica Jones is teaching at Queen's Hall, Compton, Quebec, a great change from her last post in Bloemfontein.

She writes :â&#x20AC;&#x201D;" King's Hall is a kind of Diocesan School of Quebec, and reminds me very much of S. Mary's. It is run on very much the same lines, and we get somewhat the same type of girl, I take the Senior English and Latin and they take the McGill Matriculation, which is a good examination. We are in the country about a hundred miles from Montreal, and the scenery round is rather like that of Calne. We get very good winter sports here.

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We have a rink at the School, and you can ski anywhere in the surrounding country, I just love shiing and shall be quite sorry when the winter goes."

Miss Lang came to see us in September. She is still working in the settlement in the Rhondda valley, to which she went when she left S. Mary's.

She wrote to thank us for books sent for the library she was starting for some of the girls among whom she works.

She writes :â&#x20AC;&#x201D;'' The Rliondda, with the moral depressions of its vast unemployment problem, does need some outside interest so badly, and through Maes-yr-haf Educational settlement one has splendid opportunities for doing something."

Miss Little is living in Sandersteacl. It was a great pleasure to see her at the London Reunion.

Miss Lys is still secretary to the Head Master of the Old Hall, Wellington, Shropshire, a preparatory school for boys.

Mrs, Maw (Miss Colbert) lives in Bath, and has been coming in to School for some coaching, so we still keep in touch with her.

Miss Powell, who has been taking temporary work at the school for two terms, is going out to India in the Autumn.

Miss Secretan, who has been teaching in New York, sent us an invitation to her wedding to Mr. Dumper which was to take place at Long Island.

Miss Stevens-Guille came to see us last autumn before sailing for the S.P.G. Mission, Kanchi.

She writes most interesting accounts of her first impressions, and of the language difficulties. '' Ranchi in general is a very pleasant spot, and we are lucky in having some very nice people both inside and outside the Mission.

I felt very helpless about the language at first, but have safely got through my first year oral examination.

Hindi is quite nice, with surprising resemblances of vocabulary to Latin and French and Italian Of course very few people talk literary Hindi, which makes it harder.

The bulk of the population here are two aboriginal tribes, Mundas and Oravus, each with their own language. They have to be taught Hindi in school, and then English via that.

The urbanised and cosmopolitan Ranchi people talk a dialect of Hindi known as Gunwari and the small children in the practising school have their lessons in that.

Besides this we have just got an influx of Bengali young

71 ladies—very aristocratic and rather like introducing the nobility into an elementary school at home ! — who speak Bengali when they are not producing the flowery and odd English of the babu class. The High School work is all in English, and you may imagine what a linguistic obstacle race the whole business is, not unlike an old fashioned classical education applied to an unintelligent boy.

I fear it is the best parrots who survive to matric stage.

I feel decidedly unhappy about the whole system, it is so rigid and absolutely dominated by examinations.

No idea of suiting the system to the child, except in so far as failure to scrape through the test at any stage does prevent a child from wasting further time over books it doesn't understand.

I don't feel at all sure the real leaders get a chance this way, and we certainly put a tremendous premium on docility—mental and moral—in many ways. As the Indians will soon have to run their own affairs, even in this quiet, unpolitical backwater, it seems a pity."

Miss Thompson is still at S. Catherine's School, Bramley.

Miss Williams paid us a visit in May on her way back to her work at Ivendene School of Domestic Science, Colwall.

Miss Wilmott came to see us in the autumn. She left Princess Helena College, Ealing, at Christmas, and is now teaching at Chapel Allerton High School, Leeds.

Miss Wrightson came to the London Reunion: it was so many years since we had met her that it was particularly good to see her there. She has an important post at Dumferline Physical Training College.

The following have visited the school during the year— Miss Brown, Miss Goodrich, Miss Hales, Miss Lang, Miss Williams, Miss Wilmot, B. Adnitt, C. Allen, Y. Bartlett, G. Beale, Enid Betty, Elisabeth Betty, J, Blaxter (Hollis), and Mr. Blaxter, E. Bodinnar, J. Bridgman, A Burke, M. Butler, J. Collard, G. Dixon, M. Durst, M. Farrington, J. Ferguson, S. Ferguson, G. Fleetwood Jones, J. Foster, B. Gardiner, P. Gee, G. Gee, M. Gill,

72 M. Goodden, E. Gowers, F. Groves, (Farnfield) and Mr. Groves, K. Hill, B. Hindley, M. Hiscock, M. Hulbert, M. Jenkins, F. Keevil, G. Kirby, B. Kitson, P. Lacon, Alice le Mesurier, Anne le Mesurier, I. Martineau, P. Mackay, M. Maclean. (Randolph), D. Maxwell, M. Parker (Scott), L. Pegler, G. Pocock, A. Prevost, M. Price, M. Rawlins, B. Sheldon, Marguerite Smith, Mary Smith, L. Suffrin, T. Taylor, M. Thynne, V, Townshend, E. Westaway, N. Williams, E Wolfenden and Dr. Vernon, A. Wood. M. Young.

Changes of Address.

E Birkbeck, (Hollisl Uplands, Harborough Road, Northampton J Collard. Sextries, Park Road. Sevenoaks Z. Courtenay-Wimperis, Under) Rent Sheet Cottage, Bovington. Hants.

M Coward (Gould), 28, Plasturton Avenue, Cardiff V. Evelyn, (Robertson) Bernard Lodge, Spanish Town, Jamaica. B.W.I. N. Fisher, Camps Upper Lane, Nazeing, By Waltham Cross, Essex D. Kenrick. Campden Lodge. S Mildred's Road. Westgate-on-Sea. A. Le Mesurier, M i l l Cottage, Lumley Emsworth, Hams.

M. Macdonald, (McKay) Norton, Banstead, Road South, Sutton.

M. Maclean, (Randolph) Copse Cottage, Wickham. Hants.

V. Newcomb, Churchill, Spetchley, Worcester.

R Orr. iStilesl Millport, County Bute.

M. Scott. (Parkeri Wincomlee. Southbourne. Bournemouth.

V. Townshend, Trevose, Pilford Avenue, Cheltenham.

M. Thomas, (Barton Wright), 23, Victoria Square, Clifton, Bristol.

E. Vernon, (Wolfendeni Firlands. Ascot, Berks M. Vischer, The Vicarage, Sandwich, Kent B. Pengelley. (Isaacs) Penzance, Walderston, Jamaica, B W.I.

Addresses of those leaving 1930-1931.

B. Butler, East Wick. Wootten Rivers. Marlborough.

D. Champain, Newcastle Vicarage, Newcastle-on-Tyne..

P. Dixon. Gwnfa. Shelburne Road, Calne M. Fry, East Wing House. Reading School, Reading M. Farrington, Vasterne Manor, Wootton Bassett, Wilts.

J. Foster, Northcote. Frome. Somerset.

M. Goodden. Northwick Lodge, Harrow-on-the-Hill.

E. Gowers, 30, Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, Lodon, N.W. R Hales. 17, Mount Park Crescent, Baling. W.5.

B. Hindley, 6, Stafford Terrace, Campden Hill. Kensington, W 8.

J. Hughes, Barnsley Hall. Bromsgrove, Worcester.

A. Ilott, Hamlegro. Garden Road, Bromley. Kent.

D. Kirke, 9, Phayre Road. Quetta. India.

P. Mackey, The Cottage. Middle Avenue, Farnham, Hants.

D. Maxwell, Gosditch House. Cirencester.

M. McCormick, The Vicarage, 6, S Martin's Place, London, W.C.I. M. Osman-Jones, S. Dunstan's, Calne, Wilts.

D. Orlebar. The Rectory. Castle Ashby. Northampton.

M. Rice. Bradden Lodge. Towcester. Northampton.

G. M Shipley. High Street. Much Hadham. Herts.

B. Wasley, The Hollies, Mathon, Malvern.

73 Weddings.

Fairfield—Beckett.

On May 5th, 1931, in Capetown, P. G. Fairfield to Jean Beckett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs..Beckett, of Wrotham, Kent.

Coward—Gould. On November 15th. 1930. Edward Norman Coward to Lilian Mary Gould, daughter of the late Mr A. J. Gould, of Cardiff.

Evelyn—Robertson. On October 30th. 1929, Gabriel Douglas Evelyn to Katie Violet, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. F. Robertson, of Jamaica.

Ide—Pocock.

On Wednesday, August 19th, 1931.

Cowper Frederick Ide, only son of Mr. & Mrs Ide of Blagdon House, Munster Road. Teddington, to Elizabeth Grace, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. V. Pocock, of Pinhills, Calne.

Macdonald-McKay. On May 20th, 1931, E. C. Ian Macdonald to Margaret, only daughter of Archdeacon McKay, Martin—Wood.

On April 8th, 1931. Rupert Claude of Hazelwood, Southampton, to Ellen, only daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood, of Greylands, Guernsey.

Orr—Stiles. On April Hth, 1931, at Hayes, Church.

Kent, Andrew Orr to Rachel Mary, daughter of Mr. T. P. Stiles, of Bromley Common.

Thomas-Barton-Wright. On July 30th, 1931. Evan Maginley Thomas, M.C. to Madeleine Eveleigh, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barton-Wright of Broughton, Stockbridge.

Vernon—Wolfenden.

On May 30th, 1931. James Anthony Vernon, M.R.C.S, L R.C.P., to Eileen Mary, only daughter of the Rev. W. 1. and Mrs. Wolfenden.

Dumper—Secretan.

On August 15th, Alfred Dumper to Julie Secretan.

1931, Henry

74 Births.

Evelyn. On September 29, 1930, to Violet (nee Robertson) wife of Douglas Archer, a son (Peter Eversley.)

Fairbairn.

On December IOth, 1930, at Avonmore, Radlett, Herts to Christine, (nee Croft) wife of W. A. Fairbairn, a son (James Brooke.)

Griffith. On May 21st, 1931, at Trallong Vicarage, Breconshire, to Katharine, (nee Prevost) wife of the Rev. H. G. H. Griffith, a daughter (Katharine Nesta.)

Hughes. On May I Oth. 1931, at 2, New Street, Rugby, to Jean (nee Sorsbie) wife of Walter Norman Hughes, a daughter (Joanna Mary.)

R.I.P. Koopman. On December 14th, 1930, at Heathfield Park, Willesden Lane, N.W. Alice Mabel, fourth daughter of the late Alfred Heath, of Calne, wife of Eric Koopman.

Williams. On August 11th, 1931, suddenly at S. Thomas's Hospital. Joan Cardell Williams, (Staff nurse) aged 21 years, only child of Mr. and Mrs. F. Williams, I I , Shirley Avenue, Southampton.

Old Girls' Badges.

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

Notice.

Subscriptions to the News Sheet should be sent, as soon as possible, to F. M. Bartlett, S. Mary's! School, Calne. Old Girls belonging to the Association pay through their group secretaries. Each copy costs 2/-, Life Subscription ÂŁ1 5s. Od.

75 We have received with thanks Magazines from Bishop Strachan School. Toronto, Ontario ; The Godolphin School, Salisbury ; Howell's School, Denbigh ; Luckley, Wokingham; Queen's College, Barbados'; Queen Margaret's School, Scarborough; Sandecotes, Parkstone ; School of S. Mary & S. Anne, Abbots Bromley, Stafford ; S. Katherine's, Heatherton Park ; Tytherton Girls' School; Royal School, Bath.