St Mary's Calne News Sheet - 28

ST. MARY'S SCHOOL

NEWS SHEET

SEPTEMBER 1942—JULY 1943 Our deep sympathy goes out, in this fourth year of war, to all the relations and friends of those who have suffered so grievously. " His Majesty greatly loveth courageous souls."

(S. Teresa).

ST MARY'S ROLL OF HONOUR (FOURTH LIST) KILLED IN ACTION Brichta. W/O. Philip Sibbald Ogilvie. Brichta, D.F.M., R.C.A.F., in September, 1942. (Brother of Katherine Brichta.)

Browne. Sub-Lieut. (A) W. H. G. Browne, R.N.V.R-, in February, 1943. (Husband of Anne, nee Whiffen.)

Chadwick. Captain Hector G. Chadwick, Hussars, R.A.C., in October, 1942. (Brother of Beryl Chadwfck-) Chadwick. Captain (acting Major) Tom Chadwick, M.C., 3rd The King's Own Hussars, in October, 1942.

(Brother of Beryl Chadwick.)

Fletcher. Captairf Geoffrey E. Fletcher, The,Rifle Brigade, in March, 1943.' (Brother of Audrey Fletcher).

Fortescue-Brickdale. Lieutenant Antony Jerome FortescueBrkkdale, Royal Fusiliers, in January, 1943. (Brother of Eleanor, Barbara and Rachel Fortescue-Brickdale.)

Gillett. A/Flight Lieutenant David Stapylton Gillett, R.A.F.V.R., in January, 1943. (Brother of Stella Gillett.)

Herbert. Able Seaman Martin Owen Beauchamp Herbert, M.N. (Brother of Penelope Herbert.)

Jarrett. Peter William Jarrett, R.A.F., in October, 1941.

(Brother of Cecily Jarrett.)

Price. Lieut.-Commander Rodney Athelstan Price, R.N-, in April, 1943. (Brother of Rosamund Stiitzel and Margaret Price.)

Sadleir. Lieut. Michael Thomas Carey Sadleir, R.N.V.R., in October, 1942. (Brother of Ann Hornby.)

Sherwood. Humphrey Sherwood, R.A.F., Bomber Command, in September, 1942. (Brother of Maureen Sherwood.)

Ward. Major Douglas John Ward, R.A., in April, 1942.

(Brother of Honor McCully.)

MISSING Bateman-Champain. Flying Officer Peter J. C. BatemanChampain, in April, 1943. (Brother of Diana Cliff.)

PRISONERS OF- WAR Bragg. Wing Commander Peter Hugh Bragg. (Husband of Feliicity, nee Bradford.)

Burke. Graham Burke. (Brother of Amy Murland and Doreen Btjrke.)

Chadwick. Captain John Hough Chadwick. (Brother of Beryl Chadwick.)

Gay Roberts. Major Alan Gay Roberts. (Brother of Althea Gay Roberts.)

Mead. Major H. C. H. Mead. (Brother of April Zinovieff.)

Mitchell. Second-Lieutenant W. S. Mitchell. '(Brother of Barbara Mitchell.)

Robinson. Captain J. F. Robinson, The BedfordshireHertfordshire Regt. (Husband of Ursula, nee Robins.)

Roome. Midshipman David Gordon Roome, R.N. (Brother of Lois Porteous.)

Scott. Lieut.-Colonel T. A. R. Scott, Royal Signals. (Husband of Margery, nee Parker.)

CIVILIAN PRISONERS OF WAR Mr. Hugh Eraser, Malaya. (Father of Janet and Anne Fraser.)

Mr. Norman Jarrett, Malaya. (Father of Cecily Jarrett).

Colonel and Mrs. Matthews, Hong Kong. (Parents of Marcia Gooderham and Olivia Matthews.)

Dr. R. Milne, Hong Kong. (Sister of Miss Milne).

1942—1943 It is with thankful hearts that we send out our TwentyEighth number of " The News Sheet." For this has been so happy a year in the history of the School.

We kept our Seventieth Birthday on July and, and a wonderful day it was.

Although so few of our old girls could be with us, we were delighted by their remembrance of us, and the impression •made by all their telegrams, and by their munificent cheque to be spent on the Library, or pictures, was a very real thing.

The Service of Thanksgiving was one we shall never forget.

We were most grateful to the Bishop of Sherborne for his kindness on that day, while great was our delight in being able to welcome back our Chairman after his long illness. We did not forget absent friends, especially the " Father " o'f the Governors, Mr. Dunne, to whom we sent greetings.

That this has been a very full and happy year will be realised by all whc read the pages that follow. Of our Sixth Form we have been especially proud. We congratulate them on two Exhibitions at Oxford, two other places there, one at Cambridge, one (Medical) at Bristol, one (Agriculture) at Reading; a Scholarship at Bedford Physical Training College, another at the Whitehall Secretarial College.

Four other girls h^ve been awarded vacancies, at the University of London, to read Social Science; three are to study music at the Royal Academy. We are so thankful to feel that before joining up for War Work they are allowed these years of training, sadly curtailed though in some cases they must be.

The School has responded well to calls made upon it to help in the War Effort. The " Dig for Victory'' Campaign entails many hours of hard work, both in the School grounds and in answers to calls made upon us from our neighbours.

Such disagreeable jobs as cutting and drying nettles have' been shouldered all through the summer by public-spirited volunteers. First-rate work has been put into the knitting for the Merchant Navy. The " Wings for Victory " Week meant a tremendous effort for the School: to our amazement we found we had collected ^2,043. , We are fortunate in that the domestic work involved by shortage of staff is so organised that it does not fall too heavily on anyone. The Company on duty is responsible for all the jobs involved, which means claims being made upon us only one week in five.

Girls have again this year worked hard at their First Aid and Home Nursing. Once more all our candidates in the St. John's Ambulance Examinations have been successful.

All this work owes its inspiration to different members of the Staff. It would be invidious to mention them by name.

But when—in addition to all they do here—we remember how much they are contributing to the success of the Canteen at Yatesbury R.A.F., or in running the C.A.B. in Calne, we do realise how extremely fortunate we are in all that they do to inspire us in our own smaller efforts.

JHE GOVERNING BODY As was reported in our last number-the School has recently suffered a great loss by the resignation from the, Governing Body of Sir "Ernest Gowers and Sir John Bodinnar. Their places have be.en filled by Mr. Arthur fforde (now in the Ministry of Supply) and Mr. W. G. Phillips, of Hillwynds, Calne. They, like Sir Ernest and Sir John, first came into contact with the School as parents, and so we feel that in their appointment we are welcoming old friends into a closer contact.

We are most grateful to them for the services

they are rendering to the School. We first met them in their " official capacity " at the Meeting in June, when, owing to a change in the time of the Meeting, all the Governors lunched in the Dining Room. Mr. fforde, in a most happy and whimsical speech to the School next day, was able to tell us one piece of excellent news—the Governors are adding to our property the most beautiful garden and house of Northfields. Although we are riot to take immediate possession we know that in the not-far-distance the wall to the south of our grounds, between the Jubilee Building and St. Prisca's, will disappear, and that-the lovely garden and glorious trees which have always been to us all a " Naboth's vineyard," will round off our grounds in the most happy and delightful way.

SCHOOL CALENDAR, 1942—1943 Sept. „ „ Oct. „

23 27 28 3 13 19 22 ,, 28 .Nov. 2

Beginning of Term.

Sixth Form on S.P.GK Conference at Oxford.

Sir Edward Jackson on Malta.

Mr.1 Williuk addressed Too. H. in the School Hall.

Dr. Lees on China.

Health Festival—Rev. P. Barry.

Miss Shulamith Shafir's Recital.

Dr. Jacques' Concert at Chippenham.

Half Term Holiday. Upper VI presented " 1066 and All That". „ 7 Lacrosse Match v. Westonbirt Dr. Schofield on Uganda, in Town Hall. „ 8 Pastor Karle in Chapel. „ 9 Rev. A. Glen-Smith to Sixth Form Discussion Group. „ 15. Bishop Hunkin in Chapel „ 14 1st and 2nd Lacrosse Match v. Westonbirt. „ 21 Festival Cantata (Bach and Handel), conducted by Mr. Christopher Le Fleming.

Sir Granville Ram on " British Justice Administered Indifferently ".

22 Dr. Bailey in Chapel. „ 28 Bishop of Salisbury in Chapel. „ 29 Confirmation. „ 30 School Certificate Examination.

Dec. 4 Junior Lacrosse v. Westonbirt. „ 6 Mr. and Mrs. Stokes' Song Recital.

11 Nativity Play. „ 13 Carol Service. „ 15 Tea and Speeches.

Jan. 20 Beginning of Term.

22 Squadron Officer on Work in the W.A.A.F. Feb. 6 Visit from Anne Wood. Lacrosse Tournament v. Weetonbirt. „ 7 Concert.

13 1st and 2nd Lacrosse Matches v. Westonbirt. „ 22 Sehool Certificate "Frolic".

March 9 Moberly and Poore " Miss Elizabeth Bennett"".

22 Rev. D. M. Rowlands. Sixth Form Discussion Group.

25 Edmund Rich and Osmund "The Knight of the Burning Pestle ".

Lady Margaret Hall " Frolic ".

April 2 Grosstete"' A Kiss for Cinderella ".

5 School Concert. _. „ 21 Party to The Halkevi (People's House in Turkey), Fiiahardinge Street.

May

6 Beginning of Term.

18 Bedford "Frolic".

Visit by Miss Marjorie Pollard and Mr. Creek to watch, our cricket on behalf of B.B.C. „ 25 Miss Matthew^ and Three Prefects to Trowbridge for a Meeting of the Wiltshire County Council, and to hear Lord Woolton speak. „ 27 Sports and Tournament for the TJ.G.S. „ 29 Tennis: School v. Staff.

30 The Eev. S. B. Calver in Chapel.

31 The Rev. J. T. Davies in Chapel.

June 3 Ascension Day. , General Knowledge Paper.

July 2 70th Birthday. Thanksgiving Service in the Parish Church. " Much Ado About Nothing ".

17 Tennis v. Westonbirt. „ 18 Lady Kirkpatrick on Dr. Albert Schweitzer. „ 22 Two Prefects to " Centenary Cavalcade," Marlborough College. Dr. Lambridis on " Greece To-day ". „ 23 Dr. Jean Murray on " The County Council and Public Health.". Mr. Barton on Greek Art. „ 24 Mr. Barton on Greek Art. Cricket with Marlborough Casuals. „ 26 Mr. Littlecot on " The County Council and Education".

Mr. Jones on " The County Council and Finance ".

28 Mark Reading.

THE CONFIRMATION, The Confirmation was held by the Bishop of Salisbury on Sunday, November sgth, at the Parish Church. The following were confirmed :— Gillian Burrell Anne Knollys Rosemary Buxton lona Maclean Mary Chapman Janet Morris Aline Day Diana Nicholson fforde June Parsons Christine Barbara Gale Christina Pound Stella Gillett Jane Renwick Daphne Good Stephanie Rosedale Pamela Grant Celia Rowley Margaret Henderson Elizabeth Thomas Anne Kelly 'Yvonne Trotnan Teresa Kirkpatrick Margaret Wigan Forty-one relations and friends were present and signed the Confirmation register.

We are very grateful to those who have taken Services or spoken to us in Chapel this year :—The Bishop of Salisbury, the Bishop of Truro, the Rev. P. Barry, the Rev. Dr. Bailey, the Rev. S, B. Calver, the Rev. J. T. Davies, Pastor Karle, the Rev. D. M. Rowlands, Miss Rowe.

SOCIAL SERVICE Our Freewill Offering Collections have been good this year, and we were pleased to have about ^4 extra money in hand by the end of the Summer Term, which we sent to the

Governesses' Benevolent Institution, as we feel that this needs almost more help than those Societies in aid of the very poor.

We were very pleasantly surprised by the wonderful gift of ;£i8 sent by the Old'Girls for our St. Luke's Day Festival'; also by the result of a Silver Collection taken at the performance of our Cantata, giving us £17 33. 3d. to send to the Prisoners of War Fund. At our open-air performance of " Much Ado About Nothing " we raised ^25 os. 8d. for the Aid-to-China Fund.

In the Summer Term we ran a tennis tournament and funfair in aid of our Camberwell Mission, and collected over £b.

Many people have been knitting and sewing both for the Camberwell and the Merchant Navy, and there has been an improvement in the collections of postage stamps.

We should likely especially to thank Miss Thouless and Miss Amphlett for all the work they have put into the supervision of the knitting.

M. G. LEES. VISIT TO " THE MISSION ' In the Christmas holidays two of us decided that it was time St. Mary's and the U.G.S. Mission met each other again. After a very long gap—because it was not possible to have the usual visits to the Mission from School—we spent a week-end there, which has enabled us to imagine all that goes on, and to meet people whose names we had so often heard, and to find out exactly how the Settlement and St: Mark's Parish and Canon and Mrs. Veazey are related to the U.G.S. Mission and one another.

We slept at the Settlement in Peckham, where Miss Ellis showed us the excellent accommodation for Invalid Children's Care Work, a War Nursery, a Communal Kitchen and Club Rooms, all of which are running nearly non-stop.

All these activities are carried on in a complicated building, which consists of five houses joined together. There is accommodation for Staff and Social Science Students, and we were most comfortably put up and fed for 55. a night!

This is worth knowing—interest plus economy !

But we spent most of the day in Camberwell, at St. Mark's, which is a five-minutes' 'bus ride from Peckham, and where Canon and Mrs. Veazey were most hospitable to us, and showed us many things.

On Monday we went to see Brother Charles at St. Jude's, near the Settlement. We learnt a tremendous amount and had much to tell the School, which we hope will make them want to go and see the Mission for themselves.

R. WlLLINK. M. TlDMAN.

TUESDAY OFFERTORIES RECEIPTS Balance Tuesday Collections Farm Wages O.G.A. Health Festival Earl Haig's Poppies Confirmation Sunday Two Old Girls China Relief Fund Red Cross Birthday, March 2nd Mission Sports S. Margaret's Collection s Sanatorium Box ...

Chapel Box

EXPENDITURE £ s. d. £ s. d.

7 2 Home Missions: 43 18 11 TJ.G.S. Term's Subscrip1 0 0 7 15 0 tions 18 5 6 Records 6 0 5 12 7 Health Festival 15 17 0 7 1 8 Wool. Etc. ... 3 5 8 1 10 0 I.C.A.A 1 10 0 4 2 5 Postage on Par2 16 3 2 8 6 cels 4 0 0 Earl Haig's Fund ... 5 12 7 5 10 10 Waifs and Strays ... 1 0 0 5 11 9tt Christmas Hampers ... 1 14 4 1 8 Ott Friends of Salisbury 11 0 Cathedral 110 Malta Relief 2 2 0 Mission to Seamen ... 3 11 5 Bed Cross 2 16 3 G.B.I. 8 0 0 H.M.I. Borstal Library 3 0 0 Naval Library 2 0 0 Devizes Home 2 0 0 C.C.W.S.F 3 0 0 Calne Church Flowers 10 0 Diocesan Fund 2 0 0 Foreign Missions: Bishop of Kimberley ... 7 1 8 S.P.G 5 1 0 U.M.C.A 11 17 9i Accra 2 12 fi China Relief Fund ... 4 2 5 Balance 1 11 OJ

£101 16 2

£101 16 2

In addition to the above, ^'17 35. 3d. was collected at the Musical Festival for the Prisoners of War Fund, and £25 .sst was collected at " Much Ado About Nothing " for the Aid to China Fund.

The following Old Girls contributed to the Health Festival:— L. Attlee E. Bickersteth J. Blathwayt H. Bridgman A. Brown (Whiffen) M. Burdett D. Butler A. Cartel (Le Mesurier) B. Clark C. Clarke P. Clarke D. Crosbie D. Drabble B. Marjoribanks-Egerton (Chambers) A. Fletcher J. Field A. Garrard B. Glyn-Jones

M. Goodden N. Green (Fisher) C. Griffiths (Churchill) F. Groves (Farnfield) J. Hall (Young) A. Harris M. Harris A. Harrison (Sarjeant) C. Harvey E. Highmore S. Hobson E. Homfray (Waller) M. Hort J. Howell M. Hulbert.

R. Jenner P. Kidman G. Kirby B. Lutener

M. Maclean(Kandolph) B. Marsden D. Marshall I. Martin F. Masters M. Matthew E. Minnis E. Manndrell (Thomas) M. Morement B. OsmanrJones M. Osman-Jones B. Parry-Okeden M. Pite E. Puckle J. Priestley H. Pullon H. Eiley A. G. Eoberts P. Bobinson L. Roome S. Eotherham (Hayter) 3. Rutherford E. Sargeant T. Tidman A. Thomas P. Thomson (Beed)

MR. PULLEIN.

M. Thynne J. Turner W. Walder(Osman-Jones) A. Warrick M. Waterfield N. Webb M. Whieldon M. Whiffen A. Wilson (Trench) E. Wilson P. Wilson W. Wotton Also : — The Archdeacon Miss Alexander Miss Booth Miss Broome Sister Cathrow Miss Damant Mrs. Ede Miss Ferris Miss Grover Miss Morrison Mrs. Thouless

1886—1943

No school can have closer links with its Parish Church than has St. Mary's. In our seventy years there have been but three Vicars of Calne—each in turn, in his capacity of Chairman of the Governors, a true Father and Shepherd of the School. Three Vicars, and but two organists! And now the time has come to say " Good-bye " to Mr. Pullein, who for fifty-seven years has meant so much to the musical life of the School. What we owe to him it is not easy to put into,words, so great is our debt. Not only by individual lessons in piano and organ, and in earlier days in class singj'ng and choir training, but by the musical life of the Church, yes, and of Calne generally, has he greatly enriched our life here. We should like to quote what Archdeacon Bodington said of him in 1926: " By his devoted self-sacrificing service as organist and choirmaster in the Calne Parish Church, as Conductor of the Calne Musical Society, as teacher in the schools, and of many others in the town and neighbourhood, and as musical scholar and composer he has inspired and elevated in musical appreciation as well as charmed, not only the Church and town of Calne, but to some extent the whole of this side of the country."

E.M.M. During the 57 years of his attachment to St. Mary's, Mr. Pullein has made a most wide and generous contribution to the School's musical life. He has taught many, laying firm and solid foundations of piano playing in children, some of whom later became professional .pianists, and many more

svhose careers took other directions, but to whom an ability to play the piano proved a life-long joy.

A. far wider circle, however, knew him through his care for the School's hymn and psalm singing, in which for some years he took weekly school practices.

Lastly, by means of his position of organist of Came Parish Church—the possessor of a fine organ—and of his own musicianly performances on the instrument, every child who passed through the School during the whole long span of his service, had the priceless good fortune to be reared, Sunday

by Sunday, on much of the finest organ and church music.

It is a very lovely record to have been for so long a time the medium through which music, with its power to inspire and refresh, has 'poured into the lives of so many future citizens.

ANNE WOOD. Years ago, when the world was new And people had little or nothing to do, There1 lived a man in a town by a hill, A man of quite inexpressible skill.

Day after day, this man would perch On the organ-stool in the Parish Church, And practise and practise day after day, Yet nobody knew how well he could play.

Then, one day, the Vicar, to Church drawing near Some of his wonderful music did hear— Chords and arpeggios running and leaping, Sounds as of cats' paws softly creeping, Light little phrases like stones in a stream, Peaceful bits like a quiet dream; Then over his face spread a wonderful smile, And he almost ran up the middle aisle, " I want you," he cried, " Oh, Mr. Pullein, Will you teach in my little school on the Green ? '' So* turning round on 'the organ stool, The musician agreed to teach at the school.

Since then, for countless years and years, He's been patiently teaching the fingers and ears And musical sense of St. Mary's daughters, Till for fifty-seven long years he's taught us.

Great men have offered him tasks of fame, But Still he's refused them just the same; They've tried to persuade him to try his hand At teaching choirs in cathedrals grand, And, turning his back, he always said: " I pirefer St. Mary's and Calne instead."

C. FFORDE.

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THE STAFF In December we last Miss Goldsmith, who had been with us for over two years as Domestic Science Mistress; her beautiful Christmas parties, and the wonderful way in which, even in war-time, she 'made so attractive our Christmas Hampers for the poor ladies, will always be remembered.

In April we lost Miss Freke, who had been appointed to a post under the Wiltshire L.E.A. She had been with us for seven yeiars, and had worked wonders with the*Garden, giving herself quite unsparingly to all our interests. She is much missed, but it is good to see her from time to time.

In July, we lost Mjss Medley, who in her four years as Classical Mistress had made so special a place for herself on the Staff. She will always be remembered, especially for her organisation of our most successful " Greek Week " in 1941, for her work as Librarian since Miss Alexander left us, and for her work with the Sixth Form Monday Evening Discussions.

Miss Powell, who has been so wonderful a friend to all tlie little ones for the past three years, also left us in July, on her appointment to a post in London, as did Miss Kirkpatrick, who had been with us as French Mistress for a year.

We wish to give our heartiest thanks to all these who have done so much for the School, and to give them our very best wishes for the futureIn September we welcomed as Games' Mistress Miss A. Cridland (Bedford F.T.C.): in January', 'as Domestic Mistress, an Old Girl, Miss Rhoda Amphlett; and in May, as Gardener, Miss J. Ashdown.

THE STAFF—JULY, 1943 Resident: Miss THOULESS (Senior Mistress). English.

Miss AMPHLETT. Domestic Science.

Mademoiselle ANTOINE. French.

Miss BOWDEN. Mathematics.

Miss CHESSHIEE. History.

Miss CRIDLAND. Games, Gymnastics, Dancing.

Mrs. GARNETT. German.

Miss HEDLEY. Classics.

Miss KIRKPATRICK. Frfeneh.

Miss NESBITT. Piano, Elocution.

Miss POWELL. Kindergarten.

Miss PRESTON. Geography.

Miss SECCOMBE. Music.

Miss WALK-ER. Junior School.

Miss WILLIAMS. Violin.

Miss WINDSOR-AUBREY. Science.

Miss HARRIS. Art. Miss ASHDOWN. Gardening-.

Miss GREENWOOD. Matron.

II Miss WEETMAN. Matron.

Miss JACKSON. Housekeeper.

Miss BOX. Cook.

Sister ALLEN. Sanatorium.

Mrs. COENISH-BOWDEN. Assistant Sanatorium.

Miss MARSH. Secretary.

Non-ResidentMr. PTJLLEIN. Piano.

Mr. NIGHTINGALE. Wind Instruments.

Mr. BEAED. Flute.

Mr. BOELAND. 'Cello.

Mrs. BODMANf History Lecturer.

Miss EAWLINGS. Musical Composition.

Mrs. HALL. Pre-nursing Class.

SCHOOL LIST, JULY, 1943 UPPER SIXTH Alary Tidman Ann Wallace Betty Chapman Cecilia Livingstone Ann Heather Plummer Anne Agnew Ruth Wheeler

Came 1936s 1938 2 1937s 1941 ' 1937 2 1938 ' 1937s

Pamela Chadwick Margaret Chadwick Janet Glossop Ootavia Mayhew April Powlett Ann Ball Anne Butler Diana Carkeet-James Joanna Chase Marygold Congreve Ruth Hallward

Came 1939 ' 1937 1 1938 3 1938 2 1939s 1938 2 1939 ' 1939 2 1940 3 1941 ' 1941 s

Marianne Taylor Anne Brown Mary Lees Susan Winser Mary Troutbeck Elisabeth Willink

Came 19411937 2 1938 «

1939 ' 1939 " 1939 "

SIXTH Helen Johnston-Smith Molly Lushington Janet Morris Gill Pinckney Betsy Pryor

Anne Eee Diana Rosedale Rosamund Strode Julia Swann Monica Westmacott Hasell Wilson

Came 1940 3 1938" 1939s 1938 ' 1941 2 1940 3 1938s 1939s 1938 ' 1939 3 1943 >

UPPER FIFTH -Jill Burrell Rosemary Buxton Aline Bay Christine fforde Janet Fraser Barbara Gale Pamela Grant Margaret Henderson Anne Kelly Teresa Kirkpatrick Lesley Lea-Wilson lona Maclean

Came 1938s 1939 2 1941 3 1939s 1940s 1940s 1940s 1940s 1939s 1939s 1941s 1940."

Hilary Moore Diana Nicholson June Parsons Christina Pound Valerie Eodd Stephanie Rosedale Celia Rowley Nancy Euthven Joan Salmon Elizabeth Thomas Beryl Tweed

Came 1942' 1940 ' 1940» 1932s 1940» 1939s 1940s 1940s 1940 = 1940s 1941*

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LOWER FIFTH EAST Came2

Rosemary Beer Diana Brown Mabyn Grace Jean Cunninghame Graham Janet Dibley Christina Ducksbury Mary Field Anne Fraser Mary Hale Catherine Hallward Audrey James Moyra Leatham

1940 2 1935 s 1941

1941 ' 1941s 1935 * 1939s 1941 3 1940 3 1943 ' 1934 » 1942 "-

Cam H Joanna Newton Jane Renwick Patricia Rickards Janet Saunders Jennifer SmitheHs

Jacqueline Tate

Susan Tidbury Anne Trelawny-Ross Yvonne Troman JSnnifer Trower Clare Troutbecb Marged Wigan

1943 ' 1941 3 1943 ' 1941' 1941 » 1943 2 1939 ' 1941 a 1943 ' 1943 ' 1941s 1940

2

LOWER FIFTH WEST Came 1940'

Bridget Burra Mary Chapman Bridget Cunliffe Venetia Cornwallis Tessa Diamond Stella Gillett Daphne Good Shirley Gregory

Came

Rosemary Harvey 1942 ' 1940 !

Rosemary Herbert-Smith 1934* 2 1941 Jeanette Johnston 1940s 1940 ' Anne Knollys 1940 l 1941s 1941 ' Catriona MeCance 1939 > Anne Norris 1940s 1938 2 Seymour Rooke 1941s Elizabeth Willway 1941' 1940s UPPER FOURTH

Came2

Julia Ball Felicity Brocklebank Elizabeth Burnett Margaret Chitty Carola Congreve Nicolette Cunliffe Elizabeth Groves Kitty Hood Ruth Howell Rachel Judd Margaret Maofadyen Alison Maclean

1943 1941s 1943 2 1941s 1941 2 1942 2 1940s 1942 > 1942s 1942 2 1942 2 1942*

Helen Mitchell Ursula Nicholson Mary Rowley Dorothea Stewart-Cox Shirley Stbkes Anne Tanqueray Judith Tanqueray Susan Taylor Elisabeth Wallis Diana Willcocks Christine Willis

Came 1942 ' 1943 2 1943 2 1943 ' 1941 ' 1941' 1941' 1941" 1941 ' 1943 2 1941'

LOWER FOURTH Susan Agnew Susan Dibl«y Nancy Dibley Rachel FortescueBrickdale Susan Green Prudence Harvey Margaret Kent Anne Morris Rosemary Newton

Came 1942 ' 1942 ' 1943 2 1940 s 1943 's 1942 1943 2 1943 a 1943'

Holly Robinson Sally Ruthven Anne Shaw

Susan -Skurray

Sarah Speed Rachel Swann Pamela Thomas Diana Turk Jane Westlake

Came 1942 1941 1942 1942.

1943 1942 1942 1935 1941

S. MARGARET'S Robina Deuchar Olwyn Green Ruth Herbert-Smith Mary Matthews Shireen Moore

THIRD FORM Came Gillian Mary Osborne 1939 ' 1942 8 Patricia Shaw 1938 's Judith WMtehead .Isabella Wilson 1938 s 1940

Came 1942* 1942' 1941s 1941 •»

Ann Deuchar Jennifer Haddon Hilary Moore

SECOND FORM Came Jill Smeeton 1940 Bridget Smeeton Irene Tweed 1940

Came 1938' 194,1'

K.G. Came Came Valerie Hockey 1942 Âť 1942 " Margaret Eees Mary Keevil 1943 2 1942 3 Jillian Smith Helen Moore 1943" Elisabeth Willink has been elected Head of the School for September, 1943. Ann Wallace is second Head.

EXAMINATION RESULTS OLD RESULTS Oxford University.

Final School of History. Class III. M. C. Perry.

History (Shortened Course) Part 1. Class III. A. E. Fletcher.

Modern Languages (Shortened Course) Part I. Class II. V. M. Lloyd.

London University.

Economics. Class II (Div. I) Graham Wallas Memorial Scholarship.

Final Froebel Examination.

C.S.M.M.G. B.H.S. General Examination.

S.E.N. A. Carver.

G. Clark Kennedy.

P. Moss.

H. M. Dillon.

H. M. Dillon.

H. Blackadder.

W. Wotton.

B. Parry-Okeden.

P. M. Catesby (Evans).

M. Gibson.

B. Wasley.

PRESENT GIRLS Oxford University.

Lady Margaret Hall.

Exhibition (History).

Exhibition (Classics).

St. Anne's.

Vacancy (French).

Vacancy (History).

E. N. Stamper.

E. F. Willink.

E. T. Burra.

M. G. Lees.

Cambridge University.

Girton College.

Exhibition (History).

Vacancy (French and German).

E. N. Stamper.

E. Hunkin.

London University.

Bedford College.

Vacancies (Social Science).

School of Economics.

Vacancy.

Bedford Physical Training College.

Scholarship.

Whitehall Secretarial College.

Scholarship.

B. FortescueBrickdale P. Earn.

E. Whiffen.

J. Campbell.

P. Pedley.

L. C. Livingstone

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Cambridge School Certificate. December, 1942.

A. B. F. Ball* A. J. Martin A. I. Brown* O. J. Mayhew A. E. Butler* J.-M. Morris* D. Carkeet-James O. F. Pinckney* M. A. Chadwick A. G. L. Powlett* J. L. Chase* E. J. Pryor M, E. Congreve D. M. Eosedale J. E. Glossop* E. Strode* E. E. Hallward* J. M. Swann* M. E. A. Harvey E. A. Wallace* H. B. Johnston-Smith M. M. W.estmacott M. Lushington E. Willink* * Matriculation Certificate.

R.A.M. and R.M.C. Pianoforte (Grade VII) Final.

A. Eee. P. Chadwick.

Violin (Grade VI) Advanced.

OUR SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY JULY 2nd,

1943

I. FROM AN OLD GIRL OF 1924.

Impossible to write a true account of what actually happened. It was a perfect English Summer day, and the full heat of the July sun brough^ memories crowding back out of the past, dancing before our eyes till no one could tell fact from fancy. It began right from eight o'clock in the morning, for there in the nave of the old Church were Miss Richardson, the first Headmistress, and Miss Gabriel, the Lady Superintendent. They had come, of course, on the Feast of the Visitation to ask a blessing on their little new school of St. Mary the Virgin. Probably the news and interests of 18^3 absorbed them so that they had no' vision of the crowd of St. Mary's people who were filling the nave 70 years later, all like them come to ask a blessing on their school, but unlike them inspired by a brave Has Been to look ahead to a great Will Be. At breakfast the Past grew really unruly. The whole, O.G.A. crowded into the dining room, and the air was fall of their whisperings till the moment came to give their birthday present, handed to the school on their behalf by the only few who were .actually there.

Preparations filled the morning, and that other new generation, the generation of those who serve the School from Staff Rooms and Kitchens, spread bread and butter, arranged acting clothes, worked, out details, without knowing that Staffo and his friends were winking at each other and saying that here lay the solid foundation of the School's traditions of service. Nellie must have come along with cakes and sugar and margarine—if she didn't, then it was

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Miss Jackson's devoted care and forethought that filled the plates for tea with such piles of good things.

The School marched to Church with sober step and dignity, and the Past drew back and stood, cap in hand. For here was Youth of Nineteen Forty Three in a'world of war, steady and of good courage, making ready to carry Christ's love and beauty into the Future.

The Archdeacon's firm voice, after his illness, rejoiced our hearts, and he was surely aware of our Archdeacon whom we could see beside him. Mr. Pullein was at the organ —' he really was—and the Present had been trained to' sing the School Hymn, partly unaccompanied, as we of the Past had never hoped to sing it. Miss Donaldson must have heard it too, for thirty years ago she^put into it all she hoped and prayed for her children, and gave it to Mr. Pullein, who added all his love of music and the School.

Rumours of War broke in for a time on the beauty of the Service, but were routed by a triumphant Te Deum.

From tea time on the ghosts of the Past had it all their" own way. They jostled about in the dining-room, swelling with pride in the dignity of a room that could hold 300 visitors, and refusing to remember the dripping marquee of their own day. " Mr. Bodinnar's Pig," crowning glory of the 1923 Jubilee Building, craned his neck to look in at the window, and an echo of a great speech came to our ear through the chatter. It was the Mistress of Girton saying " The beauty and steadfastness of the buildings . . . are making their part of the music."

At the play Beatrice and Benedick of 1923 kept darting on to the stage to say it was all wrong without the trees. The laughter of Claudio and the rest brought back Rosalind—Celia Malvolio—Maria—Piola. Ben Greet and Dorothy Green nodded approval, dancers of 1943 and madrigal singers of 70 years ago joined in the fun with Mothers, Fathers, Old Girls, Old Staff, old friends, all together under the summer • sun, wishing Many Happy Returns of the Day to the Septuagenarian.

I.C.M. II. Everyone was at her best that day, determined that this new period of the school's history should be even more successful than the one which was ending. For during the preparations for the Seventieth Birthday we had had time to reflect on the growth of St. Mary's, and to realise, perhaps even with a little surprise, how very dear the school was to us, and how we wanted to be worthy of -its ideals—a place of true religion, sound learning and happy life. The most

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marked characteristic of St. Mary's ife its happiness, not of a light-hearted flamboyant frivolity, but the joy of childhood combined with the dignity and poise of maturity. It is extraordinary "that in so short a time—for 70 is not a great age for a school—such traditions of'religion and learning should have been firmly established that this happiness fills the school and all its members. Everyone was glad to have the opportunity of celebrating the seventieth-birthday of such a School, both to give thanks for the many devoted people who had served it in the past, and to pray that in the future "its members .might be proud of the traditions and have strength to uphold all the best of them. Seldom have we had such a peaceful day, completely united in purpose, and convinced that our sense of peace was not the fool's paradise of the escapist but the serenity that, comes from a confident faith that our foundations are well laid and our ideals true.

A. M. H. III. This term has been a landmark in the history of the School, for on July and we celebrated our seventieth anniversary.

This day was not one of mere outward pleasure and rejoicing, but in its festivities our unspoken feelings found expression.

Owing to the war there was little previous publication of the anniversary, but surprisingly many Old. Girls, parents, and friends were able to be present. We were unexpectedly fortunate in having the one really fine week-end of. the term.

The weather was glorious throughout, and the grounds were consequently teeming with visitors. It was a gala day!

There was a celebration of Holy Communion at 8 a.m. The morning was then spent in final preparations. The climax of the day was the great Service of Commemoration in the Parish Church at half-past two. The School marched down through the town, and filled the body of the Church, and as we reached the West door wreaths were laid on the memorial tablets of our two great founders, Canon Duncan and Archdeacon Bodington. We were glad indeed to see our Archdeacon back in his familiar place after his long absence.

The choir-stalls were, thronged with clergy—no fewer than fifteen in all—the majority Fathers—and the Bishop of Sherborne gave the address, taking as his text Leviticus vi, 13:" The fire shall ever be burning on the altar; it shall never go out." The form of the service had been drawn up by Archdeacon Bodington for our fiftieth anniversary, and in it we remembered with thanksgiving all who had worked for the School. The lesson, taken from the Book of Ecclesiasticus, was read by Mary Tidman, the Mead Girl. As a concluding act of praise we sang Smart's Te Deum. The singing was most impressive, surpassing all expectations.

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At the close of the service the School inarched back behind the banner. Tea was subsequently served for the guests, while the actors prepared for " Much Ado about Nothing."

The play went splendidly, and all seemed to enjoy it. The Chapel lawn once more proved an excellent stage,' and the costumes, together with the incidental music provided by the orchestra, created a really convincing atmosphere.

We must now express our whole-hearted thanks to the many members of the staff, whose -devoted work combined to immortalize this day, and no one will ever realise how very much we owe to Miss Matthews.

A. BALL. M. TROUTBECK.

" OUR CIVILIAN DAY " I, (From "The Times Educational Supplement".)

One of the chief drawbacks of the boarding-school has been, up till now, the r.emi-exclusion of its members from the life of the outside world. A possible1 remedy for this,has been found by one school in the following experiment. Some of the senior girls have had a free day a week to do outside work. This ranged from teaching to farming. Two girls helped in a Junior School three miles away; two prospective farmers worked on a very progressive farm nearby; one girl taught a wide variety of subjects in the local-Central School; two (not specialists Âťn Science) did analytical work in the laboratory of a large food factory; two more acted as assistants to a House Property Manager; while yet another pair became temporary librarians in a camp hospital.

This " civilian " day has had really constructive results.

The girls have obtained practical experience in specialized work, often outside their own subjects, as well as a broader view of life than that which the more sheltered existence and the routine of school can provide. This work was all the more valuable because it included contacts with many people outside the school sphere. It gave the girls an opportunity, too, to test their own abilities and discover their own vocations, even while they helped their employers.

For, with such shortage of labour, they were able to make themselves very useful in replacing1 and relieving other workers.

One objection to this scheme which might be raised, is that time is taken from the school currculum; but in practice, as the experiment has shown, little has been detracted from the school work, and, indeed, several of those who were.taking part in it were at the same time working in preparation for University Entrance and Scholarship Examinations.

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From the point of view of the School, the scheme has been a great success, and locally, too, it has been greeted with enthusiasm.

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E. HUNKIN.

At the present time Sixth Forms are expected to choose (.heir careers at a much earlier age than ever before. Another problem by which schools are now confronted is, therefore, that of giving as wide experience as possible to their Sixth Forms in order that each girl may become conscious^ of her own potentialities and inclinations, and so be able to choose her career rightly. . To meet this demand Miss Matthews thought of a scheme as enterprising as it has been successful.

For the past three terms the Upper Sixth have been occupied for one day a week in jobs in the town and neighbourhood of Calne. These have been of widely divergent character. The work was done in pairs in Harris" Laboratory, Derry Hill Junior School, Yatesbury Camp Hospital Library, and in a House Property Management Office at Corsham; three girls worked on a farm near Hilmarton and one taught in Calne Central .School.

By this experiment we have widened our outlook and gained practical experience of conditions and subjects normally outside the School curriculum. The work itself, though necessarily slight, was satisfying because it was of real use by relieving the permanent staffs for more important duties. The benefit was not confirjed only to the Sixth Form itself, for the whole School was influenced by the influx of new interests and the contact tnade with the outside world.

C. LIVINGSTONE. P. PEDLEY.

LECTURES OF THE YEAR The lectures this year have taken us to all parts of the world: to the Mediterranean, the Far East, Europe, India, Russia, and the Pacific.

In the Autumn Term, Sir Edward Jackson gave us a most thrilling picture of the heroic defence of Malta; and later we learnt with interest a great deal about Medical Missionary Work in China from Mary's father, Dr. Lees. We were also privileged to hear Mr. Will : nk's address to the Calne Branch of Toe H, and we were-"deeply moved by Pastor Karle's talks on the Christian Church in Germany.

We want to thank Mile. Antoine for her inspiring lecture on " The Dawn of Romanticism in French Literature," to the Upper School,

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During the Lent Term Sir Granville Ram made, with great skill, the rather heavy and intricate subject of '' Administering Justice Indifferently," entertaining and comprehensible even to the dullest mind. His whole lecture was much enlivened by his animated illustrations and amusing anecdotes.

The following term, we were glad to welcqme Mr. Donald Grant once more. This time he spoke on Russia and Japan, summing up most aptly the development of their international positions.

MALTA

It is not everyone who has the privilege of listening to the Lieutenant-Go vernor of an island fortress in the front line of battle, only ten days after he has flown home from it; still less is it everybody who has the privilege of hearing a great man speak with dignity, clarity and sincerity on a great theme. Yet we enjoyed,both when Sir Edward Jackson came to tell us about MaltaWe heard the island's history since the beginning of the war; how, after three weeks of desultory bombardment by the Italians the Maltese tasted real danger with the German attacks (although, to their credit, the enemy has always kept to military objectives), how the defence's were at first negligible, yet the spirit remained unbroken ; how they cheerfully evacuated the danger zones, and settled down without a murmur under new and uncomfortable conditions; how convoys run indescribable risks in taking supplies, now desperately needed, through to the fortress. Yet they are still taken and Malta still holds out.

All this and more we heard, and no one could have remained unmoved by so unaffected an account of hardship and heroism; no one could have failed to be heartened by such a proof of the continued existence of sanity, sense of proportion, and cheerful fortitude E. HUNKIN. TROWBRIDGE COUNTY COUNCIL MEETING

Since the famous " Greek Week," which has been followed up by several " interludes," we have had a French week and then a Housing and Town Planning week, Our most recent week on Local Government resembles the latter, in that it tackles a vital post-war problem of international interest and importance, but we have been fortunate enough to- do what iv has been impossible to do before—to precede the week by practical preparation—for on May 25th Miss Matthews took three of the Upper VI to Trowbridge to hear how a County Council meeting is conducted* The first thing that impressed us was the magnificent modern Countv Hall.

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centre of the middle floor, and as we walked down the long corridor-off which opened beautifully furnished committee ropms, we watered people converging on this central point from all directions—brisk young men with despatch cases, wise directors, and competent secretaries carrying ledgers and sheaves of paper.

'Punctually at 11.15 am- the meeting began, and the Marquess of .Bath was unanimously elected Chairman for the thirty-eighth time. We saw why clearly when he began to preside. He had all the drive and efficiency of the young and the experience of the old, and though he dealt with the business at great speed, there were always opportunities for contrary opinions, to be put forward. We soon realised that the speed was only possible because of all the work in committee behind the scenes.

One of the most interesting and^strongly supported propositions was that of having a Rural Community Centre in Wiltshire to meet the needs "of youth, and of the adult population.

After lunch we were very lucky to hear Lord Woolton speak, He was most clear and interesting,.and when he told us that he is now planning for 1945 and onwards, and of the co-operation he was receiving from the Empire, we felt that the future health of England was in sure hands.

L. C. LIVINGSTONE. GREEK INTERLUDE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT LECTURES After the flurry of examinations, we ended the Summer Term on a more original note, and made the last week a time in which we followed up the interests awakened during " Greek Week ' and " Housing and Planning Week " by a further Greek " Interlude," and by a series of lectures which cleared up many of our sketchy ideas about Local Government. This subject bad been touched on in " Housing and Planning Week " just enough to stimulate our interest, and to make us begin to realise the great part Eocal Government plays in the plahs for democratic government in the future. • In the Greek Interlude we had three lectures. The first lecturer, a representative of the Greek Legation, Dr. Lampridis, gave us an "entirely new way of looking at the various sides of Ancient Greek life in her spirited account of her country to-day. We were also able to renew our acquaintance with Mr. Barton, who gave us' two wonderful lectures on the Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece, which, combined with the other lecture, helped us to understand how the spirit of Ancient Greece has survived the oppressions of many and still lives in the Greece of to-day.

We also had three lectures about Local Government, taking three of the functions of the local authorities.

Dr. Jean Murray, one of the Medical Officers for Wiltshire, talked to us about the work done by the County Council for Public Health, and our old friend Mr. Littlecott told jus more about our educational system, especially from the point of view of the local authorities. • He mentioned the Government White Paper on Education, of which we have heard so much recently, showing us how it will affect the local authorities.

Lastly, Mr. Jones, the County Treasurer, in his talk on County Finance, cleared up the rather hazy ideas some of us had about rates and taxes, and also showed us how all the county services are interdependent.

These lectures have given us all a great deal to think about, and have made us keen to read .more about the subjects, and later, if possible, to take part in local government ourselves.

E. WILLINK.

CONTACTS WITH OTHER SCHOOLS It will not be till after the war that we resume all our contacts with friends who are separated by a distance greater than we can manage to pedal on our bicycles. We have not, however, lost contact with our nearer friends, among whom we number Westonbirt, - Maryborough, Buckswood Grange; the Godolphin, and Chippenham Secondary School.

We were delighted to entertain Ann Martin and Barbara Michell. two Godolphin prefects, for a night. There is always such a good welcome awaiting those who are fortunate enough to visit the Godolphin when taken to Salisbury by Miss Matthews. Some of Buckswood Grange have been to St. Mary's for tea, and were entertained by the " Seven O'Clocks." They also came to " Much Ado." Six members of the Upper VI went to Buckswood Grange Sports—a most enjoyable afternoon. Westonbirt is the only school left to challenge us to Lacrosse and Tennis. We thoroughly enjoyed their performance of the " Betrothal Scene " from " Lady Precious Stream." We hope they enjoyed " Much Ado." Among the greatest treats of the year were .the Concerts at Chippenham Secondary School. One was an Orchestral Concert conducted by Reginald Jacques, the other a Violin Recital by Arthur Catterall. All who went were thrilled by the performances.

Besides the annual visit of " The Casuals " and the visits of brothers, the head girl and second head girl went to Marlborough with Miss Nesbitt for the night to see their Centenary Cavalcade.

The whole organisation and production was most impressive. The boys were perfect hosts, and we saw round the school and attended morning Chapel.

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OUTSIDE INTERESTS At the end of the Summer Term. 1942, twelve of us went to an S.P.G. Conference held at Oxford. We spent a most instructive week in lovely surroundings, discussing- and having lectures on Missionary work in Africa, India and Chipa. Among the speakers were Bishop Dauglish, Sir John Hubback, and Dr. Gilbert Russell, besides many of the resident staff, and much to our joy Brother Charles was the Chaplain. We cannot thank Mrs. Glossop (Janet's mother) enough for the lovely week she organised. Several people are hoping to go again this year.

In the Christmas Term Calne Branch of Toe H invked the Prefects to an Open Meeting.

After we had sung some hilarious songs, Mr. Willink addressed the meeting. This was followed by a solemn and impressive ceremony'of lighting the lamps.

The Upper VI have been very fortunate in being able to keep up their Civilian Days throughout the year, thus providing them with plenty of outside interest in different spheres, working1 on the land, teaching in an Infant School, and helping in the R.A.F. Camp library.

In the Easter holidays eight members of the Vth and Vlth Ijprms went to the Turkish House, or " Halkevi." Halkevi means " people's house,", and this one in London is the only one in this country. The Turkish Secretary, Ali Riza Sencah, gave a short talk telling us about the Halkevi, here and in Turkey. Sir Wyndham Deedes was introduced. He gave a talk, illustrated with a film, on life in Modern Turkey. After this talk we looked at the rooms of the house containing photographs of sports and agriculture in Turkey, and carpets.

We thoroughly enjoyed the whole afternoon.

M. Tidman.

B. Chapman.

A. Wallace.

MUSIC AND ART OF THE YEAR Although there have not been very many outside concerts this year, owing to ÂŁhe war, the interest and love of music in the School seems to be growing steadily.

Miss Shulamith Shafir, whom we enjoyed so much last, year, gave us another brilliant concert in the Autumn Term, which was very much appreciated by the whole School.

Some of the seniors were fortunate in being able to go to Chippenham.to hear a concert given in the Secondary School by the Jacques' String Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Jacques, who is well known to the past and some of the present members of the School. The concert left us full of memories of the exquisitely played music by Handel, Boyce and Mozart.

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During the Autumn Term hard and energetic work was put into producing- the Festival Cantata. This Cantata is a collection of songs and orchestral music by Bach and Handel.

We were lucky to be able to have Mr. Le Fleming again to conduct our music festival.

Mr. and Mrs Stokes gave us another most enjoyable song recital in the Spring Term.

In the Summer Term Mr. and Mrs. Newman and Miss Mary Saunders gave us a lovely concert, consisting of violin and soprano solos.

Anne Wood, one of our most distinguished old girls, came to visit the School in the Lent Term. She sang to us in the evening in a concert which, was most hastily got up for her benefit.

Our termly School concerts have reached a high standard, and special mention must be matte of the two original pieces of work, an excellent Rondo, composed by Penelope Ram and performed by P. Chadwick (violin), R/Whiffen (flute), A. Wallace ('cello), and P. Ram (piano); and the Rigandon (for violin and piano), composed bv Anne Ree. In the Autumn Term the Company Art Competition took place as usual. This years it was won by Moberly. The subjects for illustration were " Feeding the Ducks " and '' Building the Ark ''; some very good entries were sent in for the latter.

The Summer Term provided scope for posters during " Wings for Victory " Week and for " Founders' Day." In the " Victory " Week the Form rooms and the Red Hall were decorated with posters of the most patriotic type, and " Squander Bugs " of various sizes and in various attitudes glared out at us from hidden corne'rs.

On Founders' Day many good posters were done advertising '' Much Ado about Nothing.''

In the Sixth Forms, oil painting, pastel drawing and woodcuts have been tried with success. We hope this will continue.

Many thanks are due to Miss Seccombe, Miss Williams, and Miss *Nesbitt for all they have done for the music of the School during the past year. They all put'untiring work into the Cantata, and Miss Williams, through sheer perseverance, made the incidental music of " Much Ado'" a success.

Miss Harris has done wonders for the Art of the School, and has organised sketching parties and book-binding 'for the " tired " library books, which have been beautifully mended under her guidance.

P. Chadwick.

R. Strode.

. We are most grateful to Miss Petersen for her kind help in judging the Art Competition. The result .was as follows : i, Moberly; 2, Poore; 3, Grosstete; 4, Edmund Rich; 5, Osmond.

GENERAL CRITICISM The general standard was high, and most pictures-did their job of filling a given space. A very common fault was a lack of unity in a picture—too dften there were a great many objects scattered about the page entirely disconnected with each other. The use of bull-rushes and of clouds should be mentioned; there were too many examples of clumps of bullrushes being used to fill up empty corners. The clouds were very often heavy bun-shaped objects, more solid than anything^ else in the picture. It should be stressed that Moberly won not on the merits of its large pictures, but on the sincerity of the small ones. The. best jpictures in the competition were those which have a quality of things having been actually seen and felt—that is, after all, the job of the artist.

" MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING " We were fortunate in having really lovely weather for the performances on July 2nd and 3rd of " Much Ado about Nothing," which was given by the School on the Chapel lawn.

After the low standard of the Company plays we rather hesitated about attempting anything so ambitious, and it required a very great deal of coaching to bring the acting up to the required level.

By the tjme the performance was reached, however, the actors entered into their parts with an infectious enjoyment which gave a feeling of spontaneity and freshness to this difficult play. All those taking part are to be commended for the clearness with which they spoke, and for the way in which they sustained their characters throughout. This was especially noticeable as they walked on and off the stage. , Octavia Mayhew and Janet Fraser deserve special mention for their rendering of Claudio and Leonato, and Margaret Chadwick thoroughly entered into the spirit of Dogberry with all his pompous and worthy self-esteem, to which the quavering decrepitude of Verges (Ann Ball) made *an,. excellent foil. Janet Gldssop's quiet interpretation of Hero was in good contrast to Valerie Rodd's spirited, if somewhat immature, Beatrice; while Mary Tidman gave variety and life to the exacting part of Benedick.

The Elizabethan spirit of the play was considerably helped by the introduction of a Pavan, a Galliard, and an unaccompanied part-song. The orchestra provided a most effective background in the incidental music of Edward German.

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THE SHAKESPEARE COMPETITION The standard of the lower Forms showed improvement on that of last year, but it was disappointing' that there were not more who reached a really high standard. There was a very big drop between the winning Form and all the others. There are some outstanding and avoidable faults—such as talking to the back of the stage, or apparently sinking into a stupor when not actually speaking!

Upper V (i) and Upper V (2} were to be commended, especially O. Mayhew and A. Wallace in the former, J. Fraser, J. Salmon, and V. ,Rodd in the latter.

The Upper VI's production of Othello was exceptionally well done. The right atmosphere of growing tension and suspense was created at the beginning, and increased with dramatic effect right throug-h the performance.

Mary Tidman as Othello was very good indeed; her performance showed restraint and perception. Penelope Ram's Desdemona was good on the whole, improving towards the end. Elizabeth I-Iunkin made an excellent Emilia, and her death scene was particularly well done. Joan Campbell was a little disappointing as lago, chiefly because we so frequently could not hear her distinctly.

The introduction was clever and well managed, Celia Livingstone speaking very ; well.

The actual scene of the murder was most effective and very well produced. These were difficult scenes, presented with real understanding and great dramatic effect.

FINAL ORDER 1. Upper VI—Othello.

2. Upper V (2)—Henry VIII. 3. Upper V (i)—King John.

4. Upper IV—Julius Caesar.

5. VI—Henry IV and V. - Lower V East—As You Like It. 7. Lower IV—Midsummer Night's Dream.

8. Lower V East—The Winter's Tale.

COMPANY PLAYS It was disappointing that the general standard of acting and productibn was a great deal lower than in former years.

This may have been due in part to the measles epidemic, but it was not entirely so.

Osmund and Edmund Rich's production of the " Knight of the' Burning Pestle " was the most satisfactory of the three. The play was well cast, and had life, and continuity.

O. Mayhew made a spirited Ralph, and V. Rodd spoke well

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as Luce. R. Whiffen had some good moments as Merrythought, and sang delightfully, but her conception of the part was not sufficiently lively or robust. Janet Fraser did very well in the difficult part of Venturewell. M. Tidman spoke the; prologue extremely well, but her,rendering of Jasper was rather too intense, and lacked the necessary lightness of touch. M. Grace was well cast as Humphrey, and brought out her points clearly. Some smaller parts were not always audible, and Ann Hall spoilt the»Citizen's Wife by too squeaky a voice, though in other respects her characterisation was extremely good. On the whole, an enjoyable performance which showed understanding 'of Elizabethan style and methods of production.

Poore and Moberly produced " Miss Elizabeth Bennett ";' this was really too ambitious a choice.

Almost the entire effect is dependent on the perfection of the dialogue and requires considerable skill in timing. P. Pedley played Miss Bennett very well, and managed i.he difficult love scenes with Darcy skilfully. The latter was played by A. Wallace, who showed understanding of the character up to a paint, but was too apt to empha'sise the unpleasant characteristics, without suggesting the underlying good qualities, or the essential reserve and extreme sensibility of the man. M. Chadwick did extremely well as Mrs. Bennett, and did much to enliven the tedious domestic stene. C. Livingstone as Lady de Burgh did well in a part which she had to fill at short notice.

R. Willink showed some feeling for character as Mr. Collins, . but Mr. Bennett, played by E. Willink, was disappointing.

We never sensed his underlying kindliness and understanding, nor could we really chuckle with him in his humorous moments.

Much more could have been made of this part. The whole play would have been better shortened. There was evidence of considerable thought in the preparation of this play, but it was really too difficult.

Grostete's " A Kiss for Cinderella " was the most disappointing.

Where was the whimsical Barrie touch—the "qi^aint humou£—the pathos?

There were very few good points. P. Ram showed some understanding- of Cinderella, but she was not really suited to the part, and it lacked simplicity, also she did not really know her words, which was quite inexcusable. The refugee children did well, and played their parts with spirit. C. McCance never approached the policeman of our dreams—the part should not have been burlesqued in this way. Both she and R. Strode as Mr. Bodie were obviously trying to be funny, and so destroyed completely the natural humour of their parts. The ballroom scene was a travesty of the author's intention—it was not quaint,

whimsical, dream-like. E. Hunkin spoke^ well as Dr. Bodie, and D. Nicholson and G. Pinckney did quite well also in \he last scene, which was certainly the most convincing in this otherwise disappointing performance.

B.N. PEADING COMPETITION The "standard of reading was very high, and it was particularly good to see the great improvement individually since last year—very good, also, that no one had to be relegated to Qlass III. The finalists all read well, though there is still a tendency with some people to keep too level a pitch in long selections. In unseen reading many do not look far enough ahead, and so tend to break the sentences up into short jerky sections. In the preliminary reading a lack of rhythm was also a noticeable fault, particularly with the Juniors, but there was improvement in this by the Finalists.

Elizabeth Thomas and Elizabeth Groves are specially to be mentioned for the very high standard they reached. As will be seen by the results given below, the Picture was won by Edmund Rich. We were most grateful to Mrs. -Gotch for nelping to judge.

READING Poore

Edmund Rich

Grosstete

Osmund

Moberly

Badge:

C. Livingstone 3. Fraser J. Parsons E. Groves

M-. Tidman.

V. Rodd

E. Thomas

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Class I: E. Willink M. Chadwick

A. Maclean

Class I I : B Gale M. Henderson C. fforde S. Gregory

P. Chadwick M. Crace J. Trower A. Eraser

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M. Taylor M. Lees (J)P. Harvey J. Salmon (J)

J. Glossop E. Strode JÂť Chase M. Hale E. Hallward E. Brickdale O. Mayhew D. Nicholson (J) C. Congreve (J)E. Harvey A. Morris (J) S. Taylor N. Cunliffe (J) 42

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THE LIBRARY The Library continues to be a source of delight to the whole School, who use it constantly and carefully. The shelves are very full now, as between 50 and 100 books are added each term, and despite appeals from Salvage Officers we can find almost no books that are unworthy of their place in .the Library.

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Girls' Association g^ve us a cheque for ^25 on the Seventieth Bijthday to be spent on books or pictures. So far a decision has not been reached as to the best way to spend all the money, but we are hoping to buy a fourteenth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

We are very grateful for presents from: Miss Alexander, the Archdeacon, J. Blathwayt, Miss Broome, S. Eyre, Mrs. fforde, Mr. Fortescue-Brickdale, Miss Freke, Mrs. Crotch, Mrs. Grant v Mrs. Henderson, Col. the Hon. M. HoreRuthven, Mrs. Hughes, Miss Milne, Miss Morrison, Mrs. Nicholson, P. Ram, Miss Thouless, T. Tidman, M. Waterfield, Miss Wise, Dr. and Mrs. Lees.

A.M.H. It is sad indeed to "think that Miss Hedley's Librarianship is now at an end. Since Miss Alexander left us Miss Hedley has given most devoted service to the Library, and she takes with her to her new work our very heartiest thanks and our hope that before long some other school may gain, as greatly as we have gained, from her skilled Librarianship.

E.M.M.

NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY REPORT. Presidents: Miss Aubrey and Miss Thouless.

Head: S. Eyre (Autumn); E. Burra (Spring); A. Brown (Summer).

Bird Secretary: A. Brown, A. Wallace (Summer). Flower Secretary: M. Westmacott. Insect Secretary: R. Whiffen,' M. Taylor. Pond Life Secretary: A. Butler.

The Natural' History Society is now two and a-half years old, and is still growing and flourishing; we have now sixty members, some of whom are extraordinarily keen.

The Natural History Society Room is much used, and the library is growing—thanks to the generosity of Old Girls. The secretaries keep detailed diaries and card indexes of our observations, which it is hoped will be of use to future generations.

Not only do the observation books show that the N.H.S. is alive, there have been many expeditions and supper picnics to Bowood, as well as a most successful bicyclers' expedition to the Downs. We have not been able to get much outside help, though Mr. Pierson, of Maryborough College N.H.S., has given us much advice. We also hired a lantern lecture, which was read by one of our members and much enjoyed.

Most of our work has, of necessity, to be done in the grounds, where there wa's an enormous starling roost for several weeks, and where we have seen grey wagtails, nut-

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hatches, greater spotted woodpeckers and long-tailed tits, while members have made most interesting- observations, such as seeing a golden ondle near Bude, and watching a Peregrine Falcon nesting on Salisbury Cathedral, in the holidays. The .flower section has noticed a great increase in the number of bee orchids on the Downs, where fragrant and butterfly orchids were also found. Helleborine, hare's-foot clover, and purple loosestrife are some of the most interesting flowers that we have found. The insect section has at last come ou.t of its chrysalis and has been very active this term; it found a humming bird hawk moth in the herbaceous border, and a light emerald butterfly in Bowood.

This has been a very successful year, and we are expecting next October a visit from Mr. Eric Hosking, our founder, which is sure to stimulate our interest.

A. BROWN. THE THREE " FROLICS " O Muse, attend, draw near, and lend thine aid, Or e'er the vision of these glories fade— For we acclaim the prowess and renown Of each who has received the victor's crown.

Atlanta's speed, Athene's wisdom clear, Have each their place in-this our humbler sphere, Are echoed thrice within one brilliant year.

The first success, for those, we must relate, Who have attained their school certificate.

'Full four and twenty scholars did contest; And four and twenty were! with honours blest. •> Such triumphs must hot lightly pass away, And so we mark them with a holiday. " What next? " The eager hearers well may ask— We celebrate a yet more glorious task, More Herculean labours we applaud, -Two Exhibitions gained, at Oxenford.

These Laurel crowns make other glories pall, Before those gained at Lady Margaret Hall.

But not alone in fields of mind and brain A scholarship 'tis possible to gain.

For athlete's skill e'en now may find a place Combined with-speed, precision, and.with grace The prowess of one scholar was repaid.

When Bedford at her feet its tribute laid.

Each victor then we fitly must acclaim, And pay our homage to each worthy name.

Thus, we rejoice when gifts like these appear To celebrate three frolics in one year.

M. G. LEES. A. AGNEW.

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TWO FROLICS St. Mary's Frolics are such memorable occasions, and they have played such an important part in the Spring Term, that they deserve a place to themselves in the " News Sheet."

The first one, on February 22nd, was a School Certificate Frolic. Because of our one hundred per cent, successes the whole day was free, and many people, took out picnic lunches, but the high moments were from tea onwards.

Over the remains of a Miss-Jacksbn-feast, speeches were made, and amid cheering and laughter certificates were presented to the victors and those who had taught them. Nor was this the end. . In the Hall afterwards all joined in an .orgy of Frolicking—from Musical bumps and a pantomime to a Brains' Trust. As,Miss Matthews would say: " Dulce est desipere in loco! '' Then,, just to prove that such festivities do no harm to school work, E. Stamper and R. Willink won Exhibitions to Lady Margaret Hall and thereby earned another Frolic.

Again, we had a whole holiday and a magnificent tea. The climax of the day was the reading of a congratulatory poem by the Staff, followed by the crowning of the scholars with laurel wre'aths, and a presentation of rewards to all concerned in their achievements.

A Frolic is a lovesome thing, God wot . .

E. HUNKIN.

A MEDLEY OF MEASLEY MEMORIES Hot and spotty in the darkness In a Black-hole of Calcutta, Endless cough and fever mixture, We still recoiled from bread and butter.

Chorus.

Matt bounces around, she won't be downed; The Staff are dauntless; the germs frustrated; What need for us to be cremated?

When awakened from the coma.

Scarcely able yet to think, All that we can now remember Was unending drink, drink, dripk,— Lemonade and Barley-water, Orangeade and tea, Milk and soda by the gallon.

Teetotallers, are we?

NO! for we indulged in cocktails, " Black Marketers " are they, From the mouths of babes and sucklings This juice was snatched away.

Chorus.

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These ambrosial tnugs of nectar Came and went at such a speed.

Can it be the Staff were standing In a chain to meet our need!-' Greenwood, Weetman, Amphlett, Nesbitt, Freke and Cridland, Sister, too; Matt, attired in bedroom slippers, And Miss Thouless bathing- you, Hedley, Bowden, Seccombe, reading; Wirelesses were blaring forth, Jigsaw puzzles, games of patience, Stayed the fiend of boredom's wrath.

Chorus.

Now we're getting much more lively.

And the major item's food, Eggs and fruit and stodge in platefuls, Boiled, baked, roasted, hashed and stewed.

Chorus.

Now great advance—a reading ration, Half-an-hour a day—no more (?)

Apd then we read the '' Measlania '' Published by a Vlth Form corps.

Puzzles, jokes and funny stories, Letters to the Editor, " Auntie Ronnie's Kosv Korner " A noble uaper to be sure!

Chorus.

Cautious, careful convalescing, Tonic (taken every time?).

Then to show that we'd recovered We produced a Measlers' Mime.

Chorus.

To those who blanket-bathed and fed us To those who washed up undismayed, THANK YOU—WE ENJOYED our measles, What gfeater tribute can be paid?

Chorus E. BURRA. E. STAMPER.

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COMPANY REPORTS The most prominent Company activity has been the production of three plays. Edmund Rich and Osmund produced "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," by Beaumont and Fletcher. Poore and Moberly acted A. A. Milne's " Miss Elisabeth Bennett," and Grosstete Barrie's " A Kiss for Cinderella." Considering the overwhelming epidemic of measles the last three companies are to be congratulated, because from day to day the parts had to be re-alloted.

In order to take a more active part in war work, Thursday evenings have been given up to knitting for the Forces, and that with really excellent results, while the Company Staff have taken it in turns to read aloud frivolous books.

We want to wish all the Companies good luck, and to thank the Staff for all they have done. Special thanks are due to Dr. and Mrs. Martin for the beautiful little Cup they have presented for Junior Company Netball.

S. Wmser Edmund Rich Grosstete R. Wheeler Poore C. Livingstone Osmund M. Tidman (O. Mayhew) Moberly B. Chapman WINNERS OF COMPETITIONS, 1941—1942

Edmund Rich ... Netball Shooting.

Poore ... Marking (19432).

Grosstete ... Cricket. Marking (J9431).

Flower Cup. Osmund ... Netball.

Moberly .V. Art.

Redman

LACROSSE AND NETBALL REPORT A great stimulus has been given to our play this season by the coaching of our new Games' Mistress, Miss Cridland, who has played for the Midlands, and is a| reserve for the English' tealn. It £s certainly due to her coaching and play that the standard of Lacrosse has been raised. In the first team defence combination has improved beyond all recognition, but rather too often it was a case of " the last hope."

Amongst the attacks there has been some very good passing. Both the second and first team have been successful in their matches, only losing one. Enthusiasm, particularly amongst the juniors, has grown considerably—-it has been a good season.

Netball has been a sad series of might-have-beens. We have not even got a Netball team. The one match of the

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season was valiantly provided by the Staff, who played an Upper VI team. Osmund won the Senior Company Netball, but the Junior Company Netball was cancelled because of measles.

E. Stamper, P. Pedley, M. Tidman, A. Wallace and A. Brown are to be congratulated on winning their Lacrosse colours.

P. PEDLEY. M. TIDMAN.

CRICKET AND TENNIS In spite of the shortage of tennis ballls we have not, like Benedick, had to give our beards to sfuff tennis balls; on the contrary the courts have been worn bare!

We have played only four outside matches. The ist team v. a W.A.A.F. team, which we won 108—37 games, and a ist, and and junior v. Westonbirt, in which, the 2nd and junior teams were both beaten by five matches to four after a close and exciting match; the ist team was left unfinished at three sets all. We have had some very good games in Form matches and American tournaments. We also had a strenuous and exciting match against the Staff, which the School won, and some of the Staff played in two very successful tournaments arranged by Miss Cridland.

Form Tennis was won by the Upper VI after a- thrilling match with Lower V East.' The Senior Singles were won

by E. Willway and the Junior by S. Tidbury.

Tennis Colours were won by A. Brown.

We were very proud to be chosen by Miss Marjorie Pollard and Mr. Creek for a visit on behalf of the B.B.C. as they wished to broadcast a comparison between girls' and boys' cricket. After we had played for some time Miss Pollard and Miss Cridland had an innings, and we were, thrilled to see the ball flying for " sixes " time and again. On June 5th we listened" to very instructive comments on the wireless and thought we had been let off very lightly 1 Company Cricket reached a higher standard than usual, and was won by Grosstete after a tense match with Moberly.

We had an enjoyable game with the Casuals from Marlborough, which ended in a lively game of " tip and run."

Cricket Colours were won by O. Mayhew.

Endless trouble has been taken by Miss Cridland to improve the coaching and umpiring, and the Umpire tests were revived this term. Badges were won by E. Willink and O. Mayhew.

A. BROWN. O. MAYHEW.

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OLD GIRLS' SUPPLEMENT OFFICERS OF THE OLD GIRLS'- ASSOCIATION President—Miss Matthews.

Vice-Presidents—Miss Alexander and Miss Jennings.

Chairman—I. C. Martin, VVoodham Lodge, Addlestone, Surrey.

Treasurer—M. W. Godden.

Chettle Lodge, Chettle, Blandford, Dorset, Secretary—D. E. Homfray (Waller), Castleton House, Sherborne, Dorset.

Groups— I. Secretary. Miss A. Frayling, Cloverdown, Salterton Koad, Exmouth.

II. Secretary. Katlfleen Yerbury (Beach), 91, Kenihvorth Court, S.W.15.

III. Secretary. Janet Blaxter (Hollis), Porthallow, Frithesden Copse, Berkhampstead, Herts., IV. Secretary. Gladys Beale, The Yews, Minchinhampton, Glos.

V. Secrerary. Marjorie Thyune, Hampton Dene, Hereford.

VI. Secretary. Bridget Gardiner, Stokeclift'e, Dartmouth, S. Devon.

VII. Secretary. Brenda Kirke,' Tanglin, Lynch Eoad, Farnham, Surrey.

VIII. Secretary. Ailie Harrison (Sarjeant), The Dower House, Ben Bhydding, Yorkshire.

IS. Secretary. Meriall Patey, Wolborough House, Newton Abbot, Devon.

X. Secretary. Diana Butler, 31, St. Stephen's Eoad, Cheltenham.

XI. Secretary. Laura Attlee, 24, High Street, Eton, Windsor, Bucks.

XII. Secretary. Audrey Fletcher, Oakhurst, Godalming, Surrey.

O.G.A. SECRETARY'S REPORT With another year of war there is little to report of O.G.A. affairs, and the statement of accounts shows no financial activity.

Eleanor Samuelson has resigned from the Secretaryship of Group X, of which she has been in charge since the formation of the- Group in 1938. Diana Butler has taken over the Group, and members of it should make a note of this change.

It is only fitting that the O.G.A. should make some recognition of the School's yoth Birthday, and the problem was how best to do it. I apologise that all Old Girls were not circularised about it in January when subscription forms went out, and for this I take full blame. Later the plan was proposed, and agreed upon almost unanimously by Group Secretaries, that £25 should be given to the School from O.G.A. Funds1 for expenditure this year on books, or pictures, or upon anything else especially required. Ivy Martin presented the cheque to the School on July 2nd. The Chairman, Treasurer, and myself trust that this plan will meet with approval from O.G.'s, and that they will feel that it shows something of the thankfulness which we have for the

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past history of the School, and for the great hopes which we have for its future.

I must add my usual reminder to Group Secretaries to use their News Sheets to check up their records of marriages and changes of address.

D. E. HOMFRAY, Hon. Secretary, O.G.A. O.G.A. ACCOUNTS, 1942-43 RECEIPTS Balance in hand Interest on stock Subscriptions to O.G.A. Subscriptions to U.G.S. .Health Festival Contributions Subscriptions to News Sheet ...

Subscriptions to Building Fund

£

S. d.

84 8 35 14

6 8 3 10 0 0 11 0

17 7 0 13 19 0 16 17 6

£190 5 0

EXPDNDITUEE.

Postage Expenses Subscriptions to U.G.S. Do. News Sheet Do. Building Fund ...

O.G.A. Birthday present to St. Mary's ...

Purchase of 3% Defence Bonds Balance ... .,.

£ s. d.

5 16 31 18 13 19 16 17 25 0 0 30 0 66 U

£190 5 •:

NEWS OF OLD GIRLS As will be seen below we are again economising as far as possible in space, so we are not giving individual news of Old Girls, but we are printing as comprehensive a list as possible of what they are doing. Many cannot come under any Jheading, but we know how valiantly they are bearing their part in these days when " home life " is surely the hardest work of all, especially where there are young children and no domestic help. It is thrilling to read of all our new " Grandchildren." One can only imagine the courage and enterprise with which they are being cared for. How, for example, can Gladys Helder (Burnett) bring up her quartet, without even an hour's help a day ! But her letters—like those of all the other young mothers-*—are a real joy : they are written with such optimism and" spirit And how can Ursula Robinson (Robins), Margery Scott (Parker) and others have carried on with their multifarious duties while in such doubt as to the fate of their husbasds in the Far East? We are filled with admiration for them all.

It is very tempting to quote at length from many of the wonderfully interesting letters that have reached us !

Katherine Brichta tells us of the "Christmas Story " that Patricia Frank (McCormick) has now produced for several years in her husband's Church in Toronto; " just as it was produced at St. Martin's : it means a tremendous amount of work for Patricia—but is already becoming quite a tradition in Toronto. The Church was packed for every performance, and hundreds were turned away." Patricia is to be

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congratulated on the birth of her third child, Rebecca, Katherine's God-daughter.

Katherine has also met Margaret Rowcliffe (Farringdon), who is in Toronto with her children. " Needless to say she, Patricia and I found plenty to talk about." Bunty Murray (Neatby) writes from the Secretariat, Kaduna. She reached Lagos in November, 1941, and she and her husband are working in the Administrative Office of the Northern Provinces Secretariat. She has been gazetted as Confidential Clerk, her husband being one of the Assistant Secretaries. " I am having a unique opportunity of learning about Colonial Administration, and I find it very interesting." Lesly Denison (Wollen) wrote delightful accounts from Barakat, Sudan, of her little Nicholas. Myfanwy Koch (Jenkins) writes from South Rhodesia. Her husband has been stationed at The Range, Enkeldoorn, a hundred miles from Salisbury. She was full of pride in her Humphrey David—born in July, 1942. Leila Suffrin is a splendid correspondent.

She wrote from Tripoli, where her hospital was in tents, in a very sandy spot, set among the gum trees. She was only 12 miles from Ruth Matthews. " We meet whenever possible to go for a swim and a picnic on the beach—the sea here is lovely, so clear and cool, and a lovely firm sandy beach. We are very well fed.'' Leila is engaged to! be married. Barbara Marjoribanks Egerton (Chambers) wrote in February : " I -am just back in England again after four years seven months in Malta. I had an eleven weeks' journey home and wast torpedoed en route, and spent 30 hours in an open boat before being picked up by the R.N. Our actual war experiences in Malta weren't anything to boast about, but I was there for 26 months' constant air attacks."

We were delighted to have a special St. Luke's Day greeting from Hilary Riley. in Salisbury, S. Rhodesia.

She is beginning her training as a nurse. We hear of several Old Girls in Washington—Arminel Rolls (Conybeare) on Censorship work; Carol Hall, a W.R.E.N.; Molly Crawley (Durst) and her children. Another W.R.E.N., E. Fortescue Brickdale, wrote from Algiers; two more—M. Hulbert and E. Remingtoa-Wilson—have met in N. Ireland. We are very proud of Barbara Mitchell, who is Squadron Officer at Melksham. It must seem strange to her with so exalted a position to find herself " just an Old Girl " on her visits to St. Mary's!

Please write to us at once, to Miss Matthews, or to Miss Alexander (17, Beech Avenue, Sanderstead, Surrey) if you notice any inaccuracy for yourself or a friend in the lists we give. And please do send us news of yourself. It is always welcome !

E.M.M. E.M.A.

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W.R.N.S. DOCTORS L. Attlee* I. Cant (Martineau) S. Barnes L. Cooke N. Benson* J. Malins (Hughes) A. Browne* (Whiffen) B, Robertson (Leigh A.T.S. M. Burdett Mallory) C. Brackenridge* J. Cameron* B Combes M. Chadwick N U R S I N G & MASSAGE M. Combes x . Clarke J. Combes E. FortescuerBrickdale V. Ashworth R. Durie (N. Africa)C. Baker M. Fabian (Merrett) J. Foster A. Barnes G. Fleetwood Jones* M. Gough K. Barton A. Garrad J • Beighton P. Gibson (South Africa) N. Hale C. A. Hall* K. Blair J , Grover C. D. Hall* (U.S.A.) P. Bomford N. Gwatkin* P. Hall (S. Africa) L. Carleton J. Hindley A. Harris A. Carver E. Jardine M. Harris* V. Catesby (Evans) S. Jefferis C Harvey J- Chadwick E. Jephson R. Hay M. Cole M. Lake K. Hill* R- Conybeare D. Mobbs Y. Hill D. Crosbie P. Nettelfield B. Hindley* G. Clark-Kennedy M. Patey S. Hobson* D. Bde "V* "Pi to* at. 1 : lie B. Hocking J. Field B. Puckle M. Hulbert* B. Gardiner A. G. Roberts* M. Hurst M. Gibson P. Roe D. Eenrick* TJ. Glennie (Paris) ti. Sarjeant A. le Mesurier P. Harrison ». Sheldon* D. Marshall P. Hawkins D. Stephenson* E. Minnis P. Herbert S. Stiles (M.E.) A. Naumann N. Highmore T. Tidman* M. Perry D. Hill J. Warrand A. Pinckney R. Jenner M. Young* P. Prickle V.Jones E. Remington Wilson P. Joy (Overseas) S. Remington Wilson G. Kirby A Fr • n.ni W •A R. Bussell (Overseas) B. Long D. Bach E. Sherwood (Mansergh) R. Matthews (Middle P. Brooke (Philips) M. thynne* East) A. Carter M. Waterfield P. Moss B. Chadwick N. Williams A. Nettelfield H. Cox A. Wilson* (Chenevix F. Nottidge P. Cusack(Angell) Trench) R. Palmer G. Grove* (Turner) P. Preston N. A. A. F.I. ii Riley W. Dallas Ross J. Findlay M. Joy (N. Africa) P. Saxon S. Goodden* A Scott WORKING ON LAND M Sherwood H. Macnab* (Trench) J. Mallock* J. Cole K. Stone M. Martin J. Foster L. Suffrin (Middle East) F. Masters M. Kendall K. Syhge B. Mitchell* I. Martin A. Thomas M. Osman Jones* B. Parry Okeden M. Tuckwell D. Powlett* , M. Price P. Waddilove S. Rotherham (Hayter) Marion Pollock B. Wasley M. Stead R. Thatcher P. Whieldon J. Weller N. Webb M. Whiffen B, Woodmaes P. Wood W. Wotton A.T.A. F. Bragg (Bradford)*

TEACHING RED CROSS Edinburgh A. Harrison (Serjeant) R. Amphlett.

B. Moss (Bacteriology) V. Bailey D. Haviland H. Pullon (Medicine) B. Bannerman (Douglas) Aberdeen M. Hopkins J. Lovell G. Beale E. Bickersteth G. Norman Jones H. Blackadder (Classics) M. Tallents (Penny Fund H. Bridgman Administrative Staff) V. Brown Douglas (N.Z.)Brlst01 M. Taylor (Medicine) B. Butler (County Organiser) Reading FOREIGN OFFICE A. Carter (le Mesurier) C. Ball (Dom. Science) M. Beloe N . Cnase S. Dunlop M. Tidman (Agriculture) J. Collard A. Pegg Royal Academy of Music J. Cooke B. Trevor Lewis P. Dixon B. Chapman P. Waterfall D. Drabble A. H. Plummer BTir-i i Rnn > Vf 11DUU D. Duguid (Duder) A. Eee M. Goodden WAR O F F I C E M. Gooderham TRAINING D. Butler (Matthews) 'B. Glyff-Jones (Dom. B. Kirke C. Griffith (Churchill) Science) E. Kitson J. Hall (Young) M. Harvey (do.)

B McKenzie M. Hort C. Livingstone H. Maxwell-Lefroy O. Kendall (Secretarial) E. Samuelson B. Lutener B. Marsden (Dom. G. Shipley K. Neligan Science) M. Wbieldon C. Norfolk (Gale) J. 'Martin (do.)

Priscilla Wilson D. Owen (Hobbs) P. Pedley (Physical) P. Parry Okeden J. Rhodes (Dom. I N D I A OFFICE M. Steele (Smith) Science) E. Booker K. Trow P. Robinson (do.)

H. Walton J. Turner (Physical) AIR MINISTRY P . Wilson K. Tylden (Art) W. Drayson (Heath) M. Wood E. Wilson (Physical) P. Brentnall /*!!**. nr*

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MINISTRY OF SUPPLY UNIVERSITY J. Kirkcaldy Willis Ojffopd

SOCIAL WORK M. Craft (McCormick) (Clubs) M I N I S T R Y OF ?• Bnjra (Mod. Lang.)

P. Ede (House property A Fletcher E C O N O M i r W E L F A R E (History) h L U N U M I U W t L r A K b p Kidman (Histoi^) management) M. Cairncross (Glynn) A. Wood M. Lees (History) V. Lloyd (Mod. Lanfe.)

V. Carver (Welfare) MUNITIONS J. Priestley (Physics) H. Dillon (Almoner) V. MacDowell E. Stamper (History) (Armstrong) R. Willink (Mod. Greats)C. Dobson (Hoyle) A. Mayhew Cambridge , „„_,.,. rnr.,^.^ E Hunkin (M d A-.

Dyson (do.)

C H E M I C A L RESEARCH ° ' M. Hamersley (do.)

W. Walder (Osman London J. Morris (do.)

Jones), I.C.I. >T- Campbell (Social Science) M. Trask (Blind Welfare) M. Coventon (Do.) CENSORSHIP C. Waldo (Welfare) B. Forescue-Brickdale S. Evans Lawrence (Do.) I. Heywodd NURSERY WORK M. Matthew (Do.) A. Rolls (Conybeare) P. Ram (Do.) J. Blathwayt J. Rutherford (Arts) J. "Drabble ROYAL OBSERVER A. Warrick (Medicine) H. Hewitt CORPS R. Whiff en (Social N. Highmore V. Gillingham Science) R. Hylton Stewart *

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39 SECRETARIAL N.. Dillon (Cooper) p . Gibson P. Bartlett C. Clarke »'•. Hall N. Cole M.. Koch (Jenkins) E. Herz (Griggs) (B.B.C.) E.. Mollliet C. Jarrett (M.O.I.) S.. Randolph O. Matthews (B B.C.) H.. Eilev M. Morement (Admiralty)M:. Savage (Hill) B. Qsman-Jones Sudan B. Philips (Bed Cross) L.. Dennison (Wollen) D. Urwick (B.B.C.) West Africa B.B.C. B . Murray (Neatby) D. Urwick Argentine BUSINESS T> _ T, R. Baker R.. Bnek N. Churchill K'.. Ratcliff (Matthew) G. Dixon Australia D. Lewis p . Hopkins r V. A igel Brown British Honduras (Townshsnd) P. Pocock D . Sainsbury P. Pope Canada OVERSEAS K . Brichta Egypt p . Prank (McCormick; Clift (Allen) fl.. Kirke Littlejohns (Barker) '.. Eowcliffe Halford (Durst) (Parringdon) Nyasaland Ceylon M. Margesson (U.M.C.A.) '.. Arden . Eodale (Betty) South Africa P. Ball (Jenkins) Columbia C. Conwy Morgan (Cobb) P.. Hubbard (Buck)

India E. Bagley (We^taway) V. Briscoe D. Binney (Mallock) L. Cooke A. Gleeson (Bradford^ 3. Mitchell (Hew) J. O'Hara (Bridjman) Jamaica B. Peugelly (Isaacs) V. Evelyn (Eobertson) New Zealand V. Brown Douglas J. Wilberfoss Siam E. Stiitzel (Price) Syria M. Vischer Uruguay G. Scrivener (Croft) C A U .o.A. M. Crawley (Durst) C. Millikan (Leigh Mallory) B. Eobertson (Leigh Mallory) A. Rolls (Conybeare) C. D. Hall

Of the girls who have left during the year :— "Elizabeth Stamper (Head of the School, May, 1942, to March, 1943) is to go up to Lady Margaret Hall. She has been awarded an Exhibition in History.

Mary Tidman (Head of the School, May-July, 1943) is to go to Reading University to read for B.Sc. (Agriculture).

Rachel Willink is to go up to Lady Margaret Hall. She has been awarded an Exhibition in Classics.

Pamela Pedley (Second Head of the School* September, 1942-March, 1943) is to go to 'Bedford .Physical Training College, where she has been awarded a scholarship.

Elizabeth Hunkin is to go to Girton College, Cambridge, to read French and German.

Elizabeth Burra is to go to St. Anne's Oxford, to read French.

Mary Lees is to go to St. Anne's, Oxford, to read History.

Joan Campbell is to go to the London School of Economics to read .for a degree in Economics.

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Barbara Fortescue-Brickdale, Penelope Ram, and. Rosemary Whiffen are to go to Bedford College, London (now in Cambridge), to read for a diploma in Social Science.

Betty Chapman, Ann Heather Plummer, and Anne Ree are to study Music at the Royal Academy.

Ruth Wheeler is hoping to train as a Nurse.

Marygold Congreve is to study Domestic Science at Atholl Crescent.

Celia Livingstone is to take a course in secretarial work at the Whitehall College, where she has won a scholarship.

Jean Martin is at Harcombe House taking a course in Domestic Science. Margaret Harvey is to join her in September.

Jill Rhodes is at Gloucester t School of Domestic Science.

Pat Webb has taken a course of training in Aeronautical Drawing near Reading.

Pat Whieldon is to begin her training at the Wingfield Orthopaedic Hospital, Headington. Diana Rosedale is also hoping to take up nursing.

Molly Lushington is to take a Froebel Training.

Anne Phillips has gone to Cheltenharn Ladies' College.

Christina Ducksbury is going next term to The Godolphin School.

NEWS OF OLD STAFF Miss Alexander was with'us for Founders' Day. She has a very busy home life, as there is no domestic help available. She spends much of her time keeping in touch with Old Girls,- and in keeping the records for the Old Girls' Diary. She is always glad to have news of ahy members of the O.G.A. (17, Beech Avenue, Sanderstead, Surrey.)

Miss Abdy is now living in a flat in Bournemouth (2, Grovely Road).

Sister Ash has been for a year at Sherborne Girls' School, but left there in July.

Mrs. Babington (Montgomery) is now in Ipswich, as her husband has been appointed as Vicar of St. Mary-leTower. â&#x20AC;˘Mrs. Baskett is still teaching in the Downs School, evacuated to St. Ives.

Miss Booth is still working injthe Ministry of Agriculture.

Miss Brown is still teaching in The Skinners' Company School.

Sister Cathrow is still at the Children's Hospital, Westonsuper-Mare.

Miss Chapman is still at Hillwood School, Kandy, Ceylon.

She was acting as head during the furlough of the Headmistress.

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Miss Clephan returned to the teaching profession, as the schools in S. Africa have suffered so much through the war. She has a post in S. Mary Kloof, a Diocesan School 20 miles above Durban. She wrote the most interesting letter about her experiences. She had been teaching 48 periods a week to girls of all ages, and from all countries.

Miss Damant is living at home with her two sisters, and enjoying her work in a Canteen.

Miss Evans is Senior Classics and Divinity . Mistress, and Sixth Form .Mistress at the Alice Ottley School. She is also a G.T.C. Commandant.

Miss Freke has a post under the Wiltshire L.E.A. Mrs. Forrest (Miss Fraser) is to be congratulated on the birth of a second baby.

Miss Frewer is now second mistress at Leed$ Girls' High School.

Miss Gibson is working as organising secretary for the S.P.(Âť. in the Blackburn Diocese.

Miss Goldsmith is teaching at Downham School, Hatfield Heath.

Miss Grover is still teaching at Fernhill Manor School.

Miss Haigh is teaching at The Skinners' School, Tunbridge Wells, and The Convent of the Holy Child, Mayfield.

Mrs. Harris (Miss Snell) is to be congratulated on the birth of her daughter.

Miss Hedley has been appointed to a post at King Edward's School, Birmingham.

Miss Helliwell is returning to London. Since the war she has been with her school first in London and then in Guildford. * Miss Hendry now has a commission in the W.R.N.S. Miss Inglis is now Second Mistress at Childwall Valley High School, Liverpool.

Mrs. Inglis (Miss Maclaclan) had terrible experiences, being evacuated from Malaya with her babies.

Miss Inge has again been in hospital, this time in York.

Miss Angell James is still teaching at Sutton High School.

Miss V. James has given up teaching and is living at home, working in the Ministry of Food.

Miss Jennings is still in Newfoundland. We were delighted to have a cable from her on Founders' Day. Miss Kirkpatrick has been appointed to a post at Queen Anne's School, Caversham.

Miss Milne is now a Chaplain's Assistant in the A.T.S.

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Miss Morrison is Senior History Mistress at the Alice Ottley School, Worcester. She is leaving there at Christmas, however, as she has been appointed as Diocesan Organiser of Religious Education in the Diocese of Adelaide. She is going to St. Christopher's College in January for a term's work, and will sail for Australia as soon as possible after that.

Miss Powell has been appointed to a post at Kensington High School (G.P.D.S.T.).

Miss Wolff iststill on the Staff at Lowther College.

Miss Wilmott is still teaching gymnastics and games at Allerton High School, Leeds.

The following Old Girls have visited the School during the year:â&#x20AC;&#x201D; V. Ashworth?

C. Ball, G. Beale, I. Bowyer (Gough) and her husband and Carol, E. Burra.

J. Campbell, A. Carter, J. Chadwick, B. Clark,,]. Clark, P. Clarke, G. Clark-Kennedy, M. Cowgill (Ogle).

W. Dallas Ross, P. Dixon, G. Dixon, D. Drabble, D. Duguid (Duder), and her husband.

D. Ede. J. Field, J. Findlay, A. Fletcher. E. Fortescue-Brickdale, B. Fortescue-Brickdale.

M. Godfrey, F. Groves (Farnfield) and her husband.

J. Hall (Young), B. Hands, C. Harvey, M. Harvey, G. Henly, J. Howell, j. Hughes (Sorsbie), her husband, Joanna, Katharine and Peter.

V. iones.

V. Lloyd.

M. Maclean (Randolph), B. Marsden, I. Martin, J. Martin, M. Matthew, B. Mitchell, M. Morement, D. Morrison.

K. Neligan, C. Norfolk (Gale)."

P. Pedley, A. Pinckney.

P. Ram, J. Rhodes, A. G. Roberts, P. Robinson, ]. Rutherford.

M. Steele (Smith).

T. Tidman, A. Thomas.

M. Waterfield, P. Webb, M. Wells (Gale) and Anthony, P. Whieldon, M. Whiffen, R. Whiffen, Peggy Wilson, M. Wiltshire, Anne Wood, Alison Wood.

Miss Alexander, Miss Baskerville, Mrs. Baskett, Miss Booth, Miss Broome, Miss Damant, Miss Freke, Miss Gibson, Miss Goldsmith, Miss Prior.

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BIRTHS Bowyer. On October 4th, 1942, to Isabel (Gough), a daughter, Ann Caroline.

Cliff. On June i3th, 1943, to Diana (Bateman Champain), a son, Peter Anthony Champain.

Crane. On May ist, 1943, to Betty (Bulmer), a daughter, Nicolette.

Dealtry. On May igth, 1943, to Margaret (Wood), a son, â&#x20AC;˘ Patrick Gerald.

Denmson. On August 3Oth, 1943, in Kenya, to Lesly (Wollen), a daughter.

Errington.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;On May 23rd, 1943, to Reine (Macaulay), a son (Thomas Lancelot Macaulay).

Fane Gladwin. On August 25th, 1943, to Mary (Warrand) a second son.

Forrest. On February isth, 1943, to Mabel Forrest (Fraser), a son.

Goalen. On March aoth, 1943, to Barbara (Bach), a daughter, Valerie Cameron.

Harris. On July soth, 1943, to Amy Harris (Snell), a daughter, Rosemary Joy (her third child).

Harrison. On January 28th, 1943, to AHie (Sarjeant), a son, Ian Woodthorp.

Helder. On June ist, 1943, to Gladys (Burnett), a daughter, Eleanor Brodie (her fourth child).

Herford. *On August i6th, 1942, to Jean (Hawkins), a son.

Hilder. On May 22nd, 1943, to Joan (Hussey), a second son, John Lake.

Jones. On December I2th, 1942, to Mary (Higgins), a daughter, Jennifer Mary.

Kraemer. On November i3th, 1942, to Helen'(Bartrum), a son, John.

Lewis. On March zoth, 1943, to Edna (Bodinnar), a daughter, Joari Shirley.

Macdonald. On May 24th, 1943, to Margaret (McKay), a third son, Andrew Charles.

Mallinson. On December 26th, 1942, to Marcia (Apps), a son.

Metherell. On May I5th, 1943, to Sheila (McRae), a daughter, Sylvia Mary.

Morgan. On April 3Oth, 1943, to Cicely (Cobb), a daughter, Virginia Catherine (her third child).

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Murland. On November 4th, 1942, to Amy (Burke), a daughter, Mary Gillian.

Scrivener. On July I2th, 1943, to Gwendoline (Croft), a third daughter.

Stroud. On July i6th, 1943, to Margaret (Cole), a son, Anthony William Frederick.

Stutzel. On November 3rd, 1942, to Rosamund (Price), a daughter, Rosamund Winifred.

Taylor. On May 27th, 1943, to Ruth (Aldworth), a daughter, Wendy.

Thomson. On March I2th, 1943, to Pamela (Reed), a son, Ian Michael Peter.

Warcup. In January, 1942, to Zoe (Joy), a daughter Elizabeth.

Westlake. On September 8th, 1942, to Grace (Gee), a son Michael Richard.

WEDDINGS Boreham—Long. On October jist, 1942, S.S. A. P. Boreham, Royal Regt., of Canada, to Mary Long.

Browne—Whiffen. On August 27th, 1942, Sub.-Lieut. (A.) William H. G. Browne to Anne Whiften.

Boisseau—Cleverly. On August 15th. 1943, Captain John Edmund Boisseau, Lancers, to Ursula Cleverly.

Cairncross—Glynn. On May 2gth, 1943, Alexander Kirkland Cairncross to Mary Glynn.

Catesby—Evans. On November 7th, 1942, Lieut. Maurice William Catesby, R.A., to Pippa Evans.

Crane—Buhner. On July 3ist, 1942, Lieut. Edward Nicholas Gooden Crane to Betty Bulmer.

Cusack—Angell. On May 7th, 1943, Surgeon-Com/nander James Cusack, R.N., to Pamela Angell.

Duguid—Duder. On March 27th, 1943, Wing Commander Alexander Gordon Duguid, R.A.F.,-to Dorothy DuderDunn-- -McCormick. On August 2ist, 194.3, Arthur Dunn to Joyce McCormick.

Garnett—Rutherford Smith. On April 7th, 1943, Sub-Lieut.

John Garnett, R.N.V.R., to Barbara Rutherford Smith.

Glennie—Paris. On November 5th, 1942, Pilot Officer Hastings Glennie to Ursula Paris.

Grove—Merriman. On June isth, 1943, Flight Lieutenant Stephen Grove to Gwynnedd Merriman (ride Turner).

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James—Darch. On September ioth, 1942, Francis James to Alice Darch.

Jennings—Parnell. On April 3rd, 1943, Reginald Angus Unwin Jennings to Miriam Parnell.

Kidel—Pollock. On March 3151, 1943, Boris Kidel to Margaret Pollock.

Metherell—McRae. On August 6th, 1942, Captain Norman Charles Metherell, R.A.S.C., to Sheila McRae. Palmer-Jonesi—Benson. On November I4th, 1942, Captain Peter Palmer-Jones, R.E., to Nancy Benson.

Porteous—Roome. On February^ 6th, 1943, Captain P. A. Porteous, V.C., R.A., to Lois Roome.

R.I.P. Cates. On November I3th, 1942, Caroline Gates (St. Bridget's, 1925-34), in her Sand year.

Dalglish. On September 23rd, 1942, suddenly,- at Lynchmere Farm, Haslemere, Jane Longridge, daughter of Peter and Mollie Dalglish (nee Longridge), aged 8 weeks.

Pullein. On February igth, 1943, accidentally, Gladys Eleanor Gertrude Pullein, aged 50 (daughter of Mr. W. R. Pullein).

NOTICE Subscriptions to the News Sheet should be sent as soon as possible to the Secretary, S. Mary's School, Calne. Old Girls belonging to the Association pay through their Group Secretaries. Each copy costs 2/-; Life Subscription 2S/-.

We have received, with thanks, Magazines from :—Bishop Strachan School, Toronto; The Godolphin School; Sherborne Schools for Girls; S. Katherine's, Heatherton Park; Queen Margaret's School; Westonbirt.

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ADDENDA

Into Group X I I .

E. Burra, Glebe House, Little Kimble, Aylesbury, Bucks.

J. Campbell, 5, St. Matthew's Avenue, Surbiton, Surrey.

B. Chapman, Quatre Bras, Crowthorne, Be*ks.

M. Congreve, Turleigh Mill, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts.

S. Eyre, Riseholme, Cuckfield, Sussex.

B. Fortescue-Brickdale, 2, Hall Place Gardens, St. Albans, Herts.

M. Harvey. Lamacks House, Braydon, Purton, Wilts.

E. Hunkin, Lis Escop, Truro, Cornwall..

M. Lees, Belmont, Dawlish, S. Devon.

C. Livingstone, The President's Lo'dgings, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

M. Lushingtqn/at Shillingford St. George Rectory, Nr. Exeter, Devon.

J. Martin, Elm Lodge, Victoria Quadrant, Weston-super-Mare.

P. Pedley, Towerscote, Beacon Hill, Bath.

A. H. Plummer, Holly Mount, Knotty Green, Beaconsfield, Bucks.

P. Earn, Berkhamsted Place, Berkhamsted, Herts.

A. Bee, Grovebury House, Grovebury Eoad,. Leighton Buzzard, Beds.

J. Rhodes, Summer Hill, Crowborough, Sussex.

P. Robinson, Fouracres, N. Ferriby, Yorks, D. Eosedale, 13, Crescent Eoad, Wimbledon, S.W.20.

M. Taylor, Clifton College at Edgecombe Hotel, Bude, Cornwall.

M. Tidman, Fowlmere, Eoyston, Herts.

P. Webb, Redthorne, 82, London Eoad, Calne.

R. Wheeler, Lawrence Sheriff School House, Rugby.

P. Whieldon, Blakeley House, 82, Lickhill Eoad, Calne.

R. Whiffen, 111, Rivermead Court, Hurlingham, S.W.6.

R. Willink, 102, Hamilton Terrace, London, N.W.8.

S. Winser, Allesley Rectory, Coventry., Staff.

Miss Miss Miss Miss

E. Freke, Education Offices, County Hall, Trowbridge.

M. K. Goldsmith, 76, Park Eoad, New Barnet A. M. Hedley, 2, Ashford Eoad, Cheltenham.

J. D. Powell, Glanmor, Truro, Cornwall.

CORRIGENDA Group C. aad M. Baker, Dumfallandy, 20, Parsonage Eoad, Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey.

W. Burnaby Drayson (Heath), 30, Cornwall Road, Harrogate.

D. Butler, 31, St. Stephen's Road, Cheltenham.

A. M. Dyson, 9, Alexandra Court, Queen's Gate, S. W.7.

P. Gibson, Bishop's Mead, TJmtata, C.P. P. Green Brooke (Philips), Trehill, Exeter, tDevon.

N. Green (Fisher), Brynderwen, Ferndale, Glam.

H. L. Hewett, Longdean, Hungerford, Berks.

I. VII. X. IX. XI. X. IV. I.

J. Hilder (Hussey), Churchfleld Lodge, Purton, Wilts.

E. Hocking, e/o Mrs. Lorimer, Old Tiles, Farnham Common, Bucks D. Kenrick, Poplar Corner, Baughurst, Nr. Basingstoke.

H. Kraemer (Bartrum), 4,East Camus Rqad, Edinburgh, 10.

M. H. Mackenzie (Reade), Whadley House, Beaminster, Dorset.

A. B. Marjoribanks Egerton (Chambers), Manor House, Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent.

M. Martin, 47, York Mansions, Battersea Park, S.W.ll.

S. Metherell (Mcrae), 49, Comeby Bank Koad, Edinburgh, 4.

C. Millikan (Mallory), Sweetwater Road, Glen-Mills, Pa. U.S.A. E. Minnis, Trefusis, Maesdu Avenue, Llandudno,- Wales.

A. Nettelfield, Weylands Cottagss West Byfleet, Surrey.

A. F. Pocock, 8, Berkeley Koad, Combe Road, Croydon.^Surrey.

M. Price, Barwick House, High Cross, Nr. Ware, Herts.

H. Pullon, 75, Kingsley Way, Hampstead Garden Suburb, N.2.

J. H. Reeve Fowkes (Cross), South Lodge, Finkley, Andover, Hants.

H. Riley, 202, Rhodes Avenue, Salisbury, S. Rhodesia.

M. Rowcliffe (Farrington), Hall 'Place, Cranleigh, Surrey (permanent); Box 580, Kelowna, B.C., Canada (present).

E. Scott (Parker), 169, Belle Vue Road, Southbourne, Bournemouth.

B. Slad« (Thompson), The Rectory, Swynnerton, Staffs.

V. Turner, c/o Mrs. S. D. Reid, Vivary Cottage, Hampstead Vale, N.W.3.

E. Wilson, 7, Avenue Road, Stratford-on-Avon.

Z. Wimperis (Inder), Dairy Cottage, Sevenoaks, Kent.

K. Yerbury (Beach), 91, Kenilworth Court, £.W.15.

Staff.

Miss M. Abdy, 2, Groveley Road, Bournemouth.

Mrs. Babington (Montgomery), The Vicarage, St. Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich.

Miss Booth, Hilton, Appelby, Westmoreland.

IV. IX. II. V. VII. IV. XI. VI. VII. VII. VII. IV. V. XII. VII. XI. VI. II. V. IV. XII. IV. II.